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Microsoft has added new features to Teams to allow you to send praise to colleagues and even try out a 'virtual commute' that will allow you to unwind as you end the work day. "Digital overload is real and something has to change," said Jared Spataro, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365 , in a blog post that explained some of the features. Microsoft It's official: Microsoft Build will be May 25 to 27 Next for Windows 10: What to expect from the version 21H1 feature update Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday: Critical remote code execution flaws, IE zero-day fixed I opened Microsoft Edge and Apple got angry ​Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) for business: Everything you need to know To bring about this change, Microsoft is introducing several wellbeing experiences to Teams, including reflection, praise, and the virtual commute . SEE: Top 100+ tips for telecommuters and managers (free PDF) (TechRepublic) Reflection in Teams aims to … [Read more...] about Microsoft Teams will now let you do a ‘virtual commute’ at the end of the day

The latest research from the 2021 Connected Benchmark report found that the average organization runs 843 individual applications. The report also found that only 29% of applications on average are integrated. With the average lifetime of an application being just four years, organizations must evolve away from being hierarchical and hardwired toward being flexible and open to change -- a composable enterprise. Marketing departments represent a line-of-business with many business applications that are mostly not integrated. The marketing technology landscape has exploded in the past decade. Just look at the trend of Scott Brinker 's Marketing Technology Landscape logo map over the past ten years: State of Marketing research from Salesforce shows that marketing leaders top challenges are customer engagements in real time, innovation, creating a cohesive customer journey across all channels, unifying customer data sources and sharing a unified view of customer data across … [Read more...] about A cure for marketing’s ‘Frankenstack’ syndrome

Casual sex in college — known colloquially as "hooking up" — gets a lot of attention for supposedly being unhealthy for women. But a new study finds that hooking up may actually allow women more sexual agency than traditional dinner dates. The researchers don't advocate a world without dates, but they do find that college students often harbor a sexual double standard around dates that is relatively relaxed when it comes to in-the-moment hookups. In hookup scenarios , the study found, students are open to a woman taking the sexual lead. When analyzing a dating scenario, however, the students tended to fall back on traditional gender roles, more often assuming that men were only interested in sex and women in trying not to seem "slutty." That's not to say that hookups are a paradise for women, said study researcher Sinikka Elliott, a sociologist at North Carolina State University. It's just that dating might not be the refuge that it's made out to be. "Other hookup literature … [Read more...] about College Students Don’t Judge Women For Hooking Up

A brown pelican rescued from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill 11 years ago has finally returned home. After being found completely covered in oil on June 14, 2010, the bird was taken from Louisiana to Georgia to avoid the ongoing spill, where it was later rehabilitated and released. Now, over a decade after its traumatic ordeal, the pelican has finally made the 700-mile (1,100 kilometers) journey back home. "It's truly impressive that it made its way back from Georgia," Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) biologist Casey Wright, who spotted and photographed the pelican sitting atop a rock on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, said in a statement . Related: In photos: Flight of the brown pelicans The bird was identified by the tag that was clipped to its right leg after its rescue from Empire Jetty in Barataria Bay in the aftermath of the spill, which smothered the Gulf of Mexico with more than 400,000 tons (370,000 metric tons) of oil. … [Read more...] about Pelican rescued from Deepwater Horizon disaster flies hundreds of miles home

For a few brief minutes, a suborbital rocket from NASA has an ambitious plan to seek out particles from interstellar space . A mission called Spatial Heterodyne Interferometric Emission Line Dynamics Spectrometer (SHIELDS) will lift off from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico no earlier than Monday (April 19). It will soar to a peak height of 186 miles (roughly 300 kilometers) — a little more than half the altitude of the International Space Station — and peer at the sky for a few minutes with its telescope. With this capability, it is possible to see light from particles from beyond our solar system even on a short flight outside the Earth's atmosphere. The mission follows a similar study in 2014 ; this mission will extend the project's scope. Related: These NASA rocket launches to study Earth's atmosphere are just gorgeous (photos) To understand what SHIELDS is looking for, it's best to start with a quick overview of our solar … [Read more...] about Small NASA rocket will study boundary of interstellar space