Google wants you to stop using the term FOMO.

Instead of complaining about your fear of missing out, the search engine giant would like you to celebrate — "JOMO," the joy of missing out. And it hopes a bunch of new features geared at preventing you from feeling addicted to your devices will help.

It's all part of an initiative that Google unveiled at this week's Google I/O developer conference called "Digital Wellbeing."

Intended to free Android users from the tether of their smartphones, the strategy includes features that allow users to do things like track the time they spend on social media, block distracting notifications, and make their screens less vibrant around bedtime.

But it's a big question whether the strategy will actually do any good. The features don't have much basis in science.

Dashboard tells you how often you check your phone

Google Wellbeing One of the primary new features in the Digital Wellbeing initiative is called Dashboard.

Dashboard shows you how frequently you check your phone or tablet, how much time you spend overall on your devices, and even how much time you spend within individual apps such as Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram.

Dashboard appears to be a reaction to the spate of recent stories that suggest that spending time on social media is universally bad for us. Some of those reports have claimed that Facebook and Instagram in particular are making us depressed and even "eroding" our brains.

While such claims make for good headlines, there's little-to-no good research to back them up. Most of the studies that have been done so far suffer from significant shortcomings.

Some are looking at too few people to reach conclusions that are statistically significant, while others were conducted by the very companies they're studying or by researchers with clear agendas, which represent conflicts of interest that can cast doubts on results. Some other studies suggest use of devices may be contributing to an existing problem but don't establish that they're causing a problem by themselves.

Andrew Przybylski, a senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, has attempted to replicate some of the studies that suggest a strong tie between social-media use and depression. However, when he used larger sets of people in well-controlled environments, he failed to duplicate their results. Instead, he found either no link or one that was so small, he found it laughable.

"It is literally the lowest quality of evidence that you could give that people wouldn't laugh you out of the room," Przybylski told Business Insider in March.

Last year, Przybylski co-authored a study published in the journal Psychological Science in which he examined the effect of screen-time on a sample of more than 120,000 British teens who used their devices for social media, streaming, and playing games. The data suggested a shocking conclusion: screen-time isn't harmful for the vast majority of teens. In fact, it's sometimes helpful — especially when teens are using it for two to four hours per day.

"Overall, the evidence indicated that moderate use of digital technology is not intrinsically harmful and may be advantageous," Przybylski wrote in the paper.

For Dashboard to actually be beneficial, Google or someone else would first need to demonstrate that there's some type of relationship between our overall wellbeing and how we're using our devices and apps.

Simply showing which apps we're using and for how long likely isn't going to do us a lot of good on its own.

Placing your phone face-down will quiet notifications

Flickr/danielavladimirova Another big Digital Wellbeing feature offers an easy way to block notifications.

When you place your phone face-down on a surface, it will automatically go into its "do not disturb" mode. The idea behind the new feature is that fewer alerts will mean less anxiety and more tranquility.

There is a growing amount of research that hints that getting constantly flooded with a barrage of beeps and flashes reduces our productivity and increases anxiety. No surprise there.

But there aren't any studies that indicate snoozing our devices' notifications will help us feel better. When researchers have attempted to solve the anxiety problem by muting notifications, it didn't seem to work. In fact, some people actually felt worse.

In a study presented last month at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, researchers including Duke University behavioral economist Dan Ariely found that people who had the notifications from their devices sent in clusters of several at a time said they felt less stressed and happier than people who received them in the usual way, where they arrive sporadically throughout the day. But the people who got their alerts in clusters also felt less stressed and happier than people who didn't get any notifications at all.

"Participants who did not receive notifications experienced higher levels of anxiety and fears of missing out," the researchers wrote. "These findings highlight mental costs inherent in today's notification systems (or of abandoning them)."

Wind Down puts your phone in grayscale

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Google designed its other big Digital Wellbeing feature to be used at bedtime.

Wind Down drains the color from your Android device's screen, so that it displays everything as a shade of gray. The rational behind the feature is similar to that behind Apple's Night Shift feature, which changes an iPhone's color scheme from one tinged with bright blue light to one imbued with orange light.

