Nina Hernandez

3 days ago | dailydot.com | Nina Hernandez

A savvy Costco shopper showed his TikTok following how he made a tidy profit off of a gold bar he purchased at the bulk retailer. Humphrey Yang makes personal finance and investing videos for his 3.4 million TikTok followers. In a recent video that went viral to the tune of 6.5 million views, Yang reveals how much he made in profit when he sold the gold bar be purchased from Costco in the spring of last year.

4 days ago | dailydot.com | Nina Hernandez

The AI revolution finally arrived at Lowe’s this week with the launch of a customer service app. It is designed to help workers assist shoppers more quickly. Hey, we’ve all been at the department store and awkwardly stood around fidgeting while a sales associate looked something up on a computer or a tablet. Some introverts avoid shopping altogether to escape this very fate. The Mylow Companion app will supposedly make these interactions run more efficiently.

4 days ago | dailydot.com | Nina Hernandez

The world’s two largest soda companies, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, are now locked in a legal battle with the U.S. Virgin Islands over the purported recyclability of its single-use plastic bottles. In a lawsuit filed in April, the government accused the two companies of misleading consumers into believing that their single-use plastic bottles are recyclable. The island territory’s two landfills can’t keep up with the amount of plastic waste. That means it is piling up in public spaces.

5 days ago | dailydot.com | Nina Hernandez

Siri (allegedly) spied on you. Now is the time to fill out the forms and get your slice of the settlement. As noted in this Business Insider article, Apple iPhone users have less than two months to get what they’re owed from a $95 million settlement over accusations that the company used Siri to record and store people’s conversations. What’s the timeline for the settlement? If you had Siri from September 2014 to December 2024, you may qualify for a payout. Of course, there is a major catch.

5 days ago | dailydot.com | Nina Hernandez

A college prospect with an already impressive business resume went viral after revealing that every single Ivy League school rejected him. Now Zach Yadegari has let us know where he plans to go to school. Zach Yadegari is an 18-year-old student and the founder of Cal AI, a calorie-counting app that he says is set to bring in $30 million in revenue this year alone. Apparently, the buzz wasn’t enough for the 15 colleges that rejected him earlier this year.