WEBVTT - eSIM explained 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.440 Threads is now on the web. Will it make you 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.880 use it more? At and T has a new over 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:11.880 the air option to get internet into your house. Samsung 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:17.040 has something for Disney fans. Plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.680 What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.120 on Tech, the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.840 stuff I think you should know about, and it's the 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:30.720 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.320 that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. We are 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:39.000 broadcasting live coast to coast from Los Angeles. Phone lines 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.360 are now open at triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:47.240 That's eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.600 Give me a call if you have a question about technology. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.920 Email is also open. Just go to Rich on tech 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.760 dot tv and hit contact. That's Rich on tech dot TV. 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.040 Hit contact. All right, We got some great guests coming 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.880 up this week. Scott Johnson, founder of the frog Pants 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.480 Network and the host of a video game news and 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.679 views podcast called Core. He will be joining us to 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:16.559 talk about Sony's new PlayStation portal portable gaming system. We've 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.880 got doctor Chris Pearson, founder of Black Cloak, to talk 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.880 about AI and hacking, and a little bit later in 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.039 the show. Emily dry Belbis, electric vehicle reporter for PC mag. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:32.560 We'll talk all things evs well in Hollywood. The big 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.880 news right now is that Bob Barker has died. Legendary 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.920 game show host ninety nine years old, nineteen time Emmy 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.720 Award winning game show host. And Bob has a special 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.920 place in my heart because I was actually on The 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.080 Prices right in college. It was one of those things 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.760 where I'm from New Jersey, come out to school in 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.600 California and they say, hey, we're doing a field trip 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.840 to The Prices, right, anyone want to go? And I said, sure, 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.720 of course. I mean, who didn't grow up with that show? 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:00.000 Right? 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.040 And we get there. You stand in this long line 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.560 in television city, which is CBS Studios kind of in 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.200 the middle of the city here, and you just wait 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:10.959 and the producers they kind of come up and talk 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.040 to all the people in line, and they give you 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.000 a name tag. Of course, that iconic name tag still 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:17.959 have it, by the way. And then all of a 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.919 sudden in the show, what do I hear rich de Mirro? Oh, 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.240 I think it was Richard. You have to use your 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.960 full name. It was Richard Demiro. Come on, down, and 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.440 I mean, at that moment, it is so tough to 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.160 explain what your brain feels like. But the best way 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.359 I could describe it is it went to Jello. If 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.799 someone asked what my name was, I wouldn't have known. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.920 The energy level. All the excitement in that place was 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.880 so fun. I ended up not winning anything except the 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.640 consolation prizes because I bid seven hundred dollars on a 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.240 sewing machine. And how would I not a sewing machine costs? 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.120 I had no clue, but I did find it interesting. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:03:00.079 Bob Barker's biography here. He worked part time in radio 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.240 during college KTTS Radio in Springfield, Missouri. Then he worked 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:09.280 in Florida at WWPG Radio. Then here in Los Angeles, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.720 he got his own show, The Bob Barker Show, that 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.000 ran for six years out of Burbank. He did a 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.840 show on k and X Radio in Los Angeles and 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.040 he was just on the radio and Ralph Edwards, I 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.639 guess a big producer was looking for a TV host 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.440 and he heard his voice. He loved it, and he said, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.800 you know what, I would like to do a version 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:33.639 of Truth or Consequences on TV. And Bob Barker said, 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.960 the day I met Ralph Edwards. My life changed forever. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.400 It certainly did. He went on to host that show 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.000 for many, many years and at the end of the show, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.040 we all remember what he said, This is Bob Barker 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.920 reminding you to help control the pet population. Have your 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.200 pet Spader newtered. When I was a kid, I had 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.360 no idea what that meant. Like half the people watching 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.240 that as kids, we were just like, what does that mean? 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.760 It was like this mysterious thing he said every single 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.480 time at the end of the show. And now, of 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.080 course we know Bob Barker died of natural causes at 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.520 ninety nine. And you know, by the way, I posted 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.320 the video clip of me on prices right on my 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.760 Instagram at rich on Tech if you want to watch it. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.880 It's a little bit dated, I'll be honest, a little 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.159 bit dated because it was a long time ago. But 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.479 it's really interesting because you know, this is my birthday 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.159 week actually, and so whenever it's my birthday, I always 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.839 kind of think I'd be get very retrospective about things, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:27.920 and I kind of think about my life and where 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.000 I've come and where I've been and what I'm doing 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.800 and where I'm going, and I don't recommend you do 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.960 that because it can really mess with you a little bit. 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:40.800 So just anyway, I tell you that because I've just 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.120 been very, very retrospective, and I feel like when people 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.040 that you grew up with, your idols start passing away 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.440 as you get older, it's a check, you know what 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.000 I mean, Like you're really sitting there thinking about this stuff, 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.320 and that's where I'm at. So anyway, rest in peace, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.000 Bob Barker and all the other folks from my child 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.560 hood that are now passed it. Really, you know, I 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.920 don't want this show to be a downer. You know, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.279 I'm a very positive guy, but it's like, oh my gosh, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.360 you know you're getting old. When let's see what happened 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.479 this week? Oh yesterday, Okay, So I went through this 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:19.920 whole thing of switching to the pixel fold. Okay, Google 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.839 pixel Fold. I got the phone into test and I said, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.640 you know what, I'm gonna see what Android is like. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:26.440 We got a couple of weeks until the Apple event. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.640 I know I'm gonna switch the iPhone fifteen. Let me 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.000 see what Android's all about by putting my SIM card 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.919 in there. And so I put my SIM card in 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.039 there and it was great. Everything was good, but it 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:41.440 became this whole thing of my I message and this 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.479 is like this lock that Apple has on Americans with 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:48.039 this I message situation, and people would it. Really. It 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.200 was fine for a bit until someone sent me a 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:54.320 video and the video was like postage thumbnail sized, and 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.080 I was like, what is this video? I couldn't even 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:57.560 My friend was trying to explain something to me in 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.560 a video and I couldn't even see it. He was 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.560 actually to show me how to cut open a I 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.760 think it was a papaya that he grew in his backyard. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.000 He's like this, how you open it? And so I 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.960 couldn't watch the video because it was so small. I said, 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:09.720 all right, I got to go back to my iPhone. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.400 So I tried to switch my my SIM card back 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.560 to my iPhone, and oh my gosh, what a hassle. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.560 All these phones have switched to what's called e sims, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.440 electronic SIMS or embedded SIMS, which means there's no physical 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.760 SIM card. So theoretically you can do the switch online, 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.679 but that did not work. So I was on phone 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.320 on the phone with a customer service representative yesterday for 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.120 over an hour trying to get my old phone to work, 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.440 and meantime I had no phone line, so I was 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.360 using my test phone to actually call the customer service rep. 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.400 But it was a mess and we spent an hour 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.000 doing this. I said, I got to go. I got 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:45.839 to pick up my kids at school. I have no 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.239 phone line. I'm growing to pick up my kids. And finally, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.160 you know, I get back home and I said, let 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.400 me call again, let me try again. I get someone 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.480 on the phone and I'm like, I've you know, it's 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.599 been very frustrating. This has taken over an hour with 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.160 the last person, do you think you can do it? 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.320 And she goes, well, what's the eSIM number that you're 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.200 trying to activate on the new phone. I said, here 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.040 you go. I got a message on my phone that 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.080 said your phone's active. I said, wait, what you just 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.480 did in thirty seconds when it took the last person 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.160 an hour to try to figure out? And I tweeted 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.640 about this, I said, you know this happened, and people 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.240 are calling it customer service rep roulette. Sometimes when you're 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.559 not getting the satisfaction you need from a customer service rep, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.720 it is okay to just go ahead and say, you 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.440 know what, we're not getting anywhere here. Let me just 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.920 call back, and you call back, you get someone else, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.520 and they change your life. It happened to me. I'm 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.680 not getting thirty seconds, and it was it was all 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:44.760 figured out eSIMs. I also get some messages from time 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.920 to time on the show about talking about things and 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.840 not thoroughly explaining them. So let me explain what eSIM is. 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.120 So physical sim cards, if you've ever seen one, is 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.040 that little tiny card. It looks like a chip that 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.000 you pop into your phone and it helps you get 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.920 the cellular signal connects the phone to the cellular network. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.640 And so we've used these for many, many years. But 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.040 an e SIM is now built into the phone, so 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.440 you no longer have to put that physical sim card 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.440 into the phone. Now. Apple was the first to introduce 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.240 this back in like twenty eighteen, and they did it secretly. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:17.960 They didn't really tell a lot of people. But they've 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.640 started activating these things in the in the Apple stores 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:22.960 without really making a big deal out of it. And 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.080 I wanted to test it out and see how it worked, 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.120 and sure enough, it became good enough. We're on the 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.360 iPhone fourteen, which is the phone I have it on 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.720 they just did away with the physical simcard slot, so 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.160 there's no way to put a physical SIM card in 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.720 this new iPhone. And so Apple said, you know what, 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.640 we've been testing this secretly for a couple of years. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.440 It seems to work out and it's all good. So 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.480 now we're ready to jump off the you know, off 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.560 the dock into the water and just let everyone do this. Well, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.120 that's great until you have a situation like mine yesterday 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.280 where it just didn't work. So what's the benefit. Well, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.240 you don't have to go into a store. You can 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.440 have multiple SIM cards on your phone, so if you 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.120 travel internationally, you can have your regular simcard plus an 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.679 international SIM. It makes it really easy to switch carriers. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.880 By removing the simcard slot, you can make sleeker and 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.440 smaller devices. In fact, one of the first devices that 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.480 Apple had this on was the Apple Watch because it 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:23.320 was an embedded simcard, just a little piece of technology inside. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:28.680 Now pretty much every major phone that comes out has eSIM. Google, 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.800 Samsung has it, and there is a phone I tested recently, 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.760 the Nothing Phone, which didn't have it, which was a 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.560 little odd because I was like, oh, that's weird to 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.280 not have an e SIM. Also, this enables things like 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:45.360 laptops and tablets to have cellular connectivity. Basically, with eSIM, 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.160 every single device in the world could theoretically be connected 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.679 to cellular, which is what the cellular companies want. They 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.480 want to make sure every device can have it, and 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.840 it's cheap enough and small enough where they can just 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.079 build it into this device and now you can have 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.040 a cellular line or a data line for ten bucks 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.520 a month, whatever it is. So eSIMs are really handy. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.040 If you are wanting to switch carriers, you don't have 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.360 to go to a store, you don't have to go 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.040 get a SIM card. If you want to travel internationally, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:16.640 it theoretically makes things more competitive because you have the 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.199 choice of all these carriers. If you don't like who 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.360 you're on, you can switch instantly to a new one. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.839 If you go overseas, you can download an eSIM. Now 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.640 that's all when it works out perfectly. Many people have 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.079 had issues with this, including myself recently. But now I'm 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.760 wondering was it just the customer service person I was 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.800 talking to, because the other person did it in about 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.839 thirty seconds, So is it really the technology or is 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.600 it maybe someone that wasn't as trained on this technology. