A picture is worth a thousand words

March 4, 2025

🖼️ A picture is worth a thousand words: But if your iPhone’s Live Photos aren’t worth all the storage space they take up, it’s easy to turn ’em off. Go to Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings. Scroll down to Live Photo and toggle it off.

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Make $65 an hour training AI

There’s a new side hustle that pays up to $65 an hour. You’d have no coworkers, you don’t have to leave home and you’re working in the exploding AI field.

If you like working solo and want a flexible remote job, this gig’s for you. It’s called AI training or tutoring. Companies need real people to fact-check AI responses, improve chatbot conversations and help AI recognize objects in images.

Your job? Read a question, compare AI-generated answers and pick the best one.

Want in?

Elon Musk’s company, xAI, is hiring thousands of AI tutors to train its chatbot, Grok.
dataannotation.tech has paid out over $20 million. Jobs start at $20 an hour.
Amazon Mechanical Turk pays less, but it’s generally very consistent.
CrowdGen has a network of more than 1 million remote workers.

Lease on life: If you buy a new Android phone, it could last up to eight years. The catch? Only pricey phones like the OnePlus 13 and Samsung Galaxy S25 with upgraded chips get this long life. The iPhone 16 may be supported until 2036, and the almost 7-year-old iPhone XS is still getting security updates.

Once a week

How often the NSA says you should turn off your phone. Turn off your phone, wait 10 seconds, then turn it back on. This works to combat zero-click exploits where a hacker can get in simply by sending you the right code.

$236,835

If you invested $1,000 in Nvidia 10 years ago. If you were smart enough to throw them a grand when they went public in 1999, you’d have $5.2 million. Excuse me while I cry.

61%

Of folks who cancel Netflix come back within a year. They’re better at luring back subs than all the other streaming options (paywall link). That’s my strategy, btw. Cancel when your show ends and come back when something new pulls you in. Psst, I use Rocket Money to find subscriptions I’m paying for and cancel them.

$539

Lost to the average deepfake call. Criminals use AI to impersonate Medicare workers, politicians, Amazon reps, insurance agents, you name it. When in doubt, hang up.

I told you about this weeks ago: Now it’s hitting mainstream news sites. Google secretly installed an app on Android phones called SafetyCore. It scans all your photos, theoretically to provide Sensitive Content warnings. Hit this link on your Android and hit uninstall if you don’t want it eating up 2GB of space.

Up to $65 an hour

Wage for remote AI trainers. Can you code, research and write? Fact-checking AI data might be up your alley. Perfect for introverts, even if the repetitive tasks are “mind-numbing.” Links here if you want an AI gig.

Deep dive: OpenAI’s Deep research is ready to go for Plus, Team, Enterprise and Edu subscribers. You’ll get 10 deep research queries per month that pulled detailed info from multiple sources. Try it: Select Deep research in the Composer.

40% more

Calories burned walking backwards. “Retro” walking (paywall link) is better at improving balance, reducing back pain and sharpening cognition, too. If you try it, be careful!