Source: https://seasalt.ai/blog/3-modern-meetings/ From Demo to Success: Implementing Microsoft's Modern Meetings and Beyond Throughout this blog series, follow Seasalt.ai’s journey to creating a well rounded Modern Meetings Experience, starting with its humble beginnings, to optimizing our service on different hardware and models, to integrating s…

Source: https://seasalt.ai/blog/8-hubspot/ AI-Enabled Contact Center Automation: Virtual Agent Collaboration with CRM Integrating HubSpot with SeaX Easy and seamless access to both your contact center interface and your customer data in a CRM is vital to efficient customer support. In SeaX, Seasalt.ai’s collaborative contact center product, you can…

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Wilson Tamara Wilson. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tamara Wilson is an American operatic soprano who has had an active international opera career since 2007. She has performed leading roles at the Canadian Opera Company, the English National Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Liceu, the Metrop…

Source: https://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobile-and-other-carriers-still-havent-covered-rural-areas-regardless-what-they-say T-Mobile and other carriers still haven't covered rural areas, regardless of what they say I wrote a plea in December 2020 for 5G to be the technology that saved my rural broadband situation in 2021, that situation being that…

Source: https://medium.com/veve-collectibles/disney-mickey-and-friends-nft-collection-3de468cfe5e6 Disney Mickey and Friends NFT Collection The Mickey and Friends NFT Collection Featuring First Edition character lenticular-style interactive cards, we’re celebrating some of our favorite friends: Goofy, Pluto, Daisy Duck, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, a…

Source: https://medium.com/@slimewire/eulogy-for-a-gambler-5985e5c659e3 Your Boss Doesn’t Give a Damn About Your Career Growth A boss can rob you of your most precious resource. Let me explain. Bosses don’t work for you. Leaders do though. But, unfortunately, many of us work for a boss, not a leader. A boss cares mostly about the numbers, and getti…

Source: https://medium.com/@management_57099/sienna-mae-gomez-reflections-from-an-18-year-old-me-ea0ad79a1b19 Sienna Mae Gomez: Reflections from an 18-Year Old Me I haven’t even been 18 a whole week yet but the decisions I’ve had to make as a new adult are challenging me in ways that make me wish I could just go back to being a kid. If you’re here,…

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/halloween-board-games/ The Best Board Games to Play at Home on Halloween (or Any Other Night) If your knowledge of sinister board games begins and ends with Clue, allow me to be your guide. As a kid, I lived for three-dimensional horror-themed games like Which Witch (video), a Mouse Trap–style haunted…

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/work-from-anywhere-essentials/ These Essentials Will Let You Work From Anywhere Telecommuting and travel have gone hand in hand for years—at times more out of necessity than choice. But in the pandemic era, more people than ever are working remotely. Maybe you’ve been living the WFH lifestyle for y…

Source: https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_how_to_speak_so_that_people_want_to_listen?referrer=playlist-the_most_popular_talks_of_all How to speak so that people want to listen The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one that can start a war or say "I love you." And…

Source: https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator?referrer=playlist-the_most_popular_talks_of_alls Inside the mind of a master procrastinator So in college, I was a government major, which means I had to write a lot of papers. Now, when a normal student writes a paper, they might spread the work out a little lik…

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.08239.pdf LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications We present LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications. LaMDA is a family of Transformerbased neural language models specialized for dialog, which have up to 137B parameters and are pre-trained on 1.56T words of public dialog data and web text. While mode…

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_conscription Economic conscription. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Economic conscription is the mechanisms for recruitment of personnel for the armed forces through the use of economic conditions, particularly when geographical areas within a country are neglected in terms of their economic deve…

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/01/when-good-time-buy-house/621409/ When Will Be a Good Time to Buy a House? There won’t be a perfect moment anytime soon—but that shouldn’t stop you if you’re ready. By Joe Pinsker So far, shopping for a home in the 2020s has been obscenely competitive. Here are three statistics that capture …

