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🕵️ 6 things TV installers never tell you

Sep 12, 2026

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9 min read

🕵️ 6 things TV installers never tell you

Plus: Claude caught in a biolab drama, shopping straight from your movie, a 3-year-old hero on FaceTime, a $530 glow-up for your ceiling, the noise machine hiding in your iPhone and what your phone is doing to your neck.

Sep 11, 2026

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9 min read

📲 Texts get through when calls can’t

Plus: A tracker under your Target cart, green lights that slow speeders down, Uber refuses to say potato, five planets over your driveway, Apple’s receipt for reality, three free National Park days and 88 searchlights over Manhattan.

Sep 10, 2026

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9 min read

😩 Your streaming ads doubled. Quietly.

Plus: Meta’s AI reaching for your wallet, a streamer plays chicken with a robotaxi, Microsoft’s biggest Patch Tuesday ever, an AI signed a lease, robots catching fire at the Olympics and the secrets hiding in Word and Chrome.