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Design & Dev Please build websites for the web, not just Google Chrome. The “bad old days” of the Internet have long passed. Remember them? When the browser landscape was deeply fragmented, and rife with proprietary elements, like ActiveX, Flash, and Silverlight? Thank God they’re over. In 2017, with open standards, there’s literally no reason for proprietary lock-ins, where websites only work on

Facebook this summer announced a breakthrough in neural network training. Its researchers were able to fully train an image processing AI in one hour, using 256 GPUs. Not to be outdone a group of university researchers did it in 32 minutes with 1600 Skylake processors. And a week later a team in Japan did it in 15 minutes. This is why we call it an AI race. The process of training a neural network

Tech Firefox Quantum is available now – here’s why it’s so damn speedy Mozilla’s long-awaited Firefox Quantum browser launched today. But if you’re still sat on the fence about whether you want to upgrade, perhaps this will persuade you. TNW spoke to Nick Nguyen, Vice President of Product at Firefox, about what punters can expect from Quantum, and how it actually works under the hood. Mozilla says

Earlier this month, we heard about Samsung’s plans to create a smart speaker that would feature its Bixby voice assistant and take on Amazon Echo, Google Home et al. Now, The Korea Herald reports from the company’s home country that the project is being shelved because Samsung doesn’t believe there’s enough money in it. An anonymous source told KH: Samsung currently does not view Al speakers as ma

Artificial Intelligence Airbnb built an AI that turns design sketches into product source code Airbnb is betting big on automation. The company is currently developing a new AI system that will empower its designers and product engineers to literally take ideas from the drawing board and turn them into actual products almost instantaneously. The AI-powered solution aims to simplify the overall pro

Update (September 21, 2017): Google has acquihired the ‘Powered by HTC’ team in a $1.1 billion deal. If reports from earlier this month and new developments today are anything to go by, Google is almost certainly going to acquire Taiwanese phone maker HTC this week. That’s good news for HTC, and good news for Pixel fans too. This company knows how to make good hardware, and has had some clever ide

Apple iPhone X leaked benchmarks match MacBook speeds and destroy Android phones Apple’s iPhone X is due to be revealed later today, but it’s apparently already started to hit the benchmarks. Shocker: it’s fast. Like, insanely fast. A mysterious ‘iPhone10,5‘ showed up on Geekbench’s catalog today, and assuming it’s not somehow a false entry, it’s posting speeds that are way faster than anything An

Design & Dev Ruby on Rails is out: major coding bootcamp ditches it, due to waning interest Is the end of Ruby on Rails nigh? Everything seems to point that way. Developer interest is waning, and now Coding Dojo, one of the largest programming bootcamps in the United States, has ejected it from its curriculum. This, it explains, is due to lower employer demand for the technology. Coding Dojo, whic

Apps This app uses artificial intelligence to turn design mockups into source code While traditionally it has been the task of front-end developers to transform the work of designers from raw graphical user interface mockups to actual source code, this trend might soon be a thing of the past – courtesy of artificial intelligence. Copenhagen-based startup UIzard Technologies has leveraged the lates

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → Russian state-owned technology Ruselectronics has demonstrated the first computers running its own domestic Elbrus-8S silicon. The Elbrus-8S packs eight cores, and is manufactured using a 28 nanometer process. In comparison, the current-generation Intel Kaby Lake processors use a 14-nanomete

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → “Oops, @FLOTUS’s email address leaks! I kindly pointed this out (and invited her to the beautiful @Oilsjt) :).” Inti de Ceukelaire, a Belgian ethical hacker who once redirected links in Donald Trump’s old tweets to a video celebrating his hometown of Aalst, has struck gold again – this time

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → Once you see it, you can never unsee it. It turns out Google has somehow failed to make the ‘new tab’ page in Chrome fully symmetrical. As you can notice in the image above, while the left side of the search box aligns perfectly with the thumbnails for your most visited websites directly und

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → We did a piece the other day about how learning the ancient programming language COBOL could make you bank. It was meant as a fun little article about the weird fact that large parts of our banking system is written in a programming language from 1959. It sounded pretty funny, but we soon st

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → CS 106A is Stanford University’s introductory programming course. The module – which is also available to view on YouTube – introduces the fundamentals of coding in an accessible way, and lays the foundations for future growth. Throughout its existence, the course was taught using the Java p

Artificial Intelligence How ‘creative AI’ can change the future of music for everyone Do you think you can tell a piece of music composed by artificial intelligence (AI) from one created by a human composer? Before you read any further, let’s find out. The following audio consists of two fragments, one written by AI, the other by a human. So, which one’s which? Reveal the answer by following this

Google’s cooking up a new skill: advanced recipe search. While the search engine already provided recipe suggestions in its regular search results, now it’s helping you narrow down your options with different options available in carousel at the top of your results. For example, if you want to learn how to make chicken wings, you might see options for ‘honey mustard,’ ‘crispy,’ or ‘slow cooker.’ A

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → In a bid to increase its earnings from advertising, Facebook is building an app for set-top boxes to deliver video to your TV, reports The Wall Street Journal. The app, which Facebook has apparently been working on for years, will work with devices like the Apple TV and bring users a variety

The late Steve Jobs once said: Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And this brings us to a problem if you use Evernote. Due to

Google Google’s new compression tool uses 75% less bandwidth without sacrificing image quality Hooli Google just released  an image compression technology called RAISR (Rapid and Accurate Super Image Resolution) designed to save your precious data without sacrificing photo quality. Claiming to use up to 75 percent less bandwidth, RAISR analyzes both low and high-quality versions of the same image.