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March 20, 2023
14:47
Russia’s iPhone ban and the digital supply chain
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Russia’s Kremlin ordered officials to stop using iPhones, apparently over concerns the devices could be vulnerable to Western intelligence agencies, Reuters reports. When surveillance-as-a-service firms sit exposed for brazenly undermining device security, it's hard to think there isn't an argument there. But the bigger story isn’t the harm to Apple’s small business in Russia, it's the threat to digital supply chains it shows.

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11:00
Google Docs power tips: How to add charts, citations, and more
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Once you’ve mastered the basics of Google Docs, it’s time take your documents up a notch. Some documents need to include citations, while some can benefit from charts or a table of contents. Others may require a watermark for security or branding purposes. In this guide, we’ll show you how to work with these four elements in Google Docs for more professional documents.
[ Google Docs cheat sheet: How to get started ] How to add charts in Google Docs
When your document contains lots of facts and figures, charts can highlight and clarify the most important data points. There are two ways to add a chart to a document in Google Docs: you can create a new chart or embed an existing chart from a spreadsheet in Google Sheets.

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March 17, 2023
21:49
Patch Office and Windows now to resolve two zero-days
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Microsoft has resolved 80 new CVEs this month in addition to four earlier CVEs, bringing the number of security issues addressed in this month's Patch Tuesday release to 84.

Unfortunately, we have two zero-day flaws in Outlook (CVE-2023-23397) and Windows (CVE-2023-24880) that require a "Patch Now" release requirement for both Windows and Microsoft Office updates. As it was last month, there were no further updates for Microsoft Exchange Server or Adobe Reader. This month the team at Application Readiness has provided a helpful infographic that outlines the risks associated with each of the updates for this cycle.

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17:30
Apple may update Siri as it struggles with ChatGPT
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The hype machine is real with Generative AI and ChatGPT, which are seemingly everywhere in tech these days. So it's not surprising that we're starting to hear chatter about a new, improved Siri. In fact, 9to5Mac has already spotted a new natural language system.
Do you speak my language?
The claim is that Siri on tvOS 16.4 beta has a new "Siri Natural Language Generation" framework. As described, it doesn’t sound impressive, as it mainly seems focused on telling (dad?) jokes, but might also let you to use natural language to set timers. It is codenamed "Bobcat."

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12:04
AWS Chatbot now integrated into Microsoft Teams
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The chatbot’s integration will allow enterprise users to get notifications about events such as security risks and the status of system health from within Teams, and also let them run command line interface commands to run notebooks.
11:59
Generative AI comes to Office: What it means (and who’s at risk)
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(Microsoft is a client of the author.)

Microsoft has unveiled its 'Copilot' generative AI for Office and I believe it is as big a game changer as the launch of Windows (and I was the launch analyst for Windows when I started my career).

With any advance like this, there is always an impact on employment, performance, and the trajectory of the related work. In thinking about generative AI, the third segment of the movie Fantasia — “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” — comes to mind. It dramatizes what can happen when someone gets an incredible power, but doesn’t know how to use it properly and lands in an ocean of trouble. The most important part of using a force-multiplier tool like generative AI is to learn how to use it well and responsibly.

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March 16, 2023
22:52
Google kills Glass Enterprise, but big tech's AR dreams live on
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After a run that lasted for a decade, the end has come for Google Glass, with the announcement this week that the tech behemoth will discontinue the enterprise version of the augmented reality (AR) glasses.

Sales of Google Glass Enterprise were halted as of Wednesday, though support will continue for another six months, according to a company announcement.

“After September 15, 2023, you will continue to be able to use the Glass Enterprise Edition device and existing software. No software updates from Google are planned,” Google said in a FAQ.

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20:54
Microsoft: 365 Copilot chatbot is the AI-based future of work
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After announcing its Microsoft 365 Copilot chatbot to automate various tasks in multiple Microsoft office apps, Microsoft on Thursday demonstrated the tool’s capabilities and introduced a new extension called Business Chat.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology based on GPT-4, a large language model (LLM) created by OpenAI, which is also the basis for the wildly popular ChatGPT chatbot.

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16:35
Will Apple switch the iPhone to eSIM-only everywhere by ’24?
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With the arrival of the iPhone 14, Apple has only sold smartphones with eSIM support in the US. But that may be about to change. At least one analyst thinks Apple plans to extend eSIM use to Europe and some Asian markets by next year, when SIMs will be removed from its devices.
eSIM for the rest of us?
We’ve expected the move since Apple began with eSIM inside the iPhone in 2018, though consumers have complained at the complexity of setup in the US. In part, these challenges reflect inconsistent approaches to the tech across mobile carriers, but there could be a reason for that — particularly if Apple and Google begin to try to monetize carrier choice on new devices.

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11:00
Frontline worker apps on the rise
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Applications aimed at helping office workers do their jobs more effectively in a remote or hybrid work environment — such as videoconferencing, project management, and other collaboration software — have surged during the pandemic era. But many employees don’t spend their workdays sitting at a desk.