Night Shift is actually based on some scientific research. Blue light, which is also given off by the sun, is nearly the brightest light in the visible spectrum. In humans, blue light depresses the production of melatonin, a key hormone our brains use to tell our bodies to start preparing for sleep. That's something you don't want to be doing at night, especially as you're heading to bed.

Unlike Night Shift, though, Wind Down doesn't have much research behind it. No one has really scientifically studied how removing color from a display affects users' attention, productivity, sleep, or mood. All we have are anecdotal reports from a couple of users who've willingly experimented on themselves with the feature and claimed it helped them.

So feel free to try to find joy in missing out, but don't rely on a host of new Google apps to do it.

Dropbox is on a quest to grow its paying users — but don't expect the company to start building out its sales team.

In call with investors on Thursday, the $12 billion company doubled down on the "freemium" model that made it a viral sensation, and made clear that it doesn't intend on shaking things up any time soon.

"Success for us is not just about hiring a huge salesforce," Dropbox CEO Drew Houston told investors.

This is because around 90% of Dropbox's revenue comes from what it calls "self-serve users" — customers who decide to pay for Dropbox without the help of an outbound sales team.

Many of those users start out as free subscribers to Dropbox's introductory service, according to the company. So why bother hiring sales people to do what Dropbox already gets done for free?

"Our sales and marketing efficiency is considerably higher than many of our peers in SaaS," Chief Operating Officer Dennis Woodside said on the call.

Dropbox had 1,858 employees at the end of last year, but the company does not disclose the size of its sales team.

Paid user growth was a huge metric of concern for analysts going into Dropbox's first ever earnings. The 11-year-old company still isn't profitable, but investors are banking on the promise that it can reverse that trend by building out its paid products and services.

Dropbox now has a total of 11.5 million paying users, compared to 9.3 million for the same period last year, the company revealed in its Q1 2018 earnings report. So whatever Dropbox is doing is working — at least for the time being.

"Organizations will self serve up to 100 seats before we have a sales person call into the account," Woodside said, adding that any outbound sales efforts it makes are based on leads from the self-serve business.

This means that the customers they do reach out to are already interested in paying for Dropbox's services, and are more willing to scale.

"We have accounts that have gone from 20 seats to 30,000 seats over a couple of months," Woodside said.

"They start that enterprise sales cycle marathon on mile 20," Houston added.

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia pulled the curtain back on its bitcoin mining-related business for the first time on Thursday. But the real game-changing opportunity for Nvidia is not inside the crowded cryptocurrency mines — it's in the wide open field of artificial intelligence.

So says Benjamin Lau, the chief investment officer of Apriem Advisors, a firm with $650 million under management that's betting big on Nvidia.

Nvidia's business designing chips for AI uses, which could upend industries from healthcare to transportation, and chips for computer data centers are the future, said Lau.

"They have a great platform and not a lot of really meaningful competition in that space," said Lau, whose firm is long Nvidia's stock.

Nvidia is already seeing significant success in those areas. In the first quarter, its data center business brought in $701 million in revenue, which was up 71% from the year-ago period. Sales of its latest Tesla chips — which the company designed for AI processing — helped boost the data center business, the company said.

Data center sales were reportedly below analysts' estimates, which may have explained the sell-off in Nvidia's stock in after-hours trading following its report. In recent trading, Nvidia's shares were down $8.53, or 3%, to $251.60.

Still, Lau was impressed with the business' performance in the period and sees it continuing to drive Nvidia's overall results."The AI stuff and the data center stuff is going to be the short-term boost" for Nvidia, Lau said.

The investor is also optimistic about the company's automotive efforts, although those have been mired in controversy of late. Nvidia has been developing chips and other technology for use in self-driving cars.

After an Uber autonomous car killed a pedestrian in Arizona, Nvidia announced that it would suspend its own autonomous vehicle tests. Uber's self-driving cars use Nvidia graphics processors, but not its autonomous vehicle system.

Nvidia's automotive business totaled $145 million in sales in the first quarter, up just 4% from the year-ago period.Benjamin Lau, chief investment officer of Apriem Advisors Apriem Adviors But it's still early days in the development of self-driving cars, Lau said.

"The auto stuff is going to be the future for them," he said. But he acknowledged that "there will be speed bumps with autonomous driving."

