WEBVTT - 006 Rich on Tech Radio Show - February 11, 2023 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:04.760 Is bing back Baby. Not to be outdone, Google says 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:09.160 we've got AI two how to protect yourself from simswapping, 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.680 Plus your tech questions answered? What is going on? I'm 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.040 Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the show 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.239 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.400 should know about, and it's the place where I answer 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:26.960 your questions about technology. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.680 Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show. Phone 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.840 lines are now open at one eight eight eight Rich 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.720 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.279 four to one zero one. Now, this is not a 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.720 show for techies. I know that sounds strange, right, not 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.599 a show for techies, although I do think that techies 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:50.879 enjoy this show, and if you are a techie, I 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.440 think you'll like it. But this is a show for everyone. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.160 Technology affects so many of our lives in everything that 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.000 we do. So my job is to help you understand 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.880 that technology, stay on top of it, and answer your questions, 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.280 whether that's a tech question, whether that's a theoretical question, 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.559 whether you just want to say hi, give me a call. 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.319 If you have a question about technology, This is the 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.240 show for you. Now, if you can't tell already the 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.279 show might sound a little bit different. This is another 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.919 first for the rich On Tech Show. I am coming 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.679 to you live from New Jersey. No, I'm not here 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.800 for the super Bowl, although I may watch it while 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.399 I'm here. Super Bowl's not happening here. I mean it 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.039 is on TVs, I guess. No. I'm here because my 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.560 brother is having a housewarming party. I didn't want to 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.640 miss it for the world, and so I said, you 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.080 know what, I might as well dive off the edge 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.840 and just try this whole remote show thing. And so 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.680 I am sitting here looking at the hills of New Jersey, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.600 the Garden State. Did you know that New Jersey gets 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.960 such a bad rap? But it is such a beautiful place. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.400 So I'm looking at a beautiful hill. It was cold 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.120 out this morning. Went for a nice walk here seeing 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.680 my family while I'm here as well. So if the 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.640 show it sounds a little different, if there's a little 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.440 hiccup here there, you know what, it's all learning experience. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.840 I lugged a lot of stuff here to make this 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.000 show possible through the airport, so it should be a 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.480 lot of fun to do this. And also I'm quite 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.200 impressed just how fun it is to be able to 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.360 do a show anywhere, well, I guess in the world. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.280 But let's not get let's not get too ahead of 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.480 ourselves right now, anywhere in the US. Let's say so, 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.800 that's kind of cool. This was a huge week for 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.799 artificial intelligence. And this is what I love about hanging 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.160 out with people like my family, my friends, who are 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.480 not necessarily techies. It's because I live in a world 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.360 where I just assume the knowledge base. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:37.679 Right. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.560 I've been hearing about chat GPT now for weeks, I've 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.120 been playing with it, I've been talking about it. And 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.080 then you sit down to dinner with a bunch of 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.320 what I call regular folks, and I break out the 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.240 chat GPT talk and next thing you know, the record stops. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.120 It skips everyone at the tables like, what are you 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.760 talking about? Rich? And I said, wait, what you don't 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.400 know about chat GPT. If this is single handedly turn 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.840 the tech world upside down in the span of a 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:08.000 couple of weeks, it is bringing Google to a screeching 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.720 halt as well. It's making Microsoft maybe have a chance 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.560 to be on top once again with their being search engine. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.240 It is changing everything from love to Snapple I'll explain 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.360 the moment. So chat GPT launched a couple of weeks ago. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.720 It's from a company called open Ai. And imagine, instead 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.880 of a search engine, you're feeding all of the world's 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:33.440 information into this AI chatbot that can respond to you 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.760 in a very human like manner. That's what's happening with 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.000 chat GPT. Now, keep in mind, chat gpd is not perfect. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.480 It's not up to date. The last time it was 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.840 updated was twenty twenty one. With its knowledge, I mean, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.400 the technology is up to date, but the information that 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.640 it's fed is only through twenty twenty one because it's 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.440 a research tool. But it's been enough to really make 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.480 these big companies think about their future, especially Google. So 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.880 this week both Google and micros said, you know what 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.800 we've got AI. We're gonna show it off to the world. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.040 Google showed off this thing called Bard, which is its 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.120 AI search engine, and they didn't really show too much 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:12.600 of it. They just said, you know, it kind of 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.640 has a lot of the same features as chat GPT, 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.080 except it's fresher. We've got all the Google information built 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.240 into this search engine. And then Bing actually invited journalists 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.600 up to their headquarters near Seattle, and they said, we're 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.240 gonna show you this, and we're going to show you 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.280 what we have, and by the way, we're gonna unveil 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.160 this to the world and let actual people use this 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.480 like very soon, like now. And so they showed off 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.719 the new bing which has chat GPT built in, but 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.159 a newer, fresher version of chat GPT built in. I know, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.800 if this all sounds wild, it really is. But if 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.560 you use one of these search engines, it's just incredible 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.040 what it does. It talks to you like a human 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.440 would It talks to you like your friend might. You 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.000 can ask it almost anything. You can ask it to 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.880 write you an email to your employer saying I'd like 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:02.000 it job, or I'd like to quit my job, or 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.159 I'd like a raise, or you can ask it to 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.120 write a sales proposal, or you can tell it, hey, 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.720 give me ten of the best things to do when 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:13.120 I'm in Italy for a week. It's not just Microsoft 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.919 and Google. A search engine named Neiva. They've already got 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:21.320 an AI search result Chinese search engine bay Do. They 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:26.120 are testing their ernie bot Chinese commerce giant Ali Baba. 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.320 They're testing AI for shopping, which leads me to think, hey, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.440 where's Amazon in all of this? Imagine, instead of just 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.240 searching Amazon for a particular product, you tell the Amazon 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.520 AI search bot exactly what you need. You're looking for 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:44.159 a couch that measures this exact dimension you want it, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.320 in this exact color, in this exact fabric, And instead 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.080 of shuffling through all kinds of links and products and 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.200 seeing what they have to offer, it will give you 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.359 the exact couch that meets your specific criteria. This is 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.120 where the future is headed. It is quite incredible. Now 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.600 I mentioned that even Snapple has AI. Snapple has this 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:09.600 thing called the fact Generator FAI ct generator. Remember if 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.720 you I mean, it's funny that I'm in New Jersey 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.920 talking about Snapple because growing up that was a very 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:18.400 big part of my childhood. But Snapple is nationwide, of course, 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.000 and under the cap they've got those little Snapple facts. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:25.719 In fact, according to Snaple Information, there have been one thousand, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.680 six hundred and seventy seven Snapple Real facts under the lid. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.400 So now you can type in anything you want in 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.599 this Snapple fact generator. It says, write a wild fact. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:42.960 Let's say a wild fact about blueberries, about blueberries, and 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.599 I type this in and within seconds it's doing its 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.960 little machine learning. It's AI, and it says snaple fact 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:53.279 number thirteen and thirty four wild blueberries have twice the 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:58.320 antioxidants of cultivated ones, So that's Snapple using AI. Then 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.960 there's a website called Flame AI. So you've got this 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:07.880 app called flame Flamme. They've got an AI for relationships. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.040 So they've taken chat GPT and they've narrowed it down 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.480 to just love and relationship questions. So you can go 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.960 to this website and you can type in a question 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.080 about love. If you have a question about your partner 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.760 or a question about someone that you're into, and you 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.480 want to ask this AI for advice, you can do that, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.080 or you can just say something like best date ideas 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.200 involving heights in New York City. Now, if you were 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.840 to type that into a typical search engine, you'd get 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.600 a whole bunch of results, right. You'd get links from blogs, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.080 you get links from YouTube, you get links from just 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.920 random tweets about people saying what they like to do 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.280 in New York City on a date. But what this 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.800 does is it has all of the Internet's information and 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:51.320 it's thinking about all the different blogs and tweets and 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.560 different sources that mention kind of the same things. And 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.120 then here's what it comes up with. Answer number one, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.440 take a trip to the Empire State Building Observatory. Number 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.840 two head over to the Brooklyn Bridge for romanic stroll 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.400 and breathtaking views of the Manhattan skyline. Number three check 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.160 out the Highline. Number four, if you're brave, try a 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.640 couple skydiving experience over New York City. Not doing that, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.960 that's for sure. Number five, have dinner at a restaurant 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.680 with outdoor seating with a skyline view. Number six. Visit 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.640 Top of the Rock Observation Center for a three hundred 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.560 and sixty degree view of Manhattan. Number seven take a 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.200 tour of one of New York City's rooftop bars for 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:33.160 memorable for a memorable night of drinks and food. This 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:38.160 is absolutely incredible. So everything is turning to this new 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:42.480 AI and everyone is leaning on AI to change the world. Now, 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.719 this has a lot of implications for not only the 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.600 way we search, the way that we get information, the 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.360 way that term papers are written. If you're coming up 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.000 with a game show, you can ask AI to write 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.720 your game show questions for you. Stuff that takes the 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.720 jeopardy folks months of research to do. Now you have 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.160 to be careful, though, because the one big downside of AIS, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.920 it's not always right. This is not perfect, this is 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.760 not an exact science. AI gets it wrong. I just 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.559 looked up some information about the Super Bowl, and boy 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.200 did have some outdated information and some information that was 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.920 just flat out wrong. So if kids are thinking about 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.400 using this to write their term papers, which many are, yeah, 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.079 you can use it for a rough draft or maybe 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.000 some research or talking points, but you better fact checked 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.640 almost everything that AI comes up with. Look the bottom 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.320 line here, search content and the ad business around search 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.560 is going to be forever changed by this technology, and 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.640 that has a really big implication for Google. Google, you're wondering, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.000 why didn't you have search AI out of the gate, 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.959 Why weren't you first? Well, because this turns their entire 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.920 advertising business upside down. When you do a Google search, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.040 what do you see at the top? You see links, 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.400 advertising links that pay Google. Google hopes you tap those 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.560 links because guess what, it makes them money, and that's 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.199 their entire business. They made billions in the last quarter 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.120 that way. Now, if you're just tapping something or typing 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.000 something into a search engine. You get the exact answer 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.520 you need without clicking a whole bunch of links, some 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.480 of those links paying Google. Now, what how does Google 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.079 make money? It's a really big question. I think they 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.680 are really struggling to answer right now. AI is gonna 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.360 have a big impact on everything every industry. You can 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:27.600 think about restaurants, clothing, cars, and more. It is going 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.959 to be a wild ride. I hope you check out 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.000 some of these AI search engines because it is just 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.320 quite incredible. And bringing it back to the dinner table 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.240 last night, I'm not kidding. Everyone started going on chat 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.040 GBT looking up answers and things, and their minds were 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.720 just opened up. They just said, Wow, this is incredible 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.160 and it's just gonna have so many implications for the 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.600 way I do my job, and also my kids and 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.600 what they're gonna do. All right, Coming up on today's show, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.160 we've got some great guests this week. I've got Wall 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.599 Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern. He's going to join me 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.600 to talk about Microsoft's big AI event this week. She's 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.920 been playing with the new bings. She's one of the 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.240 lucky ones. We are going to get her take on 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.120 what it can do. I've got one Carlos Bagnell. He 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.360 is some gadget guy on YouTube. He's going to chat 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.680 about the new one plus products. They've got a new phone, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.160 new earbuds which I really like, and their first tablet. