WEBVTT - Chicago Auto Show EVs & Stopping Your TV from Spying 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.520 Google changes the name of its AI chatbot less than 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:09.680 a year after its launch. It is officially time to 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:14.320 say goodbye to iTunes, the new service that can protect 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.799 your privacy plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:19.160 What's going on? 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.520 I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech broadcasting 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.680 live from Los Angeles. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:25.040 Coast to coast. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:27.800 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.400 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:34.760 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.920 that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.680 up those phone lines triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.160 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.880 zero one. Give me a call if you have a 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.640 question about technology. Email also an option. Just go to 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:58.639 rich on tech dot tv hit contact. Guests on this 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.200 week's show will include folks from the Chicago Auto Show. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.600 Was just in Chicago for that and talk to a. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:09.120 Couple of great people about the show. Doctor Chris Pearson, 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.000 cyber security expert with Black Cloak dot io, is going 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.199 to talk romance scams. Yeah, it is Valentine's Day week, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.960 stay away from these. He'll talk about how they work 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:25.360 and how to avoid them, and later Kyle Voorbach, filmmaker 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.400 of How I Faked My Life with AI. We'll talk 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.800 about the history, benefits and dangers of the AI Revolution. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.800 We are all living in Well. I hope you're having 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.280 a fantastic day. I am just got back from Chicago 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:42.839 for the Chicago Auto Show. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.760 Chicago what a great city. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.920 Even though I did not leave the complex I was in, 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.560 I was only there for like one what was it, 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.400 forty eight hours? But Chicago is like a real I 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.919 don't know, like there's just some buzz in that city. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:04.120 Like people just really take life seriously. In Chicago. It 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.800 was not cold when I went, which everyone was talking about. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.360 Although it did thunder and lightning, it was not that 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.480 windy and it was great. I went to the auto show, 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.760 which is one of the most traditional things you can 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.560 do here in America, and it was fun. And that 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.160 show is the largest in North America. It's been going 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.640 on for over one hundred years. They brought me out 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.359 there to experience it, and I'm glad I went. Now, 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.200 all the journalists there were talking about how the auto 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.800 show is dead, and I will tell you it is 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.760 not dead. In fact, if you have one in your city, 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.360 go and take your kids, if you have kids, because 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.000 it really brought back some strong memories growing up in 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.520 the New York City area and going to the Jacob 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.880 Javits Center with my dad and just sitting in all 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.600 those cars and dreaming and having a great time and 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.440 seeing what these car companies are doing. It was also 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.280 great to witness the revolution that's happening in the auto industry, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:04.040 which is of course electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles. And I 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.799 love going to things like this because it gives me perspective. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.160 That is why I take the time away from my 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.320 family to go to these events, to be there in 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.840 person and to actually be on the ground, because you 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.840 gain perspective, and that's what I got here in Los Angeles. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.200 Evs are everywhere you go. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.520 To Chicago, people are like, oh no, I don't want 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.800 an EV why cold weather? Did you see the news 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.040 about the teslas that were frozen to the ground in 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:34.120 Chicago because there's only one supercharger station or two and 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.240 people are in line and the line was so long 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.160 their cars just seized up and they had like tow 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.280 them out of there. So again, hearing those stories from 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.960 people on the ground in Chicago gives me perspective. Hot 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:49.120 weather changes the battery charging infrastructure. We take it for 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.000 granted here, but in other parts of the nation it's just. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.760 Not the same. And not only that, but just sitting 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:56.120 in a car. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.720 You can watch all the YouTube videos in the world 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.200 and think you know a car, but when you sit 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.200 in that car for exactly a minute, you understand that 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.440 car instantly. That's what happened with me with a cyber truck, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.400 which was there. With the new Tesla that was revamped. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.520 Let's see, there was, I mean just so many cars 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.279 I got to sit in, I got to test drive. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.320 It was great. One thing I saw that. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.120 Was pretty cool at the show is this thing called 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.880 Emergency Safety Solutions. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:24.840 This is a company that is trying to. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.640 Basically put a new protocol into cars when they're disabled, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.000 when there's a crash or they're disabled, the back lights 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.680 blink really fast, like a certain cadence, and that is 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.480 to help eliminate disabled vehicle crashes. And this happens a 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.440 lot in Los Angeles. Cars are on the side of 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.320 the road, people don't notice them, they slam right into them. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.360 People are on their phone, they're texting, they're not looking up, which, 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.080 by the way, you should not be doing in general, 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:55.480 but it happens. And so this system is basically something 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.080 that could be built into cars and the lights flash 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.599 at a certain cadence and it helps drivers behind those 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.920 cars understand that this car is stopped. And it takes 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:05.520 a little bit. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:07.200 Too. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.680 It's two sided, so you have the lights that flash 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.240 a certain cadence when the car is disabled, but you 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.520 also have these digital alerts that are sent to your 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:18.000 dashboard about a car up ahead that may be disabled, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.080 kind of similar to what you might experience with ways 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.400 that tells you that there's a cop up ahead or 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.040 a disabled vehicle. But this is kind of like across 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.000 all cars right now. It's in Tesla's, not every tesla 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:33.640 but it's in a bunch of Tesla's. They're working with Volkswagen, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.279 and Ram. Of course that's all one company except for Volkswagen, 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:37.960 so they're trying to get there. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:38.560 I don't know. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.520 It was an interesting concept and I think it would help, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.160 but again, it probably costs more for the manufacturers. They 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.440 need to do a concerted effort to get this all working. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.560 But I'll have more from the auto show in just 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.640 a little bit. Here on the show. Okay, officially, I 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.159 am one of those people. I upgraded my TV for 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.360 the Super Bowl. Yes, I am now one of those 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.320 people that said let's do this, and so I will 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.200 tell you it was the easiest thing I've ever done 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.640 in my life. So Number one, I ordered so we 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.240 had an expert on a couple of weeks ago, so 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.640 I knew all the TVs that I wanted. I ended 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.679 up ordering a lesser TV than I wanted. I should 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.680 have gone with a better one, but I didn't. But 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.720 you know, I like to save money, so I went 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.280 with the cheaper TV. I ordered it on the best 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.880 Buy app from my phone and it went through. It 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.799 took me two tries because my credit card actually said 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.440 you don't usually buy stuff this expensive, so we're going 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.200 to decline that charge, and so I had to do 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:32.640 it twice. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:33.839 The second time it went through. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.080 Anyway, ordered it on the best Buy app was ready 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.080 for pick up within it must have been an hour, 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.800 not even I got it delivered to my house via 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.039 the service called lug where it's kind of like an 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.680 Uber but for anything. They will pick up furniture. They 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.080 go to the place with a van, the people pick 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:51.520 it up and they bring it to your house. That 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.760 happened within another hour. So I had this thing in 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.400 my house within two hours after placing order. I couldn't 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.719 believe it. Then I texted the guy who hung my 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.520 TVs the last time. This is probably ten years ago. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.400 I said, Hey, you still hanging TVs? Can you hang 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:07.880 one more in my house? And he said sure, and 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.080 he pretended he remembered me. Of course you didn't, but 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:11.720 he gave me a great deal. Came to the house 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.760 and boom, the TV was mounted. So I will tell 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.480 you my advice on the TV. Number one, The TV 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:22.120 looks great. Bigger screens definitely highlight the streaming quality of 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.360 the content that you are watching. So immediately we put 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.480 on a basketball game and we're like, eh, this doesn't 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.600 look very good. I did some research. It turns out 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.560 that that service I was using streams in like seven twenty. 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.880 The bigger the TV screen, the more resolution you need. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.880 So now I'm like, Okay, Now I understand why four 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.120 K is a thing. I understand why people like ten 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.520 eighty versus seven twenty, and of course eight K is 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.000 still a ways off. There are TVs that can handle it, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.280 but there's really no content for that maybe maybe on 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.840 YouTube you might find something, but really not. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.720 My advice also, go o LED. I went with Mini LED. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.040 It is very apparent when I look at my OLED 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:05.360 screen on my phone versus the Mini LED screen on TV, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.320 very very different. I watched a movie on the Samsung 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.280 Galaxy S twenty four yesterday on the plane. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.240 It's called Lift. It's on Netflix. It was very good. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:14.920 By the way, I could not. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:19.720 Believe how good that movie looked on a smartphone screen. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.880 I mean, I'm talking, it was just incredible. I actually 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.800 brought up the movie to my wife this morning. I said, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.960 you got to watch this. Just check out this scene 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.560 and see how crisp the colors are and just the 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.439 contrast everything. So go OLED if you can. It's a 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.880 little bit more expensive. I wish I did, but I 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.200 can always bring this TV to a different room. The 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.480 other thing I noticed, and this is my takeaway for 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.440 you, your TV is spying on you. If you have a 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.760 smart TV, it is spying on everything you are doing, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.480 everything you are watching. It is making a log of 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.280 what you are watching, the commercials you see, the stuff 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.520 you're streaming, the channels, you're watching everything, no matter what 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.920 input it is on it is doing something called automatic 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.880 content recognition ACR. This is technology that recognizes the content 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.960 on your TV screen. They use this data, they categorize it, 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.640 and then they sell it so they know exactly when 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.400 you buy a pack of Dorito's at the store in 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.400 that new flavor. They can go back and look at 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.240 the data from your TV and see if you saw 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.400 a commercial and tell the advertiser, yeah, that worked. And 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.800 if you think this isn't happening, it absolutely is. So 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:34.120 here's my advice to you. Google your TV brand along 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:38.440 with turn ACR off, and you will find the directions 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.679 on how to turn off automatic content recognition on your TV. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.400 There is no reason why you already paid for the TV. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.600 You're not getting any benefit out of this feature. Your 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.080 TV manufacturer is making extra money on top of the 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.839 money you already paid them for your TV. So again, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:59.920 google your TV brand and along with turn ACR off 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.679 automatic content recognition. Or you can just go in your 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.439 settings if you're a little if you're a little techy, 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.040 just go through the settings. You will find it buried 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.840 under privacy or some sort of thing. That doesn't sound 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.800 like it is a negative. It sounds like it's a positive. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.880 It says we will use this information to make your 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.120 experience better. No they won't. They are just using it 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.400 to make money off of you. All right, Coming up, 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.160 I'm going to talk about the Super Bowl. I know 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.520 it's this weekend. It is the first time it's in 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.120 four K. I'll tell you how to access that, how 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.600 to place your Wi Fi router in the right place 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.040 if you're streaming the game. And coming up, we're going 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.800 to talk about Google's AI. It has a new name 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.679 and a new price tag. But first it is your turn. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.640 Your calls coming up next at triple eight Rich one 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.559 oh one, that's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.920 four one zero one. Give me a call if you 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.680 have a question about technology. My name is Rich Demiro 0:10:54.880 --> 0:11:04.520 and you are listening to Rich on Tech Angie and Riverside. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.480 You're on with Rich. Hey, Rich, good morning, Good morning. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.520 I get a quick question for you. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.720 I don't know if it be quick or not. Everyone's 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.520 all about Wi Fi and having that in the house 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.320 making it really easy to connect and everything. But my 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.079 problem is is our WiFi is very spotty and it's 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.480 not always reliant, and I want to look for hard 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.960 wirings like Ethernet, cables through the house to like our 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.520 smart TVs and other like our computers and laptops. Is 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.760 there certain kind of company I would look forward specifically 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.360 to do that, because I wouldn't be able to technically 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.680 drill holes through the wall to fish these cables through 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.400 to be able to install the outlets myself. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:50.520 No, no, no, you would. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.400 You would just go on Yelp, and I think an 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:56.360 electrician can handle this. You can type electrician. You can 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.960 type like the same person that like hung my TV 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.400 I just talked about. They will do stuff like that, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.600 and so if you type in like a TV mounting, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.560 they will. I mean you could just go on Yelp 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.840 and literally just type in there's like security network, cabling, 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.040 network installation. I mean, there's so many people that will 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:16.360 do this. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:17.000 Kind of stuff. 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.000 I don't think you need it, to be honest, Like, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.400 I am running a lot of tech in my house 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:26.480 and I don't have anything that is wired up. So 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.079 I think what I would recommend before you try this 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:33.600 is to get a mesh network. And a mesh network 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.000 is kind of like the new thing in the tech 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.680 world that's been around for you know, many years now, 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:43.120 but it uses several access points around your house to 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.400 create a network. And the big companies that make it Eero, 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.040 you've got ORB. If you want something cheaper, there's a 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:55.040 company called Villo Vilo. But if you go to the store, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.520 you can check these things out. And it's basically a 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.640 three pack. So you start with a three pack. You 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.520 put one by your modem where your internet comes into 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.240 your house, and then you kind of put the rest 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.680 around your house in two different other places, depending on 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:09.600 how big your house is. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.640 You know, one or two or three may cover it. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.560 But if you still want to do this, I mean, 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:15.720 there's so many people on. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:18.400 Yelp that will do this. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.480 So if you just put in even the ethernet Ethernet installation, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.960 you can type that in. And what I would do 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.559 for the guidance on who to pick is to kind 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.440 of talk to. I would call. So Yelp is going 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.920 to try to sort by recommended. You can change that 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.120 sort to either most reviewed or highest rated, whatever you want. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.000 But I would call the first couple of people, so 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.520 maybe like the first three people and just get a 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.080 feel for them and just talk to them. And if 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.079 they're really quick on the phone, they don't really care 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.960 to talk to you, then you know, I think you 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.960 go with the next person and see what they do. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:54.839 That's how I got the TV installer that I like. 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.080 That is, you know, I called again after ten years 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.360 because he was really great on the phone. He explain 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.480 things to me, Hey, how does this process work? 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:03.480 What do you need? 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:04.000 You know? 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:05.400 Do you do this? Do you do that? 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.960 And instead of some people, you get on the phone 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.080 with YELP and they literally are trying to get you 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.000 off the phone as soon as possible, or you can't 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:13.880 even get person on the phone. So if you can't 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.720 get a hold of them when you're trying to hire them, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.600 imagine what it's going to be like when you're done 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.960 with the job and you've already paid them. You're never 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.920 going to hear from them again. So that would be 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.240 my advice if you need to go the wired route. Also, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.520 it depends on the speed that you have. I mean, 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:32.000 if you're talking a standard Internet speed from you know, 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.120 Spectrum or something that's two three hundred megabits per second. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.440 I mean, most people are just using why find nowadays, 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:39.840 But if you feel the need that you want to 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.400 wire everything up just to make sure, then that's what 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.240 I would do. Find someone on YELP and you'll you'll 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.560 find someone that's that's going to do that. It's going 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:48.920 to cost a lot though, that's not going to be 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.840 cheap to do. I think it'd be cheaper to buy 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.160 the router first, you know, the Mesh network, and then 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.960 go with you know, if that doesn't work, you can 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.080 return that and then go with someone to install it. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.280 But thanks Ange Riverside, appreciate the call today. Speaking of 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.840 wi fi, if you are watching the super Bowl, you 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.160 are gonna want to make sure that your WiFi is 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.400 really good because many of us are streaming nowadays. So 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.480 number one, how to watch the super Bowl forty nine 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.480 Ers versus Chiefs. I would do the math, but I 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.480 don't know it is this super Bowl fifty eight. It 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.960 looks like this is gonna be on CBS. You can 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.440 watch it, of course, over the air on the CBS 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.520 network that's local to where you live. Paramount plus is 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:30.880 also going to be streaming it. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.720 Now. I will tell you if you have Paramount Plus. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.520 I've had many issues with them, like just watching a 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.800 movie on Paramount Plus is kind of tough sometimes. So 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.640 for this, this is probably their biggest event they've ever done. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.880 I would have a backup just in case. Kickoff is 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.440 at six thirty pm Eastern. They're also going to be 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.000 showing it on Nickelodeon, but that's gonna be like kind 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.600 of a kids version of the broadcast. I think there's 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.200 gonna be slime involved. So the main way CBS, nickelode in, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.400 Paramount plus. The other thing is if you want four K, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.440 there's a great article I'll link up from the TV 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.520 answer Man about the about the Super Bowl in four K, 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.000 But basically it will be in four K this year, 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.960 but it's going to be an upscaled feed, so it's 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.520 not necessarily going to be true four K, even though 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.000 they are using four K cameras. But I don't know 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.640 what the hesitation is with this whole four K revolution 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:30.360 on streaming, but it's it's very, very slow. And the 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.000 other thing is place your Wi Fi router, take it 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.320 off the ground, and get things away from it so 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:36.640 this signal can get. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.840 Through your entire house. That's my advice. 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.040 Coming up, we are going to talk about the Chicago 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.080 Auto Show, what I saw, what was cool, and some 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:49.160 of the key takeaways. You are listening to rich on Tech. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.440 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.520 out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one one. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.000 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.240 zero one. I'm on location in Chicago, site of the 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.160 Chicago Auto Show. This is North America's largest auto show. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.439 It's been going on for like over one hundred years. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.560 The Chicago Auto Show, along with Nissan was kind enough 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.840 to bring me here to experience it, which is my 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.320 first time. I talked to several journalists on the floor, 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.399 including Emily dry Belbis. She is the EV reporter for 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.680 PCMag dot com. She actually lives in Chicago and gave 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.160 me some history of the show. 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.400 So Chicago Auto Show has kind of a family atmosphere. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.520 People in the city talk about going here when they 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.840 grew up and now they're coming back with their kids. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.879 It'll be flooded with people. There'll be an hour to 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.560 get on certain cars and see different cars with people everywhere. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.960 So it's a really popular community event. This is kind 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.880 of like an amazing, low pressure dealer where you can 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.960 see all of the latest models from all of the 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.560 best brands, and they're not gonna sell you on them. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.960 You can look in them and see what the dash 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.040 is like. And compare them really easily. I mean, you 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.640 can walk right next to each other all the cars 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.840 you want to see instead of having to drive to dealerships. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.000 So I think there's a lot of uses. That's the 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.479 most practical one. It's also just fun, like you can 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.879 drive a car up a huge mountain and down and 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.240 kids love that, and there's lots of things you could 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:15.560 do here. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:16.080 Now. 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.399 I live in California, where evs are everywhere, but it 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.000 was interesting to get the different perspective of EV drivers 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.800 in Chicago, a place where the cold definitely takes a 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.399 toll on the battery, so people here have sort of 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.600 a different outlook on buying an EV. 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.840 So I live in Chicago, and I'm an EV journalist, 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:36.680 so I test drive evs all the time. But it's 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.040 interesting I wouldn't buy one living in the city as 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.800 my only vehicle because the range really does plummet in 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.200 the cold. So I test drove a Tesla a couple 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.399 of years ago in the winter, and it advertises two 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.000 hundred and seventy miles of range in the cold. The 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.480 dash screens that I was getting one to eighty. So 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.240 if you're paying a premium for that product and you're 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.080 not getting the value out of it. It really is 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.679 kind of hard for me to rationalize buying it. But 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.879 in Chicago, on my street, there are EV's everywhere, all 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.080 the latest models. Riviana is located nearby. There are factors 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.679 two hours from here, so tons of evs. If you 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.120 have a single family home, no worries. But if you're 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.560 like me in an apartment, it's probably not a great idea. 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.920 What the EV revolution exposes is how many different types 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:20.000 of driving there is, I mean different types of climates 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.560 and use cases, road trip in the city and the highway. 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.040 So it's a very complex problem. It's very hard to 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:26.600 speak to what everybody wants. 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.800 Next up, I talked to Sam abullas Samid. He is 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.560 a automotive analyst at guide House Insights, and a lot 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.600 of journalists on site. We're talking about the death of 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.080 the auto show, how there's no major announcements at these events, 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.280 But Sam takes kind of a different approach. These auto 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.240 shows are really for consumers now well. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.879 One of the big trends with auto shows in general 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:50.800 over the past decade is they've kind of followed the 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:55.440 same trend as the technology industry, where most big companies 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.399 have moved away from doing big press announcements at the 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:02.440 auto shows and doing standalone announcements where they. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:03.480 Can get the entire news cycle. 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.480 It's really expensive to do a press announcement at an 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.040 auto show, so we've got fewer of those kinds of announcements, 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.159 going back to more the traditional auto shows. As a 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.479 consumer event, it's a great place for people that are 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.080 interested in buying a vehicle to come out and check 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.520 out a whole bunch of different brands. Right across the 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.320 aisle from US here as the Ford booth where they're 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.720 doing test drives, so you can actually come out and 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:29.920 test drive some of the vehicles. You can check out 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.880 different brands side by side, you know, as they get 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.360 into the traditional spring buying season. You know, it's a good, 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.879 good opportunity for consumers to see what's in the market. 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.040 And even though EV's are front and center at the show, 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.520 there are still plenty of hybrids in the conversation and 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:49.320 even gas vehicles, so you know, we still. 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:50.400 Got a lot of electrification. 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.919 Right behind me here, it's the Subaru Saltera, which is 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:58.639 their first EV that launched last year, and we're still 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.160 seeing a lot of interesting introductions of new EVS. VW 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.120 is showing they for the first time at an auto show, 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.159 the three row version of the I D Buzz electric 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.520 minivan that's coming here later this year to North America. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.080 It's a longer version than the version that they sell 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.280 in Europe right now, the v W I D seven 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:20.280 sedan that's coming this summer. There's there's more more electrics, 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.359 but also there's also a lot a lot of conversation 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:28.280 around hybrids. You know, with EV's EV adoption not really 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:30.760 hitting that hockey stick. It's still growing, but it hasn't 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.880 hit that hockey stick part of the curve yet, and 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:37.280 so there's and affordability is still a challenge. So there's 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.879 a lot more interest in hybrids. GM last week an now, 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:42.000 so they're going to bring plug in hybrids back into 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.240 their lineup in the next few years. Volkswagen Group of 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:49.600 President Pablo de ce just at a at a press 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.720 event just now, talked about bringing hybrids back to the 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:56.160 Volkswagen lineup in the coming year. So we will continue 0:21:56.160 --> 0:22:01.040 to see more more growth of electrification in all its forms, hybrid, 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.800 plug in hybrid and battery electric. We've got two hundred 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.679 and ninety million registered vehicles in the United States, barely 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.160 two million of those in total. Less than two million 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.160 of those in total right now are electric. So there's 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.560 gonna be internal combustion cars, gas and even diesel powered 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:19.720 vehicles on the road for decades to come, and even 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.840 new vehicles. We will still have vehicles that are powered 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:27.720 by liquid fuels well into the twenty thirties. You may 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:29.800 not be able to buy a new one in California 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.880 in twenty thirty six, but there'll still be around. 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:36.720 One mini surprise at the show, Tesla was on the 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:40.440 show floor. They typically don't attend events like this. They 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:42.919 had the refreshed Model three on display. The main thing 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.000 I could tell that was different right off the bat 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.840 was the addition of a display in the back seat. 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:52.120 But the thing that everyone was looking at was the Cyberchuck, 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.600 And I will say I was actually much more impressed 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.480 with it than I imagined I would be. But this might 0:22:57.520 --> 0:22:59.200 be a turning point for Tesla. 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:02.119 But Tesla traditionally, you know, at least for the past decade, 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.159 has not really participated in auto shows. The fact that 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:08.560 they're here again, I think fits in with what we've 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:12.480 seen from Tesla over the past year. With some of 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:15.280 the demand. You know, where Elon Musk used to talk 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:17.760 about infinite demand for Tesla vehicles, Well it's not so 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:20.399 infinite anymore. You know, they've had to cut prices in 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:23.520 the past year by more than twenty percent on most 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:26.159 of the models. And the fact that they're here at 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:29.040 the auto show wanting to have a presence where consumers 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:32.040 are going to be Lucid as well. You know, Lucid 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:35.720 has struggled to really gain traction and grow their sales, 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:38.520 and you know, they're they're still very much in the 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:41.680 premium end of the market. But the fact that they're 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:45.280 here in a market like Chicago where you know, there's 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:49.680 quite a few premium buyers the I think that shows 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:52.280 that they you know, they're having to market a little 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:53.920 more aggressively than they have. 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:54.440 In the past. 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:56.520 Sam is kind of the guy when it comes to 0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:59.200 cars when you're at these parties that surround the events, 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:01.520 when everyone gets together, he's the guy that everyone wants 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:01.960 to talk to. 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:04.520 So what is he like at this year's show. 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:08.280 I'm a big fan of the the EV's from Hyundai 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:10.840 at Kia, so cars like the Ionic five and Ionic 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:13.640 six from Hyundai. Uh the Kia EV six and EV 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:18.600 nine are great. You know, the some of the hybrids 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:22.679 from Toyota are really fantastic vehicles. The Broncos that are 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:25.720 driving around this course here, you know, the Mustang dark 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:27.959 Horse is always a favorite for me. You know, I've 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:29.960 been a Mustang fan since I was a little kid. 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:32.760 Uh So, lots of lots of fun stuff to see 0:24:32.760 --> 0:24:34.880 here if you have any interest in vehicles at all. 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:38.600 Finally, for an opinion from the TikTok generation, I consulted 0:24:38.640 --> 0:24:42.719 with Drake Moscow. He does content for TikTok surrounding cars. 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:45.880 It was also his first time at the Chicago Auto Show. 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:46.880 It's awesome. 0:24:46.960 --> 0:24:49.240 It's cool to see all these cars back to back 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:52.199 and to see kind of a company's whole lineup all 0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:54.439 right next to each other. And you can see the 0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:58.080 product cycles, the newer vehicles, how they are updated and 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:00.640 a little differentiated from the older vehicle. And I really 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:01.399 like seeing all. 0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:01.879 Of that stuff. 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:05.480 So there's a large spectrum of companies here, and it's 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:07.640 cool to see how every brand is taking. 0:25:07.400 --> 0:25:08.200 A different approach. 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:11.240 Like I was looking at the new Hyundai Santa Fe 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:13.639 hybrid and there's no hybrid badging on it. 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:15.080 It looks just like a normal gas car. 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:16.720 The only way you can really tell is like the 0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:19.439 exhausts are a little different, but they're not branding it 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:21.800 as a hybrid, which I think is super interesting. All 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:25.720 auto shows nowadays have these awesome like experiential elements, which 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:28.800 is really cool and allows people to like get into 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:32.400 cars and feel what they're like while driving, not just static, 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:35.840 which I think is really important. And the Chicago Auto 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:38.800 Show in particular, it's it's awesome to be like in 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:42.359 this massive venue, there's like so much space around, so 0:25:42.520 --> 0:25:45.560 you kind of don't feel too claustrophobic around all the 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:47.639 cars because there is so much space to kind of 0:25:48.320 --> 0:25:50.040 hang out and experience the vehicles. 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:52.960 There you have it from the Chicago Auto Show. 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:54.679 If you want to see some of the cars that 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:58.440 caught my eye, check out my instagram at rich on Tech. 0:25:58.600 --> 0:26:00.920 All right, coming up next, more of your calls at 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:04.480 Triple eight Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.200 seven four to two four one zero one. My name 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:11.760 is rich Damiro and you are listening to rich on Tech. 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:20.200 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:26:20.240 --> 0:26:24.120 out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one 0:26:24.160 --> 0:26:27.240 o one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:31.359 one zero one the website rich on tech dot TV. 0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:35.399 You could also submit your question there. Ralph on x 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:38.760 formerly Twitter says, Hey, Rich, I never heard of ACR 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:40.320 until today on your show. 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:43.160 Thanks for the heads up, And Chuck. 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:45.320 Wrote in on email he said, I left mine on 0:26:45.520 --> 0:26:47.800 because I want them to know what channels I'm watching 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:51.159 so they can provide better service or reward the channel 0:26:51.200 --> 0:26:54.119 that's giving me the content. I like, there's about seventy 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:56.399 three channels I never watch. I hope they realize that 0:26:56.520 --> 0:26:59.920 and change it up A couple of perspectives there. 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:03.840 I like that. Let's go to Dan in Carpenteria. Dan, 0:27:03.880 --> 0:27:05.159 you're on with Rich. 0:27:05.400 --> 0:27:07.560 Hey, good morning, Rich, thank you very much for taking 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:07.920 my call. 0:27:08.160 --> 0:27:10.480 Good morning, Yeah, welcome, Yeah, gonna help. 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:14.560 So here's a little background. Unfortunately, my wife has a 0:27:14.560 --> 0:27:17.480 neuro degenitive disease called ALS. 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:18.960 Okay, sorry to hear that. 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:22.320 Yeah, really tough stuff. But because of that, she's not 0:27:22.480 --> 0:27:26.000 able to use her hands. So in the morning, I 0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:27.439 get her up, and I get her ready and I 0:27:27.480 --> 0:27:29.439 put her in her chair and then she pretty much 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:32.359 watches TV all day. Question I have for you, is 0:27:32.400 --> 0:27:37.040 there a programmable remote TV remote control that would say, 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:40.040 like between eight and nine in the morning, she'd be 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:43.840 watching news on channel seven oh seven, and then at 0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:47.120 nine o'clock would automatically click over between nine and ten 0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:50.160 to channel seven eleven, so she'd watch maybe the Talk 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:52.960 or something, and then at between you know, eleven and twelve, 0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:56.560 it would change channels again. But I could just program 0:27:56.560 --> 0:28:02.040 for the course of the day, so that The problem 0:28:02.040 --> 0:28:06.240 I'm having now is is that if I don't get 0:28:06.240 --> 0:28:08.840 in there in time, I know you're a little frustrated 0:28:08.840 --> 0:28:10.880 if she's watching her program she doesn't want to. 0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:14.840 Yeah, so is she able to change the like press 0:28:14.880 --> 0:28:16.920 the button on the remote or no? 0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:17.000 No? 0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:19.199 Okay, So so it would be a remote that like 0:28:19.240 --> 0:28:20.920 kind of you set it and forget it kind of thing. 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:24.399 What about voice? Can she use voice? 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:29.399 Unfortunately? Yes and no. Unfortunately. She has a stage also, 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:33.400 which means she a lot of times she uses word substitution. 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:37.280 She may say cat whenever she really needs to say dogs. 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:38.800 So I don't see that as an option. 0:28:39.160 --> 0:28:41.000 Oh Dan, I'm sorry to hear this. Wow. 0:28:41.120 --> 0:28:42.360 Yeah, that's really tough stuff. 0:28:42.440 --> 0:28:47.920 Oh man, Well, so I'm thinking for a tech solution. 0:28:48.040 --> 0:28:49.720 It reminds me of the old days when you used 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:52.200 to like program the VCR and it would change to 0:28:52.240 --> 0:28:55.400 the channel and like record the show. But I think 0:28:55.440 --> 0:29:00.360 we're beyond that. I think that the maybe the best 0:29:00.560 --> 0:29:02.440 thing you might be able to do. There's two things 0:29:02.480 --> 0:29:05.160 I'm thinking. Number One, some of these like cable boxes 0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:07.560 have like a way like a timer that will change 0:29:07.560 --> 0:29:10.560 the channel, but I'm not really sure like if that's 0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:13.080 a thing anymore, Like if they have a DVR built in, 0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:15.560 that may be one way to do it, where you 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:19.120 program the DVR to change to the channel that you 0:29:19.160 --> 0:29:21.560 want to record, but it's actually changing to that channel 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:24.720 just to watch it too. Do you have traditional cable 0:29:24.760 --> 0:29:26.120 TV or do you have like streaming. 0:29:27.680 --> 0:29:31.880 I have a just I have a Spectrum cable right now. 0:29:31.880 --> 0:29:37.640 It ties into a Sony So they have their cable box. 0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:39.600 And does that cable box have the DVR built in? 0:29:40.280 --> 0:29:41.880 You know, that's something I don't know how to check 0:29:41.920 --> 0:29:42.280 that out. 0:29:42.200 --> 0:29:44.560 Okay, because that's one way is if it's a So 0:29:44.640 --> 0:29:47.120 what I would do is, you know, usually these cable 0:29:47.160 --> 0:29:49.320 boxes have like a couple of tuners in them so 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:51.200 that they can record a couple of things at once. 0:29:51.720 --> 0:29:54.600 But you can almost like hack it where you set 0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:57.120 all of the timers to record the same channel at 0:29:57.120 --> 0:29:59.520 the you know, like if you want this channel at 0:29:59.800 --> 0:30:03.760 nine set both timers to record that channel at nine am, 0:30:03.800 --> 0:30:06.400 so it's forced to change to that channel on the screen. 0:30:07.040 --> 0:30:08.920 So that's one way that you might be able to 0:30:08.960 --> 0:30:11.080 do it, and that doesn't really take any additional equipment 0:30:11.120 --> 0:30:13.440 than what you already have. It's been a while since 0:30:13.480 --> 0:30:15.400 I used one of those boxes, so I don't know 0:30:15.440 --> 0:30:18.680 if that's how they work anymore, but I think that's well, 0:30:18.680 --> 0:30:20.200 that's the way they used to work, and so that 0:30:20.240 --> 0:30:21.360 may be one way to do it. 0:30:21.400 --> 0:30:22.200 That's pretty simple. 0:30:23.520 --> 0:30:25.840 When I used to have TVO, it would it would 0:30:25.920 --> 0:30:28.720 change the channel automatically, and if you max out the tuners, 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:31.400 it would say, sorry, you can't change the channel anymore. 0:30:31.480 --> 0:30:33.720 Like we're recording on two channels, and you got to 0:30:33.760 --> 0:30:35.760 stick with one of these. You got to watch one 0:30:35.800 --> 0:30:38.120 thing or the other. So that's one way. The other 0:30:38.200 --> 0:30:40.160 thing you could do, and this takes a little bit 0:30:40.200 --> 0:30:42.760 more work, but you could use like a Google Home 0:30:43.320 --> 0:30:48.880 or an Alexa speaker and you can program routines into those. Now, 0:30:48.920 --> 0:30:51.840 this is not going to be full proof in my experience. 0:30:51.920 --> 0:30:54.560 Half the time routines work. Half the time they don't work, 0:30:54.920 --> 0:30:56.600 But that could be another way of doing it. And 0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:59.760 I'm actually I found a thread on Reddit where people 0:30:59.880 --> 0:31:03.280 have come up with routines where it will turn on 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:07.040 the TV, it will set the volume to a certain percentage, 0:31:07.440 --> 0:31:10.080 and then it will play the channel that it wants 0:31:10.120 --> 0:31:13.680 to play on that TV. And so now that's a 0:31:13.680 --> 0:31:16.800 little complicated because you need everything to work with Google 0:31:16.920 --> 0:31:20.760 or Alexa, but you can definitely do that. It would 0:31:20.760 --> 0:31:23.000 take a little bit of know how though, and it, 0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:24.760 like I said, it wouldn't always work. Like I have 0:31:24.840 --> 0:31:27.600 a couple things in my house that are routines. Most 0:31:27.600 --> 0:31:29.920 of the time they work, sometimes they don't. But that 0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:32.160 is something you can definitely and it's not that expensive 0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:32.360 to do. 0:31:32.480 --> 0:31:33.040 You can get. 0:31:33.360 --> 0:31:35.720 The best box that I would recommend is probably the 0:31:35.760 --> 0:31:39.040 Fire TV Cube because it has an IR blaster in 0:31:39.080 --> 0:31:41.600 it and so you can actually hook that up to 0:31:41.680 --> 0:31:43.960 work with your cable box. And it's actually pretty slick 0:31:44.000 --> 0:31:46.880 because your cable box plugs into it. And so what 0:31:46.880 --> 0:31:49.760 that means is that everything on the fire TV overlays 0:31:49.800 --> 0:31:52.280 on top of your cable box, so your wife actually 0:31:52.280 --> 0:31:54.760 wouldn't really notice a huge difference because everything would kind 0:31:54.760 --> 0:31:59.440 of look the same. So those are kind of fire 0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:02.400 TV yeah, fire TV cube and that's and it's also 0:32:02.480 --> 0:32:04.200 going to give you voice. So basically what you're doing 0:32:04.240 --> 0:32:06.720 is instead of doing instead of saying a voice command 0:32:06.760 --> 0:32:09.880 to it, you're just programming a voice command as a routine. 0:32:09.920 --> 0:32:13.480 So you're saying, Hey, at two o'clock, tune into this channel. 0:32:13.520 --> 0:32:16.120 So instead of you saying that verbally, you would just 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:18.680 write that. You would type that in as a routine 0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:21.560 and it would do it would fire off that routine 0:32:21.560 --> 0:32:23.920 at two pm every day, and then you know, you 0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:26.040 can layer on the top, you know, turn on the TV, 0:32:26.160 --> 0:32:30.760 turn off the TV. But again, not guaranteed to work exactly, 0:32:31.320 --> 0:32:33.280 but it's I think that's going to be a pretty 0:32:33.280 --> 0:32:36.640 good solution. But try the DVR setting first, see if 0:32:36.680 --> 0:32:38.680 that works, Like, just try to set the DVR to 0:32:38.760 --> 0:32:42.120 change to the channel at those times. And the best 0:32:42.160 --> 0:32:44.160 part about this show is that now that we talked 0:32:44.160 --> 0:32:46.600 about this on the air, I will probably get some 0:32:46.640 --> 0:32:49.120 emails from folks saying, Rich, you know, what about this solution? 0:32:49.200 --> 0:32:52.240 What about that solution? So there are different ways of 0:32:52.280 --> 0:32:54.120 doing this. Those are the couple that I can think 0:32:54.160 --> 0:32:56.120 of off the top of my head. But maybe we'll 0:32:56.120 --> 0:32:59.240 get some other you know, other suggestions. 0:32:58.640 --> 0:33:01.440 As well, be posted on your website. 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:02.480 Yeah, or I'll mention. 0:33:02.400 --> 0:33:04.560 Them on the show in the future, and maybe, you know, 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:06.240 if we get some by next week I'll mention them 0:33:06.240 --> 0:33:07.800 in the feedback segment at the end of the show. 0:33:08.520 --> 0:33:10.000 Sounds great, Thank you so much, all right. 0:33:09.960 --> 0:33:12.760 Dan, appreciate the call up there in a carpenteria today. 