Speaker 1: Is bing back Baby. Not to be outdone, Google says
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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the show
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Speaker 1: first for the rich On Tech Show. I am coming
Speaker 1: to you live from New Jersey. No, I'm not here
Speaker 1: for the super Bowl, although I may watch it while
Speaker 1: I'm here. Super Bowl's not happening here. I mean it
Speaker 1: is on TVs, I guess. No. I'm here because my
Speaker 1: brother is having a housewarming party. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: miss it for the world, and so I said, you
Speaker 1: know what, I might as well dive off the edge
Speaker 1: and just try this whole remote show thing. And so
Speaker 1: I am sitting here looking at the hills of New Jersey,
Speaker 1: the Garden State. Did you know that New Jersey gets
Speaker 1: such a bad rap? But it is such a beautiful place.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at a beautiful hill. It was cold
Speaker 1: out this morning. Went for a nice walk here seeing
Speaker 1: my family while I'm here as well. So if the
Speaker 1: show it sounds a little different, if there's a little
Speaker 1: hiccup here there, you know what, it's all learning experience.
Speaker 1: I lugged a lot of stuff here to make this
Speaker 1: show possible through the airport, so it should be a
Speaker 1: lot of fun to do this. And also I'm quite
Speaker 1: impressed just how fun it is to be able to
Speaker 1: do a show anywhere, well, I guess in the world.
Speaker 1: But let's not get let's not get too ahead of
Speaker 1: ourselves right now, anywhere in the US. Let's say so,
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. This was a huge week for
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence. And this is what I love about hanging
Speaker 1: out with people like my family, my friends, who are
Speaker 1: not necessarily techies. It's because I live in a world
Speaker 1: where I just assume the knowledge base.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I've been hearing about chat GPT now for weeks, I've
Speaker 1: been playing with it, I've been talking about it. And
Speaker 1: then you sit down to dinner with a bunch of
Speaker 1: what I call regular folks, and I break out the
Speaker 1: chat GPT talk and next thing you know, the record stops.
Speaker 1: It skips everyone at the tables like, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Rich? And I said, wait, what you don't
Speaker 1: know about chat GPT. If this is single handedly turn
Speaker 1: the tech world upside down in the span of a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, it is bringing Google to a screeching
Speaker 1: halt as well. It's making Microsoft maybe have a chance
Speaker 1: to be on top once again with their being search engine.
Speaker 1: It is changing everything from love to Snapple I'll explain
Speaker 1: the moment. So chat GPT launched a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: It's from a company called open Ai. And imagine, instead
Speaker 1: of a search engine, you're feeding all of the world's
Speaker 1: information into this AI chatbot that can respond to you
Speaker 1: in a very human like manner. That's what's happening with
Speaker 1: chat GPT. Now, keep in mind, chat gpd is not perfect.
Speaker 1: It's not up to date. The last time it was
Speaker 1: updated was twenty twenty one. With its knowledge, I mean,
Speaker 1: the technology is up to date, but the information that
Speaker 1: it's fed is only through twenty twenty one because it's
Speaker 1: a research tool. But it's been enough to really make
Speaker 1: these big companies think about their future, especially Google. So
Speaker 1: this week both Google and micros said, you know what
Speaker 1: we've got AI. We're gonna show it off to the world.
Speaker 1: Google showed off this thing called Bard, which is its
Speaker 1: AI search engine, and they didn't really show too much
Speaker 1: of it. They just said, you know, it kind of
Speaker 1: has a lot of the same features as chat GPT,
Speaker 1: except it's fresher. We've got all the Google information built
Speaker 1: into this search engine. And then Bing actually invited journalists
Speaker 1: up to their headquarters near Seattle, and they said, we're
Speaker 1: gonna show you this, and we're going to show you
Speaker 1: what we have, and by the way, we're gonna unveil
Speaker 1: this to the world and let actual people use this
Speaker 1: like very soon, like now. And so they showed off
Speaker 1: the new bing which has chat GPT built in, but
Speaker 1: a newer, fresher version of chat GPT built in. I know,
Speaker 1: if this all sounds wild, it really is. But if
Speaker 1: you use one of these search engines, it's just incredible
Speaker 1: what it does. It talks to you like a human
Speaker 1: would It talks to you like your friend might. You
Speaker 1: can ask it almost anything. You can ask it to
Speaker 1: write you an email to your employer saying I'd like
Speaker 1: it job, or I'd like to quit my job, or
Speaker 1: I'd like a raise, or you can ask it to
Speaker 1: write a sales proposal, or you can tell it, hey,
Speaker 1: give me ten of the best things to do when
Speaker 1: I'm in Italy for a week. It's not just Microsoft
Speaker 1: and Google. A search engine named Neiva. They've already got
Speaker 1: an AI search result Chinese search engine bay Do. They
Speaker 1: are testing their ernie bot Chinese commerce giant Ali Baba.
Speaker 1: They're testing AI for shopping, which leads me to think, hey,
Speaker 1: where's Amazon in all of this? Imagine, instead of just
Speaker 1: searching Amazon for a particular product, you tell the Amazon
Speaker 1: AI search bot exactly what you need. You're looking for
Speaker 1: a couch that measures this exact dimension you want it,
Speaker 1: in this exact color, in this exact fabric, And instead
Speaker 1: of shuffling through all kinds of links and products and
Speaker 1: seeing what they have to offer, it will give you
Speaker 1: the exact couch that meets your specific criteria. This is
Speaker 1: where the future is headed. It is quite incredible. Now
Speaker 1: I mentioned that even Snapple has AI. Snapple has this
Speaker 1: thing called the fact Generator FAI ct generator. Remember if
Speaker 1: you I mean, it's funny that I'm in New Jersey
Speaker 1: talking about Snapple because growing up that was a very
Speaker 1: big part of my childhood. But Snapple is nationwide, of course,
Speaker 1: and under the cap they've got those little Snapple facts.
Speaker 1: In fact, according to Snaple Information, there have been one thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy seven Snapple Real facts under the lid.
Speaker 1: So now you can type in anything you want in
Speaker 1: this Snapple fact generator. It says, write a wild fact.
Speaker 1: Let's say a wild fact about blueberries, about blueberries, and
Speaker 1: I type this in and within seconds it's doing its
Speaker 1: little machine learning. It's AI, and it says snaple fact
Speaker 1: number thirteen and thirty four wild blueberries have twice the
Speaker 1: antioxidants of cultivated ones, So that's Snapple using AI. Then
Speaker 1: there's a website called Flame AI. So you've got this
Speaker 1: app called flame Flamme. They've got an AI for relationships.
Speaker 1: So they've taken chat GPT and they've narrowed it down
Speaker 1: to just love and relationship questions. So you can go
Speaker 1: to this website and you can type in a question
Speaker 1: about love. If you have a question about your partner
Speaker 1: or a question about someone that you're into, and you
Speaker 1: want to ask this AI for advice, you can do that,
Speaker 1: or you can just say something like best date ideas
Speaker 1: involving heights in New York City. Now, if you were
Speaker 1: to type that into a typical search engine, you'd get
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of results, right. You'd get links from blogs,
Speaker 1: you get links from YouTube, you get links from just
Speaker 1: random tweets about people saying what they like to do
Speaker 1: in New York City on a date. But what this
Speaker 1: does is it has all of the Internet's information and
Speaker 1: it's thinking about all the different blogs and tweets and
Speaker 1: different sources that mention kind of the same things. And
Speaker 1: then here's what it comes up with. Answer number one,
Speaker 1: take a trip to the Empire State Building Observatory. Number
Speaker 1: two head over to the Brooklyn Bridge for romanic stroll
Speaker 1: and breathtaking views of the Manhattan skyline. Number three check
Speaker 1: out the Highline. Number four, if you're brave, try a
Speaker 1: couple skydiving experience over New York City. Not doing that,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Number five, have dinner at a restaurant
Speaker 1: with outdoor seating with a skyline view. Number six. Visit
Speaker 1: Top of the Rock Observation Center for a three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty degree view of Manhattan. Number seven take a
Speaker 1: tour of one of New York City's rooftop bars for
Speaker 1: memorable for a memorable night of drinks and food. This
Speaker 1: is absolutely incredible. So everything is turning to this new
Speaker 1: AI and everyone is leaning on AI to change the world. Now,
Speaker 1: this has a lot of implications for not only the
Speaker 1: way we search, the way that we get information, the
Speaker 1: way that term papers are written. If you're coming up
Speaker 1: with a game show, you can ask AI to write
Speaker 1: your game show questions for you. Stuff that takes the
Speaker 1: jeopardy folks months of research to do. Now you have
Speaker 1: to be careful, though, because the one big downside of AIS,
Speaker 1: it's not always right. This is not perfect, this is
Speaker 1: not an exact science. AI gets it wrong. I just
Speaker 1: looked up some information about the Super Bowl, and boy
Speaker 1: did have some outdated information and some information that was
Speaker 1: just flat out wrong. So if kids are thinking about
Speaker 1: using this to write their term papers, which many are, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can use it for a rough draft or maybe
Speaker 1: some research or talking points, but you better fact checked
Speaker 1: almost everything that AI comes up with. Look the bottom
Speaker 1: line here, search content and the ad business around search
Speaker 1: is going to be forever changed by this technology, and
Speaker 1: that has a really big implication for Google. Google, you're wondering,
Speaker 1: why didn't you have search AI out of the gate,
Speaker 1: Why weren't you first? Well, because this turns their entire
Speaker 1: advertising business upside down. When you do a Google search,
Speaker 1: what do you see at the top? You see links,
Speaker 1: advertising links that pay Google. Google hopes you tap those
Speaker 1: links because guess what, it makes them money, and that's
Speaker 1: their entire business. They made billions in the last quarter
Speaker 1: that way. Now, if you're just tapping something or typing
Speaker 1: something into a search engine. You get the exact answer
Speaker 1: you need without clicking a whole bunch of links, some
Speaker 1: of those links paying Google. Now, what how does Google
Speaker 1: make money? It's a really big question. I think they
Speaker 1: are really struggling to answer right now. AI is gonna
Speaker 1: have a big impact on everything every industry. You can
Speaker 1: think about restaurants, clothing, cars, and more. It is going
Speaker 1: to be a wild ride. I hope you check out
Speaker 1: some of these AI search engines because it is just
Speaker 1: quite incredible. And bringing it back to the dinner table
Speaker 1: last night, I'm not kidding. Everyone started going on chat
Speaker 1: GBT looking up answers and things, and their minds were
Speaker 1: just opened up. They just said, Wow, this is incredible
Speaker 1: and it's just gonna have so many implications for the
Speaker 1: way I do my job, and also my kids and
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. All right, Coming up on today's show,
Speaker 1: we've got some great guests this week. I've got Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern. He's going to join me
Speaker 1: to talk about Microsoft's big AI event this week. She's
Speaker 1: been playing with the new bings. She's one of the
Speaker 1: lucky ones. We are going to get her take on
Speaker 1: what it can do. I've got one Carlos Bagnell. He
Speaker 1: is some gadget guy on YouTube. He's going to chat
Speaker 1: about the new one plus products. They've got a new phone,
Speaker 1: new earbuds which I really like, and their first tablet.
Speaker 1: And later in the show, did you have a baseball
Speaker 1: card collection back in the day. I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: to the founder of an app that lets you scan
Speaker 1: your card collection, whether it's baseball, basketball, Pokemon or more
Speaker 1: to see what it's worth. Plus your calls up next
Speaker 1: at Triple eight rich one oh one. If you have
Speaker 1: a question about technology, give me a call at Triple
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.
Speaker 1: My name is Rich Dmiro. You are listening to rich
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Speaker 1: is Rich Damuro. You can find links to anything I
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Speaker 1: give me a call. It's one eight eight eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one one eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Kathy is in San Bernardino, California. Kathy,
Speaker 1: you are on with.
Speaker 3: Rich question about Microsoft's three sixty five, which I understand
Speaker 3: is cloud based.
Speaker 1: Is there any risk of.
Speaker 3: Cross migration between my personal office three sixty five account
Speaker 3: and my employer's new mandatory Office three sixty five accounts
Speaker 3: that we're supposed to use remotely.
Speaker 1: Oh, you sound very excited about this Mandatory Office three
Speaker 1: sixty five.
Speaker 3: Well, it's it's because I wouldn't want a any of
Speaker 3: my documents to disappear, because I read the fine print
Speaker 3: and it says the employer can choose to pull back
Speaker 3: any documents that you have created with their account, which
Speaker 3: I understand, but also because there's always a risk with
Speaker 3: who knows which employees have have permissions and what they
Speaker 3: might do with those permissions.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, all right, So let's break this down. So,
Speaker 1: first off, you can you can definitely use your employer's
Speaker 1: three sixty five log in as well as your own.
Speaker 1: In fact, I do that on a daily basis. So
Speaker 1: I've got my own office three sixty five and then
Speaker 1: I've got my corporate three sixty five and I've got
Speaker 1: Windows running in the same browser with both instances. Now,
Speaker 1: with that said, number one, you have to be careful
Speaker 1: because you need to know which account you're working on
Speaker 1: at that specific time, so you need to make sure
Speaker 1: if you're uploading a document to like one drive, you
Speaker 1: need to make sure that that's the correct one. You
Speaker 1: don't want to put a personal document in your employer's file,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to put your employee file in
Speaker 1: your personal stuff more so, you probably want to be
Speaker 1: worried about putting your personal stuff into your employee file. Now,
Speaker 1: the email is going to be pretty straightforward because you're
Speaker 1: gonna recognize your inbox very quickly to see which one's
Speaker 1: your corporate inbox, which one's your personal inbox, And there's
Speaker 1: no real issue with them cross contaminating each other as
Speaker 1: long as you know what you're doing and you know
Speaker 1: which account you're using at the right time. Now, with
Speaker 1: that said, you will notice that you're going to have
Speaker 1: to authorize the accounts more often than you may have
Speaker 1: to if you're just using one account, because sometimes the
Speaker 1: system does get a little confused and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: which account is she using right now? Is it her corporate?
Speaker 1: Let's just make sure you put your password back in.
