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JR Raphael

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Spotify no lo tiene todo: escucha y descubre música gratis en este sitio web

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Mexico Verified
La música está por todas partes. Puedes reproducir prácticamente cualquier canción grabada en cualquier momento con solo dar un clic. Y sin embargo, a pesar de todas las comodidades que nos brindan los servicios de streaming modernos, se pierde algo intangible en comparación con la forma en que solíamos escucharla.
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20 truques do Gemini que vão muito além do chatbot

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By JR Raphael
| fastcompanybrasil.com
Quando ouvimos falar do motor de IA Gemini do Google hoje em dia, quase sempre é o resultado de algum avanço muito ambicioso e com cara de futurista. Não é preciso ir muito longe para encontrar exemplos. O Gemini, assim como outros sistemas de IA generativa, está sendo cada vez mais posicionado como um agente capaz de realizar tarefas complexas por você. Essas tarefas vão desde fazer compras e comprar ingressos até planejar viagens e mesmo navegar pela web em seu nome.
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Watch out, Spotify: This free site is a music lover’s dream

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
These days, music is everywhere. You can call up practically any recorded song at any moment with a quick flick of your favorite fingie and nary an extra cent spent. And yet, for all the convenience modern streaming services give us, something intangible is lost compared to the way we used to listen to music.
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Watch out, Spotify: This free site is a music lover's dream

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By JR Raphael
| Flipboard
3 hours ago Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon has moved deeper into sovereign territory, with troops crossing the Litani river. Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon has moved deeper into sovereign territory, with troops crossing the Litani river. It’s the first time in nearly 20 years that Israeli troops have …
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Watch out, Spotify: This free site is a music lover's dream

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By JR Raphael
| Flipboard
Culture Now Spencer Pratt says Jesus is his role model. His take on homeless people isn’t Christ-like Los Angeles Times - Gustavo Arellano • 59m Spencer Pratt is a showboat, a loudmouth, a troll and a self-proclaimed villain who seems willing to say anything in his quest to be the next mayor of Los Angeles.
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20 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Google’s Gemini AI could do

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
When we hear about Google’s Gemini AI engine these days, it’s almost always the result of some wildly ambitious and futuristic-sounding advancement. You don’t have to look far to find examples. Gemini, like other generative AI systems, is increasingly being positioned as an agent that can handle complex tasks for you, as we heard about throughout Google’s I/O conference keynote last week.
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20 incredibly useful things you didn't know Google's Gemini AI could do

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By JR Raphael
| Flipboard
10 hours ago For the first time, BMW will use humanoid robots for car manufacturing in Europe. Two robots, made by Hexagon Robotics, are planned to work in production from the summer. They're currently in a test deployment at the Leipzig factory. "This will be the future of automotive production," says Michael …
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This free email security scanner pairs perfectly with Gmail or Outlook

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
Listen to this ArticleMore info Last summer, I stumbled onto a brilliantly useful tool that ended up being one of the most well-received discoveries we’ve ever shared in these quarters. It was seemingly so popular, in fact, that its hobbyist nature couldn’t keep up with the demand. The service struggled to juggle all the requests we (and other enchantingly informed internet-dwellers) sent its way.
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Beat the TSA line blues with these crafty crowdsourced resources

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
If you find yourself having to fly the allegedly friendly skies anytime soon, my goodness—good luck. Even in the best of times, heading to an airport can be an unpredictable headache. Now, in the midst of our current U.S. TSA meltdown, security wait times are climbing to crazy new highs. And the effects of that can often ripple far, even if you’re lucky enough to begin your journey in an airport (within the U.S. or without) that’s reasonably all right.
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This turbulence-tracking travel app will make your next trip more tolerable

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Middle East Verified
Turbli relies on the same data sources that actual airline pilots use—from advanced weather models provided by places like the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.K. Met Office. It instantly analyzes all that info and spits back a plain-English summary and simple illustration showing you what to expect.
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This turbulence-tracking travel app will make your next trip more tolerable

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
When we talk about travel apps, we typically talk about the types of tools that help you organize your itineraries, find worthwhile stops along your way, or maybe even just find flights (and/or fuel!) in the first place. Those types of tools are important—but there’s another travel resource I recently ran into that might be even more invaluable.
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Esta herramienta web gratuita hace que todo sea mucho más fácil de leer

