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

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Caalaroga Shark Media Good News. I
feel like going to jail might help you

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win Monopoly. Hi, I'm Johnny
Mack with five good news stories. No,

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not that kind of jail, you
know, the jail that's on the

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what the second quarter when you play
the Monopoly game there. Marcus is a

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professor at Oxford University and has revealed
the key to winning Monopoly, and it's

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pretty simple. The math expert says
owning orange properties near the jail is key.

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The orange property, as you know, are three spaces right on the

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second stretch between the pinks and the
reds. Marcus explained that jail is twice

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as likely to be occupied because it's
the space players visit most often. The

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orange properties are just the right distance
away from the jail that those leaving it

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can land on your properties. He
argues. The players leaving jail are more

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likely to throw six, seven or
eight and end up on the orange.

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That means the all aw you rent, and as the owner, you're likely

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to cash in every time someone leaves
jail, so your chances of winning Monopoly

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will supposedly skyrocket. Good news for
Anne Johnson and lost her ability to speak

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nearly twenty years ago after suffering a
paralyzing stroke at the age of thirty.

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She's now able to talk again through
an avatar thanks to artificial intelligence. A

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team of doctors at the University of
California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley discovered

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a way to use Johnson's brain signals
and translate them into words and avatar movements

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using AI. They used a clip
from her wedding video to store her voice

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to the way it sounded. Wow. Sean Matzker, a PhD student worked

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on the research, told ABC News
seeing her reaction to the work is really

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what I think motivates us all.
She described that it was an emotional moment

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to hear her own voice again.
So next one is kind of cool.

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Using the same technology in your microwave. Researchers have found a way to more

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easily recycle solar panels. I didn't
realize solar panels get old and you have

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to replace them. The lifespan of
solar panels installed in recent years could be

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just a few decades, leaving the
world with a major waste problem. The

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team in Australia came up with a
simple, common solution, micro technology,

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the same tech that hates up your
leftovers, makes it easier to heat up

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the parts of a solar panel,
take it apart and recover it and reuse

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the materials. Officials were horrified by
a woman digging a huge cavern under her

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house. If you're on TikTok,
you may know Kayla aka Tunnel Girl.

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She's been documenting her mining project on
TikTok since twenty twenty two, has massed

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a lot of followers, but now
local officials in Virginia, where she lives,

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have shut down her unauthorized project after
a neighbor complained. Tunnel Girl told

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the media, I didn't expect this
to get such a huge following. The

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officials say they shut down the project
because they weren't sure the project's safety and

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whether or not it was up to
code. She is not a trained structural

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engineer. She'd been learning about mining
and electrical work via YouTube. Videos show

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her creating a mine cart and pulley
system to transport dirt and rocks from the

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underground, plus her construction of wooden
concrete from works and welded supports. She

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even installed a pump to remove water
that was flooding the tunnel, but as

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the video has got more traction online. A neighbor got one of the project.

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The neighbors said, I alway saw
huge piles of dirt leaving her property,

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to the point that she pays for
dunk truck to get the dirt out.

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Wow, that's a lot of dirt. And the Washington Post points out,

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let's not forget this area of Virginia
is also known for poisonous cancer causing

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raidon seeping through the basement level.
That would be a danger to Kaila and

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possibly her neighbors. And that's not
cool, no matter how many millions of

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views your tiktoks get. Two unmarried
brothers are seeking an air. They need

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the air to take over their cuckoo
clock collection. Roman and Mas have collected

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seven hundred and fifty pendulum driven clocks
to display in their museum they call Cuckoo

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Land. But they have no children. They're desperate to find someone to take

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on the metronomic of Menagerie, says
the Southwest News Service. The brothers are

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seventy one and sixty nine. They
said it would be wonderful we could get

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someone to taken on. It really
would be. They became fascinated with cuckoo

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clocks as teens and went into the
trade as apprentices after leaving school at fifteen.

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Roman says, we're looking for a
body to take Cuckoo Land on,

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hopefully to keep it together for all
time. We've still got time to teach

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people and we don't care what we
have to do to do it. We

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want them to know how to maintain, look after, give guided tours,

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whatever's necessary. Roman said. The
British Museum got in touch with us and

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they said, if we could lift
your place and put it in our place,

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that would be the best thing we
could do. Hopefully the clocks find

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a good home. And that's your
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