a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

How to use Instagram collections like a makeshift Pinterest

Feb07
by on February 7, 2019 at 9:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Show of hands: how often do you use that button on Instagram that looks like a bookmark? If you don’t already use it, you should. With collections, you basically save any Instagram post into a Pinterest-style board with the theme of your choice. You can save your favorite pics, tasty recipes, fashion looks, or goofy stuff your friends post. Unlike Stories or regular posts, collections are private and only accessible to the collector. For example,…

This story continues at The Next Web

Or just read more coverage about: Instagram,Pinterest

└ Tags: 
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Motorola’s new Moto G7 blurs the line between budget and flagship

Feb07
by on February 7, 2019 at 7:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


I’m less compelled to recommend flagship phones every year. Smartphone performance has largely crossed a point of diminishing returns, where a well-optimized budget phone might feel as smooth as a $1,000 one.  Nowhere has this been truer than with Motorola’s Moto G family. Now Motorola is promising to blur the line between budget and flagship even further with its new Moto G7 family. Motorola is announcing four devices in total: the $199 G7 Play, the $249 G7 Power, the $299 Moto G7, and the £299 G7 Plus (this model isn’t coming to the US). The cheaper three models share the…

This story continues at The Next Web

Or just read more coverage about: Motorola

└ Tags: 
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Google warns news sites may lose 45% of traffic if EU passes its Copyright Reform

Feb07
by on February 7, 2019 at 5:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google


The EU is still plowing ahead with its highly contested Copyright Reform. Trilogue negotiations between the union’s pillars have started again to reach an agreement on the finalized version, and pass the law in March or April this year. A myriad of EU politicians and companies are troubled by parts of the reform, including big players like Google. Kent Walker, Google‘s SVP of Global Affairs, laid out Google’s opposition and called for a fix before it’s too late. Google warns Article 11 and Article 13 could have catastrophic effects on the creative economy in Europe by hampering user uploads and…

This story continues at The Next Web

Or just read more coverage about: Google

└ Tags: ,
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Only 3 of the top 50 blockchain apps are running on Ethereum

Feb07
by on February 7, 2019 at 4:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Believe it or not, only three of the top 50 decentralized apps (dapps) are running on the Ethereum blockchain, according to data from DappRadar. Instead, developers seem to be largely relying on competing platforms like EOS and TRON. From the remaining 47 most active dapps, 26 are based on EOS and 21 on TRON. Interestingly, gambling dapps account for the majority of the activity on both networks. Among other things, the main reason for the decline in dapp activity on Ethereum is the scaling bottlenecks the platform has been facing. Ethereum’s scaling woes Ethereum, which was initially conceived as a…

This story continues at The Next Web

└ Tags: 
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Only 3 of the top 50 blockchain apps are running on Ethereum

Feb07
by on February 7, 2019 at 4:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Believe it or not, only three of the top 50 decentralized apps (dapps) are running on the Ethereum blockchain, according to data from DappRadar. Instead, developers seem to be largely relying on competing platforms like EOS and TRON. From the remaining 47 most active dapps, 26 are based on EOS and 21 on TRON. Interestingly, gambling dapps account for the majority of the activity on both networks. Among other things, the main reason for the decline in dapp activity on Ethereum is the scaling bottlenecks the platform has been facing. Ethereum’s scaling woes Ethereum, which was initially conceived as a…

This story continues at The Next Web

└ Tags: