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Happy Tuesday, {{first_name | friend}}. Remember when the Roomba made us all feel futuristic for outsourcing crumb sweeping? Its inventor wants to bring the same robotic spirit to your front lawn. Enter Tertill (pronounced “turtle”), a solar-powered garden robot that patrols your soil and attacks weeds with a mini string trimmer. Basically, it’s a lawn mower with a preference.

🌱 How does Tertill tell a weed from a plant you want to keep? A) It judges purely by height, B) It uses an onboard camera and AI, C) It sniffs out weeds by smell, D) You paint your good plants a bright color. Don’t overthink it, the answer is waiting at the end.

🕵️ Missed the weekend’s Deep Dive on finding hidden cameras in Airbnbs, cruise ships and hotels? Here’s my $31 pick. It catches wireless spy cams, GPS trackers under your car and pinhole lenses hidden in smoke detectors and alarm clocks. Fits in your bag. I sweep every rental. You should, too. Don’t sleep on this one. (Especially not in a room you haven’t swept.) — Kim

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Weather matters to me. As a sailor, it’s not small talk. It’s safety. Out on the water, a forecast that’s a few hours off can turn a perfect afternoon into a fight for your life. I check it obsessively. (You learn to.)

But you don’t need a boat to care. A bad forecast is your money, i.e., canceled flights, sky-high energy bills. It’s your family, knowing when to grab the kids and go. It’s your time and every rained-out plan. Weather touches all of it.

So when AI pulled this off with Hurricane Melissa, that’s something.

Picture late October. Melissa is churning toward Jamaica, and the old-school models can’t agree on where it’s headed or how bad it’ll get. A Google AI model called WeatherNext runs the math and calls it five days out: This storm will jump from Category 1 to Category 5 and land on Jamaica. With 80% confidence.

It nailed it. Winds topped 185 mph. The National Hurricane Center leaned on those AI predictions to issue a record warning, people actually listened, and the early heads-up saved lives. That’s not a science fair demo. That’s the future of the little forecast on your phone.

Here’s the wild part. 

Old forecasts run on government supercomputers that grind through physics equations for hours. AI learns from decades of weather data instead and spits out a forecast in under a minute. 

It’s 100 to 1,000 times more efficient and 10% to 20% more accurate than the best traditional models. And as hurricane season officially kicked off yesterday on June 1, the AI will run 1,000 possible futures every six hours this year, up from 50 last year. Let that sink in.

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So yeah, after decades of weatherman jokes, AI became the reigning champ of forecasting. I mean, the raining champ. Yea, that hurt me when I wrote it.

📩 Send this to someone who checks the forecast six times before leaving the house, plans every weekend around the 10-day or still mutters “they’re never right” at the TV. This is the upgrade they didn’t know they already have.

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💸 Moonshot goes public: SpaceX is about to become a stock regular people can buy. The road show starts Thursday with bankers pitching a $1.75 trillion valuation, which would make this the largest IPO in history. The plan: List on Nasdaq as $SPCX, price June 11, start trading June 12. Robinhood, Fidelity and Schwab are offering access, with 30% of shares set aside for retail investors, which is neat. I guess this company is really out of this world. 

One goal scammers won’t score: The World Cup kicks off June 11, and the FBI warned fans about dozens of fake FIFA websites built to steal your money, identity and credit card number. Hackers built pixel-perfect copies of the real FIFA site. Some use tiny typos in the web address. One Chinese hacking group built a fake site in 11 languages. One rule keeps you safe: Type fifa.com directly into your browser. Never click a link from a search result or a social post. 

Lost the case: A Delta passenger said her bags vanished in January, then airline reps kept telling her locations her Apple AirTag flatly disagreed with. Her X post has nearly 8 million views because apparently everyone has a suitcase betrayal story. She says tracking forced more effort to find her luggage, especially once third-party couriers entered the lost-bag swamp, and she got her stuff back. Pack the tracker, get an Apple AirTag ($29) or Life360 Tile (19% off, $21) while you’re thinking about it.

🧪 Literal bug fix: Here’s your dose of “well, that’s how horror movies start.” Google plans to release up to 32 million mosquitoes in Florida and California. Why? Google’s Debug Project, now before the EPA, plans to spread male mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia, a naturally occurring bacteria that makes disease carrying culex mosquito eggs nonviable. Oh, and the males sip nectar, not people. Still, as much as I hate mosquitoes, I get why Floridians and Californians would rather another state be the testing ground. 