Speaker 1: And usually the corporate accounts have more requirements for security,
Speaker 1: so they're going to ask you for your password more
Speaker 1: than say, you know your personal account. Perhaps with all
Speaker 1: of that said, you need to be the most careful about,
Speaker 1: you know, just knowing that anything you do on your
Speaker 1: employee corporate three sixty five account, you know they can see,
Speaker 1: so they can see how you're using that account. They
Speaker 1: can see where you log in from, they can see
Speaker 1: what you're doing, they can see what you're uploading, what
Speaker 1: you're downloading, all through the lens of what you're doing
Speaker 1: on three sixty five. I'm not saying they have your
Speaker 1: entire computer that they can monitor, unless you're using a VPN,
Speaker 1: and then that is a very different topic. So that's
Speaker 1: really the main thing. You just have to also keep
Speaker 1: in mind that at any point they may, like you said,
Speaker 1: pull the account so they can go into your account
Speaker 1: see what files you have in there. They can look
Speaker 1: at your emails, they can scan your emails. They may
Speaker 1: even get reports of when you do your emails and
Speaker 1: how many emails you send on a daily basis without
Speaker 1: specifically looking at your emails, although they reserve that right
Speaker 1: as well. So what I'm trying to say is that
Speaker 1: when you're using a corporate account, there is really the
Speaker 1: only rule is that your employer's eyes can see pretty
Speaker 1: much everything that is happening inside that account. But running
Speaker 1: the two instances on your computer. I do that on
Speaker 1: a daily basis and it works just fine. You just
Speaker 1: have to be careful again about what you are doing
Speaker 1: in which account. So, Kathy, great, first question for this
Speaker 1: this show, and thanks for calling. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to Joyce in San Diego. Joyce, you are on with Rich.
Speaker 1: How can I help? Chris is in Temecula.
Speaker 4: Yes, Hi, Hey, Chris, can you So here's my question.
Speaker 4: I have a Samsung Smart TV, but it's a lower mode,
Speaker 4: lower lower end. Have it in the bedroom, and it
Speaker 4: says that it's Bluetooth capable, but it won't connect to
Speaker 4: my Samsung airpud.
Speaker 5: So I bought a device and I realized that there
Speaker 5: are no ports on the computer. So I'm wondering if
Speaker 5: there's some type of wireless transmitter, if you will, that
Speaker 5: I could use, you know, from the TV through that
Speaker 5: to the air buds. So I consume it in the
Speaker 5: bedroom bedroom when other people are outside watching TV. I
Speaker 5: don't want to bother them.
Speaker 1: So the TV has Bluetooth, but you're saying there's just
Speaker 1: no functionality to connect the AirPods.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I have the Samsung here buds okay, okay,
Speaker 5: and there's no on the back of the TV. There
Speaker 5: are no places to plug anything in other than a
Speaker 5: coax cable. Again, it's the lower end TV, but it's
Speaker 5: just for the bedroom. I bought a device from best
Speaker 5: Buy that plugged in, but again there's no plug ins
Speaker 5: on the on the TV. So I'm wondering if there's
Speaker 5: a wireless device that.
Speaker 1: I can give in to it. There's no HDMI on
Speaker 1: that TV.
Speaker 5: I there may be HDMI, I mean there should be.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, So I mean there's really I mean unless
Speaker 1: there's an audio out on the TV, which if there is,
Speaker 1: if there's like a headphone jack, you can get a
Speaker 1: product called airfly and plug that in.
Speaker 5: There is no headphone jack.
Speaker 1: There's no headphone jack. Okay. With no headphone jack and
Speaker 1: only coax and maybe HDMI, the best thing I can
Speaker 1: do is recommend that you would get some sort of
Speaker 1: streaming device, whether it's a Roku stick or a Amazon
Speaker 1: Fire TV stick, something really inexpensive, and then you can
Speaker 1: connect the Bluetooth earbuds to that. But you're only gonna
Speaker 1: be able to listen to things that are streaming through
Speaker 1: that device. So if you're connecting like a standard cable
Speaker 1: box or something to this TV, that's just not gonna
Speaker 1: work because it's not gonna it's not gonna stream the
Speaker 1: information from the COAX to the Bluetooth because there's just
Speaker 1: not a way that I know to connect that. If
Speaker 1: there was something that was sort of an RCA out,
Speaker 1: you can definitely go on Amazon and get sort of
Speaker 1: an RCA to Bluetooth adapter, a little transmitter that would work,
Speaker 1: But without having ports on the back, it's really gonna
Speaker 1: be tricky to get that out of COAX. You're listening
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. More of your calls next at
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one, Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. This is the show where I talk about
Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's
Speaker 1: also the place where I answer the questions you have
Speaker 1: about technology. Welcome back to the show. My name is
Speaker 1: rich Demiro. On the line is Joanna Stern. She is
Speaker 1: a Wall Street Journal columnist and she was at the
Speaker 1: Microsoft event this week where they showed off the new
Speaker 1: bing infused with artificial intelligence. Joanna, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of jealous because I've wanted to play
Speaker 1: with this bing dot com slash new. I'm on the
Speaker 1: waiting list, but you already have access or you had access,
Speaker 1: So can you first just explain, Oh, you've got access, okay,
Speaker 1: so you're using it on a daily I mean, Number one,
Speaker 1: it's wild to think that bing could stage a major comeback.
Speaker 1: Is that true? Do you think that could happen at
Speaker 1: this point?
Speaker 6: I think it's going to be very hard for being
Speaker 6: to capture Google's ninety plus percent of the search engine
Speaker 6: market share, but there is a fighting chance. There is
Speaker 6: this slight chance that it does capture some of it,
Speaker 6: and I think this week. I mean, we don't have
Speaker 6: stats yet, but there certainly seems to be a lot
Speaker 6: of interest in people saying, hey, I might try out
Speaker 6: bing again, which is a pretty big thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's words that I didn't think I would say,
Speaker 1: and I tweeted those, and I've been, you know, going
Speaker 1: just like everyone else, to the waiting list and trying
Speaker 1: to get on there and trying to see what they've
Speaker 1: shown off. So a couple of things that they showed off,
Speaker 1: So Number one, better search so their search has more
Speaker 1: relevant results. Because it's infused with this AI. Then they
Speaker 1: also have a way that you can use kind of
Speaker 1: a chatbot that is a better version of chat gpt.
Speaker 1: So can you tell me about that? How did that work?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so anyone who's used chat chpt knows. Great, you
Speaker 6: have this search box type of thing. You type in
Speaker 6: anything you really want to have this bot generate or
Speaker 6: search for you. The issue with chatchept is that it
Speaker 6: doesn't really have knowledge of the modern, current live world.
Speaker 6: It's based on a model that was stopped being updated
Speaker 6: around two thousand and I think it was twenty twenty one.
Speaker 6: So what bing is doing here they're bringing some of
Speaker 6: that secret sauce from open Ai, right, They've got a
Speaker 6: deep partnership with open Ai. But they're putting the bing
Speaker 6: search engine in with it. And so that means that
Speaker 6: you can ask BIG's chat bot what they just called
Speaker 6: chat really anything about current events about the world, and
Speaker 6: it will write back to you. And so this idea
Speaker 6: of sort of asking search I mean, we all remember
Speaker 6: asked Jeeves. You really can just talk to it in
Speaker 6: normal sentences and it writes back to you in normal
Speaker 6: sentences that you really would think were written by a human.
Speaker 1: I really feel like the Ask Jeeves people are just
Speaker 1: sitting there, like every one of those engineers that work
Speaker 1: there is just saying, you know, we were onto this
Speaker 1: many many years ago. Now. Ask Jeeves was kind of
Speaker 1: like to me, like a laugh. It was just, you know,
Speaker 1: the answers were not very good, and I had many limitations,
Speaker 1: but they were onto the right thing. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you look at the Google kind of auto complete, so
Speaker 1: many of it or so much of it is like
Speaker 1: written in question form. Like people still ask a lot
Speaker 1: of questions to search engines.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think you sort of think about all
Speaker 6: we've learned to sort of hack search engines, right, we
Speaker 6: know that this sort of terms the ways we're supposed
Speaker 6: to put in things to get the answers we want,
Speaker 6: and that's really all trying to just figure out how
Speaker 6: do we get the best answer. And so now these
Speaker 6: search engines and you're being right now and Google, what
Speaker 6: we are promising with bart is that they will have
Speaker 6: the natural language processing, the natural language understanding to understand
Speaker 6: your deep questions. Really, I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 6: deep you want to go on some of these search engines,
Speaker 6: but you can kind of just write out that question
Speaker 6: and it should respond like you've asked a human for
Speaker 6: the answer.
Speaker 1: All right. So Being says since they've applied this AI
Speaker 1: to their core search algorithm, they've had the largest jump
Speaker 1: in relevance in two decades with their search engine ranking.
Speaker 1: So that means that the answers you get in general
Speaker 1: are more accurate and more relevant. Then, like we said,
Speaker 1: you've got this chat area where you can get you know,
Speaker 1: you can ask it things like create me a five
Speaker 1: day itinerary for going to Italy or you know, tell
Speaker 1: me how to prep for a job interview. I mean
Speaker 1: these are examples that being gay. Then you've got the
Speaker 1: Edge browser. They built in some new smarts to that,
Speaker 1: like it can help you write emails and things like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I actually think this is the biggest announcement
Speaker 6: they made because how much time do we spend in
Speaker 6: our browser and on different websites and not on the
Speaker 6: actual search website. Right, That's probably how we spend most
Speaker 6: of our time. And so in the new Microsoft Edge browser,
Speaker 6: they have a sidebar. It's called the bing sidebar. You
Speaker 6: can click on this and I'm using it right now,
Speaker 6: and it has three different tabs. It's got chats so
Speaker 6: you can ask sort of the main questions you would
Speaker 6: if you went to bing dot com. You can search
Speaker 6: through there. You can go to compose, where you can
Speaker 6: ask it to compose whatever you wanted to write for you. Really,
Speaker 6: if you want to email, a blog, post, social media posts, lists, etc.
Speaker 6: And just got a little box in there and you say,
Speaker 6: write me an email to my new boss asking I
Speaker 6: don't know, for a time to get some coffee. And
Speaker 6: then it gives you a little area too, where you
Speaker 6: can put in what you want the tone of that
Speaker 6: to be. You want it to be professional, you want
Speaker 6: it to be funny, you wanted to be enthusiastic, Tell
Speaker 6: how long you want it to be short, long, medium,
Speaker 6: and hit generate and it's going to write this email
Speaker 6: for you, or it's going to write whatever you really
Speaker 6: ask it to. And so I think that's sort of
Speaker 6: a big game changer here is that you can be
Speaker 6: on any website and you can be doing it. Another
Speaker 6: really cool trick in this and that I think is
Speaker 6: really really useful, though I'm a little bit worried about
Speaker 6: my profession, is you can be in an article. You
Speaker 6: can say summarize this article, and it will give you
Speaker 6: the summary of the article and you can say five
Speaker 6: bullet points.
Speaker 7: Now I would want to agree that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean, look, we're going to have to,
Speaker 1: you know, up our game here and somehow differentiate from
Speaker 1: what the AI can do. I mean, it can write scripts,
Speaker 1: it can write you know, it can write articles. It
Speaker 1: really can do a lot. One of the takeaways from
Speaker 1: your video with Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, was
Speaker 1: that he said, in the future, pretty much everyone is
Speaker 1: going to have a working first draft of whatever they need,
Speaker 1: whether that's term paper, a letter, anything, because these AI
Speaker 1: tools can generate them. What did you think about that.
Speaker 6: I actually wrote about that quote specifically in my newsletter
Speaker 6: yesterday because it's the piece that sort of stuck with
Speaker 6: me all week as I was talking to other people
Speaker 6: about this announcement. I think it's I think it's right.
Speaker 6: I think we all are going to start to interact
Speaker 6: with computers in a different way, and we may come
Speaker 6: to our computers and the computer might have done something
Speaker 6: for us that we used to do with our time,
Speaker 6: our own time. But I think there are a couple
Speaker 6: of ways that that is just not going to be
Speaker 6: as good as humans. And I think that's one of
Speaker 6: the main ways, and I think I did ask mister
Speaker 6: Nadella about this and various other people at Microsoft, which
Speaker 6: is accuracy, right of fact checking and knowing not putting
Speaker 6: so much trust in these in this AI system that
Speaker 6: it's always got it right. And even so far my
Speaker 6: experience using Being and many others in the last couple
Speaker 6: of days have shown that it has many inaccurate results.
Speaker 6: Now Microsoft is doing a good job at sort of
Speaker 6: hedging that they'll say this might be the answer, or
Speaker 6: this isn't, this isn't the definitive answer. But still, you know,
Speaker 6: people are likely to trust what they read here, and
Speaker 6: so we have to as humans, as we're using these tools,
Speaker 6: really just become hyper aware of is this true? Like
Speaker 6: how do we find a secondary source? How do we
Speaker 6: find the primary source to prove that what that thing
Speaker 6: told me is actually the answer I want?
Speaker 1: Or And one of the things one of the things
Speaker 1: that these search engines are doing, like the uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the Being, the New Bing and kind of these other
Speaker 1: ones that I've talked about, is that they're giving almost
Speaker 1: like remember when you wrote like a bibliography or like
Speaker 1: the footnotes for your story or a paper you wrote.
Speaker 1: It's almost giving you, like the links to where it
Speaker 1: found this information.
Speaker 6: But to me giving you citations.
Speaker 1: Citations, that's the word. But if you have to go
Speaker 1: through and fact check every single thing that this says,
Speaker 1: then isn't that just a lot of work in itself?
Speaker 1: Like you might as well just do the work at
Speaker 1: the beginning? Or is it? I mean, is there just
Speaker 1: easier because it sort of came up with that first
Speaker 1: paragraph that you just have to go through and make
Speaker 1: sure it's okay. Like what if you ask, like who's
Speaker 1: playing in the super Bowl today and it said, here's
Speaker 1: the teams, here's the quarterbacks. Now you've got to go
Speaker 1: and you know, look at all those things and cross
Speaker 1: reference just to make sure it's right.