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.800 But the bottom line is, now you know what an 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:48.880 eSIM is. Electronic simcard is probably in your phone, so 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.880 next time you go to activate your phone, they may 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.080 not have to put any sort of simcard in. The 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.680 Samsungs have both eSIM and a physical SIM. The Google 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.440 phone still have an eSIM and a physical SIM. The 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.520 iPhones just have the eSIM. So now you know all 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.079 about ESM All right. Coming up on this week's show, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.640 we're going to talk about Threads. Remember Threads. This is 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.160 Meta's answer to Twitter. They took a big step this week. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.200 It is now available on the web. So will it 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.640 make you use Threads more? I don't know, we'll find out. Also, 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.000 we'll talk about AT and t's new option to get 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:29.160 internet into your house. If you want wireless internet, at 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.680 and T now has that for you. And the phone 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.760 lines are open at triple eight rich one oh one. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:36.640 Give me a call if you have a question about 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.400 technology at eight eight eight seven four to two, four 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:45.960 to one zero one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.800 back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:53.200 with you talking technology at triple eight rich one O one. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.120 That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:00.079 one zero one. I was talking about my peer and 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.920 on the price is right. I posted it to my 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:07.440 Instagram at rich on Tech and Steven says, question, do 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.599 you still own that rug doctor? That is? That is 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.520 what I got. That was my departing gift. I got 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:17.400 a rug doctor. I got a encyclopedia set. That's how 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.840 old this was. It was like a something like that, 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.560 and then a jewelry box. And I sent it all 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.400 to my house back home in New Jersey. Like so 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.280 I never actually even saw this stuff. My parents just 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.440 had it. But anyway, let's go to uh, let's go 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.120 to Scott to kick things off in Atlanta, Georgia. Scott, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:34.920 you're on with Rich. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.439 Hey, Rich, I heard you talking about not having a 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:43.720 message on Android on your Samsung found Why didn't you 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:48.360 use paper? I'm sure you received an invite today Abitude. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:50.080 Good question. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:54.560 Uh so, I actually I've been using it, uh, you know, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.840 for a month or so. When it works great with 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.000 that message, you don't have to worry about those little 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.960 I mean that comes through on our list. 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.720 Yeah, and there's you know, and there's several I actually 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:09.679 don't have an invite to Beeper, but I have been 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:13.920 using another program called Sunbird. And it's funny because I 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.280 feel guilty doing this, Like I feel like I'm doing 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.360 something wrong by getting my I messages on an Android phone. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.080 But if you talk to almost any tech person, it's 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.360 the biggest non kept secret in the tech world that 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.720 you know, most tech people are using an iPhone plus 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.560 an Android device because you've got to keep up with 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.120 both platforms. But for some reason, and Apple knows this. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.760 The reason why Apple does not open up I message 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.600 to the world is because they know people would switch 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.480 away from the iPhone. The iPhone's an amazing device, but 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.680 what really locks people in, at least here in the US, 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.920 is the fact of those blue bubbles. You can debate 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.640 me all day you want on that, but that is 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.880 what keeps people locked into that platform. Yes, the iPhone 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.920 is amazing, but people would quickly forget it if they 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.320 use something else like a Samsung or a Google Pixel 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.839 or the variety of other Android phones out there. I mean, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.680 the iPhone is special, but it's not that special. It's 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.079 really more about the ecosystem. And so anyway, I tell 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.040 you that because yes, I do have a system that 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.440 uses Sunbird, which we've actually had them on the show here, 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.040 and there's a couple of things I'll go through Scott. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.680 You mentioned one, you mentioned Beeper, But there's a bunch 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:26.000 of companies working on the cross message solution. And by 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.840 the way, Apple does not condone any of this, and 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.400 Apple try well, you know, they don't allow this, they 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.480 don't want it, they don't build an easy way to 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:38.800 do this. But these companies have found solutions around Apple's 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.720 lack of support for cross messaging solutions. By the way, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:48.160 I Message is proprietary and it's fantastic, but there are 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.760 cross messaging solutions that would make every phone in the 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:56.680 world function like I Message. It's called RCS, and Android 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:01.920 incorporates RCS, which means if you go from Android to Android, yes, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.720 you can send big videos, you can send you know, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.040 read red receipts, responses, people can see when you're typing, 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.640 all that good stuff. It was a long time coming 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.800 on Android, but now it's across the board. And what 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.480 Apple does is with you know, if they're not if 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.920 you're not sending an I message, like if you're sending 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.600 from Apple to an Android. The reason it pops up 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.280 green is because they're using just SMS, which is you know, 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.240 short Messaging service, which has been around forever, but it's 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.720 an old standard. The new standard is RCS, and Apple 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.680 refuses to adopt that because again I explain why, because 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.720 if they did, it would make everyone happy, and it 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.120 would make people forget about this whole iPhone versus Android 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.160 message debacle. I tell you all this because yes, you 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.720 mentioned Beeper. That's one of them, and all of these 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.600 things are either really tricky to set up or still 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.200 invite only. So Beeper is one b E E P 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.240 E R dot com. The one I'm using is Sunbird. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.800 And then there's one called Blue Bubbles and this is 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.560 open source and you can install this yourself, but it 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:06.080 is very complicated, so just fair warning there. It requires 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.520 you to have like an Apple computer on at all 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.600 times in your house acting as a server or another setup, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.080 which is also equally tricky. Then there's one called air 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.000 Message dot org and they do I message. But if 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.880 you have a Windows computer, Windows actually has a solution. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.440 Microsoft has what's called phone Link for iOS, and this 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.640 is available for Windows eleven and this will effectively allow 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.360 you to see your I messages on your Windows computer, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.960 not necessarily on your Android phone. So those are a 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.800 bunch of solutions you can do. But again, like the 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.040 one I'm using is not necessarily secure because I do 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.640 have to log in with my Apple ID to a 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.440 third party service, and whenever you're doing that, you are 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:55.200 really opening yourself up to a variety of issues security 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.880 wise and elsewise. So while I know a lot of 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.040 people use these solutions, I can't necessarily say for the 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.760 average person they're very good. I personally wish that Apple 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.359 made an I message app for Android overnight. It would 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.159 be the number one messaging app at least here in 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.480 the US. They could charge ninety nine cents a month 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.040 for it and people would buy it, people would use it, 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.000 But Apple knows on the flip side there would be 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.399 people who deflect to Android. So great question, Scott. To 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.600 kick us off, if you have a question, It's triple 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.400 eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.480 to two four one zero one. Coming up, we're gonna 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:32.639 talk to Scott Johnson about the PlayStation Portable. This is 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.119 a new way to play your PS five games on 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.920 the go. You're listening to rich on Tech. 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.640 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.760 Rich DeMuro here hanging out talking technology with you, and 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.720 on the line is Scott Johnson, founder of the frog 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.639 Pants Network and host of the Video Games News and 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.359 Views podcast Core Scott, thanks so much for joining me today. 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.720 Really happy to be here. Rich Thanks all right. 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.000 So of developments this week in the video game world. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:07.760 The first is this PlayStation remote play device called the 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:12.119 PlayStation Portal. This is a one ninety nine dollars and 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.439 ninety nine cent, so two hundred dollars device that allows 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.040 you to play your PS five. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:18.720 And I'm a little confused. 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.240 You have to explain to me, is this something that 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.080 lets you play the games outside your house or just 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:25.280 inside your house. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.720 Well, the good news it's a little bit of both. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.320 And that's one been one of the big complaints about 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.720 remote play in the past is it hasn't been great 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.320 for out of the house Wi Fi use, like if 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:37.480 you went to a hotel or a resort or something 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.480 like that. And a big part of that is just 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.640 you know, remote play has been a little fishy for 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.959 a long time, for years really in terms of quality 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.159 and what you can sort of expect. This device promises 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.600 we'll see if it delivers to be able to take 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:53.959 you out of the house or anywhere that there's a 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.119 decent Wi Fi connection and be able to remotely not 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.280 only wake your PlayStation five up, but also play that 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.719 game with as little latency as humanly possible. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.719 And they're making some really big promises in that regard. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.399 So the idea of this, it's kind of like a 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:14.800 Nintendo switch, but it's tethered almost to your console, so 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:16.960 you have to have a PlayStation five to use this, 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:19.880 and it's not actually doing the processing on board. It's 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.560 kind of using your system to process the games. Has 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:24.720 anyone done this before? 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:26.679 Yes, in a sense. 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:31.119 There are some portable devices that are exclusively for streaming 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.840 games from various streaming services, a little bit different than this, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.919 where you've got, you know, the server housing the games 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.160 is your own PlayStation five. But Logitech, for example, makes 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.800 a device that works with game Pass within vidia's service 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:50.440 called g Force now various other services, including remote play 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:55.120 from PlayStation and its job is to just pull from 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.480 the cloud and let you play these games remotely. The 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:03.040 big difference here is this is a you device, meaning 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.320 this is not a server on the internet somewhere. It's 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.639 not a service you subscribe to. It is your PlayStation 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.160 five at home, running and using your home Wi Fi 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.520 and the Internet to send it to you wherever you 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.000 are so that you can play it. And that may 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.359 sound a little maybe a little out there to a 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.240 lot of people, like maybe this is just a weird 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.600 way to play your games. But if you can have 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.960 a successful connection and keep that latency low, there's some 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:33.440 value in saying, well, I spent three hours last night 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.000 playing this game. I'd sure like to take my progress 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.280 on the road, and that's what this is designed to do. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:40.960 Now, you use the term called latency. 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:45.600 We often hear this with audio and also video games. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.040 What does that mean exactly? 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.119 Well, latency is just really when you push a button 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.560 or do an action, how long does it take for 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:53.960 that to show up on screen? 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:55.479 Is the simplest way to describe it. 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.760 Yeah, I feel like depending on your network setup, some 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:00.240 people are going to have a great set up. Some 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.760 people are a little techier than others. They want a 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.480 minimum of what speed for this. It also kind of 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.480 depends on your router and just your you know, you 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:11.159 could have a great router and a great setup, then 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:12.919 some days you're just like, what's going on with my WiFi? 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:14.320 Why is it not very good today? 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:15.160 Right? 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.760 That is absolutely true. What Sony is saying is if 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:22.359 you have a five megabyte connection, that you'll be able 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:24.600 to play, and you'll play okay. If you have up 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.639 to fifteen, that's even better. They recommend fifteen or higher, 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:29.879 but if you're down to as low as five you 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:33.159 can get by, that's probably good news. For when you 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.760 are in hotels, I can't imagine. I can't think of 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:39.359 a hotel I've been to in the last fifteen years 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:40.359 that had great Wi Fi. 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:41.399 They're not known for that. 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.240 So it seems like a lot of the on the 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:47.159 road opportunities are going to be places like hotels and 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.080 resorts and things, and I think you're going to find 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.399 that your experience there may be a little mixed, But 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.400 knowing that five is kind of the bare minimum is reasonable. 