Thomas Macaulay 2022-05-20 16:26:57 thenextweb.com The pilot must have seen a crash coming. The BlockDown Web3 conference was kicking off the next day. TNW was flying in to attend — but the fates had other plans. After descending towards…
Ioanna Lykiardopoulou 2022-05-20 05:00:36 thenextweb.com As car manufacturers and battery cell makers race to develop more efficient and faster-charging EV batteries, there’s one material that’s been gaining significant traction in replacing mainstream graphite in the battery’s anode: silicon. That’s…
Cate Lawrence 2022-05-20 07:07:42 thenextweb.com . This week has been a big one in the EU, with the European Commission going all-in on renewable energy and, in particular,solar. In March 2022, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the…
Ioanna Lykiardopoulou 2022-05-19 12:05:28 thenextweb.com Bentley might not have produced a single EV yet, but it sure aims to make the front page with its first one. In a recent interview with Automotive News Europe, the brand’s CEO Adrian…
Ioanna Lykiardopoulou 2022-05-19 07:57:19 thenextweb.com If you’ve been wondering what your Bear Grylls lifestyle has been missing all this while, meet the weird and wonderful BeTriton, the amphibious e-trike that’s a bike, a boat, and… a camper. Behold! Credit:…
Thomas Macaulay 2022-05-17 16:25:56 thenextweb.com The crypto crash has spooked many investors, but blockchain bros have high hopes for one nascent application: GameFi. A portmanteau of “game” and “decentralized finance,” the model offers a chance at earning cash by…
Callum Booth 2022-05-17 05:45:01 thenextweb.com While marketing’s purpose has remained (relatively) static since its inception, the way this is achieved is in a constant state of flux. Fundamentally, marketers want to convince their target audience that their product or…
Ivan Mehta 2022-05-17 09:00:43 thenextweb.com There are plenty of instances in the Web3 world where projects feature stolen art that’s turned into NFTs without creators’ permission. DeviantArt, an online art and design community founded in 2000, is now opening…
Ioanna Lykiardopoulou 2022-05-16 08:11:38 thenextweb.com Samsung has had a firm grip on several niches in the automotive components industry for some years now. With its own digital cockpit, its proprietary automotive processor, and various EV battery supply deals, it…
The Conversation 2022-05-14 11:38:34 thenextweb.com What do you need to make your garden grow? As well as plenty of sunshine alternating with gentle showers of rain – and busy bees and butterflies to pollinate the plants – you need…
The Conversation 2022-05-14 02:20:11 thenextweb.com If you had invested £100 (US$122) in the cryptocurrency Luna a month ago, you might have been quietly confident you’d made a sensible bet. But Luna’s value has since fallen drastically – at the…
Ivan Mehta 2022-05-13 07:05:20 thenextweb.com Elon Musk said today he’s temporarily putting the Twitter deal on hold — because of bots. Yep, you read that right. Musk said the company has to prove that bots consist of less than…
Tristan Greene 2022-05-12 16:47:36 thenextweb.com The ACLU and Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition company, reached a legal settlement earlier this week that’s been hailed as a huge win by both parties. The big story here is that Clearview…
The Conversation 2022-05-12 07:58:54 thenextweb.com Ai-Da sits behind a desk, paintbrush in hand. She looks up at the person posing for her, and then back down as she dabs another blob of paint onto the canvas. A lifelike portrait…
Ivan Mehta 2022-05-11 03:17:47 thenextweb.com WhatsApp is finally rolling out one of its smallest but most awaited features — chat reactions. That’s right: now you can use emoji to react to a message in individual and group chats, without…
Napier Lopez 2022-05-10 16:42:28 thenextweb.com The iPod was released a little over 20 years ago, forever changing the tech industry and helping redefine Apple products as luxury items — not just gadgets. The iPod is now dead. Apple today…
Tristan Greene 2022-05-10 10:05:22 thenextweb.com IBM today launched its annual “Think” conference. The event begins with a two-day kickoff in Boston, then Big Blue’s taking the show on the road all summer long for a tour spanning 11 cities…
