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💬 Quoted…​​ “Alexa, thank my driver.

  • Starting Wednesday, every time an Amazon customer says the above phrase within earshot of an Alexa device, the driver who delivered their most recent package will receive a $5 tip at no additional cost to the customer. The company said it’ll dish out tips for the first 1 million “thank-you’s.”

⚡⛽ Stat of the Day: GM this week installed the first in a planned rollout of 40,000 new EV chargers across its network of North American dealerships, which the automaker said will almost double the number of public charging stations in the US and Canada.

  • Nearly 90% of the US population lives within 10 miles of a General Motors dealership, per a company executive.

🤯 Did You Know?... The longest-running lab experiment in the world is the Pitch Drop experiment, which demonstrates how pitch – a derivative of tar – is the thickest known fluid in existence. Only nine drops of pitch have fallen in the 95 years since the experiment began.

📖 Worth a Read: Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars → (WIRED)

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