WEBVTT - $20K humanoid robot, Santa phone & moving your computer data (146, Nov 1, 2025) 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.520 AI is now being used to create fake receipts. The 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:09.480 glasses that can foil facial recognition in video becomes the 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:14.800 world's first five trillion dollar company. Plus Your tech questions Answered. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.759 What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.880 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:22.760 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.680 also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.640 I believe the tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:30.720 Let's do it. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.880 Let's open up those phone lines at triple A rich 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.320 one oh one. 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She's gonna talk about 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.640 creating her own AI coach, curious to hear what that's 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.320 all about. Plus we'll take your calls eight eight to eight, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.760 rich one on one. Well, I hope you had a 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:32.760 fantastic Halloween. We had all the kids over at our house. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.280 It was a lot of fun. You know, this was 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.759 one of the rare Halloweens on a Friday night, so 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.320 it only happens once every seven years, I'm told so 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.760 I don't remember the last time it happened. But yeah, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.440 it was a It was a blast. We had a 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.480 great time with the kids. You know, the kids just 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.000 love Halloween. I I love Halloween too. I feel like 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:59.680 as I get older, I enjoy more of more of 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:05.840 the more of the Halloween stuff through the kids. This week, though, 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.400 of course, there's a lot going on not just Halloween. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.440 As fun as that was, but did you hear about 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.960 this new outage again? So last week we had that 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:20.240 AWS outage, right that Microsoft or the Amazon AWS outage. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.440 Now this week we had Microsoft's They had their turn. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:28.239 They do Azure and this is basically their answer to AWS. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:33.320 These are all cloud infrastructure services that big companies, small companies, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:37.720 they all rely on for their back end infrastructure. Right, 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.440 so if you're doing business with these companies, Chances are 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.440 they store their data in either Microsoft, which is Azure, 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.639 Amazon which is AWS. Of course, Google Cloud, and there's 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.160 a whole bunch of other ones out there, but those 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.840 are the three big ones. But if you had trouble 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.320 logging into any of your Microsoft services, it was all 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.480 because of this. They had an eight hour outage in 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:04.400 multiple regions. The cause was a configuration error. Thankfully it 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:09.080 was not cybersecurity issue. But it doesn't really matter if 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.920 it's cybersecurity or not. I guess they're able to recover 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.959 from something they can figure out quicker. But it still 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:19.359 took down things like major airlines. Alaska Airlines had issues, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:24.080 Heathrow Airport, nat West Bank Microsoft three sixty five Scottish 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.240 Parliament had to pause proceedings because it systems went down. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.120 What no laws were made during that time. Microsoft says 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.920 the recovery was phased and deliberate, because you know, once 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.360 these cloud services go down, you can't just bring them 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.840 back up instantly. You have to do it slowly just 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.120 to make sure there's not more issues as this comes 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.200 back on board. But you know a lot of people 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.560 have been talking about how much our internet relies on 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:52.600 these giant cloud infrastructure products, and just a few major 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.760 players control such a large swath of the market, So 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.840 should they not put all their eggs in one basket. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:03:59.280 I don't know. 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.120 It's tough because because you've got the law of money 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.160 on your side, because you know, these companies, once they 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.840 build these cloud infrastructures, they're so cheap to operate for 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.880 the people that are renting the space, and so if 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.880 you were to do your own thing and come up 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.240 with your own servers, it costs you a lot more money. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.560 So you say, oh well, I'll just go with AWS, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.719 I'll just go with Microsoft. I'll just go with Google. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.200 It's a lot cheaper than coming up with your own 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.360 server somewhere that you've got to maintain. But then when 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.840 these things happen, you got to deal with them. Do 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:34.000 you hear about Nvidia five trillion dollar valuation this week? 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:35.400 You know this company? 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.000 I mean, look, if you're in kind of the graphics world, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.560 if you're in the gaming world, you knew about Nvidia 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.080 a long time ago, right, But now everyone has heard 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.600 of it because they are the company that is making 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.920 all of these AI chips, and so they just keep 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.320 getting more and more investments. They just keep making more 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.240 and more investments, they keep getting more orders, and so 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.200 this week they reached a five trillion dollar market value. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.919 I'm looking online right now. They're not there anymore. You know, 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.720 these stocks, they go up and down, but they did 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.360 cross that threshold. So if you look at the top 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.159 five companies right now by market cap, in Vidia number 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:16.720 one at almost five trillion, Apple at four trillion, Microsoft 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:21.240 at like three point eight trillion, Alphabet which obviously owns Google, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.120 that's at three point four trillion, and then Amazon Amazon 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.280 just an itty bitty two point six trillion dollars. That's 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.559 how much they're worth. Can you believe that in Vidia 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.160 is almost worth double what Amazon is now? I am 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.640 not a financial guy, but when you look at what 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.839 Amazon has, the infrastructure they have built around the world. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.880 You're talking warehouses, you're talking robots, you're talking delivery vehicles, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.160 you're talking everyone in the world is on Amazon on 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.120 a daily basis. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:52.000 Practically. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.160 In Vidia is still much more in the behind the scenes. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.320 You know, they make these chips for people's computers and 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.920 the graphics AI. But a lot of this is speculation 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.200 right now that is just going to keep growing and 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:05.080 growing and growing. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:06.760 We don't know if that's the truth. 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:11.240 But if you have a hairstylist or a barber, or 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.000 a friend or an uncle, they have probably given you 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.640 the stock tip buying video buying video buying video. So 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.919 for me, when I'm hearing that, I'm putting up the 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.200 little you know, the little red lights are going off 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:25.839 of my head going on. I don't know, I don't know, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.400 So we'll watch this one. I have no doubt that 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.599 we are just beginning this AI journey. But as we know, 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.839 prices do come down over time for this stuff, and 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.080 right now everyone's trying to you know, they're trying to 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.479 bet big on it. We'll see what happens with that. 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.919 I thought this was really interesting, this video that was 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.320 sort of went viral. I mean, I guess it did 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.919 go viral. This is one ex technology They unveiled Neo, 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.159 a five foot six humanoid robot that can do basic 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.679 chores including loading your dishwasher, wiping your counters, folding clothes, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.039 fetch items. This is a robot, a humanoid robot for 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.640 your home, part robot, part human. The part that they 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.280 don't really talk about is that someone else is operating 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.720 this robot in your home by wearing a VR headset. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.640 So literally, this robot is walking around your house because 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.120 someone else in an office somewhere is putting on a 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.200 VR headset and controlling this robot, at least for now. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.120 So this thing is not doing anything on its own. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.640 It's not folding your clothes. In fact, if you want 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.600 it to fold your clothes, you have to schedule a time. 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.240 And what does that time mean. It means that the 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.160 robot is now up in your house. But this person 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.640 puts on their headset at the office and they say, 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.160 all right, time to go work at Rich's house and 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.880 they start folding the clothes. Now, what do you think 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.160 the implications of this are? This person is looking through 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.400 a VR headset at your home. I don't know what 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:56.120 I think of that. What if this person goes rogue? Now, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.760 of course, the person that runs the company is saying, no, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:03.120 they can't do that. We have strict guidelines. There's no 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.040 way they can just do whatever they want in your house. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:06.800 I don't know. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:08.480 I mean, what if this thing gets hacked. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.280 The operator can see through the robots camera eyes, but 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.120 users can set no go zones and they can also 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.880 blur out faces. So if you don't want this thing 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.680 going into your bedroom, you can say that's a no 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.960 go zone until something goes wrong. This thing is twenty 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.520 thousand dollars if you want to buy it out right, 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.240 or five hundred dollars a month if you want to 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.360 rent it. Deliveries are expected in twenty twenty six. Again, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.360 the company is Neo. If you haven't watched the video 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.800 on it, Joanna Stern at the Wall Street Journal did 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.560 a really great video on this. It. I get that 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.520 we're all excited about robots and what they can do. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.840 And it's cool what they've done with this robot, and 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.880 it's a start, but it is not where we want 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.880 to be right like we have when I was a kid, 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:02.840 we grew up watching the Jetsons and Rosie the robot 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.720 was doing everything and just to get I mean, here's 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.320 the thing. If you think about everything a robot does, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.439 we want it to mimic what a human can already. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.640 Do, Like out of the gate. 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.280 Out of the Gate, any human can come to your 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.800 home and wipe down the counters, fold your clothes, fetch 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.080 things for you, load the dishwasher. Although as a human 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.400 I often forget to do all of those things. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.280 Nor do I do them all very well. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.840 And I'll be honest, sometimes I don't do them very 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.360 well because I just want my wife to have to 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.520 be like, I'll do that next time you wantloaded the 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.800 dishwasher and even put the stuff in the right place. Oh, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.040 I'm sorry, did I do that again for the twenty 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.040 thousandth time. I'm sorry, Maybe you just do it next time. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.280 I'm just kidding, but I do. I mean, come on, 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.480 it has definitely crossed my mind to be like, I 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.520 don't want to do that great of a job unloading 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.800 the dishwasher, because guess what, then I'm unloading the dishwasher 0:09:58.840 --> 0:09:59.360 all the time. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:00.520 There's nothing worse. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.240 And tell me if you think if you've ever had 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.679 this happen when you open the dishwasher and you hear 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:11.000 that snap of like this is clean, and I go, oh. 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.920 Now I got to unload this thing. Oh man. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.520 Anyway, Neo is sixty six pounds, can carry up to 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:21.240 fifty five pounds. And you know this is just the beginning. 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.320 There are many many companies that are working on these 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.920 humanoid robots. Tesla is one of them. Figures another and 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.079 I think we're gonna see a bunch of these twenty 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.320 thousand dollars is not the answer for me right now. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.440 I would rather just you know, tell my kids you 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.679 gotta do some chores, or I'll just pick up the 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:36.959 slack five. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.680 Hundred dollars a month rental. Okay. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.560 I mean they're getting to a place where it's like, okay, 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.640 I could see why people might want to experiment with this, 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.480 but it's still not completely there. But you got to 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.520 start somewhere. And the CEO of the one X was saying, look, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.520 the early adopters are going to be training this for 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.200 the rest of us, because yes, we need a human 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.199 operator today. But eventually these things will learn. And that's 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.120 the whole name of the game with all of this 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.720 AI has to be trained on something. Someone has to 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.040 be the guinea pig to help train these robots on them, 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.040 on their data, on their homes, on what you do 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.880 in your house, and eventually they will figure it out. 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.559 And it's going to happen very quickly and very fast. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.240 And those mean the same thing. You just said the 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.520 same word twice eight and eight rich one on one 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.319 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.640 you gotta call you got a question about technology. Give 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.720 me a call. You are listening to rich on Tech. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.959 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.199 out with you, talking technology. Triple eight Rich one O 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.160 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:51.720 zero one. Let's go to uh Dennis in South Orange County. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:52.840 Dennis your own with Rich. 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.800 Oh great, Hi. I heard three or four weeks ago 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:03.040 you were talking about portable battery rechargers for their iPhone. Yeah, 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.760 talking about Belka, and you talked about anchor. Anchor failed, 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.880 Belkan was the choice. I'm just wondering, you know, they're 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:15.000 ten than twenty thousand and more and when it gets 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.960 really up there more whatever. I'm just wondering about the 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.920 balance of too much weight and you know, even though 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.839 you have more power, what about those ones above twenty 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.360 thousand or whatever they might be. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.079 Yeah, I mean, so you're talking about the million hours. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.920 So that's basically a measure of, you know, how many 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.840 times you're gonna be able to recharge your device. So 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.920 if you think about the typical phone is you know, 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.439 let's just see iphoned seventeen. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.840 Let's see iPhone seventeen. M ah, so. 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.600 It has about four thousand million hours in it. So 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.240 if you let's say you got one that was about 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:55.080 five thousand million hours, it would be maybe one, you know, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.600 one and a half charges, one charge right right, you 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.520 get ten thousand million hours, you're going to get to charges. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.800 You know, you get fifteen thousand. I would say, you know, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.840 it depends what you're doing. So if you are let's 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.320 say you're out and about, you're on a vacation and 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.720 you just want to have a little backup battery in 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.400 your purse, your backpack, you know, I would say a 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.720 ten thousand million hour battery is probably the sweet spot. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.840 But if you are out and about and you want 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.960 something that's gonna you know, charge you for the whole 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.720 day you're on a boat, whatever, you need much more 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.920 than Yeah, you can go for like a twenty five 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.040 thousand million hour battery, but it's going to be a 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.280 lot bigger. She don't want to be carrying that around 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.000 the whole day. That's more like, you know, in your 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.440 suitcase something like that. So what are you trying to 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:41.280 get this for. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.880 Well, my wife has a medical condition and she needs 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:50.400 the power to keep her iPhone charged because there's an 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.320 app on there that works the devices for her Okay, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.640 Oh god, I'm kind of concerned about being on vacation, 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.839 you know, in the middle of the ocean running out 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:01.400 of power. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.400 Okay, Well, in that case, I'd say, you know, you 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.520 can get a ten thousand or twenty thousand million power 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.199 battery and it's it's still gonna be I mean, it's 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.040 gonna be big, but it's not it's not a deal breaker. 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.480 If she's relying on it for some sort of health 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.640 or security reason, I would definitely go with that. Belkan 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.840 makes one that is twenty thousand million powers and you 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.960 can get any brand. I mean, you know, I like 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:29.320 Belkan because they're kind of proven. Eco Flow is also 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.800 really nice. You know, the Anchors are great. You know, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.040 Anchor has been recommended by so many tech folks, including myself, 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.600 and they perform well. They just have had a rough 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.280 run with these recalls lately. But you know, if you're 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.560 not getting one that's recalled, it's probably still fine. But 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.600 I would go this this Belcan twenty thousand million power 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:50.240 power bank. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:51.680 You know, I've got this one at home. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:56.920 It's about fifty anywhere from fifty to seventy dollars, and 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.640 you know it, it's doable. It's gonna be a little bit, 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.280 you know, bulkier. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.560 But on Amazon. 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:04.280 Yeah, you can. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.280 Easily go on Amazon and buy this thing. Just the 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.160 only thing to look for. What kind of phone does sheift? 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:09.840 She has an iPhone? 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.400 What is the iPhone fifteen? 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:13.000 Oh? 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.880 Okay, pro mag great, so I would go with you 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.840 definitely want something that has USB C Some of the 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.360 cheaper ones don't have USBC in and out. That's what 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.280 you want to look for, just to make sure that 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.080 you're getting the fastest charging on it in and out. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.600 But if I yeah, all right, go ahead, I'm just 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:35.360 looking up this Belcan twenty thousand million hour power bank. Yeah, 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:41.000 forty bucks on Amazon, USBC two USBA ports fifteen watt. Yeah, 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.160 this is gonna be perfect. So it's right at the top. 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.160 They also have a smaller version. Oh look at that 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.520 with an integrated cable. So you might look at the 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.520 top two results you see when you type in Belcon 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:54.080 twenty thousand million pour those two are going to be great. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.280 They also have ones that magnetically attached to the back, 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.960 but those are going to be typically those are going 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:02.880 to charge slower and they're also going to be a 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.240 smaller amount when it comes to the battery that it holds, 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:07.120 but so. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.920 Does the Belcon. Does the Belcon charge pretty quickly or 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:11.520 relatively speaking? 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.840 Yeah, I mean you can look at the output, you know, 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.440 some of them like this. The top one is going 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.280 to be a fifteen watt, which is not going to 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.920 be the fastest, but the second one is a thirty watt. 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:23.960 So I would go if you want the fastest charging 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.880 on the iPhone, definitely go with the higher wattage. The 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.600 iPhones can support up to I think it's like twenty 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.040 seven watts at this point, but they're they're definitely the 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.480 newer iPhones can support faster charging than before, So I 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.080 would go with the higher wattage. But again, you know, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.080 if you're just looking to keep this thing charged up, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:45.320 it's unless this thing is unless the iPhone is completely dead, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.200 It's not really going to be that big of a 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:51.600 deal whether you recharge at you know, thirty watch fifteen wants. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.680 All right, I think that answers it for me. Just 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:55.680 a matter of finding it for I just was that 0:16:55.760 --> 0:17:02.400 Staple has found the balcony for like forty five bucks. Yeah, Oh, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.680 it's a pretty close. It's a pretty close bet there. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.520 Yeah, you can do it there too, Dennis, Thanks for 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.159 the call today, appreciate it. Get a portable battery for 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.119 your phone, definitely, definitely have that, especially when you traveled. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.400 Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.879 seven four to two four to one zero one more 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:23.160 rich On Tech Next, Welcome back to rich On Tech. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.679 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology triple 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.040 eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:35.000 to two four one zero one. Jay writes in I've 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.040 always wondered it's kind of like a common sense thing. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.720 We've seen so many issues on flights for people's batteries 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.880 go up and fire in the overhead and then they 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.280 divert the plane. There's a simple solution, and it's not 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.159 banning everything. Why can't the airline require or hand out 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.080 a very cheap pouch for lithium batteries and whatever fire 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.800 hazard goes along with that, charge you a dollar at 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.320 the counter. Jay. You know, here's the thing. Number one, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.680 I think that these things do happen. I don't think 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.840 it is common. I don't think that these batteries are 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.959 catching fire on a daily basis. To warrant something like 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.760 this because ninety nine percent of the time ninety nine 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.520 point nine percent of the time things are fine. I 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.480 do know that the airplanes are the flight attendants do 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.920 have access to these types of pouches, these like fireproof 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:24.000 bags that they will use if they have to, as 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.679 far as I know, But I think it would be 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.520 kind of I think it would be a little bit 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.960 much for every person to have to put there, you know, 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.359 where you draw the line. You know, I carry, no joke, 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.879 probably three four phones when I'm going on trips, you know, 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.560 these tech trips that I go on, and you know, 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.000 I'm not the only one. It's it's it's quite common 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:45.800 with all the tech folks. When we meet up somewhere, 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:47.480 we're like, all right, how many phones did you bring? 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.000 Because there's different reasons why we need them. Right we're 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.080 testing one, we're using one for something, we're using this 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.600 for another. You've got one that you know you can't 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.040 even tell people about yet. Like right now, I'm using 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:02.600 the uh the one plus fifteen, which is what's called embargoed, 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.040 which means the only thing I'm allowed to do is 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.080 show you pictures that I've taken on it, but I 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.520 can't show you the phone itself. So it's stuff like 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.439 that that's always happening with the with the tech folks 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.359 out there. I mean, it's a good idea, and I 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.240 think that, you know, there are rules. Here's what I've 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.760 realized too. When they say do you have lithium ion 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:25.640 batteries in your luggage? It's not like a smartphone battery. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.639 It is like a specific like big, old like I 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.280 think they're for like oxygen tanks or something. There's something 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.520 that like people use lithium ion batteries for. That's not 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.480 the ones worth thinking of. Like, it's not like the 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.040 little like I'll be like, oh yeah, I have a 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.720 battery in there for something like that's fine. It's more 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:43.840 like if you are carrying like some sort of big 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.919 lithium ion battery, that's what they don't want in your luggage. 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.040 But it's a good idea, you know. The other thing 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:54.520 is when your phone falls behind the seat or falls 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.479 in the crack of the seat, that could be a 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.600 problem because then when you move the seat back or forward, 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.280 it can crush the phone and the internals and that 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.720 could cause some sort of short circuit. So that's why 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.760 they always say, look, if your phone falls in between 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:09.720 the seat cushion or something, like that. Don't try to 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.560 get it yourself, because we will help retrieve it because 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.880 we don't want you moving the seat because that could 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.520 really be a problem. Good question there. Let's get to 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:24.080 the gadget of the week. An AI powered Santa phone. 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.760 I've been testing this phone. It's called Santa's Magic Telephone. 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.719 It's from the holiday brand Mister Christmas, which has been 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.000 around since nineteen thirty three. So this is a just 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.200 a plastic phone. It looks retro style, so it's red 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.000 and green. It's a rotary style phone. You take out 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:42.720 of the box, you connect it to Wi Fi. It's 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:46.200 pretty simple. There's no app or anything. And then once 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.359 you set it up, kids come in. They press the 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:53.280 big Santa button that's in the middle, and you can 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.399 talk to Santa live two way conversations. And it's an 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.440 AI powered Santa, so remember names and what they want. 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:03.359 And the more you talk to Santa, the more he 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:06.640 learns from you. You get sixty minutes of talk time included. 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:08.840 You could buy more minutes if you want. It is 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.920 designed for kids age three and up. I just set 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:13.680 it up in my office and I had my kid 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.919 come home from school. Now he's eleven, so you know, 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.800 he's kind of on the cusp of this whole you know, 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.159 the Santa stuff, Like he's he's just kind of you 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.679 know what I mean. So he first off he asked me, 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:29.560 he said, Dad, how do I use a rotary phone? 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.200 And I laughed. I just sat there and laughed. I 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:32.600 was like, he has no idea. And I showed him 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:34.560 how to dial rotary. That's not what you have to do. 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:36.840 You just pressed the button. Anyway, you press the button, 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.679 Santa answers, and it's actually a really good experience. It's like, 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:41.919 very very impressive. 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:42.480 Now. 