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Google clearly wants people to have a human connection to its forthcoming self-driving cars. The tech giant today announced Paint the Town, a contest that will have artists send designs to be displayed on prototypes, Google’s website, and a community event next month in Mountain View, Calif. Google will choose 10 winning designs to be […]... →

VB INSIGHT: Last year about a third of mobile developers and publishers said they were cheated when acquiring new app users. This year, that number has jumped to almost two thirds. Clearly, many more developers are now paying good money for bad users. Last year VB published one of our first-ever research reports (yes, we do that now) on the hot topic […]... →

GUEST: IBM’s and Cisco’s recent acquisitions of Blue Box and Piston Cloud Computing, respectively, just top the list of big names closing deals that position OpenStack as the coming standard for cloud solutions. Although the smaller OpenStack-based cloud companies now being acquired had the edge on nimble, early-stage innovation in the early years of the open-source […]... →

Reddit turned ten-years-old today, and it’s been quite the wild ride since University of Virginia roommates Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded the site in 2005. Reddit has been a major news source for its hundreds of millions of unique monthly users over the past decade, but it has also been the focus of more than a few stories to go viral. Read More... →

Popular scientist Bill Nye is known for explaining all sorts of things to us, but today he's talking climate change using emojis.... →

The 28-city tour hits the Bay Area this week. A new six-week session starts in September.... →

Towers Watson believes that 55 percent of employers will be offering employees telemedicine benefits next year, and that 81 percent will be doing so by 2018.... →

Разработчики Google добавили более заметное меню справки в Search Console. Меню расположено в правом верхнем углу экрана. Окно справки можно перемещать по странице, чтобы оно не закрывало нужную информацию. Пользователь может искать справочные статьи или получить контекстную справку, основанную на открытом разделе Search Console. Месяцем ранее Google сообщил о ребрендинге сервиса «Инструменты для вебмастеров». Теперь он называется Search Console.... →

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Google executives explain what's not allowed on YouTube -- and in the process, point us to some really weird, sick stuff.... →

Разработчики почтового сервиса Gmail от Google перенесли функцию «Отменить отправку» из экспериментального раздела «Лаборатория» на вкладку общих настроек. Функция позволяет пользователям Gmail выбрать срок от 5 до 30 секунд, в течение которого отмена отправки будет возможной. После того, как пользователь нажмет «отправить», над списком писем появится желтая полоса, которая содержит информацию об отправке письма и дает возможность прочитать отправленное сообщение или отменить его отправку. Фун... →

It turns out Angela Merkel wasn’t the only state figure from an American ally whose phone calls were being monitored by the NSA. Today WikiLeaks dropped another bombshell collection of secret government documents, “Espionnage Élysée,” detailing the extent to which the NSA has spied on French officials over the past several administrations. The files detail the French… Read More... →

There’s been some debate about how many consumers are actually cutting ties with their pay TV providers and replacing them with over-the-top streaming media services – a trend generally referred to as “cord cutting.” But a recent study  indicates that the number of cord cutters in North America is, in fact growing – in 2014, 8.2 percent of former pay TV… Read More... →

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google Mobile Tests, DuckDuckGo Queries & Retargeting AdWords appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

Instagram's new search is much better than the old one, introducing whole new ways for you to get lost on Instagram.... →

The patent points to the possibility that Apple is pushing Beats technology into the gaming space.... →

For all of our fixation on the latest feature or app or whatever burbling out of some drunken Silicon Valley hackathon, it’s easy to forget that developers in major markets like India and China are building some monster successes in their home markets. Of course, those markets are so big and so new they can […]... →

This is just one of the magical things enabled by Apple's new Watch OS 2 operating system.... →

New York Times bestselling author Austin Kleon has been called "one of the most interesting people on the Internet" by The Atlantic magazine, and he stopped by The Writer Files to chat about creativity and the writing life. Austin is the author of three illustrated books: Steal Like An Artist, Newspaper Blackout, and Show Your Work! .... →

Uber made an important move last March, a move that reinforced my vision of where the Internet is headed. For the first time, users are able to summon an Uber ride from other applications without ever opening the Uber app itself. Some of you have already encountered this new capability firsthand. This “programmable Web” was a key enabler of Siri and is a decades-long… Read More... →