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Speaker 1: Glad to have you here. I wanted to talk this
Speaker 1: week a little bit about air tags and Apple's network
Speaker 1: versus Google's new network. So air tags came out a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. These are little devices that help
Speaker 1: you track your stuff. You can put them on your luggage,
Speaker 1: you can put them on your keys, you can put
Speaker 1: them inside your wallet. But now Google has their own
Speaker 1: network called the Find My Device Network. So Apples is
Speaker 1: called the Find My Network. Google's is called the Find
Speaker 1: My Device Network. Now they're very similar, but they do
Speaker 1: have some differences. So they're both crowdsourced. Apple's network uses
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of nearby Apple devices to help you
Speaker 1: find your stuff. So basically, when an air tag is
Speaker 1: near an Apple device, it says, oh, I see that
Speaker 1: air tag noted, we know its location, And when the
Speaker 1: owner of that air tag tries to look it up,
Speaker 1: it says, yeah, we remember, this thing's right over here,
Speaker 1: and that's how you find it. So it's all anonymous,
Speaker 1: it's all anonymous, it's all crowdsourced, but that's how it works.
Speaker 1: So some people were asking when I presented this on TV,
Speaker 1: they said, wait a second, like, how far away can
Speaker 1: you be from these devices and still find them. There's
Speaker 1: no built in GPS on these devices. It's all crowdsourced,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty brilliant because there's so many Apple devices
Speaker 1: in our world. Anytime one of these air tags or
Speaker 1: accessories comes near one, the location is updated.
Speaker 2: So that's how it works.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The Google network is very similar. It uses Bluetooth technology
Speaker 1: and it uses over a billion Android devices to help
Speaker 1: help you find your little tags. Now, the interesting thing
Speaker 1: you need to know is that these two networks are
Speaker 1: not interchangeable. So an air tag does not work with
Speaker 1: Google's network. Anything that works with Google's find My network
Speaker 1: does not work with Apple's network, not yet.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Maybe there will be some devices in the future that
Speaker 1: work with both. That'd be a good idea, but right
Speaker 1: now they are individual. So air tags were the first,
Speaker 1: but there are many more. And when it comes to Google,
Speaker 1: it's been kind of a rough start for that network
Speaker 1: because it was delayed to begin with, and then the
Speaker 1: devices that are coming out and the network are all
Speaker 1: being delayed.
Speaker 2: For some reason.
Speaker 1: So a lot of these things were announced back in May,
Speaker 1: and now we're looking at the end of August for
Speaker 1: the ship date for a lot of these. But I
Speaker 1: have tested some of them, and I'm going to go
Speaker 1: over some of these different devices that I think you
Speaker 1: should take a look at. The main thing to know
Speaker 1: about these two networks is that they do work together
Speaker 1: to identify unknown trackers near you, no matter what network
Speaker 1: they're on. Let me give you an example. Let's say
Speaker 1: you were an Android and your significant other had an
Speaker 1: iPhone and let's say on their key tag they had
Speaker 1: an air tag. So for after a couple of days,
Speaker 1: your phone might say, hey, there's this and they're with
Speaker 1: you all the time. It might say, hey, we've noticed
Speaker 1: that this tracker is following you, and you might get
Speaker 1: that alert on your Android phone because this air tag
Speaker 1: is near you and traveling with you. I've seen that
Speaker 1: happen with me and my wife before. It's kind of annoying,
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna There's got to be a
Speaker 1: way to sort of set an allow list, which means
Speaker 1: you can say, hey, this air tag is going to
Speaker 1: be traveling with me a lot, please ignore that. I
Speaker 1: don't need you to send me a notification every time
Speaker 1: you see that. But this sort of unknown tracker alert
Speaker 1: is obviously an addition to this network or both of
Speaker 1: these networks because of stalking and you know people using
Speaker 1: these to track people that don't realize it, so that
Speaker 1: is built in as well. But how do you use
Speaker 1: these networks? You basically put these little devices on on
Speaker 1: your stuff, and then when you need to find them,
Speaker 1: you open up the app on your phone. On a
Speaker 1: Apple it is the find my app. On Google, it's
Speaker 1: the find my Device app, which you do have to download.
Speaker 1: It's not pre installed on Android phones just yet. You
Speaker 1: open it up and it will show you where your
Speaker 1: little devices are, and then of course you can ring
Speaker 1: make them make a sound. A lot of these things
Speaker 1: have built in audio alerts, so you can say, okay,
Speaker 1: ring my device and it will help you locate it
Speaker 1: that way. Other times you can use what's called precision finding.
Speaker 1: If you have a newer iPhone, it actually will lead
Speaker 1: you right to the device as well. That's another way.
Speaker 1: But there's you know the basics of these devices are
Speaker 1: all the same. They use crowdsourcing to find them. The
Speaker 1: battery life lasts about a year, sometimes two years. And
Speaker 1: the main thing to know is that some of these
Speaker 1: devices have a replaceable battery, which is great, some of
Speaker 1: them have a rechargeable battery, which is even better, and
Speaker 1: some of them do not have a user replaceable battery
Speaker 1: at all. So these are all things to kind of
Speaker 1: consider when you're looking for one of these devices. So
Speaker 1: let me go over some of the devices and accessories
Speaker 1: that I've tested out that I think are pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Number one the classic air tag. This has been around
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now. People are very familiar
Speaker 1: with them. It's a small device, you attach it to
Speaker 1: your stuff and then you can find it using the
Speaker 1: iPhone or another Apple device. Let's see what else about
Speaker 1: the air tag. It's water resistant, you can replace the battery,
Speaker 1: it lasts for about a year. You can engrave them
Speaker 1: if you want put your initials on them. That is
Speaker 1: twenty nine dollars. Probably best to get the four pack,
Speaker 1: which is a better deal, and they often go on sale,
Speaker 1: so I would not pay full price for these. These
Speaker 1: are one of the few Apple products that regularly is discounted,
Speaker 1: not through Apple, but typically through a third party retailer
Speaker 1: like a best Buy or an Amazon so look for
Speaker 1: them when they're on sale, buy the four pack, put
Speaker 1: them on your stuff, your luggage, your keychain. And the
Speaker 1: thing you need to know about the air tags. Apple
Speaker 1: was very smart. Apple loves their accessories. So the air
Speaker 1: tag does not come with a built in way to
Speaker 1: attach it to anthing, So you have to either buy
Speaker 1: a little holster for it or some sort of key
Speaker 1: ring accessory and you can put it in there and
Speaker 1: attach it to stuff. Now, if you want to put
Speaker 1: one of these things on your kids or pet, they
Speaker 1: do make obviously a lot of pet callers and things
Speaker 1: like that, but for kids, there's something called Taga moles.
Speaker 1: Taga moles from a company named Speck. They make a
Speaker 1: lot of cases, and these are fun little characters. You
Speaker 1: pop an air tag in and then they attached to
Speaker 1: your child's backpack or sneakers. So Taga moles don't work
Speaker 1: by themselves to track things, but you put an air
Speaker 1: tag inside the Taga mole and you can put this
Speaker 1: on your child's sneaker or their backpack. They're kind of
Speaker 1: like fun little characters, animal characters, and a four pack
Speaker 1: is thirty five dollars. Those are great for back to school. Again,
Speaker 1: keep in mind, all this relies on crowdsourcing, so it's
Speaker 1: not like you can track your child in real time
Speaker 1: using these. It relies on someone's iPhone being nearby them
Speaker 1: to help you find them, but chances are there's going
Speaker 1: to be an iPhone nearby. I've been testing this wallet
Speaker 1: called the Groove Smart Wallet. This is really really cool
Speaker 1: and it's from a company called Groove Life, and it's
Speaker 1: this Groove Smart Wallet Trace. It's one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars, so it is very expensive, but it's got
Speaker 1: the built in tracker for Apple's fine My network, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to add any tracker to this. The
Speaker 1: battery lasts for about two years. You've got RFID protection,
Speaker 1: so your cards you're not gonna automatically pay for stuff
Speaker 1: when you're in near a checkout counter. It's got a
Speaker 1: clip for cash, which is really great. It holds about
Speaker 1: six cards and I love how this thing works. I've
Speaker 1: been using this for about six weeks now, maybe more
Speaker 1: than that, and it's just fantastic. Comes with a ninety
Speaker 1: four year warranty on the wallet, so if anything happens
Speaker 1: to this thing, you can get a replacement, which is
Speaker 1: really really cool. Again, that's the Groove Smart Wallet Trace
Speaker 1: No mad. This is a great company to make a
Speaker 1: lot of great accessories. They have a wireless tracker that
Speaker 1: you can put in your own wallet. It's really thin,
Speaker 1: it's about the thickness of about two credit cards. It's
Speaker 1: compatible with apples find my Network. The battery on that
Speaker 1: when lasts about five months. This is forty dollars and
Speaker 1: you slip it into your current wallet so you can
Speaker 1: track your wallet. And the neat thing about this is
Speaker 1: that it's wirelessly rechargeable, so you can put it on
Speaker 1: any chi charger and it will juice up. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Android side of things, if
Speaker 1: you're on a Samsung, you can use what's called the
Speaker 1: Galaxy Smart tag too. Now, the thing to know about
Speaker 1: this is it has more features, but it's not compatible
Speaker 1: with Google's Fine mye network. See how this gets confusing.
Speaker 1: So Samsung's kind of doing their own thing. It uses
Speaker 1: all the Samsung phones to find it and it's a
Speaker 1: great little tracker, but you have to realize that it
Speaker 1: is limited by the Samsung devices. The good news is
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Samsung devices out there, so you'll
Speaker 1: probably be okay. Again with the smart tag, it's NFC enabled,
Speaker 1: so someone else can tap it and they can see
Speaker 1: the owner info. So you can set like your phone number,
Speaker 1: your email address, and they can just see that. AirTag
Speaker 1: has a similar feature as well. Samsung phones. You can
Speaker 1: double press the button on this smart tag to find
Speaker 1: your phone. So if your phone is lost, you can
Speaker 1: just press the button on the device and it will
Speaker 1: ring your phone. This is a thirty dollars device and
Speaker 1: that's a great way to go as well. Now when
Speaker 1: it comes to the Google devices for your Android, Chipolo
Speaker 1: makes the device that I tested out.
Speaker 2: They make two of them.
Speaker 1: One is called the Point it has a built in
Speaker 1: hole for your keyring. The other one's called the card Point.
Speaker 1: This is one that's thin enough to put inside your wallet,
Speaker 1: and they both function very similar to the air tags.
Speaker 1: Battery life lasts up to two years. The price starts
Speaker 1: at about twenty eight dollars, and again Chipolo makes them.
Speaker 1: And then Motorola just came out with what's called the
Speaker 1: Moto Tag. This looks just like an air tag. It's
Speaker 1: expected to ship later in August. And the neat thing
Speaker 1: about these Moto tags not only do they work with
Speaker 1: the fine my network on the Android side. But they
Speaker 1: also have the same kind of size and shape as
Speaker 1: an air tag, which means all of those air tag
Speaker 1: accessories that you use to hold them will also hold.
Speaker 2: This Moto tag.
Speaker 1: So that means there's a whole bunch of built in
Speaker 1: accessories that work from day one. All right, if you
Speaker 1: want more information on all of these tags, you can
Speaker 1: go to my website rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 2: Coming up, I'm gonna tell you how you can.
Speaker 1: Free up space on your iPhone and Android really really fast.
Speaker 2: But first it is your turn. Give me a call.
Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight
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Speaker 1: is Richdmiro. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
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Speaker 1: picked all of the songs in today's show, or at
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Speaker 1: know how that's possible, because the new generation, like I
Speaker 1: can't write at all, Like my writing is so bad
Speaker 1: that it's just like undecipherable.
Speaker 2: And I'm not not even a doctor.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you how to free up space on
Speaker 1: your iPhone very quickly. So I'll tell you that in
Speaker 1: just a moment. For first, let's go to h Let's
Speaker 1: go to James and Pomona. James, you're on with Rich. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you for giving my call.
Speaker 5: Basically, I'm shocking for your compact camera. And I've done
Speaker 5: a little bit of a research and yea, so many
Speaker 5: people out there. Good, we've used bad, We've used this one.
Speaker 5: The focus doesn't work, you know, and it's kind of
Speaker 5: driving me a little bit crazy. So you know what,
Speaker 5: I decided, let me go ahead and talk to the expert.
Speaker 5: So basically that's what I'm shopping for.
Speaker 1: So you're looking for a point and shoot camera. What's
Speaker 1: the reason for the point and shoot?
Speaker 4: Just you know, like tike tick pictures, like parchical tits,
Speaker 4: just you know, general, i'd tackle pictures.
Speaker 2: And you don't you don't want to use your smartphone.
Speaker 4: No, I prefer because the line of work ime in.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't want to sometimes you know, evidence
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. I don't want to use my
Speaker 4: personal form because they could be subina and then you know,
Speaker 4: see it's your girlfriend. Oyay, I come you guys hanging
Speaker 4: out over there. You know, so I want something kind
Speaker 4: of a separate from that.
Speaker 1: Okay, what what line of work are you in? Okay,
Speaker 1: got it. You don't want you don't want to mix
Speaker 1: the the the work and the play, got it exactly.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, so it's been a while since I've used a
Speaker 1: point and shoot because most of the people I know
Speaker 1: have switched over to UH to UH, the smartphone taking
Speaker 1: over everything. In fact, the last holdout, one of the
Speaker 1: last holdouts was my father in law. He's a big,
Speaker 1: big camera guy, and he was going to like Europe
Speaker 1: or something a couple of years ago, and like, why
Speaker 1: why even taking your big camera, Just take your take
Speaker 1: your smartphone. You've got an iPhone, it'll be great, And
Speaker 1: he did it. It took a lot for him to
Speaker 1: not take his phone. So a couple places to look
Speaker 1: for the recommendations that you're looking for. The website's DP review.