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.280 I think for a lot of modern setups, most people 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.480 are kind of they're already. But I think you are 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:04.159 going to have situations where some people just don't have 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.479 a good setup in their house, so they haven't replaced 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:08.360 their router in twenty years, and they don't know why 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:09.879 it's slower there, and so they're going to be a 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:12.120 lot of tech calls about why isn't this working right? 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.760 Some of those issues and That's why I'm encouraging people 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:18.479 before they slap the two hundred bucks down that they 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.040 maybe look into try and remote play on other devices. 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.160 Try it on your phone, your Mac, your PC, whatever, 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:27.000 and see what you're already getting in that environment. Chances are, 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:29.639 if that's a decent experience, it'll be even better with 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:30.159 the portal. 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.800 Tell me about the whole audio aspect of this, isn't 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:35.560 there kind of a weird audio aspect. 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:37.879 Yeah, there's a little bit of funky going on with 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:41.679 this bit, and it feels a little like old Sony, 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:46.520 like memory stick, PlayStation portable, Vita Sony, where they wanted 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:50.800 to push a proprietary thing to players in that case 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:54.560 of with storage and cartridge type. In this case, it's 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:58.200 a new audio technology that they call PlayStation Link, and 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:05.040 PlayStation Link is a lossless potentially format or audio technology. 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:08.400 It will allow you to connect to these devices your 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:11.639 PlayStation portal and be able to hear audio in a 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:14.600 lossless way. It's also got two channels and by the 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.040 way they're making these heads they're making a headset and 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:20.800 a pair of earbuds to coincide with this launch. One 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:24.280 is called PlayStation Pulse Elite that's the large over the 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:29.000 ear headset, and the buds are called PlayStation Pulse Explore. 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:30.760 The real thing to know about those is both of 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.760 these support that link technology, which means this device will 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:37.920 work wireless wirelessly with those very low latency lossless audio. 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:42.720 That's really good if you're into the ecosystem and that's 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:44.439 what you want to hear. But this device does not 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:48.760 support Bluetooth. So if you've got existing headsets, earbuds or 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:51.399 whatever laying around and you want to use them with 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:55.240 this device, you're out of luck. Ironically, though, those devices 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.960 support Bluetooth from other sources, so you could use those earbuds, 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:01.439 for example, with your iPhone or Android phone, and it 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:04.960 would recognize it as a Bluetooth device. So it's kind 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.200 of weird it's serving one side and not the other. 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:10.040 They really want you to buy one of these headsets, 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:13.199 otherwise you're stuck with speakers or some sort of dongle adapter, 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:16.920 or at the very least you just you know, plug 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:18.720 it in with a with a wired headset, which it 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:19.560 does have support for. 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:21.960 What about someone who maybe, because this is probably going 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:25.159 to launch during the holidays, someone is purchasing a gift 0:24:25.200 --> 0:24:28.520 for a friend or family member that has a PS five, 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:32.840 is this a good companion to that device if they 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:34.280 don't mind spending the money. 0:24:34.600 --> 0:24:37.639 Let's say you're somebody who is one hundred percent in 0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:41.280 the PlayStation ecosystem. You really just care about your PlayStations, 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:44.520 and right now the five is your PlayStation of the day, 0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:49.960 and you're not dabbling in Steam decks or other you know, switches, 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:52.919 this sort of thing. If that's the case, and you 0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:55.720 are that level of purest PlayStation player and you play 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:58.080 all the hoteny releases and you subscribe to their service, 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:02.320 I think this might be a good buy for those 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:04.600 for that very specific kind of person, which is what 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:07.359 I mean about it being kind of a weird, not niche. 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:11.160 But it's a smaller percentage of even the PlayStation market. 0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:14.520 I think they could have passed a wider net, maybe 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:17.040 even made this device work with other services. They're not 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:19.400 going to make it work with xCloud, obviously, but maybe 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:22.960 it could have worked with in videos service or somebody else's, 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:26.639 but they chose to keep it all in house. And again, 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:29.960 if that's all you care about is your PlayStation games 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:32.440 and you continuing to play them in bed or off 0:25:32.440 --> 0:25:34.240 on your trip, or on the plane or wherever you 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:37.280 can get that connection. Then yeah, I think two hundred 0:25:37.280 --> 0:25:39.239 bucks is okay, especially if you already spent the six 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:41.280 hundred a couple of years ago, and you've already you know, 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:43.600 you've forgotten about that loss of cash in your wallet. 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:46.560 Scott, what game are you playing these days? 0:25:46.840 --> 0:25:47.040 Oh? 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:48.840 I have so many on my list, but right now 0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:51.639 it's all about Balder's Gate three. The good news is 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:54.879 Balder's Gate three within a week or two, I believe, 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:57.480 launches on PlayStation five, and for a while it will 0:25:57.480 --> 0:26:00.800 be a PS five console exclusive until the Xbox versions 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:05.040 ready later this year. This game is breaking every possible 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:08.880 record you can think of, including reviews and scores. Kind 0:26:08.880 --> 0:26:10.640 of just shattered the world this year and a year 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:13.560 that has already got amazing games in it, Balder's Gate 0:26:13.600 --> 0:26:15.800 three is the place to be, and PlayStation five owners 0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:17.840 are about to get it, so I'm excited for them, 0:26:17.880 --> 0:26:20.320 and it probably will plague really well on this device, 0:26:20.359 --> 0:26:22.760 so I guess look forward to that, all right. 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.240 Scott Johnson, founder of the frog Pants Network and host 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:27.840 of the video games news and views podcast Core. 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:29.640 Where can folks find you online? 0:26:29.840 --> 0:26:31.919 Best place to go would be FrogPants dot com. If 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:33.959 you're looking for Core or any other podcasts we do 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:36.280 frog pants dot com. We'll have a whole listing there 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:38.760 of those podcasts, and if you want to check me 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:40.359 out online, you can usually find me in all the 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:42.960 socials is either Scott Johnson or frog Pants. 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:44.320 So I look forward to seeing you there. 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:47.080 Scott, thanks so much for joining me today. If you 0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:49.480 have a question about technology, hop on the phone is 0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:52.760 triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:56.119 seven four two four one zero one more. 0:26:56.080 --> 0:27:03.360 Rich on Tech right after this, welcome back to rich 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:06.200 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:10.720 technology at triple A rich one on one. That's eight 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:14.960 eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. 0:27:17.040 --> 0:27:20.760 Let's go to John in Mission Viejo, California. John, you're 0:27:20.800 --> 0:27:21.120 on with. 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:24.199 Rich Well, thank you very much. My question has to 0:27:24.280 --> 0:27:28.080 do with two models of iPhone. The first one is 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:34.199 the fourteen Promax and the second one is the se model. 0:27:34.680 --> 0:27:36.639 We're traveling to Europe in a couple of months and 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:40.439 I need to know if I need a converter to 0:27:40.520 --> 0:27:44.280 go from sixty cycles to fifty cycles for each phone, 0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:47.439 or can I just buy an adapter. That is each phone, 0:27:47.720 --> 0:27:52.480 can it detect fifty cycles all by self? 0:27:53.000 --> 0:27:56.400 Yeah, So here's my experience with this. The only time 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:59.679 you need a travel there's two things. There's a travel 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:03.399 conver and then there's there's a voltage converter, and then 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:06.760 there's a travel adapter. So what you need is just 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:10.320 to travel adapter because if you look on the you know, 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:13.560 if you look on the tiny tiny print on these 0:28:14.280 --> 0:28:18.320 plugs that you've got, they pretty much do fifty and 0:28:18.440 --> 0:28:23.479 sixty hurts like you mentioned, So it's it's automatically going 0:28:23.520 --> 0:28:25.679 to handle that part. The main thing you need to know, 0:28:26.080 --> 0:28:28.240 and this, I think is is really tricky for a 0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:30.359 lot of people, and myself included when I when I 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:32.320 was going to Europe for the first time, this was 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:34.800 I had no idea what to expect. You know, I 0:28:34.840 --> 0:28:36.520 didn't know if my phone was going to melt when 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:40.360 I plugged it in, right, But the reality is most 0:28:40.400 --> 0:28:43.280 of the I guess you would call it the plug, 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:45.080 you know, the thing that you plug into the wall 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:48.560 here in the US, right, what would you call that, John. 0:28:49.640 --> 0:28:52.200 I would call that the electrical receptacle. 0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:54.480 Okay, well, no, what okay? The thing that you plug 0:28:54.480 --> 0:28:56.000 into that what would you call that, the little like 0:28:56.040 --> 0:28:57.520 square thing, what would you call that? 0:28:58.240 --> 0:28:59.400 I would call that an adapter? 0:28:59.560 --> 0:29:02.000 Okay, So the adapter, So the adapter that we have 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:04.440 here in the US, the one that you plug your 0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:08.920 iPhone like USB cord into. Those typically handle a range 0:29:09.240 --> 0:29:12.760 of If you look on the back, it says input 0:29:12.840 --> 0:29:16.240 one hundred to two hundred and forty volts one point 0:29:16.280 --> 0:29:19.760 five amps, and then fifty to sixty hertz. So what 0:29:19.800 --> 0:29:25.200 that means is that this device itself can handle a 0:29:25.280 --> 0:29:30.040 little bit of fluctuation with the power supply. But I 0:29:30.080 --> 0:29:32.240 think what it comes down to is, you know, the 0:29:32.280 --> 0:29:34.600 plug on the end needs to be converted to be 0:29:34.640 --> 0:29:38.440 able to plug into a European plug, you know, wall 0:29:38.480 --> 0:29:41.920 outlet or something like that. So I don't The short 0:29:41.920 --> 0:29:45.240 answer is all you need is an adapter. Do you 0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:45.920 have an adapter? 0:29:46.080 --> 0:29:46.400 So far? 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:48.840 If you have that, no, But I can go down 0:29:49.000 --> 0:29:51.320 and I can buy a couple of adapters. We're going 0:29:51.360 --> 0:29:55.800 over to Greece and then we're going to go over 0:29:55.800 --> 0:29:58.400 to Italy and then also Craotia. 0:29:58.520 --> 0:30:01.800 Oh very nice, very exciting. Well, one adapter should handle that. 0:30:02.440 --> 0:30:05.160 The one that I like, that's it's very inexpensive. I've 0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:08.400 used this in various countries. It's on Amazon. It's not 0:30:08.480 --> 0:30:10.680 just me that likes this. It's got eleven thousand ratings. 0:30:10.680 --> 0:30:16.880 It's pretty popular. It's the Epica EPI CKA and this 0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:20.040 is a travel adapter that works in you know, different countries. 0:30:20.400 --> 0:30:23.800 It's got USB on the bottom, the large USB and 0:30:23.880 --> 0:30:27.040 it's on sale for eighteen dollars and thirty nine cents. 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:31.360 So I like that one. And it's got one USBC. 0:30:31.520 --> 0:30:33.880 So the idea is that you can actually plug that 0:30:33.920 --> 0:30:36.040 into the wall and then you don't even need your converter. 0:30:36.240 --> 0:30:38.080 You can just or your wall adapter. You can just 0:30:38.080 --> 0:30:40.840 plug your USB directly into that. Now that's going to 0:30:40.920 --> 0:30:44.000 work nicely. But if you want something that powers up 0:30:44.280 --> 0:30:48.280 devices faster, I do also like this one called one 0:30:48.320 --> 0:30:52.240 Adapter one World one hundred, and this is a little 0:30:52.240 --> 0:30:55.360 bit more expensive. It's closer to like ninety dollars, but 0:30:55.920 --> 0:30:58.840 this will power things like your laptop and your tablet 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:02.400 without the need for your adapter at all. So you 0:31:02.440 --> 0:31:04.480 can plug that directly into the wall, then plug your 0:31:04.560 --> 0:31:08.040 USBC into it. It's got two USB C two USBA 0:31:08.440 --> 0:31:10.920 and you can plug that. But what you need to 0:31:10.920 --> 0:31:14.280 know when you travel is that most of your regular gadgets, 0:31:14.320 --> 0:31:16.760 like your phones and your tablets and your laptops, those 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:20.120 will all be fine with the adapters that you already have, 0:31:20.240 --> 0:31:23.280 and you just need a travel adapter. It's when you 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:26.400 look at things like appliances. So if you're talking about 0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:30.200 a hair dryer or a hair straightener, that's when you 0:31:30.320 --> 0:31:36.120 need a travel voltage converter. And so that's where it 0:31:36.160 --> 0:31:38.719 gets a little bit trickier because those have a different 0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:44.320 power requirement, and so those those definitely are not definitely 0:31:44.320 --> 0:31:48.640 but many times need a converter. So that's the answer 0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:51.880 to that. I know it's so complicated because it's but basically, 0:31:51.960 --> 0:31:53.720 what I've found is that most of the things just 0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:56.160 sort of work. So that's the good news, all right, John, 0:31:56.200 --> 0:31:59.000 thanks for the question today from a mission Viejo. Appreciate that. 0:32:00.400 --> 0:32:02.840 Let's see here. Let me talk about two things that 0:32:03.160 --> 0:32:05.280 I think you should know about here. Number one, Meta 0:32:06.280 --> 0:32:09.600 Meta has rolled out a new version of threads, and 0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:12.560 Threads is now on the web. So remember we talked 0:32:12.560 --> 0:32:15.960 about threads. This is sort of their answer to Twitter 0:32:17.120 --> 0:32:20.560 from Facebook. It is now available on the internet. I 0:32:20.600 --> 0:32:22.479 know it does not sound weird, but it was. It 0:32:22.520 --> 0:32:26.680 was previously available on the apps on iOS and Android 0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:29.600 and on the internet you can only view someone's thread. 0:32:30.200 --> 0:32:32.960 But now you can actually go to the website threads 0:32:33.360 --> 0:32:37.479 let's see, is it threads dot net and you can search, 0:32:37.920 --> 0:32:41.760 you can post, you can repost whatever you want to do. 0:32:42.160 --> 0:32:44.560 You can basically do most of the functionality that you 0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:47.720 can do on the app version on the web. So 0:32:47.800 --> 0:32:50.320 what does that mean, Well, it just gives Twitter a 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:55.120 little bit more of a competition because before, if you 0:32:55.160 --> 0:32:58.240 were a really hardcore user of this, you had to 0:32:58.280 --> 0:33:00.400 go on your phone, and it was tough to just 0:33:00.480 --> 0:33:03.960 leave this on on your computer all day because it 0:33:03.960 --> 0:33:05.600 wouldn't do anything. But now you can leave it on 0:33:05.640 --> 0:33:07.959 your computer. You can do the same stuff you can do. 0:33:08.360 --> 0:33:10.520 So if you haven't checked out threads lately, check it 0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:13.360 out again threads dot net. You just log in with 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:16.280 your Instagram and you can read, you can write, you 0:33:16.320 --> 0:33:19.280 can post, you can repost, and it just gets a 0:33:19.360 --> 0:33:22.600 little bit closer to a product that is easier to 0:33:22.800 --> 0:33:25.960 use more so. You know, they had one hundred million 0:33:26.040 --> 0:33:28.920 sign ups within five days of launch back in July, 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:32.480 and then a lot of people dropped off, so according 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:37.160 to let's see Reuters and Let's see similar Web says 0:33:38.240 --> 0:33:42.120 daily active users on threads dropped to ten million from 0:33:42.160 --> 0:33:45.760 a peak of fifty million within a month. So yeah, 0:33:45.800 --> 0:33:47.640 I mean I could tell this myself and just kind 0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:50.560 of like, you know, casually observing that. Yeah, I just 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:52.320 didn't really use it that much because you had to 0:33:52.360 --> 0:33:56.840 go on the phone app and I just forgot. If 0:33:56.840 --> 0:34:01.000 you have a LinkedIn account, they are under attack. Cyberint 0:34:01.320 --> 0:34:06.440 says their research team has observed an alarming trend lots 0:34:06.440 --> 0:34:09.400 of people getting hacked on LinkedIn and this is happening 0:34:09.440 --> 0:34:13.319 to people around the world. And what they do once 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:18.200 they get into your account, they post bad links, they 0:34:18.239 --> 0:34:21.680 post mean things, They try to use your account to 0:34:22.200 --> 0:34:24.520 trick other people. They do a whole bunch of the 0:34:24.760 --> 0:34:26.759 standard stuff that they do when people hack you. People 0:34:26.760 --> 0:34:28.200 always say, why do they want to hack me? What 0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:29.680 do they want to do with my account? Well, they're 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:33.040 trying to trick your friends. They're basically when you have 0:34:33.080 --> 0:34:38.280 a hacked account, that account is legitimate, and so because 0:34:38.280 --> 0:34:41.560 it's a legitimate account, you can do things on that 0:34:41.600 --> 0:34:45.600 account and fly under the radar for longer, which means 0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:48.040 you can message a lot of people and ask for money. 