One area Lau isn't counting much on is cryptocurrency mining. For the first time ever, Nvidia disclosed in its earnings report its cryptocurrency-related sales, saying they hit $289 million in its first quarter.

Nvidia and rival AMD have been boosted in recent years by the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies. So-called miners have bought up their graphics processors to help solve the complex mathematical problems involved in creating new cybercoins.

But that business appears to be waning as prices of bitcoin and other cybercurrencies have slumped, the cost involved in mining them have risen, and as miners rely increasingly on application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICS, which are chips designed for particular purposes. Nvidia itself predicted sales would slump in its second quarter, something that jibes with Lau's expectations.

"It's not going to be a driver going forward," he said. "It was a nice boost while they had it."

Nvidia's stock has soared over the last two years amid burgeoning sales and earnings. But the company's sales are still relatively small compared with other big chipmakers, such as Qualcomm and Broadcom, Lau noted.

"They have a lot of room to grow in this area," he said.

SpaceX — the rocket company founded by Elon Musk — is about to launch Bangabandhu-1, which is slated to be Bangladesh's first geostationary communications satellite.

But spaceflight aficionados will mostly be gawking at a brand-new rocket carrying the payload: SpaceX's most powerful, most reusable, and possibly most affordable version of its Falcon 9 rocket to date, called Block 5 "full thrust."

The launch was scheduled for Thursday evening, but flight computers automatically triggered an abort sequence with less than a minute left on the countdown clock, preventing a launch. SpaceX said during a live webcast that it was looking for the source of the problem and will likely try again to launch the new Falcon 9 on Friday.

Falcon 9 is the rocket SpaceX launches most often; in fact, more than 50 of the workhorse rockets have lifted off in eight years. They've ferried thousands of pounds of cargo to and from the International Space Station, put dozens of commercial satellites into orbit, launched classified military payloads, and raked in billions of dollars.

Yet SpaceX engineers have constantly tinkered with the rocket over the past decade, adding new features, increasing efficiency, and boosting power. But Musk has said Falcon 9 Block 5 will be the "final version" before SpaceX moves on to bigger, badder Mars rockets.

The company hasn't publicly released any official specifications for the new rocket, and SpaceX representatives did not respond to Business Insider's request for them. Yet over the past year or so, Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president and chief operating officer, have described many of the changes.

Below is a summary of what to expect from the latest and last iteration of Falcon 9, based on our previous reporting, a list of changes compiled by Reddit's r/SpaceX community (which we first heard about from Eric Berger at Ars Technica), and other sources.

This story has been updated.

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, tried to launch the first-ever high-orbit communications satellite for Bangladesh on Thursday evening.

But with less than a minute remaining on the countdown clock, flight computers automatically aborted the launch sequence.

The mission is slated to use the company's latest version of its workhorse rocket, called the Falcon 9 Block 5, for the first time.

"We're still looking for the cause of the abort," Michael Hammersley, a SpaceX materials engineer, said during a live webcast of the launch attempt.

Sensors on the launchpad and throughout the rocket can throw an abort to prevent any problems, Hammersley said, adding that "these aborts are part of the standard process to make sure everything is working correctly" and that "it's better to have them on the ground than during a flight."

Flight controllers said both the new rocket and satellite, called Bangabandhu-1, were safe. However, they couldn't resolve the problem before the roughly two-hour window for launch ran out of time — so they scrubbed Thursday's attempt.

"We'll be aiming to launch tomorrow during our backup window," Hammersley said.

The soonest that SpaceX can try to launch the mission is at 4:14 p.m. ET on Friday.

Before the launch, Musk told reporters that Falcon 9 Block 5 is designed to be "the most reliable rocket ever built." He added: "I hope fate does not punish me for these words, but that is unequivocally the intent, and I think our most conservative customers would agree that is an accurate statement. Please, fate, do not punish me for this — the intentions are good."

Why the Bangabandhu-1 mission is so important for SpaceX

Bangabandhu Satellite-1, the first high-orbit communications satellite for Bangladesh.Thales Alenia Space

Thales Alenia Space, the company that designed and built Bangabandhu-1, said in a statement that the spacecraft is a "historical first satellite" for Bangladesh.

