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Kim Komando Today

New police power, scary browser hack, secret menu on your phone and computer

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Think you're anonymous? Think again. A new browser hack can reveal your true identity — even when you're hiding online. Plus, Google is launching new AI glasses, how to send an important file to your computer from your smartphone and an insider calculator tool you probably don't know about. Most importantly, use these secret menus on your phone and computer. You don't want to miss out on this!

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0:00.0

Now, I don't know if you heard about this, but of course, we all know about Mark Zuckerberg's

0:09.2

metaverse, but there's a new metaverse that's coming out where you're just pigeons.

0:13.9

That's right. You're just pigeons. I'm not making this up. You see other pigeons, and there's

0:18.7

avatars of people who want to be pigeons just like you.

0:21.9

Now, every pigeon looks the same, though.

0:24.3

This is what I understand.

0:25.5

There's no snazzy in-app, like pigeon clothes to buy, no jewelry to buy.

0:30.7

There's no way to make your pigeon self stand out in a crowd.

0:34.9

I looked at it.

0:35.7

It's just like a bunch of pigeons.

0:40.2

You can't chat with other pigeon enthusiasts. Oh, pigeon enthusiasts. Right? You just coo at them. Okay. I'm not, no, I'm not

0:48.0

making this up. That's what you actually do. You coo at them. And I know you're sitting there

0:53.0

saying, I can't wait to be a virtual pigeon and then, you know,

0:56.5

be with other pigeons in a metaverse, a virtual world.

1:00.7

But you can only get this particular app if you live in Japan.

1:04.8

One of the other notable features that they talk about is that the birds in the pigeon

1:08.8

metaverse, they don't echo at all.

1:11.2

It has something to do with the advanced acoustics.

1:15.3

I know. That was a long way to go for a drink of water. I know. Could you imagine that

1:20.6

a metiverse where you're just a pigeon and everybody else? It's like it has to be some type of fetish.

1:25.2

You know, like people who are into feet or as people are into, there's some weird underlier thing going on there.

1:31.7

Hey, welcome to Tech Refresh.

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