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From: Fast Company Compass - Thursday Jan 23, 2020 03:26 pm

Good morning!

Chances are, you are reading this on your phone. And chances are, you have mixed feelings about that. Research has routinely shown we each unlock our phones hundreds of times a day, and that being on the device makes us less happy. Google has noticed this trend, of course, and it’s been releasing Digital Wellbeing Experiments since.

These are little apps you can load to curb your behavior—or even crafts you can print to replace your phone itself. The latest wave of experiments dropped earlier this week, and I tried them so you don’t have to.

Well, most of them! To be perfectly honest, I found the last experiment so utterly tone-deaf in its cutesiness that I’m still worked up about it today. Read the story here.

—Mark Wilson

Google’s new ‘Digital Wellbeing’ tools, ranked from ingenious to offensive

Google Creative Lab’s well-being experiments try to be playful, but one of them is just joking about something that’s not funny to begin with.

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What the hell happened to Mint?

In 2009, personal-finance behemoth Intuit bought Mint, an impressive startup. And then it let its $170 million acquisition wither on the vine.

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How Saudi Arabia allegedly hacked Jeff Bezos's phone

A new report points the finger at spyware firms like NSO Group, a secretive Israeli company that has been implicated in government surveillance of dissidents across the world.

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Ousted Recording Academy CEO punches back and claims the Grammys are fixed

On the eve of Music’s Biggest Night, Deborah Dugan is alleging that the Grammys are rotten to the core.

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Software ate the world. Now it's design's turn

We are entering a Golden Age of product design, in which even niche enterprise products are finally becoming sensible, easy to use, and even beautiful, writes MasterClass cofounder Aaron Rasmussen.

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7 mistakes that can derail a promising job interview

Any of these common things can turn your next big interview into a train wreck.

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Apple wants to reward you for going to the gym

To embed itself into the fitness ecosystem, Apple Watch is teaming up with fitness studios like Orangetheory and Crunch Fitness to give workout junkies a way to earn rewards at the gym—or on the trail.

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The problem with China’s single-use plastic ban: What will replace the plastic?

Just swapping single-use plastic for compostable alternatives won’t do much if none of them end up in the compost.

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Google and Microsoft shouldn’t decide how technology is regulated

A researcher who studies AI principles warns that giving too much credence to Big Tech is like “asking the fox for guidance on henhouse security procedures.”

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