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As self-driving cars rapidly develop, federal officials are beginning to rethink their stance on the technology. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced yesterday that an update would be coming to the nation’s self-driving car policy in coming weeks. “I want the posture of our agency to be obviously vigilant on the safety front, but I don’t want our agency to be… Read More... →

Lists! Everybody loves ’em, right? I mean, even if you pretend that you don’t, I’m guessing you find yourself furtively clicking on “top five” or “top 10” articles every once in a while. So what about a site that’s built entirely around lists? That’s Intralist, in a nutshell. John Jaxheimer (formerly creative director at Sports… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Кнопки CTA, реклама, аналитика и другие полезные возможности видео в Facebook ... →

Last week, Box announced the winner of its third annual engineering diversity scholarship, Amanda Sopkin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of the scholarship, Box awarded Sopkin a $20,000 scholarship, and four female and/or minority students a $4,000 scholarship, a trip to Box HQ and a potential opportunity to intern at the company in the future. “I think… Read More... →

Want to freshen up the AdSense performance on your site? Google Analytics can help. Here are some simple and effective places to start. 1. Find out where to focus Content Groups let you bundle your offerings to analyze them more clearly. Instead of analyzing all shoes at once, for instance, a shoe company might divide content into shoes for adults and kids, for men and women,... →

Компания приобрела стартап, который помогал в производстве новых «Звездных войн»... →

Streaming Apps Google recently announced app streaming, where they can showcase & deep link into apps in the search results even if users do not have those apps installed. How it works is rather than users installing the app, Google has the app installed on a computer in their cloud & then shows users a video of the app. Click targets, ads, etc. remain the same.... →

Some of us, four legged friends included, hit some bad luck once in a while. Some have it harder than others. A good friend of mine, TurboRoo, has an interesting story to share and a new campaign to help others in his situation. Turbo was brought into a vet in 2014 to give up for adoption. He was 4 weeks old and was born without his front legs. Luckily, he was adopted by the awesome people… Read More... →

Руководство анонимной сети Tor впервые объявило о начале сбора средств на поддержку проекта. Предполагается, что это позволит организации снизить зависимость от правительства США, которое является одним из крупных спонсоров проекта.... →

Cloud HR platform Zenefits may have allowed salespeople to illegally act as insurance agents in at least seven states. According to a Buzzfeed investigative report, the startup lets unlicensed brokers sell health insurance, leading to at least one commissioner to investigate in Washington state. Those unlicensed solicitations go back to at least the summer of 2014, and the Washington state… Read More... →

There are two kinds of people: those who are sick of all this Star Wars news nonsense, and those who just want to avoid any spoiler before seeing Star Wars Episode VII. In both cases, you’re in luck because the Jitbit co-founders have something for you — the Star Wars Spoiler Blocker extension. Read More... →

In just a few hours, people across the U.S. will be settling in for a day of food, family and football as they celebrate Thanksgiving. As the day of gluttony and gratitude comes closer, people have been turning to Google to plan the big meal, get cooking tips and more. Here's a look at some of the top Turkey Day searches"for more, see Google Trends .... →

Курт Теобальд — предприниматель, который за пять лет успел запустить 10 провалившихся стартапов и сейчас работает над своим одиннадцатым проектом. Издание Forbes побеседовало с Теобальдом и узнало, какие уроки он извлёк из собственных неудач.... →

There’s a secret equation Uber is constantly trying to optimize, where Uber and the driver earn the most money possible while the passenger pays the least. Internally, I’ve heard Uber refers to this as “the perfect ride”. It might seem like the two halves of the equation fundamentally clash, and in a way they do, but the trick is in maximizing efficiency of every part… Read More... →

The New York Times опубликовало заметку об изменившемся отношении сотрудников ИТ-стартапов к балансу между семье и работой. Как отмечает автор статьи Клейр Кейн Миллер, если раньше трудоголизм и карьера вдохновляли представителей отрасли, то теперь это является дурным примером. При этом ИТ-индустрия очень молодая и еще не выработала четкую политику по отношению к работающим молодым родителям.... →

Named ‘Someday at Christmas,’ Apple just shared its holiday video ad ahead of Thanksgiving in the U.S. and the holiday season. Surprisingly, it doesn’t showcase Apple’s latest and greatest products. Instead, it focuses on music and family time. It also features Andra Day and Stevie Wonder. Read More... →

В 2015-2016 годах в технопарке планируется обучить программированию и проектированию различных устройств 420 детей... →

Disrupt Battlefield alum Bitfusion wants to help developers get to best compute performance out of their hardware, be it their legacy desktops or specialized high-performance compute clouds. With Boost, Bitfusion showed how it can speed up existing applications by optimizing their libraries for the hardware in a given machine. After testing Boost in private alpha for the last few… Read More... →

Анна Знаменская стала директором по цифровым технологиям (Chief Digital Officer) в «Вымпелком» (Евразия). Об этом она сообщила на своей странице в Facebook. Она будет развивать digital-инициативы в «Вымпелком-Евразии», интернет-проекты, контент, мобильные финансы. Направление включает в себя шесть рынков: Кыргызстан, Узбекситан, Армения, Грузия, Таджикистан, Лаос. По данным издания Sostav, в сентябре у Анны Знаменской и компании «Вымпелком»  возник конфликт. Sim-карта Анны Знаменской через поддельную довере... →