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Remember when people would camp out all night for the latest iPhone? That excitement died down, but it’s made a big comeback.
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👨👩👧👦 Meet the kids of tech billionaires: Steve Jobs’ youngest daughter, Eve, graduated from Stanford and is an equestrian and model. Bill Gates’ oldest child, Jennifer, completed medical school this year. Then there’s Jeff Bezos, who has three sons and a daughter. Only his oldest son’s name is publicly known. (It’s Preston.) Here’s more about those swimming in the lucky gene pool, if you want to read it.
How long the average home cook spends planning Thanksgiving. That’s two weeks each on the guest list and menu planning, plus three days of food prep and cooking. Get going! You don’t want to make Thanksgiving a cluster-pluck.
Coming soon to select Ford vehicles: The Stingray Karaoke app. Pick a song and sing along with the lyrics on the infotainment screen. It only works when you’re parked; otherwise, the front seat passenger gets the lyrics on their phone so the driver stays focused. First up on my playlist? Sing it with me: “Life is a highway / I wanna ride it all night long!”
Missed that one in QA: A weird bug in iOS 18 is crashing the Messages app. If someone shares an Apple Watch face via Messages and you reply in a threaded response, the app will crash for both people in the convo. The only fix is deleting the thread, meaning your full chat history is gone.
The estates of long-gone celebrities are raking in money: It’s not just voice cloning, like Judy Garland reading “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (paywall link). Using old footage and the right AI, Hollywood can create digital models that look, sound and move just like the real person. Even concerts with de-aged virtual avatars like ABBA Voyage pull in over $2 million a week. They’re alive, but you get the point.
🔐 Change your password: Over 2 million VPN passwords were stolen using malware last year. ExpressVPN, Proton VPN and NordVPN were the biggest targets. The companies weren’t breached; hackers went after users through phishing attacks, keyloggers and credential stuffing. Change your password ASAP if you have a VPN. And remember, “beefstew” as a password isn’t stroganoff.
🙏 What heaven’s really like: A brain surgeon fell into a deep coma and says he saw what heaven looked like. Guided by a beautiful woman, he described seeing a world filled with vibrant trees, rivers, animals and angelic chants more intense than anything on Earth. His proof? He was adopted and had been searching for his biological family. Four months after coming out of his coma, he received a picture of his late sister. It was the woman who guided him in heaven.
Naps during the workday. A new survey revealed 33% of remote workers take calls in the bathroom and 17% watch TV or play video games. Working hard or hardly working?
🕵️♂️ Once on the internet, always on the internet: New AI tools can now search through your social media history to find things you said or did years ago in seconds. One, Ferretly, helps employers spot red flags like hate speech, drug use and bullying, going as far back as 10 to 15 years. Clean up your online footprint.
Lifesaving tech: The 2025 Toyota Sienna minivan will call your phone if it thinks you left kids in the car. A 60 GHz radar scanner monitors the second and third rows. If the doors lock and it detects someone inside, the hazard lights will start flashing and the horn will sound. If you ignore it, you’ll get a text and a phone call.
