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Kim Komando Today

Cyberstalker car fire, fastest typist alive & self-driving fiasco

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Plus, Mike Perez built gas station skimmers that earned him hundreds of thousands of dollars… until he got caught. I have a chat with him about it. A spooky void on Google Maps, the Maryland license plate debacle, and get clear conversations on your phone.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Kim Commando today, your daily podcast to keep you up to date with all things digital and beyond.

0:08.1

And I'd love to have you be a part of our podcast.

0:10.9

You can make an appointment to speak with me.

0:13.2

Just head over to commando.com.

0:14.7

And on the top right, there's a button that says email Kim, fill that out.

0:17.6

And that's it.

0:19.8

I always like to start the show with something interesting.

0:22.4

And if you're under the age of, say, 18, there was a time before the Internet when if you wanted

0:28.8

to know something, there was no Wikipedia or Google, you actually had to go to a physical

0:34.4

library and pull out an encyclopedia, or maybe you had to read a book, or maybe

0:39.4

you had like that crazy Uncle Dave that you would ask him questions, or maybe your Aunt

0:44.8

Lily, and she just seemed to know every single thing.

0:47.8

But Gen Xers and older millennials are now nostalgic, they say, for the time before the Internet.

0:55.0

A new Harris poll shared exclusively with Fast Company says that most people, between the ages of 35 and 54, about 77% wish they were not plugged in so much.

1:06.1

They actually missed the world before cell phones and the Internet.

1:09.7

I don't know.

1:10.1

I don't miss it that much.

1:11.6

Well, I've been connected for so long.

1:13.6

I mean, gosh, I went to college for computer science.

1:16.2

But it reminds me of this old joke.

1:19.0

A man walks into a library and asks where he can find books on paranoia.

1:23.4

And the librarian whispers to him, they're right behind you.

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