0:34:48.360 --> 0:34:51.360 You can post a lot of stuff without the spam 0:34:51.400 --> 0:34:54.280 flags getting you because it thinks that you're a regular account. 0:34:54.560 --> 0:34:57.400 So that's why spammers don't just set up a new account. 0:34:57.440 --> 0:35:00.239 They love to have your account because your account is 0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:05.120 marked as a legitimate account. Computer systems can figure out 0:35:05.160 --> 0:35:07.799 when spammers sign up for thousands of accounts all at 0:35:07.800 --> 0:35:09.560 the same time because it all comes from the same 0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:12.400 IP address, and there's other things that kind of indicate 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:15.640 that that those are not real people, their bots. But 0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:18.640 when they take over your account, it says, oh, this 0:35:18.680 --> 0:35:20.399 is an account that's been around for a while, it's 0:35:20.440 --> 0:35:22.880 been used for a while, and so it's more trusted 0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:26.520 and that's why they like those accounts better than setting 0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:30.680 up new accounts. Anyway, if you have a LinkedIn account, 0:35:30.760 --> 0:35:33.040 it is now a good time to go through and 0:35:33.200 --> 0:35:35.759 make sure that there are no other email addresses or 0:35:35.840 --> 0:35:39.200 old email addresses on your account. Change your password, make 0:35:39.239 --> 0:35:42.240 sure that it is a specific password just for LinkedIn, 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:46.560 don't reuse one, and turn on two step verification. This 0:35:46.600 --> 0:35:48.680 will send you a text when someone tries to log 0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:52.680 into your account. Definitely secure your LinkedIn account because you 0:35:52.719 --> 0:35:55.359 do not want something posted to your LinkedIn and your 0:35:55.360 --> 0:35:58.320 boss sees it, right, and it's something that's really bad. 0:35:58.680 --> 0:36:01.120 That would be a really look because this is what 0:36:01.160 --> 0:36:04.040 people use for work and all that good stuff. 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You're 0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:17.359 on with Rich. 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:19.160 Hi. 0:37:19.320 --> 0:37:19.560 Rich. 0:37:21.840 --> 0:37:29.120 I switched my home internet last week, and I have 0:37:29.440 --> 0:37:34.080 a Gmail account that it won't let me log in 0:37:35.360 --> 0:37:38.600 since I switched the internet. So I go to log 0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:42.799 in and I'm getting a message that says we need 0:37:42.840 --> 0:37:46.840 to verify that it was you. And I put the 0:37:46.920 --> 0:37:53.799 correct security word ahead written down, and it still won't 0:37:53.880 --> 0:37:56.640 let me log in. And then I put the correct 0:37:57.040 --> 0:38:00.800 password and I get the same message again that says 0:38:00.840 --> 0:38:03.719 we can't verify that it's you. 0:38:07.080 --> 0:38:09.000 So I'm I'm sort of at a lot. 0:38:08.840 --> 0:38:12.719 Of what to do about it. I called Google's eight 0:38:12.800 --> 0:38:17.680 hundred number and stayed on on hold for about four hours. 0:38:17.840 --> 0:38:18.960 Oh, they didn't answer. 0:38:20.120 --> 0:38:21.680 I don't even know they had an a hundred number. 0:38:22.719 --> 0:38:29.080 They do Google, Okay, So number one, is this your 0:38:29.120 --> 0:38:31.600 primary account? 0:38:31.800 --> 0:38:37.879 It's not, It's a it's like a backup account. One 0:38:37.880 --> 0:38:40.520 of the problems I'm having is I use it to 0:38:40.880 --> 0:38:45.960 verify a subscription service, so now I can't I can't 0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:49.640 cancel the subscription because I can't log into that email, 0:38:49.800 --> 0:38:51.520 so it's preventing me from doing that. 0:38:52.920 --> 0:38:58.040 And okay, so I think I think what's happening here 0:38:58.120 --> 0:39:01.359 is your your change of provider has triggered some sort 0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:05.520 of security situation with Google. That's what I'm understanding. Have 0:39:05.640 --> 0:39:08.279 you logged into this account on any other device that 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:09.920 you still have, like your cell phone? 0:39:10.160 --> 0:39:15.080 Perhaps no, I haven't, And that's sort of the problem 0:39:15.160 --> 0:39:21.600 because there's a message that says, go to a device 0:39:21.640 --> 0:39:23.080 where you're already. 0:39:22.760 --> 0:39:25.600 Logged in, right right, you'll be able. 0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:30.200 To confirm it. But because it's a backup email, I only, 0:39:31.160 --> 0:39:34.360 you know, on purpose, ever used it on my laptop, 0:39:34.480 --> 0:39:37.040 so I never had a reason to log into it 0:39:37.200 --> 0:39:37.840 on a phone. 0:39:38.400 --> 0:39:42.279 Okay, well I would, Okay, So what email Google is 0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:44.960 trying to do is, yeah, they're trying to verify that 0:39:45.000 --> 0:39:47.760 it is you. And it's interesting that it's still triggering 0:39:47.840 --> 0:39:51.160 all of these security alerts when you're logging in with 0:39:51.200 --> 0:39:54.160 the correct information. That's what's a little bit concerning. And 0:39:54.200 --> 0:39:57.319 this is kind of a bigger message to everyone that 0:39:57.400 --> 0:40:01.040 has an account that you know, anything can happen at 0:40:01.040 --> 0:40:03.799 any time. So if you think that just because you've 0:40:03.840 --> 0:40:06.200 got your stuff backed up or sorry, not backed up. 0:40:06.239 --> 0:40:08.239 If you think you have your you know, like you said, 0:40:08.280 --> 0:40:10.719 you wrote down your code word, you have your password, 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:13.439 and you still can't get access to this account. Now, 0:40:13.560 --> 0:40:16.640 remember these are free accounts, so I mean, you know 0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:19.520 you're always giving and taking with that because I'm sure 0:40:19.520 --> 0:40:21.600 in the terms of service at some point it says 0:40:21.600 --> 0:40:23.960 somewhere like we don't guarantee anything. You know, we may 0:40:24.000 --> 0:40:26.200 take this away from you at any time. So I 0:40:26.280 --> 0:40:29.640 say that because you know, we got to back up 0:40:29.640 --> 0:40:32.560 our information just in case something like this happens. Now, 0:40:32.920 --> 0:40:36.160 I think that you will get regain access to this account. 0:40:36.200 --> 0:40:40.560 So what I would do is I would try logging 0:40:40.600 --> 0:40:44.200 in from another device that you have, like your smartphone. 0:40:44.239 --> 0:40:47.200 I would try logging in from there see if that works. 0:40:47.800 --> 0:40:50.160 And you know, I know that you didn't log in 0:40:50.200 --> 0:40:53.040 from that before, but it may. It may like the 0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:56.200 fact that you're logging in from another device that you've 0:40:56.239 --> 0:40:58.680 either surfed the web on with Google or done something 0:40:58.719 --> 0:41:02.359 on there, even though you didn't log into there. You 0:41:02.400 --> 0:41:04.960 can you know, obviously, you can go to the account recovery, 0:41:04.960 --> 0:41:07.680 which it sounds like you've already done. But on that 0:41:07.760 --> 0:41:10.400 account recovery page, if you Google and you got to 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:13.120 be careful with the phone numbers that you call, because 0:41:13.160 --> 0:41:15.279 if you just Google for a phone number, I don't 0:41:15.320 --> 0:41:19.719 recommend doing that. But if you type in Gmail recovery 0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:24.759 into Google, and Gmail help page comes up says how 0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:27.959 to recover your Google account or Gmail, and it gives 0:41:28.000 --> 0:41:30.799 you some tips on there, and I think, John, there's 0:41:30.840 --> 0:41:33.680 a couple of good tips on there. Where it says 0:41:35.040 --> 0:41:37.719 let's see here, it says that there's a way to 0:41:38.880 --> 0:41:41.120 you know, like log in from a device that you've 0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:43.919 already logged in from. It gives you like, oh, yeah, 0:41:43.920 --> 0:41:46.560 here we go some a tip from Tips for Recovery. Okay, 0:41:46.920 --> 0:41:51.360 answer as many questions as possible. Use a familiar device 0:41:51.480 --> 0:41:54.200 and location. Use a computer, phone or tablet where you 0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:57.680 frequently sign in, use the same browser being a location 0:41:57.840 --> 0:42:00.440 that you usually sign in from home or work. Be 0:42:00.520 --> 0:42:06.640 exact with passwords and answers to security questions. And let's 0:42:06.640 --> 0:42:10.880 see what else here? Enter an email connected here account. 0:42:11.440 --> 0:42:14.040 So those are all kind of ways you can do it. 0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:15.719 If you look in the upper right hand corner of 0:42:15.760 --> 0:42:18.680 this help page, there is a contact us and I 0:42:18.719 --> 0:42:21.239 think that that would be easier to contact Google than 0:42:21.280 --> 0:42:24.720 calling them. I have chatted with Google before with issues, 0:42:24.760 --> 0:42:27.600 and they absolutely do help. And I think that the 0:42:27.719 --> 0:42:30.239 chat is a much better way of getting some help 0:42:30.280 --> 0:42:33.960 with this than calling in the phone number. Like you said, 0:42:35.000 --> 0:42:38.359 I feel for you. I like that you had things 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:43.000 written down, and you've got your recovery word and your password. 0:42:43.040 --> 0:42:45.120 Everything is written down. It sounds like you're doing the 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:48.200 right thing. But this is indeed frustrating. And I know 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:51.120 how frustrating is because in this very room that I'm 0:42:51.160 --> 0:42:53.799 sitting in, the first time that I logged into my 0:42:53.880 --> 0:42:57.120 Google in this room, I set off some sort of 0:42:57.200 --> 0:43:00.480 red alert at Google that locked out every single one 0:43:00.520 --> 0:43:03.120 of my Google features. And I about had a heart 0:43:03.120 --> 0:43:06.279 attack when I saw every single one of my systems. 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:10.920 I saw my computer, my phone, my tablet, everything logged 0:43:10.920 --> 0:43:14.640 out because it said, sorry, we noticed unauthorized access to 0:43:14.680 --> 0:43:16.879 your account. I guess because it was the first time 0:43:16.920 --> 0:43:19.000 I was logging in from here and they didn't like it. 0:43:19.560 --> 0:43:21.480 And my heart stopped because I said, what if I 0:43:21.480 --> 0:43:23.880 don't get access to my account again? That would be really, 0:43:23.960 --> 0:43:26.959 really bad. And what you've just described is the fact 0:43:27.000 --> 0:43:31.200 that even if you take the time to make sure 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:34.160 you have all of your login info, these systems can 0:43:34.239 --> 0:43:37.600 lock you out for any reason, even as simple as 0:43:37.680 --> 0:43:41.520 changing your ISP your Internet service provider, and it's saying, hmm, 0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:43.680 we don't really like this. We've never seen John log 0:43:43.680 --> 0:43:46.920 in this way before. So it is a scary reminder 0:43:47.400 --> 0:43:50.399 that we need to back up our information. We need 0:43:50.440 --> 0:43:53.560 to write down those recovery passwords and those codes that 0:43:53.600 --> 0:43:55.880 they give us, and we need to keep good notes 0:43:55.880 --> 0:43:59.080 about our passwords because sometimes they ask you for an 0:43:59.120 --> 0:44:01.040 old password and they say, hey, what was your password 0:44:01.040 --> 0:44:04.239 before this? And you know, Google is up against a 0:44:04.239 --> 0:44:06.120 lot of stuff here. They're up against a lot of 0:44:06.160 --> 0:44:08.319 people that are trying to break into accounts twenty four 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.600 to seven, and so they come up with these systems 0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:14.000 that are not perfect, but hopefully they filter out a 0:44:14.000 --> 0:44:17.000 lot of the bad actors. So John, check out that 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:21.080 support page, try to chat with Google. And you know, 0:44:21.120 --> 0:44:23.040 if you're listening to this, make sure that you back 0:44:23.120 --> 0:44:25.520 up your stuff. I'm guilty of not having a backup 0:44:25.560 --> 0:44:28.520 of everything, so I need to do that, and so 0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:32.120 do you, especially your pictures, your files, anything that's important. 0:44:32.160 --> 0:44:35.840 Your Gmail. You can use what's called Google takeout. So 0:44:36.560 --> 0:44:38.920 if you have a Google account, check out Google Takeout. 0:44:38.920 --> 0:44:42.040 You can download your data from Google using that service, 0:44:42.200 --> 0:44:44.080 and it may take a while depending on how much 0:44:44.080 --> 0:44:46.799 you have, but it can definitely help. Thanks for the call, John, 0:44:46.920 --> 0:44:50.040 and I hope you get recovery on your account and 0:44:50.200 --> 0:44:53.920 email me and let me know if you do. Speaking 0:44:54.000 --> 0:44:56.320 of shutting down accounts, shut or fly has been setting 0:44:56.320 --> 0:44:58.200 a lot of emails. At first, they were going to 0:44:58.280 --> 0:45:02.000 shut down any accounts that had not been active for 0:45:02.120 --> 0:45:04.920 eighteen months, so if you didn't make a purchase, or 0:45:04.960 --> 0:45:07.960 if you didn't do anything on your account, basically, if 0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:09.919 you didn't make a purchase in the past eighteen months, 0:45:09.960 --> 0:45:12.120 they were going to delete all of your photos. Well, 0:45:12.160 --> 0:45:14.600 apparently a new CEO has taken over and they said, 0:45:14.600 --> 0:45:16.799 we're gon, we're gonna pause this idea because we don't 0:45:16.840 --> 0:45:21.520 like it anymore. So now accounts that even if you 0:45:21.560 --> 0:45:24.160 didn't make a purchase in the past eighteen months, they're 0:45:24.200 --> 0:45:26.640 going to keep your photos on Shutterfly. But if you 0:45:26.640 --> 0:45:29.040 haven't done anything in five years, they're still going to 0:45:29.120 --> 0:45:31.840 delete them. So you may have gotten that email from Shutterfly. 0:45:32.160 --> 0:45:34.640 The bottom line is if you want to keep your 0:45:34.680 --> 0:45:37.640 photos on Shutterfly that you've had there forever, you need 0:45:37.680 --> 0:45:42.200 to make a purchase within five years, So that's that's 0:45:42.280 --> 0:45:44.839 kind of the bottom line that I'm reading here. If 0:45:44.840 --> 0:45:47.080 you haven't made a purchase in eighteen months, we still 0:45:47.120 --> 0:45:49.920 designate your account as inactive, but we're not going to 0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:53.839 delete those pictures. Very very confusing, shutterfly. You need someone 0:45:53.880 --> 0:45:56.360 better to write your emails, because it took me about 0:45:56.360 --> 0:45:58.160 an hour to read this email and figure out what 0:45:58.160 --> 0:46:01.960 you're trying to tell me. So this app is pretty cool. 0:46:01.960 --> 0:46:03.520 A lot of people are talking about it. It's called 0:46:03.600 --> 0:46:06.680 call Sheet c A L L S H e e T. 0:46:07.480 --> 0:46:11.960 This is an iOS alternative to IMDb. IMDb is really 0:46:12.000 --> 0:46:13.919 cool because it can keep track of all the movies 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:16.480 you want to watch. You can look up people, but 0:46:16.520 --> 0:46:19.439 it's gotten really cluttered ever since Amazon purchased it, and 0:46:19.480 --> 0:46:21.680 it's just got a lot of junk on there. So 0:46:21.719 --> 0:46:25.080 if you want something that's really clean, check out call Sheet. 0:46:25.120 --> 0:46:27.400 A lot of people are talking about this. I downloaded it. 0:46:27.400 --> 0:46:30.800 It is very clean. It's only on iPhone for now, 0:46:31.160 --> 0:46:33.560 and you do have to pay after a bunch of 0:46:33.560 --> 0:46:36.359 free searches. It's either a dollar a month or nine 0:46:36.400 --> 0:46:38.680 dollars a year, But don't let that dissuade you. I 0:46:38.680 --> 0:46:41.040 would still download this if you are looking for an 0:46:41.040 --> 0:46:43.200 app to keep track of your movies and you know 0:46:43.239 --> 0:46:45.479 you just want to look things up. It's pretty cool. 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:48.040 So it's got a way to look up actors, see 0:46:48.080 --> 0:46:49.680 what movies are in. You can keep a list of 0:46:49.680 --> 0:46:52.200 the things you want to watch, and it also links 0:46:52.239 --> 0:46:56.319 out to just watch to see where a TV show 0:46:56.480 --> 0:47:00.680 or movie is streaming. It's not quite as detailed IMDb, 0:47:00.880 --> 0:47:03.719 but it still works. It's called call Sheet c A 0:47:04.040 --> 0:47:06.960 L L S H E E T. I will put 0:47:06.960 --> 0:47:09.839 it on the show links. And by the way, if 0:47:09.840 --> 0:47:11.759 you want to get in on the feedback segment, which 0:47:11.760 --> 0:47:12.880 is at the end of the show, if you have 0:47:12.920 --> 0:47:16.000 something to say about this show or about me or anything, 0:47:16.600 --> 0:47:19.560 you can go to my website rich on Tech dot tv, 0:47:19.760 --> 0:47:22.399 hit the contact button and I'll make sure you get 0:47:22.400 --> 0:47:24.560 in the feedback segment at the end of the show. 0:47:25.320 --> 0:47:27.399 All right, coming up, we'll talk about AT and t's 0:47:27.480 --> 0:47:30.400 new Internet air plus more of your calls at Triple 0:47:30.440 --> 0:47:33.640 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:47:33.719 --> 0:47:36.960 to two four one zero one. This is rich on Tech. 0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:43.200 Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here at 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:47.080 Triple eight rich one oh one that's eight eight eight 0:47:47.280 --> 0:47:52.279 seven four to two four one zero one. Let's go 0:47:52.320 --> 0:47:55.399 to Judy in San Diego. Judy, you're on with Rich. 0:47:56.440 --> 0:47:56.600 Hi. 0:47:56.719 --> 0:47:56.959 Rich. 0:47:57.719 --> 0:48:00.520 I'm thinking I'm an older person. I'm thinking of getting 0:48:00.560 --> 0:48:05.360 my first smartphone. However, I do have an Apple iPad Mini, 0:48:05.520 --> 0:48:10.640 so I'm somewhat familiar with devices. I've had the rugged 0:48:11.000 --> 0:48:15.839 kios Era uh duraphone XB I think that you get 0:48:15.880 --> 0:48:18.960 from you buy them to Verizon. 0:48:19.239 --> 0:48:19.520 Sure. 0:48:19.560 --> 0:48:23.640 So I have really liked this phone because you can 0:48:23.719 --> 0:48:26.000 drop it in the pool, you can drop it on concrete. 0:48:26.040 --> 0:48:29.280 It really holds up. They call the military garade grade 0:48:29.280 --> 0:48:32.319 for durability. Oh yeah, so what would what would your 0:48:32.640 --> 0:48:35.080 Are you familiar with the these and I wondered what 0:48:35.120 --> 0:48:37.720 your opinion would be if I went for the latest 0:48:37.760 --> 0:48:41.200 one that is coming out, the Kyosera Dura Force Ultra 0:48:41.320 --> 0:48:44.040 five G. It's eight ninety nine and I can drop it, 0:48:44.960 --> 0:48:47.600 and I dropped stuff all the time. I wouldn't worry 0:48:47.600 --> 0:48:49.240 about it cracking and breaking. 0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:55.800 Yeah, this is the Dura Force Pro three smartphone military. 0:48:55.440 --> 0:48:58.359 Standard they have. They have a newer one coming out now. 0:48:58.400 --> 0:49:00.200 You can even get a new battery. 0:49:00.680 --> 0:49:05.160 Oh wow. Yeah, this is on Verizon this just just 0:49:05.239 --> 0:49:08.000 came out. It looks like July I got the information. 0:49:08.239 --> 0:49:12.919 IPX IP sixty eight Dust and waterproof Military. It's more 0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:16.560 than a set of specs. Let's see here. Let's see 0:49:16.680 --> 0:49:22.000 enterprise level durability, Hazardous Location Protection, Wi Fi sixty Blazing 0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:28.319 five g dual SIM Enhanced Security, Outdoor Visible Display X 0:49:28.360 --> 0:49:32.439 frame structure adds reinforcement to withstand drops, dirt, water, and more, 0:49:32.719 --> 0:49:37.640 washed and sanitized Qualcom Snapdragon seven six gigs a RAM. 0:49:38.880 --> 0:49:42.879 Let's see what else here. Forty two seventy million hour 0:49:43.000 --> 0:49:47.480 battery slide lock to prevent unintended displacement. Oh, removable and 0:49:47.560 --> 0:49:51.239 replaceable battery. That's what you were talking about. Huh. Now 0:49:51.239 --> 0:49:54.480 here's the thing. This is aimed towards construction workers. So 0:49:56.120 --> 0:49:58.600 that's are you. Are you dropping your phone a lot? 0:49:58.680 --> 0:50:00.000 Or are you on construction side? 0:50:01.160 --> 0:50:01.359 No? 0:50:01.440 --> 0:50:04.040 I have arthritis in my fingers, so I find I 0:50:04.120 --> 0:50:06.600 dropped stuff a lot. Plus I do ride a bicycle. 0:50:07.440 --> 0:50:09.560 I have an e bike, and even though I'm older, 0:50:09.600 --> 0:50:10.360 I do this stuff. 