Android-Powered Microsoft Surface Duo goes on pre-sale, and other personal productivity and technology news this week!
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Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
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COVID-19 NEWS
Facebook to Continue WFH Until July 2021
Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever
Mozilla lays off 250 employees due to the pandemic
APPLE NEWS
Fantastical Launches New Premium Subscription for Families
Apple Seeds First Public Beta of watchOS 7 to Public Beta Testers
Apple releases iOS 13.6.1 and iPadOS 13.6.1 for all users
Google Maps is getting a big upgrade on Apple CarPlay and Apple Watch
OTHER NEWS
Inside Notion's global expansion plan
NeuralCam Live uses ML to turn iPhones into ‘smart’ computer webcams
Dropbox Launches Password Manager, File Vault, and More Across iPhone and Mac
GOOGLE NEWS
Fossil smartwatch health update coming to Gen 5 models
Android 11 autofill gets better with keyboard input
Google turns Android phones into an earthquake detection network
Google's Bedtime wellness feature is no longer a Pixel exclusive
TOOL 1 (Ray)
Powerful Email Signature Generator for Teams - signature.email
TOOL 2 (Augusto)
Setapp Mac App Subscription Service Expands to iOS
Setapp Now Includes iOS Apps – The Sweet Setup
FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK
You can pre-order Microsoft's Surface Duo foldable phone today
Microsoft Surface Duo Phone Goes on Sale Starting at $1,399
EXTRAS
Microsoft's Xbox Series X arrives in November
Google delays shutdown of support for native Chrome apps
Radical Acceptance as a Tool for Change
The Ultimate Guide to Personal Productivity: 43 Tips to Be More Efficient, More Effective (and a Lot Happier)
E Ink demos a folding e-reader that can also take notes
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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00
Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to anything but idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. I'm Agustina, and we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is Episode 18. And we're recording this on August 13 2020. Each week we cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the current research services, products, tools, and more in the world of personal productivity. With that, let's get into our headlines. So we have some COVID-19 News,
Augusto Pinaud 0:31
Facebook decide to continue working from home until at least July 2021. That is our first news. And then Atlassian tell employees that they can work from home forever. So they change their policy and now you can work from home indefinitely. And the third news we have for COVID-19 is not as happy news as Mozilla lays off 250 of their employees do To COVID-19, you know, that's 250 it is a significant percentage of the people who are talking about 25% of the Mozilla employees. So that's the the sad news of of the weeks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:13