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Microsoft Edge’s new sidebar banishes recipe stories, shows you email

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Multitasking while browsing the web.

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How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor

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"Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale."

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All You Need to Know about the 2023 Honda Civic Type R

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Honda has finally revealed details about its latest hot hatch, including increased power figures and a revised chassis.

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If you have an iPhone 5S or 6, it’s time for a rare iOS update

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It’ll help protect you from malicious websites.

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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest bet

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Land of the Giants ends its season looking ahead to Meta’s future, with exclusive audio from inside the company.

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What's New in Shortcuts - Issue #40

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Last week, I published a story for iMore covering the Menu Bar applet for Shortcuts on the Mac and gave a few examples of how to build your shortcuts to work well when triggered there — check out the example shortcuts for sure:

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Medium’s new CEO on the company’s journalism mistakes, bundle economics, and life after Ev Williams

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"For me, fundamentally, the mistake was thinking that journalism was where Medium was going to shine."

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How Serena Williams forced sports journalists to cover tennis as more than a game

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Early coverage sidestepped conversations about the unique kinds of gendered racism that a Black girl from a working-class California neighborhood might face on the professional tour.

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Twitter had a new plan to fight extremism — then Elon arrived

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The turmoil associated with Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the company was a breaking point.

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Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size

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Unless you have skipped a lot of school, or work, or both – or you live in the USA – you have probably used an A4 sheet of paper before now. Have you ever wondered …

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A New Approach to Car Batteries Is About to Transform EVs

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Auto companies are designing ways to build a car’s fuel cells into its frame, making electric rides cheaper, roomier, and able to hit ranges of 620 miles.

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How to Say 'No' to a Warehouse | The Daily Yonder

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New Jersey residents want to protect their community's rural character from a million-square-foot warehouse. But the local democratic process turns out to be complicated and – for some – suspiciously lacking in transparency.

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'Date Me' Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love

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Some people have ditched dating apps—and opted to bare their souls via a public, view-only link instead.

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Twitter rolling out edit button, first to Twitter Blue subs – TechCrunch

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The purpose of the Edit Tweet feature is to "give people a short period of time to fix things like typos, add missed tags, and more" on Twitter

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Twitter officially rolls out its long-form content ‘Notes’ feature – TechCrunch

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Twitter announced today that it has begun testing “Notes,” a way to write and publish long-form content on the social media platform. The official announcement comes a day after TechCrunch reported that the feature would be launching soon. A small group of writers in the United States, …

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States Plan to BAN GAS Powered CARS - Find out if YOUR state is next!

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If electric cars are better - why ban gas powered cars?

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What YouTube’s official entry into podcasting means for the industry

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The video platform is finally dedicating real resources to growing its podcast offerings.

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Gather, Shortcuts, Bookmarklets, and Paywalled Content - BrettTerpstra.com

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Gather is constantly improving at this point, and a lot of its rough edges have already been polished. I’m loving all the feedback I’m getting, both for fixing bugs and for adding new features. It’s

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Read2Text is now Gather, your new Markdownifier - BrettTerpstra.com

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As promised, I’ve updated Read2Text as a standalone binary using the Swift versions of Readability and HTML2Text. In the process I made it a whole new tool called Gather . You may recall that name