0:33:12.840 --> 0:33:15.720 Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:33:15.880 --> 0:33:20.240 four to two four one zero one. Let's see a 0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:25.600 couple questions we got on email. Louise says, you have 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:28.720 any suggestions for outdoor TV. We live in Colorado, it 0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:33.280 gets cold. The two big brands Louise for outdoor TVs 0:33:33.360 --> 0:33:38.200 are Sunbright or the Samsung Terrace. Sunbright sort of owned 0:33:38.320 --> 0:33:42.200 the market here for many years. That's in the premium TVs. 0:33:42.440 --> 0:33:44.920 Samsung Terras is the other brand that sort of is 0:33:44.960 --> 0:33:45.480 coming up. 0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:46.360 Uh. 0:33:46.400 --> 0:33:49.080 And these TVs, you know, they're they're brighter than your 0:33:49.120 --> 0:33:52.560 standard TV because you're outside. There's less glare on the 0:33:52.560 --> 0:33:56.520 screen because you're outside. And also their weather proof so 0:33:56.560 --> 0:33:58.240 that they can deal with the rain, they can deal 0:33:58.280 --> 0:33:59.840 with the cold, they can deal with the heat. 0:34:00.160 --> 0:34:01.200 Now. I will tell you. 0:34:01.280 --> 0:34:03.960 When I was getting my TV installed by the installer, 0:34:04.040 --> 0:34:05.400 he said, what are you going to do with this 0:34:05.440 --> 0:34:08.040 whole TV? I said, I don't know, probably just recycling. 0:34:08.040 --> 0:34:10.120 He said, why don't you put it outside? I said, outside? 0:34:10.640 --> 0:34:13.080 This is a regular TV. And even though we live 0:34:13.120 --> 0:34:16.120 in California where people basically set up things that shouldn't 0:34:16.120 --> 0:34:19.440 be set up outside outside all the time, because it 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:21.279 you know, it doesn't rain much except in the last 0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:23.800 couple of weeks, I was like, isn't that going to 0:34:23.840 --> 0:34:25.920 short circuit? Isn't that going to be a problem. He said, Nah, 0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:27.280 just get a cover off Amazon. 0:34:27.280 --> 0:34:27.719 It's cheap. 0:34:27.719 --> 0:34:29.200 I'll mount it out there, and you know, you put 0:34:29.200 --> 0:34:31.480 the cover on when it's raining, it'll be fine. I 0:34:31.520 --> 0:34:34.320 can't say I recommend that because I haven't tried it personally, 0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:35.920 but I'm probably going to try it. 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:38.480 As long as you keep things dry, maybe it's okay. 0:34:38.880 --> 0:34:42.239 But if you want a solution that's truly going to work, 0:34:42.280 --> 0:34:44.960 that is meant to be the way it is engineered, 0:34:45.400 --> 0:34:47.600 I would go with an outdoor TV. Also, if you 0:34:47.600 --> 0:34:50.560 look up on Amazon, there are much cheaper outdoor TVs 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:53.480 than the Sunbrights of the World or the Samsung's. 0:34:53.480 --> 0:34:57.920 But those are two places to start quickly before. Oh, 0:34:58.200 --> 0:34:59.840 I don't guess we're going a break never mind? 0:35:00.239 --> 0:35:03.839 Uh eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight 0:35:03.880 --> 0:35:06.000 eight seven four to two four to one zero one. 0:35:06.040 --> 0:35:09.800 Coming up, Disney Plus is the latest to crack down 0:35:09.880 --> 0:35:12.839 on password sharing. I will tell you the details of 0:35:13.000 --> 0:35:16.440 when that is scheduled to start. Tell your family members. 0:35:16.480 --> 0:35:22.040 Now you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back 0:35:22.120 --> 0:35:25.279 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:30.359 you talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one. 0:35:30.600 --> 0:35:34.680 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:35:35.160 --> 0:35:40.480 zero one. Well my theory was correct. Steve has written 0:35:40.480 --> 0:35:45.120 in through the website rich on Tech dot TV. He said, Uh, 0:35:45.280 --> 0:35:50.279 to the man with the question about the ALS situation, 0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:53.960 I have Direct TV. If he adds the same programs 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:56.680 fully on their DVR, it will switch to the new 0:35:56.760 --> 0:36:01.319 station automatically. It's important to program the same program on 0:36:01.520 --> 0:36:04.840 all slots for each hour. That's exactly what I said, 0:36:04.880 --> 0:36:07.759 So I think that will be your solution. That was 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:11.040 Dan and Carpenteria. So Dan, I hope you're still listening. 0:36:11.560 --> 0:36:13.439 That is the way to do it. It won't cost 0:36:13.440 --> 0:36:16.480 you anything. It's using the DVR that you already have. 0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:18.920 So I like that. Let's see. 0:36:19.280 --> 0:36:23.319 Let's see d says, what's the best antennae antenna to 0:36:23.400 --> 0:36:26.400 get to access local channels. I feel like antennae are 0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:28.080 the things that come out of the ants you know. 0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:31.160 But like antenna, if you're looking for for your DV 0:36:33.120 --> 0:36:37.680 I like anything from Antenna's Direct, A, N T, E, NNA, 0:36:37.880 --> 0:36:43.600 Antenna's Direct, and they make something called the Mohu and 0:36:43.719 --> 0:36:46.239 they're they're famous for the Mohu leaf, but they also 0:36:46.280 --> 0:36:48.799 have new ones, the Mohu Versa. But I would pop 0:36:48.800 --> 0:36:51.359 in your zip code, see what you can get and 0:36:51.600 --> 0:36:55.359 get the recommendation for what you need. So it really 0:36:55.400 --> 0:36:58.399 depends on where you live, what kind of antenna you need. 0:36:58.400 --> 0:37:01.080 You might need something that's powered, you might need something 0:37:01.120 --> 0:37:04.640 that's small. It just really depends. So just pop in 0:37:04.680 --> 0:37:09.759 your zip code on Antennasdirect dot com and it will 0:37:09.760 --> 0:37:12.240 tell you what you can get and also the types 0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:15.239 of antennas that you should get, so it'll tell you 0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:18.280 exactly what you need, suggest an Antenna's fear zip code. 0:37:18.440 --> 0:37:20.360 It also tell you the channels that you can get 0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:22.640 and you'll be surprised. I mean, I don't know what 0:37:22.680 --> 0:37:24.440 the deal is with antennas. I feel like they've come 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:26.960 a long way. But I can plug one into the 0:37:27.000 --> 0:37:30.200 back of my TV in the office and I get 0:37:30.239 --> 0:37:32.840 like every channel like almost crystal Well, the ones I 0:37:32.880 --> 0:37:35.000 get are crystal clear, and I get a lot of them. 0:37:35.040 --> 0:37:36.880 A lot of them are, you know, kind of nonsensy, 0:37:36.920 --> 0:37:41.040 but you know, the big ones are there. Disney Plus 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:44.399 is going to start cracking down on passwords sharing. They 0:37:44.480 --> 0:37:47.360 sent out a new terms of service to their subscribers, 0:37:47.880 --> 0:37:53.520 and anyone suspected of improper sharing may have some ramifications. 0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:57.720 They could even cancel your account. This will begin summer 0:37:57.960 --> 0:38:02.320 twenty twenty four, so Disney of course hopes to convert 0:38:02.520 --> 0:38:05.759 some passwords sharing folks to paid subscribers. They will have 0:38:05.840 --> 0:38:08.759 some sort of message they will send you saying, hey, 0:38:09.040 --> 0:38:11.320 we notice you're trying to share someone else's password. You 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:14.320 want to subscribe yourself. But again, that happened summer twenty 0:38:14.360 --> 0:38:16.759 twenty four. There's going to be a lot of sad 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:18.799 people on my account. Every time I log in, there's 0:38:18.840 --> 0:38:21.720 another profile added to my Disney Plus page. 0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:24.640 I can't say that. 0:38:24.600 --> 0:38:26.520 You should be sharing your password right now, but I 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:30.120 know people do, and so far these streaming companies have 0:38:30.280 --> 0:38:32.400 not cracked down on it, but that is changing in 0:38:32.440 --> 0:38:35.960 a very, very big way. If you check out my 0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:38.239 Instagram at rich on Tech, like I said, I just 0:38:38.320 --> 0:38:41.319 got back from the Chicago Auto Show, you can check 0:38:41.320 --> 0:38:44.680 out the various posts I put on there, and I 0:38:44.760 --> 0:38:47.440 was noticing I actually forgot about this. But yesterday I 0:38:47.440 --> 0:38:50.120 was on the plane flying back and I got an 0:38:50.120 --> 0:38:52.799 earthquake alert. How scary is that. I'm just sitting there 0:38:52.840 --> 0:38:55.480 on my phone before the plane took off. We were 0:38:55.480 --> 0:38:58.480 actually delayed a little bit because they're repairing something, and 0:38:58.520 --> 0:39:01.960 I get this critical notification that says earthquake drop cover 0:39:02.080 --> 0:39:06.120 hold on shaking expected magnitude four point seven in La County. 0:39:06.120 --> 0:39:09.239 And I was in Chicago, and so I immediately text 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:12.400 my wife and said, Lindsey, did you are you filling 0:39:12.440 --> 0:39:13.200 an earthquake or what? 0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:14.400 She said, Yeah, had you know? 0:39:14.960 --> 0:39:16.760 I said, well, I just got the alert on my phone. 0:39:17.360 --> 0:39:20.000 And so my advice, because I posted this, of course, 0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:21.279 is to download this app. 0:39:21.360 --> 0:39:22.320 It's called my Shake. 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:25.160 So if you live in the LA area, it only 0:39:25.200 --> 0:39:29.200 works in Los Angeles or sorry, California, Washington, and Orion. 0:39:30.120 --> 0:39:32.160 But if you live in one of those places. It 0:39:32.320 --> 0:39:35.400 uses that network they set up of the little sensors 0:39:35.400 --> 0:39:37.680 in the ground and it will tell you a couple 0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:40.799 of seconds before the earthquake, or at least that's what's 0:39:40.800 --> 0:39:43.440 supposed to do. And of course, based on all the 0:39:43.440 --> 0:39:45.160 feedback I got, a lot of people did get it. 0:39:45.200 --> 0:39:47.120 A lot of people said they had an old app 0:39:47.440 --> 0:39:51.040 that's been decommissioned. The main app, I think the only 0:39:51.040 --> 0:39:53.000 app you can do at this point is called my Shake. 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:57.120 Now that's for Android and iOS. If you have Android, 0:39:57.400 --> 0:40:00.799 you can go into your settings under Safety Emergency. There 0:40:00.880 --> 0:40:04.240 is an earthquake alert system built into the Android operating system. 0:40:04.760 --> 0:40:07.279 So either way, I recommend getting it. My kids were 0:40:07.280 --> 0:40:09.160 really shaken up. They said, oh Dad, it was the 0:40:09.160 --> 0:40:11.680 first time we had an earthquake at school and the 0:40:11.719 --> 0:40:14.800 whole room shot, you know, shook, and we had to 0:40:14.800 --> 0:40:17.200 get under our desks. Reminds me of back in the 0:40:17.280 --> 0:40:18.560 day when I was a kid. We used to like 0:40:18.840 --> 0:40:21.560 what we learned, like stop, drop and roll for like fires. 0:40:22.360 --> 0:40:24.600 But now I guess with earthquakes it's like stop and 0:40:24.760 --> 0:40:27.160 take cover or something. I didn't grow up an earthquake country, 0:40:27.200 --> 0:40:29.239 so I didn't really learn that stuff growing up and 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:32.799 in fact, my inkling was to run outside. And when 0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:35.000 I interviewed an expert in earthquakes, he's like, no, no, 0:40:35.040 --> 0:40:36.560 that is the last thing you want to do. That's 0:40:36.560 --> 0:40:39.000 how people get hurt because things fall on top of 0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:39.879 their head. 0:40:40.080 --> 0:40:43.200 So be safe. And if you're not from the area 0:40:43.239 --> 0:40:43.680 that has. 0:40:43.560 --> 0:40:47.200 Earthquakes or any natural disaster that you get in your area, 0:40:47.480 --> 0:40:50.200 educate yourself. Because that was an eye opening thing for me. 0:40:50.280 --> 0:40:52.200 I was like, oh, that would be bad. 0:40:53.680 --> 0:40:55.880 Let's go to Judy and ya kaipa, Judy, you're on 0:40:55.960 --> 0:40:56.399 with Rich? 0:40:57.480 --> 0:40:57.640 Hi. 0:40:57.760 --> 0:40:58.000 Rich. 0:40:58.600 --> 0:41:01.640 I keep doing this message on my iPhone and I 0:41:01.680 --> 0:41:05.040 don't know whether to do anything or just to delete it. 0:41:06.120 --> 0:41:08.319 And I told you, screener, what it says. Do you 0:41:08.320 --> 0:41:08.640 want me to. 0:41:08.760 --> 0:41:10.120 Yeah, read it to me. Let's hear it. 0:41:10.880 --> 0:41:16.640 Urgent service reactivation. Your services have been pause. And then 0:41:16.719 --> 0:41:22.359 it says it has a phone number, and then it 0:41:22.440 --> 0:41:26.600 has a website, which is that's not it? 0:41:28.200 --> 0:41:31.120 How are you getting this notification? How's it? Where's it 0:41:31.160 --> 0:41:31.720 coming through? 0:41:32.719 --> 0:41:33.400 Like it? 0:41:33.560 --> 0:41:37.120 Oh, it's a text? Okay, what do you think about this, Judy? 0:41:38.000 --> 0:41:39.080 Well, I've never heard of this. 0:41:39.280 --> 0:41:39.400 Ray. 0:41:39.440 --> 0:41:40.520 I don't know what to do. 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:43.400 What service do you think they're pausing. 0:41:44.640 --> 0:41:45.160 I don't know. 0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:49.440 Yeah, this is the problem. These things, these these people 0:41:49.560 --> 0:41:51.480 are this is a this is a scam, and this 0:41:51.600 --> 0:41:55.839 is you know, I'm assuming the web address is some 0:41:55.960 --> 0:41:58.719 sort of like it's not like Google dot com, right, 0:41:58.840 --> 0:41:59.560 it's it's something. 0:42:00.440 --> 0:42:03.560 Yeah, don't don't even give it to us. What is it? 0:42:04.840 --> 0:42:06.400 Yeah, we don't want don't don't even say it on 0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:07.719 air because I don't want people to go to it 0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:10.080 because this is totally you know, they're going to try 0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:13.560 to either get your personal information, your credit card number. 0:42:14.960 --> 0:42:17.920 This is you know, this is totally a scam. 0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:22.880 Okay, Yeah, appreciate your. 0:42:22.400 --> 0:42:24.680 Show, Thank you, thank you, Judy, appreciate it. The main, 0:42:24.800 --> 0:42:27.080 the main takeaway here is that you do not want 0:42:27.120 --> 0:42:29.919 to click on the links in these texts that you get. 0:42:30.480 --> 0:42:32.440 You do not want to call the phone number. You 0:42:32.440 --> 0:42:35.720 do not want to respond because the more you respond 0:42:35.760 --> 0:42:38.600 to these things or interact with them, it verifies your number. 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:40.960 And I will tell you now probably now's a good 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:42.680 time talking about this. Hang on, let me grab my 0:42:42.960 --> 0:42:48.080 notes on this thing. So I was talking to my 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:51.279 wife about the information that is that is on all 0:42:51.320 --> 0:42:54.760 of us on the internet, and these uh, the idea 0:42:54.920 --> 0:42:59.600 of your data is out there right through data breaches. 0:43:00.440 --> 0:43:05.120 Your phone number, your email address, your data birth, your 0:43:05.120 --> 0:43:08.040 social Security number, it is all out there. And the 0:43:08.080 --> 0:43:11.000 way that this gets out there is that there are 0:43:11.120 --> 0:43:14.040 data breaches on the websites that you give this information to, 0:43:14.840 --> 0:43:19.440 and so once those sites get hacked, they that information 0:43:19.520 --> 0:43:22.560 is out there online for anyone to find. And so 0:43:23.120 --> 0:43:25.239 with that said, couple things you can do. I've talked 0:43:25.280 --> 0:43:27.680 about this before, but you can manually go through and 0:43:27.719 --> 0:43:30.399 try to request a takedown of your information. But first 0:43:30.440 --> 0:43:32.719 you have to see where that information is. And so 0:43:32.840 --> 0:43:34.879 Mozilla this week came out with the new thing called 0:43:34.960 --> 0:43:38.279 Mozilla Monitor Plus. And if you're familiar with Mozilla, that's 0:43:38.280 --> 0:43:40.400 the company that makes the Firefox web browser. 0:43:41.080 --> 0:43:42.040 And this is not new. 0:43:42.120 --> 0:43:44.759 This is something that a lot of companies offer, but 0:43:44.880 --> 0:43:47.640 I do trust Mozilla and they actually gave me a 0:43:47.760 --> 0:43:50.040 test account to try this out, and I'm very impressed. 0:43:50.440 --> 0:43:54.719 So it found like one hundred and thirty nine instances 0:43:54.760 --> 0:43:59.880 of my information online and it fixed eleven manually, it 0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:03.239 removed five of them automatically, and seventy one are in progress. 0:44:03.680 --> 0:44:05.720 And so what it does is it scans the information 0:44:05.800 --> 0:44:09.279 about you you put in your name, your phone number, 0:44:09.320 --> 0:44:12.319 your email address, maybe your data birth and then it 0:44:12.360 --> 0:44:14.839 goes out online and it looks for the places that 0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:17.919 have that information and so it found it on all 0:44:17.960 --> 0:44:22.759 these different websites been verified, people Wizard, Gosh, there's ten 0:44:22.880 --> 0:44:26.760 variations of that one. Search Systems, Bumper dot com, whatever, 0:44:26.800 --> 0:44:31.120 that is, free People, Directory, Number, Guru, Ownerly, People Smart 0:44:31.440 --> 0:44:33.640 and so Spokio. You know you've heard of that one. 0:44:34.000 --> 0:44:36.120 And it goes through and it shows you the information 0:44:36.239 --> 0:44:37.719 on the page. It gives you a link of that 0:44:38.400 --> 0:44:40.640 and then it tells you what you can do about it, 0:44:40.680 --> 0:44:43.000 so whether you can manually take that down or they 0:44:43.040 --> 0:44:45.719 can do it. So for free, they will do a 0:44:45.760 --> 0:44:48.120 one time scan of your information and just kind of 0:44:48.120 --> 0:44:50.200 reveal where it is and show you what you can do. 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:53.160 But if you pay them a couple bucks a month, 0:44:53.320 --> 0:44:55.839 they will do all of this for you and automatically 0:44:55.960 --> 0:44:58.200 and continue to do it. So they scan like one 0:44:58.280 --> 0:45:01.239 hundred and ninety different broker sites. But if you want 0:45:01.239 --> 0:45:03.040 to do this for a free one time scan, which 0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:05.680 I think you should probably do, just check out monitor 0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:10.719 dot Mozilla dot org. Monitor dot mozilla dot org and 0:45:11.520 --> 0:45:14.840 it's pretty incredible it's very eye opening. Now, if you 0:45:14.920 --> 0:45:18.399 are a Google subscriber, if you pay for anything from 0:45:18.480 --> 0:45:23.440 Google one, they have what's called a dark Web scanner, 0:45:24.000 --> 0:45:26.600 and so they will email you when your results show 0:45:26.680 --> 0:45:27.560 up on the dark web. 0:45:27.640 --> 0:45:31.279 That's if you're paid. And I've got all that monitor too. 0:45:31.360 --> 0:45:34.560 Your email address, my data birth, my phone number, my usernames, 0:45:34.600 --> 0:45:37.920 my passwords. It's pretty wild what is out there, and 0:45:37.960 --> 0:45:40.319 so they will email you that as well. That's if 0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:43.359 you're a paid subscriber. If you're not paid, Google has 0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:47.880 a free thing called Google Results about You, and so 0:45:47.960 --> 0:45:51.120 if you go there, you put in your information again 0:45:51.200 --> 0:45:54.239 and they will scan the web for any website that 0:45:54.320 --> 0:45:56.719 has the information that you put in, whether it's your data, birth, 0:45:56.760 --> 0:45:59.600 your phone number, your address, whatever it is, and they 0:45:59.600 --> 0:46:02.680 will tell you where that is. Now, Google will not 0:46:02.760 --> 0:46:05.200 take down that website, but they will take down the 0:46:05.360 --> 0:46:08.120 link to that website on their search results. So if 0:46:08.160 --> 0:46:10.759 someone's looking for you, it takes a little bit of 0:46:10.760 --> 0:46:13.680 a deeper dive for them to actually find you than 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:16.600 going on Google. So if you just typed in someone's 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:19.399 name and address you know, and or phone number or 0:46:19.520 --> 0:46:22.279 date of birth, you won't see those results on Google 0:46:22.360 --> 0:46:24.719 search if you want to go through and actually get 0:46:24.800 --> 0:46:26.799 rid of those. That's why you have to actually go 0:46:26.880 --> 0:46:29.480 through to these companies and get rid of this yourself. 0:46:29.520 --> 0:46:31.600 But I highly recommend you do a search for yourself 0:46:31.880 --> 0:46:33.840 and just see what's out there and try to remove 0:46:33.880 --> 0:46:34.719 some of this information. 0:46:34.800 --> 0:46:36.839 It will definitely come in handy. 0:46:37.040 --> 0:46:38.960 All right, Coming up, we're going to talk to doctor 0:46:39.040 --> 0:46:42.000 Chris Pearson, cybersecurity expert. He's going to talk about romance 0:46:42.040 --> 0:46:45.879 scams and Google's AI has a new name. I'll tell 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:49.080 you all about that, plus more of your questions and 0:46:49.160 --> 0:46:51.600 calls at eight eight eight rich one oh one eight 0:46:51.680 --> 0:46:55.040 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:46:55.280 --> 0:47:02.239 You are listening to Rich on tech. Guy Moore Park 0:47:02.320 --> 0:47:04.840 has some suggestions on the outdoor TV situation. 0:47:05.080 --> 0:47:05.719 What's up, guy? 0:47:06.440 --> 0:47:10.080 Oh, hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, there's 0:47:10.080 --> 0:47:13.840 a company here in more Park that manufactures enclosures for 0:47:13.960 --> 0:47:18.000 TV sets. Ah, it's called Apollo Enclosures. 