Speaker 1: That's a very popular photography website. This was actually gonna
Speaker 1: shut down. Amazon took them over, and then another company
Speaker 1: actually bought them and kept them going. So they've got
Speaker 1: you can go into their reviews for their cameras and
Speaker 1: you can order by rating. So that's what I would
Speaker 1: do number one, and so you can see like this,
Speaker 1: this nkon Z eight is like their number one camera. Now,
Speaker 1: the problem with that camera is that it is very
Speaker 1: expensive and you probably don't want that one. It's way
Speaker 1: more than you need. So I think you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to go through this list and see which one of
Speaker 1: these phones, or which one of these phones, which one
Speaker 1: of these these cameras fit your budget. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a big part of the process heres is finding
Speaker 1: one that fits your budget. Do you want to get
Speaker 1: lenses on these things or do you just literally want
Speaker 1: like a point and shoot camera. So that's the second
Speaker 1: place to look, or the first place to look. Second
Speaker 1: place I would look Wirecutter obviously recommend them a lot.
Speaker 1: They've got their top five point and shoot cameras. This
Speaker 1: was updated in May, and so their top pick is
Speaker 1: a camera that a lot of folks like, the Sony
Speaker 1: RX one hundred. They're up to the five six seventh
Speaker 1: generation of that. That's the one that I That was
Speaker 1: probably the last point in shoot camera that I used,
Speaker 1: and I think I used the original version of it,
Speaker 1: so that was many many years ago, probably seven years
Speaker 1: ago at this point.
Speaker 2: That is a thirteen dollars camera.
Speaker 1: Then they've got the Panasonic Lumix and this is a
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars camera, looks like you it may come
Speaker 1: with a lens. I'm not sure on that one. They've
Speaker 1: got a Rico on their list, which is really good.
Speaker 1: And then a Fujifilm. Now the Fujifilm. I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: everyone's been going nuts over this new Fujifilm camera and
Speaker 1: it's the the X one hundred and six. It looks
Speaker 1: like and the YouTubers and the vloggers and everyone just
Speaker 1: seems to love this camera. So that that might be
Speaker 1: the first place. But I've heard it's tough to get too,
Speaker 1: so that might be a tricky one to get. But
Speaker 1: that's those are the two places I would look, and
Speaker 1: I would cross reference to reviews there. You can also
Speaker 1: look on Amazon at the top selling cameras there as well.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to features, I mean, obviously any
Speaker 1: of these are going to be fine for a point
Speaker 1: and shoot. I think it really comes down to how
Speaker 1: much do you want to pay? That is the most
Speaker 1: important part of the equation. Are you really looking to
Speaker 1: get something that's over one thousand dollars with different lenses
Speaker 1: and things like that, because once you start getting into that,
Speaker 1: that is like professional photography versus just what you said originally,
Speaker 1: point and shoot. So thanks for the question, James in Pomona.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your your service with the law enforcement there. Do
Speaker 1: appreciate you keeping us safe and thanks for the call.
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Speaker 1: After the break, I'll tell you how to free up
Speaker 1: space on your iPhone and Android fast. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here, I'll be honest. Guest mom,
Speaker 1: guest DJ's mom today. And I did not know this.
Speaker 1: I've heard this song obviously it's familiar, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know Chris Norman and Susie Quatro nineteen seventy eight rock duet.
Speaker 1: This became an international hit. It's a good song, stumbling
Speaker 1: in thanks mom.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So I got a seemingly simple question this week from
Speaker 1: someone at my work who said, hey, Rich, I just
Speaker 1: need to free up space on my iPhone. Should I
Speaker 1: get a new phone? I said, no, you shouldn't get
Speaker 1: a new phone, just free up the space. Or he
Speaker 1: said he's out of space. Should I get a new phone?
Speaker 1: I said, no, just free up the space. How oh,
Speaker 1: let me think about that, because there are apps that
Speaker 1: can do this, but they're not very straightforward.
Speaker 2: A lot of them are. You know, you got to
Speaker 2: pay money.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to find a free solution. So I said,
Speaker 1: give me a couple of minutes, let me go check
Speaker 1: out my phone and let me come back to you.
Speaker 2: And so here's what I found.
Speaker 1: If you want to free up storage very fast on
Speaker 1: your iPhone, the best way to do it is to
Speaker 1: delete a couple of large video files taking up space
Speaker 1: on your phone. So how do you find those files
Speaker 1: on iPhone? You can't just sort by largest video file,
Speaker 1: which would make a lot of sense, right, No, Apple
Speaker 1: doesn't let you do that. So how do you find
Speaker 1: the largest video files? You go into Settings, then you
Speaker 1: go into General, then you go into iPhone Storage and
Speaker 1: then you tap photos and then in there it will
Speaker 1: tell you how much your photos are taking up and
Speaker 1: it will say something at the bottom a suggestion that
Speaker 1: says review your videos, and you tap that and it
Speaker 1: will show you the largest files on your system. So
Speaker 1: delete a couple of the big files that you don't need,
Speaker 1: the large video files, and your space will be freed up.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, because whatever's on your phone is also
Speaker 1: sync to iCloud. If you delete one of those large
Speaker 1: video files, it will also be deleted from iCloud. So
Speaker 1: only delete a file that you no longer need, or
Speaker 1: if it's backed up somewhere else, like in my instance,
Speaker 1: everything's backed up to Google Photos, so that's fine. So
Speaker 1: it's a little tricky to find, but I will put
Speaker 1: the instructions on the website, Rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's just it's more, it's more work than you would
Speaker 1: think to do this, and it's easy once it's there.
Speaker 1: Some people told me that this review, your videos option
Speaker 1: is not in that area. So I think if that
Speaker 1: is not there, you don't have enough big videos on
Speaker 1: your phone to free up in Apple's not sure triggering
Speaker 1: that little suggestion, and so.
Speaker 2: The video situation is really easy.
Speaker 1: So do this before you have like a big event,
Speaker 1: like I've been to countless kids plays and performances and
Speaker 1: recitals and whatever where I'm seeing parents and that message
Speaker 1: on their phone in front of me literally says you're
Speaker 1: out of space on your iPhone. Don't let that happen
Speaker 1: to you before you go to one of these events.
Speaker 1: Free up a couple of gigabytes by deleting a large
Speaker 1: video or two. Now you might be saying, Rich, what
Speaker 1: about Android. It's much easier on Android, much much easier
Speaker 1: on Android. So on the Samsung devices, and actually this
Speaker 1: is for any any device that's on Android. All you
Speaker 1: have to do is download the Google I know. I said,
Speaker 1: I want to do this without an extra app, but
Speaker 1: Google makes it so easy with this files app.
Speaker 2: So if you download the Google Files app, it's free.
Speaker 1: You'll just see as soon as you download it and
Speaker 1: open it up, it says all your categories downloads, images, videos, audio,
Speaker 1: documents apps go into videos, and then you can just
Speaker 1: sort by there. It is largest first, so largest video first.
Speaker 1: I've got a video here that's one point five to
Speaker 1: seven gigabytes. It even shows me how big the gigabytes
Speaker 1: are on my device. I can tap that video and
Speaker 1: then I can go ahead and move to trash and
Speaker 1: it is going to be gone now. Again, android's a
Speaker 1: little bit different than the iPhone, so if you're using
Speaker 1: something like Google Photos, even if you delete that source
Speaker 1: file off your phone, it's still going to stay inside
Speaker 1: Google Photos, which is I kind of like that about
Speaker 1: Google Photos, but just an easy way to do that.
Speaker 1: If you have a Samsung you don't want to delete,
Speaker 1: if you don't want to download anything extra, you can
Speaker 1: actually use the My Files app to do the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's a little a little bit less straightforward, but it's
Speaker 1: pretty much the same thing. You open up the My
Speaker 1: Files app, you tap videos, and then there's a little
Speaker 1: in the upper right hand corner. You can sort by
Speaker 1: size and then just make the arrow so that it's
Speaker 1: pointing down so the largest file will be at the top.
Speaker 1: What I like about Google Files versus the Samsung files
Speaker 1: is that Google Files shows you how big that file
Speaker 1: is right on the thumbnail, so you can get an
Speaker 1: idea of just how big that file is when you
Speaker 1: delete it.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: These instructions on the website. Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Steven in Los Angeles. Steven, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 6: Rich, this is a call regarding the test the vehicle,
Speaker 6: since I know you've had a good experience with one
Speaker 6: for over the years. I bought the new twenty four
Speaker 6: Highland and I have to use the auto drive quite often.
Speaker 6: Ninety percent of the time. It works very well, but
Speaker 6: some minor errors could sometimes occur, and I want to
Speaker 6: know if you ever know a way to correct those errors.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I've been because I've been using these self driving like
Speaker 1: almost exclusively now for like ninety percent of my driving.
Speaker 1: But it does make errors. It does make errors, and
Speaker 1: especially and this is something I've noticed. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if you have, but on one of my drives that
Speaker 1: I do very often. It wants to take an exit
Speaker 1: that I would not take for that drive, Like it
Speaker 1: wants to exit let's say two exits before the street
Speaker 1: that I would take, and I have not figured out
Speaker 1: a way to program it and say, please do not
Speaker 1: take this exit, take this exit. And you would think
Speaker 1: after driving it every day, it would learn from your
Speaker 1: pattern of like turning off the autopilot and then taking
Speaker 1: that exit. But it doesn't seem to learn from that.
Speaker 1: So I think at this point, the only thing that
Speaker 1: you can do.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've.
Speaker 1: Noticed, but if you take it out of autopilot, it
Speaker 1: will give you a message that says, hey, we just
Speaker 1: noticed you took your car out of autopilot. Do you
Speaker 1: want to send us a message to our engineers to
Speaker 1: tell us why. And I think that's your opportunity to say, hey,
Speaker 1: this car tried to drive on a left, tried to
Speaker 1: make a left in front of traffic that was coming
Speaker 1: at me, Like, hey, fix that.
Speaker 2: But that's the only thing that I've seen.
Speaker 1: There's no real way to like kind of manually change
Speaker 1: the way the car noticed.
Speaker 6: That kind of message. But yesterday, on a next to
Speaker 6: a cyber truck. It got so scared of it. It
Speaker 6: started onking and beeping and stuff, and it was just
Speaker 6: I don't know what happened, but I rely on it
Speaker 6: in ninety percent of the time. As I said, it's
Speaker 6: it's very good, especially on a freeways. Oh yeah, changes
Speaker 6: and yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's gotten a lot, it's gotten a lot better.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, when I'm next to a cyber truck,
Speaker 1: I'm just as scared.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, those things are imposing, they're big, They've got
Speaker 1: that big light in front, and you know that's a
Speaker 1: statement car. If you're driving the cyber truck, you are
Speaker 1: making a statement in this world, and more power to you.
Speaker 1: But I will say I think that you know, I
Speaker 1: did my kind of a review of the self driving
Speaker 1: on the Tesla when it first came out, and I
Speaker 1: kind of knocked it and I said it was horrible.
Speaker 1: And now I will take that back, and I will say,
Speaker 1: I think ninety five percent of the time it is incredible.
Speaker 1: It takes a lot of the stress off of driving,
Speaker 1: especially in a city like Los Angeles where it's like
Speaker 1: a lot of stop and go, and even on like
Speaker 1: city streets and side streets. It does a good job.
Speaker 1: It's not perfect, but I think that the momentum we're
Speaker 1: seeing with the progression of this technology is really good,
Speaker 1: and they keep coming out with software updates to make
Speaker 1: it better.
Speaker 6: So yeah, those updates, I've noticed that they're incredibly useful
Speaker 6: and they do make a difference. And one question I
Speaker 6: have do you normally sit your speed at speed limit
Speaker 6: of the streets in the highways or do you go
Speaker 6: more or less? Or how do you manage yours?
Speaker 1: You know, I usually so, I'm actually a very kind
Speaker 1: of slow, methodical driver, and so I kind of like that.
Speaker 1: If anything, I might set it to go a couple
Speaker 1: miles over the speed limit. But I've also noticed, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've seen this, but the Tesla will
Speaker 1: automatically speed up based on the flow of traffic. So
Speaker 1: if you're in an area where people are going a
Speaker 1: lot faster than the typical they will also it will
Speaker 1: also notice that and speed up. So okay, but look,
Speaker 1: you know my advice to you, Steven, how long have
Speaker 1: you had the car since April?
Speaker 6: Believe it or not. I was waiting for the twenty
Speaker 6: fourth to come out and new body and all that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's nice. How do you like the shifting,
Speaker 1: because I know they took away the stalk.
Speaker 6: You you get used to it, and it's just a
Speaker 6: matter of getting used to it, that's all. And initially
Speaker 6: it was like where's my gears?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've got the old version, so I'm not
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm not up for a new one
Speaker 1: anytime soon, so I'm sticking with the old waiting for
Speaker 1: that model why Refresh to come out, and that will
Speaker 1: be probably next year sometime and maybe.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll take a look at that. Steven, thanks for
Speaker 2: the call today.
Speaker 6: Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Enjoy I always think that the Teslas, and I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm surprised they haven't figured this out, but I feel
Speaker 1: like they should talk to each other. Since they're kind
Speaker 1: of like the main self driving cars on the road
Speaker 1: right now, they should have some sort of like communication.
Speaker 1: Like that cyber truck that was getting near or too
Speaker 1: close to Steven's Tesla. It'd be cool if the if
Speaker 1: his Tesla can kind of send a message saying, hey,
Speaker 1: get back in your lane or whatever. But maybe that
Speaker 1: car wasn't on autopilot. Great question today, eighty to eight
Speaker 1: rich one one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Website for the show rich on
Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. We'll get some more of your calls
Speaker 1: in a moment. Plus, I'm gonna tell you why new
Speaker 1: software for the iPhone is coming out in September. And
Speaker 1: guess who's the most excited about it. It is Google.
