Research says frequent phone usage lowers baby-making seed in men
It also reduces the concentration of sperm cells in the proverbial man-milk.
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Not just broken hearts. Science says music also heals physical pain.
The next time you stub your toe, a few Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra tracks might help alleviate the hurt. Pro Tip: pick up a moving or bittersweet track!
Police tried to predict crime just like Minority Report. The AI it used bombed badly
A software developed to predict crime had an accuracy of less than one percent. After putting a dent worth thousands of dollar in a police department’s account, the company that built it is now shutting down. Touché!
Alexa is getting a glow-up, fr fr, thanks to ChatGPT-like lewk
Amazon's not-so-smart smart assistant is finally moving out and getting ready to face the real world with generative AI capabilities. But it's new-found intuitiveness and ingenuity may cost you some bucks.
Meta — the lord of all things bad online — is prepping a whole bunch of AI chatbots with different personalities
Meta is making AI chatbots. A whole bunch, actually. One talks like Abraham Lincoln. The other one can help you with travels. Lord help us all!
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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