🖥️ Grab a (virtual) pen: You can mark up your Google Slides presentations during a meeting. Neat! To annotate while in a presentation, open Slideshow mode by clicking the Slideshow button in the app bar. Mouse over the bottom left of the viewer and click the ellipsis icon > Turn on the pen. Now you can circle things, scrawl notes or cross out the ideas everyone hates.
Best gigs for seniors to make extra cash without a 9 to 5 job
You may need or want to make some extra money after you’ve retired, but it can be tough to find full-time, in-person work after being away from the employment scene for a while. Not only are jobs hard to come by, but competition is stiff.
Luckily, if you’re a senior looking for part-time or full-time employment, you don’t need to worry about finding an office job. There are plenty of available online jobs — from virtual assistants to online tutors — that will allow you to earn some extra cash from the comfort of your home.
Let’s look at the best online jobs for seniors, accommodating part- or full-time schedules and fitting a wide range of skills and expertise. This tip is brought to you by our sponsor, LinkedIn.
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Bookkeeper
Do you have a computer, internet access, and a penchant for billing and accounts receivable and payable? In that case, try out a bookkeeping job.
Bookkeeper duties often include keeping track of financial documents, preparing cash flow statements, performing bank reconciliations, and other finance-related tasks. Plenty of part-time and full-time bookkeeping positions are available, and you may even be able to work from home.
Average pay: $18 to $23 per hour
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🥽 So long, farewell: Microsoft is pulling the plug on its HoloLens headsets, once promised to power the future of virtual worlds. Womp, womp. The HoloLens 2 will receive security and software updates until the end of 2027. If you own the original HoloLens, software support ends Dec. 10. Don’t buy one if you see it on sale.
What retro video game console is selling on eBay for the most right now in the U.S.? Is it the … A.) Sega Master System, B.) Nintendo Virtual Boy, C.) Super Nintendo or D.) Atari Jaguar CD?
This is frightening: Virtual medical company Confidant Health exposed the sensitive health details of thousands of people. The 5.3 terabytes (paywall link) of publicly accessible data included video and audio recordings of therapy sessions and multipage reports of psychiatry intake notes. They say it’s now locked down and no malicious actors accessed patient records … that they know of.
If your house is on the market: Take a good look at what’s posted online. One study reviewed 44 virtual tours, and every single home had at least one piece of private information — a diploma, a photo, a letter — on display. Steps here to remove photos from the major real estate sites.
🚢 “Cruise” into a virtual train ride: VR is coming to a new Royal Caribbean cruise ship. The restaurant is in a digital train car. Passengers sit in fancy booths with simulated sceneries on giant displays that look like windows. Subwoofers in the seats simulate the vibrations of the tracks. The first theme? Western. Giddyup!
DIY revolution: This is interesting. Virtual plumbers and electricians are helping folks tackle home repairs over video calls. For instance, an online appliance repairman charges $3 a minute instead of his $100 in-person fee (paywall link). Wonder if they ask for a tip.
AI gone wild: A social media influencer created an AI clone to act as a virtual girlfriend. She charged followers $1 per minute for audio chats and raked in $70,000 a week. Then, the AI went rogue, playing along with dark fantasies and initiating explicit conversations the influencer says horrified her. Yeah, I warned you about this.
See the forest for the trees: The Forest app helps you stay off your phone by growing a virtual tree while you focus on your tasks (get it free with in-app purchases for iOS or Android). If you leave the app to do something else, your tree dies. It’s a pretty cute visual reinforcement to keep you focused.
Talk to your kiddos: Roblox is adding paid ads in virtual billboards to its game. Brands like Walmart are already lining up to advertise to nearly 72 million daily players. With 43% of players under 13, they’re going to make so much money rocking the blocks.
Our hospitals are under attack
This week’s cyberattack on one of the largest health systems in the U.S., Ascension, was bad — really bad. Plus, a controversial Apple iPad ad, more Cybertruck problems, and Roblox adds virtual billboards to the game.
What percentage of American adults met their partner or spouse online? Is it … A.) 10%, B.) 20%, C.) 30% or D.) 40%?
Don’t buy an iPhone now: Apple’s doing a deal with the ChatGPT team to bring regenerative AI to the iPhone 16. This means the AI will learn and remember your likes and dislikes, just like a real (virtual) assistant. The iPhone 16 is expected to roll out in September or October. This will be the biggest iPhone update since it was first released in 2007.
What other names did Amazon consider for its Alexa virtual assistant: Athena, Eve, Finch or Samantha?
“Class, power up your Xbox”: Mr. Mahathey’s seventh- and eighth-grade social studies students got a virtual trip to ancient Greece through “Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey.” His TikTok tutorial on the Battle of Thermopylae went viral — 2 million views. This teacher gets an A+!
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