Speaker 1: I'll explain why coming up right here on rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you at Triple eight rich one O one
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Speaker 1: We were talking about cars just before the break, and
Speaker 1: Ford is doing something interesting which we've seen before, but
Speaker 1: I think we're going to see this more and more
Speaker 1: with the new Mustang mock E. This is their electric car.
Speaker 1: You can get an extra one hundred pound don't know
Speaker 1: how you say that, one hundred pound feet of torque
Speaker 1: for an extra thousand bucks. So this is a software
Speaker 1: upgrade that unlocks more performance on your car. How wild
Speaker 1: is that? So the car can apparently do this, but
Speaker 1: it's just software locked, so the upgrade reduces the zero
Speaker 1: to sixty times from three point eight seconds to three
Speaker 1: point three seconds. And the upgrade can be just purchased,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're buying the car or through the app.
Speaker 1: But this is this is becoming more and more common
Speaker 1: that cars are. They have features that are there, the
Speaker 1: hardware there, you just have to pay to unlock it.
Speaker 1: So for a thousand bucks you can make your Mustang
Speaker 1: Machi EV even faster.
Speaker 2: That's pretty wild.
Speaker 1: I know on the Tesla you can upgrade a couple
Speaker 1: things like obviously the self driving but that's not a
Speaker 1: performance based thing, but things like heated seats, and I
Speaker 1: remember BMW had that as well. And I think that
Speaker 1: this is just going to be something we see more
Speaker 1: and more because they want to make a car with
Speaker 1: all these features, but they want everyone wants these subscriptions,
Speaker 1: and they want the add ons and they want the unlocks.
Speaker 2: So we're going to see that more and more.
Speaker 1: Mentioned that the new software for the iPhones coming out
Speaker 1: in September iOS eighteen, and who do you think is
Speaker 1: most excited for this?
Speaker 2: It's actually Google.
Speaker 1: They put out an ad this week, a video saying
Speaker 1: we can't wait for ourcs RCS support coming to the
Speaker 1: new iPhone, well the iPhone software. So what does that mean.
Speaker 1: RCS is rich Communication Service and that means that the
Speaker 1: iPhone and the Android messaging is finally going to be
Speaker 1: a level playing field.
Speaker 2: So when you text someone.
Speaker 1: From an Android or an iPhone or vice versa, you
Speaker 1: can text high resolution photos and videos.
Speaker 2: They will no longer look like a postage stamp.
Speaker 1: Improved group chat so you can add people, people can
Speaker 1: leave the group chats whether they're on Android or iPhone.
Speaker 2: That's a huge deal.
Speaker 1: Then there's also read receipts and typing indicators, so when
Speaker 1: your friend is on Android or iPhone or vice versa,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to see when they're typing and when
Speaker 1: they've read stuff. This is a huge deal. Beta users
Speaker 1: already have access. I have tried this out. It is great,
Speaker 1: and the message bubble on Android is still going to
Speaker 1: be green if you're looking at it on an iPhone.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I think this is a huge
Speaker 1: win for the Android side of things, and I think
Speaker 1: that's why Google's so excited, because Apple was holding this back,
Speaker 1: and they held it back for a reason. The reason
Speaker 1: is that it makes androids seem oh, they're not as
Speaker 1: bad as we thought they are. So I think think
Speaker 1: by having people be able to message each other in
Speaker 1: this same way, it will finally take that stigma away
Speaker 1: from the Android side of things. Now, I will tell you,
Speaker 1: when it comes to young folks, they still are all
Speaker 1: about the iPhone and it's all because of the messaging,
Speaker 1: the group chats, the blue bubble. Apple has really doubled
Speaker 1: down on this, like you have to be in it
Speaker 1: to win it, with the I message situation, and it's
Speaker 1: something that I really fault them for because I think
Speaker 1: that technology should be should create a level playing field
Speaker 1: and technology, the best technology works across various brands and manufacturers,
Speaker 1: and Apple has continually built this ecosystem up of their
Speaker 1: own stuff, and so it's kind of it's everything benefits Apple.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the other things in the
Speaker 1: world that you know, especially Android and Windows and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, it's you know, there's various manufacturers making stuff,
Speaker 1: and Apple some of the reason why their stuff works
Speaker 1: so well is because they control it all from start
Speaker 1: to finish, from the software to the hardware. But again
Speaker 1: they kind of control that methodology of hey, you got
Speaker 1: to have everything.
Speaker 2: Apple you got to have everything.
Speaker 1: iPhone got to have, you know, the AirPods and the
Speaker 1: iPhone and the Apple Watch and the iPad for it
Speaker 1: to all work perfectly. Whereas if you're on an Android
Speaker 1: you can choose. You can pick and choose from a
Speaker 1: bunch of different manufacturers. You may have headphones from one company,
Speaker 1: you may have a smart watch from another company. You
Speaker 1: may have a tablet from another company, and your phone
Speaker 1: from Google, Samsung or someone else. So anyway, that's exciting.
Speaker 1: I think for the messaging side of things, that's going
Speaker 1: to be really great. Let's go to Robert in Michigan.
Speaker 1: Robert in Michigan, you're on.
Speaker 7: With Rich Rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: I saw my eyesight five years ago and I bought
Speaker 7: an iPhone success us voiceover and it's worked really good,
Speaker 7: no problems, except for when you get to a website
Speaker 7: doesn't navigate real well, I don't have anybody here to
Speaker 7: help show me you know what am I missing? But
Speaker 7: here's my beast who's going to use voiceover but a
Speaker 7: blind person. So what happens is things pop up on
Speaker 7: the screen, you touch it, and then it shuts off.
Speaker 7: So what does a blind guy do with a phone
Speaker 7: that he doesn't talk anymore. I mean you would think
Speaker 7: an engineer would say, well, if you're going to put
Speaker 7: on voiceover, don't let these things pop up and you
Speaker 7: touch it and it goes off.
Speaker 3: What do you mean pop up?
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that pop up? Like like
Speaker 1: a website pop up or something on the phone?
Speaker 7: No, like things like you know, like things to help
Speaker 7: you navigate the phone. And you know, they got things
Speaker 7: like the screen curtain and if you don't know the
Speaker 7: little trick to get it back on, you know, stuff
Speaker 7: like that. Well, personally, once you put voiceover, who's going
Speaker 7: to use voiceover? And unless they're blind, I mean, I'm
Speaker 7: sure there might be another use. But so once that
Speaker 7: voiceover is on, they should just put a little line
Speaker 7: in there says once this is on, other things might
Speaker 7: not work or shouldn't work, because you're like sitting in
Speaker 7: dead the water. If you touch something in your home
Speaker 7: alone and your voiceover shuts off, and I've had it happen,
Speaker 7: it's you know, it's so that's the only beat. But
Speaker 7: otherwise it works really good.
Speaker 3: And has it got personal?
Speaker 1: Has it gotten better in the time you've used it?
Speaker 1: You said you've had this. How many years have been
Speaker 1: have you been using it?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 7: I've been using it for five years?
Speaker 2: Oh wow? And has it gotten better over the years
Speaker 2: or has it kind of stayed the same.
Speaker 7: Well, it's happened like maybe three times over the year,
Speaker 7: three or four times. But it's not like it's a
Speaker 7: big deal. But when you can't see and this is
Speaker 7: your holding phone and it shuts it off, you know,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, You're like, what do you
Speaker 7: do if you touch it and nothing? You know, the
Speaker 7: only way you know how to use it? And if
Speaker 7: you touch it and it tells.
Speaker 2: You, and so what do you do in that situation?
Speaker 7: I wait, somebody comes over, push it, try to you know,
Speaker 7: if you Usually I gotta wait till someone comes over
Speaker 7: and so they can see the screen and push the
Speaker 7: right button and turn voiceover back on. I've asked. I've
Speaker 7: asked Theiri a number of times. Can you turn voiceover on?
Speaker 7: I can't do that. But then again, I've I've tried
Speaker 7: to send some funny emails, you know, a little joke,
Speaker 7: and she'll come back and say that's not very nice.
Speaker 9: Yes, well I'm making a joke.
Speaker 2: Hey, no judging me, Siri. If I want to send
Speaker 2: a joke. I want to send a joke.
Speaker 7: But well, listen, I was at a store.
Speaker 10: I called in AI.
Speaker 7: I'm going round and round. So when I finally got
Speaker 7: to somebody, I said, hey, just whoever is concerned? AI.
Speaker 7: You know what, I don't like it. I mean, it's good, God,
Speaker 7: it's places, it's wonderful, but you're going round and round
Speaker 7: and I want to just talk to somebody. You're asking
Speaker 7: the questions and it's coming up. Yeah, asked K you No,
Speaker 7: I don't want to ask K. I just need that
Speaker 7: the guy you have this and time. But anyway, I
Speaker 7: don't want to complain. I'm I'm actually a luddite. I
Speaker 7: got rid of Wi Fi and all that when I
Speaker 7: lost my eyes. I don't know if it's psychological.
Speaker 1: And I'm not on the computer, aid hob I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta run, Robert, we're taking all right. Hey, they're teaching.
Speaker 1: You're taking me to break. Thanks for the call today.
Speaker 7: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: I love the the.
Speaker 2: I love the endorsement. You're listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. Welcome to the show the
Speaker 1: website Rich on tech dot TV. The phone number eight
Speaker 1: eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four two four one zero one. Get those questions about
Speaker 1: technology in right now. We'll get to the phone lines
Speaker 1: in just a moment. Coming up in this hour Peter Moore,
Speaker 1: a former gaming industry executive. He is gonna explain how
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch saved his life. It is a wild story.
Speaker 1: And uh, after you hear it, you might want to
Speaker 1: get a wearable because it really did, really did change
Speaker 1: things for him. The hidden cost of cell phone plans.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, so many, so many emails coming in. Let's
Speaker 1: see here. Let me get to this. Brian first said, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I'm a regular listener. The music today is great. Your
Speaker 1: mother rocks stumbling in. I haven't heard that one for
Speaker 1: a long time. Hire her, thank you, Brian. I don't
Speaker 1: think we have the budget to hire her, but if
Speaker 1: we did, yes, she'd be hired. Mark says the cyber
Speaker 1: truck has no autopilot or full self driving just yet,
Speaker 1: supposedly pending a software update.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's interesting. Didn't realize that.
Speaker 1: And let's see here, and let's see Steve says, in
Speaker 1: response to the caller, who was losing speech on his
Speaker 1: iPhone and no way to turn voiceover back on. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to mention that Android has a way to
Speaker 1: do this on Android phones, go into accessibility and enable
Speaker 1: the shortcut to turn on or off talkback. I have
Speaker 1: mindset to toggle this when I hold down both volume keys,
Speaker 1: so talkback is kind of like the Android version of
Speaker 1: the voiceover feature on the iPhone. It is really incredible
Speaker 1: the amount of effort to these companies put into accessibility
Speaker 1: features on the iPhone and Android. If you go into
Speaker 1: that section of the phone, there are so many helpful features,
Speaker 1: no matter what you know is going on with you,
Speaker 1: whether it's a physical disability or I don't think they
Speaker 1: have it for mental disabilities just yet, but maybe that's
Speaker 1: coming in the future we may need that. But anyway,
Speaker 1: thanks for the email. Steven in Durham, North Carolina. Appreciate that,
Speaker 1: all right. The hidden cost of cell phone plans people
Speaker 1: are spending. Americans are overspending by fifteen hundred dollars annually.
Speaker 1: New survey from whistleout dot com, this website that helps
Speaker 1: you kind of compare the different carrier plans. They said
Speaker 1: the average American spends one hundred and fifty seven dollars
Speaker 1: a month on a plan from a major carrier. But
Speaker 1: if you have an mv and O plan one of
Speaker 1: those mobile virtual network operators, those cost around thirty dollars
Speaker 1: a month on average, so the average person could save
Speaker 1: about fifteen hundred dollars a year by switching. But fifty
Speaker 1: three percent of consumer have a cell phone plan through
Speaker 1: one of the big three Verizon, T Mobile or AT
Speaker 1: and T. Forty seven percent are now on an MV
Speaker 1: and O. Seventy six percent of consumers have an unlimited
Speaker 1: phone plan, but sixty three percent of people use less
Speaker 1: than fifteen gigabytes of data per month, and a majority
Speaker 1: of people with unlimited data plans are on Wi Fi
Speaker 1: most of the time. So when you hear all this,
Speaker 1: you would say, well, why don't people switch? Why don't
Speaker 1: they switch to a smaller cell phone carrier? Brand loyalty? Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, what do these companies do for you except
Speaker 1: raise your bill?
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 1: Americans are overspending by two hundred and eleven billion dollars
Speaker 1: every year, and they take it out over a lifetime.
Speaker 1: If you switch to one of these MV and o's
Speaker 1: eighty five thousand dollars you'd save over your lifetime. So
Speaker 1: here's the deal. What's the deal with these mv and os?
Speaker 1: People always ask like, should I switch to one? The
Speaker 1: main ones that come to mind are Visible that's owned
Speaker 1: by Verizon, Mint Mobile that.
Speaker 2: Was owned by Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 1: Now it's owned by T Mobile, AT and T owns Cricket,
Speaker 1: And there's a whole bunch of other ones out there.
Speaker 2: So why would you switch? I think you should.
Speaker 1: If you have a bill that is very expensive and
Speaker 1: you don't want to spend that much, go with one
Speaker 1: of these mv and o's. The coverage is the same.
Speaker 1: It's it's Verizon, it's they all ride on one of
Speaker 1: these big networks, whether it's Verizon, T Mobile, or AT
Speaker 1: and T. And if you're curious which one they work on,
Speaker 1: just google it and just say, like, you know, what
Speaker 1: what network is Visible on? What network is Mint Mobile on?
Speaker 1: What network is Cricket on? What network is Mobile Xon?
Speaker 1: And they will they will reveal that usually in Wikipedia.
Speaker 1: I did this for my wife. I switched her to
Speaker 1: one of the mv and o's a couple months ago.