Speaker 6: And that's so that's actually the second point. So I
Speaker 6: think accuracy is number one, and I think number two
Speaker 6: is speed. Right it these systems, it takes a bit
Speaker 6: of time for the for the AI to gather their
Speaker 6: results from the web and then to put it into
Speaker 6: its words. So for instance, in the video and my
Speaker 6: testing that I did at Microsoft, i said, recap the
Speaker 6: top winners of the twenty twenty three Grammys, and it
Speaker 6: took about a minute for it to flush out the
Speaker 6: entire list of that. It wasn't the entire list, but
Speaker 6: you know, it summarized I believe, like seven of the
Speaker 6: top winners, right. It gave me a sense of the name,
Speaker 6: you know, Beyonce, and then gave me a little paragraphs
Speaker 6: and did that all the way through. And that's a minute.
Speaker 6: You know, in that amount of time, I could have
Speaker 6: clicked one of the top links I believe it was
Speaker 6: from CNN gone there, skimmed it and said okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: I know what I need to know in less than
Speaker 6: a minute. So we're going to have to sort of
Speaker 6: think about how are we going to use our time,
Speaker 6: How long does it take these things to do it
Speaker 6: in there time? And where does that make sense?
Speaker 1: But it's also to that point. It's interesting because right now,
Speaker 1: a lot of outlets will write articles saying, here are
Speaker 1: the Grammy winners twenty twenty three, knowing that people go
Speaker 1: to search to ask who are the winners twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: In the future, they may not write those articles because
Speaker 1: they know that they're not going to get that traffic.
Speaker 1: So this does bring up a lot of kind of
Speaker 1: you know, changes to the way that we think about
Speaker 1: search and the way that we think about knowledge and
Speaker 1: information and also access to that. I've got to leave
Speaker 1: it there, Joanna, tell people how to find you.
Speaker 6: I mean, you could search my name on Bang and
Speaker 6: you could do that, but I will just give you
Speaker 6: and I have it in my newsletter. Yet it doesn't
Speaker 6: have my right age talking about the accuracy, So there
Speaker 6: you go. It says, yeah, you know what, go search
Speaker 6: on being and you can try to find out how
Speaker 6: old I really am. But you could find me on Twitter,
Speaker 6: Joanna Stern, pretty much everywhere at Joannastern and the Wall
Speaker 6: Street Journal Joanna Stern, So search it in Bang and
Speaker 6: you'll find me.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 1: Thanks Joanna. Very entertaining videos as well as the newsletter
Speaker 1: and all kinds of other stuff for Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me today. Coming up, more of your
Speaker 1: calls at eight eight eight rich one oh one one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four to one
Speaker 1: zero one. If you have a question about tech, give
Speaker 1: me a call. Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about
Speaker 1: new features coming soon to Google Maps and Google Translate.
Speaker 1: You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. My name is rich Demiro. This is the
Speaker 1: show where we talk about technology. If you have a
Speaker 1: question about tech, give me a call. The phone lines
Speaker 1: are open at triple eight rich one oh one. That's
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Let me tell you about some of the
Speaker 1: ways that Google made some announcements this week. When it
Speaker 1: comes to AI, this is a little bit different than
Speaker 1: Search AI, but it kind of all falls into that
Speaker 1: kind of same Lens here. So Google announced three major updates.
Speaker 1: Something that deals with lens, which is their visual search tool,
Speaker 1: something that deals with maps, and something that deals with translation.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna give you kind of the highlights
Speaker 1: of what I think is the most important announcements that
Speaker 1: they made. So number one, Lens is a really handy
Speaker 1: tool that Google has. It's a visual search tool. So
Speaker 1: if you take a picture of a bug, or a leaf,
Speaker 1: or a dress, it will find that on the internet
Speaker 1: a very similar image and help you, you know, do
Speaker 1: some research and figure out what that image is of. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, if you want to take a picture of
Speaker 1: a dress, you might want to shop that dress at
Speaker 1: a local store, so it can do that. But it
Speaker 1: can also identify an insect. So in the coming months
Speaker 1: they're going to have a new feature with Lens where
Speaker 1: you can search your screen if you have an Android.
Speaker 1: So let's say someone sends you a picture of where
Speaker 1: they are vacationing, and you say, oh, that looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1: You can now just search your screen with Google Lens
Speaker 1: and it will give you the search results based on
Speaker 1: what it sees on your screen. And actually I needed
Speaker 1: this feature the other day, Like I literally was trying
Speaker 1: to do this because I can't remember what I was searching,
Speaker 1: but it was just something on my screen that I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I need to search this. So I
Speaker 1: ended up having to take a screenshot and then putting
Speaker 1: that into Google Lens to search it. But it was
Speaker 1: so much. It'll be so much when you can just
Speaker 1: long press your power button on your Android phone and
Speaker 1: it will do that search. The other thing is that
Speaker 1: Maps is rolling out this new immersive view which is
Speaker 1: gonna be really really cool. So imagine street View, but
Speaker 1: much more three D, so you'll be able to literally
Speaker 1: walk down the streets of a foreign city or you know,
Speaker 1: in this case, London, Los Angeles, New York, and San
Speaker 1: Francisco and Tokyo. Those are the first months that it's
Speaker 1: first cities that it's launching in and then they're going
Speaker 1: to roll out to other cities after that. That is
Speaker 1: an amazing new feature called Immersive View, which I cannot
Speaker 1: wait to get my hands on. And finally, if you
Speaker 1: use Google Translate, whenever you translate something on a sign,
Speaker 1: they're actually gonna blend the letters into the sign better,
Speaker 1: so it literally looks like the sign in front of
Speaker 1: you has just morphed into the language that you can
Speaker 1: read much more easily. All right, Coming up on the show,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about new OnePlus products with jan
Speaker 1: Carlos Bagnell, some gadget guy on YouTube. You're listening to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My
Speaker 1: name is rich Timiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, sitting here with you talking technology, answering
Speaker 1: your questions, and it's basically the show to talk about
Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about. And
Speaker 1: this week oh so much between AI and new product launches.
Speaker 1: Later in the show, we're gonna talk one new one
Speaker 1: plus products with one Carlos Bagnell. He is a youtubeer
Speaker 1: viewer and it's got several several products to talk about.
Speaker 1: A new phone, a new tablet, new earbuds that I've
Speaker 1: been loving from one plus I love now gosh, this
Speaker 1: is like the third set of earbuds that they've made
Speaker 1: that I really really like, especially if you have an
Speaker 1: Android phones. We'll talk about that. I'm gonna talk about
Speaker 1: a new way to stream content for free, but first
Speaker 1: let's go to LURI in Ventura, California. Louri, you are
Speaker 1: on with Rich? Hi?
Speaker 3: Rich?
Speaker 1: How you doing any I am doing fantastic.
Speaker 9: How are you good?
Speaker 8: Good? I'm glad to see you on PLA to great?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Can you tell that I'm broadcasting from a
Speaker 1: remote location in New Jersey, the Garden State?
Speaker 9: Seriously?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I know. It's wild. It's so it's so wild
Speaker 1: because I'm so used to TV and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of limitations on TV because you basically go live from
Speaker 1: a certain place and a certain studio. But with radio,
Speaker 1: it kind of is mind boggling because you have the
Speaker 1: ability to go live from pretty much anywhere as long
Speaker 1: as you have a microphone and a connection. So I'm
Speaker 1: still kind of understanding that. But anyway, it's pretty cool
Speaker 1: this weekend. So what's on your mind?
Speaker 10: I was wondering what the best shredder is to buy?
Speaker 1: Oh, what are you going to be shredding lots of Uh?
Speaker 1: Do you have a lot of classified information at your place?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you do.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's funny. I used to be a big
Speaker 1: shredder person, and now I just collect my papers and
Speaker 1: bring them to like a place to shred every once
Speaker 1: in a while. But I do think shredders are great
Speaker 1: to have at home there. You know, they could be
Speaker 1: a little dicey sometimes, like don't don't put a tie
Speaker 1: near this thing, or like you know, kids and all that,
Speaker 1: like they are kind of dangerous if they're the heavy
Speaker 1: duty ones. Do you need a heavy duty one? Are
Speaker 1: you just looking for like a standard one?
Speaker 6: No, a standard one, I think so.
Speaker 1: Just for like personal like credit card offers that come
Speaker 1: in the mail and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you the two places that I go. Now.
Speaker 1: I like to test products myself, obviously, but when I can't,
Speaker 1: I will go to other folks that test products. And
Speaker 1: two of the websites that I use to do that.
Speaker 1: One is called Wirecutter. Have you heard of that? No? Okay,
Speaker 1: So Wirecutter is a great They started out independent many
Speaker 1: many years ago, and recently New York Times bought them,
Speaker 1: and they kind of absorb them under their wings, which
Speaker 1: is a great thing for the folks that work there
Speaker 1: because they get more people seeing their stuff. But I
Speaker 1: would search wirecutter and Shredder and see what that comes
Speaker 1: up with. And I'm looking at their top pick. It's
Speaker 1: a Amazon Basics eight sheet high security microcut shredder with
Speaker 1: pull out basket. It's seventy bucks on Amazon. That's their
Speaker 1: number one top pick, and then they have a couple
Speaker 1: other picks there. Now, I also work for a company
Speaker 1: that owns a review website called best Reviews dot com.
Speaker 1: So KTLA's parent company owns a website called best reviews
Speaker 1: dot com, very similar to Wirecutter, where they have a
Speaker 1: whole team of experts that review stuff. And so I
Speaker 1: will cross reference the devices on both of those pages
Speaker 1: and see which one works for me in my price range. So,
Speaker 1: according to them, the best of the best is this
Speaker 1: Fellow's Power shred ninety nine CI. And if you click
Speaker 1: that link, it takes you to Amazon. That is two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty dollars might be more than you want
Speaker 1: to spend. The next one on the list, they say
Speaker 1: best bang for your book is the Aurora High Security
Speaker 1: eight sheet microcut paper credit card Shredder Black. It's got
Speaker 1: sixteen thousand reviews, it is rated at four and a
Speaker 1: half stars, and it is going for forty eight dollars.
Speaker 1: I think that's your winner right there. Does that sound
Speaker 1: like a good price. Yeah. So here's the thing. So
Speaker 1: the way that these companies make money LORI is that
Speaker 1: they get referral links. So every time someone clicks and
Speaker 1: buys one of these products from them, that's how they
Speaker 1: make their money. And so it's called affiliate linking. On
Speaker 1: Amazon or not just Amazon. A lot of major retailers
Speaker 1: participate in this, so it's kind of a win win situation.
Speaker 1: They're editors and you know, their folks do the work.
Speaker 1: They put all these things on the website. They say,
Speaker 1: here's the five things we think are the best, and
Speaker 1: then when you buy one of those things, they make
Speaker 1: a little money. So it's all highly disclosed. It's all
Speaker 1: very on the up and up. It's a pretty common
Speaker 1: practice actually online. But that's kind of the way I
Speaker 1: do it. I will also look at you know, just
Speaker 1: I won't just take their word for it. I will
Speaker 1: also look on Amazon and see kind of the ratings,
Speaker 1: the combination of ratings and stars as well. Looking at
Speaker 1: these these three shredders that I mentioned, they all have many,
Speaker 1: many ratings. By the way, that Amazon basics one, if
Speaker 1: you can believe it, it has twenty two, seven and
Speaker 1: thirty three ratings. That's also seventy dollars. So those are
Speaker 1: the three that I would look at and see which
Speaker 1: one you like the best. And also they go buy
Speaker 1: sheets too, like how many sheets do you want to
Speaker 1: feed into this thing at once? You may say, oh,
Speaker 1: I only need two sheets at a time, but you know,
Speaker 1: once you're doing a lot of stuff, you may want
Speaker 1: more than that. So does that help you out. I'm
Speaker 1: going to put all this information on our website at
Speaker 1: richontech dot tv. That's where you can find more information
Speaker 1: about anything that I mentioned here. I'm pretty good at
Speaker 1: putting the links there. So thanks for your question, Laurie,
Speaker 1: go find that shredder all right. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: about a new way to stream for free. And it
Speaker 1: gets a little confusing with the free streaming because yes,
Speaker 1: of course you can find pretty much anything you want
Speaker 1: online for free, but not all of it operates in
Speaker 1: a illegal zone. But there are many any websites that
Speaker 1: let you stream real stuff for free. So Sling TV
Speaker 1: is now launching one. It's called free Stream. So Sling TV,
Speaker 1: you know, is a paid service and it allows you
Speaker 1: to get you know, popular cable channels on your TV.
Speaker 1: But now they have a section called free Stream which
Speaker 1: lets you access live and on demand TV for free.
Speaker 1: And so this joins other free streaming services out there
Speaker 1: which allow you to watch a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: And this you can download through the Sling app on Roku,
Speaker 1: also Comcast, LG, Samsung, and Visio and Xbox devices. So
Speaker 1: right now, this is not on the super big platforms
Speaker 1: like the Fire TVs, the Apple TVs, and the Amazon
Speaker 1: Fire Sorry Amazon Fire, Apple TV let me think about this,
Speaker 1: and Chrome Cast. So right now this is pretty much
Speaker 1: limited to Roku, Comcast, LG, Samsung, Visio, and Xbox. But
Speaker 1: the cool thing is you don't need a credit card
Speaker 1: and you don't have to put any payment in. You
Speaker 1: can just watch all this programming. So Sling Free Stream
Speaker 1: has more than two hundred and ten channels with forty
Speaker 1: one thousand on demand titles for free. They've got news, sports,
Speaker 1: game shows, crime dramas, sitcoms, animal stuff, ABC News Live,
Speaker 1: Architectural Digest, Family Feud, CBS News, ESPN on Demand, Rick
Speaker 1: Steve's Europe. That's kind of cool. And all of this,
Speaker 1: again is something that you can experience for free. So
Speaker 1: if you want to experience it, you can find the
Speaker 1: link on my website, richon Tech dot tv, or just
Speaker 1: download the Sling app and look for the free stream. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for other ways to stream free stuff,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of it. You've got Amazon
Speaker 1: free V, which used to be IMDbTV, but that was
Speaker 1: kind of a weird name. So is Amazon FREEB free V.
Speaker 1: But whatever. Pluto TV they sort of started this entire
Speaker 1: trend of free streaming. And I'll never forget having lunch
Speaker 1: with a guy who invented Pluto TV and he pitched
Speaker 1: it to me and I didn't get it at the time.
