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.
Google ate your entire life's data. Its new AI wants to turn that into an eery story.
“Imagine opening ChatGPT but it already knows everything about your life. What would you ask it?" Well, that is Google's Project Ellmann for you.
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.
OnePlus 12 serves mad 100W charging at an iPhone-shaming price
You get a folded lens 120x zoom camera. 50W wireless charging. And a super-bright OLED screen. All that at a price that won't defer all your micro-investment schemes or solo trip plans.
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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