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May 9, 2024

Check your inbox: If you’ve ever used the mental health platform BetterHelp, you may be one of the 800,000 folks now eligible for part of a $7.8 million settlement. To check, search for an email from “Ankura Consulting Group.” The FTC says BetterHelp shared consumer health data with third parties for advertising. Questions? Email info@betterhelprefundprogram.com.

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Ask Kim: 'Is my new online friend tricking me?'

I got a call from Jim in Sacramento about a new friend he met on Facebook. She messaged him out of the blue and they hit it off (just friends, he’s married). Now, she’s introduced him to her aunt, who happens to be great with crypto.

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Amazon wasn’t always called “Amazon.” Our pal, Jeff Bezos, considered two other names first. Were they … A.) Caboodle, B.) Relentless, C.) Cadabra and/or D.) Tireless?

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$55,000 for an Insta

For a foodie account with 359,000 followers. You can find the “deal” on resale site Social Tradia. Wild guess: Most of the followers are bots, and the rest are gonna smash that “unfollow” button once they catch wind of a bait and switch. Pass.

80-year-old WWII letters

From a U.S. soldier showed up in a Texas mailbag. A postal worker tracked down the late sender’s sister and drove 500 miles on his day off to return them to her. It’s like the USPS creed: “Neither snow nor rain … nor an unpaid five-and-a-half-hour drive.” Love that!

0 texts and emails sent by Tom Selleck, ever

The actor says he relies on others, including a secretary (yup, he used that word!) and his wife, to communicate electronically for him. Tom, you’ve gotta meet Siri.

92 minutes is U.S. moviegoers’ ideal feature film length

Film critics disagree: “Oppenheimer” won the Oscar last year at double that length — 180 minutes! A perfect movie to test the theory: 1940’s “His Girl Friday.” Starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, it’s, yep, 92 minutes.

7,470 Firefox tabs take up just 70MB of memory

That’s the buzz after one woman lost (and then found) the tabs in her Firefox Profile cache with help from X users. She said it took just seconds to restore them all. Firefox: The browser for tab hoarders.

How does your smartphone’s computing power compare to the guidance computer aboard the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar module? Is a smartphone … A.) About as powerful, B.) 120 times more powerful, C) 12,000 times more powerful or D.) 120,000 times more powerful?

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750,000 Amazon robots

It’s using them to move packages around warehouses. Amazon’s robot count doubled between 2021 and 2023, and its human workforce shrunk by 6% over the same period. The company says its robots are job helpers. Yeah, sure, OK.

4.2M Instagram posts tagged #NiagaraFalls

It’s the most ‘grammed waterfall in the world. Does this make you more or less likely to visit? For me, def less — way less. Which waterfall has the fewest tags? I’ll go there instead.