You're watching the first hour of The Kim Komando Show, recorded Feb. 12, 2021. You might have heard that a small town’s water plant was hacked, but you won’t believe how easy it was. Plus, a massive database of 3.2 billion leaked email and password combinations was just dropped online and your data is probably involved. And a new documentary explores why more Americans are stripping down online.

The internet is full of junk. We find the good stuff for you, from helpful tools to get stuff done to the best apps and websites out there.

Pi is something we learn about in early geometry class. It’s a way to figure out the area of a circle. It turns out that calculating Pi used to be incredibly difficult. Before Isaac Newton, we would have to determine the number in some pretty strange ways.

If you want to lose weight, you could eat fewer carbs or try a fad diet. Or, you could just move to the Hudson Bay Area in Canada. That's because there is less gravity in that area than anywhere else on Earth. This might sound crazy, but the science behind it is pretty spot on.

Memes have become a part of modern communication. But the trend of simple images and text has been around for decades. Some believe the very first meme began during World War II and was a simple doodle of a man peering over a wall and the words, “Kilroy was here.” But what brought that on, and was it really the first meme?

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