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Mexico Verified
Sin duda es agradable poder tener la web con el aspecto que uno desea, sin las opciones de fuentes incómodas y otras distracciones variadas, ¿verdad?
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This free web tool makes everything way easier to read

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
It sure is nice to have the web look the way you want—without all the usual awkward font choices and other assorted distractions—isn’t it?
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Wispr Flow is the dictation upgrade Android users deserve

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
Gee whiz, Gboard: You’re really falling behind. For all the many ways Google’s Gboard keyboard makes tapping out text a breeze on Android, its ability to transcribe your speech and turn it into words isn’t exactly awe-inspiring. Android’s voice-to-text setup has always been pretty good, relatively speaking—but now, newer and more effective options are popping up, and it’s suddenly seeming like a system from the past.
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15 cosas que no sabías que podías hacer con NotebookLM

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Mexico Verified
La IA generativa puede ser, a la vez, la herramienta más útil y la más desconcertante de nuestra era tecnológica moderna. El problema –además de todos los ya ampliamente documentados errores de precisión– es que la IA generativa suele funcionar como una pantalla en blanco al estilo del sistema DOS. La responsabilidad recae completamente en el usuario para descubrir qué preguntar y cómo aprovechar estos sistemas tan sofisticados.
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15 incredibly useful things you didn’t know NotebookLM could do

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
Generative AI may be both the most useful and the most mystifying tool of our modern-tech era. The problem—aside from all the endlessly documented issues around accuracy—is that generative AI generally seems to function in a DOS-like blank prompt form. The onus is squarely on you to figure out what to ask and how to put these saucy systems to use. That black-box feeling is especially apparent when you look at NotebookLM, an “AI-first notebook” launched by Google nearly two years ago.
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15 incredibly useful things you didn’t know NotebookLM could do

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By JR Raphael
| Flipboard
20 hours ago The AI dictionary just keeps growing and growing. It seems like every week or two there's a trendy new AI buzzword flying around the internet. This week, it's "claws," a new type of AI assistant. Many people, from prominent AI evangelists to regular folks on message boards, have started using the …
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Um app como o Google Tradutor – só que sem rastrear você | Fast Company Brasil

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By JR Raphael
| fastcompanybrasil.com
A ideia de tradução instantânea em qualquer lugar já não é novidade para a maioria, graças ao hoje onipresente Google Translate. Mas um concorrente ágil do Google acredita que dá para fazer melhor. Na semana passada, a empresa Kagi lançou o aplicativo Kagi Translate para Android e iOS.
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Discover Kagi Translate: A privacy-focused alternative to Google Translate

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company South Africa Verified
JR Raphael|Published 1 day ago The notion of instant on-the-go translation is nothing new for most of us, thanks to the now-ubiquitous Google Translate service. But a scrappy Google competitor thinks it can do better. ➜ This week, a company calledKagi​is officially launching its ​Kagi Translate app for bothAndroid​andiOS.
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Kagi’s new app is like Google Translate—plus privacy

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
The notion of instant on-the-go translation is nothing new for most of us, thanks to the now-ubiquitous Google Translate service. But a scrappy Google competitor thinks it can do better. ➜ This week, a company called Kagi​ is officially launching its ​Kagi Translate app for both Android​ and iOS.
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This smart service saves memorable podcast moments in your inbox

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Middle East Verified
Podcast Magic’s transcriptions really do feel like magic. ⌚ The whole thing takes maybe 20 seconds to do. And it’s free for a while, though if you use it enough, the service will eventually prompt you to pay $20 once for lifetime unlimited access.
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This smart service saves memorable podcast moments in your inbox

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
Listen, I don’t know about you, but I’m generally not so big on listening. I tend to be more of a “words in front of my eyes” kind of guy when it comes to taking in information (which, as I’ve come to learn, also means I’m “an old person” by modern-day standards—hey, I’m okay with that). Sometimes, though, there’s something to be said for sitting back and enjoying an aural experience—or, as the cool kids call it these days, a podcast.
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Fizzy is 37signals’ fix for boring, complex, AI-infested productivity apps

