Finally, Google is working with app creators to make content that is exclusive to apps searchable on the web.
Google just made a minor change to its search functionality: It can now search within apps. Starting today, Google’s search engine will index information exclusively contained inside Android apps and will even offer users a chance to stream virtual versions of the apps if they don’t already have them installed.
Facebook’s VP of messaging on why the company split off Messenger into a self-contained experience—and what the future holds.
With 1.5 billion monthly active users, Facebook has proven that it knows how to scale up a web business at least as well as any other company on the planet. But its sheer overwhelming enormity has a tendency to set the bar incredibly high for anything else it does.
Is anyone making headway on recruiting and retaining more women? Behind the scenes at the world’s largest conference for women in tech.
“This is the best room in the world!” Hilary Mason, the founder of data and machine learning R&D group Fast Forward Labs, yells enthusiastically as she walks on stage at the Anita Borg Institute’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Computing.
She’s facing a block of neatly lined chairs that stretches the length of more than a football field. Most of those chairs are full, and—remarkably, for a technology conference—most of their occupants (93% of the 12,000 attendees) are women.
A made-in-Baltimore holiday “pop-up shop” will open Friday at the Women’s Exchange in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood, featuring merchandise made by more than 90 city-based businesses.
The idea is to promote buying locally in the city and highlight Baltimore’s diverse maker industries, said…
Faculty at Cal State Long Beach describe industrial design student Nohemi Gonzalez as a passionate, hard-working, and “very gifted student.”
Twenty-three-year-old industrial design student Nohemi Gonzalez was the first American identified as a victim of the horrific attacks on Paris on Friday. Gonzalez, a senior at Cal State Long Beach, was living in the city for the semester as an exchange student at the Strate School of Design. She was dining with fellow Cal State Long Beach students at a Paris restaurant Friday night when she was killed, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Culture
Art
Politics
History
Race
Community
Faith
