Kim Komando

A verified X ad and a routine browser habit are being used to hijack Mac users and Microsoft 365 accounts alike. Here’s exactly how both attacks work and what stops them cold.

New FTC data reveals scams starting on social media cost Americans $2.1 billion last year, and Facebook tops the list. Losses have exploded eightfold since 2020. Here are the exact settings that cut scammers off.

Nearly every AI charges the same $20 a month, but the free versions are better than you think. Here’s when paying is worth it and when it’s cash walking out the door.

Banks watch how you type, swipe and hold your phone to catch fraud before it happens. Behavioral monitoring is invisible, it’s everywhere, and a thief can’t fake your rhythms.

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.

Data brokers turn your private life into a product. Here’s what they know, who’s buying and how to yank yourself off the shelf.

Companies are quietly bricking gadgets you already paid for or locking the features behind a subscription. Here’s how to spot the problem and how to buy around it.

Live translation quietly arrived in phones, earbuds and glasses. Talk to almost anyone, in almost any language. Here’s how to set it up before your next trip.

No telescope, no chart, no clue what you’re looking at? Doesn’t matter. The free app already in your pocket names every star you point it at, and one trick lets you see the stars beneath your feet. Plus, the farthest thing your eyes can ever reach.

The Fourth of July used to be about lighting things on fire and hoping nobody’s uncle lost a thumb. Now it’s drones. Lots of drones. This video opens with a Benjamin Franklin stunt double surveying rows of electricity’s neediest children. The juice is worth the squeeze. They rise into the sky and become glowing rockets, […]

Fireworks are free. Those three streaming services you forgot you’re paying for are not. Here’s how to hunt down and cancel every sneaky recurring charge in under 15 minutes.

It’s a long holiday weekend, and I’m doing something a little different. I’m queuing up the movies that called it: the ones that predicted the digital world we’re all living in. AI assistants, video calls, screens on everything. Hollywood saw it coming decades ago.  Grab the popcorn, and watch along with me. These flicks were […]

One shelf, one photo session and one smart prompt can tell you what to sell, bundle, donate or toss.

Everyone uses Zillow to gawk at dream homes. The savvy ones go straight for the boring tabs, where a stranger’s mortgage rate quietly reveals whether they’re a motivated seller or going nowhere. Here’s how to read it, and how to hide yours.

More than a third of summer travelers still haven’t bought their tickets. Good news: Google Flights’ hidden features can land you a deal. Here’s how to use them.

Cats and dogs are experts at hiding pain, and even loving owners miss it. Now the AI on your phone can read the tiny signs right off their face. Here’s the free way to try it, plus when to skip the app and call the vet.

If you keep “running into” the same person or your gut says you’re being followed, you might be carrying a $30 tracker without knowing it. Here’s how to find it, what your phone misses and what to do before you touch it.

A reader swears he’d catch identity theft himself because he checks his bank account. I had to break the bad news. The theft that ruins you never shows up there. Here’s what happens and how to catch it before the damage piles up.

Every photo, text and ChatGPT question runs through a real building full of computers that never sleep. Here’s why those buildings are quietly showing up on your electric bill, draining your town’s water and pocketing your tax dollars.