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📧 Emoji etiquette: A study says an emoji or GIF can lighten the mood and boost team vibes when communicating via email. Just make sure you send a 🍦 and not a 💩. It could mean the difference between a laugh and an HR meeting. Context is everything.
When Jeff Bezos was CEO, customers would email him complaints. He would forward those complaints to department heads with just one character. What was that one character?
The answer: Jeff Bezos would forward customer complaints to the appropriate department head with just one character: A question mark. No note, like, “Hello, I hope you’re well. Would you please look into this situation and let me know what’s going on?” Ever since I learned this, I have done the same thing. Too bad Jeff Bezos retired when he was in his prime. (Ba-dum-tss!)
You know by now your phone’s battery performance degrades the older it gets. That’s just how lithium-ion batteries work, unfortunately. With each charging cycle, they wear down a bit. Eventually, it becomes too big a problem to ignore.
AI’s guess at whether you’re a man or woman based on brain scans. Research has always been iffy on whether men and women have truly different brains. This is an interesting wrinkle.
You know your phone’s battery performance degrades the older it gets. That’s just how lithium-ion batteries work, unfortunately. With each charging cycle, they wear down a bit. Eventually, it becomes too big a problem to ignore and it’s time to replace it.
Apple makes it easy to check
At the top, you’ll see your battery’s maximum capacity. Don’t panic if it’s below 100%. It’s designed to maintain 80% of its original capacity by 500 charges, so that percentage will tick down over time.
Under Peak Performance Capability, you’ll see whether your battery is operating normally. If it’s seriously degraded, you’ll see a message here.
It’s a little trickier on an Android
Most manufacturers have different steps. Here are a few to try:
I bet you used Amazon today. Maybe you picked up chicken soup ingredients from Whole Foods, streamed “Fast Car” on Amazon Music or went old-school and bought a book on Amazon.com — naturally, with your Prime Rewards Visa card.
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That’s how often alarms can sound in hospitals. “Alarm fatigue,” aka ignoring and forgetting to turn off or restart alarms, led to 566 deaths in the U.S. over a five-and-a-half-year period. The fix isn’t louder alarms but to make them more musical. Fascinating read!
Chinese and U.S. researchers can recreate more than one-fourth of fingerprint biometric scans by sound alone. No kidding, your fingerprints make sounds when you swipe your touchscreens.Â
When folks living in caves routinely ate each other. Wait, what? Yep, scientists have found lots of evidence of cannibalism in ancient societies — primarily as a way to honor and respect the dead. Yum.
How much a 27-year-old government contractor made in a year. That year, though, she worked 92 hours a week in Taiwan. Ouch. Fascinating read.
That’s how much Reddit is getting paid to hand over user content for AI training. The “who” is a mystery for now, but just know that you agree to this in the terms and conditions if you use Reddit.
