While you sleep, millions of birds fly over your roof, up to 10,000 feet high. Weather radar counts them, and a free site shows you how many crossed your county last night, friend. Here’s how to watch the billion-bird season, and the one switch that keeps them safe.
Bill Gates just said on “Meet the Press” that AI could cause a billion deaths. Every news media is running that story today. The scarier part was quieter.
The suspect was clean-shaven. Robert Dillon had a full beard. Police arrested him anyway. Here’s his story and how to protect yourself.
Incognito mode keeps your history off the computer, but your internet company still sees every site you visit. Here’s what they collect and how to shut it down.
A listener wants one power bank she can trust for her phone, iPad and laptop, because she’s scared of a fire on her nightstand or on a plane. Fair fear in a year when there have been more than 50 overheating incidents on flights, friend. Three picks, and the label trick that beats any brand name.
Scammers grab your address from a people-search site, pull your house from Google Street View and mail you a threat with your own driveway on it. Nobody hacked your webcam, friend. Here’s what to do and how to cut off their supply.
That Delta ad in your feed may not be Delta, friend. NordVPN’s team found crooks using 400-plus real brands to push people into unlicensed casinos. Here’s the tell.
The forecast on your phone has a secret ingredient: 8,700 volunteers with a thermometer. Meet the Frenches, a family in Gouverneur, N.Y. Ray monitored the stats for 50 years before his son took over. The 11-year-old granddaughter is next.
Two Chinese companies make nearly half the world’s cellular modules, the chips inside doorbells, thermostats and fridges. Your smart gadgets, friend, may be chatting with Beijing. Five minutes on your router shuts the conversation down.
Lindsey Isaacs’ black Durango passed a Flock camera two minutes before a deadly crash. The car actually involved was maroon. The 911 callers read a different plate. Troopers arrested her anyway. She tells Kim what happened and what’s left of her life.
Starship will carry 26 next-gen Starlinks into orbit. Here’s how big they are, how fast they’ll be, how long they’ll last and what happens when one dies (nobody reboots it).
No car for sale drives itself, friend. Not even the one with Full Self-Driving on the window sticker. Don’t buy your mom the car. Set up the rides on her phone instead. Ten minutes, tops.
The iPhone 16 was $699 last Tuesday. The next day, it was $799. Same phone. Nothing changed. This is the first time Apple has raised prices on older iPhones at a launch event, and it’s not really about Apple. It’s about the chips inside everything you own, friend.
Google caught malware that asks AI to rewrite its own code every hour, friend. Your free antivirus is checking mugshots against a face that keeps changing. Ten minutes today puts a real watcher on duty.
New Jersey students handed over their phones on Sept. 1 under a new all-day ban. The same company making those locking pouches for schools sells a version for your workplace, and employers are buying. Know the line before the memo lands.
Sue Livingstone, 84, stood on her old street in Queens again. Ginny, 81, swam with dolphins. Bob, 83, hiked Glacier on his birthday with his wife of 61 years beside him. And the part nobody expected: Afterward, they all went to lunch. Together, friend.
The picture mode the store set is wrong on purpose. Your TV is dimming itself. And that model number was written to make sure Best Buy never has to match Costco’s price. Six insider fixes, friend, and they’re all free.
Twenty-five years ago, millions of Americans picked up the phone at the same moment, and most of them couldn’t get through. The network wasn’t destroyed. It was busy. That continues to happen in hurricanes and blackouts, and there are four things you can set up tonight that make you reachable when everyone else isn’t.
Prime Video doubled its ad load since launch. HBO Max went up and never announced it. But the service that feels the worst isn’t the one taking most of your time. Here are the stopwatch numbers and the one upgrade worth your $10 a month.
After 20 years of marriage, Dave and his wife agree on one thing: $200 a month for two phones feels wrong. The same signal sells for half. There’s a catch, friend. Three, actually. All smaller than the one they’re living with.
