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.
Tushar Mehta
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OnePlus 12 serves mad 100W charging at an iPhone-shaming price
You get a folded lens 120x zoom camera. 50W wireless charging. And a super-bright OLED screen. All that at a price that won't defer all your micro-investment schemes or solo trip plans.
You can now go job hunting on X aka Twitter
It's pretty basic at the moment, but there are already plenty of jobs listed there. Whether you can score isn't Elon Musk's damn concern.
WhatsApp now lets you hide IP address for calls. Here’s how to do it.
I'm not saying that you sell drugs to a tiger-riding Italian mafioso, but it's always a good idea to be on the safe side.
Google phones and watches can now save your ass after an accident or fall
The sensors inside your Google phone and smartwatch will be on the alert for emergency events and automatically call emergency services while sharing your location information.
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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