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Asana’s new Slack plugin makes project management a doddle

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by on May 22, 2018 at 3:57 pm
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Productivity giant Asana has launched a new Slack plugin, which promises to transform off-the-cuff ideas into actionable tasks you can put on your to-do list. The new plugin takes advantage of some of the new features in Slack’s API, and allows users to perform tasks in Asana without having to leave the popular chat service. With the plugin installed, users can create a task simply by hovering over a message, clicking the More Options icon, and selecting “Create a task.” Here’s how that looks like in practice. As you can tell from the above GIF, when you create a task,…

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Thanks to this robot, musicians can now play with themselves in their bedroom

May22
by on May 22, 2018 at 3:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, gear


Just when you think you’ve seen it all, someone goes and invents a cajón-playing robot and launches it on Kickstarter. Cabot (which, one assumes, is a portmanteau of cajon and robot) attaches to the percussion instrument and, when connected to a smartphone, blasts out a rhythm of the user’s choosing or creation on the drum. Also, it looks like the facehugger from Alien if, rather than H. R. Giger, they were designed by Apple. You can see it in action here: The CEO of the Cabot team, Hideaki Iio, was inspired to create the device so he could, and I…

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EU is livestreaming Zuck’s hearing — reluctantly

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by on May 22, 2018 at 3:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


As the European Parliament’s ‘Mr Privacy,’ Jan Philipp Albrecht, said: “It is a bad sign that Mark Zuckerberg only wants to answer the questions of selected Members of the European Parliament behind closed doors.” That’s an understatement! It’s also a pretty dreadful sign that the heads of the European Parliament’s biggest political groups were so happy to go along with this idea. It begs the question: what are the trying to hide? Zuckerberg’s culpability or their own inability? Albrecht himself aside, there are few in the room that will be able to properly interrogate the Zuck on the complexities of…

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Samsung is opening a massive AI research center in the UK

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by on May 22, 2018 at 2:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


Deep-pocketed Korean conglomerate Samsung today announced it will open a massive AI research center, based in leafy (and deeply tech-centric) Cambridge. The Samsung AI Center, Cambridge (SAIC-Cambridge) will be lead by Professor Andrew Blake, who is one of Britain’s leading academics in the AI space. Blake previously headed up Microsoft Research’s Cambridge laboratory, and is a former director of the Alan Turing Institute. His research focus primarily centers on computer vision, which aligns with Samsung’s goals for SAIC-Cambridge. The new facility is the fifth owned by Samsung outside of Korea and the US, and is a major coup for the…

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by on May 22, 2018 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers


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