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Another 45% see AI as an opportunity to lower the salaries of employees on their payroll. I think AI has huge potential to optimize our work … but yet again, greedy humans are ruining it for the rest of us. Pretty bleak.
Tags: AI (artificial intelligence), employees, humans, managers, optimize, payroll, replace, work
I wanted to get something nice for Barry’s birthday, so I splurged on a gorgeous watch. Well, wouldn’t ya know it, like clockwork, my online ads changed. Suddenly, I was seeing fancy espresso machines, expensive face cream and cashmere sweaters all over social and the web.
No signal, no problem: Losing cell service can really mess up your attempts to navigate from A to B — unless you’ve downloaded your maps first. In Google Maps or Apple Maps, tap your profile picture and then Offline maps. Don’t trek into the wilderness (or anywhere else) without ‘em.
Search warning: Google’s new AI-generated answers can lead to sketchy sites that trick you into subscribing to browser notifications. Seeing these annoying pop-ups? In Chrome, go to Settings > Content > Notifications, and under Allowed to send notifications, click Remove next to any site you don’t want to hear from.
For confusing situations, skip the forms and bots. An Amazon customer service rep will call you if you know this trick.
📲 If you do need a phone number for Amazon Customer Service, it’s 1-888-280-4331. You might want to save that in your contacts. I don’t want you to get scammed by Googling support numbers that turn out fake.
✅ Quick security boost: Check to see that no one else is poking around your account.
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🎮 Power move: Save electricity (and money) by checking the power-saving settings on the game consoles in your house. On the PS5, go to Settings > System > Power Saving. On the Xbox Series One and X/S, head to Profile & system > Settings > General > Power, then choose the Shutdown (energy saving) option. Congrats, you just leveled up.
Message to self: Did you know you can message yourself in apps like WhatsApp and Slack? See if your DM app of choice does it. Yeah, it sounds a little weird, but it’s a smart way to keep something you want to remember front and center. Plus, you’re the only one who’ll see it.
Now you see it, now you don’t: Give your apps and webpages a little more elbow room by hiding the Windows taskbar. You can set it to auto-hide by right-clicking on it and selecting Taskbar settings > Taskbar behaviors > Automatically hide the taskbar.
Be AI aware: Facebook’s new algorithm is filling people’s feeds with AI-generated images, and older adults are falling hard for their tricks. Quick crash course: Look for unnaturally smooth textures, gibberish text, and unusual teeth and fingers. I do a deep dive in tomorrow’s newsletter about spotting election fakes online, so be sure you don’t miss it.
🖌️ Stroke of genius: Instead of reformatting lots of cells in Excel, look for the paintbrush. It’s called the Format Painter, and it’ll copy the font, color, style and anything else you did from one cell to the next cell(s) you click. This works for formatting in Microsoft Word and Google Docs, too.
Add an emoji faster with a Windows keyboard shortcut. Just hold down the Windows key + . (period) and voila! 👏
