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Speaker 1: We are all living in Well. I hope you're having
Speaker 1: a fantastic day. I am just got back from Chicago
Speaker 1: for the Chicago Auto Show.
Speaker 2: Chicago what a great city.
Speaker 1: Even though I did not leave the complex I was in,
Speaker 1: I was only there for like one what was it,
Speaker 1: forty eight hours? But Chicago is like a real I
Speaker 1: don't know, like there's just some buzz in that city.
Speaker 1: Like people just really take life seriously. In Chicago. It
Speaker 1: was not cold when I went, which everyone was talking about.
Speaker 1: Although it did thunder and lightning, it was not that
Speaker 1: windy and it was great. I went to the auto show,
Speaker 1: which is one of the most traditional things you can
Speaker 1: do here in America, and it was fun. And that
Speaker 1: show is the largest in North America. It's been going
Speaker 1: on for over one hundred years. They brought me out
Speaker 1: there to experience it, and I'm glad I went. Now,
Speaker 1: all the journalists there were talking about how the auto
Speaker 1: show is dead, and I will tell you it is
Speaker 1: not dead. In fact, if you have one in your city,
Speaker 1: go and take your kids, if you have kids, because
Speaker 1: it really brought back some strong memories growing up in
Speaker 1: the New York City area and going to the Jacob
Speaker 1: Javits Center with my dad and just sitting in all
Speaker 1: those cars and dreaming and having a great time and
Speaker 1: seeing what these car companies are doing. It was also
Speaker 1: great to witness the revolution that's happening in the auto industry,
Speaker 1: which is of course electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles. And I
Speaker 1: love going to things like this because it gives me perspective.
Speaker 1: That is why I take the time away from my
Speaker 1: family to go to these events, to be there in
Speaker 1: person and to actually be on the ground, because you
Speaker 1: gain perspective, and that's what I got here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Evs are everywhere you go.
Speaker 1: To Chicago, people are like, oh no, I don't want
Speaker 1: an EV why cold weather? Did you see the news
Speaker 1: about the teslas that were frozen to the ground in
Speaker 1: Chicago because there's only one supercharger station or two and
Speaker 1: people are in line and the line was so long
Speaker 1: their cars just seized up and they had like tow
Speaker 1: them out of there. So again, hearing those stories from
Speaker 1: people on the ground in Chicago gives me perspective. Hot
Speaker 1: weather changes the battery charging infrastructure. We take it for
Speaker 1: granted here, but in other parts of the nation it's just.
Speaker 2: Not the same. And not only that, but just sitting
Speaker 2: in a car.
Speaker 1: You can watch all the YouTube videos in the world
Speaker 1: and think you know a car, but when you sit
Speaker 1: in that car for exactly a minute, you understand that
Speaker 1: car instantly. That's what happened with me with a cyber truck,
Speaker 1: which was there. With the new Tesla that was revamped.
Speaker 1: Let's see, there was, I mean just so many cars
Speaker 1: I got to sit in, I got to test drive.
Speaker 2: It was great. One thing I saw that.
Speaker 1: Was pretty cool at the show is this thing called
Speaker 1: Emergency Safety Solutions.
Speaker 2: This is a company that is trying to.
Speaker 1: Basically put a new protocol into cars when they're disabled,
Speaker 1: when there's a crash or they're disabled, the back lights
Speaker 1: blink really fast, like a certain cadence, and that is
Speaker 1: to help eliminate disabled vehicle crashes. And this happens a
Speaker 1: lot in Los Angeles. Cars are on the side of
Speaker 1: the road, people don't notice them, they slam right into them.
Speaker 1: People are on their phone, they're texting, they're not looking up, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, you should not be doing in general,
Speaker 1: but it happens. And so this system is basically something
Speaker 1: that could be built into cars and the lights flash
Speaker 1: at a certain cadence and it helps drivers behind those
Speaker 1: cars understand that this car is stopped. And it takes
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 3: Too.
Speaker 1: It's two sided, so you have the lights that flash
Speaker 1: a certain cadence when the car is disabled, but you
Speaker 1: also have these digital alerts that are sent to your
Speaker 1: dashboard about a car up ahead that may be disabled,
Speaker 1: kind of similar to what you might experience with ways
Speaker 1: that tells you that there's a cop up ahead or
Speaker 1: a disabled vehicle. But this is kind of like across
Speaker 1: all cars right now. It's in Tesla's, not every tesla
Speaker 1: but it's in a bunch of Tesla's. They're working with Volkswagen, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep,
Speaker 1: and Ram. Of course that's all one company except for Volkswagen,
Speaker 1: so they're trying to get there.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was an interesting concept and I think it would help,
Speaker 1: but again, it probably costs more for the manufacturers. They
Speaker 1: need to do a concerted effort to get this all working.
Speaker 1: But I'll have more from the auto show in just
Speaker 1: a little bit. Here on the show. Okay, officially, I
Speaker 1: am one of those people. I upgraded my TV for
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Yes, I am now one of those
Speaker 1: people that said let's do this, and so I will
Speaker 1: tell you it was the easiest thing I've ever done
Speaker 1: in my life. So Number one, I ordered so we
Speaker 1: had an expert on a couple of weeks ago, so
Speaker 1: I knew all the TVs that I wanted. I ended
Speaker 1: up ordering a lesser TV than I wanted. I should
Speaker 1: have gone with a better one, but I didn't. But
Speaker 1: you know, I like to save money, so I went
Speaker 1: with the cheaper TV. I ordered it on the best
Speaker 1: Buy app from my phone and it went through. It
Speaker 1: took me two tries because my credit card actually said
Speaker 1: you don't usually buy stuff this expensive, so we're going
Speaker 1: to decline that charge, and so I had to do
Speaker 1: it twice.
Speaker 2: The second time it went through.
Speaker 1: Anyway, ordered it on the best Buy app was ready
Speaker 1: for pick up within it must have been an hour,
Speaker 1: not even I got it delivered to my house via
Speaker 1: the service called lug where it's kind of like an
Speaker 1: Uber but for anything. They will pick up furniture. They
Speaker 1: go to the place with a van, the people pick
Speaker 1: it up and they bring it to your house. That
Speaker 1: happened within another hour. So I had this thing in
Speaker 1: my house within two hours after placing order. I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. Then I texted the guy who hung my
Speaker 1: TVs the last time. This is probably ten years ago.
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, you still hanging TVs? Can you hang
Speaker 1: one more in my house? And he said sure, and
Speaker 1: he pretended he remembered me. Of course you didn't, but
Speaker 1: he gave me a great deal. Came to the house
Speaker 1: and boom, the TV was mounted. So I will tell
Speaker 1: you my advice on the TV. Number one, The TV
Speaker 1: looks great. Bigger screens definitely highlight the streaming quality of
Speaker 1: the content that you are watching. So immediately we put
Speaker 1: on a basketball game and we're like, eh, this doesn't
Speaker 1: look very good. I did some research. It turns out
Speaker 1: that that service I was using streams in like seven twenty.
Speaker 1: The bigger the TV screen, the more resolution you need.
Speaker 1: So now I'm like, Okay, Now I understand why four
Speaker 1: K is a thing. I understand why people like ten
Speaker 1: eighty versus seven twenty, and of course eight K is
Speaker 1: still a ways off. There are TVs that can handle it,
Speaker 1: but there's really no content for that maybe maybe on
Speaker 1: YouTube you might find something, but really not.
Speaker 2: My advice also, go o LED. I went with Mini LED.
Speaker 1: It is very apparent when I look at my OLED
Speaker 1: screen on my phone versus the Mini LED screen on TV,
Speaker 1: very very different. I watched a movie on the Samsung
Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty four yesterday on the plane.
Speaker 2: It's called Lift. It's on Netflix. It was very good.
Speaker 2: By the way, I could not.
Speaker 1: Believe how good that movie looked on a smartphone screen.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm talking, it was just incredible. I actually
Speaker 1: brought up the movie to my wife this morning. I said,
Speaker 1: you got to watch this. Just check out this scene
Speaker 1: and see how crisp the colors are and just the
Speaker 1: contrast everything. So go OLED if you can. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit more expensive. I wish I did, but I
Speaker 1: can always bring this TV to a different room. The
Speaker 1: other thing I noticed, and this is my takeaway for
Speaker 1: you, your TV is spying on you. If you have a
Speaker 1: smart TV, it is spying on everything you are doing,
Speaker 1: everything you are watching. It is making a log of
Speaker 1: what you are watching, the commercials you see, the stuff
Speaker 1: you're streaming, the channels, you're watching everything, no matter what
Speaker 1: input it is on it is doing something called automatic
Speaker 1: content recognition ACR. This is technology that recognizes the content
Speaker 1: on your TV screen. They use this data, they categorize it,
Speaker 1: and then they sell it so they know exactly when
Speaker 1: you buy a pack of Dorito's at the store in
Speaker 1: that new flavor. They can go back and look at
Speaker 1: the data from your TV and see if you saw
Speaker 1: a commercial and tell the advertiser, yeah, that worked. And
Speaker 1: if you think this isn't happening, it absolutely is. So
Speaker 1: here's my advice to you. Google your TV brand along
Speaker 1: with turn ACR off, and you will find the directions
Speaker 1: on how to turn off automatic content recognition on your TV.
Speaker 1: There is no reason why you already paid for the TV.
Speaker 1: You're not getting any benefit out of this feature. Your
Speaker 1: TV manufacturer is making extra money on top of the
Speaker 1: money you already paid them for your TV. So again,
Speaker 1: google your TV brand and along with turn ACR off
Speaker 1: automatic content recognition. Or you can just go in your
Speaker 1: settings if you're a little if you're a little techy,
Speaker 1: just go through the settings. You will find it buried
Speaker 1: under privacy or some sort of thing. That doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like it is a negative. It sounds like it's a positive.
Speaker 1: It says we will use this information to make your
Speaker 1: experience better. No they won't. They are just using it
Speaker 1: to make money off of you. All right, Coming up,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about the Super Bowl. I know
Speaker 1: it's this weekend. It is the first time it's in
Speaker 1: four K. I'll tell you how to access that, how
Speaker 1: to place your Wi Fi router in the right place
Speaker 1: if you're streaming the game. And coming up, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about Google's AI. It has a new name
Speaker 1: and a new price tag. But first it is your turn.
Speaker 1: Your calls coming up next at triple eight Rich one
Speaker 1: oh one, that's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Give me a call if you
Speaker 1: have a question about technology. My name is Rich Demiro
Speaker 1: and you are listening to Rich on Tech Angie and Riverside.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich. Hey, Rich, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 3: I get a quick question for you.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it be quick or not. Everyone's
Speaker 4: all about Wi Fi and having that in the house
Speaker 4: making it really easy to connect and everything. But my
Speaker 4: problem is is our WiFi is very spotty and it's
Speaker 4: not always reliant, and I want to look for hard
Speaker 4: wirings like Ethernet, cables through the house to like our
Speaker 4: smart TVs and other like our computers and laptops. Is
Speaker 4: there certain kind of company I would look forward specifically
Speaker 4: to do that, because I wouldn't be able to technically
Speaker 4: drill holes through the wall to fish these cables through
Speaker 4: to be able to install the outlets myself.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you would.
Speaker 1: You would just go on Yelp, and I think an
Speaker 1: electrician can handle this. You can type electrician. You can
Speaker 1: type like the same person that like hung my TV
Speaker 1: I just talked about. They will do stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and so if you type in like a TV mounting,
Speaker 1: they will. I mean you could just go on Yelp
Speaker 1: and literally just type in there's like security network, cabling,
Speaker 1: network installation. I mean, there's so many people that will
Speaker 1: do this.
Speaker 2: Kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't think you need it, to be honest, Like,
Speaker 1: I am running a lot of tech in my house
Speaker 1: and I don't have anything that is wired up. So
Speaker 1: I think what I would recommend before you try this
Speaker 1: is to get a mesh network. And a mesh network
Speaker 1: is kind of like the new thing in the tech
Speaker 1: world that's been around for you know, many years now,
Speaker 1: but it uses several access points around your house to
Speaker 1: create a network. And the big companies that make it Eero,
Speaker 1: you've got ORB. If you want something cheaper, there's a
Speaker 1: company called Villo Vilo. But if you go to the store,
Speaker 1: you can check these things out. And it's basically a
Speaker 1: three pack. So you start with a three pack. You
Speaker 1: put one by your modem where your internet comes into
Speaker 1: your house, and then you kind of put the rest
Speaker 1: around your house in two different other places, depending on
Speaker 1: how big your house is.
Speaker 2: You know, one or two or three may cover it.
Speaker 1: But if you still want to do this, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many people on.
Speaker 2: Yelp that will do this.
Speaker 1: So if you just put in even the ethernet Ethernet installation,
Speaker 1: you can type that in. And what I would do
Speaker 1: for the guidance on who to pick is to kind
Speaker 1: of talk to. I would call. So Yelp is going
Speaker 1: to try to sort by recommended. You can change that
Speaker 1: sort to either most reviewed or highest rated, whatever you want.
Speaker 1: But I would call the first couple of people, so
Speaker 1: maybe like the first three people and just get a
Speaker 1: feel for them and just talk to them. And if
Speaker 1: they're really quick on the phone, they don't really care
Speaker 1: to talk to you, then you know, I think you
Speaker 1: go with the next person and see what they do.
Speaker 1: That's how I got the TV installer that I like.
Speaker 1: That is, you know, I called again after ten years
Speaker 1: because he was really great on the phone. He explain
Speaker 1: things to me, Hey, how does this process work?
