While research tends to go back and forth on the advantages of noise versus silence for creativity and productivity, I always find myself more relaxed and focused at work after turning on a light ...

I magine walking into a garden center a decade from now, looking for something to liven up your backyard. A rose bush? Fruit tree? You’re not sure, exactly, but you’ll get to a decision almost ...

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Ambient AI has emerged as one of the transformative technologies in healthcare. Many announcements from Ambient AI companies came out of the recent HLTH USA conference, highlighting its growing ...

Take one example: A customer built an ambient agent that monitors employee schedules. If someone appears consistently ...

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In September 1991, Scientific American published an article by Mark Weiser, the then head of Xerox's PARC computer science laboratory, entitled 'The Computer for the 21st Century'. In that piece he ...