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Apple announces news subscription service, Apple News+

sudshr47 March 25, 2019

Apple News is getting into the subscription business.

At Monday’s Apple event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, the company announced a new subscription service called Apple News Plus (or, Apple News+).

Tim Cook positioned the service as a way to get access to magazines — as opposed to just articles from news outlets — with just one subscription. Pay $9.99 a month and you’ll get access to over 300 magazines covering topics like entertainment, news, fashion, and more.

“I miss the feeling of being at the newsstand,” Tim Cook said, seemingly forgetting that Apple devices helped make buying physical magazines obsolete. Read more…

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Facebook fights local ‘news deserts’ it helped create

sudshr47 March 18, 2019

Facebook is once again touting its attempt to solve a problem it helped create.
The company announced Monday that it would provide select researchers access to information about news deserts, which are places with little to no local news covera…

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Fox News host admits on air that he hasn’t washed his hands in 10 years

sudshr47 February 11, 2019

A good amount of people abandon their New Year’s resolutions by February, but Fox News’ Pete Hegseth? He’s just getting started.

On Sunday morning’s episode of Fox & Friends, Hegseth, for some reason, came *clean* about his resolution on air, and the result was both unexpected and absolutely disgusting.

“My 2019 resolution is to say things on-air that I say off-air. I don’t think I’ve washed my hands for 10 years,” Hegseth admitted, without being asked.

Fox News’ @PeteHegseth admits, unprompted, that he hasn’t washed his hands in 10 years.

“Germs are not a real thing,” Pete says. “I can’t see them, therefore they’re not real.” pic.twitter.com/9hsAb9YA9j

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 10, 2019 Read more…

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The Washington Post’s moving Super Bowl ad uses the power of Tom Hanks’ voice to defend journalism

sudshr47 February 4, 2019

The Washington Post aired a powerful ad narrated by Tom Hanks during Super Bowl LIII on Sunday, complete with its “Democracy Dies In Darkness” tagline.

The moving spot begins with shots of memorable news events — the March on Selma, the moon landing, the Oklahoma City bombing — but then shifts to paying tribute to journalists who have been captured or killed.

Among those the ad memorializes is Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, whose murder was reportedly ordered by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Following Khashoggi’s death in October 2018, Trump has so far refused to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the killing. Read more…

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NYT honors record number of women in Congress with stunning special section

sudshr47 January 17, 2019

If you picked up a print copy of the New York Times on Thursday, you were greeted with a special cover highlighting the record number of women (131) who are part of the 116th Congress.

But they’re not all featured on one cover. There are 27 different covers featuring both new and continuing members of Congress, one for each of the 27 regions where the Times delivers print editions.

A gif with all 27 covers of the @nytimes special section coming Thursday of the record number of women in the 116th Congress#nytimes ⁦@bizherman⁩ pic.twitter.com/rufnIiq3Ik

— Tom Jolly (@TomJolly) January 16, 2019 Read more…

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‘The Daily Show’ takes us on a hilarious tour of Trump’s weirdest moments this year

sudshr47 December 20, 2018

Wow. 2018. What a doozy, guys.
Thankfully, Trevor Noah and the team at The Daily Show are here to put things in perspective and make the weird twists and turns of the year a little more palatable. Rather than focusing on all the horrific things T…

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year is honestly so apt for 2018

sudshr47 December 17, 2018

With all that’s going on in the Justice Department, a very divisive appointment of a new Supreme Court Justice, not to mention the ever-ongoing fight for social justice, it makes a lot of sense that “justice” is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2018.

The noun, meaning both “the maintenance or administration of what is just” and “judge,” was chosen as Word of the Year by the American dictionary, since it saw a 74% increase in look-ups this year, compared to 2017.

For a number of reasons and meanings, ‘justice’ was on the minds of many in 2018.

‘Justice’ is our 2018 #WordOfTheYear.https://t.co/kyB9swUkQp

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) December 17, 2018 Read more…

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Fox News mistakenly calls the president ‘David’ Trump

sudshr47 December 12, 2018

While President Donald Trump has reportedly used fake names to maneuver and manipulate the PR game, he’s got a brand new label thanks to a funny Fox News flub that hit the air on Tuesday night.

During a discussion on Laura Ingraham’s show about Time‘s “Person of the Year,” a graphic was shown on screen listing the 2018 finalists which includes Donald Trump. Or, perhaps, maybe Trump’s twin, David?

pic.twitter.com/0so6iwvtTM

— Dusty (@DustinGiebel) December 12, 2018

And in case you think it’s a prank, here’s Ingraham herself confused by the typo. Read more…

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CNN sues White House over Jim Acosta’s press pass

sudshr47 November 13, 2018

UPDATE: Nov. 13, 2018, 11:04 a.m. EST Updated to include White House statement on lawsuit.

CNN is taking their fight with President Donald Trump to court.
The network announced Tuesday morning they’ve filed a lawsuit against Trump and members of his…

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Goop has been reported to UK regulators for ‘potentially dangerous’ claims

sudshr47 October 29, 2018

Gwyneth Paltrow’s controversial lifestyle and wellness brand Goop is facing some adversity these days. Just a month after settling a consumer protection case in California over unscientific claims, Goop has been reported to two regulators in the UK — the National Trading Standards and the Advertising Standards Authority.

Goop was reported by Good Thinking Society, a pro-science organisation, for 113 misleading claims on their website. According to Good Thinking Society, the 113 claims are in violation of UK advertising law. Read more…

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YouTube now lets you subscribe to a channel from an embedded video

sudshr47 October 19, 2018

YouTube launched a new update to its website two days ago allowing users to browse while watching a video at the same time. Now, the video platform is quietly rolling out another major update to the offsite YouTube experience.

The video giant is finally giving its embedded player a major overhaul — making it easier for people to subscribe to channels from embedded videos.

Now, when you come across a YouTube video embedded on a website, you will see the channel’s avatar on the top left corner, next to the title of the video on the thumbnail image. Hovering over the channel image reveals the channel’s name, subscriber count, as well as a new actionable “subscribe” button. You can also click on the channel image to open its YouTube channel page in a new window. These changes were first pointed out by 9to5Google. Read more…

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