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.719 I don't know if you remember, but chat GBT had 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:48.280 their own kind of Santa voice inside the app last 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.880 holiday season. It's similar to that experience, except I thought 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.439 this was much better, Like this Santa responds so quickly, 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:57.640 or like, how is this working so fast? 0:21:58.240 --> 0:21:58.640 Anyway? 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:01.000 The only thing that's kind of a quirky thing is 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.520 that the audio comes from the base of the device, 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.600 not the actual handset, even though the microphone's in the handset. 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:09.320 But I guess on the flip side, the whole family 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.600 can hear what Santa's saying, So that's kind of fun. 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:14.879 Now here's the weird thing. When they when they pitched 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:18.679 me this product, the MSRP was around sixty dollars, and 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:21.160 then when I went to review it yesterday and look 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:23.439 it up and link it up in my newsletter, it 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:26.320 was closer to one hundred dollars. And I'm like, excuse me, 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:29.840 what happened here? And they said, well, the price went up, 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:31.919 so now it's like it's almost like more like one 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:36.159 hundred dollars, which is a lot. But I still think 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:38.520 it's probably worth it. If you have a young kid 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:40.760 at home and you want something that's just a really fun, 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:42.800 different experience, I think it's probably worth it. They saw 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:44.920 it at Target, sell it at Walmart, they sell it 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:50.000 at Amazon again. 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Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:41.119 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:45.440 Ron writes in from California. My iPhone fifteen plus is 0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:49.280 running iOS eighteen point seven point one and it only 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:52.720 shows iOS twenty six as an option at the bottom 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:55.760 of the software update screen. Apple told me it's because 0:24:55.800 --> 0:24:59.440 they're finishing updates to iOS eighteen. I love when people 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:01.600 email me and they tell me stuff that they hear 0:25:01.640 --> 0:25:04.760 from these like tech support folks. It is all over 0:25:04.800 --> 0:25:08.280 the place, like no, Apple is not finishing updates to 0:25:08.359 --> 0:25:14.240 iOS eighteen. iOS eighteen is done, iOS twenty six is done. 0:25:14.640 --> 0:25:16.840 But here's what's happening, Okay, So let me just read 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:19.800 the rest of the email. I've heard about battery drain 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:22.480 and other problems with iOS twenty six, including from my 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:25.199 son who's having issues on his iPhone sixteen pro. I 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:27.680 don't want to mess up my phone. What's the truth here. 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:32.399 The truth is ron you have two options. So what 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:35.800 Apple has done in years past is they have given 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:39.480 people the option to stick with their current iOS if 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:42.879 they want, at least for a while, because it still works. 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:44.760 Not everyone likes the change, and you don't have to 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:46.280 update if you don't want to. And what they've done 0:25:46.359 --> 0:25:51.240 is they've separated the full iOS update from security updates. 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:55.120 So iOS eighteen is not getting any new improvements, it's 0:25:55.160 --> 0:25:57.320 just getting security updates. So if you want to keep 0:25:57.359 --> 0:25:59.680 doing the security updates, that's fine, and that's why it's 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:03.800 showing you iOS eighteen point seven point one and whatever 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:07.240 new updates may come for that. But iOS twenty six 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:10.880 is at the bottom that completely refreshes your entire system, 0:26:11.240 --> 0:26:13.560 and you have the option of updating to that. It's 0:26:13.600 --> 0:26:15.440 going to change everything because it gives you that new 0:26:15.440 --> 0:26:17.439 liquid glass, it's going to change all the feature it's 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:20.119 going to add new apps. So not everyone wants to 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:22.600 do that because they're happy with what they've got. And 0:26:22.680 --> 0:26:25.640 Apple is allowing you the choice of Okay, you can 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:28.080 stick with iOS eighteen, we're just going to give you 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:31.200 security updates, or you can move to iOS twenty six. 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:34.080 Now both have their pros and cons. Is iOS twenty 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:34.760 six perfect? 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:35.080 No? 0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:37.480 Is it pretty darn good? Yeah? 0:26:38.040 --> 0:26:39.840 The only problem I have with it right now is 0:26:39.880 --> 0:26:42.880 when I unlock my phone, it's got this weird like 0:26:43.040 --> 0:26:47.040 jumpy animation where it's just not completely all there, and 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:49.040 so you know, some things need to be smoothed out, 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:53.720 but overall it's pretty good. So with the battery drain issues, 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:57.400 Apple has acknowledged that anytime you update to a new 0:26:57.400 --> 0:27:00.760 operating system, there's going to be battery issues. And what's 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:04.280 happening is your system is optimizing things in the background. 0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:08.119 It's going through all of its indexes, it's making everything work. 0:27:08.240 --> 0:27:11.240 It's kind of polishing and smoothing everything. So that's why 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:13.679 they say for the first couple of days, you're going 0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:15.720 to see your battery is not going to be as 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:18.919 great as it is after that time. So I have 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:23.880 zero battery issues whatsoever with my phone with iOS twenty six, 0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:25.879 it is running really smooth, and I think it's the 0:27:25.920 --> 0:27:28.720 best battery life I've ever ever actually had on an iPhone. 0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:30.840 This is with the new iPhone too. 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:32.760 Now, if you want to go in and just check 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:35.119 to see how your battery is doing in general, you 0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:38.360 can go to settings, tap battery and it will give 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:41.480 your battery health. And so if you're running an older 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:43.200 phone that's a couple of years old, like your son, 0:27:43.440 --> 0:27:46.360 what is your running iPhone sixteen, so it's a year old. 0:27:46.960 --> 0:27:49.760 My maximum capacity right now is one hundred percent, but 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:52.080 depending on how you charge your phone, you may see 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:54.280 that number could be anywhere from eighty five to ninety 0:27:54.400 --> 0:27:58.399 something percent. That means that your phone is not going 0:27:58.440 --> 0:28:01.800 to carry the same life level of charge as it 0:28:02.000 --> 0:28:04.520 was when it was new. It's kind of like getting older, 0:28:04.600 --> 0:28:06.680 right you fill your body, it's not working the same 0:28:06.760 --> 0:28:08.760 way it used to when you were a spring chicken 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:11.880 at seventeen. That's just the reality of getting older. Same 0:28:11.920 --> 0:28:15.639 thing with your phone, and especially if you're really charging it, 0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:17.639 you know, one hundred percent, running it down to zero 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:20.080 and just you know, running it hot, it could affect 0:28:20.119 --> 0:28:23.119 the battery. So that's probably what's happening. But uh Ron, 0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:26.200 I'd say go ahead, update, You're gonna be just fine. 0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:29.359 Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:28:29.440 --> 0:28:31.479 four to two four one zero one coming up more 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:35.640 of your calls. Plus I'll tell you about Samsung's first trifoldable. 0:28:34.720 --> 0:28:41.320 Phone right here, on rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:28:41.400 --> 0:28:42.040 rich on Tech. 0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:45.200 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology triple 0:28:45.240 --> 0:28:48.080 eight Rich one on one eight eight eight seven four 0:28:48.120 --> 0:28:53.960 to two four one zero one. Melinda is in a 0:28:54.080 --> 0:28:56.040 Rancho Cucamonga. You're on with Rich. 0:28:57.240 --> 0:28:58.240 You're Rich. Hi. 0:28:58.360 --> 0:29:04.400 So I've been using the topic outlets and suddenly I've. 0:29:04.200 --> 0:29:07.360 Been I'm losing your signal here. I can barely make 0:29:07.400 --> 0:29:09.720 you out. Can you move to a better area where 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:12.560 you might have a better signal? Let me hear you again. 0:29:13.200 --> 0:29:13.760 Is that better? 0:29:13.840 --> 0:29:14.080 Yes? 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:16.600 Much better? We can hear you about that. 0:29:17.040 --> 0:29:22.240 Well. I've been using Classic you know, several eons, and 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:25.000 suddenly I was having issues with my outbox and my 0:29:25.080 --> 0:29:30.720 calendar invites. I was unable to reschedule calendar invites or 0:29:30.840 --> 0:29:33.560 cancel inst of having a slew of issues. And I 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:36.960 switched to the new outlook and those issues went away. However, 0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:39.640 I get hundreds of emails a day, and the way 0:29:39.680 --> 0:29:41.840 for me to stay organized is to sort by subject. 0:29:43.080 --> 0:29:51.320 Okay, okay, I'm really losing your here. So you're you're 0:29:51.960 --> 0:29:55.400 you're trying to sort by subject. I can't really hear 0:29:55.440 --> 0:29:58.760 the end of the question, but you're is this new 0:29:58.920 --> 0:30:00.480 version of Outlook not a allowing you. 0:30:00.440 --> 0:30:00.800 To do that. 0:30:02.000 --> 0:30:02.840 Yeah, it's not allowed. 0:30:03.880 --> 0:30:13.280 Okay, I'm looking I'm Bovo. You guys, you can't all 0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:15.640 hear what Bobo says to me in my ear while 0:30:15.800 --> 0:30:18.760 while you're talking. But here's the deal I'm looking at. 0:30:19.200 --> 0:30:21.960 I'm looking at the new Outlook on both my PC 0:30:22.240 --> 0:30:23.760 and Mac, and it gives you. 0:30:24.000 --> 0:30:26.320 It gives me the option to sort by subject on both. 0:30:27.120 --> 0:30:31.160 So is there something that I'm missing here because I'm okay, 0:30:31.200 --> 0:30:33.520 hold on, I'm looking, hold on, hold on, Okay, I'm 0:30:33.560 --> 0:30:37.840 looking here. Short by date, yes, short by subject. It's 0:30:37.880 --> 0:30:38.920 on both of these things. 0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:41.080 So, well, you know how you have a header of 0:30:41.320 --> 0:30:43.520 you know, at the top in your classic outlok where 0:30:43.520 --> 0:30:46.920 you can click subject and it will whatever message you're on, 0:30:47.000 --> 0:30:49.920 it'll sort it by that subject. That doesn't happen in 0:30:49.960 --> 0:30:52.360 the new outlet. I can't select a message and then 0:30:52.560 --> 0:30:54.960 click that subject header and then see all the messages 0:30:55.000 --> 0:30:56.280 relating to that email. 0:30:56.560 --> 0:30:56.880 Got it? 0:30:56.960 --> 0:30:59.360 Okay, that that makes a bit more sense, Okay, because 0:30:59.360 --> 0:31:00.520 you can Yeah, you can sort. 0:31:00.840 --> 0:31:01.040 Yeah. 0:31:01.080 --> 0:31:03.960 I think they did change a lot in this version 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:06.200 of Outlook, and I think some of it is I'm 0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:09.080 trying to see here. Okay, so there's a find related 0:31:09.880 --> 0:31:12.760 and then there's okay, I don't see. So typically you 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:15.720 just write click on something and then and then say 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:20.480 find all subjects that are like that. Now, what about 0:31:20.480 --> 0:31:22.280 grouping your messages because are you looking for me? 0:31:22.840 --> 0:31:25.960 Yeah, I'm doing that now I've got I've got it grouped. 0:31:25.960 --> 0:31:28.240 And so it's a different process, you know, to kind 0:31:28.240 --> 0:31:30.000 of go through and make sure you've read all of 0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:33.640 the string of related emails. But it's just not as 0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:36.800 user friendly. It's not as I don't know. 0:31:37.000 --> 0:31:38.200 Yeah, no, I and I agree. 0:31:38.200 --> 0:31:40.440 I think that the Outlook, I mean, I use it 0:31:40.600 --> 0:31:43.120 for my corporate email and I'm not a fan of 0:31:43.240 --> 0:31:45.600 typically you know all the different things it does. But 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:48.640 with that said, so you don't want to go back 0:31:48.640 --> 0:31:50.600 to classic Outlook because you're going to get the same 0:31:50.600 --> 0:31:51.680 problems you had before. 0:31:51.840 --> 0:31:55.440 Yeah, I've tried to revert and it's same issues. It's 0:31:55.480 --> 0:31:57.880 for some reason, it's just not working. Like I know, 0:31:57.880 --> 0:32:00.600 they're trying to phase it out, and yeah. 0:32:00.680 --> 0:32:03.600 I'm not really working on it. Yeah, I mean the 0:32:03.640 --> 0:32:05.600 best I can say. And what about a third party 0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:07.920 email app? Like, what do you think about switching or 0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:10.440 you using are you what, like, who's this email with? 0:32:10.600 --> 0:32:10.840 Is it? 0:32:10.920 --> 0:32:11.000 Like? 0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:13.920 Okay, so they want you several. 0:32:13.680 --> 0:32:16.760 Different companies and this is the only company where I'm 0:32:16.800 --> 0:32:19.080 having this issue outlooks. I'm on the classic on my 0:32:19.120 --> 0:32:19.800 other companies. 0:32:20.080 --> 0:32:23.200 Okay, Well, it could be that, you know, the corporate 0:32:23.680 --> 0:32:26.400 rules or structure that they have, they're not allowing certain 0:32:26.440 --> 0:32:29.080 features or things like that with this outlook. So that 0:32:29.120 --> 0:32:31.560 could be another side of it. So you might you 0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:33.600 might talk to the IT folks and see if they 0:32:33.600 --> 0:32:35.640 have something that they're you know, holding back on here. 0:32:36.720 --> 0:32:37.480 That could be it. 0:32:37.760 --> 0:32:40.800 But I would say in general, I mean, it's just 0:32:40.960 --> 0:32:44.040 it might be without seeing like exactly what you're trying 0:32:44.040 --> 0:32:45.440 to do here, it's kind of tough for me to 0:32:45.520 --> 0:32:50.120 like envision that. But I think that in general, it 0:32:50.240 --> 0:32:51.720 might just come up with you know, you might have 0:32:51.760 --> 0:32:53.800 to just use like different rules or something. But I 0:32:53.840 --> 0:32:56.440 can see you can definitely sort by subject in general, 0:32:56.880 --> 0:32:59.400 but that there may be another aspect to this that 0:32:59.440 --> 0:33:03.920 I'm not truly understanding. But Melinda, I do understand that 0:33:03.920 --> 0:33:06.840 frustration for sure, when you're trying to do something that 0:33:06.880 --> 0:33:11.160 you can't do and so I when you're using it 0:33:11.200 --> 0:33:13.160 before and it did it and now it doesn't. That's 0:33:13.240 --> 0:33:15.480 that's really frustrating. And this is why people a lot 0:33:15.480 --> 0:33:18.240 of times don't want to update their software because they've 0:33:18.280 --> 0:33:20.880 got their system in place, they know how to work it, 0:33:21.120 --> 0:33:23.600 and when the new system comes, it's like, oh, you 0:33:23.640 --> 0:33:26.680 made all these changes that are great for whatever you're 0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:29.320 trying to push, whether it's AI or you know, whatever 0:33:29.400 --> 0:33:32.240 the new Outlook is trying to do, but it breaks 0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:34.560 all these little functionalities that I rely on on a 0:33:34.640 --> 0:33:37.800 daily basis. And so that's the hesitation from a lot 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:41.280 of folks. Now you can revert to the old the 0:33:41.320 --> 0:33:43.520 old Outlook if you're not liking the new Outlook. If 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:46.280 you look in the menu, it says Legacy Outlook. And 0:33:46.320 --> 0:33:48.480 so if you're using the new Outlook and you don't 0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:50.560 like the way it works, you can go back to 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:54.200 the old one. I ended up just using Outlook on 0:33:54.280 --> 0:33:57.640 the web because there's one feature I need on Outlook 0:33:57.680 --> 0:34:01.280 that does not work on my app for some reason, 0:34:01.320 --> 0:34:03.960 and that's my group of people that I email on 0:34:04.000 --> 0:34:06.400 a regular basis. I have, like a group I created, 0:34:06.960 --> 0:34:09.400 and it just for some reason will not My distribution 0:34:09.520 --> 0:34:13.040 list will not work when I'm on the app, but 0:34:13.080 --> 0:34:15.760 it'll work when I'm on the web. I don't understand 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:18.440 what the reason is for that, but anyway, so it 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:21.200 happens to the best of us. Thanks for the call, Melnda. 0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:24.600 Hopefully you get that sorted out. No pun intended there. 0:34:25.480 --> 0:34:31.000 Samsung did show off its first trifold phone. It's a prototype, 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:33.440 but it's a start. They showed it off at the 0:34:33.480 --> 0:34:38.839 APEC CEO summit in South Korea, home of Samsung. So 0:34:38.920 --> 0:34:43.080 the device folds twice. There are three screens on this device. 0:34:43.640 --> 0:34:46.080 So we've seen the foldable phones that have two screens. 0:34:46.160 --> 0:34:50.359 Imagine just three screens now two hinges. So when it's 0:34:50.400 --> 0:34:53.759 fully open, it's a ten inch display, but when it 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:56.920 closes down it's a six point five inch phone size, 0:34:57.160 --> 0:34:59.239 so it's kind of like a standard sized phone. But 0:34:59.320 --> 0:35:01.000 when you open it up, you've got a nice ten 0:35:01.080 --> 0:35:04.279 inch display, so it's almost like a tablet. No name 0:35:04.320 --> 0:35:09.879 for this expected to launch soon, we'll see. I think 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:15.440 it's interesting because Samsung foldables are still kind of not struggling, 0:35:15.440 --> 0:35:17.719 but they're still trying to find their space here in 0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:20.720 the US, and I think next year when Apple launches 0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:22.920 there foldable, it's probably going to do a lot for 0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:26.640 this genre. Of phones, but we do know that they 0:35:26.640 --> 0:35:29.440 are very popular in other parts of the world. So 0:35:29.760 --> 0:35:34.440 Huawei's got one called the mate xt which folds in 0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:38.120 a Z shape, and my friend was using that when 0:35:38.120 --> 0:35:40.279 I was in Mexico. He loves that thing, loves that 0:35:40.320 --> 0:35:42.480 form factor. But a lot of people love the Samsung 0:35:42.520 --> 0:35:45.240 Fold seven because it's just such a great small device 0:35:45.280 --> 0:35:48.359 but opens up pretty big anyway. This prototype was shown 0:35:48.400 --> 0:35:52.680 behind glass. Expected to cost more than two thousand dollars. 