Month: November 2023
Workers are wasting hours every day on menial IT tasks
Workers are spending as much as half of their day (3-4 hours) doing non-productive work or manual tasks that could be automated, according to the latest Employee Experience Benchmark Report by Kore.ai. It believes that automation and even generation AI could play a role in improving efficiency towards so-called ‘microtasks’,…
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Apple Music Replay is back — and it’s still mostly a web experience
Apple Music Replay has arrived. The year-end summary of your most-listened-to songs, artists, albums, and more is now available from Apple Music’s webpage — just days before Spotify is expected to drop its Wrapped stats. While Apple launched Replay in 2019, it gave the feature a major update last year…
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F-Zero 99’s SNES-like Classic Race mode is coming in its next major update
F-Zero 99’s next update is a pretty big one, with a brand new Classic Mode being added to the Nintendo Switch‘s online multiplayer racer. Nintendo’s Japanese Twitter account confirmed that the Nintendo Switch Online-exclusive racing game will receive the Classic Race update tomorrow (November 29). The official post on Nintendo’s…
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What we bought: Casio’s latest flagship digital piano doubles as drool-worthy furniture
Casio’s instrument division has been around a long time, as anyone who got into music as a kid by making fart noises into an SK-1 knows. However, the company is mostly known for entry-level digital pianos that get the job done, but don’t offer much by way of modern conveniences.…
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Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami on why the web isn’t dying after all
Today, I’m talking with Avishai Abrahami, the CEO of Wix. You might know Wix as a website builder. It’s a competitor to WordPress and Squarespace. Tons of sites across the web run on Wix. But the web is changing rapidly, and Wix’s business today is less about web publishing and…
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Evernote cuts back on free plans, pushing users to upgrade
Evernote is considering how it can push users toward paid plans by introducing even more limits to its free tier, according to a new report by TechCrunch. Evernote’s online pricing structure currently remains unchanged, but the company did confirm to TechCrunch that it had been running small-scale tests. So, the…
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