Tech Refresh: Facebook's name change, Alexa tips, kids and social media

Kim Komando Today

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4.8 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Facebook is reportedly changing its name, and the internet has no shortage of funny ideas. Plus, how to use your Amazon Echo to make Halloween a little spookier. And you won't believe how many parents of young kids say it's simply "too much work" to watch what they do on social media.

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0:00.0	$19.
0:03.3	They are just absolutely bonkers, but, you know, people are going to line up and they're actually going to buy all this stuff.
0:09.2	I'm talking about Apple's new, yes, and one of their big announcements this past week, they had a microfiber polishing cloth.
0:16.3	Oh, and it has an Apple logo on it, and it's $19.
0:20.3	Okay, what a total rip-off.
0:21.9	But so many people are buying it.
0:23.5	This is what's so nuts so about.
0:25.1	There's so many people are buying it that you can't even get it until they say like late November or even December.
0:31.6	So that now your iPhones, your iPads, your Macs, your Apple watches, and your iPods.
0:37.4	I mean, you have to use a
0:38.8	compatible cloth, right? So they're going to be remaining unpolished, at least until you can
0:43.0	spend that 19 bucks. Well, of course, you know, we're going to follow this story as it unfolds.
0:51.3	Oh, yeah. Crack myself up.
0:54.6	All right.
0:54.8	This is Tech Refresh at your weekly fun show about all things digital.
0:58.1	I'm Kim Commando and joining me with this week and every week are my dear and closest friends,
1:02.8	Ali Seligman.
1:03.6	She's our amazing content queen.
1:05.5	Hello.
1:05.9	Hello there, Ali.
1:06.6	Hi, Kim.
1:07.5	And Ben Bradley is our trusty news director and our resident geek of the week.
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