Science Says Mindfulness Apps Can Fix Your Focus Fiend at Any Age
A month of meditation can literally rewire your brain's attention system, improving focus and memory for all ages, with benefits even for the easily distracted.
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Screens after sunset: your phone is the supervillain of your nighttime health
Think your phone’s just keeping you up late? According to Dr. Randy J. Nelson, the blue glow from your screen isn’t just ruining your sleep—it’s also messing with your immune system, metabolism, and mood.
Google is finally bringing some anti-scam relief to Messages
New protections against delivery & job scams, warnings for risky links, block international spam, get nudity alerts, and verify who you're texting. The whole shebang.
iPhone 16 & 16 Plus generously offer two new buttons to thirsty buyers
Nothing says "revolutionary" more than adding two physical buttons on a next-gen phone. Oh, there's a faster A18 processor inside to handle Apple Intelligence, as well.
Don't blame doom-scrolling. Your trash phone habits are hurting your sleep, says research
Look, doom-scrolling is BAD for your sleep and mental well-being, but screen use in bed was the real culprit behind disrupted sleep in young people, as per fresh research.
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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