Speaker 1: I said, I don't understand people are gonna want to
Speaker 1: download an app and watch free stuff, like what about
Speaker 1: just watching on YouTube? And I didn't understand that. You know,
Speaker 1: a couple years later, Viacom would purchase Pluto for many,
Speaker 1: many millions of dollars. But you know, I'm not right
Speaker 1: about everything. Two B is another one of these free
Speaker 1: services where you can watch stuff for free. I believe
Speaker 1: it's owned by Fox. And so you've got Pluto, which
Speaker 1: is CBS Viacom, You've got two B which is Fox,
Speaker 1: and you've got Peacock. They have a free streaming tier
Speaker 1: which I think is going to go away for new users,
Speaker 1: but existing users will still have access. And that's NBC.
Speaker 1: So between all these things, I mean, we're seeing kind
Speaker 1: of a backlash with paid streaming services because people are
Speaker 1: just saying, you know what, I'm spending too much. Netflix
Speaker 1: has gone up in price. YouTube gives me a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff for free. I can get stuff there. HBO Max,
Speaker 1: You've got that costs money every month. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: so many of these streaming services that once you start
Speaker 1: paying for all of them, you might as well just
Speaker 1: have cable TV once again. So we're seeing, you know,
Speaker 1: people were excited about things like Netflix and all these
Speaker 1: other streaming services, and now that they've paid the bill
Speaker 1: for a couple of years, and the bill just keeps
Speaker 1: going up every you know, two years, every year, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, people are saying, you know what, I'll stick
Speaker 1: with the free stuff. I'll look at ads. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really like broadcast television. I mean for many years
Speaker 1: broadcast television, that's what it does. You listen for free,
Speaker 1: kind of like the radio that I'm on right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, you listen for free, you get the information
Speaker 1: you need and then you know a couple of commercials
Speaker 1: for your time. So it's the same thing with these
Speaker 1: streaming services. They get real video products, you know, real
Speaker 1: shows and on demand titles, but they put ads in
Speaker 1: them and that's how they make their money. So again,
Speaker 1: Sling TV, Free V by Amazon, Pluto, Toby, and Peacock,
Speaker 1: those are always that you can watch content for free.
Speaker 1: All right, I have to tell you about this before
Speaker 1: we go to break here. So don't you love it
Speaker 1: when you start a book and you're just captivated by
Speaker 1: that book instantly. That's what happened to me recent I
Speaker 1: started So I pulled folks on Twitter because I was
Speaker 1: reading a book that I didn't really like, and so
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know, do I stick with this
Speaker 1: book or do I just let it go? And people
Speaker 1: were like, just let it go. Don't stick with the
Speaker 1: book that you don't like, Like you ever have to
Speaker 1: think about opening the book and reading it, and it's
Speaker 1: just not fun like reading should not be a chore.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I ditched that book. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: tell you the title that one, but I found a
Speaker 1: new one and it's called Upgrade by Blake Crouch. And
Speaker 1: I read one of his other books, which was Dark Matter,
Speaker 1: and they're all kind of sci fi. This one is
Speaker 1: about like a genetic kind of a genetic mutation of
Speaker 1: the human body, and it makes this person. I haven't
Speaker 1: finished it yet, but it's already really good, where this
Speaker 1: guy just keeps getting more and more superhuman powers, which
Speaker 1: you know is a classic story anyway, But the reality
Speaker 1: is I can't put this book down. I love it,
Speaker 1: so anyway, it's kind of fun. I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten to the end, so maybe it totally
Speaker 1: takes a nose dive after like fifty percent of the book,
Speaker 1: but I can't tell you that just yet because so
Speaker 1: far I'm loving it. So if you want a good book,
Speaker 1: Upgrade by Blake Crouch, if you like the sci fi stuff,
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoyed this book. We'll call it Rich's Book Club.
Speaker 1: You can read it and tweet me about it, tell
Speaker 1: me what you think about it. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you want to get books for free. There's an
Speaker 1: app called Libby, which I highly recommend. L Ibby. There's
Speaker 1: nothing illegal about it. It is an app that connects
Speaker 1: to your local library in your city and you can
Speaker 1: check out electronic books ebooks, and you could even read
Speaker 1: them on your kindle. It is a pretty phenomenal thing,
Speaker 1: all right. Coming up in the show, more of your questions.
Speaker 1: If you have a tech question, give me a call
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. If
Speaker 1: you want links to anything I mentioned, go to my website.
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk new OnePlus products. My name is rich Dumiro. You
Speaker 1: are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. My name is rich Demiro. You are listening
Speaker 1: to the show where we talk about the tech stuff
Speaker 1: I think you should know about, and it's a place
Speaker 1: where I answer your questions. Every week, I sort of
Speaker 1: give you a litle update on what I've posted to
Speaker 1: my Instagram account because I'm always enjoying posting these reels.
Speaker 1: So this week, let's see, I posted my ride in
Speaker 1: an electric Oh, this is pretty cool. It's an all
Speaker 1: electric semi truck for UPS. So I think I told
Speaker 1: you a couple weeks ago that I took a ride
Speaker 1: in this thing. Well now the story's up so you
Speaker 1: can see what it looks like. It is UPS's first
Speaker 1: all electric semi. They're using it in California. They've actually
Speaker 1: got an order of ten of these things, but this
Speaker 1: is the first and I was one of the first
Speaker 1: non employees to ride in it, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: You can check that out on my Instagram at rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. I also posted a video of this new
Speaker 1: game called Hot Wheels rift Rally. And if you remember
Speaker 1: the Mario Kart Live game, these were the little cars
Speaker 1: that you could drive around your house and play on
Speaker 1: your switch and augmented reality. Well that same game developer
Speaker 1: has come up with a new Hot Wheels version of that,
Speaker 1: so you can check out the video on that. It's
Speaker 1: kind of cool. It's basically, you know what I think
Speaker 1: is neat about it. And I'm trying to get my
Speaker 1: notes here to tell you more about this because I
Speaker 1: might as well since I already mentioned it. But I
Speaker 1: did a story on KTLA about this this week. But
Speaker 1: Rift Rally is kind of a mixed reality racing game,
Speaker 1: so It involves a radio controlled car like a physical car,
Speaker 1: but it also blends the virtual world. So you play
Speaker 1: this car, you kind of set up a course around
Speaker 1: your living room, and the car has a camera on top,
Speaker 1: so you see your living room on your gaming console,
Speaker 1: but you also see like an augmented reality world kind
Speaker 1: of virtually laid on top of your living room. So
Speaker 1: like just to put that, you know, in an easier
Speaker 1: to understand terms. You're driving around your living room, but
Speaker 1: it looks like a racetrack with like really cool things
Speaker 1: happening all around you, and it's just really fun. So
Speaker 1: the game is one hundred and thirty dollars, so I
Speaker 1: think is a little pricey. I think they priced it
Speaker 1: at one thirty so that maybe by the holidays it'll
Speaker 1: go down to like one hundred and that way, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's more reasonable because you're getting a
Speaker 1: physical toy as well the game, and as far as
Speaker 1: I know, they said, there's no in app purchases in
Speaker 1: the game, so you can unlock more of these hot
Speaker 1: Wheels cars as you play the game. More so it's
Speaker 1: a really cool little experience. The other thing to know
Speaker 1: about this game is that it's available now on iOS
Speaker 1: devices and also PlayStation four and five. So the big
Speaker 1: thing about Mario Kart Live is that it was only
Speaker 1: available if you had a switch, a Nintendo switch was
Speaker 1: you know, that was the only way to play it. Now,
Speaker 1: the fact that this can be played on an iPhone
Speaker 1: or an iPad or you know, a PlayStation, I think
Speaker 1: really opens up this game to many more people experiencing this.
Speaker 1: So it's really fun. I had a blast with it.
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, it could get a little
Speaker 1: repetitive to play this over and over, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot of different levels and things that you unlock, so
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the fun of it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Hot Wheels Rift Rally if you want to check it
Speaker 1: out on my Instagram at rich on Tech. The game
Speaker 1: launches on March fourteenth, twenty twenty three, So I think
Speaker 1: that'll be a pretty hot gift this year. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to Chris in West Covina. Chris dialed up
Speaker 1: the number at eighty eight Rich one oh one, Chris,
Speaker 1: you're on with rich Hey, Rich, how you doing. I'm
Speaker 1: doing fantastic.
Speaker 9: How are you I'm doing well?
Speaker 8: Thank you?
Speaker 1: What can I help you out?
Speaker 8: I have a question I'm trying to help my sister.
Speaker 10: She has an older Smart TV and she's trying and.
Speaker 9: She has the Amazon Firestick and.
Speaker 10: I'm trying to get the Spectrum TV app on.
Speaker 9: Her Firestick, but it's not available.
Speaker 1: Is there a workaround it's not supported? Huh no, So
Speaker 1: Spectrum TV app, I'm trying to look at the website
Speaker 1: here to see. Okay. So it's got Xbox iOS, Roku, Samsung,
Speaker 1: Apple TV, Chrome Cast, and Android. Interesting. Okay, so it's
Speaker 1: very odd that they don't support fire TV because they
Speaker 1: do Roku, they do Apple TV. It seems like fire
Speaker 1: TV is a is a major missing piece here, right hmm. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I mean there is a way that you you know,
Speaker 1: fire TV runs Android, and it looks like they have
Speaker 1: an Android app, so you could sideload this. Have you
Speaker 1: heard of the term sideloading.
Speaker 9: That's using?
Speaker 11: Is that using the downloaders?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's like an app you can get called downloader.
Speaker 1: Have you tried that?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 5: So I've done that on my fire Stick, but I
Speaker 5: haven't done it on her, so I'll have to get that.
Speaker 1: Okay. So the basic, you know, the basic way you
Speaker 1: do it is you download this downloader app that will
Speaker 1: enable you to download what's called an APK. So that's
Speaker 1: basically just the you know, like you said, you've already
Speaker 1: done this, so that's that's kind of the program file
Speaker 1: for Android is called APK. It's kind of like if
Speaker 1: you have a Windows computer, it's an ex file. If
Speaker 1: you're on a Mac, it's a d MG file. It's
Speaker 1: just the way the program runs on that computer or
Speaker 1: that device. And so this downloader app will allow you
Speaker 1: to reach out and grab the APK for the Spectrum app,
Speaker 1: and then you have to allow it to install stuff
Speaker 1: from unknown sources. So there is a little bit of
Speaker 1: a level of security risk here in case you get
Speaker 1: an APK that's bad or you know, but this is
Speaker 1: a streaming TV stick. I don't think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: that big of a deal. But that's the best way.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 1: The other thing to know is that it may not
Speaker 1: function properly because it wasn't specifically written for this platform.
Speaker 1: So if your sister that you're helping out, you know,
Speaker 1: she may experience some issues with this app running, but
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it'll probably be fine. So is
Speaker 1: that something you think you.
Speaker 9: Could do for Yeah, I think so. Now my other
Speaker 9: question regarding that security and pulling that that ATK file.
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta run, can you hang on?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 1: I got to run to a commercial break. You're listening
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. We'll have more of the show,
Speaker 1: including a talk about new one plus products coming up
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name
Speaker 1: is rich Demiro, and this is the show where we
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Speaker 1: Tech all Right. Before the break, I was talking to Chris.
Speaker 1: He was asking about uh putting an app on his
Speaker 1: fire TV stick, specifically his sisters that they didn't offer.
Speaker 1: So we talked about sideloading, which is putting an app
Speaker 1: on there that is not necessarily supported. So there are
Speaker 1: some security risks in doing that, and I mentioned that
Speaker 1: to him, and his second question before we had to
Speaker 1: go to break was that he wanted to know if
Speaker 1: there was a safe place to get these programs, and
Speaker 1: so the website that I typically use is called ap
Speaker 1: k me dot com. Now this is kind of advanced stuff.
Speaker 1: I would not recommend doing this if you don't know
Speaker 1: what you're doing with your device, because there is always
Speaker 1: a security risk when you are installing an app on
Speaker 1: your device that is outside of Google Play. So just
Speaker 1: be very careful, tread carefully if you know what you're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can trust this stuff, but that's that's probably the
Speaker 1: most trusted platform for these APKs if you want to
Speaker 1: get him from there, Chris, all right, let's bring on
Speaker 1: one Carlos Bagnell. He is some gadget guy on YouTube.
Speaker 1: He does fantastic reviews all kinds of stuff, including audio devices, smartphones.
Speaker 1: He's a friend of mine as well, and I've been
Speaker 1: watching his stuff for a long time because he had
Speaker 1: a great attitude about things and he's very fair. One.
Speaker 9: Welcome to the show, Hey, Rich, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's talk about these OnePlus devices. OnePlus is a
Speaker 1: brand that when they came out, they really made a
Speaker 1: mark in this world because they just had such great software.
Speaker 1: They had a lot of features at a pretty low price.
Speaker 1: And now we are on the one plus eleven smartphone.
Speaker 1: They also unveiled one Plus buds Pro two. Those are
Speaker 1: earbuds and a one plus pad, which is sort of
Speaker 1: their version of an iPad. So let's start with the
Speaker 1: one plus eleven smartphone. What are your impressions of this device?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think this is a very good return to
Speaker 9: form for one Plus. They started out sort of developing
Speaker 9: this reputation as being a flagship killer, all of this
Speaker 9: great performance with a few small compromises, but for much
Speaker 9: lower prices. In years past, they've had a split strategy
Speaker 9: where they've released sort of a normal phone and then
Speaker 9: a more expensive pro phone, and this year I think
Speaker 9: they're trying to work back to trying to streamline that
Speaker 9: user experience.
Speaker 10: There's only one main premiere model.
Speaker 9: Of the phone coming out, and it's a very high
Speaker 9: performance device that I think I think a lot of
Speaker 9: the enthusiasts out there are really going to like kind
Speaker 9: of undercutting Samsung's base model and an iPhone base model,
Speaker 9: but without having to give up too much to get
Speaker 9: that performance at a much lower price.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're talking to price tag starting at six
Speaker 1: ninety nine. Top of the line has sixteen gigs of memory.
