JANE FONDA IS BACK — IN VR. AND SHE BROUGHT LUDACRIS. 🧘♀️🔥🎧 At 87, Jane Fonda is rebooting her legendary workout empire — but this time it’s in virtual reality. Her new collab with Meta’s Supernatural app brings her iconic 1980s aerobics into the metaverse, leg warmers and all.
—> THE DETAILS:
🌀 Flow with Jane Fonda: Classic vibes, Olivia Newton-John beats
🥋 Box with Jane Fonda & Ludacris: You read that right
🌍 Global stretch sessions in virtual Korea
—> SIGN OF THE TIMES: She sold 17M VHS tapes. Now she’s inspiring a new generation — reminding us that strength, flexibility, and joy are ageless.
—> LUDA: “Growing up, I’d watch my mother sweat it out to @JaneFonda’s iconic VHS workout tapes. Now, I’m beyond honored to collaborate with the fitness icon herself,” Ludacris writes on IG, via Men’s Fitness.
And in her words? 👉 “It’s Fonda, b*tch.”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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FUTURES
MARKETS DROP AS TARIFF FALLOUT SLAMS NVIDIA AND SPARKS FED WARNING 📉🤖🔥 Wall Street took another beating Wednesday after Nvidia warned export bans to China will cost it billions, and Trump’s escalating trade war left the Fed spooked.
—> THE DAMAGE:
📉 S&P 500: -2.2%
📉 Dow: -699 points
📉 Nasdaq: -3.1% (worst hit)
—> WHY IT MATTERS: Nvidia’s warning sent shockwaves across tech. Then Fed Chair Jerome Powell said tariffs are hitting harder and faster than expected — threatening slower growth and higher inflation. The Fed is stuck: cut rates and risk more inflation, or wait and risk a slowdown.
CRYPTO
CRYPTO SCAM COSTS WISCONSIN WOMAN $80K — ON HER ANNIVERSARY 💸💔 A woman in St. Francis thought she doubled her money in a crypto “investment” she found on Facebook. Instead, she lost everything.
—> WHAT HAPPENED: She invested $55,000 into a fake crypto platform that showed big gains fast. Then she was told to pay $30,000 in fake “withdrawal fees” to get her profits out. Total loss: $85,000 — gone.
—> THE SCAM PLAYBOOK:
🎯 Found on social media
📈 Fake dashboard shows “big returns”
💸 Victim keeps investing, pays fake taxes
📉 Money gone before they know it
—> WHY THIS MATTERS: Crypto is unregulated and hard to trace. Once it’s transferred (often overseas), it’s nearly impossible to recover. Investigators believe this scam was run out of Nigeria.
Source: FOX6
SPACE
☄️☄️☄️☄️☄️ TERRAFORMING MARS? ONE SCIENTIST SAYS: SMASH IT WITH SPACE ICE 💥🌍🧊 A Polish researcher just pitched a wild plan to thicken Mars’ atmosphere by crashing Kuiper Belt objects into it. Yes, really.
—> THE PROBLEM: Mars is too cold and its atmosphere too thin. If you stepped outside without a suit, your blood would boil. For humans to survive, Mars needs more pressure — and a lot more gas.
—> THE PLAN: Instead of nuking the ice caps (👋 Elon), Leszek Czechowski from the Polish Academy of Sciences wants to redirect icy bodies from the Kuiper Belt — the outer zone of the solar system — and smash them into Mars to release gas and water.
Estimated travel time? 30–60 years per iceball. Energy cost? Equivalent to all human energy usage for 6+ months. Risks? Earthquakes, volcanoes, and yeah — you’re literally lobbing frozen space rocks at a planet.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: This could provide the water, CO₂, nitrogen, and other volatile elements needed to kickstart Martian atmosphere-building — and eventually, support genetically engineered organisms to produce oxygen.
Source: Popular Mechanics
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
NVIDIA LOSES $5.5B AS CHIP TRADE WAR HEATS UP 💥🤖🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump’s latest tariffs just slammed the AI chip world. Nvidia says it can’t sell one of its budget AI chips to China anymore — and it’s now eating a $5.5 billion loss because of it.
—> WHY THIS MATTERS: These aren’t gaming chips. They’re the brains behind AI — ChatGPT, robotics, deepfakes, drones. And the U.S. just made even older models off-limits to China.
—> THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE:
📉 Nvidia stock tanked
📉 ASML (Dutch chip supplier) missed orders, citing “tariff uncertainty”
📉 Tech stocks across the board plunged
—> BIG PICTURE: Even after Nvidia pledged $500B to build AI supercomputers in the U.S., the restrictions still hit. In the AI age, chips = power. And nobody wants to fall behind.
ONE MORE THING
BRAIN BLUETOOTH IS COMING — AND ROBOCOP MIGHT NOT BE FAR BEHIND 🧠📶🤖 Scientists are pushing brain chip implants to the next level — decoding thoughts, controlling machines, and streaming speech from the mind.
—> THE TECH: Researchers at UC just used a brain implant to live-stream a paralyzed woman’s thoughts into a synthetic voice — with just a 3-second delay.
Other labs are creating mind-controlled prosthetics, yes/no brainwave interfaces, and even mouse-like cursor control for locked-in patients.
—> WHAT’S NEXT:
🔹 Full computer control by thought
🔹 Brain-to-brain “Bluetooth” communication
🔹 Built-in skills and memory uploads
🔹 Neural-linked exoskeletons and enhanced senses
—> BUT HOLD UP: As this tech explodes, so do the ethical questions: Can your brain get hacked? Can memories be deleted? Will you need software updates?
Source: Study Finds
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Kev
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