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
Spend an hour talking to 37signals CEO Jason Fried, and you’ll find yourself drawn into his fixation on three frustrating facts about productivity tools today: They’re boring. They’re complicated. They’re overpacked with overhyped AI features that fail to do what they promise and end up providing little in the way of practical value.
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Discover the ultimate road trip companion: Google Maps's new intelligent planning app

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company South Africa Verified
JR Raphael|Published 34 minutes ago . Image: Muhamad/Adobe Stock; Kaikoro/Adobe Stock Planning to hit the road this holiday season? Or maybe just thinking about an extended drive of some sort for sometime in the new year? The next time you’ve got a driving adventure ahead of you, today’sCool Toolsdiscovery is exactly the new virtual companion you need.
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Meet Google Maps’s new intelligent planning companion

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
Planning to hit the road this holiday season? Or maybe just thinking about an extended drive of some sort for sometime in the new year? The next time you’ve got a driving adventure ahead of you, today’s Cool Tools discovery is exactly the new virtual companion you need. It’s a truly cool app I encountered recently that enhances your standard navigation setup and offers some really smart extras that’ll make whatever trip you’re taking infinitely more interesting—and enjoyable.
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This free AI tool helps you summarise content while protecting your privacy

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company South Africa Verified
JR Raphael|Published 7 hours ago Sometimes, a simple summary is all you need. Me? I’m a man of many words. (Understatement of the century, I know.) I appreciate interesting writing, where language matters and a person’s personality shines through in the prose. But let’s be real: 99% of the articles you encounter on this musty ol’ web of ours aren’t exactly awe-inspiring. They’re a means to an end. The same is true for most videos, too.
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This free, privacy-focused summarization tool is AI at its best

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By JR Raphael
| Flipboard
'Huge red flag': Top Biden tech adviser warns of AI and the authoritarian moment Arati Prabhakar talks to Fast Company about what the rise of artificial intelligence will mean for the future of democracy. Camps are finally emerging in the big fight over whether and how to regulate AI. President Donald Trump earlier this week declared that he would block local officials who try …
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Se há um trabalho que a IA não vai substituir é o do “guru das planilhas”

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By JR Raphael
| fastcompanybrasil.com
Há uma década, Ben Collins deixou seu trabalho como contador corporativo e começou a ensinar outras pessoas a usar planilhas de maneira mais eficiente. A decisão, assustadora naquele momento, acabou compensando. Hoje, Collins é proprietário de uma academia online de treinamento em planilhas e autor de uma newsletter semanal dedicada inteiramente a dicas de Google Sheets — com cerca de 50 mil assinantes.
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The one job AI won’t replace is the spreadsheet guru

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
Listen to this ArticleMore info A decade ago, Ben Collins quit his job as a corporate accountant and started teaching other people how to use spreadsheets more effectively. That move, terrifying as it seemed at the time, paid off brilliantly. Today Collins is the proprietor of an online spreadsheet training academy and the author of a weekly newsletter dedicated entirely to Google Sheets tips. Some 50,000 people subscribe.
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The one job AI won’t replace is the spreadsheet guru

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By JR Raphael
| Flipboard
ChatGPT Glossary: 60 AI Terms Everyone Should Know The AI revolution is bringing with it a whole new vocabulary to describe its advances. This glossary will help you stay up-to-date. It seems that AI is in pretty much everything. It's eliminating jobs and flooding the internet with slop. Thanks to the massive popularity of ChatGPT to Google cramming …
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herramienta gratuita para editar imágenes

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Mexico Verified
La manera en que editamos imágenes está en medio de una reinvención masiva en este momento. Los ajustes que antes requerían software costoso y conocimientos de nivel profesional ahora están a nuestro alcance las 24 horas del día, los 7 días de la semana, con resultados instantáneos y sin requerir ni una pizca de habilidad.
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How this AI-generated podcast app personalises your news experience

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company South Africa Verified
JR Raphael|Published 24 minutes ago Let’s be honest: No matter your perspective, taking in news these days tends to be a pretty tiring experience. At best, it’s a bit boring. At worst, it’s anxiety-inducing and mind-melting, often leaving you with more questions than answers. This week, a whole new kind of news app is officially breaking cover. And, I know—yadda yadda yadda, right?Another “earth-shattering” news app with more of the same as every other app before it?
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Transform your Google Calendar experience with this AI tool