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.960 And later in the show, did you have a baseball 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.000 card collection back in the day. I'm going to talk 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.920 to the founder of an app that lets you scan 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.520 your card collection, whether it's baseball, basketball, Pokemon or more 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.520 to see what it's worth. Plus your calls up next 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.920 at Triple eight rich one oh one. If you have 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.480 a question about technology, give me a call at Triple 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.720 eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.080 My name is Rich Dmiro. You are listening to rich 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.600 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.040 is Rich Damuro. You can find links to anything I 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:56.760 mentioned on the show at my website Richontech dot tv, 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.319 and you can find me on Instagram at rich on Tech. 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.080 Phone lines are open. If you have a question about technology, 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.920 give me a call. It's one eight eight eight rich 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.520 one oh one one eight eight eight seven four to two, 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:14.960 four one zero one. Kathy is in San Bernardino, California. Kathy, 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:16.040 you are on with. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:22.640 Rich question about Microsoft's three sixty five, which I understand 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:23.640 is cloud based. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:25.760 Is there any risk of. 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:30.480 Cross migration between my personal office three sixty five account 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:35.320 and my employer's new mandatory Office three sixty five accounts 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:36.920 that we're supposed to use remotely. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.760 Oh, you sound very excited about this Mandatory Office three 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:41.480 sixty five. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:46.720 Well, it's it's because I wouldn't want a any of 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.800 my documents to disappear, because I read the fine print 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.840 and it says the employer can choose to pull back 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.240 any documents that you have created with their account, which 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.640 I understand, but also because there's always a risk with 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:07.200 who knows which employees have have permissions and what they 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:08.880 might do with those permissions. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.360 Yeah. Absolutely, all right, So let's break this down. So, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.640 first off, you can you can definitely use your employer's 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.480 three sixty five log in as well as your own. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.080 In fact, I do that on a daily basis. So 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.600 I've got my own office three sixty five and then 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.880 I've got my corporate three sixty five and I've got 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.400 Windows running in the same browser with both instances. Now, 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.880 with that said, number one, you have to be careful 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.160 because you need to know which account you're working on 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.839 at that specific time, so you need to make sure 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.080 if you're uploading a document to like one drive, you 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.520 need to make sure that that's the correct one. You 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.520 don't want to put a personal document in your employer's file, 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.160 and you don't want to put your employee file in 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.559 your personal stuff more so, you probably want to be 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.240 worried about putting your personal stuff into your employee file. Now, 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.719 the email is going to be pretty straightforward because you're 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.360 gonna recognize your inbox very quickly to see which one's 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.880 your corporate inbox, which one's your personal inbox, And there's 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.719 no real issue with them cross contaminating each other as 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.360 long as you know what you're doing and you know 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.599 which account you're using at the right time. Now, with 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.360 that said, you will notice that you're going to have 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.280 to authorize the accounts more often than you may have 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.440 to if you're just using one account, because sometimes the 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.440 system does get a little confused and it's like, Okay, 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.960 which account is she using right now? Is it her corporate? 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.960 Let's just make sure you put your password back in. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.840 And usually the corporate accounts have more requirements for security, 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:37.960 so they're going to ask you for your password more 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:42.000 than say, you know your personal account. Perhaps with all 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.560 of that said, you need to be the most careful about, 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.280 you know, just knowing that anything you do on your 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:53.080 employee corporate three sixty five account, you know they can see, 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.320 so they can see how you're using that account. They 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.800 can see where you log in from, they can see 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.920 what you're doing, they can see what you're uploading, what 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.320 you're downloading, all through the lens of what you're doing 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.760 on three sixty five. I'm not saying they have your 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.360 entire computer that they can monitor, unless you're using a VPN, 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.760 and then that is a very different topic. So that's 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.560 really the main thing. You just have to also keep 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.960 in mind that at any point they may, like you said, 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.880 pull the account so they can go into your account 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.640 see what files you have in there. They can look 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.360 at your emails, they can scan your emails. They may 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.880 even get reports of when you do your emails and 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.200 how many emails you send on a daily basis without 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.920 specifically looking at your emails, although they reserve that right 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.040 as well. So what I'm trying to say is that 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.080 when you're using a corporate account, there is really the 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.240 only rule is that your employer's eyes can see pretty 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.760 much everything that is happening inside that account. But running 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.800 the two instances on your computer. I do that on 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.480 a daily basis and it works just fine. You just 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.480 have to be careful again about what you are doing 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:01.640 in which account. So, Kathy, great, first question for this 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.880 this show, and thanks for calling. All right, let's go 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.840 to Joyce in San Diego. Joyce, you are on with Rich. 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.320 How can I help? Chris is in Temecula. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:20.200 Yes, Hi, Hey, Chris, can you So here's my question. 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:25.160 I have a Samsung Smart TV, but it's a lower mode, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.480 lower lower end. Have it in the bedroom, and it 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.840 says that it's Bluetooth capable, but it won't connect to 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:33.880 my Samsung airpud. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.520 So I bought a device and I realized that there 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.480 are no ports on the computer. So I'm wondering if 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.920 there's some type of wireless transmitter, if you will, that 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:48.040 I could use, you know, from the TV through that 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.240 to the air buds. So I consume it in the 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.880 bedroom bedroom when other people are outside watching TV. I 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:53.760 don't want to bother them. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.360 So the TV has Bluetooth, but you're saying there's just 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.280 no functionality to connect the AirPods. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.320 Well, yeah, I have the Samsung here buds okay, okay, 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:07.320 and there's no on the back of the TV. There 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.679 are no places to plug anything in other than a 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.480 coax cable. Again, it's the lower end TV, but it's 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.720 just for the bedroom. I bought a device from best 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.280 Buy that plugged in, but again there's no plug ins 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.320 on the on the TV. So I'm wondering if there's 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:23.400 a wireless device that. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.919 I can give in to it. There's no HDMI on 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:26.440 that TV. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.879 I there may be HDMI, I mean there should be. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.280 Yes, Okay, So I mean there's really I mean unless 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.920 there's an audio out on the TV, which if there is, 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.119 if there's like a headphone jack, you can get a 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.600 product called airfly and plug that in. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:44.520 There is no headphone jack. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.359 There's no headphone jack. Okay. With no headphone jack and 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.360 only coax and maybe HDMI, the best thing I can 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.480 do is recommend that you would get some sort of 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.800 streaming device, whether it's a Roku stick or a Amazon 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.000 Fire TV stick, something really inexpensive, and then you can 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.600 connect the Bluetooth earbuds to that. But you're only gonna 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.840 be able to listen to things that are streaming through 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.720 that device. So if you're connecting like a standard cable 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.320 box or something to this TV, that's just not gonna 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.679 work because it's not gonna it's not gonna stream the 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.240 information from the COAX to the Bluetooth because there's just 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.480 not a way that I know to connect that. If 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.680 there was something that was sort of an RCA out, 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.240 you can definitely go on Amazon and get sort of 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.400 an RCA to Bluetooth adapter, a little transmitter that would work, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.120 But without having ports on the back, it's really gonna 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.040 be tricky to get that out of COAX. You're listening 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.720 to rich on Tech. More of your calls next at 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.520 Triple eight rich one oh one, Welcome back to rich 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.760 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.200 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.879 also the place where I answer the questions you have 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.159 about technology. Welcome back to the show. My name is 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.760 rich Demiro. On the line is Joanna Stern. She is 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.119 a Wall Street Journal columnist and she was at the 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.240 Microsoft event this week where they showed off the new 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.960 bing infused with artificial intelligence. Joanna, welcome to the show. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.000 Thanks for having me. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.320 So I'm kind of jealous because I've wanted to play 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.000 with this bing dot com slash new. I'm on the 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.600 waiting list, but you already have access or you had access, 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.720 So can you first just explain, Oh, you've got access, okay, 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.720 so you're using it on a daily I mean, Number one, 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:31.280 it's wild to think that bing could stage a major comeback. 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.760 Is that true? Do you think that could happen at 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:34.560 this point? 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.080 I think it's going to be very hard for being 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:42.639 to capture Google's ninety plus percent of the search engine 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.000 market share, but there is a fighting chance. There is 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.040 this slight chance that it does capture some of it, 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.879 and I think this week. I mean, we don't have 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.640 stats yet, but there certainly seems to be a lot 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.800 of interest in people saying, hey, I might try out 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.400 bing again, which is a pretty big thing. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.120 I mean, it's words that I didn't think I would say, 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:06.720 and I tweeted those, and I've been, you know, going 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:08.960 just like everyone else, to the waiting list and trying 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:10.840 to get on there and trying to see what they've 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:12.640 shown off. So a couple of things that they showed off, 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:15.280 So Number one, better search so their search has more 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:19.080 relevant results. Because it's infused with this AI. Then they 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:22.359 also have a way that you can use kind of 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.480 a chatbot that is a better version of chat gpt. 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.600 So can you tell me about that? How did that work? 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.639 Yeah, so anyone who's used chat chpt knows. Great, you 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.560 have this search box type of thing. You type in 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:39.200 anything you really want to have this bot generate or 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.000 search for you. The issue with chatchept is that it 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.840 doesn't really have knowledge of the modern, current live world. 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.760 It's based on a model that was stopped being updated 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.120 around two thousand and I think it was twenty twenty one. 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:53.760 So what bing is doing here they're bringing some of 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:56.240 that secret sauce from open Ai, right, They've got a 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:59.080 deep partnership with open Ai. But they're putting the bing 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.879 search engine in with it. And so that means that 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:04.760 you can ask BIG's chat bot what they just called 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:09.399 chat really anything about current events about the world, and 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.119 it will write back to you. And so this idea 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.959 of sort of asking search I mean, we all remember 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:17.679 asked Jeeves. You really can just talk to it in 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.000 normal sentences and it writes back to you in normal 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.280 sentences that you really would think were written by a human. 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.800 I really feel like the Ask Jeeves people are just 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.000 sitting there, like every one of those engineers that work 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.280 there is just saying, you know, we were onto this 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.080 many many years ago. Now. Ask Jeeves was kind of 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.240 like to me, like a laugh. It was just, you know, 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:39.360 the answers were not very good, and I had many limitations, 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:41.199 but they were onto the right thing. I mean, if 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.280 you look at the Google kind of auto complete, so 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:46.679 many of it or so much of it is like 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:49.280 written in question form. Like people still ask a lot 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:50.720 of questions to search engines. 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:55.400 Yeah, and I think you sort of think about all 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.000 we've learned to sort of hack search engines, right, we 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.840 know that this sort of terms the ways we're supposed 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:03.119 to put in things to get the answers we want, 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.480 and that's really all trying to just figure out how 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:08.320 do we get the best answer. And so now these 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.399 search engines and you're being right now and Google, what 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.520 we are promising with bart is that they will have 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:18.360 the natural language processing, the natural language understanding to understand 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.800 your deep questions. Really, I mean, I don't know how 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:23.560 deep you want to go on some of these search engines, 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:25.960 but you can kind of just write out that question 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.320 and it should respond like you've asked a human for 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:30.240 the answer. 