Employees who work away from a desk in such verticals as healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, service and repair, transportation, logistics, construction, utilities, and retail are usually referred to as frontline workers. Many of these workers act as the “faces” of their organizations, coming into direct contact with customers; others perform the behind-the-scenes tasks that keep the modern world humming.

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7:03
India-US chip partnership could boost global chip supply chain
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India is trying to emerge as a competitive alternative to China in the semiconductor sector amid the intensifying chip war between the US and China.

India and the US last week signed a memorandum of understanding on establishing a semiconductor supply chain, which experts see as an opportunity for both nations to reduce global dependency on China.

“The MoU seeks to establish a collaborative mechanism for the semiconductor supply chain resiliency and diversification in view of the US CHIPS and Science Act and India Semiconductor Mission (ISM),” said Charlie Dai, vice president and research director at research firm Forrester.

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March 15, 2023
22:57
India set to announce its first semiconductor fab
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India is set to announce its first semiconductor fabrication facility in the next few weeks, as the country moves to become more self-reliant for its chip supply in the wake of pandemic supply chain disruptions and the ongoing US semiconductor restrictions to China.

The country is well-positioned to foster a vibrant chip industry in the next three to four years on the “back of enabling policies” and the government’s drive to boost its manufacturing ecosystem, Indian IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said on Tuesday, according to a PTI (Press Trust of India) report.

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16:30
Apple's Clean Energy Charging is the future of electronics
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Clean Energy Charging is not a conspiracy to reduce the speed or efficiency of charging when you plug in your iPhone. It is a harbinger of how most future electronics will consume power.
What is Clean Energy Charging?
Announced with iOS 16 and introduced in the US last fall, Clean Energy Charging selectively charges your device when lower carbon-emission electricity is available. In some regions, this might be during the daytime when solar and renewable energy production peak, but in most cases, it will be at night.

To support the feature, your iPhone gets a forecast of carbon emissions on your local energy grid. It then charges the device when the cleanest energy is available.

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13:00
New Tableau AI features and Slack integration aim for data accessibility
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Tableau, a subsidiary of Salesforce, has launched new AI-powered capabilities to help make data more accessible to business users and improve support for data-driven decisions and analysis.

The announcement comes a week after Salesforce revealed plans to add new generative AI functions to its CRM platform at its Trailblazer DX ’23 developer conference.

Eight out of 10 business leaders agree that data is critical for decision-making, however, many still struggle with how to use it, according to a recent Salesforce survey of 10,000 business leaders. Furthermore, 41% of the business leaders polled said that they did not understand their data because it is too complex or not accessible enough.

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11:00
Feds to Microsoft: Clean up your security act — or else
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The US government, worried about the continuing growth of cybercrime, ransomware, and countries including Russia, Iran, and North Korea hacking into government and private networks, is in the middle of drastically changing its cybersecurity strategy. No longer will it rely largely on prodding businesses and tech companies to voluntarily take basic security measures such as patching vulnerable systems to keep them updated.

Instead, it now wants to establish baseline security requirements for businesses and tech companies and to fine those that don’t comply.

It’s not just companies that use the systems who might eventually need to abide by the regulations. Companies that make and sell them, such as Microsoft, Apple, and others could be held accountable as well. Early indications are that the feds already have Microsoft in their crosshairs — they’ve warned the company that, at the moment, it doesn’t appear to be up to the task.

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March 14, 2023
23:41
Google previews generative AI features for Workspace users, developers
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Computing giant Google announced today that it will release previews of three new AI features, including AI composition for Google Workspace, developer prototyping and coding via PaLM and MakerSuite, and validated models for its Vertex AI service.

The Workspace features, currently, are focused on Docs and Gmail. Users can use Google’s AI to rewrite emails in a particular style or tone, or even generate documents out of whole cloth. Simply asking the system to “generate a sales pitch” or similar will create a simple document that users can then edit to meet their needs. The AI can also help redraft documents to fit a more formal tone, or shorten them for brevity.

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21:51
OpenAI unveils GPT-4, a new foundation for ChatGPT
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Artificial intelligence (AI) research firm OpenAI today revealed the latest version of its computer program for natural language processing that powers ChatGPT, the wildly hyped chatbot with a fast-growing user base.

ChatGPT creator OpenAI announced the new large language model in a blog post, saying it will have better features than its predecessor, GPT-3.5 Word of GPT-4 first leaked last week when Andreas Braun, CTO of Microsoft Germany, let slip that it would be launched this week.

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17:22
Meta cuts an additional 10,000 jobs from global workforce
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced it will be cutting a further 10,000 jobs and leaving 5,000 vacant roles unfilled.

The news comes four months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that it was cutting 11,000 jobs, impacting 13% of its global workforce.

In a statement posted on his Facebook page and Meta’s news blog, Zuckerberg said that members of the company’s recruitment teams will know by March 15 whether they've been affected, with restructurings and layoffs within Meta’s tech groups expected in April, and then its business groups in late May.

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16:38
Apple's M3 chip is a bigger deal than you might think
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Apple Reality, India and security are emerging as three of the biggest stories for Apple in 2023, but there is another: Apple Silicon, principally the move to 3nm process technology in the upcoming A17 and M3 (series) processor upgrades. We’re beginning to hear whispers suggesting what those chip upgrades mean.

