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- Right click anywhere on the taskbar
- Hover over News and interests
- Select theĀ Turn off option to remove the taskbar item entirely.
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- Hover over the widget and at the top right click the Manage interests button.
Once clicked you'll be taken to a page similar to the one pictured below:
From here you can pick in choose topics of interest you'd like to follow and be updated on. The settings will save automatically and will be begin to show the next time the widget is refreshed.