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It’s not hard to see how augmented reality apps–which superimpose computer-generated images onto the real-world view of your smartphone camera–can be a powerful branding tool. Ikea Place, for example, gives shoppers a future view of how furniture might look in their homes. And L’Oreal’s Virtual Try-On lets customers safely see what they’ll look like wearing…Read More

This article was originally published by Martin Banks on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. The electric vehicle market has seen incredible growth in the past decade. There were 7.2 million EVs on the road in 2019, despite there being less than 20,000 in use just nine years earlier. New models emerge all the time – and the Kenguru is easily one of the most intriguing. In an innovative…

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What would Albert Einstein say about today’s hand-held tech revolution? Or the efforts to control its energy consumption? Smart Energy GB has set out to answer that in a smart new ad campaign that shows the father of modern physics sitting up in his bathtub, delighted with the ease of digital technology. In a CGI…Read More

We can improve and magnify things in very short order.

Light bulbs, elevators, website technology–give it some time, and people will pile on and all of the important metrics will be sharpened, made more efficient and more powerful as well.

That’s not really the hard part. The hard part is doing it when people aren’t sure it can be done.

And in that stage of development, taking notes isn’t nearly as important as taking leaps.

If you do it once, we’ll figure out how to do it again.

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The UK is making self-driving partially legal in the spring, so you should have an easier time in the cockpit. But you shouldn’t think of watching a movie or playing games on your phones while driving just yet. A report from BBC noted that the Department for Transport will allow autonomous driving modes that are limited to a single lane with a speed cap of 60km per hour (37mph).  The government said that vehicles with automated lane-keeping systems (ALKS) will have to take a GB-type approval to be classified as self-driving cars. It added that the drivers won’t need to pay attention to…

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In sales, you are only as good as your last deal. Every day, week, month, or quarter is a fresh start where, once again, your team needs to gear up and deliver. Great sales leaders are able to push or pull a team whether they are at 120% or at 50% of their goal, and they are able to recruit and maintain high-performing sales teams over a long period of time.  There is no silver bullet for sustaining a high performing sales team, but here are a few things that I think are important: You win the battle on the…

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The FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or consent, and to delete software. It’s part of a government effort to contain the continuing attacks on corporate networks running Microsoft Exchange software, and it’s an unprecedented intrusion that’s raising legal questions about just how far the government can go. On April 9, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a search warrant allowing the U.S. Department of Justice to carry out the operation. The software the FBI is deleting is malicious code installed by hackers to take…

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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Masks are now part of our daily lives now because of the coronavirus pandemic. But that meant you couldn’t unlock your iPhone using Face ID while wearing a mask — until now. Apple’s latest iOS 14.5 update will let you unlock your iPhone while wearing one if you have an Apple Watch. To use this feature, update your iPhone first through Settings > General > Software update. Here’s how you can enable the feature that’ll…

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There are few apps that lock iPhone users into Apple’s ecosystem quite like iMessage. For us Android users, it can lead to a frustrating experience when trying to communicate without our iPhone-toting friends, often leading to lost messages and a lack of feature compatibility. As it turns out, in an alternate universe iMessage may have been available on Android years ago. As reported by The Verge, Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue tried to bring iMessage to Android as early as 2013. Unfortunately, other Apple execs, including Craig Federighi, didn’t like the idea. The news comes courtesy of the ever-so-juicy…

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Apple only just released its new iMacs featuring the acclaimed M1 ARM-based processor, but according to a report from Nikkei, the company plans to launch M2 as soon as July. Nikkei’s sources suggest M2 could launch this summer “for use in MacBooks that are scheduled to go on sale in the second half of this year.” Notably, Apple is hosting WWDC from June 7 to 11, so the timing could work out such that Apple announces the new chipset and laptops at its developer conference, with shipments beginning the month thereafter. Only the MacBook is mentioned, however — no word…

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