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Megan Edgelow is an assistant professor of health sciences at Queen's University, Ontario. The word "routine" can bring to mind words like mundane or ordinary. During the pandemic's disruptions to ...

Google Assistant's routines suffer from some frustrating limitations, but when assembled with care and managed expectations, routines can do a lot of the basic work we seek from our smart homes and ...

Routines during childhood help build resilience, discipline and focus say UAE experts Dubai: It’s 9:05pm, five minutes past my nine-year-old’s bedtime. If he doesn’t sleep within the next ten minutes, ...

Routines are comfortable. When you’re stressed out, you tend to fall back on your habits. Why? There are two intersecting reasons why habits feel so good. First, the brain is a prediction engine. You ...

Routines benefit us. They help us be more consistent, with lower cognitive costs. But routines don’t always appeal. They can feel constricting or cliché. Routines are very personal. One person's ...

Dim the lights, lock the door, and play some tunes with a simple voice command (or even your dog’s bark). Dim the lights, lock the door, and play some tunes with a simple voice command (or even your ...

Samsung’s voice assistant, Bixby, may not be as widespread as other voice assistants, but it’s still capable of plenty of useful tricks — and one of those is known as Bixby Routines. These function ...