0:47:18.239 --> 0:47:18.640 Okay. 0:47:19.080 --> 0:47:21.880 They make a whole line of different sized boxes and 0:47:21.920 --> 0:47:24.440 ways that you can mount your TV and keep it 0:47:25.360 --> 0:47:27.000 put it outside. 0:47:26.840 --> 0:47:29.160 And what about like humidity and all that stuff? Does 0:47:29.200 --> 0:47:31.319 it kind of keep that way? I see, it's got 0:47:31.400 --> 0:47:33.840 some like fans and things make any TV and outdoor 0:47:33.880 --> 0:47:34.839 TV there you go. 0:47:35.360 --> 0:47:38.440 Yeah, they're all there, They're all well engineered. The company's 0:47:38.440 --> 0:47:39.320 been around for a while. 0:47:39.719 --> 0:47:40.879 Oh wow, my. 0:47:40.920 --> 0:47:43.040 Brother has a couple of them in his man caves 0:47:43.200 --> 0:47:45.120 out which is kind of an outdoor patio. 0:47:45.480 --> 0:47:48.200 Okay, so I mean, yeah, they're not cheap fifty five 0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:52.160 inch thirteen seventy five. So it's you know, it's I 0:47:52.200 --> 0:47:54.440 guess it depends if you already have a nice TV 0:47:54.560 --> 0:47:57.560 that you want to put out there or repurpose. It's 0:47:57.600 --> 0:47:59.719 one way of doing it, for sure, but that's another option. 0:47:59.760 --> 0:48:01.120 I like that option. Interesting. 0:48:01.800 --> 0:48:03.600 Good to know. That's what I love about this show. 0:48:03.680 --> 0:48:06.160 We get people like Guy to tell us things that 0:48:06.280 --> 0:48:07.480 maybe I'm not aware of. 0:48:08.840 --> 0:48:13.239 Let's see, let's go to let's go to. 0:48:13.760 --> 0:48:16.600 Let's go to an email. We've got so many emails, 0:48:16.600 --> 0:48:17.799 so I'm trying to get through some of these. 0:48:17.840 --> 0:48:18.040 Here. 0:48:18.920 --> 0:48:22.640 Let's see here. Maria says, I've got an iPhone twelve 0:48:22.680 --> 0:48:25.160 Pro Max. It's completely paid off, but I'm getting sick 0:48:25.200 --> 0:48:28.520 of Apple. I'm really leaning towards getting an Android as 0:48:28.520 --> 0:48:32.040 far as picture quality goes, mainly from Droid to Apple 0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:34.400 not having it look pixelated. What, in your opinion, is 0:48:34.440 --> 0:48:37.160 the best Android phone to get. I'd like to say 0:48:37.200 --> 0:48:38.880 money is no issue, but I'm a single mom, so 0:48:38.920 --> 0:48:42.480 I can't say that. Picture quality and reliability are two 0:48:42.520 --> 0:48:45.040 of my biggest issues. I trust and respect your opinion, 0:48:45.120 --> 0:48:47.120 so I'd like to ask before throwing caution to the 0:48:47.160 --> 0:48:50.320 wind and ordering the first Android ICEE. Thank you Maria, 0:48:51.000 --> 0:48:55.560 Well Maria number one. The whole sending a photo from 0:48:55.719 --> 0:48:59.239 Android to Apple and looking pixelated has really nothing to 0:48:59.280 --> 0:49:01.919 do with the phone. The phone is trying to send 0:49:01.920 --> 0:49:04.279 a good picture and it's taken a nice picture. The 0:49:04.360 --> 0:49:08.400 problem is the way that Apple receives the picture. They 0:49:08.440 --> 0:49:11.920 are using an older version of texting that does not 0:49:12.080 --> 0:49:15.640 support high quality pictures, and so later this year they 0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:20.440 will support what's called RCS Rich Communication Services, and pictures 0:49:20.440 --> 0:49:24.120 from Samsung or any sort of Android to the iPhone 0:49:24.120 --> 0:49:27.520 will actually look perfect and vice versa. And so that's 0:49:27.520 --> 0:49:30.520 going to be a huge change because right now, iPhone 0:49:30.520 --> 0:49:33.440 to iPhone looks great, Android to Android looks great, but 0:49:33.520 --> 0:49:36.360 when you go from Android to iPhone or iPhone to Android, 0:49:36.640 --> 0:49:39.200 pictures could look really bad. And videos don't even try 0:49:39.200 --> 0:49:42.960 to send one of those those are horrible. So With 0:49:43.080 --> 0:49:45.800 that said, to answer your question, I think the best 0:49:45.840 --> 0:49:49.399 phone for you would probably be a Pixel. I think 0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:53.440 pixels take great pictures, they are easy to use, their reliable, 0:49:53.560 --> 0:49:56.560 and the price is great. I'd go with the Pixel 0:49:56.640 --> 0:49:59.839 seven A if you want a budget phone, or I'd 0:49:59.880 --> 0:50:02.719 go the Pixel eight if you want a nice kind 0:50:02.719 --> 0:50:07.239 of all around phone, And the price on those are 0:50:07.239 --> 0:50:09.200 going to be a little bit more, anywhere from like 0:50:09.280 --> 0:50:12.640 five hundred to eight hundred dollars. So, oh wow, it 0:50:12.640 --> 0:50:15.439 looks like the Pixel eight is on sale right now. 0:50:16.160 --> 0:50:17.960 That's actually a pretty good deal. If it's five hundred 0:50:17.960 --> 0:50:20.080 and fifty bucks, that's a great deal because it launched 0:50:20.080 --> 0:50:24.240 at like seven hundred. So anyway, I really like the Pixels. 0:50:24.280 --> 0:50:26.839 I think they are very liable, they'll take great pictures. Yeah, 0:50:26.880 --> 0:50:29.080 five hundred and fifty bucks right now, And the Pixel 0:50:29.080 --> 0:50:30.480 seven eight is going to be a little bit cheaper, 0:50:30.480 --> 0:50:32.920 but the Pixel eight is going to have overall, it's 0:50:32.920 --> 0:50:35.880 going to be faster and better specs. So if you can, 0:50:36.120 --> 0:50:39.440 if you can do it, I'd go Pixel eight. Great question, 0:50:39.560 --> 0:50:40.000 Thanks for that. 0:50:40.280 --> 0:50:41.680 Uh Ring. 0:50:42.960 --> 0:50:47.480 Is going to raise prices starting March eleventh, twenty twenty four. 0:50:47.600 --> 0:50:50.920 The Ring Protect Basic subscription price will increase from three 0:50:51.040 --> 0:50:52.960 ninety nine a month or forty dollars a year to 0:50:53.080 --> 0:50:55.880 five dollars a month or fifty dollars a year. This 0:50:56.040 --> 0:50:59.480 is if your subscription renews on or after March eleventh, 0:50:59.600 --> 0:51:02.680 twenty twenty four. So if you're on a subscription date 0:51:02.719 --> 0:51:05.080 that's before March eleventh, you're gonna get one more year 0:51:05.200 --> 0:51:09.720 of the cheaper service. You can change this, do whatever 0:51:09.719 --> 0:51:11.920 you need to do. I asked Ring about this, and 0:51:11.960 --> 0:51:14.520 they said, you know what, we believe that Ring protect 0:51:14.560 --> 0:51:17.040 still offers some of the best value in the industry. 0:51:17.520 --> 0:51:19.759 I would probably agree with that. Fifty bucks a year 0:51:19.840 --> 0:51:23.480 for your video doorbell. I know everything is a subscription 0:51:23.560 --> 0:51:26.160 these days, and all these subscriptions continue to go up 0:51:26.160 --> 0:51:28.319 in price, but I still think it's a pretty good 0:51:28.360 --> 0:51:31.640 value if you want to make your doorbell record the 0:51:31.680 --> 0:51:34.160 events that it does. Otherwise, if you get a Ring doorbell, 0:51:34.600 --> 0:51:35.920 you can just live stream it. 0:51:35.920 --> 0:51:36.279 That's it. 0:51:36.400 --> 0:51:40.400 You can't really see the recordings of what happens outside 0:51:40.480 --> 0:51:42.719 the front of your house. So I would recommend if 0:51:42.760 --> 0:51:44.560 you have a video doorbell, you got to pay for 0:51:44.640 --> 0:51:48.479 that because you really want those events. And finally, Ring 0:51:48.600 --> 0:51:52.560 has a new battery Doorbell Pro. This is now their 0:51:52.640 --> 0:51:56.040 best battery doorbell. Ring says seventy eight percent of customers 0:51:56.120 --> 0:51:59.200 use a battery power doorbell. Previously, you had to go 0:51:59.360 --> 0:52:03.080 wired to get all of Ring's best features like three 0:52:03.160 --> 0:52:06.560 D motion detection, bird's eye view, all these cool things, 0:52:06.560 --> 0:52:10.960 the HD plus video, low light video. Now you can 0:52:11.000 --> 0:52:13.560 get it in a battery doorbell. It's called the Ring 0:52:13.800 --> 0:52:17.640 Battery Doorbell Pro. It chips on March sixth. It will 0:52:17.640 --> 0:52:18.360 cost two. 0:52:18.320 --> 0:52:19.480 Hundred and thirty dollars. 0:52:19.520 --> 0:52:23.359 That is very pricey for a Ring doorbell, but you're 0:52:23.400 --> 0:52:24.840 gonna get the best, the best. 0:52:24.719 --> 0:52:26.120 Quality out of that one. 0:52:26.440 --> 0:52:30.160 Coming up, we're gonna talk romance scams with doctor Chris Pearson, 0:52:30.360 --> 0:52:35.200 cyber security expert. I was intrigued at this conversation. I 0:52:35.320 --> 0:52:37.600 learned some new things, and I hope you will too. 0:52:38.000 --> 0:52:45.319 Coming up right after this, joining me now, friend of 0:52:45.320 --> 0:52:49.000 the show, doctor Chris Pearson of black Cloak dot Io. 0:52:49.200 --> 0:52:50.440 Chris, thanks so much for joining me. 0:52:50.719 --> 0:52:52.239 Hey, it's great to be here. Thanks Rich. 0:52:52.640 --> 0:52:56.200 So let's talk about what's happening in the h Well, 0:52:56.200 --> 0:52:58.719 it's happening all the time, but it is Valentine's Day, 0:52:58.800 --> 0:53:02.680 so let's talk talk about these romance scams. So what 0:53:02.760 --> 0:53:05.880 are some of the most common techniques that romance scammers 0:53:06.280 --> 0:53:08.640 try to use to exploit folks? 0:53:09.200 --> 0:53:11.479 Yeah, I mean this scam is always a good one. 0:53:11.600 --> 0:53:12.640 It's on the rise. 0:53:12.840 --> 0:53:16.480 Last year there were ten point three billion reported scams 0:53:16.560 --> 0:53:19.800 is twenty twenty two data to the FBI's ICE three. 0:53:19.960 --> 0:53:20.840 And so those. 0:53:20.600 --> 0:53:23.440 Scams that we see that fall into romance scam bucket 0:53:23.800 --> 0:53:26.840 usually fall into a you know, somebody becoming friends with 0:53:26.840 --> 0:53:30.759 someone else online. It moves from a normal channel, one 0:53:30.800 --> 0:53:34.480 of the normal social media channels, into private discussions, private chats, 0:53:34.520 --> 0:53:38.279 private areas where there's less monitoring, less control, and then 0:53:38.280 --> 0:53:40.560 it evolves into in some form of fashion, a hey, 0:53:40.920 --> 0:53:42.719 I'm so sorry I wasn't talking to you for two weeks. 0:53:42.760 --> 0:53:45.600 I actually hit it big, did great stuff. You know, 0:53:45.600 --> 0:53:47.400 I'll be traveling a lot, but I hope I see it, 0:53:47.600 --> 0:53:49.799 And then that gets your interest in. You then end 0:53:49.880 --> 0:53:52.480 up joining them in a investing in a crypto, which 0:53:52.560 --> 0:53:55.080 of course is all fake, and write them and the 0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:57.799 other organized criminal syndicate gang take your money. That's a big, 0:53:57.840 --> 0:54:00.239 big one. The other one is any type of man 0:54:00.280 --> 0:54:03.200 scam where they're able to get direct funds from you. 0:54:03.280 --> 0:54:05.000 It might be via gift cards, it might be very 0:54:05.239 --> 0:54:07.960 all wire, might be via some other payment method. But 0:54:08.000 --> 0:54:10.120 they're able to go ahead and convince you that they 0:54:10.160 --> 0:54:11.359 need travel money, trail funds. 0:54:11.360 --> 0:54:12.360 They're stuck at the border. 0:54:12.520 --> 0:54:14.000 They were on the way to go see you, but 0:54:14.040 --> 0:54:15.880 then they ended up in the hospital and the bills 0:54:15.880 --> 0:54:17.760 too much as five thousand dollars And could you possibly 0:54:17.800 --> 0:54:20.600 help them? Of course yes, because your heart is wanting 0:54:20.640 --> 0:54:21.919 them to come in to see them. 0:54:22.000 --> 0:54:25.680 Hence the romance scam. So those are the most common ones. 0:54:25.719 --> 0:54:27.800 We can talk a little bit more about some other ones, 0:54:27.800 --> 0:54:29.279 but I mean those are the big common ones. 0:54:29.600 --> 0:54:32.040 Okay, so you've got the common ones. What if you 0:54:32.080 --> 0:54:34.960 think you're getting scammed in this way? What if you 0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:38.000 suspect it? What should you do? Do you just ghost 0:54:38.000 --> 0:54:38.560 this person? 0:54:39.560 --> 0:54:41.399 So I mean, if you if you want to dive 0:54:41.440 --> 0:54:43.759 a little bit deeper, right, really find out right who 0:54:43.840 --> 0:54:46.040 they are? You know, hey, want to be careful, want 0:54:46.040 --> 0:54:48.480 to want to maybe stay on that main channel, right, 0:54:48.520 --> 0:54:51.520 the main social media items, you know, get a driver's license, 0:54:51.520 --> 0:54:53.759 get a passport, gets something, actually proves that they are 0:54:53.800 --> 0:54:56.480 who they say they are. If their excuses like oh 0:54:56.480 --> 0:54:58.279 I don't have it or I lost it, oh this 0:54:58.400 --> 0:55:01.960 that whatever other thing is that you know. So that's 0:55:01.960 --> 0:55:05.040 always a good a good first thing. But I mean second, 0:55:05.080 --> 0:55:07.320 if you feel like it might be some part of 0:55:07.360 --> 0:55:10.319 a scam, egress, Right, they're gonna want time to move 0:55:10.400 --> 0:55:14.160 forward really really quickly, and spotting that is really imperative. 0:55:14.200 --> 0:55:18.600 If they seem like they are always far away, always traveling, 0:55:19.000 --> 0:55:21.040 might be a romance scam. If they claim they're in 0:55:21.040 --> 0:55:23.840 the military and always traveling. Once again, it could be 0:55:23.880 --> 0:55:25.160 a romance scam. 0:55:25.280 --> 0:55:26.520 If the profile match. 0:55:26.320 --> 0:55:29.239 Is too closely something you like as well, Right, Hey 0:55:29.239 --> 0:55:30.480 I'm anaquestrian champion. 0:55:30.520 --> 0:55:32.239 Oh will so my love horses have them? 0:55:32.480 --> 0:55:38.319 Whatever speed or continued excuses of hey I can't see 0:55:38.320 --> 0:55:42.000 you for some reason, the border, whether whatever it might be. 0:55:42.360 --> 0:55:44.600 There's always a way to get together in person. 0:55:44.800 --> 0:55:47.160 And if they're always excuses over an extended period of time, 0:55:47.200 --> 0:55:50.960 these are the big warning science egress, stop close down 0:55:51.000 --> 0:55:52.320 your communications with that person. 0:55:52.640 --> 0:55:55.520 What if you actually sent money to one of these people, 0:55:55.560 --> 0:55:57.240 because that sounds like what they want. 0:55:58.360 --> 0:55:59.440 Is there any recourse? 0:56:00.080 --> 0:56:01.879 Well, first thing is if you say, if you think 0:56:01.920 --> 0:56:02.719 that anything. 0:56:02.440 --> 0:56:05.560 Is wrong, speed is your friend in terms of stopping 0:56:05.560 --> 0:56:07.839 those funds. So Usually it's going to be sent via 0:56:07.880 --> 0:56:11.200 a wire which is very very fast, or some type 0:56:11.200 --> 0:56:13.040 of other fast transmission. 0:56:13.040 --> 0:56:15.120 It can be ach or like a zell or a Venmo. 0:56:16.000 --> 0:56:18.960 Look, the bottom line is contact your bank immediately and 0:56:19.000 --> 0:56:20.800 get that wire or payment stop. 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:24.520 That's first and foremost. Second, if you did send. 0:56:24.320 --> 0:56:26.640 Something, you're gonna really want to go ahead and change 0:56:26.640 --> 0:56:29.799 those account numbers just to make sure that there's no 0:56:29.920 --> 0:56:32.239 trace back to you in terms of them being able 0:56:32.239 --> 0:56:34.520 to try to further scam you. And then third, you're 0:56:34.560 --> 0:56:36.919 going to be need some type of remediation. It may 0:56:36.960 --> 0:56:40.320 be that during the scam you downloaded, you know, screen 0:56:40.360 --> 0:56:43.440 messaging software or video messaging software so you can have 0:56:43.480 --> 0:56:44.400 one to one chats. 0:56:44.600 --> 0:56:46.640 You're gonna want to scrub that from your machine. 0:56:46.719 --> 0:56:49.120 If you ever downloaded any programs that they sent you, you're 0:56:49.080 --> 0:56:52.200 gonna want to remove those from your machine as well 0:56:52.239 --> 0:56:55.160 and kind of delete your tracks. But getting funds back, 0:56:55.200 --> 0:56:57.560 you get to get with the bank report that. Of course, 0:56:57.560 --> 0:56:59.920 you can report scams frauds that have happened to the 0:57:00.440 --> 0:57:03.759 IC three Internet Crime Complaint Center of the FBI, but 0:57:04.120 --> 0:57:06.279 that's not an arm of the FBI that gets back 0:57:06.360 --> 0:57:09.600 your money. They simply taken the intelligence and aggregate it 0:57:10.040 --> 0:57:12.120 so that they know what the latest and greatest scams 0:57:12.160 --> 0:57:14.400 are and can build cases that are large. 0:57:14.719 --> 0:57:16.400 I think I know the answer to this, but why 0:57:16.400 --> 0:57:19.080 are we seeing more of these romance scams now than 0:57:19.080 --> 0:57:20.960 we were, you know, five or ten years ago. 0:57:21.640 --> 0:57:24.480 Well, so, simply put, I mean, Number one, the technology 0:57:24.560 --> 0:57:27.320 is easier for everyone to use. Everyone has in some 0:57:27.360 --> 0:57:30.600 form of fashions, some type of social media platform, communication 0:57:30.640 --> 0:57:35.320 platform that's on their devices, cell phone, tablet, computer, COVID 0:57:35.320 --> 0:57:38.560 really accelerated that. Everyone got used to Zoom, everyone got 0:57:38.640 --> 0:57:40.880 used to video chat, and got used to all those 0:57:40.880 --> 0:57:41.760 different types of programs. 0:57:41.760 --> 0:57:42.280 That's number one. 0:57:42.400 --> 0:57:46.280 Number two, payments and the speed of payments has massively increased. 0:57:46.440 --> 0:57:48.920 The availability send a wire from an app on your 0:57:48.960 --> 0:57:51.640 phone is really something that's been in everyone's power. 0:57:51.800 --> 0:57:53.000 The ability to send a one. 0:57:52.880 --> 0:57:55.760 Time payment via something like a zell or a Venmo 0:57:55.880 --> 0:57:59.280 or some other type of messaging app is extremely high. 0:57:59.360 --> 0:58:02.200 Everyone has those and so that really does break down 0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:04.240 the walls in terms of the speed of getting that. 0:58:04.400 --> 0:58:06.760 And then three look right now, I think the Surgeon 0:58:06.840 --> 0:58:08.760 General had released the last year it was was like 0:58:08.840 --> 0:58:11.320 the loneliest time in America and a lot of people, 0:58:11.360 --> 0:58:14.160 more people dealing with depression and loneliness. The fact of 0:58:14.200 --> 0:58:16.720 the matter is is that being romantically involved with someone 0:58:16.920 --> 0:58:19.560 and really like being excited about this person, it's fun, 0:58:19.600 --> 0:58:22.960 it's exciting, and sometimes when those things happen, your brain 0:58:23.040 --> 0:58:25.480 shuts down and you move more over to that kind 0:58:25.480 --> 0:58:27.640 of like you're leading with your heart a suppose your mind, 0:58:27.680 --> 0:58:31.080 and you're more likely to be able to be victimized. 0:58:32.240 --> 0:58:36.040 I imagine that some of these scams turn into like threats, 0:58:36.080 --> 0:58:37.720 all out threats, or even blackmail. 0:58:37.800 --> 0:58:38.480 Does that happen? 0:58:39.040 --> 0:58:39.520 It does? 0:58:39.600 --> 0:58:39.840 It does. 0:58:39.920 --> 0:58:42.760 Let's talk about Let's talk about two different types there. 0:58:42.960 --> 0:58:45.120 So first one is going to be your extortion or 0:58:45.160 --> 0:58:48.840 extortion scams. So you're having a long distance relationship, you think, 0:58:48.840 --> 0:58:53.000 with somebody else and they decide to kind of take. 0:58:52.880 --> 0:58:54.520 Off their clothes and do things, and you take off 0:58:54.520 --> 0:58:55.640 your clothes and do things. 0:58:56.400 --> 0:58:58.360 The fact of the matter is is that they may 0:58:58.360 --> 0:59:00.680 be recording or the other folks that are part of 0:59:00.720 --> 0:59:04.560 the organized criminal syndicate may be recording you on their screen, 0:59:05.720 --> 0:59:08.520 and as a result, they then use that as a 0:59:08.600 --> 0:59:11.200 We're going to message your parents, your family members, a 0:59:11.240 --> 0:59:14.520 school board, The PTA you're our children's friends, because we 0:59:14.600 --> 0:59:17.360 know who you are, we see your social media profile. 0:59:17.920 --> 0:59:20.200 And if you don't do that, we're going to go ahead, 0:59:20.200 --> 0:59:21.880 and if you don't give us money, we're going to 0:59:21.920 --> 0:59:23.160 go ahead and send these messages out. 0:59:23.160 --> 0:59:25.880 And of course that's straight up extortion, extortion. 0:59:26.000 --> 0:59:28.160 There have been people that have committed suicide over this, 0:59:28.520 --> 0:59:31.880 and this is especially specially susceptible in terms of you know, 0:59:32.000 --> 0:59:35.720 teenagers and young adults really susceptible to this type of harm. 0:59:35.920 --> 0:59:36.800 Think that the world is. 0:59:36.720 --> 0:59:39.080 Over, so you gotta be really really really careful here, 0:59:39.200 --> 0:59:40.320 very very careful. A. 0:59:40.360 --> 0:59:41.280 The other one is, you know. 0:59:41.280 --> 0:59:44.160 More extortion that goes into the physical realm, where there 0:59:44.240 --> 0:59:46.880 is something of a you know, romantic scam and then 0:59:46.920 --> 0:59:50.200 somebody actually comes over to your home to collect the 0:59:50.320 --> 0:59:52.680 money or the funds on behalf of someone else. We've 0:59:52.680 --> 0:59:54.800 seen that, and there's an FBI warning on that about 0:59:54.800 --> 0:59:56.680 two weeks ago. We've been seeing that for about two 0:59:56.720 --> 1:00:00.360 months now. That physical component of somebody actually coming called 1:00:00.360 --> 1:00:03.800 a mule or a carrier, that carrier. 1:00:03.440 --> 1:00:05.000 Coming over to your home or that muele coming over 1:00:05.000 --> 1:00:05.479 to your home. 1:00:05.720 --> 1:00:08.640 That adds a new level of complexity in this that 1:00:08.680 --> 1:00:10.840 actually creates a physical risk to you. 1:00:12.440 --> 1:00:17.320 With all of this happening online, are there legitimate relationships 1:00:17.360 --> 1:00:19.400 that can still happen? Because I feel like every wedding 1:00:19.440 --> 1:00:21.800 I go to that people meet online, So this must 1:00:21.880 --> 1:00:24.320 be working in some way, I might look. 1:00:24.520 --> 1:00:28.040 You know, dating online can be fun, can be safe, 1:00:28.120 --> 1:00:29.800 can be something that you know leads to. 1:00:29.760 --> 1:00:31.960 Other things, which is great. 1:00:32.280 --> 1:00:37.600 Stick to the mainstream online dating platforms. Try to stick 1:00:37.600 --> 1:00:41.840 to platforms that have some type of member verification to them. 1:00:42.480 --> 1:00:45.840 Do your own due diligence on the individual you know 1:00:45.960 --> 1:00:49.280 LinkedIn Facebook, et cetera, trying to really suss out who 1:00:49.360 --> 1:00:51.720 they are and making sure you know who you're dealing with. 1:00:52.080 --> 1:00:55.000 Keep your personal private details private. 