Tag: YouTube

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.

9 movies that predicted the future

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 […]

The FBI built a fake town in Alabama. Then started attacking it.

Empty houses. A hospital. Traffic lights blinking at nobody. The FBI built a whole pretend town for one chilling reason.

YouTube can drop you into any video, and strangers can pop into yours

Whoa. That’s me up top on the TV, starring in a futuristic sci-fi flick like I trained for it my whole life. (I didn’t. The closest I get to special effects is yelling at Siri.) And I didn’t shoot a single second of it. At Google I/O, the platform quietly switched on AI tools that […]

Father’s Day gifts Dad will actually use

Inside: Ten thoughtful finds for every kind of dad. On sale and up to half off.

Google announced it wants to run your life. Here’s what to turn off.

From an AI that reads your emails around the clock to smart glasses that snap photos without your phone, Google I/O 2026 was really one big announcement: Google wants in. Every door. Here’s what that means for you.

Google will permanently delete your account after 2 years of inactivity. Here’s the free 5-minute fix that protects everything.

Gmail. Google Drive. Google Photos. All of it gone after two years of no activity. And without a legacy contact set up, your family can’t access any of it if something happens to you. Here’s how to fix it today.

AOL paid him $200 to record “You’ve Got Mail.” His voice was heard 35 million times a day.

His wife overheard the CEO of a tiny Virginia startup wanting a voice for new software. She volunteered her husband. He recorded four phrases on a cassette deck in their living room. AOL paid him $200. The phrases? “Welcome.” “You’ve Got Mail.” “File’s done.” “Goodbye.” Three of those words became the soundtrack of the early internet. And the man behind them? You’ve never heard his name until now.

YouTube just joined the streaming hike parade. June 7 is your deadline.

YouTube Premium jumps to $15.99 on June 7. Netflix is already $26.99. The average household pays $972 a year for streaming. Here’s the playbook to slash your bill before the next hike hits.

Go look at your Google ad profile right now. I’ll wait.

Google has a file on you. It lists your age, your income bracket, your health concerns and your relationship status. It’s been there the whole time. Here’s where to find it and exactly what to turn off.

Your internet provider can see every show you watch. And they’re using it against you.

You’re paying $80 a month for internet. Your provider is watching exactly what you do with it and quietly punishing you for it. Here’s what’s happening inside your connection.

5 weirdly popular YouTube channels you’ve never heard of (but won’t be able to stop watching)

Millions of people have leaped down these rabbit holes. This Friday, you will, too.

Big Tech’s best April Fools’ jokes weren’t jokes. They changed your life.

Gmail. Google Maps. The App Store. Every one was dismissed like an absurd April Fools’ prank. Every one became unavoidable. And every one came with a price tag nobody saw coming.

The internet is carding you. And it’s not working.

Half of U.S. states passed laws to keep kids off social media. Kids route around them in minutes. But YOUR government ID? That stays in a database forever.

Why ‘buy’ doesn’t mean what you think it does anymore

That movie you bought on Apple TV? That game on Steam? It’s a license that can vanish overnight. Here’s what’s really happening to your digital library.

Music made by machines (and me)

Music from thin air? Kim Komando’s testing AI tools that turn your shower thoughts into actual songs.

Who owns your AI images and videos? Here’s what you should know

Can you actually use this stuff on your website, in ads or all over social media?

🔓 This $130 lock got picked with a water can

You know I love a good tech takedown, and this one is peak internet.  Meet Trevor McNally, a former U.S. Marine staff sergeant turned full-time YouTuber with a very specific hobby: lock picking. On his channel, he tests locks the way most of us test leftovers, with low expectations and a lot of curiosity.  He’s […]

The day the cloud caught a cold

If Zoom wouldn’t connect, YouTube froze or your smart home went dumb yesterday morning, it wasn’t just you. Over 11 million people reported issues with more than 2,500 big name apps and services. The reason? A huge outage at Amazon Web Services, better known as AWS. Let me explain what all this means in plain […]

You asked how a smart ring sent a guy to the ER. Here’s the full story.

Recently here in The Current, I mentioned a YouTuber who ended up in the ER because of a smart ring. A bunch of you left me comments asking the same thing: “How does that even happen?” Let me explain, because this wasn’t the guy’s fault. It was a complete tech failure. 💍 Ring of fire […]