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digitpatrox7 days ago
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Your Personal Note-Taking Assistant Is Just $39.99 for Life

TL;DR: Streamline your productivity with My Notes AI Pro Plan — transcribe and summarize unlimited audio on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac with lifetime access for only $39.99. Taking notes during meetings, lectures, or brainstorming sessions can often feel overwhelming, especially when ideas flow faster than your pen or keyboard can move. Luckily, we no longer have to rely on…
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digitpatrox2 weeks ago
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Can AI Chatbots Be Your Virtual Assistant?

Summary AI chatbots work best when used strategically for specific tasks, not as all-purpose assistants. Each AI chatbot (Gemini, Siri, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) has its own unique strengths—making them ideal for specific workflows. Break down your macro-level workload into micro-workflows, and then assign specific AI chatbots that are good at those specific workflows. AI chatbots may not be the tireless…
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digitpatrox3 weeks ago
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Philips Hue is getting an AI-powered lighting assistant

Philips Hue users will soon be able to create their own AI-powered lighting scenes, the company announced on Tuesday. Philips Hue’s new generative AI lighting assistant lets users create personalized lighting scenes based on occasion, mood, or style. They can do so by typing commands like “Give me a scene for a garden party” into the Hue app and also…
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digitpatrox3 weeks ago
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CES 2025: Switchbot’s New Robot Vacuum Is Actually a Multitasking Household Assistant

Earlier this year, Switchbot announced the S10, a robot vacuum and mop that could pull clean water directly from your home’s water line to not only mop your floors, but to also shuttle the water to a separate humidifier. Today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Switchbot announced the K20+ Pro, a robot vacuum cleaner that can transport drinks, fans,…
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digitpatrox3 weeks ago
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LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

LG and Samsung have both announced their 2025 smart TVs at CES this weekend, and some of them will include access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. Both TV manufacturers are chasing the artificial intelligence hype train with dedicated AI sections on their smart TVs that include a shortcut to a Copilot web app. LG is adding an entire AI section…
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digitpatroxDecember 21, 2024
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GitHub just launched a new free tier for its Copilot coding assistant – but only for a select group of developers

GitHub has launched a new free tier of its Copilot AI coding assistant for developers using the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) developer environment. There are limitations, however, and the free offer is intended for occasional users rather than full-time developers, which currently pay $10 a month for access to the AI-powered tool. The offer includes 2,000 code completions and…
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digitpatroxDecember 10, 2024
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Microsoft’s Copilot Vision assistant can now browse the web with you – Computerworld

The feature, which is opt-in, will function only on select websites to begin with. Copilot Vision was announced as part of an overhaul to make the consumer Copilot more of a personal AI assistant. This also included the introduction of Copilot Voice, with four voice options aimed at enabling more natural interactions. “Increasingly, generative AI assistants are becoming multi-modal (language, vision…
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digitpatroxNovember 26, 2024
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Google’s connecting Spotify to its Gemini AI assistant

Spotify is getting support for Google’s Gemini Extensions, which will allow users to search for and play music using the generative AI assistant with natural language requests. The extension was first spotted in the code of the Google app in June, and now it’s rolling out to compatible Android devices, as reported by 9to5Google. Gemini can play music found by…
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digitpatroxNovember 23, 2024
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Apple plans for a smarter LLM-based Siri smart assistant – Computerworld

What will Smart Siri do? This smarter Siri will be able to hold conversations, and drill into enquiries, just like those competing engines — particularly Advanced Voice Mode on ChatGPT. Siri’s responses will also become more human, enabling it to say, “I have a stimulating relationship with Dr. Poole,” and for you to believe that. These conversations won’t only need…
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digitpatroxOctober 26, 2024
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How Outlook’s Scheduling Assistant Helps Me Effortlessly Organize Meetings

Though scheduling meetings is nothing new, I’d bet that there may be some of you that overlook the Scheduling Assistant when creating new meetings. Here are several ways I use the Scheduling Assistant to help me more rapidly create new meetings. At-A-Glance Availability View In the Calendar section of Outlook you’ll notice a preview pane along the right side. This…
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