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Kim Komando Today

Tech Refresh: Nosy smart assistants, old scam is back, using email aliases

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It seems, yes, Google's smart assistant is always listening. What can you do about it? Plus, a tricky scam is back with a new name, and find out how email aliases can clean up your inbox and protect your privacy.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Tech Refresh with Kim Commando and friends from Commander.com with a K.

0:05.5

That's K-O M-A-N-D-O. Before we get started, real quick, make sure you hit the subscribe

0:10.8

button so you always get these delivered every single week.

0:14.2

Or, Mike, the follow button on Apple.

0:16.8

The follow button on anywhere that you follow anybody. You want to follow Kim Commando. There's an old scam going around social media with a new name, and we've got that. Plus, the best ways to listen to audiobooks. And let's see. We start with the news as we do every weekend. Here's Kim. I was going to start with Trump suing all of big tech, but I decided,

0:39.0

let's not go there. Right. Instead, let's talk about something really important. For so many years,

0:43.8

people have asked me, Kim, if I put my cell phone up to my head, will I get cancer? And I've

0:50.5

always said the same thing. I had a friend of mine who was a brain surgeon over at Barrows,

0:55.5

which is, you know, neurological center here in Phoenix. And he truly is a brain surgeon. Many, many

1:01.3

years ago, he told me that I should never put my phone in my brow in my pocket or hold it up to my head.

1:07.4

And I said, why? And he says, well, we're starting to see increases of brain tumors on the

1:11.4

right hand side. And so that was the advice that I passed along saying that this was a friend of

1:17.3

mine who was a brain surgeon and this is what he does. Well, news out this past week that you see

1:23.3

Berkeley, they have some new research that actually says there's a strong link between cell phone

1:28.2

radiation and tumors, particularly in the brain. They took a look at the statistical findings

1:34.8

from 46 different studies around the world, and then they found that the use of a cell phone

1:39.2

for more than 1,000 hours, if you break that down, 17 minutes a day over a 10-year period, increased the risk

1:46.4

of tumors.

1:47.0

Get this.

1:47.5

Wow.

1:47.8

By 60%.

1:49.0

Yeah, that says a lot.

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