1:00:55.160 --> 1:00:57.280 Don't give them your personal cell phone number, don't give 1:00:57.280 --> 1:01:01.200 them your personal email address. Have everything go through the platform. 1:01:01.360 --> 1:01:02.600 That's really really important. 1:01:02.720 --> 1:01:05.200 Whenever you get things taken off of that platform environment, 1:01:05.440 --> 1:01:08.200 it does increase the risks of somebody coming after you, 1:01:08.280 --> 1:01:11.040 increase the risk of someone coming after you digitally and physically. 1:01:11.360 --> 1:01:14.560 But it's really not necessary, especially in the early days 1:01:14.560 --> 1:01:17.200 of our relationship. And then of course, if you're gonna 1:01:17.240 --> 1:01:20.720 meet up in person, make sure you know you're sending 1:01:20.760 --> 1:01:23.240 your location to you know, your best friend, your parents, 1:01:23.320 --> 1:01:23.880 so to speak. 1:01:24.080 --> 1:01:25.000 That somebody knows. 1:01:24.800 --> 1:01:26.640 Where you are, who you're gonna be with, they have 1:01:26.640 --> 1:01:29.200 your phone number, they have the contact information that individual 1:01:29.520 --> 1:01:31.680 in your meeting in a public place and location. 1:01:32.000 --> 1:01:35.280 Doctor Chris Pearson of black Cloak dot io. Thanks so 1:01:35.360 --> 1:01:36.320 much for joining me today. 1:01:36.440 --> 1:01:37.880 Hey, thanks so much, Rich, appreciate it. 1:01:37.880 --> 1:01:39.880 Thanks so much for joining me today. 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I answer a lot of my dms. 1:02:49.920 --> 1:02:54.200 So believe me, it doesn't your your messages do not 1:02:54.320 --> 1:02:58.840 go on read Let's go to Patty, Patty and Palmdale. 1:02:58.840 --> 1:03:04.360 You're on with rich which I have two problems. I've 1:03:04.400 --> 1:03:08.320 got a TV about a year ago. It's an LG 1:03:08.600 --> 1:03:12.560 O L ED got a sown bar and then in December, 1:03:12.800 --> 1:03:15.360 just a few months ago, I bought another, uh well three 1:03:15.400 --> 1:03:19.200 TVs and the one that I'm talking about now is 1:03:19.480 --> 1:03:24.439 is a Samsung. And when I had the last three 1:03:24.560 --> 1:03:28.360 installed in December by best Buy, that came in geek 1:03:28.400 --> 1:03:32.360 Squad came in and installed everything, and the one in 1:03:32.400 --> 1:03:34.080 the back room, which is not the one I'm going 1:03:34.120 --> 1:03:36.120 to talk about, the one in the back room wouldn't connected. 1:03:36.240 --> 1:03:38.520 So they said, well, you need a wire mesh system. 1:03:38.760 --> 1:03:42.240 So I got the euro wire Mesh system. So I 1:03:42.280 --> 1:03:45.120 have that now. And so Spectrum took their you know, 1:03:45.600 --> 1:03:51.120 was it router away. And so now I have my 1:03:51.200 --> 1:03:56.560 TV that I've had for a year. It's the LG fuzzy. 1:03:56.720 --> 1:03:59.640 The screen is not looking nice at all. And it's 1:03:59.640 --> 1:04:04.400 a high TV my, So that's the LG problem. My 1:04:04.600 --> 1:04:08.720 Samsung with the soundbar is crystal clear, beautiful. Yeah, but 1:04:09.360 --> 1:04:11.720 the sink is off on that. So when I and 1:04:11.800 --> 1:04:13.680 but it's only when I have the soundbar on. When 1:04:13.680 --> 1:04:16.640 I have the soundbar on, it's a little off. And 1:04:16.880 --> 1:04:18.840 I turn the sound bar off, the think is fine. 1:04:19.720 --> 1:04:22.400 So yeah, well okay, so a couple of things. 1:04:22.520 --> 1:04:24.920 Number one, uh, these are not this has nothing to 1:04:24.960 --> 1:04:27.480 do with your eurosystem. This is these are these are 1:04:29.000 --> 1:04:32.240 situations that are local to the TV. So the fuzzy 1:04:32.360 --> 1:04:36.760 screen on this on the LG. You didn't change anything, 1:04:36.760 --> 1:04:37.640 and that just happened. 1:04:38.600 --> 1:04:38.800 Yeah. 1:04:38.960 --> 1:04:41.400 Does it look like a defect with the TV screen? 1:04:42.800 --> 1:04:44.720 And is it on everything or is it just on 1:04:44.840 --> 1:04:47.240 certain things? 1:04:47.280 --> 1:04:50.480 Everything? Okay, whether I'm on Netflix or regular TV. And 1:04:50.520 --> 1:04:52.720 it was raining a lot lately, of course, so I 1:04:52.720 --> 1:04:54.120 thought maybe it had to do with that. 1:04:54.440 --> 1:04:55.120 So it looks like. 1:04:55.080 --> 1:04:58.600 The actual TV screen is affected, like there's something wrong 1:04:58.680 --> 1:05:01.480 with the actual screen itself, not the content that's playing 1:05:01.480 --> 1:05:02.000 on the screen. 1:05:03.000 --> 1:05:05.160 Yeah, because no matter what I have on, it's just 1:05:05.200 --> 1:05:08.280 not that crystal clear. Okay, you know the letters are 1:05:08.320 --> 1:05:09.520 fuzzy and hard to read. 1:05:10.280 --> 1:05:13.040 Interesting, Okay, Well, first off, what I would do for 1:05:13.120 --> 1:05:16.440 that TV is I would you know, it could be 1:05:16.720 --> 1:05:19.040 it could be a defect that happened, and so that 1:05:19.080 --> 1:05:21.120 could be something that you know, you might need to 1:05:22.320 --> 1:05:24.520 get someone out there to like look at. But if 1:05:24.720 --> 1:05:27.480 I were you, what I would do immediately is just 1:05:28.000 --> 1:05:30.400 I would disconnect all of my inputs on the back 1:05:30.840 --> 1:05:31.840 and I would do a. 1:05:31.840 --> 1:05:33.520 Full reset of that TV. 1:05:33.680 --> 1:05:35.920 So go into settings and look for sort of a 1:05:36.000 --> 1:05:39.800 factory reset and that will at least bring the TV 1:05:40.520 --> 1:05:44.000 back to the out of the box experience, and then 1:05:44.120 --> 1:05:47.000 plug in you know, your fire TV box or whatever 1:05:47.040 --> 1:05:49.000 you have connected to that and see if that helps. 1:05:50.040 --> 1:05:52.000 If that doesn't help and it looks like the TV 1:05:52.160 --> 1:05:55.160 is actually just the screen is just something's wrong with it, 1:05:55.560 --> 1:05:58.360 then I would probably call LG and see if you 1:05:58.400 --> 1:05:58.840 can get. 1:05:58.680 --> 1:05:59.880 A service person out there for that. 1:06:00.040 --> 1:06:00.200 Yeah. 1:06:00.720 --> 1:06:03.440 Uh, the sound bar, that's just a sink issue. So 1:06:03.960 --> 1:06:06.960 you got to go into your settings on whatever you're 1:06:07.040 --> 1:06:10.560 using to to do that TV to, you know, to 1:06:10.600 --> 1:06:13.720 put the sound onto that soundbar, whether it's a streaming 1:06:13.760 --> 1:06:16.440 device or the TV itself, and you have to adjust 1:06:17.000 --> 1:06:20.600 the sink and so usually there the soundbar may have 1:06:21.040 --> 1:06:24.080 an option itself to do that, but it's typically a 1:06:24.120 --> 1:06:27.800 little setting on either your TV or the soundbar itself 1:06:27.880 --> 1:06:28.960 and there's a sink setting. 1:06:29.840 --> 1:06:31.400 It's also I'm not sure how you have. 1:06:31.360 --> 1:06:33.320 That connected, but it could be depending on how you 1:06:33.320 --> 1:06:35.400 have that connected, the sink could be better or worse 1:06:35.480 --> 1:06:39.240 based on you know, the type of connection. And if 1:06:39.240 --> 1:06:43.840 you're using the HDMI input on your TV or output 1:06:43.920 --> 1:06:45.120 on your TV, I would look for the one that 1:06:45.160 --> 1:06:48.720 says ARC. That's the ones you want for the best 1:06:49.520 --> 1:06:54.080 for the best connection between those two. So that's that's 1:06:54.080 --> 1:06:56.360 what i'd recommend. But look for the sink on the 1:06:56.640 --> 1:07:00.240 audio bar and also ARC look on the back of 1:07:00.280 --> 1:07:02.280 your TV and make sure you're using the output that's 1:07:02.360 --> 1:07:05.440 labeled HDMI with e ERC and that will give you 1:07:05.480 --> 1:07:10.240 the highest quality connection between those two things. So that's 1:07:10.240 --> 1:07:13.360 why I recommend, Patty, and hopefully that will work. Report 1:07:13.400 --> 1:07:16.240 back please thanks a lot. Eighty eight rich one on 1:07:16.240 --> 1:07:18.960 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:07:19.080 --> 1:07:23.000 zero one. Let's go to stand in Oxnard. 1:07:23.120 --> 1:07:24.160 Stand you're on with Rich? 1:07:24.960 --> 1:07:25.240 Hey? 1:07:25.320 --> 1:07:26.240 Rich? How you doing today? 1:07:26.400 --> 1:07:28.200 I'm doing excellent? What can I help you with? 1:07:28.840 --> 1:07:29.120 Hey? 1:07:29.160 --> 1:07:30.920 I was just wondering when you were at the Chicago 1:07:31.080 --> 1:07:33.240 Car Show, did you get a chance to speak with 1:07:33.360 --> 1:07:37.160 any of the developers on all the automations are thrown 1:07:37.240 --> 1:07:41.840 in cars and that affects the skill level of the drivers, 1:07:41.920 --> 1:07:45.960 like a degradation because of the automation. Is that a 1:07:46.000 --> 1:07:46.800 concern to them? 1:07:47.040 --> 1:07:49.560 That's a great question. I did not ask any of 1:07:49.560 --> 1:07:52.000 them that, but that's a great question. And I think. 1:07:52.880 --> 1:07:55.400 I mean, my kids will tell you that I'm yelling 1:07:55.400 --> 1:07:57.640 at drivers all day long. So I don't know if 1:07:57.640 --> 1:08:00.320 it's an automated thing or just a human thing. But 1:08:00.560 --> 1:08:04.040 I do think that there are some cars have become 1:08:04.160 --> 1:08:07.240 so automated that there's a lot of things we're forgetting. 1:08:07.360 --> 1:08:09.280 Like I was thinking about this the other day. Whenever 1:08:09.320 --> 1:08:11.440 I rent a car, you know, you have to remember 1:08:11.480 --> 1:08:12.920 to turn on the lights, you got to remember to 1:08:12.960 --> 1:08:15.200 do this, you got to do that, lock the doors, 1:08:15.640 --> 1:08:18.160 put it into park. But if you have some of 1:08:18.160 --> 1:08:20.320 these newer cars, a lot of that stuff is automated. 1:08:20.360 --> 1:08:22.439 So I do think that we're kind of forgetting some 1:08:22.520 --> 1:08:25.439 of that skill level. When it comes to the automation, 1:08:25.640 --> 1:08:28.800 people are just being stupid, and you know, they're doing 1:08:28.840 --> 1:08:31.000 stuff they shouldn't be doing and pushing the limits of 1:08:31.040 --> 1:08:33.280 these systems in a way that they are not intended. 1:08:33.840 --> 1:08:36.120 And so I think that that's a great question for 1:08:36.160 --> 1:08:39.680 the next time I talk to someone with these automated systems. 1:08:40.080 --> 1:08:42.280 But I think that they will throw a lot of that. 1:08:43.720 --> 1:08:47.479 A lot of that burden back on the human driver 1:08:47.720 --> 1:08:52.880 because these systems do have a lot of safety, you know, 1:08:52.960 --> 1:08:55.479 safety built into them, but they can only do so much. 1:08:55.520 --> 1:08:57.400 You know, when the Tesla first came out, people figured 1:08:57.400 --> 1:08:58.880 out how you can like put a weight on the 1:08:58.880 --> 1:09:01.519 wheel to like make it autopilot when it wasn't supposed 1:09:01.520 --> 1:09:04.080 to be doing that. Actually have a story today that 1:09:04.120 --> 1:09:05.600 I was going to tell you about. I'll do it 1:09:05.680 --> 1:09:10.360 right now. Toyota. This happened in Massachusetts. This guy was 1:09:10.439 --> 1:09:12.920 driving a person. 1:09:12.920 --> 1:09:16.599 I don't know if it's guy or female. Toyota BZ 1:09:16.800 --> 1:09:17.240 four X. 1:09:17.240 --> 1:09:18.519 I don't even know how to say the name of 1:09:18.560 --> 1:09:21.240 this car, but this is Toyota's ev It's called the 1:09:21.320 --> 1:09:24.960 BZ four X. Might have seen it advertised, and the 1:09:25.040 --> 1:09:28.200 driver got out of the car without putting it into park, 1:09:28.240 --> 1:09:30.800 probably because the car is so silent, and it began 1:09:30.960 --> 1:09:34.040 rolling off the pier he was on and he had 1:09:34.040 --> 1:09:37.559 to escape through a window on his car, and the 1:09:37.640 --> 1:09:39.320 ev rolled right into the ocean. 1:09:41.000 --> 1:09:42.439 The car was a total loss. 1:09:43.280 --> 1:09:46.559 And this was the twenty twenty four Toyota BZ four X, 1:09:47.400 --> 1:09:50.880 and they were saying that this probably suggests the need 1:09:50.960 --> 1:09:53.040 for a warning if the driver gets out of the 1:09:53.080 --> 1:09:56.679 car without putting it into park. Now I've got a Tesla, 1:09:56.840 --> 1:09:59.640 and I've got the situation where when I'm at a 1:09:59.680 --> 1:10:03.960 low speed and I'm doing something, my car will will 1:10:04.000 --> 1:10:06.519 shift into park by itself, and I'll say, oh, we 1:10:06.520 --> 1:10:09.280 wanted to prevent a roll away. So the Tesla does 1:10:09.360 --> 1:10:13.680 have that system in place, that safety system. And so 1:10:14.320 --> 1:10:18.360 this apparently happens when you connect a charging cable, unbuckle 1:10:18.400 --> 1:10:21.080 your seatbelt or open the door while and drive or neutral. 1:10:21.760 --> 1:10:22.120 I don't know. 1:10:22.200 --> 1:10:23.599 It just seems to do it on my car when 1:10:23.600 --> 1:10:25.120 I'm like at a low speed and I kind of 1:10:25.200 --> 1:10:27.200 just like it just stops and it says, we're putting 1:10:27.200 --> 1:10:28.320 it into bark for your safety. 1:10:28.720 --> 1:10:30.200 So I think the Toyota should have that. 1:10:30.280 --> 1:10:32.680 In fact, I left when I was testing a car 1:10:32.720 --> 1:10:36.000 a long time ago, I left it running the entire 1:10:36.040 --> 1:10:39.439 time I went inside because it was so silent that 1:10:39.520 --> 1:10:41.320 I didn't even realize the thing was on. And I 1:10:41.400 --> 1:10:43.280 just walked away from this car. When I came back, 1:10:43.320 --> 1:10:48.880 it was still running. So yeah, these systems, they're not 1:10:49.000 --> 1:10:51.519 fool proof, and we're all human and so we make 1:10:51.600 --> 1:10:55.439 mistakes and hopefully they can build them where they are 1:10:55.520 --> 1:10:57.600 full proof to a certain extent, but there's always going 1:10:57.680 --> 1:11:00.400 to be that human element we need to address. Listening 1:11:00.400 --> 1:11:08.760 to rich on Tech, Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:11:08.880 --> 1:11:12.200 Rich Tamuro here hanging out talking technology with you at 1:11:12.240 --> 1:11:15.599 triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:11:15.760 --> 1:11:20.439 four to two four one zero one the website rich 1:11:20.840 --> 1:11:26.080 on tech dot tv. You can find more information about 1:11:26.080 --> 1:11:29.559 me there, watch the TV segments that I do, see 1:11:29.560 --> 1:11:32.439 past show, subscribe to the podcast, send me an email, 1:11:33.040 --> 1:11:35.799 or get a link to something I mentioned using the link. 1:11:35.640 --> 1:11:38.559 At the top of the page. Let's go to Dan 1:11:38.840 --> 1:11:40.559 in New Hampshire. Dan, you're on with. 1:11:40.640 --> 1:11:45.280 Rich Get out, sir, Hi, I'm wondering what would be 1:11:45.520 --> 1:11:52.720 your recommendation for for LTV security camera. I don't have 1:11:52.840 --> 1:11:58.320 life FLI. Oh there's like ten different companies that make 1:11:58.400 --> 1:12:02.719 them and compeers and going on. But what the details are. 1:12:02.760 --> 1:12:07.040 But it has to be linked through the cellular network, 1:12:07.200 --> 1:12:07.840 not Wi Fi. 1:12:08.439 --> 1:12:10.920 Okay, so you want cellular you want a camera that's 1:12:10.960 --> 1:12:12.200 basically self contained? 1:12:13.680 --> 1:12:14.320 Yeah, okay. 1:12:14.360 --> 1:12:15.800 Do you have a place to plug it in or 1:12:15.880 --> 1:12:20.120 is it going to be battery it's going to beat Okay, 1:12:20.160 --> 1:12:20.960 battery or solar? 1:12:21.000 --> 1:12:21.719 Okay? Perfect? 1:12:22.439 --> 1:12:26.040 Well, I mean, you know, the most of my cameras 1:12:26.080 --> 1:12:29.240 that I have are all plug in or Wi Fi 1:12:29.439 --> 1:12:33.759 with solar or plugged in whatever. But I did test 1:12:33.880 --> 1:12:37.720 a while back a Canary camera which had LTE, so 1:12:37.760 --> 1:12:40.680 they did make them. It's been a while since I 1:12:40.720 --> 1:12:44.120 tried one. But the two popular cameras from what I 1:12:44.120 --> 1:12:46.599 can tell, are from Rlow and UFE. These are two 1:12:46.640 --> 1:12:50.479 pretty big brands, so it kind of comes down to 1:12:50.840 --> 1:12:54.120 which camera has the features that you want between these two. 1:12:55.200 --> 1:12:57.040 But that those are the two brands that I would 1:12:57.120 --> 1:12:58.519 narrow down to. You're probably gonna find if you go 1:12:58.600 --> 1:13:00.680 on Amazon, you're probably gonna find a hundre different of 1:13:00.720 --> 1:13:03.640 these types of cameras. But these brands are brands that 1:13:03.680 --> 1:13:04.600 I know brands. 1:13:04.320 --> 1:13:05.000 That I trust. 1:13:05.640 --> 1:13:09.960 So when it comes to Arlow versus UFIE, you know, 1:13:10.040 --> 1:13:11.840 the thing that you want to look for is the 1:13:11.880 --> 1:13:15.200 pricing and also what you know, do they make you 1:13:15.280 --> 1:13:18.120 pay for the subscription for the LTE the cellular or 1:13:18.200 --> 1:13:20.879 can you bring your own cellular? That may be important 1:13:20.880 --> 1:13:24.040 to you. Of course, the monthly fees is something you 1:13:24.080 --> 1:13:27.439 want to look at. And also the cloud backup, so 1:13:27.600 --> 1:13:29.439 you want to see these things back up to the 1:13:29.479 --> 1:13:32.360 cloud immediately or do they back up to an SD 1:13:32.439 --> 1:13:34.599 card that's on board and you can only access it 1:13:34.640 --> 1:13:38.400 from there. So the reason why the cloud is important 1:13:38.439 --> 1:13:41.400 is because if someone takes one of these cameras, you 1:13:41.560 --> 1:13:43.880 will not have any of the video footage. So if 1:13:43.880 --> 1:13:46.400 it's backing up to the cloud, you know, that's another 1:13:46.400 --> 1:13:50.599 way of having that footage. But those are the two 1:13:50.600 --> 1:13:53.360 brands that I would take a look at, ARLOW or UFEE. 1:13:53.640 --> 1:13:56.000 I think the jury's out on which one is better. 1:13:56.400 --> 1:13:58.479 I think that it comes down to personal preference. Like 1:13:58.520 --> 1:14:00.760 I said, with the different things that I mentioned, but 1:14:01.000 --> 1:14:03.439 those are the cameras that I think are the most popular. 1:14:03.520 --> 1:14:05.920 The other thing you might want to look at is 1:14:06.360 --> 1:14:08.760 what's called a trail cam This was actually one of 1:14:08.800 --> 1:14:11.320 the first questions we ever got in this show, and 1:14:11.400 --> 1:14:13.720 someone wanted a camera that was sort of just out 1:14:13.760 --> 1:14:17.600 there without anything. And I was not aware of the 1:14:17.680 --> 1:14:20.360 trail cams at the time, but something like a trailcam 1:14:21.040 --> 1:14:25.240 might be good in this situation that has an LTE 1:14:25.439 --> 1:14:27.880 connection as well, and those are going to probably be 1:14:27.920 --> 1:14:30.960 a little bit more rugged and a little bit more 1:14:31.720 --> 1:14:35.800 you know, made for the outdoors, so it depends. I mean, again, 1:14:35.920 --> 1:14:37.679 those are the brands i'd recommend. Those are the brands 1:14:37.720 --> 1:14:40.360 that I check out see if those do what you need. 1:14:40.920 --> 1:14:43.960 And that's a good question. You know, we always think 1:14:44.000 --> 1:14:46.320 of Wi Fi and we always think of wired Internet 1:14:46.320 --> 1:14:48.200 because sometimes you just want to put a camera somewhere 1:14:48.200 --> 1:14:52.880 that doesn't have either of those things. And LT gets 1:14:52.920 --> 1:14:54.840 expensive because you got to pay that monthly fee and 1:14:54.840 --> 1:14:57.080 you're talking about streaming and so you need more data. 1:14:57.600 --> 1:14:58.559 So it's not there's not. 1:14:58.520 --> 1:15:02.040 A whole lot of options there that are good, but 1:15:02.240 --> 1:15:05.000 it's something that you got to think about sometimes. 1:15:05.439 --> 1:15:06.320 Thanks for the question there. 1:15:06.360 --> 1:15:11.360 In New Hampshire, Hawaiian Airlines, speaking of internet, the first 1:15:11.600 --> 1:15:17.000 major air carrier in the US to offer high speed 1:15:17.240 --> 1:15:20.519 starlink in flight, Wi FI now before I get the 1:15:20.560 --> 1:15:23.400 angry emails. Yes, I know that Jet sweet X does this, 1:15:23.960 --> 1:15:26.599 but they are not a major carrier. They are a 1:15:26.720 --> 1:15:29.920 smaller carrier that just does smaller flights. This is the 1:15:29.960 --> 1:15:34.200 first like big airline to do this, and so they 1:15:34.240 --> 1:15:41.120 are debuting this service which provides fast streaming gaming downloads. 1:15:41.400 --> 1:15:44.880 It's gonna be wild what you can do on these 1:15:45.280 --> 1:15:48.080 aircraft now compared to before. I was just on a 1:15:48.080 --> 1:15:51.800 couple of flights and the Internet is amazing. The fact 1:15:51.840 --> 1:15:54.280 that we have internet on planes now is so nice 1:15:54.280 --> 1:15:58.520 compared to years past, but it's still pretty slow and unreliable. 1:15:58.520 --> 1:16:00.799 I will say my Internet on both of my flights 1:16:00.880 --> 1:16:04.439 was pretty darn good actually, but it wasn't this fast. 1:16:04.880 --> 1:16:07.880 This is going to be much faster. So Hawaiian's been 1:16:07.920 --> 1:16:12.120 testing this with their employees. They say it's safe. They 1:16:12.160 --> 1:16:14.479 say it's going to roll out across their A three 1:16:14.680 --> 1:16:18.040 twenty one neo fleet and you're going to see it 1:16:18.080 --> 1:16:19.880 on the door. So they're not letting you select a 1:16:19.920 --> 1:16:22.280 flight that has this just yet because I think they're 1:16:22.280 --> 1:16:25.200 still rolling it out. But when you get on board 1:16:25.240 --> 1:16:29.679 the Hawaiian Airlines plane, there'll be a little starlink decal 1:16:29.960 --> 1:16:32.280 on the door, and so if you're on that flight, 1:16:32.320 --> 1:16:34.680 you're like, yes, I just got great Internet from my 1:16:34.800 --> 1:16:38.240 entire flight to Hawaii. So I have been in touch 1:16:38.280 --> 1:16:41.000 with Hawaiian I'm hoping to get on a flight to 1:16:41.080 --> 1:16:44.240 Hawaii to test this out. I cannot wait. I am 1:16:44.439 --> 1:16:48.320 very excited to see just how fast this is. And 1:16:48.360 --> 1:16:50.040 now when people are going to Hawaii, they're not really 1:16:50.080 --> 1:16:52.320 thinking about doing work. You know, it's a very leisure 1:16:52.439 --> 1:16:55.120 kind of oriented trip. But it will still be nice 1:16:55.120 --> 1:16:58.200 for family and kids especially that want to do gaming 1:16:58.280 --> 1:17:00.439 and downloads and streaming and all that stuff. You'll be 1:17:00.479 --> 1:17:02.760 able to do all the stuff that they don't typically 1:17:02.840 --> 1:17:05.960 let you do on the slower connections that are on 1:17:06.080 --> 1:17:10.280 the standard flights. So I'm not sure if I talked 1:17:10.320 --> 1:17:13.240 about it last week, but in California, AT and T 1:17:13.479 --> 1:17:15.719 is trying to get rid of its obligations to provide 1:17:15.800 --> 1:17:19.360 landline service, and so that is going to leave a 1:17:19.360 --> 1:17:22.240 lot of people without a telephone line in their home, 1:17:22.320 --> 1:17:27.160 especially in rural areas places that don't have good cellular connections. 1:17:27.840 --> 1:17:31.040 And so I mentioned this on the news and Amazon 1:17:31.120 --> 1:17:34.040 emailed me and said, hey, Rich, don't forget about this service. 