The Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge finals will be held on 14 October, awarding an innovative startup with a €500,000 prize for successfully combining sustainability, entrepreneurship, and creativity. A total of 574 green…
Month: October 2021
Use your good productive days to make your bad days easier
I’m writing from the in-between. I’m not doing great, sure, but I’m not doing bad. I’m not staring at the wall blankly, for example, which is something I’ve recently come to appreciate…
Android exec wants to help Apple bring RCS on iPhones
Google has been trying to push carriers all around the world to adopt Rich Communication Services (RCS) since 2017. For the uninitiated, RCS is like SMS 2.0 with the ability to send…
YouTube Rewind is canceled forever because nobody liked it
YouTube Rewind is no more. After canceling last year’s Rewind because nobody wanted to look back at 2020, the company has decided to cancel rewind for good (perhaps because 2020 never really…
What happens if quantum physicists can prove reality isn’t real?
You’re probably not reading this right now. That’s not a philosophical statement about the number of non-readers a given news article has. It’s a declaration of the literal. This article might not…
Google AI recreates Gustav Klimt paintings destroyed during WWII
Gustav Klimt created some of the world’s most expensive masterpieces, but around 20% of his artworks have been lost. Among them are the so-called Faculty Paintings: Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence. The three pieces are believed to…
Valve’s Steam Deck teardown is a breath of fresh air for the right to repair
It is an unfortunate truth that most modern gadgets — and the companies that make them — are hostile to consumer repairs. Not only are gadgets designed in a way that practically…
How consumer-facing ‘AI as a service’ is remaking the world of smart gadgets
Amazon’s Echo Dot is on its fourth generation. And within each of those generations there are myriad iterations and variations on the basic design. And that’s just the Dot. In all, there…
Screw mindfulness, play with clay
Boris is the wise ol’ founder of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his…
Predicting the weather in space is hard but this new satellite could make it easier
The Australian-made space weather satellite CUAVA-1 was deployed into orbit from the International Space Station on Wednesday night. Launched to the space station in August aboard a SpaceX rocket, a major focus…