Speaker 1: It took exactly twenty minutes, saved us about forty five
Speaker 1: dollars a month on her bill. The coverage is pretty
Speaker 1: much the same, no complaints. And the main thing to
Speaker 1: know about these plans is that not all of the
Speaker 1: mv and o's support a smart watch. So if you
Speaker 1: have a smart watch with a data connection, like a
Speaker 1: cellular Apple Watch or an LTE Android Watch, a lot
Speaker 1: of the mv and os do not support that, so
Speaker 1: you have to be careful if you're switching. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: my Apple Watch isn't gonna have cellular anymore, no, so
Speaker 1: check that before. The other thing you don't get is
Speaker 1: you don't get some of these perks like the Netflix,
Speaker 1: you know, and all these different things like the music,
Speaker 1: free music, whatever. But I think the savings are worth it.
Speaker 1: So if you're considering a switch, I say go for it.
Speaker 1: You can always switch back. It's very easy. They make
Speaker 1: it a little scary because you have to figure out
Speaker 1: you know your your pin number for your account, you
Speaker 1: have to enter your information if you want to pour
Speaker 1: it over your phone number. But it literally took me
Speaker 1: twenty minutes my wife's phone number. It went from one
Speaker 1: carrier to the other carrier within twenty minutes, and we
Speaker 1: saved forty five dollars a month. The other thing that's
Speaker 1: interesting is a lot of these carriers that are the
Speaker 1: smaller mv and os, they'll let you pay by credit card,
Speaker 1: whereas all these like main carriers, the T Mobiles, the Verizons,
Speaker 1: the AT and T's, they're all pushing people to pay
Speaker 1: through their checking accounts. And the reason I don't like
Speaker 1: that is because their bills can can fluctuate. You get
Speaker 1: a big roaming charge. Next thing you know, your bill
Speaker 1: could be more. And with the with the mv and
Speaker 1: O is there's really no there's really no surprise charges
Speaker 1: with them because it's it's kind of an all on
Speaker 1: one thing. So there you go. Just got another email
Speaker 1: from Nancy. Nancy says, I love Mom's music too. Wow,
Speaker 1: I guess Bobo, we got to hire Mom. Let's go too.
Speaker 1: Do we have time to take a call. Let's see, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we do. Let's go to Carmen Carmen in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Carmen, you're all with Rich. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8: Hi, thank you. I have a problem with Google. I
Speaker 8: have a pham where I don't use it with the
Speaker 8: service I'm only using to work on docs and emails.
Speaker 8: But now I'm being blocking from Google because I have
Speaker 8: no manor storage. I kept throwing away videos, pictures, and
Speaker 8: a lot of gmails, but I still don't have a space.
Speaker 8: They are saying that I should buy it or empty.
Speaker 8: But if I'm being empty and empty and empty and
Speaker 8: I don't and I still don't get it, do I
Speaker 8: have a nail? The option? How to do dogs on
Speaker 8: my phone without Google? Or without how to pay Google?
Speaker 2: What kind of phone do you have?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've got your your Google comes with fifteen
Speaker 1: gigabytes of free storage, and you're saying that's completely filled up. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well this is their plan. By the way, I mean,
Speaker 1: why do you think they give free Gmail, free Google Photos,
Speaker 1: free Google Docs. The whole idea is to get you
Speaker 1: to put all your stuff inside their cloud storage. They
Speaker 1: know one day that cloud storage is gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: be full, and now they say, oh, for two more
Speaker 1: bucks a month, you can now have one hundred gigs
Speaker 1: versus fifteen.
Speaker 2: So that's the plan.
Speaker 1: Many people, you know, they don't mind paying because they
Speaker 1: have all their stuff in there. But once you're invested
Speaker 1: in these cloud storage you know you want to stick
Speaker 1: with them for a long time. And that's what Google knows.
Speaker 1: So you said you cleared out some files and things.
Speaker 1: Have you gone to the website one dot Google dot com. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's where I want you to go, So tell me okay,
Speaker 1: O n E dot Google dot com.
Speaker 2: Okay. And so when you.
Speaker 1: Go there, it will show you on that page how
Speaker 1: much storage you're using. So, for instance, I'm using sixty
Speaker 1: four sixty four percent of my five terabytes that I
Speaker 1: pay for, so that's a lot. And so I'm at
Speaker 1: sixty four percent, and then it says clean up space,
Speaker 1: and it says to me, I've got five hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty five gigabytes that I can clean up. So you
Speaker 1: tap that and it will show you all of the breakdown.
Speaker 1: So I can see that I've got three terabytes in
Speaker 1: Google Photos, I've got one hundred and fifty gigabytes in
Speaker 1: Google will Drive, I've got forty gigabytes of Gmail, I've
Speaker 1: got a nine hundred and fifty two megabytes in recorder,
Speaker 1: and then my family's using some stuff as well. So
Speaker 1: once you go into there, you can clean up by service,
Speaker 1: So you can clean up by Google Photos, Google Drive,
Speaker 1: and Gmail. So for instance, if I tap Gmail, it
Speaker 1: will show me all of my emails with the biggest attachments,
Speaker 1: and I can just in one fell swoop select those
Speaker 1: all and get rid of them. And then you can
Speaker 1: also empty your trash, because sometimes this trash does take
Speaker 1: up the storage on your depends on the cloud service.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it will take up storage, sometimes it will not.
Speaker 1: But in general you probably want to empty the trash
Speaker 1: as well, because even though you've thrown this stuff away,
Speaker 1: you can recover that space quickly by emptying the trash.
Speaker 1: And so for me, it says I can empty my
Speaker 1: trash in Gmail, I can empty some files that I
Speaker 1: have in trash from my Google Docs, spam email I
Speaker 1: can get rid of. But this is where you want
Speaker 1: to go. You want to go to one dot Google
Speaker 1: dot com. And I think everyone should do this because
Speaker 1: it's a handy way of seeing like, oh wait a second,
Speaker 1: I've got, you know, two terabytes or whatever. You have
Speaker 1: one hundred gigabytes of stuff and trash, Like, let me
Speaker 1: get rid of that. That's the way to do it, Carmen,
Speaker 1: to reclaim some of that space. Fifteen gigabytes is not
Speaker 1: all that much. Apple gives folks five. Google gives people fifteen.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for a place to sort of offload
Speaker 1: some stuff. There are some ways to get some free
Speaker 1: storage online. You can move some stuff to one Drive,
Speaker 1: which is Microsoft's. They give you fifteen gigabytes for free.
Speaker 1: So maybe you could take some of your files from
Speaker 1: Google Drive, move them over to one Drive, and then
Speaker 1: that way you can free up that space on Google.
Speaker 1: I think Google Docs is fantastic. I use it, I
Speaker 1: love it, and so I would consider I would still
Speaker 1: recommend using that, but you do have to find a
Speaker 1: way to get rid of some of those files that
Speaker 1: you've got stored in there. If you don't want to
Speaker 1: pay the next The next payment is two bucks a
Speaker 1: month if you want to get I think it's one
Speaker 1: hundred gigabytes, which you know, in the scheme of things,
Speaker 1: is really not that bad for uh, for you know,
Speaker 1: for using documents and all that stuff. Thanks for the call, Karmen,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Good luck getting that all figured out. Eighty
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Coming up, we'll take
Speaker 1: some more of your calls the website rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot tv. Plus I'm gonna tell you how you can
Speaker 1: use chat GPT to digitize your handwritten notes. It's super fast,
Speaker 1: it's super easy, it's super handy. You are listening to
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Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The phone
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Speaker 1: bozi on your radio. That yes, that was selected by
Speaker 1: my mom. My mom has. When I told her the
Speaker 1: select the songs for the show, she goes, do they
Speaker 1: have to be old songs? They said, no, select whatever
Speaker 1: you like and she she's like, I really like.
Speaker 2: This shaboozy song. Everyone does. I mean, what's not to like?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 1: It's just amazing how sometimes these songs come out and
Speaker 1: they just take over the world, like that one. And anyway,
Speaker 1: thanks for the song. So I want to tell you
Speaker 1: I mentioned how chat gpt can digitize your notes.
Speaker 2: This is pretty cool. This is what my mom used.
Speaker 1: She wrote out all the songs for the show today
Speaker 1: and I took a picture of them and I uploaded
Speaker 1: it to chat gpt and it spit out the everything
Speaker 1: perfectly written. And so here's how you can do it.
Speaker 1: And you can probably use any any of the AI
Speaker 1: tools to do this. But if you've got a handwritten note,
Speaker 1: maybe a letter from back in the day or something
Speaker 1: like that, or if you still have good handwriting, you
Speaker 1: can just write a note, take a picture with your phone,
Speaker 1: upload it to chat GPT or even claude dot AI
Speaker 1: and it will basically extract the text from that image
Speaker 1: and convert the handwriting to text. And it's very simple.
Speaker 1: It's very easy. If it doesn't do it without you asking,
Speaker 1: like you probably just all you have to do is
Speaker 1: upload the photo. But if it doesn't do it with
Speaker 1: just uploading, just say hey, can you please? Can you
Speaker 1: please extract the text from this image? And it will.
Speaker 1: Now I did that with the song. Then I said, hey,
Speaker 1: can you actually give me a line about each song?
Speaker 1: And so it did that very easily. I use Claude
Speaker 1: to do that, but chat GBT will do it as well.
Speaker 1: This was from zd net. Got to give Sabrina over
Speaker 1: at zd net the props for this little tip because
Speaker 1: she came up with it. But I thought that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I mean, I can't write in my handwriting
Speaker 1: anymore because it just looks so horrible. But if you
Speaker 1: can and it still looks legible, yeah, you can use
Speaker 1: AI to transform it. Comment on the MV and O plans.
Speaker 1: We're getting a lot let's see, I don't have a
Speaker 1: person's name here, but they said something else as important
Speaker 1: as international travel. Absolutely, I meant to mention that a
Speaker 1: lot of the MV and o's do not support international roaming.
Speaker 1: So again you're not going to get hit with these
Speaker 1: roaming bills. But at the same time, you may not
Speaker 1: be able to use that phone number to roam overseas.
Speaker 1: If they support the Wi Fi calling and texting, that
Speaker 1: might work.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 2: Mint Mobile just added the international plans to their.
Speaker 1: Plans, so you can buy like International when you go
Speaker 1: out of the country. And they also said Visible supports
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. Yes, Visible is one that does support Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: Looks like we got another question. Gary and Laguna Niguel. Gary,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich We hell Rich.
Speaker 10: Oh, by the way, I noticed she still has some
Speaker 10: of the old Leo laporttunes. Also, that tune is great.
Speaker 10: I usually hear that right between eleven thirty and twelve
Speaker 10: thirty and always get some motivation going.
Speaker 2: Is that the which one is? That is that's going
Speaker 2: to break what we.
Speaker 7: Do?
Speaker 10: It's where he plays it. It's one of Leo's old
Speaker 10: old songs that he leads into his show when he
Speaker 10: would start at eleven o'clock on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think, yeah, I gotta listen now closely. Maybe
Speaker 1: I mostly focus on the intro and I gotta now,
Speaker 1: I gotta listen. Oh okay, Kim. Kim says, it's the
Speaker 1: network bumper music.
Speaker 2: Got it?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I don't get it. I may not hear
Speaker 1: it here, Okay, I do, Okay, got it?
Speaker 3: Gary?
Speaker 2: What can I help you with?
Speaker 10: Well, the question I asked you Rich is all the
Speaker 10: budget carriers that you hear advertising on talk radio and
Speaker 10: so on. They always seem that they have AT and
Speaker 10: T and T mobile service carriers, but Verison. I'd like
Speaker 10: to know which are the budget carriers carry Verison?
Speaker 1: Great question, and so yes, I would say a majority.
Speaker 1: I would say ninety percent of them run on T Mobile,
Speaker 1: maybe ten percent run on AT and T, and then
Speaker 1: Verizon has like a tiny percent, but it's growing. So
Speaker 1: number one Verizon owns Visible and they run on Verizon's network.
Speaker 1: The other one is red Pocket, which I've tested. They
Speaker 1: run on Verizon as well, and so you can get
Speaker 1: that US Mobile. They have an option for Verizon, but
Speaker 1: you have to kind of choose. They've got a choice
Speaker 1: of Verizon or I think it's might be AT and
Speaker 1: t Issue Mobile. But US Mobile is another one and
Speaker 1: they're kind of a smaller carrier that really they don't
Speaker 1: you don't hear much about them, but they are on there.
Speaker 1: And then I believe Spectrum and Exfinity are also on there.
Speaker 1: So those are kind of through your cable company and
Speaker 1: you have to have your cable obviously your Internet through them,
Speaker 1: but you get a good deal there. And then the
Speaker 1: latest one to use Verizon is Mobile X. We talked
Speaker 1: about them on the show a couple months ago. Mobile
Speaker 1: X uses Verizon's network. I have tested them and they
Speaker 1: are great. And then Verizon has another one called Total
Speaker 1: by Verizon, and this is their prepaid. So basically Verizon
Speaker 1: runs Total Wireless and also Visible Wireless, and Total Wireless
Speaker 1: is sort of a prepaid whereas Visible is like you know,
Speaker 1: you just jump on that plan. But yeah, great question,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times if you go to that
Speaker 1: whistle out site that I mentioned, they can reveal which
Speaker 1: Envy and Zo is on which carrier network. But again
Speaker 1: there's only like really three networks. I think there's a
Speaker 1: fourth coming up from Dish Network, which I have not
Speaker 1: tested yet, but apparently they've built their own network in
Speaker 1: the US, so we're going to see a lot more
Speaker 1: advertising from Dish, I think, when that's ready to go
Speaker 1: in a much bigger way than it is right now.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the question, Gary, and I'm glad we figured
Speaker 1: out the music.
Speaker 2: You're right glad. We've got Kim here to tell us
Speaker 2: that stuff.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're going to talk to a guy who
Speaker 1: says the Apple Watch has saved his life. He'll explain
Speaker 1: coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology. Lines
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Speaker 2: This is show number eighty three. All right.
