WEBVTT - Nothing Phone is actually something 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:05.040 Nothing to say here but a new phone brand. Hollywood 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.119 goes on strike over AI, among other things, Should you 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:16.280 install iOS seventeen Beta plus? Your tech questions answered? 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:17.800 What's going on? 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.120 I'm Rich de Murou and this is Rich on Tech. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:21.880 The show where I talk about the tech stuff I 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.040 think you should know about and answer your questions about technology. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:29.120 I believe that tech should be easy, helpful, inspiring and fun. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.880 Phone lines are now open. Yes, that's right. Phone lines 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.440 are now open at triple A Rich one oh one. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.159 That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.520 one zero one. And no, AI did not take over 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.960 the show just yet. What you just heard is my 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:53.320 personal voice. This is a new feature on iOS seventeen 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:59.480 that lets you recreate your own voice using AI. Now 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.080 it sounds silly, there's a reason for it, but here's 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.759 what you have to do. It took me about twenty 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.240 four hours to create that. I had to sit in 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.679 a room and read one hundred and fifty different phrases. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.000 And once I read those one hundred and fifty different phrases, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.880 it could then synthesize my voice and it took overnight. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:21.280 It took me about a half an hour to read 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.040 the phrases, but it took the phone about twenty four 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:28.399 hours to actually analyze and recreate my voice. Now, why 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.000 would you do this? Why would you want your own voice, which, 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.440 by the way, I don't really think sounds like me 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.160 in a big way. I think it has intonations of me, 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.000 but it's not really rich on tech. But here's the deal. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.680 This is a feature that is actually an accessibility feature. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.720 So it was created with people in mind that may 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:53.000 have some sort of degenerative disease or illness that would 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.160 cause them to lose their voice over time. And so 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.760 in this way, instead of using a robot voice to 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.120 beak to do text to speech later on in life, 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.520 they can actually use their own voice. And so while 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:08.480 I was recording this, I was actually getting kind of 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.880 sad because it made me realize that when we're gone, 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.840 our voice is gone too, and we're gone. I mean, 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.440 it's just a it's kind of weird. So I don't 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.920 want to bring you down. But that's just one of 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.959 the new features in iOS seventeen. The beta was released 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.880 this week, and so a lot of folks are wondering 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:31.919 if they should install it. My advice is only if 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.679 you are super tech savvy or if you have a 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.920 secondary device, because there could be problems. This is a 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.880 beta software and so that means it's not fully finished. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.160 People are saying it's good. I'm not running it on 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.520 my primary device, so I can't tell you if it's perfect, 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.480 but it could be some issues there by the way, 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.680 maybe this got lost in this whole thing. But phone 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.519 lines are open at triple A rich one oh one 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:02.600 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.800 Give me a call. If you have a question about technology, 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:10.000 you can also email me. Just go to or email 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:15.280 hello at rich on tech dot tv. Also new this 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:20.040 week is the website rich on tech dot tv is 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:27.840 completely redesigned, reformed. It's all brand new. I finally got 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.840 the security lock that y'all have been asking me for 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.839 because you said, rich your website's insecure. 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So we went to the movies. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.640 I'm not gonna tell you all about that, but one 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.440 little pro tip. Okay, my wife had her Apple Watch 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.880 on and we're at the movies and in the middle 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.000 of a silent portion of the movie, all of a sudden, 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.840 we hear a walkie talkie. It's like, hey, mom, are 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.599 you gonna pick me up? Because there's that walkie talkie 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.359 feature on the Apple Watch and we didn't think to 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.920 turn that off. And so my wife is like fumbling 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.320 with her watch, and my kid is like, hey mom, 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.479 what are you there? What's happening? And everyone in the audience, which, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.320 by the way, it's a matine, there was not that 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.960 many people, but we were laughing because she couldn't run 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.599 out of the movie theater quick enough. So let me 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.719 just give you the pro tip of the week. Before 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.120 you go to the movies. On your Apple Watch, you 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.240 swipe up and there are two little masks it's an 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.559 icon in the quick settings that is your theater mode. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:02.280 Tap that on your watch, turn on theater mode before 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.760 you get into the movies. That will disable the walkie 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.520 talkie and it will also disable the sounds and the screen. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.599 So once you're done doing that, just hold your hands, 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.080 you take your palm, and you just tap your Apple 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.800 Watch screen with your entire palm and it will turn 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.400 off your screen and it will not turn back on 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.720 until you press a button. And then when you're done 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.159 with the movie, you go back in. You swipe up 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.160 from the bottom of your Apple Watch screen and you 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.720 tap those two little faces and you'll turn that off. Now, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.000 I did that before I got into the movie theater, 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.000 but what I forgot to do was turn it off, 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.280 and so I didn't get messages for the next twenty 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.440 four hours. On my Apple Watch. People were texting me 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.680 left and right, and I didn't see any of them 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.000 because I still had this theater mode. They were trying 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.280 to get a hold of me in the newsroom and 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.560 they couldn't text me, and I just I looked at 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.720 my watch. I said, I don't know, I didn't see. Oh, 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.719 there it is. Oh. I left that on last night 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.440 there you go. So just remember to turn that off 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.360 if you do turn it back on. Ah what else 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.919 this week? Oh, I switched to a new note taking system. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.799 I am really and I've talked about this on the show. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.919 I'm really trying to do better about my notes. So 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.680 I've been trying all these different note taking situations and 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.159 ever Note if you've been following that, that was my 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:20.240 previous note taking preferred application. And they laid off a 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.240 whole bunch of people in San Francisco. They moved operations 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.880 to Italy. They actually got purchased by a company that 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.159 I really like. They make another app that I love 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.760 called Splice. It's a video editing app. But now everyone's 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.920 worried about the future of ever Note. So everyone's kind 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.480 of like fleeing from it, myself included, because it's expensive 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.320 and you know, it kind of like has not grown 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.680 over the years. It's done a lot of stuff, but 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.800 it's kind of clunky. And Notion is this new kind 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.320 of it's like the bell of the what do they 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.039 call it, the bell of the ball. You know, it's 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.800 like the one that everyone wants right now. And so 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.480 Notion is what I switched to. But it is like 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.520 it does way too much. So now I'm like somehow 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.760 like the executive CEO of note taking that I just 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.839 don't need. Like all I needed was like a notepad, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.040 and I got like a Ferrari on. You know, it's 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.480 just so much. So but now I'm in it because 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.280 I spent the whole day switching to it. So now 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.960 I can't go back because my wife will make fun 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:19.440 of me. So now I got to stick with it 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.760 because it is I'm in it to win it now. