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Six months: That’s how long Ford’s CEO has been driving a Xiaomi electric vehicle. Is that a new Ford model? Nope. Xiaomi is a Chinese-owned electronics company. The Ford CEO previously called China’s auto industry an “existential threat.” I guess he got over that.
🧘 Coping skills needed: An Arizona mom and daughter thought the self-driving Waymo vehicle they were in might crash while crossing multiple lanes. They made it through, with mom panicking and her daughter cracking up in the backseat. Waymo’s response? The vehicle kept a “safe distance.” Watch the video and see what you think.
🏥 Hope she’s OK: Celebrity chef Rachael Ray posted an Instagram video in which she was slurring her words. It racked up hundreds of thousands of views, and internet “doctors” speculated a stroke, alcoholism or worse. On a recent podcast, Ray said she’d suffered “a couple of bad falls” but no other details.
💸 Is the mystery solved? A new HBO documentary, “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,” claims Canadian developer Peter Todd is the mystery man behind bitcoin. Todd, of course, has denied he’s the real Satoshi Nakamoto, and he’s now in hiding. If it’s true, though, he holds the keys to over a trillion dollars in crypto. Watch the trailer — it’s so good!
Focus on the positive: Huge deposits of lithium have been found in Arkansas, and it could reshape the world’s energy future. The resource was in short supply, but estimates suggest there could be between 5 million and 19 million tons buried there. That’s enough to meet the projected global demand for lithium car batteries nine times over.
🍖 I’m warning you again, just in case: BrucePac recalled 11.7 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products infected with listeria. Many have been repackaged and resold through retailers like Amazon Fresh. Check your fridge and see if any of your food is on the updated contamination list.
Of course they are: Streaming services and advertisers are suing to stop the FTC’s new click-to-cancel rule. Yep, that’s the rule that forces companies like Disney to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up. They call the rule “arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion,” which is just a fancy way to say, “We don’t want to make it easy for people to cancel.”
ICYMI, check your email address: This month, hackers stole the sensitive info of 31 million Internet Archive users. Details are scarce so far, but we know they grabbed email addresses and encrypted passwords. Hackers left a message on the homepage: “See 31 million of you on HIBP,” aka Have I Been Pwned. Click this link to see if you’re on their list.
⚠️ Targeting older adults: A 76-year-old man was duped out of $740,000 by criminals pretending to be government officials (paywall link). He had trouble logging into his retirement account and received a message from the firm (complete with a legit logo), telling him to call the fraud department. He sent money via bitcoin, wire transfers and gold to “secure” places. PSA: Government agencies will never call and tell you to move your money.
