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.
Tushar Mehta
49 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.
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.
Not just broken hearts. Science says music also heals physical pain.
The next time you stub your toe, a few Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra tracks might help alleviate the hurt. Pro Tip: pick up a moving or bittersweet track!
Tinder's new feature ropes in parents / friends to find your next soulmate / hookup
You can now ghost-check all the profiles recommended to your friend, sibling, or kid, on Tinder - and suggest those you might like. Just don't go shaming and doxxing!
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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