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.040 So I did switch to Notion. And of course with 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.480 all these apps, the minute you get sort of into them, 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.000 you know, I switched everything over, and all of a sudden, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.600 I run into a roadblock and it's like, oh, by 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.240 the way, that's like, you know, it's a couple bucks 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.800 a month for that feature. I'm like, oh, it's called freemium. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.800 So that's that's how all these apps work. Let's see 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.840 what else? So many things this week? Oh, Nothing Phone, 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.280 this is what I've been using. This is a new 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:52.120 phone that the name is Nothing and it's the Nothing 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.560 Phone too. That's actually the second version. It launches in 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.080 a couple of days. I've been using it for the 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:58.680 past couple of weeks, and I got to tell you, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.280 it's been a long time since I've actually fallen in 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.440 love with the device. But I fell in love with 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.960 this device. Why because it is the most it's the 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.200 most iPhone Android I've used. Now, before you say, okay, Rich, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.560 sure you like it because it's an iPhone, no no, no, 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:20.080 I mean like it's simple, the design is timeless and beautiful, 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.760 and it's unique. Like it just works really well. The 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.240 camera is good, the form factor is good. It's not 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.920 too big, it's not too small. If this was a 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.000 bowl of porridge, it would be perfect. This is the 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:38.000 one that Goldilocks would would eat. I don't know if 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.400 do you want to eat a phone? Probably not. But 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.600 the interesting thing about this phone is the back of 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.280 the device. So on the back of this device, there's 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.200 a whole bunch it's actually translucent, and there's a whole 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.200 bunch of LED lights and I'm gonna light them up 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.840 right now, just so Bobo can see this. See that. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:09:00.079 So it's these elied You can't see this, but Bobo can. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.160 And it's these LED lights on the back. They call 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.439 it the glyph interface, And what that does is they 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.040 want you to put your phone down, use it less. 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:09.439 They want you to put it face down so you 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.959 don't see your notifications. And when you put this phone 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.840 face down, what happens. It goes into this mode of 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.439 do not disturb, and only your most important notifications will 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.760 actually light up the back of the phone. So I 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.760 had one set for my wife, a couple friends, work people, 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.600 and so if they text me or call me, it 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.719 will light up on the back of that phone. Otherwise, 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.160 all those other nonsense notifications that are trying to get 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.680 you into Instagram and Facebook and threads and all that 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.680 other stuff, they won't light up your phone because this 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.280 phone wants you to use it less. We're going to 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.200 talk more about this phone a little bit later. I've 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.880 fallen in love with it, but I've got someone else 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.280 to talk to, Ben Sin of XDA Developers. He is 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.440 going to give me his review of the phone. So 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.480 maybe there's something I'm missing, but I think this phone 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.080 is near perfect. But we'll talk about that a little 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.440 bit later on in the show. We've got a lot 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.560 of great stuff coming up on the show today, Lots 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.839 and lots of calls from you at Triple eight rich 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.280 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.680 four to one zero one, We've got Cissy Shao of 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.760 Google Bard. Sissy's gonna talk about some of the new 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.000 features that you can take advantage of on Google Bard. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.679 Then this concert that I went to in virtual reality 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.840 is just incredible, and so we're gonna have a Maze 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.520 VR come on the show and talk about their new 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.200 VR concert app. I'm not kidding. I was standing within 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.240 inches of Zara Larsen for a personal concert. Yes, it 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.240 was all virtual reality in a headset, but it was 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.079 quite incredible. And then, like I said, Benson will be 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.560 along to review the Nothing Phone two. But first it 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.280 is your turn. Your calls coming up next. Give me 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.480 a call Triple eight Rich one on one email hello 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.280 at richontech dot TV. Give me a call if you 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.160 have a question about technology. My name is rich Demiro 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:06.600 and you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.280 to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:14.160 you talking at technology at Triple eight Rich one O one. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.720 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.560 zero one. Let's go to Rod in Los Angeles. Rod, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.839 you're kicking off the show. Welcome, Hey, how you doing. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.160 I'm doing fantastic. How about you staying cool? 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.400 I live out in the Zanfernano Badley, so it's hot 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:33.880 out here. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.200 Well it's cold in here, so we'll see. Let's hope 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.679 the uh, the power grade stays up, although it's been 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.480 pretty good lately. I don't want to jinx it. So 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:43.720 what can I help you with? 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.199 Well, so I have an issue just popped up recently 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:52.480 with my mouth acting kind of odd, like many times 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.960 when I click it, it acts like I double clicked it. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.160 So for example, I can excel I go to click 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.880 on a cell and if you double click it it 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.720 opens up a like an edit function and within the cell. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.920 And so sometimes I'll just go to click on the 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.920 one cell and it'll do that. Or on Chrome, I'll 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.040 click the plus button to open up another window and 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.040 it'll open two and stuff like that. And I'm trying 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.800 to figure out how do I I don't know, like 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.120 readjust it? 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:24.480 Did this just start? 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:25.400 Huh? 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:26.160 Did this just. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.040 Start just within the last like four to six weeks? 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.120 And what kind of mouse? Is it? A wireless? Is 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.040 it wired? Is it Mac? Is it PC? 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:35.280 It's wired? 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:35.600 PC? 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:36.440 Windows? 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:36.600 Ten? 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.720 Okay? And have you tried a different mouse? 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:39.640 Not yet. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.320 Okay, so that would be the first thing you want 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.200 to do. So you gotta secure a different mouse to 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.600 see if it's actually the mouse. I assume you probably 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.040 don't have a secondary mouse around the house. I just 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:50.840 want you to rhyme that. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:52.400 But I can probably find one. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.760 Uh yeah, I mean maybe if you have a friend 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.640 or family member that has one. That would be the 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.040 easiest way to troubleshoot this, because that will tell you 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.880 if it's the actual mause or if it's your software 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.800 and you made some sort of change. Right, So, if 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.679 it's not the mouse, or if you don't feel like 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.320 doing that or you can't do that, does the mouse 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.400 feel any different when you click it? Like, does it 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.000 feel like it's gummed up or something? 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:15.439 No? Not really? 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.080 Okay, so in that case it Now have you tried 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.440 like restarting your computer? I know that sounds basic, but 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.880 that's always a good start. Okay, you've done that, okay, 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.040 And what about looking in your settings in the Windows? 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.200 Did you check those settings to make sure that you 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.120 didn't change anything? 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:31.000 Yeah? 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:36.160 I did, and I adjusted there's a double click speed, yes, 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.720 and I adjusted that and it seemed to help a 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.640 little bit. But it's still doing the same thing. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.840 And otherwise this was working just fine previously, like you've 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:46.880 used this for a long time. