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š Find power-hungry apps on your phone: On iPhone, go to Settings > Battery and check the Activity chart and Battery Usage by App. On Android, open Settings > Battery > Battery Usage to see the app list. Once you track down the main culprits, cut down their background refresh, notifications or sync times.
Tags: Android, notifications, power, settings, track
šÆļø This is very personal.
An AI company reached out to me recently with an interesting offer. Theyād take the photos, videos and voice recordings I have of my mom and use them to create an AI version of her. Not a slideshow or tribute video. Something interactive. When they were done, I could talk to my AI mom and have it talk back to me.
The Oakland AIs: The Oakland Ballers are going full Moneyball 2.0. Theyāre going to be the first pro sports team to let an AI manager handle in-game lineup, substitutions and field positions. Itās a one-time stunt, but itās a first for pro sports. Fans used to manage the team via app. They lost. Now itās the botsā turn.
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š„ Muskās trillion-dollar carrot: Teslaās board dangled a ābribe Dad to stay homeā pay package that could make Elon Musk the worldās first trillionaire, but only if Teslaās value jumps from $1.1T to a wild $8.5T. If it works, he pockets 423M shares worth $143B today, plus keeps steering Tesla into robotaxis and humanoid robots.Ā
š Fantasy football goes AI: This season, fantasy nerds are swapping gut calls for algorithms. Theyāve built custom AI agents that crunch real-time data from ESPN, track injuries and even āscoutā rivals by analyzing past moves (paywall link). Hey, this could be the start of smarter drafts and fewer Sunday meltdowns ā¦ if the bots actually deliver.
š± Talk to the dead: By 2030, visiting graves will be outdated. A Cambridge researcher predicts AI avatars of dead loved ones will be in our phones, ready for conversation 24/7. From Replika chatbots to funeral apps that let you āattendā your own service, the ādigital afterlife industryā is creeping in. Btw, Iām going to share a story about this with you here on Sunday and ask for your advice.
š¤ Murder chic: Shein accidentally used an AI model that looked exactly like accused murderer Luigi Mangione to sell shirts. The listing sold out before Shein yanked it offline, blaming a āthird-party vendor.ā Yikes.
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