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Score, you’re on a long flight and the Wi-Fi rocks. Not so fast. There are some things you shouldn’t do, no matter how fast the connection.
Tags: Flight, in-flight Wi-Fi, matter, Wi, Wi-Fi
Monday is April 1, and I can’t let it go by without recommending some techy April Fools’ pranks! If you know me, you know I love a good gag. If you know Barry, you know he’s my most frequent victim.
These sneaky tricks are harmless (and hilarious), but be forewarned — they require a little bit of device snooping. Hey, what else do you have going on this weekend?
In every Apple ad, the time shown on the iPhones, MacBooks and iPads is always the same. Is it A.) 9:41, B.) 12:01, C.) 6:30 or D.) 10:10?
Friend or fake? A grandma got duped by her Facebook “friend” who told her she could win $200,000. The price of entry? $10,000. She sent the money, then called her friend — who had no idea what she was talking about. A scammer used AI to hack her friend’s account. The lesson. Call first.
For context, the highest iPhone camera speed is just 240 frames per second (fps). Scientists will use the camera’s “swept-coded aperture real-time femto-photography” (SCARF, for short) to snap “shockwaves moving through matter.” But can it see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch? All right, I’m sorry for that one.
😳 ED deepfake: Scammers used clips from a woman’s online videos to create a deepfake clone promoting erectile dysfunction pills. Now it’s plastered all over the internet. Even worse? There are no federal laws against deepfakes, so this poor woman can’t do much about it. Talk about a nightmare that lasts more than four hours.
Eat your heart out, Gen Z: A single TikTok video propelled Puneet Nanda’s oil-pulling products to No. 1 on TikTok Shop, with over a million sales of a single product. On one crazy-high sales day, Nanda brought in $7,000! The kicker? He’s 56 years old. Age really is just a number, folks.
🎵 Beethoven’s DNA: Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair revealed he wasn’t born with any special talent — at least not according to his genes. In other words, the maestro’s magic was probably more about nurture than nature. You can’t beat hard work and grit.
Who’s a good bot? Police robodog Roscoe got more than it bargained for when it went in to sniff out a Cape Cod knife-wielder. The guy also had a gun, and he shot Roscoe three times in the neck. Roscoe got his revenge, though — the crook got teargassed and cuffed. Now, the bot is being shipped back to Boston Dynamics for some TLC.
Scammers are cloning CleanMyMac X to steal passwords and data. Cons are spreading fakes through lookalike websites and stolen YouTube channels that lure you into malicious downloads.