If successfully deployed, Bangabandhu-1 will bring state-of-the-art phone, radio, TV, and internet service to the nation of more than 160 million people, as well as surrounding countries like Nepal, Myanmar, and Bhutan.

But the 23-story rocket carrying the satellite is the real star of the mission: the Falcon 9 Block 5 is the most powerful, most reusable, and most likely last version of SpaceX's workhorse orbital launcher.

"The Bangabandhu Satellite-1 mission will be the first to utilize Falcon 9 Block 5, the final substantial upgrade to SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle," SpaceX said in a press release.

SpaceX's first Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket rolling out to a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.Elon Musk/SpaceX via Instagram

SpaceX has launched more than 50 missions on a Falcon 9 rocket since its debut in June 2010.

Engineers have steadily improved the rocket over time, making it taller, shaving unnecessary weight, and giving the engines more power. SpaceX has also added features to enable the rocket's 16-story booster — the largest and most expensive part, as it makes up about 60% of marginal costs— to launch, land, and be reused.

That's a stark distinction from all other orbital rockets in use today, which are used once and then discarded in the ocean.

SpaceX has twice reused a Falcon 9 booster. With Falcon 9 Block 5, however, Musk hopes to expand that to 10 times with only light inspections, and perhaps 100 or more reuses if worn parts get refurbished.

"I think the F9 boosters could be used almost indefinitely, so long as there is scheduled maintenance and careful inspections," Musk said on Reddit in October 2016. "Falcon 9 Block 5 — the final version in the series — is the one that has the most performance and is designed for easy reuse."

The reason Musk calls Falcon 9 Block 5 the "final version" is that SpaceX's 6,000 employees are shifting nearly all of their engineering efforts to focus on the company's Big Falcon Rocket.

The two-stage BFR system is expected to be taller than the Statue of Liberty, deliver a 16-story spaceship into orbit, be fully reusable, and ferry 100 people and 150 tons of cargo to Mars. It will ultimately replace all other SpaceX rockets, as it will be relatively inexpensive to launch and reuse — at least in theory.

SpaceX recently got a permit to begin constructing the first BFR spaceships in the Port of Los Angeles, about a dozen miles south of the company's headquarters. Musk hopes to begin test-launching the first BFR spaceships at SpaceX's Texas facilities early next year.

How to watch the first Falcon 9 Block 5 launch live

The earliest Bangabandhu-1 may launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is at 4:14 p.m. on Friday — a delay of 24 hours from its original target.

Current weather reports suggest the mission has an 60% chance of lifting off on Friday, and SpaceX has until 6:24 p.m. ET to launch. If there's another delay, the company may try again on Saturday.

You can watch SpaceX's live broadcast of today's attempted launch on YouTube. A new livestream should begin about 20 minutes before launch tomorrow, and will be embedded below once it's available.

Once the new Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket does launch, its booster is expected to careen back to Earth a few minutes after the launch and land on a droneship named "Of Course I Still Love You" in the Atlantic Ocean.

About 33 minutes into the launch, the upper stage of the rocket should deploy the Bangabandhu-1 satellite into orbit roughly 22,230 miles above Earth.

This story has been updated to include new details about the Falcon 9 launch. It was originally published at 11:59 a.m. EDT on May 10, 2018.

Wearing a loud, bitcoin-decorated tie, influential cryptocurrency billionaire and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper appeared on CNBC's Closing Bell on Thursday.

But Draper's colorful cravat was almost instantly upstaged by his truculent comments about another one of his investments.

What began as a standard interview quickly turned into an argument between Closing Bell's Kelly Evans and Draper. Draper defended both his investment in the controversial healthcare company Theranos and the intentions of its founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Draper said that he stood by a statement he made early last year in which he claimed that Holmes, a longtime friend, was the victim of a media-instigated witchhunt.

"I feel that we've taken down another great icon," said Draper. "This woman [Holmes] came to me when she was 19 years old and said, 'I'm going to transform healthcare as we know it,' and she got bullied into submission."

When Evans interjected that Theranos's investors have lost a staggering $900 million on their initial investments, Draper asked, "Are you talking at the same time I'm talking?"

