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Clunky tech means public sector staff work 30 million hours extra each year
UK public sector staff are working an average of five hours a week more than they should thanks to inefficiencies in service delivery, new research shows. Appian’s 2025 UK Public Sector Efficiency Survey revealed that virtually all complained of extra work or delays. Extrapolated across the UK’s 6.12 million public sector workforce, this adds up to 30.6 million hours of…
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Your Next Mouse Needs Extra Buttons
There is no need to keep flitting back and forth between your mouse and your keyboard—you just need the right mouse for the job. There Are Too Many Shortcuts If you work with computers on the regular, you’re familiar with just how many different shortcuts (otherwise called hotkeys) you wind up needing to memorize. There’s Ctrl-C to Copy, and its…
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Changing this setting on your phone can give you an extra 17 minutes of sleep a night and make your brain younger – here’s how
From doom scrolling eating into sleep time to blue light suppressing sleepiness, it’s well known that phones wreak havoc on our sleep but they can also decay our brains. According to recent studies, keeping your phone’s internet connection switched off could bag you an extra 17 minutes of sleep a night and boost your brain health. Thanks to the glymphatic…
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Sony is giving PS Plus members extra days following PSN’s big outage
Following the huge PlayStation Network (PSN) outage that ended yesterday, Sony is giving an automatic five extra days of service to PlayStation Plus subscribers, according to a post from the official Ask PlayStation support account on X. “Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue,” the company wrote in the post. “We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the…
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Windows 10 is officially dying next October — but you can get a year of extra support for $30
Microsoft will give Windows 10 folks an extra year of security support if they $30. After that, it will be done. Source link
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Google’s taking the extra search box out of your search results
For years, Google has included an extra search box within some search results, encouraging you to dig further and look only within a specific website. But now that sitelinks search box is going away because “usage has dropped.” It’s been over ten years since we initially announced the sitelinks search box in Google Search, and over time, we’ve noticed that usage…
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Worth the Extra $300? Google Pixel 8 vs. Pixel 8 Pro
Android Your changes have been saved Email has already been sent close Please verify your email address. close You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. Manage Your List Follow Followed Follow with Notifications Follow Unfollow Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your How-To Geek account The 8th generation Google Pixel smartphones are great, but is the bigger model…
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These 10 Games Make PlayStation Plus Extra Worth It
For just a few bucks more per month than what you would pay for a basic PlayStation Plus subscription, you can upgrade to PlayStation Plus Extra and gain access to a catalog of games. There are hundreds of games in the Catalog, but these 10 alone more than justify the added cost. 1 Death Stranding Director’s Cut Kojima Productions/PlayStation The…
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