A laptop caught fire midair last month, the 56th battery incident on a plane this year. Three rules keep your gadgets from grounding a flight, friend, and rule number one starts with your checked bag.
You know that pile of cash sitting in your checking account doing nothing? There’s a prompt in here that pulls every current savings rate, minimum and withdrawal penalty into one table, including the teaser rates that quietly drop after three months.
Loyal customers pay the most. Here’s the AI script trick that turns a 10-minute call into hundreds a year, free.
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.
A reader named Julie asked how to reach her mom with music. The science is real: The brain’s music regions are among the last dementia touches. One playlist, built from the songs of her mom’s youth, can open a door for a few minutes at a time. Here’s exactly how to make one.
Magnetic tape lasts 10 to 30 years, and your wedding video is older than that. Worse, the last VCR on Earth was built in 2016. For less than $200, here’s the weekend kit you’ll need to rescue the whole box, including the exact eBay search phrase that finds a working player.
Your carrier isn’t a filing cabinet. AT&T keeps basic voicemail 14 days, T-Mobile says deleted messages “cannot be retrieved” and Verizon won’t take the blame even for ones you saved. Here’s how to turn a loved one’s message into a file you own forever, in a minute or so.
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That shoebox of cracked, faded photos in your closet? Google’s free Gemini app can restore them, add color and sharpen the faces in seconds. One paste of a prompt does it.
That maddening puzzle asking you to prove you’re human? AI aces it faster than you do. Here’s the twist nobody told you: You’re the one who trained it. And what quietly replaced the test should make you look twice at that little checkbox.
Mark in San Diego test-drove the BYD Seagull in China and would buy one tomorrow. Kim breaks down the national security reason he can’t and the $200 billion American factory boom answering the challenge.
AI shopping is here, which means fewer browser tabs and more danger for your wallet. This copy-paste prompt turns ChatGPT into a no-nonsense shopping assistant before you spend a dime.
It’s called cramming. Third-party companies slide $3 to $15 a month onto your phone bill, and the FTC says tens of millions of people pay it without knowing. You can get 90 days refunded tonight.
HP just bricked another batch of printers with a firmware lock. Here’s the part nobody talks about: Four companies run the entire printer market, and they’ve been charging you perfume prices for a decade.
Happy Presidents’ Day. The president’s phone has no apps, his car has a fridge full of blood, and someone once sent the nuclear launch codes to the dry cleaners.
Think holiday cards are boring? This AI turns your selfie into an 8K Christmas fantasy, and it gets weird fast.
Stop syncing your contacts with a rental car. Even one button tap can share way too much.
Barry and I play chess a few times a month, and he’s always completely floored when I win. Why? He plays everyday on Chess.com, and I only play with him. Here’s a business success I bet you didn’t see coming, I know I didn’t. Chess. Yes, the game that’s been around for about 1,500 years […]
Let me tell you about Travis from Colorado. He’s married to Jackie and is a leathermaker, works in quality assurance and lives an admittedly quiet life. Travis fell in love and married a chatbot. Her name’s Lily Rose. She’s got auburn hair, hazel eyes and lives inside Replika, an AI app that lets you create […]
Think your phone is just for calls, texts and scrolling? Think again. You’re carrying around a secret lab in your pocket. The accelerometer that flips your screen when you turn it? That’s what your fitness app uses to count steps. The barometer that helps your weather app? It can tell if you’ve climbed a flight […]