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.760 Oh yeah, it's pretty old computer. I mean, that's that 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.559 was one of my concerns. Is maybe just the computers 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:51.080 getting old. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.440 Well I don't think. I don't think the mouse would 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.480 double click just because the computer's getting old. Okay, So 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.800 what I would do? I would I think it sounds 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.920 like it's the actual physical mouse. If you're not, you know, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.320 if you're not seeing this happen in other is it 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.760 only in certain program. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.600 Oh no, it happens in a variety of different programs. 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.920 Okay, and you checked, you sure, you went into your 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.439 Windows settings and checked and made sure that you've got 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:22.040 all those settings proper. So what about disabling double clicking? 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.080 There's some like accessibility features. Have you tried doing that? 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.120 Uh no, okay, that could. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:31.600 Be that could be a way to do it too, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:33.600 to see if that will that will help. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.440 I'm not sure. I'm not sure there's I'm seeing anything 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.200 that says disabled double click. 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.960 I'm going into the settings here and let's see. So 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:47.720 if we go into the mouse, primary, mouse button, mouse pointer, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:56.360 additional mouse settings. So let's see clicklock that might that 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.240 might be something. Let's see, and then you've got your pointer. Yeah, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.320 there's a whole bunch of like little options in here. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.520 I would go into there and see if you can, 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.120 if you can switch some of those things and see 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.800 what happens with that. But I would try I would try, 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.560 Rod to get a secondary mouse in troubleshoot that way. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.600 If it works, then you know that, you know you've 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.320 solved your problem without going through a thousand different settings 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.360 and trying to figure out you know, drive yourself nuts 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:25.880 over this situation, Okay, because that's that's frustrating. Yeah, I 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.520 know that. For me, when I'm on a Windows computer, 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:33.280 for sure, I disable the uh, the right click situation 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.040 because I feel like I'm always especially with the track pad, 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.040 I'm always like right clicking when I mean to just 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.240 click once. So I'll disable some of the features on there. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.000 That's one of the first things I always do is 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.080 go in there and do that. So, uh, hopefully you 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:47.800 get it figured out. Rod. Thanks for the call today. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.280 I appreciate it, and once again, if you have a question, 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.880 the phone line is triple eight rich one on one 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.440 eight eight eight seven four to two four to one 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.480 zero one. Earlier, I mentioned that Hollywood, almost all of 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.040 Hollywood is on strike at this point. So you've got 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.480 the SAG Aftra's Union and you've got the Writer's Guild, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.840 so a lot of this town is no longer working. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.640 So if your shows start to look really bad on TV, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.640 you know why, because no one's writing them. They're not 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.320 making anything new, and yeah, we're still here. If you 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.080 notice that the actors are not on TV promoting stuff, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.000 they're not on the late shows anything, it's because they can't. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.080 So here is one of the interesting points. And of 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.120 course it all comes down to money and AI. But 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:37.080 one of these things is that the studios apparently want 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.040 to be able to scan a background actor and then 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:44.480 use their likeness for any project without consent or compensation. 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.360 SAG says no, no, no, no, no, we're not letting 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.320 them do this, and the union says that they don't 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.480 like this, and then the studio say, no, no, no, 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.040 we meant we only want to scan them once to 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.760 use that in that one movie, and any other use 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.960 we would have to pay them. So the point of 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.000 all of this is that AI is not only a 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.680 huge factor in the writer's strike, with you know writers 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.920 not wanting studios using AI to write scripts and drafts 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.600 and rewrites and all that good stuff. But also with 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.920 the actors union, they don't want to make actors digitally 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:23.119 or recreate them digitally. I'm telling you this AI stuff 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.959 is really throwing a wrench in things. All right, coming up, 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.840 we're gonna talk AI new features on Google Bard. What 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:36.080 a transition you are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.080 back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.960 with you, talking technology and joining me now is Cissy Shao, 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:48.719 vice president and general manager of Assistant and Bard at Google. Cissy, 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:49.840 thanks so much for joining me. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:51.600 Thanks for having me Rich. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.160 So let's talk about Google Bard. This has been around 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.000 for a couple of months. Now, how is that going? 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.400 This is there your AI chatbot assistant? 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:04.760 Well yeah, Well, first of all, let's just talk about 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.560 what is Bard. And Bard is Google's experiment that lets 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.560 people collaborate with generative AI, and what that means is 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.280 you can use Bard to boost your productivity and really 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.440 help you solve everyday problems. So, for example, we find 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:23.639 users asking Bard to give them ideas for tailored workout plans, 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.600 helping them write their resumes and prep for interviews, or 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.320 even like for me, I use Bard to help write 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.320 a short story for my son who loves video games. 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.199 And so are people finding different uses for this or 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.600 there are instructions for how to use Bard. How do 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.080 you know what you can do with this? 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:43.720 Well, when you start with bar, Bard will give you 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.960 some ideas of what you can do with Bard. But 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.520 really we find people find use in three different areas. 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.280 One is productivity, and that can be like planning a 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.280 trip that you have coming up, or planning your kids 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.720 summer camp plans, or coming up with great ideas for 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.760 like a meal plan. Then there's creativity, which is the 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.320 second piece, which is like I said, you know, writing 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.760 stories or even fiction, or coming up with great brainstorming 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.679 ideas for something that you're wanting to write. And the 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.240 third is really companionship, which is just it's kind of 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.000 fun to just talk to an AI sometimes about you know, 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:20.879 anything on the top of your mind. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.520 So we've heard a lot about these assistants. You are 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.840 adding some new features to Bard. Let's talk about the 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.399 first new feature, which is the power of lens. So 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:35.360 now you can actually upload a photo to Bard and 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.119 it will do what with that picture. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.920 Well, first of all, people absolutely love lens, so when 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.520 lens meets barred, it's really exciting. So I'll give you 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.199 a story of how I use lens and Bard. I 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.600 bought a new pair of sneakers and I had no 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:50.320 idea what. 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:51.760 To wear with those sneakers. 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:56.240 So I take my phone out and I use lens 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.560 and take a picture, and then I ask Bart, what 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.080 can I wear with these shoes? And Bart I correctly 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.199 identify that they were a pair of Converse and actually 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.639 gave me some ideas, like maybe you can wear like 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.719 a smart casual pair of jeans with this pair of shoes. 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.480 So that's just one way that people can use lens. 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.120 But really the sky's the limit in terms of how 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.239 people want to use pictures and interact with Bard with 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:20.960 their pictures. 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.280 So the next thing it can do is talk to us, 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:28.520 so you can have Bard read its responses to you 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.240 explain what that's all about. 