Being Bored Can Be Good for You—If You Do It Right. Here’s How

If you’re waiting for brilliance to strike, try getting bored first. That’s the takeaway of a study published recently in the journal Academy of Management Discoveries, which found that boredom can ...
Windows Central

Someone rebuilt Task Scheduler for Windows 11 and it goes way harder than it has any right to

Windows 11, and even older versions of the operating system, have long included the powerful but aging Task Scheduler for automating tasks. It works and is reliable, but its legacy MMC interface and ...
9to5Mac

New Apple study shows LLMs can tell what you’re doing from audio and motion data

Apple researchers have published a study that looks into how LLMs can analyze audio and motion data to get a better overview of the user’s activities. Here are the details. They’re good at it, but not ...
Education Week

Brain Activity Is Lower for Writers Who Use AI. What That Means for Students

It’s a common sentiment from English teachers facing an onslaught of AI-generated writing in their classrooms: When students rely on ChatGPT to write their essays, they aren’t engaging their brains as ...
BMJ

Amount and intensity of daily total physical activity, step count and risk of incident cancer in the UK Biobank

Objectives To investigate associations between daily physical activity, activity intensity and step counts with incident cancer risk. Methods Prospective analysis of UK Biobank participants who wore ...