| | | Regularly playing board games reduces your risk of dementia by up to 15%. | Your nan flipping the Monopoly board in 1987 was a cognitive health decision. | She was ahead of the research. | What’s in store: | | Read Time: 6 minutes |
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| | | | | AI USE CASES | Get hyper-local news with one prompt | | There are more news websites, newsletters, Facebook groups, community calendars, and apps than ever before. | Ironically, that can make it harder to stay informed. | Someone once told me that the most useful news isn't national news - it's local news. The things happening in your own community. The road closure that's going to make you late. The new restaurant that just opened. The school fundraiser. The neighbourhood festival. The small business everyone is suddenly talking about. | But, keeping up with all of it usually means bouncing between low-quality ad-ridden websites, social media groups, local newspapers, and event calendars. And this can be harder if your “local” right now changes a lot, or you live in another country. | The good news is that AI can search for you. | How to get up-to-date results | Instead of hunting down dozens of sources, head to ChatGPT (or your AI tool of choice) and try this: | “Give me a summary of what's happening in [location]. Include local news, community events, new businesses, upcoming activities, transportation updates, weather concerns, and anything residents should know. Prioritize information from the past 30 days and organize it by category.” | You can continue this thread and check in with it once a day, once a week, or whatever you feel like. | Keep up with places you’ve lived | You can also replace [location] with a city, town, neighborhood, county, region, or even a specific area of a city. | Most of us have places that still feel like home. | Maybe it's where you grew up. Maybe it's where you went to college. Maybe it's the city you moved away from five years ago. | Instead of following multiple local news sites, use the prompt above and just swap in the location. You can even keep tabs on several places at once. | Use MetaAI in Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp | A lot of hyper-local information comes from social media. Posts on Facebook and Instagram, conversations within a group chat on Whatsapp is where a lot of that action is happening. | So, go into your app, head to Meta, and ask: “What’s going on in _____.” or “Based on this thread, what should I put in my calendar this month to go visit?”. Of course, if you want to get more specific, you can. | Research a place before you travel there | Guidebooks tell you what was interesting, but local news tells you what's interesting right now. | Before your next trip, run the prompt using your destination. | You might discover a new attraction, seasonal event, transportation issue, restaurant opening, or local controversy that hasn't made it into travel content yet. | Find hyper-specific information | You can make the location as broad or as narrow as you want. | Try: | Your hometown Your current neighborhood The town where your parents live A beach community you're considering moving to A suburb you're researching The area around a hotel before a trip
| The more specific you get, the more interesting the results often become. | Why this works | Most of us don't actually want more news. | We want relevant news. | We want to know what's changing, what's happening, and what's worth paying attention to in the places we care about. | AI isn't replacing local journalism here; it's helping you find it. | Tip: AI can also help you understand what’s going on in a place where it might not be your native language, as it can help translate notices about events. | Screenshot This | Ask AI: "Give me a summary of what's happening in [location]. Include local news, community events, new businesses, upcoming activities, transportation updates, weather concerns, and anything residents should know. Prioritize information from the past 30 days and organize it by category." Replace [location] with a city, town, neighborhood, county, or even a specific area. Use it to keep up with your hometown, research a destination, monitor a neighborhood, or stay connected to places you've lived. Run it weekly for a personalized local news briefing. For even more hyper-local information, ask the same question in Meta AI on Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp, where local conversations often happen first. Get the context of a local newspaper without visiting dozens of websites.
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| | | | | THAT’S ACTUALLY WILD | | Wild elephants use unique vocal calls that act like names, allowing them to call specific individuals without copying their sounds. It's the first known example of animals, other than humans, using name-like labels to identify one another. |
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