4 reasons I'd recommend the Asus Vivobook S14
The Asus Vivobook S14 is a budget laptop with a stoic look and a dependable battery-charging combo under 65,000 rupees.
Tushar Mehta
55 postsTushar has spent more than a decade writing about technology, more than half of which has been spent cribbing, "where is that damn setting?" If money wasn't a thing, he would be a nomadic bard.
Athenil Bites, July 29: Is your phone tracking you with Wi-Fi & Bluetooth? AI comes for homework, and cool F-Bombs on YouTube
Google and OpenAI want their AI to handle homework for students. Like seriously explaining it step by step. Who gives a heck about human teachers, after all, when money is made getting us addicted to AI chatbots, right?
OnePlus Pad Lite lands in India rocking a big screen, fast charge creds, and an oh-so-good price
Slim waistline, large 90Hz screen, 33W fast charging, and a starting price of just Rs. 12,999. That's the OnePlus Pad Lite for you. (Terms and conditions applied, of course)
Athenil Bites, July 23: Amazon's band will hear all you say, good AI guy now wants dirty money, and iPhone brings back AI notifications
Apple's AI summaries for news and entertainment are back. Let's hope they don't get another bashing from BBC for blunders. Also, it seems AI is taking the real dark turn for us all.
I tried to nerf the OnePlus Nord CE5's battery, and failed miserably
Here's a small anecdote about how I embarked on a crusade to kill the Nord CE5's battery, and returned disappointed.
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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