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Best alternatives to the News app
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The first step to Flipboard is personalization. Just pick out the topics that you're interested in, Flipboard aggregates news stories from a ton of …
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Google Home
Google Home and Smart Displays will soon support replying to Broadcasts, add recipe cards, more
9to5Google - Abner Li
Amid a series of hardware unveils at 10/9, Google announced several new features for Assistant. The Home View dashboard launched on the Google Home Hub and made its way to other Smart Displays, along Digital
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Consumer Tech
This alarm clock uses targeted light and sound to wake you, but not your partner
Digital Trends - Luke Dormehl
Whether you are awakened each day by a phone alarm, a clock radio, or a next-gen device like the Amazon Echo Spot, the common problem with all these …
New York Post
Sexual Harassment
Google’s secret quest to solve language
New York Post - By Christopher Carbone
Thousands of engineers and product specialists spend countless hours at Google’s sprawling complex and its offices worldwide trying to solve search’s …
The resources you need to get started in immersive journalism - Online News Association
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Immersive journalism is a rapidly developing field — which can be both exciting and intimidating to anyone trying to get involved. What tech do you …
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Google Assistant
Google Assistant can now set Nickelodeon character alarms and reply to broadcast messages
VentureBeat - Khari Johnson
Google Assistant has added the ability to set alarms with characters from Nickelodeon’s Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — so you can now say “Hey Google, set a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle alarm
Stanford University
Part One: The College Graduate’s Guide to Securing and Nailing an Interview | The College Puzzle
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BY ANDREW HEIKKILA It used to be that a college degree all but assured a graduate would be able to find a job and a career after leaving university. …
Fact Checking
Ahead of Brazil's election, Twitter bot Fátima spreads fact-checked information
ijnet.org - byMarie von Hafften
Ahead of Brazil’s Oct. 7 presidential election, the country’s fact-checkers are working around the clock to investigate questionable claims and …
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Fake News
WhatsApp Commits $1 Mn To Research Spread Of Misinformation
inc42.com - Bhumika Khatri
Messaging platform WhatsApp committed $1Mn for research on how the app is misused for misinformation, as pressure mounts by governments on the …
CNET
Apps
Ann Curry shares her favorite apps
CNET - Joshua Rotter
In its first season, PBS series "We'll Meet Again With Ann Curry" surpassed expectations by capturing 15.5 million unique viewers and generating over 11.5 million streams across PBS platforms and Facebook
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Batteries
Google Contacts app joins the dark side for your health and device battery life
CNET - Shelby Brown
Almost any app, whether desktop or mobile, has a dark mode feature these days. Dark mode essentially makes the background of a program a dark gray or blue with the text in contrast. Google Contacts version
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Google Search
Google News Publishers Complaining About Indexing Issues
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In the past few days there has been an uptick in complaints from Google News publishers around Google not indexing their new news content. Gary …
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Fake News
70% of People Worry About Fake News— And How Google Combats It
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When was the last time you read a title like, ‘Pedophile priest with HIV who raped 30 children, found crucified outside church’. I bet it wasn’t too …
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Social Media
6 Times Facebook Was a Follower, Not a Leader | 2018
tech.co - Jack Turner
TikTok, the video sharing app, is this week’s hottest trend. If you don’t know what it is, then bad news – you might not have your finger on the …
Student Journalism
Classy Classes: COMM 281 combines computer science and journalism
stanforddaily.com - Ruth-Ann Armstrong
COMM 281/CS 206: “Exploring Computational Journalism” is a project-based class that examines ways that artificial intelligence, data science and data …
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Material Design
Google Contacts app adds dark mode
mobilesyrup.com - By Brad Bennett Nov 13, 2018 5:44 PM EST2018-11-13EST17:44:21-05:002018-11-13EST17:44:21-05:00 0 comments
Google has been slowly rolling out dark themes for its apps since the summer 2018 launch of its new Material Design guidelines at Google I/O, and now …
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Facebook describes fake news as an ‘existential threat’
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Facebook was joined by representatives from other major social media platforms, such as Twitter and Google, for the first time in an open discussion …
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Android News
Google Contacts v3.2 brings the long-awaited dark mode [APK Download]
androidpolice.com - Richard Gao
A ton of Google apps have gotten reskinned with the company's updated Material look, and Contacts was among the first to receive the redesign. Given …
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Batteries
Google confirms dark mode saves battery life on Android smartphones
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Google is encouraging developers to add dark themes to save battery life on Android smartphones. By: | New Delhi | At a recent Android Dev Summit …
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Publishers don’t love Apple News. The king of sponsored links has another idea
Fast Company - By Joe Lazauskas
With its new smartphone widget, Taboola aims to break news out of its walled gardens, says its CEO: “It’s not ads. It’s not sponsored content.” Steve Jobs’ ghost may haunt me for writing this, but Apple
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Catching Up with the Tribe! Your Questions Answered - GTT062 from Google Teacher Tribe Podcast
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Episode Info: Google News and Updates Introducing a ✨ .new ✨ time-saving trick for users. Type any of these .new domains to instantly create Docs, …
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Batteries
Android battery life too short? Try using dark mode, Google says
Digital Trends - Aaron Mamiit
Android smartphone owners who want to enjoy longer battery life on their devices might want to try using dark mode, according to Google itself. Google …
Los Angeles
Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)
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Represents California's 48th Congressional District. He has served 15 terms in the House. Contact Info Committee Assignments Most Common Bill …
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YouTube CEO says new EU copyright laws are threatening creativity
The Telegraph - By Natasha Bernal
YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki has hit out at proposed new European Union copyright rules which she claims will harm the creative industries. Ms Wojcicki said the European Parliament's vote in
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Blockchain
MUFG Bank partners with Ripple for Cross-Border Payment Service
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Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Bank (MUFG) just announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Brazil’s Banco Bradesco Bank. The …
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Apps
Here’s every Google app with a dark mode, and how to enable it [Gallery]
9to5Google - Ben Schoon
For years now, the Android community has cried out for dark themes in applications and the system throughout, all while Google continued to slap more and more white themes basically everywhere. Slowly
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Batteries
Google admits too much white space in apps is bad for battery life
androidpolice.com - Scott Scrivens
During the Android Dev Summit 2018 that was just held in Mountain View, Google admitted something we all basically knew anyway: it may have been …
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Social Media
How Can SEO Help Journalism and News Websites?
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“SEO”, by Pixabay member Tumisu. Image license: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0), Public Domain Dedication This is the first of two articles talking about …
CNET
Apps
Lisa Ling shares her favorite apps
CNET - Joshua Rotter
Asking questions and having an open mind have served journalist Lisa Ling well in her career, from working as a field reporter in war-torn Afghanistan to working on "The View" to executive producing and
The New York Times
Social Media
The Week in Tech: Social Media Faces Another Election Test
The New York Times - By MIKE ISAAC
Each week, technology reporters and columnists from The New York Times review the week’s news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry. Want