Meet your future robot coworker
Humanoid robots have come a long way. In 2000, Hondaâs $2.5 million ASIMO could barely shuffle along at 1 mph. Now, robots are running, flipping and handling customer service. Letâs dive into the robot revolution.
Stop your devices from listening
Whatâs the obvious downside for always-on devices that constantly listen for commands? Theyâre always listening. Voice-activated tech uses microphones that listen for wake words, meaning they can hear personal conversations you donât want them to hear. Donât worry, you can stop it.
$1 million
Royalties Spotify paid nearly 1,500 artists in 2024. You need over 20 million streams a month to earn that. Guess who is the number one earner on Spotify? Yup, itâs a âTay Dayâ pay day for Taylor Swift who made an estimated $79.8 million to $133 million from 26.6 billion streams.
The future of laptops
My job is to keep you ahead of the curve, so you know whatâs worth your hard-earned money and whatâs just hype. One reader recently asked me: Where are laptops going next? Letâs break it down.
As AI gets better, imagine a bot that automates boring laptop tasks like booking flights, ordering groceries or organizing your files. Microsoftâs Copilot+ PCs promise to do just that.
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17%
Lower risk of dying early by swapping butter for plant oils. A big Harvard study tracked over 220,000 Americans for 33 years. Swapping just two tablespoons on your bread makes a difference. The kicker? Baking with butter doesnât have the same risk. No margarine for error here.
25%
Americans feel burned out before they turn 30. Many Gen Z and millennials say theyâve hit âpeak stressâ at 25. Thatâs way younger than the average of 42 years old when most folks start having a midlife crisis.
Over $1 billion
In unclaimed tax refunds from 2021 will expire in four weeks. If you didnât file your 2021 tax return, act fast or that money goes straight to the U.S. Treasury ⌠forever. The average refund is $781, but some could get as much as $6,728! The deadline is April 15, 2025. See if youâre eligible on the IRS website.
$16 per month
Gets you access to Snapchat Platinum, including its new AI video Lenses. Think of it as a filter where you can see yourself cuddling up with cute virtual animals on screen. So far, thereâs a raccoon and fox, plus spring flowers. People need to cool it with the age filter. Itâs getting old.
100 days
How long an Australian man lived with an artificial titanium heart while waiting for a transplant. Itâs the longest anyone has survived using the technology, which is still in trials. If it keeps proving successful, this could be the answer for people with heart failure.
26 terabytes
The size of Western Digitalâs new $569.99 hard drive designed for Network-Attached Storage systems, letting multiple people store and share massive amounts of data. The first hard drive, the IBM 305 RAMAC, was introduced in 1956 and cost around $50,000 (over $500,000 today adjusted for inflation). It had a whopping 5MB of storage! đ˛