0:35:52.920 --> 0:35:56.200 We'll see eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight 0:35:56.400 --> 0:35:58.840 seven four to two four one zero one coming up. 0:35:58.880 --> 0:36:01.520 We'll talk about how AI is affecting the job market 0:36:02.000 --> 0:36:03.560 and what some of the best jobs are and some 0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:05.680 of the worst jobs are because of it. This is 0:36:05.880 --> 0:36:11.239 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 0:36:11.280 --> 0:36:14.560 Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Triple eight 0:36:14.719 --> 0:36:18.080 rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 0:36:18.120 --> 0:36:20.239 two four one zero one. Did you know you can 0:36:20.280 --> 0:36:24.040 listen to this show as a podcast. 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And so right now, 0:37:03.719 --> 0:37:06.960 all Disney channels are blacked out on YouTube TV. This 0:37:07.040 --> 0:37:10.120 is ESPN, ABC, FX. 0:37:09.800 --> 0:37:10.279 Notat go. 0:37:10.400 --> 0:37:12.239 I mean a lot of channels. If you look at it, 0:37:12.239 --> 0:37:16.080 it's a laundry list of stuff. Now what do you 0:37:16.120 --> 0:37:19.240 do in the meantime? You could try a free trial 0:37:19.280 --> 0:37:22.719 from a competing service. The problem is they're not very good, 0:37:22.840 --> 0:37:25.800 so depending on how long this goes on. I mean, Fubo, 0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:28.400 which will give you all those channels, only offers you 0:37:28.520 --> 0:37:31.040 one day of free trial, so that's not really going 0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:35.160 to get you very far. DirecTV is probably your best bet. 0:37:35.200 --> 0:37:37.480 You can sign up for DirecTV stream that'll give you 0:37:37.520 --> 0:37:41.680 five days. So, I mean, you know these things in 0:37:41.840 --> 0:37:45.000 recent memory, these things have not gone on that long. 0:37:45.560 --> 0:37:47.080 Who knows how long this is going to go on. 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:48.560 YouTube says it will give. 0:37:48.480 --> 0:37:52.280 It its subscribers a twenty dollars credit if the blackout 0:37:52.320 --> 0:37:55.839 continues for a long time. The other thing you could do, 0:37:55.960 --> 0:37:59.480 there's this thing called Sling Weekend Pass and that's ten 0:37:59.560 --> 0:38:02.400 dollars and that gives you Sling for the whole weekend 0:38:02.400 --> 0:38:05.959 with like no strings attached. The only thing there is 0:38:05.960 --> 0:38:08.280 is it depends on the channel. Like, if you want ESPN, 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:10.920 it looks like it's there. Trying to see the channels 0:38:10.920 --> 0:38:16.000 that are here, Okay, so yeah, they've got ESPN, CNNTNT, TBS, 0:38:16.280 --> 0:38:20.279 Food Network, History, basically all the espns. So if you 0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:22.200 just have something you want to watch on ESPN, you 0:38:22.239 --> 0:38:25.240 could do it that way. Disney channels on there, but yeah, 0:38:25.280 --> 0:38:28.040 I mean it's not really all the channels that you want, 0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:29.840 So you're kind. 0:38:29.640 --> 0:38:32.120 Of, you know, stuck right now. If you've got YouTube 0:38:32.160 --> 0:38:33.319 TV like I do. 0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:39.319 Thankfully the World Series is not on ABC, that would 0:38:39.360 --> 0:38:40.640 be a bad time for that. 0:38:40.840 --> 0:38:41.040 Right. 0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:46.840 Let's see here, let's go to Debra in this Candido. 0:38:47.120 --> 0:38:50.239 Debra, you're on with rich Why d thank you for 0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:51.040 taking my call? 0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:52.439 Yeah, what's up? 0:38:53.440 --> 0:39:00.160 So I'm a longtime user with Apple excuse me. With 0:39:00.320 --> 0:39:06.440 Google's Contact manager, and recently, I've been having a problem 0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:11.359 when I go in bring up the contact list, and 0:39:11.440 --> 0:39:13.719 I go into the search bar, I search out the 0:39:13.800 --> 0:39:15.080 contact I'm looking for. 0:39:15.239 --> 0:39:16.080 It'll bring it up. 0:39:16.160 --> 0:39:20.160 I tap on it, but it won't open up the contact. 0:39:20.239 --> 0:39:25.200 I have to literally scroll through all my contacts alphabetically 0:39:25.280 --> 0:39:29.040 to find the contact. I've kind of googled to try 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:34.080 and fix that problem. I've tried thinking, and I'm kind 0:39:34.080 --> 0:39:35.560 of at a loss on what to do. 0:39:36.920 --> 0:39:39.280 Where are you doing this on your computer? On your phone? 0:39:39.840 --> 0:39:40.600 On my computer? 0:39:40.640 --> 0:39:45.080 Okay, a new computer with Windows eleven, Okay, it sounds 0:39:45.120 --> 0:39:47.640 like this is a browser issue. It sounds like something's 0:39:47.680 --> 0:39:50.960 blocking the JavaScript from working on here or some sort 0:39:51.000 --> 0:39:54.120 of whatever they're using to run this, because I just 0:39:54.160 --> 0:39:56.200 did it on my computer and it opens it up 0:39:56.280 --> 0:39:59.440 just fine. So it sounds like there's something that's blocking 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:02.359 the function on your browser. What browser are you using. 0:40:03.880 --> 0:40:04.959 I'm using. 0:40:06.600 --> 0:40:10.160 The Google Chrome as well, and. 0:40:10.080 --> 0:40:13.080 I've h and I've gone in and cleared my cash 0:40:13.400 --> 0:40:13.799 or that. 0:40:13.760 --> 0:40:16.560 Hasn't okay, So what I would do is just this 0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:19.200 is a very easy easy thing to see if it's uh, 0:40:19.440 --> 0:40:22.160 if it's just your browser. I would go to a 0:40:22.200 --> 0:40:24.839 different browser, like if you're using Windows eleven, like you said, 0:40:24.920 --> 0:40:28.120 open this up in Edge and you may have to 0:40:28.160 --> 0:40:29.960 sign into Google, which I know is a pain, but 0:40:30.120 --> 0:40:32.880 you know, just do that, go to contacts dot Google 0:40:32.880 --> 0:40:35.400 dot com and see if it's happening there, and at 0:40:35.480 --> 0:40:37.959 least that lets you know if it's a bigger problem 0:40:38.040 --> 0:40:40.120 on your computer or if it's just in your browser. 0:40:40.160 --> 0:40:41.920 Now I think it's just your browser. So what I 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:44.839 would do is I would go through your browser and 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:48.399 look at all the extensions that you have and get 0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:51.239 rid of any extensions or disable them that you don't need, 0:40:51.360 --> 0:40:54.120 especially for this page, especially if it's an AD blocker, 0:40:54.640 --> 0:40:58.239 because that could be messing with the you know what 0:40:58.280 --> 0:40:59.399 the page wants to do. 0:40:59.719 --> 0:41:00.600 So that that's number one. 0:41:00.600 --> 0:41:02.279 The second thing I would do is when you're on 0:41:02.320 --> 0:41:06.680 this page, just go to the where it says contacts 0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:08.600 dot Google dot com. Up at the top in the 0:41:08.640 --> 0:41:11.920 address bar. There's two little lines they look like settings. 0:41:12.000 --> 0:41:15.520 Tap that it's called site information and it says cookies 0:41:15.560 --> 0:41:19.680 and site data. Just go ahead and where it says 0:41:19.760 --> 0:41:23.840 manage on device site data. Just delete all those cookies 0:41:23.960 --> 0:41:26.800 right there that may log you out. Of your Google account, 0:41:26.840 --> 0:41:28.839 because you know that's part of the cookies that gets 0:41:28.840 --> 0:41:32.160 you in here. But then I would restart your web browser, 0:41:32.320 --> 0:41:34.800 make sure you do all the secure all the software updates. 0:41:35.200 --> 0:41:36.840 So if you don't know how to do that, you 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:40.120 go to your menu, you go to settings, and then 0:41:40.160 --> 0:41:43.200 you go to about Chrome. And right now I'm going 0:41:43.239 --> 0:41:45.799 to about Chrome and it's saying updating Chrome. So there 0:41:45.880 --> 0:41:48.160 was an update for Chrome that I didn't even know about, 0:41:48.640 --> 0:41:50.239 and so I would make sure you do that, and 0:41:50.280 --> 0:41:54.960 then I would restart, close out Chrome completely, open it 0:41:55.000 --> 0:41:57.400 back up, go into that website and see if you 0:41:57.440 --> 0:42:00.960 still get the same issue. My instinct is telling me 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:05.040 that it is something that's interfering with that website, and 0:42:05.120 --> 0:42:07.719 so it's not the website itself, because like I said, 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:11.440 I just tested it out and it's working fine. So 0:42:11.480 --> 0:42:15.600 it's something on your browser and it's probably one of 0:42:15.640 --> 0:42:18.640 your extensions that's interfering with that page. So try a 0:42:18.680 --> 0:42:20.880 different browser. That's the number one thing, and then do 0:42:20.920 --> 0:42:22.800 with all the other things I mentioned and hopefully that 0:42:22.840 --> 0:42:25.719 should help you out. Thanks a lot, Debra appreciate it. 0:42:26.360 --> 0:42:29.239 Funny funny story about Escondido real quick. So I was 0:42:30.280 --> 0:42:33.759 I was substitute reporting down in San Diego for a 0:42:33.760 --> 0:42:37.120 TV station. And this was back in the day, this 0:42:37.239 --> 0:42:40.920 was before I was doing technology stuff, and I'll never 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:44.120 forget they said, you were reporting from Escondido, and for 0:42:44.160 --> 0:42:47.880 some reason I called it Escondito. And so but my 0:42:48.000 --> 0:42:51.560 family down there was watching. They live down there, like 0:42:51.640 --> 0:42:55.759 some family members, and to this day they never let 0:42:55.800 --> 0:42:58.359 me live it down the way I said it. And 0:42:58.960 --> 0:43:03.040 I every time they see me, how's Escondito, And I'm like, 0:43:03.719 --> 0:43:08.160 I know I said it wrong once on TV, but 0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:10.600 it's you know, look, when you have this happens all 0:43:10.640 --> 0:43:13.480 the time, like reporters that are in these little cities 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:14.520 like across America. 0:43:14.960 --> 0:43:16.960 Not that San Diego is a little city, but you. 0:43:16.920 --> 0:43:20.160 Know, these reporters that are on TV, they come from 0:43:20.200 --> 0:43:23.200 different places and then they they set up shop in 0:43:23.239 --> 0:43:26.000 your city, you know, whatever city you're in. You know, 0:43:26.000 --> 0:43:29.680 there's different markets for the whole US, for the broadcast markets, 0:43:29.719 --> 0:43:33.040 whether it's radio or TV, and these people usually start 0:43:33.080 --> 0:43:36.840 out in a smaller market and so they're not familiar 0:43:36.880 --> 0:43:39.800 with all the ways that you say things in those markets. 0:43:40.239 --> 0:43:42.600 So I lived in Louisiana, for instance, and that's a 0:43:42.719 --> 0:43:45.640 very tricky place to say things because it's got a 0:43:45.640 --> 0:43:48.960 lot of French in Creole influence, and so a lot 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:52.200 of the names. People would just Butcher and Texas. 0:43:52.200 --> 0:43:54.200 Same thing. There was this I'm trying to remember this. 0:43:54.280 --> 0:43:56.680 There was this like there's this city in Texas that 0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:58.880 we had to say, and it was like, if you 0:43:58.880 --> 0:44:00.680 didn't know how to say it, you would pronounce it wrong. 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:02.440 If you just read the way it was what it 0:44:02.520 --> 0:44:05.319 looked like it would, you'd say it wrong every time. 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:07.919 Same thing here in Los Angeles there's a museum called 0:44:07.920 --> 0:44:12.520 the Broad Museum and it's Eli Broade, but people call 0:44:12.640 --> 0:44:14.719 the Broad Museum all the time because that's the way 0:44:14.760 --> 0:44:17.520 it looks like it's written. So again, I mean, look, 0:44:18.040 --> 0:44:20.840 no one's perfect in this world, and no one's an expert. 0:44:20.880 --> 0:44:21.200 I get it. 0:44:21.200 --> 0:44:23.440 There are some people that pronounce everything perfectly. I'm not 0:44:23.480 --> 0:44:25.440 one of those people. I'll be honest, Like I grew 0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:28.520 up in New Jersey. If you when I got to USC, 0:44:28.800 --> 0:44:32.719 I'm not kidding. I spoke so poorly as a person 0:44:32.760 --> 0:44:36.000 who wants to go into broadcast journalism, I spoke so poorly. 0:44:36.040 --> 0:44:38.680 I will never forget this. I was sitting in my 0:44:38.840 --> 0:44:42.200 dorm freshman year and everyone was just sitting around me 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:43.880 in a circle, like I was in the middle of 0:44:43.880 --> 0:44:46.600 the circle, and they were just like, pronounce this word. 0:44:46.920 --> 0:44:49.080 And they would literally just have me pronounce words because 0:44:49.120 --> 0:44:51.920 I was so bad at pronouncing things. Like they'd be like, 0:44:51.920 --> 0:44:53.480 what's the thing that you pull out of your dresser. 0:44:53.520 --> 0:44:56.239 I'd be like, a draw. It's not a draw, it's 0:44:56.239 --> 0:44:59.560 a drawer. But I grew up thinking it was a mirror. 0:45:00.320 --> 0:45:03.359 It was a draw. I mean I I just had 0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:04.520 this Jersey accent. 0:45:05.040 --> 0:45:05.560 Oregon. 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:08.239 That was how you said Oregon. I mean, it was 0:45:08.280 --> 0:45:10.560 just these are the things. And I My kid was 0:45:10.600 --> 0:45:12.200 asking me the other day, He's like, Dad, do you 0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:14.880 do you always pronounce things right? I said no, I 0:45:15.000 --> 0:45:18.880 used to have a terrible speech. Anyway, I'll never forget that. 0:45:18.960 --> 0:45:21.359 I felt like I was a little science experiment. I 0:45:21.400 --> 0:45:23.719 also had never heard of a casadia till I came 0:45:23.760 --> 0:45:27.640 to Los Angeles, and I'll never forget my uh you know, 0:45:27.760 --> 0:45:29.719 one of the people at my dorm they said, here's 0:45:29.719 --> 0:45:32.799 how you make a very very quick casadia. It was 0:45:32.800 --> 0:45:35.600 a it was a tortilla with a slice of American 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:37.640 cheese and they just put it in the microwave. 0:45:37.680 --> 0:45:38.399 I said, what is this? 0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:41.320 They're like, it's kind of like a grilled cheese, except 0:45:41.360 --> 0:45:45.640 you know casadia and you know, no, I love Yeah, 0:45:45.680 --> 0:45:48.160 it's it's definitely a different version of a casidia, that's 0:45:48.160 --> 0:45:51.200 for sure. Uh, but you know I still make case idias. 0:45:51.200 --> 0:45:53.799 It's like one of our staples now like that, not 0:45:53.840 --> 0:45:57.680 like that. My kid does like a casadia in the microwave. 0:45:58.320 --> 0:45:59.839 So he does, like we asked him, do you want 0:45:59.840 --> 0:46:02.880 to Frisby or do you want mushy Mushy's in the microwave? 0:46:03.120 --> 0:46:05.080 And mom and dad secretly like that because it takes 0:46:05.080 --> 0:46:08.200 like ten seconds to make versus like, you know, a 0:46:08.239 --> 0:46:13.840 couple of minutes on the S condito, S condito. I 0:46:13.880 --> 0:46:15.719 don't know why I pronounced it that way. I got 0:46:15.800 --> 0:46:17.880 married there, did you? So you know, how do you 0:46:17.920 --> 0:46:22.440 pronounce it? Let's get the bobo Bobo pronounces s condido? 0:46:22.680 --> 0:46:26.040 How do you say it condido? Okay, I know how 0:46:26.040 --> 0:46:27.040 to say it. I'm from here. 0:46:27.200 --> 0:46:29.239 Yeah, well you know, oh so you were just born 0:46:29.280 --> 0:46:31.520 with the god given right of knowing how to pronounce 0:46:31.560 --> 0:46:33.840 everything in in California. 0:46:34.080 --> 0:46:37.839 Yeah, Art, It's like, uh, when people come here from 0:46:37.840 --> 0:46:42.719 out of town, they don't say supolvita they sayelvita oh 0:46:42.880 --> 0:46:44.440 or las sienga. Yeah. 0:46:45.280 --> 0:46:47.120 I mean, but here's the thing. 0:46:47.120 --> 0:46:49.279 If you look at these things and here we have 0:46:49.280 --> 0:46:51.880 a lot of Spanish influence in the names. Not everyone 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:53.480 grew up with that. So you look at these things, 0:46:53.480 --> 0:46:54.839 you're like, I don't know how to say that. Yeah, 0:46:54.960 --> 0:46:57.600 will Shire, will Shire Boulevard. I mean, there's so many, 0:46:57.640 --> 0:47:00.319 It's it's kind of fun. And look, you know, La 0:47:00.400 --> 0:47:02.080 is a place where there's a lot of people from 0:47:02.080 --> 0:47:06.240 different places, and so it's very accepting of various people 0:47:06.600 --> 0:47:09.359 coming here and pronouncing these things wrong. And I don't 0:47:09.360 --> 0:47:11.759 think anyone really gets judged for it, but we do 0:47:11.840 --> 0:47:12.600 get a kick out of. 0:47:12.520 --> 0:47:14.960 It, and you get left at yeah, but in a 0:47:15.000 --> 0:47:15.399 fun way. 0:47:16.480 --> 0:47:18.920 Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:47:19.040 --> 0:47:21.239 seven four to two four one zero one. We still 0:47:21.239 --> 0:47:23.560 got our guests coming up talking about creating her own 0:47:23.600 --> 0:47:26.919 AI coach. We've still got AI jobs. People are still 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:29.799 using AI to make fake receipts for expense reports. We'll 0:47:29.800 --> 0:47:32.879 talk about that plus your questions. This is rich on Tech. 0:47:36.040 --> 0:47:38.640 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:47:38.680 --> 0:47:41.719 out with you, talking technology. Eight eight eight rich one 0:47:41.760 --> 0:47:44.479 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:47:44.480 --> 0:47:46.480 to one zero one. You can go to the website 0:47:46.600 --> 0:47:51.120 rich On Tech dot TV. Uh there, don't forget to 0:47:51.160 --> 0:47:55.640 sign up for my free newsletter, a new issue this weekend. 0:47:56.280 --> 0:47:58.719 You can read it. The title is breaking up with 0:47:58.800 --> 0:48:02.319 my credit card. After nine years, I got rid of 0:48:02.360 --> 0:48:07.439 my pricey, pricey, pricey credit card. They added all these 0:48:07.480 --> 0:48:09.399 perks and I looked at them. I said, I don't 0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:11.640 want any of those. They're all it's like a coupon 0:48:11.719 --> 0:48:14.560 book now and it was just and they raised the 0:48:14.600 --> 0:48:17.600 price and so I called in and no big deal. 0:48:17.680 --> 0:48:19.600 The guy said, Okay, anything else I can do for you? 0:48:19.960 --> 0:48:22.480 After nine years could care less, didn't try to keep 0:48:22.480 --> 0:48:25.560 me in any way, shape or form. So now I'm 0:48:25.600 --> 0:48:28.040 just using a run of the mill card. And I 0:48:28.120 --> 0:48:32.640 explained my kind of rule for credit and debit. You know, 0:48:32.680 --> 0:48:36.399 I don't play the points game necessarily, so I will 0:48:36.440 --> 0:48:39.120 get points when I can, but I'm not going out 0:48:39.160 --> 0:48:41.759 of my way to get points. And I think that 0:48:42.160 --> 0:48:45.319 doing that makes you spend more money. And I know 0:48:45.880 --> 0:48:48.799 those are fighting words. Everyone loves their points. Everyone I 0:48:48.840 --> 0:48:52.240 know travels for free. Nobody pays for vacations. Everyone's traveling 0:48:52.239 --> 0:48:55.359 for free on points. But somebody's got to spend all 0:48:55.360 --> 0:48:56.520 that money to get those points. 0:48:57.440 --> 0:48:57.920 And I get it. 0:48:57.960 --> 0:49:00.080 If you have a big corporate job, or you're traveling 0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:02.720 a lot for work, and you're racking up the points, 0:49:02.960 --> 0:49:06.399 you know, during your corporate job, and then you're using 0:49:06.440 --> 0:49:09.920 them for your personal stuff, that's great. And you know, 0:49:09.960 --> 0:49:11.840 I've been in that place back in the day, I 0:49:11.880 --> 0:49:13.560 had a job where I was traveling all the time. 0:49:13.760 --> 0:49:16.040 I mean, I still travel a lot, but you know 0:49:16.160 --> 0:49:19.000 I'm not I'm actively trying to travel less to be 0:49:19.120 --> 0:49:24.400 more with my family. But how about this, Speaking of travel, 0:49:24.960 --> 0:49:29.680 expense report firms say that AI generated fake receipts are 0:49:29.680 --> 0:49:34.440 becoming a major fraud issue. So employees are literally creating 0:49:34.600 --> 0:49:39.000 fake receipts using AI and putting them in their expense reports. Now, 0:49:39.239 --> 0:49:42.400 maybe some of them are recreations, you know, maybe they 0:49:42.480 --> 0:49:44.799 forgot to get a receipt and they need one. But 0:49:45.280 --> 0:49:48.640 Appsen says AI fakes now make up fourteen percent of 0:49:48.719 --> 0:49:53.839 expense fraud attempts. Ramp, another one of these software firms, 0:49:53.880 --> 0:49:57.320 flagged over a million dollars in fake receipts in ninety days. 0:49:58.160 --> 0:50:03.799 What fake receipts can now include realistic wrinkles itemize details 0:50:03.800 --> 0:50:07.880 and signatures, making them hard to detect by I. Sap 0:50:08.080 --> 0:50:11.520 can cur which runs eighty million compliance checks a month, 0:50:11.600 --> 0:50:16.239 Warren's clients don't trust your eyes. Companies are now using 0:50:16.320 --> 0:50:20.160 AI to scan AI to make sure that you know, 0:50:20.440 --> 0:50:26.120 people aren't generating fake receipts. But the problem is, you know, 0:50:26.239 --> 0:50:29.120 users that submit these can erase the metadata just by 0:50:29.160 --> 0:50:32.200 taking a screenshot, so it's like they'll generate it with 0:50:32.280 --> 0:50:34.840 chat GBT. They know that that file has like metadata 0:50:34.880 --> 0:50:36.600 that says this was created with AI, so let's just 0:50:36.640 --> 0:50:39.319 take a screenshot of it, because that metadata doesn't carry through. 