Indian politicos wake up to deepfakes. Can they fix themselves first?
In a country where deepfakes have already been abused for political gains, can you trust the government to install barriers before the elections next year?
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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.
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Review: Perfect recipe for nomadic gaming
The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is a top-class gaming laptop with NVIDIA RTX 4080, making it perfect for most demanding titles. It's a no-compromise machine with a few familiar rough edges.
Twitter is dead. It’s all X now, and it wants to do everything!
Twitter no longer exists as of today. A certain billionaire named Musk has rebranded it to X. And he is changing it from top to bottom over his obsession with the letter X that goes back over two decades in the past.
We got our hands on the marble-y OnePlus 11. Good lord, it’s stunning!
This is the most beautiful phone on this side of the human galaxy. By far. Also, it's wicket fast. And it charges at 100W like a mad mofo. That 100W charger comes in the box. For free. Nuff said!
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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