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Credit: CC0 Public Domain The COP climate meetings are organized in a way that benefits richer and larger countries at the expense of smaller and poorer countries, according to a new study from Lund University and the University of Leeds. The study also labels the participating countries as either Radicals, Opportunists, Hypocrites or Evaders. …

There are many ways that Microsoft Teams works to help organisations and individuals collaborate better including — the creation of meetings, sharing files within groups and more. At times, it may happen when your mic is turned on in a Teams meeting or call, and background noise around you — shuffling papers, slamming doors, barking dogs, and so on — can distract others. Teams offers three levels of noise suppression for the Teams desktop app and iOS to help keep meeting participants focused. Microsoft announced that…

Illustration: Maria Diaz/ZDNET | Logo: GoogleCompanies keep finding fun new ways to implement generative AI, and I'm all for it. After a lot of ups and downs with its AI chatbot, Bard, Google is now integrating generative AI into Google Meet to enable users to generate their backgrounds. This means you could enter a prompt within Google Meet to request an image of what you want, like a "tidy, well-lit home office" or "the bleachers at a baseball stadium," and have Google generate a background for your…

Due to the rise of a global collaborative workspace, the need for more dynamic online meetings has become the need of the hour. The amount of time spent in meetings and calls is consistently increasing. Interestingly, the findings from the Microsoft Work Trend Index Report show a similar trend. According to it, 76% of Indian workers believe they don't have enough time and energy to get their work done after long hours of meetings. As such, getting actionable insight from the meetings can be automated. To solve this…

Microsoft Teams Rooms are handy spaces that provide a complete meeting experience by bringing HD video, audio and content sharing. Teams Rooms run software that is built on top of the Teams platform.The software provides other solutions to address the challenges of remote collaboration at a time when the hybrid work landscape is evolving rapidly. Here are the four latest features of Microsoft Teams Rooms:Cloud IntelliFrameThe Cloud IntelliFrame feature in Teams Rooms breaks up the single video feed of the room into a…

Otter.ai just announced Otter Chat, an AI chatbot This “collaborative AI intelligence” acts as a help center for anyone participating in the meeting, transcribing meeting data and winnowing it down into an actual conversation. This allows it to accurately answer questions about the meeting that just transpired, in case you were busy doing important work stuff like, uh, playing the new Zelda just out of frame. The cheekily-named OtterPilot chatbot does more than just summarize meetings. It collaborates with everyone…

For example, Otter Chat can provide answers regarding discussion points or key decisions that were discussed during a meeting and clarification about details, according to the release. Otter.ai CEO and co-founder Sam Liang claims that Otter Chat's ability to analyze meetings and provide valuable insight into them is what separates it from AI chatbot competitors such as ChatGPT. Also: Even Google is warning its employees about AI chatbot use "Though ChatGPT has great knowledge based on public data, it can't answer any…

The South Korean tech giant, Samsung Electronics, is holding company-wide global strategy meetings on Tuesday. The meeting aims to discuss pending issues, future business plans, and strategies to tackle the uncertain macroeconomic environment. Such biannual meetings are held in June and December every year. In these meetings, Samsung’s senior executives across the globe come together and discuss strategies, not only to line up the future aspects of all divisions but also business plans that would help them turn around…

1. Ask whether the session is valuable Many employees who withdrew from offices at the outbreak of the pandemic discovered they were much more productive at home. Brad Woodward, head of data at women's lifestyle retailer Hush, says that the productivity gap persists in the hybrid-working styles of the post-COVID age."I go into the office two days a week, but I would say those two days in the office -- in terms of getting work done -- are my least productive," he says.  Also: Hybrid working or back to the office: 5 ways…

As technology giants race to include generative AI in their products and services, digital communications company Cisco has introduced summarisation capabilities in its web conferencing platform Webex.At its ongoing Cisco Live event in Las Vegas, US, Cisco said it will harness large language models (LLMs) across its Collaboration and Security portfolios to drive productivity for their workforce.“At Cisco, we’ve been using AI for years. Now we’re unveiling how we’re incorporating generative AI into our existing products,…