One wonderful illustration of the power of attention can be found in the life of the brilliant mathematician and economist John Nash, whose struggles were chronicled in the film A Beautiful Mind (Goldsman and Nasara 2001). Nash was tormented by delusions that were so real that they skewed his reality and made daily living extremely hard. Eventually, he came to recognize that his mind was not always playing fair, because it often depicted illusion—actually, delusion—as fact....

These new TCL tablets get the job done These new TCL tablets get the job done Tablets have been in a weird place over the past few years, and Android OEMs don’t really put much energy into them, either. The only Android company that really puts a lot of effort into its tablets is Samsung. The company just released its Galaxy Tab S8 trio of devices at its latest Unpacked event....

The Best Podcast Episodes of 2019 The Best Podcast Episodes of 2019 1) The Ezra Klein Show Episode: “Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey can help” Productivity, for many, means trying to wring every last drop of work out of ourselves, day after day. And this desperate need to “keep busy” can also prevent us from mindfully directing our attention. But that’s precisely Chris Bailey’s mission: The author of Hyperfocus is on a mission to shift productivity culture toward, instead, “doing the right things…deliberately and with intention....

Keep in mind that Young has been right on everything he has ever said about upcoming devices. So there’s definitely some credence here. But, as always, take this with a grain of salt. According to the blog post DSCC has put out, they have confirmed with its “supply chain sources that Google has decided not to bring the Pixel Fold to market”. This goes for 2021 and at least the first half of 2022....

There have been tons of games, too, and The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War is up there with the very best of them, not least because it was developed with the official Warner Bros license, and features iconic locations, music, and characters from the movies. Created by NetEase Games – the global developer and publisher behind EVE Echoes and the hotly anticipated Diablo Immortal – this visually stunning fantasy epic is also one of the most impressive strategy games on mobile....