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• BrandPost: How High-Performing PCs Can Shape the Future of Work

  12-08-2022 21:38
  
  The change to hybrid work, the increasing reliance on digital systems, and the growing user expectation for responsive and high-performing systems are all contributing to a new and different future of work. According to Amy Loomis, research director of IDC’s Future of Work program, “Investments in digital and work transformation technologies align with organisational imperatives around improved business resilience and increased employee productivity.” To read this article
  
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• What Apple’s Freeform collaboration app offers remote teams

  12-08-2022 17:47
  
  Apple's Freeform collaboration tool, due out "later this year," is designed to give remote teams a limitless virtual whiteboard within which they can work together.We don’t know much about it beyond what was announced at WWDC 2022, but we do know not to expect it to appear in the first iterations of the Mac, iPad, and iPhone operating systems when they ship in fall. (Given recent claims the release of iPad OS 16 has been delayed pending changes in Stage Manager, it seems reasonable to thi
  
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• Nvidia: Avatars could replace human speakers

  12-08-2022 14:01
  
  (Disclosure NVIDIA is a client of the author)Nvidia this week presented its view of the future of the Metaverse at Siggraph. As expected, it was a multimedia showcase where each set of visuals reinforced the points various speakers were making. Much of the presentation focused on avatars and how Nvidia’s tools, by emulating facial muscles, could translate what might have been wooden performances by those avatars into a variety of visible emotions.The end result was both more realistic and
  
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• ChromeOS: Tips, tools, and other Chromebook intelligence

  12-08-2022 12:00
  
  Google's ChromeOS platform sure has come a long way.From the early days, when ChromeOS was little more than an experimental "browser in a box," to today — with the platform powering first-class hardware and supporting a diverse range of productivity applications — Google's once-crazy-seeming project has turned into one of the world's most intriguing and rapidly expanding technological forces.I've been covering ChromeOS closely since the start. I lived with the first Chromebook proto
  
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• 17 ways to speed up Windows 10

  12-08-2022 12:00
  
  Want Windows 10 to run faster? We've got help. In just a few minutes you can try out these tips; your machine will be zippier and less prone to performance and system issues.1. Change your power settings
  If you’re using Windows 10’s “Power saver” plan, you’re slowing down your PC. That plan reduces your PC’s performance in order to save energy. (Even desktop PCs typically have a “Power saver” plan.) Changing your power plan from “Power
  
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• 10 out-of-sight Google Pixel settings worth surfacing

  12-08-2022 11:45
  
  With some phones, the hardware itself is the primary point of appeal.Google's self-made Pixel devices take a decidedly different approach. Sure, the shells around the phones are as shiny and purty as any of 'em — but it's what's inside that really sets the Pixel apart.Plain and simple, Google's Android software is in a league of its own. And aside from the thoughtfully designed, platform-consistent interface and the lack of obnoxious and often over-the-top experience-harming additions so
  
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