This doesn’t make cents

April 17, 2024

This doesn’t make cents: Jeff Drobman got a slew of urgent-sounding Bank of America text messages. The Los Angeles man tried to call the bank but had no signal. He’d been SIM swapped, and hackers stole $21,000 from his BofA account. PSA: Choose facial recognition over 2FA in your banking app, and contact your carrier immediately if your signal suddenly drops.

Tags: apps, Bank of America, banks/banking, carrier, facial recognition, hackers, Los Angeles, messages, signal, text messages

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What’s your typing MO? Hunt-and-peck or touch typing? There’s one thing most of us have in common — 90% of people use the same number of fingers while typing on a computer keyboard. Is it … A.) 10, B.) Nine, C.) Eight or D.) Two?

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91% increased risk of cardiovascular death

That’s for intermittent fasters who limit eating across eight hours per day versus 12 to 16 hours. A new long-term study of over 20,000 people paints a very different picture from claims that time-restricted eating improves heart health. Can’t get over that 91% number.

🤠 Did you hear about the guy on the Oregon Trail who was shot for insulting the leader of his wagon train? He died from dissin’ Terry. (Oh, that was a good one!)

43.5 hours weekly

The time the average American home spends watching broadcast TV, traditional TV and streaming video. Half of that video viewing is done on a TV screen; the rest is split between phones, tablets and computers. These numbers don’t include videos on social media platforms, like TikTok, Instagram Reels and whatever videos on Facebook are called … We can probably double or triple the phone-viewing hours, then, right?

250 sites taken down for hawking fake weight-loss meds

Criminals use the hype around GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic and Wegovy, to steal your payment info and your money or, worse, send you counterfeit drugs that can make you sick. I shouldn’t have to say it but don’t buy meds from unlicensed or non-U.S. pharmacies — not even for swimsuit season.

What’s the wingspan of the RQ-4 Global Hawk, our military’s biggest unmanned drone? Is it A.) 50 feet, B.) 89 feet, C.) 117 feet or D.) 131 feet? (Hint: The wingspan of an F-16 is about 31 feet.)

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$850 for a “Star Wars” Millennium Falcon Lego brick set

Guess it wasn’t a pandemic fad after all … Since launching adult sets in 2020, Lego has doubled its over-18 offerings to include fan favorites like an $899 Titanic set and a $469 Hogwarts set. There’s even a name for the diehards: AFOL, or Adult Fans of Legos. I’m more of an AFON myself — Adult Fan of Napping.

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750,000 robots replacing 100,000 humans in Amazon warehouses

Amazon says robots like Digit, a 5-foot-9-inch humanoid bot that walks and lifts boxes, will work alongside employees, not replace them. But Amazon continues to cut down its human headcount.

$1 for a house

If you’re willing to buy on a boarded-up block. Baltimore is selling close to 1,000 abandoned homes for pennies. They’ll even throw in $50,000 for repairs. One caveat: Most homes are far from liveable, so you’ll need at least $90,000 in assets for renovations to qualify. Oh, and the block you buy a house on might look like this.

We rely on GPS satellites to help us figure out exactly where we are. How many of them are orbiting Earth right now? Is it … A.) Four, B.) 15, C.) 24 or D.) 31?

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