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12:30
Generative AI isn't the answer to all your business needs
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I'm a writer. That means many of my fellow writer buddies are worried sick about losing their jobs. Indeed, no one will say, "We laid people off because we could replace them with ChatGPT for $20 a month."

But that's actually already happening.

I'm concerned about this, too — but I'm not yet sweating bullets over it.

Why? Because, as of now, ChatGPT does a crappy job of writing non-fiction. That isn't stopping publishers from using it, of course. But readers are beginning to notice something is amiss, complaining that the "how to" story they just read turned into a "how not to" tale or that one AI-generated piece reported one of the people quoted in it is dead — when they're still very much alive.

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11:00
With ChromeOS in 2023, Google's got its eye on the enterprise
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Google's ChromeOS is the Rodney Dangerfield of modern operating systems: It's been around for ages now, and it pops up in all sorts of unexpected places. No matter how hard it works, though — boy, oh boy — it just can't get no respect.

Much like Dangerfield, ChromeOS's struggle to be taken seriously dates back to its childhood. When the software first entered the universe in the simpler tech times of 2010, it truly was a barebones effort. The entire platform was essentially just a browser in a box — a full-screen view of Google's Chrome browser, with no real apps to speak of and not much else around it.

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March 13, 2023
21:21
Government-backed digital money to represent $213B in payments by 2030
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The global value of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will grow dramatically from $100 million today to $213 billion by 2030, once the virtual money gains greater adoption for domestic payments, according to new data from Juniper Research.

By 2030, 92% of the total value transacted through CBDCs around the world will be paid domestically, as cross-border payment systems face an uphill battle for adoption, Juniper predicted.

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19:08
Tech industry dodges a financial bullet after SVB crash
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Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in Santa Clara, CA, billed itself as “the financial partner of the innovation economy” and had more than $342 billion in deposits — including money from many influential venture capitalists, start-ups and tech firms.

That was before last week happened, when a sudden run on the bank opened the door to the prospect of a larger meltdown in the financial system. After a weekend scramble, the Biden Administration, the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) devised a way to back up the full value of SVB deposits beyond the federally insured ceiling of $250,000. (The same is true for Signature Bank, which also failed.)

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17:24
The ever-evolving software subscription model
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I’m sure you’ve seen the ads: “Get Perpetual Office for a dirt-cheap price that’s so cheap it’s too good to be true.”

It is, though they don’t phrase the pitch quite like that. Instead, the advertisement says: “One-time purchase. No subscription. This is a Microsoft Office 365 account that activates up to 5 devices on all supported platforms, including Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Tablets. You can install and activate as many times as you want on all 5 devices. Activation is permanent and lifetime. You can always reinstall or transfer to another device. Cloud storage is not included. The login name provided cannot be changed or merged with a personal account. Microsoft Office 365 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, and Publisher. This software is multilingual, you can choose your language during installation. Digital Download – Redeem instructions will be emailed to you after purchase.”

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16:37
Has Apple's Tim Cook put everything on the line for Apple Reality?
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Is there a turf war between Apple’s operations and design teams over the first-generation Apple AR glasses? Or are we now hearing about old news being rehashed as competitors spread negative gossip in fear of Apple’s looming AR launch?
What we think we know
We can’t be certain, but this is what happened on the Apple Rumor Merry-go-round in the last 48 hours:
- The Financial Times claimed Apple CEO Tim Cook might have ordered the launch of the new devices this year, despite warnings from those working on the project that the product isn’t yet ready.
- Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman later said the events described took place in 2018 when then-design lead Jony Ive pushed for AR above VR, with Apple compromising on a mixed-reality headset.
- Gurman also said 11 high-ranking executives left the company in the second half of 2022. These were people in command of hardware, software, design, privacy, cloud, and other key verticals across the company. This may not relate to the above, but hints at some internal instability.
Apple has reportedly been working on AR glasses for seven years or more.

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11:00
Microsoft Forms cheat sheet: How to get started
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Microsoft Forms is a web app that allows users to create various types of forms that gather information from people online and store that data in the cloud for review.

Why is this useful? Surveys, questionnaires, and other interactive forms are a vital part of doing business. They provide a great way to interact with employees, teammates, customers, and potential business partners. You can use online forms to collect customer feedback or business requirements, conduct market research, gauge employee satisfaction, register attendees for an upcoming event, test learners’ knowledge after a training course, and more.

Forms is included with Microsoft 365 subscriptions for individuals and businesses, and a limited version is available for free to anyone with a Microsoft account. In this cheat sheet, we will cover how to use this program to create questionnaires, add specific types of questions, and view and analyze the responses.

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March 11, 2023
6:00
How many jobs are available in technology in the US?
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Tech sector employment fell by 11,184 positions in February, a modest reduction of 0.2% of the total tech industry workforce of more than 5.5 million.

Unemployment in the tech sector also jumped from 1.5% in January to 2.2%, in February, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and CompTIA, a nonprofit association for the IT industry and workforce.

