| NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Everything worth knowing in tech today, November 17, 2020. It's National Homemade Bread Day—like what we've been doing since March.  ⏰ Today's Big Stories... in 30 Seconds Today We Watched, Read, and Listened to (so you don’t have to): 497 articles, 8 podcasts, 13 press releases, 461 tweets, and 5 YouTube videos 1. Zoom Plans to Remove 40-Minute Limit for Thanksgiving If you're being smart and staying home for Thanksgiving (or at least limiting your group exposure), Zoom has your back. The company is removing the typical 40 minute limit for free accounts for the entirety of the holiday. 2. Study Says Playing Video Games Can Make You Happier While most of us who play games knew this already, a new study shows that playing video games can increase your happiness. The sample size was limited, and researchers only looked at two games, but happy is good, right? 3. Gmail Will Soon Let You Opt Out of Smart Features You'll soon be able to opt out of smart features like Smart Reply and Smart Compose—along with the data-mining those things require—making your life a little less transparent to the Google overlords. Not bad, eh? 🦑 Go Deeper Of the many priorities for the upcoming Biden presidential administration, cybersecurity may be one of the most important. Allison Matyus has a deeper look at what this might look like for the new government. 🎱 By the Numbers Pandemic benefit  Data: Zoom Like it or not, the pandemic has been a boon for places like Amazon, Dominos, Etsy, and more. Plus Zoom, apparently, which, forgive us, "zoomed" from around 10 million meeting participants to 200 million in March of this year.  🔥 Today's Hot Deal
Ensure you're ready to move all your fast data with this excellent gigabit router from Linksys, specifically designed to handle high-bandwidth loads and multiple devices. 🤓 Nerd Out "Robots in disguise, am I right?" -Kyree Leary, Associate News Editor Talk about robot-nerdy: The Japanese town of Takikawa has installed two robot wolves to scare off bears trying to enter the populated areas. Better yet, it seems to be working! (Share on Twitter) 💎 You Know You Want It Work at home, play at home  Image: Samsung Samsung knows its audience, and with more of us working from home (and then staying home to entertain ourselves), this newly-announced Smart Monitor M7 can do both. And at $400, it's a great way to get a smart TV into your office, too. 🙈 Wait, What? It's just not that uplifting It's ok, we've all done it: Lifting up our phones to try and get a better connection seems like the right thing to do (especially if we used older phones back in the day). Unfortunately, it's just not useful and won't help you get a stronger connection. Sorry! 🗞 Extra! Extra! We've got you covered with the best in daily tech news! See the latest on our site or follow us on Google News. Did someone forward this to you? Sign up here. Have something you’d like us to write about? We’re always open for suggestions.
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