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/02/banned-books-list-to-kill-a-mockingbird-maus/621428/ Book Bans Are Back. Here's What's In Danger. These 14 titles have been under attack in schools for doing exactly what literature is supposed to do. By Emma Sarappo Book banning is back. Texas State Representative Matt Krause recently put m…

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911408/sony-bungie-deal-zynga-microsoft-blizzard-gaming-acquisition Big video game companies just can’t stop buying studios Sony just announced its intent to acquire Destiny maker Bungie for $3.6 billion, capping what’s been an absolutely massive month for gaming acquisitions. Take-Two kicked things off …

Source: https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/z1ic6i/ “10 Years Of Space” by K. Antonio He comes to me in pieces as I watch the stillness of space, envisioning new constellations in the array of unrecognized stars. I trace the sparks of light with my finger, connecting the dots and smudging the glass as a result. How many stars do you think there are…

Source: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/treating-covid-19-at-home/art-20483273 Treating COVID-19 at home: Care tips for you and others Providing care at home for a person sick with COVID-19? Or caring for yourself at home? Understand when emergency care is needed and what you can do to prevent the spread of infec…

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911274/wordle-new-york-times-free-word-game-acquisition Wordle has been bought by The New York Times, will ‘initially’ remain free for everyone to play The smash online word game Wordle has been bought by The New York Times, which will integrate the daily word puzzle into The New York Times Games suite o…

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/endemicity-means-nothing/621423/ Endemicity Is Meaningless This one word has come to imply a single pandemic end point. Actually, we have no idea what happens next. By Jacob Stern and Katherine J. Wu By now, we’ve all heard some version of how this ends. The same story has certainly been to…

Source: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/english-estate-once-owned-by-henry-viii-listed An English Estate Once Owned by Henry VIII Is Listed for $20.2 Million Henry VIII was a world-famous king, and his daughter, Mary I, was England’s first female monarch. Now, one lucky history buff with deep pockets can own an English estate that they bo…

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22910679/moderna-covid-vaccine-approval-fda-spikevax Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine gets full FDA approval The Food and Drug Administration has granted full approval to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, the company announced today. The Moderna vaccine joins the Pfizer / BioNTech shot as the second licensed vaccine…

Source: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/all-about-tyra-bankss-impressive-real-estate-portfolio All About Tyra Banks’s Impressive Real Estate Portfolio To call Tyra Banks a hustler is an understatement. The California native may have initially made her name as a trailblazing supermodel, but in the decades since she first broke into the sce…

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22910271/meta-3d-avatars-instagram-stories-messenger-facebook Meta adds 3D avatars to Instagram Stories, with updates for Messenger and Facebook Facebook parent company Meta is introducing 3D avatars to Instagram Stories and direct messages and updating the avatars in Facebook and Messenger, the company an…

Source: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/lunar-new-year-feng-shui-shopping Celebrate the Lunar New Year With 18 Feng Shui–Approved Items All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. On February 1, billi…

Source: https://seasalt.ai/blog/4-pitfalls/ From Demo to Success: Pitfalls of Modern Meetings Pitfalls of Modern Meetings Throughout our development, we encountered many unpredictable roadblocks without clear causes or solutions. A Quick Start The first obstacle was getting our tools to work. Azure provided a Modern Meetings sample which we were gl…

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/20/22893066/see-1-tom-cruise-space-movie-studio-axiom-iss-spacex UK company behind Tom Cruise space film unveils plans to launch space movie studio On Thursday, a UK-based company that claims to be producing Tom Cruise’s upcoming film in space said it plans to attach the first-ever space movie studio and spor…

Source: https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/dol81e/ “ALN23061912RK” by Cyndy Reads Something wasn’t right. The farmer’s market buzzed around him, his arms heavy with his cloth totes filled to the brim. There’d been a lovely selection of candles this morning. Now he waited among the sea of humanity in the square for the curly-haired vendor to wrap h…

Source: https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/0w9nem/ “Blessed Home” by Mary Sheehan I am spinning slowly in my tank, suspended in doped-up air, buoyant, bobbing. Piano music (Beethoven?) plays softly in the background. My eyes are closed, but if I opened them, I would see only pale yellow light enclosing me in a warm glow. I like the piano music. It…