Speaker 2: What do you need?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Do you do this? Do you do that?
Speaker 1: And instead of some people, you get on the phone
Speaker 1: with YELP and they literally are trying to get you
Speaker 1: off the phone as soon as possible, or you can't
Speaker 1: even get person on the phone. So if you can't
Speaker 1: get a hold of them when you're trying to hire them,
Speaker 1: imagine what it's going to be like when you're done
Speaker 1: with the job and you've already paid them. You're never
Speaker 1: going to hear from them again. So that would be
Speaker 1: my advice if you need to go the wired route. Also,
Speaker 1: it depends on the speed that you have. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're talking a standard Internet speed from you know,
Speaker 1: Spectrum or something that's two three hundred megabits per second.
Speaker 1: I mean, most people are just using why find nowadays,
Speaker 1: But if you feel the need that you want to
Speaker 1: wire everything up just to make sure, then that's what
Speaker 1: I would do. Find someone on YELP and you'll you'll
Speaker 1: find someone that's that's going to do that. It's going
Speaker 1: to cost a lot though, that's not going to be
Speaker 1: cheap to do. I think it'd be cheaper to buy
Speaker 1: the router first, you know, the Mesh network, and then
Speaker 1: go with you know, if that doesn't work, you can
Speaker 1: return that and then go with someone to install it.
Speaker 1: But thanks Ange Riverside, appreciate the call today. Speaking of
Speaker 1: wi fi, if you are watching the super Bowl, you
Speaker 1: are gonna want to make sure that your WiFi is
Speaker 1: really good because many of us are streaming nowadays. So
Speaker 1: number one, how to watch the super Bowl forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers versus Chiefs. I would do the math, but I
Speaker 1: don't know it is this super Bowl fifty eight. It
Speaker 1: looks like this is gonna be on CBS. You can
Speaker 1: watch it, of course, over the air on the CBS
Speaker 1: network that's local to where you live. Paramount plus is
Speaker 1: also going to be streaming it.
Speaker 2: Now. I will tell you if you have Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1: I've had many issues with them, like just watching a
Speaker 1: movie on Paramount Plus is kind of tough sometimes. So
Speaker 1: for this, this is probably their biggest event they've ever done.
Speaker 1: I would have a backup just in case. Kickoff is
Speaker 1: at six thirty pm Eastern. They're also going to be
Speaker 1: showing it on Nickelodeon, but that's gonna be like kind
Speaker 1: of a kids version of the broadcast. I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be slime involved. So the main way CBS, nickelode in,
Speaker 1: Paramount plus. The other thing is if you want four K,
Speaker 1: there's a great article I'll link up from the TV
Speaker 1: answer Man about the about the Super Bowl in four K,
Speaker 1: But basically it will be in four K this year,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be an upscaled feed, so it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily going to be true four K, even though
Speaker 1: they are using four K cameras. But I don't know
Speaker 1: what the hesitation is with this whole four K revolution
Speaker 1: on streaming, but it's it's very, very slow. And the
Speaker 1: other thing is place your Wi Fi router, take it
Speaker 1: off the ground, and get things away from it so
Speaker 1: this signal can get.
Speaker 2: Through your entire house. That's my advice.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to talk about the Chicago
Speaker 1: Auto Show, what I saw, what was cool, and some
Speaker 1: of the key takeaways. You are listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one one.
Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. I'm on location in Chicago, site of the
Speaker 1: Chicago Auto Show. This is North America's largest auto show.
Speaker 1: It's been going on for like over one hundred years.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Auto Show, along with Nissan was kind enough
Speaker 1: to bring me here to experience it, which is my
Speaker 1: first time. I talked to several journalists on the floor,
Speaker 1: including Emily dry Belbis. She is the EV reporter for
Speaker 1: PCMag dot com. She actually lives in Chicago and gave
Speaker 1: me some history of the show.
Speaker 5: So Chicago Auto Show has kind of a family atmosphere.
Speaker 5: People in the city talk about going here when they
Speaker 5: grew up and now they're coming back with their kids.
Speaker 5: It'll be flooded with people. There'll be an hour to
Speaker 5: get on certain cars and see different cars with people everywhere.
Speaker 5: So it's a really popular community event. This is kind
Speaker 5: of like an amazing, low pressure dealer where you can
Speaker 5: see all of the latest models from all of the
Speaker 5: best brands, and they're not gonna sell you on them.
Speaker 5: You can look in them and see what the dash
Speaker 5: is like. And compare them really easily. I mean, you
Speaker 5: can walk right next to each other all the cars
Speaker 5: you want to see instead of having to drive to dealerships.
Speaker 5: So I think there's a lot of uses. That's the
Speaker 5: most practical one. It's also just fun, like you can
Speaker 5: drive a car up a huge mountain and down and
Speaker 5: kids love that, and there's lots of things you could
Speaker 5: do here.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I live in California, where evs are everywhere, but it
Speaker 1: was interesting to get the different perspective of EV drivers
Speaker 1: in Chicago, a place where the cold definitely takes a
Speaker 1: toll on the battery, so people here have sort of
Speaker 1: a different outlook on buying an EV.
Speaker 5: So I live in Chicago, and I'm an EV journalist,
Speaker 5: so I test drive evs all the time. But it's
Speaker 5: interesting I wouldn't buy one living in the city as
Speaker 5: my only vehicle because the range really does plummet in
Speaker 5: the cold. So I test drove a Tesla a couple
Speaker 5: of years ago in the winter, and it advertises two
Speaker 5: hundred and seventy miles of range in the cold. The
Speaker 5: dash screens that I was getting one to eighty. So
Speaker 5: if you're paying a premium for that product and you're
Speaker 5: not getting the value out of it. It really is
Speaker 5: kind of hard for me to rationalize buying it. But
Speaker 5: in Chicago, on my street, there are EV's everywhere, all
Speaker 5: the latest models. Riviana is located nearby. There are factors
Speaker 5: two hours from here, so tons of evs. If you
Speaker 5: have a single family home, no worries. But if you're
Speaker 5: like me in an apartment, it's probably not a great idea.
Speaker 5: What the EV revolution exposes is how many different types
Speaker 5: of driving there is, I mean different types of climates
Speaker 5: and use cases, road trip in the city and the highway.
Speaker 5: So it's a very complex problem. It's very hard to
Speaker 5: speak to what everybody wants.
Speaker 1: Next up, I talked to Sam abullas Samid. He is
Speaker 1: a automotive analyst at guide House Insights, and a lot
Speaker 1: of journalists on site. We're talking about the death of
Speaker 1: the auto show, how there's no major announcements at these events,
Speaker 1: But Sam takes kind of a different approach. These auto
Speaker 1: shows are really for consumers now well.
Speaker 6: One of the big trends with auto shows in general
Speaker 6: over the past decade is they've kind of followed the
Speaker 6: same trend as the technology industry, where most big companies
Speaker 6: have moved away from doing big press announcements at the
Speaker 6: auto shows and doing standalone announcements where they.
Speaker 2: Can get the entire news cycle.
Speaker 6: It's really expensive to do a press announcement at an
Speaker 6: auto show, so we've got fewer of those kinds of announcements,
Speaker 6: going back to more the traditional auto shows. As a
Speaker 6: consumer event, it's a great place for people that are
Speaker 6: interested in buying a vehicle to come out and check
Speaker 6: out a whole bunch of different brands. Right across the
Speaker 6: aisle from US here as the Ford booth where they're
Speaker 6: doing test drives, so you can actually come out and
Speaker 6: test drive some of the vehicles. You can check out
Speaker 6: different brands side by side, you know, as they get
Speaker 6: into the traditional spring buying season. You know, it's a good,
Speaker 6: good opportunity for consumers to see what's in the market.
Speaker 1: And even though EV's are front and center at the show,
Speaker 1: there are still plenty of hybrids in the conversation and
Speaker 1: even gas vehicles, so you know, we still.
Speaker 2: Got a lot of electrification.
Speaker 6: Right behind me here, it's the Subaru Saltera, which is
Speaker 6: their first EV that launched last year, and we're still
Speaker 6: seeing a lot of interesting introductions of new EVS. VW
Speaker 6: is showing they for the first time at an auto show,
Speaker 6: the three row version of the I D Buzz electric
Speaker 6: minivan that's coming here later this year to North America.
Speaker 6: It's a longer version than the version that they sell
Speaker 6: in Europe right now, the v W I D seven
Speaker 6: sedan that's coming this summer. There's there's more more electrics,
Speaker 6: but also there's also a lot a lot of conversation
Speaker 6: around hybrids. You know, with EV's EV adoption not really
Speaker 6: hitting that hockey stick. It's still growing, but it hasn't
Speaker 6: hit that hockey stick part of the curve yet, and
Speaker 6: so there's and affordability is still a challenge. So there's
Speaker 6: a lot more interest in hybrids. GM last week an now,
Speaker 6: so they're going to bring plug in hybrids back into
Speaker 6: their lineup in the next few years. Volkswagen Group of
Speaker 6: President Pablo de ce just at a at a press
Speaker 6: event just now, talked about bringing hybrids back to the
Speaker 6: Volkswagen lineup in the coming year. So we will continue
Speaker 6: to see more more growth of electrification in all its forms, hybrid,
Speaker 6: plug in hybrid and battery electric. We've got two hundred
Speaker 6: and ninety million registered vehicles in the United States, barely
Speaker 6: two million of those in total. Less than two million
Speaker 6: of those in total right now are electric. So there's
Speaker 6: gonna be internal combustion cars, gas and even diesel powered
Speaker 6: vehicles on the road for decades to come, and even
Speaker 6: new vehicles. We will still have vehicles that are powered
Speaker 6: by liquid fuels well into the twenty thirties. You may
Speaker 6: not be able to buy a new one in California
Speaker 6: in twenty thirty six, but there'll still be around.
Speaker 1: One mini surprise at the show, Tesla was on the
Speaker 1: show floor. They typically don't attend events like this. They
Speaker 1: had the refreshed Model three on display. The main thing
Speaker 1: I could tell that was different right off the bat
Speaker 1: was the addition of a display in the back seat.
Speaker 1: But the thing that everyone was looking at was the Cyberchuck,
Speaker 1: And I will say I was actually much more impressed
Speaker 1: with it than I imagined I would be. But this might
Speaker 1: be a turning point for Tesla.
Speaker 6: But Tesla traditionally, you know, at least for the past decade,
Speaker 6: has not really participated in auto shows. The fact that
Speaker 6: they're here again, I think fits in with what we've
Speaker 6: seen from Tesla over the past year. With some of
Speaker 6: the demand. You know, where Elon Musk used to talk
Speaker 6: about infinite demand for Tesla vehicles, Well it's not so
Speaker 6: infinite anymore. You know, they've had to cut prices in
Speaker 6: the past year by more than twenty percent on most
Speaker 6: of the models. And the fact that they're here at
Speaker 6: the auto show wanting to have a presence where consumers
Speaker 6: are going to be Lucid as well. You know, Lucid
Speaker 6: has struggled to really gain traction and grow their sales,
Speaker 6: and you know, they're they're still very much in the
Speaker 6: premium end of the market. But the fact that they're
Speaker 6: here in a market like Chicago where you know, there's
Speaker 6: quite a few premium buyers the I think that shows
Speaker 6: that they you know, they're having to market a little
Speaker 6: more aggressively than they have.
Speaker 2: In the past.
Speaker 1: Sam is kind of the guy when it comes to
Speaker 1: cars when you're at these parties that surround the events,
Speaker 1: when everyone gets together, he's the guy that everyone wants
Speaker 1: to talk to.
Speaker 2: So what is he like at this year's show.
Speaker 6: I'm a big fan of the the EV's from Hyundai
Speaker 6: at Kia, so cars like the Ionic five and Ionic
Speaker 6: six from Hyundai. Uh the Kia EV six and EV
Speaker 6: nine are great. You know, the some of the hybrids
Speaker 6: from Toyota are really fantastic vehicles. The Broncos that are
Speaker 6: driving around this course here, you know, the Mustang dark
Speaker 6: Horse is always a favorite for me. You know, I've
Speaker 6: been a Mustang fan since I was a little kid.
Speaker 6: Uh So, lots of lots of fun stuff to see
Speaker 6: here if you have any interest in vehicles at all.
Speaker 1: Finally, for an opinion from the TikTok generation, I consulted
Speaker 1: with Drake Moscow. He does content for TikTok surrounding cars.
Speaker 1: It was also his first time at the Chicago Auto Show.
Speaker 7: It's awesome.
Speaker 8: It's cool to see all these cars back to back
Speaker 8: and to see kind of a company's whole lineup all
Speaker 8: right next to each other. And you can see the
Speaker 8: product cycles, the newer vehicles, how they are updated and
Speaker 8: a little differentiated from the older vehicle. And I really
Speaker 8: like seeing all.
Speaker 7: Of that stuff.
Speaker 8: So there's a large spectrum of companies here, and it's
Speaker 8: cool to see how every brand is taking.
Speaker 7: A different approach.
Speaker 8: Like I was looking at the new Hyundai Santa Fe
Speaker 8: hybrid and there's no hybrid badging on it.
Speaker 7: It looks just like a normal gas car.
