Tushar Mehta
53 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.
Meta aped Twitter with Threads. Pissed Twitter is now taking Meta to the court
Threads is an Instagram off-shoot. And a Twitter copycat. This is how the meeting went at Meta during its development. Team: Hey Mark, how much do we want to copy Twitter for Threads? Mark Zuckerberg: Yes!
OnePlus's 'flagship killer' identity comes full circle with the Nord 3
OnePlus Nord 3 walks in through the door with a polished "flagship killer" attire, compelling specs including a last-gen high-end chipset and cameras shared with its premium siblings, OnePlus 11 and 11R.
Some rich dude thought you need ChatGPT on an e-bike. So, here it is…
Imagine an e-bike. Now imagine if it had the world’s smartest talkative AI. Voila! Utopia just made an e-bike that lets you have a conversation with ChatGPT. It’s absurdly needless, yet maddeningly interesting!
A Nintendo Switch-bound Super Mario Bros. sets you up for new adventures with a classic touch
The latest Super Mario Bros. title has Mario and the bros trudging a 2D maze with new interactive elements, better animations, and exciting new power-ups, including an elephant Mario.
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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