The unemployment rate for tech occupations is still below the national rate of 3.6%, which saw a .1% increase from January.

The number of technology occupations in all industries declined by .6% or 38,000 positions, according to CompTIA’s report. Tech occupations in the US economy still total more than 6.4 million workers. Among all tech industries, tech manufacturing added a net new 2,800 jobs, the fifth consecutive month of positive gains.

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March 10, 2023
21:51
ChatGPT now chatting via Azure OpenAI Service
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Developers can now integrate ChatGPT directly, using a token-based pricing system, into a host of different enterprise and end-user applications.
March 07, 2023
17:59
Jamf VP explains enterprise security threats — and how to mitigate them
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Apple-focused device management and security vendor Jamf today published its Security 360: Annual Trends report, which reveals the five security tends impacting organizations running hybrid work environments. As it is every year, the report is interesting, so I spoke to Michael Covington, vice president of portfolio strategy, for more details about what the company found this year.

First, here's a brief rundown of some of the salient points in the report:

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15:46
Atlassian lays off 5% of staff to refocus on cloud, ITSM
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Australia-based collaboration software company Atlassian, whose products target software developers and project managers, has announced plans to lay off 500 employees, around 5% of its workforce, to focus on enterprise cloud migration issues and IT service management (ITSM).

A blog post published Monday and authored by the company’s founders and co-CEOs, Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes, said that the company had made the “difficult decision to rebalance our team to better position Atlassian for the long term.”

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12:00
Buyer’s guide: How to choose the right business projector
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Whether it’s a sales meeting in the executive conference room, a training session for new employees, or an annual meeting for franchisees in an auditorium, nothing gets the point across like a powerful projector. It can not only focus attention and turn a pitch into a show, but the right projector can let a variety of presenters share screens from their computers, phones, or tablets from anywhere in the room. In other words, the right projector has the power to put your company in the best possible light.

The good news is that there is an extraordinary variety of projectors available today that can put a sharp and bright image onto a screen to get your company’s message across. From miniature marvels the size of a paperback book to desk-sized behemoths that can light up an auditorium’s screen, there’s a business projector for every room, purpose, and budget.

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March 06, 2023
20:14
Microsoft touts new GPT-powered chatbot for Dynamics 365 CRM, ERP apps
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Microsoft today unveiled a generative AI chatbot for business users that will draft email responses to customers, create textual summaries of Teams meetings, and generate marketing and sales email campaigns.

Based on OpenAI’s GPT-3, Microsoft’s new Dynamics 365 Copilot is an extension to its existing CRM and ERP software, working alongside those applications to assist in answering questions, creating content, and summarizing conversations and notes. The announcement furthers Microsoft's ongoing AI push in its business-centric apps.

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17:42
Maybe one day every platform will be as secure as Apple
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A look at the Biden Administration’s recently updated National Cybersecurity Strategy document seems to reflect some of the approaches to cybercrime Apple already employs.

Take privacy, for example. The proposal suggests that privacy protection will no longer be something big tech can argue against – companies will be required to prioritize privacy. That’s fine if you run a business that does not require wholesale collection and analysis of user information, which has always been Apple’s approach. The best way to keep information private, the company argues, is not to collect it at all.

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12:00
How AI can help find new employees
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Before employing artificial intelligence (AI) to find job candidates, Southwest Airlines had no definitive way to track the success of the company's email and website hiring campaigns. The airline also couldn’t queue up potential applicants who’d logged into a job listings page and left before an applicable position had been posted.

Since it began using an AI-enabled hiring platform from tech firm Phenom, the airline now has “a warm pipeline of candidates” it can draw on whenever jobs opportunities arise, according to Kelby Tansey, manager for recruitment marketing at Southwest Airlines.

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March 03, 2023
18:57
IT’s lovefest with GPT-3 needs to meet reality now
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There are few pieces of technology — ever — that have enjoyed a deeper lovefest from the media and the consumer public than ChatGPT and other efforts built atop vanilla GPT-3. And enterprise IT executives have been stampeding to develop homegrown apps based on GPT-3.

So far, so good.

But as we’ve seen before — think of the internet rush of the mid-1990s or blockchain more recently — companies can easily get ahead of themselves by making big investments on things other than strategic goals.

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18:16
Apple's supply chain is accelerating the move to India
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The process of decoupling the Apple supply chain and China is accelerating, with the iPhone maker pushing partners hard to set up shop elsewhere.
Tech industry travels the Silk Road
While there are other important players, Hon Hai Precision Industry/Foxconn is Apple’s biggest partner and now plans to invest $700 million in a new plant in India to boost production there.

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17:38
China pumps $1.9 billion into homegrown chip-making firm YMTC
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China will invest an additional $1.9 billion in Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC), the country’s biggest memory chip producer, to spur the growth of its domestic semiconductor industry, which is currently being cramped by US sanctions.

China’s National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, a government-backed investment body also known as the Big Fund, will inject the capital into YMTC, Bloomberg reported Friday. The magnitude of the investment shows China’s effort to boost its struggling home-grown chip industry, which is currently facing constraints on its manufacturing capabilities from the US and other countries.

