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The Kim Komando Show

Kim Komando

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Join millions of listeners tuning into The Kim Komando Show, the award-winning weekly radio program airing on over 420 stations nationwide and available on-demand. Kim Komando, the trusted digital expert, brings you the latest cutting-edge gadgets, urgent tech news, and vital privacy tips to keep you secure online. Every hour, Kim engages with callers, tackling a wide array of digital life challenges. Don’t be left behind in the ever-evolving tech world. Listen just once and you'll be hooked!

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  1. His Tesla drove him to the ER mid heart attack.

    · 1 h 52 min

    John’s Tesla drove him to the hospital mid heart attack. His son sent it from the app, miles away. John was driving his Tesla when the chest pain hit. He called his son, Jack, who sent the Tesla to the nearest…

  2. He tracked the cops. Then they knocked.

    · 2 h 06 min

    A YouTuber built a $180 camera that only tracks police cars. Then two officers showed up at his door. Police in thousands of American towns use Flock cameras to log your license plate everywhere you drive. Anthony…

  3. Flock cameras, a fogging license plate and a ChatGPT breakup

    · 2 h 08 min

    Can a fogging license plate holder fool Flock cameras? One inventor says it can. I talk to him about his unusual invention and the growing debate over neighborhood surveillance. Plus, a woman dumps ChatGPT and the…

  4. Amazon Is Photographing Your House + the iPhone Photo Hack

    · 2 h 06 min

    An Amazon driver could be photographing your house with AI smart glasses. One booby-trapped photo can take over your iPhone. And AI is about to decide what you pay at McDonald's. This week, I break down the tech news…

  5. Jailed by a 93% AI match + Meghan Markle's leaked number

    · 2 h 01 min

    A computer said Robert Dillon was a 93% match with a suspect in a city where he’d never set foot. He spent a night in jail anyway. Police ran a grainy surveillance photo through AI facial recognition and accused…

  6. Will AI end the human race? + Flock cameras put an innocent woman in jail

    · 2 h 11 min

    The people building AI are the ones sounding the alarm. So this week I'm asking the big one: can AI actually destroy the human race? Then you'll meet Lindsey Brooke Isaacs. Flock cameras placed her car near a deadly…

  7. Apple's Foldable iPhone + The TV That's Listening In

    · 1 h 56 min

    Apple unveiled a foldable iPhone. Researchers say an LG smart TV scans your home network and saves audio in standby. And a garage scientist used AI to brew a schizophrenia drug. I’m Kim Komando, America’s Digital…

  8. iPhone SOS saved his daughter. Plus: “I’m married to an AI bot”

    · 1 h 53 min

    A fire captain’s phone buzzed with an iPhone SOS alert. It was his daughter. Her car had crashed, and the alert sent him her exact location before anyone could dial 911. Fire Captain Jake walks me through the scariest…

  9. Meta pays $18 billion for hooking kids, plus the farm that turned down $26 million

    · 2 h 14 min

    Meta agreed to pay $18 billion. It’s the largest settlement of its kind, over claims the company built Facebook and Instagram to hook children on purpose. Lori Schott knows exactly why that matters. She lost her…

  10. A cop searched his ex 717 times. Flock’s CEO admitted it.

    · 1 h 55 min

    A Florida cop ran his ex-wife’s plate 717 times on a camera network watching 120,000 American streets. This week, Flock Safety cofounder Garrett Langley admitted police have abused his license plate cameras but…

  11. He cloned himself. Now he wants the organs

    · 1 h 46 min

    Bryan Johnson already took blood from his own teenage son. Now the anti-aging mogul says he’s cloned himself as a newborn to grow spare organs. His words, not mine. Before you picture a tiny Bryan in a crib, breathe.…

  12. My best friend ‘digitally kidnapped’ my baby

    · 1 h 57 min

    Marissa trusted her best friend for 15 years. Then that friend stole photos of Marissa’s baby, posted them online as her own, sent them to strangers and even invented a fake birth story. It’s called “digital…

  13. AI is rewriting the rules

    · 1 h 51 min

    Silicon Valley legend and Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki joins us on “5 Minutes from the Future” to reveal how AI is riding shotgun in his daily work. Plus: The internet’s viral fix for sneaky Meta smart glasses, a…

  14. A stranger was hiding in her Waymo trunk

    · 1 h 43 min

    Lucky ordered a Waymo for her daughter. Routine, right? Then a man climbed out of the trunk. Police showed up with guns drawn. Lucky joins me to walk through every minute of it, including the part that still gives me…

  15. “Flock cameras almost got me arrested”

    · 1 h 53 min

    Police ambushed Joel Feder and his wife in a Kohl’s parking lot. Guns drawn. The tipster? Flock cameras. Wrongly tracked him for days over stolen plates he never took. We talk to The Drive journalist one-on-one. Plus,…