0:50:10.360 --> 0:50:12.200 But oh, wow, you have an e bike. That's cool. 0:50:12.480 --> 0:50:16.040 You're a little high techie Judy, Well not. 0:50:15.960 --> 0:50:19.440 Really high Techee. I mean I just do a lot, 0:50:19.520 --> 0:50:23.279 but I'm not techie because I've never had a smartphone yet, 0:50:23.840 --> 0:50:26.520 and I'm thinking because I have really liked this other 0:50:26.800 --> 0:50:28.840 phone so much and dropped it so many times and 0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:31.560 never had a problem, I'm thinking of going with that. 0:50:31.680 --> 0:50:36.279 But it is Android, and so is this one I have. 0:50:36.440 --> 0:50:38.640 But I don't get data on it because I use 0:50:38.719 --> 0:50:42.440 my iPad for that. So I'm wondering what the drawbacks 0:50:42.440 --> 0:50:45.359 would be of not going with a more well known 0:50:45.480 --> 0:50:49.400 brand like Samsung or a smartphone iPhone. 0:50:49.640 --> 0:50:53.120 Well, okay, so good question. I think number one, probably 0:50:53.200 --> 0:50:56.600 the top drawback is the price. You're paying a very 0:50:56.640 --> 0:51:00.399 premium price for this device, and I think it has 0:51:00.440 --> 0:51:04.080 a lot of features that you may not need per se. 0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:06.719 At nine hundred dollars. Now, it may be cheaper if 0:51:06.719 --> 0:51:08.319 it's you know, if they give you a deal or 0:51:08.320 --> 0:51:12.680 something through Verizon. But the other thing is that the software. 0:51:12.840 --> 0:51:17.200 I'd have to look at the the software kind of 0:51:17.239 --> 0:51:19.200 like what they say, and I'm trying to see if 0:51:19.239 --> 0:51:21.680 it says it on here, you know, because a lot 0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:24.359 of the new Android phones the software is updated for 0:51:24.400 --> 0:51:29.120 about three to five years, so it depends if this phone, 0:51:29.280 --> 0:51:32.400 you know, has that many years of lasting out. I 0:51:32.440 --> 0:51:36.880 think you can be just fine with a phone that 0:51:37.000 --> 0:51:38.880 has a really nice case on it. Like if you 0:51:38.920 --> 0:51:40.960 went with like, let's say you want to stick to Android, 0:51:41.360 --> 0:51:45.160 you can get a Pixel seven a for like four 0:51:45.239 --> 0:51:48.840 hundred and fifty bucks something like that, and a case 0:51:49.400 --> 0:51:52.120 that is like maybe fifty dollars, and you could have 0:51:52.160 --> 0:51:56.000 a case that's pretty much going to be almost as 0:51:56.040 --> 0:51:57.720 protective as this device. 0:51:58.600 --> 0:52:01.279 Because well, I probably probably go with the with the 0:52:01.320 --> 0:52:04.239 Apple then, because I already have the Apple device for 0:52:04.320 --> 0:52:08.359 the iPad Mini. And my concern too was I used 0:52:08.400 --> 0:52:10.799 my phone for basics. I don't use it like oh 0:52:10.880 --> 0:52:13.840 yeah with all these apps and stuff, but I do 0:52:14.040 --> 0:52:17.120 like the camera on my old iPad mini, and for 0:52:17.560 --> 0:52:20.240 if I get a smartphone, i'd probably want to transfer 0:52:20.320 --> 0:52:23.680 the pictures over to my iPad mini. Yeah, I know 0:52:23.719 --> 0:52:26.720 if you can do that with the Androids do switch 0:52:26.760 --> 0:52:27.120 them over? 0:52:27.239 --> 0:52:29.200 Oh yeah, you can. You can switch that over. There's 0:52:29.200 --> 0:52:33.440 a there's an app actually called switch to iOS, and 0:52:33.520 --> 0:52:36.280 so you could download that to your Android. Sorry move okay, 0:52:36.840 --> 0:52:38.359 let me see what the app is called. It's called 0:52:38.400 --> 0:52:38.759 move to. 0:52:39.040 --> 0:52:41.560 I don't have a computer, no, it would just have 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:43.480 to go to the. 0:52:43.719 --> 0:52:46.120 iPad yep, This is called move to iOS and that 0:52:46.160 --> 0:52:48.920 will help you move your your pictures from there to 0:52:49.000 --> 0:52:52.000 your uh to the iOS phone. So you would install 0:52:52.040 --> 0:52:54.000 that on your Android and it would help you do that. 0:52:54.360 --> 0:52:57.040 I would recommend for you. I think the iPhone SE 0:52:57.920 --> 0:52:59.760 and I think that that would be a good phone 0:52:59.760 --> 0:53:02.080 to get. And I think the benefit of getting this 0:53:02.320 --> 0:53:05.560 is that you put a good case on there. And 0:53:05.600 --> 0:53:08.200 the case. I mean, there's so many rugged cases out 0:53:08.200 --> 0:53:11.439 there that you know. I mean, I love the case 0:53:12.719 --> 0:53:16.160 the stuff from Spec so those are great cases. But 0:53:16.200 --> 0:53:18.120 I mean you can get one that's our zag. They 0:53:18.120 --> 0:53:20.040 have them that are you know, rug it up to 0:53:20.080 --> 0:53:22.600 like thirteen feet drops and then you get a nice 0:53:23.000 --> 0:53:25.640 screen protector on there and you're pretty much covered, and 0:53:25.680 --> 0:53:27.360 this will have a home button. I think the iPhone 0:53:27.480 --> 0:53:29.600 SE would probably be a good one for you. It 0:53:29.680 --> 0:53:32.439 starts at four hundred and thirty dollars. By the time 0:53:32.480 --> 0:53:34.600 you get the case and the screen protector, you're talking 0:53:34.640 --> 0:53:37.640 maybe five hundred dollars. And once you've got to protected, 0:53:37.920 --> 0:53:40.400 this is going to be easier because it has everything 0:53:40.440 --> 0:53:43.000 you need. You've got friends and family to help, You've 0:53:43.040 --> 0:53:45.080 got the Apple stores to walk into if you need 0:53:45.120 --> 0:53:47.879 help with that, so, Judy, I think that that might 0:53:47.880 --> 0:53:49.239 be a better bet. But if you like the Kyo 0:53:49.320 --> 0:53:50.960 Sarah and you like the rugged phone, I just think 0:53:51.000 --> 0:53:54.200 you're gonna be paying more for something you may not need. 0:53:54.600 --> 0:53:57.839 So good question. Thanks for calling today. Coming up next, 0:53:57.880 --> 0:54:01.200 we're going to talk to doctor Chris Pearson, founder of 0:54:01.280 --> 0:54:03.919 Black Cloak. We're gonna talk about AI and hacking right 0:54:03.960 --> 0:54:09.799 here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:54:09.920 --> 0:54:13.120 Rich DeMuro here talking tech with you at triple eight 0:54:13.400 --> 0:54:16.960 rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four 0:54:17.080 --> 0:54:19.160 to two four one zero one. Give me a call 0:54:19.200 --> 0:54:21.399 if you have a question about technology, or hop on 0:54:21.440 --> 0:54:24.160 the internet and send me an email. Just go to 0:54:24.320 --> 0:54:29.560 rich on Tech dot tv hit the contact button. And yes, 0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:32.879 you are all having a field day with my old 0:54:32.960 --> 0:54:36.000 school video of me on the Price is Right. Yes 0:54:36.080 --> 0:54:40.040 I had a different haircut, Yes I was younger. No 0:54:40.120 --> 0:54:43.080 I didn't win anything. Yes I got down to contestants 0:54:43.160 --> 0:54:45.799 row And actually I didn't mention this when I first 0:54:45.800 --> 0:54:49.120 told you about Bob Barker, but he actually scolded me 0:54:49.480 --> 0:54:52.879 on the show because I was going to USC and 0:54:52.960 --> 0:54:55.239 the guy next to me was going to Pepperdine and 0:54:55.280 --> 0:54:58.200 here in Los Angeles, Soo's are kind of rivals. Not really, 0:54:58.560 --> 0:55:01.320 but I made a jab at Pepperdin and Bob Barker 0:55:01.480 --> 0:55:03.799 just barked at me. He was like, don't make fun 0:55:03.800 --> 0:55:07.760 of his school, and I was like, whoa. It was like, okay. 0:55:08.960 --> 0:55:11.760 Joining me on the line is doctor Chris Pearson, CEO 0:55:11.800 --> 0:55:17.239 and founder of Black Cloak. Doctor Chris, Welcome to the show. 0:55:17.960 --> 0:55:19.120 Hey Rich good here. 0:55:19.680 --> 0:55:21.799 Okay, So tell me first off about black Cloak. What 0:55:21.800 --> 0:55:23.080 do you do with black Cloak? 0:55:24.320 --> 0:55:29.120 Black Cloak provides concierge, cybersecurity, and privacy protection to high 0:55:29.160 --> 0:55:33.200 net worth ALDR high networth individuals, celebrities, sports stars, rock stars, 0:55:33.520 --> 0:55:35.640 folks that are in the public eye, Folks that people 0:55:35.800 --> 0:55:38.799 want to get their personal information on, want to get 0:55:38.800 --> 0:55:41.319 their pictures, want to hack into their homes or their 0:55:41.320 --> 0:55:42.000 camera feeds. 0:55:42.160 --> 0:55:44.440 They're really having a you know, either an obsession with. 0:55:44.440 --> 0:55:47.360 Them or more importantly, they want to go ahead and 0:55:47.400 --> 0:55:50.239 steal their money or steal information or documents or things 0:55:50.280 --> 0:55:54.040 about them. And we protect those individuals through our black 0:55:54.080 --> 0:55:57.120 Cloak platform. So kind of a higher end solution for 0:55:57.200 --> 0:56:00.719 those people that have very very high end knee and 0:56:00.840 --> 0:56:02.360 high end targets after them. 0:56:02.680 --> 0:56:04.879 Gosh, I never really thought about that, But that must 0:56:04.880 --> 0:56:08.040 be so wild. If you're a celebrity, you must be 0:56:08.360 --> 0:56:12.560 almost under attack twenty four to seven by these security threats. 0:56:12.600 --> 0:56:14.080 Like if you, let's just say, you get like a 0:56:14.480 --> 0:56:16.800 Nest camera for your house and it's set up wrong 0:56:17.200 --> 0:56:19.359 and someone taps into that, it's like, oh, that could 0:56:19.400 --> 0:56:21.840 be really bad. So do you actually physically go to 0:56:21.920 --> 0:56:24.799 like these people's places and like see their setups or 0:56:24.840 --> 0:56:27.120 is it more like you know how to secure their Gmail? 0:56:27.120 --> 0:56:27.520 I don't know. 0:56:28.120 --> 0:56:30.280 Well, it's definitely how to secure their Gmail. 0:56:30.320 --> 0:56:33.600 But I mean our platform actually goes in ahead and 0:56:33.719 --> 0:56:37.120 assesses their homes every seven days. So literally, we have 0:56:37.160 --> 0:56:40.600 an entire team of individuals that every seven days tries 0:56:40.640 --> 0:56:43.240 to break into our clients' homes. 0:56:43.400 --> 0:56:45.600 Let's just say celebrity it breaks. 0:56:45.280 --> 0:56:47.560 It tries to break into the celebrities' homes and we 0:56:47.600 --> 0:56:48.800 try to see if we can get in. Can we 0:56:48.840 --> 0:56:50.719 get into the camera, can get into their internet, can 0:56:50.760 --> 0:56:52.399 we get into their Wi Fi? Can we get into 0:56:52.400 --> 0:56:56.520 their systems? All done remotely through our platform, And if yes, 0:56:56.600 --> 0:56:59.120 then we'll work with their AB company, their AB probrider 0:56:59.200 --> 0:57:02.080 to go ahead and close those gaps. And if no, 0:57:02.480 --> 0:57:04.640 then they can rest with the kind of peace of 0:57:04.680 --> 0:57:08.400 mind and kind of be safe from all those digital threats. 0:57:08.560 --> 0:57:11.319 Oh my gosh, that is so wild. So what is 0:57:11.400 --> 0:57:15.560 your advice for the average person that obviously, you know, uh, 0:57:15.719 --> 0:57:17.800 just wants to stay protected. Do you think that you 0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:20.560 would be able to break into the average person's home 0:57:20.640 --> 0:57:25.240 network or Wi Fi or you know, security cameras very 0:57:25.280 --> 0:57:27.280 easily or do you think that these systems have gotten 0:57:27.280 --> 0:57:30.440 to a place where they're pretty good out of the box. 0:57:31.400 --> 0:57:33.200 Well, what's interesting is the ones that are you know, 0:57:33.320 --> 0:57:36.200 kind of the consumer DIY solutions right, A lot of 0:57:36.200 --> 0:57:39.880 them now auto update, they auto apply patches. Really, the 0:57:40.000 --> 0:57:42.720 number one way to get in on a consumer grade 0:57:42.760 --> 0:57:45.800 solution is going to be because they're using a username 0:57:45.960 --> 0:57:48.800 i e. Your email address and a password that has 0:57:48.840 --> 0:57:51.600 been breached and it's the same password you use everywhere else. 0:57:51.680 --> 0:57:54.240 It's like all the usual stuff you talk about of, Hey, 0:57:54.280 --> 0:57:58.120 have a unique password for those key sites, a camera system. 0:57:58.000 --> 0:57:59.920 Your ring, doorbell, your nest, all the rest of this. 0:58:00.200 --> 0:58:01.919 You're going to want a unique pass for all those 0:58:01.960 --> 0:58:06.400 but more importantly, more importantly, turn on dual factor authentication 0:58:06.520 --> 0:58:10.000 for all of those accounts, all of those devices. And 0:58:10.120 --> 0:58:12.760 the email that controls them, your Gmail, your Yahoo, whatever 0:58:12.760 --> 0:58:14.800 it might be. Turn on dual factor for that. That's 0:58:14.840 --> 0:58:17.040 going to be the single greatest piece of advice that 0:58:17.080 --> 0:58:19.400 we can give to consumers. On the celebrity side, these 0:58:19.440 --> 0:58:23.160 are really expensive, high end solutions, high end cameras. There's 0:58:23.200 --> 0:58:25.600 a whole other extra layer of patching that needs to happen, 0:58:25.680 --> 0:58:29.760 security updates, and really system architecture. These homes are kind 0:58:29.760 --> 0:58:32.080 of like small businesses, so to speak. So there's a 0:58:32.120 --> 0:58:34.960 lot more there. But for the everyday consumer, phrase told 0:58:35.000 --> 0:58:37.200 you to do one thing, it would be this, turn 0:58:37.280 --> 0:58:41.240 on dual factor authentication onto your IoT, your Internet of 0:58:41.320 --> 0:58:44.120 Things device, your camera system, whatever it might be. Turn 0:58:44.200 --> 0:58:47.240 on dual factor authentication on there. That is going to 0:58:47.280 --> 0:58:49.600 protect you up at that ninety five percent plus mark. 0:58:50.160 --> 0:58:53.800 Now you're recently at the black Hat conference. There's so 0:58:53.840 --> 0:58:56.680 there's black Hat and there's def Con. They go on 0:58:56.800 --> 0:58:59.200 kind of simultaneously in Vegas. Explain the difference. 0:59:00.280 --> 0:59:03.040 So black Hat ends up being a conference that is 0:59:03.120 --> 0:59:06.840 maybe more corporate focused. So it's kind of the summer 0:59:07.600 --> 0:59:10.920 summer activity for chief information security officers. So at all 0:59:11.000 --> 0:59:15.240 large companies, they have chief information security officers CISOs, and 0:59:15.320 --> 0:59:17.200 so they'll come to black Hat and they'll be looking 0:59:17.240 --> 0:59:19.680 for the latest and greatest technology. Talk to the vendors, 0:59:19.680 --> 0:59:22.959 talk to suppliers, figure out how new things can either 0:59:23.040 --> 0:59:26.160 automate more make more simple their corporate structure, the corporate 0:59:26.200 --> 0:59:29.840 security posture, and also to integrate and talk to and 0:59:29.880 --> 0:59:32.560 collaborate with one another. It's probably one of the biggest 0:59:32.600 --> 0:59:35.760 benefits of me as a former chief information security officer. 0:59:35.800 --> 0:59:37.360 It's one of the biggest benefits of black Hat. 0:59:37.760 --> 0:59:40.840 In a relaxed environment in Las Vegas, be able to 0:59:40.880 --> 0:59:43.600 get together, sit, have a beer of people, talk to people, 0:59:43.720 --> 0:59:45.600 chat with people that are your peers. 0:59:45.960 --> 0:59:48.440 What are you doing well on? What could you better on? 0:59:48.800 --> 0:59:51.120 Ask people about things that you have problems with, and 0:59:51.160 --> 0:59:53.840 there's a lot of information sharing and knowledge sharing there. 0:59:54.160 --> 0:59:56.520 Then def CON's a little more can we call it 0:59:56.560 --> 1:00:00.760 summer camp for hackers. It's more where the higher intent 1:00:00.920 --> 1:00:04.440 behind def con is to push the envelopes, push the limits. 1:00:04.520 --> 1:00:06.320 They have a whole bunch of like hacker villages that 1:00:06.360 --> 1:00:06.800 are set up. 1:00:06.800 --> 1:00:09.440 It might be an electric system, might be voter machines, 1:00:09.480 --> 1:00:12.360 it could be anything, and the folks actually will break 1:00:12.400 --> 1:00:15.480 in and try to hack into those devices and they'll compete. 1:00:15.480 --> 1:00:18.120 They'll compete for awards, so compete for prices, they'll compete 1:00:18.120 --> 1:00:20.200 for notoriety, and. 1:00:20.160 --> 1:00:21.480 So all that is at def Con. 1:00:21.560 --> 1:00:24.080 Two very very different conferences, but a great way to 1:00:24.120 --> 1:00:26.439 grow your mind no matter which audience you fall into. 1:00:27.080 --> 1:00:29.640 That is amazing and it's so interesting, the whole idea 1:00:29.640 --> 1:00:31.600 of being in person, Like I go to a bunch 1:00:31.640 --> 1:00:34.000 of these shows every year, and it's just so great 1:00:34.000 --> 1:00:36.960 to be with your peers, to actually talk about stuff 1:00:37.000 --> 1:00:39.520 in person, because that's when you know, like you said, 1:00:39.640 --> 1:00:42.120 over the drinks, over the beer, over the meetings, where 1:00:42.120 --> 1:00:44.560 you actually get to like say, hey, I'm seeing this, 1:00:44.680 --> 1:00:46.080 like what do you think of that? And just see 1:00:46.080 --> 1:00:47.000 what they say. 1:00:47.960 --> 1:00:50.200 Let's totally agree. 1:00:50.320 --> 1:00:52.640 What were some of your big takeaways? Like, I assume 1:00:52.680 --> 1:00:55.920 that AI was a big topic of conversation this year. 1:00:55.960 --> 1:00:57.840 What were your big takeaways from the conference? 1:00:58.320 --> 1:01:00.280 Yeah, I mean, I will tell you a lot of 1:01:00.320 --> 1:01:03.920 us were talking about AI and where we're actually at 1:01:03.960 --> 1:01:05.440 there's a lot of hype here right now. I mean 1:01:05.560 --> 1:01:08.120 as we take a look at things, there's kind of normal. 1:01:08.720 --> 1:01:11.560 There's kind of normal machine learning, which is more if 1:01:11.560 --> 1:01:13.760 this than that. So it's ways of looking at things 1:01:13.840 --> 1:01:16.800 and saying, if a then go ahead and turn a 1:01:16.880 --> 1:01:18.920 red switch and then turn a blue switch. And then 1:01:19.280 --> 1:01:22.920 it allows you to predictively analyze and assess certain things. 1:01:23.200 --> 1:01:26.280 It could be for anti fraud purposes, for into money laundering, 1:01:26.480 --> 1:01:29.480 for cybersecurity. But machine learning has really grown up a 1:01:29.520 --> 1:01:33.920 lot and been integrated into a lot more corporate cybersecurity products. 1:01:34.480 --> 1:01:35.320 Generative AI. 1:01:35.600 --> 1:01:38.400 This kind of chat GPT that we're all talking about, 1:01:38.520 --> 1:01:42.000 generative means it actually creates something for you. You know, hey, 1:01:42.320 --> 1:01:44.000 I want you to go ahead and write a story 1:01:44.040 --> 1:01:46.720 about a man walking on the beach and he meets 1:01:46.760 --> 1:01:50.040 his a favorite new dog. Whatever it might be, you know, 1:01:50.160 --> 1:01:52.600 you can put that into chat GPT. It will generate 1:01:52.640 --> 1:01:54.160 it for you. It could be a picture, it could 1:01:54.160 --> 1:01:56.520 be an image, could be a story. Of course, that 1:01:56.600 --> 1:01:59.040 has enabled AI to get out into the hands of 1:01:59.080 --> 1:02:04.760 the everyday person. Corporate security AI, I mean it is evolving, 1:02:04.880 --> 1:02:06.960 but not quite there yet. 1:02:07.040 --> 1:02:08.040 I mean there's a. 1:02:07.960 --> 1:02:10.480 Lot of a lot of kind of uh, you know, 1:02:10.560 --> 1:02:11.400 marketing going. 1:02:11.240 --> 1:02:15.280 On about AI. AI AI. We're not all the way 1:02:15.320 --> 1:02:17.160 there yet. But what is. 1:02:17.040 --> 1:02:19.960 Happening is that to the extent things are growing and 1:02:20.000 --> 1:02:23.640 becoming better. They are being integrated into corporate systems, but also, 1:02:23.800 --> 1:02:25.680 quite honestly, it's aber criminals are doing the same thing. 1:02:26.240 --> 1:02:29.480 I'll give you an example. So generative AI allows for 1:02:29.520 --> 1:02:32.400 you to write something in better English to make it 1:02:32.440 --> 1:02:34.560 sound better right now, kind of the crutch of a 1:02:34.600 --> 1:02:37.320 lot of phishing emails is ooh, it has some spellings. 1:02:37.360 --> 1:02:40.160 It doesn't use words or language that we would find 1:02:40.200 --> 1:02:42.600 in common parlance here in the United States. And so 1:02:42.640 --> 1:02:45.400 I want to write an email that tells you that 1:02:45.480 --> 1:02:48.480 your username and password has expired and you need to 1:02:48.520 --> 1:02:50.760 click here on the link. Well, I can tell that 1:02:50.840 --> 1:02:53.600 to chat GPT and it will push out something that 1:02:53.720 --> 1:02:57.520 is grammatically correct, looks accurate, has much better English, no 1:02:57.600 --> 1:03:01.760 broken English, and therefore it makes it for a consumer 1:03:02.160 --> 1:03:04.560 to spot whether it's a phishing email or not because 1:03:04.560 --> 1:03:06.000 it's been generated correctly. 1:03:06.240 --> 1:03:07.800 That's probably one of the biggest things that we see 1:03:07.800 --> 1:03:09.000 and upward trend on right now. 1:03:09.120 --> 1:03:13.320 Ooh, that's scary. So basically, these AI systems can help 1:03:13.400 --> 1:03:17.240 these even if you don't really have a commanding use 1:03:17.240 --> 1:03:19.240 of the English language, it can help them write in 1:03:19.280 --> 1:03:22.560 that method. What about this yes scam that you were mentioning? 1:03:23.200 --> 1:03:25.600 Oh yeah, so I mean, we're seeing a lot more 1:03:25.600 --> 1:03:28.040 in terms of phone scams out there, you know, tech 1:03:28.040 --> 1:03:30.600 support scams where somebody calls and says, hey, I'm Microsoft 1:03:30.640 --> 1:03:33.000 on Apple you have something wrong with your computer? 1:03:33.120 --> 1:03:34.400 Can we jump on it and help you? 1:03:34.440 --> 1:03:36.440 And the person says, yeah, of course you can, and 1:03:36.480 --> 1:03:39.240 you download a program. They get on and right, you've 1:03:39.280 --> 1:03:41.640 now paid money to somebody and also they've taken all 1:03:41.640 --> 1:03:44.240 your data. What we're actually seeing right now is some 1:03:44.320 --> 1:03:47.000 of the what we call the the yes scams. So 1:03:47.320 --> 1:03:50.200 this is where a scammer goes ahead and calls you 1:03:50.240 --> 1:03:52.240 and gets you to say, you know, hey, am I 1:03:52.360 --> 1:03:54.880 talking too rich? And the answer is yes, and they'll 1:03:54.920 --> 1:03:59.240 record your voice saying yes, this is rich and they 1:03:59.240 --> 1:04:03.520 can use that to replay back into bank systems for 1:04:03.640 --> 1:04:07.640 voice identification and fingerprinting, so to speak. So what we're 1:04:07.680 --> 1:04:10.800 seeing is this happening a lot more. You know, can 1:04:10.880 --> 1:04:14.640 you hear me? And then the answer is yes, Oh wow, 1:04:14.840 --> 1:04:18.320 that's tricky. Yeah, Well it's one of those things where 1:04:18.480 --> 1:04:21.160 you know, you say, hey, is this rich? It's your bank? 1:04:21.200 --> 1:04:24.080 On answer is yes, hey rich, can you hear me? 1:04:24.240 --> 1:04:25.840 Is this call going okay? 1:04:26.160 --> 1:04:26.440 Yes? 1:04:27.400 --> 1:04:30.160 That gets you to immediatelicit that yes response, and so 1:04:30.200 --> 1:04:33.520 it becomes very very very dangerous and potentially can be 1:04:33.600 --> 1:04:34.360 used in the future. 