Technology
When did you last remember a phone number? The quiet cost of letting AI do the thinking
Handing a mental task to a machine is convenient. Done often enough, experts warn, the judgement you were exercising stops getting…
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Technology
Microsoft rebuilt Copilot so you can describe an app in plain language and have it built
The new Copilot adds Code, which turns plain instructions into working apps and dashboards, and Autopilot, an agent that keeps working when…
World
“Employees are being assessed on how effectively they can participate in their own redundancy”
Duncan Trevithick gets a bonus if he uses AI to finish more work. He has done the maths on what that actually buys him, and the answer is…
Technology
Bezos on stress: it comes from not acting — the research agrees, and adds the one detail that makes the advice work
Deciding to act changes little. Deciding what you will do, where and when, changes a great deal — which is the difference between advice…
Technology
Gmail’s AI summaries are coming to everyone — how to switch them off, why the switch takes other things with it, and the risk that is not training data
Everyone gets them, free accounts included. The off switch is real and bundled with Smart Compose. The worry is training data; the risk…
Technology
Chrome finally has vertical tabs: how to switch them on, why the tab strip breaks at about nine tabs, and the honest case against
Right-click the tab strip and pick Show tabs vertically. The reason it helps is arithmetic — and the reason it might not help you is that…
Technology
Drive now opens a video straight into an editor — what Google Vids actually is, what it cannot do, and why a button is the whole strategy
The change is one button on a video preview. What it opens is Google Vids, which is good at one narrow job and bad at the one people…
Technology
WhatsApp is bringing Events to one-to-one chats — what it replaces, and the three things a chat invitation will never do that a calendar does
A dated card with accept and decline, inside the chat you already use. It removes a familiar mess of messages — and it is not a calendar…
Technology
Gmail’s new summary cards turn a shipping email into a tracking bar and a flight email into a boarding pass — and add a “Happening soon” shelf to the inbox
The cards Gmail has shown above shopping and travel emails for years are being rebuilt on Android and iOS: purchase cards with a product…
Technology
Bard will now read your inbox for you: Google’s chatbot summarises Gmail threads through its Workspace extension — and starts showing pictures in its answers
With the Gmail extension switched on, Bard can now be asked to summarise the important points of several emails, find what a thread…