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Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate

Marco Giancotti , August 21, 2025 Cover image: Photo by Rebecca Freeman, Unsplash TL;DR is the part in bold below. The field of psychology had a big crisis in the 2010s, when many widely accepted results turned out to be much less solid than previously thought. It's called the replication crisis, because labs around the world tried and failed to replicate, in new experiments, previous results published by their original "discoverers". In other words, many reported psychological effects were ei

Bank Fires Workers in Favor of AI Chatbot, Rehires Them After Chatbot Is Terrible at the Job

Companies all over the world are currently racing to shrink their workforces and replace them with AI. Often, it seems, this isn’t working out for the firms involved. Case in point: A bank in Australia recently did so, but then had to ask its workers to come back after it turned out that the chatbot that it had launched to replace them couldn’t cut the mustard. Last month, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced that it would be laying off 45 customer service workers as it rolled out a new

Russian airline Aeroflot grounds dozens of flights after cyberattack

Aeroflot, Russia's flag carrier, has suffered a cyberattack that resulted in the cancellation of more than 60 flights and severe delays on additional flights. Although official sources from Russia, like the General Prosecutor's Office, did not attribute the attack to specific threat groups or even origin, responsibility was taken by Ukrainian and Belarusian hacktivist collectives 'Silent Crow' and 'Cyberpartisans BY.' The latter are known for previous attacks on the Belarusian Railway, the cou

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 might be thinner than claimed, but there’s bad news for rivals

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR A Korean study has revealed that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is thinner than actually claimed. The study also found that other recent book-style foldables were thicker than advertised. This comes after reports that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 was thinner than the HONOR Magic V5, which claims to be the thinnest foldable. HONOR says the Magic V5 is the world’s thinnest foldable phone, but the company uses a dubious measurement method to make this claim. Now, a Korean s