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.159 Well, we're really excited because this is Bard's biggest expansion, 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.680 both globally and also in forty languages. And so when 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.560 Bard speaks to you, now Bart can actually read its 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.040 response in not only in English, but in all those languages. 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.239 So an example of how I use this is I 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.160 have an eight year old son who really loves video games, 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:53.399 and I thought it'd be fun to write a little 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:54.120 story about his. 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.080 Favorite characters with Bard. 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.720 So I asked Bard to write a story, and then 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.520 I asked Bart to read the story out loud to 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.160 my son, who really thought that was really really fun. 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:08.280 That's amazing. What is the challenge of getting an AI 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.680 assistant to be able to speak so many different languages. 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:15.520 Well, we have to get things like inflections right in 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.920 different languages, and we also need to make sure that 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:22.080 we're being culturally aware of all these different languages. So 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.200 I find it fascinating that, for example, if you ask 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.879 Bard for a recipe for eggs, you'll get a different 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.000 type of recipe depending on what language you ask. 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:39.080 Barred forty six different languages in total, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:41.359 and Spanish. That's incredible. 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.320 Yeah, we're really excited with what people can do with 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:48.679 both language expansion and global expansion. There's another feature that 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.639 I want to share, which is something we call pinning 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.840 and sharing. So let's say you know you're using Bard 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:57.280 to create a meal plan for the week for yourself. 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:59.240 We find users do a lot of this kind of 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:04.000 planning and work with Bard, and you then go to work, 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.000 and then you go to the grocery store and you 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:09.080 need to now buy the recipe ingredients for that meal 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:10.200 plan that you use. 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:11.040 Bard to create. 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.520 Now you can go back to Bard's pin threads and 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.280 actually just get that meal plan right up on your 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.520 phone when you're at the grocery store. And you can 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.480 also then share that same meal plan. Let's say you 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:25.679 want to share on social media, like this is the 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:28.719 new meal plan that I'm following. You can also use 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:33.040 our new sharing feature to share that same conversation that 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:36.040 you had with Bard directly on social media. 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:38.720 So by remembering some of these things you've asked, it's 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:42.879 no longer this ephemeral sort of conversation. You can revisit it. 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:45.680 Do you think that makes for a more personalized experience 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:46.240 for the user? 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:50.320 Oh, definitely. People are asking us for pinning and saving 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:54.080 and also to be able to bring back personal things 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:56.600 that they're doing with Bard. You know, I talked about 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:59.960 meal plans, but people use Bard to prep for job 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.760 interviews and write their resumes. People come up with business 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:06.280 ideas like there's a user who's thinking about how to 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:10.160 rename their new online water bottle store that they're starting 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:14.879 on the internet. I have a friend who's using a 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.000 bar to come up with basketball drills for a little 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:21.880 third grade basketball team that he coaches, And so there's 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:24.520 all these different things that people are doing with BARD. 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:29.680 And being able to both remember those conversations and also 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:32.800 share those conversations is something we're really excited about. 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:36.000 Since you're an engineer and a computer scientist, what excites 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:38.760 you the most about the possibilities of AI like Bard? 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:41.120 I mean, this is going to change the world, right, 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.080 This is going to make people way more productive and 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:49.200 help them explore their imaginations and creativity in really unique ways. 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:52.320 I'm excited because I hear from users that they're able 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:57.320 to save time and effort and in working using Bard 0:23:57.440 --> 0:24:00.360 to accomplish their goals. So that really excites me. How 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:02.639 this is going to change how people do things. 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:06.120 Should we feel guilty because sometimes it seems almost too 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:10.080 easy to use these tools? Should we feel guilty about 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:11.160 relying on them at all? 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:15.000 I think that, you know, humans have always created technology 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:18.359 and tools to make our lives more fun and interesting 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:22.280 and also easier, and to save time. I mean, think 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:26.120 about the Internet or search or the phone. Right, these 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:29.719 are all innovations that have made life more easy, and 0:24:29.800 --> 0:24:32.720 I think of BART and AI as just another generation 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:35.879 of that. Right, Why do in you know, an hour 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.600 what you can do in five to ten minutes. But 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:42.359 it's important to remember that BART is a collaborator for you, 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:45.359 like it's an AI to help you get done what 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:47.959 you want to get done. And so really the human 0:24:48.119 --> 0:24:52.360 is in control and really is the one that's directing 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:52.800 the AI. 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:56.040 Now. Of course, we want these AI assistants to be useful, 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:59.760 but also we want them to be honest, and ethics 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:01.919 is a big part of that. So how is your 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:03.800 team working to make Barred ethical? 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:06.320 Well, first of all, we want to take a bold 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:10.320 and responsible approach to AI, and that's why we've been 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:14.040 really measured and careful about how we launch BART. So, 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:17.240 for example, we first launched BART in English because we 0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:21.520 hadn't done the responsibility work yet in all those other languages, 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:25.040 measuring you know if Bart is going to say things 0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:29.040 that are inappropriate, for example, culturally or in those languages. 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:32.520 And so what we do is really work to train 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:36.280 bar to be responsible and abide by our AI ethics 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:37.520 that we've published. 0:25:37.080 --> 0:25:39.720 To the world, and I would like to know your 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:42.480 advice for young people out there that want to pursue 0:25:42.520 --> 0:25:45.199 careers along the lines of AI. 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:49.080 Well, first of all, AI is exploding, and even us 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:52.200 at the sort of the edge of that are still 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:55.760 learning what AI can do. And so I would just say, 0:25:56.400 --> 0:26:00.200 get really curious about the tools. Go try the tools 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:03.840 for yourself. Ask it questions that you may not expect 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:05.840 it to be able to do. Like so, for example, 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:09.359 for Lens, I took a picture of my bookshelf and 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:12.879 I said, this is my book collection, Like what other books. 0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:13.240 Might I like? 0:26:14.160 --> 0:26:17.359 And not only did Bard understand that I had a 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:20.760 bunch of business and personal development books on my bookshelf, 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:23.159 it actually gave me some advice on new books that 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:26.720 I might try in the same genre. So just there's 0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:30.439 just some incredible like capabilities, and so I would just 0:26:30.440 --> 0:26:33.800 say my advice is go try things out, play with it, 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:37.800 learn with it as we're all learning together how AI works. 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:42.240 Cissi Shao, vice president and general manager of Assistant and 0:26:42.280 --> 0:26:44.399 Bard at Google, Thanks so much for joining me today. 0:26:44.640 --> 0:26:46.240 Thanks for having me Rich so excited. 0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:48.240 All right, more Rich on tech coming your way. Give 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:50.119 me a call if you have a question about technology. 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:52.879 The phone number is triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:56.440 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:26:56.760 --> 0:27:12.560 zero one. Welcome back to a Rich on tech. Rich 0:27:12.600 --> 0:27:16.840 DeMuro here hanging out talking technology with you. Let's go 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:21.320 to Marcie in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Marcie, you're on with Rich. 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:25.280 Hello. I went to say, I really enjoyed the precitation 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:28.840 on Bard just now what you can do and suggestions, 0:27:29.240 --> 0:27:33.359 and also it's ethnic concerns and how they develop it 0:27:33.400 --> 0:27:37.119 in different language to adapt to that culture. But I 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:40.359 have a concern. I am part of a large number 0:27:40.359 --> 0:27:44.520 of people in California that had their data breached. My name, 0:27:44.960 --> 0:27:49.120 my birth date, my social Security number, and my ZIP code. 