Daily Archives: April 21, 2016

Facebook will now also take account of time users spend reading stuff clicked from News Feed

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In an effort to further improve its service, Facebook has yet again updated it News Feed ranking algorithm. The social networking company says that the algorithm will now also take into account the amount of time users spend reading/watching stuff they click from their News Feeds. “We are adding another factor to News Feed ranking so that we will now predict how long you spend looking at an article in the Facebook mobile browser or an Instant Article after you have clicked through from News Feed,” Facebook said in a press release. “We will not be counting loading time towards this —…

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Dr Dina and Whoopi Goldberg Making Half The World Amenable to the Healing Effects of Cannabis

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Dr. Dina is not a doctor, but Snoop gave her the nickname back in the day and it stuck. The daughter of Snoop’s criminal attorney was a friend of Dina, and Dina had her first puff with Snoop when she was 15. From that (in?)auspicious start, she took a road of helping people who came to her for advice around the healing aspects of cannabis.

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 to go on open sale in India next week

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Xiaomi has announced that its Redmi Note 3 smartphone will be available for purchase in India without any registrations next week – the open sale will kick start on April 27 at 2PM. The announcement came in the form of tweet from the Chinese company’s India unit. The tweet contains a link to mi.com/in, suggesting that the open sale will only be hosted on Xiaomi’s India website. https://t.co/S0qbbVlM73 – More #RedmiNote3 stocked, no registrations required for next sale! Get it 27 April, at 2pm http://pic.twitter.com/zXVoWNNsCG— Redmi India (@RedmiIndia) April 21, 2016 As for the device,…

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Samsung rolls out minor bug-fixing update to Galaxy S7/S7 edge units in India

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Samsung has started pushing out a minor update to its latest flagship smartphones – the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge – in India. Weighing in at 1.06MB, the update includes some bug-fixes as well as stability and performance-related improvements. This update to the latest Galaxy phones follows the one that the South Korean company started pushing out earlier last week, bringing touch and stability-related improvements as well as shape correction for skewed photos and latest Android security patch. Given that this new bug-fixing update has just started rolling out, it may take sometime…

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