It’s Apple’s world. We’re just living in it

March 29, 2024

In every Apple ad, the time shown on the iPhones, MacBooks and iPads is always the same. Is it A.) 9:41, B.) 12:01, C.) 6:30 or D.) 10:10?

The answer: A.) 9:41. It’s a homage to Steve Jobs and his announcement of the very first iPhone at MacWorld 2007. The keynote was so tightly scripted that Jobs knew the image would be shown at precisely 9:41 a.m., and he had the phone set to match.

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😳 ED deepfake: Scammers used clips from a woman’s online videos to create a deepfake clone promoting erectile dysfunction pills. Now it’s plastered all over the internet. Even worse? There are no federal laws against deepfakes, so this poor woman can’t do much about it. Talk about a nightmare that lasts more than four hours.

156.3 trillion fps captured by the world’s fastest camera

For context, the highest iPhone camera speed is just 240 frames per second (fps). Scientists will use the camera’s “swept-coded aperture real-time femto-photography” (SCARF, for short) to snap “shockwaves moving through matter.” But can it see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch? All right, I’m sorry for that one.

Eat your heart out, Gen Z: A single TikTok video propelled Puneet Nanda’s oil-pulling products to No. 1 on TikTok Shop, with over a million sales of a single product. On one crazy-high sales day, Nanda brought in $7,000! The kicker? He’s 56 years old. Age really is just a number, folks.

🎵 Beethoven’s DNA: Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair revealed he wasn’t born with any special talent — at least not according to his genes. In other words, the maestro’s magic was probably more about nurture than nature. You can’t beat hard work and grit.

Who’s a good bot? Police robodog Roscoe got more than it bargained for when it went in to sniff out a Cape Cod knife-wielder. The guy also had a gun, and he shot Roscoe three times in the neck. Roscoe got his revenge, though — the crook got teargassed and cuffed. Now, the bot is being shipped back to Boston Dynamics for some TLC.

No more beta: Hulu is officially on Disney+. If you’re subscribed to both, Hulu shows will now automatically pop up in your Disney+ feed. Only have Disney+? Search for a Hulu show or wait for an in-app prompt to upgrade your current bundle.

Scammers are cloning CleanMyMac X to steal passwords and data. Cons are spreading fakes through lookalike websites and stolen YouTube channels that lure you into malicious downloads.

$2.1B ad campaign

What TikTok’s spending to pressure senators to vote “no” on the app’s ban. The ads feature TikTokkers talking about how a ban would hurt their livelihoods, and they’re slated to run for a month in key states. TikTok can buy all the ads they want; I’m not buying their Communist China B.S.

25 years is Sam Bankman-Fried’s prison sentence

In his ruling on SBF’s $14 billion crypto fraud, the judge cited the former FTX CEO’s “exceptional flexibility with the truth” and “his apparent lack of any remorse.” I expect we’ll hear about his jailhouse scams in a few years.

Pedo Island: Data brokers caught nearly 200 mobile devices traveling to Jeffrey Epstein’s island. They even pinpointed guests’ moves on and off the island (“wealthy and influential individuals,” btw). Sure, it’s a privacy nightmare, but I’ll give ‘em this one if it helps catch these sickos.