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Here’s why your car isn’t rolling on airless tires… yet Are airless tires the future? Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW. She covers the full spectrum of the European tech ecosystem, with a particular interest in startups, sustainabili(show all)Ioanna is a writer at TNW. She covers the full spectrum of the European tech ecosystem, with a particular interest in startups, sustainability, green tech, AI, and EU policy. With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies....

Hey Elon! The problem with free speech isn’t censorship, it’s algorithms We need to take a closer look at how free speech is practiced online Our understanding of free speech is too limited The free speech debate has once more been ignited by news of Elon Musk’s plans totake over Twitter, his promise to reduce content moderation (including byrestoringDonald Trump’s account) and, more recently, speculation he mightpull outof the deal if Twitter can’t prove the platform isn’t inundated with bots....

Hey Google, here’s a blueprint for a Pixel smartwatch to rival the Apple Watch Can we get a good Wear OS smartwatch, finally? What do we know? Last night,Insiderfirst reported about the watch, noting that the device’s internal codename will be ‘Rohan.’ Whose Indian parents pressurized the company to do this? Apart from this silly name, we know that it’ll have a round dial. Plus, it’ll offer basicfitness tracking capabilities like heart rate monitoring, step count, and calorie count....

Hey Google, here’s a blueprint for a Pixel smartwatch to rival the Apple Watch Can we get a good Wear OS smartwatch, finally? What do we know? Last night,Insiderfirst reported about the watch, noting that the device’s internal codename will be ‘Rohan.’ Whose Indian parents pressurized the company to do this? Apart from this silly name, we know that it’ll have a round dial. Plus, it’ll offer basicfitness tracking capabilities like heart rate monitoring, step count, and calorie count....

Hey Python devs, don’t underestimate TypeScript Consider switching if you’re dealing with front-end web or back-end Node development TypeScript: JavaScript, but type-safe About a decade ago, software engineers at Microsoft noticed that JavaScript wasn’t meeting all their needs anymore. On the one hand, the language was evolving rapidly and adding extremely interesting new features. On the other hand, none of the features in the pipeline could solve one fundamental problem: JavaScript was great for small programs, but writing whole applications with it was a mess....