Apple's Mac shitshow is now a pricey shitshow for the iPad, as well
Apple thinks you should pay Rs. 1,33,521, at the very minimum, to get the "real" M4 processor inside its new iPad Pro. Mind you, this is a tablet running a mobile operating system.
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Please, get a hold of those notifications & ads. Don’t let apps sell your damned soul.
Notifications are collecting data on you and brokers are hawking it to guv agencies. Here’s some eye-opener sauce to convince you, because that Truecaller app you love so much could be selling you out.
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!
The iMessage-on-Android security shit-show that is Nothing Chats
Hey Nothing, just admit the fumble, take the L, and move on with grace. As for the Sunbird app, let it burn in an unforgiving security hell, never to return again.
YouTube explains what twerking is okay and what's too hot
Depending on how steamy the booty shaking gets, YouTube will block it from earning ad-money, or ban it entirely.
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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