First-of-its-kind research says Zoom calls really sapped your brain cells
Human leaders and soul-sucking companies must not ignore the fatigue potential of videoconferencing, say scientists. I believe em!
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YouTube's AI can turn your croaking hums into a melody
"Create me a song about hot pancakes cooked by grandma, but make T-Pain sing it with loud bass." Yep, YouTube will do that text-to-music thingy, too!
You can add Hyundai cars to your Amazon carts
Starting 2024, lazy shoppers will be able to pick a Hyundai car on Amazon.com, pay for it online, and get it delivered by their local dealership.
Tesla will fine your ass $50K if you try reselling the Cybertruck
It you're being naughty and breach the holy Cybertruck resale rules, Tesla will never sell you another car. Ouch!
Research says regular weed smokers are more empathetic
Dem weed bruddas look chill. Big brain science guys say they’re more humane, too.
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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