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Posted by Cinthya Mohr, User Experience Lead, Google for Education (Cross-posted on the Google for Education Blog .) In a junior high class in Queens, New York, Ross Berman is teaching fractions. He wants to know whether his students are getting the key concept, so he posts a question in Google Classroom and instantly reviews their answers. It's his favorite way to check for understanding before anyone has the chance to fall behind. Across the country, in Bakersfield,... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис для отправки горячего кофе в подарок Fresend. Передаём им микрофон.... →

If you’ve seen so many scary movies that you no longer feel fear, Paramount Pictures may have the next generation of horror you crave. VRWerx, a virtual reality experience company, has partnered with Paramount and AMC Theaters to provide a Paranormal Activity VR demo to a few theaters around the United States. The fright simulator will […]... →

Вице-президент Microsoft и руководитель разработки Windows Джо Бельфиоре (Joe Belfiore) взял отпуск длиною в один год. Необходимость такого отдыха он объяснил желанием отправиться в путешествие с семьёй.... →

Smartifying the world is still a confusing mess of protocols, standards, and platforms.... →

Скорее всего страх перед "спамом" мешает владельцам популярных WhatsApp, Viber продавать их как B2B инструменты. Популярность мессенджеров пока не конвертируется в бизнес успехи.... →

This week we held the first ever TechCrunch Lisbon Meetup and Pitch-off at a rooftop bar over-looking this beautiful, ancient city which in the last few years has been coming to life as a vibrant startup hub in this part of southern Europe. Thanks to the good offices of local accelerator Beta-i and a bar stacked by Android market startup Aptoide, around 200 people turned up to hear the pitches… Read More... →

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21 октября 2015 года — день, когда герои фильма «Назад в будущее» совершили путешествие во времени. Международные компании отреагировали на событие, упомянув его в соцсетях. Редакция vc.ru выбрала наиболее интересные примеры из сообществ международных и российских брендов.... →

Online publishers are about to get a lot more options for embedding tweets in their stories, with Twitter announcing a new “ecosystem” of products around embedded tweets today at its Flight developer conference. The curation side includes Twitter-built products like the aptly-named Curator, which helps publishers find the best tweets to feature in their content. (Curator was… Read More... →

Great Scott! It’s finally here! Today is October 21st, 2015…the day that Marty McFly traveled to in Back to the Future Part II. To make it even better, all of your favorite tech companies have decided to get in on the action by featuring McFly-themed easter eggs and promotions all day long. Click through to check them out. Read More... →

There are four stages to creating a remarkable content experience. And so far on The Lede, hosts Jerod Morris and Demian Farnworth explored three out of the four: authenticity, usefulness, and reliability. Today, they discuss the fourth: profitability. But this is not only about figuring out how to make a living from your content. Which is important, mind you.... →

For years, YouTube's fans have been telling us they want more"more choice when watching their favorite content, more ways to support their favorite creators and, above all, the option to watch their favorite videos uninterrupted. On October 28, we're giving fans exactly what they want. Introducing YouTube Red - a new membership designed to provide you with the ultimate YouTube experience. YouTube Red lets you enjoy videos across all of YouTube without ads,... →

Yesterday we wrote about Twitter’s interest in building up its platform as a place for businesses and brands to manage customer care, and today Twitter unveiled some of the early features of that effort. At its Flight developer conference, the company showed how it was working with Fabric and Gnip to help businesses run customer services over Twitter. Early users include retailers… Read More... →

Twitter today announced two new application programming interfaces (APIs) that developers can use to integrate data from the Twitter’s Gnip service into third-party apps. They’re not just meant to provide tweets, which Gnip already does. Rather, these new ones — the Audience API and the Engagement API — will provide information about reach for and […]... →

Начиная с 28 октября 2015, Google запускает YouTube Red – сервис платных подписок на контент видеохостинга. Пользователи платной версии сервиса получат возможность смотреть видео без рекламы. Им также будет предоставлен доступ к эксклюзивному контенту – YouTube Originals. Все видеоролики будет возможно сохранять на устройстве для отложенного просмотра без интернета, контент будет доступен даже при отсутствии соединения. Пользователи YouTube также смогут слушать музыку на сервисе: композиции будут воспроизв... →

Gnip is the company that has been keeping archives of every tweet going back to the first one in 2006. Twitter knew how important this data was to marketers and companies so it acquired the company and now has a fleet of APIs that it’s making bank on. Most recently it opened up instant access to all of those historical tweets. Today, during its developer conference Twitter Flight, the… Read More... →

YouTube made its video creators an offer they literally couldn’t refuse, or they’d have their content disappear. Today YouTube confirmed that any creator that doesn’t agree to sign its revenue share deal for its new YouTube Red $9.99 ad-free subscription will have their videos hidden from public view on both the ad-supported and ad-free tiers. That’s a tough pill to… Read More... →

16 октября журналисты WSJ уличили нашумевший медицинский стартап Theranos, считавшийся до сих пор образцом взрывного роста бизнеса новой формации, в подтасовке результатов исследований. Бывшие сотрудники компании рассказали, что большинство тестов происходят на чужом оборудовании, а не на основной разработки компании Элизабет Холмс – устройстве Edison. Редакция vc.ru продолжает разыскивать российских предпринимателей, занимающихся стартапами, необязательно связанными с интернетом и ИТ. В сегодняшнем ... →

The energy in the room was palpable as audience members waited to see if Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes would really show up this morning for her onstage interview at the Wall Street Journal Live conference. But show up, she did. Holmes bravely took the hot seat in the midst of a very public brawl with the Journal, which published a couple articles alleging Theranos wasn’t using its… Read More... →