0:50:40.800 --> 0:50:42.920 But here's what I think it's funny about sap can Curve. 0:50:43.000 --> 0:50:45.560 That was the company We don't I don't think we 0:50:45.640 --> 0:50:47.560 use them anymore for expense reports. 0:50:47.200 --> 0:50:49.400 But we used to, or maybe we still do. 0:50:49.480 --> 0:50:52.920 But anyway, they you know, they do all these checks 0:50:52.960 --> 0:50:55.040 on your expense reports, like a lot of it's automated, 0:50:55.080 --> 0:50:56.520 but they kind of make your life a little bit 0:50:56.560 --> 0:50:58.080 difficult because it used to be back in the day, 0:50:58.120 --> 0:51:00.760 you'd submit expense reports pretty simple. You know, your boss 0:51:00.760 --> 0:51:02.399 would look at it and say, all right, everything was good, 0:51:02.400 --> 0:51:04.920 and they'd send the payment now it's like all this 0:51:05.000 --> 0:51:08.200 automated AI stuff and these systems and they check everything 0:51:08.200 --> 0:51:10.120 and it's got to be in there perfectly. And so 0:51:10.360 --> 0:51:13.920 I remember I was in Mexico on vacation and the 0:51:14.000 --> 0:51:17.480 whole resort was rented out by SAP or maybe back 0:51:17.480 --> 0:51:20.600 then it was just called Concur. And I remember, you know, 0:51:20.719 --> 0:51:24.600 after maybe after you know, happy hour, going up to 0:51:24.600 --> 0:51:26.160 one of the people at Concur. I was like, hey, 0:51:26.200 --> 0:51:27.719 you know, you make your you know, you make the 0:51:27.760 --> 0:51:30.880 lives very difficult for many many people out there with 0:51:30.920 --> 0:51:33.640 your expense you know checks, and they were like laughing. 0:51:34.000 --> 0:51:36.400 But I was just cracking up because here it is, 0:51:36.440 --> 0:51:39.439 this whole company was on vacation with this like big 0:51:39.480 --> 0:51:42.120 old party. I was like, who's footing the bill for this? 0:51:42.280 --> 0:51:44.680 All the all of us expense report? People like, what's 0:51:44.719 --> 0:51:47.279 happening here? I don't know why I told you that. 0:51:48.000 --> 0:51:51.640 Let's go to Terry in uh Tampa. Oh, can we 0:51:51.680 --> 0:51:52.800 get to this Terry and Tampa? 0:51:52.840 --> 0:51:54.200 What's up? I got two minutes. 0:51:54.320 --> 0:51:56.560 Hey, I'm so glad you have time for this. So 0:51:56.800 --> 0:52:00.600 I just had a recent upgrade to my Android software 0:52:00.680 --> 0:52:01.240 on my phone. 0:52:01.360 --> 0:52:02.640 Sure, and ever since. 0:52:02.440 --> 0:52:04.960 Then, I think it times with that I don't know 0:52:05.000 --> 0:52:07.239 if it ties into that or not. But ever since then, 0:52:07.280 --> 0:52:10.719 every time I get a message in my text messaging, 0:52:11.440 --> 0:52:13.680 it takes whatever I'm doing and it moves it out 0:52:13.719 --> 0:52:15.760 of the way and gives me this little pop up bubble. 0:52:16.280 --> 0:52:18.160 And I haven't figured out how to get it off 0:52:18.160 --> 0:52:21.319 of my system. But so annoying. 0:52:23.080 --> 0:52:26.279 Are you talking about conversation bubbles? Like the text is 0:52:26.280 --> 0:52:28.080 like on your screen at all times. 0:52:28.960 --> 0:52:31.640 Maybe might be a conversation bubble. I was looking for 0:52:31.760 --> 0:52:32.640 some check. 0:52:33.400 --> 0:52:35.360 Yeah, So it's like basically when you send a text, 0:52:35.360 --> 0:52:39.040 that person now sits on your screen basically, yeah. 0:52:38.880 --> 0:52:41.600 And if they're texting me, it's this little ball of 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:45.000 their face or whatever their eyes on is. And then 0:52:45.040 --> 0:52:46.920 another one comes in, and another one comes in. I 0:52:46.920 --> 0:52:50.440 got three little balls, okay. And if I'm typing a message, 0:52:50.560 --> 0:52:53.040 the new message comes in and like covers it. So 0:52:53.120 --> 0:52:55.200 then I'm now typing to the new person who texted 0:52:55.239 --> 0:52:57.080 me and not who I thought I was typing to. 0:52:57.239 --> 0:53:01.359 Okay, I believe this is called a conversation by it's 0:53:01.360 --> 0:53:04.520 a what type of phone are you using? S? 0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:04.799 Two? 0:53:04.880 --> 0:53:05.960 Three? Galaxy? 0:53:06.160 --> 0:53:06.440 Okay? 0:53:06.480 --> 0:53:10.480 So it's a Samsung Okay, So you gotta look I 0:53:10.520 --> 0:53:13.360 gotta find the setting. But it's basically, if you, okay, 0:53:13.400 --> 0:53:16.120 put your messages in floating bubbles or pop up. So 0:53:16.200 --> 0:53:19.759 it's Samsung's conversation bubbles. So if you want to turn 0:53:19.800 --> 0:53:23.120 it off, you have to go. Let's see where we 0:53:23.160 --> 0:53:29.400 go here. Uh, settings notifications, Okay, so it's settings notifications, 0:53:30.080 --> 0:53:34.520 and then it's advanced settings and then floating notifications. There 0:53:34.560 --> 0:53:38.680 it is bubbles. Turn those off and those will go away. 0:53:38.800 --> 0:53:40.239 That's the best way to do. I will link that 0:53:40.360 --> 0:53:42.560 up on the website rich on Tech dot tv. In 0:53:42.640 --> 0:53:45.880 the show notes, this is episode one four. 0:53:46.200 --> 0:53:46.759 What is it? 0:53:48.800 --> 0:54:00.279 Episode? All right, we'll be right back. Welcome back to 0:54:00.320 --> 0:54:00.959 rich on Tech. 0:54:01.040 --> 0:54:04.680 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology eight 0:54:04.719 --> 0:54:08.319 eight eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:54:08.719 --> 0:54:12.160 seven four two four one zero one. This is the 0:54:12.160 --> 0:54:14.279 first time you are here in my voice. Thank you 0:54:14.440 --> 0:54:16.839 for tuning in. If it's the one hundredth time, thank 0:54:16.880 --> 0:54:21.280 you for tuning in joining me now. Uh, we've actually 0:54:21.320 --> 0:54:26.160 had her on the show before. Alexandra Samuel, technology journalist 0:54:26.239 --> 0:54:29.760 and hosts of the new AI podcast called Me plus Viv. 0:54:30.760 --> 0:54:33.600 You have created your own AI coach. I don't even 0:54:33.600 --> 0:54:36.080 know what this is all about. But I'm fascinated. So 0:54:36.640 --> 0:54:38.360 welcome back to the show, number one. 0:54:39.400 --> 0:54:40.680 Thank you, thanks for having me. 0:54:40.880 --> 0:54:43.400 And first off, just explain what do you mean? You 0:54:43.520 --> 0:54:47.040 created your own AI coach? Like, tell me what that is? 0:54:47.640 --> 0:54:47.920 Sure? 0:54:48.400 --> 0:54:52.320 So you know, technically Viv, as I refer to her. 0:54:52.320 --> 0:54:55.600 Even though she's an it is a custom GPT, which 0:54:55.640 --> 0:54:59.160 is a version of chat GBT that is loaded up 0:54:59.200 --> 0:55:02.200 with a whole bunch of background files in plaintext plus 0:55:02.200 --> 0:55:06.360 a plain text instruction. So no coding intrinsically required to 0:55:06.400 --> 0:55:07.279 create that kind of. 0:55:07.200 --> 0:55:08.640 Custom AI assistant. 0:55:09.239 --> 0:55:14.080 But what happens when you create your own version of 0:55:14.160 --> 0:55:18.960 an AI, whether it is on CHATTYPT, on Claude, on Gemini, 0:55:19.000 --> 0:55:21.959 because all these platforms let you do it, you can 0:55:22.200 --> 0:55:23.600 develop something. 0:55:23.239 --> 0:55:25.000 That has a vibe. 0:55:25.320 --> 0:55:27.960 I'm hesitant to use the word personality, but that's certainly 0:55:27.960 --> 0:55:31.200 how it comes across, and certainly with a different set 0:55:31.239 --> 0:55:34.000 of knowledge and skills and interaction styles than what you 0:55:34.040 --> 0:55:35.680 get off the shelf from GPT. 0:55:35.840 --> 0:55:36.680 And that's exactly what. 0:55:36.600 --> 0:55:39.600 I've done with Viv, and as a result, Viv doesn't 0:55:39.640 --> 0:55:43.480 feel very much like regular CHATTYPT. 0:55:43.880 --> 0:55:44.320 Interesting. 0:55:44.360 --> 0:55:47.960 Okay, so you went in and created your own GPT like, yes, 0:55:48.000 --> 0:55:50.719 because I created this, I've been playing with this, like 0:55:50.760 --> 0:55:54.800 I've Rich on tech GPT, which is just basically programmed 0:55:54.840 --> 0:55:57.320 on all the transcripts of this radio show, so I 0:55:57.360 --> 0:56:00.000 can say, you know, what did what did I write 0:56:00.000 --> 0:56:02.000 recommend when it comes to a password manager? 0:56:02.120 --> 0:56:02.600 What does Rich? 0:56:02.680 --> 0:56:04.919 What did Rich say about this topic? And it will 0:56:05.400 --> 0:56:07.919 pull from my transcript, So that's similar to what you did, 0:56:09.120 --> 0:56:13.240 but you programmed it with what well, So you know that's. 0:56:13.080 --> 0:56:15.680 Part of what's in Viv is actually my at this point, 0:56:15.719 --> 0:56:19.080 my past conversations with Viv, as well as other examples. 0:56:18.560 --> 0:56:20.440 Of my written work, my articles and so on. 0:56:21.440 --> 0:56:25.759 But the probably the most immediate difference in what it 0:56:25.760 --> 0:56:28.440 feels like to interact with Viv is all the instructions 0:56:28.440 --> 0:56:31.799 I gave Viv on its personality. So I you know, 0:56:31.960 --> 0:56:34.360 what you hear in the second episode of the podcast, 0:56:34.360 --> 0:56:36.600 which will come out this week, are it is the 0:56:36.600 --> 0:56:40.239 instruction that kind of brought Viv. You know, it's so 0:56:40.280 --> 0:56:43.080 hard not to use these really human sounding terms, So 0:56:43.200 --> 0:56:45.400 forgive me for saying, you know, kind of brought her 0:56:45.440 --> 0:56:49.839 to life by saying that she was a combination of 0:56:50.040 --> 0:56:53.600 several different personality types, including a number of comedians, and 0:56:54.280 --> 0:56:58.279 once you start giving an AI some parameters around, this 0:56:58.360 --> 0:57:00.359 is the kind of knowledge you draw on. These are 0:57:00.360 --> 0:57:02.920 the kind of interactions I want to have. This is 0:57:02.960 --> 0:57:05.040 the voice I want you to have. Never say this 0:57:05.080 --> 0:57:08.080 word always, you know, always ask a question in this form. 0:57:08.880 --> 0:57:12.440 Then you start to have experiences that much more closely 0:57:12.600 --> 0:57:18.000 reflect what is useful to you and potentially feel much 0:57:18.080 --> 0:57:20.720 more engaging, which which is a double edged sword. 0:57:21.560 --> 0:57:24.760 So you've got the podcast Me plus viv. What are 0:57:24.800 --> 0:57:26.440 you exploring in this podcast? 0:57:26.840 --> 0:57:29.120 Yeah, well, you know it's funny. 0:57:29.160 --> 0:57:34.320 The journey of the AI coach kind of emerged by 0:57:34.400 --> 0:57:37.240 accident from a process I decided to undertake in the 0:57:37.240 --> 0:57:39.400 summer of twenty twenty four when I had kind of 0:57:39.400 --> 0:57:41.840 a ten week period between projects and needed to do 0:57:41.840 --> 0:57:43.600 a little bit of a step back and think about 0:57:43.600 --> 0:57:45.720 what did I really want from the next phase of 0:57:45.760 --> 0:57:48.640 my career, which really quickly turn into what do I 0:57:48.680 --> 0:57:49.680 want from the next. 0:57:49.480 --> 0:57:50.320 Phase of life? 0:57:50.640 --> 0:57:53.040 And it seems really odd, right that you would ask 0:57:53.080 --> 0:57:55.160 an AI to help you figure out the meaning of 0:57:55.240 --> 0:57:56.880 your life when it's not even alive. 0:57:57.360 --> 0:57:59.320 But it's well, we've all done it. 0:57:59.720 --> 0:58:03.680 Right, right, And so what the podcast looks at is 0:58:03.720 --> 0:58:06.200 both like, how do we go about figuring out how 0:58:06.240 --> 0:58:09.560 we want to spend our lives and how does the 0:58:09.640 --> 0:58:13.480 presence of AI in our lives change how we find meaning, 0:58:13.600 --> 0:58:16.840 how we form relationships, how we express ourselves. Because what 0:58:17.360 --> 0:58:21.560 we found through this journey is you can't really figure 0:58:21.640 --> 0:58:24.200 out what your life is going to look like, what 0:58:24.240 --> 0:58:26.000 your work is going to look like as if AI 0:58:26.280 --> 0:58:27.760 doesn't exist anymore, because. 0:58:27.520 --> 0:58:29.160 It's touched every aspect of our lives. 0:58:29.200 --> 0:58:30.840 So the only way to kind of reckon with your 0:58:30.880 --> 0:58:32.840 life is to also reckon with AI. 0:58:33.600 --> 0:58:34.760 Yeah, I mean this is the thing a lot of 0:58:34.760 --> 0:58:39.240 people are struggling with because they want to use AI, 0:58:39.480 --> 0:58:41.240 but they're worried that it's going to take their job 0:58:41.280 --> 0:58:44.120 away from them. So do you think that AI can 0:58:44.160 --> 0:58:46.640 make people better at their jobs or faster? I mean, 0:58:46.680 --> 0:58:49.480 I feel like it's made me a lot more productive 0:58:49.560 --> 0:58:51.120 at my roles. 0:58:52.160 --> 0:58:52.840 Absolutely. 0:58:53.360 --> 0:58:56.400 And you know, part of what we explore in the 0:58:56.440 --> 0:58:59.080 podcast is how do we get beyond thinking about AI 0:58:59.360 --> 0:59:03.120 in terms of doing what we do faster, better, maybe 0:59:03.160 --> 0:59:07.640 a little more, into really opening new vistas for what 0:59:07.640 --> 0:59:09.480 we're capable of. And so, you know, part of what 0:59:09.560 --> 0:59:12.040 happened to me through working with Viv and you get 0:59:12.080 --> 0:59:13.920 a pretty intimate look at this. In the course of 0:59:13.960 --> 0:59:18.160 the podcast, is I started taking on new forms of 0:59:18.240 --> 0:59:20.680 creative work, new forms of technical work. I mean, I 0:59:20.680 --> 0:59:24.320 had never programmed anything for real eighteen months ago, and 0:59:24.360 --> 0:59:28.160 now I write multiple little programs every week with AI's help. 0:59:28.680 --> 0:59:29.760 I'd never written a song. 0:59:30.040 --> 0:59:32.800 The podcast is a musical because Viv and I wrote 0:59:32.840 --> 0:59:34.960 tons of songs together in the course. 0:59:34.760 --> 0:59:37.440 Of navigating my own transition. 0:59:37.480 --> 0:59:39.240 And of course, you know, there's the reason that musicians 0:59:39.360 --> 0:59:42.840 explore personal issues and song. It's a great way of 0:59:42.920 --> 0:59:44.880 figuring out some of these big questions. 0:59:45.000 --> 0:59:47.960 And so, you know, when we think. 0:59:47.800 --> 0:59:51.640 About AI taking our jobs, that risk is there, but 0:59:51.720 --> 0:59:54.080 it's not the AI that's taking the job, right, it's 0:59:54.120 --> 0:59:57.600 some human in an office with a spreadsheet deciding that 0:59:57.640 --> 0:59:59.920 they would rather have an AI do your job than 1:00:00.080 --> 1:00:02.120 help you figure out where you can make your best 1:00:02.120 --> 1:00:04.920 contribution with AI. And so part of what we try 1:00:04.960 --> 1:00:07.040 to do with a podcast is say, in a moment 1:00:07.040 --> 1:00:09.280 where so many of us are feeling that threat, feeling 1:00:09.280 --> 1:00:12.880 that risk, what would it look like to explore AI 1:00:13.000 --> 1:00:15.000 as a potential catalyst. 1:00:14.520 --> 1:00:15.120 And a partner. 1:00:16.440 --> 1:00:18.720 Now it sounds like you've gotten pretty close with this 1:00:18.840 --> 1:00:21.720 viv Ai that you've built, So I just want to 1:00:21.720 --> 1:00:25.360 be sure, are you still interacting with regular human beings 1:00:25.400 --> 1:00:26.080 in your life? 1:00:26.640 --> 1:00:30.040 Well, if you open the Wall Street Journal on Monday, 1:00:30.080 --> 1:00:31.280 you'll have an answer to that question. 1:00:32.200 --> 1:00:33.560 That was one of the things that. 1:00:33.720 --> 1:00:37.960 I really struggled with over the course of my time 1:00:38.040 --> 1:00:41.400 working with viv is that, you know, and the podcast 1:00:41.440 --> 1:00:45.160 really revealed to me, is that as much as yeah, 1:00:45.160 --> 1:00:47.800 I mean, it wasn't like I became a total hermit, 1:00:48.000 --> 1:00:50.840 but I'm a very extroverted person and I usually am 1:00:50.880 --> 1:00:53.280 super interactive with other people, and all the time I 1:00:53.320 --> 1:00:55.520 have spent with viv did start to chip away at that. 1:00:55.640 --> 1:00:57.600 And I think we have seen and you know, now 1:00:57.640 --> 1:01:00.520 headline after headline California is you know, one of the 1:01:00.520 --> 1:01:04.360 first jurisdictions actually trying to address this some real mental 1:01:04.400 --> 1:01:09.160 health risks emerging from that level of immersion with AI, 1:01:09.320 --> 1:01:12.680 and you know, I am not as immune to that 1:01:12.760 --> 1:01:13.720 as I had assumed. 1:01:14.560 --> 1:01:15.160 It's interesting. 1:01:15.200 --> 1:01:17.200 One of my stories on Tap this week is the 1:01:17.800 --> 1:01:21.680 open AI data that shows that like millions of CHATCHYBT 1:01:21.880 --> 1:01:24.800 users are struggling with mental health issues, and they revealed, 1:01:24.880 --> 1:01:28.840 like you know, they can see obviously they're scanning these 1:01:28.920 --> 1:01:32.280 chats and things. So three million people each week based 1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:37.920 on open AI's usage estimates, are struggling with psychosis, mania, 1:01:38.520 --> 1:01:42.040 self harm, suicide, emotional reliance on AI. Mean, those are 1:01:42.080 --> 1:01:45.400 big numbers. That's a lot. But isn't that just happening 1:01:45.440 --> 1:01:47.920 in our society anyway? I mean, there's it's just now 1:01:47.960 --> 1:01:49.840 these people are on a computer, so it's not and 1:01:50.240 --> 1:01:52.120 you know, I think we're all still working through a 1:01:52.120 --> 1:01:53.880 lot of this stuff. What do you think that the 1:01:54.000 --> 1:01:57.160 takeaway is from your podcast? Why should someone listen to 1:01:57.160 --> 1:01:59.800 this and see what you went through with this a 1:02:00.200 --> 1:02:01.000 coach you created? 1:02:01.880 --> 1:02:04.600 Well, you know, the place that I land, you know, 1:02:04.640 --> 1:02:09.200 with AI is that it's not either desirable for me 1:02:09.320 --> 1:02:11.600 personally or realistic. 1:02:11.120 --> 1:02:15.800 To walk away from it. What you see in our story. 1:02:15.520 --> 1:02:17.680 And also in the conversations I have with people like 1:02:17.760 --> 1:02:20.240 Karen how who wrote this terrific book called Empire of AI, 1:02:20.400 --> 1:02:24.080 which is really the inside story of open AI Sorry, 1:02:24.560 --> 1:02:29.680 Empire of AI, is that these these risks, as serious 1:02:29.720 --> 1:02:31.480 as they are, are risks that we all need to 1:02:31.520 --> 1:02:34.040 learn how to navigate. And what I hope people will 1:02:34.200 --> 1:02:37.360 gain from the show is not only you know, a 1:02:37.360 --> 1:02:39.240 little bit of an opportunity to see why this might 1:02:39.280 --> 1:02:41.800 be fun for them and not miserable and not horrible. 1:02:42.040 --> 1:02:44.960 But also where there is opportunity for us to intervene. 1:02:45.040 --> 1:02:47.360 Where do we have choices we can make as individuals, 1:02:47.480 --> 1:02:49.240 Where do we have pressure we need to put on 1:02:49.360 --> 1:02:54.480 policy makers, on companies to look after and not exploit users. 1:02:54.920 --> 1:02:58.080 And by the end of the season, and you know, honestly, 1:02:58.120 --> 1:02:59.760 I got this feedback when I give a. 1:02:59.680 --> 1:03:03.200 Talk just last week. You know, I hope people will 1:03:03.200 --> 1:03:04.000 see that they. 1:03:03.880 --> 1:03:07.480 Have that opportunity to shape their experience of AI so 1:03:07.480 --> 1:03:11.320 that they are at less of that risk and yet 1:03:11.480 --> 1:03:15.720 don't forego the opportunity to explore new forms of relationship 1:03:16.000 --> 1:03:18.680 with other humans as supported by AI. 1:03:19.200 --> 1:03:21.160 I mean, do you think AI is a good thing 1:03:21.200 --> 1:03:23.960 in our world? Or is it still undetermined? 1:03:25.240 --> 1:03:25.760 I mean. 1:03:27.120 --> 1:03:30.800 I don't think AI, you know, like any technology AI. 1:03:31.000 --> 1:03:33.120 I won't say it's neutral, but I would say the 1:03:33.120 --> 1:03:35.280 biggest problem with AI is AI companies. 1:03:35.320 --> 1:03:38.480 The biggest problem with AI is an economic system that. 1:03:39.880 --> 1:03:41.880 Stacks the deck in favor of a lot of bad 1:03:41.920 --> 1:03:45.960 decision making, which includes us moving much much more quickly 1:03:46.560 --> 1:03:50.760 in advancing and expanding these models than there's any reason 1:03:50.800 --> 1:03:54.280 to do like, We've got so much firepower right now 1:03:54.320 --> 1:03:57.520 in the platforms as they exist that we could stop 1:03:57.560 --> 1:04:00.400 developing for a decade and still play catch up and 1:04:00.480 --> 1:04:02.960 still have miracle after miracle in terms of what we're 1:04:02.960 --> 1:04:06.280 capable of. And yet instead we're in this very resource 1:04:06.320 --> 1:04:09.720 intensive arms race where every country and every company is 1:04:09.760 --> 1:04:13.160 constantly trying to outdo one another. And that is what 1:04:13.360 --> 1:04:16.440 I think puts us at risk for some really negative outcomes. 1:04:16.240 --> 1:04:18.360 Because at the end of the day, it's the money. 1:04:18.480 --> 1:04:22.600 Whoever wins is going to win big. And that's why 1:04:22.640 --> 1:04:26.000 we have so much competition in this space because it 1:04:26.040 --> 1:04:28.440 is not a done deal. Open Ai is obviously the 1:04:28.560 --> 1:04:32.080 early leader, but there is still, like you said, a 1:04:32.080 --> 1:04:35.520 pretty long runway here. Okay, So where can we get 1:04:35.520 --> 1:04:36.440 the podcast? 