Apple is developing a feature that will monitor your emotional state by asking questions like a psychologist, reading your speech pattern, and everything that you type on your phone. That feature arrives later in 2023, but the dystopia is already here.
Apple's lease agreement for its upcoming exclusive store in India includes a clause that prevents any "competing" brand from having a store or putting up signages or advertisements anywhere close to it.
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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