Google is finally bringing some anti-scam relief to Messages
New protections against delivery & job scams, warnings for risky links, block international spam, get nudity alerts, and verify who you're texting. The whole shebang.
Lenovo Legion Pro 5i (Gen 9) with RTX 4070 clocks in glorious first impressions
The 14th Gen Core i9, RTX 4070 model is a great bang for your buck, unless you're thirsting for that RGB glitterbomb.
iPhone 16 & 16 Plus generously offer two new buttons to thirsty buyers
Nothing says "revolutionary" more than adding two physical buttons on a next-gen phone. Oh, there's a faster A18 processor inside to handle Apple Intelligence, as well.
Don't blame doom-scrolling. Your trash phone habits are hurting your sleep, says research
Look, doom-scrolling is BAD for your sleep and mental well-being, but screen use in bed was the real culprit behind disrupted sleep in young people, as per fresh research.
This $1 smart mask hunts chemicals in your breath to monitor asthma and other woes
The research team also demonstrated the masks' effectiveness in detecting blood alcohol levels in human subjects, hinting at its potential for on-site sobriety tests or other methods of monitoring alcohol consumption.
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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