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Your EV battery knows where you’ve been even if GPS is off
You already know your smartphone tracks your every move like a jealous ex. And your car? Duh, it’s been watching you since Bluetooth became a thing.
Here’s the shocker: Researchers at MIT just revealed that your EV battery alone can quietly map your life without GPS, Wi-Fi or cell signals.
Before you even think, “Kim, this doesn’t matter to me. I drive a gas car.” It’s important because at some point, you’ll probably own a hybrid.
📍 EVs’ breadcrumb trail
Every time you accelerate, brake, idle or park, your battery’s energy use shifts. Researchers fed this data into machine learning models, and boom, they could pinpoint your starting point, destination, route and even how long you were at a stoplight. With over 90% accuracy. Dang.
Worse, this battery data is being collected and stored by carmakers, service centers, EV charging apps, insurers or anyone willing to pay for behavioral gold.
This isn’t just a Tesla thing. It’s any modern EV or plug-in hybrid with built-in telematics, which includes most new vehicles.
⚠️ What happens if you turn telematics off?
Yes, you can disable telematics in many cars (though it’s buried in menus or requires dealer help). But here’s what you give up:
- Over-the-air updates for features and security patches
- Remote access via apps (locking/unlocking, remote start, pre-air conditioning)
- Emergency crash response (like GM’s OnStar or Ford’s 911 Assist)
- Battery health reporting and smart diagnostics
It’s a trade-off: privacy vs. convenience. Most people never knew they were trading in the first place.
🔎 See what your car knows about you
Ripe for the picking
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Scroll-stopping swag
Yup, that’s me during my ’90s big hair infomercial days as the Komputer Tutor, teaching America how to conquer their computers one VHS tape at a time.
Before TikTok and Instagram, there were late-night infomercials, and wow, we bought it all. Remember the ThighMaster? The Flowbee? The Clapper? “Set it and forget it!”
🚨 ICYMI: If your content isn’t showing up in ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini, you’re invisible to millions of potential customers. 👉 Read my full post here about how to fix this. Let me know what you think, or drop me a question about it in the comments.
⚡ Watt the heck? Electricity prices rose 6.5% nationwide so far this year, and in some states, like Maine, they’re up a whopping 36%. Major culprit? Data centers. Their sky-high energy demands (thanks, AI) are hiking rates and triggering billion-dollar grid upgrades that we get to fund. Ohm my gosh!
A chilling Uber stat you need to know
Sealed court docs reveal assault is reported in Uber rides every eight minutes. Here’s the scoop.
September 30
The last day to take delivery and still score the $7,500 EV tax credit. Tick, tick, tax. Forget order dates. The feds only care when it hits your driveway. So if you’re waiting eight to 10 weeks for delivery, as is the case for most Teslas, you’re cutting it real close. Better hope your dream car is already on a lot somewhere.
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Travel the world without paying for hotels
Want to globe-trot like a baller but on a budget? Try home swapping: the Airbnb alternative that doesn’t cost a mortgage payment per night.
Sleep surveillance: Is your Fitbit saying you’re waking up at night more than usual? It’s not because you’re broken, sleep tracking just got “more accurate.” Translation: Fitbit is clocking every micro-wiggle like it’s the NyQuil NSA. Google says this is step one in a whole series of sleep upgrades, rest assured.
Crumb and get it
✨ Life’s messy. I’ve got the tools that make things shine.
- 🧲 Dirt magnet: This tiny vacuum & air duster combo (42% off) goes where other cleaners can’t.
- 🧽 Swipe wipe: Your car deserves a shammy cloth (33% off) that soaks up to 10 times its weight in water.
- 🚽 Tank you: These toilet bowl cleaners (38% off) descale and deodorize while you scroll on your phone.
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Introducing The Current AI Podcast
For years people have been asking for an audio version of The Current Newsletter and now with AI, we’re finally able to deliver!
Charlie Chaplin’s in theaters after 100 years
Charlie Chaplin famously rereleased his 1925 silent classic The Gold Rush in 1942 with new narration and edits, believing it would connect better with modern audiences. Now, thanks to film archivists and AI, the silent masterpiece has been painstakingly restored. The 4K version just premiered at Cannes and hit 250 theaters worldwide.
Fake raids, real scams: Those viral “deportation at Walmart” TikToks? Total scam. Scammers are using phoney retail sob stories to phish your data with bogus surveys and sketchy “free gift” links. No ICE, just identity theft. Congrats, money just got deported from your bank account.
Share Instagram posts the right way: Tagging friends in the comments? Meh. Next time you see a funny reel, tap the little arrow under the post (or on the side). Pick who you want to send it to and hit Send. It lands right in their DMs.
Scammers hijacked his business
I talk to a listener whose farming business was cloned by fraudsters online. Got laid off? Here’s why CEOs are bragging about it. Plus: why SEO is dead, ChatGPT’s new tech support agent, and how to resell your unused vacation.
All wired up
⚡ Plug these picks into your day and thank yourself later.
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- ⌨️ Dirty keyboard? Blast away crumbs and gunk with an electric air duster (21% off).
🤖 Smart tech, small price: There are more gadgets on sale (like this portable monitor) up on my Amazon shop, right now.
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📚 Sort and filter books on your Kindle: You can organize your Library so it’s easier to find what you’re reading (or ignoring). Tap the Filter icon (top left) to show only Downloaded, Unread or Read books. Then hit the Sort icon (top right) to sort by Most Recent, Title or Author. Easy.
🪦 Big Tech, meet Big Audit: The IRS’s free tax-filing tool got iced after just one full season due to limited adoption. Commissioner Billy Long says Direct File’s donezo. RIP to the rare government app that actually worked. IRS saw people being happy and said, “Yeah, that’s enough.”