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company South Africa Verified
JR Raphael|Published 2 hours ago It’s 2025. We’ve got cars that can drive themselves, robots that can program themselves, and all sorts of other mind-bogglingly futuristic tech achievements (for better or, erm, maybe sometimes for worse). And yet, somehow, I still find myself painstakingly entering stuff into my calendar—when I get a long email about upcoming events from my kids’ school, for instance, or I see a flyer about something out in the world that I want to be sure to remember.
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This free Adobe tool offers Photoshop-strength background removal

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By JR Raphael
| Flipboard
Master NEW Hue/Saturation Start to Finish in Photoshop! Master the all-new Hue/Saturation, the most powerful color tool, right from the basics to advanced in Photoshop! 🚀 Join PiXimperfect Pro - The Ultimate Photoshop Training Course: https://pix.live/pro Learn everything you need to know about Hue/Saturation in Photoshop with this complete masterclass. We'll begin by understanding the meaning of Hue, Saturation, and Lightness, and how to use them for simple yet powerful color adjustments.
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This free AI supersite is like Gemini Deep Research on steroids

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By JR Raphael
| devicedaily.com
This free AI supersite is like Gemini Deep Research on steroids BY JR Raphael Everywhere you look these days, there it is—some manner of breathlessly hyped new “AI” service that’s, like, totally gonna change your life forever. (Like, totally. For realsies.) Or so they say. In reality, of course, most of this stuff is far more fallible, limited in utility, and inadvisable to use outside of super-specific scenarios than most tech companies (and self-declared “AI gurus”) would lead you to believe.
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This smart new internet speed test blows Ookla out of the water

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By JR Raphael
| devicedaily.com
This smart new internet speed test blows Ookla out of the water May 24, 2025 These days, our tech experiences are all about speed—and our expectations for instant action are actually kinda insane. Think about it: Not so long ago, phones, computers, and especially the internet were all painfully slow (at least, by today’s sonic-speed standards). Things have come a long way in a short time.
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How Google can save you money the next time you book travel

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By JR Raphael
| devicedaily.com
How Google can save you money the next time you book travel May 10, 2025 Booking travel has become a bit of a game—especially if you want to get the best possible prices and avoid getting ripped off. That’s because hotels and airlines have developed the lovely habit of futzing around endlessly with their rates. Depending on when, exactly, you go to book the room or flight you want, you might end up being charged way more than if you waited a few days or even hours for prices to drop.
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Transform your files effortlessly with Vert: The ultimate conversion tool

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company South Africa Verified
JR Raphael|Published 1 hour ago The web is rife with sleazy, cheesy file conversion tools. Ignore them all and use Vert. Image: Vert We were supposed to be finished with files by now. For years, tech companies (well,certaintech companies) tooted their horns about a future in which files didn’t matter. You don’t evenneeda file manager of any sort, they told us—and, in fact, we won’t even let youseethe file system on your devices at all. Just tap-a-tap-tap, don’t worry, be happy. Right? Yeah—not so much.
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This is the best online file converter—and it’s totally free | Flipboard

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By JR Raphael
| Flipboard
The Israeli military announced Saturday that it had launched a new round of airstrikes against missile storage and launch sites in Iran, on the ninth day of the war between the two countries. Meanwhile, Iran has emphasized it has no interest in negotiating with the US while Israel continued …
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This free audio enhancer will totally transform your voice memos

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By JR Raphael
| devicedaily.com
This free audio enhancer will totally transform your voice memos April 26, 2025 Every now and then, you run into a tool that truly wows you. It’s rare—especially nowadays, when everyone and their cousin is coming out with overhyped AI-centric codswallop that’s almost always more impressive on paper than in practice. And that, if you ask me, makes it all the more satisfying when you track down a tool that really, truly impresses. My friend, today is one of those days. Prepare to have your mind blown.
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This smart new internet speed test blows Ookla out of the water