1:04:34.720 --> 1:04:37.320 It's interesting. I was on the phone yesterday with my 1:04:37.560 --> 1:04:40.320 wireless company and they said, hey, can we make a 1:04:40.400 --> 1:04:44.080 voice fingerprint of your of your fingerprint of your voice 1:04:44.120 --> 1:04:46.560 to read for biometrics, And I was like, I said, no, 1:04:47.160 --> 1:04:49.600 but what's your advice on that? Should people be saying 1:04:49.600 --> 1:04:50.400 no to that or yes? 1:04:52.960 --> 1:04:54.280 I don't know how many times you and I have 1:04:54.320 --> 1:04:57.600 said yes or no on this call. I know here 1:04:57.640 --> 1:04:58.600 at the bottom. 1:04:58.320 --> 1:05:03.320 Line is that many corporations are actually using your recorded 1:05:03.400 --> 1:05:05.960 voice when you call in so they can get a 1:05:06.120 --> 1:05:09.320 what's called a baseline. They can know how you sound. 1:05:09.360 --> 1:05:11.160 It doesn't really change all that much, you know, once 1:05:11.200 --> 1:05:13.520 you're in your twenties and thirties, it's not really changing 1:05:13.600 --> 1:05:14.000 that much. 1:05:14.400 --> 1:05:17.120 And so if that is your bank doing it. 1:05:17.320 --> 1:05:19.320 Or even your wireless carrier, I mean, that's kind of 1:05:19.400 --> 1:05:22.320 interesting because on the wireless carry side, there's a lot 1:05:22.360 --> 1:05:25.320 of what's called sim swapping going on, and so if 1:05:25.360 --> 1:05:28.120 you actually were to have said yes you can and 1:05:28.200 --> 1:05:30.600 have I don't know, let's just save horizon record your 1:05:30.680 --> 1:05:31.880 voice and do a baseline. 1:05:31.960 --> 1:05:32.800 It actually can. 1:05:32.760 --> 1:05:35.760 Enable the better protection of your account and your phone 1:05:35.880 --> 1:05:38.120 and the ability to text you and get dual factor 1:05:38.200 --> 1:05:41.080 and all the rest. That's probably paramount to them having 1:05:41.120 --> 1:05:44.960 a you know, fifteen second thirty second clip of your voice. 1:05:45.040 --> 1:05:47.520 So in that case, I would actually opt to say, yes, 1:05:47.680 --> 1:05:49.960 you can, you go ahead and record it, so you 1:05:50.080 --> 1:05:52.480 now have a baseline of what I sound like. So 1:05:52.680 --> 1:05:56.320 any anomaly, any differential from there will be flagged as 1:05:56.360 --> 1:05:58.560 a variance, and then they will go into stepped up 1:05:58.600 --> 1:06:01.720 authentication a you know, rich, when what type of phone 1:06:01.720 --> 1:06:03.040 do you have? When was the last time you up 1:06:03.120 --> 1:06:04.600 your service? When was the last time you're actually in 1:06:04.600 --> 1:06:05.680 a Verizon store? 1:06:05.760 --> 1:06:07.560 So to speak? Right, And that allows them to do 1:06:07.600 --> 1:06:08.840 some sip up authentication. 1:06:08.960 --> 1:06:11.280 This one thing the sembercriminals are not necessarily able to 1:06:11.280 --> 1:06:13.680 do is go ahead and replicate fool your voice down. 1:06:14.160 --> 1:06:16.480 We are seeing some of it start in terms of 1:06:16.800 --> 1:06:21.280 proof of concepts, but nothing that's been mass scale applied everywhere. 1:06:21.600 --> 1:06:24.000 All right, Chris, We're gonna leave it there, Doctor Chris Pearson, 1:06:24.080 --> 1:06:26.560 CEO and founder of black Cloak. You can go to 1:06:26.600 --> 1:06:30.680 the website black cloak dot io. Always so interesting and 1:06:30.720 --> 1:06:33.040 the irony of my call yesterday, I was actually trying 1:06:33.040 --> 1:06:35.880 to do a simswap for my own phones. Thanks so 1:06:35.960 --> 1:06:38.520 much for calling Triple eight rich one O one more 1:06:38.520 --> 1:06:41.120 of your calls at eight eight eight seven four to 1:06:41.120 --> 1:06:51.959 two four one zero one. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 1:06:52.720 --> 1:06:56.080 Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:06:56.200 --> 1:06:59.520 four to two four one zero one is the phone 1:06:59.560 --> 1:07:04.520 number to all. Let's go to Alex in Nuevo California. 1:07:04.600 --> 1:07:13.920 Is that how I say it? Nuvau Neuvaux, California. Oh, okay, 1:07:14.000 --> 1:07:16.880 we gotta. I can't hear you, Alex. Uh, maybe call 1:07:16.960 --> 1:07:18.720 back Alex. We had a back connection there. Let's go 1:07:18.760 --> 1:07:22.800 to carry in mission via ho is this our second mission? 1:07:22.880 --> 1:07:32.200 Viejo call today? Carry your on with rich Huh. Oh, 1:07:32.240 --> 1:07:35.280 we're having problems with all of our callers right now. Okay, 1:07:35.320 --> 1:07:38.600 Well maybe it's us. It's not you, it's me. I 1:07:38.640 --> 1:07:41.840 was explaining to my kids. They asked me last night, Uh, Carrie, 1:07:41.920 --> 1:07:46.560 I can't hear you either, so maybe carry there? Yes, 1:07:46.720 --> 1:07:48.760 oh there you are, Okay. I was explaining to my 1:07:48.880 --> 1:07:50.680 kids last night. They said, how do you break up 1:07:50.720 --> 1:07:53.080 with someone? And I said, well, you just say it's 1:07:53.080 --> 1:07:56.640 not you, it's me, And they laughed. What can I 1:07:56.640 --> 1:07:57.120 help you with. 1:07:58.440 --> 1:08:03.360 Yes, I were on my computer doing Zoom and I've 1:08:03.360 --> 1:08:06.920 been having a problem figuring out what's wrung with the audio. 1:08:07.480 --> 1:08:11.880 At this point, I can hear the person speaking, but 1:08:12.040 --> 1:08:15.320 they cannot hear me. And I've gone through. 1:08:15.160 --> 1:08:20.080 All the Zoom fixes of how to fix it. I 1:08:20.120 --> 1:08:23.719 don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have not contacted Zoom. 1:08:23.760 --> 1:08:26.280 I've been trying to see but there's a fix. I 1:08:26.320 --> 1:08:31.000 have had problems previously with the audio, but it's been fixed, 1:08:31.040 --> 1:08:33.439 and now it's been like three weeks. I've been having 1:08:33.479 --> 1:08:34.000 a problem. 1:08:34.520 --> 1:08:36.120 Are you on a Mac or a PC? 1:08:37.640 --> 1:08:37.880 PC? 1:08:38.400 --> 1:08:43.759 Okay? And can you record audio on other programs? 1:08:45.479 --> 1:08:48.840 Actually I had another program and it was working fine, 1:08:48.880 --> 1:08:50.559 and all of a sudden it went out. 1:08:50.560 --> 1:08:51.200 The same way. 1:08:51.479 --> 1:08:51.799 Okay. 1:08:51.840 --> 1:08:52.120 Well that. 1:08:53.680 --> 1:08:57.040 Sounds like it's a computer problem and not a Zoom problem. 1:08:57.520 --> 1:09:03.080 So there's a website called mic tests dot com. You 1:09:03.120 --> 1:09:06.080 can go there and uh test your microphone to see 1:09:06.080 --> 1:09:08.920 if it's working. So I would go there. If it's 1:09:08.920 --> 1:09:12.360 not working, then I would I would look into an 1:09:12.400 --> 1:09:13.920 external microphone. Have you tried that? 1:09:16.120 --> 1:09:16.200 No? 1:09:16.479 --> 1:09:16.799 Okay? 1:09:16.920 --> 1:09:17.360 I will. 1:09:18.840 --> 1:09:20.479 So do you have a do you have a pair 1:09:20.520 --> 1:09:24.480 of headphones or earbuds or any sort of external microphone. 1:09:24.880 --> 1:09:28.320 Yeah, I've been using those. Those don't work either. That 1:09:29.080 --> 1:09:33.280 At first it was the earbuds, and then the earbuds 1:09:33.320 --> 1:09:36.120 went out, and then I was just using the computer 1:09:37.000 --> 1:09:39.160 and it worked for a while and then that went out. 1:09:39.920 --> 1:09:44.120 Hmm okay, so so and how how old is this computer? 1:09:45.760 --> 1:09:46.559 Two years old? 1:09:46.760 --> 1:09:50.800 Oh well, that shouldn't be happening. So and you're running 1:09:50.840 --> 1:09:54.640 Windows on this yes, okay. So have you tried to 1:09:54.640 --> 1:09:57.280 do the mic tests in a different like in a 1:09:57.280 --> 1:09:59.599 different program like this website I was talking about. 1:10:01.000 --> 1:10:02.120 Uh No, I haven't. 1:10:02.120 --> 1:10:05.240 Okay, I think yeah, I think that would be because 1:10:05.240 --> 1:10:06.439 I think what you need to do is you need 1:10:06.439 --> 1:10:10.120 to narrow down if this is a computer hardware problem 1:10:10.240 --> 1:10:12.479 or if this is a software problem. It sounds to 1:10:12.560 --> 1:10:15.360 me like this is a hardware problem if none of 1:10:15.360 --> 1:10:17.040 these mics are working. Now, when you say you've tried 1:10:17.040 --> 1:10:20.479 different mics you've tried, are they all plug in or 1:10:20.560 --> 1:10:21.600 they bluetooth? 1:10:21.760 --> 1:10:23.640 What type are they plug in? 1:10:24.120 --> 1:10:26.520 And you're plugging him into the same thing USB. 1:10:26.400 --> 1:10:31.040 Or what I'm plugging him into the computer. 1:10:31.280 --> 1:10:33.720 Like through does it look like a headphone jack plug 1:10:33.800 --> 1:10:35.600 or does it look like a USB plug. 1:10:36.080 --> 1:10:37.200 A headphone jack plug. 1:10:37.240 --> 1:10:40.040 Okay, all right, So I would if I were you, 1:10:40.160 --> 1:10:45.400 I would try to get a inexpensive USB mic and 1:10:45.479 --> 1:10:48.800 I would try that and see what happens, because I 1:10:48.840 --> 1:10:51.040 think that it sounds like this headphone jack is either 1:10:51.080 --> 1:10:54.680 wonky or it's just not working properly. But you can 1:10:54.720 --> 1:10:57.080 get a USB mic if you go. You can go 1:10:57.080 --> 1:10:59.160 to best Buy, or you can go to Amazon. I 1:10:59.160 --> 1:11:01.120 mean there's I'm at them right now. On Amazon, you 1:11:01.160 --> 1:11:04.519 can get one for sixteen bucks. So I would probably 1:11:04.560 --> 1:11:07.479 try a USB mic because I think that that's going 1:11:07.560 --> 1:11:11.080 to be that'll get you around this other issue of 1:11:11.120 --> 1:11:15.200 this microphone plugin situation. Now here's my other question. Does 1:11:15.240 --> 1:11:18.080 your computer have a built in microphone? Yep? 1:11:18.280 --> 1:11:21.320 And I've been trying and if that was working for 1:11:21.360 --> 1:11:22.600 a while and now it's not. 1:11:22.920 --> 1:11:25.519 Okay, the part I was trying to say, And you 1:11:25.640 --> 1:11:30.120 do know on Zoom there is an area where you 1:11:30.160 --> 1:11:34.280 can oh, just you can hear my zoom. You don't 1:11:34.360 --> 1:11:36.400 know on Zoom there is a way to select your microphone. 1:11:36.439 --> 1:11:40.080 And you've tried that and switched between the different mics. Yeah, 1:11:40.120 --> 1:11:45.320 and that's not working. Interesting, Okay, I would try to 1:11:45.720 --> 1:11:48.760 narrow down if this is hardware software. Sounds like it's 1:11:48.800 --> 1:11:51.360 a hardware issue. If you ask me, I think that 1:11:51.479 --> 1:11:54.639 you should try an external USB MIC and see if 1:11:54.680 --> 1:11:58.400 that works. But try this this website first, this mic 1:11:58.479 --> 1:12:02.400 test website, and do that and then see if your 1:12:02.439 --> 1:12:05.599 MIC is detected if it's you know, actually going into 1:12:05.640 --> 1:12:08.559 the computer with the audio, and that's the first place 1:12:08.560 --> 1:12:11.080 I would start if it. If it doesn't work there, 1:12:11.600 --> 1:12:15.639 then the microphones that you're having and that's that jack 1:12:15.720 --> 1:12:19.439 on your computer is just not working anymore. What concerns 1:12:19.479 --> 1:12:22.080 me is the fact that the computer microphone also doesn't work, 1:12:22.160 --> 1:12:24.040 so there's something a little funky there. Do you have 1:12:24.080 --> 1:12:26.360 any apps that are interfering with this, like any sort 1:12:26.400 --> 1:12:28.880 of audio routing apps? 1:12:29.760 --> 1:12:30.080 No? 1:12:30.080 --> 1:12:32.920 No, okay, uh yeah, so that's what I would say. 1:12:32.920 --> 1:12:34.439 I would say, you got to figure out if this 1:12:34.479 --> 1:12:37.640 is hardware or software. But I would say try the 1:12:37.760 --> 1:12:40.799 USB mic see if that works, because USB is pretty 1:12:41.080 --> 1:12:44.439 direct and uh, I think that that's probably the best 1:12:44.439 --> 1:12:46.760 way to get this to work again if it's not 1:12:46.840 --> 1:12:51.639 working through the standard headphone jack. So uh, keep me posted. Carrie. 1:12:51.640 --> 1:12:53.240 Thanks for the call today. If you have a question, 1:12:53.320 --> 1:12:55.200 give me a call at Triple eight. Rich one on 1:12:55.280 --> 1:12:57.880 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:12:57.960 --> 1:13:02.280 zero one. There's nothing more frustrating then something not working 1:13:02.360 --> 1:13:05.719 on your computer, like a microphone, and you're just sitting 1:13:05.760 --> 1:13:09.280 there trying and trying and trying and plugging and unplugging. 1:13:10.600 --> 1:13:13.120 It happens to the best of us. You are listening 1:13:13.160 --> 1:13:18.760 to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:13:18.840 --> 1:13:22.280 Rich DeMuro here talk in technology with you at Triple 1:13:22.320 --> 1:13:26.200 eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four 1:13:26.240 --> 1:13:30.559 to two four one zero one. You know I've mentioned 1:13:30.560 --> 1:13:33.120 this before, but I'm always testing something new. So this 1:13:33.200 --> 1:13:37.320 week I've been testing the Pixel fold, which is Google's 1:13:37.479 --> 1:13:42.439 foldable smartphone, and I've got to say it's actually pretty fun. 1:13:42.479 --> 1:13:44.880 It's a great it's it feels like a passport, like 1:13:44.920 --> 1:13:48.760 that's the form factor is like a passport. So it's 1:13:48.800 --> 1:13:50.880 got a screen, nice big screen on the outside and 1:13:50.920 --> 1:13:53.280 you open it up to a bigger screen on the inside. 1:13:53.600 --> 1:13:57.800 It's very heavy and very hot, so it runs very 1:13:57.920 --> 1:14:00.360 very hot for some reason, and it's probably one of 1:14:00.360 --> 1:14:03.559 the heavier smartphones I've used. But with all that said, 1:14:03.720 --> 1:14:06.559 it's very endearing. It is a very very endearing phone, 1:14:07.160 --> 1:14:10.120 and it better be for eighteen hundred dollars. But it is. 1:14:10.920 --> 1:14:13.320 It's a nice little device. It takes good pictures. 1:14:14.960 --> 1:14:15.120 You know. 1:14:15.160 --> 1:14:17.479 I'm still forming my opinions on it, but and I 1:14:17.479 --> 1:14:20.280 don't think it's for everyone. And I think that Google 1:14:20.320 --> 1:14:23.280 has some work to do with their processor and figuring 1:14:23.320 --> 1:14:25.160 out how to make it run a little bit cooler. 1:14:26.240 --> 1:14:28.960 But the software is just incredible. The software that Google 1:14:28.960 --> 1:14:32.679 does on this pixel is really really incredible. You're listening 1:14:32.720 --> 1:14:35.599 to rich Demiro here on Rich on Tech. Phone lines 1:14:35.600 --> 1:14:38.639 are open at triple eight Rich one oh one eight 1:14:38.720 --> 1:14:41.880 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:14:42.280 --> 1:14:45.560 I'm also I just got this today. It's called fabric 1:14:46.720 --> 1:14:51.680 fab ri c dot so and this is one of 1:14:51.680 --> 1:14:56.400 those kind of like everything all at once bookmarking services. 1:14:56.880 --> 1:14:58.760 So you can just put like a link in there, 1:14:58.880 --> 1:15:01.479 you can put a photo, and then you can search everything, 1:15:01.560 --> 1:15:03.880 so it's kind of like a smart search. And then 1:15:03.960 --> 1:15:06.080 later on they're gonna have connections so you can search 1:15:06.120 --> 1:15:08.599 all of your stuff, like Google Drive will be included, 1:15:09.080 --> 1:15:14.679 your bookmarks, your notion, your dropbox, your screenshots, your email, 1:15:14.760 --> 1:15:20.800 your text messages, so your history on Chrome. So they've got, 1:15:21.040 --> 1:15:22.840 you know, all these connections. They're going to add soon. 1:15:22.880 --> 1:15:25.080 So basically be like a search engine for all of 1:15:25.080 --> 1:15:28.519 your own stuff that you remember. That's called fabric fabric 1:15:28.600 --> 1:15:33.240 dot so and I've been testing that. What else I've 1:15:33.280 --> 1:15:35.760 been testing so many little things. Oh, a new car 1:15:35.800 --> 1:15:39.080 this week, the Nissan Aria. It's an ev We're gonna 1:15:39.120 --> 1:15:41.080 talk to our I'm gonna talk to my guests about that. 1:15:41.200 --> 1:15:46.000 Coming up, Emily dry Belbis, electric vehicle reporter for PC 1:15:46.200 --> 1:15:48.720 mag will be joining us this hour. She can talk. 1:15:49.080 --> 1:15:51.200 I'm gonna talk. I've got a little bone to pick 1:15:51.280 --> 1:15:55.479 with evs because charging a non Tesla is not as 1:15:55.560 --> 1:15:58.920 easy as I thought, and we're gonna talk about that 1:15:59.040 --> 1:16:03.040 with her as well. Let's see. AT and T has 1:16:03.120 --> 1:16:07.080 a new thing called Internet Air. This is a home 1:16:07.120 --> 1:16:11.760 Wi Fi that is delivered over a wireless network. You 1:16:11.760 --> 1:16:15.200 can install this in your house in less than fifteen minutes. Now, 1:16:15.200 --> 1:16:17.920 you may say, Rich, I already know that T Mobile 1:16:17.960 --> 1:16:20.760 has this and Verizon has this. Yes, but now AT 1:16:20.840 --> 1:16:22.880 and T has it. And it's a good thing that 1:16:22.920 --> 1:16:26.080 these companies all have this because it gives some competition 1:16:26.680 --> 1:16:30.679 to the cable companies that service your house. Traditionally, homes 1:16:30.720 --> 1:16:34.479 have like one, maybe two options for Internet. Most of 1:16:34.520 --> 1:16:37.280 the time's either your phone company or your cable company, 1:16:37.360 --> 1:16:40.439 or both. If you're lucky, now you have a third option. 1:16:40.520 --> 1:16:43.679 But in many cases it's also a phone company because 1:16:43.680 --> 1:16:46.200 it's AT and T, Verizon or T Mobile. So what 1:16:46.200 --> 1:16:49.040 they're doing is they're using these strong five G networks 1:16:49.040 --> 1:16:52.760 that they have to supply internet to your house. So 1:16:52.880 --> 1:16:56.639 you get this box, it's called the Internet Air. You 1:16:56.680 --> 1:16:59.280 scan the QR code and then you set up the 1:16:59.320 --> 1:17:01.840 box near your your strongest area of the house with 1:17:01.920 --> 1:17:03.880 your five G signal. They have a little app that 1:17:03.920 --> 1:17:06.720 tells you how to find that, and then you turn 1:17:06.760 --> 1:17:09.840 on the box and it takes the five G wireless 1:17:09.840 --> 1:17:13.479 signal and it broadcasts it out as Wi Fi. So 1:17:13.680 --> 1:17:17.280 it's very similar to having the Internet come through a 1:17:17.320 --> 1:17:20.599 cable to your house, but it's just delivered wirelessly. And 1:17:20.640 --> 1:17:22.920 I know it's confusing, you say, Rich, why not just 1:17:23.080 --> 1:17:25.720 use the five G signal. Well, it's easier to have 1:17:25.800 --> 1:17:28.400 your devices connecting to a Wi Fi signal than a 1:17:28.400 --> 1:17:30.559 five G signal because not all of them could do that. 1:17:32.520 --> 1:17:35.720 AT and T Internet Air is available in parts of 1:17:35.800 --> 1:17:43.560 Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Pennsylvania, Las Vegas, Phoenix, specifically Prescott 1:17:44.479 --> 1:17:50.000 let's see Chicago, Detroit, Michigan, New Haven, Minneapolis, Portland, Salt 1:17:50.080 --> 1:17:53.600 Lake City, Seattle, and Tampa, Florida. So if you're in 1:17:53.600 --> 1:17:56.519 one of those places, this is fifty five dollars a month. 1:17:56.960 --> 1:17:59.519 There are no overage fees, there's no price increase at 1:17:59.520 --> 1:18:04.519 twelve months, let's see, no annual contract. And if you 1:18:04.960 --> 1:18:08.919 qualify for this Affordable Connectivity Program, that's the government program 1:18:09.320 --> 1:18:11.680 that'll give you thirty dollars off a month. Basically, if 1:18:11.720 --> 1:18:15.600 you're on Snap or some sort of government assistance, you 1:18:15.640 --> 1:18:19.320 can qualify for that ACP program that'll give you thirty 1:18:19.360 --> 1:18:21.880 dollars off the price of this. So I think this 1:18:22.040 --> 1:18:24.639 is a great thing. I have not tested it yet. 1:18:25.880 --> 1:18:28.160 AT and T is supposedly going to send me one 1:18:28.200 --> 1:18:31.519 to test. We'll see, but I have tested the one 1:18:31.560 --> 1:18:35.600 from Verizon and it works as advertised. And the downside 1:18:35.720 --> 1:18:39.120 is really just the speed of the service. So you're 1:18:39.160 --> 1:18:42.040 limited by the speed of what the five G signal 1:18:42.080 --> 1:18:44.679 that comes into your house offers. So what I would 1:18:44.720 --> 1:18:46.680 do if this is available at your house, whether it's 1:18:46.680 --> 1:18:50.080 T Mobile, Verizon, or AT and T, check the speed 1:18:50.120 --> 1:18:54.040 on your phone using either fast dot com or an 1:18:54.080 --> 1:19:00.240 app called Medior met Eo r Medior Speed app that 1:19:00.360 --> 1:19:03.360 will that will test the speed of your Internet connection. 1:19:03.439 --> 1:19:05.680 So if you have AT and T, go ahead and 1:19:05.760 --> 1:19:07.599 test the signal on your phone. That'll give you an 1:19:07.600 --> 1:19:10.400 indication of how fast this might be. If you have Verizon, 1:19:10.520 --> 1:19:12.559 test the signal on your phone. If you have T Mobile, 1:19:12.640 --> 1:19:14.479 test the signal on your phone. If you want to 1:19:14.520 --> 1:19:16.519 switch to one of these other companies and get you know, 1:19:16.560 --> 1:19:18.640 your Internet from AT and T. When you have a 1:19:18.640 --> 1:19:20.960 friend over, I know it's a nerdy thing to do, 1:19:21.040 --> 1:19:22.800 but say, hey, can I test the speed on your 1:19:22.840 --> 1:19:25.800 phone to see what it's like? Because I'm curious about this. 1:19:26.479 --> 1:19:29.960 Let's go to Paul Paul's in Long Beach. 1:19:30.040 --> 1:19:32.240 You're on with Rich. 1:19:32.960 --> 1:19:34.080 I'm doing fantastic. 1:19:34.600 --> 1:19:38.560 I love your show and your Katla segments are very informative. 1:19:38.760 --> 1:19:40.800 Thank you. That is my goal. That is my one 1:19:40.840 --> 1:19:43.200 goal is to uh to help people. So what can 1:19:43.240 --> 1:19:43.800 I help you with? 1:19:44.439 --> 1:19:49.120 Well, you're just talking about internet and I have the 1:19:49.200 --> 1:19:53.479 traditional cable model along with you know, TV at home, 1:19:53.520 --> 1:19:56.680 and the price just keeps going up and I'm looking to, 1:19:57.560 --> 1:19:59.880 you know, look at an alternative, but just want to 1:20:00.080 --> 1:20:03.280 how really good they are. I've had people try the 1:20:03.439 --> 1:20:08.040 wireless ones and they weren't impressed with it, But maybe 1:20:08.080 --> 1:20:11.080 that's just based on their signal in that area. 1:20:13.680 --> 1:20:16.680 Yeah, I mean, I think it comes down to the 1:20:16.800 --> 1:20:18.800 signal that you get and what you need to do. 1:20:18.880 --> 1:20:21.040 Like for me personally, I couldn't use one of these 1:20:21.080 --> 1:20:25.439 things because I'm uploading and downloading video all day long 1:20:25.520 --> 1:20:27.800 with my job, you know, like my KTLA segments were 1:20:27.800 --> 1:20:30.960 always exchanging stuff on Dropbox that are like five ten 1:20:31.120 --> 1:20:35.040 twenty gigabyte files which take a while to upload. Now 1:20:35.040 --> 1:20:38.519 I've got a thousand speed on my Internet which is 1:20:38.640 --> 1:20:42.519 up and down, so it's extremely fast. But does anyone 1:20:42.520 --> 1:20:45.559 else need that? No, most people, unless you're a video editor, 1:20:46.040 --> 1:20:48.840 you do not need that sort of speed up and down. 1:20:49.320 --> 1:20:53.599 So I think for many people the wireless does work 1:20:54.040 --> 1:20:56.760 if you are just using you know, Netflix, and you're 1:20:56.800 --> 1:20:58.800 just surfing the web and you're doing your email and 1:20:58.840 --> 1:21:01.200 you're doing your zooms, as long as you have a 1:21:01.200 --> 1:21:03.400 good signal. If you don't have a good signal, like 1:21:03.439 --> 1:21:05.760 if your cell phone is spotty in your house, this 1:21:05.920 --> 1:21:07.759 is going to be spotty. Now it's going to probably 1:21:07.760 --> 1:21:09.800 pull down a little bit of a better signal just 1:21:09.840 --> 1:21:13.280 because it's a box that's dedicated with a better antenna 1:21:13.400 --> 1:21:16.559 than your phone, you know, your phone. Even though it's 1:21:16.640 --> 1:21:20.120 it's pulling in a good signal, it is regulated by 1:21:20.160 --> 1:21:23.160 how much you know radio frequency. It wants to emit 1:21:23.320 --> 1:21:27.040 and also capture, so it's not going to be the strongest. 