The holiday season is all about family, friends and sharing time together. But with everyone on the road and packed into your favorite stores and restaurants, it can also mean a ton of waiting and a whole lot of traffic. You probably already use Google Maps for navigation, but it can do so much more. Molly VandenBerg, Associate Editor at Google, joins Kim on the show to talk about the ways Google Maps can help simplify holiday travel, shopping and dining.

Technology is ever-changing, but you may be holding tight to tips you learned from an IT person years ago or still following digital advice that’s just plain wrong. Kim is here to bust 10 myths you really need to let go. Do Macs get viruses? Can the airport X-ray machine wreck your gadgets? Find out!

We’ve all heard of black holes, those super massive things in space that basically swallow up everything around them. Well, it turns out they might have a less maniacal and more malevolent sibling, the white hole. Apparently these do the exact opposite of black holes, and if scientists can prove their existence, it could shake the astronomical world.

People love spicy foods. Who doesn’t love a good chicken wing or even a nice flavorful bowl of curry? People have been eating spicy foods for all of recorded history, and it turns out it’s all due to location. It seems cultures closer to the equator eat spicer food. But why is this and what does it mean for our favorite meals?

It’s been several decades since man walked on the moon, but that doesn’t mean NASA is resting easy. They’ve been hard at work developing the next generation of crewmates for our space program’s astronauts. Each of these robots serves a unique purpose, and when new photos are taken on the surface of the moon, it might be a robot standing next to our flag. That’s one small step for robot kind!

Back in the day rock tumblers were popular with kids across the United States. They allowed you to take mundane rocks and turn them into beautiful beaming pieces of jewelry. All you have to do is take a rock, add some abrasive material and turn the tumbler on. A few hours later, batta bing batta boom — you got yourself a beautiful polished rock. But what would happen if you put other things besides rocks into the device? And what if you left it on for a whole week?

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