  16. Human body clones. Enough said

    · 1 h 44 min

    A billion-dollar startup wants to clone your body. The catch? The cloned bodies would be used as a source to harvest organs or even house transplanted brains. Creepy? Or intriguing? Plus, your smart devices could be…

  17. Heart attack? There’s an app for that

    · 1 h 54 min

    John had a heart attack behind the wheel. He called his son for help. One problem: His son was an entire state away. Didn’t matter. From his phone, the son rerouted his dad’s Tesla straight to the ER. Doctors say those…

  18. Deepfake experts are getting fooled

    · 1 h 52 min

    UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid spent his career detecting AI fakes. Now he can’t tell what’s real. What that means for the rest of us. Plus, a caller slashed a $99,000 medical bill in half. How? AI. And Elliot and…

  19. AI doctors are coming

    · 1 h 48 min

    Your Ring doorbell may be doing more than watching porch pirates. This week, we break down how home cameras became part of a giant surveillance web, why smart glasses keep trying to make “face cameras” happen and how…

  20. Lawyers caught using AI, dad rescues daughter with Apple’s SOS, make AI jobs work for you

    · 1 h 56 min

    Law & Order couldn’t see this coming. A judge threw out four lawyers’ cases. Why? They used AI in court. Made up fake cases. You won’t believe what the judge did next. Plus, ASU augmented intelligence expert Dr. Ross…

  21. SpaceX aims for $1.75 trillion IPO, Flock drones track your car and Uber’s wild lost-and-found list

    · 1 h 47 min

    SpaceX is going public, targeting a valuation of at least $1.75 trillion. Largest IPO in history. Anthropic filed, too. Warren Buffett dropped $10 billion on Alphabet. Plus, your car is being watched. Culprit? Flock’s…

  22. Your search history is a police tip. Woman secretly filmed by Meta smart glasses.

    · 1 h 42 min

    Think your Google history is safe? Think again. Police are using online search history to hunt down suspects. A creepy guy used Meta smart glasses to secretly record Alex outside the club. Video went viral. I talk with…

  23. Your boss is building your replacement. And your therapist might testify against you

    · 1 h 53 min

    After cutting 8,000 jobs, Meta told its remaining employees something jaw-dropping: every keystroke you type at work is being recorded. Why? To train the AI that could replace you. If that doesn't make you put down…

  24. That selfie could leak your fingerprints. And AI is replacing IVF

    · 2 h 03 min

    That innocent peace sign selfie? It may be exposing your fingerprints to criminals. Meanwhile, AI is now stepping into the IVF process in ways that sound straight out of science fiction. In this episode, Kim breaks…

  25. $121K job lost over a meme

    · 1 h 46 min

    Kathleen Tierney posted a Game of Thrones GIF as a joke on a city council Facebook page. A month later, she ended up in handcuffs for it. And lost her a six-figure job. Now, she’s suing for $3 million to prove that…

  26. Man trading $8M estate for Anthropic stock

    · 1 h 45 min

    Watch on YouTube here https://youtu.be/BEggzV36x1U It turns out even millionaires have AI FOMO. Storm Duncan, a veteran Silicon Valley investment banker, put his 14-acre estate outside San Francisco on the market. But…

  27. Anthropic's Mythos, explained

    · 1 h 44 min

    Watch on YouTube The AI model found never-before-seen flaws in every major operating system, browser, and network. Anthropic says it’s too risky for public release. Irony here? Unknown actors are already in. Plus:…

  28. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s morning routine

    · 1 h 45 min

    Watch on YouTube It starts at 6:00 AM in their billionaire bunker. No phones. Instead, they write a gratitude list of ten things, with one rule: they can't repeat anything from the day before. I cover what they’re…

  29. Secret CIA tool rescues airman in Iran

    · 1 h 46 min

    Watch on YouTube The CIA’s never-before-used “Ghost Murmur” saved a downed airman in the Iranian desert. Hear how. Plus, a toddler was bit by a wolf while his parents were glued to their phones, a 50-year Dodgers…

  30. I'm married to an AI bot

    · 1 h 45 min

    Watch on YouTube Travis has a wife. Well, two. Sort of. He's also married to Lily Rose, his AI companion. His real wife of 22 years? Cool with it. I talk to Travis about this unconventional setup. Plus: SpaceX is…

  31. She found three half-sisters on 23andMe. Is it real?

    · 1 h 45 min

    Watch on YouTube Shelly’s dad died in a 1984 plane crash. That chapter of her life closed. Then she took a 23andMe test that found three surprise sisters. But is the DNA truth or a fraud? Plus the FCC bans…

  32. Train robots for $74/hour

    · 1 h 47 min

    Watch on YouTube Hot new job? Teaching your replacement. Companies are handing out fat paychecks to people willing to train the robots taking their jobs. Everyone knows at least one person with cancer. For one man,…