1:21:27.320 --> 1:21:29.400 You don't want this thing that's like, you know, as 1:21:29.439 --> 1:21:32.479 strong as a dedicated box in your pocket because it, 1:21:32.600 --> 1:21:35.800 you know, it may not be safe. So what what 1:21:36.000 --> 1:21:37.680 are you looking to change your Internet? Or are you 1:21:37.880 --> 1:21:40.519 looking to change your cable TV? Which are all the above? 1:21:41.400 --> 1:21:43.360 Yeah, maybe all above. I'm just trying to figure out 1:21:43.360 --> 1:21:46.400 the best way to consume that kind of stuff now, 1:21:47.280 --> 1:21:52.000 and just based upon what we watch, and uh, you know, 1:21:52.120 --> 1:21:55.759 we do stream some We use Disney Plus and Paramount 1:21:55.760 --> 1:22:00.920 Plus and we have Amazon Prime, but we do watch 1:22:00.960 --> 1:22:04.559 network TVs. So I guess there's ways to get around that. 1:22:04.760 --> 1:22:09.479 But I guess maybe looking at what some coming down 1:22:09.560 --> 1:22:17.360 the future too, is perhaps satellite what yeah, in the air. 1:22:17.320 --> 1:22:21.080 Yes, starlink, but I mean starlink at this point is 1:22:21.160 --> 1:22:23.719 really for people who are in a more rural area 1:22:23.960 --> 1:22:27.439 or in a place that's not serviced. You're in Long Beach, 1:22:27.560 --> 1:22:29.880 so I assume what you have a cable company and 1:22:29.960 --> 1:22:32.000 any do you have more than one provider to your home. 1:22:33.040 --> 1:22:35.799 No, yeah, they all. 1:22:36.240 --> 1:22:36.800 About the same. 1:22:36.960 --> 1:22:39.439 I have both Spectrum in Frontier available. 1:22:39.479 --> 1:22:41.640 Okay, so you have two available, which is good, so 1:22:41.640 --> 1:22:43.160 that means you can play them off each other. But 1:22:43.200 --> 1:22:45.479 the problem is these cable companies know they've got us, 1:22:46.040 --> 1:22:48.120 and they know there's not many options. They're not doing 1:22:48.120 --> 1:22:51.599 as many deals as they used to do. But when 1:22:51.600 --> 1:22:53.479 it comes to options, look, if you want like a 1:22:53.520 --> 1:22:56.880 cable alternative, I think a really good option is is YouTube. 1:22:56.960 --> 1:23:00.120 TV is probably the most popular. It's got unlimited V 1:23:00.479 --> 1:23:04.519 got all the channels, including the local channels. I just 1:23:04.520 --> 1:23:07.759 think it's too expensive unless you are consuming a lot 1:23:07.800 --> 1:23:11.479 of TV and then you by the way, also sports 1:23:11.600 --> 1:23:16.200 is the trickiest thing about getting you know, these streaming services, 1:23:16.240 --> 1:23:18.680 because you either have to have the cable or you know, 1:23:18.720 --> 1:23:20.880 like if you like the Clippers, they have their own service. 1:23:20.960 --> 1:23:23.960 I mean, there's a lot of different factors when it 1:23:24.000 --> 1:23:26.559 comes to what you watch. I think is the biggest 1:23:26.560 --> 1:23:28.760 issue when it comes to switching to just sort of 1:23:28.760 --> 1:23:32.160 a streaming service. Now, for me personally, I switched to 1:23:32.200 --> 1:23:35.320 streaming about I'd say maybe four or five years ago, 1:23:35.439 --> 1:23:37.640 and it was a big decision and my wife was 1:23:37.720 --> 1:23:40.920 very much against it because it's very complicated and she saw, 1:23:41.360 --> 1:23:44.240 you know, like me Chrome casting stuff to the TV, 1:23:44.360 --> 1:23:47.120 and I decided none of that. But now it's pretty easy. 1:23:47.120 --> 1:23:49.800 You've got Netflix, you've got Hulu, you've got Prime Video. 1:23:49.880 --> 1:23:51.880 Like you said, you've got Paramount, so you can get 1:23:51.920 --> 1:23:54.360 a bunch of the movies and things and content. It 1:23:54.520 --> 1:23:58.720 just really comes down to the traditional network television that 1:23:58.720 --> 1:24:01.519 you want to watch those shows, and also the cable 1:24:01.560 --> 1:24:04.719 shows and also sports. So I think when you decide 1:24:04.720 --> 1:24:06.840 to make that jump, you have to figure out what 1:24:06.880 --> 1:24:09.479 you want to watch and do your research and see 1:24:09.479 --> 1:24:12.519 if you can get those on streaming. For instance, if 1:24:12.520 --> 1:24:15.599 you're a big sports fan, a lot of the sports 1:24:15.640 --> 1:24:18.599 in many cities are not on a dedicated streaming service. 1:24:18.640 --> 1:24:22.720 Some cities have it, some cities don't, and so that 1:24:23.000 --> 1:24:25.640 really comes into play whether you want to subscribe to 1:24:25.680 --> 1:24:28.320 like an NBA League Pass or something like that, but 1:24:28.400 --> 1:24:30.920 even with that, you may not get the local games. 1:24:31.400 --> 1:24:34.360 So there are many, many considerations when it comes to streaming. 1:24:34.400 --> 1:24:38.120 I think, both for Internet and when it comes to 1:24:38.160 --> 1:24:40.280 your television service. At the end, of the day. If 1:24:40.280 --> 1:24:41.880 you're watching a ton of stuff and you like a 1:24:41.880 --> 1:24:44.639 bunch of shows on the traditional cable networks, it may 1:24:44.720 --> 1:24:46.479 just be cheaper to go ahead and do a bundle. 1:24:46.760 --> 1:24:49.120 But otherwise, if you want to piecemeal it together and 1:24:49.200 --> 1:24:52.679 subscribe one thing here, one thing there, it can be cheaper. 1:24:53.120 --> 1:24:56.200 But when you cancel that cable service, many times your 1:24:56.200 --> 1:24:58.840 internet price will go up. So that's when these other 1:24:58.960 --> 1:25:02.439 alternatives like the the air, you know, the wireless internet 1:25:02.479 --> 1:25:05.840 services may work because T Mobile, Verizon, AT and T 1:25:05.920 --> 1:25:08.280 they're really trying to push these new ways of getting Internet, 1:25:08.280 --> 1:25:10.160 so they're giving you a deal right now, and it's 1:25:10.160 --> 1:25:12.280 a little bit cheaper, but the signal may not be 1:25:12.280 --> 1:25:14.880 as strong or may not be as fast. Triple eight 1:25:14.960 --> 1:25:17.479 rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 1:25:17.560 --> 1:25:20.559 two four one zero one is the phone number. This 1:25:20.640 --> 1:25:28.519 is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:25:28.880 --> 1:25:33.960 Rich DeMuro here. Yeah, it's my birthday week. I call 1:25:33.960 --> 1:25:36.599 it birthday week because we've been celebrating for a while now, 1:25:37.160 --> 1:25:41.559 can you tell now, I'm just kidding. Counting Crows one 1:25:41.560 --> 1:25:43.800 of my all time favorite bands. They're actually playing in 1:25:43.800 --> 1:25:48.240 the LA area like right now, and anyway, we didn't 1:25:48.280 --> 1:25:50.920 get tickets, so wampwomp for made. We have a wamp 1:25:50.920 --> 1:25:53.479 womp sound. Let's go to Andrea in h Are you 1:25:53.800 --> 1:25:57.920 Andrea in LA or Louisiana a Los Angeles? Okay? Says 1:25:58.040 --> 1:26:00.599 la here. When I lived in Louisiana and I say la, 1:26:01.479 --> 1:26:03.200 it meant like when I see the letters, it meant 1:26:03.200 --> 1:26:06.479 something different. But you know, anyway, what can I help 1:26:06.520 --> 1:26:07.639 you with? Welcome to the show? 1:26:07.840 --> 1:26:10.880 Thank you. I have an iPhone and I believe I 1:26:11.000 --> 1:26:15.559 need to replace the battery and when I called Apple, 1:26:15.720 --> 1:26:18.880 they said that I need to back up everything on 1:26:19.040 --> 1:26:23.960 the iCloud. So what are my options besides the iCloud. 1:26:24.520 --> 1:26:28.160 Ah, you don't like the cloud or what I've. 1:26:28.120 --> 1:26:30.639 Never had it. I just don't want to get involved 1:26:30.680 --> 1:26:32.519 with it. And then if I want to get off 1:26:32.560 --> 1:26:34.720 the cloud, how would I do that? 1:26:34.960 --> 1:26:39.120 Yeah, it's impossible. Once you're on. It's like the Hotel California. 1:26:39.160 --> 1:26:41.320 You can check in, but you can't check out. It's 1:26:41.439 --> 1:26:44.320 really tough, and of course they want you know. And 1:26:44.439 --> 1:26:46.439 the cloud is great because it's all backed up and 1:26:46.479 --> 1:26:48.960 it's simple and it's all wireless, but it does have 1:26:49.040 --> 1:26:52.400 its downsides. It gets cluttered, you can't find stuff. You 1:26:52.439 --> 1:26:54.120 don't know where you stand. You don't know if things 1:26:54.120 --> 1:26:56.439 are actually backed up, so you kind of have to 1:26:56.439 --> 1:26:59.519 stay on top of those things. You are sending in 1:26:59.560 --> 1:27:00.719 your phone for service. 1:27:00.800 --> 1:27:01.920 Is that what I'm bringing it? 1:27:02.280 --> 1:27:04.479 You're bringing it and they said basically that it could 1:27:04.479 --> 1:27:05.559 come back wiped clean. 1:27:05.680 --> 1:27:08.519 Right, Well, I thought I would wait there, but. 1:27:08.720 --> 1:27:12.600 Maybe not uh oh at the Apple store. Yeah, I 1:27:12.600 --> 1:27:14.640 mean it depends. You may. But here's the deal. I mean, 1:27:14.720 --> 1:27:16.800 no matter what, when you bring in any device to 1:27:16.840 --> 1:27:19.400 get fixed, you always want to have a backup of 1:27:19.439 --> 1:27:21.160 it because there is a chance that they will have 1:27:21.200 --> 1:27:24.439 to either wipe it clean or they may replace the 1:27:24.520 --> 1:27:27.000 drive on it. You just don't know, so you always 1:27:27.000 --> 1:27:28.720 want to have a backup. What do you have on 1:27:28.760 --> 1:27:29.960 your phone that you need to back up? 1:27:30.479 --> 1:27:31.120 Photos? 1:27:31.640 --> 1:27:33.240 Okay, just photos? 1:27:33.479 --> 1:27:37.360 Well, I don't know what would be wiped clean, Like 1:27:37.520 --> 1:27:39.120 would my email stay there? 1:27:40.120 --> 1:27:43.800 Emails are generally linked to your email account, so those 1:27:43.840 --> 1:27:47.000 would probably come back if you logged back in. For 1:27:47.080 --> 1:27:49.160 most people, I would say the main thing on your 1:27:49.200 --> 1:27:53.160 phone would be your photos. Your contacts are generally in 1:27:53.240 --> 1:27:57.920 the cloud already through your service provider, whether it's Gmail 1:27:58.000 --> 1:28:00.280 or Yahoo or whoever you're using a lot of times 1:28:00.320 --> 1:28:04.680 your contacts are linked to them. So if it's just photos, 1:28:05.240 --> 1:28:06.519 there's a couple of things you could do. Do you 1:28:06.520 --> 1:28:07.439 have a computer? 1:28:08.880 --> 1:28:10.519 I haven't used it in years? 1:28:10.640 --> 1:28:13.360 Okay, all right, so that may not be the best 1:28:13.360 --> 1:28:18.120 solution then, So I think without a computer that if 1:28:18.120 --> 1:28:21.200 you don't want to plug this into a computer, the 1:28:21.439 --> 1:28:24.120 way you could back up photos is with a USB drive. 1:28:26.360 --> 1:28:28.160 How long do you have to get this figured out? 1:28:30.240 --> 1:28:31.040 Hours? 1:28:31.479 --> 1:28:35.479 Hours? Oh? Okay, but I can change that, okay. I mean, 1:28:35.520 --> 1:28:40.120 if you're I think the cloud might be the easiest 1:28:40.120 --> 1:28:41.559 way to do this. Now, you don't have to use 1:28:41.720 --> 1:28:43.720 iCloud per se. Are you an Amazon Prime member by 1:28:43.720 --> 1:28:44.240 any chance? 1:28:44.479 --> 1:28:44.839 No? 1:28:45.080 --> 1:28:50.320 Okay, I mean there's many ways to back up photos 1:28:50.320 --> 1:28:52.000 that don't use Do you have Google? 1:28:53.520 --> 1:28:54.559 Do I have Google? 1:28:54.720 --> 1:28:59.960 Like? Do you use like Gmail at all? 1:29:00.080 --> 1:29:03.639 I have something that I've never used. Well, I haven't 1:29:03.720 --> 1:29:05.360 used it in like years. 1:29:05.720 --> 1:29:06.120 Okay. 1:29:06.680 --> 1:29:10.439 I mean I think without going through the cloud, you're 1:29:10.439 --> 1:29:12.639 gonna have to either plug something into this phone, which 1:29:12.680 --> 1:29:16.599 is a USB drive. So I like one from sand Disk. 1:29:17.040 --> 1:29:21.400 There's also one from pmy. What's did you say you 1:29:21.400 --> 1:29:24.639 have one of those? What a USB drive? 1:29:25.720 --> 1:29:27.280 Well, there's one in the computer. 1:29:27.880 --> 1:29:29.719 Okay, yeah, but it may not plug into the bottom 1:29:29.760 --> 1:29:31.800 of your phone because it's your bottom of your phone 1:29:31.840 --> 1:29:34.799 is lightning and the computer is probably USB. So unless 1:29:34.800 --> 1:29:38.640 you had a specific lightning USB drive, it would not 1:29:38.720 --> 1:29:41.840 work with your phone. So I think the easiest way, 1:29:41.840 --> 1:29:44.200 there's two things you could do. I think the easiest 1:29:44.240 --> 1:29:46.559 way is to plug this into your computer and use 1:29:46.600 --> 1:29:49.519 iTunes to just make a complete backup of this device. 1:29:49.960 --> 1:29:53.080 That is the easiest way to do it. If you 1:29:53.360 --> 1:29:55.519 don't want to do that, there's an you know, if 1:29:55.520 --> 1:29:57.519 you don't want to use iTunes and you don't want 1:29:57.560 --> 1:29:59.400 to use your computer. The other way is really a 1:29:59.439 --> 1:30:02.800 flash drive, and you can plug the flash drive into 1:30:02.800 --> 1:30:04.320 the bottom of the phone. But you're gonna have to 1:30:04.320 --> 1:30:06.160 get one of those. So if you can go to 1:30:06.240 --> 1:30:09.400 like best Buy and look for either the sand Disc, 1:30:09.520 --> 1:30:14.760 you need what's called a lightning USB drive, So it's 1:30:15.040 --> 1:30:18.320 the brand from sand Disc is called I expand the 1:30:18.400 --> 1:30:22.599 letter I expand, and then pn Y has one as well, 1:30:22.640 --> 1:30:25.240 and pn Y is again but it's brand new, so 1:30:25.280 --> 1:30:27.240 they may not have in the stores just yet. But 1:30:27.320 --> 1:30:30.880 again you need what's called a lightning to a lightning 1:30:30.920 --> 1:30:33.000 flash drive. So if you go into the store and 1:30:33.000 --> 1:30:34.880 ask for that, you can plug that into the bottom 1:30:34.880 --> 1:30:37.919 of your phone and then use the software to download 1:30:37.920 --> 1:30:41.160 the photos onto that flash drive. That's probably the best 1:30:41.160 --> 1:30:42.840 way to do it. If you don't want to do that, 1:30:43.960 --> 1:30:48.200 I think that a backup using Google Photos would work well. 1:30:50.320 --> 1:30:53.559 There's also a website called i drive which is really 1:30:53.600 --> 1:30:56.040 fast and easy. I might just use that. You can 1:30:56.280 --> 1:30:59.439 download the app for i drive and download your photos 1:30:59.439 --> 1:31:01.880 to there and they'll be backed up. It's in the cloud. 1:31:01.920 --> 1:31:03.599 You didn't want the cloud, but those are the two 1:31:03.600 --> 1:31:10.640 best ways to do it. You're listening to rich on Tech. 1:31:10.760 --> 1:31:13.920 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking 1:31:14.040 --> 1:31:17.360 technology with you at triple eight Rich one oh one. 1:31:18.120 --> 1:31:20.680 That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to 1:31:20.760 --> 1:31:25.240 one zero one on the line. Emily dry Beelbis, electric 1:31:25.360 --> 1:31:28.360 vehicle reporter for PC mag Emily, thanks so much for 1:31:28.479 --> 1:31:29.200 joining me today. 1:31:29.720 --> 1:31:30.360 Thank you, Rich. 1:31:30.960 --> 1:31:34.639 So you cover all sorts of electric cars. We actually 1:31:34.680 --> 1:31:37.280 met at a show out here called what was it 1:31:37.320 --> 1:31:42.040 electrify something, Yeah, Electrify Expo, which was really cool. They 1:31:42.080 --> 1:31:44.880 had like almost every sort of car on display. Like 1:31:44.880 --> 1:31:46.640 if you're in the in the market for like an 1:31:46.680 --> 1:31:48.880 electric car. It was like, not just that, but it's 1:31:48.920 --> 1:31:51.639 like bikes and scooters and every kind of thing. 1:31:51.800 --> 1:31:54.400 So yeah, I think we met when I was going 1:31:54.439 --> 1:31:56.760 around the track on the electric motorcycle. 1:31:57.320 --> 1:31:59.120 Yes, the one that I wouldn't go on because I 1:31:59.120 --> 1:32:00.640 had to like sign a wave and it was like 1:32:00.680 --> 1:32:02.880 too much effort. So I was like, never mind, I'll 1:32:02.920 --> 1:32:07.440 just you know, So, let's talk about this whole situation 1:32:07.720 --> 1:32:11.240 with electric cars. Where do you see kind of the 1:32:11.240 --> 1:32:13.519 state of the union with EV's, because I'm always talking 1:32:13.520 --> 1:32:16.080 about them on the show. I live in California, which 1:32:16.080 --> 1:32:18.800 has a ton of them. Where do you think we're at? 1:32:20.040 --> 1:32:22.280 Yeah, so there are some numbers recently on the state 1:32:22.280 --> 1:32:24.080 of the union with the EV's. 1:32:24.840 --> 1:32:27.439 In the past couple of years, adoption rate has been 1:32:27.640 --> 1:32:31.160 doubling and kind of going up really quickly, almost exponentially, 1:32:31.600 --> 1:32:33.639 And they look at it in terms of new car sales. 1:32:33.840 --> 1:32:37.280 So maybe five years ago it was one two three 1:32:37.360 --> 1:32:39.960 percent of new cars for EV's and this year it 1:32:40.040 --> 1:32:43.559 hit seven percent, which is quite a jump. But I 1:32:43.600 --> 1:32:46.280 will say it kind of stagnated and the seven percent 1:32:46.360 --> 1:32:48.880 number we hit in January and it was still seven 1:32:48.920 --> 1:32:50.720 percent later in the year. 1:32:50.760 --> 1:32:52.759 More recently, so we are. 1:32:52.640 --> 1:32:55.599 A little bit at people are wondering, are the early 1:32:55.640 --> 1:32:59.040 adopters through and it's next step to be mass production, 1:32:59.240 --> 1:32:59.880 mass market. 1:33:00.040 --> 1:33:02.400 That's what all the. 1:33:01.520 --> 1:33:03.880 Car companies I talk to are talking about. I talked 1:33:03.880 --> 1:33:07.880 with Ford, Kia, Nissan, GM, all of them are kind 1:33:07.880 --> 1:33:09.840 of talking about, all right, it's ready to figure out 1:33:09.920 --> 1:33:14.520 what evs need to be applicable and useful and enjoyable 1:33:14.600 --> 1:33:17.519 for the rest of the population that's not those early adopters. 1:33:17.560 --> 1:33:19.200 So I would say that's where we're at. 1:33:19.400 --> 1:33:21.559 Well, I think one of the big concerns, well, there's 1:33:21.560 --> 1:33:24.920 probably two concerns. Number one is the technology, like is 1:33:24.920 --> 1:33:26.680 it ready? Am I getting a car that's going to 1:33:26.720 --> 1:33:30.240 be you know, useful in five ten years? And then 1:33:30.320 --> 1:33:34.599 also the charging situation. Now, I feel like the charging 1:33:34.640 --> 1:33:37.320 situation is twofold. If you are commuting to and from 1:33:37.360 --> 1:33:40.439 work and you have a charger at home or at work, 1:33:40.520 --> 1:33:42.320 you're going to be fine with pretty much any car 1:33:42.400 --> 1:33:44.599 because you can charge. You know, if you're just commuting, 1:33:44.640 --> 1:33:47.200 it's not unless you're commuting like three hundred miles a day, 1:33:47.240 --> 1:33:49.200 you're going to be fine. Now, when it comes to 1:33:49.280 --> 1:33:52.280 road trips, that is a different world. Entirely. And I 1:33:52.320 --> 1:33:55.640 do feel like, and I think that this was reinforced 1:33:55.640 --> 1:33:59.080 this week with my test drives, that Tesla is really 1:33:59.120 --> 1:34:01.400 the only game when it to road trips at this point. 1:34:01.439 --> 1:34:03.439 And you can debate me on this, but I feel 1:34:03.479 --> 1:34:06.639 like it's really tricky to go on a road trip 1:34:06.720 --> 1:34:09.600 in a non Tesla because of the charging situation. What 1:34:09.640 --> 1:34:10.280 do you think of that? 1:34:10.920 --> 1:34:13.839 I would agree, Yeah, of course you can do it. 1:34:13.840 --> 1:34:17.920 It's just the the infuriation of going to a charging 1:34:17.920 --> 1:34:20.200 station and not working for you, and then doing that 1:34:20.280 --> 1:34:23.120 over and over again is just going to bring you 1:34:23.200 --> 1:34:25.360 down on the road trip. And of course you're traveling, 1:34:25.360 --> 1:34:27.400 you have a million other logistics. The last thing you 1:34:27.400 --> 1:34:29.360 want to think about is how to power the actual car. 1:34:29.479 --> 1:34:31.000 You just want to get it done and keep moving, 1:34:31.680 --> 1:34:33.479 and I will say Tesla is probably our. 1:34:33.320 --> 1:34:34.000 Best bet for that. 1:34:34.400 --> 1:34:37.120 So I've been testing this Nissan Aria, which is a 1:34:37.120 --> 1:34:39.200 great car. I love it. It's really really nice. It's 1:34:39.240 --> 1:34:41.599 kind of like a Nissan Rogue. It's a crossover suv 1:34:42.200 --> 1:34:45.080 and it gets three hundred miles, which I think is 1:34:45.120 --> 1:34:47.519 the sweet spot for mile edge at this point. I'm 1:34:47.520 --> 1:34:49.519 sure you know five hundred and six hundred be nice, 1:34:49.800 --> 1:34:52.800 but three hundred. Really, I've had no range anxiety. But 1:34:52.880 --> 1:34:56.080 when I've gone to charge this car, I'm not kidding, 1:34:56.240 --> 1:34:59.720 I've been I went yesterday to three different charging stations. 1:35:00.560 --> 1:35:03.799 The first one I couldn't get to work. The second 1:35:03.840 --> 1:35:06.000 and the two fast chargers were used, and then the 1:35:06.080 --> 1:35:09.320 second one the charger was broken. It was like out 1:35:09.360 --> 1:35:11.559 of service, and the other chargers were in use. And 1:35:11.600 --> 1:35:14.880 then the third time, both chargers were in use. And 1:35:14.960 --> 1:35:17.960 because you're not doing supercharging, these chargers sometimes take a 1:35:18.000 --> 1:35:22.720 little bit longer. And so I realized the frustration of like, 1:35:22.880 --> 1:35:24.880 here I am talking about these electric cars and how 1:35:24.920 --> 1:35:27.320 great they are. But if you're getting one of these 1:35:27.320 --> 1:35:28.880 cars and you're spending a lot of money on it, 1:35:29.200 --> 1:35:30.559 and then all of a sudden you're not you know, 1:35:30.600 --> 1:35:32.200 you're not charging at home or you think you can 1:35:32.240 --> 1:35:34.200 do this, it could be really, really frustrating. 