Speaker 8: The only way you can really tell is like the
Speaker 8: exhausts are a little different, but they're not branding it
Speaker 8: as a hybrid, which I think is super interesting. All
Speaker 8: auto shows nowadays have these awesome like experiential elements, which
Speaker 8: is really cool and allows people to like get into
Speaker 8: cars and feel what they're like while driving, not just static,
Speaker 8: which I think is really important. And the Chicago Auto
Speaker 8: Show in particular, it's it's awesome to be like in
Speaker 8: this massive venue, there's like so much space around, so
Speaker 8: you kind of don't feel too claustrophobic around all the
Speaker 8: cars because there is so much space to kind of
Speaker 8: hang out and experience the vehicles.
Speaker 2: There you have it from the Chicago Auto Show.
Speaker 1: If you want to see some of the cars that
Speaker 1: caught my eye, check out my instagram at rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, more of your calls at
Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. My name
Speaker 1: is rich Damiro and you are listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one
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Speaker 1: You could also submit your question there. Ralph on x
Speaker 1: formerly Twitter says, Hey, Rich, I never heard of ACR
Speaker 1: until today on your show.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the heads up, And Chuck.
Speaker 1: Wrote in on email he said, I left mine on
Speaker 1: because I want them to know what channels I'm watching
Speaker 1: so they can provide better service or reward the channel
Speaker 1: that's giving me the content. I like, there's about seventy
Speaker 1: three channels I never watch. I hope they realize that
Speaker 1: and change it up A couple of perspectives there.
Speaker 2: I like that. Let's go to Dan in Carpenteria. Dan,
Speaker 2: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, Rich, thank you very much for taking
Speaker 9: my call.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Yeah, welcome, Yeah, gonna help.
Speaker 9: So here's a little background. Unfortunately, my wife has a
Speaker 9: neuro degenitive disease called ALS.
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry to hear that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, really tough stuff. But because of that, she's not
Speaker 9: able to use her hands. So in the morning, I
Speaker 9: get her up, and I get her ready and I
Speaker 9: put her in her chair and then she pretty much
Speaker 9: watches TV all day. Question I have for you, is
Speaker 9: there a programmable remote TV remote control that would say,
Speaker 9: like between eight and nine in the morning, she'd be
Speaker 9: watching news on channel seven oh seven, and then at
Speaker 9: nine o'clock would automatically click over between nine and ten
Speaker 9: to channel seven eleven, so she'd watch maybe the Talk
Speaker 9: or something, and then at between you know, eleven and twelve,
Speaker 9: it would change channels again. But I could just program
Speaker 9: for the course of the day, so that The problem
Speaker 9: I'm having now is is that if I don't get
Speaker 9: in there in time, I know you're a little frustrated
Speaker 9: if she's watching her program she doesn't want to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so is she able to change the like press
Speaker 1: the button on the remote or no?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, So so it would be a remote that like
Speaker 1: kind of you set it and forget it kind of thing.
Speaker 2: What about voice? Can she use voice?
Speaker 9: Unfortunately? Yes and no. Unfortunately. She has a stage also,
Speaker 9: which means she a lot of times she uses word substitution.
Speaker 9: She may say cat whenever she really needs to say dogs.
Speaker 9: So I don't see that as an option.
Speaker 2: Oh Dan, I'm sorry to hear this. Wow.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's really tough stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, so I'm thinking for a tech solution.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the old days when you used
Speaker 1: to like program the VCR and it would change to
Speaker 1: the channel and like record the show. But I think
Speaker 1: we're beyond that. I think that the maybe the best
Speaker 1: thing you might be able to do. There's two things
Speaker 1: I'm thinking. Number One, some of these like cable boxes
Speaker 1: have like a way like a timer that will change
Speaker 1: the channel, but I'm not really sure like if that's
Speaker 1: a thing anymore, Like if they have a DVR built in,
Speaker 1: that may be one way to do it, where you
Speaker 1: program the DVR to change to the channel that you
Speaker 1: want to record, but it's actually changing to that channel
Speaker 1: just to watch it too. Do you have traditional cable
Speaker 1: TV or do you have like streaming.
Speaker 9: I have a just I have a Spectrum cable right now.
Speaker 9: It ties into a Sony So they have their cable box.
Speaker 2: And does that cable box have the DVR built in?
Speaker 9: You know, that's something I don't know how to check
Speaker 9: that out.
Speaker 1: Okay, because that's one way is if it's a So
Speaker 1: what I would do is, you know, usually these cable
Speaker 1: boxes have like a couple of tuners in them so
Speaker 1: that they can record a couple of things at once.
Speaker 1: But you can almost like hack it where you set
Speaker 1: all of the timers to record the same channel at
Speaker 1: the you know, like if you want this channel at
Speaker 1: nine set both timers to record that channel at nine am,
Speaker 1: so it's forced to change to that channel on the screen.
Speaker 1: So that's one way that you might be able to
Speaker 1: do it, and that doesn't really take any additional equipment
Speaker 1: than what you already have. It's been a while since
Speaker 1: I used one of those boxes, so I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's how they work anymore, but I think that's well,
Speaker 1: that's the way they used to work, and so that
Speaker 1: may be one way to do it.
Speaker 2: That's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: When I used to have TVO, it would it would
Speaker 1: change the channel automatically, and if you max out the tuners,
Speaker 1: it would say, sorry, you can't change the channel anymore.
Speaker 1: Like we're recording on two channels, and you got to
Speaker 1: stick with one of these. You got to watch one
Speaker 1: thing or the other. So that's one way. The other
Speaker 1: thing you could do, and this takes a little bit
Speaker 1: more work, but you could use like a Google Home
Speaker 1: or an Alexa speaker and you can program routines into those. Now,
Speaker 1: this is not going to be full proof in my experience.
Speaker 1: Half the time routines work. Half the time they don't work,
Speaker 1: But that could be another way of doing it. And
Speaker 1: I'm actually I found a thread on Reddit where people
Speaker 1: have come up with routines where it will turn on
Speaker 1: the TV, it will set the volume to a certain percentage,
Speaker 1: and then it will play the channel that it wants
Speaker 1: to play on that TV. And so now that's a
Speaker 1: little complicated because you need everything to work with Google
Speaker 1: or Alexa, but you can definitely do that. It would
Speaker 1: take a little bit of know how though, and it,
Speaker 1: like I said, it wouldn't always work. Like I have
Speaker 1: a couple things in my house that are routines. Most
Speaker 1: of the time they work, sometimes they don't. But that
Speaker 1: is something you can definitely and it's not that expensive
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: You can get.
Speaker 1: The best box that I would recommend is probably the
Speaker 1: Fire TV Cube because it has an IR blaster in
Speaker 1: it and so you can actually hook that up to
Speaker 1: work with your cable box. And it's actually pretty slick
Speaker 1: because your cable box plugs into it. And so what
Speaker 1: that means is that everything on the fire TV overlays
Speaker 1: on top of your cable box, so your wife actually
Speaker 1: wouldn't really notice a huge difference because everything would kind
Speaker 1: of look the same. So those are kind of fire
Speaker 1: TV yeah, fire TV cube and that's and it's also
Speaker 1: going to give you voice. So basically what you're doing
Speaker 1: is instead of doing instead of saying a voice command
Speaker 1: to it, you're just programming a voice command as a routine.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, Hey, at two o'clock, tune into this channel.
Speaker 1: So instead of you saying that verbally, you would just
Speaker 1: write that. You would type that in as a routine
Speaker 1: and it would do it would fire off that routine
Speaker 1: at two pm every day, and then you know, you
Speaker 1: can layer on the top, you know, turn on the TV,
Speaker 1: turn off the TV. But again, not guaranteed to work exactly,
Speaker 1: but it's I think that's going to be a pretty
Speaker 1: good solution. But try the DVR setting first, see if
Speaker 1: that works, Like, just try to set the DVR to
Speaker 1: change to the channel at those times. And the best
Speaker 1: part about this show is that now that we talked
Speaker 1: about this on the air, I will probably get some
Speaker 1: emails from folks saying, Rich, you know, what about this solution?
Speaker 1: What about that solution? So there are different ways of
Speaker 1: doing this. Those are the couple that I can think
Speaker 1: of off the top of my head. But maybe we'll
Speaker 1: get some other you know, other suggestions.
Speaker 9: As well, be posted on your website.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or I'll mention.
Speaker 1: Them on the show in the future, and maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: if we get some by next week I'll mention them
Speaker 1: in the feedback segment at the end of the show.
Speaker 9: Sounds great, Thank you so much, all right.
Speaker 1: Dan, appreciate the call up there in a carpenteria today.
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Let's see a
Speaker 1: couple questions we got on email. Louise says, you have
Speaker 1: any suggestions for outdoor TV. We live in Colorado, it
Speaker 1: gets cold. The two big brands Louise for outdoor TVs
Speaker 1: are Sunbright or the Samsung Terrace. Sunbright sort of owned
Speaker 1: the market here for many years. That's in the premium TVs.
Speaker 1: Samsung Terras is the other brand that sort of is
Speaker 1: coming up.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And these TVs, you know, they're they're brighter than your
Speaker 1: standard TV because you're outside. There's less glare on the
Speaker 1: screen because you're outside. And also their weather proof so
Speaker 1: that they can deal with the rain, they can deal
Speaker 1: with the cold, they can deal with the heat.
Speaker 2: Now. I will tell you.
Speaker 1: When I was getting my TV installed by the installer,
Speaker 1: he said, what are you going to do with this
Speaker 1: whole TV? I said, I don't know, probably just recycling.
Speaker 1: He said, why don't you put it outside? I said, outside?
Speaker 1: This is a regular TV. And even though we live
Speaker 1: in California where people basically set up things that shouldn't
Speaker 1: be set up outside outside all the time, because it
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't rain much except in the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, I was like, isn't that going to
Speaker 1: short circuit? Isn't that going to be a problem. He said, Nah,
Speaker 1: just get a cover off Amazon.
Speaker 2: It's cheap.
Speaker 1: I'll mount it out there, and you know, you put
Speaker 1: the cover on when it's raining, it'll be fine. I
Speaker 1: can't say I recommend that because I haven't tried it personally,
Speaker 1: but I'm probably going to try it.
Speaker 2: As long as you keep things dry, maybe it's okay.
Speaker 1: But if you want a solution that's truly going to work,
Speaker 1: that is meant to be the way it is engineered,
Speaker 1: I would go with an outdoor TV. Also, if you
Speaker 1: look up on Amazon, there are much cheaper outdoor TVs
Speaker 1: than the Sunbrights of the World or the Samsung's.
Speaker 2: But those are two places to start quickly before. Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't guess we're going a break never mind?
Speaker 1: Uh eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four to one zero one.
Speaker 1: Coming up, Disney Plus is the latest to crack down
Speaker 1: on password sharing. I will tell you the details of
Speaker 1: when that is scheduled to start. Tell your family members.
Speaker 1: Now you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with
Speaker 1: you talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one.
Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Well my theory was correct. Steve has written
Speaker 1: in through the website rich on Tech dot TV. He said, Uh,
Speaker 1: to the man with the question about the ALS situation,
Speaker 1: I have Direct TV. If he adds the same programs
Speaker 1: fully on their DVR, it will switch to the new
Speaker 1: station automatically. It's important to program the same program on
Speaker 1: all slots for each hour. That's exactly what I said,
Speaker 1: So I think that will be your solution. That was
Speaker 1: Dan and Carpenteria. So Dan, I hope you're still listening.
Speaker 1: That is the way to do it. It won't cost
Speaker 1: you anything. It's using the DVR that you already have.
Speaker 2: So I like that. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Let's see d says, what's the best antennae antenna to
Speaker 1: get to access local channels. I feel like antennae are
Speaker 1: the things that come out of the ants you know.
Speaker 1: But like antenna, if you're looking for for your DV
Speaker 1: I like anything from Antenna's Direct, A, N T, E, NNA,
Speaker 1: Antenna's Direct, and they make something called the Mohu and
Speaker 1: they're they're famous for the Mohu leaf, but they also
Speaker 1: have new ones, the Mohu Versa. But I would pop
Speaker 1: in your zip code, see what you can get and
Speaker 1: get the recommendation for what you need. So it really
Speaker 1: depends on where you live, what kind of antenna you need.
Speaker 1: You might need something that's powered, you might need something
Speaker 1: that's small. It just really depends. So just pop in
Speaker 1: your zip code on Antennasdirect dot com and it will
Speaker 1: tell you what you can get and also the types
Speaker 1: of antennas that you should get, so it'll tell you
Speaker 1: exactly what you need, suggest an Antenna's fear zip code.
Speaker 1: It also tell you the channels that you can get
Speaker 1: and you'll be surprised. I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the deal is with antennas. I feel like they've come
Speaker 1: a long way. But I can plug one into the
Speaker 1: back of my TV in the office and I get
Speaker 1: like every channel like almost crystal Well, the ones I
Speaker 1: get are crystal clear, and I get a lot of them.
Speaker 1: A lot of them are, you know, kind of nonsensy,
Speaker 1: but you know, the big ones are there. Disney Plus
Speaker 1: is going to start cracking down on passwords sharing. They
Speaker 1: sent out a new terms of service to their subscribers,
Speaker 1: and anyone suspected of improper sharing may have some ramifications.
Speaker 1: They could even cancel your account. This will begin summer
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, so Disney of course hopes to convert
Speaker 1: some passwords sharing folks to paid subscribers. They will have
Speaker 1: some sort of message they will send you saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we notice you're trying to share someone else's password. You
Speaker 1: want to subscribe yourself. But again, that happened summer twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. There's going to be a lot of sad
Speaker 1: people on my account. Every time I log in, there's
Speaker 1: another profile added to my Disney Plus page.
