Kindle introduces a new sharing feature for ebooks

Amazon recently announced a new Kindle sharing experience that makes it easy for people to have conversations about the books they like. Users can use their preferred messaging platform, even with people who do not use Kindle. Kindle readers already had the ability to share quotes and recommendations with all their friends on Facebook or Twitter, but now they can share with people outside of those platforms. Clicking on a book recommendation or shared quote now lets people start reading instantly, much like the typical links to articles and videos.

““The perfect quote in a book isn’t always the perfect quote for your whole social network. Now it’s easy to share exactly what you want in a Kindle book with exactly who you want.”“

Here’s how the Kindle sharing works:

• From a Kindle book, easily share quotes, highlights, and recommendations with specific friends.
• Share via popular mobile messaging apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, as well as email, texting, and more.
• Share today from Kindle for Android, and coming to Kindle e-readers and other devices later this year.
• Friends who receive a share can instantly start reading a free book preview right from their phone, tablet, or PC—no need to sign up, sign in, or install an app.

The best part is that you can share a specific quote with a specific person, without having to blast it out over social media.

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Yahoo is stepping up its search game to knock Google

Looks like Yahoo is using its resources to once again revamp its search engine, this time in the mobile arena by providing a more visually appealing experience. Important stuff up top, links at the bottom. That saves users the burden of pinching and zooming, scrolling and sliding when trying to find that specific news article or restaurant.

To get started on your smartphone, just open search.yahoo.com in your favorite mobile browser and start searching! You can also set Yahoo to be your default search on your mobile browser:

• Set Yahoo as your default search engine on Safari (iOS)  by going to your phone Settings > Safari > Search Engine and select Yahoo.
• Set Yahoo as your default search engine on Chrome (Android) by opening Chrome > Settings > Search Engine and select Yahoo.
• You can set Yahoo as your default on other mobile browsers manually through the app settings.

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Watson’s spicy, ginger-laced gazpacho

‘Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson‘ is a collaboration between IBM and the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City. Once a week, as part of an ongoing series, we’ll be preparing one recipe from the book until we’ve made all of them. Wish us luck.

So this is how I knew I was in trouble the first time I saw Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson (which, by the way, only happened after I agreed to cook my way through the book): there’s a specific section for home cooks and it’s only seven recipes long. This particular section of the book is a bit different from the rest. For it IBM partnered with Bon Appétit and trimmed the reservoir of recipes that Watson was riffing off of to just the 9,000 or so already in the publication’s database. The results are much more friendly for those that don’t have access to an commercial kitchen, but they’re no less interesting from a flavor profile and serve as evidence that even mortal humans can benefit from Watson’s creative kick in the pants.

The beauty of a recipe like this spicy tomato gazpacho with ginger is that it’s so simple and yet still incredibly unique. Nothing here is particularly hard to find at you local megamart and the techniques used are as basic as can be. But the results are still quite different from anything you’d normally encounter in your culinary adventures through your kitchen. And that’s due to a number of things. For one, putting ginger in gazpacho is a pretty interesting move. Admittedly it’s not completely out of left field, tomatoes and ginger play quite well together, but traditionally those are in stews and curries with a warm base of cumin and other earthy spices.

The ginger adds significant warmth to the soup as does the sweating it, along with the leeks and beefsteak tomato in oil. The decision to actually cook these aromatics transforms the gazpacho from something that is relentlessly bright and fresh, to something with a bit of depth you don’t normally find in cold tomato soup. And the choice of cherry tomatoes pushes the dish in a sweeter direction that meshes well with the ginger and jalapeño. Often gazpacho can end up just tasking like a bowl of pico de gallo, but this recipe avoids that pitfall.

As far as the skills you need to make this: Basically just don’t be a spaz. If you have rudimentary knife skills, know how to sweat aromatics over low heat and can turn on (and off) a blender, you should be good. The entire recipe involve slowly warming the aromatics to pull the moisture out of them, letting them cool, then dumping them in a blender with the rest of the ingredients.

The final result past the taste test with flying colors, though this is far from what anyone was expecting when they heard the word “gazpacho.” But honestly, that’s sort of the whole point of Watson and its greatest successes are the ones that go down easy but still catch you off guard.

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