Read the news, fast. Whether you desire to know what'southward going on in the earth of technology or rapidly swipe through headlines from effectually the spider web, the right site or app makes it easier.

Cool Websites and Apps aims to bring you lot five things never covered on MakeUseOf earlier, despite our tens of thousands of articles. Today we're going to point out five news sources we call up are well worth installing or bookmarking. Permit's go started.

Forenoon Reader: The Day's Peak Tech Stories

If you're a regular MakeUseOf reader, you probably like keeping upwards with the world of applied science. Morning Reader compiles v of the twenty-four hours's meridian engineering news from around the spider web, all in one identify.

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You can see the headlines in your browser, if you similar, or yous can have them delivered to you every twenty-four hours using electronic mail or RSS. Click a link to read the story online. At that place's even an extension for Chrome that uses these stories as a sort of clutter-free new tab page.

The curation is pretty practiced, and the site itself is like shooting fish in a barrel on the eyes, and so check information technology out. You might finish up doing then every 24-hour interval.

Sometimes an commodity is then fascinating that you lot just want to learn more than. News Bot is a Chrome extension that volition, with but a click, read whatever it is you're reading and recommend related stories.

You lot can as well, if you like, subscribe to a detail story – significant you'll be notified

Note that if you've turned off those distracting Chrome notifications this extension won't really work, so turn them back on if you desire to try this out.

We've gone over more than a few minimalistic RSS readers, just we've somehow missed this gem until now. Liten is a really fast RSS reader you can use without creating an account. But start adding feeds, or importing an OPML file, and you're washed.

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RSS can improve your life, and Liten is a very quick way to see how. Once you've added feeds from the sites yous dearest you'll have a go-to homepage, full of the latest headlines from around the web. Be sure to include the MakeUseOf RSS feed.

News In Shorts (iOS, Android): 60-Word Summaries Of The Day's Top Stories

And now for something from India. News In Shorts is a smartphone app with an editorial team behind it. The idea is simple: to summarize that top news stories, every mean solar day, for busy readers on the become. Merely swipe up and downwardly to see the summary.

If you find something interesting, you can swipe left or right to read the full article in a browser. The news sources have an Indian slant, so readers from other countries might feel a little left out, just it'southward all the same an interesting expect at how mobile news can piece of work.

Those of you not living in India can check out a few other news summarization tools, if you adopt.

Swipe News (iOS): Quickly Browse 100+ News Sites

Here's another app for quickly swiping through stories on your phone. Swipe News lets yous see the headlines from multiple sites – swipe correct and left to browse stories, upwards and down to switch news sources.

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You can customize which sources the app provides you, and generally find out what's going on pretty quickly. You can also add manufactures to your reading list, for future reference.

What's Your Favorite News App?

We've looked at other interesting news apps, like NPR One, a sort of Pandora for news stories, and sites for keeping up with financial news.

Just we want to know: what news apps have we missed here? Point out your favorites in the comments below, along with whatever questions you might accept. I look frontwards to chatting with you lot!

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