Topic: Productivity enhancement
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As AI Expert: 4 Tools I Actually Pay For (And 2 I'm Testing Next)
AI tools serve as productivity partners that streamline tasks without replacing human creativity, with selective adoption based on measurable value in areas like coding, design, and project management. ChatGPT Plus is valued for its versatility and coding support at $20 monthly, while Midjourney ...
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Smarter Notetaking: Putting Copilot to Work in OneNote
Microsoft Copilot enhances OneNote with AI-powered features like generating flashcards, visualizing data, and simplifying research, making note-taking more efficient for various users. It streamlines workflows by converting notes into different file formats (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and aiding br...
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Try Chrome's New Split Tabs Feature Now in ChromeOS 139
The split tabs feature in ChromeOS 139 allows users to view and interact with two web pages simultaneously within a single browser tab, enhancing multitasking efficiency. It offers a polished interface with adjustable panes, easy swapping, and the ability to open links between sides, all while ke...
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Your New AI Coworker Is Here. Getting Along Is Complicated.
The familiar hum of the office has changed. In 2025, artificial intelligence has moved from a niche tool into the role of an active, and sometimes awkward, collaborator for everyone. This fundamental shift is reshaping productivity, but it's also forcing a complex and critical negotiation between human instinct and machine logic.
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Gemini in Chrome: Unlock Its New Features & Capabilities
Google is integrating its Gemini AI into the Chrome browser for U.S. desktop users, enabling features like web page summarization and travel planning assistance. The AI assistant will soon gain agentic capabilities to perform tasks such as scheduling appointments and is also enhancing Chrome's om...
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Satya Nadella Names New CEO for Microsoft's Core Businesses
Microsoft is undergoing a major AI-driven transformation, positioning itself as a leader to help clients and the market realize productivity and economic benefits from this general-purpose technology shift. To accelerate AI integration, the company is restructuring its commercial business under J...
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ManageEngine's Biggest AI Release Boosts IT Team Productivity
ManageEngine has introduced significant AI enhancements to its ServiceDesk Plus cloud platform, including a virtual agent and automated tools, to boost IT and end-user productivity at no extra cost. The update offers flexibility by allowing customers to choose between ManageEngine's proprietary Z...
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LG Ultragear 39-Inch OLED Monitor Drops to $899 -Save 44% Today
The LG Ultragear 39-inch OLED monitor is currently available at a 44% discount, making it the lowest price since its launch. It features a curved WOLED panel with a 240Hz refresh rate, high resolution, and excellent color accuracy, ideal for gaming and creative work. The monitor includes built-in...
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Everything Feels Perfect Right Now
AI-powered browsers like Dia are transforming web interaction by using natural conversation to handle tasks such as summarizing articles or managing tabs, moving beyond traditional search functions. Perplexity's Comet enhances productivity with AI features like instant text explanations, cross-re...
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Download Canvas Work as a PDF Instantly with ChatGPT
ChatGPT's Canvas now supports instant downloads in PDF, DOCX, and code-specific formats, improving workflow efficiency for writers and developers. The feature allows one-click exports, preserving formatting and structure, and is accessible via a simple icon in the Canvas interface. While AI tools...
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Simple Prompt vs. Agent Workflow: Stop Overthinking AI
Success with generative AI depends on selecting the right approach for the task, such as choosing between a simple prompt or an agent workflow to avoid wasted effort. A recent MIT study found that 95% of generative AI projects fail, highlighting the need for thoughtful planning and matching the m...
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Slack Launches AI Platform for Secure, Context-Aware Apps
Slack has launched a new AI platform that enables developers to build secure, context-aware applications within its ecosystem, using user-owned conversational data for personalized, intelligent interactions. The platform includes key developer resources like a real-time search API, Model Context ...
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Secure Your Copilot: Sentra's Zero-Trust Data Protection
Sentra has introduced a specialized security solution to protect sensitive enterprise data within Microsoft 365 Copilot environments, ensuring compliance and safeguarding confidential information. The platform offers capabilities such as discovery and classification of sensitive data, data access...
