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Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech on KFE it's KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Rich, good morning to you. Amy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I have a quick question for you before

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Speaker 1: we dive into our topics today, and that is that

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Speaker 1: I got an email that appears to have been from Facebook,

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Speaker 1: and it basically says, hey, turn on advanced protections. Your

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Speaker 1: account requires security through advanced protection. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it's like things look so real now, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's real or not. But it did have

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Speaker 1: a click through, and so I didn't click through. But

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Speaker 1: is that a real thing?

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Speaker 2: Good call? It is real. It's called advanced protection, and basically, congratulations.

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Speaker 2: This is reserved for accounts that reach or have the

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Speaker 2: potential to reach a lot of people. And basically Facebook

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Speaker 2: is saying we are protecting you from you. So we're

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Speaker 2: going to put on some advanced protections, which basically involves

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Speaker 2: two factor authentication. They're automatically going to enable that, and

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Speaker 2: when anyone logs into your account, they're going to scrutinize

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Speaker 2: that log in a little more closely than any other

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Speaker 2: log in on their site. So it's a good thing.

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Speaker 2: And they're just basically trying to make sure that no

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Speaker 2: one uses your account, no one hacks it, no one

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Speaker 2: takes it over to spread misinformation. Okay, so that's good.

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Speaker 1: But so if they're going to do that automatically, again,

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Speaker 1: things look so real now. And there was a way

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Speaker 1: to there's a click through it says turn on, you know,

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Speaker 1: advanced protection, and I was like, I can't click through

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Speaker 1: to that. So am I going to get that same

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Speaker 1: thing when I go to Facebook?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you should get a notification when you go to Facebook.

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Speaker 2: But I agree, And this is what the hackers and

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Speaker 2: scammers do. They impersonate all the things that we know.

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Speaker 2: They make these very convincing emails that look like the

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Speaker 2: stuff that we actually get, like what you just said.

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Speaker 2: And so yes, in general, do not click any link

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Speaker 2: inside any email that comes to you that says, hey,

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Speaker 2: we need help with your account or you have to

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Speaker 2: do something, you have to make this change. Always go

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Speaker 2: to your account itself when in question directly there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, here's something else that I could certainly use, and

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Speaker 1: that is an external brain and it comes.

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Speaker 2: This was so cool.

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Speaker 1: It comes in the size of a ring.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's a it's a it's called the Pebble Index

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Speaker 2: O one and it's basically a tiny ring that records

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Speaker 2: your thoughts and it's super simple. It comes from the

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Speaker 2: guy who made the Pebble Watch. It's just a very

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Speaker 2: simple ring with a built in mic and a button.

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Speaker 2: And when you have an idea that hits your brain,

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Speaker 2: you just use your index finger your thumb to press

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Speaker 2: the button on your index finger ring and you record it.

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Speaker 2: It goes right to your phone, never get sent to

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Speaker 2: the internet, never gets sent to the cloud, and all

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Speaker 2: of your stuff is organized on your phone for easy

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Speaker 2: reference later. You can set reminders. The ring battery lasts

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Speaker 2: for about two years. It's seventy five dollars right now,

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Speaker 2: and when batteries up, you can send it back in

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Speaker 2: buy a new one, presumably. But kind of a cool

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Speaker 2: idea because it's it's less distracting than some other solutions

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Speaker 2: out there.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, because I have brilliant ideas a lot rich

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Speaker 1: but you don't. We all but they're fleeting, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you go, what was I what was that idea?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: I have? So I think if you just had to

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Speaker 1: push the button and it's on your hand already and go,

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Speaker 1: hey da da, da da, and then you can remember

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Speaker 1: it later.

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Speaker 2: I already do this on my Apple Watch. I've got

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Speaker 2: an app called Whisper Memos that I love, Love Love,

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Speaker 2: Love love. And the thing that this does that's really

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Speaker 2: cool is not only does it record what you say,

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Speaker 2: but it transcribes it with like perfect accuracy. Like I'm

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Speaker 2: not kidding, it's it's insane. Like I went to a

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Speaker 2: session last night at Amazon Studios. I recorded the whole

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Speaker 2: thing an hour, got back every single thing perfectly in

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Speaker 2: my email in the morning, and then I can summarize

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Speaker 2: it and get the notes that I took, you know,

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Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. Anyway, but it emails

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Speaker 2: it to you. That's the trick. So it's in your

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Speaker 2: inbox when you get out of your car or wherever

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Speaker 2: you are when you come back to your computer.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And that one's the Whisper or that's the Pebble

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Speaker 1: Index ring.

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Speaker 2: That's the Whisper Memos w H I S P E

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Speaker 2: R Memos dot com. And that's available for Apple Watch

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Speaker 2: and the iPhone. But I like it on the Apple Watch.

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Speaker 2: I just do one tap and boot, I'm recording.

