Chatbots can study the trees, rooflines and curbs in an ordinary photo and pin down where you live. Test one of your own pictures, then use this checklist before you post another one.
The ChatGPT iPhone app can photograph a stack of pages and combine them into one PDF without leaving the chat. Here’s the 60-second setup, the prompt that pulls out the fine print trap, and the privacy catch before you scan anything important.
Your loved one is buried far away, and you can’t visit. A volunteer down the road from that cemetery will go for you. Here’s how to ask, or how to do the favor for someone else.
I remember my parents saying, “Kim, stop wasting the film.” Back then, you got 36 shots a roll and waited days to see if any were keepers. Now we fire off 20 a day without blinking. (Guilty. See my triple selfie above.) Let’s clean up the mess and make finding the good ones easy. Perfect […]
The suspect was clean-shaven. Robert Dillon had a full beard. Police arrested him anyway. Here’s his story and how to protect yourself.
You whipped up a slick image with AI for your latest ad. Looks great, saves time and no photographer needed. Nice. But before you hit post, there’s one more question: Do you have to tell people it’s AI? The rules are a patchwork, and getting them wrong can cost you. Here’s what to know before […]
Lindsey Isaacs’ black Durango passed a Flock camera two minutes before a deadly crash. The car actually involved was maroon. The 911 callers read a different plate. Troopers arrested her anyway. She tells Kim what happened and what’s left of her life.
Grandma says the chin is Grandpa’s. Your sister says the kid is all you. Upload three photos and let AI referee. Five prompts, one warning about privacy and the science on who babies look like.
Not all AI bots guard your info the same. Here’s which ones are worst, what not to type and how to lock your data down.
Upload a few room photos, give AI a hard budget and make it tell you what to keep, move, sell or replace before you buy another piece of furniture.
Round 2 of our most-loved format. The airline seat map is a sales floor, not an inventory list. The hotel’s 800 number can’t help you, but the front desk can. Plus, the $15 modem rental fix, the $12 dryer trick, the help desk’s sacred order and the photographer’s one-second habit.
Homeowners are opening nonrenewal letters triggered by photos taken from planes and satellites: moss on the roof, a tarp, yard clutter. One insurer-backed imagery network says its cameras cover about 99% of the U.S. population. Nobody knocks, nobody calls, the letter just arrives. Four moves fight back, starting with demanding the photo.
An estimated $10 trillion crosses these cables every day, and roughly 60 ships on the entire planet keep them running. Ship anchors do more damage than sharks ever have, and Starlink’s whole fleet still can’t match one cable’s capacity.
Hackers stole 30 million password vaults in the worst breach the industry has ever seen. Almost none of them opened. The people who got robbed had one thing in common, and it wasn’t the password manager.
That box of random stuff moving with you from house to house is getting its time of day. This gives you a copy-paste AI prompt, photo checklist and sold-price research steps for coins, cards, ceramics and mystery junk.
Samsung unveils its new folding lineup July 22, and Apple’s first folding iPhone lands this fall for north of $2,000. Here’s the plain-English guide to what a foldable is, who it’s for and who should wait.
The kids are bored, the crayons are out, but every coloring book is scribbled in. Here’s the quick AI trick that turns your own photos into custom pages nobody else on Earth has.
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.
Stalkerware hides in plain sight, feeding your texts, calls and location to a partner, ex or relative. Here are the warning signs and how to check without putting yourself at risk.