Speaker 1: So recently I spoke with a guy named Peter Moore.
Speaker 1: This is a quite a successful business person. He's had
Speaker 1: big jobs at EA, Microsoft, Sega, and Rebok. He's here
Speaker 1: in California, and he told me the story of how
Speaker 1: his Apple Watch saved his life. And uh, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let him tell the story. Let's hear
Speaker 1: from Peter Moore.
Speaker 12: It's actually two weeks ago today. I was going to
Speaker 12: buy my business as normal. My eldest daughter, who works
Speaker 12: for Rea, was flying in for a couple of days.
Speaker 12: I was heading to Santa Barbara Airport. I felt a
Speaker 12: little light headed and a little faint, and like a
Speaker 12: typical mail I.
Speaker 3: Thought, I'll go to Starbucks.
Speaker 12: That'll fix it totally. And so I went on the
Speaker 12: way to Santa Barbara Airport and grabbed a latte. I
Speaker 12: sat in the cell phone parking lot. It still felt
Speaker 12: a little faint, but I thought it would pass. My
Speaker 12: phone started to ping and said low heart rate, which
Speaker 12: I've never seen before, and so I looked at it
Speaker 12: and then my heart rate had dropped to thirty two
Speaker 12: and it was insistent in its notifications that something wasn't
Speaker 12: right with the linkage to your phone. I looked on
Speaker 12: the health app in my phone and I saw that
Speaker 12: my heart rate was vacillating at that time from thirty
Speaker 12: to one hundred and one, and so I had this
Speaker 12: bright red line.
Speaker 3: Going up and down.
Speaker 12: I thought this is probably not good, so swallowed my
Speaker 12: mail pride sent a photograph to my wife of the
Speaker 12: low heart rate.
Speaker 3: Note of it.
Speaker 12: She said, don't move, I'm coming right there, pick me up.
Speaker 12: I was in Santa Barbara Coottish Hospital. Within ten minutes,
Speaker 12: Triagnur sees me, looks at me, looks at my pulse,
Speaker 12: goes a little pale, which I didn't think was a
Speaker 12: good thing. The reaction not at all now and gets
Speaker 12: a wheelchair.
Speaker 3: Rich.
Speaker 12: Within five minutes, I'm in the emergency room. Crash team
Speaker 12: descends on me, defibrillator pads, ivy blood samples EKG, and
Speaker 12: they're running the EKG and doctor kind of theoretically runs
Speaker 12: in and said, this is not good.
Speaker 3: This is not good.
Speaker 2: You need a.
Speaker 3: Pacemaker right now.
Speaker 12: You are in complete heart blockage, which is an electrical
Speaker 12: issue where the top part of the heart the atrier
Speaker 12: and the bottom heart ventricle aren't talking to each other anymore,
Speaker 12: and so what happens is your top part of the
Speaker 12: backup systems. I'm triggered and the atria is doing all
Speaker 12: the work, but the ventricles are doing nothing, and so
Speaker 12: my heartbeat. Then I'm on the monitors. I'm looking my heartbeat.
Speaker 12: Then is twenty four. Doctor comes in, looks at me,
Speaker 12: goes why are you still awake? Type thing, And their
Speaker 12: goal was to get me into the operating theater as
Speaker 12: the fast that they possibly could to install the pacemaker,
Speaker 12: and all they were waiting for was a bed postop recovery.
Speaker 12: Within two and a half hours, I was in the
Speaker 12: operating theater. I was awake, somewhat sedated, but fascinated by
Speaker 12: the process, surrounded by data screens and talking to the
Speaker 12: technician from Abbot Labs, who have this duel chamber pacemaker
Speaker 12: that I'm now the proud owner of, and he's pacing.
Speaker 12: In other words, he's in control of my heart. And
Speaker 12: what they're doing is setting the voltage levels, making sure
Speaker 12: the pacemaker is obviously working properly, and stitch me up
Speaker 12: and I'm out of there and spent the night in
Speaker 12: the wonderful Cottage Hospital. Dr Omid Yosefian was the surgeon
Speaker 12: who immediately came saw me, operated on me, and I
Speaker 12: think fundamentally saved my life. I think the real issue
Speaker 12: would have been if I left left it, I would
Speaker 12: have collapsed at some point. And my real fear was
Speaker 12: I'd be driving with my daughter on the one oh
Speaker 12: one freeway and that would have been disastrous. For the
Speaker 12: implications of that I can't even be to think of.
Speaker 12: So finally I paid attention to the data that was there,
Speaker 12: and my male stubbornness was overcome by listening to the
Speaker 12: data and reading the data. And of course your wife
Speaker 12: will take over in these situations, and uh, you know,
Speaker 12: and the wonderful people, as I say, son Ababa Cottage
Speaker 12: Hospital had me from entry to with a working pacemaker
Speaker 12: within four and a half hours.
Speaker 3: Wow, you said you felt lightheaded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people feel different ways all throughout their life.
Speaker 3: Oh totally.
Speaker 1: But with that alert when you got it on your watch,
Speaker 1: was that the like hold on something is definitely not right.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
Speaker 12: I mean, you go, I mean every now and again,
Speaker 12: and even you you know, you stand up quickly, you
Speaker 12: go whoo for a second, and I in a typical male,
Speaker 12: stubborn pig headedness.
Speaker 8: Thought.
Speaker 3: You know, it'll go away, you know.
Speaker 12: And so if it hadn't a been for these notifications,
Speaker 12: I would have just tried to write it through. I
Speaker 12: had a lot going on and picking my daughter up
Speaker 12: on to be there for her, and again the consequences
Speaker 12: of that, as the doctor explained to me, he said,
Speaker 12: look at twenty four bpm, you're going to collapse.
Speaker 3: You're either going to collapse at the wheel.
Speaker 12: And again the implications of that and the ramifications of
Speaker 12: that horrific. Or we see a lot because it's a
Speaker 12: total collapse, people smash their head and so he said that,
Speaker 12: and then you're dealing with internal bleeding and all of
Speaker 12: those things. So fortunately you came in. We caught you
Speaker 12: whilst I was on the monitor. I flat lined twice
Speaker 12: in that thirty minutes. And again I'm thinking back connection right,
Speaker 12: you know, and my wife's looking it just went to
Speaker 12: zero and then the heart kicked in again.
Speaker 3: But here I am two weeks later. Fine, how do
Speaker 3: you feel now? I feel great?
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know it's funny when you even the moment
Speaker 12: as we're insurging the device that then he brought my
Speaker 12: heart to sixty five bpm. They're calibrating the bpm. I
Speaker 12: felt better immediately that the blood was flowing as it
Speaker 12: should be again because it's an electrical issue. My plumbing
Speaker 12: is just fine. But the pacemaker is always on device
Speaker 12: for me because my electrical system has collapsed. So it's working.
Speaker 12: It keeps me alive all day I keep pointing here,
Speaker 12: that's where it is. But it keeps me alive all
Speaker 12: day long. And check in in a year. And the
Speaker 12: battery life maybe ten years. And the only thing I
Speaker 12: think I have to worry about is go get a
Speaker 12: new battery in ten years.
Speaker 3: So the watch. Do you have a new found respect
Speaker 3: for the Apple Watch?
Speaker 10: I do?
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 12: I mean, it's always been useful for me. You know,
Speaker 12: I've been in tech for twenty odd years president of Sega.
Speaker 12: I ran Xbox, so I'm used to technology, and I've
Speaker 12: watched the video game industry go from when I joined
Speaker 12: Sega dreamcast days of dial up to now relying on
Speaker 12: data every minute of every day to interact with gamers
Speaker 12: and to build the business. And so when my personal
Speaker 12: feelings one thing, but when I see data like that,
Speaker 12: particularly the way that Apple does it, which is low
Speaker 12: heart rate like that and actually shows you the data
Speaker 12: in there. Then I reacted to that, and I can't
Speaker 12: thank Apple and all the other smart watchmakers that are
Speaker 12: makings I think a little bit more kind of informed
Speaker 12: about our health. Somebody somebody said the other day, it
Speaker 12: turns the invisible into visible, and you know, and I'm
Speaker 12: blessed to have a pacemaker. As the docs fifty years ago,
Speaker 12: I would just be dead because the technology, which I
Speaker 12: find amazing, of this little device in there that's firing
Speaker 12: every you know, point eight of a second is just incredible.
Speaker 12: And the way that Abbott the company said a year ago,
Speaker 12: you wouldn't have been as well off as youah today
Speaker 12: because those are the advances bringing. You know, we can
Speaker 12: do updates, we can do firmware and what you have.
Speaker 12: And people who have a pacemaker know that you have
Speaker 12: a little device that sits by your bed that interacts
Speaker 12: with your pacemaker at nights data to their central servers
Speaker 12: and if they see anything untoward, they'll give you a call.
Speaker 12: But as they say, ninety nine percent of the time
Speaker 12: it's just there as a monitoring device. So it's interacting
Speaker 12: through I guess RFID or something like that.
Speaker 1: So with all of this lesson learned. What is your
Speaker 1: advice to others? Yeah, get yourself a smart watch.
Speaker 12: I mean the health thing is important to me now
Speaker 12: times ten, obviously, but all the other things you can
Speaker 12: do that I've learned over the last few years that
Speaker 12: I never dreamt of.
Speaker 3: You know, when I was a kid.
Speaker 12: This is kind of a George Jetson thing, right, a
Speaker 12: Maxwell smart type device. But now I think that the
Speaker 12: wearable market in particular for the value it provides not
Speaker 12: just in your daily life, but literally informing you about
Speaker 12: your health in real time. And in my instance, I
Speaker 12: think saving my life. And I wouldn't be here if
Speaker 12: it wasn't for this little device.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: What a story. What a guy, by the way, what
Speaker 1: an incredible person. Peter is done so many great things
Speaker 1: in his life. And just to have that experience of
Speaker 1: thinking you're going to go get a coffee and everything
Speaker 1: is going to be fine, and realizing that your watch
Speaker 1: is saying, uh uh, we're figuring something else is a
Speaker 1: little wrong here. So, like you said, I think that
Speaker 1: if you know, if you get one of these devices,
Speaker 1: whether it's a Fitbit, whether it's an Apple Watch, whether
Speaker 1: it's a Samsung watch. Definitely check the specs and see
Speaker 1: what it can do. What he was talking about was
Speaker 1: the high and low heart rate notifications. You can check
Speaker 1: some of your ECG stats on these things as well,
Speaker 1: depending on the model. There's a lot of stats that
Speaker 1: you can find. But don't over rely on these things
Speaker 1: because there are certain things they cannot do. And the
Speaker 1: doctor I interviewed for my story on Katla said these
Speaker 1: things do not predict a heart attack or can they
Speaker 1: sense one, So keep that in mind with there are
Speaker 1: limits to what these can do. But between the fall
Speaker 1: detection the crash detection, I mean, there really are so
Speaker 1: many benefits to these wearables and Peter is example of that.
Speaker 1: So thanks for sharing the story there. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: to more calls and just a bit here eighty eight
Speaker 1: rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
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Speaker 1: There you go. We we have hit AB's nest. We
Speaker 1: could do an entire show on mv and o's. I
Speaker 1: did not realize this, but the comments keep coming in.
Speaker 1: Ed says, if you switch from Verizon cell service to
Speaker 1: Verizon prepaid and Auto fifteen gigabytes is thirty five dollars
Speaker 1: a month, same service, half the price. Jim says, I
Speaker 1: like saving money, but a few reasons. I haven't switched
Speaker 1: to an mv and O. A few friends switched to
Speaker 1: Mint and they've had trouble sending SMS messages for some reason.
Speaker 1: Their messages take hours to arrive. They don't send your
Speaker 1: name to people with caller ID, so you don't see
Speaker 1: caller ID on incoming calls either.
Speaker 2: No international roaming.
Speaker 1: He travels a lot, needs to receive calls and messages
Speaker 1: anywhere in the world. Deprioritization. I've tried mv and o's.
Speaker 1: When I'm in a crowded place, I find my data
Speaker 1: won't flow even though I have a strong signal. For me,
Speaker 1: it hasn't been worth the twenty eight dollars a month
Speaker 1: I would save.
Speaker 2: And then let's see.
Speaker 1: Glenn here wrote in and said MV and o's do
Speaker 1: not have the same access to cell sites. I've worked
Speaker 1: for two of the major carriers for over three years,
Speaker 1: and I can tell you the MV and o's are
Speaker 1: fine for normal, everyday communication, but in an emergency like earthquakes, fires,
Speaker 1: or severe weather, the subscribers to the main carrier will
Speaker 1: have first access to a congested cell tower, just below
Speaker 1: police and fire.
Speaker 2: MV and o's are at the bottom of the priority.
Speaker 1: These are all probably valid things, yes, but again they
Speaker 1: are all sort of edge scenarios. So it all depends
Speaker 1: on what you need out of it, right. So if
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you know, if it's a good idea to switch,
Speaker 1: I think you have to weigh what you want for
Speaker 1: me personally. I have not switched because I need certain things.
Speaker 1: I need access to the most premium data, the most
Speaker 1: premium priority on the network as I am uploading and
Speaker 1: downloading tons of stuff on a daily basis with my jobs,
Speaker 1: and so for me, that is what works now. My
Speaker 1: secondary line, Yes, it's an envy and O. And my
Speaker 1: wife who literally when you look at her data usage
Speaker 1: is like less than two gigs a month. She does
Speaker 1: not need an unlimited plan ninety dollars a month. She
Speaker 1: does not need the extra you know, whatever it is
Speaker 1: that these companies offer. And she told she's been on
Speaker 1: a couple MV and ohs, and she's told her friends
Speaker 1: about it, and they don't trust her.
Speaker 2: They don't believe her. They say, well, I don't know
Speaker 2: what am I missing out on? Nothing.