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:34.359 All right. So Being says since they've applied this AI 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:38.359 to their core search algorithm, they've had the largest jump 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:42.080 in relevance in two decades with their search engine ranking. 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:44.800 So that means that the answers you get in general 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.680 are more accurate and more relevant. Then, like we said, 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:49.919 you've got this chat area where you can get you know, 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.240 you can ask it things like create me a five 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:56.000 day itinerary for going to Italy or you know, tell 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:58.520 me how to prep for a job interview. I mean 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.520 these are examples that being gay. Then you've got the 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.879 Edge browser. They built in some new smarts to that, 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:06.160 like it can help you write emails and things like that. 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:09.920 Yeah, so I actually think this is the biggest announcement 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:12.240 they made because how much time do we spend in 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:14.560 our browser and on different websites and not on the 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:17.960 actual search website. Right, That's probably how we spend most 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:21.119 of our time. And so in the new Microsoft Edge browser, 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:23.760 they have a sidebar. It's called the bing sidebar. You 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:25.760 can click on this and I'm using it right now, 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:28.359 and it has three different tabs. It's got chats so 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:30.640 you can ask sort of the main questions you would 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:32.280 if you went to bing dot com. You can search 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:35.760 through there. You can go to compose, where you can 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:39.560 ask it to compose whatever you wanted to write for you. Really, 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:44.440 if you want to email, a blog, post, social media posts, lists, etc. 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:46.600 And just got a little box in there and you say, 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:49.720 write me an email to my new boss asking I 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:52.439 don't know, for a time to get some coffee. And 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:54.000 then it gives you a little area too, where you 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:55.960 can put in what you want the tone of that 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:57.680 to be. You want it to be professional, you want 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:00.200 it to be funny, you wanted to be enthusiastic, Tell 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:02.920 how long you want it to be short, long, medium, 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:06.040 and hit generate and it's going to write this email 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:07.840 for you, or it's going to write whatever you really 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:10.280 ask it to. And so I think that's sort of 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:11.760 a big game changer here is that you can be 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:14.080 on any website and you can be doing it. Another 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:16.040 really cool trick in this and that I think is 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:19.439 really really useful, though I'm a little bit worried about 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:22.359 my profession, is you can be in an article. You 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:24.840 can say summarize this article, and it will give you 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:27.280 the summary of the article and you can say five 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:28.320 bullet points. 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:30.560 Now I would want to agree that. 0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:33.000 Yeah. Well, I mean, look, we're going to have to, 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:36.359 you know, up our game here and somehow differentiate from 0:24:36.400 --> 0:24:38.520 what the AI can do. I mean, it can write scripts, 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:40.159 it can write you know, it can write articles. It 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:42.679 really can do a lot. One of the takeaways from 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:46.679 your video with Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, was 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:49.840 that he said, in the future, pretty much everyone is 0:24:49.880 --> 0:24:52.360 going to have a working first draft of whatever they need, 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:56.680 whether that's term paper, a letter, anything, because these AI 0:24:56.760 --> 0:24:59.560 tools can generate them. What did you think about that. 0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:04.040 I actually wrote about that quote specifically in my newsletter 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:06.080 yesterday because it's the piece that sort of stuck with 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:08.240 me all week as I was talking to other people 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:11.560 about this announcement. I think it's I think it's right. 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:13.600 I think we all are going to start to interact 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:15.400 with computers in a different way, and we may come 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:17.879 to our computers and the computer might have done something 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:20.720 for us that we used to do with our time, 0:25:20.800 --> 0:25:24.080 our own time. But I think there are a couple 0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:27.000 of ways that that is just not going to be 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:28.960 as good as humans. And I think that's one of 0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:32.120 the main ways, and I think I did ask mister 0:25:32.160 --> 0:25:34.920 Nadella about this and various other people at Microsoft, which 0:25:34.960 --> 0:25:39.359 is accuracy, right of fact checking and knowing not putting 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:41.840 so much trust in these in this AI system that 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:44.600 it's always got it right. And even so far my 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:47.960 experience using Being and many others in the last couple 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:51.560 of days have shown that it has many inaccurate results. 0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:54.280 Now Microsoft is doing a good job at sort of 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:57.199 hedging that they'll say this might be the answer, or 0:25:57.240 --> 0:26:00.800 this isn't, this isn't the definitive answer. But still, you know, 0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:03.199 people are likely to trust what they read here, and 0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:06.080 so we have to as humans, as we're using these tools, 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:09.399 really just become hyper aware of is this true? Like 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:11.639 how do we find a secondary source? How do we 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:14.720 find the primary source to prove that what that thing 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:17.200 told me is actually the answer I want? 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:19.880 Or And one of the things one of the things 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:22.280 that these search engines are doing, like the uh, you know, 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:24.400 the Being, the New Bing and kind of these other 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.439 ones that I've talked about, is that they're giving almost 0:26:27.480 --> 0:26:29.520 like remember when you wrote like a bibliography or like 0:26:29.560 --> 0:26:33.080 the footnotes for your story or a paper you wrote. 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:35.119 It's almost giving you, like the links to where it 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:36.560 found this information. 0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:38.760 But to me giving you citations. 0:26:38.920 --> 0:26:41.919 Citations, that's the word. But if you have to go 0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:45.159 through and fact check every single thing that this says, 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:47.800 then isn't that just a lot of work in itself? 0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:49.119 Like you might as well just do the work at 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:51.320 the beginning? Or is it? I mean, is there just 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:53.440 easier because it sort of came up with that first 0:26:53.480 --> 0:26:55.199 paragraph that you just have to go through and make 0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:57.000 sure it's okay. Like what if you ask, like who's 0:26:57.000 --> 0:26:58.600 playing in the super Bowl today and it said, here's 0:26:58.640 --> 0:27:01.000 the teams, here's the quarterbacks. Now you've got to go 0:27:01.160 --> 0:27:03.560 and you know, look at all those things and cross 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:04.960 reference just to make sure it's right. 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:08.960 And that's so that's actually the second point. So I 0:27:08.960 --> 0:27:11.080 think accuracy is number one, and I think number two 0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:14.760 is speed. Right it these systems, it takes a bit 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:17.280 of time for the for the AI to gather their 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:19.800 results from the web and then to put it into 0:27:19.840 --> 0:27:23.520 its words. So for instance, in the video and my 0:27:23.600 --> 0:27:26.480 testing that I did at Microsoft, i said, recap the 0:27:26.520 --> 0:27:29.399 top winners of the twenty twenty three Grammys, and it 0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:32.080 took about a minute for it to flush out the 0:27:32.320 --> 0:27:34.720 entire list of that. It wasn't the entire list, but 0:27:34.880 --> 0:27:36.960 you know, it summarized I believe, like seven of the 0:27:37.000 --> 0:27:39.760 top winners, right. It gave me a sense of the name, 0:27:39.960 --> 0:27:41.720 you know, Beyonce, and then gave me a little paragraphs 0:27:41.720 --> 0:27:44.280 and did that all the way through. And that's a minute. 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:45.960 You know, in that amount of time, I could have 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:47.840 clicked one of the top links I believe it was 0:27:47.840 --> 0:27:50.920 from CNN gone there, skimmed it and said okay, yeah, 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:52.479 I know what I need to know in less than 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:54.520 a minute. So we're going to have to sort of 0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:56.680 think about how are we going to use our time, 0:27:56.840 --> 0:27:59.520 How long does it take these things to do it 0:27:59.560 --> 0:28:01.679 in there time? And where does that make sense? 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:04.800 But it's also to that point. It's interesting because right now, 0:28:04.840 --> 0:28:07.679 a lot of outlets will write articles saying, here are 0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:10.720 the Grammy winners twenty twenty three, knowing that people go 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:13.160 to search to ask who are the winners twenty twenty three. 0:28:13.560 --> 0:28:16.360 In the future, they may not write those articles because 0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:18.000 they know that they're not going to get that traffic. 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:20.040 So this does bring up a lot of kind of 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:22.400 you know, changes to the way that we think about 0:28:22.480 --> 0:28:24.280 search and the way that we think about knowledge and 0:28:24.320 --> 0:28:27.239 information and also access to that. I've got to leave 0:28:27.280 --> 0:28:29.119 it there, Joanna, tell people how to find you. 0:28:30.840 --> 0:28:33.800 I mean, you could search my name on Bang and 0:28:33.840 --> 0:28:35.800 you could do that, but I will just give you 0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:37.959 and I have it in my newsletter. Yet it doesn't 0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:41.120 have my right age talking about the accuracy, So there 0:28:41.160 --> 0:28:43.920 you go. It says, yeah, you know what, go search 0:28:43.960 --> 0:28:45.760 on being and you can try to find out how 0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:47.760 old I really am. But you could find me on Twitter, 0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:51.400 Joanna Stern, pretty much everywhere at Joannastern and the Wall 0:28:51.440 --> 0:28:53.960 Street Journal Joanna Stern, So search it in Bang and 0:28:54.040 --> 0:28:54.560 you'll find me. 0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:55.320 All right. 0:28:55.400 --> 0:28:59.600 Thanks Joanna. Very entertaining videos as well as the newsletter 0:28:59.680 --> 0:29:01.880 and all kinds of other stuff for Wall Street Journal. 0:29:01.880 --> 0:29:04.240 Thanks for joining me today. Coming up, more of your 0:29:04.280 --> 0:29:07.680 calls at eight eight eight rich one oh one one 0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:10.080 eight eight eight seven four to two four to one 0:29:10.240 --> 0:29:12.080 zero one. If you have a question about tech, give 0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:14.000 me a call. Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about 0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:18.080 new features coming soon to Google Maps and Google Translate. 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:21.880 You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:29:21.960 --> 0:29:23.880 on Tech. My name is rich Demiro. This is the 0:29:23.920 --> 0:29:26.480 show where we talk about technology. If you have a 0:29:26.560 --> 0:29:28.960 question about tech, give me a call. The phone lines 0:29:29.000 --> 0:29:32.160 are open at triple eight rich one oh one. That's 0:29:32.240 --> 0:29:35.440 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:29:35.840 --> 0:29:37.760 zero one. Let me tell you about some of the 0:29:37.760 --> 0:29:41.040 ways that Google made some announcements this week. When it 0:29:41.040 --> 0:29:42.800 comes to AI, this is a little bit different than 0:29:42.840 --> 0:29:45.360 Search AI, but it kind of all falls into that 0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:50.880 kind of same Lens here. So Google announced three major updates. 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:54.400 Something that deals with lens, which is their visual search tool, 0:29:55.280 --> 0:29:58.200 something that deals with maps, and something that deals with translation. 0:29:58.240 --> 0:29:59.600 So I'm just gonna give you kind of the highlights 0:29:59.600 --> 0:30:02.000 of what I think is the most important announcements that 0:30:02.040 --> 0:30:04.760 they made. So number one, Lens is a really handy 0:30:04.800 --> 0:30:06.960 tool that Google has. It's a visual search tool. So 0:30:06.960 --> 0:30:09.840 if you take a picture of a bug, or a leaf, 0:30:10.000 --> 0:30:13.000 or a dress, it will find that on the internet 0:30:13.080 --> 0:30:16.080 a very similar image and help you, you know, do 0:30:16.200 --> 0:30:19.400 some research and figure out what that image is of. So, 0:30:19.520 --> 0:30:21.280 for instance, if you want to take a picture of 0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:23.479 a dress, you might want to shop that dress at 0:30:23.520 --> 0:30:25.400 a local store, so it can do that. But it 0:30:25.400 --> 0:30:28.480 can also identify an insect. So in the coming months 0:30:28.480 --> 0:30:30.120 they're going to have a new feature with Lens where 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:32.120 you can search your screen if you have an Android. 0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:35.120 So let's say someone sends you a picture of where 0:30:35.160 --> 0:30:37.960 they are vacationing, and you say, oh, that looks pretty cool. 0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:41.560 You can now just search your screen with Google Lens 0:30:42.040 --> 0:30:44.560 and it will give you the search results based on 0:30:44.600 --> 0:30:47.000 what it sees on your screen. And actually I needed 0:30:47.000 --> 0:30:49.280 this feature the other day, Like I literally was trying 0:30:49.280 --> 0:30:51.440 to do this because I can't remember what I was searching, 0:30:51.440 --> 0:30:52.800 but it was just something on my screen that I 0:30:52.800 --> 0:30:54.320 was like, oh, I need to search this. So I 0:30:54.400 --> 0:30:56.440 ended up having to take a screenshot and then putting 0:30:56.440 --> 0:30:58.800 that into Google Lens to search it. But it was 0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:00.880 so much. It'll be so much when you can just 0:31:01.000 --> 0:31:04.120 long press your power button on your Android phone and 0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:07.200 it will do that search. The other thing is that 0:31:07.360 --> 0:31:10.440 Maps is rolling out this new immersive view which is 0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:13.600 gonna be really really cool. So imagine street View, but 0:31:13.760 --> 0:31:17.080 much more three D, so you'll be able to literally 0:31:17.120 --> 0:31:20.000 walk down the streets of a foreign city or you know, 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:22.440 in this case, London, Los Angeles, New York, and San 0:31:22.480 --> 0:31:25.280 Francisco and Tokyo. Those are the first months that it's 0:31:25.560 --> 0:31:28.840 first cities that it's launching in and then they're going 0:31:28.880 --> 0:31:31.000 to roll out to other cities after that. That is 0:31:31.040 --> 0:31:34.080 an amazing new feature called Immersive View, which I cannot 0:31:34.080 --> 0:31:36.240 wait to get my hands on. And finally, if you 0:31:36.320 --> 0:31:39.200 use Google Translate, whenever you translate something on a sign, 0:31:39.240 --> 0:31:41.960 they're actually gonna blend the letters into the sign better, 0:31:42.000 --> 0:31:43.720 so it literally looks like the sign in front of 0:31:43.800 --> 0:31:46.280 you has just morphed into the language that you can 0:31:46.360 --> 0:31:49.160 read much more easily. All right, Coming up on the show, 0:31:49.200 --> 0:31:51.680 we're going to talk about new OnePlus products with jan 0:31:51.760 --> 0:31:55.160 Carlos Bagnell, some gadget guy on YouTube. You're listening to 0:31:55.720 --> 0:31:59.000 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My 0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:02.040 name is rich Timiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 0:32:02.200 --> 0:32:06.480 in Los Angeles, sitting here with you talking technology, answering 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:09.640 your questions, and it's basically the show to talk about 0:32:09.640 --> 0:32:11.960 the tech stuff I think you should know about. And 0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:17.240 this week oh so much between AI and new product launches. 0:32:17.320 --> 0:32:19.560 Later in the show, we're gonna talk one new one 0:32:19.560 --> 0:32:24.600 plus products with one Carlos Bagnell. He is a youtubeer 0:32:24.720 --> 0:32:28.920 viewer and it's got several several products to talk about. 0:32:28.960 --> 0:32:32.040 A new phone, a new tablet, new earbuds that I've 0:32:32.080 --> 0:32:35.640 been loving from one plus I love now gosh, this 0:32:35.760 --> 0:32:37.800 is like the third set of earbuds that they've made 0:32:37.840 --> 0:32:39.760 that I really really like, especially if you have an 0:32:39.800 --> 0:32:42.560 Android phones. We'll talk about that. I'm gonna talk about 0:32:42.560 --> 0:32:46.840 a new way to stream content for free, but first 0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:50.640 let's go to LURI in Ventura, California. Louri, you are 0:32:50.760 --> 0:32:52.960 on with Rich? Hi? 0:32:53.080 --> 0:32:53.280 Rich? 0:32:53.320 --> 0:32:56.080 How you doing any I am doing fantastic. 0:32:56.120 --> 0:32:57.920 How are you good? 0:32:58.040 --> 0:33:02.400 Good? I'm glad to see you on PLA to great? 0:33:03.040 --> 0:33:06.239 Thank you? Can you tell that I'm broadcasting from a 0:33:06.320 --> 0:33:09.720 remote location in New Jersey, the Garden State? 0:33:10.920 --> 0:33:11.520 Seriously? 0:33:13.480 --> 0:33:16.280 Absolutely, I know. It's wild. It's so it's so wild 0:33:16.280 --> 0:33:18.800 because I'm so used to TV and there's a lot 0:33:18.800 --> 0:33:21.680 of limitations on TV because you basically go live from 0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:24.680 a certain place and a certain studio. But with radio, 0:33:25.360 --> 0:33:27.640 it kind of is mind boggling because you have the 0:33:27.680 --> 0:33:29.959 ability to go live from pretty much anywhere as long 0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:32.360 as you have a microphone and a connection. So I'm 0:33:32.360 --> 0:33:35.600 still kind of understanding that. But anyway, it's pretty cool 0:33:35.640 --> 0:33:37.200 this weekend. So what's on your mind? 0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:41.200 I was wondering what the best shredder is to buy? 0:33:42.280 --> 0:33:44.560 Oh, what are you going to be shredding lots of Uh? 0:33:44.920 --> 0:33:47.440 Do you have a lot of classified information at your place? 