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Welcome to your Thursday, {{first_name | friend}}. We can FaceTime from a wristwatch, let cars download new brains overnight and get tattled on by the fridge when someone leaves the door open. Very Jetsons. Surely pagers are in a museum next to floppy disks and Blockbuster cards, right? Not exactly. Walk into a big hospital, and you’ll still hear that tiny chirp of urgency.
📟 How many pagers does the biggest U.S. paging company have in service? A) 7,000, B) 70,000, C) 675,000 or D) Just one, belonging to a guy who still rents movies at Blockbuster?
Don’t page Dr. GPT yet, the answer is tucked at the end.
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TODAY’S DEEP DIVE
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🤯 WOW! Humanity snapped about 2.1 trillion photos last year, and the average American takes 20 a day. Most of us never delete a single one. Here’s the kicker: You don’t have to scroll to find the good ones anymore. Simply describe what you want, and AI digs it up.
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I remember my parents saying, “Kim, stop wasting the film.” Back then, you got 36 shots a roll and waited days to see if any were keepers.
Now we fire off 20 a day without blinking. (Guilty. See my triple selfie above.) Let’s clean up the mess and make finding the good ones easy. Perfect weekend project.
🧼 Dump the duplicates
Quick note: I tested these on my own gear. Your screens might look a little different depending on your phone, model or software (or planetary alignment). Poke around. You’ll find what you need.
iPhone: Update first. Open Photos, tap Collections, scroll to Utilities and tap Duplicates. Hit Select > Select All > Merge. Photos keeps the best-quality copy and tosses the rest into Recently Deleted for 30 days. When I first did this, I had 329 duplicate photos and eight videos.
iPad and Mac: Same idea, but you’ll find Duplicates under Utilities in the sidebar. On a Mac, press Command-A to grab them all, then click Merge.
Google Photos: There’s no one-tap duplicate button. Select the extras and tap Delete. Got thousands? Clean up the copies on your phone or computer first, so they never back up in the first place.
Windows: No built-in finder, but you can grab the free version of Duplicate Cleaner. It scans by size and content. Want it to catch look-alike photos, too? That takes the Pro version, which has a seven-day free trial. Review the list before you delete, so you don’t zap a keeper.
Finally, a merge nobody honks at.
🗣️ Stop scrolling, just ask
iPhone: Open Photos and go to the Search tab. Tap the microphone on your keyboard and describe it like you’d tell a friend: “Barry on the boat at sunset.” That kind of detailed search needs Apple Intelligence, which runs on an iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
Google Photos: Tap Ask at the bottom of the app. Say or type something like, “Show me the best photo from each beach trip.” Gemini reads what’s in your pictures, even the writing on a birthday cake.
FYI, older phone? One or two words like “dog” or “receipt” work.
I saw a long stick of bread posing for a photo. It must have been a roll model. (That one even hurt me as I wrote it.)
🗣️ Text/post this stat: The average American takes 20 photos a day, and you can find any one of yours just by describing it out loud. Get more tips like this free at GetKim.com.
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🏕️ Bars beyond towers: Your phone may soon work where carriers currently shrug. The FCC approved SpaceX’s 15,000-satellite mobile network. SpaceX can sell service without leasing spectrum from a ground-based carrier. That’s a huge industry shakeup that could help rural drivers and campers, or start a fresh extraterrestrial billing headache. Deployment comes next, with broader service promised by 2027. Soon the Big Dipper will have to squeeze between satellites like a Buick in a Costco parking lot.
Delivery van stalking: After reading this, checking my bumper feels less paranoid than practical. A 72-year-old in Wooster, Ohio, illegally stuck a GPS tracker on a delivery driver’s van to follow Pokémon card shipments. The driver found it during a Walmart stop. The suspect pleaded no contest, got a $500 fine, probation and a no-contact order. Sometimes “gotta catch ’em all” gets you caught. Cheap trackers can map school runs, commutes and grocery trips. Check your car, and call the police if something looks wrong.
