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🚫 Buffering? Blame this setting
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+ a $50 billion Chrome, Wi-Fi hacks, phishing alert, radio smarts and smartphone royalty
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🧠 This $4,000 phone redefines “unhinged tech”
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+ Real-time hacking, HBO Max crackdown, held hostage by Waymo, and a crocodile mummy
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📱 The secret code phone thieves fear most
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+ AI pope predictions, crazy fast batteries, Publishers Clearing House scam, UFO turntable and more tech smarts
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🚗 The $55,000 car that ghosted
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+ Bank scam, Gen Z “locking in,” WWII car mystery, Nintendo prices and tech smarts
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🌡️ Your thermostat is spying
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+ $20 scam, drones again, Chrome chaos, AI workforce, Taobao surge and more tech smarts
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🖨️ Crocodile skin
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+ Hotkey heroics, YouTube hacks, AI smarter than humans and how to trend
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🌿Jesus’ tomb
April 20, 2025
+ Charger recall, YouTube screen lock, digital pet adoption and more tech smarts
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📸 Turn your old phone into a free security cam
April 19, 2025
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+ Wi-Fi moochers, iPad major changes, a free Gmail hack and how much to use your tech to keep your mind sharp
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❓ Great gadget or a gimmick
April 18, 2025
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+ Google’s ad empire under fire, a planet that smells fishy, teens can’t sleep and moose TV
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📲 Signs you have spyware or a keylogger
April 17, 2025
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+ Windows glitch, iPhone Fold, fake Birks, Zuck’s $450M offer & tech smarts
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💔 Scammed into prison
April 16, 2025
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+ Hertz data breach, Lyft records convos, Melinda dishes dirt on Bill and tech tricks
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💸 Crypto smarts
April 15, 2025
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Anthropic vs. OpenAI, action figure selfies and $3 million for moon poop
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⚠️ Privacy risk
April 14, 2025
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+ Trump crypto change, Lauren Sanchez mission, Microsoft Recall and more tech knowledge
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🫴🏼 AI can help you flirt, sleep and parent better
April 13, 2025
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+ No tech tariffs, urgent Windows patch, dangerous undersea cord-cutting and tech goodness
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You’ll wish you’d set this up sooner
April 12, 2025
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+ Very expensive rocks, Apple’s tariff-dodging “airdrop,” and a poorly named moon
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📺 My streaming picks
April 11, 2025
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+ Robot bears, deepfake job candidates and long live the queen bee
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🔥 Fire hazards
April 10, 2025
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+ Robot surgery, AI avatars in court and a longer day on Uranus
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⚡️ You’re ignoring this power move
April 9, 2025
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+ GPS disaster, fingerprint déjà vu and why Fortnite is Sabrina Carpenter’s cash cow
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🙉 Ultrasonic tracking on the rise
April 8, 2025
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+ fake toll text scams, MrBeast in the pyramids, and an OG tech comeback