Good morning.
It’s Tuesday, November 18. On this day in 1963, America ditched the finger-workout known as the rotary phone and welcomed the first push-button Touch-Tone models. Bell System rolled out the future in Pennsylvania, introducing a shiny new keypad that could actually keep up with human impatience.

Back here in New York, the cold is creeping in like it pays rent, and rumor has it we’re in for a properly snowy winter. Great news for anyone who loves slush puddles the size of small lakes and boots that never fully dry.

We worked on today’s issue so you can start your morning smiling like a person who absolutely does have their life together. Grab your coffee, cozy up, and enjoy the read.

Today’s stories:

• Period blood becomes women’s health breakthrough sample

• Listening to music slashes dementia risk significantly

• Blue Origin launches NASA Mars mission flawlessly

• Ford starts selling certified used cars on Amazon

• Half-built Miami megamansion hits $200 million

• Vine returns as nostalgia-fueled diVine reboot

• Nike bets comeback on absurdly tall sneaker

• Audi jumps straight to 2027 F1 development

• Bezos reenters CEO life with massive AI bet

• Meta turns retail stores into selfie factories

• TSA agents get $10K shutdown thank-you

  and more…

Tech took the market down a notch Monday night, leaving stock futures mostly flat as investors brace for Nvidia’s earnings and long-delayed jobs data.

Dow futures ticked up 0.1%, the S&P added a soft 0.1%, and the Nasdaq 100 inched 0.2% higher — a mild rebound after all three major indexes closed in the red. The Dow dropped 550 points, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq slipped about 0.9%.

Nvidia slid 2% ahead of Wednesday’s earnings, keeping the AI hype cycle on edge. Investors are now juggling worries about stretched tech valuations, fading market breadth, and Big Tech’s debt-fueled AI frenzy — plus the reality check of how fast those shiny new AI chips actually depreciate.

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Vine Archive Resurrected

Jack Dorsey is resurrecting Vine because apparently 2025 is the year we all cope through nostalgia. He’s backing a new app called diVine — basically Vine 2.0 — complete with 100,000 old six-second loops pulled from a dusty backup. But it’s not just a museum of chaos. Users can make new videos too, and the app will block anything it thinks is AI-generated. So, a social media app… with standards. Cute.

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Jeff Bezos returns to CEO life with $6.2B A.I. baby. Jeff Bezos is back in CEO mode, because apparently yachts and Venice weddings got boring. He just launched an A.I. start-up called Project Prometheus, where he’ll serve as co–chief executive and throw billions at building smarter ways to design computers, cars, and even spacecraft. The company is starting with a casual $6.2 billion in funding — one of the richest “early-stage” launches ever. It’s his first official exec job since leaving Amazon in 2021. Since then he’s mostly been busy with Blue Origin, his muscles, and being photographed next to expensive things. Now he’s diving back into A.I., clearly not letting Musk have all the robot fun.

Meta’s new pop-up: come for the glasses, stay for the selfies. Meta is opening big, bright pop-up stores to hype its Ray-Ban AI glasses. The newest one in Midtown NY is a 5,000-square-foot blue box designed for one purpose: get you to take pictures and post them. Inside, it’s part skate park, part influencer trap — free cookies, coffee, engraving, and every Meta gadget on display. Meta basically turned retail into a hangout spot so you’ll market their glasses for them. They now have pop-ups in NYC, Vegas, L.A., and Burlingame. Basically places full of people who love attention.

Nike tries to rise again with its tallest running shoe. Nike is trying to claw its way back into the running game, and its latest plan involves… the tallest running shoe on Earth. The $230 Vomero Premium has more than 2 inches of foam, basically a mattress for your feet, and Nike’s CEO Elliott Hill says it’s the blueprint for the company’s comeback. The real flex isn’t the height—it’s that Nike made the shoe in eight months instead of the usual 18. Hill, dragged out of retirement by Phil Knight to fix the brand, wants this speed everywhere inside Nike before On and Hoka steal any more runners.

Ford teams up with Amazon to sell used cars online. Ford is teaming up with Amazon so you can now shop for certified preowned Fords the same way you buy paper towels and protein bars. Customers can line up financing, start the paperwork, and book a pickup at the dealership, with only the final signature happening in the real world because laws still exist. This isn’t Amazon’s first rodeo. Hyundai sells new cars on the site, Hertz sells its used rentals there, and now Ford is adding CPO vehicles — the nicer, cleaned-up used cars with warranties so people feel less scared of buying someone else’s old problems. About 160 Ford dealers have signed up so far, with a dozen already live and more coming next week.

