Those blue light-filtering glasses might be up to no good, sis
They probably aren't reducing eye strain, fixing your sleep cycle, or helping with retina health. To really block blue light, wear tinted glasses.
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Soon, Twitter aka X won't let you block any account. Let the chaos reign!
Musk says blocking makes no sense. He should ask the many victims of harassment, online abuse, and stalking on Twitter aka X.
Time to ring up your influencer crush as Twitter aka X readies video calling
Hold your horses, pal. There will certainly be restrictions in place that allows an influencer with 420 followers to block calls from strangers.
Obsessed scientist proves texting while walking leads to a fall, and spurs more typos, too.
If you sit, like a human being, you won't type gibberish. And might not fall, either!
WhatsApp now allows screen-sharing during video calls. R.I.P. Google and Zoom
Your college professor is suddenly very happy uninstalling that neuron-annihilating piece of software thingmajig called Google Meet or Zoom. For the rest of us, well, the world has always been cruel.
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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