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Amazon Echo can now differentiate between users' voices While Amazon Alexa came first, Google has been adding features to Assistant at a rapid pace. Google Assistant has long been able to differentiate between different people's voices on the Google Home. This means that your whole family can use the Home with their own suggestions, accounts, [...]

The impossible dream of USB-C While a wide variety of USB-C dongles are available, most use the same handful of unreliable, mediocre chips inside. Some USB-A dongles make Wi-Fi drop on MacBook Pros. Some USB-A devices don't work properly when adapted to USB-C, or only work in certain ports.

Agile/Scrum: The Way I See It I considered Agile to be a myth until, not long ago, we actually transitioned to the Scrum framework for software development. It has been a year since we made this transition, and I have since been assigned the role of ScrumMaster. We faced many unknowns, and chaos ruled over our entire team in the beginning.

How To Use Scrolling To Fight Increasingly Lower Attention Spans and Skimming Behavior of Users In the world of social media, constant stream of tweets, and content saturation people's attention spans are getting narrower each day. One thing becomes quite obvious when you do any usability testing is that how little attention people give when they through the websites.

Drs. Michelle Joy and Jody Foster Share Thoughts on Empathy in the Workplace Editor: We are pleased to have authors Dr. Michelle Joy and Dr. Jody Foster share their insights into one aspect of creating a comfortable work environment by learning to understand your boss. By Dr. Michelle Joy and Dr. Jody Foster A boss can make the workplace miserable. Given how much time people spend in the office, life itself can become wretched. You start to feel angry, humiliated, anxious, and depressed. You tell your coworkers just how bad this supervisor is, how they treat you, how they make you feel. Your boss really is a “jerk,” you claim, “a schmuck” you all agree. You consider doing something about it but take no steps. You hope that they stop acting this way and that everything can just get better on its own. But of course they don’t stop. They keep yelling at you, keeping you late, making you redo reports. They criticize your work. They criticize you. You start to realize th...

SAN FRANCISCO -  October 13, 2017 :   Awair, the creators of products that track air quality in homes, has released new data revealing that the several wildfires sweeping through California have caused a significant drop in  indoor  air quality in the homes of Bay Area residents. The air quality data was collected from hundreds of Awair devices that are in-use in San Francisco. According to the data,  up to 85% of Bay Area households (with Awair units) have reported unhealthy indoor air . Chart showing the increase of households with unhealthy air quality in the Bay Area during the timeframe of the wildfires The drop in indoor air quality is attributed to the increased concentration of dust and particulate matter carried down to the Bay Area from the wildfires in the North.  Between October 7th and October 11th, the concentration of dust and particulates indoors dramatically increased to unhealthy levels.   Chart showing the i...