Share with your parent friends

đŸȘ Share with your parent friends: The Snapchat+ Solar System feature is tearing apart teen friendships. It ranks how close you are to your friends based on how often you interact. Think you’re someone’s Mercury, only to find out you’re more of a Uranus? Upsetting for sure. Talk to your kids about this new feature — it’s important for their mental health.

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How the Pentagon tracked Putin with targeted ads

You and I aren’t the only ones being tracked by targeted ads 
 so are the world’s top leaders. Turns out the Pentagon’s best-kept surveillance secret isn’t pen cameras — it’s cookies.

Buckle up for the wild story of how the U.S. government used targeted ads to track down its target: Vladimir Putin.

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Weekend update: Eclipse info, email warning, hot new job

Spring has sprung, and I don’t know about you, but I’m gearing up for a big weekend of hiking and biking! Before you clock out for the week, I’ve got three things to put on your weekend radar.

The solar eclipse is on Monday, and NASA has a great interactive map to help make sure you’re in the right place at the right time. Don’t worry if you’re not dead center in the path of totality; you’ll still get a pretty good view of the action.

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Save your TikToks: I can’t tell you if the government’s TikTok ban will happen, but it’s not a bad time to download your videos if you use the app. Doing it from a desktop is easier than on a phone. Right-click on a video you want to save and select Download Video.

Trivia

Google’s email launched 20 years ago. Back then, you had to have an invite to join. It wasn’t till later they introduced perhaps my favorite feature: “Undo send.” Was that in 
 A.) 2007, B.) 2009, C.) 2012 or D.) 2015?

Find the answer here

3 metric tons is the weight of the world’s largest camera

Why so massive? It’s built for photographing space. The 3,200-megapixel camera will be attached to a telescope and has a lens five feet in diameter. Displaying the images at full size will take hundreds of ultra-high-definition TVs.

Want better streaming suggestions? Try these hacks

I watched one episode of “Is it Cake?” on Netflix. Spoiler: Everything is cake, and it’s totally not for me. And wouldn’t you know it, it’s completely wrecked my streaming recommendations — and I’m guessing yours aren’t much better.

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Tax Day’s coming up

If you did your taxes, a gold star for you. And if you have not done your taxes, April 15 is a week and a half away. Sorry for the jump scare.

That’s still plenty of time to file if you haven’t yet 
 and plenty of time to get ripped off if you have. I’ve got your back with a last-minute checklist to avoid getting screwed by the IRS — or post-file scammers.

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$1.46 million in a 401(k)

That’s the new “magic number” for retirement. That’s according to a survey of 4,588 Americans. Good news: That’s probably overkill (paywall link) for most families. Fidelity recommends saving 10 times your annual salary by age 67.

58.7 seconds per day is how much quicker time passes on the moon

Enter Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), a new time zone for future lunar missions. The 2026 Artemis III mission could be the first to use it; it’ll be NASA’s first manned lunar trip since the 1970s! ‘Bout time.

60% of small-biz owners worry about cybersecurity

But only half of the respondents said they train their staff on cyberthreats. Wish both of those numbers were closer to 100%. If you’re reading this newsletter, consider yourself ahead of the curve.