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Laptop ergonomics: do laptop stands actually help?
A laptop stand is one of the few desk gadgets whose benefit can be measured with a protractor.…
Does AI actually make developers faster? What the METR trial found
Every AI coding tool ships with a productivity number. The trouble is that most of those numbers come…
The $25 million video call: what the Arup deepfake fraud teaches every workplace
In January 2024, a finance worker in the Hong Kong office of Arup, the engineering firm behind the…
Automation bias: do we trust AI too much?
Automation bias is older than large language models. It was named in cockpit research in the 1990s, documented…
Do Nicotine Pouches Really Help You Focus?
The cognitive effect is real and small. The literature that found it has a disclosure problem, and the…
The liar’s dividend: the bigger danger of deepfakes is that real evidence stops counting
Most worry about deepfakes runs in one direction: someone fabricates a video of you saying something you never…
Does relying on GPS weaken your sense of direction? The oldest case of handing a skill to a machine
Long before anyone worried that a chatbot would make them worse at writing, most of us quietly gave…
Do Weighted Blankets Actually Help You Sleep?
The best trial is genuinely good and genuinely striking. It was also in psychiatric patients, and the number…
Will watermarks and Content Credentials fix the fake content problem?
Detection is losing. People cannot reliably spot synthetic media, and the software built to do it for them…
Is hitting the snooze button bad for you? The only lab study says probably not
Few habits are condemned as confidently as the snooze button. Sleep experts say it fragments your rest. Productivity…
Does Red Light Therapy Work for Sleep and Focus?
Red light has genuine clinical uses. The ones a desk worker is buying a panel for are the…
Deepfake detection software: why 99% in the lab becomes a coin flip in the wild
If people cannot reliably spot deepfakes, the obvious answer is to let software do it. A small industry…
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