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Minimal Phone review: Digital detox on your terms
The goal of turning your phone into a more mindful tool to try and reduce your screen time, isn’t a new one. But the way the Minimal Phone goes about it is a little different. Unlike other digital detox devices, Minimal tries to give users as much functionality as they might need, thanks to full Google Play Store access and…
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A lofi journaling kit for the digital age
I recently took up travel journaling as an honest alternative to performative social media. My kit cobbles together the best pen, paper, and photo printer I could find to document vanlife adventures for my spawn and some version of my future self that I’ve yet to meet. My father left behind a typewritten memoir that I’ve returned to again and…
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Digital Citizen has a new site motto
When we launched Digital Citizen on October 15, 2015, we used a rather generic motto: “Digital Citizen – Life in a digital world!” Many readers overlooked it, as it appeared only in the title bar of their web browser or in Google search results, when looking for how-to content online. Looking back, it wasn’t the best choice; this motto did…
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The UK government hopes AI will supercharge public sector digital transformation – IT leaders aren’t so sure
Virtually all UK public sector organizations are still working through digital transformation projects, according to research from SolarWinds, but just 6% say they’ve fully completed the job. While six-in-ten public sector IT decision makers told SolarWinds that advancing digital transformation is a top future priority, only 42% say their efforts are well underway. “These findings show that while digital transformation…
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Google’s AI agent protocol is becoming the language for digital labor – Computerworld
Calvert said the A2A open protocol helps agents communicate and work together, regardless of which vendor or system they’re built on. Today’s agents are designed to handle specific or a class of tasks, but A2A will change that, he said. “For example, a sales agent supporting prospecting work, or an engineering agent generating postmortems — in the future, customers will…
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AI-enabled cyber attacks exacerbated by digital divide in UK
A new digital divide is threatening UK businesses, with those that fail to keep up with AI-powered cyber crime at risk of being targeted by would-be hackers. In a newly-released report, dubbed the Impact of AI on cyber threat from now to 2027, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned threat actors are “almost certainly” using AI to support…
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Samsung Will Soon Let You Tap to Send Payments to Other Digital Wallets
If you have a Samsung Galaxy phone, you’ll soon be able to send money to friends and family instantly simply by tapping your devices together. A new peer-to-peer payment feature transfers funds from debit cards in your Samsung Wallet to those stored in a recipient’s digital wallet or their physical tap-to-pay card. The feature will be available to Samsung Wallet…
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SAS leans on synthetic data and digital twins to support business data demand
SAS has announced new synthetic data capabilities and support for digital twins in a push to equip enterprises with concrete platforms for data-driven decision making. Synthetic data is artificial data generated to resemble real datasets in every way that’s meaningful. These datasets are typically used to train AI and machine learning models without exposing sensitive data. While generating synthetic data…
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What are digital nomads and how easy is it for businesses to cater for them?
The rise of digital connectivity and the affordability of portable devices has meant that employees realize they are no longer shackled to their desks. There is an emerging trend within the workforce for employees to abandon traditional approaches and travel the world whilst working remotely. Digital nomads are typically (but not exclusively) younger people who like to travel. Their reliance…
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Microsoft: get used to working with AI-powered “digital colleagues”
Some of us prefer AI to human coworkers because we’re worried about being judged or sharing credit, according to Microsoft, with a report saying workers will need to become the “boss” of AI agents and accept the technology as “digital colleagues” rather than just tools. Microsoft used a survey of 31,000 people globally, Microsoft 365 Telemetry, and LinkedIn hiring trends…
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