Speaker 1: They say you can have up to forty four applications
Speaker 1: running in the background. It's got a five thousand million
Speaker 1: hour battery, which is really nice. It charges super fast
Speaker 1: eighty watts of charging. So one plus has always been
Speaker 1: known for like really fast and speedy charging. But of course,
Speaker 1: like you said, sometimes there are some downsides to these devices,
Speaker 1: and with this device, you don't get wireless charging, but
Speaker 1: with such fast charging, you probably don't need it. They're
Speaker 1: also promising that you're gonna get four major oxygen Os
Speaker 1: updates that's their operating system, and five years of security updates.
Speaker 1: It's a six point seven inch screen. There's a Dolby
Speaker 1: head tracking for you know, at most audio three cameras.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the cameras. That's really what everyone wants
Speaker 1: to know about.
Speaker 9: I don't want to overlook the charging. This is incredible
Speaker 9: charging and it's the fastest charging standard available in North America.
Speaker 9: So while I totally appreciate some folks are going to
Speaker 9: be frustrated by the lack of wireless charging. Literally, a
Speaker 9: couple minutes plugged in will give you eight days worth
Speaker 9: of runtime. That's one of the major hallmark features on
Speaker 9: the one plus. But the cameras are very competitive. This
Speaker 9: is one of the areas where we stepped back from
Speaker 9: some of the more exotic features from last year's Premium
Speaker 9: one Plus. They had super slow motion four K video
Speaker 9: one hundred and twenty frame per second that all of
Speaker 9: those really really fancy photography uses. This year, it's a
Speaker 9: more mainstream kind of option that's hitting their camera tech
Speaker 9: directly against Apple and Samsung. We've got very good camera sensors.
Speaker 9: They have a partnership with Hasselblod, the camera manufacturer that
Speaker 9: I think has really stepped up their camera game over
Speaker 9: the last couple of years and getting great HDR performance
Speaker 9: and getting very good video performance. It's an all rounder.
Speaker 9: It's a very fun point and shoot solution. And again,
Speaker 9: like you were saying, at those prices, we're looking at
Speaker 9: something that's undercutting the comparable Galaxy S twenty three plus
Speaker 9: by two or three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And most of the reviews that I saw people
Speaker 1: were like, Wow, I'm surprised, like this brings one plus
Speaker 1: back to kind of like what we love and I've
Speaker 1: always loved the software on the one Plus is is
Speaker 1: right up there with the Pixel if not better, because
Speaker 1: they add a bunch of like very useful features, kind
Speaker 1: of like Samsung, but not as blody, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely, this is going to be an interesting year
Speaker 9: because this is our first full year with this new
Speaker 9: skin that they've got running on top of their phone,
Speaker 9: and I will be kind of curious to see how
Speaker 9: it ages. But I would say this is one of
Speaker 9: the most beautifully animated phones, the way that it handles
Speaker 9: transitions that moves you between your apps, and then, like
Speaker 9: you were saying, we've got a bunch of really interesting
Speaker 9: that they're not familiar, like if you're used to a
Speaker 9: Samsung or if you're used to a Pixel, these phones
Speaker 9: perform in a slightly different way. Things like you do
Speaker 9: your ultitasking gesture if you slide towards the top of
Speaker 9: the screen, will then immediately take that app into a
Speaker 9: mini floating window. If you're not familiar with that, that
Speaker 9: can be a little jarring, like oh, what did it
Speaker 9: just do to this app? But once you get used
Speaker 9: to it, I love it for things like notes. If
Speaker 9: I can be in an email, swipe up, have a
Speaker 9: little ticker floating window to have that information and get
Speaker 9: back into my notes. I really appreciate that at these
Speaker 9: lower prices, they're also looking at that longer term commitment,
Speaker 9: the multiple operating system updates and then also five years
Speaker 9: of security patches. They're trying to put a lot of
Speaker 9: base behind this product that they're looking to have a
Speaker 9: long term relationship with their customers.
Speaker 1: All right, on sale February sixteenth. Again, we're talking about
Speaker 1: the one plus eleven five G smartphone goes on sale
Speaker 1: February sixteenth OnePlus dot Com, Amazon and best Buy. Now
Speaker 1: we've got to talk about these one plus buds Pro too.
Speaker 1: I am in love with the first version of these.
Speaker 1: I also like the Nord Buds, which are like forty bucks.
Speaker 1: These are one hundred and seventy nine. But they're pretty
Speaker 1: much the AirPods Pro for the Android user. Don't would
Speaker 1: you not agree with that? I mean, you're much more
Speaker 1: of an audio guy than I am.
Speaker 9: Well, hopefully they're doing well in terms of call quality
Speaker 9: because I'm using them as we speak.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go. I mean, I think that's a
Speaker 1: pretty good indication. That's impressive.
Speaker 9: So I think you're absolutely spot on. One Plus is
Speaker 9: definitely drawing some inspiration from the AirPods Pro, but they're
Speaker 9: still approaching some novel and unique technology. They've got a
Speaker 9: really fun, juicy, vibrant dual driver, the little mechanisms that
Speaker 9: actually create the sound.
Speaker 10: They're using these.
Speaker 9: Two little drivers that work together to really flesh out
Speaker 9: some base response, some fun troubled response. They're a very
Speaker 9: fun ear budd to listen to music and watch movies on.
Speaker 9: But they're matching AirPods Pro almost spec for spec per spect.
Speaker 9: It's multipairings. You can connect two devices at the same time,
Speaker 9: instant quick pairings in the case, and the phone will
Speaker 9: automatically see the air the earbuds so that you can
Speaker 9: try and connect to them. And not just spatial audio,
Speaker 9: but like you mentioned before, support for head tracking. You
Speaker 9: can play a piece of music or you can watch
Speaker 9: a movie from your phone and the earbuds will remember
Speaker 9: your position in space that as you turn it really
Speaker 9: feels like you're listening on surround soound speakers. I can't
Speaker 9: find any single feature where there isn't a match for
Speaker 9: the AirPods Pro two, and they're arriving at sixty dollars
Speaker 9: less than what Apple is the selling the AirPods two Core.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Again, these are the one plus buds Pro two
Speaker 1: They go on sell February sixteenth at for one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy nine dollars. I've been using them. I've been
Speaker 1: using them on the plane and they were fantastic, and
Speaker 1: I love the way they fit in my ears. So
Speaker 1: there's many earbuds out there that kind of like just
Speaker 1: fall out these they feel like they're magnetized into your ears.
Speaker 1: They're so good. I really think one plus knocked it
Speaker 1: out of the park with these. With this one plus
Speaker 1: buds pro too, so I'm glad.
Speaker 9: You What I really like about that is everybody's going
Speaker 9: to have different fit, you know, what they're comfortable with.
Speaker 9: I think these are one of the best options I've
Speaker 9: ever tried that are statlow. So when I'm working on
Speaker 9: professional earbudon they like they're practically tickling your brain going
Speaker 9: into These fit so well just right at the outer
Speaker 9: opening of the year, so I think a lot of
Speaker 9: people that are sensitive to that kind of fit are
Speaker 9: really going to like these.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they feel really great. All right, one plus pad
Speaker 1: We're not going to really have much time to go
Speaker 1: into that, but one plus is also doing an Android tablet,
Speaker 1: which I think is great because we need more options
Speaker 1: for that and this could be pretty amazing. It's got
Speaker 1: an eleven almost a twelve inch screen. They have not
Speaker 1: mentioned the price. As far as I can tell, twelve
Speaker 1: hours of video watching, a month of standby battery life
Speaker 1: again fast charging, So that looks pretty strong. If you're
Speaker 1: thinking about getting an Android tablet, definitely check out the
Speaker 1: one plus pad one. How can folks find you online?
Speaker 9: I'm all over the place, some on social media at
Speaker 9: some gadget Guy, some gadget guy dot com. And I'm
Speaker 9: also doing some partnerships coming up with split deals to
Speaker 9: kind of try and help people save money on some
Speaker 9: of their tech purchasing and tech acquisitions.
Speaker 1: Awesome, slick Deals one of my favorite websites I check
Speaker 1: out every single morning. Gotta go to slick deals dot
Speaker 1: com and uh sorry, it's like slick deals dot net. Right,
Speaker 1: that's right, I've got it. I've got a bookmark. Just
Speaker 1: go to the front page. Just type in slick deals
Speaker 1: on your search engine. All right, one, Carlos back now,
Speaker 1: thanks so much. Some gadget guy check them out online.
Speaker 1: And coming up in the show, We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about a price hike on a Nintendo game that could
Speaker 1: have bigger implications. For Nintendo game pricing in general, plus
Speaker 1: more of your calls at triple eight rich one oh
Speaker 1: one one eight eight eight seven four to two four
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Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 8: I'm in Bakorma, California. My sister is over in Port
Speaker 8: Saint Lucy, Florida, and all of a sudden, I can't
Speaker 8: even call her or get.
Speaker 1: Checkt from her, And what's happening? What kind of phone
Speaker 1: are you on?
Speaker 8: I'm on a Moto G, a.
Speaker 1: Moto G and what service provider meant?
Speaker 8: And what had been working? I all of a sudden
Speaker 8: today is this happened? And I've already talked to the
Speaker 8: Mint people and I really don't know what else to do.
Speaker 8: I've talked to them three times already and they have
Speaker 8: not been able to They tried to readjust things. They
Speaker 8: had me turn it off and take the SIM out
Speaker 8: and kind of dust it off and put it back.
Speaker 1: And I did the old dust off the SIM card trick.
Speaker 1: Huh didn't work? No, that's wild. Okay, Well, this is
Speaker 1: very frustrating. Is that only your sister that it doesn't
Speaker 1: work with? Or is it everyone?
Speaker 8: It's looking like my sister is the only victim of this.
Speaker 1: Okay. Does your sister use an iPhone?
Speaker 7: She does?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, Here's what I think is happening. I think that
Speaker 1: the somehow I message is messing with this message to you.
Speaker 1: Did you ever previously have an iPhone?
Speaker 8: Never?
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's what I would do too. Okay, So
Speaker 1: a couple of things that I would do to figure
Speaker 1: this out. Now, if Mint couldn't get this to work,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I can, but this is how
Speaker 1: I would troubleshoo. So did Mint go through and make
Speaker 1: sure all the sort of what's called apns are correct?
Speaker 1: Did they go through that with you?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 8: I'm not quite sure what they did. They gave me
Speaker 8: a whole bunch of letters, and I read off a
Speaker 8: whole bunch of numbers, and they did something that took
Speaker 8: fifteen minutes, and I had to turn it up and
Speaker 8: put it back on, and I did, but it still
Speaker 8: didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: Did they have you text set up to sixty seven hundred?
Speaker 8: No, No, they do.
Speaker 1: So that's the first thing I try. So basically, whenever
Speaker 1: you have like an MV and zero on an unlocked phone,
Speaker 1: which sounds like you have, sometimes the settings for the
Speaker 1: Internet and messaging could get a little messed up. And
Speaker 1: so it just depends on how the phone is set
Speaker 1: up the SIM card, if it automatically configures or not.
Speaker 1: It sounds like in this case it was configured proper
Speaker 1: and then at some point you lost that proper configuration.
Speaker 1: Now the fact that it's only happening with your sister
Speaker 1: concerns me because it sounds like it could be an
Speaker 1: isolated Android to iPhone issue, which is very frustrating. Of course,
Speaker 1: so the steps that I would take, Number one, the
Speaker 1: easiest thing to do. If all of your other texts
Speaker 1: and your picture messaging and all that is coming through,
Speaker 1: then I would ask your sister to delete any text
Speaker 1: threads that involve you on her phone, and then restart
Speaker 1: her phone and then try sending a new text directly
Speaker 1: to you. That is the first step I would take.
Speaker 1: And the reason is because sometimes the iPhone gets caught
Speaker 1: up in just a little weird situation with kind of
Speaker 1: a challenge between a standard text message and an I message,
Speaker 1: and it gets confused sometimes, and so if you delete
Speaker 1: that entire thread, that may just trigger Okay, we know
Speaker 1: this is an Android phone, we know this as standard SMS.
Speaker 1: Let's send it this way and hope it goes through.
Speaker 1: So that is the first thing I would try, Okay,
Speaker 1: and then yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 8: And I couldn't. I just didn't go through. And I
Speaker 8: and she had just sent me the text, and I
Speaker 8: know she had the phone in her hands, so I'm
Speaker 8: not sure what's going on.
Speaker 1: And what about the phone call that doesn't go through either?
Speaker 8: No, it didn't. Oh, I got her home number, I'll
Speaker 8: try that instead, but I couldn't get a hold of
Speaker 8: her on her cell phone.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what I would do is I would definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, do the first step that I mentioned, have
Speaker 1: her delete everything, and then after that I would go through.
Speaker 1: I would text that set up to sixty seven hundred,
Speaker 1: and then once you get that, you'll get a text
Speaker 1: back from Mint. You can click that text and it
Speaker 1: should automatically configure your phone and that will kind of
Speaker 1: reset the settings and make sure everything works right. And
Speaker 1: then once you do that, I would restart your phone
Speaker 1: as well. But the reality is, you know, sometimes these
Speaker 1: things happen if for some reason, it seems to happen
Speaker 1: with text messaging a lot, especially from iPhone to Android
Speaker 1: and sometimes Android to iPhone, but more mostly you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's something that's going on with the configuration
Speaker 1: of the messages, either on your end or on her
Speaker 1: iPhone that's just not recognizing it. So those are the
Speaker 1: steps that I would take, Lauria, it's very frustrating. The
Speaker 1: other thing you might try to do is go into
Speaker 1: your settings and under your connections there should be a
Speaker 1: toggle for Wi Fi calling and texting. You might try
Speaker 1: toggling that on and off. So I would toggle it
Speaker 1: on if it's not on, and then try sending her
Speaker 1: a text. And then I would toggle it off if
Speaker 1: it's on, and then try sending her a text. So again,
Speaker 1: these are all of the kind of the methods I
Speaker 1: would use to troubleshoot the situation, but again very frustrating.