Ivan Mehta 2022-05-10 11:00:23 thenextweb.com It’s 2022, and there are plenty of NFT projects launching every day. But it’s hard to know which ones will remain popular past their drops. A lot of them launch pictures for proof (PFP)…
Ivan Mehta 2022-05-10 03:48:12 thenextweb.com IT’S HERE. If you were eagerly waiting for NFTs to arrive on Instagram, the moment is has arrived. You can share NFTs on your feed, in stories, and in messages. But for now, you…
Ivan Mehta 2022-05-06 06:01:51 thenextweb.com The FIDO Alliance has been at the forefront of the passwordless movement. The organization has been working with many tech firms for years to urge them to adopt standards that don’t require passwords for…
Thomas Macaulay 2022-05-04 16:16:35 thenextweb.com The notoriously secretive Meta has set a milestone for transparency. The company this week offered the entire research community access to a fully-trained large language model (LLM). Named the Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT), the…
Ivan Mehta 2022-05-04 07:54:15 thenextweb.com Samsung just announced a new kind of storage solution for mobile devices called UFS 4.0. It’s the latest version of the Universal Flash Storage standard. The new version comes two years after UFS 3.1’s…
Ivan Mehta 2022-05-04 03:28:01 thenextweb.com Twitter debuted a new feature called Circle last night that might help you shitpost better. This function, available to select users on Android, iOS, and the web, will let you tweet stuff to a…
Callum Booth 2022-05-03 10:19:03 thenextweb.com Some Sonos owners have been having a torrid time recently. Following the 14.6 software update that dropped at the end of April, people using the speakers as part of a surround sound multimedia setup…
Ivan Mehta 2022-04-29 06:40:49 thenextweb.com There might not be an easy answer to how Elon Musk wants to achieve “free speech absolutism” on Twitter. But there’s another issue he has to tackle with his new purchase: making money. Musk…
Tristan Greene 2022-04-28 13:21:12 thenextweb.com Bigger isn’t always better, but sometimes it is. Cerebras Systems, a company bent on accelerating machine learning systems, built the world’s largest chip last year. In the time since, it’s developed bespoke solutions to…
Ivan Mehta 2022-04-28 08:03:43 thenextweb.com Yesterday, Meta announced its second quarterly results after its major rebranding, and things were a bit more positive this time around. The company gained daily active users (1.96 billion from 1.92 billion last quarter),…
Thomas Macaulay 2022-04-27 19:13:43 thenextweb.com Of all the grand ideas that Elon Musk has for Twitter, the one that he’s pitched most fervently is making the platform’s algorithms open source. The Tesla tycoon proposed the plan before his buyout…
The Conversation 2022-04-27 10:04:11 thenextweb.com Have you ever made a mistake that you wish you could undo? Correcting past mistakes is one of the reasons we find the concept of time travel so fascinating. As often portrayed in science…
Thomas Macaulay 2022-04-26 16:45:44 thenextweb.com Ethereum is preparing for an upgrade that’s been described as “the single most important event in crypto history.” The transition would overhaul the infrastructure of the world’s second-largest blockchain. Analysts predict the changes could…
Tristan Greene 2022-04-26 12:51:19 thenextweb.com David Clark Cause, IBM, United Nations Human Rights, and the Linux Foundation today officially launched the 2022 Call For Code. On your marks, get set… save the world. Now in its fifth year, Call…
Tristan Greene 2022-04-25 16:57:07 thenextweb.com Elon Musk’s the topic du jour, once again, as his teased takeover of Twitter has come to its inevitable end. It’s a done deal: the world’s richest man has purchased Twitter. Cue the Imperial…
Tristan Greene 2022-04-25 14:56:39 thenextweb.com Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. In what’s become the biggest “will they/won’t they” story since Ross and Rachel, the Twitter board has finally decided to accept Musk’s $44 billion takeover offer. Early speculation on…