We've all held on to things like CDs and DVDs for too long. As you ring in the new year, there's no better time to start tossing out the stuff you are hoarding, and move your life online. Digitizing your life is easier than you may think.
Rene Ritchie, Managing Editor at iMore, shares some tips on how to bring your life into the 21st century. Everything from books to CDs has a digital version. With a few inexpensive subscriptions, you can access all of the content that is cluttering your shelves at home.
For music, Ritchie says Apple Music and Spotify offer more than enough content to replace your CDs and casettes. Both cost $10 per month and have similar catalogs of music.
Catching you up on what you need to know on April 27, 2022, with Tesla stocks absorbing an initial hit following Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, Russia pausing its natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 mission taking off, and more.
General Motors reported a Q1 net income of $2.9 billion and a raise in their full-year guidance. This comes as the auto giant steps up production of its electric vehicles amid production headwinds. Paul Jacobson joined Cheddar News to talk about the earnings report and its ongoing electric vehicle strategy. "One of the things I'm most proud of is the fact that we're continuing to lean in and accelerate on our electric vehicle journey," he said. "When you think about it, we're going to produce 400,000 vehicles over the next two years by the end of 2023, and we'll have production capabilities up and will produce more than a million vehicles in North America alone in 2025."
Members-only home swapping network Kindred recently announced its launch alongside a $7.75 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Homeowners and renters can exchange homes on Kindred's platform, which the company says allows members to travel and take advantage of remote-work flexibility at the fraction of the cost of a hotel or rental home. Justin Palefsky and Tas Amina, co-founders of Kindred, join Cheddar News' Closing Bell to discuss.
SpoonTEK is an eating utensil that uses new technology to enhance flavors. Co-founders Ken and Cameron Davidov join Cheddar News to explain how the high-tech silverware can not only boost taste but also the health of its user.
Judith Donath, Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, and the founder of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, joins Cheddar Reveals to take a trip back through the origins of the Internet and how it's shaped human behavior over decades.
