OnePlus's 'flagship killer' identity comes full circle with the Nord 3
OnePlus Nord 3 walks in through the door with a polished "flagship killer" attire, compelling specs including a last-gen high-end chipset and cameras shared with its premium siblings, OnePlus 11 and 11R.
This robotic glove teaches piano tune-by-tune to hands that lost music mojo after an accident
It wants to help people that have had an accident. It knows song notes, and every time you make a mistake, the fingertip will guide it to the correct tune.
WhatsApp now lets you transfer chat history to new phones with just a QR code scan
Just the way you scan a QR code to add new contacts or share yours, WhatsApp now lets you transfer your entire chat history to new phones with just a scan. It’s quick, convenient, and secure.
YouTube will cock-block you if it detects an ad-blocker on your computer
YouTube only made $28.8 billion in ad revenue last year, so it needs you to view those money-making ads and survive in these tough times. Or, you can just buy YouTube Premium live happily ever after.
Spotify wants to show music videos and swipe more money form your wallet
Apple Music has music videos. YouTube Music also has video-watching facility. Spotify, which owns nearly a third of the music streaming market, is now dreaming of serving you music videos. It won’t come free, duh!
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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