0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:47.880 Yeah? 0:33:48.440 --> 0:33:50.200 Yeah, you do. 0:33:50.360 --> 0:33:53.560 Okay, So it's funny. I used to be a big 0:33:53.600 --> 0:33:56.440 shredder person, and now I just collect my papers and 0:33:56.480 --> 0:33:58.720 bring them to like a place to shred every once 0:33:58.720 --> 0:34:00.760 in a while. But I do think shredders are great 0:34:00.760 --> 0:34:02.480 to have at home there. You know, they could be 0:34:02.520 --> 0:34:04.760 a little dicey sometimes, like don't don't put a tie 0:34:04.800 --> 0:34:07.200 near this thing, or like you know, kids and all that, 0:34:07.360 --> 0:34:09.479 like they are kind of dangerous if they're the heavy 0:34:09.560 --> 0:34:11.799 duty ones. Do you need a heavy duty one? Are 0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:13.400 you just looking for like a standard one? 0:34:13.880 --> 0:34:15.719 No, a standard one, I think so. 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:17.799 Just for like personal like credit card offers that come 0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:18.759 in the mail and stuff like that. 0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:21.520 Yeah, yeah, okay, okay. 0:34:21.520 --> 0:34:23.160 So I'll tell you the two places that I go. Now. 0:34:23.200 --> 0:34:27.000 I like to test products myself, obviously, but when I can't, 0:34:27.480 --> 0:34:30.160 I will go to other folks that test products. And 0:34:30.160 --> 0:34:31.920 two of the websites that I use to do that. 0:34:31.960 --> 0:34:35.960 One is called Wirecutter. Have you heard of that? No? Okay, 0:34:36.040 --> 0:34:39.959 So Wirecutter is a great They started out independent many 0:34:39.960 --> 0:34:43.439 many years ago, and recently New York Times bought them, 0:34:43.640 --> 0:34:46.359 and they kind of absorb them under their wings, which 0:34:46.400 --> 0:34:47.920 is a great thing for the folks that work there 0:34:47.960 --> 0:34:50.440 because they get more people seeing their stuff. But I 0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:54.000 would search wirecutter and Shredder and see what that comes 0:34:54.080 --> 0:34:55.960 up with. And I'm looking at their top pick. It's 0:34:56.000 --> 0:35:00.600 a Amazon Basics eight sheet high security microcut shredder with 0:35:00.680 --> 0:35:03.640 pull out basket. It's seventy bucks on Amazon. That's their 0:35:03.719 --> 0:35:05.879 number one top pick, and then they have a couple 0:35:05.920 --> 0:35:08.560 other picks there. Now, I also work for a company 0:35:08.560 --> 0:35:12.360 that owns a review website called best Reviews dot com. 0:35:12.640 --> 0:35:16.080 So KTLA's parent company owns a website called best reviews 0:35:16.120 --> 0:35:18.719 dot com, very similar to Wirecutter, where they have a 0:35:18.760 --> 0:35:21.719 whole team of experts that review stuff. And so I 0:35:21.760 --> 0:35:25.080 will cross reference the devices on both of those pages 0:35:25.160 --> 0:35:28.440 and see which one works for me in my price range. So, 0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:32.160 according to them, the best of the best is this 0:35:32.320 --> 0:35:37.240 Fellow's Power shred ninety nine CI. And if you click 0:35:37.280 --> 0:35:39.279 that link, it takes you to Amazon. That is two 0:35:39.360 --> 0:35:41.640 hundred and eighty dollars might be more than you want 0:35:41.640 --> 0:35:44.480 to spend. The next one on the list, they say 0:35:44.520 --> 0:35:48.480 best bang for your book is the Aurora High Security 0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:53.399 eight sheet microcut paper credit card Shredder Black. It's got 0:35:53.560 --> 0:35:56.920 sixteen thousand reviews, it is rated at four and a 0:35:56.960 --> 0:35:59.560 half stars, and it is going for forty eight dollars. 0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:02.279 I think that's your winner right there. Does that sound 0:36:02.280 --> 0:36:10.000 like a good price. Yeah. So here's the thing. So 0:36:10.239 --> 0:36:12.880 the way that these companies make money LORI is that 0:36:13.239 --> 0:36:17.560 they get referral links. So every time someone clicks and 0:36:17.600 --> 0:36:20.160 buys one of these products from them, that's how they 0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:23.799 make their money. And so it's called affiliate linking. On 0:36:23.840 --> 0:36:26.960 Amazon or not just Amazon. A lot of major retailers 0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:30.160 participate in this, so it's kind of a win win situation. 0:36:30.320 --> 0:36:33.560 They're editors and you know, their folks do the work. 0:36:33.640 --> 0:36:35.560 They put all these things on the website. They say, 0:36:35.560 --> 0:36:38.200 here's the five things we think are the best, and 0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:40.680 then when you buy one of those things, they make 0:36:40.680 --> 0:36:44.040 a little money. So it's all highly disclosed. It's all 0:36:44.120 --> 0:36:46.320 very on the up and up. It's a pretty common 0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:48.920 practice actually online. But that's kind of the way I 0:36:48.960 --> 0:36:51.480 do it. I will also look at you know, just 0:36:51.800 --> 0:36:53.600 I won't just take their word for it. I will 0:36:53.640 --> 0:36:56.400 also look on Amazon and see kind of the ratings, 0:36:56.760 --> 0:37:00.560 the combination of ratings and stars as well. Looking at 0:37:00.640 --> 0:37:03.600 these these three shredders that I mentioned, they all have many, 0:37:03.640 --> 0:37:07.560 many ratings. By the way, that Amazon basics one, if 0:37:07.560 --> 0:37:10.279 you can believe it, it has twenty two, seven and 0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:13.799 thirty three ratings. That's also seventy dollars. So those are 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:15.480 the three that I would look at and see which 0:37:15.520 --> 0:37:17.719 one you like the best. And also they go buy 0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:19.400 sheets too, like how many sheets do you want to 0:37:19.400 --> 0:37:21.640 feed into this thing at once? You may say, oh, 0:37:21.640 --> 0:37:24.120 I only need two sheets at a time, but you know, 0:37:24.200 --> 0:37:26.080 once you're doing a lot of stuff, you may want 0:37:26.120 --> 0:37:30.239 more than that. So does that help you out. I'm 0:37:30.239 --> 0:37:32.879 going to put all this information on our website at 0:37:33.000 --> 0:37:37.240 richontech dot tv. That's where you can find more information 0:37:37.280 --> 0:37:39.640 about anything that I mentioned here. I'm pretty good at 0:37:39.640 --> 0:37:42.240 putting the links there. So thanks for your question, Laurie, 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:45.120 go find that shredder all right. Let me tell you 0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:48.319 about a new way to stream for free. And it 0:37:48.360 --> 0:37:51.200 gets a little confusing with the free streaming because yes, 0:37:51.280 --> 0:37:53.359 of course you can find pretty much anything you want 0:37:53.440 --> 0:37:56.480 online for free, but not all of it operates in 0:37:56.560 --> 0:38:01.920 a illegal zone. But there are many any websites that 0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:06.560 let you stream real stuff for free. So Sling TV 0:38:06.719 --> 0:38:10.280 is now launching one. It's called free Stream. So Sling TV, 0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:13.520 you know, is a paid service and it allows you 0:38:13.560 --> 0:38:16.000 to get you know, popular cable channels on your TV. 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:19.120 But now they have a section called free Stream which 0:38:19.200 --> 0:38:22.400 lets you access live and on demand TV for free. 0:38:22.960 --> 0:38:25.920 And so this joins other free streaming services out there 0:38:26.120 --> 0:38:28.000 which allow you to watch a whole bunch of stuff. 0:38:28.080 --> 0:38:32.320 And this you can download through the Sling app on Roku, 0:38:32.520 --> 0:38:37.880 also Comcast, LG, Samsung, and Visio and Xbox devices. So 0:38:38.120 --> 0:38:41.600 right now, this is not on the super big platforms 0:38:41.640 --> 0:38:45.480 like the Fire TVs, the Apple TVs, and the Amazon 0:38:45.480 --> 0:38:49.080 Fire Sorry Amazon Fire, Apple TV let me think about this, 0:38:49.239 --> 0:38:52.000 and Chrome Cast. So right now this is pretty much 0:38:52.040 --> 0:38:56.279 limited to Roku, Comcast, LG, Samsung, Visio, and Xbox. But 0:38:56.320 --> 0:38:58.239 the cool thing is you don't need a credit card 0:38:58.520 --> 0:39:00.120 and you don't have to put any payment in. You 0:39:00.120 --> 0:39:03.520 can just watch all this programming. So Sling Free Stream 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:06.840 has more than two hundred and ten channels with forty 0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:10.880 one thousand on demand titles for free. They've got news, sports, 0:39:10.880 --> 0:39:15.719 game shows, crime dramas, sitcoms, animal stuff, ABC News Live, 0:39:15.800 --> 0:39:20.560 Architectural Digest, Family Feud, CBS News, ESPN on Demand, Rick 0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:23.000 Steve's Europe. That's kind of cool. And all of this, 0:39:23.120 --> 0:39:26.759 again is something that you can experience for free. So 0:39:26.880 --> 0:39:28.719 if you want to experience it, you can find the 0:39:28.719 --> 0:39:31.200 link on my website, richon Tech dot tv, or just 0:39:31.239 --> 0:39:34.759 download the Sling app and look for the free stream. Now, 0:39:34.760 --> 0:39:37.000 if you're looking for other ways to stream free stuff, 0:39:37.040 --> 0:39:38.840 I mean there's a lot of it. You've got Amazon 0:39:39.000 --> 0:39:42.640 free V, which used to be IMDbTV, but that was 0:39:42.680 --> 0:39:45.319 kind of a weird name. So is Amazon FREEB free V. 0:39:45.520 --> 0:39:49.600 But whatever. Pluto TV they sort of started this entire 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:53.520 trend of free streaming. And I'll never forget having lunch 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:57.400 with a guy who invented Pluto TV and he pitched 0:39:57.440 --> 0:40:00.239 it to me and I didn't get it at the time. 0:40:00.280 --> 0:40:02.279 I said, I don't understand people are gonna want to 0:40:02.280 --> 0:40:04.320 download an app and watch free stuff, like what about 0:40:04.360 --> 0:40:07.360 just watching on YouTube? And I didn't understand that. You know, 0:40:07.360 --> 0:40:09.960 a couple years later, Viacom would purchase Pluto for many, 0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:11.839 many millions of dollars. But you know, I'm not right 0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:16.120 about everything. Two B is another one of these free 0:40:16.120 --> 0:40:19.360 services where you can watch stuff for free. I believe 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:22.719 it's owned by Fox. And so you've got Pluto, which 0:40:22.760 --> 0:40:25.000 is CBS Viacom, You've got two B which is Fox, 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:28.040 and you've got Peacock. They have a free streaming tier 0:40:28.080 --> 0:40:31.640 which I think is going to go away for new users, 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:34.440 but existing users will still have access. And that's NBC. 0:40:35.160 --> 0:40:37.520 So between all these things, I mean, we're seeing kind 0:40:37.520 --> 0:40:41.400 of a backlash with paid streaming services because people are 0:40:41.440 --> 0:40:43.480 just saying, you know what, I'm spending too much. Netflix 0:40:43.520 --> 0:40:46.480 has gone up in price. YouTube gives me a lot 0:40:46.480 --> 0:40:49.920 of stuff for free. I can get stuff there. HBO Max, 0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:52.680 You've got that costs money every month. I mean, there's 0:40:52.719 --> 0:40:55.319 so many of these streaming services that once you start 0:40:55.320 --> 0:40:57.560 paying for all of them, you might as well just 0:40:57.600 --> 0:41:00.839 have cable TV once again. So we're seeing, you know, 0:41:00.880 --> 0:41:03.560 people were excited about things like Netflix and all these 0:41:03.600 --> 0:41:05.640 other streaming services, and now that they've paid the bill 0:41:05.680 --> 0:41:07.200 for a couple of years, and the bill just keeps 0:41:07.239 --> 0:41:10.200 going up every you know, two years, every year, whatever 0:41:10.239 --> 0:41:13.160 it is, people are saying, you know what, I'll stick 0:41:13.200 --> 0:41:14.600 with the free stuff. I'll look at ads. I mean, 0:41:14.600 --> 0:41:17.760 it's really like broadcast television. I mean for many years 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:20.560 broadcast television, that's what it does. You listen for free, 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:22.520 kind of like the radio that I'm on right now. 0:41:22.560 --> 0:41:24.840 I mean, you listen for free, you get the information 0:41:24.920 --> 0:41:26.759 you need and then you know a couple of commercials 0:41:26.760 --> 0:41:29.040 for your time. So it's the same thing with these 0:41:29.040 --> 0:41:33.040 streaming services. They get real video products, you know, real 0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:36.080 shows and on demand titles, but they put ads in 0:41:36.120 --> 0:41:38.440 them and that's how they make their money. So again, 0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:44.400 Sling TV, Free V by Amazon, Pluto, Toby, and Peacock, 0:41:44.480 --> 0:41:48.160 those are always that you can watch content for free. 0:41:48.520 --> 0:41:50.920 All right, I have to tell you about this before 0:41:50.960 --> 0:41:53.759 we go to break here. So don't you love it 0:41:53.960 --> 0:41:57.400 when you start a book and you're just captivated by 0:41:57.400 --> 0:42:00.759 that book instantly. That's what happened to me recent I 0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:03.400 started So I pulled folks on Twitter because I was 0:42:03.440 --> 0:42:05.359 reading a book that I didn't really like, and so 0:42:05.400 --> 0:42:06.759 I said, I don't know, do I stick with this 0:42:06.760 --> 0:42:08.480 book or do I just let it go? And people 0:42:08.480 --> 0:42:10.799 were like, just let it go. Don't stick with the 0:42:10.800 --> 0:42:12.799 book that you don't like, Like you ever have to 0:42:12.800 --> 0:42:15.000 think about opening the book and reading it, and it's 0:42:15.040 --> 0:42:17.439 just not fun like reading should not be a chore. 0:42:17.840 --> 0:42:19.680 So anyway, I ditched that book. I'm not going to 0:42:19.680 --> 0:42:21.520 tell you the title that one, but I found a 0:42:21.520 --> 0:42:25.040 new one and it's called Upgrade by Blake Crouch. And 0:42:25.080 --> 0:42:27.479 I read one of his other books, which was Dark Matter, 0:42:27.719 --> 0:42:29.560 and they're all kind of sci fi. This one is 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:33.160 about like a genetic kind of a genetic mutation of 0:42:33.160 --> 0:42:35.479 the human body, and it makes this person. I haven't 0:42:35.480 --> 0:42:37.960 finished it yet, but it's already really good, where this 0:42:38.000 --> 0:42:40.520 guy just keeps getting more and more superhuman powers, which 0:42:40.560 --> 0:42:43.160 you know is a classic story anyway, But the reality 0:42:43.200 --> 0:42:45.160 is I can't put this book down. I love it, 0:42:45.680 --> 0:42:48.040 so anyway, it's kind of fun. I highly recommend it. 0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:49.760 I haven't gotten to the end, so maybe it totally 0:42:49.760 --> 0:42:52.080 takes a nose dive after like fifty percent of the book, 0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:54.520 but I can't tell you that just yet because so 0:42:54.560 --> 0:42:56.400 far I'm loving it. So if you want a good book, 0:42:56.719 --> 0:42:59.280 Upgrade by Blake Crouch, if you like the sci fi stuff, 0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:02.080 I'm really enjoyed this book. We'll call it Rich's Book Club. 0:43:02.120 --> 0:43:03.839 You can read it and tweet me about it, tell 0:43:03.880 --> 0:43:06.040 me what you think about it. And by the way, 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:08.400 if you want to get books for free. There's an 0:43:08.440 --> 0:43:12.759 app called Libby, which I highly recommend. L Ibby. There's 0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:15.480 nothing illegal about it. It is an app that connects 0:43:15.520 --> 0:43:19.880 to your local library in your city and you can 0:43:20.120 --> 0:43:23.160 check out electronic books ebooks, and you could even read 0:43:23.160 --> 0:43:25.319 them on your kindle. It is a pretty phenomenal thing, 0:43:25.960 --> 0:43:28.720 all right. Coming up in the show, more of your questions. 0:43:28.719 --> 0:43:30.200 If you have a tech question, give me a call 0:43:30.520 --> 0:43:33.799 one eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight 0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:37.239 eight seven four to two four one zero one. If 0:43:37.280 --> 0:43:39.120 you want links to anything I mentioned, go to my website. 0:43:39.239 --> 0:43:42.400 Rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up, we're going to 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:45.840 talk new OnePlus products. My name is rich Dumiro. You 0:43:45.920 --> 0:43:49.799 are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:43:49.840 --> 0:43:52.120 on Tech. My name is rich Demiro. You are listening 0:43:52.160 --> 0:43:53.920 to the show where we talk about the tech stuff 0:43:53.920 --> 0:43:56.000 I think you should know about, and it's a place 0:43:56.040 --> 0:43:59.600 where I answer your questions. Every week, I sort of 0:43:59.600 --> 0:44:01.680 give you a litle update on what I've posted to 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:05.880 my Instagram account because I'm always enjoying posting these reels. 0:44:06.360 --> 0:44:09.640 So this week, let's see, I posted my ride in 0:44:09.840 --> 0:44:12.919 an electric Oh, this is pretty cool. It's an all 0:44:13.080 --> 0:44:16.440 electric semi truck for UPS. So I think I told 0:44:16.480 --> 0:44:17.839 you a couple weeks ago that I took a ride 0:44:17.840 --> 0:44:19.440 in this thing. Well now the story's up so you 0:44:19.440 --> 0:44:22.600 can see what it looks like. It is UPS's first 0:44:22.640 --> 0:44:26.320 all electric semi. They're using it in California. They've actually 0:44:26.320 --> 0:44:28.640 got an order of ten of these things, but this 0:44:28.760 --> 0:44:30.080 is the first and I was one of the first 0:44:30.280 --> 0:44:32.439 non employees to ride in it, so that's pretty cool. 0:44:32.760 --> 0:44:35.000 You can check that out on my Instagram at rich 0:44:35.080 --> 0:44:38.480 on Tech. I also posted a video of this new 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:43.440 game called Hot Wheels rift Rally. And if you remember 0:44:43.480 --> 0:44:46.080 the Mario Kart Live game, these were the little cars 0:44:46.080 --> 0:44:48.000 that you could drive around your house and play on 0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:51.440 your switch and augmented reality. Well that same game developer 0:44:51.480 --> 0:44:53.920 has come up with a new Hot Wheels version of that, 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:57.160 so you can check out the video on that. It's 0:44:57.239 --> 0:45:01.919 kind of cool. It's basically, you know what I think 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:03.560 is neat about it. And I'm trying to get my 0:45:03.600 --> 0:45:05.360 notes here to tell you more about this because I 0:45:05.400 --> 0:45:07.480 might as well since I already mentioned it. But I 0:45:07.480 --> 0:45:09.319 did a story on KTLA about this this week. But 0:45:09.520 --> 0:45:12.480 Rift Rally is kind of a mixed reality racing game, 0:45:12.880 --> 0:45:16.920 so It involves a radio controlled car like a physical car, 0:45:17.400 --> 0:45:21.000 but it also blends the virtual world. So you play 0:45:21.040 --> 0:45:22.960 this car, you kind of set up a course around 0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:26.040 your living room, and the car has a camera on top, 0:45:26.120 --> 0:45:28.719 so you see your living room on your gaming console, 0:45:29.120 --> 0:45:32.399 but you also see like an augmented reality world kind 0:45:32.400 --> 0:45:35.360 of virtually laid on top of your living room. So 0:45:35.520 --> 0:45:38.000 like just to put that, you know, in an easier 0:45:38.000 --> 0:45:40.920 to understand terms. You're driving around your living room, but 0:45:40.960 --> 0:45:43.640 it looks like a racetrack with like really cool things 0:45:43.640 --> 0:45:46.880 happening all around you, and it's just really fun. So 0:45:47.480 --> 0:45:49.120 the game is one hundred and thirty dollars, so I 0:45:49.160 --> 0:45:52.279 think is a little pricey. I think they priced it 0:45:52.280 --> 0:45:54.640 at one thirty so that maybe by the holidays it'll 0:45:54.640 --> 0:45:56.680 go down to like one hundred and that way, you know, 0:45:56.760 --> 0:45:58.840 I feel like that's more reasonable because you're getting a 0:45:58.840 --> 0:46:01.799 physical toy as well the game, and as far as 0:46:01.840 --> 0:46:03.640 I know, they said, there's no in app purchases in 0:46:03.680 --> 0:46:06.919 the game, so you can unlock more of these hot 0:46:06.920 --> 0:46:09.680 Wheels cars as you play the game. More so it's 0:46:09.719 --> 0:46:12.520 a really cool little experience. The other thing to know 0:46:12.560 --> 0:46:16.360 about this game is that it's available now on iOS 0:46:16.360 --> 0:46:20.239 devices and also PlayStation four and five. So the big 0:46:20.239 --> 0:46:22.680 thing about Mario Kart Live is that it was only 0:46:22.719 --> 0:46:25.560 available if you had a switch, a Nintendo switch was 0:46:25.960 --> 0:46:27.759 you know, that was the only way to play it. Now, 0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:29.880 the fact that this can be played on an iPhone 0:46:30.480 --> 0:46:33.680 or an iPad or you know, a PlayStation, I think 0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:37.200 really opens up this game to many more people experiencing this. 0:46:37.360 --> 0:46:40.120 So it's really fun. I had a blast with it. 0:46:40.160 --> 0:46:43.280 I think that, you know, it could get a little 0:46:43.320 --> 0:46:45.719 repetitive to play this over and over, but there's a 0:46:45.760 --> 0:46:47.840 lot of different levels and things that you unlock, so 0:46:47.840 --> 0:46:49.680 I think that's kind of the fun of it. Anyway, 0:46:49.680 --> 0:46:51.640 Hot Wheels Rift Rally if you want to check it 0:46:51.640 --> 0:46:54.160 out on my Instagram at rich on Tech. The game 0:46:54.239 --> 0:46:58.319 launches on March fourteenth, twenty twenty three, So I think 0:46:58.360 --> 0:47:00.719 that'll be a pretty hot gift this year. All right, 0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:04.359 let's go to Chris in West Covina. Chris dialed up 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:07.120 the number at eighty eight Rich one oh one, Chris, 0:47:07.160 --> 0:47:11.040 you're on with rich Hey, Rich, how you doing. I'm 0:47:11.080 --> 0:47:11.920 doing fantastic. 