Speaker 2: I can't say that.
Speaker 1: You should be sharing your password right now, but I
Speaker 1: know people do, and so far these streaming companies have
Speaker 1: not cracked down on it, but that is changing in
Speaker 1: a very, very big way. If you check out my
Speaker 1: Instagram at rich on Tech, like I said, I just
Speaker 1: got back from the Chicago Auto Show, you can check
Speaker 1: out the various posts I put on there, and I
Speaker 1: was noticing I actually forgot about this. But yesterday I
Speaker 1: was on the plane flying back and I got an
Speaker 1: earthquake alert. How scary is that. I'm just sitting there
Speaker 1: on my phone before the plane took off. We were
Speaker 1: actually delayed a little bit because they're repairing something, and
Speaker 1: I get this critical notification that says earthquake drop cover
Speaker 1: hold on shaking expected magnitude four point seven in La County.
Speaker 1: And I was in Chicago, and so I immediately text
Speaker 1: my wife and said, Lindsey, did you are you filling
Speaker 1: an earthquake or what?
Speaker 2: She said, Yeah, had you know?
Speaker 1: I said, well, I just got the alert on my phone.
Speaker 1: And so my advice, because I posted this, of course,
Speaker 1: is to download this app.
Speaker 2: It's called my Shake.
Speaker 1: So if you live in the LA area, it only
Speaker 1: works in Los Angeles or sorry, California, Washington, and Orion.
Speaker 1: But if you live in one of those places. It
Speaker 1: uses that network they set up of the little sensors
Speaker 1: in the ground and it will tell you a couple
Speaker 1: of seconds before the earthquake, or at least that's what's
Speaker 1: supposed to do. And of course, based on all the
Speaker 1: feedback I got, a lot of people did get it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people said they had an old app
Speaker 1: that's been decommissioned. The main app, I think the only
Speaker 1: app you can do at this point is called my Shake.
Speaker 1: Now that's for Android and iOS. If you have Android,
Speaker 1: you can go into your settings under Safety Emergency. There
Speaker 1: is an earthquake alert system built into the Android operating system.
Speaker 1: So either way, I recommend getting it. My kids were
Speaker 1: really shaken up. They said, oh Dad, it was the
Speaker 1: first time we had an earthquake at school and the
Speaker 1: whole room shot, you know, shook, and we had to
Speaker 1: get under our desks. Reminds me of back in the
Speaker 1: day when I was a kid. We used to like
Speaker 1: what we learned, like stop, drop and roll for like fires.
Speaker 1: But now I guess with earthquakes it's like stop and
Speaker 1: take cover or something. I didn't grow up an earthquake country,
Speaker 1: so I didn't really learn that stuff growing up and
Speaker 1: in fact, my inkling was to run outside. And when
Speaker 1: I interviewed an expert in earthquakes, he's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: that is the last thing you want to do. That's
Speaker 1: how people get hurt because things fall on top of
Speaker 1: their head.
Speaker 2: So be safe. And if you're not from the area
Speaker 2: that has.
Speaker 1: Earthquakes or any natural disaster that you get in your area,
Speaker 1: educate yourself. Because that was an eye opening thing for me.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that would be bad.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Judy and ya kaipa, Judy, you're on
Speaker 2: with Rich?
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 9: Rich.
Speaker 10: I keep doing this message on my iPhone and I
Speaker 10: don't know whether to do anything or just to delete it.
Speaker 10: And I told you, screener, what it says. Do you
Speaker 10: want me to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, read it to me. Let's hear it.
Speaker 10: Urgent service reactivation. Your services have been pause. And then
Speaker 10: it says it has a phone number, and then it
Speaker 10: has a website, which is that's not it?
Speaker 1: How are you getting this notification? How's it? Where's it
Speaker 1: coming through?
Speaker 9: Like it?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a text? Okay, what do you think about this, Judy?
Speaker 10: Well, I've never heard of this.
Speaker 9: Ray.
Speaker 10: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: What service do you think they're pausing.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the problem. These things, these these people
Speaker 1: are this is a this is a scam, and this
Speaker 1: is you know, I'm assuming the web address is some
Speaker 1: sort of like it's not like Google dot com, right,
Speaker 1: it's it's something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't don't even give it to us. What is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want don't don't even say it on
Speaker 1: air because I don't want people to go to it
Speaker 1: because this is totally you know, they're going to try
Speaker 1: to either get your personal information, your credit card number.
Speaker 1: This is you know, this is totally a scam.
Speaker 10: Okay, Yeah, appreciate your.
Speaker 1: Show, Thank you, thank you, Judy, appreciate it. The main,
Speaker 1: the main takeaway here is that you do not want
Speaker 1: to click on the links in these texts that you get.
Speaker 1: You do not want to call the phone number. You
Speaker 1: do not want to respond because the more you respond
Speaker 1: to these things or interact with them, it verifies your number.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you now probably now's a good
Speaker 1: time talking about this. Hang on, let me grab my
Speaker 1: notes on this thing. So I was talking to my
Speaker 1: wife about the information that is that is on all
Speaker 1: of us on the internet, and these uh, the idea
Speaker 1: of your data is out there right through data breaches.
Speaker 1: Your phone number, your email address, your data birth, your
Speaker 1: social Security number, it is all out there. And the
Speaker 1: way that this gets out there is that there are
Speaker 1: data breaches on the websites that you give this information to,
Speaker 1: and so once those sites get hacked, they that information
Speaker 1: is out there online for anyone to find. And so
Speaker 1: with that said, couple things you can do. I've talked
Speaker 1: about this before, but you can manually go through and
Speaker 1: try to request a takedown of your information. But first
Speaker 1: you have to see where that information is. And so
Speaker 1: Mozilla this week came out with the new thing called
Speaker 1: Mozilla Monitor Plus. And if you're familiar with Mozilla, that's
Speaker 1: the company that makes the Firefox web browser.
Speaker 2: And this is not new.
Speaker 1: This is something that a lot of companies offer, but
Speaker 1: I do trust Mozilla and they actually gave me a
Speaker 1: test account to try this out, and I'm very impressed.
Speaker 1: So it found like one hundred and thirty nine instances
Speaker 1: of my information online and it fixed eleven manually, it
Speaker 1: removed five of them automatically, and seventy one are in progress.
Speaker 1: And so what it does is it scans the information
Speaker 1: about you you put in your name, your phone number,
Speaker 1: your email address, maybe your data birth and then it
Speaker 1: goes out online and it looks for the places that
Speaker 1: have that information and so it found it on all
Speaker 1: these different websites been verified, people Wizard, Gosh, there's ten
Speaker 1: variations of that one. Search Systems, Bumper dot com, whatever,
Speaker 1: that is, free People, Directory, Number, Guru, Ownerly, People Smart
Speaker 1: and so Spokio. You know you've heard of that one.
Speaker 1: And it goes through and it shows you the information
Speaker 1: on the page. It gives you a link of that
Speaker 1: and then it tells you what you can do about it,
Speaker 1: so whether you can manually take that down or they
Speaker 1: can do it. So for free, they will do a
Speaker 1: one time scan of your information and just kind of
Speaker 1: reveal where it is and show you what you can do.
Speaker 1: But if you pay them a couple bucks a month,
Speaker 1: they will do all of this for you and automatically
Speaker 1: and continue to do it. So they scan like one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety different broker sites. But if you want
Speaker 1: to do this for a free one time scan, which
Speaker 1: I think you should probably do, just check out monitor
Speaker 1: dot Mozilla dot org. Monitor dot mozilla dot org and
Speaker 1: it's pretty incredible it's very eye opening. Now, if you
Speaker 1: are a Google subscriber, if you pay for anything from
Speaker 1: Google one, they have what's called a dark Web scanner,
Speaker 1: and so they will email you when your results show
Speaker 1: up on the dark web.
Speaker 2: That's if you're paid. And I've got all that monitor too.
Speaker 1: Your email address, my data birth, my phone number, my usernames,
Speaker 1: my passwords. It's pretty wild what is out there, and
Speaker 1: so they will email you that as well. That's if
Speaker 1: you're a paid subscriber. If you're not paid, Google has
Speaker 1: a free thing called Google Results about You, and so
Speaker 1: if you go there, you put in your information again
Speaker 1: and they will scan the web for any website that
Speaker 1: has the information that you put in, whether it's your data, birth,
Speaker 1: your phone number, your address, whatever it is, and they
Speaker 1: will tell you where that is. Now, Google will not
Speaker 1: take down that website, but they will take down the
Speaker 1: link to that website on their search results. So if
Speaker 1: someone's looking for you, it takes a little bit of
Speaker 1: a deeper dive for them to actually find you than
Speaker 1: going on Google. So if you just typed in someone's
Speaker 1: name and address you know, and or phone number or
Speaker 1: date of birth, you won't see those results on Google
Speaker 1: search if you want to go through and actually get
Speaker 1: rid of those. That's why you have to actually go
Speaker 1: through to these companies and get rid of this yourself.
Speaker 1: But I highly recommend you do a search for yourself
Speaker 1: and just see what's out there and try to remove
Speaker 1: some of this information.
Speaker 2: It will definitely come in handy.
Speaker 1: All right, Coming up, we're going to talk to doctor
Speaker 1: Chris Pearson, cybersecurity expert. He's going to talk about romance
Speaker 1: scams and Google's AI has a new name. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you all about that, plus more of your questions and
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Speaker 1: Coming up, we're gonna talk romance scams with doctor Chris Pearson,
Speaker 1: cyber security expert. I was intrigued at this conversation. I
Speaker 1: learned some new things, and I hope you will too.
Speaker 1: Coming up right after this, joining me now, friend of
Speaker 1: the show, doctor Chris Pearson of black Cloak dot Io.
Speaker 2: Chris, thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 7: Hey, it's great to be here. Thanks Rich.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about what's happening in the h Well,
Speaker 1: it's happening all the time, but it is Valentine's Day,
Speaker 1: so let's talk talk about these romance scams. So what
Speaker 1: are some of the most common techniques that romance scammers
Speaker 1: try to use to exploit folks?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean this scam is always a good one.
Speaker 7: It's on the rise.
Speaker 12: Last year there were ten point three billion reported scams
Speaker 12: is twenty twenty two data to the FBI's ICE three.
Speaker 7: And so those.
Speaker 12: Scams that we see that fall into romance scam bucket
Speaker 12: usually fall into a you know, somebody becoming friends with
Speaker 12: someone else online. It moves from a normal channel, one
Speaker 12: of the normal social media channels, into private discussions, private chats,
Speaker 12: private areas where there's less monitoring, less control, and then
Speaker 12: it evolves into in some form of fashion, a hey,
Speaker 12: I'm so sorry I wasn't talking to you for two weeks.
Speaker 12: I actually hit it big, did great stuff. You know,
Speaker 12: I'll be traveling a lot, but I hope I see it,
Speaker 12: And then that gets your interest in. You then end
Speaker 12: up joining them in a investing in a crypto, which
Speaker 12: of course is all fake, and write them and the
Speaker 12: other organized criminal syndicate gang take your money. That's a big,
Speaker 12: big one. The other one is any type of man
Speaker 12: scam where they're able to get direct funds from you.
Speaker 12: It might be via gift cards, it might be very
Speaker 12: all wire, might be via some other payment method. But
Speaker 12: they're able to go ahead and convince you that they
Speaker 12: need travel money, trail funds.
Speaker 7: They're stuck at the border.
Speaker 12: They were on the way to go see you, but
Speaker 12: then they ended up in the hospital and the bills
Speaker 12: too much as five thousand dollars And could you possibly
Speaker 12: help them? Of course yes, because your heart is wanting
Speaker 12: them to come in to see them.
Speaker 7: Hence the romance scam. So those are the most common ones.
Speaker 12: We can talk a little bit more about some other ones,
Speaker 12: but I mean those are the big common ones.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've got the common ones. What if you
Speaker 1: think you're getting scammed in this way? What if you
Speaker 1: suspect it? What should you do? Do you just ghost
Speaker 1: this person?
Speaker 12: So I mean, if you if you want to dive
Speaker 12: a little bit deeper, right, really find out right who
Speaker 12: they are? You know, hey, want to be careful, want
Speaker 12: to want to maybe stay on that main channel, right,
Speaker 12: the main social media items, you know, get a driver's license,
Speaker 12: get a passport, gets something, actually proves that they are
Speaker 12: who they say they are. If their excuses like oh
Speaker 12: I don't have it or I lost it, oh this
Speaker 12: that whatever other thing is that you know. So that's
Speaker 12: always a good a good first thing. But I mean second,
Speaker 12: if you feel like it might be some part of
Speaker 12: a scam, egress, Right, they're gonna want time to move
Speaker 12: forward really really quickly, and spotting that is really imperative.
Speaker 12: If they seem like they are always far away, always traveling,
Speaker 12: might be a romance scam. If they claim they're in
Speaker 12: the military and always traveling. Once again, it could be
Speaker 12: a romance scam.
Speaker 7: If the profile match.
Speaker 12: Is too closely something you like as well, Right, Hey
Speaker 12: I'm anaquestrian champion.
Speaker 7: Oh will so my love horses have them?
Speaker 12: Whatever speed or continued excuses of hey I can't see
Speaker 12: you for some reason, the border, whether whatever it might be.
Speaker 7: There's always a way to get together in person.
Speaker 12: And if they're always excuses over an extended period of time,
Speaker 12: these are the big warning science egress, stop close down
Speaker 12: your communications with that person.
