Anoop Pakki
from Bangalore / 45 posts
The Uber app(s) will soon bless your eyes with long, unavoidable video ads
Uber will soon start showing video ads worth up to 90 seconds on its mobile app. And the tablets installed in some cars. You can't turn off these ads. The ad-pocalypse starts this week.
Reddit falls to the cash demon that shit-ified Twitter; the fight for its soul rages, in vain!
Reddit now wants money from the people that kept the platform alive with hours of FREE volunteer work. It’s a misdirected aim at milking money, but hundreds of millions of users are protesting the shit show.
The smarter 'smart' phone’s irresistible charm
The Google Pixel 7 is far from perfect, but its smart abilities make it the most surefooted device capable of the "smart" phone's title.
Samsung's sexy Galaxy S23 phones are coming to rob you on February 1
Samsung will launch Galaxy S23 series at an event on February 1. If you are single and have no Valentine's plans, you can already reserve the upcoming phone.
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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