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14:45
Dell’s revenue growth hinges on enterprise hardware sales
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As Dell Technologies continues to struggle with heavy decline in PC sales, green shoots are appearing in its servers, storage and networking business.

Although the company’s revenue for last year was recorded at $102.3 billion, up 1% year-on-year, fourth quarter revenue declined 11% to $25 billion. Dell’s commercial and consumer units were hit the hardest during the quarter, with revenue for those segments declining 17% and 40%, respectively.

However, revenue in the company’s infrastructure solutions group (ISG), which includes servers, storage devices and networking hardware, rose 7% in the fourth quarter. At $9.9 billion in revenue, the ISG unit drove in about 40% of overall sales for Dell during the quarter.

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12:00
Quick fixes for common Windows remote desktop problems
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It’s almost impossible to overstate the usefulness of remote desktop access for Windows PCs. Simply put, it lets a user or administrator on one Windows PC, called a client machine, establish a remote session on another Windows PC, called a server or host machine.

Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is the foundation on which various built-in Windows remote access tools rest. This secure network communications protocol supports both the old-school Remote Desktop Connection application and the modern Remote Desktop app, both shown in Figure 1 below.

Using available network connections between client and host via RDP, these programs let the client user open a window that displays some chosen remote desktop. With a remote desktop session up and running, that user can operate the targeted remote desktop almost as if they were sitting in front of it.

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11:45
13 hidden tricks for making the most of Android gestures
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Getting around Android sure ain't what it used to be.

Google's made some serious changes to the Android navigation experience over the past several years, going from the old-style three-button setup to a somewhat clunky early gesture model in Android 9, then a whole other new gesture system in Android 10, and finally some slightly refined versions of that same gesture model with Android 11, Android 12, Android 13, and beyond.

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March 02, 2023
19:37
Generative AI will change PCs and smartphones, making one (or both) obsolete
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Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author.

Microsoft is rolling out an update to Windows 11 that adds ChatGPT. Though it’s mostly a front-end for the Bing search engine at this point, eventually it could change how we interact with our computers. Think of it as another step in a long evolution that began with Microsoft Bob, then Clippy and Cortana, that is now on track to provide the capabilities those earlier efforts never did.

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19:23
For Apple’s enterprise success, endpoint management is the new black
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Yet more data shows the acceleration of Mac adoption in the business world.

Okta’s recent Businesses at Work 2023 report shared numerous insights into the state of enterprise IT. One in particular grabbed my attention: endpoint management and security tools have become the most popular category of security product across the enterprise, with some players achieving really significant growth, partly on the back of their Mac support.

The data: Jamf Pro has seen 428% customer growth across the last four years, while smaller vendor Kandji experienced a 172% increase in its customer base in just the last year.

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13:52
OpenAI launches APIs for ChatGPT and Whisper
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OpenAI has made available APIs for ChatGPT and the company’s AI-powered transcription and translation service Whisper. These APIs will help businesses to integrate ChatGPT and Whisper into their conversation platforms and will be substantially cheaper than using the company’s existing language model.

“Through a series of system-wide optimizations, we’ve achieved 90% cost reduction for ChatGPT since December; we’re now passing through those savings to API users,” the company said in a blog post.

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13:02
Microsoft Intune Suite consolidates endpoint management and protection
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Microsoft has launched the general availability of Microsoft Intune Suite, a consolidation of its endpoint management and security solutions to streamline protection for cloud-connected and on-premises endpoints.

The consolidation is aimed to serve as a single vendor for all endpoint security needs for the customers to have single analytics, rather than multiple disparate datasets, with a consistent visibility to potential vulnerabilities and anomalies, according to a company blog post.

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12:00
Bad onboarding can lead to high quit rates for new workers
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New employees who start a job feeling undertrained and disconnected from their work environment are far more likely to quit than those who have a good onboarding experience.

With the unemployment rate lower than it has been in decades — even more so in technology fields — job candidates more often than not field multiple offers. So, if the onramp to a new job is bumpy, they’re far more likely to reconsider staying with the organization, even in the short term.

According to research firm Gartner, 63% of new hires are satisfied with their onboarding experience. A recent survey by payroll and human resources provider Paychex showed onboarding experience affected how quickly they would quit after taking a position.

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March 01, 2023
22:17
US sets guidelines for semiconductor makers seeking CHIPS Act funds
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The Biden administration has initiated an application procedure with guidelines for proposals from semiconductor maunfacturers that want to take advantage of incentives offered by the US CHIPS and Science Act.

The application process focuses on furthering the Biden’s administration goals to “revitalize domestic semiconductor industry and bring supply chains back to the US,” the Department of Commerce said in a press release.

The Department of Commerce is administering the $50 billion CHIPS program to revive the US semiconductor industry, including $39 billion in incentives to expand or build manufacturing facilities. The incentives are meant meant to “restore U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, support good-paying jobs across the semiconductor supply chain, and advance U.S. economic and national security,” the Commerce Department said.

