Boring new MacBook Pro with fast AF chip lands this week
The new MacBook Pro will look the same as the 2021 model, because Apple doesn't have money for a design refresh. The chip inside, though, will be upgraded with more CPU and GPU cores.
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Screw them rules. Apple is cooking up a touchscreen Mac!
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hated the idea of touchscreen on laptops, and so did his lieutenants. That might change in 2025, with the first touchscreen MacBook.
Samsung's new curved gaming monitor is wider than your ego
This 57-inch pixel-serving behemoth offers a 240Hz screen with mini-LED tech behind it.
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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