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ManageEngine's New AI Supercharges IT Team Productivity in ServiceDesk Plus
ManageEngine has upgraded its ServiceDesk Plus platform with generative AI features, including an enhanced Ask Zia virtual agent and workflow assistance tools, to boost IT team and end-user productivity at no extra cost. The platform offers flexibility by allowing customers to use ManageEngine's ...
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AI in B2C vs. B2B Marketing: Key Trends Marketers Need to Know
AI is widely adopted in both B2B and B2C marketing, enhancing creativity, efficiency, and scalability across content creation, copywriting, and visual design. Marketers use AI for tasks like quality assurance, content repurposing, translation, and summarization, saving time and tailoring messagin...
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Claude Saves Time by Auto-Referencing Past Chats
Claude's new memory feature allows paid users to recall past conversations, enabling personalized and efficient AI interactions while maintaining user control over accessed data. The feature operates on explicit user prompts, prioritizing privacy by not automatically storing personal data, unlike...
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Belgian AI Startup Claims to Automate 80% of Expert Firm Tasks
A Belgian AI startup, Ravical, has developed virtual assistants that automate 80% of routine tasks in professional service firms, securing €7.3 million in pre-seed funding to scale its solutions. Ravical's AI agents handle repetitive tasks like data retrieval and compliance checks, enhancing prod...
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Australia's Consumer Goods Leaders Prioritize AI Amid Economic Woes
Australian consumer goods companies are aggressively adopting AI to drive growth and maintain competitiveness, with 85% of leaders believing autonomous AI agents will be essential within two years to increase sales and enhance decision-making. The sector faces economic pressures, volatile consume...
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iPadOS 26 Beta Reverses Key Multitasking Feature
iPadOS 26.1 beta has reinstated the Slide Over multitasking feature after user feedback criticized its removal, addressing a gap for daily users who relied on its quick access functionality. The revived Slide Over allows a compact app window to float above others but now limits users to one app a...
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Unlock 10 ChatGPT Codex Secrets After 60 Hours of Pair Programming
A step-by-step, layered approach to building applications with ChatGPT Codex—starting with UI elements, then styling, then functionality—proved far more effective than providing full specifications upfront. Managing the AI's destructive potential requires making small, incremental changes, using ...
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AI: Your Ticket Out of the Office? Most Workers Say Yes
AI tools are reshaping work by enabling greater flexibility and improved work-life balance, potentially making physical offices unnecessary. While AI promises productivity and collaboration benefits, its adoption introduces challenges like over-reliance on automation and employee burnout. The gap...
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Gemini Live Adds Exciting New Features You'll Love
Google's Gemini for Android is evolving with innovative features like deep integration with Google services and Live functionality, enhancing user experience and differentiating it from competitors. Recent APK teardowns reveal upcoming features such as a compact overlay and floating Live button, ...
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Asana's AI Teammates: Your New Collaborative Partners
Asana has launched AI Teammates in public beta, intelligent agents that integrate into company workflows to provide automated support for complex tasks. These AI agents use the Asana Work Graph to understand organizational goals and can autonomously handle multi-step processes, though their auton...
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Microsoft to Remove WMIC Tool After Windows 11 25H2 Update
Microsoft is removing the WMIC tool starting with the Windows 11 25H2 update, as part of a planned shift to modern management tools. IT administrators are advised to transition to PowerShell and other programmatic alternatives for WMI-related tasks, while the underlying WMI infrastructure remains...
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Apple's Next MacBook Pro Could Feature a Revolutionary Touchscreen
Apple is planning to introduce a touchscreen display on its MacBook Pro models using on-cell touch technology, with production expected by late 2026. This move aligns with Apple's strategy to unify its laptop and tablet ecosystems, potentially sharing OLED displays and app experiences between Mac...
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Gold Sachs Tests AI Agent Devin as a Virtual Employee
Goldman Sachs is integrating AI coding assistant Devin to enhance productivity, deploying hundreds to thousands of instances to support its 12,000 developers. Devin 2.1, developed by Cognition, shows improved performance with large codebases but faced skepticism earlier due to limitations in comp...
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Should We Be Afraid of the Rapid Advancement of Generative AI?
Generative AI's market soars with notable advancements in 2023, yet its misuse for political manipulation and disinformation campaigns raises ethical concerns, demanding societal readiness and robust regulatory frameworks.
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