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Apple’s MFi scheme for USB-C is a good thing
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Apple appears poised to make it more difficult to use cheap USB-C cables with its devices, and while it may well make a few dollars more from the purported plan, there are also good reasons to put the system in place.
Apple got to make a dollar or two
The claim is that Apple plans to replace Lightning ports and cables with USB-C in the iPhone 15, and when it does it will introduce a Made For iPhone (MFi) scheme for such products. The idea is that consumers will be able to purchase cables and other devices in full confidence that they will be compatible with their iPhone.

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Bing’s AI chatbot came to work for me. I had to fire it.
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By now you’ve likely read the reviews of the new generative AI chatbot embedded in Microsoft’s Bing search engine: how in an exchange with New York Times reporter Kevin Roose it turned into a lovelorn stalker, professing its love for him and trying to get him to leave his wife, or when it told an Associated Press reporter he was ugly and had bad teeth, likening him to Adolf Hitler “because you are one of the most evil and worst people in history.”

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12:00
3 awesome new Samsung Android 13 shortcuts
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Typically, when we talk about thoughtful new Android features, we talk about how they're inexplicably missing in action for owners of Samsung phones.

It's one of those blessing-and-a-curse sorts of situations: By its very nature, Android is an open platform — and that means phone-makers can muck around with the software as they see fit. This often leads to not-so-optimal interface choices (and sometimes even more disconcerting downsides), but on occasion, it can also lead to some impressively intelligent additions that aren't available in the standard Google Android version.

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February 28, 2023
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New Windows 11 update puts Bing Chat front and center
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As part of Microsoft's new Windows 11 feature update, users will be able to access the company’s new AI-powered Bing directly from the taskbar.

In a blog post announcing the update, Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay said “the search box is one of the most widely used features on Windows” and therefore combining it with the new AI-powered Bing will empower users "to find the answers [they’re] looking for, faster than ever before.”

In order to access this new search box, users who are in the Bing preview will need to install the latest Windows 11 update. However, those who do not currently have access to the preview will need to sign up to the wait list.

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17:12
Zoom sets sights on AI development as it posts fourth-quarter loss
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Videoconferencing company Zoom is pinning its growth plans on investment in AI, after reporting its first fourth quarter net loss since 2018.

Reporting results on Monday, Zoom said it posted a net loss of $104 million for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2023, ended January 31, compared to a profit of $490 million in the year-earlier period. Online revenue was also down 10% year over year to $481.7 million.

The loss was largely a result of stock-based compensation expenses. Otherwise, Zoom recorded fourth quarter total revenue of $1.1 billion, up 4% year over year, with total revenue for the fiscal year 2022 reported as $4.4 billion, up 7% year over year.

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12:00
‘Digital twin’ tech is twice as great as the metaverse
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Facebook went all in on the “metaverse” a year and a half ago. The company changed its name to Meta and started pumping a billion dollars a month into a Hail Maryboondoggle to achieve relevance in the post-social world to come.

Now Meta finds itself entering a “metaverse winter” — a general decline in investment and excitement around the idea. Meta itself has laid off thousands in its metaverse and social businesses alike.

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MacStadium’s VMWare virtualization replacement now available at AWS
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Reflecting the growing popularity of the Mac platform, Mac cloud and SaaS provider MacStadium's Orka Platform is now available to purchase at the AWS Marketplace, a move that brings Orka to Amazon EC2 Mac instances.
Mac my devs up
Orka Workspace is a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution that delivers Mac desktops through the browser. Making this available via AWS should be a big boost to Mac teams that already use hyperscale cloud providers for non-Mac development.

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February 03, 2023
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How to protect your privacy in Windows 11
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From the moment Microsoft released Windows 10 in 2015, the new OS came under fire for the amount of private information it gathered from users by default. Over the years, the vendor gradually introduced changes to Windows 10 that alleviated some of those privacy concerns, but some remain — and most of those apply to Windows 11 as well.

Whether you think Windows 11 crosses the privacy line or just want to safeguard as much of your personal life as possible, we're here to help. Here's how to protect your privacy in just a few minutes.

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11:45
5 more out-of-sight options to supercharge Google Assistant on Android
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Google Assistant may not be the shiny new A.I. superstar of the moment, but it's a surprisingly useful resource just waiting to hop in and help on any Android phone you're carrying.

And some of its most helpful options are buried deep within the service's virtual bowels.

Continuing on the theme of hidden settings for a smarter Assistant Android experience, today, we'll pick up where we left off on Wednesday and explore another five easily overlooked Google Assistant Android options. Dig 'em up, check 'em out, and add 'em into your own personal Assistant setup, and you'll find your favorite familiar helper growing ever more helpful and tuned into your needs.

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February 02, 2023
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Microsoft’s new Teams Premium tier integrates with OpenAI's GPT-3.5
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Teams Premium, a new tier of Microsoft Teams now generally available to customers, uses the new version of GPT — the OpenAI artificial intelligence engine and database on which ChatGPT is based — to underpin the AI capabilities that will be available to users of the new version of the collaboration application.

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15:36
Apple’s growth story is consistent and sustained
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No matter the recent issues with Apple’s supply chain, the war in Ukraine, and COVID-19, when you zoom out, you’ll see a bigger picture of success for the company.