0:47:11.960 --> 0:47:13.600 How are you I'm doing well? 0:47:13.640 --> 0:47:13.960 Thank you? 0:47:15.080 --> 0:47:15.880 What can I help you out? 0:47:15.880 --> 0:47:21.200 I have a question I'm trying to help my sister. 0:47:21.360 --> 0:47:26.400 She has an older Smart TV and she's trying and. 0:47:26.280 --> 0:47:27.960 She has the Amazon Firestick and. 0:47:28.440 --> 0:47:34.360 I'm trying to get the Spectrum TV app on. 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:36.680 Her Firestick, but it's not available. 0:47:37.520 --> 0:47:42.440 Is there a workaround it's not supported? Huh no, So 0:47:42.560 --> 0:47:45.320 Spectrum TV app, I'm trying to look at the website 0:47:45.320 --> 0:47:50.160 here to see. Okay. So it's got Xbox iOS, Roku, Samsung, 0:47:51.040 --> 0:47:55.880 Apple TV, Chrome Cast, and Android. Interesting. Okay, so it's 0:47:56.000 --> 0:47:58.680 very odd that they don't support fire TV because they 0:47:58.719 --> 0:48:01.600 do Roku, they do Apple TV. It seems like fire 0:48:01.680 --> 0:48:06.480 TV is a is a major missing piece here, right hmm. Okay, 0:48:06.520 --> 0:48:08.120 So I mean there is a way that you you know, 0:48:08.239 --> 0:48:10.520 fire TV runs Android, and it looks like they have 0:48:10.560 --> 0:48:13.759 an Android app, so you could sideload this. Have you 0:48:13.760 --> 0:48:15.600 heard of the term sideloading. 0:48:16.880 --> 0:48:17.440 That's using? 0:48:17.680 --> 0:48:19.520 Is that using the downloaders? 0:48:20.280 --> 0:48:20.480 Yeah? 0:48:22.280 --> 0:48:24.360 Yeah, there's like an app you can get called downloader. 0:48:24.400 --> 0:48:25.040 Have you tried that? 0:48:26.200 --> 0:48:26.399 Yes? 0:48:27.160 --> 0:48:29.719 So I've done that on my fire Stick, but I 0:48:29.760 --> 0:48:32.120 haven't done it on her, so I'll have to get that. 0:48:32.760 --> 0:48:36.040 Okay. So the basic, you know, the basic way you 0:48:36.080 --> 0:48:38.879 do it is you download this downloader app that will 0:48:38.960 --> 0:48:41.759 enable you to download what's called an APK. So that's 0:48:41.800 --> 0:48:43.920 basically just the you know, like you said, you've already 0:48:43.960 --> 0:48:46.400 done this, so that's that's kind of the program file 0:48:46.480 --> 0:48:48.920 for Android is called APK. It's kind of like if 0:48:48.920 --> 0:48:51.160 you have a Windows computer, it's an ex file. If 0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:53.839 you're on a Mac, it's a d MG file. It's 0:48:53.920 --> 0:48:56.080 just the way the program runs on that computer or 0:48:56.120 --> 0:48:59.759 that device. And so this downloader app will allow you 0:48:59.800 --> 0:49:04.320 to reach out and grab the APK for the Spectrum app, 0:49:04.800 --> 0:49:07.760 and then you have to allow it to install stuff 0:49:07.760 --> 0:49:10.520 from unknown sources. So there is a little bit of 0:49:10.560 --> 0:49:13.239 a level of security risk here in case you get 0:49:13.239 --> 0:49:15.440 an APK that's bad or you know, but this is 0:49:15.440 --> 0:49:17.239 a streaming TV stick. I don't think it's gonna be 0:49:17.239 --> 0:49:19.520 that big of a deal. But that's the best way. 0:49:19.600 --> 0:49:19.719 Now. 0:49:20.320 --> 0:49:22.880 The other thing to know is that it may not 0:49:23.040 --> 0:49:26.640 function properly because it wasn't specifically written for this platform. 0:49:27.160 --> 0:49:29.960 So if your sister that you're helping out, you know, 0:49:30.719 --> 0:49:33.719 she may experience some issues with this app running, but 0:49:34.360 --> 0:49:36.719 I think, you know, it'll probably be fine. So is 0:49:36.760 --> 0:49:37.560 that something you think you. 0:49:37.480 --> 0:49:40.719 Could do for Yeah, I think so. Now my other 0:49:40.800 --> 0:49:46.080 question regarding that security and pulling that that ATK file. 0:49:47.360 --> 0:49:50.200 I mean, I gotta run, can you hang on? 0:49:51.719 --> 0:49:51.919 Okay? 0:49:51.920 --> 0:49:53.479 I got to run to a commercial break. You're listening 0:49:53.560 --> 0:49:56.400 to rich on Tech. We'll have more of the show, 0:49:56.760 --> 0:49:59.359 including a talk about new one plus products coming up 0:49:59.640 --> 0:50:03.440 after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name 0:50:03.480 --> 0:50:05.759 is rich Demiro, and this is the show where we 0:50:05.800 --> 0:50:10.120 talk about technology and answer your questions. Phone lines are 0:50:10.160 --> 0:50:13.120 open at one eight eight eight rich one oh one 0:50:13.760 --> 0:50:17.000 one eight eight eight seven four to two, four to 0:50:17.120 --> 0:50:20.120 one zero one. I do my best to post links 0:50:20.120 --> 0:50:24.880 to anything I talk about on my website Richontech dot tv, 0:50:25.400 --> 0:50:27.240 and of course you can find me on social media 0:50:27.320 --> 0:50:29.120 at rich on Tech. That's a lot of rich on 0:50:29.200 --> 0:50:31.560 Tech all Right. Before the break, I was talking to Chris. 0:50:31.600 --> 0:50:34.680 He was asking about uh putting an app on his 0:50:34.760 --> 0:50:39.040 fire TV stick, specifically his sisters that they didn't offer. 0:50:39.160 --> 0:50:42.520 So we talked about sideloading, which is putting an app 0:50:42.560 --> 0:50:45.520 on there that is not necessarily supported. So there are 0:50:45.560 --> 0:50:48.680 some security risks in doing that, and I mentioned that 0:50:48.840 --> 0:50:51.000 to him, and his second question before we had to 0:50:51.040 --> 0:50:52.880 go to break was that he wanted to know if 0:50:52.880 --> 0:50:56.520 there was a safe place to get these programs, and 0:50:56.560 --> 0:50:59.120 so the website that I typically use is called ap 0:50:59.400 --> 0:51:03.560 k me dot com. Now this is kind of advanced stuff. 0:51:03.560 --> 0:51:06.520 I would not recommend doing this if you don't know 0:51:06.560 --> 0:51:09.680 what you're doing with your device, because there is always 0:51:09.680 --> 0:51:12.279 a security risk when you are installing an app on 0:51:12.320 --> 0:51:15.520 your device that is outside of Google Play. So just 0:51:15.520 --> 0:51:18.160 be very careful, tread carefully if you know what you're doing. Yeah, 0:51:18.200 --> 0:51:20.360 you can trust this stuff, but that's that's probably the 0:51:20.400 --> 0:51:23.880 most trusted platform for these APKs if you want to 0:51:23.880 --> 0:51:26.239 get him from there, Chris, all right, let's bring on 0:51:26.480 --> 0:51:30.080 one Carlos Bagnell. He is some gadget guy on YouTube. 0:51:30.120 --> 0:51:35.040 He does fantastic reviews all kinds of stuff, including audio devices, smartphones. 0:51:35.719 --> 0:51:37.920 He's a friend of mine as well, and I've been 0:51:37.960 --> 0:51:39.719 watching his stuff for a long time because he had 0:51:39.719 --> 0:51:42.640 a great attitude about things and he's very fair. One. 0:51:42.760 --> 0:51:45.960 Welcome to the show, Hey, Rich, thanks for having me on. 0:51:46.719 --> 0:51:50.880 Hey, let's talk about these OnePlus devices. OnePlus is a 0:51:50.920 --> 0:51:54.640 brand that when they came out, they really made a 0:51:54.680 --> 0:51:57.880 mark in this world because they just had such great software. 0:51:57.960 --> 0:52:00.280 They had a lot of features at a pretty low price. 0:52:00.680 --> 0:52:04.279 And now we are on the one plus eleven smartphone. 0:52:04.560 --> 0:52:07.640 They also unveiled one Plus buds Pro two. Those are 0:52:07.640 --> 0:52:10.680 earbuds and a one plus pad, which is sort of 0:52:10.680 --> 0:52:13.279 their version of an iPad. So let's start with the 0:52:13.360 --> 0:52:16.720 one plus eleven smartphone. What are your impressions of this device? 0:52:17.480 --> 0:52:20.120 Yeah, I think this is a very good return to 0:52:20.320 --> 0:52:23.160 form for one Plus. They started out sort of developing 0:52:23.239 --> 0:52:27.080 this reputation as being a flagship killer, all of this 0:52:27.280 --> 0:52:30.520 great performance with a few small compromises, but for much 0:52:30.560 --> 0:52:33.680 lower prices. In years past, they've had a split strategy 0:52:33.680 --> 0:52:35.960 where they've released sort of a normal phone and then 0:52:36.000 --> 0:52:38.560 a more expensive pro phone, and this year I think 0:52:38.560 --> 0:52:41.920 they're trying to work back to trying to streamline that 0:52:42.000 --> 0:52:42.800 user experience. 0:52:42.840 --> 0:52:46.200 There's only one main premiere model. 0:52:46.000 --> 0:52:48.560 Of the phone coming out, and it's a very high 0:52:48.560 --> 0:52:51.200 performance device that I think I think a lot of 0:52:51.200 --> 0:52:53.319 the enthusiasts out there are really going to like kind 0:52:53.320 --> 0:52:57.640 of undercutting Samsung's base model and an iPhone base model, 0:52:58.000 --> 0:53:00.319 but without having to give up too much to get 0:53:00.320 --> 0:53:02.400 that performance at a much lower price. 0:53:02.960 --> 0:53:05.359 Yeah, so we're talking to price tag starting at six 0:53:05.520 --> 0:53:09.160 ninety nine. Top of the line has sixteen gigs of memory. 0:53:09.800 --> 0:53:11.799 They say you can have up to forty four applications 0:53:11.840 --> 0:53:14.040 running in the background. It's got a five thousand million 0:53:14.239 --> 0:53:17.360 hour battery, which is really nice. It charges super fast 0:53:18.239 --> 0:53:21.359 eighty watts of charging. So one plus has always been 0:53:21.400 --> 0:53:24.600 known for like really fast and speedy charging. But of course, 0:53:24.920 --> 0:53:28.280 like you said, sometimes there are some downsides to these devices, 0:53:28.320 --> 0:53:30.880 and with this device, you don't get wireless charging, but 0:53:31.000 --> 0:53:33.919 with such fast charging, you probably don't need it. They're 0:53:33.920 --> 0:53:37.480 also promising that you're gonna get four major oxygen Os 0:53:37.560 --> 0:53:41.280 updates that's their operating system, and five years of security updates. 0:53:41.640 --> 0:53:44.320 It's a six point seven inch screen. There's a Dolby 0:53:44.360 --> 0:53:49.800 head tracking for you know, at most audio three cameras. 0:53:50.280 --> 0:53:52.120 Tell me about the cameras. That's really what everyone wants 0:53:52.120 --> 0:53:54.520 to know about. 0:53:53.760 --> 0:53:59.120 I don't want to overlook the charging. This is incredible 0:53:59.200 --> 0:54:03.960 charging and it's the fastest charging standard available in North America. 0:54:04.080 --> 0:54:06.680 So while I totally appreciate some folks are going to 0:54:06.719 --> 0:54:10.480 be frustrated by the lack of wireless charging. Literally, a 0:54:10.560 --> 0:54:13.759 couple minutes plugged in will give you eight days worth 0:54:13.760 --> 0:54:17.080 of runtime. That's one of the major hallmark features on 0:54:17.120 --> 0:54:20.600 the one plus. But the cameras are very competitive. This 0:54:20.680 --> 0:54:22.839 is one of the areas where we stepped back from 0:54:22.920 --> 0:54:26.360 some of the more exotic features from last year's Premium 0:54:26.400 --> 0:54:30.320 one Plus. They had super slow motion four K video 0:54:30.360 --> 0:54:32.440 one hundred and twenty frame per second that all of 0:54:32.480 --> 0:54:36.440 those really really fancy photography uses. This year, it's a 0:54:36.520 --> 0:54:40.200 more mainstream kind of option that's hitting their camera tech 0:54:40.239 --> 0:54:44.680 directly against Apple and Samsung. We've got very good camera sensors. 0:54:44.719 --> 0:54:48.080 They have a partnership with Hasselblod, the camera manufacturer that 0:54:48.120 --> 0:54:50.879 I think has really stepped up their camera game over 0:54:50.880 --> 0:54:54.040 the last couple of years and getting great HDR performance 0:54:54.160 --> 0:54:57.799 and getting very good video performance. It's an all rounder. 0:54:57.880 --> 0:55:01.560 It's a very fun point and shoot solution. And again, 0:55:01.640 --> 0:55:03.400 like you were saying, at those prices, we're looking at 0:55:03.440 --> 0:55:07.600 something that's undercutting the comparable Galaxy S twenty three plus 0:55:07.640 --> 0:55:09.320 by two or three hundred dollars. 0:55:09.800 --> 0:55:12.240 Yeah, And most of the reviews that I saw people 0:55:12.239 --> 0:55:14.960 were like, Wow, I'm surprised, like this brings one plus 0:55:15.000 --> 0:55:16.960 back to kind of like what we love and I've 0:55:16.960 --> 0:55:20.320 always loved the software on the one Plus is is 0:55:20.400 --> 0:55:22.600 right up there with the Pixel if not better, because 0:55:22.960 --> 0:55:25.839 they add a bunch of like very useful features, kind 0:55:25.840 --> 0:55:27.960 of like Samsung, but not as blody, you know what 0:55:28.000 --> 0:55:28.319 I mean. 0:55:30.400 --> 0:55:32.640 Yeah, definitely, this is going to be an interesting year 0:55:32.640 --> 0:55:35.359 because this is our first full year with this new 0:55:35.760 --> 0:55:37.960 skin that they've got running on top of their phone, 0:55:38.120 --> 0:55:39.680 and I will be kind of curious to see how 0:55:39.680 --> 0:55:41.680 it ages. But I would say this is one of 0:55:41.760 --> 0:55:45.440 the most beautifully animated phones, the way that it handles 0:55:45.440 --> 0:55:48.080 transitions that moves you between your apps, and then, like 0:55:48.120 --> 0:55:50.799 you were saying, we've got a bunch of really interesting 0:55:51.239 --> 0:55:53.319 that they're not familiar, like if you're used to a 0:55:53.360 --> 0:55:56.400 Samsung or if you're used to a Pixel, these phones 0:55:56.600 --> 0:55:59.680 perform in a slightly different way. Things like you do 0:55:59.719 --> 0:56:03.040 your ultitasking gesture if you slide towards the top of 0:56:03.080 --> 0:56:05.680 the screen, will then immediately take that app into a 0:56:05.719 --> 0:56:08.279 mini floating window. If you're not familiar with that, that 0:56:08.320 --> 0:56:10.239 can be a little jarring, like oh, what did it 0:56:10.320 --> 0:56:12.319 just do to this app? But once you get used 0:56:12.320 --> 0:56:14.839 to it, I love it for things like notes. If 0:56:14.840 --> 0:56:16.759 I can be in an email, swipe up, have a 0:56:16.760 --> 0:56:20.960 little ticker floating window to have that information and get 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:23.920 back into my notes. I really appreciate that at these 0:56:23.920 --> 0:56:26.800 lower prices, they're also looking at that longer term commitment, 0:56:27.360 --> 0:56:31.240 the multiple operating system updates and then also five years 0:56:31.239 --> 0:56:33.440 of security patches. They're trying to put a lot of 0:56:33.880 --> 0:56:36.840 base behind this product that they're looking to have a 0:56:36.920 --> 0:56:39.400 long term relationship with their customers. 0:56:39.760 --> 0:56:42.719 All right, on sale February sixteenth. Again, we're talking about 0:56:42.719 --> 0:56:45.480 the one plus eleven five G smartphone goes on sale 0:56:45.480 --> 0:56:49.399 February sixteenth OnePlus dot Com, Amazon and best Buy. Now 0:56:49.400 --> 0:56:51.640 we've got to talk about these one plus buds Pro too. 0:56:52.160 --> 0:56:54.600 I am in love with the first version of these. 0:56:54.760 --> 0:56:57.480 I also like the Nord Buds, which are like forty bucks. 0:56:57.480 --> 0:56:59.640 These are one hundred and seventy nine. But they're pretty 0:56:59.680 --> 0:57:03.040 much the AirPods Pro for the Android user. Don't would 0:57:03.080 --> 0:57:04.560 you not agree with that? I mean, you're much more 0:57:04.560 --> 0:57:05.680 of an audio guy than I am. 0:57:07.000 --> 0:57:10.120 Well, hopefully they're doing well in terms of call quality 0:57:10.160 --> 0:57:12.080 because I'm using them as we speak. 0:57:12.680 --> 0:57:14.640 Well, there you go. I mean, I think that's a 0:57:14.640 --> 0:57:16.840 pretty good indication. That's impressive. 0:57:17.680 --> 0:57:21.240 So I think you're absolutely spot on. One Plus is 0:57:21.240 --> 0:57:27.200 definitely drawing some inspiration from the AirPods Pro, but they're 0:57:27.280 --> 0:57:30.960 still approaching some novel and unique technology. They've got a 0:57:31.040 --> 0:57:37.280 really fun, juicy, vibrant dual driver, the little mechanisms that 0:57:37.320 --> 0:57:38.520 actually create the sound. 0:57:38.840 --> 0:57:39.720 They're using these. 0:57:39.560 --> 0:57:43.040 Two little drivers that work together to really flesh out 0:57:43.120 --> 0:57:46.880 some base response, some fun troubled response. They're a very 0:57:47.160 --> 0:57:50.360 fun ear budd to listen to music and watch movies on. 0:57:50.800 --> 0:57:54.360 But they're matching AirPods Pro almost spec for spec per spect. 0:57:54.440 --> 0:57:57.320 It's multipairings. You can connect two devices at the same time, 0:57:57.880 --> 0:58:01.480 instant quick pairings in the case, and the phone will 0:58:01.520 --> 0:58:04.600 automatically see the air the earbuds so that you can 0:58:04.640 --> 0:58:07.320 try and connect to them. And not just spatial audio, 0:58:07.720 --> 0:58:10.840 but like you mentioned before, support for head tracking. You 0:58:10.880 --> 0:58:13.520 can play a piece of music or you can watch 0:58:13.560 --> 0:58:17.120 a movie from your phone and the earbuds will remember 0:58:17.200 --> 0:58:20.360 your position in space that as you turn it really 0:58:20.360 --> 0:58:24.160 feels like you're listening on surround soound speakers. I can't 0:58:24.160 --> 0:58:29.200 find any single feature where there isn't a match for 0:58:29.280 --> 0:58:33.240 the AirPods Pro two, and they're arriving at sixty dollars 0:58:33.320 --> 0:58:36.280 less than what Apple is the selling the AirPods two Core. 0:58:36.880 --> 0:58:39.480 Yeah. Again, these are the one plus buds Pro two 0:58:39.520 --> 0:58:42.720 They go on sell February sixteenth at for one hundred 0:58:42.720 --> 0:58:44.880 and seventy nine dollars. I've been using them. I've been 0:58:44.960 --> 0:58:47.680 using them on the plane and they were fantastic, and 0:58:47.720 --> 0:58:49.720 I love the way they fit in my ears. So 0:58:49.760 --> 0:58:52.200 there's many earbuds out there that kind of like just 0:58:52.280 --> 0:58:55.400 fall out these they feel like they're magnetized into your ears. 0:58:55.400 --> 0:58:58.800 They're so good. I really think one plus knocked it 0:58:58.840 --> 0:59:00.760 out of the park with these. With this one plus 0:59:00.800 --> 0:59:02.080 buds pro too, so I'm glad. 0:59:01.920 --> 0:59:03.880 You What I really like about that is everybody's going 0:59:03.960 --> 0:59:07.560 to have different fit, you know, what they're comfortable with. 0:59:07.760 --> 0:59:10.000 I think these are one of the best options I've 0:59:10.040 --> 0:59:13.240 ever tried that are statlow. So when I'm working on 0:59:13.280 --> 0:59:17.080 professional earbudon they like they're practically tickling your brain going 0:59:17.120 --> 0:59:21.360 into These fit so well just right at the outer 0:59:21.480 --> 0:59:23.320 opening of the year, so I think a lot of 0:59:23.360 --> 0:59:25.280 people that are sensitive to that kind of fit are 0:59:25.280 --> 0:59:26.240 really going to like these. 0:59:26.760 --> 0:59:29.080 Yeah, they feel really great. All right, one plus pad 0:59:29.120 --> 0:59:30.320 We're not going to really have much time to go 0:59:30.360 --> 0:59:33.960 into that, but one plus is also doing an Android tablet, 0:59:33.960 --> 0:59:36.200 which I think is great because we need more options 0:59:36.200 --> 0:59:38.840 for that and this could be pretty amazing. It's got 0:59:38.840 --> 0:59:41.880 an eleven almost a twelve inch screen. They have not 0:59:42.080 --> 0:59:44.280 mentioned the price. As far as I can tell, twelve 0:59:44.280 --> 0:59:47.280 hours of video watching, a month of standby battery life 0:59:47.840 --> 0:59:51.440 again fast charging, So that looks pretty strong. If you're 0:59:51.440 --> 0:59:53.760 thinking about getting an Android tablet, definitely check out the 0:59:53.800 --> 0:59:58.440 one plus pad one. How can folks find you online? 0:59:59.040 --> 1:00:01.560 I'm all over the place, some on social media at 1:00:01.600 --> 1:00:04.480 some gadget Guy, some gadget guy dot com. And I'm 1:00:04.480 --> 1:00:07.040 also doing some partnerships coming up with split deals to 1:00:07.120 --> 1:00:09.160 kind of try and help people save money on some 1:00:09.200 --> 1:00:11.560 of their tech purchasing and tech acquisitions. 1:00:12.240 --> 1:00:14.560 Awesome, slick Deals one of my favorite websites I check 1:00:14.600 --> 1:00:17.480 out every single morning. Gotta go to slick deals dot 1:00:17.520 --> 1:00:20.320 com and uh sorry, it's like slick deals dot net. Right, 1:00:21.040 --> 1:00:23.360 that's right, I've got it. I've got a bookmark. Just 1:00:23.360 --> 1:00:25.080 go to the front page. Just type in slick deals 1:00:25.080 --> 1:00:27.080 on your search engine. All right, one, Carlos back now, 1:00:27.120 --> 1:00:30.160 thanks so much. Some gadget guy check them out online. 1:00:30.200 --> 1:00:32.760 And coming up in the show, We're going to talk 1:00:32.800 --> 1:00:36.320 about a price hike on a Nintendo game that could 1:00:36.320 --> 1:00:40.240 have bigger implications. For Nintendo game pricing in general, plus 1:00:40.240 --> 1:00:42.520 more of your calls at triple eight rich one oh 1:00:42.520 --> 1:00:45.320 one one eight eight eight seven four to two four 1:00:45.360 --> 1:00:48.160 to one zero one. I'm Rich Dimiro. You're listening to 1:00:48.560 --> 1:00:55.280 rich on Tech. More after this, Welcome back to rich 1:00:55.360 --> 1:00:59.800 On Tech. We've been talking about artificial intelligence and how 1:00:59.840 --> 1:01:03.040 it's going to just change everything in this world. And 1:01:03.240 --> 1:01:06.160 I just went into chat GPT, which is kind of 1:01:06.160 --> 1:01:09.840 the market leader right now, and I just said, write 1:01:09.880 --> 1:01:11.800 me an intro to the rich On Tech Show, and 1:01:11.880 --> 1:01:15.120 here's what it spit out in seconds without missing a beat. 1:01:15.840 --> 1:01:17.720 Welcome to the rich On Tech Show, where we dive 1:01:17.760 --> 1:01:20.640 into the latest trends and innovations in the tech industry 1:01:21.000 --> 1:01:23.960 and explore how they're shaping our world. Each episode, we 1:01:24.000 --> 1:01:27.560 bring you in depth interviews with top industry leaders, entrepreneurs, 1:01:27.560 --> 1:01:30.160 and experts, giving you an inside look at the companies 1:01:30.200 --> 1:01:33.320 and technologies driving the future. Whether you're a tech enthusiast 1:01:33.440 --> 1:01:36.400 or simply curious about the latest advancements, the rich On 1:01:36.440 --> 1:01:39.040 Tech Show is your source for all things technology. So 1:01:39.080 --> 1:01:41.800 sit back, relax, and get ready to dive into the 1:01:41.840 --> 1:01:46.520 exciting world of tech. It is just so incredible and 1:01:46.760 --> 1:01:49.440 I didn't even give it any basis for what the 1:01:49.480 --> 1:01:52.160 show is or what it's about. It just figured that 1:01:52.240 --> 1:01:54.520 out and it's pretty it's pretty incredible if you haven't 1:01:54.520 --> 1:01:58.800 tried it. Chat dot OpenAI dot com is the website, 1:01:59.160 --> 1:02:02.880 and I just got a little note that said you 1:02:02.920 --> 1:02:07.440 can upgrade to plus Chat GPT plus for twenty bucks 1:02:07.480 --> 1:02:11.439 a month, which gives you available even when demand is high, 1:02:11.880 --> 1:02:15.200 faster response speed, and priority access to new features. Twenty 1:02:15.200 --> 1:02:18.160 dollars a month. That's how incredible this tool is that 1:02:18.200 --> 1:02:22.280 people are willing to pay that much. All right, Gloria 1:02:22.440 --> 1:02:26.680 is in Pacoima, California. Gloria, you're on with Rich, Welcome 1:02:26.720 --> 1:02:27.160 to the show. 1:02:28.640 --> 1:02:28.800 Hi. 1:02:30.000 --> 1:02:34.160 I'm in Bakorma, California. My sister is over in Port 1:02:34.200 --> 1:02:38.920 Saint Lucy, Florida, and all of a sudden, I can't 1:02:39.000 --> 1:02:41.600 even call her or get. 1:02:41.520 --> 1:02:45.320 Checkt from her, And what's happening? What kind of phone 1:02:45.320 --> 1:02:45.720 are you on? 1:02:46.720 --> 1:02:48.840 I'm on a Moto G, a. 1:02:48.800 --> 1:02:52.720 Moto G and what service provider meant? 