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Weekly News Digest

August 21, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.

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Hank Green Launches Successful App for Strengthening Attention Span

Amanda Silberling writes the following in “Hank Green’s Focus Friend App Is Climbing the App Store Charts—And It’s Extremely Cute” for TechCrunch:

You must stay focused. You cannot open TikTok, or Instagram, or whatever little phone games you like to play. If you fail, you will make an anthropomorphic bean very sad, because its knitting project depends on your ability to stay focused.

This is the premise of Focus Friend, a productivity app created by Honey B Games and Hank Green, the longtime online creator/entrepreneur/educator/sock salesman. …

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