Best News Apps for Android

Extra, Extra, read all about it with these great Android apps.

Keeping informed on the go is one of the many things that our smartphones are incredible tools for. During the everyday hustle and bustle it’s easy to ignore the world around you, but the news is everywhere. Including on your phone.

Android has a plethora of great apps to choose from thanks to the massive selection in the Google Play Store. But if you’re looking to get your daily news fix, we recommend you check out this little lot.

Flipboard

The Guardian

SmartNews

USA Today

BBC News

Google News and Weather

MSN News

AP Mobile

Feedly

Nuzzel

News Republic

Flipboard

For many, Flipboard is the default news app for Android. It’s been around for a while and was one of the first apps to make reading the news less boring with its image-heavy, magazine-style layout.

One of the other merits to Flipboard is its customization. It’s your news, your way. So beyond selecting topic areas of interest, you can also add in your own feeds so you’re missing out on nothing.

Flipboard to this day makes reading the news a pleasure.

Download: Flipboard

The Guardian

The Guardian is one of the most respected brands in journalism, delivering international news as well as a fresh perspective on American politics from across the pond.

Their Android app is simple to navigate and robust, filled with investigative deep dives, commentary, and videos to keep you informed on the latest breaking news around the world. Sign in via your Google or Facebook account to customize your homepage and follow your favorite critics and columnists so you’re always in the loop on the news and stories you care most about.

Download: The Guardian

SmartNews

Just as the name implies, the SmartNews app is designed in a very clever way so that you can quickly read all the latest headlines from around the world. News categories are displayed as tabs (referred to in app as “channels”) at the top of the screen, giving you the option to swipe through them one by one, or jump straight to the sports section with a tap. When you tap a story, swipe over to SmartView and the whole story loads almost instantaneously.

The news here is curated from both newspapers and online news sources, giving you a well-rounded view on the day’s events. You’re also able to customize and tweak your experience by adding and reordering channels to suit your needs. There’s even a Late Night TV channel for those interested on a humorous take on the news, featuring, monologues, comedy bits, and other highlights from the network’s late night programming.

It’s a one-stop shop for all your news needs.

Download: SmartNews

USA Today

If you like your daily news with an American flavor, then the USA Today app should be right up your street. It’s bright and colorful to look – Source

Best News Apps for Android

Google is testing a new layout for hints and search shortcuts

There’s always a Google A/B test going on in the background to figure out what could get users to better discover options or take them to what they’re looking for faster. One of these tests was a series of search shortcuts that had a very distinct circle design in the Google Now (now known as Feed) page right below the search bar. That interface didn’t spread to a wider user base, but it appears that Google is still toying with the idea, albeit in a different look.

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Google is testing a new layout for hints and search shortcuts

The Uncourage is a keychain to keep you from losing the iPhone 7 3.5mm adapter

Okay, not only ‘there’s a dongle for that’, but now there’s a keychain for that dongle. The Uncourage (Apple’s #courage, counteracted) is a simple keychain allowing you to carry your iPhone 7/7 Plus Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter around without losing it.

The remarkably low-tech solution to a previously non-existent problem consists of a key ring with a 3.5mm plug attached to it, and that’s it. It’s also priced accordingly – $6 a pop, but getting a 3-pack will run you $12 total, and 10 pieces come at half price, if you’re shopping for the entire family (and/or have dozens of…

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The Uncourage is a keychain to keep you from losing the iPhone 7 3.5mm adapter

Alleged Samsung Gear 360 Pro spotted on Zauba

If you recall, back in September this year, there were reports that Samsung is working on a Pro variant of its Gear 360 camera. Well, the device may have entered India for R&D purposes.

A listing on India’s import/export tracking website Zauba reveals that a device dubbed “SAMPLE SAMSUNG CAMERA SET” landed in the country earlier this week, and reports say it could well be the Gear 360 Pro.

