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Research Finds That Productive Workers Need Air Conditioning
Research Finds That Productive Workers Need Air Conditioning I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but us here in the UK are in the middle of something very unusual. We’re actually having an outright hot summer! Now yes, I know the stereotype that British people are always talking…
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Burger Flipping Robot Starts Its First Day On The Job
Burger Flipping Robot I daresay that I may be similar to many of you that during my student years, I worked in fast food to pay bills and to buy beer. It’s not an experience I would have traded for anything and at 16-years old, I learned a lot about…
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Amazon Patent Warehouse Worker Tracking Device
Amazon Warehouse When the zombie apocalypse comes, I think I’m going to head to an Amazon warehouse. I fancy that there would be enough there to keep me going. There is, however, one downside, the company might want to track my movements within it. Why? Well, apparently Amazon has patented a device…
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Japanese Company to Use Drones to Stop Overtime Workers
Office Drones There is sometimes the need or temptation to do a little overtime. Be it to finish off an important document or to get ahead for the coming week. A Japanese firm, however, in a bid to stop their employees over-working is set to deploy an office drone which…
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Robot Security Guards Patrol China’s Rail Station
New robot security guards have been deployed on-duty guarding China’s Zhengzhou railway station adding on to their regular security roster beginning in the middle of February. Unlike a regular cop or security guard, China’s new robot security officers have minimal downtime and can patrol non-stop (except to charge and swap…
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Want to Work on League Of Legends? Best Avoid Being Toxic in Chat-logs
When it comes to online games, Riot isn’t one to shy away from their problems with toxic behaviour in-game. With the tribunal allowing the community to oversee players who have been reported, putting an emphasis on the community supporting the community. Now it would seem that the company is looking…
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Executives Feel Like Cyber-Security is Just an IT Problem
Cyber-security is a big issue, with people and companies finding out the hard way that their security is exposed when it turns up online for sale or they receive phone calls advertising features with details they never hand out. With big companies like TalkTalk and even the government being victims of hacks, people…
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Bill Gates Used to Memorise the Number Plates of All His Employees
All the way from school to work we are expected to give a hundred percent. Teachers take attendance in our lessons and in an interview with the BBC, Bill Gates revealed he also took attendance of his employees, by knowing their number plates. Getting Microsoft to where it is as…
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CHERRY Introduces New Wired and Wireless Mice for Office Work
CHERRY is mostly known for their keyboard and keyboard switches, but they have a full line-up of items that also includes mice. Now they introduced two new wireless mice, the MW 2310 and the MW 2110, as well as an updated version of the wired MC2000. All these three mice…
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Need to Get Your Remote Team Collaboration-Ready? Here are 11 Tools
Planning on joining one or maybe building one yourself? Knowing what it takes to make remote teams work is an invaluable asset. From the Clarity blog, Zapier.com and Fast Company, here are some ways you and everyone else on your team could keep in touch throughout the workday: Blue Jeans…
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GIGABYTE Introduces 4K Friendly AIRE M60 Wireless Mouse
GIGABYTE makes a lot of different products and among them are also peripherals. Their newest offering in that line-up is the GIGABYTE AIRE M60 Wireless mouse with a 3200 DPI resolution for great work under a 4K resolution. The wireless function runs on the 2.4GHz band which is something to…
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Guy Makes Device Which Can Open Combination Locks in a Matter of Seconds
Not really what you were looking to hear if you have a locker at work or school that relies on combination locks to keep people from snooping through your personal belongings, huh? Well, someone was bound to do something like this sooner or later and it’s not like combination locks…
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Ikea Planning to Sell Wireless Charging Lamps and Tables
We live in an era where our smartphone and/or tablet battery is one of our top priority for the day. Often we forget to plug them into a charger while at home or at the office, only to notice we can barely unlock them to see a notification once we…
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AT&T to Release Sonim XP6, Rugged Anti-Smartphone
American mobile operator AT&T has just announced a new product under the ‘anti-smartphone’ category – the Sonim XP6. Said to be extremely rugged in design, this new smartphone incorporates a physical keyboard and button support into its architecture. This announced device has been marketed as a phone that can support…
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