1:02:53.560 --> 1:02:56.880 And what had been working? I all of a sudden 1:02:57.000 --> 1:03:00.920 today is this happened? And I've already talked to the 1:03:01.000 --> 1:03:05.160 Mint people and I really don't know what else to do. 1:03:05.240 --> 1:03:10.000 I've talked to them three times already and they have 1:03:10.080 --> 1:03:14.080 not been able to They tried to readjust things. They 1:03:14.120 --> 1:03:18.160 had me turn it off and take the SIM out 1:03:18.480 --> 1:03:21.880 and kind of dust it off and put it back. 1:03:21.920 --> 1:03:25.320 And I did the old dust off the SIM card trick. 1:03:25.440 --> 1:03:29.920 Huh didn't work? No, that's wild. Okay, Well, this is 1:03:30.000 --> 1:03:32.320 very frustrating. Is that only your sister that it doesn't 1:03:32.320 --> 1:03:34.280 work with? Or is it everyone? 1:03:34.640 --> 1:03:39.200 It's looking like my sister is the only victim of this. 1:03:39.840 --> 1:03:43.800 Okay. Does your sister use an iPhone? 1:03:44.120 --> 1:03:44.560 She does? 1:03:44.840 --> 1:03:45.040 Yeah? 1:03:45.080 --> 1:03:47.720 Okay, Here's what I think is happening. I think that 1:03:47.960 --> 1:03:52.800 the somehow I message is messing with this message to you. 1:03:53.560 --> 1:03:56.200 Did you ever previously have an iPhone? 1:03:56.520 --> 1:03:56.760 Never? 1:03:57.240 --> 1:03:59.920 Okay, So here's what I would do too. Okay, So 1:04:00.000 --> 1:04:01.680 a couple of things that I would do to figure 1:04:01.680 --> 1:04:03.600 this out. Now, if Mint couldn't get this to work, 1:04:03.720 --> 1:04:06.040 I'm not sure that I can, but this is how 1:04:06.080 --> 1:04:08.840 I would troubleshoo. So did Mint go through and make 1:04:08.880 --> 1:04:12.360 sure all the sort of what's called apns are correct? 1:04:12.480 --> 1:04:13.480 Did they go through that with you? 1:04:15.160 --> 1:04:15.560 Uh? 1:04:16.440 --> 1:04:19.000 I'm not quite sure what they did. They gave me 1:04:19.040 --> 1:04:21.680 a whole bunch of letters, and I read off a 1:04:21.720 --> 1:04:25.280 whole bunch of numbers, and they did something that took 1:04:25.320 --> 1:04:27.880 fifteen minutes, and I had to turn it up and 1:04:27.920 --> 1:04:30.880 put it back on, and I did, but it still 1:04:30.920 --> 1:04:31.920 didn't do anything. 1:04:32.440 --> 1:04:35.320 Did they have you text set up to sixty seven hundred? 1:04:37.320 --> 1:04:38.520 No, No, they do. 1:04:38.800 --> 1:04:41.440 So that's the first thing I try. So basically, whenever 1:04:41.480 --> 1:04:44.160 you have like an MV and zero on an unlocked phone, 1:04:44.160 --> 1:04:48.720 which sounds like you have, sometimes the settings for the 1:04:48.760 --> 1:04:52.360 Internet and messaging could get a little messed up. And 1:04:52.440 --> 1:04:54.720 so it just depends on how the phone is set 1:04:54.800 --> 1:04:57.600 up the SIM card, if it automatically configures or not. 1:04:57.720 --> 1:04:59.960 It sounds like in this case it was configured proper 1:05:00.560 --> 1:05:02.920 and then at some point you lost that proper configuration. 1:05:03.400 --> 1:05:05.320 Now the fact that it's only happening with your sister 1:05:05.440 --> 1:05:08.120 concerns me because it sounds like it could be an 1:05:08.200 --> 1:05:12.520 isolated Android to iPhone issue, which is very frustrating. Of course, 1:05:13.080 --> 1:05:15.640 so the steps that I would take, Number one, the 1:05:15.760 --> 1:05:18.400 easiest thing to do. If all of your other texts 1:05:18.440 --> 1:05:20.840 and your picture messaging and all that is coming through, 1:05:21.360 --> 1:05:25.280 then I would ask your sister to delete any text 1:05:25.400 --> 1:05:29.000 threads that involve you on her phone, and then restart 1:05:29.000 --> 1:05:32.920 her phone and then try sending a new text directly 1:05:32.960 --> 1:05:35.320 to you. That is the first step I would take. 1:05:35.680 --> 1:05:38.640 And the reason is because sometimes the iPhone gets caught 1:05:38.720 --> 1:05:44.320 up in just a little weird situation with kind of 1:05:44.600 --> 1:05:48.480 a challenge between a standard text message and an I message, 1:05:48.840 --> 1:05:51.480 and it gets confused sometimes, and so if you delete 1:05:51.520 --> 1:05:54.920 that entire thread, that may just trigger Okay, we know 1:05:55.000 --> 1:05:57.920 this is an Android phone, we know this as standard SMS. 1:05:58.320 --> 1:06:00.800 Let's send it this way and hope it goes through. 1:06:01.400 --> 1:06:03.360 So that is the first thing I would try, Okay, 1:06:04.560 --> 1:06:05.959 and then yeah, go ahead. 1:06:06.960 --> 1:06:10.160 And I couldn't. I just didn't go through. And I 1:06:10.520 --> 1:06:12.720 and she had just sent me the text, and I 1:06:12.800 --> 1:06:16.200 know she had the phone in her hands, so I'm 1:06:16.240 --> 1:06:17.640 not sure what's going on. 1:06:18.440 --> 1:06:22.000 And what about the phone call that doesn't go through either? 1:06:23.840 --> 1:06:27.160 No, it didn't. Oh, I got her home number, I'll 1:06:27.200 --> 1:06:30.760 try that instead, but I couldn't get a hold of 1:06:30.800 --> 1:06:31.960 her on her cell phone. 1:06:32.360 --> 1:06:35.440 Okay, So what I would do is I would definitely, 1:06:36.280 --> 1:06:37.840 you know, do the first step that I mentioned, have 1:06:37.920 --> 1:06:40.960 her delete everything, and then after that I would go through. 1:06:41.000 --> 1:06:43.400 I would text that set up to sixty seven hundred, 1:06:44.040 --> 1:06:46.800 and then once you get that, you'll get a text 1:06:46.840 --> 1:06:49.520 back from Mint. You can click that text and it 1:06:49.600 --> 1:06:53.360 should automatically configure your phone and that will kind of 1:06:53.400 --> 1:06:55.920 reset the settings and make sure everything works right. And 1:06:55.920 --> 1:06:57.840 then once you do that, I would restart your phone 1:06:57.880 --> 1:07:01.160 as well. But the reality is, you know, sometimes these 1:07:01.160 --> 1:07:04.080 things happen if for some reason, it seems to happen 1:07:04.080 --> 1:07:07.240 with text messaging a lot, especially from iPhone to Android 1:07:07.720 --> 1:07:11.440 and sometimes Android to iPhone, but more mostly you know, 1:07:11.640 --> 1:07:14.360 it's just it's something that's going on with the configuration 1:07:14.560 --> 1:07:17.000 of the messages, either on your end or on her 1:07:17.040 --> 1:07:19.680 iPhone that's just not recognizing it. So those are the 1:07:19.720 --> 1:07:22.360 steps that I would take, Lauria, it's very frustrating. The 1:07:22.400 --> 1:07:25.040 other thing you might try to do is go into 1:07:25.080 --> 1:07:28.400 your settings and under your connections there should be a 1:07:28.400 --> 1:07:31.880 toggle for Wi Fi calling and texting. You might try 1:07:31.920 --> 1:07:34.800 toggling that on and off. So I would toggle it 1:07:34.840 --> 1:07:36.960 on if it's not on, and then try sending her 1:07:37.000 --> 1:07:39.240 a text. And then I would toggle it off if 1:07:39.280 --> 1:07:42.240 it's on, and then try sending her a text. So again, 1:07:42.280 --> 1:07:44.600 these are all of the kind of the methods I 1:07:44.600 --> 1:07:49.320 would use to troubleshoot the situation, but again very frustrating. 1:07:49.320 --> 1:07:52.280 And I remember my mom had a problem with her 1:07:52.320 --> 1:07:54.920 phone where the simcard was saying, you know, like it 1:07:55.000 --> 1:07:57.800 wasn't seeded properly. And now my mom is not the 1:07:57.840 --> 1:08:00.360 type that's gonna sit there and like push a SIM 1:08:00.480 --> 1:08:03.400 card with a paper clip. And yet somehow I got 1:08:03.400 --> 1:08:05.600 her to do that, and we took out the SIM card, 1:08:05.960 --> 1:08:08.160 like you said, we kind of you know, polished it 1:08:08.200 --> 1:08:10.000 off a little bit, put it back into the phone, 1:08:10.080 --> 1:08:12.520 reseated it, and it seemed to work. But she was 1:08:12.600 --> 1:08:16.560 very proud of herself for doing that. I remember specifically 1:08:16.920 --> 1:08:19.880 being outside on my back patio and just like walking 1:08:19.920 --> 1:08:22.719 my mom through this and kind of laughing, just thinking 1:08:22.720 --> 1:08:25.320 to myself, like what world am I living in where 1:08:25.360 --> 1:08:28.240 I'm walking my mom through taking a SIM card out 1:08:28.240 --> 1:08:31.080 of a phone and resetting it. It's just like stuff that, 1:08:31.200 --> 1:08:33.759 you know, the average person never really thinks about doing. 1:08:34.240 --> 1:08:35.880 And now, of course, many of the new phones have 1:08:36.000 --> 1:08:38.600 moved to e sims, which love the mer hatim. I 1:08:38.640 --> 1:08:40.799 actually think there's a lot of advantages to that because 1:08:41.200 --> 1:08:43.800 now the whole sort of SIM situation is much more 1:08:43.880 --> 1:08:46.720 digital and electronics. You don't have a physical SIM card 1:08:47.080 --> 1:08:50.240 in the new iPhone. It's just not even a thing anymore. 1:08:50.760 --> 1:08:52.559 All right, you're listening to rich on Tech. We'll have 1:08:52.560 --> 1:08:54.960 more of your calls at Triple eight rich one oh one, 1:08:55.680 --> 1:08:59.040 and more of your questions and stories. We'll talk about 1:08:59.040 --> 1:09:01.360 the price hike for an Tendo games, all coming up 1:09:01.439 --> 1:09:09.479 on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:09:09.560 --> 1:09:11.559 This is the show where we talk about the tech 1:09:11.600 --> 1:09:13.840 stuff I think you should know about, and it's the 1:09:13.880 --> 1:09:17.720 place where I answer your questions about technology. Thanks for 1:09:17.800 --> 1:09:21.840 joining me. Rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 1:09:22.040 --> 1:09:26.000 in Los Angeles, coming to you from across the country today. Well, 1:09:26.040 --> 1:09:29.000 depending on where you're listening, I guess it could be anywhere. 1:09:29.000 --> 1:09:32.360 But I'm in New Jersey here for my brother's housewarming 1:09:32.439 --> 1:09:35.759 party and maybe a little Super Bowl celebration as well. 1:09:35.840 --> 1:09:39.280 So kind of a fun first remote show. It's the 1:09:39.280 --> 1:09:42.200 first time I've done something like this on the radio. Well, 1:09:42.200 --> 1:09:44.840 I mean it's only been six shows, so I mean, yeah, 1:09:44.920 --> 1:09:47.760 it has to start somewhere though, right Anyway, it's been 1:09:47.760 --> 1:09:49.320 a lot of fun. I hope there have not been 1:09:49.360 --> 1:09:52.200 too many hiccups for you listening. I think It's gone 1:09:52.240 --> 1:09:54.439 pretty well and I'm ready to do it again. Where 1:09:54.439 --> 1:09:56.599 should I go next? I don't know. Now that I've 1:09:57.040 --> 1:09:59.840 unlocked this oyster, it's kind of fun. I'm looking up 1:09:59.840 --> 1:10:02.559 some fun facts about New Jersey since I'm here. This 1:10:02.600 --> 1:10:04.680 is where I grew up, by the way, but uh, 1:10:05.000 --> 1:10:06.720 you know, of course I learned about New Jersey as 1:10:06.720 --> 1:10:08.400 a kid, but you kind of forget. But I love 1:10:08.439 --> 1:10:12.120 this fact. It has seven major shopping malls in a 1:10:12.200 --> 1:10:14.320 square mile. I don't know if that's true or not, 1:10:14.880 --> 1:10:16.760 but we are as Why is New Jersey known for 1:10:16.840 --> 1:10:19.040 shopping malls? There's just like a lot of malls. I 1:10:19.040 --> 1:10:21.040 mean growing up as a kid, I went to the mall. 1:10:21.040 --> 1:10:22.880 That's where we hung out, you know, as teens, we 1:10:23.000 --> 1:10:25.519 hung out going to the mall. And I don't know 1:10:25.640 --> 1:10:28.320 do you kids still do that? Maybe? Anyway, if you 1:10:28.320 --> 1:10:30.960 have a question you want to ask me, my phone 1:10:31.040 --> 1:10:34.080 number is one eight eight eight rich one oh one 1:10:34.479 --> 1:10:36.639 eight eight eight seven four to two four to one 1:10:36.840 --> 1:10:39.120 zero one. By the way. On the way over here, 1:10:39.600 --> 1:10:42.800 this is this is just me. But you know, I 1:10:42.800 --> 1:10:45.679 I you know, I really think about stuff a lot, 1:10:45.720 --> 1:10:47.920 like maybe too much. But on the way over here, 1:10:48.040 --> 1:10:50.320 I was doing my research on where to sit on 1:10:50.360 --> 1:10:53.240 the plane, and of course I go to seakguru dot com. 1:10:53.280 --> 1:10:57.160 Have you gone to this website seekguru dot com. It 1:10:57.200 --> 1:11:00.760 basically lists a map of your airplane and then it 1:11:00.840 --> 1:11:02.800 shows you the best seats to sit in. Now, I'm 1:11:02.840 --> 1:11:05.120 not talking like first class, like if you're paying for 1:11:05.160 --> 1:11:07.160 first class, you're always getting a good seat. But I'm 1:11:07.200 --> 1:11:09.559 talking about like the rest of the plane, because some 1:11:09.840 --> 1:11:12.240 seats are not as good as others. And so if 1:11:12.240 --> 1:11:14.799 you look at just sort of a you know, United 1:11:14.840 --> 1:11:18.400 Airlines or American Airlines, there's a bunch of different seats 1:11:18.400 --> 1:11:20.920 in there, and some may be good. So let me 1:11:20.960 --> 1:11:24.040 just go through here. So like C eight L, which 1:11:24.120 --> 1:11:26.880 is in business class. By the way, it's a live 1:11:26.960 --> 1:11:30.759 flat seat, but the proximity to the lavatory in galley 1:11:30.840 --> 1:11:33.519 maybe bothersome, so that's marked as a yellow seat. You 1:11:33.520 --> 1:11:35.719 don't want to sit there. Then there's a red seat 1:11:35.720 --> 1:11:39.160 in first class. It's a standard business class seat, but 1:11:39.160 --> 1:11:41.559 it's missing a window. So if you paid all this 1:11:41.680 --> 1:11:44.000 money for a business class seat and then you sit 1:11:44.080 --> 1:11:47.360 down and you have no window, you might be upset, 1:11:47.840 --> 1:11:51.320 Like my kid wanted a window on the plane. Then 1:11:51.360 --> 1:11:53.760 you've got some green seats, which are you know, this 1:11:53.880 --> 1:11:56.240 is a premium plus seat. It's got more leg room 1:11:56.560 --> 1:11:59.200 because it's a bulkhead seat. Bulkhead is when you have 1:11:59.600 --> 1:12:01.280 no road in front of you. It's just like that 1:12:01.439 --> 1:12:03.240 wall in the plane in front of you. So that's 1:12:03.280 --> 1:12:05.160 the bulkhead that used to be one of my favorite 1:12:05.200 --> 1:12:07.200 seats on the plane. And then of course you have 1:12:07.320 --> 1:12:10.839 just standard seats and yellow and red and green. So anyway, 1:12:11.000 --> 1:12:14.679 seatguru dot com if you want to check out where 1:12:14.760 --> 1:12:17.400 to sit on your next flight. I know some people 1:12:17.720 --> 1:12:20.280 might think that's a little bit over the top. I don't. 1:12:20.520 --> 1:12:23.040 I've been flying for many years, and you know there 1:12:23.040 --> 1:12:25.720 are better seats on the plane. Then you know, some 1:12:25.720 --> 1:12:28.599 seats are just better than others. So you look up 1:12:28.600 --> 1:12:30.479 your plane that you're gonna be on, or you can 1:12:30.520 --> 1:12:32.320 look up your flight. It'll give you the plane number, 1:12:32.600 --> 1:12:34.519 and then you can, you know, go to this website 1:12:34.520 --> 1:12:36.760 and pop it in and see where to sit. I 1:12:36.840 --> 1:12:38.720 put way too much work into this, and then they 1:12:38.800 --> 1:12:41.400 ended up swapping out the airplane, which is kind of funny. 1:12:42.120 --> 1:12:44.240 So after all the work I put in looking up 1:12:44.280 --> 1:12:46.759 where to sit on the plane, we got to the airport, 1:12:46.800 --> 1:12:48.240 and they said, oh, by the way, we swapped out 1:12:48.240 --> 1:12:50.280 the plane for a different one. They ended up switching 1:12:50.320 --> 1:12:52.080 it out for a better plane, so I ended up 1:12:52.080 --> 1:12:54.040 getting an even better seat than the one that I 1:12:54.080 --> 1:12:56.720 had picked. Anyway, none of that matters to you right now, 1:12:56.720 --> 1:12:59.720 except to know the website seat guru dot com. All right, 1:12:59.760 --> 1:13:03.400 Jeff is a truck driver in SoCal. Jeff, you're on 1:13:03.560 --> 1:13:04.760 with Rich. What's going on? 1:13:05.960 --> 1:13:06.160 Hey? 1:13:06.240 --> 1:13:06.439 Rich? 1:13:06.560 --> 1:13:09.879 I appreciate taking him a call like in your show. 1:13:10.040 --> 1:13:13.519 My issue is I have two Apple TVs with two 1:13:13.560 --> 1:13:17.559 Samsung TVs, and when I come home and try to 1:13:17.600 --> 1:13:22.160 watch YouTube, I'll watch it, and then when it goes 1:13:22.200 --> 1:13:25.920 into a break or an ad or switches videos, it'll 1:13:26.400 --> 1:13:29.479 almost crash or tell me that there's no signal now, 1:13:29.960 --> 1:13:31.760 and then I'll have to go back to the main 1:13:31.880 --> 1:13:35.880 TV and then go back to YouTube and you know, 1:13:36.040 --> 1:13:38.840 like log back in again a most And I've never 1:13:38.880 --> 1:13:39.679 heard something like that. 1:13:40.080 --> 1:13:43.960 Are you using YouTube on the Samsung TV, like through 1:13:44.040 --> 1:13:45.639 their software or through the Apple TV? 1:13:46.560 --> 1:13:48.839 No, through the Apple TV. If I just use YouTube 1:13:48.880 --> 1:13:52.000 through the Samsung TV itself, it works perfectly, Okay, So. 1:13:51.960 --> 1:13:54.760 It's definitely something with the Apple TV. So how old 1:13:54.840 --> 1:13:55.599 is this Apple TV? 1:13:56.360 --> 1:13:58.240 It's the new one? And then I have what was 1:13:58.280 --> 1:13:59.439 it the one before that. 1:13:59.439 --> 1:14:02.360 Also stairs Oh wow, so you've got the Apple TV 1:14:02.520 --> 1:14:05.920 maybe four K something like that, and then the new one. Okay, 1:14:07.560 --> 1:14:10.400 well it sounds like, you know, it's definitely some sort 1:14:10.400 --> 1:14:13.760 of like software issue because it works nicely on the 1:14:13.800 --> 1:14:16.400 other side. So on the Samsung side it works perfectly. 1:14:16.920 --> 1:14:19.400 So I here's what I would do, and these are 1:14:19.439 --> 1:14:21.160 you know, I always give you kind of the the 1:14:21.200 --> 1:14:23.040 things that I would do, the steps that I would take. 1:14:23.920 --> 1:14:25.400 Number one, do you know how to close out an 1:14:25.439 --> 1:14:26.360 app on the Apple TV? 1:14:27.120 --> 1:14:27.439 Yes? 1:14:28.000 --> 1:14:29.840 Okay, so have you tried that? And when you do 1:14:29.920 --> 1:14:30.920 that what happens? 1:14:31.280 --> 1:14:33.479 Yeah? Close that all the app where you open them 1:14:33.560 --> 1:14:34.280 up and swipe up. 1:14:34.800 --> 1:14:39.160 Yep. Yeah, So just let me explain just again, let 1:14:39.200 --> 1:14:40.960 me just explain how to do that. If you have 1:14:41.000 --> 1:14:43.479 an Apple TV, you basically it's like pretty much you 1:14:43.560 --> 1:14:46.320 swipe or you double click on like the center of 1:14:46.360 --> 1:14:49.080 the of the clickwheel, and then it should like make 1:14:49.120 --> 1:14:50.800 all of your apps look a little bit smaller, and 1:14:50.840 --> 1:14:52.799 then you can just swipe left or right to select 1:14:52.840 --> 1:14:55.040 an app and then swipe up to get rid of 1:14:55.040 --> 1:14:56.640 that app and that closes it out. Most of the 1:14:56.640 --> 1:14:59.360 time you don't have to do that, but sometimes you do. Okay, 1:14:59.360 --> 1:15:01.200 So if that's doesn't work to close out the app, 1:15:01.240 --> 1:15:03.240 that's called a force quit, and that usually kind of 1:15:03.479 --> 1:15:05.519 you know, closes the app out and then you can 1:15:05.560 --> 1:15:07.559 open it back up. It kind of restarts it makes 1:15:07.600 --> 1:15:11.120 it work properly. Again, if that's not working, have you 1:15:11.200 --> 1:15:13.600 tried deleting the YouTube app and reinstalling it? 1:15:14.400 --> 1:15:17.360 I have actually in it. 1:15:17.439 --> 1:15:18.360 That's the exact same thing. 1:15:19.920 --> 1:15:22.759 Are you running some sort of ad blocker on your network? 1:15:23.479 --> 1:15:27.920 No, nothing special, no VPN Nope. 1:15:29.240 --> 1:15:33.800 Okay, well, hmm, that's a good one. I don't know. 1:15:33.920 --> 1:15:36.639 I mean, the thing is it should you know you've 1:15:36.640 --> 1:15:39.200 if you've deleted it and reinstalled it. Now, have you 1:15:39.240 --> 1:15:42.760 deleted the YouTube app, restarted the Apple TV and then 1:15:42.840 --> 1:15:44.080 reinstalled the YouTube app? 1:15:45.600 --> 1:15:48.040 Uh? 1:15:48.160 --> 1:15:50.720 Okay, That's what I would do, because there are some 1:15:50.960 --> 1:15:53.519 remnants to these apps that are left behind when you 1:15:53.720 --> 1:15:57.040 uninstall them that if you're just uninstalling and reinstalling, it 1:15:57.080 --> 1:16:01.080 may just right over the old app, and so there 1:16:01.080 --> 1:16:03.639 could still be some lingering problems. That's what I think, 1:16:03.680 --> 1:16:06.960 after hearing all these different things that you've troubleshoot. I 1:16:07.000 --> 1:16:09.320 think that that is the last thing to do and 1:16:09.360 --> 1:16:11.439 figure out. So what I would do is go in 1:16:11.680 --> 1:16:14.920 delete the YouTube app and then restart the Apple TV 1:16:15.160 --> 1:16:17.400 by pulling the cord or just restarting it however you 1:16:17.439 --> 1:16:20.880 do that, and then letting it warn back up, install 1:16:20.920 --> 1:16:23.719 the app again, see if it happens, and I would 1:16:23.760 --> 1:16:26.400 hope that that would clear out all the fragments and 1:16:26.400 --> 1:16:28.960 and you know junk that may be lingering on this 1:16:29.080 --> 1:16:32.200 install that is causing it to hiccup like this, and 1:16:32.280 --> 1:16:33.479 hopefully that will fix it. 1:16:34.120 --> 1:16:35.600 Alrighty s, I do appreciate that. 1:16:35.640 --> 1:16:38.160 Hope I'll get that try today, all right, Jeff, Hey, 1:16:38.160 --> 1:16:40.479 I was talking about the electric semi earlier. Would you 1:16:40.479 --> 1:16:41.120 ever drive one? 1:16:41.200 --> 1:16:44.840 Or no? I wouldn't mind driving them. I wouldn't want 1:16:44.880 --> 1:16:46.880 to be followed by one on the road that doesn't 1:16:46.880 --> 1:16:47.720 have a driver in it. 1:16:48.360 --> 1:16:51.599 Yeah, that's I guess that's next, right, that's what's that's 1:16:51.600 --> 1:16:55.080 what's uh oh man, Well, I don't think it's going 1:16:55.160 --> 1:16:57.960 to happen. I think you'll be okay for for a 1:16:58.000 --> 1:17:00.200 while because I don't think that's going to happen right way. 1:17:00.200 --> 1:17:02.479 And they're doing mostly short distances with that kind of 1:17:02.520 --> 1:17:05.360 things that are you know, more like figured out in advance. 