Speaker 1: It works, Yes, there are some downsides, but it depends
Speaker 1: what you need. And I think that is the beauty
Speaker 1: of listening to a show like this and doing your
Speaker 1: research is that you understand what you're getting into, so
Speaker 1: you're not surprised when you say, wait my apple watch
Speaker 1: Wait hold on, I can't get cellular, or wait, I've
Speaker 1: got to travel internationally. I don't have international So you
Speaker 1: have to remember all of that stuff. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Tom in San Diego. Tom, you're on with Rich. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 13: Hey, Rich, I know you've touched on this a few
Speaker 13: times obviously, and you're touching on it right now again.
Speaker 13: But so I have a cabin that my parents built,
Speaker 13: you know, fifty years ago. That's out in the middle
Speaker 13: of Sambordino Desert. It does have electricity, it's been broken
Speaker 13: into a few times. So I'm thinking, well, I should
Speaker 13: put some cameras up or something that could tell me
Speaker 13: if something was going on. There is no ISP service
Speaker 13: out there. So I've been looking at, you know, either
Speaker 13: cellular game cameras or other things, or doing something like
Speaker 13: a MYPI with Wi Fi cameras and just trying to
Speaker 13: find a plan that isn't going to break me to have,
Speaker 13: you know, some security footage and video footage. I don't
Speaker 13: even have an idea of how much data I would
Speaker 13: need or something like that, and just wondering what your
Speaker 13: recommendations were. I know you were talking about a whole
Speaker 13: bunch of different carriers a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I would actually I would just go with
Speaker 1: a I would just go with a cellular security camera
Speaker 1: in general, like skip the Wi Fi hotspot because that's
Speaker 1: going to be that's not going to be the most
Speaker 1: reliable connection for these cameras, so if it depending on
Speaker 1: how many need, but I would say just go with
Speaker 1: one that has built in cellular and there are a
Speaker 1: couple out there. I have personally not tested one with
Speaker 1: the cellular built in, but they do come from a
Speaker 1: couple of reputable brands. Now there are many out there.
Speaker 1: You can go on Amazon and probably find one for
Speaker 1: fifty bucks, but I probably I mean, you can try it,
Speaker 1: but I think if you want something that's reliable. The
Speaker 1: thing that separates a lot of these security cameras between
Speaker 1: the really cheap ones that you can find on Amazon
Speaker 1: and the companies that have made a business on security cameras,
Speaker 1: like the Rings of the World and you know the
Speaker 1: Ufe's of the World is the software that you get
Speaker 1: and maybe sometimes the support. So I would personally go
Speaker 1: with a camera that just has cellular built in and
Speaker 1: a couple of the brands that make a camera that
Speaker 1: are pretty reasonable price wise, and the brands that I
Speaker 1: know for cameras that people like UFI, eu f Y,
Speaker 1: They've got a whole bunch of cellular security cameras and
Speaker 1: they actually will tell you how much data. So, by
Speaker 1: the way, there's something else to think about here. Some
Speaker 1: of the cameras may want you to use their data connection, right,
Speaker 1: like you have to buy the data from them, which
Speaker 1: of course is going to be it's going to limit
Speaker 1: you in some ways. Some say, hey, just put a
Speaker 1: put a simcard in and you're good to go, as
Speaker 1: long as you have a network. This this UFEE says
Speaker 1: it's got a three and one SIM card compatible with
Speaker 1: AT and T, T Mobile and Verizon. It selects the
Speaker 1: most stable network to optimize connectivity and ensure uninterrupted viewing.
Speaker 1: I would also look for a camera that has a
Speaker 1: solar attachment as well, So the UFI one looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: This one's two hundred and fifty bucks for a four
Speaker 1: g LTE. There's then Real Link r EO l I
Speaker 1: n K. Real Link is. They're not as well known,
Speaker 1: but they do make decent cameras, and they have one
Speaker 1: that is battery and solar powered. It's got a four
Speaker 1: g lt E. It's two hundred and twenty dollars and
Speaker 1: it tells you your estimated data usage here on the website,
Speaker 1: so you can go on there and see how much
Speaker 1: data it's exped to use and it will tell you that.
Speaker 1: Let's see in the facts, how much data does a
Speaker 1: camera use? One hour of live feed and ten ADP
Speaker 1: will use about one gigabyte of data, so that's live
Speaker 1: feed if you're you know, if you're streaming NonStop, this
Speaker 1: will you'll probably want a camera that records clips to
Speaker 1: the cloud when something moves so that that won't use
Speaker 1: as much data. And then finally, the other brand is
Speaker 1: r Low a R l O. People really like the
Speaker 1: R Low cameras. This has Wi Fi or LTE and
Speaker 1: that camera is one hundred and ninety nine two hundred
Speaker 1: bucks basically, and they've got four different versions, a T
Speaker 1: Mobile of Verizon, a US Cellular, and a cell coom
Speaker 1: which I haven't heard of, but you can use that
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: So those are the.
Speaker 1: Brands that I would recommend taking a look at tom
Speaker 1: and see which one works the best, and you know,
Speaker 1: just depends on the features you need the price you
Speaker 1: want to pay. The other thing you can look at
Speaker 1: is a trail camera. Some of those have cellular as well,
Speaker 1: and those are mostly meant for far off places that
Speaker 1: don't have a connection. Those can also record to an
Speaker 1: SD card as well. Great question. Have fun out there
Speaker 1: in the cabin? I wish I had a cabin in
Speaker 1: the desert. Get away from it all right, enjoy. I
Speaker 1: got to take my kids to see that like a
Speaker 1: dark sky area with all the stars in the sky.
Speaker 2: We don't get that in LA eighty eight.
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Speaker 6: Today.
Speaker 1: You're sending a lot of messages today. I will get
Speaker 1: through them at some point. I can't get through to
Speaker 1: all of them today, but we'll get some of those
Speaker 1: comments and questions and things on the show. Let's see
Speaker 1: here familiarity. By the way, my mom is playing DJ
Speaker 1: this weekend for the show, so she has chosen all
Speaker 1: the songs we're playing. And Kim, I think call screen
Speaker 1: er Kim put it best. She said, your mom is
Speaker 1: the epitome of jack FM, just playing what we want right,
Speaker 1: She's just all over the place.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Familiarity. Let's see if we can say this word. So
Speaker 1: people are familiar with AI, but people still have concerns
Speaker 1: about it. This is a study from Parks Associates. Forty
Speaker 1: seven percent of US households say they are familiar with
Speaker 1: at least one AI technology. Forty percent of them are
Speaker 1: actually using them regularly for personal, professional, or educational purposes.
Speaker 1: But sixty nine percent of consumers are concerned with the
Speaker 1: data and privacy implications of AI. And I totally understand
Speaker 1: that because when you type something into AI, when you
Speaker 1: feed it something, you have no idea how the AI
Speaker 1: is using it.
Speaker 2: Are they trained on that?
Speaker 1: Are they going to take your picture that you upload
Speaker 1: and make it into a selfie for someone else who
Speaker 1: knows No one's reading the terms of service. But the
Speaker 1: bottom line, companies and individuals who do not start experimenting
Speaker 1: with AI risk being left behind by those that do.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was really interesting as kind of
Speaker 1: a tease for my interview later in the show with
Speaker 1: work expert Ken Coleman. He talks about the impact that
Speaker 1: AI has on the job market, we'll have on your
Speaker 1: job and what you can do to best prepare yourself
Speaker 1: for this new future where AI is a reality. So
Speaker 1: you won't want to miss that that's coming up later
Speaker 1: in the show, and if you want to get your
Speaker 1: email in for the feedback. I will be reading some
Speaker 1: of those later on in the show as well.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Fabrice in Newport Beach. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 9: Hell Rich, I am on speaker.
Speaker 11: Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: I can hear you? Great?
Speaker 11: Which honey, got to talk to you. I listen to
Speaker 11: your show.
Speaker 13: Once on Saturday. It's great. Here's the thing I love.
Speaker 13: I have actually an HP.
Speaker 11: This HP is a Core five, so it's an older one,
Speaker 11: but I love it. I love my HP because he
Speaker 11: has three function it has. It has about sixteen gigs,
Speaker 11: it has the illimited key board, and it's a touch screen.
Speaker 2: I love it. Okay, glad you love it. Don't don't
Speaker 2: change a good thing.
Speaker 11: Yes, however, it's an old one.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 11: I was told it's a Core five, so I need
Speaker 11: to update it or maybe get.
Speaker 13: Another model.
Speaker 11: I have. Also on my toolbar, I have three browsers.
Speaker 11: I have Google Chrome, I have Firefox which is Mozilla,
Speaker 11: and I have Internet Explorer. Do I need all those
Speaker 11: three browsers and what's the difference between those three?
Speaker 2: Great question.
Speaker 1: Well, for Internet Explorer, you can cross off the list
Speaker 1: because that is no longer supported. That is that's dead,
Speaker 1: So don't do not use Internet Explorer. It is not
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form supported by Microsoft anymore.
Speaker 1: So you're not getting security updates. You're not getting you
Speaker 1: just don't want to use that. So you can easily
Speaker 1: uninstall that or safely uninstall that, and don't worry about
Speaker 1: that one. Now, when it comes to the other two,
Speaker 1: Chrome or Firefox, you know, it really comes down to
Speaker 1: a matter of personal preference. I would say that Firefox
Speaker 1: is going to be more private than Chrome because Chrome
Speaker 1: is owned by Google and I love Chrome. That's what
Speaker 1: I personally use, and I think it's incredible and it's
Speaker 1: gotten a lot better over the years. It turned out
Speaker 1: to be a kind of a resource hog on computers
Speaker 1: for a long time, but I've gotten it to a
Speaker 1: place and I think Google has where it works really well.
Speaker 1: It has the features I need, and personally I really
Speaker 1: enjoy it. So it's really what you want to use.
Speaker 1: So Firefox, you know, if you look at this, let
Speaker 1: me look at their website and see how they're advertising Firefox. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they say the it's the browser that puts your privacy first.
Speaker 1: So because Firefox is open source and because Firefox is
Speaker 1: known kind of as a privacy company, they are going
Speaker 1: to put your privacy first with this browser. So if
Speaker 1: you're concerned about your privacy and you don't want Google
Speaker 1: to know every single thing about you as you're browsing
Speaker 1: the web, then maybe you want to pick Firefox as
Speaker 1: your preferred browser. According to their website, it says it
Speaker 1: automatically blocks two thousand plus online trackers from collecting information
Speaker 1: about what you do online. Now, these browsers talk a
Speaker 1: big game with that. Personally, what I've done on Chrome
Speaker 1: is I have disabled third party cookies, So when I'm
Speaker 1: browsing the web, websites are not exchanging information about me.
Speaker 1: They're not allowed to because I've blocked those third party cookies.
Speaker 1: Sounds like Firefox is probably just doing that out of
Speaker 1: the box by themselves. And there is actually a little
Speaker 1: compare browsers on here on their website, so you can
Speaker 1: compare the different things that Mozilla does versus Google. So
Speaker 1: if they're number one thing we block trackers by default,
Speaker 1: let's see, and basically that's it.
Speaker 2: That's kind of their main thing.
Speaker 1: So I would say that you could probably get ninety
Speaker 1: percent of what Firefox is doing by blocking the third
Speaker 1: party cookies. And you can do that by going into
Speaker 1: your settings and going into more tools or sorry settings,
Speaker 1: and then let's see here, where is it privacy? Oh wow,
Speaker 1: they changed it's all privacy and security. Here we go
Speaker 1: privacy and security. And then it says third party cookies,
Speaker 1: and so you can block third party cookies and that
Speaker 1: should take care of a lot of that kind of
Speaker 1: information that's being exchanged about you across websites. But that
Speaker 1: doesn't keep Google itself from collecting all the data it
Speaker 1: wants about you, which of course that's what they want
Speaker 1: to do because one of the biggest advertising networks in
Speaker 1: the world. So at the end of the day, Fabrice,
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to what you're comfortable with personally.
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with fire I'm sticking with Chrome right now.
Speaker 1: But Firefox is a perfectly reasonable use of a browser
Speaker 1: as well, so hopefully that helps. And you know, with
Speaker 1: that computer, you probably got some life left out of it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it must be kind of old if
Speaker 1: you've got the Internet Explorer still installed on there.
Speaker 2: But great question today. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 1: Question here via email from Let's See, Michelle says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I'm being required to download an app that has GPS
Speaker 1: tracking on my personal device, my iPhone for my job.
Speaker 1: I'm a crossing guard and the company wants me to
Speaker 1: sign in remotely when I get to my post and
Speaker 1: when I leave. I'm very concerned about this on my
Speaker 1: personal device. I'm not tech savvy. Is there any way
Speaker 1: tracking can still occur when the app is off? Also,
Speaker 1: when I look at the developer's description, it said something
Speaker 1: about having access to my data. Of course, I feel
Speaker 1: completely this is out of line requiring this app to
Speaker 1: be on my personal phone. But I live in California.
Speaker 1: I could be fired at any reason at all. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of getting an entirely separate phone to install the
Speaker 1: app on, not affiliated with my current phone. Please give
Speaker 1: me your thoughts advice. I want to keep my job.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and I really enjoy your show on KFI.
Speaker 2: Michelle.
Speaker 1: Michelle, the good news is you're using an iPhone and
Speaker 1: so I think with this app, what I would do
Speaker 1: is if it sounds like something you need to check
Speaker 1: in with.
Speaker 2: It says you have to.
Speaker 1: Sign in remotely when I get to my post and
Speaker 1: when I leave. So there is a setting on so
Speaker 1: number one, when you set up this app, I would
Speaker 1: not give it access to your data, your location, at
Speaker 1: all times. So usually when you first open up an
Speaker 1: app that wants to track your location, it says do
Speaker 1: you want to give your precise or exact location? And
Speaker 1: then it also says do you want to allow this
Speaker 1: all the time or just when the app is open
Speaker 1: or just when you're using the app? So what I
Speaker 1: would say is try saying just while using the app. Now,
Speaker 1: if they want to track your whereabouts twenty four to seven,
Speaker 1: then that's a different story. So there is a way
Speaker 1: around it, though it takes a little bit of work.