Speaker 1: What if you actually sent money to one of these people,
Speaker 1: because that sounds like what they want.
Speaker 2: Is there any recourse?
Speaker 7: Well, first thing is if you say, if you think
Speaker 7: that anything.
Speaker 12: Is wrong, speed is your friend in terms of stopping
Speaker 12: those funds. So Usually it's going to be sent via
Speaker 12: a wire which is very very fast, or some type
Speaker 12: of other fast transmission.
Speaker 7: It can be ach or like a zell or a Venmo.
Speaker 12: Look, the bottom line is contact your bank immediately and
Speaker 12: get that wire or payment stop.
Speaker 7: That's first and foremost. Second, if you did send.
Speaker 12: Something, you're gonna really want to go ahead and change
Speaker 12: those account numbers just to make sure that there's no
Speaker 12: trace back to you in terms of them being able
Speaker 12: to try to further scam you. And then third, you're
Speaker 12: going to be need some type of remediation. It may
Speaker 12: be that during the scam you downloaded, you know, screen
Speaker 12: messaging software or video messaging software so you can have
Speaker 12: one to one chats.
Speaker 7: You're gonna want to scrub that from your machine.
Speaker 12: If you ever downloaded any programs that they sent you, you're
Speaker 12: gonna want to remove those from your machine as well
Speaker 12: and kind of delete your tracks. But getting funds back,
Speaker 12: you get to get with the bank report that. Of course,
Speaker 12: you can report scams frauds that have happened to the
Speaker 12: IC three Internet Crime Complaint Center of the FBI, but
Speaker 12: that's not an arm of the FBI that gets back
Speaker 12: your money. They simply taken the intelligence and aggregate it
Speaker 12: so that they know what the latest and greatest scams
Speaker 12: are and can build cases that are large.
Speaker 1: I think I know the answer to this, but why
Speaker 1: are we seeing more of these romance scams now than
Speaker 1: we were, you know, five or ten years ago.
Speaker 12: Well, so, simply put, I mean, Number one, the technology
Speaker 12: is easier for everyone to use. Everyone has in some
Speaker 12: form of fashions, some type of social media platform, communication
Speaker 12: platform that's on their devices, cell phone, tablet, computer, COVID
Speaker 12: really accelerated that. Everyone got used to Zoom, everyone got
Speaker 12: used to video chat, and got used to all those
Speaker 12: different types of programs.
Speaker 7: That's number one.
Speaker 12: Number two, payments and the speed of payments has massively increased.
Speaker 12: The availability send a wire from an app on your
Speaker 12: phone is really something that's been in everyone's power.
Speaker 7: The ability to send a one.
Speaker 12: Time payment via something like a zell or a Venmo
Speaker 12: or some other type of messaging app is extremely high.
Speaker 12: Everyone has those and so that really does break down
Speaker 12: the walls in terms of the speed of getting that.
Speaker 12: And then three look right now, I think the Surgeon
Speaker 12: General had released the last year it was was like
Speaker 12: the loneliest time in America and a lot of people,
Speaker 12: more people dealing with depression and loneliness. The fact of
Speaker 12: the matter is is that being romantically involved with someone
Speaker 12: and really like being excited about this person, it's fun,
Speaker 12: it's exciting, and sometimes when those things happen, your brain
Speaker 12: shuts down and you move more over to that kind
Speaker 12: of like you're leading with your heart a suppose your mind,
Speaker 12: and you're more likely to be able to be victimized.
Speaker 1: I imagine that some of these scams turn into like threats,
Speaker 1: all out threats, or even blackmail.
Speaker 2: Does that happen?
Speaker 7: It does?
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 12: Let's talk about Let's talk about two different types there.
Speaker 12: So first one is going to be your extortion or
Speaker 12: extortion scams. So you're having a long distance relationship, you think,
Speaker 12: with somebody else and they decide to kind of take.
Speaker 7: Off their clothes and do things, and you take off
Speaker 7: your clothes and do things.
Speaker 12: The fact of the matter is is that they may
Speaker 12: be recording or the other folks that are part of
Speaker 12: the organized criminal syndicate may be recording you on their screen,
Speaker 12: and as a result, they then use that as a
Speaker 12: We're going to message your parents, your family members, a
Speaker 12: school board, The PTA you're our children's friends, because we
Speaker 12: know who you are, we see your social media profile.
Speaker 12: And if you don't do that, we're going to go ahead,
Speaker 12: and if you don't give us money, we're going to
Speaker 12: go ahead and send these messages out.
Speaker 7: And of course that's straight up extortion, extortion.
Speaker 12: There have been people that have committed suicide over this,
Speaker 12: and this is especially specially susceptible in terms of you know,
Speaker 12: teenagers and young adults really susceptible to this type of harm.
Speaker 7: Think that the world is.
Speaker 12: Over, so you gotta be really really really careful here,
Speaker 12: very very careful. A.
Speaker 7: The other one is, you know.
Speaker 12: More extortion that goes into the physical realm, where there
Speaker 12: is something of a you know, romantic scam and then
Speaker 12: somebody actually comes over to your home to collect the
Speaker 12: money or the funds on behalf of someone else. We've
Speaker 12: seen that, and there's an FBI warning on that about
Speaker 12: two weeks ago. We've been seeing that for about two
Speaker 12: months now. That physical component of somebody actually coming called
Speaker 12: a mule or a carrier, that carrier.
Speaker 7: Coming over to your home or that muele coming over
Speaker 7: to your home.
Speaker 12: That adds a new level of complexity in this that
Speaker 12: actually creates a physical risk to you.
Speaker 1: With all of this happening online, are there legitimate relationships
Speaker 1: that can still happen? Because I feel like every wedding
Speaker 1: I go to that people meet online, So this must
Speaker 1: be working in some way, I might look.
Speaker 12: You know, dating online can be fun, can be safe,
Speaker 12: can be something that you know leads to.
Speaker 7: Other things, which is great.
Speaker 12: Stick to the mainstream online dating platforms. Try to stick
Speaker 12: to platforms that have some type of member verification to them.
Speaker 12: Do your own due diligence on the individual you know
Speaker 12: LinkedIn Facebook, et cetera, trying to really suss out who
Speaker 12: they are and making sure you know who you're dealing with.
Speaker 12: Keep your personal private details private.
Speaker 7: Don't give them your personal cell phone number, don't give
Speaker 7: them your personal email address. Have everything go through the platform.
Speaker 7: That's really really important.
Speaker 12: Whenever you get things taken off of that platform environment,
Speaker 12: it does increase the risks of somebody coming after you,
Speaker 12: increase the risk of someone coming after you digitally and physically.
Speaker 12: But it's really not necessary, especially in the early days
Speaker 12: of our relationship. And then of course, if you're gonna
Speaker 12: meet up in person, make sure you know you're sending
Speaker 12: your location to you know, your best friend, your parents,
Speaker 12: so to speak.
Speaker 7: That somebody knows.
Speaker 12: Where you are, who you're gonna be with, they have
Speaker 12: your phone number, they have the contact information that individual
Speaker 12: in your meeting in a public place and location.
Speaker 1: Doctor Chris Pearson of black Cloak dot io. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining me today.
Speaker 7: Hey, thanks so much, Rich, appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: You're on with rich which I have two problems. I've
Speaker 3: got a TV about a year ago. It's an LG
Speaker 3: O L ED got a sown bar and then in December,
Speaker 3: just a few months ago, I bought another, uh well three
Speaker 3: TVs and the one that I'm talking about now is
Speaker 3: is a Samsung. And when I had the last three
Speaker 3: installed in December by best Buy, that came in geek
Speaker 3: Squad came in and installed everything, and the one in
Speaker 3: the back room, which is not the one I'm going
Speaker 3: to talk about, the one in the back room wouldn't connected.
Speaker 3: So they said, well, you need a wire mesh system.
Speaker 3: So I got the euro wire Mesh system. So I
Speaker 3: have that now. And so Spectrum took their you know,
Speaker 3: was it router away. And so now I have my
Speaker 3: TV that I've had for a year. It's the LG fuzzy.
Speaker 3: The screen is not looking nice at all. And it's
Speaker 3: a high TV my, So that's the LG problem. My
Speaker 3: Samsung with the soundbar is crystal clear, beautiful. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: the sink is off on that. So when I and
Speaker 3: but it's only when I have the soundbar on. When
Speaker 3: I have the soundbar on, it's a little off. And
Speaker 3: I turn the sound bar off, the think is fine.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well okay, so a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Number one, uh, these are not this has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with your eurosystem. This is these are these are
Speaker 1: situations that are local to the TV. So the fuzzy
Speaker 1: screen on this on the LG. You didn't change anything,
Speaker 1: and that just happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Does it look like a defect with the TV screen?
Speaker 1: And is it on everything or is it just on
Speaker 1: certain things?
Speaker 3: Everything? Okay, whether I'm on Netflix or regular TV. And
Speaker 3: it was raining a lot lately, of course, so I
Speaker 3: thought maybe it had to do with that.
Speaker 2: So it looks like.
Speaker 1: The actual TV screen is affected, like there's something wrong
Speaker 1: with the actual screen itself, not the content that's playing
Speaker 1: on the screen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because no matter what I have on, it's just
Speaker 3: not that crystal clear. Okay, you know the letters are
Speaker 3: fuzzy and hard to read.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Okay, Well, first off, what I would do for
Speaker 1: that TV is I would you know, it could be
Speaker 1: it could be a defect that happened, and so that
Speaker 1: could be something that you know, you might need to
Speaker 1: get someone out there to like look at. But if
Speaker 1: I were you, what I would do immediately is just
Speaker 1: I would disconnect all of my inputs on the back
Speaker 1: and I would do a.
Speaker 2: Full reset of that TV.
Speaker 1: So go into settings and look for sort of a
Speaker 1: factory reset and that will at least bring the TV
Speaker 1: back to the out of the box experience, and then
Speaker 1: plug in you know, your fire TV box or whatever
Speaker 1: you have connected to that and see if that helps.
Speaker 1: If that doesn't help and it looks like the TV
Speaker 1: is actually just the screen is just something's wrong with it,
Speaker 1: then I would probably call LG and see if you
Speaker 1: can get.
Speaker 2: A service person out there for that.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, the sound bar, that's just a sink issue. So
Speaker 1: you got to go into your settings on whatever you're
Speaker 1: using to to do that TV to, you know, to
Speaker 1: put the sound onto that soundbar, whether it's a streaming
Speaker 1: device or the TV itself, and you have to adjust
Speaker 1: the sink and so usually there the soundbar may have
Speaker 1: an option itself to do that, but it's typically a
Speaker 1: little setting on either your TV or the soundbar itself
Speaker 1: and there's a sink setting.
Speaker 2: It's also I'm not sure how you have.
Speaker 1: That connected, but it could be depending on how you
Speaker 1: have that connected, the sink could be better or worse
Speaker 1: based on you know, the type of connection. And if
Speaker 1: you're using the HDMI input on your TV or output
Speaker 1: on your TV, I would look for the one that
Speaker 1: says ARC. That's the ones you want for the best
Speaker 1: for the best connection between those two. So that's that's
Speaker 1: what i'd recommend. But look for the sink on the
Speaker 1: audio bar and also ARC look on the back of
Speaker 1: your TV and make sure you're using the output that's
Speaker 1: labeled HDMI with e ERC and that will give you
Speaker 1: the highest quality connection between those two things. So that's
Speaker 1: why I recommend, Patty, and hopefully that will work. Report
Speaker 1: back please thanks a lot. Eighty eight rich one on
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Speaker 15: I was just wondering when you were at the Chicago
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Speaker 1: I mean, my kids will tell you that I'm yelling
Speaker 1: at drivers all day long. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's an automated thing or just a human thing. But
Speaker 1: I do think that there are some cars have become
Speaker 1: so automated that there's a lot of things we're forgetting.
Speaker 1: Like I was thinking about this the other day. Whenever
Speaker 1: I rent a car, you know, you have to remember
Speaker 1: to turn on the lights, you got to remember to
Speaker 1: do this, you got to do that, lock the doors,
Speaker 1: put it into park. But if you have some of
Speaker 1: these newer cars, a lot of that stuff is automated.
Speaker 1: So I do think that we're kind of forgetting some
Speaker 1: of that skill level. When it comes to the automation,
Speaker 1: people are just being stupid, and you know, they're doing
Speaker 1: stuff they shouldn't be doing and pushing the limits of
Speaker 1: these systems in a way that they are not intended.
Speaker 1: And so I think that that's a great question for
Speaker 1: the next time I talk to someone with these automated systems.
Speaker 2: But I think that they will throw a lot of that.
Speaker 1: A lot of that burden back on the human driver
Speaker 1: because these systems do have a lot of safety, you know,
Speaker 1: safety built into them, but they can only do so much.
Speaker 1: You know, when the Tesla first came out, people figured
Speaker 1: out how you can like put a weight on the
Speaker 1: wheel to like make it autopilot when it wasn't supposed
Speaker 1: to be doing that. Actually have a story today that
Speaker 1: I was going to tell you about. I'll do it
Speaker 1: right now. Toyota. This happened in Massachusetts. This guy was
Speaker 1: driving a person.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's guy or female. Toyota BZ
Speaker 2: four X.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to say the name of
Speaker 1: this car, but this is Toyota's ev It's called the
Speaker 1: BZ four X. Might have seen it advertised, and the
Speaker 1: driver got out of the car without putting it into park,
Speaker 1: probably because the car is so silent, and it began
Speaker 1: rolling off the pier he was on and he had
Speaker 1: to escape through a window on his car, and the
Speaker 1: ev rolled right into the ocean.
