So you need an RSS reader, or maybe you don’t because a zillion sites have been mourning Google Reader’s demise for months (it’s alive for a few more hours, then sayonara) and you’ve already found ...

The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there's no panacea for what ails this internet ...

Google Reader was a fantastic way to keep up with your favorite blogs and news sources with RSS feeds, but it was discontinued years ago. Now, Google has remembered that RSS feeds still exist, but ...

Staying on top of everything on the internet can be tough. With something new popping up every minute, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, no matter what your field of work or interest is. This is where an ...

However, just being a browser-based application can put these products at a disadvantage. They don't offer the flexibility (or the complexity) of apps installed locally on your hard drive. They don't ...

My local PC generates briefings for me in real time as news breaks.

Now that Google Reader got its death sentence, the cries from die-hard fans of the online feed reader have gone out across Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and websites the world over. The outcry was ...

One issue some people are facing amid the boom in email newsletters is staying on top of all the ones they're interested in while managing their inboxes. Substack, one of the most prominent newsletter ...

Slick RSS is not a front-end to an online feed reader, but a complete RSS client built into Google Chrome. If you like to constantly check for new content on your favorite sites, you may have come ...

“It turns out we don’t want to live in our inboxes all day.” Privacy-protecting browser Brave is introducing a new news reader, Brave Today, per Ars Technica ...

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