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:54.080 So I called up my people that have my four 0:27:54.080 --> 0:27:57.680 oh one K account and talk to that about him. 0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:00.320 So they asked me if I you know I had 0:28:00.600 --> 0:28:05.920 I wanted a duo often take authentication, and so they 0:28:05.960 --> 0:28:08.880 asked me if I wanted voice recognition, and I said no, 0:28:09.680 --> 0:28:14.520 So we settled on a password and then I don't know, 0:28:14.840 --> 0:28:17.479 maybe that day or the next day, I had another question. 0:28:17.560 --> 0:28:21.080 So I called back and I went through my name. 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:23.560 You know, you still have to give your social Security number, 0:28:23.600 --> 0:28:26.720 your name and all that stuff. And the person hesitated, 0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:32.600 and I said, is anything wrong? And she said, we 0:28:32.680 --> 0:28:37.640 don't recognize your voice? Oh wow, So I didn't okay 0:28:37.760 --> 0:28:41.960 that number one, number two, it didn't recognize my voice. 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:44.280 And I said, good, I have a password. 0:28:44.680 --> 0:28:47.000 Good. Yeah, I said no to that when I got 0:28:47.080 --> 0:28:49.000 that option. Hey, do you want us to make a 0:28:49.240 --> 0:28:50.400 fingerprint of your voice? 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:50.760 No? 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:55.600 Yeah, So I guess my concern is I just want 0:28:55.640 --> 0:28:59.440 to say, you know, I have a concern about security issues. 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:02.040 So you know, that's something that's going to have to 0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:06.200 you know, just like the actors not letting their image 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:11.040 taken later on and done something with you know, I think. 0:29:11.000 --> 0:29:13.600 Yeah, I get it to be through. Yeah, And look, 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:15.520 and all these companies are going to try to do 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:18.400 what they can because it makes their lives easier, you know, 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:21.120 if they if they can run this authentication. Supposedly it's 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:23.440 in our favor, but let's be honest, is it really 0:29:23.880 --> 0:29:26.400 At the end of the day, they're protecting their assets, 0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:28.880 you know, their their accounts and all this stuff. And 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:31.360 I have no doubt that the voice recognition stuff is 0:29:31.360 --> 0:29:34.840 probably pretty good. But I'm just not sure I'm ready 0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:36.680 for that just yet. You know, it's one of these 0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:40.320 things where it's it's pretty new, and I'm seeing it 0:29:40.320 --> 0:29:42.480 in more and more companies. When you call up they say, hey, 0:29:42.480 --> 0:29:44.440 do you mind if we use your voice to authenticate you? 0:29:45.080 --> 0:29:47.560 I say no, And I'm not saying you have to 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:49.880 say no, but I do see the concerns with that. 0:29:50.280 --> 0:29:54.160 Do they share that information? Who stores that now? Earlier 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:57.120 in the show, you know, I played my AI voice on. 0:29:57.080 --> 0:29:59.360 The iPhone's That's why I called right. 0:29:59.320 --> 0:30:02.720 Away, because it's really fascinating that now anyone will be 0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:04.520 able to create one of these. And by the way, 0:30:04.560 --> 0:30:07.160 the iPhone is just one of a thousand tools that 0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:09.960 you can easily find online that will do something similar. 0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:12.840 There are many many AI startups that will help you 0:30:12.920 --> 0:30:16.160 create an AI voice of yourself. So the iPhone is 0:30:16.200 --> 0:30:17.960 just putting it in a lot of people's hands. And 0:30:18.000 --> 0:30:20.640 by the way, I didn't really think it sounded like me. 0:30:21.080 --> 0:30:25.440 But either, however, I mean, technology is going to develop. 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:27.840 Yeah, it's day one, right, it's not even day one 0:30:27.840 --> 0:30:30.200 because this isn't even public it's a public beta, So 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:33.920 iOS seventeen doesn't even happen until the fall. So the 0:30:33.920 --> 0:30:36.520 bottom line, Marcy, I think is is here's what we're learning. 0:30:36.560 --> 0:30:39.800 Number one, you had this data breach. So your information 0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:42.840 is out there and it's probably your social Security number, 0:30:43.200 --> 0:30:47.600 your name, your phone number, your email, user names, passwords, 0:30:47.640 --> 0:30:50.320 all that stuff could be potentially in this breach. Right, 0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:53.160 So how do you protect yourself? What remedies did they 0:30:53.160 --> 0:30:54.440 give you for this breach? Do you know? 0:30:56.400 --> 0:30:59.640 I actually the lines are so busy. This is well 0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:01.080 the California State. 0:31:00.880 --> 0:31:03.600 Teachers, that's a lot of it. 0:31:03.640 --> 0:31:04.960 You can imagine how many people. 0:31:05.280 --> 0:31:05.560 I don't know. 0:31:05.560 --> 0:31:07.400 If somebody my friend call it took her two and 0:31:07.400 --> 0:31:09.200 a half hours on hold and they didn't have a 0:31:09.200 --> 0:31:14.239 callback number. So I've done some things I don't know. 0:31:14.880 --> 0:31:16.200 Okay, So I'm looking. 0:31:15.960 --> 0:31:18.280 At I'm not sure I want to say this on right. 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:21.680 Well, they're saying that they want you to put a 0:31:21.680 --> 0:31:24.320 fraud alert on your credit reports. So I'm trying to 0:31:24.320 --> 0:31:29.760 see if they've listed the information. Okay, okay, the files 0:31:29.800 --> 0:31:34.200 contained contained the name and social security numbers, date of birth, 0:31:34.320 --> 0:31:40.480 and zip codes of certain calisters. Is that it is that? 0:31:40.520 --> 0:31:43.360 What it's called Calsters members and beneficiaries? 0:31:43.400 --> 0:31:43.520 Oh? 0:31:43.560 --> 0:31:45.960 Okay, So it's not even just you, it's also the 0:31:45.960 --> 0:31:47.960 people that you are trying to give your money to 0:31:48.080 --> 0:31:51.200 as a beneficiary. Now their number in their soci security number. 0:31:51.600 --> 0:31:57.120 So also CalPERS, which is a California public employees. 0:31:56.880 --> 0:32:00.000 Okay, so here here's my recommendation with this. I actually 0:32:00.280 --> 0:32:04.120 use Google if you pay Google for something called Google One. 0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:06.520 So if you have like any sort of storage with Google, 0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:09.240 they actually offer a service where they will they will 0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:14.440 they will scan the dark web for your information. So Google, 0:32:14.480 --> 0:32:17.360 of course is always crawling the web every day to 0:32:17.400 --> 0:32:20.120 see what's new. They can have a service where they 0:32:20.120 --> 0:32:24.160 will alert you if your information comes up in their search, 0:32:24.280 --> 0:32:26.320 and they will look for your name, your address, your 0:32:26.360 --> 0:32:30.560 phone number, your email, your social security number, you username 0:32:30.640 --> 0:32:33.960 and password. Wow, I can't speak today, and so I 0:32:34.040 --> 0:32:36.120 have signed up for this service. The only thing, and 0:32:36.120 --> 0:32:38.480 this is similar to something like a LifeLock or any 0:32:38.520 --> 0:32:42.520 of these nor insecurity services, right. Uh, the only thing 0:32:42.600 --> 0:32:44.640 is you have to give them your information so that 0:32:44.680 --> 0:32:47.880 they can look for it exactly. And so that's where 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:49.640 I have the problem with all you know, whatever, this 0:32:49.800 --> 0:32:52.560 free year of credit monitoring they gave you, you probably 0:32:52.560 --> 0:32:54.880 have to hand over all your personal information to this 0:32:54.960 --> 0:32:56.840 company and so that's where I say no. 0:32:57.800 --> 0:33:00.320 And so of the it's one of the three, you know, 0:33:01.280 --> 0:33:03.200 it's one of the three credit bureaus that they will 0:33:03.200 --> 0:33:04.960 give us a your free and so when my teacher 0:33:04.960 --> 0:33:06.920 friends is up, I'm not doing that, yeah. 0:33:06.720 --> 0:33:08.840 Because then you have to give Now the credit bureaus 0:33:08.880 --> 0:33:11.640 have your info. But I think the monitoring service is 0:33:11.640 --> 0:33:15.240 probably a separate entity from the standard you know, reporting service. 0:33:15.360 --> 0:33:18.160 So where does that leave us, Marcia? I think what 0:33:18.240 --> 0:33:20.280 you have to do and I think it's just a 0:33:20.280 --> 0:33:25.160 matter of good privacy hygiene. The less you give out 0:33:25.200 --> 0:33:29.800 your information, the more protected you potentially are. So what 0:33:29.840 --> 0:33:33.000 does that mean when someone asks for your social just 0:33:33.320 --> 0:33:35.960 think do I need to give this to that business, 0:33:36.040 --> 0:33:39.640 that person, that company, whatever it is. Same thing with 0:33:39.720 --> 0:33:42.880 email address. We're seeing now this idea of your email 0:33:42.880 --> 0:33:45.600 address is becoming part of your identity as well your 0:33:45.640 --> 0:33:48.080 phone number. It's all part of your identity. So the 0:33:48.080 --> 0:33:50.280 more that you can get this stuff off of these 0:33:50.360 --> 0:33:53.320 databases and off of the web in general, the better 0:33:53.360 --> 0:33:55.920 you're going to be. Now, we can't help it when 0:33:55.920 --> 0:33:58.280 a company has a data breach, there's nothing we can do. 0:33:58.440 --> 0:34:01.240 That information is out there. It will continue to just 0:34:01.280 --> 0:34:04.520 percolate throughout the web. People buy lists, They use this 0:34:04.600 --> 0:34:07.360 information to text us and to scam us and to 0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:11.520 fish us, and so you really have to be vigilant 0:34:11.560 --> 0:34:15.520 about making sure that you keep your information out of there. 0:34:16.000 --> 0:34:18.000 I'm going to put the link to this Google. If 0:34:18.040 --> 0:34:20.560 you do pay for any storage on Google, you can 0:34:20.640 --> 0:34:23.080 use this Google one service to scan the dark web. 0:34:23.440 --> 0:34:27.120 Now for me personally, let me tell you, oh, actually 0:34:27.360 --> 0:34:29.640 it's not even even for non members. You can do this. 0:34:29.760 --> 0:34:35.000 So Google one members will get let's see one email address, 0:34:35.040 --> 0:34:37.920 so they will scan for your email address and you 0:34:37.960 --> 0:34:40.680 can review the results. But if you're a Google one member, 0:34:40.719 --> 0:34:42.520 you can do your soci security number, your name, your 0:34:42.560 --> 0:34:44.759 data birth, your address, up to ten emails and up 0:34:44.760 --> 0:34:47.680 to ten phone numbers. So if you go to one 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:51.920 dot Google dot com and under dark Web report, you 0:34:51.960 --> 0:34:54.640 can click try now and then run scan and it 0:34:54.680 --> 0:34:56.680 will show you your information. Of course, I'll put all 0:34:56.760 --> 0:34:59.440 this on the website linked up at richon tech dot tv. 0:35:00.080 --> 0:35:02.200 But that's just one of these services. There are many 0:35:02.280 --> 0:35:04.800 of these services that can help you with this. Try 0:35:04.800 --> 0:35:08.160 to get your information off of these public databases. You 0:35:08.200 --> 0:35:10.720 can do it yourself. You can subscribe to a service 0:35:10.760 --> 0:35:13.719 that will do it. But again, the less you give out, 0:35:13.800 --> 0:35:16.560 the better you're going to be. And I would definitely 0:35:16.560 --> 0:35:20.960 look into using hidden email addresses. So this is another 0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:24.480 thing that people are rapidly sort of understanding, is instead 0:35:24.480 --> 0:35:26.759 of giving out your real email address when you sign 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:29.400 up for a website, you use what's called a hidden 0:35:29.880 --> 0:35:33.160 or a cloaked email address. And what that means is 0:35:33.160 --> 0:35:35.879 that it's almost like a password. It's a one time 0:35:35.960 --> 0:35:40.960 email address that will only work for that website. So Marci, 0:35:41.040 --> 0:35:43.920 thanks for the call. And it's just one of these 0:35:43.920 --> 0:35:48.160 things where we really have to be on guard. So ah, man, 0:35:48.320 --> 0:35:52.120 this stuff is so concerning with the information. It's just 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:55.040 everywhere I mean you go, I get these these little 0:35:55.120 --> 0:35:57.319 alerts and it's just like, oh, your email address came 0:35:57.360 --> 0:36:01.359 up here, your password came up here. Can reuse the 0:36:01.400 --> 0:36:05.200 same password twice? I will say that again, do not 0:36:05.400 --> 0:36:08.400 reuse the same password twice. I feel like a broken 0:36:08.440 --> 0:36:11.399 record when I say that, because people want to make 0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:15.120 things easy, and you shouldn't make it easy because the 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:17.719 easier you make it for yourself, the easier you make 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:20.600 it for hackers. The other thing to know, turn on 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:23.919 two factor authentication, do it yesterday. Turn it on. I'm 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:26.680 telling you all right. More on the website rich on 0:36:26.719 --> 0:36:28.960 Tech dot TV. More of your calls at triple eight 0:36:29.160 --> 0:36:32.719 Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two, 0:36:32.800 --> 0:36:35.480 four to one zero one. You're doing something smart today. 