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| | | 5 Google Drive Tools For Better Docs, Spreadsheets, Slides, and More | | MakeUseOf | Today, you can do just about anything with Google Drive. Storage and collaborating on documents in the cloud are old-fangled. Think more creatively and you can find a way to do it on Google Drive or tap into the huge habitat of third-party Drive apps that have flourished around it. Here are five such tools if you want to start thinking beyond simple documents, spreadsheets, and slides. | | How to Block Trackers in Firefox (Without Installing Add-ons) | | How-To Geek | Websites track you online to show you targeted advertisements, and Firefox 65 is just the latest browser to help you opt out. You can now block tracking content online without the need for a third-party add-on. |
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| | | 2019: The Year IT Makes a Comeback | | InformationWeek | It's time for IT leaders to recognize that the IT group is crucial to their companies' future growth and success, and to let the business know that IT is there to help. Our CEO David Politis explains why. |
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| | | Will AI Achieve Consciousness? Wrong Question | | Wired | Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, wrote his book The Human Use of Human Beings in 1950. In it, he recognized that AI would not just imitate — and replace — human beings in many intelligent activities but change human beings in the process. “We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water,” he wrote. “We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.” |
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| | | Change to Per-Conversation Settings in Classic Hangouts on Android | | G Suite Updates | Google is moving notification settings for classic Hangouts conversations to notification channels on O+ Android devices. With these changes, customized ring tones and chat messaging tones per conversation/contact will be removed and defaulted to the general app settings. |
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