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🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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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. |
0:11.8 | And I'd love to have you be a part of our podcast. |
0:14.6 | You can make an appointment to speak with me. |
0:16.9 | Just head over to commando.com. |
0:18.4 | And on the top right, there's a button that says email kim fill that out and that's it. |
0:23.1 | Yeah, what will they think of next? You've heard of Shazam. That's where you play part of a song and then Shazam tells you the name and who's singing it. |
0:31.0 | Well, thank goodness for a new tech because now we have Chizam. Yeah. It compares photos against this database of some 9,000 pictures of different cheeses. |
0:40.8 | And it says that it looks to identify key features, including the size and shape of the mold. |
0:45.9 | Hmm. All right. So you always know what kind of cheese that you're eating after you take the label or the packaging off. |
0:53.2 | Yes, super handy. I mean, so many people are |
0:56.3 | downloading this app that it's just blowing up. There's debris everywhere. Oh, yes. Welcome to Kim |
1:04.1 | Commando today, because after all, I'm Kim Commando, because tech never stops. And let's get this |
1:08.9 | hour started with five things that you need to know about tech that's happening right now and we're going to start with what warren buffett calls rat poison yes i'm talking about cryptocurrency you know and most of the time the best investment advice is always to remain calm do not panic but. But if you're heavily invest in cryptocurrency, |
1:29.5 | now it's not one of those times. I don't know if you've ever heard of The Spectator. |
1:33.3 | It's a highly respected British weekly. In fact, it's the oldest magazine in the world. |
1:38.6 | And it's just one of many that are sounding these crypto alarms with good reason. |
1:42.9 | Well, there's a story written by Ross Clark. |
1:45.0 | It's called Crypto is dead. Now, I'm not going to go that far, but it is a fact that as an investment, |
1:50.3 | cryptocurrencies of all types, they are in big trouble right now. CNBC reports the |
1:55.4 | crypto experiment is unraveling. Their words, not mine. 40% of all crypto investors are now underwater. And here's why. |
2:03.6 | Bitcoin in particular is down some 55% from its all-time high just last November. |
2:09.6 | And as the spectator writes with cryptocurrencies, it sounds so much that it crashed, but that maybe crypto has become boring. In January of 2018, Warren Buffett |
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