1:35:35.000 --> 1:35:37.160 Yeah, I had the same experience, So it was funny 1:35:37.160 --> 1:35:40.120 you said that. So yesterday I have an aud EQ 1:35:40.200 --> 1:35:41.439 eight E trond right. 1:35:41.320 --> 1:35:42.759 Now, beautiful car. 1:35:42.920 --> 1:35:45.880 I think it's the top trim, so I think it's 1:35:45.920 --> 1:35:48.760 eighty or eighty five thousand dollars. It comes with two 1:35:48.960 --> 1:35:51.479 years free charging with electric five America, which is an 1:35:51.479 --> 1:35:54.000 awesome perk. Anyone who wants to buy and ev should 1:35:54.000 --> 1:35:56.240 look at these types of promotions. You don't have to 1:35:56.240 --> 1:35:58.479 buy an eighty five thousand dollars car to get that. 1:35:59.520 --> 1:36:02.200 So that's and there's a target near my apartment that 1:36:02.280 --> 1:36:05.360 has eleven Electric America stations. Okay, cool, I'm gonna go charge. 1:36:05.400 --> 1:36:08.320 We're gonna go get some groceries, no big deal. And 1:36:08.400 --> 1:36:10.680 I get there in all the stations, all eleven are 1:36:10.760 --> 1:36:15.160 just out to get for maintenance and improvements. And the 1:36:15.240 --> 1:36:17.760 issue there is, you know, I navigated there on Google Maps, 1:36:17.760 --> 1:36:20.120 and Google doesn't know that they're that they're out. So 1:36:20.160 --> 1:36:22.599 we have kind of an app component to it as well, 1:36:22.680 --> 1:36:25.479 and you know, the vehicle navigation needs to know that 1:36:25.640 --> 1:36:28.160 Google if you use that other apps like plug share, 1:36:28.600 --> 1:36:30.519 So there's a lot of factors that go into what 1:36:30.680 --> 1:36:34.000 charger you choose and kind of how it works with 1:36:34.040 --> 1:36:36.320 your car, the port, and then why you go there, 1:36:36.320 --> 1:36:38.519 what you want to do when you're charging. So that 1:36:38.600 --> 1:36:41.200 one didn't work on a good day, that would have 1:36:41.200 --> 1:36:43.679 been a fantastic option for me. And then I also 1:36:43.760 --> 1:36:46.720 went to two others and the other one was in 1:36:46.760 --> 1:36:49.040 a parking garage, and I had to get a ticket 1:36:49.040 --> 1:36:49.639 and everything. 1:36:50.080 --> 1:36:51.880 I was desperate at this point. It was my third 1:36:51.920 --> 1:36:54.320 one I had to pay to get in a garage. 1:36:54.400 --> 1:36:56.960 So I actually just turned around and went back home 1:36:57.120 --> 1:36:59.640 with less at charge than I even had when I 1:36:59.640 --> 1:37:00.679 set out to charge. 1:37:00.760 --> 1:37:02.519 So demoralizing for sure. 1:37:02.680 --> 1:37:04.880 That is so frustrating. Now it's getting better. I did 1:37:04.960 --> 1:37:06.719 see because I was using I don't know which Google 1:37:06.720 --> 1:37:09.120 Maps you were using. I was using it on Android 1:37:09.200 --> 1:37:11.040 on this car that I was testing, and it did 1:37:11.120 --> 1:37:15.479 seem to have some like live data about the charging station, 1:37:15.760 --> 1:37:18.240 so it seemed like it was not for all of them, 1:37:18.240 --> 1:37:20.240 but it did say like zero of two or something, 1:37:20.280 --> 1:37:23.559 so it seemed to be getting some sort of live data. 1:37:23.640 --> 1:37:25.720 The other thing that I noticed is that, and this 1:37:25.920 --> 1:37:29.439 really really bugs me, Please car manufacturers, there should not 1:37:29.479 --> 1:37:32.120 be an icon for gas stations, like on the main 1:37:32.240 --> 1:37:35.519 screen on your built in navigation software. And I get it. 1:37:35.600 --> 1:37:37.280 My wife is debating me. She's like, well, maybe you 1:37:37.280 --> 1:37:39.320 want to find a restroom or like a soda. I'm like, 1:37:39.880 --> 1:37:41.960 I don't know, it's just like bad form, like show 1:37:42.000 --> 1:37:45.400 me ev stations, Like I don't know anyway, So do 1:37:45.479 --> 1:37:47.559 we feel like the battery tech is getting better because 1:37:47.560 --> 1:37:50.760 people always you know, we've seen the cars, they've been 1:37:50.800 --> 1:37:54.920 around for a while. Is battery technology getting better, Yes, 1:37:55.040 --> 1:37:55.360 it is. 1:37:55.640 --> 1:37:57.600 And the interesting thing about range is that it's not 1:37:58.040 --> 1:37:59.080 all about the battery. 1:37:59.280 --> 1:38:01.240 So what these cars our companies are doing is they're 1:38:01.320 --> 1:38:05.000 learning how to connect the motor and the software. 1:38:04.800 --> 1:38:07.160 To the battery. So there's a lot of different areas 1:38:07.200 --> 1:38:08.440 you can see range improvements. 1:38:08.439 --> 1:38:09.280 It could just be a. 1:38:09.160 --> 1:38:11.559 Software update in your cargets ten more miles. 1:38:11.960 --> 1:38:15.080 It could be something that they figure out in the 1:38:15.080 --> 1:38:17.960 production line that will make the motor connect to the 1:38:18.000 --> 1:38:19.040 battery in a different. 1:38:18.760 --> 1:38:20.720 Way, and okay, you get twenty more miles. 1:38:21.280 --> 1:38:22.920 But of course the biggest jumps are going to be 1:38:22.960 --> 1:38:24.960 from the battery technology. 1:38:25.000 --> 1:38:26.240 And what I'm. 1:38:26.120 --> 1:38:28.759 Seeing really is that China is far, far, far ahead 1:38:28.800 --> 1:38:30.920 of the US. And this can be hard to wrap 1:38:31.000 --> 1:38:33.639 our minds around for the average American in some ways. 1:38:33.680 --> 1:38:36.800 But I write about what they're doing with battery technology, 1:38:36.840 --> 1:38:39.240 and it's just far and away what we have going 1:38:39.240 --> 1:38:42.680 on here. I don't hear announcements from US automakers like 1:38:42.720 --> 1:38:43.400 I do from. 1:38:43.439 --> 1:38:44.679 Battery makers in China. 1:38:44.840 --> 1:38:47.160 So they are cooking up batteries that are going to 1:38:47.160 --> 1:38:49.799 go in EBS there that can go six hundred miles 1:38:49.840 --> 1:38:54.479 on charge. I just heard another announcement from CAATL they 1:38:54.520 --> 1:38:56.960 made a battery that can charge I think. 1:38:56.800 --> 1:38:58.599 It was two hundred and fifty miles and ten minutes. 1:38:58.960 --> 1:39:02.120 So that's of the cars on the road have two 1:39:02.200 --> 1:39:03.160 hundred and fifty miles range. 1:39:03.200 --> 1:39:04.839 You're saying you can charge it in ten minutes. 1:39:05.600 --> 1:39:08.799 And these are still future technologies, but they are listing 1:39:08.840 --> 1:39:11.840 models that will have these new batteries, and that is 1:39:11.880 --> 1:39:14.360 far ahead of what we're hearing in the US. And 1:39:14.400 --> 1:39:18.040 then COATL I just mentioned they've partnered with four to 1:39:18.120 --> 1:39:21.920 build a plant in Michigan using their battery technologies. So 1:39:22.640 --> 1:39:27.080 we're kind of seeing some overseas innovation with batteries. Nissan, 1:39:27.600 --> 1:39:31.240 not Nissan, actually Toyota and Honda have had breakthroughs, so 1:39:31.960 --> 1:39:36.280 I mean Chinese battery makers and then Toyota, Honda. That's 1:39:36.320 --> 1:39:38.679 where I'm hearing the big battery announcements, and it seems 1:39:38.680 --> 1:39:41.439 like at least in the short term, US automakers will 1:39:41.439 --> 1:39:44.519 be partnering with them for those big advancements. And then 1:39:44.880 --> 1:39:49.759 Biden has allocated billions of dollars to stimulate US battery production. 1:39:49.920 --> 1:39:52.799 Because we are so far behind, and we get ninety 1:39:52.840 --> 1:39:55.840 five ninety seven percent of our batteries are from overseas, 1:39:56.000 --> 1:39:58.320 so we have brilliant engineers in the US. We do 1:39:58.400 --> 1:40:01.880 have startups working on fantastic technology. We are just a 1:40:01.880 --> 1:40:05.759 little bit far behind, and we will be partnering probably 1:40:05.800 --> 1:40:08.680 with overseas companies who are doing an amazing job with 1:40:09.040 --> 1:40:11.680 the technology. So we could benefit from that, and I 1:40:11.720 --> 1:40:15.200 think probably in the next maybe five. 1:40:15.040 --> 1:40:17.519 Years, we could start to see some of that. Certainly 1:40:17.600 --> 1:40:18.439 in ten years. 1:40:18.920 --> 1:40:21.240 I've got about a minute. What You've seen a lot 1:40:21.240 --> 1:40:22.800 of cars, you test drive a lot of stuff. What 1:40:22.800 --> 1:40:24.600 are you excited about right now? What's kind of like 1:40:24.720 --> 1:40:26.360 exciting in the EV space. 1:40:27.720 --> 1:40:30.120 I'm always looking for evs that are getting cheaper with 1:40:30.160 --> 1:40:32.800 better battery performance. So in PC mag I maintain a 1:40:32.840 --> 1:40:35.679 list of eb's under forty thousand dollars. I love adding 1:40:35.720 --> 1:40:37.960 new cars to that list. I think that is the 1:40:37.960 --> 1:40:41.160 most exciting. It's great to have a huge EV that 1:40:41.320 --> 1:40:44.120 costs two hundred thousand dollars. We've seen that before. What 1:40:44.200 --> 1:40:46.439 I get excited about is a new car like the 1:40:46.560 --> 1:40:49.639 Volvo Ex thirty, which is thirty five k and has 1:40:49.680 --> 1:40:52.439 great range. So any car under forty k I am 1:40:52.479 --> 1:40:54.080 all in on it and. 1:40:54.000 --> 1:40:54.880 That's what gets me going. 1:40:55.120 --> 1:40:59.280 All right, Emily dry Belbis, electric vehicle reporter for PC mag, 1:40:59.280 --> 1:41:01.200 thanks so much for joining me today. I appreciate it. 1:41:01.720 --> 1:41:03.919 Thanks rich all right, I'm gonna put a link to 1:41:03.960 --> 1:41:08.360 the forty evs under forty thousand dollars on the PCMAC website. 1:41:08.360 --> 1:41:11.720 I'll put that online at richontech dot tv. Coming up, 1:41:11.760 --> 1:41:13.720 we're gonna close out the show, and of course it's 1:41:13.760 --> 1:41:17.400 your favorite segment, the feedback segment, all the stuff that 1:41:17.400 --> 1:41:19.519 you've emailed me throughout the week. I'll be reading it. 1:41:20.600 --> 1:41:22.720 For better or for worse, rich on Tech come back 1:41:22.720 --> 1:41:29.240 after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech, closing out 1:41:29.240 --> 1:41:34.120 the show here with your feedback. If you like the show, 1:41:34.120 --> 1:41:37.040 you can follow me on social media at rich on Tech. 1:41:37.240 --> 1:41:42.760 I'm on Instagram, Facebook x formerly, Twitter, and threads. You 1:41:42.800 --> 1:41:45.920 can also listen to this show as a podcast. Just 1:41:45.960 --> 1:41:48.960 go to rich on Tech dot tv, click the podcast 1:41:49.200 --> 1:41:51.880 icon and you can subscribe there. I also have show 1:41:51.880 --> 1:41:54.639 notes for the show and you can watch my TV 1:41:54.720 --> 1:41:57.960 segments on the website. Yes, I do TV segments as well. 1:41:58.040 --> 1:42:01.120 So get through a couple of news items before we 1:42:01.160 --> 1:42:05.320 get to the feedback. As promised, Samsung has a special 1:42:05.360 --> 1:42:10.400 TV for Disney fans celebrating Disney's one hundredth anniversary with 1:42:10.479 --> 1:42:14.080 a special edition of the Frame. The Frame is a 1:42:14.120 --> 1:42:18.200 TV that displays artwork when it's not in use, and 1:42:18.280 --> 1:42:20.280 it looks like real artwork. I mean, this thing, if 1:42:20.320 --> 1:42:23.160 you've seen it in person, is very, very impressive. It's 1:42:23.160 --> 1:42:26.920 available in sixty five, fifty sorry, fifty five, sixty five 1:42:27.479 --> 1:42:28.280 and seventy five. 1:42:28.400 --> 1:42:29.040 Ah, there we go. 1:42:29.240 --> 1:42:32.599 Oh it's Disney's Wait is it Disney's birthday? I guess 1:42:33.720 --> 1:42:39.200 Oh that's for me. Oh that's for me, thank you. Yes, 1:42:39.280 --> 1:42:42.320 it is my birthday week. I'm running out of here 1:42:42.360 --> 1:42:47.000 to go have a birthday dinner. Actually, let's see Disney's 1:42:47.000 --> 1:42:50.240 one hundredth anniversary. The frame has it gets one hundred 1:42:50.280 --> 1:42:53.360 special pieces of artwork from the Disney collection, a Mickey 1:42:53.360 --> 1:42:56.680 Mouse inspired remote, and do I have a price on 1:42:56.720 --> 1:42:59.200 this thing? I don't have the price anyway. Limited edition 1:42:59.600 --> 1:43:03.920 while so applies last, Samsung dot Com, slash US, slash Disney, 1:43:03.920 --> 1:43:08.080 and Best Buy Atari bringing back the twenty six hundred 1:43:08.120 --> 1:43:12.760 with a recreation The twenty six hundred plus a recreation 1:43:12.880 --> 1:43:15.720 of the console that first appeared in nineteen eighty will 1:43:15.760 --> 1:43:19.200 be launching worldwide on November seventeenth for one hundred and 1:43:19.240 --> 1:43:21.920 thirty dollars. It'll include ten games. It looks just like 1:43:21.960 --> 1:43:26.040 the original. It actually uses the same cartridge slot. And 1:43:26.240 --> 1:43:29.200 this is the coolest part. I think that the original 1:43:29.280 --> 1:43:32.280 cartridges will plug into this new machine. So if you 1:43:32.360 --> 1:43:35.200 have some old Atari twenty six hundred or seventy eight 1:43:35.280 --> 1:43:38.800 hundred cartridges, they will work with this machine, which is 1:43:38.840 --> 1:43:42.519 pretty cool. Then the cartridge it comes with has ten 1:43:42.560 --> 1:43:47.679 games built in, including Adventure, Combat, Dodgeum, Haunted House, Mays, Craze, 1:43:47.680 --> 1:43:53.040 Missile Command, Real Sports, Volleyball, Surround Video, Pinball, and Yars Revenge. 1:43:53.600 --> 1:43:56.559 Does not include Pong. Was that not on the original? 1:43:56.600 --> 1:43:59.960 I thought it was. It also has some modern necessity 1:44:00.200 --> 1:44:04.800 like an HDMI output and USB, plus a recreation of 1:44:04.840 --> 1:44:09.120 the original c X forty plus joystick. And finally I 1:44:09.160 --> 1:44:12.200 tested this out Samsung. Remember a couple of weeks ago 1:44:12.360 --> 1:44:16.240 I did the Apple AI Voice clone. Well, now Samsung 1:44:16.280 --> 1:44:19.080 has it. So if you have a Samsung Galaxy and 1:44:19.160 --> 1:44:23.240 it's got the latest software, you can train Bixby on 1:44:23.280 --> 1:44:26.080 your voice and then you can have the voice assistant 1:44:26.120 --> 1:44:27.320 talk in your voice. 1:44:27.479 --> 1:44:27.599 Now. 1:44:27.600 --> 1:44:29.360 I don't know why you'd want your phone talking back 1:44:29.360 --> 1:44:30.920 to you and your voice, but you can do it. 1:44:31.400 --> 1:44:33.400 So how to do it? Open the bix b app. 1:44:33.400 --> 1:44:35.080 I know it's probably the first time you've ever opened 1:44:35.120 --> 1:44:38.000 that app in your life. Go to settings, Language and 1:44:38.080 --> 1:44:40.800 voice style, and then create custom voice. You only have 1:44:40.880 --> 1:44:43.280 to record like you saying ten things, and it takes 1:44:43.320 --> 1:44:45.960 about five minutes to create your voice. You can hear 1:44:46.040 --> 1:44:49.280 online on my Instagram at rich on Tech. It does 1:44:49.320 --> 1:44:52.479 not sound like me at all, So it didn't really 1:44:52.560 --> 1:44:55.080 work that well, but you know, it's a start, and 1:44:55.240 --> 1:44:57.840 it's just kind of fun. I mean, your results may vary. 1:44:58.400 --> 1:45:01.960 Maybe my voice is just not as clonable. All right, 1:45:02.240 --> 1:45:04.880 let's see. Can I get to a couple things people said? 1:45:06.000 --> 1:45:08.439 Jet says, Verizon's offering me seven hundred dollars for my 1:45:08.479 --> 1:45:10.760 iPhone thirteen? Should I trade it in or wait until 1:45:10.760 --> 1:45:14.400 the new iPhones come out? Wait, don't buy iPhones right now, 1:45:14.600 --> 1:45:17.599 just wait every either deals will get better, the price 1:45:17.640 --> 1:45:20.800 will come down. Just Senda says. Cox has two different 1:45:20.840 --> 1:45:24.400 affordable Connectivity programs. One is ACP, which can be applied 1:45:24.439 --> 1:45:28.160 to any Cox Internet. Then there are several different level programs. 1:45:28.200 --> 1:45:31.720 COX will assist with under Connect Assist and Connect to Compete. 1:45:32.240 --> 1:45:34.599 One of the benefits includes one hundred dollars off a laptop. 1:45:35.040 --> 1:45:38.080 Cox recently increased the broadband speed with no additional charge. 1:45:38.120 --> 1:45:41.160 Their customers just send to I don't know if you 1:45:41.200 --> 1:45:43.200 work for Cox or what, but thank you for the 1:45:43.200 --> 1:45:48.800 public service announcement, so ask for those discounts. David says, 1:45:48.800 --> 1:45:52.479 what's the best site for NFL on TV? Ooh, at 1:45:52.479 --> 1:45:55.080 this point, it's YouTube TV. They got the exclusive rights 1:45:55.120 --> 1:45:57.800 to Sunday tickets, so that's probably the best place at 1:45:57.800 --> 1:46:03.400 this point. Richie said as evs. Electrify America has its 1:46:03.439 --> 1:46:05.800 own app which shows if the charger is in use 1:46:05.880 --> 1:46:08.880 or not, making it easier to choose where to go. Yes, 1:46:09.200 --> 1:46:11.439 that is true, but I've also found like last night 1:46:11.560 --> 1:46:14.840 we went to the Electrify America stations, it was like 1:46:15.280 --> 1:46:17.880 a it reminded me of like a fifties like what 1:46:17.920 --> 1:46:20.720 are those places called, like where they the people on 1:46:20.880 --> 1:46:24.040 skates roller skates like a whatever? That's you know, like 1:46:24.200 --> 1:46:26.000 what bobo, what are those called? 1:46:26.960 --> 1:46:27.000 No? 1:46:27.120 --> 1:46:29.280 I don't know, Like remember like the fifties, like the 1:46:29.280 --> 1:46:31.400 place where you go outside and there's a car hop. 1:46:31.840 --> 1:46:33.559 That's it. It reminded me of a car hop. There's 1:46:33.600 --> 1:46:35.759 so many people there. They're all kind of sitting out 1:46:36.040 --> 1:46:39.479 of their cars waiting to like charge and this and that. Yeah, 1:46:39.560 --> 1:46:41.479 me either. And I can't even remember what I call 1:46:41.560 --> 1:46:45.120 a car hop. Yeah. So okay, all right, let's get 1:46:45.120 --> 1:46:48.439 to some Let's see do I have How long do 1:46:48.479 --> 1:46:52.360 I have here? Four minutes? Okay, so I've got let's see. 1:46:52.920 --> 1:46:54.840 Barry asks, I want to buy a watch for someone 1:46:54.880 --> 1:46:57.600 with dementia in case they wander. They are elderly. Is 1:46:57.600 --> 1:46:59.519 there a smart watch or device I can keep track 1:46:59.560 --> 1:47:02.479 of it? She does not have a phone. I would 1:47:02.479 --> 1:47:07.000 look into something called the geobit jiob t. This is 1:47:07.040 --> 1:47:09.679 real time location tracking. It's kind of like an air tag, 1:47:10.120 --> 1:47:14.880 but with a built in cellular signal. So gobit jiobit 1:47:15.120 --> 1:47:18.519 I think will be your best bet there. Roger asks, 1:47:18.800 --> 1:47:20.760 you always have great news. Thank you. I'm looking for 1:47:20.800 --> 1:47:22.800 a way to get rid of ads on my Android 1:47:22.840 --> 1:47:26.519 phone without cost. Is there a way? Ooh, great question, 1:47:26.600 --> 1:47:29.280 And I do have a good way, easiest way I 1:47:29.320 --> 1:47:31.519 know of. This is built into every Android phone. It's 1:47:31.560 --> 1:47:34.320 super simple. All you have to do is go to settings, 1:47:34.960 --> 1:47:39.880 Network and Internet Private DNS, private DNS provider host name, 1:47:39.920 --> 1:47:43.120 and you type in DNS dot adguard dot com and 1:47:43.160 --> 1:47:45.439 that will block all the ads on your phone without 1:47:45.439 --> 1:47:48.839 installing any programs. It just has to run your URLs 1:47:48.880 --> 1:47:51.439 through ad Guard. So obviously do your research and figure 1:47:51.479 --> 1:47:53.680 out if that's something you want to do, because it 1:47:53.680 --> 1:47:55.960 will send all of the websites that you go to 1:47:55.960 --> 1:47:59.559 to this website. But that's really easy. Oh my gosh, 1:47:59.560 --> 1:48:01.439 two minutes yea we go? Was that really two minutes? 1:48:02.040 --> 1:48:04.439 Let's see? 1:48:03.000 --> 1:48:03.160 Uh? 1:48:05.360 --> 1:48:07.840 Christina says, hey, Rich, number one fan here. I totally 1:48:07.920 --> 1:48:10.559 disagree with the fellow that stated your explanations were too 1:48:10.560 --> 1:48:13.480 difficult for the average person to understand. Your show is fabulous. 1:48:13.920 --> 1:48:17.760 Love how you communicate live via so many modalities, Christina, 1:48:17.800 --> 1:48:21.960 Thank you. Neil says Rich, another great show. The Solar 1:48:22.040 --> 1:48:25.120 Charger sounds fantastic. I'm shocked you've never used a UPS. 1:48:25.520 --> 1:48:27.559 Maybe you only have laptops, but in my home, even 1:48:27.560 --> 1:48:29.840 a one second glitch of power will reboot all of 1:48:29.840 --> 1:48:33.360 our servers and desktops. Even my TVs have a UPS. 1:48:34.600 --> 1:48:36.840 Beverly says your show is amazing. My family and I 1:48:36.840 --> 1:48:39.519 have listened since your first show where you appreciate your 1:48:39.600 --> 1:48:43.360 informative and entertaining program. You truly have content for every listener. 1:48:43.680 --> 1:48:45.559 I tell my friends about Rich on Tech and I 1:48:45.640 --> 1:48:49.280 encourage them to listen. Thank you. And Mark says, hey, Rich, 1:48:49.360 --> 1:48:51.400 listen to you yesterday and was ready for you to 1:48:51.400 --> 1:48:54.519 make a joke when you aired voicemails the woman asked 1:48:54.560 --> 1:48:56.720 for a good computer cleaner, and I was waiting for 1:48:56.760 --> 1:48:59.000 you to say, Windex. You do have a good sense 1:48:59.000 --> 1:49:01.960 of humor and have done it a yeoman's job of 1:49:02.040 --> 1:49:06.559 replacing Leo Yeomen. I've never heard that word, have you, Yeoman. 1:49:06.600 --> 1:49:08.479 I'm guessing that's like a good job, I would assume 1:49:08.520 --> 1:49:11.439 since it's a nice email. Thank you, Mark. Yes, I 1:49:11.479 --> 1:49:13.799 wanted to make that joke, but I try to be nice. 1:49:14.280 --> 1:49:18.400 All right, let's see. Oh and finally, oh gosh. I 1:49:18.439 --> 1:49:20.360 hate to end on a bad note. Ginger and your 1:49:20.360 --> 1:49:23.520 Blinda says, what happened to your Sunday show? I'm so disappointed. 1:49:23.560 --> 1:49:25.799 I listen on Saturday and I've looked for you on Sunday. 1:49:26.120 --> 1:49:29.040 Love your show. I don't do much TV. We haven't 1:49:29.040 --> 1:49:31.599 had a Sunday show since I started. This is only 1:49:31.640 --> 1:49:34.759 on it depends where you listen. I guess on different 1:49:34.760 --> 1:49:36.840 stations they play it on different days, but it's only 1:49:36.880 --> 1:49:39.400 one day a weekend. All right, that's gonna do it 1:49:39.439 --> 1:49:41.280 for this episode. You can find links to everything I 1:49:41.320 --> 1:49:44.679 mentioned on my website richon Tech dot tv. Next week 1:49:45.400 --> 1:49:49.559 we'll be talking from Ifa, Berlin. My name is rich Dmiro. 1:49:49.680 --> 1:49:52.000 You can find me on social media at rich on tech. 1:49:52.120 --> 1:49:54.599 Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways 1:49:54.640 --> 1:49:57.080 you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending 1:49:57.120 --> 1:49:59.720 it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes 1:49:59.720 --> 1:50:02.280 this show possible. I will talk to you real soon