Source: https://www.androidcentral.com/lenovo-chromebook-flex-5i-review Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5i review: The best Chromebook's shadow clone Lenovo makes some of the best Chromebooks around, from the compact companion Lenovo Chromebook Duet to the ruggedly handsome ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook. However, the Chromebook that has sold like hotcakes fo…

請在此留下您的意見： https://open.firstory.me/story/ckykvx1xk0ofw08116jrgksbs?m=comment 來源：https://dq.yam.com/post/14617 東加王國海底火山爆發 紐西蘭、澳洲為何不立刻登島救援？ 上周六傍晚，太平洋島國東加王國傳出海底火山噴發的消息，隨後通訊中斷，外界只能從鄰國紐西蘭、澳洲口中大致得知災情，而兩國也迅速動員，準備隨時馳援東加王國。 然而，為什麼兩國的救援隊至今仍按兵不動呢？ 東加王國海底火山爆發 上周六（15），太平洋島國東加王國附近的海底火山「洪加東加-洪加哈派火山」（Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano，下文簡稱洪加哈派火山）於傍晚爆發，整座東加王國幾乎都被壟罩…

【清濁之間】Yamaha掛川工廠見聞（三）在看過Yamaha鋼琴生產基地「掛川工廠」的展示間後，我們開始循序參觀產線上的每一站。文章插圖薄如蟬翼的紙圈合作夥伴下一站：調整鍵盤高度與深度沿著裝配線繼續前進，來到調整鍵盤高度與深度的工作站。這項工作在傳統工廠中，是由技師一個鍵一個鍵完成：以鋁製木製的水平工具量測每一鍵高度是否一致，太低的鍵在其下加上紙圈墊高，太高的則將底下的紙圈抽掉。紙圈有多種不同厚度，最薄的紙圈近百分之一公釐，堪比蟬翼，經驗熟練的技師才能很快地判斷要用哪一種厚度的紙。高度確定之後，技師以定規輔助按壓琴鍵來判斷其深度是否理想，若不理想則按先前紙圈加減的方式來調整。每一個鍵都需要如此反覆測試、調整，所以88個鍵全部完成需要一段不短的時間。在此廠區中，我很意外這件工作是由機器進行：鍵…

請在此處留下您的意見： https://open.firstory.me/story/ckyidhf3j0dnp0826sbxjfiz3?m=comment 來源：https://dq.yam.com/post/14615 麥當勞薯餅又停止供應！為何會全卡在海上？解密百年一遇航運熱 去（2021）年8月發生的薯餅荒又回來了，有網友發現，今早到麥當勞點早餐時，已無法供應薯餅。麥當勞也在官網上宣布，近期全球航運供貨不穩，麥當勞餐廳的薯餅陸續短缺，並將於售罄後暫時停止銷售，目前正積極調度中，預計一月下旬完成補貨，即可恢復正常供應；感謝消費者的支持，造成不便，敬請見諒。 究竟為什麼早餐會吃不到薯餅、貨運出了哪些問題？ 全球塞港問題 麥當勞薯餅從菜單消失 走進麥當勞點早餐，熟悉的薯餅從菜單上消失，這不…

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請在此處留下您的意見：https://open.firstory.me/story/cky7vfj7899ks093895cmj9t9?m=comment 來源：https://dq.yam.com/post/14577 疫情期間，被口罩遮蓋口鼻已習以為常；在家裡或職場遠距視訊，面容被「放大檢視」的機率也增高，於是在「方便」與「壓力」雙重影響下，掀起「修修臉」風潮。 COVID-19橫掃全球，在人人戴口罩防疫及在家上班的掩護下，助長民眾可以在神不知鬼不覺下接受整形的機會，畢竟這種可遇不可求的時機可能因疫情逐漸控制而結束。 此外，疫情期間大多數人依賴社群軟體及視訊來溝通，擔心臉部完全暴露在電腦螢幕前，促使不少人求助醫美改善臉部狀況，更炒熱所謂的「視訊會議畸形恐懼症（Zoom Dysmorphi…

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