Speaker 2: The car was a total loss.
Speaker 1: And this was the twenty twenty four Toyota BZ four X,
Speaker 1: and they were saying that this probably suggests the need
Speaker 1: for a warning if the driver gets out of the
Speaker 1: car without putting it into park. Now I've got a Tesla,
Speaker 1: and I've got the situation where when I'm at a
Speaker 1: low speed and I'm doing something, my car will will
Speaker 1: shift into park by itself, and I'll say, oh, we
Speaker 1: wanted to prevent a roll away. So the Tesla does
Speaker 1: have that system in place, that safety system. And so
Speaker 1: this apparently happens when you connect a charging cable, unbuckle
Speaker 1: your seatbelt or open the door while and drive or neutral.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just seems to do it on my car when
Speaker 1: I'm like at a low speed and I kind of
Speaker 1: just like it just stops and it says, we're putting
Speaker 1: it into bark for your safety.
Speaker 2: So I think the Toyota should have that.
Speaker 1: In fact, I left when I was testing a car
Speaker 1: a long time ago, I left it running the entire
Speaker 1: time I went inside because it was so silent that
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize the thing was on. And I
Speaker 1: just walked away from this car. When I came back,
Speaker 1: it was still running. So yeah, these systems, they're not
Speaker 1: fool proof, and we're all human and so we make
Speaker 1: mistakes and hopefully they can build them where they are
Speaker 1: full proof to a certain extent, but there's always going
Speaker 1: to be that human element we need to address. Listening
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech, Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Tamuro here hanging out talking technology with you at
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Speaker 2: At the top of the page. Let's go to Dan
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire. Dan, you're on with.
Speaker 14: Rich Get out, sir, Hi, I'm wondering what would be
Speaker 14: your recommendation for for LTV security camera. I don't have
Speaker 14: life FLI. Oh there's like ten different companies that make
Speaker 14: them and compeers and going on. But what the details are.
Speaker 14: But it has to be linked through the cellular network,
Speaker 14: not Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you want cellular you want a camera that's
Speaker 1: basically self contained?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Do you have a place to plug it in or
Speaker 1: is it going to be battery it's going to beat Okay,
Speaker 1: battery or solar?
Speaker 2: Okay? Perfect?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you know, the most of my cameras
Speaker 1: that I have are all plug in or Wi Fi
Speaker 1: with solar or plugged in whatever. But I did test
Speaker 1: a while back a Canary camera which had LTE, so
Speaker 1: they did make them. It's been a while since I
Speaker 1: tried one. But the two popular cameras from what I
Speaker 1: can tell, are from Rlow and UFE. These are two
Speaker 1: pretty big brands, so it kind of comes down to
Speaker 1: which camera has the features that you want between these two.
Speaker 1: But that those are the two brands that I would
Speaker 1: narrow down to. You're probably gonna find if you go
Speaker 1: on Amazon, you're probably gonna find a hundre different of
Speaker 1: these types of cameras. But these brands are brands that
Speaker 1: I know brands.
Speaker 2: That I trust.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to Arlow versus UFIE, you know,
Speaker 1: the thing that you want to look for is the
Speaker 1: pricing and also what you know, do they make you
Speaker 1: pay for the subscription for the LTE the cellular or
Speaker 1: can you bring your own cellular? That may be important
Speaker 1: to you. Of course, the monthly fees is something you
Speaker 1: want to look at. And also the cloud backup, so
Speaker 1: you want to see these things back up to the
Speaker 1: cloud immediately or do they back up to an SD
Speaker 1: card that's on board and you can only access it
Speaker 1: from there. So the reason why the cloud is important
Speaker 1: is because if someone takes one of these cameras, you
Speaker 1: will not have any of the video footage. So if
Speaker 1: it's backing up to the cloud, you know, that's another
Speaker 1: way of having that footage. But those are the two
Speaker 1: brands that I would take a look at, ARLOW or UFEE.
Speaker 1: I think the jury's out on which one is better.
Speaker 1: I think that it comes down to personal preference. Like
Speaker 1: I said, with the different things that I mentioned, but
Speaker 1: those are the cameras that I think are the most popular.
Speaker 1: The other thing you might want to look at is
Speaker 1: what's called a trail cam This was actually one of
Speaker 1: the first questions we ever got in this show, and
Speaker 1: someone wanted a camera that was sort of just out
Speaker 1: there without anything. And I was not aware of the
Speaker 1: trail cams at the time, but something like a trailcam
Speaker 1: might be good in this situation that has an LTE
Speaker 1: connection as well, and those are going to probably be
Speaker 1: a little bit more rugged and a little bit more
Speaker 1: you know, made for the outdoors, so it depends. I mean, again,
Speaker 1: those are the brands i'd recommend. Those are the brands
Speaker 1: that I check out see if those do what you need.
Speaker 1: And that's a good question. You know, we always think
Speaker 1: of Wi Fi and we always think of wired Internet
Speaker 1: because sometimes you just want to put a camera somewhere
Speaker 1: that doesn't have either of those things. And LT gets
Speaker 1: expensive because you got to pay that monthly fee and
Speaker 1: you're talking about streaming and so you need more data.
Speaker 2: So it's not there's not.
Speaker 1: A whole lot of options there that are good, but
Speaker 1: it's something that you got to think about sometimes.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the question there.
Speaker 1: In New Hampshire, Hawaiian Airlines, speaking of internet, the first
Speaker 1: major air carrier in the US to offer high speed
Speaker 1: starlink in flight, Wi FI now before I get the
Speaker 1: angry emails. Yes, I know that Jet sweet X does this,
Speaker 1: but they are not a major carrier. They are a
Speaker 1: smaller carrier that just does smaller flights. This is the
Speaker 1: first like big airline to do this, and so they
Speaker 1: are debuting this service which provides fast streaming gaming downloads.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be wild what you can do on these
Speaker 1: aircraft now compared to before. I was just on a
Speaker 1: couple of flights and the Internet is amazing. The fact
Speaker 1: that we have internet on planes now is so nice
Speaker 1: compared to years past, but it's still pretty slow and unreliable.
Speaker 1: I will say my Internet on both of my flights
Speaker 1: was pretty darn good actually, but it wasn't this fast.
Speaker 1: This is going to be much faster. So Hawaiian's been
Speaker 1: testing this with their employees. They say it's safe. They
Speaker 1: say it's going to roll out across their A three
Speaker 1: twenty one neo fleet and you're going to see it
Speaker 1: on the door. So they're not letting you select a
Speaker 1: flight that has this just yet because I think they're
Speaker 1: still rolling it out. But when you get on board
Speaker 1: the Hawaiian Airlines plane, there'll be a little starlink decal
Speaker 1: on the door, and so if you're on that flight,
Speaker 1: you're like, yes, I just got great Internet from my
Speaker 1: entire flight to Hawaii. So I have been in touch
Speaker 1: with Hawaiian I'm hoping to get on a flight to
Speaker 1: Hawaii to test this out. I cannot wait. I am
Speaker 1: very excited to see just how fast this is. And
Speaker 1: now when people are going to Hawaii, they're not really
Speaker 1: thinking about doing work. You know, it's a very leisure
Speaker 1: kind of oriented trip. But it will still be nice
Speaker 1: for family and kids especially that want to do gaming
Speaker 1: and downloads and streaming and all that stuff. You'll be
Speaker 1: able to do all the stuff that they don't typically
Speaker 1: let you do on the slower connections that are on
Speaker 1: the standard flights. So I'm not sure if I talked
Speaker 1: about it last week, but in California, AT and T
Speaker 1: is trying to get rid of its obligations to provide
Speaker 1: landline service, and so that is going to leave a
Speaker 1: lot of people without a telephone line in their home,
Speaker 1: especially in rural areas places that don't have good cellular connections.
Speaker 1: And so I mentioned this on the news and Amazon
Speaker 1: emailed me and said, hey, Rich, don't forget about this service.
Speaker 1: That we offer called Alexa Emergency Assist, and they said,
Speaker 1: you know, it might be a good thing in place
Speaker 1: of a landline, because the thing about a landline when
Speaker 1: you have kids, well, there's a couple use cases. You know,
Speaker 1: some people like it as a security in the event
Speaker 1: of like an emergency, right if there's an earthquake or
Speaker 1: some sort of natural disaster. The landlines are a little
Speaker 1: bit more, you know, they work a little bit more
Speaker 1: than the cellular networks. Although that's probably debatable at this point,
Speaker 1: but some people think that they do, so you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they do. But you know, also when you have
Speaker 1: kids or elderly, So if you have someone elderly that
Speaker 1: may not have a cell phone or may not want
Speaker 1: to use a cell phone, a landline could be easy.
Speaker 2: They know how to use it, it's been around forever.
Speaker 1: And then with kids, they may not have access to
Speaker 1: a cell phone because mom and dad have the phone
Speaker 1: and they leave the house, or you know, the kid
Speaker 1: doesn't know how to use a cell phone and they
Speaker 1: don't have a way to call for help. So this
Speaker 1: Alexa Emergency Assist is a service you can pay for.
Speaker 1: It is six dollars a month or sixty dollars for
Speaker 1: the year, and all it requires is one of the
Speaker 1: Amazon speakers, so like some sort of echo device, right,
Speaker 1: and all you have to say to it, and I
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't say this because I don't want to trigger yours,
Speaker 1: but you just say alex A call for help, and
Speaker 1: it will call through your Echo device to a trained
Speaker 1: agent that can request the dispatch of police, fire or
Speaker 1: ambulance without waiting on hold. They say it's faster than
Speaker 1: industry standards called directly. Then they also have smart alerts,
Speaker 1: so your alex A can detect your smoke alarm or
Speaker 1: CO two alarm or carbon monoxide alarm is ringing the
Speaker 1: sound of glass breaking, it will notify you on your phone.
Speaker 1: So basically, your your speaker listens for that sound, that
Speaker 1: actual frequency, and if it hears it, it will text
Speaker 1: you and then you can take action. And that's very
Speaker 1: important because long story short, my wife and I just
Speaker 1: flew to New Jersey one day and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we get a text on my phone that my alarm
Speaker 1: is going off at my house.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, what how do I what do I do?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 1: It was the most helpless I ever felt, and back
Speaker 1: then I didn't have any cameras, so I couldn't see
Speaker 1: what was going on at my house. I had to
Speaker 1: call my friend and he had to drive over, and
Speaker 1: he said, the fire people, firefighters were literally outside my
Speaker 1: house ready to break in the door because they were
Speaker 1: going to see what was going on in there. Maybe
Speaker 1: he was exaggerating, but he said he the way he
Speaker 1: described it, they were literally like an axe to my door.
Speaker 1: And like I was like, all right, he said, no, stop,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Anyway, then you can also have up to twenty five
Speaker 1: emergency contacts automatically notified if a call is placed, which
Speaker 1: is interesting. And then of course they have the glass
Speaker 1: breaking smart alerts and you can drop in and listen
Speaker 1: to the sound inside your house.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I.
Speaker 1: Just telling you about it because it's kind of an
Speaker 1: interesting alternative, you know, and if you have kids, it
Speaker 1: might be a good thing to have. I told my
Speaker 1: wife about this and she said, yeah, that sounds like
Speaker 1: a great idea. And I said to Amazon, I said,
Speaker 1: wait a second, I thought this went away. Well, the
Speaker 1: thing that went away was called Alexa Guard and Guard Plus,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if those were free, but I
Speaker 1: have a feeling they were either free or less cost
Speaker 1: than this. I'm not sure. Let me say Alexa guard.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the pricing was of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was free. Yeah, and so now of course this
Speaker 1: costs money, and so that's why people were up in
Speaker 1: arms about it. But again it's called Alexa Emergency Assist.
Speaker 1: Maybe something I'll look into if you want that alternative
Speaker 1: to dialing nine to one one. But again I think
Speaker 1: that at the end of the day, I can't tell
Speaker 1: you that this can replace nine one one. But it's
Speaker 1: a nice thing because some of these smart home systems
Speaker 1: do not dial nine one one. People think they do,
Speaker 1: and they don't. So you need to know before an
Speaker 1: emergency happens what the capability is of your system. All right,
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Coming up later
Speaker 1: this hour, we are going to talk to Kyle Vorbach.
Speaker 1: He is a filmmaker who did a documentary called How
Speaker 1: I Faked My Life with AI.
Speaker 2: He's going to talk.
Speaker 1: About the benefits and dangers of this AI revolution. We
Speaker 1: are in looking forward to that conversation a little bit
Speaker 1: later on.
Speaker 2: My name is Rich d'miro. You are listening to Rich
Speaker 2: on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do a little lightning round here. I come
Speaker 1: in here with like dozens of stories I want to
Speaker 1: tell you about. I don't get to all of them
Speaker 1: because we get a lot of calls and emails, so
Speaker 1: I try to get to those as well. But I
Speaker 1: like to tell you this stuff because the show in
Speaker 1: the beginning, i'd say it's the tech stuff that I
Speaker 1: think you should know about. And if I'm not telling
Speaker 1: you that stuff, then I'm not doing my job. So
Speaker 1: I want to balance the calls with also the news
Speaker 1: that I tell you. So let me get through some
Speaker 1: of these iTunes on Windows end of the line.
Speaker 2: So Apple has.
