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Apple’s HomePod will reportedly be able to make calls soon

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by on July 23, 2018 at 5:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, gear


Apple is believed to be adding some notable features to its Siri-powered HomePod smart speaker, including the ability to make and receive phone calls. That’s from French site iGeneration, which noted that it’s had a look at the iOS 12-based software for the device, and has spotted a bunch of new functions that’ll be enabled on it via a software update. If its report is accurate, you’ll soon be able to initiate and receive phone calls on your speaker (as long as it’s paired with your phone), locate your iPhone, sort out a faulty connection between itself and your Wi-Fi…

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My team used to suck at meetings, but now people are begging us to share our secret sauce

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by on July 22, 2018 at 4:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Entrepreneur


Think you hate meetings? My colleagues and I were so sick of them that we teamed up with Chelsea Handler to build an excuse generator. Can you guess what one of the main use cases was? Getting out of meetings. For years, our team’s meetings didn’t move us forward; they were “party meetings” that threw wrenches into projects. At best, we’d brainstorm, socialize, and draft a few action items. Agendas were absent, and more people than necessary were present. Deadline discussions often devolved into finger-pointing. In fact, the phobia my team and I had of meetings is pretty common. Of the…

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