Speaker 1: And I remember my mom had a problem with her
Speaker 1: phone where the simcard was saying, you know, like it
Speaker 1: wasn't seeded properly. And now my mom is not the
Speaker 1: type that's gonna sit there and like push a SIM
Speaker 1: card with a paper clip. And yet somehow I got
Speaker 1: her to do that, and we took out the SIM card,
Speaker 1: like you said, we kind of you know, polished it
Speaker 1: off a little bit, put it back into the phone,
Speaker 1: reseated it, and it seemed to work. But she was
Speaker 1: very proud of herself for doing that. I remember specifically
Speaker 1: being outside on my back patio and just like walking
Speaker 1: my mom through this and kind of laughing, just thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, like what world am I living in where
Speaker 1: I'm walking my mom through taking a SIM card out
Speaker 1: of a phone and resetting it. It's just like stuff that,
Speaker 1: you know, the average person never really thinks about doing.
Speaker 1: And now, of course, many of the new phones have
Speaker 1: moved to e sims, which love the mer hatim. I
Speaker 1: actually think there's a lot of advantages to that because
Speaker 1: now the whole sort of SIM situation is much more
Speaker 1: digital and electronics. You don't have a physical SIM card
Speaker 1: in the new iPhone. It's just not even a thing anymore.
Speaker 1: All right, you're listening to rich on Tech. We'll have
Speaker 1: more of your calls at Triple eight rich one oh one,
Speaker 1: and more of your questions and stories. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the price hike for an Tendo games, all coming up
Speaker 1: on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: This is the show where we talk about the tech
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about, and it's the
Speaker 1: place where I answer your questions about technology. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining me. Rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, coming to you from across the country today. Well,
Speaker 1: depending on where you're listening, I guess it could be anywhere.
Speaker 1: But I'm in New Jersey here for my brother's housewarming
Speaker 1: party and maybe a little Super Bowl celebration as well.
Speaker 1: So kind of a fun first remote show. It's the
Speaker 1: first time I've done something like this on the radio. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's only been six shows, so I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it has to start somewhere though, right Anyway, it's been
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I hope there have not been
Speaker 1: too many hiccups for you listening. I think It's gone
Speaker 1: pretty well and I'm ready to do it again. Where
Speaker 1: should I go next? I don't know. Now that I've
Speaker 1: unlocked this oyster, it's kind of fun. I'm looking up
Speaker 1: some fun facts about New Jersey since I'm here. This
Speaker 1: is where I grew up, by the way, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, of course I learned about New Jersey as
Speaker 1: a kid, but you kind of forget. But I love
Speaker 1: this fact. It has seven major shopping malls in a
Speaker 1: square mile. I don't know if that's true or not,
Speaker 1: but we are as Why is New Jersey known for
Speaker 1: shopping malls? There's just like a lot of malls. I
Speaker 1: mean growing up as a kid, I went to the mall.
Speaker 1: That's where we hung out, you know, as teens, we
Speaker 1: hung out going to the mall. And I don't know
Speaker 1: do you kids still do that? Maybe? Anyway, if you
Speaker 1: have a question you want to ask me, my phone
Speaker 1: number is one eight eight eight rich one oh one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four to one
Speaker 1: zero one. By the way. On the way over here,
Speaker 1: this is this is just me. But you know, I
Speaker 1: I you know, I really think about stuff a lot,
Speaker 1: like maybe too much. But on the way over here,
Speaker 1: I was doing my research on where to sit on
Speaker 1: the plane, and of course I go to seakguru dot com.
Speaker 1: Have you gone to this website seekguru dot com. It
Speaker 1: basically lists a map of your airplane and then it
Speaker 1: shows you the best seats to sit in. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking like first class, like if you're paying for
Speaker 1: first class, you're always getting a good seat. But I'm
Speaker 1: talking about like the rest of the plane, because some
Speaker 1: seats are not as good as others. And so if
Speaker 1: you look at just sort of a you know, United
Speaker 1: Airlines or American Airlines, there's a bunch of different seats
Speaker 1: in there, and some may be good. So let me
Speaker 1: just go through here. So like C eight L, which
Speaker 1: is in business class. By the way, it's a live
Speaker 1: flat seat, but the proximity to the lavatory in galley
Speaker 1: maybe bothersome, so that's marked as a yellow seat. You
Speaker 1: don't want to sit there. Then there's a red seat
Speaker 1: in first class. It's a standard business class seat, but
Speaker 1: it's missing a window. So if you paid all this
Speaker 1: money for a business class seat and then you sit
Speaker 1: down and you have no window, you might be upset,
Speaker 1: Like my kid wanted a window on the plane. Then
Speaker 1: you've got some green seats, which are you know, this
Speaker 1: is a premium plus seat. It's got more leg room
Speaker 1: because it's a bulkhead seat. Bulkhead is when you have
Speaker 1: no road in front of you. It's just like that
Speaker 1: wall in the plane in front of you. So that's
Speaker 1: the bulkhead that used to be one of my favorite
Speaker 1: seats on the plane. And then of course you have
Speaker 1: just standard seats and yellow and red and green. So anyway,
Speaker 1: seatguru dot com if you want to check out where
Speaker 1: to sit on your next flight. I know some people
Speaker 1: might think that's a little bit over the top. I don't.
Speaker 1: I've been flying for many years, and you know there
Speaker 1: are better seats on the plane. Then you know, some
Speaker 1: seats are just better than others. So you look up
Speaker 1: your plane that you're gonna be on, or you can
Speaker 1: look up your flight. It'll give you the plane number,
Speaker 1: and then you can, you know, go to this website
Speaker 1: and pop it in and see where to sit. I
Speaker 1: put way too much work into this, and then they
Speaker 1: ended up swapping out the airplane, which is kind of funny.
Speaker 1: So after all the work I put in looking up
Speaker 1: where to sit on the plane, we got to the airport,
Speaker 1: and they said, oh, by the way, we swapped out
Speaker 1: the plane for a different one. They ended up switching
Speaker 1: it out for a better plane, so I ended up
Speaker 1: getting an even better seat than the one that I
Speaker 1: had picked. Anyway, none of that matters to you right now,
Speaker 1: except to know the website seat guru dot com. All right,
Speaker 1: Jeff is a truck driver in SoCal. Jeff, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich. What's going on?
Speaker 10: Hey?
Speaker 7: Rich?
Speaker 10: I appreciate taking him a call like in your show.
Speaker 10: My issue is I have two Apple TVs with two
Speaker 10: Samsung TVs, and when I come home and try to
Speaker 10: watch YouTube, I'll watch it, and then when it goes
Speaker 10: into a break or an ad or switches videos, it'll
Speaker 10: almost crash or tell me that there's no signal now,
Speaker 10: and then I'll have to go back to the main
Speaker 10: TV and then go back to YouTube and you know,
Speaker 10: like log back in again a most And I've never
Speaker 10: heard something like that.
Speaker 1: Are you using YouTube on the Samsung TV, like through
Speaker 1: their software or through the Apple TV?
Speaker 10: No, through the Apple TV. If I just use YouTube
Speaker 10: through the Samsung TV itself, it works perfectly, Okay, So.
Speaker 1: It's definitely something with the Apple TV. So how old
Speaker 1: is this Apple TV?
Speaker 10: It's the new one? And then I have what was
Speaker 10: it the one before that.
Speaker 1: Also stairs Oh wow, so you've got the Apple TV
Speaker 1: maybe four K something like that, and then the new one. Okay,
Speaker 1: well it sounds like, you know, it's definitely some sort
Speaker 1: of like software issue because it works nicely on the
Speaker 1: other side. So on the Samsung side it works perfectly.
Speaker 1: So I here's what I would do, and these are
Speaker 1: you know, I always give you kind of the the
Speaker 1: things that I would do, the steps that I would take.
Speaker 1: Number one, do you know how to close out an
Speaker 1: app on the Apple TV?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, so have you tried that? And when you do
Speaker 1: that what happens?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Close that all the app where you open them
Speaker 10: up and swipe up.
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, So just let me explain just again, let
Speaker 1: me just explain how to do that. If you have
Speaker 1: an Apple TV, you basically it's like pretty much you
Speaker 1: swipe or you double click on like the center of
Speaker 1: the of the clickwheel, and then it should like make
Speaker 1: all of your apps look a little bit smaller, and
Speaker 1: then you can just swipe left or right to select
Speaker 1: an app and then swipe up to get rid of
Speaker 1: that app and that closes it out. Most of the
Speaker 1: time you don't have to do that, but sometimes you do. Okay,
Speaker 1: So if that's doesn't work to close out the app,
Speaker 1: that's called a force quit, and that usually kind of
Speaker 1: you know, closes the app out and then you can
Speaker 1: open it back up. It kind of restarts it makes
Speaker 1: it work properly. Again, if that's not working, have you
Speaker 1: tried deleting the YouTube app and reinstalling it?
Speaker 7: I have actually in it.
Speaker 10: That's the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: Are you running some sort of ad blocker on your network?
Speaker 10: No, nothing special, no VPN Nope.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, hmm, that's a good one. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing is it should you know you've
Speaker 1: if you've deleted it and reinstalled it. Now, have you
Speaker 1: deleted the YouTube app, restarted the Apple TV and then
Speaker 1: reinstalled the YouTube app?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 1: Okay, That's what I would do, because there are some
Speaker 1: remnants to these apps that are left behind when you
Speaker 1: uninstall them that if you're just uninstalling and reinstalling, it
Speaker 1: may just right over the old app, and so there
Speaker 1: could still be some lingering problems. That's what I think,
Speaker 1: after hearing all these different things that you've troubleshoot. I
Speaker 1: think that that is the last thing to do and
Speaker 1: figure out. So what I would do is go in
Speaker 1: delete the YouTube app and then restart the Apple TV
Speaker 1: by pulling the cord or just restarting it however you
Speaker 1: do that, and then letting it warn back up, install
Speaker 1: the app again, see if it happens, and I would
Speaker 1: hope that that would clear out all the fragments and
Speaker 1: and you know junk that may be lingering on this
Speaker 1: install that is causing it to hiccup like this, and
Speaker 1: hopefully that will fix it.
Speaker 10: Alrighty s, I do appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Hope I'll get that try today, all right, Jeff, Hey,
Speaker 1: I was talking about the electric semi earlier. Would you
Speaker 1: ever drive one?
Speaker 10: Or no? I wouldn't mind driving them. I wouldn't want
Speaker 10: to be followed by one on the road that doesn't
Speaker 10: have a driver in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I guess that's next, right, that's what's that's
Speaker 1: what's uh oh man, Well, I don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to happen. I think you'll be okay for for a
Speaker 1: while because I don't think that's going to happen right way.
Speaker 1: And they're doing mostly short distances with that kind of
Speaker 1: things that are you know, more like figured out in advance.
Speaker 10: Right. Yeah, I've heard rumors that Australia is doing something
Speaker 10: like that where the leaf truck has a driver in
Speaker 10: it and then the rear truck is just a computer
Speaker 10: that follows the front truck. But I haven't seen anything.
Speaker 10: I haven't looked for on YouTube or up like that.
Speaker 10: But I just heard the driver's talking about it. But
Speaker 10: truck drivers like Krisherman, they've all get their stories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure you have plenty, and now you've got
Speaker 1: something to look up on YouTube when you get this
Speaker 1: back up and running. Jeff, thanks for calling today. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 10: You got it, sir, Thanks for the help.
Speaker 1: All right, let me just tell you about this price hike.
Speaker 1: Nintendo their next Zelda game, Legends of Zelda Tiers of
Speaker 1: the Kingdom, is going to cost sixty nine ninety nine
Speaker 1: when it's released on May twelfth. That is ten dollars
Speaker 1: more than the typical price for new Nintendo games that
Speaker 1: are sort of the top of the line games, right,
Speaker 1: They used to be fifty nine to ninety nine. Now
Speaker 1: we've also seen pricing preases on Sony games for the
Speaker 1: PlayStation and also games for the Xbox. So what does
Speaker 1: this mean. This means that now that the sort of
Speaker 1: barrier has been broken for that sixty nine to ninety
Speaker 1: nine price point, you can bet that other big name
Speaker 1: games for the Nintendo Switch are now going to cost more.
Speaker 1: So that's just kind of the way things are right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm getting
Speaker 1: all these emails about prices going up on just about
Speaker 1: everything that I've purchased in the past, or subscriptions that
Speaker 1: I have, And now the Nintendo Switch games seventy bucks
Speaker 1: for a game. And by the way, if you have
Speaker 1: two kids with a Switch, you know you gotta buy
Speaker 1: double games, so that could be tricky. Breath of the
Speaker 1: Wild was the first Zelda game for the Switch that
Speaker 1: launched the console. Nintendo sold twenty nine million copies of
Speaker 1: that game, and they've sold one hundred and twenty three
Speaker 1: million Switch consoles. So Nintendo's cleaning up with the Switch
Speaker 1: just became I think the third best selling console device
Speaker 1: in the world as of last month. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for listening rich on Tech. Here, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have more of the show coming up. We are going
Speaker 1: to talk about an app that lets you scan your
Speaker 1: baseball card collection to see how much it's worth. It's
Speaker 1: really cool. Plus I'm gonna tell you how to avoid
Speaker 1: a simcard scam. You're listening to rich on Tech. More
Speaker 1: of the show coming up. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
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Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 11: It's good to hear you coming back from my home state. Wow,
Speaker 11: part of New Journey.
Speaker 1: I am in North Jersey, so right outside New York
Speaker 1: City basically, so you're from New Jersey, New York.
Speaker 11: I grew I didn't grow up. I'm from part Shippany
Speaker 11: and Orange and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But wow, okay, oh wow, Well New Jersey gets such
Speaker 1: a bad rap. I don't know why, but people it's
Speaker 1: just been like the butt of like every joke for
Speaker 1: so many years.
Speaker 11: No, no, no, no, I tell people. They tell you they're from
Speaker 11: New York. I tell oh, anybody could be from New York.
Speaker 11: You have to be special to be from New Jersey.
Speaker 11: And then they give me this clayer.
Speaker 1: I was looking at my I've flown like almost five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand miles on United and I think a majority
Speaker 1: that has been landing in New York, so I know
Speaker 1: the airport very well. Anyway, what are you going to
Speaker 1: help you out?
