Netflix begins cock-blocking password-sharing Indians
Jaded by the sudden surge in subscribers after it started blocking password-sharing in the US and UK, Netflix is coming after Indians that share accounts with friends and family.
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Feeling stressed? You are more likely to click shady links in a bad email, says research
If your brain is jelly due to overwork. Or you’re crying an Atlantic Ocean after a bad breakup. Or just stressed at the banality of our brief lives on the cosmic scale. Well, don’t click on random email links out of boredom.
Meta aped Twitter with Threads. Pissed Twitter is now taking Meta to the court
Threads is an Instagram off-shoot. And a Twitter copycat. This is how the meeting went at Meta during its development. Team: Hey Mark, how much do we want to copy Twitter for Threads? Mark Zuckerberg: Yes!
WhatsApp now lets you transfer chat history to new phones with just a QR code scan
Just the way you scan a QR code to add new contacts or share yours, WhatsApp now lets you transfer your entire chat history to new phones with just a scan. It’s quick, convenient, and secure.
YouTube will cock-block you if it detects an ad-blocker on your computer
YouTube only made $28.8 billion in ad revenue last year, so it needs you to view those money-making ads and survive in these tough times. Or, you can just buy YouTube Premium live happily ever after.
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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