



Coming today, the lens has now been updated to grab local news as well.

Some of the new features are:

Local News and Top Stories displayed by default

Filter ‘topics’, such as ‘Entertainment’ and ‘Sci/Tech’

Browse news based on your system language or location

What powers the lens is Google News. The developer has stated that more sources will be added over time.





How to install/upgrade on Ubuntu

The Unity News Lens is not available in the Ubuntu Software Center yet, so you have to install it via the scopes packagers PPA.





So if you want to install, copy and paste these lines into the Terminal.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa

That code was to add the PPA. Then add these lines to update your repos and install:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install unity-lens-news





If the news lens is already installed, you should be able to update the lens via the update manager. If you can't, then try entering this command:

sudo apt-get upgrade unity-lens-news

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