Gear 360

To be fair, the possibility of it being a compact projector (that resembles the Gear 360) is also there – for those who aren’t aware, such a device was revealed in a recently-published…

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Alleged Samsung Gear 360 Pro spotted on Zauba

Facebook Messenger is testing “Instant Games” like this one from King

Facebook Messenger is preparing to launch a new “Instant Games” platform that will let people play lightweight games against friends. Candy Crush maker King.com is already testing one of these Instant Games called “Shuffle Cats Mini” in New Zealand, TechCrunch has discovered. And other studios including Big Viking also appear to be prepping for the Instant Games… Read More

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Facebook Messenger is testing “Instant Games” like this one from King

Pokemon GO finally gets a new Pokemon tracker in select places outside San Francisco

Remember when Pokemon GO got a new system for finding nearby Pokemon (to replace the one that’d broke almost immediately after launch) … but it worked pretty much exclusively in San Francisco? Well, good news/bad news time. The good news: more people outside of San Francisco are getting it now! The bad news: its still not for everybody. The company just announced a small roll out on… Read More

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Pokemon GO finally gets a new Pokemon tracker in select places outside San Francisco

Glamour Brasil slammed after staff pose with 'slanty eyes' on Instagram

Despite decades of pushback, it takes a long time for racist caricatures to die.

At Glamour Brasil recently staff members shared a photo to the company’s Instagram that featured a group of employees bowing and making “slanty eyes,” a gesture widely interpreted to be mocking of Asian cultures.

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The post was up for over 48 hours before it was finally taken down Friday. On Twitter, Glamour Brasil apologized for the photo, which was initially taken to celebrate the magazine’s “Glamour in Japan” project.

“We would like to apologize to those who have felt offended! We didn’t have that intention and really regret what happened,” the magazine wrote. …

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First Nougat-powered Android One smartphone announced

General Mobile is well-known among Android One fans thanks to its many smartphones the company launched in the last couple of year. It was General Mobile that launched the first Android One handset aimed at the European market.

The good news for General Mobile fans is the company achieved another first with the announcement of the GM 5. It appears that this is the first Android One smartphone powered by Android 7.0 Nougat.

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First Nougat-powered Android One smartphone announced

10 most powerful movie scenes in cinema history

There are scenes from films we can never forget—sometimes they’re the only part of the movie we actually remember. They’re tense, funny, heartbreaking, terrifying or some combination of all four.

Here, CineFix presents their top 10 most unforgettable scenes in cinema history, from the silent era to modern movies.

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NES Mini teardowns have begun, chips identified

Enlarge / Warning’s printed on the underside… and I see a screw to possibly get into the controller ports… (credit: Kyle Orland)

Reviews and impressions of the NES Mini hardware began to circulate this week (including our own from yesterday). The next step, of course, is unscrewing of the nostalgic little box to see how it ticks—and whether its limited functionality might ever be expanded, either officially or by hackers.

The first major image of the NES Mini’s motherboard hit the Internet thanks to Gamespot Senior Reviews Editor Peter Brown. His shots were shared and scrutinized by members of Reddit’s Nintendo community. Code numbers on chips led those users to determine that the system (which emulates NES games and displays them on 1080p displays) is primarily fueled by an AllWinner R16 “system-on-chip” solution.

If the chip works as advertised by Chinese manufacturer AllWinner, as opposed to being customized for the NES Mini in any way, then it includes a dual-core Mail400 GPU which could be powerful enough to pump out as many as 55 million triangles per second (in its 28nm, 500MHz variant). There’s also a quad-core AMD Cortex-A7 CPU, which has been clocked at 1.2GHz in smartphones, as well as 256MB of DDR3 RAM and 512MB of NAND flash storage.

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NES Mini teardowns have begun, chips identified

TV has the most LGBTQ characters in its history — but keeps killing off its queer women

GLAAD’s report on LGBTQ representation in television, released Thursday, initially looked like a cause for celebration.

The organization, which has been examining this data for more than 20 years, came out with some surprising data tailor-made for a happy headline: there were more LGBTQ characters on television than ever before. And while that achievement was notable, the report said, that milestone obscured some other critical representational issues, particularly when it came to queer women and women of color.

SEE ALSO: No one is talking about LGBTQ issues this election. That’s a problem.

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TV has the most LGBTQ characters in its history — but keeps killing off its queer women