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title: "Digits: FT-Ex, Prime Air, and more"
description: "Plus: Wordle’s leader, landline numbers, and a neat Uber stat."
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# [Digits: FT-Ex, Prime Air, and more](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/11142022-digits)

 Written by [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/author/jacob-cohen) | Nov 14, 2022 8:43:53 AM

**1)** FT… Ex. The Miami Heat are ending their [**19-year, $135m**](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35004915/miami-heat-cut-ties-bankrupt-ftx-rename-home-arena) arena naming rights deal with bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, which also had lucrative [deals](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/business/ftx-sports-sponsorships.html) with Tom Brady, the MLB, UC Berkeley, and others.

**2) **Tracy Bennett, an associate puzzles editor at *The New York Times* since 2020, is now also the official editor of Wordle. The job takes Bennett ~30 minutes to an hour a day, and the game still gets “[**tens of millions**](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/11/how-wordle-editor-became-a-real-job-at-the-new-york-times/)” of players daily.

**3) **Telecommunications companies once employed 350k US landline operators. Today, [**there are just 550**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-08/at-t-to-end-411-directory-saying-farewell-to-telephone-operator-era?), and AT&T is ending its landline operator service in 21 states, affecting 3m of its 8.5m landline customers.

**4) **In Latin America, Uber and DiDi roam the streets of major cities. But in Brazil, for instance, Uber only covers [**131 of 5.5k urban areas**](https://restofworld.org/2022/local-ride-hailing-startups-thrive-uber-didi/) with 10k+ people. That’s prompted the rise of hundreds of hyperlocal ride hailing apps — many of which are made by a company called Gaudium.

**5)** Amazon started its two-day delivery program ~17 years ago. But by the end of 2022, the milestone could drop to 30 minutes, as its [**80-pound, 50 mph**](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/a-first-look-at-amazons-new-delivery-drone.html) MK27-2 drone starts making deliveries of up to 12 kilometers roundtrip in California and Texas.

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