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National Napping Day = The Perfect Excuse for a Power Nap! Daylight Savings just stole an hour of sleep—but science says a nap can fix it! NASA found that a 26-minute power nap can boost performance and alertness (if it’s good enough for astronauts, it’s good enough for us!). ?Want to recharge today? ?? Try the award-winning Pzizz app ?? Set a 26-minute nap timer ?? Wake up feeling like a functional human again And if you love nerdy holidays like this, my book NERD365 is packed with a full year of quirky, tech-infused dates to keep you learning. Grab your copy here: https://lnkd.in/eP_nwm-A Who else is sneaking in a power nap today? #NationalNappingDay? #YourNerdyBestFriend

Apple recently rolled out Genmoji, a new AI-powered feature that lets you create custom emojis based on your own face. Naturally, I had to test it out! What makes it cool? ?? Uses AI to scan your selfies & generate custom avatars ?? Lets you tweak styles, outfits, and settings ?? Works inside Apple’s new Image Playground This is just another step toward hyper-personalized AI experiences—and a fun one at that! Check out my demo and let me know: Would you use this? #YourNerdyBestFriend #AppleIntelligence #AI

Top three tech tidbits I learned this week: ??The new #iOS came out yesterday with #AppleIntelligence AI— and the graphics are cooool but the overall functionality is middling. ??Google’s #NotebookLM’s AI podcast maker rocks, and Meta just released an open source version that doesn’t compare… yet. ?? A new survey says teachers are not getting the AI training they need to make their lives easier — much of their training is about catching kids at cheating. **** I read all the tech news so you don’t have to. Follow me for more. ??

This is the first time I feel like I should put a warning label on my selfie. How I took it will creep you out. To take this pic, I pressed a practically invisible button on my new Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. An indicator light flashed for a micro second, not long enough for anyone to notice. You can see the white light on the right corner of the glasses. And poof. I have a picture, snapped so subtly and swiftly that unsuspecting subjects might never know. We know what’s happening when someone pulls out a camera and points it at you. But it’s very weird that someone could just walk around taking photos and videos with no one knowing. Photography is just one of its many features. I’m exploring the embedded #ai, #livestreaming, audio and more. Stay tuned for more updates. But I keep snapping pics of people then telling them about it, and everyone is kind of creeped out. Have you seen these in the wild? Would it creep you out?

This article is about meetings, but what about events? Are you still doing a lot of Zooming? I’ve presented online a bunch this month. I’m probably 2/3 in person and 1/3 online in 2024, and more of my programs were in person last year. That tells me that last year people were “over” webinars, but there’s more of a balance this year. What are you seeing?

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