Speaker 1: Launched separate apps for managing the iPhone and different things
Speaker 1: on the Windows computer side of things. This happened on
Speaker 1: Mac a while ago, but there's now a separate Apple Music,
Speaker 1: Apple TV, and Apple Devices apps for Windows. So basically
Speaker 1: all the stuff that iTunes used to do is now
Speaker 1: split up. You can get this on Windows ten and
Speaker 1: later devices. iTunes will remain for podcast and audiobook access,
Speaker 1: but the new apps will give you more of kind
Speaker 1: of an experience that's similar to the Mac so again,
Speaker 1: Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Devices. You have to install
Speaker 1: all three new apps and keep the existing iTunes library,
Speaker 1: So don't delete your iTunes before you install these apps.
Speaker 2: You will need. That sounds very complicated to me.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a ploy to get people on
Speaker 1: Windows to install Apple Music and Apple TV.
Speaker 2: But that's just me. What do I know.
Speaker 1: But now, if you want to manage your iPhone, you
Speaker 1: can use this new Apple Devices app, which I think
Speaker 1: will hopefully be a better situation the other app I like,
Speaker 1: if you want to just shortcut all that stuff is
Speaker 1: called I Amazing Imazing. That'll just shortcut all the Apple stuff.
Speaker 1: You don't have to deal with their software. You can
Speaker 1: just use your own and it does a lot more
Speaker 1: than what iTunes can do.
Speaker 2: It's also going to cost some money too.
Speaker 1: The information reporting that Apple is developing a foldable clamshell iPhone, OMG.
Speaker 1: Really I could have told you this news two years ago.
Speaker 1: Of course they're developing a clamshell iPhone. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's it. There's nothing more to the story. That's it.
Speaker 1: This is something Samsung did back in twenty nineteen they
Speaker 1: came out with their first foldable phone. Of course, when
Speaker 1: Apple comes out with it, it will be oh, foldable phones,
Speaker 1: what is that?
Speaker 2: Explain? Yes, we've had foldable phones. There are many on
Speaker 2: the market.
Speaker 1: Google has one, Samsung has one, one Plus has one.
Speaker 1: The only game in town that does not have one
Speaker 1: is Apple. So I would be surprised if they do
Speaker 1: not come out with a foldable phone.
Speaker 2: Do I think it's gonna be really good? Absolutely?
Speaker 12: Do.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna sell millions upon millions of them.
Speaker 2: Absolutely do. I think it'll have a halo effect on
Speaker 2: the other foldables. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Google is now calling Bard Gemini. So Bard is Google's
Speaker 1: answer to Chat GPT. They came out with it last
Speaker 1: year around this time, I think it was March, and
Speaker 1: already they're renaming it to Gemini, so it's very comple.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into all of that because
Speaker 1: you don't really need to know, but if you go
Speaker 1: to the Barred website, it will now redirect to Gemini.
Speaker 1: They're also offering Gemini Advanced, just like Chat GPT, where
Speaker 1: you can pay twenty dollars a month to get the
Speaker 1: absolute best version of their AI. Now you can pay
Speaker 1: twenty dollars a month to get Google's absolute best version
Speaker 1: of their AI. You can get two months free trial.
Speaker 1: It's called the Google one AI Premium Plan twenty bucks
Speaker 1: a month. It gets you the AI, but it also
Speaker 1: gets you some other things as well. So I personally
Speaker 1: will tell you I think Bard is great. Sorry Gemini,
Speaker 1: you know there's all these things. Is it better than
Speaker 1: chat GPT? But I will tell you my things, Okay.
Speaker 1: Number one, I think chat GPT overall is a very
Speaker 1: good kind of like introduction to AI. It's just a
Speaker 1: great thing to kind of play with.
Speaker 2: Gemini.
Speaker 1: I will say it's great for access to current events.
Speaker 1: So if you want the absolute latest, like the mix
Speaker 1: of Google Search but also AI, I think Gemini is
Speaker 1: really good for that. And then if you want something
Speaker 1: that's really good with data and handling large amounts of
Speaker 1: data and summaries, I think claud Ai is the best
Speaker 1: for that. That's from a company called Anthropic. And if
Speaker 1: you want to put AI on your phone, my favorite
Speaker 1: app for that is called Perplexity AI. So if you
Speaker 1: are looking for say a little history lesson on something
Speaker 1: or an explanation on a question, Perplexity is really good
Speaker 1: at coming up with kind of answer on that. But
Speaker 1: Gemini is really good at that too. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you have an Android phone, you can replace the
Speaker 1: Google Assistant now with Gemini, which is what I did
Speaker 1: on my phone. So now when I swipe or use
Speaker 1: the Voice Assistant, it will come up with Gemini, which
Speaker 1: is much smarter than Google Assistant in some ways. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have all the functionality in other ways. And if
Speaker 1: you're on iPhone, it's inside the Google app, so you
Speaker 1: have to access Gemini inside the Google app.
Speaker 2: There you have it.
Speaker 1: Rivian Electric Car Company will unveil a new car on
Speaker 1: March seventh, the Rivian R two. This will be a
Speaker 1: cheaper and more efficient version of their suv. The event's
Speaker 1: going to take place at the Rivian has like a
Speaker 1: theater that they have their name on in Laguna Beach. Yes,
Speaker 1: I will be there. I can't wait. I think Rivian
Speaker 1: is doing some really cool things. Their cars are just
Speaker 1: very expensive right now. Hopefully this will be cheaper they're thinking.
Speaker 1: You know, the rumor says cheaper suv likely priced between
Speaker 1: forty and sixty thousand dollars. But you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to get this until twenty twenty six. And right now,
Speaker 1: Rivian loses money on all of their cars. That they sell.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that will change with a car that will be cheaper,
Speaker 1: but they'll it will cost less to make and TEA
Speaker 1: Mobile customers. You already know I tweeted about this, but
Speaker 1: I was on the plane and I got free Wi
Speaker 1: Fi because of a Team Mobile test line that I
Speaker 1: have that I'm using, and you get free Wi Fi
Speaker 1: on the plane.
Speaker 2: I was like, A, this is so cool.
Speaker 1: What a great perk for T Mobile customers. Well, now
Speaker 1: they're doing something called Magenta Status. You get all these
Speaker 1: VIP benefits and deals. So this includes fifteen percent off
Speaker 1: Hilton Hotels, free upgrades, and this I think is the
Speaker 1: best feature. If you rent from Dollar or Hurts. At
Speaker 1: Dollar you'll get free gas so you don't have to
Speaker 1: return the car with a full tank. And at Hurts
Speaker 1: you can return an EV without charging it. You remember
Speaker 1: when I rented my EV from Hurts, they charged me
Speaker 1: like twenty five bucks to return it. Not full movie
Speaker 1: tickets at cheap prices. They say this is a fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars value for the typical customer. What's it trying
Speaker 1: to do get more people to stick with T Mobile?
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we'll talk about the benefits and dangers
Speaker 1: of AI. You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you, talking technology and AI is in the news.
Speaker 1: It is one of the hottest topics on this show
Speaker 1: and pretty much everywhere at this point. And joining me
Speaker 1: now to talk about it is Kyle Vorbach. He is
Speaker 1: a filmmaker who did How I Faked My Life with AI,
Speaker 1: and he also has a book called Pandora's Code, which
Speaker 1: explains the history, benefits, and dangers of the AI revolution.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Kyle, rich Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for having me. So I watched your upcoming TED talk
Speaker 1: on the plane yesterday and I have some questions.
Speaker 2: Sure, what do we believe anymore?
Speaker 1: I mean, you took us in so many directions on
Speaker 1: the TED Talk and surprised and faked us out that
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure you're real anymore. Tell me how
Speaker 1: you got involved in this whole idea of AI and
Speaker 1: kind of trickery because of it.
Speaker 16: Absolutely. Yeah, So it's so dumb, but I was. I
Speaker 16: just needed a new profile. Pictures where it started. And
Speaker 16: this is when these generative AIS started to come out,
Speaker 16: where you could make an image out of anything and I,
Speaker 16: you know, figured when I could miss a shot and
Speaker 16: I posted an image of me. I made a whole,
Speaker 16: very realistic image of me, and no one called me
Speaker 16: on it. So I just kept going until someone did,
Speaker 16: and then no one did, so I just was like,
Speaker 16: I need to up the ante here.
Speaker 13: And I started to change my life. You know.
Speaker 16: I got into a brand new apartment, I bought a
Speaker 16: sports car, I met Ryan Gosling.
Speaker 13: At that point, people started to get a little suspicious.
Speaker 16: But this went on for over a month, and I
Speaker 16: thought it would just be like a funny prank. But
Speaker 16: when I revealed this, the reaction was so profound that
Speaker 16: people had to it both about the AI side and
Speaker 16: also our relationship with social media and the disparity there.
Speaker 16: That I figured, you know, I need to get to
Speaker 16: the bottom of this. I need to understand this AI
Speaker 16: thing more. And that's the genesis of this book, was
Speaker 16: figuring out how do we get here and where's this going?
Speaker 1: What do you make of AI? I mean, it's become
Speaker 1: very popular. People are using it for all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's a good thing or do you
Speaker 1: think it's dangerous?
Speaker 13: It's a little bit of both.
Speaker 16: Really, AI is ultimately a tool that if I had
Speaker 16: to put it one way, it sort of accelerates human capability.
Speaker 16: It is mental labor at the press of a button,
Speaker 16: so we're able to do so much more, so much faster.
Speaker 16: This is a good thing and a bad thing because
Speaker 16: it comes down to the user and what they're doing
Speaker 16: with it in terms of you know, what you can
Speaker 16: make with it. I made that whole short film that
Speaker 16: reached out to people and touched a lot of people
Speaker 16: with AI.
Speaker 13: There's applications with cancer. We're mapping the genome.
Speaker 16: I just heard something about people in California actually locating
Speaker 16: wildfires using AI that is trained to locate and recognize wildfires.
Speaker 16: But on the other side, bad actors can use these
Speaker 16: same exact things to cause a great deal of harm.
Speaker 16: And I don't think society is quite equipped for that
Speaker 16: sort of scam or misinformation.
Speaker 1: Yet it's your takeaway from you know, faking it out
Speaker 1: on Instagram, Like, did your real friends take issue with that?
Speaker 16: It's funny to this day, people don't believe anything I post.
Speaker 16: And I made this video over a year ago in
Speaker 16: the Ted Talk. In fact, I mention that when I
Speaker 16: posted I'm doing a Ted Talk, people were like, is
Speaker 16: this AI? You said at the top of the call,
Speaker 16: Is this AI? Wherever I go, I get the question
Speaker 16: is this AI? And I think my life has sort
Speaker 16: of become a microcosm of what is going to happen
Speaker 16: to the world at large society moving forward. We are
Speaker 16: in a post truth era right now, but I think
Speaker 16: we're going to sort of get into a post evidence
Speaker 16: era where not only are we not seeking the truth,
Speaker 16: there's going to be no way to categorically and quantifiably
Speaker 16: prove something to be real for a while at least.
Speaker 2: That's really scary.
Speaker 1: And I often talk about kind of something similar where
Speaker 1: you know, these AI systems right now are being fed
Speaker 1: data from things that we've done, right, books, people have written, articles,
Speaker 1: people have written. But then all of a sudden, we're
Speaker 1: gonna start They're gonna like feed upon themselves because half
Speaker 1: the pictures are going to be generated by AI, and
Speaker 1: they're looking at those pictures and it becomes like, you know,
Speaker 1: and you saw that meme online where people were saying,
Speaker 1: like make it bigger or make it more, you know,
Speaker 1: and they just kept feeding the same picture into AI,
Speaker 1: saying make it more, make it more, make it the
Speaker 1: best pizza make it even better. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: what's going to happen with like everything online, because these
Speaker 1: systems are just being fed themselves.
Speaker 16: These systems are already being trained on themselves. Researchers have
Speaker 16: realized that, especially for things like llms, that the amount
Speaker 16: of data you need to train AI, which the way
Speaker 16: AI learns.
Speaker 13: Is the brute force method.
Speaker 16: It's not like a kid who touches a stove and learns, oh,
Speaker 16: stove hot. AI has to learn every type of image
Speaker 16: of a stove, every angle of a stove, and every
Speaker 16: type of temperature to understand that stove hot. So to
Speaker 16: generate that much data, you can't even scrape it. So
Speaker 16: they're feeding that them already back into themselves already. And
Speaker 16: I don't know what the ramifications so that are going
Speaker 16: to be.
Speaker 2: So how do you prove that you're real? Now that
Speaker 2: people are wondering.
Speaker 16: Well, I know that there are people currently working on
Speaker 16: tokenizing images, and Canon I believe is working on this.
Speaker 16: There's a few companies working on being like this is
Speaker 16: an image taken on a physical camera.
Speaker 13: I'm not sure what happens once that gets off the camera.
Speaker 16: If there's going to be software on the computers that
Speaker 16: continue to say and this was edited by a human
Speaker 16: and what have you. And I'm sure that will be
Speaker 16: faked at some point, but there are people trying to
Speaker 16: crack this right now. The only thing that you can
Speaker 16: prove is in person human human interaction. We our lives
Speaker 16: are so online already and so digital already that they
Speaker 16: are going to become so embedded with fake things that
Speaker 16: you know, it doesn't it's going to sort of just
Speaker 16: become a different but fully realized reality.
Speaker 13: You could choose to live there if you want.
Speaker 1: It's so weird now that you say that, Like, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at you right now. You're on video chat with
Speaker 1: me on the back end of the radio show.
Speaker 2: But you know, I don't know if you're real.
