‘My phone died. Can I use yours?’

“My phone died. Can I use yours?” It’s a trick spreading quickly across the country. Someone who’s clearly frazzled asks if they can call a friend on your phone to pick them up because their car won’t start. You unlock your device, hand it over and that person runs away with it.

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4,500 years of work

Saved by Amazon developers using an in-house AI assistant. Crazy, right? Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says Amazon Q’s Java skills are so good that 79% of the autogenerated code went live without any changes.

Fasting retreats are a bad idea

Just because you bring your phone, doesn’t mean you have to use it.

1,030 calories

In the Big Arch, McDonald’s biggest burger ever. It includes two quarter-pound beef patties, three slices of cheese, crispy onions, pickles, lettuce and a new tangy sauce. Right now, you can only get one in Canada and Portugal, but I’m sure it’s coming to the U.S. soon.

$200K liquid net worth

Would make 56% of Americans content, according to a poll of folks ages 18 to 43. Money doesn’t buy happiness, but a safety net sure doesn’t hurt.

$100M podcast deal

For football players Travis Kelce and his brother, Jason. “New Heights” recently hit No. 4 on the podcast charts. Hope they thanked Taylor Swift for the boost. Amazon’s podcast division, Wondery, will host the livestream and give paying subs early ad-free access. Jeff, call me. I’ll do it for $50 million.

23% of those 18 to 34

Never answer the phone. Never! And 56% assume a call out of the blue means bad news. Hey, it’s hard to blame them, given how bad spam calls have gotten in the last few years.

$17 million loss

On a $27 million dream home. A New Jersey couple spent seven years building a 40,000-square-foot property that includes a chapel, an English-style pub, a gym, a home theater, a wine grotto and a golf simulator (paywall link). It’s up for auction with a reserve price of just $10 million.

43 times out of 100

AI car features are more trouble than they’re worth. J.D. Power polled Americans who drive 2024 models that include tech like facial recognition, a fingerprint reader and interior gesture controls. The feedback? “Meh.” See the top-rated manufacturers and models here.

1.6M brain scans

Used to train an AI tool that predicts dementia risk. Researchers are using MRI and CT scans to find patterns that could help doctors spot dementia sooner and treat it better. I sure hope it works; by 2050, the number of people with dementia is expected to triple.