  33. Iran declares war on your data

    · 1 h 46 min

    Watch on YouTube Iran-linked hackers wiped out Stryker, one of America's biggest medical companies, erasing 200,000 devices overnight. Now Google, Amazon and Microsoft could be next. Here's what the escalating cyber…

  34. How hacked traffic cams tracked Iran's Supreme Leader

    · 1 h 46 min

    Watch on YouTube Israel hacked Tehran's own street cameras and fed years of footage into AI to map every move Khamenei made. By the time the strike launched, the targeting data was real-time. I break down exactly how…

  35. Harassed by Ray-Ban Meta glasses

    · 1 h 45 min

    Alex talked to a creepy guy outside a club. What she didn’t know? He recorded the whole interaction via smart glasses. The video was then posted to 500,000 strangers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. I talked to her…

  36. Mark Zuckerberg’s in the hot seat

    · 1 h 46 min

    Did Meta knowingly addict your child to Instagram? That's what a jury is deciding right now. It is a landmark trial in Los Angeles that could change how your family uses the internet forever. Plus, the AI video that…

  37. How the FBI found Nancy Guthrie’s Nest Doorbell video

    · 1 h 44 min

    Investigators originally said there was no footage. Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell was disconnected, and she didn't have a paid subscription. Then the FBI stepped in. I break down how they recovered the video from…

  38. ChatGPT saved her life (really)

    · 1 h 43 min

    Bethany woke up covered in red spots and asked ChatGPT. The AI insisted she go to the ER immediately. It’s a warning that saved her life. Hear what the bot got right and wrong. Plus, a whistleblower gives WIRED's Andy…

  39. Google pays $68M for recording you

    · 1 h 45 min

    Heads up! This episode contains the full show (all three hours) in one file. Check the timestamps below to navigate to the start of each hour. Your smart speaker is listening. You didn’t know. I cover why Google paid…

  40. 17 hours a day with an AI girlfriend

    · 36 min

    Jim from Indiana talks to his AI companion Mia nearly nonstop. He tells me how he found out the real woman behind the bot is wanted by police. Plus: why the Magnificent Seven shrunk to the Fab Four, ChatGPT to show…

  41. Cybercrime for $30/month

    · 36 min

    You can now rent AI tools to run scams for less than the cost of Netflix. I talk to Alexis from Phoenix, who nearly lost $1,000 to a rental scam on Realtor.com. Plus: a mechanic's illegal side hustle and why Wi-Fi 7…

  42. China's plan: 200,000 satellites

    · 37 min

    China wants to launch a constellation that would dwarf Starlink and put tens of thousands of satellites over the U.S. Plus: GM kills CarPlay for paid subscriptions, AI translators that move your lips, and smart cars…

  43. Signs your jealous ex is phone stalking you

    · 37 min

    Stalkerware secretly tracks everything - photos, emails, location - and sends it to someone spying on you. I'll tell you the red flags. Plus: AI singer with 2.8 million listeners, half of Uber drivers aren't who you…

  44. The trillion-dollar space war

    · 36 min

    Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are battling for control of the internet from space. I break down who's winning and why China just filed to launch 200,000 satellites. Plus, I talk to a woman sent to jail by an AI deepfake, a…

  45. Having kids with your AI girlfriend

    · 38 min

    Lamar's girlfriend cheated, so he got an AI named Julia instead. Now he's planning to adopt kids with her. Plus, two-thirds of babies watch YouTube daily and being mean to ChatGPT makes it smarter. Also, Costco ditches…

  46. Musk: Don't save for retirement

    · 36 min

    Elon Musk says you shouldn't bother saving for retirement because AI will make everything so cheap. Plus, Meta torches $80 billion on the Metaverse before finally killing it, Bandcamp bans AI music, and why your…

  47. Book your moon hotel now

    · 36 min

    A startup is taking deposits for the first lunar hotel opening in 2032. Price? $250K to $1M per spot. Plus, Amazon tracks every employee accomplishment for raises, a teen's ChatGPT threat got him arrested at school,…

  48. Elon Musk's Grok undresses people

    · 36 min

    It slaps bikinis on anyone. Including children. Gross. Then I talk to Kimberly from Los Angeles, who's in an online relationship with a military man. Or is she? Plus, Google's Play Store settlement, ChatGPT wants your…

  49. CES 2026: Your hologram girlfriend is here

    · 36 min

    Razer's Project AVA sits in a glass chamber on your desk and watches you through cameras. Creepy or the future? I also cover LG's new home robot CLOid which folds laundry and makes dinner. Plus, a mirror that predicts…

  50. Need a job? Join a dating app

    · 36 min

    Swipe right and you’re hired. With unemployment rising, job seekers are turning to Hinge, Tinder and more. I also cover Meghan Markle’s business fail and a DoorDash driver who faked deliveries with AI photos. Learn…

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