Bezos’ Blue Origin Sends NASA to Mars

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin just launched its New Glenn rocket for the second time, sending a NASA Mars mission into space and neatly sticking the booster landing like it trained with Simone Biles. The rocket can haul twice the payload of SpaceX’s Falcon 9, turning the Bezos–Musk rivalry into a full-blown cosmic flex-off. On board were two NASA spacecraft called Escapade, built by Rocket Lab in L.A. Their job is to study how the Sun’s radiation messed with Mars’ magnetic field and basically peeled off its atmosphere like a cheap sticker. The timing is weird for a Mars launch since Earth and Mars are nowhere near each other right now, but NASA is testing a new route that uses Earth’s gravity as a slingshot. If it works, missions to Mars won’t need to wait for the planets to “align” like some interplanetary horoscope.

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Audi ends 2026 F1 development. Audi’s F1 team hasn’t driven a single lap, but development on its 2026 drivetrain is already over. They’ve moved straight on to 2027 and 2028 like 2026 is just a warm-up they’d rather not think about. At Audi’s giant F1 facility in Germany, 430 engineers are grinding on future seasons because the 2026 setup is “done.” Meanwhile, all the valuable data still belongs to Ferrari, thanks to the Sauber deal, so Audi is basically building its first F1 car using guesswork and polite optimism. With zero real track time, engineers are glued to simulators until the cars finally touch real asphalt during early testing in Spain and Bahrain. Billion-dollar chaos, but very on-brand for Formula 1.

Listening to music cuts dementia risk nearly in half. Listening to music after 70 might do more than lift the mood—it might actually keep the brain from checking out early. A huge study of over 10,800 older adults found that people who regularly listened to music had a 39% lower risk of dementia, while those who played instruments saw a 35% drop. Basically, grandma’s ABBA playlist is doing cardio for her brain. Researchers at Monash University say the “always-listening” group showed the strongest results, with better memory, higher cognitive scores, and far less decline. People who both listened and played music saw big benefits too. There’s still no cure for dementia, so the timing matters. As aging populations strain healthcare, simple lifestyle habits—like music—are becoming real tools for staying sharp. Brain aging isn’t just genetics; apparently it’s also Spotify.

From trash to test tube: period blood gets its moment. Period blood is suddenly the hottest thing in women’s health. Startups are collecting used tampons by mail and treating them like liquid gold, arguing that menstrual blood is the most ignored, wasted medical sample on Earth. Instead of tossing tampons, thousands of women now mail them to labs like NextGen Jane, where researchers happily swirl them into test tubes like it’s a skincare serum launch. Why the obsession: menstrual blood holds cells, hormones, and molecular signals that regular blood tests miss. It can offer clues about everything from hormone shifts to cancer risk. The big prize is diagnosing endometriosis without surgery. Current diagnosis requires anesthesia and a surgeon poking around your insides, which explains why women wait years for answers. After decades of women’s health being ignored, startups are finally treating menstrual blood like a smart, painless, monthly lab sample.

TSA Agents Get $10K for Surviving the Shutdown

Some TSA agents are getting $10,000 bonus checks for “exemplary service” during the government shutdown — basically a thank-you for showing up while the rest of the country ran on chaos fumes. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the bonuses in Houston, surrounded by agents who definitely didn’t expect their job to suddenly come with prize money.

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Miami’s next mega-listing lands at $200 million. A cosmetic surgeon is listing his half-finished mansion on Miami’s billionaire island, Indian Creek, for $200 million. The place isn’t even done yet, but on this island, “still under construction” basically counts as a feature. Dr. Aaron Rollins and his wife bought the lot for just over $30 million in 2020 and are now aiming for one of the priciest home sales in America. The nearly 28,000-square-foot estate comes with nine bedrooms, a theater, a hair salon, a jazz lounge, a secret library door, and a 1,500-gallon aquarium—because why not. If it sells anywhere close to asking, it will blow past Miami’s current record and join the small club of $200M-plus U.S. listings. On Indian Creek, this is just another Tuesday.

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