Just like “Home Alone

February 16, 2024

Just like “Home Alone”: Viral vids are teaching folks to turn hotel rooms into Fort Knox using towels, hangers and furniture. Blame the true-crime binge for cranking up everyone’s anxiety. If you’re truly nervous, skip the TikTok products. Buy a portable door lock and call it good.

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‘Can you tape that?’ Phrases tech has killed off forever

Remember this? “You hang up first.” “No, you hang up first.” Not quite as romantic when you fumble for the “End call” button on your iPhone, eh? As times change and our tech changes, so do the phrases we use.

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📶 No bars: When your cell service is wonky, switch your phone to Airplane mode, wait a few seconds, then change it back. This will reconnect you to the nearest cell tower. Sweet!

What’s the most expensive phone number ever sold: A.) 222-2222, B.) 555-5555, C.) 666-6666 or D.) 8888-8888?

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270,315 printer cartridges

How much HP’s CEO earned in 2023. Poor Enrique Lores got a 7% pay cut — which still comes to $19.46 million in pay, stocks and perks. HP says his actual take-home was $12,858,597. So, he’s fine.

Speed up your phone

Is your phone’s browser a complete mess? Those tabs running in the background eat up valuable memory. There’s a quicker fix than closing tabs one at a time.

On iPhone:

Open Safari. Tap and hold the icon that looks like two overlapping squares. From the pop-up, choose Close All Tabs. Done!

On Android:

It’s even easier if you use Chrome. Just say, “Hey, Google, close all tabs.” If you’re using a different browser, there’s usually a menu in the top right corner. Look for the Close All Tabs option. That’s it!

🏁 Speed Rx: Do this once a week to keep your phone’s performance top-notch.

Relationships are like smartphones. You look at your iPhone 8 and think, “It used to be a lot quicker to turn this thing on.”

🤣 I accidentally deleted all my German friends’ phone numbers. Now my iPhone is Hans-free.

4,000 layoffs at Cisco

That’s following 5,000 layoffs in 2022. The internet networking company is doing what a bunch of other tech outfits have done: Laying folks off to work on AI.

$1.83 trillion market cap for chip maker Nvidia

It just passed Amazon and Alphabet (aka Google). No surprise, given its chips power the majority of today’s AI models.

$100 and Louis Vuitton is what the tooth fairy leaves these days

OK, not all parents are going all out, but 20% of kids now get money and a gift for each lost tooth. I got 50 cents!

📍 Where am I? You can ask your smartphone that — really! So handy on vacation or if you’re lost. You’ll get your address and location on a map, which you can then share. Just say, “Hey, Siri” or “Hey, Google,” followed by, “Where am I?”