1:17:34.080 --> 1:17:37.960 That we offer called Alexa Emergency Assist, and they said, 1:17:38.000 --> 1:17:39.599 you know, it might be a good thing in place 1:17:39.600 --> 1:17:41.439 of a landline, because the thing about a landline when 1:17:41.439 --> 1:17:44.040 you have kids, well, there's a couple use cases. You know, 1:17:44.080 --> 1:17:46.519 some people like it as a security in the event 1:17:46.560 --> 1:17:49.000 of like an emergency, right if there's an earthquake or 1:17:49.080 --> 1:17:51.400 some sort of natural disaster. The landlines are a little 1:17:51.439 --> 1:17:54.599 bit more, you know, they work a little bit more 1:17:54.680 --> 1:17:57.960 than the cellular networks. Although that's probably debatable at this point, 1:17:58.479 --> 1:18:00.320 but some people think that they do, so you know, 1:18:00.360 --> 1:18:03.439 maybe they do. But you know, also when you have 1:18:03.600 --> 1:18:06.680 kids or elderly, So if you have someone elderly that 1:18:06.800 --> 1:18:08.960 may not have a cell phone or may not want 1:18:09.000 --> 1:18:11.280 to use a cell phone, a landline could be easy. 1:18:11.320 --> 1:18:13.000 They know how to use it, it's been around forever. 1:18:13.560 --> 1:18:15.600 And then with kids, they may not have access to 1:18:15.600 --> 1:18:17.320 a cell phone because mom and dad have the phone 1:18:17.360 --> 1:18:19.720 and they leave the house, or you know, the kid 1:18:19.720 --> 1:18:22.479 doesn't know how to use a cell phone and they 1:18:22.479 --> 1:18:24.160 don't have a way to call for help. So this 1:18:24.520 --> 1:18:28.800 Alexa Emergency Assist is a service you can pay for. 1:18:29.840 --> 1:18:32.360 It is six dollars a month or sixty dollars for 1:18:32.400 --> 1:18:35.320 the year, and all it requires is one of the 1:18:35.479 --> 1:18:38.360 Amazon speakers, so like some sort of echo device, right, 1:18:38.800 --> 1:18:40.200 and all you have to say to it, and I 1:18:40.240 --> 1:18:43.280 probably shouldn't say this because I don't want to trigger yours, 1:18:43.800 --> 1:18:47.960 but you just say alex A call for help, and 1:18:48.040 --> 1:18:52.439 it will call through your Echo device to a trained 1:18:52.479 --> 1:18:55.280 agent that can request the dispatch of police, fire or 1:18:55.320 --> 1:18:58.960 ambulance without waiting on hold. They say it's faster than 1:18:59.000 --> 1:19:03.000 industry standards called directly. Then they also have smart alerts, 1:19:03.000 --> 1:19:07.080 so your alex A can detect your smoke alarm or 1:19:07.360 --> 1:19:10.840 CO two alarm or carbon monoxide alarm is ringing the 1:19:10.880 --> 1:19:13.439 sound of glass breaking, it will notify you on your phone. 1:19:13.800 --> 1:19:17.360 So basically, your your speaker listens for that sound, that 1:19:17.439 --> 1:19:20.240 actual frequency, and if it hears it, it will text 1:19:20.320 --> 1:19:22.840 you and then you can take action. And that's very 1:19:22.840 --> 1:19:26.360 important because long story short, my wife and I just 1:19:26.439 --> 1:19:28.360 flew to New Jersey one day and all of a sudden, 1:19:28.400 --> 1:19:30.200 we get a text on my phone that my alarm 1:19:30.280 --> 1:19:31.240 is going off at my house. 1:19:31.280 --> 1:19:33.320 I'm like, wait, what how do I what do I do? 1:19:33.560 --> 1:19:33.680 Like? 1:19:33.800 --> 1:19:36.280 It was the most helpless I ever felt, and back 1:19:36.280 --> 1:19:38.080 then I didn't have any cameras, so I couldn't see 1:19:38.120 --> 1:19:39.479 what was going on at my house. I had to 1:19:39.479 --> 1:19:41.640 call my friend and he had to drive over, and 1:19:41.680 --> 1:19:44.960 he said, the fire people, firefighters were literally outside my 1:19:45.000 --> 1:19:46.920 house ready to break in the door because they were 1:19:46.920 --> 1:19:48.960 going to see what was going on in there. Maybe 1:19:48.960 --> 1:19:51.120 he was exaggerating, but he said he the way he 1:19:51.200 --> 1:19:53.400 described it, they were literally like an axe to my door. 1:19:53.439 --> 1:19:55.240 And like I was like, all right, he said, no, stop, 1:19:55.280 --> 1:19:55.719 my friend. 1:19:55.760 --> 1:19:55.960 You know. 1:19:56.520 --> 1:20:00.000 Anyway, then you can also have up to twenty five 1:20:00.160 --> 1:20:05.240 emergency contacts automatically notified if a call is placed, which 1:20:05.280 --> 1:20:07.439 is interesting. And then of course they have the glass 1:20:07.439 --> 1:20:09.960 breaking smart alerts and you can drop in and listen 1:20:10.360 --> 1:20:11.880 to the sound inside your house. 1:20:12.520 --> 1:20:13.920 So anyway, I. 1:20:13.840 --> 1:20:15.559 Just telling you about it because it's kind of an 1:20:15.560 --> 1:20:18.840 interesting alternative, you know, and if you have kids, it 1:20:18.920 --> 1:20:20.240 might be a good thing to have. I told my 1:20:20.280 --> 1:20:21.920 wife about this and she said, yeah, that sounds like 1:20:21.960 --> 1:20:25.439 a great idea. And I said to Amazon, I said, 1:20:25.439 --> 1:20:27.360 wait a second, I thought this went away. Well, the 1:20:27.400 --> 1:20:30.439 thing that went away was called Alexa Guard and Guard Plus, 1:20:31.000 --> 1:20:32.840 and I don't know if those were free, but I 1:20:32.880 --> 1:20:35.720 have a feeling they were either free or less cost 1:20:35.800 --> 1:20:39.040 than this. I'm not sure. Let me say Alexa guard. 1:20:40.720 --> 1:20:43.840 I don't know what the pricing was of that. Yeah, 1:20:43.880 --> 1:20:46.000 it was free. Yeah, and so now of course this 1:20:46.120 --> 1:20:47.960 costs money, and so that's why people were up in 1:20:48.080 --> 1:20:51.639 arms about it. But again it's called Alexa Emergency Assist. 1:20:51.800 --> 1:20:55.360 Maybe something I'll look into if you want that alternative 1:20:55.840 --> 1:20:58.800 to dialing nine to one one. But again I think 1:20:58.840 --> 1:21:01.479 that at the end of the day, I can't tell 1:21:01.520 --> 1:21:03.479 you that this can replace nine one one. But it's 1:21:03.520 --> 1:21:05.759 a nice thing because some of these smart home systems 1:21:05.760 --> 1:21:07.760 do not dial nine one one. People think they do, 1:21:08.320 --> 1:21:10.640 and they don't. So you need to know before an 1:21:10.680 --> 1:21:14.519 emergency happens what the capability is of your system. All right, 1:21:14.560 --> 1:21:16.840 triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 1:21:16.920 --> 1:21:20.400 four to two four one zero one. Coming up later 1:21:20.479 --> 1:21:23.120 this hour, we are going to talk to Kyle Vorbach. 1:21:23.800 --> 1:21:26.880 He is a filmmaker who did a documentary called How 1:21:26.920 --> 1:21:28.479 I Faked My Life with AI. 1:21:29.160 --> 1:21:29.960 He's going to talk. 1:21:29.800 --> 1:21:33.519 About the benefits and dangers of this AI revolution. We 1:21:33.560 --> 1:21:36.640 are in looking forward to that conversation a little bit 1:21:36.720 --> 1:21:37.040 later on. 1:21:37.080 --> 1:21:39.920 My name is Rich d'miro. You are listening to Rich 1:21:40.000 --> 1:21:40.479 on Tech. 1:21:44.439 --> 1:21:48.960 Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology. 1:21:49.800 --> 1:21:51.960 Maybe I'll do a little lightning round here. I come 1:21:51.960 --> 1:21:54.680 in here with like dozens of stories I want to 1:21:54.680 --> 1:21:56.320 tell you about. I don't get to all of them 1:21:56.360 --> 1:21:58.280 because we get a lot of calls and emails, so 1:21:58.320 --> 1:22:00.400 I try to get to those as well. But I 1:22:00.520 --> 1:22:02.640 like to tell you this stuff because the show in 1:22:02.760 --> 1:22:05.200 the beginning, i'd say it's the tech stuff that I 1:22:05.200 --> 1:22:07.439 think you should know about. And if I'm not telling 1:22:07.479 --> 1:22:09.800 you that stuff, then I'm not doing my job. So 1:22:10.360 --> 1:22:13.479 I want to balance the calls with also the news 1:22:13.479 --> 1:22:15.280 that I tell you. So let me get through some 1:22:15.320 --> 1:22:18.599 of these iTunes on Windows end of the line. 1:22:18.760 --> 1:22:20.160 So Apple has. 1:22:20.080 --> 1:22:24.280 Launched separate apps for managing the iPhone and different things 1:22:24.400 --> 1:22:27.680 on the Windows computer side of things. This happened on 1:22:28.400 --> 1:22:32.360 Mac a while ago, but there's now a separate Apple Music, 1:22:32.439 --> 1:22:38.120 Apple TV, and Apple Devices apps for Windows. So basically 1:22:38.200 --> 1:22:40.200 all the stuff that iTunes used to do is now 1:22:40.320 --> 1:22:44.240 split up. You can get this on Windows ten and 1:22:44.360 --> 1:22:49.719 later devices. iTunes will remain for podcast and audiobook access, 1:22:50.439 --> 1:22:52.840 but the new apps will give you more of kind 1:22:52.880 --> 1:22:55.920 of an experience that's similar to the Mac so again, 1:22:56.040 --> 1:23:00.000 Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Devices. You have to install 1:23:00.120 --> 1:23:04.519 all three new apps and keep the existing iTunes library, 1:23:04.560 --> 1:23:07.080 So don't delete your iTunes before you install these apps. 1:23:07.080 --> 1:23:10.160 You will need. That sounds very complicated to me. 1:23:11.720 --> 1:23:13.600 I think it's just a ploy to get people on 1:23:13.680 --> 1:23:15.880 Windows to install Apple Music and Apple TV. 1:23:16.040 --> 1:23:17.200 But that's just me. What do I know. 1:23:17.680 --> 1:23:19.439 But now, if you want to manage your iPhone, you 1:23:19.479 --> 1:23:22.160 can use this new Apple Devices app, which I think 1:23:22.200 --> 1:23:25.640 will hopefully be a better situation the other app I like, 1:23:25.640 --> 1:23:27.479 if you want to just shortcut all that stuff is 1:23:27.520 --> 1:23:33.960 called I Amazing Imazing. That'll just shortcut all the Apple stuff. 1:23:34.000 --> 1:23:35.439 You don't have to deal with their software. You can 1:23:35.520 --> 1:23:37.960 just use your own and it does a lot more 1:23:38.000 --> 1:23:39.200 than what iTunes can do. 1:23:39.960 --> 1:23:41.400 It's also going to cost some money too. 1:23:42.800 --> 1:23:49.960 The information reporting that Apple is developing a foldable clamshell iPhone, OMG. 1:23:50.520 --> 1:23:54.639 Really I could have told you this news two years ago. 1:23:55.200 --> 1:23:59.479 Of course they're developing a clamshell iPhone. Yes, I mean, 1:23:59.520 --> 1:24:02.519 that's it. There's nothing more to the story. That's it. 1:24:03.200 --> 1:24:05.800 This is something Samsung did back in twenty nineteen they 1:24:05.800 --> 1:24:08.800 came out with their first foldable phone. Of course, when 1:24:08.840 --> 1:24:12.960 Apple comes out with it, it will be oh, foldable phones, 1:24:13.000 --> 1:24:13.519 what is that? 1:24:13.720 --> 1:24:17.240 Explain? Yes, we've had foldable phones. There are many on 1:24:17.280 --> 1:24:17.799 the market. 1:24:18.080 --> 1:24:21.760 Google has one, Samsung has one, one Plus has one. 1:24:21.800 --> 1:24:24.520 The only game in town that does not have one 1:24:24.760 --> 1:24:28.240 is Apple. So I would be surprised if they do 1:24:28.320 --> 1:24:29.760 not come out with a foldable phone. 1:24:29.800 --> 1:24:31.800 Do I think it's gonna be really good? Absolutely? 1:24:32.280 --> 1:24:32.360 Do. 1:24:32.439 --> 1:24:34.639 I think they're gonna sell millions upon millions of them. 1:24:34.720 --> 1:24:37.360 Absolutely do. I think it'll have a halo effect on 1:24:37.400 --> 1:24:39.160 the other foldables. Absolutely. 1:24:41.200 --> 1:24:47.360 Google is now calling Bard Gemini. So Bard is Google's 1:24:47.479 --> 1:24:52.040 answer to Chat GPT. They came out with it last 1:24:52.120 --> 1:24:55.519 year around this time, I think it was March, and 1:24:55.760 --> 1:24:59.960 already they're renaming it to Gemini, so it's very comple. 1:25:00.400 --> 1:25:01.880 I don't want to get into all of that because 1:25:01.880 --> 1:25:03.880 you don't really need to know, but if you go 1:25:03.960 --> 1:25:06.679 to the Barred website, it will now redirect to Gemini. 1:25:07.560 --> 1:25:14.120 They're also offering Gemini Advanced, just like Chat GPT, where 1:25:14.120 --> 1:25:15.840 you can pay twenty dollars a month to get the 1:25:15.880 --> 1:25:20.000 absolute best version of their AI. Now you can pay 1:25:20.000 --> 1:25:23.320 twenty dollars a month to get Google's absolute best version 1:25:23.439 --> 1:25:27.080 of their AI. You can get two months free trial. 1:25:28.120 --> 1:25:31.840 It's called the Google one AI Premium Plan twenty bucks 1:25:31.880 --> 1:25:33.840 a month. It gets you the AI, but it also 1:25:33.880 --> 1:25:38.480 gets you some other things as well. So I personally 1:25:38.600 --> 1:25:42.519 will tell you I think Bard is great. Sorry Gemini, 1:25:45.400 --> 1:25:47.040 you know there's all these things. Is it better than 1:25:47.120 --> 1:25:50.200 chat GPT? But I will tell you my things, Okay. 1:25:50.280 --> 1:25:53.559 Number one, I think chat GPT overall is a very 1:25:53.640 --> 1:25:56.720 good kind of like introduction to AI. It's just a 1:25:56.760 --> 1:25:58.080 great thing to kind of play with. 1:25:59.040 --> 1:25:59.479 Gemini. 1:25:59.800 --> 1:26:04.559 I will say it's great for access to current events. 1:26:04.560 --> 1:26:06.880 So if you want the absolute latest, like the mix 1:26:06.920 --> 1:26:09.680 of Google Search but also AI, I think Gemini is 1:26:09.840 --> 1:26:12.599 really good for that. And then if you want something 1:26:12.640 --> 1:26:15.519 that's really good with data and handling large amounts of 1:26:15.600 --> 1:26:19.040 data and summaries, I think claud Ai is the best 1:26:19.040 --> 1:26:22.519 for that. That's from a company called Anthropic. And if 1:26:22.520 --> 1:26:25.000 you want to put AI on your phone, my favorite 1:26:25.000 --> 1:26:28.360 app for that is called Perplexity AI. So if you 1:26:28.400 --> 1:26:32.240 are looking for say a little history lesson on something 1:26:32.360 --> 1:26:36.400 or an explanation on a question, Perplexity is really good 1:26:36.400 --> 1:26:38.160 at coming up with kind of answer on that. But 1:26:38.160 --> 1:26:40.599 Gemini is really good at that too. And by the way, 1:26:40.600 --> 1:26:44.160 if you have an Android phone, you can replace the 1:26:44.439 --> 1:26:47.080 Google Assistant now with Gemini, which is what I did 1:26:47.080 --> 1:26:49.800 on my phone. So now when I swipe or use 1:26:49.880 --> 1:26:52.040 the Voice Assistant, it will come up with Gemini, which 1:26:52.080 --> 1:26:55.920 is much smarter than Google Assistant in some ways. It 1:26:55.960 --> 1:26:58.400 doesn't have all the functionality in other ways. And if 1:26:58.400 --> 1:27:01.400 you're on iPhone, it's inside the Google app, so you 1:27:01.439 --> 1:27:03.679 have to access Gemini inside the Google app. 1:27:05.000 --> 1:27:05.600 There you have it. 1:27:05.760 --> 1:27:10.479 Rivian Electric Car Company will unveil a new car on 1:27:10.600 --> 1:27:13.760 March seventh, the Rivian R two. This will be a 1:27:13.880 --> 1:27:18.040 cheaper and more efficient version of their suv. The event's 1:27:18.040 --> 1:27:20.800 going to take place at the Rivian has like a 1:27:20.840 --> 1:27:24.760 theater that they have their name on in Laguna Beach. Yes, 1:27:24.840 --> 1:27:27.200 I will be there. I can't wait. I think Rivian 1:27:27.240 --> 1:27:30.000 is doing some really cool things. Their cars are just 1:27:30.160 --> 1:27:33.639 very expensive right now. Hopefully this will be cheaper they're thinking. 1:27:34.280 --> 1:27:37.799 You know, the rumor says cheaper suv likely priced between 1:27:37.840 --> 1:27:40.840 forty and sixty thousand dollars. But you're not gonna be 1:27:40.880 --> 1:27:43.439 able to get this until twenty twenty six. And right now, 1:27:43.560 --> 1:27:45.960 Rivian loses money on all of their cars. That they sell. 1:27:46.400 --> 1:27:49.879 Hopefully that will change with a car that will be cheaper, 1:27:49.920 --> 1:27:53.080 but they'll it will cost less to make and TEA 1:27:53.160 --> 1:27:55.960 Mobile customers. You already know I tweeted about this, but 1:27:56.000 --> 1:27:58.360 I was on the plane and I got free Wi 1:27:58.400 --> 1:28:01.160 Fi because of a Team Mobile test line that I 1:28:01.200 --> 1:28:03.640 have that I'm using, and you get free Wi Fi 1:28:03.720 --> 1:28:04.200 on the plane. 1:28:04.240 --> 1:28:05.439 I was like, A, this is so cool. 1:28:05.439 --> 1:28:08.240 What a great perk for T Mobile customers. Well, now 1:28:08.280 --> 1:28:11.200 they're doing something called Magenta Status. You get all these 1:28:11.280 --> 1:28:14.880 VIP benefits and deals. So this includes fifteen percent off 1:28:14.960 --> 1:28:18.200 Hilton Hotels, free upgrades, and this I think is the 1:28:18.240 --> 1:28:22.320 best feature. If you rent from Dollar or Hurts. At 1:28:22.520 --> 1:28:24.840 Dollar you'll get free gas so you don't have to 1:28:24.840 --> 1:28:27.280 return the car with a full tank. And at Hurts 1:28:27.400 --> 1:28:30.559 you can return an EV without charging it. You remember 1:28:30.600 --> 1:28:32.840 when I rented my EV from Hurts, they charged me 1:28:32.920 --> 1:28:36.280 like twenty five bucks to return it. Not full movie 1:28:36.320 --> 1:28:39.400 tickets at cheap prices. They say this is a fifteen 1:28:39.479 --> 1:28:43.240 hundred dollars value for the typical customer. What's it trying 1:28:43.280 --> 1:28:45.479 to do get more people to stick with T Mobile? 1:28:46.000 --> 1:28:49.200 Coming up next, we'll talk about the benefits and dangers 1:28:49.280 --> 1:28:56.920 of AI. You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome 1:28:56.960 --> 1:28:59.599 back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out 1:28:59.600 --> 1:29:04.559 with you, talking technology and AI is in the news. 1:29:04.640 --> 1:29:06.879 It is one of the hottest topics on this show 1:29:06.960 --> 1:29:10.120 and pretty much everywhere at this point. And joining me 1:29:10.200 --> 1:29:12.960 now to talk about it is Kyle Vorbach. He is 1:29:13.080 --> 1:29:17.599 a filmmaker who did How I Faked My Life with AI, 1:29:18.720 --> 1:29:21.120 and he also has a book called Pandora's Code, which 1:29:21.160 --> 1:29:24.519 explains the history, benefits, and dangers of the AI revolution. 1:29:24.640 --> 1:29:27.320 Welcome to the show, Kyle, rich Thank you so much 1:29:27.320 --> 1:29:31.840 for having me. So I watched your upcoming TED talk 1:29:32.080 --> 1:29:35.800 on the plane yesterday and I have some questions. 1:29:36.960 --> 1:29:40.280 Sure, what do we believe anymore? 1:29:40.360 --> 1:29:43.320 I mean, you took us in so many directions on 1:29:43.360 --> 1:29:47.360 the TED Talk and surprised and faked us out that 1:29:47.479 --> 1:29:50.880 I'm not even sure you're real anymore. Tell me how 1:29:50.920 --> 1:29:54.160 you got involved in this whole idea of AI and 1:29:54.680 --> 1:29:56.000 kind of trickery because of it. 1:29:56.840 --> 1:30:01.400 Absolutely. Yeah, So it's so dumb, but I was. I 1:30:01.439 --> 1:30:04.000 just needed a new profile. Pictures where it started. And 1:30:04.040 --> 1:30:06.920 this is when these generative AIS started to come out, 1:30:06.960 --> 1:30:09.000 where you could make an image out of anything and I, 1:30:09.040 --> 1:30:11.120 you know, figured when I could miss a shot and 1:30:11.200 --> 1:30:13.080 I posted an image of me. I made a whole, 1:30:13.160 --> 1:30:15.200 very realistic image of me, and no one called me 1:30:15.240 --> 1:30:18.360 on it. So I just kept going until someone did, 1:30:18.439 --> 1:30:21.360 and then no one did, so I just was like, 1:30:21.439 --> 1:30:22.599 I need to up the ante here. 1:30:22.720 --> 1:30:25.800 And I started to change my life. You know. 1:30:25.800 --> 1:30:28.320 I got into a brand new apartment, I bought a 1:30:28.360 --> 1:30:30.360 sports car, I met Ryan Gosling. 1:30:30.800 --> 1:30:32.800 At that point, people started to get a little suspicious. 1:30:32.840 --> 1:30:35.519 But this went on for over a month, and I 1:30:35.560 --> 1:30:37.360 thought it would just be like a funny prank. But 1:30:37.400 --> 1:30:41.320 when I revealed this, the reaction was so profound that 1:30:41.360 --> 1:30:43.439 people had to it both about the AI side and 1:30:43.439 --> 1:30:46.439 also our relationship with social media and the disparity there. 1:30:46.840 --> 1:30:49.080 That I figured, you know, I need to get to 1:30:49.120 --> 1:30:51.160 the bottom of this. I need to understand this AI 1:30:51.240 --> 1:30:53.120 thing more. And that's the genesis of this book, was 1:30:53.120 --> 1:30:55.240 figuring out how do we get here and where's this going? 1:30:56.040 --> 1:30:57.880 What do you make of AI? I mean, it's become 1:30:58.200 --> 1:31:01.040 very popular. People are using it for all kinds of things. 1:31:01.520 --> 1:31:02.920 Do you think it's a good thing or do you 1:31:02.960 --> 1:31:03.840 think it's dangerous? 1:31:05.360 --> 1:31:06.920 It's a little bit of both. 1:31:07.120 --> 1:31:10.120 Really, AI is ultimately a tool that if I had 1:31:10.120 --> 1:31:14.560 to put it one way, it sort of accelerates human capability. 1:31:14.840 --> 1:31:18.240 It is mental labor at the press of a button, 1:31:18.520 --> 1:31:21.400 so we're able to do so much more, so much faster. 1:31:21.840 --> 1:31:23.120 This is a good thing and a bad thing because 1:31:23.120 --> 1:31:25.040 it comes down to the user and what they're doing 1:31:25.080 --> 1:31:27.960 with it in terms of you know, what you can 1:31:28.000 --> 1:31:29.960 make with it. I made that whole short film that 1:31:30.240 --> 1:31:32.280 reached out to people and touched a lot of people 1:31:32.479 --> 1:31:33.160 with AI. 1:31:33.400 --> 1:31:37.320 There's applications with cancer. We're mapping the genome. 1:31:37.360 --> 1:31:40.799 I just heard something about people in California actually locating 1:31:40.880 --> 1:31:47.320 wildfires using AI that is trained to locate and recognize wildfires. 1:31:47.400 --> 1:31:49.920 But on the other side, bad actors can use these 1:31:49.960 --> 1:31:53.599 same exact things to cause a great deal of harm. 1:31:53.640 --> 1:31:56.320 And I don't think society is quite equipped for that 1:31:57.400 --> 1:31:58.760 sort of scam or misinformation. 1:31:58.880 --> 1:32:02.160 Yet it's your takeaway from you know, faking it out 1:32:02.240 --> 1:32:06.200 on Instagram, Like, did your real friends take issue with that? 1:32:07.560 --> 1:32:11.920 It's funny to this day, people don't believe anything I post. 1:32:11.960 --> 1:32:14.920 And I made this video over a year ago in 1:32:15.000 --> 1:32:18.080 the Ted Talk. In fact, I mention that when I 1:32:18.160 --> 1:32:20.400 posted I'm doing a Ted Talk, people were like, is 1:32:20.439 --> 1:32:22.320 this AI? You said at the top of the call, 1:32:22.439 --> 1:32:24.360 Is this AI? Wherever I go, I get the question 1:32:24.479 --> 1:32:27.400 is this AI? And I think my life has sort 1:32:27.400 --> 1:32:29.920 of become a microcosm of what is going to happen 1:32:30.000 --> 1:32:34.559 to the world at large society moving forward. We are 1:32:34.600 --> 1:32:37.720 in a post truth era right now, but I think 1:32:37.720 --> 1:32:39.719 we're going to sort of get into a post evidence 1:32:39.760 --> 1:32:42.120 era where not only are we not seeking the truth, 1:32:42.400 --> 1:32:45.880 there's going to be no way to categorically and quantifiably 1:32:46.120 --> 1:32:49.559 prove something to be real for a while at least. 