Month: April 2021
Back-to-back meetings are a disaster for productivity and mental health windows 10
For office and remote workers alike, back-to-back meetings are a disaster for productivity and mental health. This is according to a new research from Microsoft, which analyzed the brain activity of 14 volunteers to understand the effects of consecutive work meetings. Hooking them up to electroencephalogram (EEG) equipment (essentially, a…
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Microsoft Outlook now lets you end all meetings early to give your brain a rest
Microsoft is updating Outlook to give companies the option to automatically start or end all meetings early to ensure employees have a break between back-to-backs. New settings in Outlook are rolling out to help reduce the digital overload of working remotely. Companies can set their own scheduling defaults, and they’re…
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In Conversation: Mads Mikkelsen
Photo: Jake Chessum Before he became an actor, Mads Mikkelsen spent almost a decade as a dancer, a practice evident in the carriage of his characters. Each vibrates on his own frequency: as jittery drug dealers, sweaty butchers, pagan warriors, and worldly cannibals. Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, features one of…
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Leo AR, user-facing marketplace for 3D objects, raises $3 million seed round
Apple’s introduction of ARKit changed the game for entrepreneurs, not unlike the App Store did on a much, much larger scale back in 2008. One entrepreneur, Dana Loberg, has capitalized on the launch of ARKit with her startup Leo AR. Leo is the result of a few pivots. The company…
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Synthesia’s AI video generation platform hooks $12.5 million Series A led by FirstMark
As AI gets stronger, the possibilities of what we can do with it grow exponentially (for better or worse). Synthesia, an AI video generation platform, is looking to make video content creation as simple and efficient as possible, and FirstMark is taking a bet on it. The company has just…
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Microsoft reportedly working on new Windows store that’s open to all apps and games
Microsoft is reportedly working on a big overhaul to its app store for Windows. Windows Central reports that the software maker plans to release an updated store later this year that will be far more open to all types of apps and games. This could pave the way for developers…
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