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Welcome, friend. Quick moon thought: If humanity had to leave one tiny “please remember us” box behind, what would we pack? Snacks? A phone charger? The extended cut of “Bohemian Rhapsody”? In 2019, a spacecraft crash-landed on the moon, carrying a small archive meant to outlive us, a little lunar time capsule for future space archaeologists.
🧑🚀 What was inside? A) A copy of Wikipedia, B) Every Beatles recording, C) The names of everyone who donated or D) A map, in case we forget where we parked? Don’t launch your guess too soon, the answer awaits at the end. Grab your coffee. It’s Saturday, and this one’s pure fun.
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TODAY’S DEEP DIVE
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🤯 WOW! The baby-resemblance argument has a biased jury. In one study, 74% of expecting moms said the ultrasound looked like the father. The dads split 49% to 51%. AI has no favorite grandparent, and five prompts below turn it into the family referee.
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Every family has the argument. Grandma swears the baby has Grandpa’s chin. Your sister says he’s all you. Dad quietly claims the ears (they’re his).
Now you can settle it. Upload a few photos to ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude. The AI has no dog in the fight, and it spots what you stopped noticing years ago.
Moms are wired to say the kid looks like the father. In one study, 74% of expecting moms said the ultrasound looked like their partner. The dads? A coin flip, 49% own the resemblance vs. 51% who say the child mirrors the mother. Somebody’s biased. Probably you. (Sorry.)
📸 Set it up right
Grab three photos: the kid, Mom and Dad, ideally at the same age. Old-school pictures are gold. Straight on, good light, no sunglasses. Upload all three at once, then paste a prompt.
FYI, before you upload your kid’s face, turn off “improve the model” in the AI’s settings (otherwise, it can commandeer your photos for training) or use a temporary chat. If the bot balks at faces, say these are your own family photos and you want a feature comparison, not identification.
🧬 Five prompts to try
The verdict: “Compare these photos of me, my mom and my dad. Go feature by feature: eyes, nose, mouth, face shape, smile. Say which parent each one matches and why. End with a percentage split, Mom’s side vs. Dad’s side.”
The grandparent test: “Here’s my daughter plus all four grandparents. Which one does she look most like? Name the single feature that gives it away.”
The sibling ranking: “Here are my three kids and both parents. Rank the kids from most Mom to most Dad, and tell me who got the most even split.”
The time machine: “Here are all four grandparents in their 60s. Describe what my son will look like at 60 based on how they aged. Then make an image.”
The draft-day recap: “Write a sportscaster play-by-play of my kid’s genetics, like a draft night broadcast. Announce which parent won each feature. Under 150 words, keep it funny.”
Screenshot number five for the group chat. You’re welcome.
I’m a pretty even blend of both parents. Dad gave me more of my face shape and eye structure, while Mom comes through strongly in my cheeks, nose, mouth and smile. My totally unscientific family resemblance score: 55% Mom, 45% Dad.
I always keep a joke in my pocket. My dad always did, and his father before him. It’s in my genes.
📩 Send this to someone who has been arguing about the baby’s chin since the hospital.
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🎤 PODCAST: THE KIM KOMANDO SHOW
🎧 This weekend on my show
The people building AI are the ones sounding the alarm. So this week, I’m asking the big one: Can AI actually destroy the human race?
Then you’ll meet Lindsey Brooke Isaacs. Flock cameras placed her car near a deadly crash, and she spent 13 days in jail. Even though other evidence pointed to a completely different vehicle. She tells me how it happened and where she is today.
What else is in this one:
Brian rebuilt his father with AI. After his dad passed away, he used AI, his father’s handwriting and old voice recordings to create a holographic version of him.
An Uber driver, cops and a murder suspect. Sergeant Anthony was driving his Uber shift when police jumped in and used his car to chase down a suspect.
New York City’s 10-minute toilets. Robot bathrooms are showing up around the city. You get 10 minutes, then it flushes you out. Literally.
Brand New or Not True is back. Our game where we guess which wild tech claims are real and which are made up.
