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These updates follow previous alterations, of course, including the merging of Google’s top-rated Duo video chat service with Meet. But the most impactful of the newest features may be the addition of ‘push-to-talk’ style muting functionality in Google Meet. And it’s a significantly big feature. In fact, it’s potentially enough to help Meet join the ranks of the most popular video calling apps. Summarily, with the update in place, users will be able to toggle a Setting inside of meetings for the spacebar....

The culture of mindfulness often reinforces this attitude in subtle ways: books, articles, and podcasts present these practices as a kind of panacean remedy for all our ills, so we struggle to understand why others wouldn’t want to give it a try. Being excited about mindfulness may seem harmless, but when we get too pushy about it in our most intimate relationships—especially with our partners and spouses—it can become a source of relational friction, and even conflict....

“We act like wind-up toys, repeatedly bumping into the same walls, never realizing there may be an open door just to our left or our right,” writes Susan David, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, in Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life. Her book is a guide to life’s trickiest emotions: not how to avoid them but how to learn to move through them. If we have the courage to do this, she argues, we will cultivate deeper relationships and a more authentic life....

Microsoft says new Windows 10 devices will receive the update first. So the older your PC is, the longer your wait will be. The company hopes to make Windows 11 available to all compatible Windows 10 PCs by mid-2022. That’s quite a large window Microsoft has given itself there, so it could proceed with the rollout with caution. Nonetheless, if your PC meets all requirements, you can be on the lookout for your free Windows 11 upgrade over the coming weeks and months....

Despite the fact that winter has only really just begun, we’re already starting to see the negative effects of this temperature tango. We’re stocking up on these key products to ensure we won’t be calling winter hair SOS anytime soon: ** Work on the foundation of your routine. We all know that the foundation of a solid haircare routine starts in the shower. We suggest using TIGI Copyright Custom Care Moisture Shampoo and Conditioner on the regular to infuse your hair with some of the moisture that’s stripped during all the time spent in overheated spaces....