Want to shop smarter? Shop with your smartphone. You're likely already aware that your smartphone can help compare prices and review items you're shopping for in stores. But did you know certain apps can also help you determine what you can afford to buy, or help you automatically get cash back on certain purchases, just by checking in?

Celebrate King's Day with TNW 🎟 Use code GEZELLIG40 on your Business, Investor and Startup passes today! This offer ends on April 29 → In the U.S., small business (less than 250 employees) makes up nearly half the GDP and accounts for more than half the employment. But with the Great Recession, a number of these small businesses have gone bankrupt. The bets that entrepreneurs put on themselves ca

Fly This Mind-Controlled Quadrotor Using Your Thoughts [VIDEO] [brightcove video="1818523936001" /] Sharpen those mental skills -- researchers at China's Zhejiang University have made it possible to fly a quadrotor using your mind. Named Flying Buddy 2, the quadrotor doesn't run on fuel, but rather on your brainwaves. It uses an EEG headset to interpret your thoughts, so when you think "left" or "

Eastwooding has taken over the interwebz -- and there are pictures to prove it. Fans of the meme posted photos of empty chairs alongside the hashtag #eastwooding, which was inspired by actor Clint Eastwood's ten-minute chat with a chair at the Republican National Convention. The chair, an "invisible Obama" was meant to be a stand-in for the president. While some photos simply feature fingers point

Hey Billionaires, Now You Can Park Your Car in the Living Room [VIDEO] Living in a city is all glitz and glam, but having to park your car in a garage is one of the downsides. But don't fret for long. If you head to Singapore, you can park your car in -- where else? -- your living room. Why? Because you and your Lamborghini Aventador should never feel the pangs of separation. Instead, your wheels

Not everyone can be President of the United States, but now you can drink like one. The White House released its beer recipes Saturday, just days after a Reddit user made the request during President Obama's "Ask Me Anything." The POTUS' official residence unveiled recipes for its "Honey Ale" and "Honey Porter" in a blog post partly entitled "Ale to the Chief." "With public excitement about White

Boy bands from across the globe dominated the Twitterverse this week. Twitpics from pop band One Direction and South Korean artists were hard to get away from with thousands of retweets reaching tens of millions of people. Our friends at Skylines took a look at what was dominating the Tweet-decks, and most of all, getting the most attention by re-shares. They found lots of pics of these celebs han

[brightcove video="1818523923001" /] There could be a lot more notifications from Facebook on the way. The company's rolled out a beta version of a new notifications API, a tool for developers that lets all Facebook apps send notifications to users. This could open the floodgates to a plethora of notes under Facebook's "notification jewel," where that little red number will start counting itself h

Most likely only less than 1% of any given Page's Likes will be removed, Facebook's blog announced. Facebook had previous safeguards against automated Likes. But some companies did seek to violate Facebook's terms of service to increase their reach on the social network by purchasing Likes in bulk. Tightening Facebook's security measures are designed to enhance brands' connections with their custo

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