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👓 Glasses saw everything: Imagine finding videos of your family using the bathroom recorded by smart glasses that woke up on the counter. More than 70 people in a 230-page federal lawsuit say Meta’s glasses exposed intimate footage, including sex, and passwords to overseas workers training its AI. Meta disputes the claims and points to its recording light. That little light has the hardest public relations job in America. I say leave the glasses outside the bath- and bedrooms.
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Five stars, zero patients: The most convincing doctor review you’ll read today was probably written by the receptionist. Researchers checked 5,000 physician reviews and found about one in four were fake, posted by clinic staff posing as patients. The twist: The fakes scored higher for trust. Real patients keep it vague because they don’t want their diagnosis online. The impostors had nothing to hide, so they spilled convincing details. Before you book, skip the glowing essay and ask someone who has actually sat in the waiting room. Nobody fakes the parking complaint.
🩲 Silent but data: So healthy adults fart 32 times a day on average. It took a pair of smart underwear to expose us. University of Maryland researchers used gut-gas sensors and found more than twice what people admit to. I laughed, then thought how this could help push research forward for anyone with IBS or food intolerances. These underpants know what happened after chili night, and they brought charts.
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🧾 Snap that receipt before it ghosts you: Pull out an old receipt, and half the print’s gone? Turns out many use thermal paper, which fades with heat, sunlight and friction. Take a photo when you get it, then search “receipts” in your phone’s Photos app to find it again. Proof you bought the toaster shouldn’t have a shorter lifespan than the toaster.
😅 Quick reminder that your chatbot is building a profile on you: Past chats can influence future replies based on things like where you live, what you do and what you like. Handy but not ideal when you want a neutral answer. In ChatGPT, go to Settings > Personalization > Memory summary. In Claude, Settings > Memory. Check in, clear anything creepy, or switch memory off.
🌙 Dark mode missed a spot: Your apps are dark, then one website lights up the room. The free Dark Reader Chrome extension can bring those pages into line. Install and pin it, choose which sites go dark and it’ll remember. You can also tweak brightness and contrast. I opened a recipe, not a portal to the sun. 😭
🆕 More things to try in macOS 27 today:
Ask Siri about anything on screen: Press Command + Shift + 6, drag over an area, then ask a question in the Ask Siri box. Try “Can you find similar sofas?”
Reveal hidden menu bar apps: Click the two arrows in your menu bar to see the app icons that don’t fit.
Make Liquid Glass less transparent: Open System Settings > Appearance > Liquid Glass and move the slider right for a more solid look.
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WHAT THE TECH?
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🍿 Pop goes the drone
Drone swarms are terrifying until somebody shows up with a microwave that went to military school.
Epirus’ Leonidas system was used against 61 drones, and the company says every single one went down. The grand finale was a 49-drone swarm made up of two types, which Leonidas defeated with one instant pulse of high-energy interference.
This giant electromagnetic flyswatter can steer its beam between groups, hit multiple drones at once or selectively target one while leaving another flying nearby untouched.
LOGGING OUT …
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🎓 What you learned today: AI can settle family resemblance arguments, Meta smart glasses face serious privacy claims, smart underwear advances gut research, and a microwave-style system drops drone swarms in one pulse. Not bad for one email. Starlink is going gigabits. Tomorrow, what this means to you and how to see the next launch.
📚 The answer: A) A copy of Wikipedia. Roughly 30 million pages etched onto thin metal discs, along with dehydrated tardigrades, the microscopic animals that can survive almost anything. The lander carrying it all crashed on the moon.
The kicker? Nobody knows whether the archive survived, or the tardigrades. So there may be a broken encyclopedia and some very tough microbes scattered across the moon, waiting.
Thirty million Wikipedia pages up there and nobody to argue in the edit history. Peace at last. And that would not just be a phase.
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🧗 Thanks for spending a little of your Saturday with me, friend. Go start an argument about the chin. And remember, hard and impossible are different words. Check which one you are actually facing. — Kim
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