1:17:05.479 --> 1:17:09.519 Right. Yeah, I've heard rumors that Australia is doing something 1:17:09.600 --> 1:17:13.160 like that where the leaf truck has a driver in 1:17:13.200 --> 1:17:15.920 it and then the rear truck is just a computer 1:17:16.040 --> 1:17:19.519 that follows the front truck. But I haven't seen anything. 1:17:19.560 --> 1:17:21.200 I haven't looked for on YouTube or up like that. 1:17:21.240 --> 1:17:23.640 But I just heard the driver's talking about it. But 1:17:23.760 --> 1:17:26.200 truck drivers like Krisherman, they've all get their stories. 1:17:26.760 --> 1:17:29.760 Yeah, I'm sure you have plenty, and now you've got 1:17:29.800 --> 1:17:31.400 something to look up on YouTube when you get this 1:17:31.520 --> 1:17:34.160 back up and running. Jeff, thanks for calling today. I 1:17:34.200 --> 1:17:34.760 appreciate it. 1:17:35.360 --> 1:17:37.120 You got it, sir, Thanks for the help. 1:17:37.600 --> 1:17:39.880 All right, let me just tell you about this price hike. 1:17:40.080 --> 1:17:44.640 Nintendo their next Zelda game, Legends of Zelda Tiers of 1:17:44.680 --> 1:17:47.360 the Kingdom, is going to cost sixty nine ninety nine 1:17:47.400 --> 1:17:50.720 when it's released on May twelfth. That is ten dollars 1:17:50.720 --> 1:17:54.479 more than the typical price for new Nintendo games that 1:17:54.520 --> 1:17:56.280 are sort of the top of the line games, right, 1:17:56.280 --> 1:17:58.679 They used to be fifty nine to ninety nine. Now 1:17:58.720 --> 1:18:02.280 we've also seen pricing preases on Sony games for the 1:18:02.280 --> 1:18:05.800 PlayStation and also games for the Xbox. So what does 1:18:05.840 --> 1:18:09.360 this mean. This means that now that the sort of 1:18:09.479 --> 1:18:12.479 barrier has been broken for that sixty nine to ninety 1:18:12.560 --> 1:18:15.559 nine price point, you can bet that other big name 1:18:15.720 --> 1:18:18.800 games for the Nintendo Switch are now going to cost more. 1:18:19.600 --> 1:18:22.439 So that's just kind of the way things are right now. 1:18:22.439 --> 1:18:23.759 I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm getting 1:18:23.760 --> 1:18:26.080 all these emails about prices going up on just about 1:18:26.080 --> 1:18:28.680 everything that I've purchased in the past, or subscriptions that 1:18:28.720 --> 1:18:32.040 I have, And now the Nintendo Switch games seventy bucks 1:18:32.040 --> 1:18:33.760 for a game. And by the way, if you have 1:18:33.840 --> 1:18:35.479 two kids with a Switch, you know you gotta buy 1:18:35.520 --> 1:18:39.200 double games, so that could be tricky. Breath of the 1:18:39.200 --> 1:18:41.519 Wild was the first Zelda game for the Switch that 1:18:41.600 --> 1:18:45.439 launched the console. Nintendo sold twenty nine million copies of 1:18:45.439 --> 1:18:48.000 that game, and they've sold one hundred and twenty three 1:18:48.240 --> 1:18:52.080 million Switch consoles. So Nintendo's cleaning up with the Switch 1:18:52.320 --> 1:18:56.719 just became I think the third best selling console device 1:18:56.840 --> 1:19:00.760 in the world as of last month. All right, thanks 1:19:00.800 --> 1:19:03.000 so much for listening rich on Tech. Here, we're gonna 1:19:03.040 --> 1:19:05.439 have more of the show coming up. We are going 1:19:05.520 --> 1:19:08.680 to talk about an app that lets you scan your 1:19:08.720 --> 1:19:11.280 baseball card collection to see how much it's worth. It's 1:19:11.400 --> 1:19:13.519 really cool. Plus I'm gonna tell you how to avoid 1:19:13.600 --> 1:19:17.680 a simcard scam. You're listening to rich on Tech. 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Slash rich on Tech to find me. 1:19:55.320 --> 1:19:58.360 I've got a little group called rich on Techies, so 1:19:58.400 --> 1:20:01.559 if you want to join that you can. Marshall is 1:20:01.600 --> 1:20:05.479 in Recita, California. Marshall, you are on with rich How 1:20:05.479 --> 1:20:05.960 can I help? 1:20:06.880 --> 1:20:07.120 Wow? 1:20:07.160 --> 1:20:10.759 It's good to hear you coming back from my home state. Wow, 1:20:12.320 --> 1:20:13.040 part of New Journey. 1:20:14.160 --> 1:20:17.080 I am in North Jersey, so right outside New York 1:20:17.080 --> 1:20:19.479 City basically, so you're from New Jersey, New York. 1:20:19.560 --> 1:20:22.160 I grew I didn't grow up. I'm from part Shippany 1:20:22.240 --> 1:20:24.080 and Orange and stuff like that. 1:20:24.160 --> 1:20:27.280 But wow, okay, oh wow, Well New Jersey gets such 1:20:27.280 --> 1:20:29.400 a bad rap. I don't know why, but people it's 1:20:29.439 --> 1:20:31.360 just been like the butt of like every joke for 1:20:31.400 --> 1:20:31.960 so many years. 1:20:32.040 --> 1:20:34.000 No, no, no, no, I tell people. They tell you they're from 1:20:34.000 --> 1:20:36.639 New York. I tell oh, anybody could be from New York. 1:20:36.640 --> 1:20:38.559 You have to be special to be from New Jersey. 1:20:38.720 --> 1:20:40.000 And then they give me this clayer. 1:20:41.800 --> 1:20:45.040 I was looking at my I've flown like almost five 1:20:45.080 --> 1:20:48.559 hundred thousand miles on United and I think a majority 1:20:48.600 --> 1:20:51.040 that has been landing in New York, so I know 1:20:51.080 --> 1:20:53.560 the airport very well. Anyway, what are you going to 1:20:53.600 --> 1:20:53.960 help you out? 1:20:54.360 --> 1:20:55.800 I got a couple of questions, and if I have 1:20:55.880 --> 1:20:58.800 to listen off on the radio, if you want to after, 1:20:58.920 --> 1:21:01.200 I tell you, Okay, if you talked about a week 1:21:01.200 --> 1:21:03.040 and a half ago you were telling about the Amazon 1:21:03.280 --> 1:21:06.640 with the prescription thing, and you said that in California 1:21:06.880 --> 1:21:10.120 they don't have it as available in California, but you 1:21:10.120 --> 1:21:12.280 didn't tell how come. And then the other thing I 1:21:12.280 --> 1:21:14.040 was going to ask you is about the Samsung thing. 1:21:14.439 --> 1:21:17.960 You told about the phones coming out, and you didn't 1:21:17.960 --> 1:21:19.559 happen to tell the prices of them, and I wondered, 1:21:19.560 --> 1:21:21.840 how come you didn't tell the prices on that? Okay? 1:21:21.880 --> 1:21:23.519 And I was the other part of that question for 1:21:23.560 --> 1:21:25.479 the Samsung was I'm looking to get the s twenty three. 1:21:26.080 --> 1:21:27.760 But I wanted to know what your opinion is because 1:21:27.760 --> 1:21:29.519 I heard you talk about the one plus and how 1:21:29.520 --> 1:21:31.880 you compare the two phones which we would get at 1:21:31.880 --> 1:21:34.120 Samsung as twenty three or at one plus. 1:21:34.360 --> 1:21:36.760 Ooh, good question. All right. Let me let me just 1:21:36.800 --> 1:21:41.000 get to the Amazon RX pass I mentioned, is a 1:21:41.040 --> 1:21:45.080 new like five dollars a month for unlimited prescriptions. It's 1:21:45.080 --> 1:21:48.320 not available in California. I don't know why it's not. 1:21:48.439 --> 1:21:53.479 I'm assuming that California has some additional restrictions on online 1:21:53.520 --> 1:21:56.840 pharmacies that other states don't. But there's a couple of 1:21:56.880 --> 1:21:59.160 states that it was not available in, So it wasn't 1:21:59.240 --> 1:22:02.360 just California, it was, you know, a couple of other 1:22:02.400 --> 1:22:04.160 states as well. I don't have the list of those 1:22:04.160 --> 1:22:07.639 states right away. It says available in forty two states, 1:22:08.120 --> 1:22:10.360 so let me see if I can find the states 1:22:10.360 --> 1:22:14.320 that it's not Okay, it's ourx pass is currently not 1:22:14.360 --> 1:22:21.479 available to send medications to California, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas, 1:22:21.520 --> 1:22:26.560 and Washington, So it says Amazon pharmacy is still available 1:22:26.600 --> 1:22:29.759 in those states. So clearly there's some kind of extra 1:22:29.840 --> 1:22:32.599 rule or regulation that the RX pass just they just 1:22:32.640 --> 1:22:35.400 can't do in those states. I think there, if it's Amazon, 1:22:35.400 --> 1:22:37.400 they're probably working on it, and I would imagine that 1:22:37.400 --> 1:22:39.720 they would bring it to those states eventually if they can. 1:22:40.320 --> 1:22:42.280 But that's the answer for that. I'm not sure why 1:22:42.320 --> 1:22:44.720 it's not there. I think it should be because I 1:22:44.720 --> 1:22:46.720 think people in all states should have access to that 1:22:46.760 --> 1:22:51.400 five dollars a month for unlimited prescriptions. Now, the question 1:22:51.439 --> 1:22:53.920 about the Samsung S twenty three, so the reason I 1:22:53.960 --> 1:22:57.280 don't go I kind of mentioned the standard pricing, which 1:22:57.520 --> 1:22:59.880 starts at eight hundred dollars for the standard S T 1:23:00.000 --> 1:23:02.479 twenty three, and then the S twenty three Ultra, which 1:23:02.560 --> 1:23:05.160 is the top of the line, starts at twelve hundred dollars. 1:23:05.520 --> 1:23:07.519 The reason I don't make a big deal about the 1:23:07.680 --> 1:23:11.360 specific pricing is because everyone's situation is so different when 1:23:11.360 --> 1:23:13.519 it comes to how they pay for their phone and 1:23:13.600 --> 1:23:16.360 how they get a discount on their device. I mean, 1:23:16.400 --> 1:23:19.000 I'm looking at the website right now. I mean, Samsung 1:23:19.040 --> 1:23:22.160 has so many different sort of offer programs. They've got 1:23:22.160 --> 1:23:27.000 discount for education, They've got discounts for government employees, military 1:23:27.439 --> 1:23:32.000 first responders employees. So I mean those can all factor 1:23:32.040 --> 1:23:34.080 into the price of your phone. And then of course 1:23:34.080 --> 1:23:36.400 some people have a trade in so you might trade 1:23:36.439 --> 1:23:38.320 in your old phone. Maybe I had the S twenty one, 1:23:38.800 --> 1:23:41.719 And because Samsung kind of inflates the trade in values 1:23:41.800 --> 1:23:44.519 right around the time they launch their new phones, people 1:23:44.600 --> 1:23:46.880 will trade in their old phone and get like eight 1:23:46.920 --> 1:23:49.599 hundred dollars for it, something unheard of because the phone. 1:23:49.800 --> 1:23:51.800 You know, Samsung's taking a little bit of a hit 1:23:51.840 --> 1:23:54.120 on that trade in value just to get you into 1:23:54.120 --> 1:23:58.439 a new phone. So that's the pricing when it comes 1:23:58.520 --> 1:24:04.920 to comparing the Samsung versus the one plus eleven. I've 1:24:04.960 --> 1:24:07.240 been using the one plus eleven. I used it briefly, 1:24:07.400 --> 1:24:09.719 so I haven't really used it as like my daily driver, 1:24:10.120 --> 1:24:13.719 but I will tell you that it's a really tough one. 1:24:13.800 --> 1:24:16.720 I would say the software on the one plus I 1:24:16.800 --> 1:24:20.080 really really enjoy. I think that they make their software 1:24:20.560 --> 1:24:23.879 super useful. It's handy. It reminds me of the pixel 1:24:23.960 --> 1:24:26.439 except more useful. So they add like all these little 1:24:26.479 --> 1:24:28.960 features in like a reader mode where it can turn 1:24:28.960 --> 1:24:31.640 your screen, like if you can add apps to the 1:24:31.640 --> 1:24:34.080 reader mode, So if you open up like the Kindle app, 1:24:34.200 --> 1:24:37.680 it will turn your screen grayscale or Sepia toned. So 1:24:37.720 --> 1:24:39.240 it's like fun little things like that. Or if you 1:24:39.280 --> 1:24:41.040 open up a game, it's got like a game mode 1:24:41.080 --> 1:24:43.640 on it, so it like you know, boosts the processing 1:24:43.680 --> 1:24:46.559 power and makes the screen brighter. So it's little things 1:24:46.560 --> 1:24:48.839 like that that I really do appreciate about the one plus. 1:24:48.960 --> 1:24:52.400 I always feel like the one plus is good if 1:24:52.439 --> 1:24:55.679 you're very cost conscious. So if you want to spend 1:24:55.760 --> 1:24:59.240 a little bit less then the Samsung, then I'd say 1:24:59.240 --> 1:25:01.320 go with the one plus. I think the downside is 1:25:02.000 --> 1:25:05.720 the sort of repair and help that you get with 1:25:05.760 --> 1:25:07.479 a one plus is going to be a bit more 1:25:07.520 --> 1:25:10.839 limited than you would with a Samsung. Samsung's got deals 1:25:10.840 --> 1:25:12.960 with all these like little you know, you go into 1:25:12.960 --> 1:25:15.519 any of those little stores, those repair shops, and they've 1:25:15.520 --> 1:25:18.920 got the Samsung parts, they've got the Samsung screens that 1:25:18.960 --> 1:25:21.479 people know because they work on a bunch of Samsung phones. 1:25:21.960 --> 1:25:23.840 So in that case, I feel like you're going to 1:25:23.880 --> 1:25:26.000 get a little bit more support when it comes to 1:25:26.200 --> 1:25:28.920 a problem with your phone. Now, the iPhone is sort 1:25:28.960 --> 1:25:32.080 of the king of that situation. Where I was in 1:25:32.200 --> 1:25:35.720 Japan and I had a problem with my laptop. I 1:25:35.760 --> 1:25:39.759 made an appointment at the Genius Bar, and without even thinking, 1:25:40.680 --> 1:25:42.679 I started walking over and I said, oh, my gosh, 1:25:42.840 --> 1:25:44.800 is the person that's a Genius Bar even going to 1:25:44.800 --> 1:25:47.600 speak English? And it wasn't even something that occurred to me, 1:25:47.640 --> 1:25:49.920 like I just like imagine they would, and sure enough 1:25:49.920 --> 1:25:52.519 I get there and they did. And so it was 1:25:52.560 --> 1:25:55.640 just an incredible experience where here I was across the 1:25:55.680 --> 1:25:58.040 world and I was still able to get my laptop 1:25:58.120 --> 1:26:00.479 service because Apple just has so many store in so 1:26:00.479 --> 1:26:03.880 many places, and you break your iPhone anywhere in the 1:26:03.920 --> 1:26:05.559 world and you're gonna be able to get a replacement 1:26:05.680 --> 1:26:09.800 like the same day. So I've been using the Samsung 1:26:10.040 --> 1:26:13.080 S twenty three Ultra. I think it is a phenomenal device. 1:26:13.640 --> 1:26:17.280 It is a powerhouse of a phone. It is every 1:26:17.360 --> 1:26:20.280 feature that you can want on a smartphone all in one. 1:26:20.720 --> 1:26:24.400 And so if you are desiring the absolute best two 1:26:24.520 --> 1:26:29.160 hundred megapixel camera, every feature you can ever imagine a stylus. 1:26:29.400 --> 1:26:31.559 I mean, this phone is really one to be I've 1:26:31.600 --> 1:26:35.519 been super impressed with it. I think the camera is great, 1:26:36.080 --> 1:26:39.080 and especially in bright light, it's amazing. In low light 1:26:39.120 --> 1:26:42.360 it's amazing. There are some places where it struggles, specifically 1:26:42.760 --> 1:26:45.960 low light selfies. I've noticed if you're an extremely low 1:26:46.040 --> 1:26:47.920 light it can take a little bit longer to take 1:26:47.960 --> 1:26:52.200 a picture. And also some of the video is in 1:26:52.280 --> 1:26:54.439 low light could struggle a little bit too. But if 1:26:54.520 --> 1:26:56.360 you want a great phone, S twenty three Ultra I 1:26:56.360 --> 1:26:58.880 think is gonna be a really nice pick. All right, 1:26:58.880 --> 1:27:01.120 Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about the app that 1:27:01.360 --> 1:27:04.080 lets you scan your baseball cards to see how much 1:27:04.080 --> 1:27:07.160 they're worth. You're listening to rich on Tech. More of 1:27:07.200 --> 1:27:12.080 your calls and an interview coming up next. Rich Demiro here, 1:27:12.200 --> 1:27:14.320 rich On Tech, Welcome back to the show. As you 1:27:14.320 --> 1:27:18.559 can tell, I am inside somewhere. I'm inside Burbanks Sports Cards, 1:27:18.920 --> 1:27:21.840 and I'm here with Ted Mann, the co founder of Collects. 1:27:21.920 --> 1:27:25.160 This is an app that I dreamed of having as 1:27:25.160 --> 1:27:28.639 a kid. It's an app that lets you scan your cards, 1:27:28.640 --> 1:27:32.040 your baseball cards, football cards, hockey cards, whatever, and then 1:27:32.120 --> 1:27:34.479 see what the value of those cards are and some 1:27:34.560 --> 1:27:37.479 other features. So, Ted, thanks for joining me, Thanks for 1:27:37.560 --> 1:27:40.920 having me on Rich. So we're inside this baseball card 1:27:40.960 --> 1:27:44.559 shop or I guess card store. It's incredible. It's bringing 1:27:44.560 --> 1:27:46.920 me back to my childhood when I ripped open those 1:27:46.960 --> 1:27:49.000 card packs and you know, had a little collection. I 1:27:49.040 --> 1:27:52.920 was never too serious, but many people are so. First off, 1:27:52.960 --> 1:27:55.200 just tell me kind of the idea behind baseball card 1:27:55.200 --> 1:27:56.479 collecting or card collecting. 1:27:57.160 --> 1:27:59.120 Well, I think for you know, for a lot of people, 1:27:59.280 --> 1:28:03.320 like cards are the first time you really experience doing 1:28:03.320 --> 1:28:05.880 a deal, making money right, trying to figure out what 1:28:05.960 --> 1:28:10.120 these things are valuable or not. And I started to 1:28:10.120 --> 1:28:11.519 see that in my own son. I have a ten 1:28:11.560 --> 1:28:14.479 year old son named Charlie who got really into cards 1:28:14.600 --> 1:28:16.880 over the pandemic, and just like me when I was 1:28:16.920 --> 1:28:20.760 his age, like it became quickly graduated from being like 1:28:20.800 --> 1:28:23.000 a hobby, you know something I was like interested in 1:28:23.040 --> 1:28:26.360 the pretty pictures on the cards, to like really being 1:28:26.760 --> 1:28:29.640 serious about I want to be able to find, you know, 1:28:29.680 --> 1:28:31.599 the most valuable cards. I want to build a flip cards. 1:28:31.600 --> 1:28:33.240 I want to find cards and sell them. My friends 1:28:33.479 --> 1:28:36.160 do deals, and so I started to see that with him, 1:28:36.160 --> 1:28:37.639 and I think that that's a lot of people kind 1:28:37.640 --> 1:28:41.280 of are with this hobby, is it becomes go graduates 1:28:41.280 --> 1:28:44.360 from like a passion into something of an obsession. And 1:28:45.120 --> 1:28:46.559 you know, I have my own son to thank for 1:28:46.600 --> 1:28:48.479 bringing me back into that and it's now become something 1:28:48.479 --> 1:28:49.360 that we get to do together. 1:28:49.840 --> 1:28:52.840 Tell me about coming up with this app? What made 1:28:52.880 --> 1:28:53.519 you create it? 1:28:54.320 --> 1:28:57.120 So Charlie was having a lot of the same problems 1:28:57.120 --> 1:28:59.080 that I had when he got into cards, which was 1:28:59.200 --> 1:29:02.400 he couldn't figure out what his cards are worth. He 1:29:02.520 --> 1:29:06.840 was googling and getting crazy numbers, and he would frequently 1:29:06.920 --> 1:29:11.040 do a deal at school and feel badly about it. Right, 1:29:11.080 --> 1:29:13.479 He'd do a dumb deal, and then he would come 1:29:13.520 --> 1:29:15.400 to me and say, Dad, can you help me get 1:29:15.400 --> 1:29:19.640 my card back? And this happened multiple occasions, and I 1:29:19.720 --> 1:29:21.639 did the exact same thing with him that my dad 1:29:21.680 --> 1:29:24.479 did with me, which is like, I'm not gonna unwind 1:29:24.479 --> 1:29:24.840 that trade. 1:29:24.880 --> 1:29:27.519 I'm not gonna It's like I can't swoop in and 1:29:27.600 --> 1:29:28.400 kind of fix this. 1:29:28.680 --> 1:29:30.640 Yeah, as much as I'd like to, like, I'm just 1:29:30.680 --> 1:29:32.599 going to teach you to figure out what your cards 1:29:32.640 --> 1:29:35.160 are worth so you don't make stupid trades in the future, 1:29:35.720 --> 1:29:38.880 and and so I set about trying to help Charlie 1:29:38.920 --> 1:29:41.679 with that. At first I bought him a Beckett Guide. 1:29:41.760 --> 1:29:44.360 Do you ever, of course I remember, I remember as 1:29:44.360 --> 1:29:46.040 a kid like looking in the tiny numbers. 1:29:46.280 --> 1:29:48.880 The Beckett Guide would have a price on every card 1:29:48.880 --> 1:29:51.160 so you could go through and look it up. But 1:29:51.560 --> 1:29:55.559 nowadays there's so many cards out there. We'll talk more 1:29:55.560 --> 1:29:56.880 about the collects out in a sec, but like, we 1:29:56.920 --> 1:29:58.280 have twenty million cards that we track. 1:29:58.720 --> 1:29:59.320 That's a lot. 1:29:59.400 --> 1:30:02.160 So that's a prety big phone book. And Charlie the 1:30:02.200 --> 1:30:04.280 minute I gave him that that beccacud he was like, Dad, 1:30:04.560 --> 1:30:07.200 like this is this is not fun, this is too 1:30:07.280 --> 1:30:09.600 much work. So then we went on the Internet and 1:30:09.600 --> 1:30:11.240 I tried to We tried to find apps, we tried 1:30:11.240 --> 1:30:14.240 to websites that would give us an answer, and honestly, 1:30:14.280 --> 1:30:17.320 the best answers we got came from eBay, because that's 1:30:17.320 --> 1:30:19.880 where most people buy and sell cards these days. But 1:30:20.000 --> 1:30:22.320 even on eBay, it was a lot to sort through. 1:30:22.720 --> 1:30:25.760 And so Charlie would come and ask me for help 1:30:25.800 --> 1:30:27.880 with this every day. And finally, like so many I 1:30:27.960 --> 1:30:31.559 think inventions that are startups that get founded, I just 1:30:31.640 --> 1:30:33.719 got so frustrated that I wanted to have a better, 1:30:33.760 --> 1:30:36.320 easier way to do it, so I made made a 1:30:36.320 --> 1:30:38.479 little tool for Charlie to help him figure out the 1:30:38.520 --> 1:30:40.240 price of his cards, and that's what gave birth to 1:30:40.240 --> 1:30:41.400 the idea for Collects. 1:30:41.800 --> 1:30:44.320 So Collects is an app that lets you scan the card. 1:30:44.880 --> 1:30:48.639 It kind of pulls the you know, the prices across 1:30:48.760 --> 1:30:51.800 various platforms and then comes up with a number and 1:30:52.000 --> 1:30:54.679 assigns that value to your card. Yeah, that's right. 1:30:54.800 --> 1:30:57.400 So we have we have about twenty million cards that 1:30:57.439 --> 1:30:59.720 we can match the images to. Right, So you take 1:30:59.720 --> 1:31:02.759 a pic, sure, and we use a technology called computer 1:31:02.840 --> 1:31:06.040 vision or visual search to match the cards, similar to like, 1:31:06.080 --> 1:31:07.880 you know, if you hear about like facial recognition, you know, 1:31:07.880 --> 1:31:10.320 it's sort of like the same idea, except in this case, 1:31:10.320 --> 1:31:12.840 we're just matching a reference image of a card to 1:31:12.880 --> 1:31:17.120 the picture you've just taken. And the technology works really 1:31:17.160 --> 1:31:20.720 well for that purpose. So we can match with a 1:31:20.840 --> 1:31:22.960 very high degree of accuracy and say, okay, this card 1:31:23.000 --> 1:31:25.160 matches to this other card. Once we match it to 1:31:25.200 --> 1:31:28.599 the card, then you can see what's the current average price. 1:31:28.840 --> 1:31:31.799 We average all of the most recent sales on eBay 1:31:31.800 --> 1:31:34.720 and other sites to calculate that, so we'll give you 1:31:34.720 --> 1:31:36.559 the average price, and then we can also tell you, 1:31:36.560 --> 1:31:38.360 you know, what would the card be worth if you 1:31:38.520 --> 1:31:39.880 if you wanted to sell it, or if you want 1:31:39.920 --> 1:31:41.880 to degrade it, if you want to send it off 1:31:41.880 --> 1:31:44.160 to a professional grading service. What would that do to 1:31:44.200 --> 1:31:45.040 the value of the card. 1:31:45.920 --> 1:31:47.840 So that's basically how it works. Yeah, and of course 1:31:47.880 --> 1:31:49.880 you can build your collection inside the app. You can 1:31:49.880 --> 1:31:52.040 see how much your entire collection is worth, and you 1:31:52.080 --> 1:31:55.880 can buy, sell, and trade with other people inside the app. 1:31:56.600 --> 1:31:58.920 How has the app been doing well? 1:31:58.960 --> 1:32:00.599 So all of that stuff you just mentioned, that all 1:32:00.680 --> 1:32:03.040 kind of came probably after you and I first talked. 