Draper went on to say that Holmes had created a company that was "an amazing opportunity." Now, said Draper, the company is deemed worthless because she was browbeat by not only leading drug companies, but the media as well.

There's one member of the media in particular who has sparked Draper's ire: John Carreyrou, a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who investigated Theranos's technology early on and subsequently published a book on the subject, is largely responsible for what Draper deems the company's unjust demise.

While Draper didn't mention Carreyrou by name, there's little doubt that he was referring to any other journalist; Carreyrou is so widely recognized as Theranos's foe, that the company's employees created a video game to shoot him virtually.

"Wait, why is [Theranos] worthless?" Draper asked, rhetorically. "It's worthless because this writer was like a badger going after her, like a hyena going after her."

Draper went on to say that Holmes' attempt to transform the healthcare industry was met with discrimination.

Whatever the merits of Draper's claims, there's no denying the impact of Carreyrou's investigation on Theranos: The company is in reported shambles with a recent report revealing that it laid off close to 100 of its remaining employees.

Watch the full interview on CNBC here.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced on Wednesday that it will investigate Tuesday's Tesla Model S crash that killed two teenagers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The agency said in a press release that the investigation will focus on the emergency response related to the battery fire that followed the crash, "including fire department activities and towing operations." The agency said it does not expect Tesla's semi-autonomous Autopilot technology to be a part of the investigation.

"NTSB has a long history of investigating emerging transportation technologies, such as lithium ion battery fires in commercial aviation, as well as a fire involving the lithium ion battery in a Chevrolet Volt in collaboration with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration," NTSB chairman Robert S. Sumwalt said in a press release. "The goal of these investigations is to understand the impact of these emerging transportation technologies when they are part of a transportation accident."

The NTSB didn't give a specific timeline for the investigation, but said investigations that involve fatalities tend to take 12-24 months.

The fire reportedly prevented people from helping the victims

The crash occurred on Tuesday after the vehicle hit a concrete wall at around 6:46 p.m. and caught fire, killing the driver, Barrett Riley, and front-seat passenger, Edgar Martinez, who were both 18-years-old. The backseat passenger, 18-year-old Alexander Berry, was thrown out of the vehicle after the crash and taken to a nearby hospital. Berry's condition has not been reported.

The vehicle's speed is believed to be a factor in the accident.

A local resident told CBS affiliate WFOR that the fire made it difficult for observers to help the car's occupants.

"Two people trapped in the front seats," the person, who was not identified by name, said. "Nobody could help because the car was on fire. The fire was so intense that nobody could reach them. There were people trying to get there but it wasn't happening."

A Tesla representative told Business Insider that the company is "working to establish the facts of the incident" and will cooperate with local authorities. You can read the company's full statement below.

"Our thoughts are with the families and friends affected by this tragedy. The family who owned the car has been a close friend of Tesla for many years, and this hits us particularly hard. We are working to establish the facts of the incident and offer our full cooperation to the local authorities. We have not yet been able to retrieve the logs from the vehicle, but everything we have seen thus far indicates a very high-speed collision and that Autopilot was not engaged. Serious high-speed collisions can result in a fire, regardless of the type of car. Tesla's billions of miles of actual driving data shows that a gas car in the United States is five times more likely to experience a fire than a Tesla vehicle. This doesn't change how devastating an event like this is for our customer's family and friends, and our hearts are with them."

Tesla and the NTSB argued after an accident in March

After a fatal Model X accident in March that involved the vehicle's battery catching fire, Tesla said the batteries in its vehicles are designed to decrease the rate at which a fire can spread.

"Tesla battery packs are designed so that in the rare circumstance a fire occurs, it spreads slowly so that occupants have plenty of time to get out of the car," the company wrote on its website.

In the aftermath of the March accident, Tesla helped the agency retrieve and interpret data from the vehicle's logs, but Tesla clashed with the agency over the company's decision to disclose information about the crash on its blog.

As a result, Tesla is no longer a party to the agency's investigation, though it said it would continue to assist the agency. Each side disagreed over who ended Tesla's party status. The NTSB said it revoked it, while Tesla said it voluntarily chose to remove itself from the party agreement.

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