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By JR Raphael
| businessandamerica.com
These days, our tech experiences are all about speed—and our expectations for instant action are actually kinda insane. Think about it: Not so long ago, phones, computers, and especially the internet were all painfully slow (at least, by today’s sonic-speed standards). Things have come a long way in a short time.
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This smart new internet speed test blows Ookla out of the water

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By JR Raphael
| Flipboard
7 AI Tools to Build a Profitable One-Person Business That Runs While You Sleep Smart systems to help solo founders scale fast. Most entrepreneurs are still using AI like an assistant, stuck on surface-level tools that save a few minutes here and there. But what if AI could actually run your business for you, while you sleep? This isn't about chatbots or repurposing content. …
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Gemini’s most underrated Android advantage – Computerworld - Business And America

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By JR Raphael
| businessandamerica.com
But while it’s best to take most of the breathless hype with a hefty grain of salt, Gemini does have some genuinely useful capabilities. They just tend to be much more basic and narrowly focused than the overly ambitious ideas Google’s goin’ gaga for (and, as far as I can tell, most normal people have no idea what to do with in the real world). Fittingly enough, this week, I accidentally stumbled onto a perfect example.
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The great Google Gemini deceit – Computerworld - Business And America

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By JR Raphael
At their core, Gemini, ChatGPT, and other such systems are powered by a type of technology known as a large language model — or LLM, for short. In the simplest possible terms, an LLM looks at massive amounts of real-world language data and then uses that to learn patterns and predict the most likely next word over and over, in response to any prompt it’s given. In other words, these engines don’t truly understand context or “think” about the answers they’re giving you in any human-like sense.
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How to Save Money on Travel: The New Google Hotel Price Tracker

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company South Africa Verified
JR Raphael|Published 14 minutes ago Flip a switch and save serious cash on hotels and flights. Image: The Anam/Unsplash Booking travel has become a bit of a game, especially if you want to get the best possible prices and avoid getting ripped off. That’s because hotels and airlines have developed the lovely habit of futzing around endlessly with their rates.
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Gamma las hace con IA Original

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Mexico Verified
Si hay algo peor que tener que armar una presentación en PowerPoint, es tener que sentarte a ver una insoportablemente aburrida hecha por alguien más. ¿Y si existiera una mejor opción? ¿Una forma en la que cualquiera, sin importar su nivel de habilidad, pudiera crear una presentación atractiva y elegante, como si la hubiera diseñado un profesional? Si le preguntas a Grant Lee, ya hemos llegado a ese punto. Y no se limita solo a las presentaciones.
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20 genuinely useful AI apps for Android – Computerworld - Business And America

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By JR Raphael
| businessandamerica.com
Look in PocketPal’s main three-line menu to find the “Models” section and click the “Download” option to bring a few of the available options onto your device Create your own custom and completely local “Pal” that’ll take on practically any personality, focus, and style of answering you like Tap the three-dot menu icon in the app’s upper-right corner while chatting with any model and select the “Generation settings” option to fine-tune all sorts of intricate parameters about how exactly the...
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How Google can save you money the next time you book travel

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By JR Raphael
| businessandamerica.com
Booking travel has become a bit of a game—especially if you want to get the best possible prices and avoid getting ripped off. That’s because hotels and airlines have developed the lovely habit of futzing around endlessly with their rates. Depending on when, exactly, you go to book the room or flight you want, you might end up being charged way more than if you waited a few days or even hours for prices to drop.
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How Google can save you money the next time you book travel

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
Booking travel has become a bit of a game-especially if you want to get the best possible prices and avoid getting ripped off. That's because hotels and airlines have developed the lovely habit of futzing around endlessly with their rates. Depending on when, exactly, you go to book the room or flight you want, you might end up being charged way more than if you waited a few days or even hours for prices to drop.
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Gamma aims to free you from 'death by PowerPoint'-with help from AI

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By JR Raphael
| Fast Company Verified
If there's one thing worse than having to assemble a PowerPoint presentation, it's being forced to sit through an achingly dull one conducted by someone else. So what if there were a better option-a way anyone, regardless of skill, could create a sleek and actually engaging slideshow that looks like a professional designer had a hand in it? If you ask Grant Lee, we've already reached the point where that's possible. And it doesn't end with presentations.
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