Google is about to launch a small but useful update to Google Maps that will give you live guidance and interactive real-time notifications during your journey. The idea here is to give you real-time updates while you are on your transit journey. These updates will appear in the Google Maps...

It’s easy enough to draw a basic floorplan of your home, but turning that floorplan into 3D rendering typically falls into the realm of professional designers. With home.me, TechCrunch Berlin Hackathon hackers Charles Wong and Aravind Kandiah, who are both students at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, built...

Apple Watch Series 3 The latest generation of the Apple Watch 3 has a mobile connection so it can send and receive messages, browse the internet and play songs from Apple Music without needing to be linked to an iPhone. It also works with Siri and has a...

Data Artisans, the business arm of open source tool, Apache Flink, announced an early-access release of the commercial version of their platform today that includes a new tool for managing streaming applications. Kostas Tzoumas, CEO at Data Artisans, says managing applications on a real-time streaming product presents some serious...

If you are a web programmer or learning ho to build websites with angular, then, i will propose using VS Code as your editor or IDE,  VS Code is awesome: it’s a really fast beast, it works splendidly with TypeScript and on top of that it is free. Crazy! Still… it...

Windows 10 has a handful of features that you may be overlooking that can make you a more effective and efficient multitasker. Learn how you can better juggle multiple windows and apps with these tips. Snap Assist If you are tired of switching back and forth between open windows,...

With a focus on Nigeria's overcrowded labour market, six young Nigerians – Odunayo Eweniyi, Somto Ifezue, Terry Kanu, Nonso Chinagorom, Ibukun Akinola and Joshua Chibueze – founded Sharphire, a company building products that actually make life easier for other young Nigerians. Launched in 2014, with their flagship product PushCV – a recruitment platform with the largest...

What confectionery is Google cooking this time, after Nougat?  Since the release of Cupcake (Android 1.5) in 2009, Google has maintained a regular naming pattern for all the subsequent versions of the Android mobile operating system, following an alphabetical list of sugar and flour confections. Expectedly, the name...

At its Build developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft today announced Fluent Design, its design system for building user interfaces across devices. In many ways, the ideas behind Fluent resemble those of Google’s Material Design language. The main purpose here is to give developers access to a single design language that will...

Instagram wants to be the photo app for the whole world, even if you can’t or won’t download it. In pursuit of international growth where networks are slow and data is expensive, Instagram has given its mobile website a massive upgrade that adds core features of the main app, including...