Starlink's Indian Odyssey: Finally Approved and Ready for Lift-Off!
India approves Starlink's commercial operations with a 5-year license. Elon Musk's firm needs spectrum and ground setup next. India's 3rd satellite provider.
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That AI chatbot on your phone is not a therapist, warn scientists. AGAIN
In a research, AI chatbots flunked as therapists, giving risky advice and missing crises. For real support, stick to humans—they’re much less likely to steer you wrong.
Science Says Mindfulness Apps Can Fix Your Focus Fiend at Any Age
A month of meditation can literally rewire your brain's attention system, improving focus and memory for all ages, with benefits even for the easily distracted.
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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