0:36:35.800 --> 0:36:39.840 You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:36:40.320 --> 0:36:45.120 rich on Tech. Let's go to Let's go to Ted 0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:48.800 in Fountain Valley, California. Ted, You're on with rich Welcome 0:36:48.800 --> 0:36:49.239 to the show. 0:36:50.640 --> 0:36:55.240 Hi, rich Ria. I've been using an old Windows seven 0:36:55.400 --> 0:37:00.160 laptop for the last thirteen years. I'm now replacing it 0:37:00.200 --> 0:37:04.880 with a new Windows eleven laptop. But over the last 0:37:04.920 --> 0:37:09.759 thirteen years, I've accumulated a lot of software on my 0:37:09.960 --> 0:37:13.320 old laptop. I'm trying to figure out if I'm able 0:37:13.360 --> 0:37:17.360 to just transfer that software to the new laptop, or 0:37:17.400 --> 0:37:19.359 do I need to go out and buy the very 0:37:19.440 --> 0:37:24.360 same programs a second time for the new Windows eleven laptop. 0:37:26.040 --> 0:37:31.000 Well, it all depends on the software. So some software 0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:35.840 will let you transfer it over, some will not, and 0:37:35.920 --> 0:37:38.520 it all sort of depends on how they run their 0:37:38.600 --> 0:37:42.440 program So, as you might expect, I switch devices a lot, 0:37:42.600 --> 0:37:46.240 I move things around a lot, and I run into 0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:50.600 some software that allows you to activate on multiple devices. 0:37:51.280 --> 0:37:53.560 Other software that only allows you to activate on one 0:37:53.600 --> 0:37:57.560 device at a time. Some software that maybe wants you 0:37:57.600 --> 0:38:00.400 to rebuy, or it's a subscription based or it's you know, 0:38:00.719 --> 0:38:03.799 whatever it is. So it's really going to depend on 0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:06.879 the programs themselves. So what I would do is make 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:11.239 a list of your programs and sort of investigate each 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:15.600 program and what their deal is. So let's say it's 0:38:15.960 --> 0:38:17.680 I'm just trying to see on my computer here, what 0:38:17.760 --> 0:38:21.080 do I have like something like you know, if it's free. 0:38:21.480 --> 0:38:24.440 Now you said you got this over thirteen years, so 0:38:24.640 --> 0:38:27.360 some of this software may be outdated for the new computer. 0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:30.640 Depends on do they have an updated model, do they 0:38:30.640 --> 0:38:34.640 have an updated system for this? So it really depends 0:38:34.760 --> 0:38:37.120 on the software. And so what I would do is 0:38:37.239 --> 0:38:40.960 I would just go through each software program, make a 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:43.840 list of all the programs that you have, and just 0:38:44.239 --> 0:38:47.200 go through and go on Google and go to the 0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:52.359 software website and see what it says. So say, you know, 0:38:52.400 --> 0:38:55.359 transfer to a new device, or what your account is. 0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:58.680 Some of these will have an activation code that you'll 0:38:58.680 --> 0:39:02.520 need to use. Other may not. But it really is 0:39:02.560 --> 0:39:05.560 going to depend on the software that you're installing. On 0:39:05.600 --> 0:39:08.360 the new computer. So a lot of the new software 0:39:08.400 --> 0:39:11.880 nowadays is all subscription based, and so they want to 0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:15.359 make you pay to use that software, and they sort 0:39:15.360 --> 0:39:18.560 of decide can you install that on multiple devices? Can 0:39:18.600 --> 0:39:22.160 you install it on just one device? And sometimes it's 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:25.000 even slick enough where when you install it on one device, 0:39:25.040 --> 0:39:28.680 it stops working on the previous device. So it's really 0:39:28.719 --> 0:39:32.160 going to depend on the software and how they have 0:39:32.239 --> 0:39:34.839 it set up. The other thing is that because you've 0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:38.879 been accumulating the software for so long, there may be 0:39:38.960 --> 0:39:43.520 some products that are available as a website or as 0:39:43.880 --> 0:39:46.680 a web based software that you may be able to 0:39:46.719 --> 0:39:49.160 switch to kind of easily to do that as well. 0:39:49.760 --> 0:39:53.600 So I've seen it all. It just really depends how 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:56.640 they have things set up. But that's quite The upgrade 0:39:56.840 --> 0:40:00.440 Windows seven to Windows eleven is a big one, and 0:40:00.520 --> 0:40:04.440 so that is going to be a big change for you. 0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:07.759 But that's thirteen years on your last laptop is a 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:10.160 pretty good run, so I think you've done pretty well. 0:40:10.880 --> 0:40:13.440 But yeah, definitely make a list of the software that 0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:16.239 you have before you move to the new laptop. It 0:40:16.320 --> 0:40:19.200 sounds like you'll probably have this old laptop with you. 0:40:20.640 --> 0:40:23.480 For myself, what I usually do is I'll take screenshots 0:40:23.680 --> 0:40:28.800 of my system before I switched to the new computer, 0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:30.760 so that way I can see how I had everything 0:40:30.840 --> 0:40:33.360 set up. I can see all the different programs that 0:40:33.400 --> 0:40:35.919 I had installed, and then I can easily go through 0:40:36.040 --> 0:40:39.799 and reinstall those programs on the new computer. And these 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:42.239 days it's gotten pretty good a lot of times. If 0:40:42.239 --> 0:40:45.840 you had some sort of activation code with a program, 0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:48.360 you can go to the website, type in your email address, 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:51.840 and they'll send you a new activation code. So it 0:40:52.000 --> 0:40:55.160 again just sort of depends on the program that you're 0:40:55.239 --> 0:40:58.600 using how they decide to do that. So good question, Ted. 0:40:58.640 --> 0:41:01.880 Thanks for calling in today from Fountain Valley. If you 0:41:01.880 --> 0:41:04.280 have a question, give me a call. The phone lines 0:41:04.280 --> 0:41:07.760 are open. It's triple eight rich one oh one. That's 0:41:07.960 --> 0:41:12.799 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:17.960 Let's talk Amazon Prime Day. Did you just shop on 0:41:18.000 --> 0:41:23.840 Amazon Prime Day? The data is in July eleventh and twelfth. 0:41:24.239 --> 0:41:29.240 Amazon Prime Day twenty twenty three, July eleventh, the first 0:41:29.360 --> 0:41:33.680 day has now set a new single sales record for Amazon. 0:41:34.320 --> 0:41:39.080 They've never had a bigger sales day in history. Over 0:41:39.160 --> 0:41:42.680 two days, Prime members bought over three hundred and seventy 0:41:42.680 --> 0:41:45.840 five million items. Now this is the funny part. Amazon 0:41:45.840 --> 0:41:48.560 doesn't say how much was sold. They only say how 0:41:48.600 --> 0:41:52.640 much was saved. Members saved over two point five billion dollars. 0:41:54.239 --> 0:42:00.840 Top selling categories included home, fashion, beauty, popular deal, We're 0:42:00.880 --> 0:42:06.040 on AirPods, some sort of like deep cleaner from Bissel, 0:42:06.160 --> 0:42:10.799 and lip gloss. Pretty random there. The most popular thing 0:42:10.840 --> 0:42:14.239 that people bought was a Fire TV stick. That is 0:42:14.400 --> 0:42:18.719 huge because that means that a lot of people are 0:42:19.200 --> 0:42:23.920 using these streaming sticks, which we know, but Fire TV stick, 0:42:24.000 --> 0:42:26.880 because it's so prevalent and because it's so cheap, it 0:42:26.960 --> 0:42:32.160 is becoming the platform to be with streaming. And Amazon 0:42:32.200 --> 0:42:37.960 knows this. They are really secretly building a huge TV platform. 0:42:38.840 --> 0:42:42.879 And what does that mean later on advertising? They can 0:42:42.920 --> 0:42:47.320 control the advertising that people see on that Fire TV stick, 0:42:48.080 --> 0:42:50.320 and that means they've got a lot of bargaining power 0:42:50.400 --> 0:42:56.959 with these streaming websites and apps. Let's see, now that's 0:42:57.000 --> 0:43:01.960 Amazon's information. Then we have Adobe and as they get 0:43:02.040 --> 0:43:06.560 receipts from a lot of different people through different methods, 0:43:06.719 --> 0:43:10.360 and so they tallied up the data. They don't specifically 0:43:10.520 --> 0:43:13.839 cite Prime Day. They don't have necessarily like here's what 0:43:13.840 --> 0:43:17.360 people ordered on Amazon, but they know what people ordered 0:43:17.440 --> 0:43:22.040 in general. And total Prime Day spending this year twelve 0:43:22.080 --> 0:43:27.279 point seven billion dollars, up six percent over last year. 0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:32.319 So on July twelfth, Day two spending hit six point 0:43:32.400 --> 0:43:36.960 three billion dollars in one day. People were just pouring 0:43:37.040 --> 0:43:41.919 money into Amazon on July twelfth and the eleventh. Let's 0:43:41.920 --> 0:43:48.360 see discounts electronics, apparel, and toys. Of course, twenty percent 0:43:48.400 --> 0:43:51.759 of orders use curb side pickup, which was something that 0:43:51.800 --> 0:43:55.640 sort of started during the pandemic. And have you tried this, 0:43:55.640 --> 0:43:58.279 this curb side pickup. You basically order the stuff in 0:43:58.360 --> 0:44:00.640 the app and then you drive up to target. You 0:44:01.120 --> 0:44:03.480 order anywhere. I mean so many stores have this now, 0:44:03.719 --> 0:44:06.000 where you drive up and someone runs out to your car. 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:09.239 We did this the other day for Fast Food. Place 0:44:09.280 --> 0:44:11.839 the order on the phone and you drive up and 0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:14.120 you just wait in that spot and they bring your 0:44:14.120 --> 0:44:16.920 food out. And by the way, if you're not downloading 0:44:16.960 --> 0:44:19.359 the app for the retailer that you're shopping at, I 0:44:19.560 --> 0:44:22.439 highly recommend you do it. You know why, because they're 0:44:22.440 --> 0:44:24.680 trying to get people to use their apps, and what 0:44:24.719 --> 0:44:28.080 does that mean? They are putting discounts inside the app 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:32.000 I'm telling you, any story you go to, whether it's Target, 0:44:32.480 --> 0:44:35.400 whether it is Best Buy, whether it is a fast 0:44:35.440 --> 0:44:40.279 food place, download the app. All these quick service restaurants, 0:44:40.400 --> 0:44:43.600 all of the coupons and discounts are inside the apps. 0:44:44.080 --> 0:44:47.120 So you take five extra minutes to download the app 0:44:47.160 --> 0:44:50.040 and place your order that way, I'm telling you it 0:44:50.120 --> 0:44:53.319 will save you money. We went to a sub shop 0:44:53.400 --> 0:44:55.919 the other day and you go into the subshop, there's 0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:59.240 no discounts, there's no nothing, and you go inside the app. 0:44:59.280 --> 0:45:02.560 It's by one get on free. So just take the 0:45:02.640 --> 0:45:05.200 extra time to download the app and do this, and 0:45:05.239 --> 0:45:08.760 when you sign up again, sign up with unique email address, 0:45:08.880 --> 0:45:12.239 unique password, and save that information in your phone so 0:45:12.280 --> 0:45:15.760 you can use it later. Forty four point eight percent 0:45:15.800 --> 0:45:19.280 of sales came from smartphones, so now we're talking almost 0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:22.640 fifty percent of people are shopping from their phones. And 0:45:22.680 --> 0:45:26.840 that's through not just Amazon Prime, but all shopping, So 0:45:26.880 --> 0:45:31.520 that's pretty wild. Amazon Prime started out as a celebration 0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:36.200 of Amazon's birthday, and now it's become the largest shopping 0:45:36.280 --> 0:45:39.280 event of the summer and one of the largest shopping 0:45:39.360 --> 0:45:43.320 events of the year. So Amazon literally created a shopping 0:45:43.320 --> 0:45:48.880 event out of nothing. It used to be of Best Reviews. 