
Pixel 9a is not as bad as you think it is.
Pixel 9a is no crown-jewel, but it's a justifiably good Pixel after all. The cutbacks Google makes to justify the $499 pricing may not limit average consumers, Athenil contributor Keval Shukla argues.
Pixel 9a is no crown-jewel, but it's a justifiably good Pixel after all. The cutbacks Google makes to justify the $499 pricing may not limit average consumers, Athenil contributor Keval Shukla argues.
New protections against delivery & job scams, warnings for risky links, block international spam, get nudity alerts, and verify who you're texting. The whole shebang.
Look, we all know Google is no paragon of ethics. But the situation is so bad that even Gemini is vomiting the truth.Only for a moment.
Notifications are collecting data on you and brokers are hawking it to guv agencies. Here’s some eye-opener sauce to convince you, because that Truecaller app you love so much could be selling you out.
Repair Mode is available for Pixel phones running Android 14. Samsung also offers its own version. Other brands apparently don’t give a shit, or put more trust in repair shops than their Lord.
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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