Zoom made employees return to the office to feel your hybrid pain

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image via washingtonpost.com

Zoom, which became a lifeline for remote workers during the pandemic, says it has a clear rationale for why it’s calling some workers back to the office twice a week: To build collaborative products for the new ways of working, employees need to experience the pain firsthand.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/05/zoom-return-to-office-hybrid-remote-work/

Canva’s new AI tools automate boring, labor-intensive design tasks

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Canva is releasing Magic Studio — a new suite of AI-powered design tools that aim to make content creation more accessible to everyone, regardless of previous design experience. Canva describes Magic Studio as “the world’s most comprehensive AI-design platform” for organizations and individual users, providing a host of new tools for automating labor-intensive tasks like converting designs into other media formats or instantly editing images through generative AI.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/4/23902794/canva-magic-studio-ai-design-new-tools

Chromebook Plus buyers will get a long free trial of the new web-based Photoshop

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Adobe is entering a partnership with Google and offering a free three-month trial to both Photoshop on the web and an Express Premium plan to those who purchase one of the new Chromebook Plus devices. Up until recently, it wasn’t possible to run Photoshop on ChromeOS because important executable files couldn’t be installed.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/chromebooks/chromebook-plus-buyers-will-get-a-free-trial-of-the-new-web-based-photoshop