Winning Monopoly Tactics, AI Restoring Speech, and a Massive Cuckoo Clock Collection

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media Good News. I feel like going to jail might help you win Monopoly. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. No, not that kind of jail, you know, the jail that's on the what the second quarter when you play the Monopoly game there. Marcus is a professor at Oxford University and has revealed the key to winning Monopoly, and it's pretty simple. The math expert says owning orange properties near the jail is key. The orange property, as you know, are three spaces right on the second stretch between the pinks and the reds. Marcus explained that jail is twice as likely to be occupied because it's the space players visit most often. The orange properties are just the right distance away from the jail that those leaving it can land on your properties. He argues. The players leaving jail are more likely to throw six, seven or eight and end up on the orange.

0:55 That means the all aw you rent, and as the owner, you're likely to cash in every time someone leaves jail, so your chances of winning Monopoly will supposedly skyrocket. Good news for Anne Johnson and lost her ability to speak nearly twenty years ago after suffering a paralyzing stroke at the age of thirty. She's now able to talk again through an avatar thanks to artificial intelligence. A team of doctors at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley discovered a way to use Johnson's brain signals and translate them into words and avatar movements using AI. They used a clip from her wedding video to store her voice to the way it sounded. Wow. Sean Matzker, a PhD student worked on the research, told ABC News seeing her reaction to the work is really what I think motivates us all. She described that it was an emotional moment to hear her own voice again. So next one is kind of cool.

1:40 Using the same technology in your microwave. Researchers have found a way to more easily recycle solar panels. I didn't realize solar panels get old and you have to replace them. The lifespan of solar panels installed in recent years could be just a few decades, leaving the world with a major waste problem. The team in Australia came up with a simple, common solution, micro technology, the same tech that hates up your leftovers, makes it easier to heat up the parts of a solar panel, take it apart and recover it and reuse the materials. Officials were horrified by a woman digging a huge cavern under her house. If you're on TikTok, you may know Kayla aka Tunnel Girl. She's been documenting her mining project on TikTok since twenty twenty two, has massed a lot of followers, but now local officials in Virginia, where she lives, have shut down her unauthorized project after a neighbor complained. Tunnel Girl told the media, I didn't expect this to get such a huge following. The officials say they shut down the project because they weren't sure the project's safety and whether or not it was up to code. She is not a trained structural engineer. She'd been learning about mining and electrical work via YouTube. Videos show her creating a mine cart and pulley system to transport dirt and rocks from the underground, plus her construction of wooden concrete from works and welded supports. She even installed a pump to remove water that was flooding the tunnel, but as the video has got more traction online. A neighbor got one of the project.

3:00 The neighbors said, I alway saw huge piles of dirt leaving her property, to the point that she pays for dunk truck to get the dirt out. Wow, that's a lot of dirt. And the Washington Post points out, let's not forget this area of Virginia is also known for poisonous cancer causing raidon seeping through the basement level. That would be a danger to Kaila and possibly her neighbors. And that's not cool, no matter how many millions of views your tiktoks get. Two unmarried brothers are seeking an air. They need the air to take over their cuckoo clock collection. Roman and Mas have collected seven hundred and fifty pendulum driven clocks to display in their museum they call Cuckoo Land. But they have no children. They're desperate to find someone to take on the metronomic of Menagerie, says the Southwest News Service. The brothers are seventy one and sixty nine. They said it would be wonderful we could get someone to taken on. It really would be. They became fascinated with cuckoo clocks as teens and went into the trade as apprentices after leaving school at fifteen.

3:53 Roman says, we're looking for a body to take Cuckoo Land on, hopefully to keep it together for all time. We've still got time to teach people and we don't care what we have to do to do it. We want them to know how to maintain, look after, give guided tours, whatever's necessary. Roman said. The British Museum got in touch with us and they said, if we could lift your place and put it in our place, that would be the best thing we could do. Hopefully the clocks find a good home. And that's your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it and maybe share a link with them. They might enjoy the program too. You have a great day.