Speaker 11: I got a couple of questions, and if I have
Speaker 11: to listen off on the radio, if you want to after,
Speaker 11: I tell you, Okay, if you talked about a week
Speaker 11: and a half ago you were telling about the Amazon
Speaker 11: with the prescription thing, and you said that in California
Speaker 11: they don't have it as available in California, but you
Speaker 11: didn't tell how come. And then the other thing I
Speaker 11: was going to ask you is about the Samsung thing.
Speaker 11: You told about the phones coming out, and you didn't
Speaker 11: happen to tell the prices of them, and I wondered,
Speaker 11: how come you didn't tell the prices on that? Okay?
Speaker 11: And I was the other part of that question for
Speaker 11: the Samsung was I'm looking to get the s twenty three.
Speaker 11: But I wanted to know what your opinion is because
Speaker 11: I heard you talk about the one plus and how
Speaker 11: you compare the two phones which we would get at
Speaker 11: Samsung as twenty three or at one plus.
Speaker 1: Ooh, good question. All right. Let me let me just
Speaker 1: get to the Amazon RX pass I mentioned, is a
Speaker 1: new like five dollars a month for unlimited prescriptions. It's
Speaker 1: not available in California. I don't know why it's not.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that California has some additional restrictions on online
Speaker 1: pharmacies that other states don't. But there's a couple of
Speaker 1: states that it was not available in, So it wasn't
Speaker 1: just California, it was, you know, a couple of other
Speaker 1: states as well. I don't have the list of those
Speaker 1: states right away. It says available in forty two states,
Speaker 1: so let me see if I can find the states
Speaker 1: that it's not Okay, it's ourx pass is currently not
Speaker 1: available to send medications to California, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas,
Speaker 1: and Washington, So it says Amazon pharmacy is still available
Speaker 1: in those states. So clearly there's some kind of extra
Speaker 1: rule or regulation that the RX pass just they just
Speaker 1: can't do in those states. I think there, if it's Amazon,
Speaker 1: they're probably working on it, and I would imagine that
Speaker 1: they would bring it to those states eventually if they can.
Speaker 1: But that's the answer for that. I'm not sure why
Speaker 1: it's not there. I think it should be because I
Speaker 1: think people in all states should have access to that
Speaker 1: five dollars a month for unlimited prescriptions. Now, the question
Speaker 1: about the Samsung S twenty three, so the reason I
Speaker 1: don't go I kind of mentioned the standard pricing, which
Speaker 1: starts at eight hundred dollars for the standard S T
Speaker 1: twenty three, and then the S twenty three Ultra, which
Speaker 1: is the top of the line, starts at twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: The reason I don't make a big deal about the
Speaker 1: specific pricing is because everyone's situation is so different when
Speaker 1: it comes to how they pay for their phone and
Speaker 1: how they get a discount on their device. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the website right now. I mean, Samsung
Speaker 1: has so many different sort of offer programs. They've got
Speaker 1: discount for education, They've got discounts for government employees, military
Speaker 1: first responders employees. So I mean those can all factor
Speaker 1: into the price of your phone. And then of course
Speaker 1: some people have a trade in so you might trade
Speaker 1: in your old phone. Maybe I had the S twenty one,
Speaker 1: And because Samsung kind of inflates the trade in values
Speaker 1: right around the time they launch their new phones, people
Speaker 1: will trade in their old phone and get like eight
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for it, something unheard of because the phone.
Speaker 1: You know, Samsung's taking a little bit of a hit
Speaker 1: on that trade in value just to get you into
Speaker 1: a new phone. So that's the pricing when it comes
Speaker 1: to comparing the Samsung versus the one plus eleven. I've
Speaker 1: been using the one plus eleven. I used it briefly,
Speaker 1: so I haven't really used it as like my daily driver,
Speaker 1: but I will tell you that it's a really tough one.
Speaker 1: I would say the software on the one plus I
Speaker 1: really really enjoy. I think that they make their software
Speaker 1: super useful. It's handy. It reminds me of the pixel
Speaker 1: except more useful. So they add like all these little
Speaker 1: features in like a reader mode where it can turn
Speaker 1: your screen, like if you can add apps to the
Speaker 1: reader mode, So if you open up like the Kindle app,
Speaker 1: it will turn your screen grayscale or Sepia toned. So
Speaker 1: it's like fun little things like that. Or if you
Speaker 1: open up a game, it's got like a game mode
Speaker 1: on it, so it like you know, boosts the processing
Speaker 1: power and makes the screen brighter. So it's little things
Speaker 1: like that that I really do appreciate about the one plus.
Speaker 1: I always feel like the one plus is good if
Speaker 1: you're very cost conscious. So if you want to spend
Speaker 1: a little bit less then the Samsung, then I'd say
Speaker 1: go with the one plus. I think the downside is
Speaker 1: the sort of repair and help that you get with
Speaker 1: a one plus is going to be a bit more
Speaker 1: limited than you would with a Samsung. Samsung's got deals
Speaker 1: with all these like little you know, you go into
Speaker 1: any of those little stores, those repair shops, and they've
Speaker 1: got the Samsung parts, they've got the Samsung screens that
Speaker 1: people know because they work on a bunch of Samsung phones.
Speaker 1: So in that case, I feel like you're going to
Speaker 1: get a little bit more support when it comes to
Speaker 1: a problem with your phone. Now, the iPhone is sort
Speaker 1: of the king of that situation. Where I was in
Speaker 1: Japan and I had a problem with my laptop. I
Speaker 1: made an appointment at the Genius Bar, and without even thinking,
Speaker 1: I started walking over and I said, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 1: is the person that's a Genius Bar even going to
Speaker 1: speak English? And it wasn't even something that occurred to me,
Speaker 1: like I just like imagine they would, and sure enough
Speaker 1: I get there and they did. And so it was
Speaker 1: just an incredible experience where here I was across the
Speaker 1: world and I was still able to get my laptop
Speaker 1: service because Apple just has so many store in so
Speaker 1: many places, and you break your iPhone anywhere in the
Speaker 1: world and you're gonna be able to get a replacement
Speaker 1: like the same day. So I've been using the Samsung
Speaker 1: S twenty three Ultra. I think it is a phenomenal device.
Speaker 1: It is a powerhouse of a phone. It is every
Speaker 1: feature that you can want on a smartphone all in one.
Speaker 1: And so if you are desiring the absolute best two
Speaker 1: hundred megapixel camera, every feature you can ever imagine a stylus.
Speaker 1: I mean, this phone is really one to be I've
Speaker 1: been super impressed with it. I think the camera is great,
Speaker 1: and especially in bright light, it's amazing. In low light
Speaker 1: it's amazing. There are some places where it struggles, specifically
Speaker 1: low light selfies. I've noticed if you're an extremely low
Speaker 1: light it can take a little bit longer to take
Speaker 1: a picture. And also some of the video is in
Speaker 1: low light could struggle a little bit too. But if
Speaker 1: you want a great phone, S twenty three Ultra I
Speaker 1: think is gonna be a really nice pick. All right,
Speaker 1: Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about the app that
Speaker 1: lets you scan your baseball cards to see how much
Speaker 1: they're worth. You're listening to rich on Tech. More of
Speaker 1: your calls and an interview coming up next. Rich Demiro here,
Speaker 1: rich On Tech, Welcome back to the show. As you
Speaker 1: can tell, I am inside somewhere. I'm inside Burbanks Sports Cards,
Speaker 1: and I'm here with Ted Mann, the co founder of Collects.
Speaker 1: This is an app that I dreamed of having as
Speaker 1: a kid. It's an app that lets you scan your cards,
Speaker 1: your baseball cards, football cards, hockey cards, whatever, and then
Speaker 1: see what the value of those cards are and some
Speaker 1: other features. So, Ted, thanks for joining me, Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me on Rich. So we're inside this baseball card
Speaker 1: shop or I guess card store. It's incredible. It's bringing
Speaker 1: me back to my childhood when I ripped open those
Speaker 1: card packs and you know, had a little collection. I
Speaker 1: was never too serious, but many people are so. First off,
Speaker 1: just tell me kind of the idea behind baseball card
Speaker 1: collecting or card collecting.
Speaker 2: Well, I think for you know, for a lot of people,
Speaker 2: like cards are the first time you really experience doing
Speaker 2: a deal, making money right, trying to figure out what
Speaker 2: these things are valuable or not. And I started to
Speaker 2: see that in my own son. I have a ten
Speaker 2: year old son named Charlie who got really into cards
Speaker 2: over the pandemic, and just like me when I was
Speaker 2: his age, like it became quickly graduated from being like
Speaker 2: a hobby, you know something I was like interested in
Speaker 2: the pretty pictures on the cards, to like really being
Speaker 2: serious about I want to be able to find, you know,
Speaker 2: the most valuable cards. I want to build a flip cards.
Speaker 2: I want to find cards and sell them. My friends
Speaker 2: do deals, and so I started to see that with him,
Speaker 2: and I think that that's a lot of people kind
Speaker 2: of are with this hobby, is it becomes go graduates
Speaker 2: from like a passion into something of an obsession. And
Speaker 2: you know, I have my own son to thank for
Speaker 2: bringing me back into that and it's now become something
Speaker 2: that we get to do together.
Speaker 1: Tell me about coming up with this app? What made
Speaker 1: you create it?
Speaker 2: So Charlie was having a lot of the same problems
Speaker 2: that I had when he got into cards, which was
Speaker 2: he couldn't figure out what his cards are worth. He
Speaker 2: was googling and getting crazy numbers, and he would frequently
Speaker 2: do a deal at school and feel badly about it. Right,
Speaker 2: He'd do a dumb deal, and then he would come
Speaker 2: to me and say, Dad, can you help me get
Speaker 2: my card back? And this happened multiple occasions, and I
Speaker 2: did the exact same thing with him that my dad
Speaker 2: did with me, which is like, I'm not gonna unwind
Speaker 2: that trade.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna It's like I can't swoop in and
Speaker 1: kind of fix this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as much as I'd like to, like, I'm just
Speaker 2: going to teach you to figure out what your cards
Speaker 2: are worth so you don't make stupid trades in the future,
Speaker 2: and and so I set about trying to help Charlie
Speaker 2: with that. At first I bought him a Beckett Guide.
Speaker 1: Do you ever, of course I remember, I remember as
Speaker 1: a kid like looking in the tiny numbers.
Speaker 2: The Beckett Guide would have a price on every card
Speaker 2: so you could go through and look it up. But
Speaker 2: nowadays there's so many cards out there. We'll talk more
Speaker 2: about the collects out in a sec, but like, we
Speaker 2: have twenty million cards that we track.
Speaker 1: That's a lot.
Speaker 2: So that's a prety big phone book. And Charlie the
Speaker 2: minute I gave him that that beccacud he was like, Dad,
Speaker 2: like this is this is not fun, this is too
Speaker 2: much work. So then we went on the Internet and
Speaker 2: I tried to We tried to find apps, we tried
Speaker 2: to websites that would give us an answer, and honestly,
Speaker 2: the best answers we got came from eBay, because that's
Speaker 2: where most people buy and sell cards these days. But
Speaker 2: even on eBay, it was a lot to sort through.
Speaker 2: And so Charlie would come and ask me for help
Speaker 2: with this every day. And finally, like so many I
Speaker 2: think inventions that are startups that get founded, I just
Speaker 2: got so frustrated that I wanted to have a better,
Speaker 2: easier way to do it, so I made made a
Speaker 2: little tool for Charlie to help him figure out the
Speaker 2: price of his cards, and that's what gave birth to
Speaker 2: the idea for Collects.
Speaker 1: So Collects is an app that lets you scan the card.
Speaker 1: It kind of pulls the you know, the prices across
Speaker 1: various platforms and then comes up with a number and
Speaker 1: assigns that value to your card. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: So we have we have about twenty million cards that
Speaker 2: we can match the images to. Right, So you take
Speaker 2: a pic, sure, and we use a technology called computer
Speaker 2: vision or visual search to match the cards, similar to like,
Speaker 2: you know, if you hear about like facial recognition, you know,
Speaker 2: it's sort of like the same idea, except in this case,
Speaker 2: we're just matching a reference image of a card to
Speaker 2: the picture you've just taken. And the technology works really
Speaker 2: well for that purpose. So we can match with a
Speaker 2: very high degree of accuracy and say, okay, this card
Speaker 2: matches to this other card. Once we match it to
Speaker 2: the card, then you can see what's the current average price.
Speaker 2: We average all of the most recent sales on eBay
Speaker 2: and other sites to calculate that, so we'll give you
Speaker 2: the average price, and then we can also tell you,
Speaker 2: you know, what would the card be worth if you
Speaker 2: if you wanted to sell it, or if you want
Speaker 2: to degrade it, if you want to send it off
Speaker 2: to a professional grading service. What would that do to
Speaker 2: the value of the card.
Speaker 1: So that's basically how it works. Yeah, and of course
Speaker 1: you can build your collection inside the app. You can
Speaker 1: see how much your entire collection is worth, and you
Speaker 1: can buy, sell, and trade with other people inside the app.
Speaker 1: How has the app been doing well?
Speaker 2: So all of that stuff you just mentioned, that all
Speaker 2: kind of came probably after you and I first talked.
Speaker 2: So when we first launched the app, it was just
Speaker 2: a pure utility, just take a picture of the card,
Speaker 2: get the value, build your collection. Right, that was the
Speaker 2: sort of the initial kind of like maybe not an MVP,
Speaker 2: but the initial version of of Collects. And then what
Speaker 2: we started to see happening was people were building really
Speaker 2: big collections. The average user on the app will add
Speaker 2: about two hundred cards to their collection, but we have
Speaker 2: a ton of users that have thousands, tens of thousands,
Speaker 2: hundreds of.
Speaker 1: Thousands of cards.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so we start to see these people building
Speaker 2: bandsive collections, and then the really cool things. They started
Speaker 2: to reach out to one another, so like, you know,
Speaker 2: your friend might have somebody else that would reach out
Speaker 2: to them.
Speaker 1: And say, hey, I really like your Jerry Rice card.
Speaker 2: I want to buy that from you? Would you take
Speaker 2: twenty bucks for it? And so they started doing these
Speaker 2: deals and we started to see that happening organically. It
Speaker 2: was honestly, like probably not the best experience because they
Speaker 2: were just doing it all through private messaging. In the app,
Speaker 2: we have a messaging feature, but we you know, luckily
Speaker 2: like laid enough of the groundwork that it was all possible.
