Apple's Swift Playgrounds will let kids code for AR

At Apple's educational event in Chicago today, the company announced that Swift Playgrounds -- Apple's coding app for kids -- is getting an AR module. Though not much has been said about it, it looks like an extension of an Augmented Reality challeng...

Logitech built a $49 digital crayon for the new iPad

Apple's new starter iPad is designed to make drawing more accessible, but the $89-plus it takes to buy the official Pencil for that iPad is a lot to swallow for cash-strapped educators. That's where Logitech might help: it's introducing a $49 Crayon...

Apple's retooled iWork suite includes Pencil support

Today, Apple announced that it is releasing new versions of its iWork suite of apps -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- that supports Apple Pencil. A variety of new iPad apps (including the Microsoft Office Suite and Notability) will support the Pencil,...

Apple’s “Pencil” now works with its iWork toolkit

Apple is bringing its pencil to the masses. The pencil tool will now work across Apple’s suite of iWork tools — including the popular Pages (document creation) Numbers (its spreadsheet app), and Keynote (for presentations) apps — on the low-cost iPad that Apple first brought to market last year. At an event today in Chicago, Apple announced its latest […]

Rackspace may reportedly go public again after a $4.3B deal took it private in 2016

Rackspace, which was taken private in a $4.3 billion deal in August 2016 by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, is reportedly in consideration for an IPO by the firm, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company could have an enterprise value of up to $10 billion, according to the report. Rackspace opted to […]

The James Webb Space Telescope will be delayed for at least a year

Today, NASA held a press conference on the status of the James Webb Space Telescope, the organization's successor to Hubble, and the news was grim. The observatory was supposed to launch between March and June of 2019. JWST will miss that window; whi...

Apple announces $329 iPad with Pencil support to take on Chromebooks

Apple today announced a new, $329 iPad at an education-focused event in Chicago. The tablet is clearly aimed at Chromebooks, looking to stave off Google’s increasing dominance for cheap laptops in classrooms. For schools, the tablet will only cost $299. The new iPad looks pretty much identical to the standard 9.7-inch model, but supports the Apple Pencil, featuring the same tilt and pressure sensitivity as the iPad Pro. It has 10 hours of battery life, a Retina Display, an A10 Fusion chip, 32 GB of storage, and weighs one pound. Apple  took a dig at Google, saying the A10 Fusion is more powerful than…

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Apple introduces a cheap 9.7-inch iPad with Apple Pencil support

Apple is holding a press conference right now in Chicago. And the company unveiled a brand new device — well, sort of. Apple is going to sell a brand new 9.7-inch iPad that works with the Apple Pencil. Before today, only (more expensive) iPad Pro models could take advantage of the Pencil. Today’s new iPad […]

The new entry-level iPad works with the Apple Pencil

Apple's education-focused event is underway in Chicago and, as expected, the hardware star of the show is a new iPad. VP Greg Joswiak just announced the "new" iPad, an update on the model introduced just about one year ago. The rumor mills predicted...

Hands-on: Huawei P20 Pro packs 3 cameras and a giant 40MP sensor

Huawei’s P-series was one of the very first to use two rear cameras to create shallow depth of field effects and increase image quality. Now Huawei is upping the ante even more with three cameras on its newest flagship, the P20 Pro. It will cost €899 and begins shipping globally today. Unfortunately, ‘globally’ doesn’t include the US. Like previous Huawei cameras, there is a monochrome sensor and an RGB sensor which work in tandem to increase image sharpness and dynamic range. Unlike previous Huawei phones, there’s also a third telephoto lens, giving the phone 3x optical zoom or 5x ‘hybrid’ zoom…

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Follow along live from the Apple education iPad event in Chicago

Apple held an education focused event in Chicago today at Lane Technical High School. CEO Tim Cook took the stage and began his announcements with a nod to the student marches that occurred this week in support of gun control. Cook praised Lane Tech High for having more PHDs coming out of it than any […]

TNW’s Big Spam: Today’s fungible stories

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie is appearing before the digital, culture, media, and sport committee in the House of Commons today. Check out the live updates here. It’s fascinating. Top trending tech news: 😬 Facebook faces FTC privacy inquiry (BBC) 🚗 Arizona blocked Uber’s self-driving car tests (TNW) 😮 26 popular VPNs are keeping tabs on you (TNW) What we’re talking about: More than one month ago, we reported hobbyist rocketeer “Mad” Mike Hughes again failed to launch himself into space in order to prove the Earth flat. On Sunday, the AP reported the rocketman finally got it up. #MadMikeHughes finally did it. Amboy 2018 Launch #rocketman #flatearth #researchflatearth #amboy #juanpollo filmed…

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Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, hits general availability

Last September, Atlassian launched Stride, its take on a Slack-like real-time communications platform for text, audio and video chats, into beta. Six months later, Stride is now generally available to any and all teams that want to give it a try. While Atlassian is a bit cagey about providing exact user numbers, so the numbers […]

Google Cloud launches a new text-to-speech engine for developers

Text-to-speech synthesis has made great strides over the course of the last few years, up to the point where many modern systems almost sound like a real person is reading a text. Google has been among the leaders of this development and starting today, developers will get access to the same DeepMind-developed text-to-speech engine that […]

3D printed rocket maker Relativity raises $35M to simplify satellite launches

LA-based space startup Relativity has raised $35 million in Series B funding, in a new round led by Playground Global, and including existing investors Social Capital, Y Combinator Continuity and Mark Cuban. The funding will help the startup expand its automated, 3D-printing process for manufacturing rockets quickly and with greatly reduced complexity, with the ultimate […]

Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-driving car

This morning at Chelsea Piers in NYC, Waymo CEO John Krafcik announced a new model of car powered by Waymo’s self-driving technology. Dubbed the world’s first premium fully self-driving car, Waymo has partnered with Jaguar Land Rover to bring the Waymo-outfitted Jaguar I-PACE to the public. Waymo plans to outfit 20,000 units to be used […]

Mozilla’s new Firefox extension keeps your Facebook data isolated to the social network itself

Mozilla this morning launched a Firefox browser add-on for those users not willing to delete their Facebook account, but also wanting some control over how much of their data Facebook can access. The “Facebook Container,” as the new extension is called, isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of the web. That means Facebook will […]

Don’t get lapped by 1st graders… quit stalling and learn to code right now for under $6 per course

Whether you looking to start a new career or you just want some coding basics, you can start training up with the Complete 2018 Learn to Code Bundle. It’s only $49.99 right now from TNW Deals, which is over 90 percent off its regular price.

A happier, fitter, more comfortable life in virtual reality

Virtual reality is a technology that evokes very cold, technical images. I’m talking wires and straps and plugs, nothing that sounds very relaxing, although as I read that sentence again is does sound overtly sexual… Regardless, I’m saying that VR just doesn’t often conjure up this idea of lounging and relaxing on a daily basis. […]

How the ‘Deus Vult’ gaming meme turned far-right

Deus Vult, or ‘God wills it’, arose as the rallying cry of soldiers of the First Crusade. Back in 1095, Pope Urban II requested help for the Eastern Orthodox Church to defend himself from the Seljuk invasion of Anatolia. As such, Deus Vult grew into a historical catchphrase intended to align people into recapturing the Holy Land. Roughly a millennium later, Deus Vult is simultaneously adopted by gamers, 4chan-shitposters, Trump supporters, and protesting Islamophobes. How can one trace these uses of the meme? This article will contextualize these various spheres, and with it, show how Deus Vult ‘mutated’ from a relatively harmless gaming-meme to…

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