🎸 AI gets tender: Samuel Smith, a 49-year-old singer-songwriter with Parkinson’s, couldn’t play guitar like he used to, so he hummed melodies into his phone and fed them to AI music tools Suno and Udio. They turned his rough ideas into songs, for his 2026 album, The Art of Letting Go. That’s not cheating, that’s adapting. Give Sam an algorithm boost and listen right now to “Horizon.” This is one of those times that tech makes my heart sing.

Vacation photos shouldn’t be a scavenger hunt. One shared album fixes everything. And Jan has thousands of family photos she wants her family to see in 100 years. Spoiler. It won’t last forever. Here’s how to protect your family legacy.

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⚡️ 3-second tech genius: YouTube’s mobile app has a few gestures you might not know. Pinch out on a video to zoom. Double-tap left or right to rewind or skip 10 seconds. Hold the screen to watch at 2x speed. Swipe down for the mini player or up for full screen. All this control, and somehow a shampoo ad is still the final boss.

Two headphones, one PC: Ever tried sharing wireless headphones on a laptop? That’s how neck cramps and resentment begin. Windows 11 is rolling out shared audio, so two people can listen to the same movie or song with separate Bluetooth headphones. Open Settings > Windows Update and grab optional update KB5089573. FYI, it’s still rolling out.

⭐ Stop apps begging for stars: iPhone apps love popping up with “Enjoying us? Leave a review!” Cute once. Annoying by the fifth app. Shut it down at Settings > Apps > App Store, scroll to the bottom and turn off In-App Ratings & Reviews. You can still leave reviews manually. The five-star guilt trip ends here.

📲 Computer link, meet phone: Reading something on your computer and want it on your phone? In Chrome, click the three dots in the top right > Cast, save and share > Create QR Code. Scan it with your phone’s camera, and the page opens there. Your inbox can sit this one out.

Give Instagram amnesia: The algorithm is showing you the same “day in my life” people for a reason. Tell it it guessed wrong. Go to your profile > Settings and activity > Content preferences > Reset suggested content. Your feed, reels and explore page get a clean slate, then IG relearns what you like as you tap around. Little midyear cleanse.

💲 Quick math: $110 phone bill x 12 months = $1,320. For a signal that comes from a tower that Consumer Cellular also uses. Over 50? Get two lines of unlimited talk, text and data for $60. I’m not saying your carrier is laughing at you. (I’m a little saying that.) Switch to Consumer Cellular and get an additional $200 off. That’s the best deal they’ve ever offered. Do it before you autopay again.* 

Nvidia looked at dominating AI data centers and decided that wasn’t enough.

The company unveiled RTX Spark, a new processor heading to more than 30 upcoming PCs from Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS and Microsoft, putting Nvidia in direct competition with Intel and AMD.

The chip combines Nvidia’s CPU and GPU into one package, letting thin laptops handle AI tasks that used to require beefier hardware or cloud servers. It’s the tech equivalent of your guitarist announcing he’s also the drummer, bassist and lead singer.

Watch the announcement here. Everything happens for a Ryzen. (OK, if you did not get it, Ryzen is AMD’s processor line. You know, the competition.)

🔜 Tomorrow: Your car may have been photographed today, logged in a database and made searchable without you ever knowing. I’ll show you how a private camera network is tracking ordinary drives across the country and why the new drones make this even creepier. Check your inbox before your next grocery run.

Tomorrow’s trivia reveals the gross little reason your earbuds may be hiding a high-tech shield you definitely didn’t think about.

The answer: A) It judges purely by height. That’s the whole trick. No camera. No AI. No robot nose whispering, “Ah yes, definitely basil.” 

🧩 If a plant is short enough to slide under Tertill’s shell, the robot assumes it’s a weed and trims it. If the plant is tall enough to bump the front of the shell, Tertill backs off and leaves it alone. If you fit, you’re getting hit. Honestly, that’s either brilliant engineering or the attitude of a nightclub bouncer. 

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut. Or in other words, give weeds an inch, and they’ll take a yard.

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