Google Improves Mobile Search With 'Rich Cards,' Offers New Visual Experience and other top stories.

• Google Improves Mobile Search With 'Rich Cards,' Offers New Visual Experience

  

  Using Google while conducting searches on your mobile will now make for a better visual experience as the company has launched a new format for Search: rich cards. The new rich cards search format from Google will basically showcase the visual results in a card-like format, like a carousel. The rich cards allow users to scroll through the cards. Introduced on May 17, rich cards are aimed at enhancing the Search experience on the mobile platform. Moreover, the new format is looking to further de..

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• Oculus update stops you from using VR apps with HTC's Vive

  

  It's possible to get around this barrier if you have an Oculus Rift (DK2 or the finished version) hooked up when you start an app, but this isn't exactly practical for VR fans who only have money to spend on one device. An Oculus spokesman speaking to Ars Technica maintains that the update wasn't specifically targeted at Revive, and that the goal was solely to fight piracy of titles that developers "worked so hard to make." There's some truth to that (it's easier to crack programs when there ..

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• Apple wants you to spend longer in its stores. Why would you do that?

  

  Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Your new town square. CNET If you were going to build a new town square, would you put it next to the old town square?That's what Apple claims to have done in its new flagship San Francisco store.Opening on Saturday morning to the public, it's intended to be something new. It's no longer a store, it's the town square. At ..

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• Reddit threads can now be embedded on websites like tweets & Facebook posts

  

  Reddit, "the front page of the internet" as the site boasts, has finally caught up to just about every major social media platform this week by introducing embeddable threads. You know when you're on a website and come across a tweet, Instagram photo, or YouTube video in the middle of the page, and clicking on it takes you directly to that content on said social network? Well, now the same thing can be done with Reddit posts. To be honest, this is mostly a feature that will be beneficial to th..

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• Microsoft's Surface phone: Rumour roundup

  

  Times Syndicate It's been quite some time now since we started hearing rumors about Microsoft working on their breakthrough device, which is none other than their premium Surface Phone smartphone. Microsoft's Surface team has been playing along with the great idea of building this premium smartphone for months now. According to the latest rumours, this device was expected to arrive in the second half of 2016, but new info says that this timeframe has been further pushed to ea..

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