NotebookLM Works Great for Research Synthesis, Not Creative Brainstorming

Google NotebookLM lets you load up to 50 sources and 25 million words, then answers with citations so you can study faster.

I let Chrome's AI agent shop, research, and email for me - here's how it went

First, check whether Auto Browse is available to you. Open Chrome, click the three-dot menu, go to Settings, select AI innovations, and then open Gemini in Chrome. Look for "Let Gemini browse for you" ...
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Linux Aliases: The Ultimate Hack to Boost Your Terminal Efficiency

Learn how to use Bash aliases to shorten commands, reduce errors, speed up tasks, and improve your productivity in the Terminal.
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Moltbook wants you to believe its AI acts independently. It doesn’t

Moltbook is a social media platform, like Facebook or Reddit, but for AI bots only. Moltbook's AI system is agentic, which means it functions like an independent agent instead of waiting for prompts.
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Chrome 144 Ships Temporal API: Advancing JavaScript Date/Time Standardisation

Chrome 144 introduces the groundbreaking Temporal API, revolutionizing date and time management in JavaScript. As a modern alternative to the criticized Date object, Temporal resolves parsing ...

Jikipedia Makes Falling into an Epstein Rabbit Hole Easier Than Ever

A newly released AI-backed resource by the creators of JMail puts the trove of ghastly files in a familiar, contextualizing, time-sucking format.
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I Spent Three Days Yelling at My Laptop to Gain Access to Social Media — Here’s What Happened

I tried the scream to unlock Chrome extension for 3 days. Here’s how yelling to unblock social media cut my work distractions by 70%.

N.J. high schooler makes Braille keyboards for under $10. Here’s how.

Learn how a Princeton 12th grader created a nonprofit to help visually impaired people gain access to keyboards.
GitHub

JavaScript Scripts For Placeholders In Minecraft

Download PlaceholderAPI: First, download PlaceholderAPI from here PlaceholderAPI on SpigotMC. Install PlaceholderAPI: Install it in your Minecraft plugins folder. Restart Your Server: Restart your ...
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Got a New iPhone 17? How to Use All the New Features

Apple's iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max have been available to buy since September, and a fair few will have been gifted over the holidays. If you're the proud owner of ...
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Google Warns: Don't Use NoIndex Tags In Pages That Use JavaScript

Google updated its JavaScript SEO documentation to warn against using a noindex tag in the original page code on JavaScript pages. Google wrote, "if you do want the page indexed, don't use a noindex ...
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Google says don’t use JavaScript to generate a noindex tag in the original page code

Google has updated its JavaScript SEO basics documentation to clarify how Google’s crawler handles noindex tags in pages that use JavaScript. In short, if “you do want the page indexed, don’t use a ...