LinkedIn was never supposed to be a dating app. It's becoming one anyway — one in eight workers has formed a romantic relationship that started there, nearly half think LinkedIn profiles are more trustworthy than dating profiles, and the platform's lawyers have opinions about all of this. Also: Amazon just announced Prime Air drone delivery is expanding from 11 locations to nearly 500 cities by the end of this year, with deliveries possible in as little as 30 minutes for anything under five pounds — and Chicago is on the list. And a new Gallup poll finds that fewer Americans are gambling than at any point in the last four decades — even as sportsbooks are advertising on every surface imaginable and prediction markets are processing billions per month. Plus a surprise bear at an apartment complex, Harvard's $53 million body parts settlement, Portuguese men o' war on European beaches, and a world record set on a sticky note.
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