Speaker 1: But what you'd have to do is you'd have to
Speaker 1: take away the app's permissions every day. So I don't
Speaker 1: know how many days you're working as a crossing guard,
Speaker 1: but basically you would have to go in. So let's
Speaker 1: say I'm going into an app here. If I go
Speaker 1: into my settings on my iPhone and then I tap
Speaker 1: an app, so for instance, all Trails is an app
Speaker 1: that uses my location, Okay, so if I tap in there,
Speaker 1: it says location. If I tap one more time, it
Speaker 1: says allow location access. Never ask next time or when
Speaker 1: I share while using the app or always. So what
Speaker 1: I would do is set this to while using the app,
Speaker 1: and that will enable you to open up that app,
Speaker 1: they will see that you are indeed in the location
Speaker 1: that you should be at. With the GPS, it will
Speaker 1: ping the towers and send your location. And then when
Speaker 1: you close out that app, it will no longer get
Speaker 1: your location. And then when you open it up again,
Speaker 1: it will have access to your location for you to
Speaker 1: check out of your job and to move on with life. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to be super super secure and safe,
Speaker 1: you can once you log out of your job and
Speaker 1: you're done working for the day, you can go back
Speaker 1: into settings and then the app and then tap never
Speaker 1: or I would say ask next time or when I share,
Speaker 1: and then the next time you open the app, it'll say, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to share your location? But it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a it's kind of a process, especially
Speaker 1: if you're doing that five days a week. I would
Speaker 1: ask the company and say, hey, are you tracking my
Speaker 1: location at all times with this app? Or is it
Speaker 1: just getting my location when I check into my job
Speaker 1: and when I check out of my job? Those are
Speaker 1: two very different things. And so I think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, if if the company wants to
Speaker 1: track you twenty four to seven, they should probably supply
Speaker 1: the phone that they are tracking you on, so that
Speaker 1: you have the ability to decide when you want to
Speaker 1: be tracked and when you don't want to be tracked.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is pretty common nowadays with company issued equipment.
Speaker 1: If you have a company issued computer, if you have
Speaker 1: a company issued phone, company issued car, your company is
Speaker 1: tracking you. They are seeing what you're doing, they are
Speaker 1: seeing where you're going, and they are totally within their
Speaker 1: rights to do that because it is their equipment. And
Speaker 1: you probably when you signed on saw a little piece
Speaker 1: of text that said, hey, by the way, our company,
Speaker 1: we can do whatever we want monitoring this system. You
Speaker 1: probably didn't read it, you probably didn't even see it,
Speaker 1: but it's somewhere there. Because these big companies, guess what,
Speaker 1: they employ big lawyers and so they know what they're doing,
Speaker 1: and they're covering their butts and you need to cover
Speaker 1: yours as well. Eight to eight rich one oh one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Coming up, I'll tell you about the next state to
Speaker 1: adopt a digital license.
Speaker 2: You can now add to your iPhone.
Speaker 1: And Google's AI photo editing tools are available to everyone.
Speaker 1: I'll explain right here on rich on Tech Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology the
Speaker 1: website rich On Tech Dot TV special thanks to my
Speaker 1: mom this week.
Speaker 2: Who's in town. She is the guest.
Speaker 1: DJ Greg says Canton, Ohio says, your mom needs to
Speaker 1: produce the intro music segments every week. Man, everyone's making
Speaker 1: me and Bobo feel bad here because you know, usually
Speaker 1: I pick the music Bobo, but clearly my mom has uh,
Speaker 1: she's got a knack for this, So thanks mom. Ohio
Speaker 1: driver's licenses and IDs can now be added to Apple Wallet,
Speaker 1: so you can if you live in Ohio, you can
Speaker 1: add your driver's license or state ID to Apple Wallet
Speaker 1: for use quote select businesses apps and TSA apps and
Speaker 1: TSA security checkpoints, so basically businesses. This is what's really
Speaker 1: cool about And I'm I know it sounds scary to
Speaker 1: not carry your ID, but I'm I can't wait for
Speaker 1: this to happen widely because it's one less thing I'll
Speaker 1: have to.
Speaker 2: Carry and it's actually more secure.
Speaker 1: So they put out this free age verification app for
Speaker 1: Ohio businesses. It's called Ohio Mobile ID check. So what's
Speaker 1: neat about this is that right now, when you give
Speaker 1: your ID to a clerk right at target or whatever,
Speaker 1: when you're buying alcohol or something, they type in your
Speaker 1: data birth right, and they see it, and they see
Speaker 1: all your information where you live.
Speaker 2: They can look at your entire ID.
Speaker 1: When you're using a digital driver's license, what you do
Speaker 1: is you tap, and so what happens is only the
Speaker 1: information that's need to verify you is exchanged, and in
Speaker 1: many cases no one sees the actual information. So just
Speaker 1: to very much simplify it, let's say that you are
Speaker 1: buying booze right and it needs to say if you're
Speaker 1: twenty one or not. You would tap your phone on
Speaker 1: a special reader. The reader would verify that you're twenty
Speaker 1: one because of your ID stored on your phone, and
Speaker 1: it would say green or red, you know, depending on
Speaker 1: whether you're twenty one or not. And maybe your picture
Speaker 1: would come up so they can verify that it is
Speaker 1: you on that ID. But again, the clerk or whoever's
Speaker 1: looking at this wouldn't see all of your personal information.
Speaker 1: So what I like about this whole digital ID kind
Speaker 1: of future is that it will be much more secure,
Speaker 1: So kind of cool. We're seeing a lot of this
Speaker 1: kind of happening, but it's not widespread just yet, only
Speaker 1: five states do this. Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, and Georgia are
Speaker 1: the five states that actually take these digital driver's licenses
Speaker 1: or allow you to add them to your Apple Wallet.
Speaker 1: Some cases it's Google Wallet as well. In California we
Speaker 1: have which is kind of ironic, the you know, the
Speaker 1: tech capital of the world. Basically we still don't have this,
Speaker 1: but we do have a digital California has like a
Speaker 1: weird DM like they basically made their own app that
Speaker 1: I tried, I downloaded, I got my license digital, but
Speaker 1: it's like it's only accepted in a few places and
Speaker 1: it's not part of Apple Wallet or Samsung or Google.
Speaker 1: So I think the idea here is that this should
Speaker 1: be universal and all phones should have that. Google Photos
Speaker 1: AI photo editing tools are coming to all phones already
Speaker 1: popped up on my iPhone with all of these different features.
Speaker 1: So you get Magic Eraser, Magic Editor, Photo Unblur, portrait light.
Speaker 1: They are all available to all users without a subscription
Speaker 1: and if you have an old photo. I just did
Speaker 1: this yesterday to test it out. The photo unblur feature
Speaker 1: is just magical. So I had an old picture of
Speaker 1: my kid. He was completely blurry. I put it into
Speaker 1: photo unblur and you could not believe it. They really
Speaker 1: just use AI to make it look clear. So again
Speaker 1: this is for Android and iOS devices. So if you
Speaker 1: want to try out Google Photos AI features, all you
Speaker 1: have to do is download Google Photos to your device.
Speaker 1: And of course, again this is all to get you
Speaker 1: to use Google Photos, right, I mean, that's the whole
Speaker 1: point here is to get you to use that. So
Speaker 1: I do want to get to Jerry. I've got just
Speaker 1: two minutes, So Jerry, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 9: All right, thank you. So my question is my grandson
Speaker 9: uses a continuous glucose monitor and he's sends that signal
Speaker 9: to his iPhone and so his parents could monitor his
Speaker 9: blood sugar. The phone he uses is it looks to
Speaker 9: me be pretty big. It is an iPhone. I don't
Speaker 9: know what the model it is, and since he's ten
Speaker 9: years old, he does a lot of sports and he
Speaker 9: has to keep that phone basically very close.
Speaker 1: So you're looking for something that's that's similar but not
Speaker 1: the phone.
Speaker 9: Yeah, either either another phone with a smaller format or
Speaker 9: some of their device.
Speaker 2: Well here's the deal.
Speaker 1: So this is sort of this is sort of an
Speaker 1: area where things are progressing quickly, but right now it
Speaker 1: is still a little bit old school, but the phone
Speaker 1: is still probably the best way. They just approved the
Speaker 1: dex Com G seven to connect directly to the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which monitor your grandson is using, but
Speaker 1: it would require that Dexcom G seven. But it's the
Speaker 1: first time you're able to pair that directly with a wearable,
Speaker 1: so I do think that that probably would be a
Speaker 1: better way to go if he's using the dex Com
Speaker 1: G seven. Otherwise, the only thing I could recommend is
Speaker 1: with the phone, maybe a smaller iPhone if he does
Speaker 1: have to have that nearby at all times, maybe look
Speaker 1: for an iPhone Mini from a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: that is much much smaller. Apple doesn't make him anymore,
Speaker 1: but you can find him on the third party marketplace,
Speaker 1: so that would be our recommendation, either the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: or the Mini.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Jerry.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. The website for the show
Speaker 1: richon Tech dot TV. We're gonna do the feedback segment
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Speaker 1: Joining me now is Ken Coleman, bestselling author, speaker, and
Speaker 1: host of The Ken Coleman Show. Ken likes to help
Speaker 1: people discover their true calling and turn their dream jobs
Speaker 1: into reality. We talked about the impact of AI on
Speaker 1: the job market and the changing landscape of work. Ken
Speaker 1: shares his expert advice on navigating these new challenges and
Speaker 1: embracing new opportunities thanks to AI. First, I wanted to
Speaker 1: know where we stand with the job market.
Speaker 3: Where does it stand? The great resignation is over.
Speaker 14: Companies aren't hiring us quickly and as a result, people
Speaker 14: are staying put. I think we're in this general let's
Speaker 14: wait and see, and we have a very very topsy
Speaker 14: turvy election season that we're going through as well. So
Speaker 14: I think weight hold is the response of companies, and
Speaker 14: I think employees are a little bit reticent to jump
Speaker 14: out and go to something new or look for something new.
Speaker 3: What's been the impact of AI?
Speaker 1: Have we seen an impact on jobs immediately or is
Speaker 1: it still happening?
Speaker 3: Not yet.
Speaker 14: What we're seeing is the impact of the coming storm,
Speaker 14: and people are paying attention to it. It is a
Speaker 14: scary proposition for a lot of people. The headlines are
Speaker 14: saying things like AI is going to eliminate your job.
Speaker 14: And so what we're seeing is AI being adopted in
Speaker 14: the workplace.
Speaker 3: Chat GPT comes on the.
Speaker 14: Scene, Lawyers are using it, of course, writers, content people,
Speaker 14: and so we're beginning to see the adoption of it.
Speaker 14: But are we seeing wholescale changes Not yet, but those
Speaker 14: are coming.
Speaker 3: And to that in I think you're going to see.
Speaker 2: A lot of.
Speaker 14: Let's just call it, administrative working that can be handled
Speaker 14: through a checklist at AI handles. I think those jobs
Speaker 14: are in trouble. But what we need to understand is
Speaker 14: that AI is just another man made technology, just like
Speaker 14: the Internet, cell phones that I can go on and
Speaker 14: on and on that have spun off jobs. So I
Speaker 14: don't see it as this big scary job eater. I
Speaker 14: think it's going to be a job creator.
Speaker 3: Before we get to the jobs it's going to create.
Speaker 1: Tell me about those jobs you think are going to
Speaker 1: be most impacted by AI.
Speaker 14: People that are in content heavy jobs, again, a lot
Speaker 14: of administrative paperwork. I think those jobs will be impacted
Speaker 14: for the better, in other words, more customer focused work.
Speaker 3: But again, as I just.
Speaker 14: Said, I think you're going to see a lot of
Speaker 14: administrative receptionist, secretarial type jobs, support jobs that are more administrative.
Speaker 14: Those jobs could be really affected. And then I think
Speaker 14: on the front line of the service industry, I think
Speaker 14: you're going to see in New York. For instance, I've
Speaker 14: seen a McDonald's in New York just recently, or I
Speaker 14: walk by it and we're talking just a couple of
Speaker 14: blocks from Times Square, and I didn't see one human
Speaker 14: in there other than a customer. Now, someone was cooking
Speaker 14: in the back, but everything else that front of house,
Speaker 14: point of service was all AI.
Speaker 3: And so those jobs.
Speaker 14: Will be impacted as well, because that's where we're seeing
Speaker 14: the biggest crunch with the minimum wage. We haven't had
Speaker 14: a legal change, a national change, but there's been this pressure.
Speaker 14: As you remember during the pandemic, I target Walmart to
Speaker 14: raise wages.
Speaker 3: Well, guess what happens.
Speaker 14: You want to lower the cost of a burger king combo, Well,
Speaker 14: what do you have to do? You have to lower
Speaker 14: your cost to make the combo. So I think you're
Speaker 14: going to see small businesses and restaurants move to AI
Speaker 14: to help with that human cost.
Speaker 3: On the point of service.
Speaker 2: You're always going to need humans to do certain things?
Speaker 3: What do you think humans are still good for?
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, I love that you asked this question, because
Speaker 14: I think AI is going to put a premium on
Speaker 14: the face to face, the voice to voice, the eyeball
Speaker 14: to eyeball. I think it's going to usher in I
Speaker 14: believe a new level of service, and I think it's
Speaker 14: going to accentuate our humanness because once machines and machine
Speaker 14: interaction becomes commonplace, we will appreciate the convenience of it,
Speaker 14: but we will absolutely crave.
Speaker 3: The human element. And so I think it's going to
Speaker 3: take customer service to the next level.
Speaker 14: I think the companies and the workers who figure out
Speaker 14: how to be adept and use AI to make your
Speaker 14: job more proficient, to make your results results more excellent,
Speaker 14: I think they're.
