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We've managed to invent something even worse than open offices If you are sitting in a cubicle or-lucky you!-behind a desk in a space with a door -then the concept of "hot desking" may still be foreign. It was to me, until recently. And, frankly, I'm not too hot on it.

Segway Made an Electric Go Kart That Can Drift We have little desire to take a city tour on one of Segway's mall cop-approved vehicles. Donning the helmet and slowly navigating urban blocks isn't exactly our idea of fun. Taking a city tour in Segway's latest vehicle, however, is absolutely up our alley. That's because that new device is

1,100 Classic Arcade Machines Added to the Internet Arcade: Play Them Free Online Once we could hardly imagine such things as video games. Then, all of a sudden, they appeared, though for years we had to go out to bars - and later, purpose-built 'arcades' filled with video game machines - in order to play them, and we paid money to do so.

Elise Keith of Lucid Meetings discusses the state of technology and meetings Produced and Written by Elise Keith for Nerd Stalker “My goal is to make sure no one ever has to write meeting notes again.” I’m talking with a product manager working to perfect automated call transcription. If find idea both exciting and problematic. The Dream Fully automated transcription is just the first step towards a grander vision. As an AI enthusiast told me, “Notes are just the start. Consider - what if AI could make sure the meeting goes well in the first place? What if an AI agent kept the discussion on track? What if it knew how to help a group resolve a conflict? That day may not be too far off.” He’s painting a vision of a comprehensive augmented meeting intelligence agent. As Ben Dickinson explains : “Augmented intelligence (AI)… is a complement—not a replacement—to human intelligence. It's about helping humans become faster and smarter at the tasks they...