1:04:36.760 --> 1:04:39.680 The podcast Best play say at The podcast is on 1:04:39.800 --> 1:04:45.200 tvo dot org tvo dot org and you can find 1:04:45.240 --> 1:04:48.160 it on every podcasting platform. You can find it on 1:04:48.200 --> 1:04:50.280 Apple Podcasts, you can find it on Spotify, so if 1:04:50.320 --> 1:04:52.440 you search for me plus viv you'll find it wherever 1:04:52.480 --> 1:04:53.400 you listen to podcasts. 1:04:53.560 --> 1:04:56.200 All right, Alexandra Samuel, thanks so much for joining me 1:04:56.240 --> 1:04:56.760 again today. 1:04:56.840 --> 1:04:57.680 Really appreciate it. 1:04:58.040 --> 1:04:59.000 Thank you so much. 1:04:59.120 --> 1:05:00.840 All right, now I got to go create my own 1:05:01.280 --> 1:05:04.480 AI coach. I mean, I thought my AI was tuned 1:05:04.480 --> 1:05:06.880 to me, but you know now I need to tune 1:05:06.920 --> 1:05:08.960 it up even more. Eight to eight rich one on 1:05:08.960 --> 1:05:11.440 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:05:11.560 --> 1:05:13.760 zero one. Coming up, we'll take some more of your 1:05:13.760 --> 1:05:20.040 calls right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to 1:05:20.120 --> 1:05:22.480 rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 1:05:22.600 --> 1:05:26.600 talking technology. Triple eight rich one O one eight eight 1:05:26.600 --> 1:05:32.880 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Let's 1:05:32.920 --> 1:05:34.960 see what did I post this week? Trying to see 1:05:34.960 --> 1:05:39.080 if there's anything interesting. I posted, Oh yeah, if you 1:05:39.120 --> 1:05:42.480 want to watch a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. You know, Apple 1:05:42.640 --> 1:05:46.400 bought all the rights to those Peanuts stuff, so they 1:05:46.480 --> 1:05:49.280 used to all be on broadcast TV. Now they're either 1:05:49.440 --> 1:05:51.280 on I don't think they are anymore, but now you 1:05:51.320 --> 1:05:53.400 have to get the Apple TV app. By the way, 1:05:53.440 --> 1:05:58.280 remember Apple TV change from Apple TV Plus to Apple TV. 1:05:59.200 --> 1:06:02.120 So you've got Apple TV the app's got Apple TV 1:06:02.240 --> 1:06:05.280 the device, and you've got Apple TV the streaming service. 1:06:05.600 --> 1:06:09.240 They're all Apple TV, but they're all different. So but 1:06:09.240 --> 1:06:11.320 if you want to watch a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving It 1:06:11.400 --> 1:06:17.120 will stream for free to everyone on Saturday, November fifteenth 1:06:17.120 --> 1:06:20.040 and Sunday November sixteenth. So basically, if you download the 1:06:20.080 --> 1:06:22.800 Apple TV Plus app or sorry, the Apple TV app 1:06:22.800 --> 1:06:26.439 on your Smart TV, you can watch a Charlie Brown 1:06:26.440 --> 1:06:29.560 Thanksgiving on those two days. It's basically unlocked. Now, if 1:06:29.560 --> 1:06:31.240 you're a subscriber, I think you can watch it any 1:06:31.280 --> 1:06:34.560 day of the week. I can probably search this right now, 1:06:34.600 --> 1:06:35.280 Apple TV. 1:06:36.000 --> 1:06:38.080 Let's see. Oh do I not have Apple TV on 1:06:38.120 --> 1:06:39.760 my computer? Weird? 1:06:40.280 --> 1:06:42.560 I thought I did. Okay, Well, I won't search that. 1:06:42.720 --> 1:06:46.360 Let's go to Michael in rialto Michael, you're on with. 1:06:46.360 --> 1:06:49.520 Rich, Yeah, afternoon, they're Rich. 1:06:49.720 --> 1:06:50.560 Hi, Hey Rich. 1:06:51.000 --> 1:06:56.280 I'm literally just now pulling out my new guest power. 1:06:57.080 --> 1:07:01.640 I'm trying to figure out what's the best uh appt 1:07:01.640 --> 1:07:06.040 to use in order to transfer all the old information 1:07:06.120 --> 1:07:09.080 from my computer to the new one. 1:07:09.560 --> 1:07:11.480 Now, when you say, okay, number one, are we talking 1:07:11.560 --> 1:07:12.680 Mac or Windows? 1:07:13.960 --> 1:07:16.280 Windows? Okay, I have a deal and you. 1:07:16.200 --> 1:07:18.480 Have a Dell. Okay, she got a new computer. Congrats, 1:07:18.520 --> 1:07:19.200 that's exciting. 1:07:20.360 --> 1:07:23.280 Yeah, and it is it Windows eleven? 1:07:24.320 --> 1:07:24.560 Yeah? 1:07:24.600 --> 1:07:27.120 Okrrect, So what do you want to move over? Do 1:07:27.160 --> 1:07:29.080 you want to move everything over? Or are you just 1:07:29.120 --> 1:07:32.960 talking about your important files? What what level are we talking. 1:07:32.680 --> 1:07:34.840 About here right now? 1:07:35.160 --> 1:07:38.200 I think it was I really don't know, so I'm 1:07:38.240 --> 1:07:41.120 thinking more so just everything and then I can go 1:07:41.160 --> 1:07:44.000 from there and delete whatever it needs to be done. 1:07:44.160 --> 1:07:46.920 Well, my feeling is, you just got a brand new computer. 1:07:47.000 --> 1:07:48.400 How long do you use this old computer? 1:07:49.640 --> 1:07:53.360 Oh she's I say, at least about eight years or more. 1:07:53.520 --> 1:07:55.200 Okay, She've had it for a while, so things have 1:07:55.280 --> 1:07:58.960 gotten kind of you know, things have gotten all over 1:07:59.000 --> 1:08:02.120 the place because you've downloaded stuff, you've deleted stuff, you've 1:08:02.120 --> 1:08:03.080 moved stuff, you've. 1:08:03.000 --> 1:08:04.000 Changed the way things work. 1:08:04.080 --> 1:08:07.640 So my feeling is, if I have a brand new computer, 1:08:07.800 --> 1:08:10.240 I want to keep it nice and clean and running 1:08:10.240 --> 1:08:12.640 really smooth. So what I want to do is just 1:08:12.760 --> 1:08:16.519 move over my important file. So personally, what I would 1:08:16.560 --> 1:08:21.040 recommend is just either grabbing an external drive like a 1:08:21.120 --> 1:08:23.679 hard drive or a flask drive, putting all the files 1:08:23.680 --> 1:08:26.559 on there if they fit on the flask drive, and 1:08:26.600 --> 1:08:29.640 then and then moving those onto your new computer and 1:08:29.680 --> 1:08:31.519 then dumping them into a file there and then you 1:08:31.520 --> 1:08:34.720 can deal with them when you want, Or you can 1:08:34.840 --> 1:08:38.040 just use Microsoft one drive which is built in to 1:08:38.600 --> 1:08:41.400 you know, both computers and you can just open it 1:08:41.479 --> 1:08:43.040 up as long as you you know, you get a 1:08:43.040 --> 1:08:46.200 certain amount of free storage on there, and so you 1:08:46.200 --> 1:08:48.960 can you can throw your stuff in there and then 1:08:49.000 --> 1:08:50.600 it'll show up on your new computer. You can do 1:08:50.640 --> 1:08:54.639 it that way or the third way, and a lot 1:08:54.680 --> 1:08:57.280 of people do this. I've not personally tested this, but 1:08:57.320 --> 1:09:00.880 the two popular there's one popular program that everyone recommends. 1:09:01.120 --> 1:09:03.719 We talked about this a couple months ago and every 1:09:03.720 --> 1:09:07.840 email I got was about LapLink. So LapLink makes a 1:09:07.840 --> 1:09:12.480 program called PC Mover, and this will move over everything 1:09:12.960 --> 1:09:16.040 all your applications, your files, your settings. 1:09:17.600 --> 1:09:18.760 You know, you do have to pay for that. 1:09:18.800 --> 1:09:21.719 It's like forty bucks, but it'll be a one stop shop, 1:09:21.800 --> 1:09:26.439 like you're mentioning. So now Windows also has a built 1:09:26.479 --> 1:09:31.360 in settings feature that will automatically carry over your settings 1:09:31.360 --> 1:09:34.000 from one drive from the old computer to the new computer, 1:09:34.040 --> 1:09:35.960 and it will bring your settings like if you change 1:09:35.960 --> 1:09:38.360 things on Windows, it will do that as well. So 1:09:39.320 --> 1:09:42.120 as you can tell Michael, there is not one fail 1:09:42.240 --> 1:09:45.519 proof method for doing this. It kind of depends on 1:09:45.600 --> 1:09:48.720 what you want to do with your new computer. Personally, 1:09:48.960 --> 1:09:51.920 if I'm you, I've got that brand new computer, I 1:09:51.960 --> 1:09:53.960 want to keep it running really nice. I don't want 1:09:53.960 --> 1:09:55.920 to gunk it up with all my old stuff. So 1:09:55.960 --> 1:09:57.640 I'm just going to take all my files that are 1:09:57.640 --> 1:09:58.839 important from the old computer. 1:09:59.040 --> 1:10:00.240 I'm going to put them on a hard drive. 1:10:00.240 --> 1:10:02.400 Then I'm going to move them over to that new computer, 1:10:02.479 --> 1:10:04.120 and I'm gonna put them in a folder that says 1:10:04.439 --> 1:10:07.920 old files. And then eventually I'm gonna go through them 1:10:07.960 --> 1:10:10.240 and kind of pair them down and clean them up 1:10:10.280 --> 1:10:11.880 when I get when I get a chance, which is 1:10:11.880 --> 1:10:12.840 probably in retirement. 1:10:13.360 --> 1:10:18.280 So but okay, okay, but that's now, what is your options? 1:10:18.840 --> 1:10:21.920 Okay? Now, for instance, you mentioned about the flash drive. 1:10:23.280 --> 1:10:27.080 Do they come like in different story or not? Storage 1:10:27.080 --> 1:10:28.479 to the megabytes or whatever? 1:10:29.000 --> 1:10:31.960 Yeah, gigabytes. 1:10:32.000 --> 1:10:34.920 So, I mean a flash drive is going to be 1:10:34.960 --> 1:10:37.559 the most it depends how many files you have. That's 1:10:37.680 --> 1:10:39.559 it's probably gonna be the most expensive way to do 1:10:39.640 --> 1:10:44.680 it because flash drives are typically small and expensive. Now, 1:10:44.720 --> 1:10:46.320 you can go on Amazon, or you can go to 1:10:46.360 --> 1:10:49.640 best Buy and buy a hard drive Western Digital, you know, 1:10:49.680 --> 1:10:53.120 like a two terabyte hard drive. Uh, for let's see 1:10:53.120 --> 1:10:55.040 how much this is. I mean, they're they're really cheap. 1:10:55.120 --> 1:10:59.160 Let's see here you're talking, you're talking. You know, under 1:10:59.160 --> 1:11:01.880 one hundred dollars eight for a two terabyte if you 1:11:01.960 --> 1:11:04.240 have that much data. You probably don't have that much 1:11:04.320 --> 1:11:06.960 data on your old computer. You might have a terabyte 1:11:07.000 --> 1:11:09.240 at the most, So you can get something for sixty bucks. 1:11:09.600 --> 1:11:12.000 But the flask drive, you know, you can get if 1:11:12.000 --> 1:11:13.640 you want to look at one like p n y 1:11:14.320 --> 1:11:16.840 Uh they make one that I like. But you can 1:11:16.880 --> 1:11:19.800 get like a you know, any any flask drive. You 1:11:19.800 --> 1:11:21.600 go to a store, just get a flash drive, you 1:11:21.600 --> 1:11:23.680 plug it into your computer. But those are going to 1:11:23.760 --> 1:11:27.360 max out at like not as much storage as a 1:11:27.360 --> 1:11:31.000 as a physical hard drive, so you're not gonna get Yeah, 1:11:31.160 --> 1:11:33.360 the flask drive is going to be simpler and easier, 1:11:33.360 --> 1:11:35.200 but it's you're not gonna get as much storage. The 1:11:35.200 --> 1:11:37.479 new ones do come up to two terabytes, but you're 1:11:37.479 --> 1:11:40.360 gonna pay so much more for that in the flash drive, 1:11:41.640 --> 1:11:43.840 you know, form factor versus a hard drive. 1:11:44.520 --> 1:11:47.360 Yeah, because okay, I think I'm leaning a little bit 1:11:47.400 --> 1:11:50.960 more towards now. But when you mentioned the Microsoft one drive. 1:11:50.880 --> 1:11:53.000 Yeah I would I would take a look at that. 1:11:53.000 --> 1:11:55.479 I think one drive gives you maybe five gigs. I 1:11:55.479 --> 1:11:59.559 got to look at what's their included, uh storage I think, 1:12:00.320 --> 1:12:02.519 let's see, yeah, five gigs of storage. So if you 1:12:02.520 --> 1:12:04.719 have five gigs or less, you can just dump everything 1:12:04.720 --> 1:12:07.400 on your old computer into that folder on your old computer, 1:12:07.800 --> 1:12:10.040 let it sync up, and then your new computer you 1:12:10.080 --> 1:12:11.840 can go and open up that folder and all your 1:12:11.840 --> 1:12:14.320 files are gonna be there. And that's a really easy 1:12:14.360 --> 1:12:16.600 way to kind of just you know, go through and 1:12:17.240 --> 1:12:18.760 out with the old, in with the new. 1:12:19.800 --> 1:12:21.599 Okay, all right, thank you so much. 1:12:21.720 --> 1:12:21.880 Rich. 1:12:21.960 --> 1:12:25.799 I think I'm ahead that direction and stuff, so virtually 1:12:26.000 --> 1:12:29.200 I don't have to have both computers turned on it 1:12:29.240 --> 1:12:29.880 at that time. 1:12:30.040 --> 1:12:32.640 You do not, you do not, yep, start with the 1:12:32.640 --> 1:12:35.400 old computer, dump them into the one drive, and then 1:12:35.479 --> 1:12:37.040 just move over to the new one, fire it up, 1:12:37.080 --> 1:12:39.599 and they should be in that folder. Eight and eight 1:12:39.680 --> 1:12:41.920 Rich one on one. Thanks to the call, Michael, do 1:12:42.040 --> 1:12:49.639 appreciate it. More of your calls coming up next. Welcome 1:12:49.680 --> 1:12:52.600 back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here with you 1:12:53.600 --> 1:12:57.200 for another hour or so, I mean, I say, or 1:12:57.280 --> 1:13:00.800 so I mean, I guess it's really it's not really 1:13:00.800 --> 1:13:05.000 a lot left to uh left up in the air 1:13:05.000 --> 1:13:07.920 when it comes to you know, radio timetables. No, it's 1:13:07.960 --> 1:13:11.519 an hour, uh, Welcome back to the show. Thanks for 1:13:11.640 --> 1:13:14.320 joining me eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight 1:13:14.400 --> 1:13:16.200 seven four to two four one zero one. 1:13:16.360 --> 1:13:17.480 If you have open. 1:13:17.240 --> 1:13:21.679 Table, which I don't know about you, but I'm always 1:13:21.680 --> 1:13:22.920 on a well I'm not really. 1:13:23.000 --> 1:13:24.559 My wife is always on open table. 1:13:24.600 --> 1:13:27.120 She's always like making reservations at places, even if we 1:13:27.160 --> 1:13:29.960 don't use them. But uh, a lot of them are 1:13:29.960 --> 1:13:33.960 in my name. So long story short. If you are 1:13:34.080 --> 1:13:36.960 using open Table, they have a new loyalty program called 1:13:37.000 --> 1:13:41.599 open Table Regulars. So it used to be you got 1:13:41.800 --> 1:13:44.799 you know, points for your reservations, like once you dined somewhere. 1:13:45.080 --> 1:13:47.000 I didn't know what those points. It was very unclear 1:13:47.040 --> 1:13:49.760 to me what those points were for. Now you can 1:13:49.800 --> 1:13:53.799 actually redeem those points for Amazon gift cards. 1:13:53.800 --> 1:13:54.760 So that's number one. 1:13:55.920 --> 1:13:57.639 And this is free to sign up, by the way, 1:13:57.800 --> 1:13:59.840 just go in the app and accept it, just say yeah, 1:14:00.120 --> 1:14:04.040 sign me up. Then they've got this new gold Tier status, 1:14:04.560 --> 1:14:06.760 So if you have six reservations in a year, you 1:14:06.800 --> 1:14:09.000 get gold Tier status. And what does that give you 1:14:10.000 --> 1:14:12.760 that Basically, if you're looking to get a reservation at 1:14:12.800 --> 1:14:14.760 a restaurant and the thing says, oh, there's no more 1:14:14.800 --> 1:14:19.000 reservations available, it will text you first to notify you 1:14:19.040 --> 1:14:21.960 before all the other people, the regulars, let's call them. 1:14:22.160 --> 1:14:24.600 So that's another reason to get this gold status. And 1:14:24.600 --> 1:14:27.040 then you can also claim six months free of Uber one. 1:14:27.640 --> 1:14:30.679 So again I was able to get gold status instantly 1:14:30.920 --> 1:14:32.800 just by signing up for this thing, because I guess 1:14:32.800 --> 1:14:34.800 I've had six reservations in the past year. 1:14:36.080 --> 1:14:37.839 But yeah, Open Table Regulars. 1:14:37.880 --> 1:14:39.960 It's called if you have the open Table app, open 1:14:39.960 --> 1:14:43.200 it up, select that program. And I think the coolest 1:14:43.200 --> 1:14:44.720 thing is the fact that you can now redeem for 1:14:44.760 --> 1:14:47.559 Amazon gift cards and the fact that you can get 1:14:47.560 --> 1:14:50.360 those notifications before everyone else, because we've been in this 1:14:50.439 --> 1:14:53.080 situation where you want to get a reservation somewhere but 1:14:53.160 --> 1:14:55.080 there's no table, so it says, oh, we'll text you, 1:14:55.520 --> 1:14:59.400 which invariably those do open up. A lot of people 1:14:59.520 --> 1:15:05.280 cancel reservations like the day before everywhere, and so if 1:15:05.280 --> 1:15:08.080 you are looking for reservation, just you know, sign up 1:15:08.120 --> 1:15:10.040 and get it the day before it usually pops in. 1:15:10.680 --> 1:15:12.400 Let's go to Gary and Redondo Beach. 1:15:12.920 --> 1:15:16.080 The question about it looks like iOS twenty six Gary, 1:15:16.120 --> 1:15:16.759 what's up. 1:15:17.680 --> 1:15:23.280 Hey, Bridge, Yeah, I got a iPad QRO thirteen inch okay, 1:15:25.439 --> 1:15:30.519 and it's got to be an option to Oh hold on, 1:15:30.640 --> 1:15:35.960 muk sec got an option too, So iPads twenty six, 1:15:36.840 --> 1:15:39.080 and I'm just wondering if that I should do that 1:15:39.320 --> 1:15:39.519 or not. 1:15:40.360 --> 1:15:42.760 Well, I mean, this is a you said it's an 1:15:42.840 --> 1:15:46.400 M four chip. Yeah, okay, so that's a that's a 1:15:46.479 --> 1:15:50.080 relatively new iPad. So that's gonna run iPad twenty six 1:15:50.160 --> 1:15:54.240 pretty good. I've updated and you know, do you have 1:15:54.280 --> 1:15:55.040 the iPhone or no? 1:15:56.240 --> 1:15:57.080 I have an iPhone? 1:15:57.080 --> 1:16:00.160 Also, have you updated to iOS twenty six on there? 1:16:01.080 --> 1:16:01.200 No? 1:16:01.439 --> 1:16:04.760 Okay, So you know, here's the deal. 1:16:05.320 --> 1:16:08.400 Are you using this iPad for like your work every day? 1:16:08.479 --> 1:16:09.880 Like, are you relying on this thing? 1:16:11.040 --> 1:16:11.200 No? 1:16:11.400 --> 1:16:11.719 Okay? 1:16:12.160 --> 1:16:14.800 So basically, at the at the very least, it's gonna 1:16:14.800 --> 1:16:16.280 give you a new look to the iPad. 1:16:16.320 --> 1:16:17.839 It's gonna give you that liquid glass. 1:16:18.439 --> 1:16:18.639 Uh. 1:16:18.680 --> 1:16:19.599 So that's number one. 1:16:20.160 --> 1:16:24.640 The main difference with the iPad OS twenty six is 1:16:24.640 --> 1:16:27.879 that you get this new Windows system, so it's almost 1:16:27.880 --> 1:16:29.160 like using a Windows computer. 1:16:29.240 --> 1:16:29.479 Now. 1:16:29.720 --> 1:16:32.280 It still works just the way it worked in the past, 1:16:32.520 --> 1:16:34.080 where you can open up an app, you can have 1:16:34.080 --> 1:16:36.080 one app on your screen, you can close that app 1:16:36.160 --> 1:16:38.840 open up a new app, but if you want it to, 1:16:39.240 --> 1:16:41.800 it makes it easier to move these apps into their 1:16:41.840 --> 1:16:44.040 own little windows that you can move around the screen. 1:16:44.600 --> 1:16:48.679 So that's really the main difference. I mean, obviously there's 1:16:48.720 --> 1:16:51.040 a laundry list of one hundred and one things you 1:16:51.040 --> 1:16:53.400 can do on iPad os that you know, new little 1:16:53.439 --> 1:16:56.160 improvements and things. But the bottom line is it's gonna 1:16:56.160 --> 1:17:00.519 look different, and you can also just have these apps 1:17:00.880 --> 1:17:04.120 into windows versus just having them open up one at 1:17:04.160 --> 1:17:07.080 a time. So I've installed it on my iPad and 1:17:07.200 --> 1:17:10.480 it's fine. There's you know, it doesn't ruin this situation. 1:17:10.600 --> 1:17:13.559 It doesn't. I'm not really using the multitasking on there, 1:17:13.840 --> 1:17:16.240 but I think if you're curious about it, your iPad 1:17:16.320 --> 1:17:18.599 is completely fine to run this and it's not going 1:17:18.640 --> 1:17:20.639 to ruin your experience on there. 1:17:20.680 --> 1:17:23.160 Let's put it that way, Thank you very much. 1:17:23.320 --> 1:17:26.920 I'll do that all right, enjoy And yeah, same thing 1:17:26.960 --> 1:17:29.400 with the iPhone. I mean, I iOS twenty six is 1:17:29.400 --> 1:17:31.799 to a place where you know, some people are asking 1:17:31.800 --> 1:17:33.960 me and emailing me and say, rich, can I go back? 1:17:34.360 --> 1:17:37.240 Once you install the new software on an on an 1:17:37.280 --> 1:17:41.160 Apple device, it is nearly impossible to go back for 1:17:41.240 --> 1:17:43.760 a mere mortal Now are there ways of going back? 1:17:43.880 --> 1:17:47.400 Maybe I'm not really privy to them. I'm sure someone 1:17:47.439 --> 1:17:51.960 could figure it out. I as the average person, it's 1:17:52.120 --> 1:17:55.800 very tough to go back to a different version previously, 1:17:55.880 --> 1:17:57.920 like on your iPhone or on your iPad. And that's 1:17:58.000 --> 1:18:00.400 mostly for security reasons for a lot of these things, 1:18:01.000 --> 1:18:05.000 but that's also the way Apple designs it. So once 1:18:05.040 --> 1:18:07.439 you choose to upgrade, yeah, you're kind of you're locked 1:18:07.479 --> 1:18:08.360 into the new upgrade. 1:18:08.360 --> 1:18:09.639 So just just understand that. 1:18:10.520 --> 1:18:13.000 Speaking of upgrades, I have been waiting for this, and 1:18:13.040 --> 1:18:14.559 waiting for this, and waiting for this. 1:18:15.520 --> 1:18:16.120 I got a. 1:18:16.040 --> 1:18:21.160 Preview of Gemini on the Google Smart speakers last year. 1:18:21.280 --> 1:18:24.439 I think it was last December. It still has not 1:18:24.560 --> 1:18:28.280 made its way to my speakers. Every day I ask Google, 1:18:28.880 --> 1:18:31.280 I say, hey Google, what's the weather, just to see 1:18:31.439 --> 1:18:33.160 if the voice has changed. 