Speaker 3: Going to win.
Speaker 14: But I think companies that say, all right, we're going
Speaker 14: to use machines to be better at service, but it's
Speaker 14: going to allow us to be more personal. I think
Speaker 14: you're going to see those kinds of reactions in the marketplace.
Speaker 3: Everybody says we can.
Speaker 14: Do more of that, my pleasure, unbelievable customer service because
Speaker 14: you can be more human in the interaction and let
Speaker 14: machines do a lot of the execution.
Speaker 1: What does the average person need to know about AI
Speaker 1: and learning those skills to themselves.
Speaker 14: A great question. First of all, what's available for you
Speaker 14: and your role? So let's take you and I. We're
Speaker 14: in the media space, so we need to immediately go, Okay,
Speaker 14: how can I use AI in my role to be
Speaker 14: excellent and be efficient? So you start looking at all
Speaker 14: the different AI tools and they're sprouting up all over
Speaker 14: the place. So see what's available and what's applicable to
Speaker 14: your actual roles. So you know, if you again you're
Speaker 14: a lawyer, you know what can be done here on
Speaker 14: the stuff I have to do that's paperwork focused, and
Speaker 14: can I enhance through AI my ability to get that
Speaker 14: done so I can be more carrying, more present with
Speaker 14: my clients and take my human service up the next level.
Speaker 14: So whatever the industry you're in, you need to be
Speaker 14: researching and by the way, the answers are out there.
Speaker 3: Here's how you can use.
Speaker 14: AI in your role and get skilled, get skilled and
Speaker 14: get experienced. Because I don't think AI is going to
Speaker 14: replace your job. I think someone who uses AI better
Speaker 14: than you will replace you. I think that's our challenge.
Speaker 14: You go, Okay, am I skilled? Am I experienced? And
Speaker 14: it's just like any other technology.
Speaker 1: Imagine right now, not knowing how to use a computer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: same thing or typing.
Speaker 3: I mean back in the day it was typing. Now
Speaker 3: nobody learns how to type. But still yeah, but there
Speaker 3: are skills that you it.
Speaker 1: Basically back in the day, you'd put your skills on
Speaker 1: your resume, right, whether you're good at word, whether you're
Speaker 1: good at spreadsheets. And now it's the same thing with aiact.
Speaker 3: I love the spreadsheet example. You know, can you use Excel?
Speaker 3: And what's excel?
Speaker 1: And we all had to learn how to use it?
Speaker 1: And I think that wasn't that Excel replaced your job?
Speaker 1: They replace you with someone that knows how to use Excel.
Speaker 14: That's what I think has to be the warning flag
Speaker 14: about AI. Don't be so scared of it that you
Speaker 14: stick your head in the sand, because if that happens,
Speaker 14: you will get passed up and you will get replaced.
Speaker 1: How do you make sure you're not breaking any rules
Speaker 1: that your employer may have when it comes to using AI?
Speaker 14: And I think again, you're just gonna have to look
Speaker 14: at what your company policies are, what do you feel
Speaker 14: is right in here? But interesting that you asked this question.
Speaker 14: There is a job that is about to become I
Speaker 14: think commonplace. Now this is a prediction, sure, but I
Speaker 14: think you're gonna see AI ethicists something like that. That
Speaker 14: may not be the title, but there will be people
Speaker 14: who humans like you and I whose job will be
Speaker 14: to make sure that AI isn't being used the wrong way,
Speaker 14: or that AI itself doesn't do something that's wrong.
Speaker 3: That's a whole new and I think you're gonna see
Speaker 3: that everywhere, you know, AI watchdogs.
Speaker 1: What are some of the side effects of AI beyond
Speaker 1: the standard jobs.
Speaker 14: I think AI is going to change the workplace. I
Speaker 14: see less and less forty hour weeks. I think we're
Speaker 14: gonna see a explosion of what is already happening right now,
Speaker 14: which is the freelance economy, you know, and and so
Speaker 14: I think you're gonna see.
Speaker 3: More and more of that.
Speaker 14: And I think specialization will happen because it's gonna make
Speaker 14: it so much easier. So I think keep your eye
Speaker 14: out for that, an explosion of entrepreneurship, especially because you
Speaker 14: got gen z. I'm raising three of them, and the
Speaker 14: younger willennials they're very tech savvy, and I think they're
Speaker 14: very entrepreneurial hungry is how I would label them, So
Speaker 14: watch out for that. I think we can see an explosion.
Speaker 3: Because of AI.
Speaker 1: That's Ken Coleman, author, work expert, and host of The
Speaker 1: Ken Coleman Show. I think the bottom line is that
Speaker 1: AI will forever change the way we work, just like
Speaker 1: the Internet itself did. But the key takeaway embrace AI
Speaker 1: as a tool to enhance your skills. Focus on what
Speaker 1: makes you uniquely human, and continue to develop your skills.
Speaker 1: Like Ken said, it's probably not AI that's going to
Speaker 1: replace you, but someone who knows.
Speaker 2: How to use AI better than you.
Speaker 1: I'll put a link to Ken on my website at
Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot tv. Mor rich on Tech, come
Speaker 1: your way with the feedback right after this. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology the website for the show richon Tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get through a few items here before
Speaker 1: we get to the feed bag. This AI powered necklace
Speaker 1: called Friend got quite the buzz this week. It's a
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars pendant necklace that you wear all day long.
Speaker 1: It listens to everything that's happening around you, and it
Speaker 1: texts you when it wants to say something to you,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of always listening and it's AI powered
Speaker 1: and the person who created it, a nineteen year old.
Speaker 1: Our twenty one year old said it's because he was
Speaker 1: lonely and he doesn't want people to be lonely. Ninety
Speaker 1: nine bucks and you got to watch the video on this.
Speaker 1: If you go to the website Friend Believe it's friend
Speaker 1: dot com and it looks like something out of Black Mirror.
Speaker 3: It's not a joke.
Speaker 2: It's real.
Speaker 1: This idea of AI companionship will happen. But it's like
Speaker 1: if you're playing a video game or watching a movie,
Speaker 1: this thing is listening or having a conversation with your
Speaker 1: friend and it will literally text you and be like
Speaker 1: that was awkward or whatever. It's pretty wild and you
Speaker 1: can talk to it by pressing a button on it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Black Mirror is coming true.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: Two other devices that were AI companion kind of powered things,
Speaker 1: the Humane and the Rabbit they have they flopped, So
Speaker 1: we'll see if this does any better. It's a lot
Speaker 1: cheaper for ninety nine bucks. I mean, I'll try it out.
Speaker 1: T Mobile is launching a Friday Night five G Lights competition.
Speaker 1: This is for small towns to win a two million
Speaker 1: dollars high school football field tech makeover. Open to high
Speaker 1: schools in towns with populations of one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand or less. Grand prize includes a one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars cash grant, a new scoreboard, five G network upgrades,
Speaker 1: a tailgate party, halftime drone show, and a new workout room.
Speaker 1: So the entries open on August first, they close on
Speaker 1: September twentieth. The website is Let's see what it is
Speaker 1: Friday Night FIVEG lights dot Com. Friday Night FIVEG Lights
Speaker 1: dot Com. Obviously T Mobile trying to promote the fact
Speaker 1: that they are upgrading their five G network in rural areas.
Speaker 2: So check it out. I'll put a link on the website.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the feedback, the the emails,
Speaker 1: the comments, and the questions. Just send me all day long,
Speaker 1: every day at Richontech dot tv hit contact. David was
Speaker 1: listening to the show and said, very interesting listening to
Speaker 1: Peter today. In August last year, I was home watching TV,
Speaker 1: not doing anything stressful. I got an alert on my
Speaker 1: Apple Watch saying my heart rate was unusually high one
Speaker 1: eighty eight. I had no physical symptoms. I went to
Speaker 1: the er. They confirmed the watches reading. A cardiologist treated me.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for the alert, I would have carried
Speaker 1: on watching TV, and according to the cardiologist, I probably
Speaker 1: would have had a stroke at some point. I'm a
Speaker 1: watch guy, but now I keep my classic time pieces
Speaker 1: in a box and I wear my Apple Watch all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's quite the story. Thanks for sharing it, David.
Speaker 1: Let's see Joe says, Hey, Rich, I was wondering how
Speaker 1: long I should keep my empty electronic boxes because I
Speaker 1: just bought a ring outdoor camera and now I have
Speaker 1: an empty box.
Speaker 2: Should I keep it? And for how long? No real
Speaker 2: need to keep it.
Speaker 1: The only three reasons I keep something is if I'm
Speaker 1: going to return it. So if you think you're going
Speaker 1: to return this, I would keep it for at least
Speaker 1: the return window. If you're going to resell it, like
Speaker 1: if you're ever going to put this thing on eBay
Speaker 1: or something like that, you want to keep the original box,
Speaker 1: you can do that. Or if you're going to ship
Speaker 1: it to someone later, So maybe, for instance, with my computers,
Speaker 1: if I give an old computer to a family member.
Speaker 1: When I get a new one, I will ship them
Speaker 1: that old computer. And I like to have the original box,
Speaker 1: but otherwise you can safely recycle those boxes. Good question,
Speaker 1: Anita writes in says, wow, kind of disappointing. How you
Speaker 1: didn't respond to my question. Anita, you know how many
Speaker 1: emails I get on a daily basis. If you had
Speaker 1: any idea you would you could not believe it. And yes,
Speaker 1: I do my best to respond to a lot, even
Speaker 1: off air. I try to respond to a lot here,
Speaker 1: but believe me, there's no way I can get to
Speaker 1: everyone's email that emails me. I do my best and
Speaker 1: I will try. But yeah, thanks for that. Mary says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a portable battery pack that can accommodate USB,
Speaker 1: a plug, air compressor, jumper case. My German shepherd and
Speaker 1: I will be traveling in my van from California.
Speaker 2: I live in a van down by the river.
Speaker 4: Do you know that.
Speaker 1: Reference old Chris Farley reference from California, Ohio. I'll be
Speaker 1: living in the van during our trip. I want to
Speaker 1: plug in a regular house fan at night. Oh, you
Speaker 1: just want this thing to do everything. Mary, the battery
Speaker 1: pack should be able to keep it charge for two days.
Speaker 1: Any suggestions, thanks in advance. Yes, check out Jackery jack
Speaker 1: e r Y. What you want is called a portable
Speaker 1: power station. Every company in the world makes these. Jackery
Speaker 1: was one of the earliest. They're some of the best.
Speaker 1: They also make them with solar panels as well. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Jackery jack E r Y. There are many many brands,
Speaker 1: including Anchor and many others eco Flow that make these,
Speaker 1: But I like the Jackery. I just met with them
Speaker 1: recently and they've got some good stuff and at cheaper
Speaker 1: prices too. John from Appleton, I'm guessing that's Wisconsin Rights in.
Speaker 1: I volunteer at our local useum. We're considering replacing our
Speaker 1: five dollars entry fee with a free will donation system. However,
Speaker 1: we're noticing young visitors don't often carry cash. Is there
Speaker 1: a quick secure method for accepting digital payments? Maybe a
Speaker 1: QR code? Any security concerns? Can you recommend any companies?
Speaker 1: Should we work with a local bank, we'd like to
Speaker 1: minimize our fees, I would recommend a PayPal or a
Speaker 1: Venmo QR code or both. So I believe with the
Speaker 1: PayPal QR code you could set that up where you
Speaker 1: can just say, hey, scan this code and it will
Speaker 1: take you to a PayPal web website on their phone
Speaker 1: and they can just do the donation there. You can
Speaker 1: set the suggested as five bucks Venmo. I believe you
Speaker 1: would need to have the Venmo app for that to work.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure they have like a website where you
Speaker 1: can do that through, but I would check out those two.
Speaker 1: I think that's the easiest way to do it. Square
Speaker 1: might also have it. You might also check out Square
Speaker 1: and see if they have it. I know you can
Speaker 1: also you Square to tap phones to accept so that
Speaker 1: might actually you know what that might actually hold on
Speaker 1: tap to pay, tap phone to accept payment. I think Square,
Speaker 1: ooh if you do that. Yeah, you might just do
Speaker 1: that where you have they can actually you just have
Speaker 1: an iPhone set up there they can tap their phone
Speaker 1: for mobile payment. But I think the QR code might
Speaker 1: be easier. It's kind of going to depend because not
Speaker 1: everyone is set up for mobile payments. Not everyone's comfortable
Speaker 1: doing that, but I think people who aren't, you know,
Speaker 1: if they're a young person whatever, they probably have Venmo
Speaker 1: on their phone.
Speaker 2: A lot of people do these days.
Speaker 1: But I would look for a solution that does not
Speaker 1: require any sort of like sign up for the person.
Speaker 1: They can just literally scan the code, use their Apple
Speaker 1: pay or Google pay to make the payment, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll be golden there. Harry from Eden, North Carolina writes
Speaker 1: in I've encountered a troubling scam on Facebook. I've reported
Speaker 1: to the FCC. Scammers posing as agents are offering fake
Speaker 1: federal grants of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The
Speaker 1: catch you have to buy six hundred dollars worth of
Speaker 1: gift cards and give them the code numbers to claim
Speaker 1: your winnings. They're friending people out of the blue and
Speaker 1: sending links to initiate the scam. I provided as much
Speaker 1: as I could to the authorities, but I'm wondering who
Speaker 1: can really put a stop to this. Seems like they
Speaker 1: might be hacking Facebook. How can we protect ourselves and
Speaker 1: others from these increasingly sophisticated social media scams? Harry, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for being a good guy out there
Speaker 1: on the internet, but it is impossible so many scams.
Speaker 1: The best way to protect people is to tell your friends,
Speaker 1: especially your less tech savvy friends. That is the main thing.
Speaker 1: Because we understand it there's a lot of people out
Speaker 1: there who do not so share the spread the word.
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