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Your phone’s ‘Share’ button doesn’t get enough love (FastCo)
Beyond just sharing links and photos with other people, it serves as a hub for all kinds of helpful shortcuts.
One of the most powerful buttons on your phone is also one of the easiest to ignore.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91395844/your-phones-share-button-doesnt-get-enough-love?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7 ruined other foldables for me—including mine (FastCo)
It’s hard going back to anything else.
There’s no other phone I’d rather be using right now than Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7—and that’s a problem.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91395297/samsung-galaxy-z-fold7-ruined-other-foldables-for-me?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
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How I took control of my email address with a custom domain (FastCo)
Custom email domains are a great way to control a core piece of your online identity.
Over the past three years, I’ve changed email providers three times without ever changing email addresses.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91395733/how-i-took-control-of-my-email-address-with-a-custom-domain?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
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I tried 10 AI browsers. Here’s why Perplexity’s Comet is the best so far (FastCo)
Sorry, Google, Microsoft, and Apple: Only Comet offers our best look at the future of agentic AI.
While AI features have been creeping into pretty much every popular browser for the past couple of years now, most of them don’t actually change how you browse the web.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91387650/perplexity-comet-best-ai-browser?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
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This free web timer puts your computer’s Clock app to shame (FastCo)
Windows PCs, Macs, and other computers come with an app that tracks time. But this online gem beats them all.
For something as simple as setting a timer, the built-in apps on our computers can be awfully fiddly.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91382494/free-online-timer?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
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Using ChatGPT or other AI tools? Here’s who can see your chat history (FastCo)
Check out this AI privacy cheat sheet.
While AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini can be helpful, they’re also potential privacy minefields.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91379336/using-chatgpt-or-other-ai-tools-heres-who-can-see-your-chat-history?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
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Proton’s new Lumo AI is all about privacy (FastCo)
This ChatGPT alternative encrypts your conversations and won’t use them to train AI.
Proton is getting into generative AI with an assistant called Lumo, which it pitches as a more private alternative to ChatGPT.
– https://www.fastcompany.com/91372816/protons-new-lumo-ai-is-all-about-privacy?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
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