Steve Jobs started using the “i” prefix for Apple products with the iMac in 1998. Back then, the “i” stood for “internet.” What does it mean now?
🤦♀️ Neither snow nor rain nor heat (but not fire!): An Amazon driver with hardly a brain opened a garage door, walked through the smoke, left a package inside the burning garage and didn’t bother calling 911. By the time a passerby called three-and-a-half hours later, it took fire departments from 10 surrounding towns to put out the flames. Watch the story here. Unbelievable.
Amazon driver ignores a house fire
A family’s home burned for over three hours. The crazy part is, just 20 minutes in, an Amazon driver arrived to drop off a package. Watch what happens when he enters the smokey garage.
11 years later
Gamers are still using their PS4s. The PS5 has been out for four years, but nearly 50 million people are still hanging on to their old consoles. Hey, if it ain’t broke, why shell out $400?
Over-share-enting: Former online influencer babies are all grown up and they want laws to protect kids from parents oversharing online. One woman said when she was nine, her mom posted about her first period online, saying, “My baby girl’s a woman today.” Maybe we need to go back to good old-fashioned baby books.
👍 Thumbs-up: Scientists invented a robotic thumb that attaches to your hand opposite your natural thumb. With two thumbs on one hand, you can open bottles, peel a banana and even thread a needle — all one-handed. Guess how you control it? By wiggling your toe. Seriously, you gotta see this.
Criminals using Wi-Fi jammers: Police caught an international crime ring staking out marks’ homes. Once the victims left, they used Wi-Fi jammers to disable the house’s Wi-Fi and security systems to rob them. A Chilean gang tried to do the same thing to me, and the Phoenix SWAT team even stormed my house! Worth the watch, promise.
🦈This is so-fish-ticated: “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, wants to crowdsource a TikTok acquisition. It’s pretty ingenious: If just 59% of the 170 million Americans on TikTok wanted in, they could contribute $1,000 each to collectively buy it for $100 billion. I’m just not sure that many Americans have a rack lying around.
This is so fly: Amazon Prime Air’s delivery drones have received Beyond Visual Line of Sight clearance to go nationwide in 2025. Pilots can operate them remotely, and drones can legally travel farther. Hopefully, this doesn’t turn into people skeet-shooting for “prizes.”
Scammers pretending to be the Social Security office
Be careful what information you give over the phone, especially if you aren’t expecting a call.