What’s Trending: Wednesday, January 8th, 2020
§ Fans are taking to social media to post clips of them tackling the challenge, which is reenacting a scene from the latest Star Wars film.
§ The scene involved Ben Solo pulling a light saber from behind his back and giving a little shrug.
§ Some people are using their own light sabers while others are using items like flashlights, flyswatters, and baguettes.
§ If you’re a diehard Star Wars fan, you know the shrug is a callback to Ben’s father, Han.
§ Study: Hackers prefer Instagram and iPhones.
§ They both have a high rate of hackability.
§ US search data has revealed that users have searched for the phrase “how to hack iPhone” nearly 50,000 times.
§ The same results show that Instagram is the social media sight that hackers most inquire about, followed by Snapchat and WhatsApp.
§ The results are convincing…both Apple and Instagram reported severe security breaches last year.
§ This flu season is on track to be especially severe.
§ New CDC data estimates that so far this season, at least 6.4 million people have caught the flu, 55,000 have been hospitalized and 2900 people have died.
§ 27 of those deaths were children.
§ The CDC predicts that flu activity will be strong through mid-January and that a flu vaccine is still beneficial.
§ Among some of the big announcements from CES is the news that Impossible Foods is introducing play-based park and sausage.
§ Their first product, the Impossible Sausage, will be available at 139 Burger King restaurants in five markets as part of their Croissan-wich.
§ Impossible Sausage and Impossible Pork are made with ingredients including water, soy protein concentrate, coconut oil and sunflower oil and will retail for $3.49.