📸 Fine print, meet fine: Using the wrong image online can cost you $1,000 and an expensive conversation with your lawyer. Dreamstime’s massive library of licensed photos, illustrations and videos lets you filter AI content in or out before you download. Every image includes up to $10,000 in legal protection. Browse around.*
Score! I’m getting $56.92 from Amazon: Maybe you have money coming, too. Did Amazon shortchange you on a return? You may be owed a slice of a $309.5 million settlement. It covers items returned from Sept. 5, 2017, to Feb. 12, 2026, that got a late, partial or missing refund, or a charge for something you sent back. Many shoppers get paid automatically, with interest. Everyone else must file a claim at ReturnSettlement.com by Dec. 1.
🐶 Best man’s best friend: Forget the drone. Swayze, a 9-year-old sheepadoodle, wore a GoPro on his back at Emily and Josh’s Wisconsin wedding. He roamed the cocktail hour at knee level, catching hugs, laughs and Emily’s 91-year-old grandma. The video racked up more than 236,000 likes on Instagram. Got a camera and a willing pup? Try it at your next big family party. What do you call a dog magician? A labracadabrador!
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DEVICE ADVICE
⚡️ 3-second tech genius: Can’t find your phone? Say (or shout), “Hey, Siri, set a timer for five seconds” (use “Hey, Google” on Android). It’ll ring even on silent. Make sure voice activation is set up beforehand: Settings > Siri > Turn On Siri, or Google app > Settings > Gemini > Talk to Gemini hands-free. Beats checking under the same cushion twice. 😉
🚨 Chrome needs another patch: Google’s latest update fixes 247 security bugs, with four rated critical. No word on whether hackers are exploiting them, so let’s not wait for an answer. Click the three dots in the top right > Settings > About Chrome, and it’ll install automatically. You should be on version 155.0.8059.39/.40. A few seconds to stay safe.
🔍 I’m looking for a file, that’s it: You can stop Windows 11 Search from showing web and store results. Open Settings > Privacy & security > Search and switch off Web Searches and Microsoft Store. Searches will stick to your files, apps and settings. I prefer it this way. If I wanted the internet, I’d open my browser. 😒
🗣️ Let me finish, Alexa: You can give yourself more time to get the words out before she jumps in. Open the Alexa app > More > Settings > Accessibility > Adaptive Listening Mode and turn it on for your Echo. It helps if you speak slowly or need a pause to gather your thoughts. Where’s this setting for people?
📧 Everyone doesn’t need your main email: Apple bumped up the number of iCloud Mail aliases you can make from three to nine. Think of them as extra @icloud.com addresses, all feeding into your regular inbox. One for shopping, one for newsletters, maybe another for banking. Same place to check everything. Create yours in Mail Settings at iCloud.com.
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WHAT THE TECH?
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🌀 Forecast and the furious
The cone of uncertainty has been upgraded to a bundle of hurricane spaghetti.
Google’s AI is running 1,000 possible storm scenarios at once, and this Isaias visualization has 642 turning pink, meaning major hurricane. Google says its WeatherNext system can produce a 15-day forecast in under a minute, essentially turning hurricane modeling into meteorological speed dating.
The official forecast is less dramatic but not exactly comforting: 110 mph at peak, one tick below major hurricane status.
Check it out here. Turns out “more data” can also mean 1,000 new things to worry about.
Stay safe, friends in the danger zone.
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LOGGING OUT …
🎓 What you learned today: SpaceX is elevating cell service beyond towers, a Pokémon card hunter got caught tracking a delivery van, Amazon may owe you a refund and Google’s AI is running 1,000 hurricane forecasts at once. Not bad for one email. You might not use Meta’s AI, but it could still have a file on you. Tomorrow, I’ll show you what it tracks and how to lock it down.
🏥 The answer: C) About 675,000. That’s how many pagers Spok, the largest paging company in the country, had in service at the end of 2025. About 84% of them are in health care, and government agencies use another 5%.
Each one brings in about $8.26 a month. Spok’s customers send over 70 million messages every month, and most hospitals use its tech. What did the pager say to the smartphone? Beep in touch. (I saw you shaking your head right there.)
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💛 2.1 trillion photos a year, and the keepers all have people in them. Clean up your camera roll this weekend, then send an old favorite to someone who’s in it. That’s what the camera is for. — Kim
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