It's the picture of consistent growth.

Growth? But Mac sales are down, year on year — right? Yes, they are. But PC sales have fallen further, Apple is gaining market share and while the overall PC market has declined massively, the Mac has gone from strength to strength.

Just look at the data. IDC results for 2019-2022 show that across the last three years the Mac has seen a 60% increase in market share while the PC market grew 6%, as Jamf CEO Dean Hager has pointed out.

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12:00
ACLU, public defenders push back against Google giving police your mobile data
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The ACLU and eight federal public defenders are asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to exclude mobile device location data obtained from Google via a so-called geofence warrant that helped law enforcement catch a bank robbery suspect.

The first geofence civil rights case to reach a federal court of appeals raises serious Fourth Amendment concerns against unreasonable search and seizure related to the location and personal information of mobile device users.

Geofence warrants have primarily been issued for Google to hand over data about every cell phone or other mobile device within a specific geographical region and timeframe. The problem: location data on every person carrying a mobile device in that area is scooped up in a wide net and their data is then handed over en masse to law enforcement.

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10:45
Over 100K of unfilled jobs for IT workers eliminated in the US: Report
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In an unexpected turn, the US IT job market has seen over 100,000 unfilled jobs being eliminated, according to a report from management consulting firm Janco Associates.

“In a startling turn of events CIOs and hiring managers of IT professionals have seen the elimination of over 100K jobs from the open requisition for those positions,” Victor Janulaitis, CEO at Janco Associates, said in the report.

The elimination of IT jobs is being considered unexpected as the US’ Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data showed that the country had added 223,000 jobs in December, including 17,600 positions at technology companies, despite layoffs at high-profile technology companies dominating the month.

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February 01, 2023
17:46
Intel cuts employee, executive salaries as it faces weak PC, chip demand
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After posting a double-digit revenue decline for its fourth quarter of 2022, Intel is looking to weather a potentially problematic 2023 by making companywide cuts to employee pay.

Responding to media reports about possible pay cuts, Intel said on Wednesday that in order to navigate “macro-economic headwinds and work to reduce costs across the company,” it has made several adjustments to its 2023 employee compensation and rewards programs.

“[These changes] will help support the investments and overall workforce needed to accelerate our transformation and achieve our long-term strategy,” the statement continued. “We are grateful to our employees for their commitment to Intel and patience during this time as we know these changes are not easy.”

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17:21
US agency calls Apple, Google App Stores 'harmful'
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Apple appears to have been given yet another set of reasons to expand its legal team as the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) calls for antitrust action to force Apple and Google to make big changes to their mobile app store business models.
What’s the problem?
NTIA is the principal advisor on telecommunications and Internet policy to the Biden administration. It argues that the way things are run at present may be “harmful,” arguing that Google's and Apple’s “gatekeeper” positions may harm consumers by raising prices and reducing innovation.

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16:21
BrandPost: Come What May: Anticipate Disasters — and Recover Quickly
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Successful organizations know to expect the unexpected. They invest in flexible infrastructures that are always ready to respond to a potential outage. The reason is simple. Organizations that can recover from an outage instantly are able to minimize business disruption and get their business back up and running as quickly as possible.
The case for resiliency
Business continuity can cover a lot of ground, ranging from facilities management to staffing, but it typically goes back to disaster recovery. And while that focus is important, the ability to keep companies up and running no matter what happens calls for more. Resiliency is really the result of two different factors: having a flexible infrastructure and the capability to bounce back from outages.

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16:07
BrandPost: Making the Mainframe Central to Your Data Fabric Strategy
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How can you have a data fabric strategy without the most valuable data in the enterprise: Mainframe data? That’s like having a dinner party without the main course.

Data management consistently ranks at the top as a key challenge faced by enterprise organizations. This reality is not surprising as data volume is growing exponentially at a compound annual rate of 23% per year through 2025, according to IDC estimates.¹

The surge of data, coupled with an increasing need to generate insights for a competitive edge, opens significant opportunities for organizations with the right technology stack and architecture. Add in the fact that data is increasingly diverse, complex, and distributed across disparate mediums, and it becomes clear that traditional data management techniques fall short.

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BrandPost: 3 Enterprise Tech Investments with the Biggest Payoff
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Fish swim. Birds fly. And enterprises grow. Well, in the right environments they do. For enterprises, investing in the right technology strategies is what sets apart the leaders from the rest of the pack. However, with the breadth and depth of tech options, it isn't easy to know which ones will pay the biggest dividends.

Enterprises that are thriving have a tech stack that is fast, efficient, secure, and future proof. However, it's easy to become enamored with the latest technology trends and mistake them for a shortcut to success. In reality, investments with the most impact may not be what you expect. Indeed, the top three investment areas that are delivering the biggest payoffs are openness, data, and people.

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12:16
PayPal to layoff 2,000 employees
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PayPal has become the latest technology company to announce wide-spread layoffs, with the company set to cut 2,000 jobs, about 7% of its workforce.

In a message shared with PayPal employees and since posted on the company’s online newsroom, President and CEO Dan Schulman said while PayPal had made “significant progress…to address the challenging macro-economic environment” over the past year, “we have more work to do.”

