PCMag

Ditch the Doomscrolling: How an App and a Couple NFC Tags Keep Me Off My Phone

Devices like Brick lock you out of your most distracting apps, but it also costs $60. I figured out how to do the same with a ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Most productivity apps are just prettier task lists, but this one actually changed my workflow

I’ve tried every productivity app out there, and most are just prettier lists but this one actually rewired my workflow.
Hosted on MSN

Employee asked his manager to do a simple task to help him with a project, but when the manager refused, he and his colleagues quietly mocked him

Bad managers have always existed in the workplace. In this story, an employee worked under an arrogant manager who refused to do even simple tasks. After the team quietly mocked him, the manager tried ...
Entrepreneur

Here's What You Need to Do While AI Automates the Easy Tasks

Generative AI is expected to automate or significantly speed up to 70% of knowledge-work tasks, according to McKinsey research. The real value of AI for entrepreneurs lies in enabling creative and ...
IEEE

Employing Eye Tracking to Assess Proficiency Level in Manufacturing Tasks via Machine Learning

Abstract: Assessing worker skill is essential for optimizing high-complexity, low-output production tasks that are consequently difficult to automate for increased efficiency over human work.
The Verge

Microsoft’s Copilot Tasks AI uses its own computer to get things done

The AI assistant can do things like turn emails, attachments, and images from your inbox into a slide deck, or offer rundowns on nearby apartment listings. The AI assistant can do things like turn ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Often Do You Fart? This ‘Smart Underwear’ Can Keep Track, Because Figuring Out a Baseline Is Important for Science

Researchers developed a tiny fart-measuring device that snaps into underwear. Left: University of Maryland. Right: S. Botasini et al., Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, 2025 under CC BY 4.0 How many ...
Harvard Business Review

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...
TechCrunch

Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI

Maybe you don’t need an AI smart ring to keep up with your to-dos. Doist, the company behind Todoist, a popular to-do list app that works across multiple devices, is launching its new AI-powered, ...
Reuters

Oracle says Michigan data center project talks on track without Blue Owl

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Oracle said talks for an equity deal to support its Michigan data center project remain on schedule and do not include Blue Owl Capital, after a report of stalled negotiations with ...
FloTrack

How to Watch The Marathon Project 2025

The Marathon Project 2025 is streaming live on FloTrack this year on Sunday, December 21. Here's how to watch. One of the top running events of the year is right around the corner: The Marathon ...