Speaker 1: Like if I think about it with this whole Apple
Speaker 1: Vision pro you know, they have those things called personas,
Speaker 1: which is like a digital version of you that you
Speaker 1: can FaceTime with someone because you're wearing a headset, so
Speaker 1: it can't you know, it can't see you. The person
Speaker 1: doesn't want to look at you in a headset, so
Speaker 1: it makes up this digital version of you. But if
Speaker 1: you think about that, in the future, anyone could be
Speaker 1: behind that. I mean, it's almost like the old days
Speaker 1: of chat where you didn't really know if you're chatting
Speaker 1: with your friend or like, you know, someone random.
Speaker 16: What people need to realize is because AI can so
Speaker 16: drastically accelerate human work. This applies to scams as well,
Speaker 16: and the same sort of scams that you can imagine
Speaker 16: happened prior to AI are still going on.
Speaker 13: They're just a lot better.
Speaker 16: People have had disguises before, but you know, nowadays, some
Speaker 16: sick individual could deep fake themselves or deep bake a
Speaker 16: different person on a zoom call. Hey Mom, I need
Speaker 16: to borrow one hundred dollars or more than that. I'm
Speaker 16: you know, I'm in prison right now. I need you
Speaker 16: to pay my bail whatever wire it to this and
Speaker 16: these same things could have worked before, but now they
Speaker 16: are going to become so much more convincing, and the
Speaker 16: targets are going to be able to be random Grandma's
Speaker 16: in the middle of America because these can be done
Speaker 16: at scale. Now it's not manual labor like photoshop. You
Speaker 16: could have scripts that are doing this training by themselves.
Speaker 1: What about Hollywood, I mean, already, you know we've seen
Speaker 1: movies where they affect actors' faces and they change them.
Speaker 1: And obviously makeup has always been effects have always been
Speaker 1: a part of that. But with AI, it's just going
Speaker 1: to be a whole new world for Hollywood.
Speaker 16: That's another double edged sword, right, because what's going to
Speaker 16: happen is, like with CGI, it's going to raise the
Speaker 16: bar of production what you're able to attain. It's also
Speaker 16: going to lower the cost of certain things, so smaller
Speaker 16: crews can get away with better quality things. Nowadays, a
Speaker 16: kid in his garage can, using free tools and a
Speaker 16: few lights and a green screen and her phone can
Speaker 16: make a fantasy epic where they are in knight with
Speaker 16: you know, and they're fighting a big CGI dragon. They
Speaker 16: can do this already, So the way it's going to
Speaker 16: work in Hollywood, it's going to be great. I mean,
Speaker 16: especially for people on the post side, there is a
Speaker 16: world where this does make their lives a lot easier
Speaker 16: because they're already overworked. On the flip side of that,
Speaker 16: when you start to replace people with AI, that's when
Speaker 16: you start to get into the weeds. Humans have been
Speaker 16: telling stories around campfires for thousands of years. Storytelling is
Speaker 16: intrinsic to human nature, So why would you want to
Speaker 16: replace that with a computer in a writer's room, or
Speaker 16: you know, just with a generated video. Why would you
Speaker 16: want to replace that at that point? Just have AI
Speaker 16: raise your kid or have dinner with your wife.
Speaker 13: You're not a human anymore, you know. These are the
Speaker 13: joys we have.
Speaker 1: Should we be excited about this? Scared about it? A
Speaker 1: combination of both? What's your guidance after going through this
Speaker 1: side writing this book and also the documentary.
Speaker 16: I think that there is a path forward for this
Speaker 16: to be a very optimistic future. I think there's going
Speaker 16: to be a rough adjustment period here. There is a
Speaker 16: universe where a lot of people online you may have
Speaker 16: heard of this phrase of the singularity. I mean, it's
Speaker 16: all it's practically its own religion online of people saying,
Speaker 16: you know, there's going to become a time where these
Speaker 16: ais are going to be able to do so many
Speaker 16: different things and do so so fast that it's going
Speaker 16: to solve all the world's problems. I think that's a
Speaker 16: bit sunny of a view towards the future. But I
Speaker 16: think a lot of problems will be cracked by these
Speaker 16: because these things can think faster than us and can
Speaker 16: do incredibly boring jobs for quite long.
Speaker 13: Periods of time.
Speaker 16: But on the flip side, realistically, in the very near future,
Speaker 16: until we're all up to speed on this, it's going
Speaker 16: to be like the early days of the internet. We're
Speaker 16: going to be trying to weed out disinformation. This is
Speaker 16: an election year and we are not equipped for what's
Speaker 16: coming down the pike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we already saw the fake AI Biden
Speaker 1: call in New Hampshire and you know it was telling
Speaker 1: people not to vote. But do you think we're going
Speaker 1: to see I mean, I know we're going to see
Speaker 1: a ton of stuff online that you just you just
Speaker 1: don't know what to trust anymore. Is that is that
Speaker 1: the future we're heading to, or we just see an
Speaker 1: image and unless that person, like you said, is right
Speaker 1: in front of us as a human, we will not
Speaker 1: be able to tell if it's real or fake.
Speaker 13: Right. I think it's going to be pretty tough.
Speaker 16: I think what people need to prepare themselves, especially in
Speaker 16: this election year, is, yeah, you know.
Speaker 13: These these things like that, these one off things.
Speaker 16: I think people are getting a little bit more privy
Speaker 16: to They're able to debunk them a little bit more effectively.
Speaker 16: I think what where you see a lot of issue
Speaker 16: is rapidly developing situations. I have already seen so much
Speaker 16: AI disinformation coming out of what's going on in Gaza,
Speaker 16: and I'm not sure who's behind it, honestly, because it
Speaker 16: could be either party, it could be a third party.
Speaker 13: Who has their own agenda.
Speaker 16: There is just a lot of things where there is
Speaker 16: straight up AI generated images that all this informations coming
Speaker 16: from socials when rapidly developing situations, and you can't as
Speaker 16: easily vet these things as a user as maybe a
Speaker 16: news network might be able to over a longer period
Speaker 16: of time.
Speaker 1: Imagine we're gonna have to leave it there, Kyle, We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to do it there because I want to
Speaker 1: get your information before we have to go to break.
Speaker 1: What's the best way for folks to follow what you do?
Speaker 13: Thanks for cutting me off to plug myself.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you can find me at Kyle Vorbach online on
Speaker 16: everything that's it.
Speaker 13: It's a little top to spell.
Speaker 16: But if you can't find it, look up how I
Speaker 16: Faked my Life with AI on YouTube.
Speaker 13: You'll find all of my stuff there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Kyle vorboch vo r Bach How I Faked my
Speaker 1: Life with AI? Sounds like we are all going to
Speaker 1: have to be editors in the future, just sourcing everything
Speaker 1: that we see. Fascinating conversation. Thanks so much. The book
Speaker 1: is called Pandora's Code. You can find it on Amazon.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to do the feedback segment.
Speaker 1: I got lots of emails throughout the show, so we'll
Speaker 1: read some of.
Speaker 2: Those and we'll talk more tech. You're listening to Rich
Speaker 2: on tech.
Speaker 1: It is time to close out the show. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of emails today, so we'll get right to
Speaker 1: the feedback segment, which is a combination of your feedback
Speaker 1: and the questions that you send me. Annett says, Hey,
Speaker 1: Rich I have some of my passwords password protected in word.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is a good slash safe idea?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Annette. No, I don't. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a good idea.
Speaker 2: I know it's.
Speaker 1: Password protected, but I still don't think that's a very
Speaker 1: good idea to keep them in there. I would recommend
Speaker 1: a password manager because unless you're generating really strong, unique passwords,
Speaker 1: it sounds like you're making them up yourself, and that
Speaker 1: can only go so far. Hackers can crack even pretty
Speaker 1: long passwords that you come up with in seconds using
Speaker 1: software you really need like a fourteen to sixteen random
Speaker 1: character password for it to be uncrackable, at least by
Speaker 1: today's standards. So for a free program, I would recommend Bitwarden,
Speaker 1: or you can use what's built into Google or iPhone.
Speaker 2: They both work pretty well.
Speaker 1: The iPhone one, I'd only recommend if you're only using
Speaker 1: Apple products. Coleman says, hey, Rich, my iPhone seven has
Speaker 1: a logjam for my AOL emails. I cannot send or receive.
Speaker 1: Texting works great, Facebook and Google work. How do I
Speaker 1: unblock it? Coleman, I'd recommend going to the AOL website.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you are over your allotment for your emails,
Speaker 1: so go to the AOL website and free up some space.
Speaker 1: So go to aol dot com instead of accessing it
Speaker 1: through your phone and see what the hold up is.
Speaker 1: There's probably the storage is probably full, so delete some
Speaker 1: old emails, especially the large ones with attachments, and.
Speaker 2: You should be good to go there.
Speaker 1: Fred says, hey Rich, If the soundbar, this is in
Speaker 1: reference to something we talked about today. If the soundbar
Speaker 1: is connected to the TV with fiber optic, most likely
Speaker 1: the sound and video out of sync. If it's connected
Speaker 1: via HDMI or good old fashioned red and white RCA cable.
Speaker 1: There should be nothing out of sync. That is true
Speaker 1: because mine is connected by fiber optics still, and I
Speaker 1: do have to adjust the sink. Bill says on today's show,
Speaker 1: you mentioned ring and the value of the subscription for
Speaker 1: storing recordings in the cloud. Note that second tiered doorbell
Speaker 1: camera vendors often offer limited storage for free, such as
Speaker 1: the UFI system I have. Having the cloud storage included
Speaker 1: and avoiding subscription fees was the main reason I went UFI.
Speaker 2: That is true, Bill, A lot of people like UFI
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: Reason, but I do weren't there some recent changes with
Speaker 1: UFI where people get all up in arms, But I
Speaker 1: think that that's the main reason people like Ufe's because
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily have to have a subscription to use that.
Speaker 1: Whys is similar. A lot of people went Wise. But again,
Speaker 1: all of these companies are pushing people towards subscription, so
Speaker 1: they're making the features that you get without a subscription
Speaker 1: less and less every single day. So you can chew
Speaker 1: that now, but that could change. Looks like another another
Speaker 1: one from Fred. Fred says antennae is plural for antenna. Oh,
Speaker 1: there you go, Rich. Cindy says, I love your broadcast.
Speaker 1: A comment in regards to your TVs watching you. We
Speaker 1: read the book Fahrenheit four fifty one. It'll scare the
Speaker 1: beep out of you. I had to read it in
Speaker 1: high school, so did my kids. TVs will still watch
Speaker 1: you even when they have them turned off. I think
Speaker 1: you can check before you buy if your TVs cameras
Speaker 1: or camera capabilities. Don't even think about that kind of TV, Cindy,
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I read Fahrenheit four to
Speaker 1: fifty one, and all the stuff that I read in
Speaker 1: these books that were written years and years ago all.
Speaker 2: End up coming true.
Speaker 1: I don't know how these people figured it out in
Speaker 1: the past, but yes, your TV is watching you, your
Speaker 1: phone is watching you, your computer is watching you right now.
Speaker 2: They say that those cameras.
Speaker 1: Are not in use when they are off, and most
Speaker 1: of these systems have some sort of physical shut off
Speaker 1: when the lid is closed or you're not using an
Speaker 1: or they have a light that lets you know. But
Speaker 1: it is scary and you have to take your own precautions.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: M says, thanks for the my shake tips because in
Speaker 1: my office my phone was the only one that made
Speaker 1: the audible alert where the phone actually said earthquake out
Speaker 1: loud even though my phone was on silent mode. Yes,
Speaker 1: I did share that tip about the my Shake app,
Speaker 1: and it does. It taps into what's called a critical
Speaker 1: alert system on the iPhone and that means that it
Speaker 1: can still make a noise on your phone even if
Speaker 1: it's on silent and only certain apps can do that
Speaker 1: and you have to give it permission to do that,
Speaker 1: but my Shake is one of them. That's how my
Speaker 1: phone went off because my phone was on silent as well,
Speaker 1: and the earthquake alert still came through. So my Shake again,
Speaker 1: iOS and Android. If you're an earthquake country like we are,
Speaker 1: Oscar says, just a heads up. I bought a Samsung
Speaker 1: seventy five inch seventy five inch at best Buy in January.
Speaker 1: They had forty of them. I got it for five
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety eight dollars. What a world we live in?
Speaker 1: A seventy five inch TV for five hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: eight dollars. That is incredible. While enjoy the new TV,
Speaker 1: I will certainly enjoy mine watching the Super Bowl in
Speaker 1: four K tomorrow, even if it's upscaled.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to complain.
Speaker 1: If you can believe it, that is going to do
Speaker 1: it for this episode of the show. I tell you,
Speaker 1: if you want time to go by fast, just get
Speaker 1: a radio show, because I don't know how three hours
Speaker 1: goes by this quickly every single week. If you want
Speaker 1: links everything I mentioned, you can find it on my website.
Speaker 1: Just go to rich on tech dot tv for the
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Speaker 1: me there. Engage next week? What am I doing next week?
Speaker 1: Do I have time to find out? Let's see, let's
Speaker 1: look at the schedule. Oh oh yeah, we've got some
Speaker 1: you know what, We'll just have some fun. Next week
Speaker 1: we'll answer more of your question. Thanks to everyone who
Speaker 1: makes this show possible.
Speaker 2: Adam and for Bobo today, thanks for doing a great job.
Speaker 2: My name is Archdmiro. I will talk to you real soon.