The job cuts will occur over the coming weeks, with some parts of the business impacted more than others, Schulman added without sharing the specifics.

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PayPal to layoff 2,000 employees
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PayPal has become the latest technology company to announce wide-spread layoffs, with the company set to cut 2,000 jobs, about 7% of its workforce.

In a message shared with PayPal employees and since posted on the company’s online newsroom, President and CEO Dan Schulman said while PayPal had made “significant progress…to address the challenging macro-economic environment” over the past year, “we have more work to do.”

The job cuts will occur over the coming weeks, with some parts of the business impacted more than others, Schulman added without sharing the specifics.

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12:16
PayPal to lay off 2,000 employees
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PayPal has become the latest technology company to announce wide-spread layoffs, with the company set to cut 2,000 jobs, about 7% of its workforce.

In a message shared with PayPal employees and since posted on the company’s online newsroom, President and CEO Dan Schulman said while PayPal had made “significant progress…to address the challenging macro-economic environment” over the past year, “we have more work to do.”

The job cuts will occur over the coming weeks, with some parts of the business impacted more than others, Schulman added without sharing the specifics.

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12:00
6 surprising facts about ChatGPT nobody told you
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Everybody’s talking about ChatGPT, the OpenAI tool that writes poetry, prose, and even software code like a human.

The chatter mostly gravitates toward amazement, fear, and warning — amazement at what it can do, fear of cheating and replacement by “robots,” and warnings about the perils to humanity of outsourcing creativity to machines.

All that chatter misses the moment. In fact, ChatGPT (The GPT bit stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is less amazing, less scary, and needs fewer warnings than claimed by most of the media coverage. ChatGPT is an AI language model from San Francisco-based OpenAI. It can converse with a person via text and generate a wide range of content upon request.

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6 surprising facts about ChatGPT nobody told you
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Everybody’s talking about ChatGPT, the OpenAI tool that writes poetry, prose, and even software code like a human.

The chatter mostly gravitates toward amazement, fear, and warning — amazement at what it can do, fear of cheating and replacement by “robots,” and warnings about the perils to humanity of outsourcing creativity to machines.

All that chatter misses the moment. In fact, ChatGPT (The GPT bit stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is less amazing, less scary, and needs fewer warnings than claimed by most of the media coverage. ChatGPT is an AI language model from San Francisco-based OpenAI. It can converse with a person via text and generate a wide range of content upon request.

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12:00
5 hidden settings for a smarter Google Assistant Android experience
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Ah, Google Assistant. Sure seems like our trusty ol' Android-dwellin' pal is getting brushed over a lot as of late, doesn't it?

First came the fact that Google made nary a mention of its honey-voiced virtual genie at the big honkin' Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas last month — and that's after years of Assistant and its "Hey Google" catchphrase being placarded practically everywhere at that event and being the company's core focus.

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5 hidden settings for a smarter Google Assistant Android experience
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Ah, Google Assistant. Sure seems like our trusty ol' Android-dwellin' pal is getting brushed over a lot as of late, doesn't it?

First came the fact that Google made nary a mention of its honey-voiced virtual genie at the big honkin' Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas last month — and that's after years of Assistant and its "Hey Google" catchphrase being placarded practically everywhere at that event and being the company's core focus.

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January 31, 2023
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What we’ll be looking for in Apple’s Q1 results
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Apple will reveal its first quarter results for the 2023 fiscal year this week. We'll be watching to see how Apple is faring amid the cross-currents plaguing the world economy.

Here's what to keep in mind when the results are released Thursday afternoon.
Hardware sales are important, but not the whole story
We all expect some bad news around iPhone sales, but how bad? While supply chain problems had some effect on availability, there are differences in some economies that mean smartphone sales fell across the board. But numerous data points tell us Apple fared better than most.

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What we’ll be looking for in Apple’s Q1 results
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Apple will reveal its first quarter results for the 2023 fiscal year this week. We'll be watching to see how Apple is faring amid the cross-currents plaguing the world economy.

Here's what to keep in mind when the results are released Thursday afternoon.
Hardware sales are important, but not the whole story
We all expect some bad news around iPhone sales, but how bad? While supply chain problems had some effect on availability, there are differences in some economies that mean smartphone sales fell across the board. But numerous data points tell us Apple fared better than most.

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The Great Resignation: Where did the millions who quit their jobs go?
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Tens of millions of American have quit their jobs since the beginning of the pandemic in what's become known as the Great Resignation – and a new study indicates those workers feel good about where they wound up.

The study by online education service Cengage Group shows “the Great Resigners” are generally happy about their workplace decisions, with an average 81% indicating they do not regret leaving their previous job.

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The Great Resignation: Where did the millions who quit their jobs go?
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Tens of millions of American have quit their jobs since the beginning of the pandemic in what's become known as the Great Resignation – and a new study indicates those workers feel good about where they wound up.

The study by online education service Cengage Group shows “the Great Resigners” are generally happy about their workplace decisions, with an average 81% indicating they do not regret leaving their previous job.

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