NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 video review: Behold, the GPU king and other top stories.

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 video review: Behold, the GPU king

  As far as video card upgrades go, there's a lot to love with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080. We called it "the upgrade you've been waiting for" in our full review. The GTX 1080 blows away last year's high-end cards, and even though it's $599 ($699 for the Founders Edition we tested), it's well worth the cost for serious gamers. In our video review above, check out some gameplay footage from the new Doom remake, as well as Quantum Break.

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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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• Google's Rich Cards Will Bring More Eye Candy To Mobile Search Results

  

  Google wants more eye candy to spruce up its search results on mobile, so it has introduced rich cards, a new search result format building on the success of rich snippets. Rich snippets are structured data markup that site operators can add to their existing HTML. This allows search engines to better understand what information is contained on each web page. Like rich snippets, rich cards use schema.org to display content in an even more engaging and visual format. The content,  however, is no..

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