Two Chinese companies make nearly half the world’s cellular modules, the chips inside doorbells, thermostats and fridges. Your smart gadgets, friend, may be chatting with Beijing. Five minutes on your router shuts the conversation down.
Lindsey Isaacs’ black Durango passed a Flock camera two minutes before a deadly crash. The car actually involved was maroon. The 911 callers read a different plate. Troopers arrested her anyway. She tells Kim what happened and what’s left of her life.
Kick off football season with 10 practical upgrades: Streaming, grilling and tailgating gear are all on sale.
Starship will carry 26 next-gen Starlinks into orbit. Here’s how big they are, how fast they’ll be, how long they’ll last and what happens when one dies (nobody reboots it).
Grandma says the chin is Grandpa’s. Your sister says the kid is all you. Upload three photos and let AI referee. Five prompts, one warning about privacy and the science on who babies look like.
Holiday flights and gift lists are being priced right now, friend, and the sites doing it know your town even with Location Services off. Your IP does that. Six minutes fixes most of it.
Your chatbot conversations can help train AI, and some may be reviewed by humans. Here’s how to tell ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini: Thanks, but no thanks.
Cash, miles, points, elite perks and wait lists make airline upgrades a mess. This AI prompt compares every option and shows you what each upgrade really costs before you spend a dime.
No car for sale drives itself, friend. Not even the one with Full Self-Driving on the window sticker. Don’t buy your mom the car. Set up the rides on her phone instead. Ten minutes, tops.
Not all AI bots guard your info the same. Here’s which ones are worst, what not to type and how to lock your data down.
The iPhone 16 was $699 last Tuesday. The next day, it was $799. Same phone. Nothing changed. This is the first time Apple has raised prices on older iPhones at a launch event, and it’s not really about Apple. It’s about the chips inside everything you own, friend.
Why the people building AI are the ones sounding the alarm, and what you can do about it
Google caught malware that asks AI to rewrite its own code every hour, friend. Your free antivirus is checking mugshots against a face that keeps changing. Ten minutes today puts a real watcher on duty.
New Jersey students handed over their phones on Sept. 1 under a new all-day ban. The same company making those locking pouches for schools sells a version for your workplace, and employers are buying. Know the line before the memo lands.
Inside: 10 smart extras that solve the little annoyances your new device doesn’t handle on its own. All on sale.
Sue Livingstone, 84, stood on her old street in Queens again. Ginny, 81, swam with dolphins. Bob, 83, hiked Glacier on his birthday with his wife of 61 years beside him. And the part nobody expected: Afterward, they all went to lunch. Together, friend.
The picture mode the store set is wrong on purpose. Your TV is dimming itself. And that model number was written to make sure Best Buy never has to match Costco’s price. Six insider fixes, friend, and they’re all free.
Twenty-five years ago, millions of Americans picked up the phone at the same moment, and most of them couldn’t get through. The network wasn’t destroyed. It was busy. That continues to happen in hurricanes and blackouts, and there are four things you can set up tonight that make you reachable when everyone else isn’t.
ChatGPT keeps a running profile of you, and the Memory Summary may not show everything it remembers from past chats. Here’s how to read and clean it up.
That $200-a-month refi savings pitch can cost you way more than you’re saving. Here’s the exact prompt to paste into any AI chatbot so it does the loan officer’s math for you, in your favor, before you sign anything.
