Apple admits governments spy on users with push notifications
"Democracies allied to the United States" have also been forcing Google and Apple to cough up information on push notifications an average Joe gets on their phone.
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India wants USB-C even on older iPhones. Apple cries production tears.
Apple says the government rule would derail its local iPhone production plans. Or, it would need at least 18 months to process the shift away and put USB-C on older iPhones.
The iMessage-on-Android security shit-show that is Nothing Chats
Hey Nothing, just admit the fumble, take the L, and move on with grace. As for the Sunbird app, let it burn in an unforgiving security hell, never to return again.
Texting between iPhone and Androids will soon be less shitty
Will the green bubble of shame go away? Apple's a rich biaatchhh. So likely, it won't.
Next Apple Watch will alert about rising blood pressure, but won’t tell who’s causing it
The watch will also asses breathing patterns during your snoozy hours to detect signs of sleep apnea.
Google Search could be smothering your creativity
A Carnegie Mellon University study reveals starting your brainstorming process with Google can be detrimental to the group's creativity.
Teams relying much on search engines often produced inundatingly same, less original ideas due to a cognitive bias called "fixation effect," where seeing popular answers converges our thought process instead of diverging it.
While individuals weren't necessarily dumber with Google, groups of Google users seemed to get stuck in a rut, often coming up with the same common ideas, sometimes even in the same order! Talk about a copy-and-paste creativity crisis.
"This appears to be due to the fact that Google users came up with the same common answers, often in the same order, as they relied on Google, while non-Google users came up with more distinct answers," explained lead author Danny Oppenheimer.
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