Tag: social media

The people who built social media give their own kids 90 minutes a week

Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Evan Spiegel, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all ration screens at home. Your kid’s average? 7.5 hours a day.

You’re making AI images all wrong. Here’s how to fix that.

Flawless skin, dramatic lighting, tidy rooms? That’s the “AI look,” and it’s tanking your content. Learn the simple tricks that make your visuals pass as real.

The scammers who faked her daughter’s voice already had a file on the family

A Bay Area mom lost thousands after AI cloned her daughter’s voice to fake a kidnapping. Everyone’s talking about the voice clone. Nobody’s asking how scammers knew exactly who to call.

‘Mom. He’s gone.’ A babymoon. A body. An $18,000 wire. And the cry for help wasn’t real.

A daughter calls sobbing from Mexico. Her husband is dead. She needs cash right away to bring his body home. The voice was perfect. It was AI. Choose the single word that can stop it.

The AI chatbot you use every day has a point of view. Researchers proved it.

Multiple universities tested the biggest AI chatbots on political questions. The results were surprising. And one finding should stop you cold.

Your email inbox is the skeleton key to your entire life

If someone gets into your email, they own every account you have. Here are the three moves that lock them out for good.

Filing taxes soon? Watch for these red flags

That “urgent” IRS message could cost you big. Here’s how to make sure your refund doesn’t land in a scammer’s bank account.

The same hotel room costs different people different prices. Here’s how to pay less.

Hotel booking sites charge you based on where you live, what device you’re using and how many times you’ve searched. Here’s the 60-second trick that levels the playing field.

One sentence changed everything my associate producer got from AI. Here’s the trick no one teaches you.

Most people type a question into ChatGPT and wonder why the answers are meh. The secret isn’t asking better questions. It’s telling the AI who to BE before you ask anything.

Someone just looked at you and pulled up your name, job and home address. You didn’t notice.

Meta is adding facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. Anyone wearing a pair of sunglasses can look at you and instantly pull up your personal details. Here’s how to protect yourself.

Selling AI art? Here’s what pays and what flops

Anyone can generate AI art. Not everyone can sell it. These practical tips will help you create AI images that actually sell and avoid rookie mistakes.

AI can clone your voice in 3 seconds. Here’s how scammers are using it against you.

Voice cloning tools are cheap, easy to use and terrifyingly accurate. Scammers use them to fool families, coworkers and even banks. OpenAI’s CEO says voice authentication is broken.

What phone does the president use? The answer will make you appreciate yours

Happy Presidents’ Day. The president’s phone has no apps, his car has a fridge full of blood, and someone once sent the nuclear launch codes to the dry cleaners.

Robots hiring humans: Inside the strange new AI side hustle

RentAHuman.ai lets AI bots post real-world tasks for people to complete. The pay is in crypto, the security is sketchy and the whole thing feels like a Black Mirror episode.

The resale apps actually worth your time and the $2,400 hiding in your closet

Kim Komando reveals which resale apps pay instantly, what items are secretly worth hundreds and why live-selling platforms are crushing traditional resale apps in 2026.

80% of data breaches start here: The most common passwords of 2025

The Current shows how AI is helping hackers crack passwords in seconds. Kim Komando breaks down the top 20 list, from “skibidi” to “admin,” and explains how your security habits make you a target for AI-powered data breaches.

How to permanently delete photos and wipe ‘ghost data’ from iPhone and Android

That photo you deleted last year? Still recoverable. Kim Komando reveals the cloud backup trap and factory reset failures that keep your private data alive, plus the exact deletion process that actually works.

How to launch a lucrative freelance career using AI tools

Kim Komando breaks down how to use ChatGPT and Gemini to launch a freelance career in this essential tutorial on earning extra income.

The great lobster heist: How a digital con stole dinner

Criminals used a tiny typo in an email address to steal $400,000 worth of lobster. Read this warning from The Current on how to stop digital impersonators from stealing your assets.

Stop deleting photos manually: An AI cleanup guide

If your phone is one bad selfie away from digital combustion, you need this hilarious, smart how-to on cutting the photo clutter.