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Gmail on the web now lets you pin Google Chat conversations

November 13, 2020
In the integrated Gmail experience available to Workspace customers, classic Hangouts has already been swapped out. Google Chat is in its place, with conversations now able to be pinned for consistent Gmail sidebar access. You can now pin a direct message or a room in Google Chat. This keeps that conversation at the top of your list view in Chat in Gmail. You can access pinned conversations…
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Google updates Web Stories for WordPress plugin w/ more text sets, GIFs, and caption support

November 13, 2020
Back in September, Google launched a WordPress plugin for easily creating AMP-based stories through a WYSIWYG editor. Version 1.1 of Web Stories for WordPress is now here as the first major update following the beta period and stable release. The text tab now features several sets that are optimized for “editorial use-cases.” We partnered with the typography experts at iA, known for its…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Flying cars may soon find a place to park in Florida

November 13, 2020
The 1960s animated cartoon series The Jetsons is best remembered for its depiction of a future that just never seems to get any closer (apart from video phones). And nothing about this future is more lamented than the prolonged absence of George Jetson’s flying electric…
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Congress clashes with Army over purchasing cargo helicopters

November 13, 2020
WASHINGTON — For the second year in a row, Congress is poised to bolster the CH-47F Chinook Block II program as the Army holds steady on its decision to scale back and only buy the latest variant for special operators. Both the House and Senate appropriators are injecting cash into the Boeing-manufactured, F-model Chinook program in fiscal 2021 to buy them for the active force after the Army…
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Quick Charge Podcast: November 12, 2020

November 13, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Kenneth McKenzie’s Lost Photos from World War II

November 12, 2020
I met a man who owned a ton of his uncle’s photos he took during his time in World War II. The images by Kenneth McKenzie start in Vancouver and Banff where they did their training, then all across Europe. Kenneth McKenzie with his Brownie in hand and Caesar by his side. While there are many images like these, what makes these special in my opinion is that each of the images has a handwritten…
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