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https://www.geekwire.com/2024/new-esports-team-at-seattle-area-middle-school-teaches-teamwork-communication-and-how-to-lose/ Headteachers made a big thing of it in open days; the teachers who taught it were now the stars of the staffroom not the joke. And parents asked how their kids were doing in the subject, dreaming of their future careers. PE was the new Maths. And the cool… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/apple-eyes-business-as-a-prime-market-for-the-apple-vision-pro/ She paused by the boardroom’s glass walls. The giant oak table gleamed a deep orangey red. The bookcases a slightly darker shade. The decanters and glasses carefully arranged on the side tables. The leather chairs waited. The room was all set for the meeting. The paper, pencils and, for… Read the rest

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134770-100-why-fully-remote-workplaces-mean-more-loneliness-and-more-sick-days The playlist began as she logged in. The lights dimmed and the colour changed to the perfect levels. The desk lowered to the level set in her profile. Her office was ready. Designed, configured and managed from… somewhere. She sometimes tried to imagine where that algorithm was, where her… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/07/simplify-looks-to-ai-to-help-with-job-searches-and-applications/ It was a big part of the University’s brand. Its ads boasted of the number of graduates who had jobs. Open days presentations had to have a slide with smiling alumni and company logos. Course budgets had a line for “employability”. It worked. Students wanted jobs. And they wanted… Read the rest

https://gizmodo.com/best-gadgets-super-bowl-central-2024-1851231207 They’d been doing it every year since the first of them got their own place. He remembered that first one, how he’d planned it to be nothing like the one his parents had. It ended up pretty much the same but it felt different: his space, his friends, his… Read the rest

https://www.designfictiondaily.com/p/playtesting-the-design-fiction-generator It could be worse. I’ve got a mate who works for one company that has gone all “wellness”. He has to do mediation and all sorts. Poor lad. My place isn’t that bad but it has gone a bit weird. Some boss heard about speculation fiction – some pseudo… Read the rest

https://www.campaignlive.com/article/differentiate-die-advertising-agencies-lost-distinctiveness/1859961 When he’d left to start the business he knew it would be tough, but he believe he has an idea. A unique vision. He’d bought the best B2B partner he could. The investment had been worth it. It showed the industry trends of course but also what competitors were… Read the rest

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/03/ai-artificial-intelligence-tools-hiring-jobs The talent crisis has become the talent wars. Ours isn’t the only business fighting for the best and using every trick to find the talent we need. It is no longer just Junior roles, the grunt work. Senior roles too. We have to move fast to get what we… Read the rest

https://gizmodo.com/the-ai-industry-has-a-not-so-secret-weapon-lobbyists-1851218837 We sometimes joke about having AI as our lobbyists. We imagine Black Mirror episodes where our systems sweet-talk the politicians with their faultless logic and limitless knowledge of what makes a particular politician “amenable”. When we get together we boast about what our particular AI lobbyist could do. Seriously… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/amazon-debuts-rufus-an-ai-shopping-assistant-in-its-mobile-app/ He hated shopping at the best of times. It just made his insecurity more evident. Is that the latest? What will people think of me in that? What does that say about me? He checked the feeds to look for clues but that just made it worse. And today… Read the rest