Apple's new MacBook Pro gets a faster chip, color-matched cable, and an old design
The new M2 Pro and M2 Max silicon is hecka fast, says Apple. Also, the top-end model with 96GB RAM and 8TB storage only costs Rs. 6,49,900.
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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!
Boring new MacBook Pro with fast AF chip lands this week
The new MacBook Pro will look the same as the 2021 model, because Apple doesn't have money for a design refresh. The chip inside, though, will be upgraded with more CPU and GPU cores.
A filmmaker tried the internet's favorite AI. Says it absolutely sucks!
ChatGPT thinks a movie about love should always be set in Paris, between people with names like John and Anna, and eating nothing but overpriced bland pasta. It sucks at a few other things, too.
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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