0:45:50.000 --> 0:45:52.840 Jacob Palmer of Best Reviews last week mentioned that it 0:45:52.920 --> 0:45:56.719 calls it the Turkey Five, the five days between Thanksgiving 0:45:57.239 --> 0:46:00.920 and the you know, the Monday, those five shopping days. 0:46:01.520 --> 0:46:03.560 It used to be just Black Friday. Now it's that 0:46:03.840 --> 0:46:05.759 entire Like as soon as people are done at the 0:46:05.760 --> 0:46:10.080 Turkey dinner, they're like out the door shopping. I don't 0:46:10.080 --> 0:46:16.120 think I've ever shopped on Thanksgiving, but it's happening. Okay, 0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:19.200 coming up, we got lots more to talk about. We 0:46:19.320 --> 0:46:22.759 got a maze VR. Lance Drake and Cook Kim are 0:46:22.800 --> 0:46:25.440 going to join us to talk about a new VR 0:46:25.600 --> 0:46:28.120 concert app. If you have one of these VR headsets, 0:46:28.719 --> 0:46:31.040 you gotta download this app. It is called a maze 0:46:31.120 --> 0:46:33.880 VR and they have their first concert inside there. It 0:46:33.960 --> 0:46:37.520 is a Zara Larson. I experienced it. It was incredible. 0:46:37.560 --> 0:46:40.520 I mean it was a private VR concert just for me, 0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:43.160 but anyone that can experience it, it's really really cool. 0:46:43.480 --> 0:46:45.520 Later on in the show, we've got Ben Sam. I'm 0:46:45.719 --> 0:46:48.160 very excited to have Ben on the show. This guy 0:46:48.200 --> 0:46:51.120 travels more than anyone I know. He's always testing out 0:46:51.160 --> 0:46:54.239 new smartphones and he does a really good job, very 0:46:54.360 --> 0:46:56.839 very fair and he's very worldly as well, so he's 0:46:56.840 --> 0:46:59.520 going to join me to talk about a nothing phone too. 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:02.080 But of course we have more of your calls at 0:47:02.080 --> 0:47:05.120 triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:47:05.280 --> 0:47:08.440 seven four to two four one zero one. Give me 0:47:08.480 --> 0:47:11.279 a call if you have a question about technology. You 0:47:11.400 --> 0:47:18.799 are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:47:18.880 --> 0:47:26.879 on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology. 0:47:27.160 --> 0:47:29.359 You can follow me on social media. I am at 0:47:29.560 --> 0:47:32.799 rich on Tech. I'm on Instagram, I'm on Facebook, I'm 0:47:32.840 --> 0:47:37.600 on Twitter, and yes, I'm still on threads. Last week 0:47:37.640 --> 0:47:39.640 it was yes I'm still on Twitter. Now this week 0:47:39.640 --> 0:47:42.320 it's yes, I'm still on threads. I'll be honest. Threads 0:47:42.480 --> 0:47:46.840 is uh. I don't know is it happening? Are people 0:47:46.880 --> 0:47:49.720 still using it? I'm getting a lot of spam on threads, 0:47:50.160 --> 0:47:53.960 a lot of spam, not too much interaction. So I 0:47:54.000 --> 0:47:57.719 think my theory is that Threads is sort of the 0:47:57.840 --> 0:48:01.560 Instagram crowd, and the Instagram crowd is not necessarily the 0:48:01.600 --> 0:48:05.560 Twitter crowd, and so I don't know where does that 0:48:05.640 --> 0:48:09.480 leave us. It leaves me where. I deleted Threads from 0:48:09.480 --> 0:48:12.480 my home screen and replaced it with Twitter again because 0:48:12.480 --> 0:48:16.000 Twitter feels like it's a Twitter crowd. They're people that 0:48:16.080 --> 0:48:19.239 want information, they are people that want updates. People that 0:48:19.280 --> 0:48:23.200 are on threads are Instagram people. Instagram people want Instagram stories, 0:48:23.719 --> 0:48:28.200 they want Instagram photos and reels. And so it's gotten 0:48:28.320 --> 0:48:30.439 very confusing because I think a lot of people signed 0:48:30.520 --> 0:48:33.279 up because it was easy, but then there are they 0:48:33.320 --> 0:48:36.840 still staying there and I'm not the only one. According 0:48:36.880 --> 0:48:43.040 to some estimates of different reports, let's see, time spent 0:48:43.120 --> 0:48:46.440 on threads has dropped over fifty percent from twenty minutes 0:48:46.480 --> 0:48:50.400 to eight minutes, according to some numbers from sensor Tower 0:48:50.480 --> 0:48:54.640 and similar web. And let's see. A Meta spokesperson told 0:48:54.680 --> 0:48:57.400 Gizmoto in an email, while it's early days, we're excited 0:48:57.400 --> 0:49:01.000 about the initial success, which they were. They were touting 0:49:01.040 --> 0:49:04.240 one hundred million sign ups. But out of those hundred 0:49:04.280 --> 0:49:06.920 million people, who is still actually using it on a 0:49:07.000 --> 0:49:11.759 daily basis? I don't know. And then Elon Musk tweeted out, 0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:15.880 let's see, do I have his tweet somewhere here? Probably 0:49:16.440 --> 0:49:18.200 I thought I did, but I guess I don't. But 0:49:18.320 --> 0:49:22.600 he tweeted out that the usage on Twitter was up, 0:49:23.360 --> 0:49:28.360 like they were reaching new records. So I don't know. 0:49:28.440 --> 0:49:30.480 It's a battle. It's tough. I think at the end 0:49:30.520 --> 0:49:33.080 of the day, it's tough for you, the consumer, because 0:49:33.680 --> 0:49:36.080 nobody wants to sit there and check one hundred different 0:49:36.080 --> 0:49:38.680 apps every day. We want to check a couple And 0:49:38.719 --> 0:49:41.759 it's already tough enough that we've got Facebook and Instagram 0:49:41.840 --> 0:49:47.880 and Twitter and YouTube shorts and TikTok and email and 0:49:48.520 --> 0:49:51.480 sms and dms, and it just goes on and on. 0:49:51.960 --> 0:49:55.640 So we'll see. I'm not gonna say Threads is dead's 0:49:55.760 --> 0:49:57.799 but you know, we'll see what happens with it. We're 0:49:57.800 --> 0:50:01.120 gonna have to follow that one. Let's take a question here, 0:50:01.200 --> 0:50:07.879 Let's go to Let's go to Kathy. Kathy in Duarte. 0:50:08.200 --> 0:50:08.960 You're on with Rich. 0:50:10.200 --> 0:50:11.120 Hi Hi, Rich. 0:50:12.160 --> 0:50:16.840 So my question is, actually it's a statement. First, I 0:50:16.960 --> 0:50:19.759 use a Mac and I use the email. I use 0:50:19.880 --> 0:50:23.200 yahus on my Mac because I prefer it, and at 0:50:23.280 --> 0:50:25.239 least I did it until last night when I went 0:50:25.360 --> 0:50:29.560 in to compose a new document rather than the old format. 0:50:29.640 --> 0:50:34.000 It puts me inside the little box that says new message. 0:50:34.080 --> 0:50:36.680 And I'm trying to and I didn't click anything to 0:50:36.719 --> 0:50:39.600 make this happen, and I try to go into help 0:50:39.920 --> 0:50:42.120 to figure out how to go back into the old format, 0:50:42.200 --> 0:50:43.920 and I'm just not able to figure it out. 0:50:44.480 --> 0:50:46.200 So they redesigned. 0:50:47.160 --> 0:50:50.240 Design. Yeah, when I click on an email, it comes 0:50:50.239 --> 0:50:52.239 out it looks exactly like it used to. But when 0:50:52.239 --> 0:50:55.719 I click on compose, I get the little box that 0:50:57.000 --> 0:50:58.840 I never liked, a little box. So that's why I 0:50:58.880 --> 0:51:02.279 didn't use the mail function that came on my map. 0:51:02.800 --> 0:51:05.399 I went, I switched right to Yahoo, and now it's 0:51:05.400 --> 0:51:07.280 reminding me of the one I switched away from. 0:51:07.640 --> 0:51:10.840 Oh no, okay. And so when you when you compose 0:51:10.880 --> 0:51:13.600 a message, it's composing it in a little window versus 0:51:13.760 --> 0:51:17.000 a larger window, right. 0:51:16.400 --> 0:51:18.719 As opposed to going into that email where you can 0:51:18.760 --> 0:51:22.960 click reply, right, it's this new message too, and then 0:51:23.040 --> 0:51:26.240 subjects and you can attach documents and whatever on the bottom. 0:51:26.640 --> 0:51:29.759 But I prefer to have the old email in case 0:51:29.800 --> 0:51:31.799 I'm addressing it to something. And this is like it's 0:51:31.800 --> 0:51:33.440 a brand of email, no matter what. 0:51:33.840 --> 0:51:36.879 And so does it look like the entire website has 0:51:36.960 --> 0:51:40.319 changed because I'm looking I'm looking inside, you know, on 0:51:40.400 --> 0:51:44.640 anything about Yahoo mail redesigned, and I don't see anything 0:51:44.680 --> 0:51:45.319 for like a year. 0:51:46.520 --> 0:51:50.040 That's so interesting because it just happened yesterday. And everything 0:51:50.200 --> 0:51:53.880 still looks the same to me. You know, I'm wondering, 0:51:53.880 --> 0:51:59.840 maybe I should just, rather than restart, just close down everything. 0:51:59.840 --> 0:52:01.920 And then is there a way to go out of 0:52:02.600 --> 0:52:05.600 y'allhoo email and then go back into it and maybe 0:52:05.680 --> 0:52:06.960 the old Parmatt will come back. 0:52:07.640 --> 0:52:09.040 Yeah, Well, there's a couple of things you can do. 0:52:09.280 --> 0:52:11.799 Would I would see, look in your settings and see 0:52:11.800 --> 0:52:14.960 if there's a way to revert to classic view. There 0:52:15.040 --> 0:52:18.480 might be Sometimes when these whenever there's a big change 0:52:18.520 --> 0:52:21.040 with any sort of online service, they typically know that 0:52:21.080 --> 0:52:24.600 people do not like change, right. We are creatures of habit. 0:52:24.680 --> 0:52:27.680 We like things to look the way they look, and 0:52:27.920 --> 0:52:29.799 it takes a while for us to adapt to the 0:52:29.840 --> 0:52:33.360 new newness of things. So what I would do is 0:52:33.400 --> 0:52:33.839 look at. 0:52:33.760 --> 0:52:35.719 One of the things I did try was I did 0:52:35.760 --> 0:52:40.800 click on the three little dots inside of an email. Actually, 0:52:40.800 --> 0:52:45.440 when I did it last night, it would say revert 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:48.120 to classics. Yeah, I was supposed to look to look 0:52:48.160 --> 0:52:50.319 for where it said revert to classic but it does 0:52:50.360 --> 0:52:51.360 not give me that option. 0:52:51.800 --> 0:52:54.560 Oh so it doesn't even give you that option. Well maybe, 0:52:55.080 --> 0:52:57.880 so I'm wondering if what happened was maybe you didn't 0:52:57.920 --> 0:53:01.080 have maybe you were on the long runway of the 0:53:01.200 --> 0:53:03.680 new you know, when I said I looked this up, 0:53:03.680 --> 0:53:05.319 it said it was a year ago that they kind 0:53:05.320 --> 0:53:08.200 of read, you know, changed things. So maybe you were 0:53:08.239 --> 0:53:10.880 on that grace period and that grace period has ended, 0:53:11.320 --> 0:53:13.319 and so now that option to go back to the 0:53:13.360 --> 0:53:16.239 old way is just not there. So the only thing 0:53:16.360 --> 0:53:20.520 I could recommend is perhaps using a different app or 0:53:20.800 --> 0:53:24.239 something to access your email on your computer. I know 0:53:24.280 --> 0:53:26.799 you said you didn't like the included email app on 0:53:26.840 --> 0:53:31.279 your Mac, but there are some other ones. The one 0:53:31.280 --> 0:53:35.359 that I think a lot of people like is Edison Mail, 0:53:35.920 --> 0:53:39.000 So that's one that people like. There's so many, I mean, 0:53:39.000 --> 0:53:43.000 there's Spark. There's a lot of different email providers for 0:53:43.400 --> 0:53:47.880 the for the Mac computer. So maybe check out some 0:53:48.000 --> 0:53:50.720 of the just options there and maybe you'll like something 0:53:50.719 --> 0:53:53.160 that's a little bit different. You know, you can go 0:53:53.200 --> 0:53:56.279 with Thunderbird. There's Outlook if you want. Actually, you know what, 0:53:56.320 --> 0:53:58.480 I might recommend this to you since it's free, I 0:53:58.480 --> 0:54:01.920 would just maybe try micro Soft Outlook and connect your 0:54:01.920 --> 0:54:05.239 account to that. So just search for Microsoft Outlook on 0:54:05.280 --> 0:54:08.239 the Mac. You can download that app and it just 0:54:08.280 --> 0:54:10.160 came out with it it's brand new and it's like 0:54:10.200 --> 0:54:13.480 a very classic email app and you can log in 0:54:13.480 --> 0:54:16.320 with your Yahoo account that way and check it there. 0:54:16.400 --> 0:54:20.280 And so hopefully Kathy you'll like that better. But I agree, 0:54:20.320 --> 0:54:23.160 we don't like change. It's when these things change, people 0:54:23.200 --> 0:54:27.560 don't like it. No one likes change, but it happens 0:54:27.600 --> 0:54:29.200 to the best of us. All right. Coming up next, 0:54:29.440 --> 0:54:32.560 we're going to talk to a maze VR about how 0:54:32.600 --> 0:54:37.640 you can experience concerts in virtual reality. And if you 0:54:37.640 --> 0:54:39.480 have a call or if you have a question, give 0:54:39.480 --> 0:54:41.439 me a call at Triple eight rich one on one. 0:54:41.480 --> 0:54:44.279 That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to 0:54:44.280 --> 0:54:48.319 one zero one. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich 0:54:48.360 --> 0:54:52.440 Demiro here with you on the Sony backlot in Culver City, California. 0:54:52.520 --> 0:54:54.279 This is where they record a lot of music and 0:54:54.440 --> 0:54:56.520 also you may have heard of a couple of shows 0:54:56.520 --> 0:54:58.920 that they do here called Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. 