🎬 10 true tech movies streaming now

It’s a very happy Friday, {{first_name | friend}}. Apparently, we’ve been giving English too much credit. A new study found that when it comes to languages AI understands best, English isn’t even in the top five, it came in sixth.

🌍 So what’s the most AI-friendly language on the planet? Take your pick: A) French, B) Polish, C) Chinese or D) Spanish? The answer is waiting for you at the end. This one really surprised me!

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You can keep the wizards and aliens. Give me a movie or series where something unbelievable actually happened.

Back by popular demand, I put together this list for you as proof that tech isn’t only lines of code and shiny gadgets. It’s ambition, hype, brilliance and, yeah, sometimes a total train wreck. You’re gonna want to see each one.

1. BlackBerry (AMC+ & Hulu)
Before iPhones took over, BlackBerry was the phone. This funny, fast-paced series shows how a couple of Canadian tech nerds built a global empire and how ego and chaos brought it crashing down.

2. Tetris (Apple TV+)
Yes, the block game is a Cold War thriller. A developer risks everything to secure the rights to Tetris from Soviet Russia. It’s fast, fun and surprisingly emotional.

3. The Playlist (Netflix)
Spotify took on the record industry and changed how we listen forever. This series shows how messy and brilliant that fight really was.

4. Super Pumped (Apple TV+)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Uber founder Travis Kalanick in this high-octane series. It’s all boardroom fights, power struggles and startup chaos on full blast.

5. WeCrashed (Apple TV+)
Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway go full startup cult as the couple behind WeWork. They convinced investors it was worth $47 billion until reality set in.

6. The Dropout (Hulu)
This is the Theranos saga you’ve heard about, the tiny blood test, the billion-dollar lies and the woman who sold it all with a black turtleneck and a stare. Unbelievable and true.

7. Jobs (Amazon Prime)
Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in this version focused more on the early days of Apple. Think garages, vision and obsession with detail and how it all almost fell apart.

8. The Billion Dollar Code (Netflix)
Two German developers built early Google Earth tech in the ’90s and then watched Google run away with it. A gripping series about innovation, betrayal and fighting for credit.

9. General Magic (Tubi & Pluto TV)
Long before the iPhone, a forgotten startup tried to invent the smartphone. They failed, but their team quietly shaped the entire modern tech industry.

10. Silicon Cowboys (Amazon Prime)
The story of Compaq, a tiny company that went toe-to-toe with IBM in the early days of personal computers. It’s classic underdog energy with plenty of 1980s swagger.

If this list gave you something new to queue up, go ahead and share it. Someone in your circle needs a break from true crime and could use a smart binge instead.

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🎧 Or listen now on your favorite platform:

💰 Meta’s scam economy: Get this. Meta’s internal docs say it made up to 10% of its 2024 revenue, about $16 billion, from ads for scams and banned goods. That’s 15 billion sketchy ads blasted at users every day. Instead of banning most of them, Meta sometimes just charges scammers extra. It even has an internal “Scammiest Scammer” leaderboard. You can’t make this up. So much for good corporate citizenship, Mark.

Elon’s trillion dollar bet: Tesla shareholders approved a massive pay package for Elon Musk, potentially worth $1 trillion over the next decade. But here’s the catch: he only gets the cash if he pulls off some wild goals, like building a million humanoid robots and selling 20 million Teslas a year. It’s the biggest corporate payday ever, if he can deliver.

Google’s new power move: Google decided Earth isn’t big enough for its AI dreams. They’re working on Project Suncatcher, which is basically solar-powered satellites that run data centers in space. The idea’s simple: endless sunlight, no electric bills and zero guilt about frying the power grid. Real question though: What happens when your chatbot gets hit by an asteroid?

Push it to the limit: Infinite Jest, meet infinite work. Microsoft says the 9-to-5 is officially toast. Workers now operate on three “peaks”: morning, afternoon and, wait for it, night. Meetings after 8 p.m. are up 16%. Weekend emails are normal. It feels like it’s not a job anymore, but a live stream of your own to-do list. The remedy? Treat your “Do Not Disturb” like self-care. 

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Attention, scroll at ease: Remember that old-school Uncle Sam “I Want You” Army poster? The 2025 version is the Army on TikTok. That’s right, they’ve tapped eight soldiers with big followings to show real life in uniform, romanticizing the gym fails, the 4 a.m. wake-ups, even the “mandatory fun days.” Their posts hit 40 million views, but the program’s on pause for an ethics review.

🐾 Dog 2.0: Tom Brady said his new dog, Junie, is a clone of his old one. He used a blood sample from his late pitbull mix, Lua, and had a biotech company recreate her. These companies usually charge around $50K to clone a doggo. I mean, I get it, losing a pet wrecks you, but cloning? I’m drawing the line before Jurassic Bark.

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📩 Gmail icons explained: Those tiny icons above your emails can be confusing. Switch them to plain text, so it’s clear what each one does. Go to See all settings > General > Button labels, change it to Text, then click Save changes. You’ll now see words like Archive, Delete and Mark as unread.

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Want to feel like a spy in the 1960s? Meet the $249 Stream Ring, a gadget that lets you whisper to it like you’re passing state secrets, except it’s just your grocery list or standup routine.

It’s a mouse for your voice: Hold to talk, tap to pause, and swipe to control your music. No “Hey, Siri” required. It records your ideas, makes notes and even outlines your rambling monologues.

Water-resistant, has “all-day battery life” (aka nightly recharge), and yes, your thoughts come with a subscription plan, too. Big Tech literally has you wrapped around its finger. I’ll pass.

🇵🇱 The answer: B) Polish. According to a joint study from the University of Maryland and Microsoft, large language models actually understand Polish better than English, which came in a humble sixth. 

Fun fact: Polish grammar’s complexity and consistent structure actually make it easier for AI models to learn word relationships and syntax patterns.

🎿 Do you know why most Polish names end in ski? Because they couldn’t spell toboggan! (lol)

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