Apple admits governments spy on users with push notifications
"Democracies allied to the United States" have also been forcing Google and Apple to cough up information on push notifications an average Joe gets on their phone.
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Google phones and watches can now save your ass after an accident or fall
The sensors inside your Google phone and smartwatch will be on the alert for emergency events and automatically call emergency services while sharing your location information.
Google Pixel 8 series embraces AI and leaps ahead with killer camera chops
The Pixel 8 series is more of an AI phone than a regular phone. Here are some of its best capabilities that certainly don't sound normal, at all!
Pixel 8 Pro is now official...
...ly leaked by Google's newly published "Pixel Phone Simulator" tool.
Google Photos is now the Ultimate paparazzi app: It tags faces from behind and turns your pics into Hollywood blockbusters!
Google Photos: Because who needs personal boundaries? Now it can tag people even if they're camera-shy! Privacy? Pfft, just another word for yesterday. Let the paparazzi invasion begin!
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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