1:32:49.960 --> 1:32:50.960 That's really scary. 1:32:51.040 --> 1:32:54.840 And I often talk about kind of something similar where 1:32:54.880 --> 1:32:57.400 you know, these AI systems right now are being fed 1:32:58.000 --> 1:33:01.639 data from things that we've done, right, books, people have written, articles, 1:33:01.680 --> 1:33:03.479 people have written. But then all of a sudden, we're 1:33:03.479 --> 1:33:07.040 gonna start They're gonna like feed upon themselves because half 1:33:07.080 --> 1:33:08.920 the pictures are going to be generated by AI, and 1:33:08.920 --> 1:33:11.320 they're looking at those pictures and it becomes like, you know, 1:33:11.560 --> 1:33:13.639 and you saw that meme online where people were saying, 1:33:13.680 --> 1:33:15.680 like make it bigger or make it more, you know, 1:33:16.400 --> 1:33:18.559 and they just kept feeding the same picture into AI, 1:33:18.680 --> 1:33:20.400 saying make it more, make it more, make it the 1:33:20.439 --> 1:33:23.120 best pizza make it even better. And that's kind of 1:33:23.120 --> 1:33:25.720 what's going to happen with like everything online, because these 1:33:25.760 --> 1:33:27.640 systems are just being fed themselves. 1:33:28.920 --> 1:33:33.000 These systems are already being trained on themselves. Researchers have 1:33:33.040 --> 1:33:37.200 realized that, especially for things like llms, that the amount 1:33:37.280 --> 1:33:41.200 of data you need to train AI, which the way 1:33:41.240 --> 1:33:42.280 AI learns. 1:33:42.040 --> 1:33:43.559 Is the brute force method. 1:33:43.560 --> 1:33:45.880 It's not like a kid who touches a stove and learns, oh, 1:33:45.960 --> 1:33:49.639 stove hot. AI has to learn every type of image 1:33:49.640 --> 1:33:52.080 of a stove, every angle of a stove, and every 1:33:52.120 --> 1:33:55.200 type of temperature to understand that stove hot. So to 1:33:55.400 --> 1:33:57.680 generate that much data, you can't even scrape it. So 1:33:57.720 --> 1:34:00.880 they're feeding that them already back into themselves already. And 1:34:00.960 --> 1:34:02.720 I don't know what the ramifications so that are going 1:34:02.760 --> 1:34:02.960 to be. 1:34:03.600 --> 1:34:05.720 So how do you prove that you're real? Now that 1:34:05.760 --> 1:34:07.000 people are wondering. 1:34:08.360 --> 1:34:10.640 Well, I know that there are people currently working on 1:34:10.760 --> 1:34:15.280 tokenizing images, and Canon I believe is working on this. 1:34:15.280 --> 1:34:17.640 There's a few companies working on being like this is 1:34:17.680 --> 1:34:19.799 an image taken on a physical camera. 1:34:20.200 --> 1:34:22.639 I'm not sure what happens once that gets off the camera. 1:34:23.000 --> 1:34:25.320 If there's going to be software on the computers that 1:34:25.360 --> 1:34:27.160 continue to say and this was edited by a human 1:34:27.160 --> 1:34:28.360 and what have you. And I'm sure that will be 1:34:28.400 --> 1:34:30.000 faked at some point, but there are people trying to 1:34:30.000 --> 1:34:32.760 crack this right now. The only thing that you can 1:34:32.840 --> 1:34:37.519 prove is in person human human interaction. We our lives 1:34:37.560 --> 1:34:42.040 are so online already and so digital already that they 1:34:42.120 --> 1:34:46.680 are going to become so embedded with fake things that 1:34:48.160 --> 1:34:50.640 you know, it doesn't it's going to sort of just 1:34:50.680 --> 1:34:54.839 become a different but fully realized reality. 1:34:54.960 --> 1:34:56.320 You could choose to live there if you want. 1:34:56.600 --> 1:34:58.519 It's so weird now that you say that, Like, I'm 1:34:58.560 --> 1:35:01.640 looking at you right now. You're on video chat with 1:35:01.680 --> 1:35:03.760 me on the back end of the radio show. 1:35:04.320 --> 1:35:06.040 But you know, I don't know if you're real. 1:35:06.120 --> 1:35:08.120 Like if I think about it with this whole Apple 1:35:08.439 --> 1:35:10.800 Vision pro you know, they have those things called personas, 1:35:10.840 --> 1:35:13.400 which is like a digital version of you that you 1:35:13.439 --> 1:35:17.160 can FaceTime with someone because you're wearing a headset, so 1:35:17.200 --> 1:35:19.320 it can't you know, it can't see you. The person 1:35:19.360 --> 1:35:20.760 doesn't want to look at you in a headset, so 1:35:20.800 --> 1:35:23.439 it makes up this digital version of you. But if 1:35:23.439 --> 1:35:25.840 you think about that, in the future, anyone could be 1:35:25.840 --> 1:35:27.719 behind that. I mean, it's almost like the old days 1:35:27.720 --> 1:35:29.679 of chat where you didn't really know if you're chatting 1:35:29.680 --> 1:35:32.639 with your friend or like, you know, someone random. 1:35:33.439 --> 1:35:37.320 What people need to realize is because AI can so 1:35:37.479 --> 1:35:42.880 drastically accelerate human work. This applies to scams as well, 1:35:43.080 --> 1:35:45.639 and the same sort of scams that you can imagine 1:35:45.680 --> 1:35:47.559 happened prior to AI are still going on. 1:35:47.960 --> 1:35:49.040 They're just a lot better. 1:35:49.080 --> 1:35:53.639 People have had disguises before, but you know, nowadays, some 1:35:53.840 --> 1:35:57.840 sick individual could deep fake themselves or deep bake a 1:35:57.840 --> 1:36:00.960 different person on a zoom call. Hey Mom, I need 1:36:01.000 --> 1:36:03.320 to borrow one hundred dollars or more than that. I'm 1:36:03.600 --> 1:36:04.960 you know, I'm in prison right now. I need you 1:36:05.000 --> 1:36:07.880 to pay my bail whatever wire it to this and 1:36:07.960 --> 1:36:10.479 these same things could have worked before, but now they 1:36:10.479 --> 1:36:13.400 are going to become so much more convincing, and the 1:36:13.439 --> 1:36:17.240 targets are going to be able to be random Grandma's 1:36:17.720 --> 1:36:21.320 in the middle of America because these can be done 1:36:21.360 --> 1:36:24.600 at scale. Now it's not manual labor like photoshop. You 1:36:24.600 --> 1:36:27.400 could have scripts that are doing this training by themselves. 1:36:27.760 --> 1:36:30.240 What about Hollywood, I mean, already, you know we've seen 1:36:30.280 --> 1:36:33.439 movies where they affect actors' faces and they change them. 1:36:33.439 --> 1:36:36.240 And obviously makeup has always been effects have always been 1:36:36.280 --> 1:36:38.960 a part of that. But with AI, it's just going 1:36:39.040 --> 1:36:41.320 to be a whole new world for Hollywood. 1:36:42.439 --> 1:36:45.760 That's another double edged sword, right, because what's going to 1:36:45.800 --> 1:36:50.920 happen is, like with CGI, it's going to raise the 1:36:50.960 --> 1:36:53.800 bar of production what you're able to attain. It's also 1:36:53.840 --> 1:36:57.240 going to lower the cost of certain things, so smaller 1:36:57.320 --> 1:37:00.680 crews can get away with better quality things. Nowadays, a 1:37:00.760 --> 1:37:05.240 kid in his garage can, using free tools and a 1:37:05.240 --> 1:37:07.880 few lights and a green screen and her phone can 1:37:07.920 --> 1:37:11.000 make a fantasy epic where they are in knight with 1:37:11.280 --> 1:37:13.640 you know, and they're fighting a big CGI dragon. They 1:37:13.680 --> 1:37:16.360 can do this already, So the way it's going to 1:37:16.400 --> 1:37:17.760 work in Hollywood, it's going to be great. I mean, 1:37:17.840 --> 1:37:20.599 especially for people on the post side, there is a 1:37:20.640 --> 1:37:23.919 world where this does make their lives a lot easier 1:37:23.960 --> 1:37:26.640 because they're already overworked. On the flip side of that, 1:37:27.040 --> 1:37:31.360 when you start to replace people with AI, that's when 1:37:31.400 --> 1:37:34.360 you start to get into the weeds. Humans have been 1:37:34.400 --> 1:37:37.800 telling stories around campfires for thousands of years. Storytelling is 1:37:37.840 --> 1:37:41.400 intrinsic to human nature, So why would you want to 1:37:41.439 --> 1:37:43.840 replace that with a computer in a writer's room, or 1:37:43.880 --> 1:37:45.960 you know, just with a generated video. Why would you 1:37:46.000 --> 1:37:48.599 want to replace that at that point? Just have AI 1:37:48.760 --> 1:37:50.240 raise your kid or have dinner with your wife. 1:37:50.280 --> 1:37:52.360 You're not a human anymore, you know. These are the 1:37:52.439 --> 1:37:52.960 joys we have. 1:37:53.600 --> 1:37:56.400 Should we be excited about this? Scared about it? A 1:37:56.439 --> 1:37:59.720 combination of both? What's your guidance after going through this 1:37:59.800 --> 1:38:03.600 side writing this book and also the documentary. 1:38:04.600 --> 1:38:07.040 I think that there is a path forward for this 1:38:07.120 --> 1:38:09.840 to be a very optimistic future. I think there's going 1:38:09.880 --> 1:38:12.680 to be a rough adjustment period here. There is a 1:38:12.800 --> 1:38:15.160 universe where a lot of people online you may have 1:38:15.200 --> 1:38:17.200 heard of this phrase of the singularity. I mean, it's 1:38:17.200 --> 1:38:20.080 all it's practically its own religion online of people saying, 1:38:20.160 --> 1:38:22.120 you know, there's going to become a time where these 1:38:22.160 --> 1:38:24.280 ais are going to be able to do so many 1:38:24.360 --> 1:38:27.320 different things and do so so fast that it's going 1:38:27.360 --> 1:38:30.080 to solve all the world's problems. I think that's a 1:38:30.080 --> 1:38:33.400 bit sunny of a view towards the future. But I 1:38:33.400 --> 1:38:35.400 think a lot of problems will be cracked by these 1:38:35.439 --> 1:38:38.479 because these things can think faster than us and can 1:38:39.200 --> 1:38:41.639 do incredibly boring jobs for quite long. 1:38:41.520 --> 1:38:42.200 Periods of time. 1:38:42.520 --> 1:38:46.439 But on the flip side, realistically, in the very near future, 1:38:46.560 --> 1:38:48.200 until we're all up to speed on this, it's going 1:38:48.280 --> 1:38:49.880 to be like the early days of the internet. We're 1:38:49.880 --> 1:38:53.000 going to be trying to weed out disinformation. This is 1:38:53.000 --> 1:38:56.360 an election year and we are not equipped for what's 1:38:56.400 --> 1:38:57.120 coming down the pike. 1:38:57.760 --> 1:39:00.759 Yeah, I mean we already saw the fake AI Biden 1:39:00.880 --> 1:39:04.320 call in New Hampshire and you know it was telling 1:39:04.320 --> 1:39:06.840 people not to vote. But do you think we're going 1:39:06.920 --> 1:39:08.759 to see I mean, I know we're going to see 1:39:08.880 --> 1:39:11.320 a ton of stuff online that you just you just 1:39:11.360 --> 1:39:13.040 don't know what to trust anymore. Is that is that 1:39:13.080 --> 1:39:15.240 the future we're heading to, or we just see an 1:39:15.280 --> 1:39:18.080 image and unless that person, like you said, is right 1:39:18.120 --> 1:39:20.519 in front of us as a human, we will not 1:39:20.560 --> 1:39:21.840 be able to tell if it's real or fake. 1:39:23.080 --> 1:39:24.759 Right. I think it's going to be pretty tough. 1:39:24.880 --> 1:39:27.280 I think what people need to prepare themselves, especially in 1:39:27.320 --> 1:39:29.160 this election year, is, yeah, you know. 1:39:29.160 --> 1:39:31.519 These these things like that, these one off things. 1:39:31.680 --> 1:39:34.320 I think people are getting a little bit more privy 1:39:34.360 --> 1:39:37.520 to They're able to debunk them a little bit more effectively. 1:39:37.920 --> 1:39:40.040 I think what where you see a lot of issue 1:39:40.160 --> 1:39:44.120 is rapidly developing situations. I have already seen so much 1:39:44.200 --> 1:39:47.240 AI disinformation coming out of what's going on in Gaza, 1:39:48.000 --> 1:39:50.559 and I'm not sure who's behind it, honestly, because it 1:39:50.600 --> 1:39:53.760 could be either party, it could be a third party. 1:39:53.520 --> 1:39:54.599 Who has their own agenda. 1:39:54.960 --> 1:39:57.040 There is just a lot of things where there is 1:39:57.120 --> 1:40:00.639 straight up AI generated images that all this informations coming 1:40:00.640 --> 1:40:03.639 from socials when rapidly developing situations, and you can't as 1:40:03.640 --> 1:40:06.280 easily vet these things as a user as maybe a 1:40:06.360 --> 1:40:09.439 news network might be able to over a longer period 1:40:09.479 --> 1:40:09.840 of time. 1:40:10.200 --> 1:40:12.840 Imagine we're gonna have to leave it there, Kyle, We're 1:40:12.840 --> 1:40:14.280 gonna have to do it there because I want to 1:40:14.280 --> 1:40:17.400 get your information before we have to go to break. 1:40:17.439 --> 1:40:19.960 What's the best way for folks to follow what you do? 1:40:20.520 --> 1:40:22.120 Thanks for cutting me off to plug myself. 1:40:22.160 --> 1:40:25.200 Yeah, you can find me at Kyle Vorbach online on 1:40:25.320 --> 1:40:27.360 everything that's it. 1:40:27.360 --> 1:40:28.639 It's a little top to spell. 1:40:28.680 --> 1:40:30.000 But if you can't find it, look up how I 1:40:30.040 --> 1:40:31.919 Faked my Life with AI on YouTube. 1:40:31.960 --> 1:40:33.400 You'll find all of my stuff there. 1:40:33.520 --> 1:40:37.439 Okay, Kyle vorboch vo r Bach How I Faked my 1:40:37.600 --> 1:40:40.519 Life with AI? Sounds like we are all going to 1:40:40.600 --> 1:40:44.000 have to be editors in the future, just sourcing everything 1:40:44.040 --> 1:40:47.519 that we see. Fascinating conversation. Thanks so much. The book 1:40:47.560 --> 1:40:50.040 is called Pandora's Code. You can find it on Amazon. 1:40:50.600 --> 1:40:53.040 Coming up, we are going to do the feedback segment. 1:40:53.080 --> 1:40:55.760 I got lots of emails throughout the show, so we'll 1:40:55.800 --> 1:40:56.360 read some of. 1:40:56.320 --> 1:41:01.160 Those and we'll talk more tech. You're listening to Rich 1:41:01.240 --> 1:41:01.639 on tech. 1:41:07.000 --> 1:41:09.640 It is time to close out the show. We got 1:41:09.640 --> 1:41:11.400 a lot of emails today, so we'll get right to 1:41:11.439 --> 1:41:15.200 the feedback segment, which is a combination of your feedback 1:41:15.240 --> 1:41:18.400 and the questions that you send me. Annett says, Hey, 1:41:18.479 --> 1:41:21.719 Rich I have some of my passwords password protected in word. 1:41:21.880 --> 1:41:24.439 Do you think this is a good slash safe idea? 1:41:24.560 --> 1:41:28.760 Thank you, Annette. No, I don't. I don't think that's 1:41:28.760 --> 1:41:29.320 a good idea. 1:41:30.120 --> 1:41:30.679 I know it's. 1:41:30.520 --> 1:41:33.479 Password protected, but I still don't think that's a very 1:41:33.479 --> 1:41:35.559 good idea to keep them in there. I would recommend 1:41:35.600 --> 1:41:42.080 a password manager because unless you're generating really strong, unique passwords, 1:41:42.680 --> 1:41:44.840 it sounds like you're making them up yourself, and that 1:41:44.880 --> 1:41:49.080 can only go so far. Hackers can crack even pretty 1:41:49.200 --> 1:41:52.920 long passwords that you come up with in seconds using 1:41:52.960 --> 1:41:57.680 software you really need like a fourteen to sixteen random 1:41:57.960 --> 1:42:00.840 character password for it to be uncrackable, at least by 1:42:00.840 --> 1:42:04.920 today's standards. So for a free program, I would recommend Bitwarden, 1:42:05.640 --> 1:42:09.240 or you can use what's built into Google or iPhone. 1:42:09.600 --> 1:42:10.840 They both work pretty well. 1:42:11.120 --> 1:42:13.439 The iPhone one, I'd only recommend if you're only using 1:42:13.439 --> 1:42:18.120 Apple products. Coleman says, hey, Rich, my iPhone seven has 1:42:18.120 --> 1:42:22.559 a logjam for my AOL emails. I cannot send or receive. 1:42:22.760 --> 1:42:25.080 Texting works great, Facebook and Google work. How do I 1:42:25.120 --> 1:42:28.919 unblock it? Coleman, I'd recommend going to the AOL website. 1:42:29.000 --> 1:42:32.320 It sounds like you are over your allotment for your emails, 1:42:32.880 --> 1:42:36.400 so go to the AOL website and free up some space. 1:42:36.600 --> 1:42:39.519 So go to aol dot com instead of accessing it 1:42:39.520 --> 1:42:42.280 through your phone and see what the hold up is. 1:42:42.360 --> 1:42:45.760 There's probably the storage is probably full, so delete some 1:42:45.840 --> 1:42:49.000 old emails, especially the large ones with attachments, and. 1:42:48.880 --> 1:42:50.120 You should be good to go there. 1:42:51.160 --> 1:42:53.800 Fred says, hey Rich, If the soundbar, this is in 1:42:53.840 --> 1:42:55.920 reference to something we talked about today. If the soundbar 1:42:55.960 --> 1:42:58.479 is connected to the TV with fiber optic, most likely 1:42:58.920 --> 1:43:01.240 the sound and video out of sync. If it's connected 1:43:01.320 --> 1:43:04.519 via HDMI or good old fashioned red and white RCA cable. 1:43:04.560 --> 1:43:07.040 There should be nothing out of sync. That is true 1:43:07.040 --> 1:43:10.479 because mine is connected by fiber optics still, and I 1:43:10.520 --> 1:43:14.120 do have to adjust the sink. Bill says on today's show, 1:43:14.160 --> 1:43:16.600 you mentioned ring and the value of the subscription for 1:43:16.640 --> 1:43:20.799 storing recordings in the cloud. Note that second tiered doorbell 1:43:20.840 --> 1:43:24.200 camera vendors often offer limited storage for free, such as 1:43:24.200 --> 1:43:27.519 the UFI system I have. Having the cloud storage included 1:43:27.560 --> 1:43:30.519 and avoiding subscription fees was the main reason I went UFI. 1:43:31.080 --> 1:43:33.400 That is true, Bill, A lot of people like UFI 1:43:33.479 --> 1:43:33.760 for that. 1:43:33.800 --> 1:43:37.280 Reason, but I do weren't there some recent changes with 1:43:37.439 --> 1:43:39.439 UFI where people get all up in arms, But I 1:43:39.479 --> 1:43:41.800 think that that's the main reason people like Ufe's because 1:43:41.800 --> 1:43:44.519 you don't necessarily have to have a subscription to use that. 1:43:45.840 --> 1:43:49.679 Whys is similar. A lot of people went Wise. But again, 1:43:50.240 --> 1:43:53.680 all of these companies are pushing people towards subscription, so 1:43:53.680 --> 1:43:56.720 they're making the features that you get without a subscription 1:43:57.000 --> 1:44:00.000 less and less every single day. So you can chew 1:44:00.200 --> 1:44:05.280 that now, but that could change. Looks like another another 1:44:05.360 --> 1:44:09.960 one from Fred. Fred says antennae is plural for antenna. Oh, 1:44:10.040 --> 1:44:14.280 there you go, Rich. Cindy says, I love your broadcast. 1:44:14.320 --> 1:44:16.960 A comment in regards to your TVs watching you. We 1:44:17.040 --> 1:44:19.559 read the book Fahrenheit four fifty one. It'll scare the 1:44:20.160 --> 1:44:22.040 beep out of you. I had to read it in 1:44:22.160 --> 1:44:25.120 high school, so did my kids. TVs will still watch 1:44:25.160 --> 1:44:26.920 you even when they have them turned off. I think 1:44:26.960 --> 1:44:29.479 you can check before you buy if your TVs cameras 1:44:29.840 --> 1:44:34.040 or camera capabilities. Don't even think about that kind of TV, Cindy, 1:44:34.120 --> 1:44:36.600 I would agree with that. I read Fahrenheit four to 1:44:36.680 --> 1:44:38.800 fifty one, and all the stuff that I read in 1:44:38.840 --> 1:44:41.599 these books that were written years and years ago all. 1:44:41.520 --> 1:44:42.639 End up coming true. 1:44:42.800 --> 1:44:44.920 I don't know how these people figured it out in 1:44:44.920 --> 1:44:48.000 the past, but yes, your TV is watching you, your 1:44:48.000 --> 1:44:51.360 phone is watching you, your computer is watching you right now. 1:44:51.400 --> 1:44:52.960 They say that those cameras. 1:44:52.560 --> 1:44:55.360 Are not in use when they are off, and most 1:44:55.360 --> 1:44:57.599 of these systems have some sort of physical shut off 1:44:57.600 --> 1:44:59.960 when the lid is closed or you're not using an 1:45:00.479 --> 1:45:02.559 or they have a light that lets you know. But 1:45:02.880 --> 1:45:05.440 it is scary and you have to take your own precautions. 1:45:06.960 --> 1:45:07.479 Let's see. 1:45:07.760 --> 1:45:11.320 M says, thanks for the my shake tips because in 1:45:11.360 --> 1:45:13.519 my office my phone was the only one that made 1:45:13.560 --> 1:45:16.920 the audible alert where the phone actually said earthquake out 1:45:16.920 --> 1:45:20.679 loud even though my phone was on silent mode. Yes, 1:45:20.880 --> 1:45:23.920 I did share that tip about the my Shake app, 1:45:24.400 --> 1:45:27.200 and it does. It taps into what's called a critical 1:45:27.280 --> 1:45:30.400 alert system on the iPhone and that means that it 1:45:30.439 --> 1:45:33.439 can still make a noise on your phone even if 1:45:33.439 --> 1:45:36.920 it's on silent and only certain apps can do that 1:45:36.960 --> 1:45:38.559 and you have to give it permission to do that, 1:45:38.640 --> 1:45:41.080 but my Shake is one of them. That's how my 1:45:41.200 --> 1:45:43.840 phone went off because my phone was on silent as well, 1:45:44.200 --> 1:45:48.800 and the earthquake alert still came through. So my Shake again, 1:45:48.880 --> 1:45:51.960 iOS and Android. If you're an earthquake country like we are, 1:45:52.640 --> 1:45:54.719 Oscar says, just a heads up. I bought a Samsung 1:45:54.800 --> 1:45:58.400 seventy five inch seventy five inch at best Buy in January. 1:45:58.479 --> 1:46:00.559 They had forty of them. I got it for five 1:46:00.600 --> 1:46:03.120 hundred and ninety eight dollars. What a world we live in? 1:46:03.600 --> 1:46:06.880 A seventy five inch TV for five hundred and ninety 1:46:06.880 --> 1:46:10.559 eight dollars. That is incredible. While enjoy the new TV, 1:46:10.720 --> 1:46:13.479 I will certainly enjoy mine watching the Super Bowl in 1:46:13.560 --> 1:46:15.639 four K tomorrow, even if it's upscaled. 1:46:15.680 --> 1:46:16.559 I'm not going to complain. 1:46:17.400 --> 1:46:19.160 If you can believe it, that is going to do 1:46:19.200 --> 1:46:21.519 it for this episode of the show. I tell you, 1:46:21.600 --> 1:46:23.720 if you want time to go by fast, just get 1:46:23.720 --> 1:46:26.240 a radio show, because I don't know how three hours 1:46:26.240 --> 1:46:29.120 goes by this quickly every single week. If you want 1:46:29.120 --> 1:46:31.760 links everything I mentioned, you can find it on my website. 1:46:31.800 --> 1:46:34.040 Just go to rich on tech dot tv for the 1:46:34.080 --> 1:46:37.240 show notes. You can find me on social media. I 1:46:37.280 --> 1:46:40.520 am at rich on Tech. I am active on Instagram, 1:46:40.760 --> 1:46:44.080 I'm active on Twitter, I'm active on Facebook, So find 1:46:44.120 --> 1:46:48.840 me there. Engage next week? What am I doing next week? 1:46:49.240 --> 1:46:51.559 Do I have time to find out? Let's see, let's 1:46:51.600 --> 1:46:54.680 look at the schedule. Oh oh yeah, we've got some 1:46:55.120 --> 1:46:57.160 you know what, We'll just have some fun. Next week 1:46:57.200 --> 1:46:59.120 we'll answer more of your question. Thanks to everyone who 1:46:59.160 --> 1:47:00.000 makes this show possible. 1:47:01.040 --> 1:47:03.200 Adam and for Bobo today, thanks for doing a great job. 1:47:03.200 --> 1:47:05.760 My name is Archdmiro. I will talk to you real soon.