
There’s a Valentine’s Day tech story by Kashmir Hill in the New York Times today about two retirement age people in need of a gift, and the gift is to have someone throw their phones into the ocean for them.
I’m not going to use these people’s names even though the Times does, because I like them and don’t want to be mean to them. They’re a book store owner who speaks English, and his wife, a Mandarin speaker, and they’ve done what people have been doing for millennia, to…

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