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Marijuana users have “superior performance across multiple cognitive domains,” according to a new large-scale study funded by the U.S. federal government, with the effects of cannabis on cognition “presented concurrently across a range of brain systems.” The research, published this month as a preprint by Nature Portfolio, analyzed brain imaging and cognitive data from 37,929 participants in the United Kingdom aged …

A new personal productivity app called Ocean is launching to help you triage your overloaded inbox, take action on your emails by turning them into tasks, and share your availability for meetings with others, all in one app. Today, Gmail so heavily dominates the email market that few challengers emerge. Understanding this, Ocean made the decision to work with Gmail, …

OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But for some users, last Thursday’s release felt more like a wrenching downgrade, with the new ChatGPT presenting a diluted personality and making surprisingly dumb mistakes. On Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X to say the company would keep the previous …

Apple in 2024 showed a swanky demo of what it said would be a new, intelligent Siri that would connect with different apps to fetch all kinds of information. But this new Siri has yet to see the light of day, as the company seemingly hasn’t been able to get it ready. However, Bloomberg now reports that Apple is testing …

Samsung is blamed for deliberately delaying the One UI 8.0 update rollout to push foldable sales. Another reason seems to be Apple’s iPhone 17 series, launching next month, as part of fading the spotlight of Apple’s big event. Don’t be shocked if Samsung drops Galaxy S25 FE around the iPhone 17 series launch in September. The official rollout of the …

This latest twist suddenly hits Windows 10 users. Getty Images Microsoft knows “many millions of users will not buy new devices or pay for extended support” when Windows 10 goes end of life in October, a new lawsuit alleges. “These users,” it claims, “will be at a heightened risk of a cyberattack or other data security incident, a reality of …

We’re continuing to hear more and more accounts of AI psychosis — an eerie phenomenon in which users become consumed by paranoia and delusions after extensive conversations with an AI chatbot. It’s hard to say how pervasive the trend is, but a new investigation from the Wall Street Journal offers a disturbing clue. The newspaper analyzed a dump of thousands …

Some ChatGPT users were so attached to the chatbot’s “yes man” style that they asked OpenAI to bring it back, Sam Altman has said. The OpenAI CEO said there was a “heartbreaking” reason — because some users said they had never had anyone support them before. “Here is the heartbreaking thing. I think it is great that ChatGPT is less …

The Battlefield 6 beta is now open to everyone, and the concurrent users peak on Steam (the only platform where we can reliably check it, thanks to SteamDB) has already surpassed 470K. It’s entirely likely that it will break through 500K concurrent users before this beta weekend is over. As a reminder, playing this weekend will guarantee the unlock of …

Following the rollout of OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 model earlier this week, a certain user base was adamantly calling for the return of the previous GPT-4o model. Outspoken users complained about the writing quality of the updated model, with some even going so far as to grieve the loss of GPT-4o, which some said they considered a friend and confidant. In …