Tech News

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and connected services. Have you ever tried to watch a film on your HDTV, only to have the image appear a little … off?…

Brisbane City Council (BCC) has developed a new way of understanding its customers, turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to trawl through the information it already had, to learn something new. Brisbane is the second biggest city council…

Something to look forward to: In a press event before the New York Toy Fair, which starts tomorrow, Hasbro unveiled three Stranger Things-licensed games. One is a mini arcade video-game cabinet. Another is a Trivial Pursuit game, but what…

HOYA Corp., an optical glass maker from Japan, announced this week that it had started construction of its new production facility for hard drive platter glass substrates. These substrates could be used to make conventional 2.5-inch HDD…

Nvidia unveiled RTX laptops early 2019 and the first models sporting the GPUs are making it to market just now. Today we're checking out Nvidia's new GeForce RTX GPUs for laptops, starting with the RTX 2070. Hopefully in the near future…

In trying to keep up with the never-ending deluge of news about the forthcoming AI takeover of human society, a talk at a recent conference made me pause. For a moment, instead of having to consider whether the intelligent robots would…

The cryptocurrency mining boom has died down quite a bit, but a few smaller mining operations are still working away throughout the world. One such small-scale operation is run by Rob Butvila, a resident of Adelaide, Australia - and it's…

Intel has submitted a proposal to Irish authorities for the expansion of its manufacturing site near Leixlip. According to the plans, Intel is exploring the construction of a brand-new building – one larger than their previously proposal –…

Slack isn’t just a messaging app. The main factor propelling the rise of this $7.1 billion platform is that it’s gradually become the nexus of how people work, thanks to integrations with Jira, Trello, and other popular workplace tools. To…

In brief: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be requiring drone owners to place their registration number on the outside of drones. The agency says this will help law enforcement and first responders identify drones easily and…