Tech Refresh: $2M tweet, new Alexa commands, iPhone update
Kim Komando Today
WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc
4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The very first tweet is set to sell for $2.5 million. Ben, Allie and Mike dive into the weird world of non-fungible tokens. Plus, an urgent update alert for iPhones and several Android apps you need to delete now. In the tech tip, a smart new trick for your Alexa, and the crew talks all things cookies — on the web and the baked good.
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| 0:00.0 | From commander.com, welcome to the Tech Refresh Podcast, where we scour the internet to feature the digital news, gadgets, and stories to keep you up to date. |
| 0:11.2 | Our promise is you give us about 30 minutes, and we'll make sure you're the in-the-no-go-to digital source for your friends and family. |
| 0:18.4 | After an exhaustive nationwide search to find just the right |
| 0:21.5 | digitally savvy show host, well, they gave up and you got me. I'm Mike James along with |
| 0:26.5 | Ali Seligman. Hello, Ali. Hi, Mike. You almost said my name right this week. I have got some good |
| 0:32.5 | stories. We're going to talk about it's getting closer. I'm inching closer. Yeah, we'll go'll go with that all right we're going to talk about |
| 0:39.8 | non fungible tokens what the heck is that i've got a work from home scam that you might not realize |
| 0:45.9 | you are falling prey to and of course i'm going to beat you both and brand new or not true |
| 0:50.5 | and i just realized i didn't use your real title, which is Allie, the content |
| 0:56.6 | queen. Now, I should get slapped for that, but, uh, yeah, I'll just slap. I'll slap myself |
| 1:03.2 | later. We also have our news director from commando.com. It's Ben Bradley. Ben, how you doing? |
| 1:10.3 | Good, Mike. How about yourself? All good. Good. Well, how you doing? Good, Mike. |
| 1:10.8 | How about yourself? |
| 1:11.9 | All good. |
| 1:12.9 | Good. |
| 1:13.9 | Well, this episode I've got coming up, you've already got COVID scams, but now there is a scary |
| 1:18.8 | trend happening on the dark web involving vaccines. |
| 1:22.1 | And I'll tell you about some updates you need to know regardless of whether you have an iPhone |
| 1:26.0 | or an Android. |
| 1:27.3 | And we're going to talk a little |
| 1:28.1 | bit about the death of cookies, not the good kind. Bummer. Okay, so we've also got, as we mentioned, |
| 1:36.0 | brand new or not true, Allie has the products today. The scam of the week as we do every week, |
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