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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• Google loves the mobile web so much it put the Chrome team under its search boss

  

  It's no surprise that Google adores the mobile web. And it's no surprise why: Google is worried about the rush of attention to mobile apps — particularly to the time-sucking apps owned by Facebook. To address that, Google is pushing an agenda to give mobile websites app-like qualities. It also recently shifted the Chrome browser division, responsible for its mobile web products, under John Giannandrea, the SVP in charge of search — Google's cornerstone — Recode has learned. At its I/O developer..

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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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• 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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