Samsung dazzled us with sparkly AI tricks on Galaxy S24. Then shoved a secret fee up the buyers' rear.
The supremely pro-consumer folks at Samsung decided to wow us with AI tricks on the Galaxy S24 series phones. They conveniently avoided telling us that it would eventually cost us monies.
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.
Of course, I want to use my tongue
.. to control the cursor on my phone, tablet, and computer. MouthPad is a device that slides into my oral cavity and has a sensor that uses input from tongue movements.
This app gives finger and wrist gesture superpowers to your smartwatch
This app lets you control phones, tablets, smart home gizmos, XR headsets, and more — with finger taps, wrist rolls, and pinches. A lot more than the watch from a certain very rich fruit company.
What the hell is Apple doing with console-wannabe gaming on the iPhone?
Play console games on an iPhone, they said. It will be fun, they said. Welp, it’s an awe-inspiring shitshow of disappoints and untapped potential!
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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