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24 alternatives to What Happened Last Week
The world’s biggest news, summarized in one weekly email.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. What Happened Last Week launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Weekly roundup of tech, boiled down into bite sized pieces
2014 · char.gd · its alternatives →
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Upvoted Weekly▲116Enjoy the best reddit content you may have missed
2015 · reddit.com · its alternatives →
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Top▲240Get notified about the top 10 tech stories every day
2016 · topnotifier.com · its alternatives →
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Weeklypedia▲75Weekly email of the top 20 Wikipedia entries by # edits
2015 · weekly.hatnote.com · its alternatives →
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EMERGING▲141Weekly newsletter about technology in the developing world
2016 · emerging.news · its alternatives →
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One fantastic piece of journalism delivered via newsletter
2015 · readthisthing.com · its alternatives →
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Daily summary of the news in an easily digestible format
2015 · vox.com · its alternatives →
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TechReporter▲96The day’s top tech headlines from across the web
2014 · thetechreporter.com · its alternatives →
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AI Weekly▲117Weekly collection of the top news on Artificial Intelligence
2015 · aiweekly.co · its alternatives →
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