🎙️ Apple’s foldable iPhone. Don’t buy it yet. - The Kim Komando Show

🙋‍♀️ Hello there, {{first_name | friend}},

This week’s show is jam-packed and thanks to Carbonite, it’s brought to you free of charge.

On the show, for starters, Apple finally did it. The foldable iPhone is real, it’s here and the internet lost its mind on schedule.

Before you get in line, I want you to hear what this thing actually costs. Not the sticker. The whole number, including the part Apple doesn’t put on the slide. I break it down on the show, and it changed my own upgrade plan.

Then there’s your TV. Researchers say an LG smart TV scans your home network and saves audio while it sits there in standby. Turns out “off” is a lifestyle choice now. I’ll tell you how to say no.

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Plus, a garage scientist brewed an AI-designed schizophrenia drug on two folding tables. A teenager turned junk removal into $15,000 a month. And a researcher walked out of Anthropic, warning that AI could destroy humanity, and the company didn’t exactly argue.

Also: Flock license plate cameras in the grocery store parking lot, delivery robots hijacking a Chicago sidewalk, and an AI Dr. Seuss meme getting kids arrested.

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0:02 SpaceX is building an elevator to space.
5:18 Retail stores are installing Flock cameras.
8:23 Apple unveils the foldable iPhone.
11:55 A garage scientist used AI to brew a schizophrenia drug.
18:20 The keyboard hack for smart TVs.
19:10 Chatbots can dig up your kids’ personal details.
30:25 Carter turned junk removal into a $15K-a-month AI business.
34:14 Save precious voicemails, 25 years after 9/11.
35:44 TikTok grandmas talk about sex, and Gen Z can’t look away.
38:58 Your LG smart TV is scanning your network and saving audio.
41:50 Anthropic says AI could destroy humans.
46:01 Tesla Cybercab break down? Push it.
53:01 Chatbots can translate animal sounds.
54:55 Michael blew up on a dating site. Over 100 women slid into his DMs.
1:01:58 AI redesigns your room for free. No designer needed.
1:12:57 A swarm of delivery robots hijacked a Chicago sidewalk.
1:16:20 China’s robot conspiracy theory.
1:22:12 Pokémon cards would be the currency after an apocalypse.
1:25:05 Half the country is taking PTO for Grand Theft Auto VI.
1:27:05 A stranger recorded Toluwa. She found out when the video went viral.
1:47:08 AI Dr. Seuss school threat meme warning. Kids are getting arrested.

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There’s a moment that happens in every Apple Store on upgrade day. Somebody hands over their old phone, the associate starts the transfer and a little voice in the back of the owner’s head says, Wait, is everything on here?

Usually it isn’t.

Photos from the phone before this one. The videos that got moved to a laptop in 2021 and never moved again. That’s the stuff that quietly disappears between devices, and nobody notices for two years.

Now widen the lens. Your phone, your laptop, the external drive you bought in 2019 and haven’t plugged in since, they all live in the same house. A fire doesn’t sort through which one held the wedding video. Neither does a flood, a thief or a ransomware screen at 6 a.m.

A listener in Pacific Palisades had about 20 minutes to evacuate during last year’s fire. She grabbed her dogs, her medication and her husband. She left the photo albums and the hard drive in the closet. She still has every one of those photos, because they were backed up before the sky turned orange.

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It saves the things you’d never think to copy. Tax returns. The scan of your parents’ marriage certificate. Seven years of school pictures. The recipe in your grandmother’s handwriting you photographed once and forgot. You’re not backing up files. You’re backing up proof your life happened.

I’ll be straight with you.

Backup isn’t exciting. Nobody brags about it at dinner. It’s the smoke detector of your digital life, boring right up until the one night it’s the only thing between you and starting over. Which is exactly why mine runs 24/7. 

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Back it up before you fold it up. My phone bends now. My budget already did.

What was your favorite story this week? Hit reply and tell me. I read every single one. 💬

Just because, why did the smart TV get invited to every party? It was a great listener.

Until next show,

Kim 🚀

P.S. Only got 10 minutes? Start at 8:23. That’s the foldable, and what it really costs you

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