
You can now lock your innocent WhatsApp chats in a separate password-locked area.
Praise the Lord Almighty, for WhatsApp now has a new feature that lets you hide certain sensitive chats behind a layer of password or fingerprint lock. Also, stop your sinner ways, you digital monsters!

Google's first foldable phone got thick-ass bezels. But goddamn it, the Pixel Fold looks good and costs a bomb!
Google Pixel Fold costs $,1799, enough to buy a bike in India and get arrested by the local police while trying to make a cringe social media video. Regardless, it looks quite handsome, and offers some neat software tricks, too.

This is the new Google Pixel 7a. It's a great phone, but a terrible deal in India!
Google Pixel 7a offers a top-tier Tensor G2 processor, a reliable set of cameras, and a promise of software updates extending up to five years. But the asking price in India can only be ignored if you are a blindingly loyal Pixel fanboi!

Nearby Share is now live for wireless Android-Windows file transfer. Suck it, AirDrop!
Nearby Share has been available on Android phones for a while now. Now, it’s widely available for an AirDrop smackdown, letting not-very-rich-and-snobby users wirelessly transfer files between Android phones and Windows PCs with ease.

This chatty AI is your emotional support bud. It’s frikkin fun and eerily human!
The creators of Pi say their surprisingly empathetic and fun AI can be your “coach, confidante, creative partner, or sounding board.” The best part is that you can access it almost everywhere — from web browsers to Instagram, and even WhatsApp.
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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