PayPal starts deeper integration with Google; users can now pay directly in Gmail, YouTube and more

Google earlier this year rebranded all of its payment services under Google Pay to help it double down on making transactions across its platform more frictionless (and more used). Now comes another development: PayPal and Google are kicking off a deep integration, where users who add their PayPal details to their Google Play accounts will be […]

Backgrounder: Future Skills

New and emerging technologies have an effect on every aspect of Canadians’ lives, including the workplace. Automation, robotics and artificial intelligence are a few examples of technologies that are part of the changing nature of work. The Future Skills initiative aims to help Canadians improve their skills to better prepare for, get and keep jobs, and to adapt and succeed at work.

Pittsburgh mayor had no idea Uber was reviving self-driving tests

This week, Uber announced that it will cease operations in Arizona and revive its self-driving tests in Pittsburgh. This, apparently, was news to the mayor of Pittsburgh, who issued a press release stating that he hadn't been informed of that announc...

VICE VP Mark Adams on creating unforgettable branded content

Judging by the lines to get in, not to mention those turned away at the door, people were excited to hear Mark Adams speak. Adams, the exuberant young VP and head of innovation at VICE, nearly missed the talk altogether. His plane was delayed, we’re told, and he sprinted, quite literally, from the airport. Adams’ talk was a peek behind the curtain, however brief, on how the world’s biggest media company does business. Specifically, how it’s able to tell such captivating stories, and what lessons brands can glean from VICE’s editorial style. Take Pepsi, for example, which never really stuck…

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Why emotionally intelligent machines are the future of AI

When we think about artificial intelligence, it’s usually something involving robot overloads and the answer to how many tablespoons are in a cup. Less often do we think about their emotional intelligence, something so intrinsic to human interaction that we take it for granted. Pamela Pavliscak, CEO of Change Sciences to took the stage at TNW Conference 2018 to discuss the “emotion revolution” we’ll see in our machines and software within the next years. For AI and virtual assistants to make the most positive impact, they’ll need to know how to understand and behave within the framework of our very…

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'Runescape Classic' will shut down after almost two decades

One year after revealing plans to port both RuneScape and Old School Runescape to mobile and tablet, developer Jagex has announced that the original RuneScape's PC servers will be going offline permanently. To be clear, that's Runescape Classic -- th...

PornHub has its own VPN now

PornHub is diversifying. The most popular site that no one you know will admit to frequenting, is launching its very own VPN service today, called, get this: VPNHub. The app, which is available on Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows, is primarily designed to offer “free and unlimited bandwidth,” according to its creators. It’s an attempt […]

Sinemia, a MoviePass competitor, launches cardless ticketing

Sinemia is further differentiating itself from its main competitor, MoviePass. The moviegoing startup is launching a new feature today that gets rid of the need for people to have a physical card in order to purchase movie tickets. This comes after a number of new Sinemia customers reported long wait times for their debit cards […]

Bring your music and leave your smartphone with the Mighty Spotify Music Player, only $79.99

Last year, Mighty Audio rolled out their ultimate Spotify music on-the-go player The Mighty to rave reviews. And with this recent price drop, you can now get your own Mighty for only $79.99 from TNW Deals.

Learn how to save the web as an ethical hacker for under $40

Of course, the plus side of the disturbing impacts of cybercrime is an exploding need for security specialists equipped to handle such threats and safeguard vulnerable systems from attack. You can join the front lines of the web’s most important fight with this Ethical Hacking A to Z training, which you can get for only $39 (over 90 percent off) from TNW Deals.

5 ways attendees of TNW’s conference handle being nervous

Everyone gets nervous and stressed from time to time. The people attending TNW’s conference are no different. The question is, then: How do we deal with it best? We asked these five conference attendees, how they handle it when the nerves are taking over. “Mostly, I think I work quite well under pressure. When I feel stressed or nervous, it enables me to work more efficiently, to simply just deal with the situation. The worst thing to do in those moments is to panic and not let the stress get to you. What I also think is important to remember is…

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NTSB's preliminary report on Uber crash focuses on emergency braking

Today, the NTSB released preliminary findings for an accident back in March, in which a self-driving Uber vehicle collided with a pedestrian. The pedestrian was killed. "At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that emergency...

WorkFusion adds $50 million from strategic investors as it bulks up for acquisitions

WorkFusion, a business process automation software developer, has raised $50 million in a new, strategic round of funding as it prepares to start adding new verticals to its product suite. The company’s new cash came from the large insurance company, Guardian; health care services provider New York-Presbyterian, and the commercial bank, PNC Bank. Venture investor […]

Amazon Music’s app adds hands-free listening, courtesy of Alexa

In September, Amazon announced it was adding support for Alexa voice control to its Amazon Music app for iOS and Android. However, it was implemented as a tap-to-talk function – something that didn’t quite mesh with the hands-free voice control experience Alexa is known for. Today, Amazon is addressing that problem by rolling out hands-free […]

ClassPass plans to add nine international cities by the end of 2018

ClassPass, the studio fitness platform that gives users access to thousands of boutique fitness classes, has said it plans to expand internationally into nine new countries by the end of 2018. The company’s top priorities are consolidating its position in the UK and launching in three countries in Asia, according to chief executive Fritz Lanman. […]

'Til death do us part

Great Neck, NY -- As I write this, dozens of moths are being suffocated to death in my kitchen pantry without much ceremony. An exterminator named Danny is spraying an intoxicatingly aromatic layer of cedar oil along the inside corners of my kitchen...

So long, StumbleUpon

All told, 16 years is a pretty good run in the social media world. After launching in 2002, website discovery platform StumbleUpon is shutting down on June 30. Over its existence, the service racked up 60 billion stumbles for 40 million users, cofounder Garrett Camp wrote in a Medium post this week. Those of us […]

Facebook is rolling out its GDPR privacy rules to the world

At first, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg only agreed with the European Union's General Data Protection Rules (GDPR) "in spirit." Now, following Zuckerberg's appearance before EU parliament, the social network is applying GDPR's framework to accounts ac...

5 of the most ridiculous blockchain use cases, according to blockchain experts

With more than 1,500 cryptocurrencies out there, it is getting ever more difficult to come up with a concept that hasn’t already been blockchainified. Indeed, over the past year we have seen (over)ambitious entrepreneurs seeking to put all sorts of different things on the blockchain – from board games and alchemy-powered transmutation tools to celebrities and adult cam models. With so many blockchain insiders at TNW Conference in Amsterdam, we didn’t want to miss a chance to speak some of the experts present to find out how viable this trend to decentralize actually is. And this is precisely what we did. We went…

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