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š $1 billion in romance scams: Thatās how much more than 64,000 Americans were talked out of, double the total four years ago. The Online Dating Safety Act could help. If approved, itād require dating apps to notify anyone who has come in contact with a scam account. This begs the question: If they can identify scam accounts, why canāt they just remove them?
Iām all about using AI to get stuff done. No kidding, I use ChatGPT every day to shortcut planning and organize my work and my life.
You know who else loves AI? Cybercriminals. A new scam powered by deepfakes is all over social media. Too many people have fallen for it and lost millions of dollars in the process. Iāve got the dirty details so you donāt become a victim, too.
Nine days after going missing, 4-year-old German shepherd mix Athena rang her ownerās doorbell. It was Christmas Eve at 2:30 a.m. ā a holiday miracle! The Green Cove Springs, Florida fam searched as far as Jacksonville and Saint Augustine.
Top speed for Chinaās new bullet train prototype. Thatās a world record and fast enough to zip from New York to Chicago in under three hours. Chinaās current fastest trains max out at 220 mph. The fastest Amtrak trains go 160 mph, but most top out closer to 100 mph. We really need better trains in the U.S.
Nvidia, the $3 trillion AI chip giant, is betting on robotics as the next big thing. Next year, theyāll launch the Jetson Thor, a new ābrainā designed for robots. The Jetson line includes this teeny-tiny AI computer. The robotics biz is expected to jump from $78 billion to $165 billion by 2029. I want one! Do you?
New internet speed world record. Thatās 4.5 million times faster than the average broadband connection. Some context: At that speed, itād take one minute to download every single movie listed on IMDb. Speaking of ā¦ How do you know the speed of light is much faster than the speed of sound? Because some people appear bright until they open their mouths.
Age of footprints found in Saudi Arabia. These are the oldest ones ever uncovered on the Arabian Peninsula. They turned up in a dried-up watering hole in the Nafud Desert, right next to animal tracks. The area was wetter back then, and early humans were likely taking a water break alongside other animals, like a prehistoric rest stop.
Collected by holiday apps compared to regular paid apps. The holidays are over, but those festive apps are still gifting your data to anyone willing to pay. Monopoly Go! is the worst offender. Hereās the full list. Ditch āem.
Works from this year will enter the public domain on Jan. 1. Included are Alfred Hitchcockās āBlackmail,ā along with āTintin in the Land of the Sovietsā and āThimble Theater,ā which features Popeye and Olive Oyl (and her brother, Castor Oyl). Public domain means theyāre not protected by copyright, so anyone can use, copy, distribute or change them. Get ready for some weird Popeye videos, folks. Food for thought: Wouldn’t it be ironic if Popeyesā chicken was fried in olive oil?
The value of a one-square-mile parcel in Wyomingās Grand Teton National Park thatās now protected from development. The state has considered selling the plot ā a migration path for pronghorn and elk ā to luxury developers. The nonprofit Grand Teton National Park Foundation raised about one-third of the cash; the rest is from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Of life gone for every cigarette smoked. Yikes! I still cannot believe there were ads in the 1940s that said, basically, cigarettes were good for you. A new study out of University College London found a pack of 20 cigarettes knocks 7 hours off a personās life. Say you smoke 10 a day and quit on Jan. 1. By the end of the year, youāve āearned backā 50 extra days. Now, thatās incredible motivation.
