Sound check: This is incredible. A noisy experiment gone right led to histotripsy, a cancer treatment that uses ultrasound to blast tumors without surgery. FDA-approved for liver cancer, it’s noninvasive, fast and, get this, 95% effective in trials so far. Patients usually go home the same day. The inventor discovered it trying to quiet her lab. Volume down, breakthrough up.
📺 Power reset your smart TV: If your TV’s acting up with black screens or weird glitches, turn it off and unplug it from the wall. Then hold the TV’s power button (usually on the front, side or back) for 60 seconds. Plug it back in, turn it on, and you’re good to go.
📺 Monetized redemption: YouTube’s letting some banned creators come back, if they’ve been gone over a year and play nice this time. No copyright cheats, no repeat offenders. They’ll have to rebuild from scratch, monetization and all. Basically, it’s creator purgatory with ads.
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Metal’s glow-up: MIT just whipped up a 3D-printable aluminum that’s five times stronger than the regular stuff and still light enough to replace titanium in jet engines. Translation: cheaper planes, cars, maybe even phones. The wild part? The engineers didn’t spend years testing a million different combos. They let AI do the heavy lifting, narrowing it down to just 40 winning formulas. So yeah, I guess that makes AI the world’s smartest metal detector.
🚨 There’s a new Y2K bug: Meet Y2K38. It’s what happens when older tech hits a digital wall in January 2038 and thinks it’s 1901. (Talk about a throwback.) Hackers aren’t waiting around, either. They can mess with systems right now using fake GPS signals and bogus time stamps. We’re talking cars, printers, even nuclear subs going haywire. What can you do? The usual smart stuff: Keep your devices updated, turn off auto time-sync if it seems sketchy, and don’t let old gear connect to weird networks.
🎮 It’s not just a phase, Mom: That whole “video games are for kids” thing? Turns out the average gamer is 41, and they’re playing to relax, connect with others and keep their minds sharp. Nearly half are women. And yes, phones count, mobile is the top platform. Get this, nearly half of U.S. parents say gaming helps their relationship with their kids. I used to play Need for Speed with my son. At one point, I yelled, “Ian, punch it, the cops are right behind us!” Then I sat back and thought, “Yep, definitely not getting Parent of the Year for this one.”
🖨️ Restart everything: If your printer’s acting weird, turn it off and unplug it for 30 seconds before powering it back on. Restart your computer, too. This clears temporary glitches in the printer’s memory and often fixes those annoying “processing” loops.
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🧯 Firewall files exposed: You might not know what SonicWall is, but if your company backs up firewall settings to the cloud, they’re in a massive breach. SonicWall says every single cloud backup got exposed. Yikes. Forward this to your IT lead and check the alert list. It’s one of those “better safe than hacked” situations.