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2025 will finally be the year when majority carries a flip phone in their pocket
Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE may not look as rad as its premium sibling, but could play a crucial role in making foldables more attainable in 2025.
Screens after sunset: your phone is the supervillain of your nighttime health
Think your phone’s just keeping you up late? According to Dr. Randy J. Nelson, the blue glow from your screen isn’t just ruining your sleep—it’s also messing with your immune system, metabolism, and mood.
I tried to nerf the OnePlus Nord CE5's battery, and failed miserably
Here's a small anecdote about how I embarked on a crusade to kill the Nord CE5's battery, and returned disappointed.
Your next phone may be much different from the one you’re using right now.
Thin, light, and compact phones are re-emerging, except this time, they don't skimp on performance or features. But will they sustain yet another test of time?
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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