Digital world

  Ding! There’s your phone again, telling you another message just came through. We’ve all been guilty of taking a look at a new notification and thinking, “I’ll get to that later.” Then later turns to hours or days, and that text from mom or email from a coworker is still unanswered. Maybe you were busy or just didn’t feel like replying—but a  new study  by Secure Data Recovery suggests there might be something more going on. Almost half of Americans report that the notification bubble or bell makes them feel overwhelmed. If your phone is stressing you out, it might be easier to put it face down on the table and let it buzz than try to sift through all your new messages. So, is ignoring our messages a valid way to cope in an often too-fast-paced world? Or are we just hurting our friends’ feelings when we leave them “on read”? Secure Data Recovery’s study answers these questions and more, and this post offers some insight into people’s habits with this practice as well as...

  A new study by  Adobe  shows that Gen-Z is using TikTok for their everyday search. People are searching for new trends, information, recipes and music on TikTok. This study was carried out after surveying 800 consumers and 250 business owners. The study shows that 40% of users of social media use TikTok when they want to search for something or want to know about an ongoing news or trend. The people who were using TikTok for search are mostly Gen-Z, with 64% using TikTok while 49% of millennials use it for searching for different things. Gen-Z and Millennials both use TikTok for searching for recipes, music, DIY ideas, fashion and many more things, with Gen-Z using it 29% more than millennials. The study shows that 10% of Gen-Z prefer TikTok over Google when they want to search a topic. Other than TikTok, ChatGPT is also getting popular as a search engine tone with 10% of users using it to answer their queries. They are also asking ChatGPT for personal advice. The reaso...

New AI tools are being introduced every day ever since AI became popular in 2023. There are many LLMs (Large Language Models) including text-based assistants and image-to-text generators are in use by many people now. A report by  Writerbuddy  shows how frequently AI tools are being used. Without any surprise, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the most popular AI chatbot in 2023. It was introduced to the public in November 2022, but now it is the biggest AI tool worldwide. ChatGPT had a total of 14.6 billion visits, with 60% of visits recorded from November 2022 to August 2023. Characters.AI is another AI tool that acts more as a personalized chatbot. It is also known as a dialogue agent where the users can talk with different video games, TV characters or even  a psychologist . The third in the list of the most popular AI tools is QuillBot. It is a writing AI tool that users use for different writing purposes. These top three AI tools add up to about 80% of visits to any AI website. A...

  Surfshark  recently did a deep dive into the top 100 most popular apps on the App Store, and they found that 20% of the data they are collecting is for tracking purposes with all things having been considered and taken into account. These apps were ranked based on 32 data points that they are currently in the process of collecting, all of which are defined by Apple’s privacy policy. Facebook and Instagram were found to be the least privacy conscious apps of all. They collect all 32 data points, all of which are tied to the identity of the user in question, and 7 of which are used specifically for tracking purposes. These include data points such as names, home addresses as well as phone numbers, which seems to suggest that these apps offer far less privacy than users would ideally prefer. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that X, formerly known as Twitter, was also a major offender in this regard. It collected fewer data points...