Tag: kids

🦃 Hosting Thanksgiving? Read this first

More time with family, less time stuck in the kitchen. I found 15 smart tools for Turkey Day, so you can sit down and enjoy the feast, too.

This Thursday, strangers from around the world will unlock the safe that protects the internet. Here’s how to watch it live.

The internet has a master key, and it just got swapped for only the second time ever. On Thursday, Nov. 12, the volunteers who guard it meet in a Virginia vault, and anyone can watch. Here’s the weird, wonderful ritual that keeps fake websites from hijacking your bank’s address.

Teens are kicking in front doors for TikTok, and Halloween weekend is prime time. Here’s how to catch them with your doorbell cam.

The Door Kick Challenge is back, and police from Massachusetts to Kansas warn it could end with someone getting shot. Before trick-or-treat night, set up your doorbell cam to catch faces, save the clip and keep your family safe.

AI sorts your kids’ Halloween candy by allergy risk in minutes

About 1 in 19 U.S. kids has a food allergy, and the fun-size version of a candy doesn’t always match its full-size twin’s ingredients. Here’s how to get AI to inventory the haul, build a sibling trade sheet and schedule the eating, while you still check every wrapper yourself.

School software breach and 23andMe’s $6M settlement: How to protect your family today

Your kid’s school software and your DNA kit both leaked your family’s most personal data. Here’s how to freeze, delete and get your info off the market.

A Texas man bought a 3D printer to make toy dragons. Now he prints free wheelchairs for toddlers.

Luke Saintignan of Longview, Texas, uses two home 3D printers to build free mobility chairs for little kids. Volunteers like him have built 1,400 of them in 49 countries, and more than 1,000 families are waiting for one. Here’s how you can help, with or without a printer.

Musk wants a chip in your skull. Altman paid to have his brain uploaded. Thiel got asked whether humans should survive, and paused.

Three men who already own your feed, your search box and your AI have a plan for the inside of your head, friend. It has a name, it’s not science fiction and nobody asked you.

That ‘AI’ robot butler? Sometimes it’s a guy in a VR headset watching your kitchen. Here’s what the contracts really say.

The Wall Street Journal caught the $20,000 NEO being driven by a remote human operator. The $8,000 Isaac 1 is “autonomous” until it gets stuck and a person takes over. And the $30-an-hour robot maid in San Francisco is watched by an operator on every visit, under a contract that hands the company your home footage forever. Four house rules before you let one in the door.

The tool-belt generation is getting rich, and AI can’t lay a glove on them

Trades are booming while AI panic spreads. A SpaceX welder’s $28/hr job turned into $880K stock. Electricians building data centers earn up to $260K debt-free. The FAA hired 2,000+ gamers as $144K controllers. No degree needed, just paid apprenticeships.

One list of family inside jokes, three free games: the crossword, Jeopardy! board and bingo card that beat every phone

Twenty family facts, like nicknames, old addresses and that one boat story nobody lets go of, are all AI needs to write the clues. Free sites turn them into printable games in about 15 minutes flat, no cost, no login.

The free school laptop comes home with a spy inside. Set these house rules tonight.

GoGuardian watches about 27 million students, roughly half of America’s K-12 schools, and it doesn’t clock out at 3 p.m. Gaggle scans essays, emails and chats in about 1,500 districts, and kids have been flagged for song lyrics and a Bible verse. Four house rules protect your family, starting with the postcard talk.

Turn any photo into a free coloring page in 20 seconds

The kids are bored, the crayons are out, but every coloring book is scribbled in. Here’s the quick AI trick that turns your own photos into custom pages nobody else on Earth has.

Your phone is a magic star map. Here’s how to use it tonight.

No telescope, no chart, no clue what you’re looking at? Doesn’t matter. The free app already in your pocket names every star you point it at, and one trick lets you see the stars beneath your feet. Plus, the farthest thing your eyes can ever reach.

Crooks are using your Social Security number to build a fake person. It’s the fastest-growing crime in America.

They take one real number, usually a child’s or a senior’s, glue on a fake name and birthday, then create a brand-new “person” who racks up credit and vanishes. You don’t find out until your file is wrecked. Here’s how to catch it.

We stopped talking to our kids. The damage is permanent.

A WSJ study found Americans speak 28% fewer words daily than we did in 2005. Parents on phones speak 16% fewer words to babies. That silence is stealing our children’s future vocabulary.

Your emoji means something completely different to your kids. Here’s the decode

You sent a thumbs-up. They took it as passive-aggressive. You used the skull. They thought you were hilarious. Nobody told you the rules changed.

ChatGPT has been taking notes on you. Here’s how to see them.

ChatGPT’s memory feature is on by default, and it’s been building a personal profile from every conversation you’ve ever had. Here’s what it knows and how to take control in under two minutes.

Anthropic just published a bombshell report on AI and jobs. Here’s what the chart means for you.

The blue area is what AI could do. The red area is what it’s actually doing. That gap is the most important thing you’ll look at today.

A data broker was caught selling a list of 435,000 Alzheimer’s patients. Your family could be on it

A Texas company sold names, addresses and phone numbers of people with Alzheimer’s, addictions and disabilities to anyone willing to pay. The fine? Just $45,000.

He leaked secrets from inside a human trafficking scam compound. Then he had to escape alive.

A computer engineer gets lured to a “job” in Laos. What follows: 40 days of espionage, beatings and one of the most harrowing escapes you’ll read this year.