Stories tagged “Productivity.”
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Japanese companies are significantly lagging in AI adoption compared to Western nations, despite facing acute labor shortages and productivity issues. This slow uptake is attributed to a conservative, risk-averse business culture and a lack of digital literacy among workers.
Anthropic's Chrome extension is now a Cowork session
Anthropic's Chrome extension is now a Cowork session, allowing users to access AI-powered coworking sessions directly from their browser.
AI Coding Got Faster. Why Didn't Engineering?
A recent study found that AI coding has gotten faster, but engineering productivity hasn't kept pace. This article explores the reasons behind this gap and what it means for the future of software development.
Meetily is a free, open-source application for Windows and macOS that transcribes and summarizes meetings locally, addressing privacy concerns and high costs associated with cloud-based services.
Argos: The AI that acts as you, right in your browser
Argos is a new AI browser agent that automates tasks by directly interacting with web pages and user accounts, operating locally to ensure data privacy.
VoiceOS App Store Launches, Enabling Voice-Native App Creation and Sharing
VoiceOS has launched its App Store, allowing users to create custom voice-native applications by simply describing their desired functionality in natural language. These personalized apps can be shared via links and automatically updated, empowering users to build highly …
A Chrome extension that disables LinkedIn's home feed while keeping the rest of LinkedIn usable. It hides the main feed, blocks infinite-scroll feed pagination, and leaves profiles, jobs, search, messaging, notifications, and other LinkedIn features intact.
Google is aggressively integrating its Gemini AI features into products like Gmail and Google Docs, prompting users to seek methods for disabling these often-unwanted additions.
My 10 favorite gadgets to upgrade your school or work setup this fall
The article lists 10 gadgets to upgrade a school or work setup, including a portable monitor, wireless mouse, and earbuds. These accessories can help students be more productive this year.
Handelsblatt-Chefökonom Bert Rürup and Michael Hüther, Director of the German Institute for Economic Research, highlight a structural void in Germany's growth model: the massive investment program of the federal government will fail to achieve its impact without a suffici…
Why Todoist says less AI can deliver more
Todoist, a popular task management tool, has found that less AI can deliver more in terms of automation and productivity. The company has been experimenting with AI-powered automation, but has discovered that simpler approaches can be more effective.
The GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows, creating tools to manage repetitive tasks and draft contracts more efficiently. Two team members share their experiences building internal tools using plain language and GitHub Copilot.
A fresh leak has revealed the key specifications of the upcoming Xiaomi Pad 8S Pro, giving an early look at its hardware and software. The tablet will use Xiaomi's in-house Xring O3 chipset, feature 16GB of RAM, and carry a large 12,000 mAh battery.
Epilude: Local voice dictation for Mac for polished text
Epilude is a new Mac application offering local voice dictation that transcribes, punctuates, cleans up, and matches the tone of spoken text in about a second, ensuring audio never leaves the user's device.
Claude Designer Left Behind by Engineers, Creates Million-User Tool
A designer, Nate Parrott, was left behind by engineers who suddenly accelerated their work on the Claude Code project. He created a tool to help him catch up, which eventually became the Claude Design product used by over a million people.
GitHub Copilot expert Burke Holland shares a simple workflow to improve productivity with AI by focusing on the harness, a core feature of GitHub Copilot, and using existing features without relying on gimmicks or weird prompts.
The recent AI boom has renewed debate about how official statistics capture changes in productivity growth and how any lags or limitations might impact monetary policy. The 1990s saw low measures of productivity, which some believed weren't capturing the true benefits fro…
Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features, allowing it to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings.
Cal.diy Offers Fully Open-Source Scheduling Platform for Self-Hosters
Cal.diy is a community-driven, MIT-licensed fork of Cal.com, removing all enterprise features for self-hosted scheduling.
Google Meet is rolling out a new homepage on the web to help users stay organized and prepared throughout their meeting workflow. The new design provides a centralized view of the meeting agenda and essential artifacts, including new week and month navigators to look ahea…
Tokenmaxing's Terminal and New Chapter
The AI industry's hottest two words in the first half of 2026 are Agent and Tokenmaxing. Agent means models start moving from 'answering questions' to 'completing tasks,' while Tokenmaxing hopes to achieve more complex tasks through longer context, more reasoning steps, a…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot can be an incredible productivity tool, but overuse can negatively affect your life. To help users, Anthropic released Reflect, a new dashboard inside the chatbot's settings menu.
Rewisp — an ambient memory for your Mac: See it once. Ask forever.
Rewisp is a new Mac application designed to act as an "ambient memory," passively reading screen text on-device to remember information, track changes, and manage commitments, all while prioritizing user privacy.
Leantime is an open-source project management system designed for ease of use, catering to neurodivergent individuals. It combines strategy, planning, and execution tools.
Baidu and Tencent are Competing for the 'Boot Screen' of Office Workers
Chinese tech giants Baidu and Tencent are locked in a battle to dominate the next generation of AI-powered office productivity tools, aiming to become the primary AI interface for daily work tasks.
Mindwalk is a tool that replays coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase, providing insights into how the agent understood the task and what parts of the repository it treated as relevant.
Even Realities' G2 smart glasses focus on productivity rather than recording, with a monochrome heads-up display and no cameras or speakers. The glasses can show text and information in green, giving it the look of a neon board, and have a brighter 1,200-nit display, four…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has joined a Federal Reserve task force studying the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs and productivity. This move comes days after the company announced it would cut 3,200 roles as part of a major restructuring.
“Every IC engineer is really a front line manager now.” But are they productive?
The New Stack explores the shift in IC engineers from technical to managerial roles, questioning their productivity.
I Use Android Auto in My Living Room Now - and It Solves One of My Biggest Productivity Problems
The author uses Android Auto on an old phone in their living room to reduce distractions and increase productivity. The app allows them to control media, check messages, and ask AI without having to constantly pull out their phone.