This is the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra aka same same but different
This one is loaded to the gills with next-gen AI features such as real-time language translation without an internet connection, image fill, and more.
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This clicky-type thing is a Blackberry keypad for your iPhone
It's a good way to summon your nostalgia without giving up on the beloved blue bubbles in iMessage.
Google phones’ new trick keeps the repair guy from stealing all your saucy data
Repair Mode is available for Pixel phones running Android 14. Samsung also offers its own version. Other brands apparently don’t give a shit, or put more trust in repair shops than their Lord.
WhatsApp gets disappearing voice notes. You Only Hear Once, bitch!
But still, send these super-secret, self-destructing messages only to your most trustworthy friends. Screen recording exists, y'all!
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.
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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