You can now protect your pricey iPhone with a hardware security key
A physical security key verifies your identity using a dedicated chip inside, after you've entered your Apple ID password. They work with iPhones, iPads, as well as Macs.
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OnePlus Buds Pro 2 will transcend you to somewhere more beautiful
The upcoming OnePlus Buds Pro 2 will spruce up audio with a special up-mixing algorithm to sound oh-so-good with spatial audio features.
Samsung serves a 200-megapixel camera sensor to let you click okay-ish photos
Unimaginatively named ISOCELL HP2, the latest 200-megapixel camera sensor from Samsung will appear on the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra. Start saving, cuz it'll be pricey as fuck!
Google’s clock app now lets you set your fart sound as an alarm tune
Thanks to the v7.3 update, Google's mobile app will now let you record any sound and set it as your alarm sound. Now go, and raise hell for your roommate!
These pearl earrings are actually open-ear speakers
The pearls on these ear-rings are actually directional speakers that feed music straight into your ears. Also, they cost more than an iPhone.
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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