Instagram is giving Europeans what the entire cripplingly-online humanity deserves
The Reels, Stories, and Search feed on Instagram and Facebook will show you content ONLY from accounts you follow. And in chronological order.
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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.
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.
WhatsApp will finally let you share HD images. It's finally 2023, baby!
HD-quality images can be up to 2000 x 3000 pixels in resolution. But still no option to send HD videos. Looks like file attachment is still the way to go for uncompressed media sharing!
The real Dracula didn’t sip blood, but scientists think he literally cried blood tears
Apart from his talent for human torture, the prince that inspired Dracula also wrote many letters. Those letters have now exposed his many medical issues.
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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