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Facebook Tests “Today In” Local News Feature in Select US Cities The internet is a great source for news, but getting details about local events can be a challenge. Luckily, Facebook’s testing a new feature — “Today In” — that’s designed to make it simpler. It’s from the company’s News Partnerships team, which is overseen by former NBC news anchor Campbell Brown, and part of Facebook’s Journalism Project initiative. Starting this week, people who live in New Orleans; Little Rock; Billings, Montanna; Peoria, Illinois; Olympia, Washington; and Binghamton, New York will see a new “Today In” tab in the Facebook app’s left-hand menu. Source: Recode The goal’s to aggregate local news stories from vetted sources, and the social network’s using a mix of humans and machine learning software to accomplish it. The new Today In feed consists of breaking news, upcoming events, and community announceme...

Samsung Will Highlight 3 New C-Lab Projects at CES 2018 We’ve talked about Samsung’s C-Lab (Creative Lab), which  offers Samsung employees a chance to experiment with side projects that could turn into full-blown startup companies , a few times in the past. And today, Samsung announced that it’ll be showcasing three projects from seven startups that have been spun off from C-Lab at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The first of the three new C-Lab experiments is something called S-Ray (Sound-Ray), a portable directional speaker. The idea was to engineer a smaller, lighter, and more portable sound system that could be easily transported from place to place — ideal for folks who like to listen to music in public but dislike using earbuds or earphones. Next is GoBreath , a health device for people who suffer from postoperative pulmonary complications after general anesthesia. They sometimes have difficulty recovering, so a doctor employed at the Sa...