1:32:03.680 --> 1:32:04.920 So when we first launched the app, it was just 1:32:04.920 --> 1:32:06.880 a pure utility, just take a picture of the card, 1:32:07.640 --> 1:32:09.720 get the value, build your collection. Right, that was the 1:32:09.720 --> 1:32:13.200 sort of the initial kind of like maybe not an MVP, 1:32:13.400 --> 1:32:16.240 but the initial version of of Collects. And then what 1:32:16.280 --> 1:32:18.400 we started to see happening was people were building really 1:32:18.400 --> 1:32:21.960 big collections. The average user on the app will add 1:32:21.960 --> 1:32:24.160 about two hundred cards to their collection, but we have 1:32:24.240 --> 1:32:26.639 a ton of users that have thousands, tens of thousands, 1:32:26.760 --> 1:32:27.280 hundreds of. 1:32:27.200 --> 1:32:28.040 Thousands of cards. 1:32:28.600 --> 1:32:30.120 So yeah, so we start to see these people building 1:32:30.160 --> 1:32:32.639 bandsive collections, and then the really cool things. They started 1:32:32.640 --> 1:32:34.640 to reach out to one another, so like, you know, 1:32:34.680 --> 1:32:36.920 your friend might have somebody else that would reach out 1:32:36.920 --> 1:32:37.200 to them. 1:32:37.160 --> 1:32:39.240 And say, hey, I really like your Jerry Rice card. 1:32:39.479 --> 1:32:41.559 I want to buy that from you? Would you take 1:32:41.640 --> 1:32:43.559 twenty bucks for it? And so they started doing these 1:32:43.560 --> 1:32:46.519 deals and we started to see that happening organically. It 1:32:46.640 --> 1:32:50.040 was honestly, like probably not the best experience because they 1:32:50.040 --> 1:32:52.160 were just doing it all through private messaging. In the app, 1:32:52.160 --> 1:32:55.320 we have a messaging feature, but we you know, luckily 1:32:55.360 --> 1:32:57.639 like laid enough of the groundwork that it was all possible. 1:32:58.080 --> 1:33:00.200 And so we started to look at how many any 1:33:00.280 --> 1:33:02.920 cards we're getting sold through the app, and over the 1:33:03.000 --> 1:33:05.600 last five months, we've seen fifty million dollars worth of 1:33:05.640 --> 1:33:09.439 cards sold on the Collects app. So people are actually 1:33:09.479 --> 1:33:11.519 doing some pretty big deals here. I mean it's you know, 1:33:11.560 --> 1:33:13.840 this is an eBay yet, but it's it's definitely like 1:33:13.880 --> 1:33:16.439 a cool place to be able to you know, buy 1:33:16.600 --> 1:33:17.639 or sell or do a trade. 1:33:18.280 --> 1:33:21.080 So we're talking with Ted Man, a co founder of Collects, 1:33:21.120 --> 1:33:23.400 an app that lets you scan your baseball cards see 1:33:23.439 --> 1:33:26.760 their value and also there's a lot of social access 1:33:26.800 --> 1:33:29.360 aspects to this app as well. You can buy, sell, 1:33:29.400 --> 1:33:31.800 and trade with different people that are using the app. 1:33:32.240 --> 1:33:35.400 How do you think this differentiates from just say, scanning 1:33:35.439 --> 1:33:37.880 a card with like Google Lens, or just putting the 1:33:38.120 --> 1:33:39.120 card into eBay. 1:33:39.920 --> 1:33:40.280 Sure? 1:33:40.360 --> 1:33:43.800 Well, I mean, you know a bunch of other platforms 1:33:43.800 --> 1:33:45.479 exist where you can go and you can do you 1:33:45.479 --> 1:33:47.920 can buy or sell a card. I think what makes 1:33:47.960 --> 1:33:51.519 Collects different than like say an eBay is it's a 1:33:51.560 --> 1:33:54.160 social experience right where you can find the other collectors, 1:33:54.160 --> 1:33:56.240 you can see what they've got, you can see if 1:33:56.280 --> 1:33:59.040 what your shared interests are. So if you both collect 1:33:59.080 --> 1:34:02.360 the Dodgers, we can help surface those cards front and 1:34:02.400 --> 1:34:04.080 center to make it a little bit easier to find 1:34:04.120 --> 1:34:05.519 the cards that you would want to be able to 1:34:05.560 --> 1:34:06.639 purchase from that person. 1:34:06.479 --> 1:34:07.200 Or do a deal with. 1:34:07.560 --> 1:34:09.479 So in that sense, it's like you know, I think 1:34:09.479 --> 1:34:12.439 it's it is different from those social marketplaces. Plus, we 1:34:12.479 --> 1:34:14.240 have the utility of being able to scan the card 1:34:14.360 --> 1:34:17.320 and match it, so Google Lens doesn't really do that 1:34:17.320 --> 1:34:19.640 per se. Google lends will allow you to match to 1:34:19.800 --> 1:34:22.639 images on the Internet, but none of what Google does 1:34:22.720 --> 1:34:24.799 is tied to any kind of what we call canonical 1:34:24.880 --> 1:34:27.479 data is not tied to the actual checklist of the 1:34:27.520 --> 1:34:30.519 cards versus collects where we're actually going to match it 1:34:30.560 --> 1:34:33.560 to that exact record so that you get the pricing reliably. 1:34:33.960 --> 1:34:35.479 What types of cards do you support? 1:34:36.200 --> 1:34:39.639 So we started with just a few sports like football, baseball, basketball, 1:34:39.680 --> 1:34:42.080 but now we have like hockey, wrestling, We have all 1:34:42.080 --> 1:34:44.080 the trading card games like Pokemon. 1:34:43.720 --> 1:34:44.599 Magic Yu Gi. 1:34:44.640 --> 1:34:47.000 Oh, and we're going to be adding a bunch more sports, 1:34:47.000 --> 1:34:49.000 like we have a lot of demand for racing cards 1:34:50.080 --> 1:34:53.759 and MMA and things like that, so we'll be garbage 1:34:53.760 --> 1:34:55.840 failed Kids was a passionate mind when I was a kid, 1:34:56.280 --> 1:34:58.920 So we'll be adding those other categories in the coming months. 1:34:59.120 --> 1:35:02.559 I had kept my original Series one garbage pail Kids 1:35:02.600 --> 1:35:05.240 for many years. I came home from college one year 1:35:05.320 --> 1:35:07.720 and my brother had taken all the stickers off and 1:35:07.760 --> 1:35:08.519 put them on my wall. 1:35:08.600 --> 1:35:11.479 Oh yeah, the Series one garbage because they're worth a ton. 1:35:11.520 --> 1:35:14.479 Now that's I'm trying not to look up the values 1:35:14.520 --> 1:35:16.800 anymore because I don't want to know the idea of 1:35:16.840 --> 1:35:19.400 baseball card collecting. We live in such a high tech society. 1:35:19.439 --> 1:35:22.479 Everything's digital. These cards are physical, but you're kind of 1:35:22.520 --> 1:35:25.000 bridging that physical and digital world. So do you think 1:35:25.040 --> 1:35:26.720 this kind of changes the marketplace? 1:35:27.920 --> 1:35:30.120 I mean, I think just being able to have your 1:35:30.200 --> 1:35:33.400 cards in, like, you know, in a digital collection, whether 1:35:33.479 --> 1:35:35.160 or not we're not actually like turning them into n 1:35:35.240 --> 1:35:37.360 fts or anything like that, but just being able to 1:35:37.360 --> 1:35:39.640 like track the value of your cards over time, to 1:35:39.720 --> 1:35:41.360 know when they're going up and down in value, to 1:35:41.720 --> 1:35:43.880 have other people be able to kind of like make 1:35:43.920 --> 1:35:46.719 an offer when a card is spiking or dropping in value. 1:35:46.840 --> 1:35:49.479 I think that's pretty cool, right, And that's that's the thing, 1:35:49.560 --> 1:35:51.680 like you said, I mean, I don't even think I 1:35:51.680 --> 1:35:54.920 could have like comprehended the idea of like smartphones much 1:35:54.960 --> 1:35:57.559 less like collects when I was a kid. But the 1:35:57.600 --> 1:35:58.920 fact that you can do it now, I think it 1:35:59.000 --> 1:36:01.519 is really a cool way to advance the hobby. But 1:36:01.600 --> 1:36:04.040 I don't think it it obvigates the need to still 1:36:04.080 --> 1:36:06.599 have those physical cards, because actually being able to show 1:36:06.680 --> 1:36:09.439 cards to your friends, you know, in the physical world, 1:36:09.439 --> 1:36:12.000 I think is still so cool and such a such 1:36:12.000 --> 1:36:13.839 a neat part of the whole experience of collecting. 1:36:14.200 --> 1:36:15.600 All right, thanks so much for joining me. How to 1:36:15.640 --> 1:36:16.439 folks find the app? 1:36:16.960 --> 1:36:19.840 So Collex app is free. It's in the iOS app 1:36:19.840 --> 1:36:22.600 store as well as Google Play. We are going to 1:36:22.640 --> 1:36:25.080 be coming out with a web version pretty soon as well, 1:36:25.680 --> 1:36:28.120 So just go download the app and hopefully give it 1:36:28.120 --> 1:36:28.840 five stars. 1:36:29.120 --> 1:36:31.040 All right, Ted, Man of Collects, thanks so much for 1:36:31.120 --> 1:36:32.800 joining me. If you want to learn more about the app, 1:36:32.800 --> 1:36:34.559 you can find a link on my website. Just go 1:36:34.640 --> 1:36:38.200 to rich on Tech dot tv. More of rich on 1:36:38.280 --> 1:36:42.519 Tech coming up after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:36:43.520 --> 1:36:46.639 Tom is in San Diego. Tom, You're on with rich 1:36:46.680 --> 1:36:47.320 How can I help? 1:36:48.360 --> 1:36:48.559 Well? 1:36:48.560 --> 1:36:49.840 Thank you rich nice on. 1:36:49.960 --> 1:36:50.679 First time I've. 1:36:50.520 --> 1:36:54.840 Talked to you. Oh thanks, good to hear thank you. 1:36:55.160 --> 1:36:56.160 I hear you loud and clear. 1:36:57.120 --> 1:36:57.559 Perfect. 1:36:57.680 --> 1:36:59.080 It's a good thing for my hand right out? 1:36:59.120 --> 1:36:59.439 All right? 1:37:00.840 --> 1:37:04.240 Okay, okay, here's the deal. I'm trying to set up 1:37:04.240 --> 1:37:08.200 a golf driving range in my garage and I've hooked 1:37:08.240 --> 1:37:12.240 up at TV and I can use my Android Fixel 1:37:12.280 --> 1:37:16.160 six phone for a camera. I can get it casted 1:37:16.200 --> 1:37:19.759 and all that. But the only thing is I can only, 1:37:20.360 --> 1:37:23.840 for example, turn on the camera do what I'm gonna do, 1:37:24.040 --> 1:37:28.280 and then I have to stop rewind it. What I'm wondering, 1:37:28.400 --> 1:37:31.479 is there any way I can turn it into more 1:37:31.600 --> 1:37:34.120 like a cam where I can watch it while I'm 1:37:34.160 --> 1:37:37.719 doing it. 1:37:37.800 --> 1:37:41.679 So you've got picture, so you've got if you're casting, 1:37:41.760 --> 1:37:42.880 isn't isn't that live? 1:37:44.320 --> 1:37:48.639 Yes? But when I'm going through my phone, I've got 1:37:48.640 --> 1:37:51.320 it set up on you know, a photo for a 1:37:52.080 --> 1:37:57.479 motion video for BCR or you know movie pictures. Sure, 1:37:57.680 --> 1:38:01.960 but it only I only see the picture when it's 1:38:02.000 --> 1:38:07.720 actually recording or when it's actually recorded. When I go 1:38:07.800 --> 1:38:10.320 back and play, then I can watch. Then I can 1:38:10.400 --> 1:38:12.840 cast it and watch it. I'm trying to turn it 1:38:12.880 --> 1:38:17.040 into like a live cam where I can watch on 1:38:17.120 --> 1:38:19.400 the TV while I'm practicing my. 1:38:19.479 --> 1:38:23.880 Stroke, and so where it kind of where you're you're 1:38:23.920 --> 1:38:26.559 just seeing a live viewfinder of what's happening on your phone. 1:38:27.840 --> 1:38:29.599 That's what I want to do, yes, And I don't 1:38:29.640 --> 1:38:30.000 know how. 1:38:29.880 --> 1:38:32.240 To do that, and Google Cast doesn't let you do. 1:38:32.240 --> 1:38:35.280 That, not that I've been able to figure out. 1:38:35.280 --> 1:38:39.080 How How are you How are you casting? Are you casting? Okay, 1:38:39.120 --> 1:38:41.799 So there's a couple of ways to cast on an Android. 1:38:41.840 --> 1:38:45.120 So one of them cast the entire screen. So there's 1:38:45.280 --> 1:38:47.840 there's that, and then there's the casting inside the app. 1:38:47.880 --> 1:38:51.080 So if you're casting inside, say like Google Photos, that's 1:38:51.120 --> 1:38:54.280 different than casting your entire screen. So if you look 1:38:54.320 --> 1:38:57.519 on your your settings on your phone, there should be 1:38:57.560 --> 1:39:00.839 a cast that lets you cast your entire screen versus 1:39:01.080 --> 1:39:03.240 just the single app. Is that what you're doing? 1:39:04.320 --> 1:39:09.679 And well, would I be able to? Would I set 1:39:09.720 --> 1:39:12.200 it up that way? And and it's just basically like 1:39:12.280 --> 1:39:12.679 a cam. 1:39:14.120 --> 1:39:16.639 Yeah, I mean if now I've not done this personally 1:39:16.680 --> 1:39:18.200 in a long time. I know with the iPhone you 1:39:18.240 --> 1:39:20.519 can you can mirror it pretty easily to the Apple 1:39:20.560 --> 1:39:23.160 TV and see the viewfinder and see a live view. 1:39:23.680 --> 1:39:25.960 But I have not done this in a while on 1:39:26.000 --> 1:39:27.960 the Android side of things, so I'd have to check 1:39:28.000 --> 1:39:30.240 to see. But I don't see why you would not 1:39:30.280 --> 1:39:31.960 be able to do that. I mean, if you if 1:39:32.000 --> 1:39:34.920 you can cast your screen, anything that's happening on your 1:39:34.920 --> 1:39:38.479 screen can be cast to another screen, whether that's the 1:39:38.520 --> 1:39:41.599 camera or you know, whatever's going on, but you have 1:39:41.680 --> 1:39:45.720 to actually go in and cast that versus the in 1:39:45.800 --> 1:39:48.240 app casting, which is I know it sounds a little different, 1:39:49.560 --> 1:39:51.680 That's that's really what I'm trying to look at. I 1:39:51.680 --> 1:39:53.760 don't have a pixel with me right here, but I'm 1:39:53.800 --> 1:39:55.280 trying to see if they're if you go into like 1:39:55.320 --> 1:39:57.240 your quick toggles have you seen those where you like 1:39:57.240 --> 1:39:58.960 pull down those buttons that are at the top of 1:39:58.960 --> 1:40:02.840 the screen, right, that's where you might find the cast 1:40:02.880 --> 1:40:05.000 where it's going to cast your entire screen and not 1:40:05.160 --> 1:40:07.880 just the app, and not just. 1:40:07.840 --> 1:40:11.760 Not just the camera or not just the video. 1:40:11.640 --> 1:40:15.479 Camera exactly like the photos app. So have you ever 1:40:15.479 --> 1:40:17.599 gotten to a place where, like when you cast this screen, 1:40:17.640 --> 1:40:19.640 you see all your apps and everything like on the 1:40:20.040 --> 1:40:20.679 TV screen. 1:40:21.479 --> 1:40:22.439 I haven't seen that yet. 1:40:22.840 --> 1:40:24.840 Okay, okay, then that's what you need to do. So 1:40:24.880 --> 1:40:26.840 that's that's your that's what you need to do on 1:40:26.880 --> 1:40:29.960 the on the Android phone. So if you're using a pixel, 1:40:30.000 --> 1:40:32.599 swipe down from the top, swipe down again, you get 1:40:32.600 --> 1:40:35.479 all those little tiles of different kind of quick toggles. 1:40:35.720 --> 1:40:37.880 It looks like you know it says Wi Fi Bluetooth 1:40:38.040 --> 1:40:41.160 auto rotate flashlight. If you edit those, there should be 1:40:41.200 --> 1:40:44.400 one in there that says cast screen. That's the one 1:40:44.400 --> 1:40:45.960 that you want to enable, and that's the one that 1:40:46.000 --> 1:40:47.960 you want to use to cast your screen while you're 1:40:48.479 --> 1:40:51.200 practicing your golf swing and then you know you should 1:40:51.200 --> 1:40:53.559 be able to see that on that TV screen at 1:40:53.640 --> 1:40:55.840 the same time. So hopefully that'll help. 1:40:55.960 --> 1:40:57.680 Thank you, Thank you, sir. 1:40:57.720 --> 1:40:59.040 Whish me love. I'll give it a shot. 1:40:59.280 --> 1:41:02.639 All right, good luck, Tom, appreciate it, appreciate the call. Okay, 1:41:02.920 --> 1:41:04.400 to close out the show, here, let me tell you 1:41:04.439 --> 1:41:07.439 about the SIM swapping. I know I talked earlier about 1:41:07.520 --> 1:41:10.519 SIM cards and how they've become more electronic, which is 1:41:10.560 --> 1:41:14.559 probably a good thing. But SIM swapping doesn't require actually 1:41:14.600 --> 1:41:18.040 swapping out a physical SIM. It's actually someone stealing your 1:41:18.080 --> 1:41:22.280 SIM card information and activating their phone with your info. 1:41:22.400 --> 1:41:26.680 So here's how it works. Basically, someone gets your information, 1:41:27.240 --> 1:41:30.040 they call up your wireless carrier and they pretend they're 1:41:30.040 --> 1:41:32.360 you and they say, oh, I got a new phone. 1:41:32.720 --> 1:41:35.120 I'd like to swap my SIM with the new phone. 1:41:35.360 --> 1:41:37.559 And the operator says, okay, let me verify you are 1:41:37.600 --> 1:41:41.000 who you are. And because of all these data breaches 1:41:41.040 --> 1:41:44.080 out there, you know, these hackers can figure out ways 1:41:44.200 --> 1:41:47.840 of piecing together your identity and so they know that 1:41:47.960 --> 1:41:50.800 you know your secret question or secret answer to your 1:41:50.840 --> 1:41:53.680 secret question is this. They know what your address is, 1:41:53.760 --> 1:41:56.320 they know what your phone number is. We recently saw 1:41:56.400 --> 1:41:59.679 big data breaches from T Mobile that exposed like thirty 1:41:59.720 --> 1:42:03.080 seven million customers information. And this is a story, by 1:42:03.120 --> 1:42:06.679 the way, from ABC seven New York about two people 1:42:06.760 --> 1:42:10.280 that had gosh, twenty thousand dollars wired out of one 1:42:10.640 --> 1:42:13.280 one account and sixty thousand dollars out of another. While 1:42:13.280 --> 1:42:15.760 these people keep a lot of money in their their accounts, 1:42:16.600 --> 1:42:18.880 and both of these women were victims of a simcard 1:42:19.000 --> 1:42:24.200 swap scam. And so basically, these criminals convinced the carrier 1:42:24.720 --> 1:42:28.120 to let them activate a new phone. And what's going 1:42:28.160 --> 1:42:31.320 to happen when that happens. Well, now they've got the 1:42:31.400 --> 1:42:34.720 keys to your kingdom. All those little text messages that 1:42:34.760 --> 1:42:38.160 come through the two factor authentication codes, all of those 1:42:38.240 --> 1:42:40.960 codes are now coming to their phone. So what can 1:42:41.000 --> 1:42:43.599 they do. Well, they try to log into your bank account, 1:42:43.880 --> 1:42:45.800 and your bank says, huh, this is weird. This is 1:42:45.840 --> 1:42:48.720 a new device that we haven't seen before. Let's verify this. 1:42:48.840 --> 1:42:51.400 Let's send that device a text. They send a text 1:42:51.400 --> 1:42:54.519 with that one time code. But now the hacker has 1:42:54.600 --> 1:42:56.840 that one time code and they can enter it and 1:42:56.840 --> 1:42:58.880 get into your bank account, and they can do this 1:42:58.920 --> 1:43:00.880 for a whole bunch of different things. When we've heard this, 1:43:00.880 --> 1:43:03.040 this is nothing new. This has been going on for 1:43:03.080 --> 1:43:06.559 a long time. But people still, you know, it still 1:43:06.600 --> 1:43:09.920 happens to people because their accounts are not properly locked down, 1:43:10.120 --> 1:43:12.760 and so in one case, this woman said, she goes, 1:43:12.800 --> 1:43:14.679 I was on an airplane when this happens, so there's 1:43:14.720 --> 1:43:17.479 no way that I could have authorized these transfers, like 1:43:17.520 --> 1:43:19.600 here's my plane ticket, Like when this all happened, I 1:43:19.640 --> 1:43:22.120 was literally on a plane. And a lot of times 1:43:22.479 --> 1:43:24.720 people will see their phones just go dead, like the 1:43:24.760 --> 1:43:27.439 signal just goes out because it's been moved to a 1:43:27.439 --> 1:43:30.559 different device. So how can you protect yourself from all 1:43:30.600 --> 1:43:34.360 of this? The big takeaway Number one, you probably want 1:43:34.360 --> 1:43:36.800 to use a two factor authentication app. I know, I 1:43:36.840 --> 1:43:41.040 talk about two factor authentication all the time. The easiest 1:43:41.080 --> 1:43:43.559 way to do that is with a text code. Now, 1:43:43.600 --> 1:43:45.840 if you look at Google what they've done, they've gotten 1:43:45.880 --> 1:43:48.880 pretty smart. They actually will ask you when you're logging 1:43:48.960 --> 1:43:51.040 in from like an unknown device. They'll say, hey, can 1:43:51.080 --> 1:43:54.280 you open up the YouTube app on your iPad? And 1:43:54.320 --> 1:43:56.639 that's how they verify you are who you are because 1:43:56.680 --> 1:43:59.720 the hacker typically doesn't have your iPad as well and 1:44:00.000 --> 1:44:01.800 access to that. So they've gotten pretty good about that 1:44:01.880 --> 1:44:03.960 kind of stuff. Like they've stopped doing like the two 1:44:04.040 --> 1:44:07.439 factor code sent to your text, but other apps still 1:44:07.520 --> 1:44:10.719 use that, especially bank apps, So use a two factor 1:44:10.720 --> 1:44:14.120 authentication app. That means that you won't get texts. It's 1:44:14.160 --> 1:44:17.960 like an app that relies on generating different codes every 1:44:18.000 --> 1:44:20.960 thirty seconds or so, and that's more secure. And also 1:44:21.120 --> 1:44:23.360 if your app allows it, like if your banking app 1:44:23.439 --> 1:44:28.080 allows a pin code or a fingerprint authentication, definitely use that. 1:44:28.760 --> 1:44:31.720 Always change your mobile account pin number and password. Do 1:44:31.840 --> 1:44:35.320 not use your pet name, use something strong. And then 1:44:35.400 --> 1:44:37.640 all of the carriers, whether it's T Mobile, AT and 1:44:37.680 --> 1:44:39.840 T or Verizon, they all have a way to lock 1:44:39.880 --> 1:44:43.519 down your account so that someone can't simswap you. On 1:44:43.600 --> 1:44:46.640 T Mobile it's called takeover protection. Make sure you enable it. 1:44:47.160 --> 1:44:50.519 On Verizon it's called number lock, so you can ask 1:44:50.560 --> 1:44:52.160 them to enable that. Think you can do it right 1:44:52.200 --> 1:44:55.640 from your app. And then on AT and T you 1:44:55.680 --> 1:45:00.200 can ask them to activate two factor authentication texts. So 1:45:00.320 --> 1:45:03.840 no matter what or sorry, authentic a unique passcode for 1:45:03.920 --> 1:45:06.000 AT and T if you want any changes. So T 1:45:06.200 --> 1:45:11.080 Mobile account takeover protection, Verizon number lock, AT and T 1:45:11.200 --> 1:45:14.280 out a unique passcode for any changes that are asked 1:45:14.360 --> 1:45:17.320 about your account. Very important stuff. You do not want 1:45:17.320 --> 1:45:21.840 to lose access to any of your personal information, all right, 1:45:21.840 --> 1:45:23.519 if you can believe it, that's gonna do it. For 1:45:23.560 --> 1:45:27.120 this episode of the show, first remote rich on Tech 1:45:27.160 --> 1:45:30.280 Show in the Can, I love it. Thanks to everyone 1:45:30.280 --> 1:45:33.639 who called some great callers this week. Next week, I'm 1:45:33.640 --> 1:45:35.080 going to tell you about an app that helps you 1:45:35.160 --> 1:45:38.479 find all of your tax deductions and can even help 1:45:38.520 --> 1:45:41.080 you file your taxes. I've been using this app. It 1:45:41.120 --> 1:45:44.719 is quite incredible. It uses a combination of real CPA 1:45:44.920 --> 1:45:48.880 help and artificial intelligence. Man, that's a theme through these shows. 1:45:49.160 --> 1:45:51.280 You can find me on social media. I am at 1:45:51.400 --> 1:45:55.120 rich on Tech. My website is richon Tech dot TV. 1:45:55.600 --> 1:45:58.200 Be sure to watch my TV segments there. My name, 1:45:58.240 --> 1:46:01.439 once again is rich Demiroks. So much for listening. There 1:46:01.479 --> 1:46:03.720 are so many ways you can spend your time. I 1:46:03.800 --> 1:46:07.599 do appreciate you spending it right here with me live 1:46:07.600 --> 1:46:09.840 from New Jersey. I'll talk to you real soon.