Speaker 2: And so we started to look at how many any
Speaker 2: cards we're getting sold through the app, and over the
Speaker 2: last five months, we've seen fifty million dollars worth of
Speaker 2: cards sold on the Collects app. So people are actually
Speaker 2: doing some pretty big deals here. I mean it's you know,
Speaker 2: this is an eBay yet, but it's it's definitely like
Speaker 2: a cool place to be able to you know, buy
Speaker 2: or sell or do a trade.
Speaker 1: So we're talking with Ted Man, a co founder of Collects,
Speaker 1: an app that lets you scan your baseball cards see
Speaker 1: their value and also there's a lot of social access
Speaker 1: aspects to this app as well. You can buy, sell,
Speaker 1: and trade with different people that are using the app.
Speaker 1: How do you think this differentiates from just say, scanning
Speaker 1: a card with like Google Lens, or just putting the
Speaker 1: card into eBay.
Speaker 8: Sure?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know a bunch of other platforms
Speaker 2: exist where you can go and you can do you
Speaker 2: can buy or sell a card. I think what makes
Speaker 2: Collects different than like say an eBay is it's a
Speaker 2: social experience right where you can find the other collectors,
Speaker 2: you can see what they've got, you can see if
Speaker 2: what your shared interests are. So if you both collect
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, we can help surface those cards front and
Speaker 2: center to make it a little bit easier to find
Speaker 2: the cards that you would want to be able to
Speaker 2: purchase from that person.
Speaker 1: Or do a deal with.
Speaker 2: So in that sense, it's like you know, I think
Speaker 2: it's it is different from those social marketplaces. Plus, we
Speaker 2: have the utility of being able to scan the card
Speaker 2: and match it, so Google Lens doesn't really do that
Speaker 2: per se. Google lends will allow you to match to
Speaker 2: images on the Internet, but none of what Google does
Speaker 2: is tied to any kind of what we call canonical
Speaker 2: data is not tied to the actual checklist of the
Speaker 2: cards versus collects where we're actually going to match it
Speaker 2: to that exact record so that you get the pricing reliably.
Speaker 1: What types of cards do you support?
Speaker 2: So we started with just a few sports like football, baseball, basketball,
Speaker 2: but now we have like hockey, wrestling, We have all
Speaker 2: the trading card games like Pokemon.
Speaker 8: Magic Yu Gi.
Speaker 2: Oh, and we're going to be adding a bunch more sports,
Speaker 2: like we have a lot of demand for racing cards
Speaker 2: and MMA and things like that, so we'll be garbage
Speaker 2: failed Kids was a passionate mind when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: So we'll be adding those other categories in the coming months.
Speaker 1: I had kept my original Series one garbage pail Kids
Speaker 1: for many years. I came home from college one year
Speaker 1: and my brother had taken all the stickers off and
Speaker 1: put them on my wall.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the Series one garbage because they're worth a ton.
Speaker 1: Now that's I'm trying not to look up the values
Speaker 1: anymore because I don't want to know the idea of
Speaker 1: baseball card collecting. We live in such a high tech society.
Speaker 1: Everything's digital. These cards are physical, but you're kind of
Speaker 1: bridging that physical and digital world. So do you think
Speaker 1: this kind of changes the marketplace?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think just being able to have your
Speaker 2: cards in, like, you know, in a digital collection, whether
Speaker 2: or not we're not actually like turning them into n
Speaker 2: fts or anything like that, but just being able to
Speaker 2: like track the value of your cards over time, to
Speaker 2: know when they're going up and down in value, to
Speaker 2: have other people be able to kind of like make
Speaker 2: an offer when a card is spiking or dropping in value.
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty cool, right, And that's that's the thing,
Speaker 2: like you said, I mean, I don't even think I
Speaker 2: could have like comprehended the idea of like smartphones much
Speaker 2: less like collects when I was a kid. But the
Speaker 2: fact that you can do it now, I think it
Speaker 2: is really a cool way to advance the hobby. But
Speaker 2: I don't think it it obvigates the need to still
Speaker 2: have those physical cards, because actually being able to show
Speaker 2: cards to your friends, you know, in the physical world,
Speaker 2: I think is still so cool and such a such
Speaker 2: a neat part of the whole experience of collecting.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much for joining me. How to
Speaker 1: folks find the app?
Speaker 2: So Collex app is free. It's in the iOS app
Speaker 2: store as well as Google Play. We are going to
Speaker 2: be coming out with a web version pretty soon as well,
Speaker 2: So just go download the app and hopefully give it
Speaker 2: five stars.
Speaker 1: All right, Ted, Man of Collects, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me. If you want to learn more about the app,
Speaker 1: you can find a link on my website. Just go
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Speaker 1: Tech coming up after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Tom is in San Diego. Tom, You're on with rich
Speaker 1: How can I help?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: Thank you rich nice on.
Speaker 7: First time I've.
Speaker 1: Talked to you. Oh thanks, good to hear thank you.
Speaker 1: I hear you loud and clear.
Speaker 10: Perfect.
Speaker 7: It's a good thing for my hand right out?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, here's the deal. I'm trying to set up
Speaker 7: a golf driving range in my garage and I've hooked
Speaker 7: up at TV and I can use my Android Fixel
Speaker 7: six phone for a camera. I can get it casted
Speaker 7: and all that. But the only thing is I can only,
Speaker 7: for example, turn on the camera do what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 7: and then I have to stop rewind it. What I'm wondering,
Speaker 7: is there any way I can turn it into more
Speaker 7: like a cam where I can watch it while I'm
Speaker 7: doing it.
Speaker 1: So you've got picture, so you've got if you're casting,
Speaker 1: isn't isn't that live?
Speaker 7: Yes? But when I'm going through my phone, I've got
Speaker 7: it set up on you know, a photo for a
Speaker 7: motion video for BCR or you know movie pictures. Sure,
Speaker 7: but it only I only see the picture when it's
Speaker 7: actually recording or when it's actually recorded. When I go
Speaker 7: back and play, then I can watch. Then I can
Speaker 7: cast it and watch it. I'm trying to turn it
Speaker 7: into like a live cam where I can watch on
Speaker 7: the TV while I'm practicing my.
Speaker 1: Stroke, and so where it kind of where you're you're
Speaker 1: just seeing a live viewfinder of what's happening on your phone.
Speaker 7: That's what I want to do, yes, And I don't
Speaker 7: know how.
Speaker 1: To do that, and Google Cast doesn't let you do.
Speaker 7: That, not that I've been able to figure out.
Speaker 1: How How are you How are you casting? Are you casting? Okay,
Speaker 1: So there's a couple of ways to cast on an Android.
Speaker 1: So one of them cast the entire screen. So there's
Speaker 1: there's that, and then there's the casting inside the app.
Speaker 1: So if you're casting inside, say like Google Photos, that's
Speaker 1: different than casting your entire screen. So if you look
Speaker 1: on your your settings on your phone, there should be
Speaker 1: a cast that lets you cast your entire screen versus
Speaker 1: just the single app. Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 7: And well, would I be able to? Would I set
Speaker 7: it up that way? And and it's just basically like
Speaker 7: a cam.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if now I've not done this personally
Speaker 1: in a long time. I know with the iPhone you
Speaker 1: can you can mirror it pretty easily to the Apple
Speaker 1: TV and see the viewfinder and see a live view.
Speaker 1: But I have not done this in a while on
Speaker 1: the Android side of things, so I'd have to check
Speaker 1: to see. But I don't see why you would not
Speaker 1: be able to do that. I mean, if you if
Speaker 1: you can cast your screen, anything that's happening on your
Speaker 1: screen can be cast to another screen, whether that's the
Speaker 1: camera or you know, whatever's going on, but you have
Speaker 1: to actually go in and cast that versus the in
Speaker 1: app casting, which is I know it sounds a little different,
Speaker 1: That's that's really what I'm trying to look at. I
Speaker 1: don't have a pixel with me right here, but I'm
Speaker 1: trying to see if they're if you go into like
Speaker 1: your quick toggles have you seen those where you like
Speaker 1: pull down those buttons that are at the top of
Speaker 1: the screen, right, that's where you might find the cast
Speaker 1: where it's going to cast your entire screen and not
Speaker 1: just the app, and not just.
Speaker 7: Not just the camera or not just the video.
Speaker 1: Camera exactly like the photos app. So have you ever
Speaker 1: gotten to a place where, like when you cast this screen,
Speaker 1: you see all your apps and everything like on the
Speaker 1: TV screen.
Speaker 7: I haven't seen that yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, then that's what you need to do. So
Speaker 1: that's that's your that's what you need to do on
Speaker 1: the on the Android phone. So if you're using a pixel,
Speaker 1: swipe down from the top, swipe down again, you get
Speaker 1: all those little tiles of different kind of quick toggles.
Speaker 1: It looks like you know it says Wi Fi Bluetooth
Speaker 1: auto rotate flashlight. If you edit those, there should be
Speaker 1: one in there that says cast screen. That's the one
Speaker 1: that you want to enable, and that's the one that
Speaker 1: you want to use to cast your screen while you're
Speaker 1: practicing your golf swing and then you know you should
Speaker 1: be able to see that on that TV screen at
Speaker 1: the same time. So hopefully that'll help.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 10: Whish me love. I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 1: All right, good luck, Tom, appreciate it, appreciate the call. Okay,
Speaker 1: to close out the show, here, let me tell you
Speaker 1: about the SIM swapping. I know I talked earlier about
Speaker 1: SIM cards and how they've become more electronic, which is
Speaker 1: probably a good thing. But SIM swapping doesn't require actually
Speaker 1: swapping out a physical SIM. It's actually someone stealing your
Speaker 1: SIM card information and activating their phone with your info.
Speaker 1: So here's how it works. Basically, someone gets your information,
Speaker 1: they call up your wireless carrier and they pretend they're
Speaker 1: you and they say, oh, I got a new phone.
Speaker 1: I'd like to swap my SIM with the new phone.
Speaker 1: And the operator says, okay, let me verify you are
Speaker 1: who you are. And because of all these data breaches
Speaker 1: out there, you know, these hackers can figure out ways
Speaker 1: of piecing together your identity and so they know that
Speaker 1: you know your secret question or secret answer to your
Speaker 1: secret question is this. They know what your address is,
Speaker 1: they know what your phone number is. We recently saw
Speaker 1: big data breaches from T Mobile that exposed like thirty
Speaker 1: seven million customers information. And this is a story, by
Speaker 1: the way, from ABC seven New York about two people
Speaker 1: that had gosh, twenty thousand dollars wired out of one
Speaker 1: one account and sixty thousand dollars out of another. While
Speaker 1: these people keep a lot of money in their their accounts,
Speaker 1: and both of these women were victims of a simcard
Speaker 1: swap scam. And so basically, these criminals convinced the carrier
Speaker 1: to let them activate a new phone. And what's going
Speaker 1: to happen when that happens. Well, now they've got the
Speaker 1: keys to your kingdom. All those little text messages that
Speaker 1: come through the two factor authentication codes, all of those
Speaker 1: codes are now coming to their phone. So what can
Speaker 1: they do. Well, they try to log into your bank account,
Speaker 1: and your bank says, huh, this is weird. This is
Speaker 1: a new device that we haven't seen before. Let's verify this.
Speaker 1: Let's send that device a text. They send a text
Speaker 1: with that one time code. But now the hacker has
Speaker 1: that one time code and they can enter it and
Speaker 1: get into your bank account, and they can do this
Speaker 1: for a whole bunch of different things. When we've heard this,
Speaker 1: this is nothing new. This has been going on for
Speaker 1: a long time. But people still, you know, it still
Speaker 1: happens to people because their accounts are not properly locked down,
Speaker 1: and so in one case, this woman said, she goes,
Speaker 1: I was on an airplane when this happens, so there's
Speaker 1: no way that I could have authorized these transfers, like
Speaker 1: here's my plane ticket, Like when this all happened, I
Speaker 1: was literally on a plane. And a lot of times
Speaker 1: people will see their phones just go dead, like the
Speaker 1: signal just goes out because it's been moved to a
Speaker 1: different device. So how can you protect yourself from all
Speaker 1: of this? The big takeaway Number one, you probably want
Speaker 1: to use a two factor authentication app. I know, I
Speaker 1: talk about two factor authentication all the time. The easiest
Speaker 1: way to do that is with a text code. Now,
Speaker 1: if you look at Google what they've done, they've gotten
Speaker 1: pretty smart. They actually will ask you when you're logging
Speaker 1: in from like an unknown device. They'll say, hey, can
Speaker 1: you open up the YouTube app on your iPad? And
Speaker 1: that's how they verify you are who you are because
Speaker 1: the hacker typically doesn't have your iPad as well and
Speaker 1: access to that. So they've gotten pretty good about that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Like they've stopped doing like the two
Speaker 1: factor code sent to your text, but other apps still
Speaker 1: use that, especially bank apps, So use a two factor
Speaker 1: authentication app. That means that you won't get texts. It's
Speaker 1: like an app that relies on generating different codes every
Speaker 1: thirty seconds or so, and that's more secure. And also
Speaker 1: if your app allows it, like if your banking app
Speaker 1: allows a pin code or a fingerprint authentication, definitely use that.
Speaker 1: Always change your mobile account pin number and password. Do
Speaker 1: not use your pet name, use something strong. And then
Speaker 1: all of the carriers, whether it's T Mobile, AT and
Speaker 1: T or Verizon, they all have a way to lock
Speaker 1: down your account so that someone can't simswap you. On
Speaker 1: T Mobile it's called takeover protection. Make sure you enable it.
Speaker 1: On Verizon it's called number lock, so you can ask
Speaker 1: them to enable that. Think you can do it right
Speaker 1: from your app. And then on AT and T you
Speaker 1: can ask them to activate two factor authentication texts. So
Speaker 1: no matter what or sorry, authentic a unique passcode for
Speaker 1: AT and T if you want any changes. So T
Speaker 1: Mobile account takeover protection, Verizon number lock, AT and T
Speaker 1: out a unique passcode for any changes that are asked
Speaker 1: about your account. Very important stuff. You do not want
Speaker 1: to lose access to any of your personal information, all right,
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