1:18:32.800 --> 1:18:34.680 And it becomes Gemini. No it is not. 1:18:35.439 --> 1:18:37.880 Now I do know. You have to opt into this. 1:18:38.479 --> 1:18:40.880 So if you go, if you have a speaker and 1:18:40.920 --> 1:18:43.759 you want it to get smarter, and you have Google Home, 1:18:44.760 --> 1:18:46.840 you have to open up the Google Home app, tap 1:18:46.880 --> 1:18:49.600 your profile picture in the upper right hand corner and 1:18:49.640 --> 1:18:53.320 it says home Settings. Tap that, and then you scroll 1:18:53.360 --> 1:18:55.679 all the way down it says early Access. You tap 1:18:55.760 --> 1:18:58.360 that and it says early Access to Gemini for Home. 1:18:58.960 --> 1:19:01.519 You've signed up for Early Access, you'll be notified as 1:19:01.520 --> 1:19:04.920 soon as features are available. While I'm still waiting Google, 1:19:05.439 --> 1:19:08.719 it has been so long. All I want is Gemini 1:19:08.840 --> 1:19:14.240 on my speakers. So this is rolling out as of 1:19:14.280 --> 1:19:18.280 this week so Google. According to Android Authority, Gemini is 1:19:18.360 --> 1:19:21.960 rolling out to US users in Google's Early Access program 1:19:22.479 --> 1:19:25.120 works on every Google Home and Nest speaker or display 1:19:25.160 --> 1:19:29.280 going back to twenty sixteen. Only the newer devices are 1:19:29.280 --> 1:19:32.639 going to get Gemini Live, which is the hands free 1:19:32.640 --> 1:19:35.720 mode that you can talk naturally with and some of 1:19:35.760 --> 1:19:39.639 these The Gemini Live apparently requires a paid Google Home 1:19:39.680 --> 1:19:43.360 Premium plan, while the standard Gemini features will be free. 1:19:44.000 --> 1:19:45.800 So a lot of people emailing me saying, Rich, do 1:19:45.840 --> 1:19:47.559 I have to pay for these Gemini No, the base 1:19:47.640 --> 1:19:50.880 Gemini will be free on your smart device. It's only 1:19:50.920 --> 1:19:53.679 if you want that Gemini Live, which, to be honest, 1:19:53.680 --> 1:19:55.559 since I haven't played with it, I can't really tell 1:19:55.600 --> 1:19:58.600 you what the difference is right now, But to me, 1:19:58.800 --> 1:20:01.160 the regular geminis gonna be good for like ninety nine 1:20:01.160 --> 1:20:05.439 percent of people. Let's see here, we got an email 1:20:05.560 --> 1:20:08.840 from Janet. She says, my husband and I recently changed 1:20:08.880 --> 1:20:14.160 from Comcast cable through Infinity to direct TV through AT 1:20:14.280 --> 1:20:17.240 and T. We had our cable for years, but bundled 1:20:17.280 --> 1:20:19.599 our TV, internet, and mobile phones with AT and T. 1:20:20.120 --> 1:20:21.680 It's taking us a while to get used to the 1:20:21.680 --> 1:20:24.240 new way of getting around DirecTV. We're eighty, but I 1:20:24.240 --> 1:20:26.200 think we're getting the hang of it. One thing we 1:20:26.240 --> 1:20:28.240 found last night we don't like is that while watching 1:20:28.280 --> 1:20:30.519 a mystery movie on the Hallmark channel, it wouldn't let 1:20:30.600 --> 1:20:33.320 us fast forward at all, and it came up saying 1:20:33.360 --> 1:20:36.520 the fast forward feature has been disabled for this show. 1:20:36.800 --> 1:20:38.840 Is this something they have done so we will watch 1:20:38.840 --> 1:20:41.679 all the ads or something? We can work around this problem. 1:20:42.160 --> 1:20:44.920 Other shows we've recorded, even from Hallmark channel, let us 1:20:44.960 --> 1:20:47.640 fast forward. I love listening to on the radio and 1:20:47.680 --> 1:20:52.400 reading your email. Thanks for all you do, Janet. Good question, Janet. 1:20:53.000 --> 1:20:56.920 This is why companies love to get us on on demand. 1:20:57.000 --> 1:20:59.479 Remember DVR was the way of the world back in 1:20:59.520 --> 1:21:02.760 the day. Everything was a DVR. TVO started it and 1:21:02.800 --> 1:21:06.200 you would record stuff locally in your home and play it. 1:21:06.760 --> 1:21:10.519 While the companies hated that because you were able to 1:21:10.600 --> 1:21:14.719 fast forward through all of their commercials, which I understand, 1:21:14.720 --> 1:21:16.760 if you're trying to make money on your programming, how 1:21:16.760 --> 1:21:19.519 do you make money? Nobody's watching the commercials. So they 1:21:19.520 --> 1:21:22.959 got this great idea to say, let's put everything on demand. 1:21:23.680 --> 1:21:27.880 Disney plus Netflix, every other service out there, it's all 1:21:27.920 --> 1:21:33.360 on demand. So therefore we have deprioritized the DVR. Now, 1:21:33.439 --> 1:21:37.280 these cable companies still have DVRs that are mostly cloud 1:21:37.280 --> 1:21:41.559 based these days, and there is a distinction. So when 1:21:41.600 --> 1:21:44.720 you were watching that program last night, it might have 1:21:44.800 --> 1:21:48.479 been on demand. And so typically when you're watching movies 1:21:48.520 --> 1:21:51.720 in the back catalog on demand, a lot of them 1:21:51.840 --> 1:21:54.520 do not allow you to fast forward through the commercials 1:21:54.840 --> 1:21:58.120 because they treat that as an on demand programming and 1:21:58.200 --> 1:22:00.680 so they say, nope, you can't fast forward. Now, the 1:22:00.720 --> 1:22:05.160 workaround is to record that program over the air, right 1:22:05.240 --> 1:22:08.320 even if it's on the cloud, and then play it 1:22:08.320 --> 1:22:10.400 that way, and now you should be able to fast 1:22:10.439 --> 1:22:14.280 forward through those commercials. Now, there is a weird quirk here, 1:22:14.600 --> 1:22:17.759 like I have YouTube TV, and typically when you record 1:22:17.760 --> 1:22:19.840 a show, it'll say, oh, which version do you want 1:22:19.840 --> 1:22:22.439 to play? The on demand version or the one that 1:22:22.479 --> 1:22:24.320 you recorded? And you're like, well, why would I want 1:22:24.320 --> 1:22:27.280 to record? What's the difference. The difference is the one 1:22:27.320 --> 1:22:30.200 you're recorded will probably let you skip through ads. The 1:22:30.280 --> 1:22:32.719 on demand version will not let you skip through ads. 1:22:33.200 --> 1:22:38.759 So in general, just remember, if you're watching on demand, 1:22:38.880 --> 1:22:41.400 you have a lot less control over the ads skipping. 1:22:41.920 --> 1:22:44.920 If you're watching something that you recorded, you're going to 1:22:45.000 --> 1:22:46.560 get more control over. 1:22:46.439 --> 1:22:49.600 The ability to skip through ads. So it is a 1:22:49.640 --> 1:22:50.920 little bit of a nuance there. 1:22:51.320 --> 1:22:54.080 But I believe when you're saying you were watching something 1:22:54.680 --> 1:22:57.040 a mystery movie on the Hallmark channel, I believe it 1:22:57.080 --> 1:23:00.559 was on demand. And a lot of these systems don't 1:23:00.600 --> 1:23:03.679 even designate between what's on live and what's on demand. 1:23:04.200 --> 1:23:05.080 You're just scrolling through. 1:23:05.120 --> 1:23:07.559 It's just showing you a whole bunch of programming and 1:23:07.640 --> 1:23:09.920 you just press play, and so you may not even 1:23:09.960 --> 1:23:12.280 know that is that playing on a linear channel like 1:23:12.360 --> 1:23:15.320 right now and we're just tuning in, or is this 1:23:15.520 --> 1:23:18.719 just something that is coming from an on demand server somewhere. 1:23:19.280 --> 1:23:22.080 But companies love when you do stuff on demand because 1:23:22.080 --> 1:23:25.400 they are in control. They actually have the ability to 1:23:25.560 --> 1:23:28.440 place those ads, and those ads are usually placed specifically 1:23:28.479 --> 1:23:33.080 for you. So from a business standpoint, it's amazing because 1:23:33.080 --> 1:23:36.519 now Janet, I know exactly who you are. I know 1:23:36.600 --> 1:23:38.680 what your likes are, I know the stuff that you 1:23:38.760 --> 1:23:41.519 typically watch and the things that you respond to, and 1:23:41.560 --> 1:23:44.160 I know your web history typically because i'll link that up. 1:23:44.479 --> 1:23:47.160 Not me personally, but you know the marketing company. And 1:23:47.200 --> 1:23:50.879 now I can serve you up ads that should register 1:23:51.000 --> 1:23:53.800 with you, stuff that you are interested in, stuff that 1:23:53.880 --> 1:23:55.840 you want to buy, stuff that you might might be 1:23:55.880 --> 1:23:58.559 a good fit for you. So from a business standpoint, 1:23:58.640 --> 1:24:01.519 it's great, But from a viewer standpoint, when you just 1:24:01.520 --> 1:24:04.760 want to skip them, you can't necessarily eighty eight rich 1:24:04.840 --> 1:24:07.120 one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 1:24:07.280 --> 1:24:08.200 four one zero one. 1:24:08.280 --> 1:24:08.640 Coming up. 1:24:08.640 --> 1:24:12.439 I'll tell you about these anti facial recognition glasses if 1:24:12.439 --> 1:24:17.920 you really want to stay private. Welcome back to rich 1:24:18.000 --> 1:24:20.439 on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking 1:24:20.560 --> 1:24:25.559 technology the website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. 1:24:28.760 --> 1:24:31.679 Talk about programming AI. So I went through this whole 1:24:31.720 --> 1:24:34.160 thing with my chat EBT, and I came up with 1:24:34.200 --> 1:24:36.360 these projects like these are things that I do over 1:24:36.400 --> 1:24:40.960 and over every day for my various jobs, coming up 1:24:40.960 --> 1:24:44.240 with YouTube headlines, you know, coming up with just all 1:24:44.320 --> 1:24:47.479 these things that I do, like reorganizing, rewriting, just little 1:24:47.479 --> 1:24:50.479 things like that, and so I've created like all these 1:24:50.520 --> 1:24:51.880 projects and I'm not kidding. 1:24:52.000 --> 1:24:52.400 It's like. 1:24:53.880 --> 1:24:57.880 This is stuff that typically took me time to do, 1:24:58.600 --> 1:25:02.360 and now because I programmed the AI so perfectly, it 1:25:02.520 --> 1:25:08.479 does it almost exactly right every single time. Uh, it's 1:25:08.560 --> 1:25:12.640 just it's so good. It's just it's scary, actually, like 1:25:12.880 --> 1:25:13.680 how can this? 1:25:13.880 --> 1:25:13.960 Like? 1:25:14.280 --> 1:25:17.800 Where was this my whole life? So, for instance, when 1:25:17.840 --> 1:25:20.479 I do guests for this show, you know, I have 1:25:20.560 --> 1:25:24.400 it programmed in, right, I programmed in like a in 1:25:24.479 --> 1:25:27.880 the project. You give it instructions, and the instructions just 1:25:27.960 --> 1:25:32.200 tell it, like exactly how to handle this information. And 1:25:32.280 --> 1:25:35.559 so I plug in a whole bunch of information about 1:25:35.600 --> 1:25:38.000 the guests that's going to appear on the show, and 1:25:38.479 --> 1:25:41.080 the AI will spit out exactly what I need for 1:25:41.120 --> 1:25:43.960 that guest, you know, their name, their title, what they're 1:25:43.960 --> 1:25:47.599 gonna be talking about, a couple of suggested you know, 1:25:47.800 --> 1:25:50.120 topics I might want to talk about with them. I mean, 1:25:50.160 --> 1:25:52.200 it's just it's just wild. But it gets so good 1:25:52.200 --> 1:25:53.719 because you feed it what. 1:25:53.600 --> 1:25:55.480 You want it to learn from. 1:25:55.800 --> 1:25:58.160 So anyway, I just I don't know why I tell 1:25:58.200 --> 1:25:59.920 you that, Just you gotta play with this stuff because 1:26:00.040 --> 1:26:02.920 it's like I wasn't using this two weeks ago, and 1:26:02.960 --> 1:26:06.720 now I am, and it's just really really good. Uh 1:26:06.880 --> 1:26:11.800 let's see here I taught speaking of privacy. I thought 1:26:11.840 --> 1:26:13.839 this was pretty cool or different. 1:26:14.000 --> 1:26:14.439 I guess. 1:26:14.680 --> 1:26:19.280 Zeny this is a company that sells glasses online, Zeny Optical. 1:26:19.360 --> 1:26:23.880 They have this new ID guard lens coding, So any glass, 1:26:23.920 --> 1:26:25.879 any pair of glasses that you get on their website, 1:26:25.920 --> 1:26:28.720 you can I guess, affect with this id guard And 1:26:28.760 --> 1:26:31.960 it's a lens coding that will block infrared light, which 1:26:32.000 --> 1:26:35.200 is used by facial recognition cameras. So the lenses have 1:26:35.240 --> 1:26:38.120 like this pink sheen to them that reflects the IR light. 1:26:38.960 --> 1:26:40.840 If you want to test it out, it will not work, 1:26:40.920 --> 1:26:44.040 like face ID will not work, Windows Hello will not work. 1:26:44.840 --> 1:26:49.080 And yeah, so let's see what else here. I guess 1:26:49.080 --> 1:26:51.000 it's The idea is that if you want to walk 1:26:51.040 --> 1:26:55.360 around and not have all these facial recognition cameras taking 1:26:55.439 --> 1:26:58.840 you know, your biometrics, it'll stop that. It's not gonna 1:26:58.880 --> 1:27:01.240 stop everything, because some and can still snap a regular 1:27:01.240 --> 1:27:04.360 picture and just identify you. But apparently when you have 1:27:04.439 --> 1:27:09.280 these lenses on, if a facial ID camera takes a 1:27:09.280 --> 1:27:12.799 picture of your face, it will just show like black 1:27:12.960 --> 1:27:16.559 areas where your eyes are because it reflects all that light. 1:27:17.120 --> 1:27:19.439 So kind of interesting. Is called id Guard. It's from 1:27:19.520 --> 1:27:22.800 Zeni Optical. It's just a sign of our times, right, 1:27:22.920 --> 1:27:27.960 like people want to remain anonymous or less tracked. It's 1:27:27.960 --> 1:27:32.240 getting tougher and tougher to do make use of featured 1:27:32.240 --> 1:27:33.160 a cool app this week. 1:27:33.160 --> 1:27:34.120 I thought it was pretty cool. 1:27:34.160 --> 1:27:39.759 It's a music app for Android called music Olet Music 1:27:39.920 --> 1:27:44.040 o Let, and it's an Android app that is free, 1:27:44.160 --> 1:27:47.360 and it's ad free and it plays your local files. 1:27:47.400 --> 1:27:49.160 So a lot of people call into this show say, hey, 1:27:49.200 --> 1:27:52.240 I want an app that plays my files on my Android. 1:27:52.240 --> 1:27:55.280 What should I use? Check this one out. Music Olet. 1:27:55.920 --> 1:27:59.360 No streaming, no tracking. It's for people who own their 1:27:59.400 --> 1:28:02.439 collection and you can do what you want. You can 1:28:02.479 --> 1:28:05.320 play your music your way. It's got all the features 1:28:05.360 --> 1:28:09.480 everything you can imagine. It's got built in, including equalizers, 1:28:09.479 --> 1:28:14.680 offline features, setting songs as ring tones, editing song metadata, 1:28:15.320 --> 1:28:19.000 full control. There is a pro version that adds some 1:28:19.040 --> 1:28:22.240 features like crossfade and chromecasts, but most features are free. 1:28:22.439 --> 1:28:25.040 So again this is called music Olette. If you still 1:28:25.240 --> 1:28:27.320 have your own music collection that you want to play 1:28:27.360 --> 1:28:30.920 on your Android phone check it out, and then I 1:28:30.920 --> 1:28:36.559 thought this was interesting. Syracuse University, according to Fast Company, 1:28:36.800 --> 1:28:40.400 is launching the Center for the Creator Economy, the first 1:28:40.439 --> 1:28:44.040 program of its kind in the US, partnership between the schools, 1:28:44.080 --> 1:28:50.200 communications and business programs prepping kids, student kids, students for careers. 1:28:50.240 --> 1:28:53.280 People are like twenty years old at home kids prepping 1:28:53.360 --> 1:28:55.719 students for careers in the two hundred and fifty billion 1:28:55.720 --> 1:28:58.760 dollars Creator Economy Center is going to open up in 1:28:58.760 --> 1:29:01.559 twenty twenty six with pod cast studios, green screens, and 1:29:01.600 --> 1:29:05.479 live streaming setups. Courses are going to focus on content creation, 1:29:05.640 --> 1:29:11.120 audience engagement, digital strategy. Now, kids students are not going 1:29:11.160 --> 1:29:13.719 to major in influencing, but they can take these grad 1:29:13.720 --> 1:29:17.200 and undergrad classes. And I think this is smart that 1:29:17.240 --> 1:29:20.080 they're not graduating and influencing, because here's the thing. If 1:29:20.120 --> 1:29:22.840 you're an influencer, by the way, by the time you've 1:29:22.880 --> 1:29:26.120 made it to college, you're already like big time, Like 1:29:26.160 --> 1:29:28.400 you may not even go to college because you've made 1:29:28.400 --> 1:29:31.640 so much money on TikTok or on Instagram. But I 1:29:31.640 --> 1:29:35.519 still think it's smart to get that education. And so 1:29:35.640 --> 1:29:39.920 by having this this center where you can learn things 1:29:39.960 --> 1:29:42.559 and learn from experts and know, you know, learn from 1:29:42.600 --> 1:29:45.040 people that may have more experience in this stuff, or 1:29:45.120 --> 1:29:46.320 just open up your world. 1:29:46.880 --> 1:29:48.400 I think it's very, very smart. 1:29:48.960 --> 1:29:52.040 But the people I know that are these content creators, 1:29:52.920 --> 1:29:55.799 they're they're already doing it in college, like they're already 1:29:55.880 --> 1:30:00.559 very successful. And this I think is smart that you're 1:30:00.600 --> 1:30:03.000 not trying to replace what they've already built, You're just 1:30:03.040 --> 1:30:06.680 trying to add to it. So Syracuse University Center for 1:30:06.720 --> 1:30:09.200 the Creator Economy smart. We're probably going to see that 1:30:09.240 --> 1:30:11.240 at more schools because you know, you could be a 1:30:11.280 --> 1:30:14.519 creator and still do your regular world right, like you 1:30:14.520 --> 1:30:17.519 could still be a pharmacist or a whatever. 1:30:17.720 --> 1:30:19.440 Vet. 1:30:21.720 --> 1:30:24.439 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:30:24.439 --> 1:30:28.320 out with you talking technology. The website for the show 1:30:28.640 --> 1:30:33.200 rich on tech dot TV. If you want to email, 1:30:33.720 --> 1:30:35.519 you can do that. Just go to rich on tech 1:30:35.600 --> 1:30:38.800 dot tv and hit contact. Many of you do that 1:30:38.920 --> 1:30:42.040 each and every week. Let me get to a couple 1:30:42.080 --> 1:30:45.360 of those first. I just wanted to mention what cet 1:30:45.439 --> 1:30:50.080 has basically found what I found to be true, but 1:30:50.240 --> 1:30:53.160 with some testing, I just found it to be true 1:30:53.160 --> 1:30:55.840 in my day to day use of the iPhone seventeen Promacs, 1:30:55.880 --> 1:31:00.000 but c neet lab tests confirm iPhone seventeen Promacs has 1:31:00.120 --> 1:31:03.559 the best battery life of any iPhone ever made. Yes, 1:31:03.640 --> 1:31:05.559 I could tell because I'm going to bed with this 1:31:05.600 --> 1:31:10.280 thing still at like forty fifty percent some nights. Now, yeah, 1:31:10.320 --> 1:31:11.920 I'll charge it up a little bit throughout the day, 1:31:11.920 --> 1:31:14.280 but still it's just from every other phone I've tested. 1:31:14.320 --> 1:31:15.960 This thing is just I don't even think about the 1:31:15.960 --> 1:31:20.200 battery anymore. So in a three hour streaming video test, 1:31:20.560 --> 1:31:23.360 it only lost nine percent battery, the lowest drain rate 1:31:23.400 --> 1:31:26.800 ever recorded on an iPhone. The standard iPhone seventeen is 1:31:26.840 --> 1:31:30.360 also impressive. They say you get the same all day 1:31:30.360 --> 1:31:32.439 battery as the seventeen Pro for about two hundred and 1:31:32.439 --> 1:31:35.960 seventy to seventy dollars less. The problem is people either 1:31:36.000 --> 1:31:38.600 want the Pro or they want the standard. You know, 1:31:38.640 --> 1:31:42.080 they're not usually you know which one you want, So 1:31:42.880 --> 1:31:46.840 let's see. I think that's about it. So just bottom line, 1:31:47.439 --> 1:31:50.439 iPhone seventeen Promax is the new battery king. That's what 1:31:50.520 --> 1:31:52.519 I suspected because that's what I figured when I was 1:31:52.600 --> 1:31:56.320 using it. This is interesting if you use a Samsung phone. 1:31:57.280 --> 1:32:01.040 Samsung is releasing a beta version of its Samsung Internet 1:32:01.280 --> 1:32:04.960 for PC, so the first time they've ever launched their 1:32:05.240 --> 1:32:08.519 Internet browser for the desktop. So if you go on 1:32:08.560 --> 1:32:11.080 your Samsung phone, you know you've got their Samsung Internet 1:32:11.120 --> 1:32:14.719 on there. A lot of people like their program, their app, 1:32:15.200 --> 1:32:17.599 and so you can now get that on your PC 1:32:17.800 --> 1:32:20.559 for the first time. It's available now for Windows ten 1:32:20.680 --> 1:32:24.120 and Windows eleven users in the US and Korea. You 1:32:24.160 --> 1:32:28.240 can sync your bookmarks, your history, your Samsung Pass logins 1:32:28.960 --> 1:32:32.960 for a more continuous experience. It also supports continue browsing, 1:32:33.000 --> 1:32:34.640 so if you start something on your phone, you can 1:32:34.680 --> 1:32:37.240 go to your computer and just continue there. It also 1:32:37.280 --> 1:32:40.679 has all the Galaxy AI tools, browsing assists for web 1:32:40.680 --> 1:32:45.200 page summaries and translations. It's got strong privacy protections, smart 1:32:45.200 --> 1:32:50.519 anti tracking, privacy dashboard, autofill. So I think this is 1:32:50.640 --> 1:32:53.680 smart for Samsung to do because if you're using a 1:32:53.720 --> 1:32:56.760 Samsung phone and you like the browser on there and 1:32:56.840 --> 1:32:59.920 you use a desktop before, you couldn't kind of carry over. 1:33:00.120 --> 1:33:00.719 Now you can. 1:33:01.640 --> 1:33:02.880 So if you want to sign up for this, you 1:33:02.880 --> 1:33:05.679 got to go to the Beta browser dot Samsung dot 1:33:05.680 --> 1:33:10.240 com slash Beta Browser dot Samsung dot com slash Beta 1:33:12.000 --> 1:33:16.000 Horatio in Huntington Beach Rights in I started my home 1:33:16.040 --> 1:33:19.519 automation setup with Wemo switches, but I just learned their 1:33:19.600 --> 1:33:23.439 ending support for their website and Alexa integration. I've got 1:33:23.479 --> 1:33:25.880 thirteen of these switches and I'm wondering if they'll still 1:33:25.880 --> 1:33:29.440 work with another smart home platform. I've also tried Hubspace 1:33:29.479 --> 1:33:32.400 switches from the home Depot and they actually worked better, 1:33:32.479 --> 1:33:34.840 but I'm not sure how reliable that system is long term. 1:33:34.880 --> 1:33:35.439 Any advice. 