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As tightly integrated as Google’s many services can be, the company has been dancing around a glaring omission: why couldn’t we add times mentioned in Gmail messages as Google Calendar events? Logic is at last taking hold in Mountain View, however. Starting this week for those using US English, Google is rolling out a Gmail web update that automatically underlines dates and times; click on one and it will pop up a box to quickly add a calendar event scheduled for that time, with an option to edit basic details first. It’s such a simple addition, but it could mean the world for those of us waiting for Gmail to catch up with our native email apps.

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If you’re an ardent user of the internet, chances are that you have stumbled upon Reddit once or twice. This social news site is also home to Redditors, who are dedicated and quite frankly, addicted to this website. Today Reddit announced that it has built a new privacy policy from the ground up, and this policy goes in effect from May 15th. The new policy is a lot simpler and more to-the-point than the previous one.

The policy is clear on crucial elements and aims to simply describe to users how Reddit handles their data on the site and the steps that they take to ensure a user’s privacy. This new policy was created with the help of Lauren Gelman, a lawyer based in San Francisco who has previously worked at the EFF, ACM and the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. The policy goes in effect on the 15th because Reddit wants users to have ample time to go through this new policy and really understand what it means. The full text of Reddit’s new privacy policy can be found here.

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If you’re the kind of person who relies on your friends and family to get you into your home as you misplace your keys on a regular basis, then getting into Facebook is probably as difficult if you don’t automatically save your password on your computer or mobile device. That’s why Facebook is giving your friends the power to help you get back into the social network if you accidentally get locked out with a new security feature called “Trusted Contacts.”

Facebook’s Trusted Contacts feature is pretty simple: select three to five friends to help you get back into your account by having security codes sent to them the next time you have trouble logging into Facebook. Once those codes are sent to your friends, they can pass their code along to you, with a total of three security codes required to recover your account. (more…)

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While Google is expanding its Fiber internet service to Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah, that doesn’t mean other cities can’t join in on the fun. Omaha, Nebraska is getting its own gigabit internet without the help from Google, thanks to internet service provider CenturyLink, who will be updating its current fiber optics platform to provide higher speeds.

The company says that its faster fiber-optics internet service should begin rolling out to a select number of markets in Omaha next week, with availability to almost 50,000 of its customers to arrive by October of this year. This makes Omaha the fifth city in the US to receive gigabit internet, with Kansas City being the first.

The latest city to receive Google Fiber will be Provo, Utah, which was just announced last month, as was the announcement that Google’s gigabit internet would be coming to Austin, Texas. Even certain locations in Vermont will be getting fiber-based internet (not provided by Google Fiber, though). Based on this trend, we should see more cities crop up to challenge other cities for the fastest internet.

However, ISPs in these areas aren’t too happy about the deal that Google is getting with its Fiber service, and they’re fighting back with comparable services of their own. For example, AT&T announced that it would offer gigabit internet in Austin alongside Google Fiber. The war is officially on, and for once it’s not taking place in a court room.

Omaha, Nebraska to receive gigabit internet from CenturyLink is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google Reader will unfortunately be shutting down in July, despite the fact that it still maintains a loyal following. When the news broke out, Reader users started looking for alternatives. There were many, and the once mighty Digg threw its hat in the ring as well. The folks at Digg said that they want to rebuild the best Reader features, which includes its API. Digg then unveiled several key points that they will be keeping in mind while developing their own RSS solution, and today they finally revealed that the beta version of this new service will be available in June albeit in beta mode.

Digg also conducted a research in which 8,600 participants took part, 40% of all participants said that they would pay for a Google Reader alternative if it offered the proper functionality. Since Digg also found out through its research that most Reader users weren’t fans of its social features, its own service wouldn’t be launching with mighty social features at first, but it hasn’t ruled them out for the future. Since the beta version goes live in June, we can only hope Digg will launch its new service soon after Reader shuts down on the 1st of July. Impeccably timing the release might provide a boost to new sign ups.

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