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Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH “In four years, he gets a driver’s license. We don’t want him to have to,” says Chris Urmson head of Google’s self-driving car program. On July 16, 1969 when Neil Armstrong took “…one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” ‘Merica…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Mark Zuckerberg is NOT donating his fortune to charity. You probably heard Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan will give 99% of their Facebook shares — currently worth about $45 billion — to charitable purposes. While this news is true, Tech Insider…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Why people are giving up on the Apple Watch. In Internet marketing, “bounce rate” is a term used to describe the percentage of visitors who enter your site and then leave (“bounce”) rather than click through to other pages within your site. You should…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Cue the awkward high fives. Bruce Wayne: People are dying, Alfred. What would you have me do? Alfred: Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They’ll hate you for it, but that’s the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Charging your phone 0-100 (real quick). A new smart chip invented by Professor Rachid Yazami of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University could dramatically change the way we charge our devices. The chip is the size of a fingernail and can be embedded in most existing…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH “The Day I Became a Millionaire” is the first story I’m going to share with you today. Fitting for Thanksgiving, don’t you think? I didn’t think so either, but there are two quotes from this story I think you’ll like. “The best things in…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH 10 tech buzzwords and how to explain them to extended family. Net Neutrality: The principle that internet providers and governments should not selectively speed up or slow down internet traffic but instead keep the internet equally accessible to all. Just in case grandma asks……

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Your mom has better cyber-security than you (no joke). A new study found baby-boomers (50-69 y.o.) are more security conscious than their kids. “The global report claims that millennials are ‘overly confident’ and ‘often throw caution to the wind,’ with 36 percent of respondents…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH The best thing since sliced bread. If I can’t preview a Word doc. in Gmail, I get annoyed. If I have to download a song with no option to stream, I might not listen to the song. When did YOU decide to stop downloading…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH What did you expect? Tinder CEO Sean Rad had one of the most cringeworthy interviews of his life — and his timing was impeccable. With Match Group, the parent company of Tinder and other notable online dating services, close to announcing its initial public offering…

“We will bring in trains that come out as batteries.” #ThingsElonMuskSays. Tesla is in the process of building its Gigafactory, a battery plant that is located in Sparks, Nevada on Electric Avenue (I’m not making this up!). Some fun facts about the world’s second largest (by volume) building: It’s built on a piece of land…