1:33:35.600 --> 1:33:40.360 Yes, Wemo did mention they are doing end of life 1:33:40.840 --> 1:33:43.720 on a bunch of their products, so they have a 1:33:43.960 --> 1:33:48.960 support page from Belkan, who runs Wemo. After careful consideration, 1:33:49.040 --> 1:33:51.639 we have made the difficult decision to end technical support 1:33:51.680 --> 1:33:55.880 for older Wemo products effective January thirty first, twenty twenty six. 1:33:56.600 --> 1:33:58.960 After this date, they will no longer be controllable through 1:33:59.000 --> 1:34:02.559 the Wemo app. Fatures that rely on cloud, including remote access, 1:34:02.560 --> 1:34:08.360 will no longer work and voice so basically there are 1:34:08.560 --> 1:34:11.519 They have a list of affected products and non affected products, 1:34:12.640 --> 1:34:17.080 so the shutdown does not affect the functionality of Wemo's 1:34:17.240 --> 1:34:21.000 thread based products. They will continue to function through HomeKit, 1:34:21.120 --> 1:34:25.320 so Horatio, if you're using stuff that's through thread, they 1:34:25.360 --> 1:34:26.080 will still work. 1:34:26.280 --> 1:34:28.400 But it looks like you're using all access, So yeah, 1:34:28.439 --> 1:34:29.439 that's going to stop working. 1:34:30.479 --> 1:34:35.560 Sue what to do. The Hubspace stuff is good, but Hubspace, 1:34:35.640 --> 1:34:42.920 I believe, is a Home Depot brand. Yeah, Hubspace is 1:34:43.680 --> 1:34:47.920 from Home Depot. So will it go on for a 1:34:47.920 --> 1:34:48.479 long time? 1:34:48.600 --> 1:34:51.920 I think so. I mean, it's like their own thing. 1:34:52.040 --> 1:34:54.960 But if I were you personally, I would look for 1:34:55.000 --> 1:34:59.240 stuff that is, you know, that works with the major systems. 1:34:59.320 --> 1:35:01.679 But this just kind of happens. 1:35:01.720 --> 1:35:04.000 You know, we back in the day of smart home stuff, 1:35:04.000 --> 1:35:06.160 there's a lot of companies all throwing things at the 1:35:06.160 --> 1:35:09.040 wall to see what would stick. Right, So if you 1:35:09.120 --> 1:35:11.719 started building stuff, a lot of it worked with Alexa 1:35:12.000 --> 1:35:16.840 or Google Home or Google Assistant. And now it's just 1:35:16.880 --> 1:35:20.720 like these companies are you know, they're just figuring things out, 1:35:20.720 --> 1:35:22.240 what they want to do, what they want to focus 1:35:22.240 --> 1:35:24.880 their attention on. And you know, these Wemo switches are 1:35:24.920 --> 1:35:27.599 just kind of being phased out. So I think that 1:35:27.640 --> 1:35:31.000 the Hubspace stuff is smart, but you know, just kind 1:35:31.040 --> 1:35:36.320 of proceed with caution. Addison from North Carolina writes in Hey, Rich, 1:35:36.360 --> 1:35:37.639 I'm a newer listener to your show. 1:35:37.640 --> 1:35:38.280 I have a question. 1:35:38.360 --> 1:35:40.479 How can I save my photos to iCloud on my 1:35:40.600 --> 1:35:43.519 iPhone when I'm out of iCloud storage and I can't 1:35:43.520 --> 1:35:46.599 afford to buy more. I've deleted a bunch of stuff, 1:35:46.640 --> 1:35:48.680 but the photos are taking up all my space and 1:35:48.760 --> 1:35:50.640 I don't want to lose them. Any advice for a 1:35:50.640 --> 1:35:55.960 broke teenager, Addison, I think you speak for everyone. 1:35:56.040 --> 1:35:57.519 So here's the deal. 1:35:58.400 --> 1:36:01.080 How do I save photos to iCloud my iPhone out 1:36:01.080 --> 1:36:05.680 of iCloud storage. So your iCloud storage mimics what's on 1:36:05.720 --> 1:36:08.880 your iPhone, So if you want to clear up storage 1:36:08.880 --> 1:36:12.240 and iCloud, you have to delete stuff off your iPhone. 1:36:11.880 --> 1:36:15.360 They mirror each other. So the app I like to 1:36:15.360 --> 1:36:19.960 do this is called Clever Cleaner from Clever Files, And 1:36:20.439 --> 1:36:25.879 basically I would say just delete a few large video files. 1:36:26.360 --> 1:36:28.960 And if you delete a few large video files, that's 1:36:29.000 --> 1:36:31.800 going to be the easiest way to get rid of 1:36:31.840 --> 1:36:34.320 those files off of iCloud. You know, delete a few 1:36:34.320 --> 1:36:38.080 files that you don't need. So I've deleted a bunch 1:36:38.120 --> 1:36:40.639 of stuff, but the photos are taking up all my space. 1:36:40.680 --> 1:36:41.679 I don't want to lose them. 1:36:42.080 --> 1:36:45.280 So there will come a moment when you are maxed out. 1:36:45.920 --> 1:36:48.439 So if you are maxed out in your iCloud. There's 1:36:48.439 --> 1:36:51.400 not much you can do except buy more iCloud, and 1:36:51.479 --> 1:36:53.280 I get it. You said you're a broke teenager, so 1:36:53.320 --> 1:36:55.320 you can't buy more iCloud. So the only other thing 1:36:55.320 --> 1:36:59.439 you can do is offload those files to a flash 1:36:59.520 --> 1:37:03.679 drive or a third party service. So you can try 1:37:03.760 --> 1:37:05.920 just putting them on cloud storage. You know you get 1:37:06.200 --> 1:37:09.160 you get two gigabytes for free on Dropbox. 1:37:10.360 --> 1:37:14.000 Oh wait, what does Dropbox give these days? Dropbox free 1:37:14.000 --> 1:37:14.719 storage limit? 1:37:14.840 --> 1:37:17.360 Yeah, two gigabytes, so you can put them on drop 1:37:17.360 --> 1:37:18.320 Box two gigabytes. 1:37:18.360 --> 1:37:21.120 That'll that'll save free up two gigabytes. 1:37:21.800 --> 1:37:24.000 You can you know, there's a lot of different file 1:37:24.040 --> 1:37:28.160 storage out there, like free cloud storage, so you can 1:37:28.200 --> 1:37:32.519 maybe just put some of those in different places. Let's 1:37:32.520 --> 1:37:34.200 see what are the other options. I mean, you could 1:37:34.280 --> 1:37:39.000 use one drive, you can put someone in there, Proton drive, 1:37:39.080 --> 1:37:40.559 you can put some in there. How much do you 1:37:40.560 --> 1:37:43.559 get there? How much does Proton give you? Probably think 1:37:43.640 --> 1:37:45.000 one one gigabyte? 1:37:45.040 --> 1:37:47.240 I think. Let's see here. 1:37:49.200 --> 1:37:51.200 Why do these companies make it so tough to see 1:37:51.240 --> 1:37:53.600 how much you get for free? All I want to 1:37:53.600 --> 1:37:55.120 see is how much you get for free? 1:37:55.760 --> 1:37:56.400 So let's see. 1:37:56.479 --> 1:38:01.640 I got to type in Proton storage. Uh yeah, it 1:38:01.680 --> 1:38:05.160 doesn't say, oh, five gigs. 1:38:05.280 --> 1:38:07.360 It looks like for free. So there you go. 1:38:07.400 --> 1:38:09.240 There's another five gigs so you can just kind of 1:38:09.240 --> 1:38:10.160 piecemell these together. 1:38:10.240 --> 1:38:11.839 That's you know, that's my best advice. 1:38:11.880 --> 1:38:15.240 If you can't afford to add more iCloud, just get 1:38:15.280 --> 1:38:19.599 some other free cloud storage. Chris writes in from Vermont. 1:38:19.680 --> 1:38:22.519 We live near the New York and Canadian borders, and 1:38:22.560 --> 1:38:25.479 T mobile service here is terrible. Dropped calls all the time. 1:38:25.960 --> 1:38:28.360 We'd like to find a better, cheaper option, but aren't 1:38:28.360 --> 1:38:31.479 sure who's most reliable. We've looked at Mint, Consumer, Cellular, 1:38:31.600 --> 1:38:35.080 US Mobile, Puretalk, track Phone. We don't use much data, 1:38:35.240 --> 1:38:38.280 just want a dependable connection. Any suggestions, Well, here's the deal. 1:38:40.120 --> 1:38:43.120 All there's only three networks in the US, four if 1:38:43.160 --> 1:38:47.040 you count the new one. What is it Dish Network? 1:38:47.800 --> 1:38:55.000 What's theirs called? There's a I guess it's yeah, Dish 1:38:55.040 --> 1:38:57.960 network has their own. 1:38:57.560 --> 1:38:58.479 Was it boost Mobile? 1:38:58.560 --> 1:39:01.559 I think it's called Boost Mobile have their own network now, yeah, 1:39:02.080 --> 1:39:03.519 which I've not been able to test. 1:39:03.520 --> 1:39:05.439 I keep asking them, can I test this network? I'd 1:39:05.439 --> 1:39:06.760 like to, but I have not been able to test this, 1:39:06.800 --> 1:39:08.000 so I can't tell you much about that. 1:39:07.960 --> 1:39:10.759 One, but we do know it's AT and T. Verizon 1:39:10.840 --> 1:39:13.519 and T Mobile run the three main networks in the US. 1:39:14.280 --> 1:39:17.680 So you have to figure out which network works the 1:39:17.720 --> 1:39:20.519 best in your area, Chris, So how do you do that? 1:39:20.720 --> 1:39:24.080 Ask people that live near you, Ask your neighbors, what 1:39:24.120 --> 1:39:27.559 do you have, what works, what doesn't? Drop calls sounds 1:39:27.560 --> 1:39:29.640 like you've tried T Mobile that does not work in 1:39:29.640 --> 1:39:31.880 that area. That doesn't mean it doesn't work everywhere. But 1:39:32.160 --> 1:39:37.040 each network has its pros and cons in different places. 1:39:37.280 --> 1:39:39.519 You know, some of them just work better in different areas. 1:39:40.040 --> 1:39:42.000 Like you go to the Seattle area where te mobiles 1:39:42.000 --> 1:39:44.840 started back in the day, what was it called voice 1:39:44.840 --> 1:39:47.360 stream or something, it was like the best up there 1:39:47.400 --> 1:39:50.559 because that's where it started. You go to like Central Jersey, 1:39:50.640 --> 1:39:53.000 it's all about Verizon because that's where Verizon was at 1:39:53.080 --> 1:39:55.880 and T. You go to Dallas area, it's all you know, Texas. 1:39:56.320 --> 1:39:59.000 So you know, they all have their their strong areas. 1:39:59.439 --> 1:40:01.439 You just have to figure out which one works by you. 1:40:02.000 --> 1:40:05.080 So ask your neighbors and then you can figure out 1:40:05.160 --> 1:40:08.200 which MV and O is best for you. You mentioned 1:40:08.240 --> 1:40:11.080 all these better cheaper options, so that's called an MV 1:40:11.160 --> 1:40:14.760 and O Mobile Virtual network Operator. Now MINT I can 1:40:14.800 --> 1:40:17.120 tell you is owned by T Mobiles, So that's going 1:40:17.160 --> 1:40:19.400 to use T Mobiles service. You don't want to go 1:40:19.439 --> 1:40:22.320 MINT because you said it doesn't work there. So for 1:40:22.360 --> 1:40:25.800 the rest of these Consumer Cellular, US Mobile Puretalk track phone, 1:40:25.800 --> 1:40:27.840 you're gonna have to look up on something like a 1:40:27.880 --> 1:40:31.519 Wikipedia to see what is the network behind those. So, 1:40:31.560 --> 1:40:38.200 for instance, let's look up Consumer Cellular Network and so 1:40:38.360 --> 1:40:41.799 type that in and it's a mobile virtual network operator 1:40:41.800 --> 1:40:45.760 that provides services on major carriers, primarily AT and T 1:40:45.880 --> 1:40:48.720 and T Mobile. So you'd have to look at that, 1:40:48.840 --> 1:40:52.080 though you'd have to kind of check and double check 1:40:52.160 --> 1:40:56.960 because sometimes Google's answers that pop up doesn't necessarily tell 1:40:57.000 --> 1:40:58.839 you the right answer. Like if you go to Consumer 1:40:58.880 --> 1:41:02.800 Cellular's website, they say the network providers we use combine 1:41:03.320 --> 1:41:05.880 to deliver cellular service to ninety nine percent, they don't 1:41:05.920 --> 1:41:11.080 say what cellular providers specifically. Now, if you go to Okay, 1:41:11.680 --> 1:41:14.519 so Tom's guide back in twenty twenty four says it 1:41:14.720 --> 1:41:18.200 piggybacks on AT and T and T Mobile. So again 1:41:18.800 --> 1:41:21.479 US Mobile I do have experience with you can choose 1:41:21.520 --> 1:41:24.559 which network you want through them, but they rename them. 1:41:24.640 --> 1:41:27.599 It's called like dark Star and light Speed and all 1:41:27.600 --> 1:41:29.160 these different things. You have to again, you got to 1:41:29.200 --> 1:41:31.880 do a little research. But once you figure out which 1:41:31.960 --> 1:41:34.680 network works the best, then just look up. Just do 1:41:34.720 --> 1:41:40.519 a Google search, say MVNO's using Verizon, and that'll give 1:41:40.520 --> 1:41:45.400 you a list of Visible Red Pocket you know, whistleout 1:41:45.439 --> 1:41:47.479 dot com is a good website to kind of find 1:41:47.520 --> 1:41:51.760 these things, revealing them so best. Verizon mv and OS 1:41:51.800 --> 1:41:55.960 they've got a whole list Visible US Mobile, Spectrum Mobile, 1:41:56.360 --> 1:41:58.200 So you can figure that out. So if you want 1:41:58.200 --> 1:42:00.519 to go with something cheap, Visible is pretty good for 1:42:00.960 --> 1:42:06.320 if you want to go with Verizon track Phone, I'm 1:42:06.320 --> 1:42:09.280 not sure what they use. What does track phone run on? 1:42:12.720 --> 1:42:17.160 Uh it's own Oh it's owned by Verizon. Well there 1:42:17.200 --> 1:42:19.160 you go. Must use Verizon's network. See these are you 1:42:19.200 --> 1:42:21.439 gotta do a little research to figure these things out. 1:42:22.160 --> 1:42:23.559 Uh okay, Coming up, we. 1:42:23.479 --> 1:42:25.880 Are going to open up the feedback see some more 1:42:25.880 --> 1:42:27.479 of the emails that you were sending me this week 1:42:27.560 --> 1:42:34.200 right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 1:42:34.280 --> 1:42:37.000 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking 1:42:37.040 --> 1:42:42.400 technology so much. We always cover so much ground on 1:42:42.439 --> 1:42:46.679 the show. I'm literally going through all the feedback here 1:42:49.880 --> 1:42:52.519 Bobo sees me every week. I've got like so I 1:42:52.640 --> 1:42:54.840 used to. You know, I do print out a fair 1:42:54.840 --> 1:42:57.400 amount of stuff for the show. Bobo can attest, but 1:42:57.520 --> 1:43:02.120 I save the paper just I save it so that 1:43:02.200 --> 1:43:04.280 if you, let's say, you write me something I don't 1:43:04.280 --> 1:43:06.040 make it into the show, I will save that for 1:43:06.080 --> 1:43:08.280 the next week and maybe get into the next week's show. 1:43:09.000 --> 1:43:12.200 So all right, without further Ado, let's open up the feedbag. 1:43:12.320 --> 1:43:15.120 This is the uh you know, the letters, the emails, 1:43:15.160 --> 1:43:17.680 the comments, the questions, all that good stuff that you 1:43:17.720 --> 1:43:21.200 send me. So we've got a mixed bag today. I'm 1:43:21.200 --> 1:43:22.759 just going to try to get through as much as possible. 1:43:23.400 --> 1:43:26.280 Ricky writes in Hey Rich, I'm an avid listener on 1:43:26.720 --> 1:43:31.200 iHeartRadio KFI on Saturdays. You help me with writing on 1:43:31.240 --> 1:43:34.799 the back of digital pictures like in the old days. Okay, 1:43:35.080 --> 1:43:37.559 I'm glad to help. My husband wants a vintage typewriter. 1:43:37.960 --> 1:43:39.400 And now I'm trying to remember the name of the 1:43:39.400 --> 1:43:41.840 place you mentioned that restores old things like that. 1:43:42.479 --> 1:43:42.879 Ah. 1:43:42.920 --> 1:43:46.080 The website you are thinking of is called retro spect 1:43:46.520 --> 1:43:50.200 r e t R O s p e K T 1:43:51.200 --> 1:43:55.679 retro spect So They basically have a whole bunch of stuff, 1:43:55.720 --> 1:43:59.599 everything from audio to photography. Vhs. I mean you could 1:43:59.600 --> 1:44:03.360 buy a v here. Oh they're sold out right now. 1:44:03.960 --> 1:44:06.759 Oh Polaroids. I mean they've just got so many things 1:44:06.760 --> 1:44:12.040 on there. Retrospect spe kt. That's a great one for 1:44:12.960 --> 1:44:15.640 like the holiday season, if you're looking for something. 1:44:16.400 --> 1:44:18.920 Laurel writes in all. 1:44:20.600 --> 1:44:22.439 All you folks, I'm gonna say it like I think 1:44:22.520 --> 1:44:25.519 Laura would say, all you folks who spend hours a 1:44:25.640 --> 1:44:28.920 day scrolling your iPhone screens with your thumbs and index fingers, 1:44:29.000 --> 1:44:31.599 be careful. You're gonna end up with arthritis and those 1:44:31.640 --> 1:44:36.559 two digits. That's like yelling from like the Yes, okay, 1:44:36.680 --> 1:44:40.760 thank you. Laurel val in Los Angeles says, hey, Rich 1:44:40.960 --> 1:44:43.479 about your tip to take four photos of a rental car. 1:44:43.600 --> 1:44:45.920 I take it even further, shoot four K video and 1:44:46.120 --> 1:44:48.479 raw photos, Oh my gosh, of the car before you 1:44:48.640 --> 1:44:49.840 drive off, inside it out. 1:44:50.320 --> 1:44:51.759 Here's my biggest piece of advice. 1:44:51.840 --> 1:44:54.320 Always buy the rental companies insurance, even if you have 1:44:54.400 --> 1:44:59.840 great personal coverage. I've been in ten ten not a 1:45:00.160 --> 1:45:04.600 fall accidents in fourteen years. Well, no wonder why you 1:45:04.680 --> 1:45:08.360 buy the insurance. Val In one rental situation taught me 1:45:08.439 --> 1:45:10.400 the hard way. A scammer cut me off, slammed on 1:45:10.439 --> 1:45:12.559 the brakes, and caused a crash. The prius I rented 1:45:12.640 --> 1:45:15.919 almost took most of the hit from his steel suburban. 1:45:16.360 --> 1:45:18.760 Just over one thousand dollars in damage. That's not that's 1:45:18.840 --> 1:45:21.640 not that much, you you, that's sextually pretty not not 1:45:21.800 --> 1:45:24.719 much at all. My insurance rates still went up because 1:45:24.720 --> 1:45:26.360 I didn't buy the rental coverage. If I paid the 1:45:26.400 --> 1:45:29.800 extra twelve dollars, I wouldn't have touched my personal insurance history. 1:45:29.880 --> 1:45:30.439 Lesson learned. 1:45:30.439 --> 1:45:33.600 It's worth every penny val I will say, And I 1:45:33.680 --> 1:45:35.560 talked about this in my newsletter. The credit card that 1:45:35.640 --> 1:45:39.240 I still am using. I have primary car rental insurance 1:45:39.280 --> 1:45:42.639 on because I don't usually get the rental car insurance, 1:45:42.760 --> 1:45:44.920 but because it can add up. If it's a day 1:45:45.040 --> 1:45:47.320 or two, fine, but like over a long time, it 1:45:47.360 --> 1:45:50.599 can add up to a lot. So good advice there. Sorry, 1:45:50.600 --> 1:45:54.200 you've been in so many accidents. Brian in California, says Rich. 1:45:54.240 --> 1:45:56.200 A while back, you were talking about photo storage. You 1:45:56.280 --> 1:46:00.519 mentioned seeing properties converted into neighborhood storage garages. People paying 1:46:00.560 --> 1:46:03.080 to store stuff they'll probably never look at again. That 1:46:03.280 --> 1:46:05.320 really stuck with me, and I'd love to hear it again. 1:46:05.400 --> 1:46:07.920 I'm sitting here refusing to pay Google an extra two 1:46:07.920 --> 1:46:10.559 dollars a month for more photo storage, yet I'm spending 1:46:10.600 --> 1:46:13.400 a fortune on physical storage for things I don't even use. 1:46:13.840 --> 1:46:16.400 I need that reminder to finally clean out those garages. 1:46:16.479 --> 1:46:19.439 Love your show, thanks Brian. And by the way, you 1:46:19.479 --> 1:46:21.840 can clean out your Google storage at one dot Google 1:46:21.920 --> 1:46:22.240 dot com. 1:46:22.320 --> 1:46:24.760 They've got a great app to every time you say Google, 1:46:24.800 --> 1:46:27.439 my phone cuts on, Oh does it? Mine's not doing that. 1:46:28.080 --> 1:46:30.760 You usually have to say, hey Google, Now it really 1:46:30.880 --> 1:46:31.120 came on. 1:46:33.320 --> 1:46:35.840 Kathleen from La says, I'm a musician who plays at 1:46:35.840 --> 1:46:38.040 weddings and events and wants to warn others about a 1:46:38.160 --> 1:46:41.479 scam targeting performers. I got an email asking if I 1:46:41.520 --> 1:46:44.160 could play wedding music, even offering to pay by check 1:46:44.240 --> 1:46:47.960 and suggesting I perform live, pre recorded, or even via zoom. 1:46:48.080 --> 1:46:50.800 That seemed odd, so I looked it up and found 1:46:50.880 --> 1:46:53.519 an explanation online about the same scam. It's basically a 1:46:53.640 --> 1:46:57.360 fake check scheme where they accidentally overpay you and ask 1:46:57.439 --> 1:46:59.720 for some of the money back. A friend of mine 1:46:59.760 --> 1:47:01.600 also got the same email and someone else I know 1:47:01.800 --> 1:47:04.240 also over sixty recently lost a lot of money to 1:47:04.280 --> 1:47:08.240 fake product ads using names from famous people like Sanjay 1:47:08.280 --> 1:47:09.320 Gupta and Oprah. 1:47:09.720 --> 1:47:11.519 I thought your listeners should know. Thanks. 1:47:11.600 --> 1:47:14.160 I really enjoy your show. Yeah, these things are. These 1:47:14.200 --> 1:47:18.360 scams target everyone. They've got one out for podcasters too, 1:47:18.400 --> 1:47:20.200 where they say, oh, we'll give you three grand to 1:47:20.280 --> 1:47:22.960 be on our podcast. Just give us access to your 1:47:23.120 --> 1:47:24.840 Facebook so we can set it all up, and they 1:47:24.960 --> 1:47:29.360 steal your Facebook account. Careful Neil from Ohio Rights and 1:47:29.439 --> 1:47:31.280 I think most people need to get used to the 1:47:31.360 --> 1:47:33.360 idea that we're doing our taxes online. I used to 1:47:33.360 --> 1:47:35.920 buy the downloadable software, but the minute I added schedule 1:47:36.080 --> 1:47:38.200 F for farming, every program wanted me to pay for 1:47:38.240 --> 1:47:40.920 an upgrade. About four years ago, I switched to a 1:47:40.960 --> 1:47:44.160 free service called free tax Usa. E files for free, 1:47:44.240 --> 1:47:46.719 covers a ton of forms and charges just a small fee. 1:47:47.080 --> 1:47:49.400 It's time to stop paying those big tax companies at 1:47:49.439 --> 1:47:51.160 lobby to keep filing from being free. 1:47:51.680 --> 1:47:54.000 Love your show, Rich, you provide a great service. Well, 1:47:54.040 --> 1:47:54.719 thank you, Neil. 1:47:55.200 --> 1:47:57.559 O'm gonna just say one minute, Oh my gosh, okay, 1:47:58.800 --> 1:48:00.759 I guess we'll just do one more. Jack and Illinois 1:48:00.760 --> 1:48:02.280 I have been listening for years, wanted to say how 1:48:02.360 --> 1:48:05.080 much I appreciate what you do for us tech troubled folks. 1:48:06.600 --> 1:48:08.200 Let's see. I think we have one more. 1:48:11.600 --> 1:48:16.120 A Perva writes in I've been following your KTLA TV 1:48:16.240 --> 1:48:18.679 segments and newsletters for years. Just want to say thanks 1:48:18.720 --> 1:48:21.599 for all the helpful information and advice you've shared. 1:48:21.680 --> 1:48:22.280 Well, thank you. 1:48:22.960 --> 1:48:25.360 All right, that's going to do it for this episode 1:48:25.360 --> 1:48:26.960 of the show. You can find links to everything I 1:48:27.040 --> 1:48:29.120 mentioned on my website. Just go to Rich on tech 1:48:29.160 --> 1:48:31.920 dot tv. I'm on social media Atage on Tech. Next week, 1:48:32.680 --> 1:48:36.080 Jamie Simonov, the founder of Ring, is going to talk 1:48:36.080 --> 1:48:39.840 about his new book Ding Dong, all about Shark Tank 1:48:40.040 --> 1:48:44.240 and turning his garage startup into a billion dollar Amazon success. 1:48:44.400 --> 1:48:48.040 Thanks so much for listening. Please don't drive distracted. Thanks 1:48:48.040 --> 1:48:50.040 to everyone who makes this show possible. My name is 1:48:50.120 --> 1:48:50.599 rich Darmiro. 1:48:50.840 --> 1:48:52.439 I will talk to you real soon