If I could turn back time

If I could turn back time: Graphics card and chipmaker NVIDIA just overtook Apple as the world’s second most valuable company. The AI boom has companies gobbling up NVIDIA’s chips at record rates. Bet you wish you’d bought stock in them at $4 a decade ago. Today, it’s about $1,200 a share. Hey, I didn’t buy it either.

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Use the NewsBreak app? Delete it. Here’s why

My husband, Barry, is a total news junkie. He has all the major news apps on his phone. That’s why this story stopped me in my tracks. NewsBreak, the most downloaded news app in the U.S., with more than 50 million readers per month, has strong ties to Communist China.

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Automakers want to get rid of AM radio

When I was growing up, my dad worked for United Airlines, and I traveled a lot. I would always sneak a portable AM radio in my backpack, and as the plane crisscrossed the country, I would tune into various stations along the way. Never would I have imagined what that little hobby would become for me.

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Before you buy a house, watch this

Pat Lawlor and his wife were first-time homebuyers, eager and ready to start the process. Things took a turn for the worse when Pat received an email from his “escrow officer” and sent over their down payment. Catch the full interview here. Buyer beware!

Trivia

Ever wonder how your smartphone “knows” the exact time? It uses one specific time zone — which is it?

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$100,000 in cash

At the bottom of a lake. ​​A couple of magnet fishers in New York City hooked a metal safe with a small fortune inside. What’s magnet fishing? Finding sunken metal treasure with high-powered magnets instead of hooks, aka your new hobby.

What is the Dark Web?

It’s not just hackers and scammers … though, yeah, they are there. Let’s take a closer look.

$2 trillion in sales

For the iPhone since 2007. Holy moly, that’s a lot of money. The biggest year was 2022, with $205.4 billion. That’s when the SE, 14, 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max came out. Cha-ching!

70% increase in cancer

In young people, and Red Bull might be to blame. Researchers believe taurine (one of the main ingredients in energy drinks) is used as a primary energy source for cancer cells. More research is coming, but this is scary. Talk to your people.

1 in 7 searches

Now show Google’s AI Overview results. They backed way, way off after all the drama around bad, dangerous or just plain dumb answers. Still, I’d take what you read there with a grain of salt.

247 million views

On TikTok to erase one guy’s student loan debt. Jake Heisenburg went viral on TikTok trying to make it happen. He challenged people to help him pay off his loans by watching a 60-second video of him eating cereal. He’s only at 26 million so far, but that’s about $4,200 in loans. Not bad.