Will Waymo overtake Uber? How will AI transform healthcare? Here’s a look into my crystal ball for the year ahead.
Kim Komando Daily Tech Update
Kim Komando's 2025 tech predictions: part 2
Stay wired. Post tech update today. We're going to revisit a top-notch call from my weekend show, The Kim Commando Show, that you absolutely need to hear. Today, let's push ahead with more of my top 2025 New Year predictions. I'm Kim Commando for LinkedIn Jobs. Post a job for free and find qualified candidates quickly at LinkedIn.com/Kim. Even though the new president and Congress well roll back the EV mandates and gas prices well falls sharply. Waymo, the self-driving taxi. Now operating in San Francisco, LA, and Phoenix will expand to Atlanta, Austin, and many more cities. And as for our personal cars, even lower priced economy cars, we'll see what's called L2-level automation. That's where the car assists in lane keeping, steering, and braking. Healthcare moves to three distinct areas. Acute care when you're hurt or ill. Research and longevity care. For instance, AI will analyze photos of what you eat to predict your blood sugar levels throughout the day and long-term health risks with spot-on accuracy. For those with diabetes, look for continuous glucose accuracy, measured second by second, all ahead in 2025. And stay up to date with my free newsletter at getKim.com. Make it your New Year's resolution to stop weaving. Starting January 1st, crossing the solid lines on the central 70 U.S. 36 and I-25 South Gap Express lanes will result in a $75 fine. Cross the line, pay the fine. Learn more at ColoradoExpress lanes.com. Make it your New Year's resolution to stop weaving. Starting January 1st, crossing the solid lines on the central 70 U.S. 36 and I-25 South Gap Express lanes will result in a $75 fine. Cross the line, pay the fine. Learn more at ColoradoExpress lanes.com. Hey there, tech lovers and wannabees. Want to stay ahead of the game? You've got to check out my YouTube channel. It's amazing. 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Okay, coming up next, a college you're definitely going to want to hear because I bet you learn something new. Phil and Big Fork Montana. Well, I think mine's pretty simple, but I was, well, first of all, I'd say I'd rather read your daily column than the front page of any newspaper, just so you know. It's much more entertaining. But under tech news a week or so ago, you had the Google app in settings. And there's eight sub settings in there. And two of them don't make sense to me. But yet again, a 13-year-old kid program this when I bought it three or four years ago. But it says local network, off position, and cellular network and the on position. Now, of course, local, I'm not sure what everybody's got a network and everybody's got cellular data. But why is this different than those companies that I use to provide those services? Okay, well, let's talk about let's start at the cellular data. Okay. What that means is that if you want to use the Google app or any other app when Wi-Fi is not available, it's not there, it's not good enough, is that you can turn on cellular data. So it's going to use your cellular network instead of Wi-Fi. It also allows you to keep using Google to get directions and use the web when you don't have that Wi-Fi connection. And, you know, if you're on a limited plan for the cellular data, then you might want to turn that off for certain apps so that this way you don't get hit. If you are, you may get hit with some data overage fees. Especially if you're traveling overseas, oh my gosh, make sure that you turn off cellular data. Because if you don't hear me lesson learn bill, I tell people all this, but I went to Klamachi Picchu and I forgot, I left it on, I came home to a $700 cell phone bill. I was like, oh, energy. Good to know. We're headed to Switzerland next month, so that's good to know. Oh yeah, turn that bad boy off. Okay. Now with local network, that's about the app's ability, okay, to use other things that may be on the same network. So maybe if you are going to use the app to connect to a printer or you're going to use it to connect to a streaming devices. But for most cases, the cellular data on the local network off is going to be really suitable for just about, you know, anybody who's using it. I probably have the settings that way on my phone because we're not talking about, we're not talking about local network Wi-Fi. Of course, we're going to leave Wi-Fi on. It's just for this particular app. So does that make sense? It does make sense. Okay. That explains it. I appreciate it. All right. And Bill, thanks for getting our newsletters because I think everybody in the universe should get our newsletters. Don't you agree? I agree. And then it's worth a little gig of every morning. Well, those are my corny dad jokes. Can't help it. Sorry. I read every one of them. Thank you, Bill. 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