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Speaker 1: That sounds cool. Okay, So there's some new cars, and

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Speaker 1: they basically are like legos.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one way to describe them. This is called

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Speaker 2: the Slate ev it's from a startup that's going to

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Speaker 2: start selling these next year. And you know how back

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Speaker 2: in the day, when you buy a car, if you

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Speaker 2: got the base model, it was kind of junkie bare bones.

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Speaker 2: Well that's their entire business model. They're saying, look, we're

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Speaker 2: giving you bare bones. So this thing is really cheap.

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Speaker 2: The price keeps creeping up over the years. It started

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Speaker 2: at like under twenty now it's like mid twenties. But

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Speaker 2: the idea is that there's nothing in this car that

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Speaker 2: you don't need, including amy, no radio, what, no center console,

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Speaker 2: so you literally stick your phone in the middle. There's

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Speaker 2: not even bluetooth you have to These are all add ons,

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Speaker 2: Like if you don't want Bluetooth, you don't get it.

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Speaker 2: If you don't want speakers, you don't have them. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's everything is an add on in this car. I

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Speaker 2: mean it's pretty wild. So you get the basics, you

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Speaker 2: get air conditioning and heat, you get rolled down windows,

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Speaker 2: and you get a little tiny dashboard that shows your

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Speaker 2: speed and things. But that's it. Everything else is an

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Speaker 2: add on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I was going to ask about the Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine if we went back to roll down windows?

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Speaker 2: You know what, how many times do you really put

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Speaker 2: down your windows? Think about it. I'm thinking about this

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Speaker 2: the other day. No, I don't want to hear them

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Speaker 2: the outside.

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Speaker 1: I want to be in my little cocoon.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't reality to creep in. I do not

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Speaker 2: blame you at all.

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Speaker 1: Rich Okay, but speaking of non reality, here's something. I

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Speaker 1: saw your picture that you posted on your Instagram of

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Speaker 1: you and Santa and we're going high tech for Christmas

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Speaker 1: this year, and it's not you and Santa.

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Speaker 2: No, this is so wild. You got to check out

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Speaker 2: my instagram at rich On Tech. I posted a picture

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Speaker 2: of a retro mall Santa picture of me and Santa.

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Speaker 2: I sent it to my family. I said, oh, remember

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Speaker 2: this to my mom and dad and sisters and brothers.

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Speaker 2: And then a minute later I'm like, this is fake.

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Speaker 2: This never happened. And you basically take a picture of yourself,

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Speaker 2: you feed it into Google's Nano banana and you say,

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Speaker 2: and I'll give you the prompt. It's all my website

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Speaker 2: rich On Time TV. But you will not believe people

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Speaker 2: are sending me. Their pictures that they've created. They are

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Speaker 2: so realistic it's pretty wild craziness.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's your Ai Santa photo. And then there

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Speaker 1: is a live video chat service that you can have

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Speaker 1: the kids have a little chit chat with Santa.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is very realistic. It's kind of fun. It's

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Speaker 2: like almost like a FaceTime with Santa Santa dot Tavis

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Speaker 2: Tavus dot io. You basically log on and you can

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Speaker 2: chat with Santa. So I've got that on my website

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Speaker 2: as well, linked up that went viral last year. I

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Speaker 2: think they improved it this year, and so it's just

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Speaker 2: kind of a fun way for the kids to talk

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Speaker 2: with Santa. I also have a Santa telephone if you

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Speaker 2: want to spend some money on that. The kids can

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Speaker 2: connect with Santa using a telephone. That's all linked up

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Speaker 2: on the website as well. But you know, look, I'm

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Speaker 2: finding the techie ways to connect the old school days

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Speaker 2: of going to the mall. You know, who's got time

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Speaker 2: for that? Right?

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Speaker 1: Who wants to wait in that line? And the video

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Speaker 1: chat thing is that So that's an Ai Santa.

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Speaker 2: It's an Ai Santa, but it is I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: Santa's helper. Let's be real. But it's it's quite good.

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Speaker 2: Dana can answer your questions, your members things about you.

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Speaker 2: It's it's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Quandary, what do you tell your children? Is that real

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Speaker 1: Santa or is it memorys Santa? Remember memory?

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Speaker 2: It depends you know how slick your kids are. I

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Speaker 2: think I you know, look, I think these are you know,

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Speaker 2: I've never met the real Santa, so I feel like

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Speaker 2: these are all Santa's helpers, you know what I mean? Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I like the way you're thinking. Okay, it's kfi's tech

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Speaker 1: guy and KTLA's tech guy too. Rich Demiro. You can

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Speaker 1: hear him live on rich on Tech every Saturday from

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Speaker 1: eleven to two. You can watch him on KTLA. You

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Speaker 1: can follow him on Instagram and see his Santa picture

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Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. Also his website with everything that

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Speaker 1: he talks about rich on Tech dot tv. And don't

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Speaker 1: forget to sign up for the newsletter.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Rich Demiro, Thank you Amy.

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Speaker 1: All right, right, next week