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In a week when everyone at the FBI kept their jobs, with few exceptions, this also happened:
Amazon announced an Echo speaker that will allow for video calling, but a software upgrade might be even more important in a crisis. Owners of any Echo now have a way to call or message anyone who has the free Alexa app (no Echo required), which could help, say, someone who falls at home and can’t get to a phone.
Carter Wilkerson ,a 16-year-old from Reno, now has the most-retweeted tweet in Twitter history, topping Ellen DeGeneres’ Oscar selfie. His April 5 tweet to Wendy’s, asking how many retweets it would take to get a year of free chicken nuggets, went viral after Wendy’s told him: 18 million. He’s reached only about 3.6 million, but that was enough to break the record — and get his free nuggets anyway.
1 A jingle made two New York attorneys into a single household name — Cellino and Barnes — but it couldn’t keep them together. Ross
Cellino Jr. and Stephen Barnes, who practiced together for decades, are breaking up. And (surprise, surprise) Cellino is suing.
1 Golf fans have never rooted so hard for a hole-in-one. ESPN reported that if Brooks Koepka does it at one of 10 PGA Tour events this year, sponsor Michelob
Ultra will give one fan 2,280 cans of beer. That amounts to 95 cases, which is how many calories there are in a can of Ultra.
1 Tweet from Funny or Die: “Tech Breakthrough: @elonmusk Just Invented A Talking Robot That Only Says ‘Elon Musk’ ”
1 Tweet from People Magazine: “United Airlines Responds to Claim that Woman was Forced to Pee in Cup.”
You can’t make this stuff up. Unless you’re Funny or Die, maybe.