Creative destruction “is the essential fact about capitalism,” wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. New technologies and processes continuously revolutionize the economic structure from within, “incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.” Change happens more quickly and creatively during times of economic disruption. Innovations meeting material and cultural needs…
Credit: 2001 Studio Ghibli – NDDTM Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. HBO Max has a very convenient option when it comes to switching audio or language tracks in some of its movies. Here’s how you…
Grab your popcorn, everyone: there’s a new development in the Epic Games vs Apple legal battle over Fortnite. This time, it’s Apple slinging mud, in a new court filing in which it asks for Epic not to be granted its requested emergency restraining order. The latest court document, which came to light today, contains Apple’s…
On a cold November day in 2016, Dr Peter Scott-Morgan was having a long, hot soak in the bath. After stepping out of the tub, he gave his foot a shake to get the water off. But his foot wouldn’t move. Peter was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND), the same incurable illness that killed…
We’ve already seen AI conquer masters of chess, Go, and StarCraft II. But could it defeat an Air Force pilot in a (virtual) dogfight? DARPA has spent the last year trying to answer that question, through an aerial warfare contest called the AlphaDogfight Trials. The Pentagon’s “mad science” unit created the competition to assess how…
It’s the most crucial and deceptively simple question to answer as a founder: “What exactly does your company do?” In the midst of a pandemic and economic downturn, when fundraising and customer meetings are drying up, nailing this all-important question — via suboptimal Zoom audio, nonetheless — is more critical than ever. How does a…
Activision has been teasing the next Call of Duty game for a while, and now we finally know what it’s called and what it’s about. It’s all neatly summed up by the title: Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. No, I don’t know where the colons in that title go, either. That’s just my best guess.…
Starting 11:59 PM PT on August 20, Lyft is shutting down its California rideshare operations. The move, likely temporary, was expected after a judge ordered the company (along with Uber) to treat its drivers as employees rather than independent contractors. Uber is expected to do the same. It marks a major milestone in the ongoing…
A databased containing scraped data of nearly 235 million social media users from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube was exposed without any password protection. It contained user information such as names, contact info, images, and stats about followers. Web scraping is a technique of gathering data from web pages in an automated manner. While it’s not…
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Mobile keyboards have come a long way over the years, but it’s still a pain to edit text if you’ve misspelled a word or need to make other changes after…
