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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 profile was. She didn’t really … [Read more…]

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 help getting them. Of course … [Read more…]

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 party. He remembered the one … [Read more…]

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 Black Mirror stuff. Apparently it’s … [Read more…]

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 doing and saying in response … [Read more…]

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 need. Every day a competitor … [Read more…]

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 though, those of us who … [Read more…]

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 was even worse. A date. … [Read more…]

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000247 It comes with the job. I’m the punchbag when here-today-gone-tomorrow politicians want to make their mark and get some airtime. I don’t blame them. They haven’t done what I’ve done and really changed the world. Anyway. The thing that annoys me most is the amount of time I have to spend preparing for this. … [Read more…]

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/feature-all-tiktok-videos-shoppable Shopping has always been a thing for me and my friends. As kids we’d meet up and window shop, imagine stuff we’d buy when we could. Then when we had money we’d meet up again but this time we’d actually buy things: clothes, gadgets whatever. I even had a friend who’d buy books. Cute … [Read more…]