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Not just broken hearts. Science says music also heals physical pain.
The next time you stub your toe, a few Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra tracks might help alleviate the hurt. Pro Tip: pick up a moving or bittersweet track!

Apple ecosystem is finally getting aped for us poor Android-Windows peasants
If you’ve ever yearned for the cross-device fluidity of Apple gizmos, but your wallet crushed those dreams, there’s hope. A rewarding Android-Windows experience will kick into action this year. At last!

Meta gave us celebrity AI chatbots. Riley Reid wants to do the same for pornstars.
"I want to be able to be a part of the future. I don't want porn to get left behind."

Tinder's new feature ropes in parents / friends to find your next soulmate / hookup
You can now ghost-check all the profiles recommended to your friend, sibling, or kid, on Tinder - and suggest those you might like. Just don't go shaming and doxxing!
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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