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You should try Logitech’s surprisingly great free agenda-viewer app

For a quick way to view upcoming calendar events and join virtual meetings with one click, check out Logi Tune for Windows and Mac. Ostensibly, Logi Tune is a free companion app for Logitech’s webcams and headsets, letting you adjust device settings through a button on your Windows taskbar or Mac menu bar. But that same app also has a handy agenda view for Google Calendar and Outlook, and doesn’t require any Logitech hardware to use.

Just install the app from Logitech’s web

What are decentralized autonomous organizations—and why should you care?

So much hype swirls around the blockchain and cryptocurrencies and NFTs that it can sometimes be hard to see the real utility in the technology. It’s hard to understand the intrinsic value of a crypto coin or an NFT, when their prices are based mostly on their value as a speculative instrument. Understanding the utility of DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations, is a little more straightforward, although the concept is still very young and has been tried in only a small number of

Your ancient tablet is a lot more useful than you think

If I allow myself a moment of harsh but truthful introspection, it turns out that I have too many tablets. Android tablets. iPads. Chromebook tablets. Amazon tablets. Tablets everywhere. And many of them are just old enough that it doesn’t make sense to use them for anything more than very limited tasks. Oh, and also: I keep buying tablets! But I generally just use the newest one while all the others stack up higher and higher in a pile of uncharged, unused silicon and glass. So, what to

3 ways to use tech to find happiness

The pursuit of happiness is as old as consciousness itself, but the actual desire to be happy seems to be burning brighter than ever before, especially for young professionals. For example, Harvard’s “happiness” course is one of the most sought-out classes among its MBA students. Young entrepreneurs aren’t the only ones seeking happiness, however. High demand across all groups has given birth to a variety of apps and gadgets with the promise of improving our mental we

AI-generated faces have crossed the uncanny valley and are now more trustworthy than real ones

You might be confident in your ability to tell a real face from one created using artificial intelligence. But a new study has found that your chance of choosing accurately would be slightly better if you just flipped a coin—as you are more likely to trust the fake face over the real one. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study was conducted by Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Sophie J. Nightingale, a lecturer at En

Video game giants predicted the future of gaming in 2004. How’d they do?

Eighteen years ago, gamers still had a PlayStation 2 in their living rooms. The Xbox 360 was still being referred to as Xbox Next. And the Wii was called by its codename: the Nintendo Revolution. We didn’t realize we were on the precipice of a tidal shift in gaming, where the number of people playing games would expand exponentially – and there was certainly no way to predict what would be happening today. That didn’t stop a handful of brave developers from giving it a shot,

Why re-onboarding your workers may be just what your company needs

We’ve all been through the onboarding process at a new job—some of us more often than others. For those who have been with the same company for a while, many things may have changed since that original “getting to know you” process. This is where re-onboarding can accomplish three goals:

Shape employees’ understanding of how the company has evolved Help teammates get a complete understanding of our business achievements Lay out the major goals and obstacles o

Inside Pat Gelsinger’s audacious $43.5B plan to revive Intel

One year ago, Pat Gelsinger gave up his Mac. When Apple adopted Intel’s processors for its computers back in 2005, he explained to me, “I flipped from being a PC guy to a Mac guy.” Now Apple was transitioning away from Intel chips in favor of ones it designed itself. For Gelsinger, becoming a PC guy again was not a matter of choice. There was a certain symbolism to his platform switch, but it was just minor fallout from one of several major setbacks that the 54-year-old chip

Is Reddit a better search engine than Google?

A new story anticipating the decline and fall of Google Search comes out about every month, but a blog post Tuesday, called “Google Search is Dying” by the blogger DKB was different. The blog shot up to the top of Hacker News on Tuesday, and is already the 11th most upvoted post on Hacker News of all time, with more than 1,500 comments. The core argument is that many people have become so disappointed in—or distrustful of—good old Google search results that they now a

How to turn your phone into the world’s best webcam for free

Lately, I’ve been in the market for a new webcam for no other reason than I’m in a lot of Zoom meetings and last bought a webcam—Logitech’s C920–in 2017. Five years ago is an eternity when it comes to consumer electronics. Imagine my surprise when I began researching new Zoom cameras and kept seeing the C920 series being recommended. That’s all well and good, but the main takeaway here is that webcam technology has been evolving at a glacial pace. So, in


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