Those blue light-filtering glasses might be up to no good, sis
They probably aren't reducing eye strain, fixing your sleep cycle, or helping with retina health. To really block blue light, wear tinted glasses.
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Indian government restricts all laptop imports. What that means for an average buyer?
This is not an outright ban. You can still get your aunt to bring you a MacBook or iPhone from the US. The restriction applies for business imports on a large scale.
The MacBook Air and its ugly notch now come in a 15-inch flavor
Apple says you need a 15-inch MacBook Air in your life. After all, what’s better than a laptop that starts at Rs. 1,34,900 and only offers two USB-C ports? But hey, at least there are six speakers to drown your financial hit with death metal songs.
Nearby Share is now live for wireless Android-Windows file transfer. Suck it, AirDrop!
Nearby Share has been available on Android phones for a while now. Now, it’s widely available for an AirDrop smackdown, letting not-very-rich-and-snobby users wirelessly transfer files between Android phones and Windows PCs with ease.
Apple's new MacBook Pro gets a faster chip, color-matched cable, and an old design
The new M2 Pro and M2 Max silicon is hecka fast, says Apple. Also, the top-end model with 96GB RAM and 8TB storage only costs Rs. 6,49,900.
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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