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Пользователи заметили, что Bing тестирует карусель твитов в результатах поисковой выдачи. Новый блок отображается по отдельным запросам. На скриншоте ниже – пробный интерфейс SERP: Текущий интерфейс поисковой выдачи Bing: Напомним, что в результатах поиска Google твиты появились в 2015 году: в мае – в мобильной выдаче, в августе – в десктопной. Так же, как и в Bing, они представлены в виде карусели.... →

«Парето-Принт» подала заявление о банкротстве бывшего издателя журнала... →

Rancher Labs, a container management platform that supports both Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B round. This new funding round was led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, a Chinese private equity and venture capital fund, with participation from existing investors Mayfield and Nexus Venture Partners. This round brings the company’s… Read More... →

People love their smartphones but hate poor battery life. We love having access to the world’s information at our fingertips but tire of the need to constantly plug in to the world’s electricity grid. The recharging model of batteries fails us — the marketplace is ready for a new approach to portable power. Read More... →

Posted by Dr-PeteWhen we do keyword research, we tend to focus on discovery. We take a short list of keywords we think matter, brainstorm wildly, paste the resulting list into a dozen tools, paste the results back into Excel, and measure our success by how often our spreadsheet crashes. Then, we throw it all away when our tax attorney client tells us he only cares about ranking #1 for "taylor swift downloads," because he heard that gets a lot of traffic.Maybe I'm exaggerating. Keyword discovery is a critica... →

Twenty-five years after the introduction of the World Wide Web, the Information Age is coming to an end. Thanks to mobile screens and Internet everywhere, we’re now entering what I call the “Experience Age.” Read More... →

Last week, Kuang-Chi, a Shenzhen-based technology conglomerate, launched a $300 million Israel fund in Tel Aviv to tap the country’s smart city know-how, according to the company’s founder Ruopeng Liu. Read More... →

Virtual reality can deliver on its promise to bring new and immersive experiences to the masses, but the current iteration of hardware will need to evolve first. Read More... →

A company called Laugh.ly wants to make streaming sets from the best comedians as easy as streaming music on Pandora. Though not yet available to the public, Laugh.ly’s iOS application will allow users to follow both big-name comedians like Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, and Amy Schumer, among others, as well as emerging stand-up comics looking for a way to grow and monetize their… Read More... →

A month before Disrupt, Yu Zhou sent us an email titled, “We want to help solve the Flint water problem.” WaterO’s CEO wasn’t claiming to have the catchall solution to the lead problem plaguing the Michigan city, but his company was in a unique position to lend a hand. Since then, the Los Angeles-based startup announced that it has teamed up with the charity Water is… Read More... →

Most businesses live or die on Google search rankings. If you can’t crack the top few results, it’s almost impossible to consistently drive organic traffic to your site. But how does Google decide which sites appear at the top of the results list? It uses Googlebot, a proprietary automated software script to “crawl” every website on the Internet and create an index… Read More... →

Artveoli is a biotech startup that’s building an air purifying device that aims to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen in indoor environments by harnessing the photosynthetic properties of algae. The startup is officially launching on stage here at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. Read More... →

OverNest, a startup that was launched just over a year by several technology industry veterans, announced its first product called GitZero today at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition in Brooklyn, NY — and it’s a pretty exciting product that makes encrypted code searchable. It’s widely known that you should be encrypting your data. It prevents prying eyes… Read More... →

We’re heading into summer, but the chilly relationship between government bodies and private tech businesses is growing frostier by the day. In the latest development, it has emerged that Twitter requested one of its key B2B partners, Dataminr — a service that offers advanced social media analytics and early detection of major events like terrorist attacks or natural… Read More... →

As self-driving cars are not quite ready yet, bike accidents are still a thing, unfortunately. Sometimes, stupid monkey brains can’t see someone riding a bike. Lumenus wants to fix that with smart clothes and accessories for runners, cyclists and motorcyclists. The company is taking part in our Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Facebook says it’s against its trending topic curation policy to suppress or prioritize specific political views, and that it has guidelines in place to preserve consistency and neutrality. This would imply that blame for any deviation from these guidelines would go on the contractors paid to curate the trends it shows. In a statement in response to Gizmodo’s report that… Read More... →

Today, Uber and Lyft took their ride hailing services offline in Austin, Texas, leaving drivers scrambling for other means of making income, and riders stranded or seeking another mode of transportation. Here’s why: this week, Austin voters upheld a rule that would require Uber, Lyft and other transportation network companies there to do fingerprint-based background checks of their… Read More... →

There’s no shortage of ways to get a satisfactory caffeine fix these days, and some of them are mighty high-tech. Spinn Coffee’s new machine, demonstrated on stage at Disrupt NY today, claims one of the most high-tech of all — but this elaborate centrifugal brewing method may be the most versatile as well. Read More... →

Halo Neuroscience wants to build a new category of wearable. Not for passively tracking human activity, as so many existing wearables are, but for actively and positively influencing physical abilities — or that’s the claim — using an existing neurostimulation technique called transcranial direct current stimulation. The team demoed their wearable on stage today, here at… Read More... →