đĄ WTH? Black people in over 20 states are receiving racist text messages ordering them to report to plantations for slave labor. These hate-filled messages, which target kids and adults alike, are sent from unknown numbers, many of which are through the anonymous TextNow app.
Tags: apps, racism, slavery, text messages, TextNow
Ah, the wide world of tech myths. Iâve heard âem all:
Macs are immune to viruses. Stick a wet phone in rice and itâll be as good as new. Always run your battery down to 0% before you charge.
Iâve heard it all on my national radio show. There was the guy totally freaked out because too many strangers in public knew his name for it to be a coincidence. (His name was Buddy.)
There was a woman who swore one of Metallicaâs band members hacked her iPhone to stalk her after she rejected him online. And another who bought and sold three cars because she thought they all had hidden trackers.
đ˛ The No. 1 show on Netflix right now is âMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.â It dives into the true story of two brothers convicted of murdering their parents in 1996. They said a lifetime of abuse drove them to it; prosecutors argued it was all about inheriting the family fortune.
Manufactured by Anova, it uses an internal camera to recognize your food and tell you how to cook it. It uses both wet and dry heat, like ovens in restaurants. In the future, the Precision Oven 2.0 will spot cooking mistakes before a dish is ruined.
đŹ Plot twist: âHereâ follows Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span, de-aged entirely by AI. A few years ago, this wouldnât have been possible without Marvel-level budgets. Now? Theyâre pulling it off for $50 million. The trailer gave me goosebumps!
Hackers are demanding ransom from Franceâs Schneider Electric. If they donât get it, theyâll spill 40GB of stolen data, including company projects, employee details and customer info. Talk about handing over the dough.
Opened at the same time will crash the Outlook app. Microsoft isn’t sure why, but it might be due to overloading the working memory. Iâll keep you posted when a fix is out. I was on the fence about buying Office 365. I shook a Magic 8 Ball, and it said, âOutlook not good!â
For automaker GM, which sold 32,000 electric vehicles in the U.S. during the third quarter. Ford insists theyâre still in the second spot, claiming âGM is adding every brand EVâ they sell, including Chevy, GMC and Cadillac. You guessed it â Tesla remains No. 1. You know what they say: 95% of electric cars are still on the road; the other 5% made it all the way home.
