Besides the Car Pro Show and our weekly newsletter, my other favorite radio show and newsletter is Kim Komando’s. We are on many of the same radio stations across America. She does for her listeners and newsletter subscribers exactly what I endeavor to do: Give you useful information to keep you up to date on the latest in cars, only she does it with technology and there is nobody who does it better. Not sure how she puts out a top-notch newsletter seven days a week, but she does.
With her permission, I comb her newsletters each week and curate a list of her tips and advice that I think you'll find relevant and interesting. Here's what I have for you this week!
Tech Tips & Interesting Finds From This Week’s Komando Newsletters:
Sunglasses need boundaries: Get ready for a Thanksgiving where your nephew wears Ray-Bans that might be listening, filming or answering questions, and nobody knows which. Meta’s Gen 3 glasses start at $449 with better battery life and another mic. The camera-free Ray-Ban Audio model gets rid of the feature making ordinary people inspect each other’s faces like airport security. More than 100 style combinations coming by year-end. I’d rather fumble for my phone than make dessert feel like surveillance training.
Weird outlines around people on the TV? Try turning down Sharpness. A better picture comes from the screen’s resolution and the quality of the stream. That slider can’t invent missing detail. On computer monitors, the neutral setting is often 50 out of 100 or 5 out of 10, depending on the model. There, everyone looks a little less like a sticker.
Scrolling shouldn’t turn your stomach: Google’s car-sickness feature is coming to more Android phones. Bubbles move around the screen’s edges when the car is in motion, helping your eyes and body agree on what’s happening. Look for it in Settings > Safety & Emergency > Motion Assist. FYI, you’ll need Android 17 or later and updated Google Play services.
Cereal remembers you: Your grocery haul may know more about your budget than your mortgage company does. Fortune reports that Walmart’s two new pricing patents, one for setting online discounts based on demand, another about shopping history and customer IDs, have shoppers worried the retailer could charge different people different prices. The digital price tags in about 2,300 stores don’t help. Walmart says it doesn’t price based on personal data. I’d keep the receipts. Fair’s fair, they’re keeping tabs on us. Where does Walmart keep the Terminator toys? Aisle B, back.
Wonka talks again: What a weird future we’re headed into. Netflix made Gene Wilder talk again using an AI copy of his voice, which hosts Wonka’s Golden Ticket, where contestants chase a $3 million prize. The actor died in 2016. Viewers and critics remain deeply unconvinced, with Variety calling it ghoulish. I get the nostalgia, but people don’t want their childhood icon repackaged as an immortal corporate announcer. This gives me vibes of taxidermying your pet instead of moving on.
Computer picks kidney: Get this. In a lab test, a chatbot decided who would get a kidney, with the confidence of someone picking the lunch special. At Penn State, researchers compared leading AI models with human answers to the same two-patient dilemma. The people balanced age, health, dependents and habits, then sometimes admitted there was no clean answer. AI tended to latch onto one detail and commit. Cool thought experiment until it’s your loved one on the list. Let’s not roll this thing out.
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