We all have our own unique ways to read the news. Some like RSS apps. Some like Flipboard, or Yahoo News Digest. Others prefer to read the news direct on the website. There's yet another solution now: News Pro is a new app from Microsoft Garage, a department of the software giant that seems to have an unlimited stream of Android apps, and it aims to center the news around you and your profile, finding content that'll interest you.

By logging in with social network profiles (Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, alongside the customary email, are the options) News Pro will show relevant content that it thinks you'll like. I logged in with Twitter. I'm currently getting news about the US presidential election, which sort of interests me (I'm in the UK), what I would call American Football news, and what you Americans would call soccer news. These last two especially do not really interest me at all. Other topics include the war in Syria, the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and an item about the Samsung Note7 explosions and resulting fallout (which, unsurprisingly, does interest me). So it seems News Pro is not bad at finding news that may interest you, but it's not particularly great at it either.

Left: a particularly tacky shot from the Play Store that needed calling out. Middle: search Activity. Right: main news feed.