0:54:59.160 --> 0:55:02.040 I'm sitting here with Lance Drake is the creative director 0:55:02.080 --> 0:55:03.040 at Amazed VR. 0:55:03.239 --> 0:55:04.480 Lance, thanks so much for joining me. 0:55:04.680 --> 0:55:05.799 Thanks thanks for being here. 0:55:05.880 --> 0:55:08.840 Yeah, so let's talk about this concert that I just 0:55:09.040 --> 0:55:13.400 experienced in virtual reality. I was in a Metaquest headset 0:55:13.560 --> 0:55:18.600 and Zara Larson was literally inches away from my face, 0:55:19.200 --> 0:55:23.279 singing and dancing. Explain to me what I just experienced. 0:55:23.520 --> 0:55:25.719 Yeah, so you just got a preview of our Zara 0:55:25.800 --> 0:55:29.839 Larson VR concert experience and this is the launch and 0:55:30.239 --> 0:55:33.200 a preview of our home app, and we represent the 0:55:33.239 --> 0:55:34.680 future of VR concerts. 0:55:35.160 --> 0:55:36.920 We offer the highest. 0:55:36.640 --> 0:55:42.359 Quality and stereo fidelity and immersiveness and it's it's, in 0:55:42.400 --> 0:55:46.400 my opinion, a completely new medium for musicians to explore 0:55:46.520 --> 0:55:48.560 and get closer than ever to their fans. 0:55:48.719 --> 0:55:50.360 So we've heard about VR before. 0:55:50.520 --> 0:55:53.360 There's been a lot of starts and stops with VR, 0:55:53.640 --> 0:55:56.120 but now that Apple is coming out with a headset, 0:55:56.200 --> 0:56:00.960 it seems to have legitimatized this technology. Where are we 0:56:01.239 --> 0:56:01.680 with view? 0:56:02.160 --> 0:56:04.600 You know, I think we're at the beginning of VR, 0:56:04.920 --> 0:56:09.759 and that's what's most exciting is that the possibilities are 0:56:09.880 --> 0:56:14.160 endless and it's kind of a new level of experimentation 0:56:14.760 --> 0:56:18.840 and communication. And I think that's why Apple's entering now, 0:56:19.280 --> 0:56:23.080 is because this represents raising the ceiling for the way 0:56:24.200 --> 0:56:29.520 people communicate and use digital tools. And what's really exciting 0:56:29.560 --> 0:56:32.840 about the Apple launch is that they always bring the 0:56:32.920 --> 0:56:36.560 human touch to it, and I think that's what is. 0:56:36.480 --> 0:56:38.520 Going to be the breaking point is that. 0:56:39.040 --> 0:56:41.040 You know, in the past couple of years, we've been 0:56:41.080 --> 0:56:43.920 given the promise of the metaverse and what is the metaverse? 0:56:44.600 --> 0:56:46.520 And it's not really defined. 0:56:46.880 --> 0:56:51.640 And honestly, that humanity and that human spirit, which we're 0:56:51.640 --> 0:56:55.880 also exploring in our application, I think represents the future 0:56:55.920 --> 0:56:56.360 of VR. 0:56:56.760 --> 0:56:59.640 So the concert that I experienced was not like your 0:56:59.640 --> 0:57:02.960 typical concert. It was almost like a solo performance just 0:57:03.040 --> 0:57:07.200 for the person that's watching. And I'm sitting there and 0:57:07.360 --> 0:57:11.240 Zara Larsen is in some sort of virtual reality set. 0:57:11.880 --> 0:57:14.600 Explain to me how this is different than a typical 0:57:14.640 --> 0:57:17.479 concert you would go to or just see in VR. Yeah. 0:57:17.520 --> 0:57:22.160 So we shoot on the highest quality stereo cameras and 0:57:22.200 --> 0:57:27.800 we place the artists in the most immercible and dynamic 0:57:28.160 --> 0:57:34.040 CG environments. So unlike other metaverse or other digital experiences 0:57:34.080 --> 0:57:39.120 that typically either are an avatar representation of a person 0:57:39.280 --> 0:57:42.560 or of a musician, this is the artist singing to 0:57:42.680 --> 0:57:45.640 you and performing to you. It's better than a front 0:57:45.720 --> 0:57:49.320 row seat at a concert. But it's also different. It's 0:57:49.440 --> 0:57:53.439 a completely new media. I'm really excited for what we're 0:57:53.440 --> 0:57:56.800 hoping every artist across the world to just roll up 0:57:56.840 --> 0:58:01.160 their sleeves and create this whole new genre of communication 0:58:01.680 --> 0:58:02.280 and creation. 0:58:02.960 --> 0:58:05.040 You call it a whole new genre, and it really is, 0:58:05.080 --> 0:58:08.919 because it felt like the most intimate experience you could 0:58:09.000 --> 0:58:13.000 have with an artist. They're performing just for you. That 0:58:13.120 --> 0:58:15.400 is different than anything we've seen before. If you're at 0:58:15.440 --> 0:58:18.160 a concert, they're very far from you. If you are 0:58:18.200 --> 0:58:20.800 watching a music video, it's kind of a music video. 0:58:21.480 --> 0:58:24.600 This is almost an entirely new way of experiencing your 0:58:24.640 --> 0:58:27.120 favorite artist. Do you think people will take a liking 0:58:27.160 --> 0:58:28.080 to that. Yeah? 0:58:28.120 --> 0:58:28.800 Absolutely. 0:58:29.400 --> 0:58:32.640 You know, it's all about super fans now and fandom 0:58:33.200 --> 0:58:36.760 and every fan of their favorite artist, and any fan 0:58:37.280 --> 0:58:40.760 they're detail obsessed. They want to know the wardrobe, they 0:58:40.760 --> 0:58:42.480 want to know the designer. They want to know the 0:58:42.640 --> 0:58:45.760 nails and the makeup artists and the shoes, and they 0:58:45.800 --> 0:58:47.880 want to be immersed in the world and the lore 0:58:47.960 --> 0:58:52.680 and the story of music. And you know, our company 0:58:52.760 --> 0:58:56.640 is detail obsessed. And it's almost like a dream state. 0:58:56.680 --> 0:59:03.000 You're somewhere in between reality and in this highly customized 0:59:03.240 --> 0:59:08.440 bespoke show that's for the fan, and it's also giving 0:59:08.520 --> 0:59:13.320 fans permission to look because you're making direct eye contact 0:59:13.560 --> 0:59:14.720 with your favorite artists. 0:59:14.760 --> 0:59:17.600 And how much is a meet and greet. 0:59:17.360 --> 0:59:21.200 These days to get a handshake backstage for a moment. 0:59:21.760 --> 0:59:25.160 This is for fans to return to forever. 0:59:26.000 --> 0:59:28.680 I think as a kid, if I had the chance 0:59:28.720 --> 0:59:31.760 to see Michael Jackson Moonwalk, if I had a chance 0:59:31.840 --> 0:59:34.000 at the Motown twenty five, or I had the chance 0:59:34.040 --> 0:59:37.320 to see Madonna where the bride like a virgin dress. 0:59:38.200 --> 0:59:41.520 Our company represents a chance for artists to be forever. 0:59:42.120 --> 0:59:44.040 How do you get the app? And how much does 0:59:44.040 --> 0:59:45.320 an experience like this cost? 0:59:45.720 --> 0:59:48.919 So Our May's VR app has launched and it's available 0:59:49.400 --> 0:59:52.080 on Meta headsets and Steam and will soon be coming 0:59:52.120 --> 0:59:55.920 to Peico and all major VR headsets. We're already dev 0:59:56.000 --> 0:59:59.560 toolkitting to on board to the Apple headset when it's 0:59:59.600 --> 1:00:03.120 ready to launch, and we're just really excited to give 1:00:03.160 --> 1:00:07.080 fans access to their favorite artists in ways that were 1:00:07.160 --> 1:00:08.440 unimaginable before. 1:00:08.920 --> 1:00:11.600 Tell me about the world that I was experiencing, because 1:00:11.600 --> 1:00:14.560 you've got this real life person, but it seemed to 1:00:14.600 --> 1:00:16.560 be in a virtual world she was in. 1:00:17.040 --> 1:00:19.720 That's part of the dream like state of our shows. 1:00:19.760 --> 1:00:24.040 And I think the differential between what we've created anything 1:00:24.080 --> 1:00:27.760 that's been done before is that artists are performing live 1:00:27.840 --> 1:00:31.920 in a CG environment, and I say it's a dream 1:00:31.960 --> 1:00:35.280 state because it's completely controlled. You're not seeing the rigging 1:00:35.320 --> 1:00:37.560 of the lighting, you're not seeing the scuffs in the floor. 1:00:38.040 --> 1:00:42.160 You're seeing perfection, and it's timed to the music, and 1:00:42.200 --> 1:00:46.280 it's almost this perfect moment. And it's all about that 1:00:46.320 --> 1:00:50.720 moment of connection and complete immersion in this world. And 1:00:50.880 --> 1:00:53.120 you know, we collaborate with artists and we help to 1:00:53.680 --> 1:00:56.400 help them to design these worlds, and we do it 1:00:56.440 --> 1:00:59.000 all in house at the moment, and I think eventually 1:00:59.040 --> 1:01:01.880 the dream is for artists to go off shoot their 1:01:01.880 --> 1:01:06.720 own shows, ingest it into our platform and soon maybe 1:01:06.760 --> 1:01:08.720 one day everyone will be able to create their own 1:01:08.800 --> 1:01:11.880 VR concert and their own worlds to bring to the masses. 1:01:12.880 --> 1:01:15.640 That's interesting. So you're saying someone even at home might 1:01:15.640 --> 1:01:18.680 potentially be able to do this and release something like this. 1:01:18.800 --> 1:01:21.400 But like I mean, we're looking really far ahead. 1:01:21.440 --> 1:01:24.440 But if you look at the trajectory of two D content, 1:01:24.560 --> 1:01:28.560 the revolution and YouTube was someone like Justin Bieber performing 1:01:28.600 --> 1:01:31.640 in his living room or in his bedroom and knowing 1:01:31.640 --> 1:01:33.320 how to connect to the camera in a way that 1:01:33.480 --> 1:01:37.080 was very distinct and special. You have to imagine once 1:01:37.200 --> 1:01:40.800 vrs to the masses and people know that tool set 1:01:40.840 --> 1:01:43.720 and how to communicate, they'll be able to use what 1:01:43.800 --> 1:01:46.840 we've created to build their own worlds and light their 1:01:46.880 --> 1:01:47.720 own stages. 1:01:49.800 --> 1:01:51.000 And that's the dream. 1:01:51.960 --> 1:01:55.400 Okay, that's really something I didn't think about. This is 1:01:55.440 --> 1:01:58.760 an entirely new medium that people can create for in 1:01:58.800 --> 1:02:00.880 their homes. Because if you think about it, you may 1:02:00.920 --> 1:02:02.880 not even need a green screen in the future. Your 1:02:02.960 --> 1:02:05.640 AI will be able to just take my form and 1:02:05.680 --> 1:02:06.400 put it somewhere. 1:02:06.840 --> 1:02:08.800 A lot of the secret sauce of our company is 1:02:08.840 --> 1:02:12.480 actually our AI tool set, and it's a lot of 1:02:12.560 --> 1:02:16.040 auto keying, it's a lot of upresing, it's future proofing 1:02:16.120 --> 1:02:20.600 the technology, and it's also eventually going to allow us 1:02:20.600 --> 1:02:24.000 to shoot in a variety of spaces. And we'll also 1:02:24.040 --> 1:02:27.520 be working on design tools, opening up maybe eventually to 1:02:27.560 --> 1:02:30.160 the public to where someone in their home and then 1:02:30.200 --> 1:02:32.360 create their own Amazed VR concert. 1:02:32.800 --> 1:02:35.600 Let's bring in Cook Kim, head of production at Amazed VR. 1:02:35.640 --> 1:02:38.200 Thanks for joining me as well. Nice to meet you too, Cook. 1:02:38.240 --> 1:02:40.080 What do you want people to know when they watch 1:02:40.160 --> 1:02:43.720 this because it looks very fluid, it's very seamless, and 1:02:43.800 --> 1:02:45.760 it looks like you guys have been doing this forever 1:02:46.200 --> 1:02:47.560 but this is still pretty new. 1:02:47.840 --> 1:02:52.080 Yeah, I think always the challenge is with like VR. Obviously, 1:02:52.200 --> 1:02:56.880 I think there's not much people who worked a long 1:02:56.960 --> 1:03:00.000 time and for your format, the video format is selfish 1:03:00.120 --> 1:03:03.560 is very different, and I think the most challenging part 1:03:04.320 --> 1:03:08.560 is the sterele So having the perfect aligned left and 1:03:08.640 --> 1:03:13.680 right footage will give that vividness and immersiveness and the 1:03:13.720 --> 1:03:17.400 feeling that the actual, real human size person is right 1:03:17.480 --> 1:03:17.960 front of me. 1:03:18.080 --> 1:03:20.760 Are you excited to get this into the eyes of 1:03:21.240 --> 1:03:22.040 people out there? 1:03:22.480 --> 1:03:28.000 Previously, I think VR was mostly only used for entertainments 1:03:28.040 --> 1:03:32.120 and like gaming, especially gaming heavy. With like Apple announcement, 1:03:32.320 --> 1:03:36.840 I was really excited because now this technology is going 1:03:36.920 --> 1:03:40.840 beyond just gaming. It's just trying to coming closer to 1:03:41.080 --> 1:03:45.320 like regular people's life, using for work and other like 1:03:45.560 --> 1:03:49.640 everything in our lives. So yeah, I'm pretty excited. I'm 1:03:49.680 --> 1:03:54.080 just curious how people will react to our app and 1:03:54.360 --> 1:03:57.480 also I think it'll be a great way for artists 1:03:57.480 --> 1:04:01.120 and fans and I just want their action fast. 1:04:01.520 --> 1:04:04.280 Cook Kim and Lance Drake of Amazed VR, thanks so 1:04:04.360 --> 1:04:07.280 much for joining me. You gotta check this app out. 1:04:07.440 --> 1:04:09.760 It is very impressive. If you can get your hands 1:04:09.800 --> 1:04:11.919 on a VR headset or you have one. It's called 1:04:11.960 --> 1:04:14.520 a maze VR. You gotta see what I saw. Go 1:04:14.600 --> 1:04:16.600 to the website to download it. I'll put the link 1:04:16.680 --> 1:04:20.320 at Richontech dot TV. More rich on Tech coming up 1:04:20.440 --> 1:04:25.560 right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 1:04:25.640 --> 1:04:30.600 Demiro here talking technology with you at Triple A Rich 1:04:30.760 --> 1:04:34.720 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to 1:04:34.760 --> 1:04:38.560 two four one zero one. If you have a question 1:04:38.640 --> 1:04:42.640 about technology, give me a call. Phone lines are open. 1:04:44.640 --> 1:04:48.080 Let's go to Kerrie in uh Is it Sanni Yanez, California? 1:04:48.560 --> 1:04:48.760 Yes? 1:04:49.680 --> 1:04:51.600 Perfect, I love that area. Beautiful. 1:04:51.760 --> 1:04:54.640 It is beautiful. We're very lucky to live here. And 1:04:54.800 --> 1:04:56.800 thank you for being there. That's helpful. 1:04:56.960 --> 1:04:59.080 Well, thank you, thanks for holding. I know you're on 1:04:59.120 --> 1:05:00.000 for a while. What can I help? 1:05:00.320 --> 1:05:02.440 I was listening to your show and I thought, maybe 1:05:02.440 --> 1:05:04.840 this man can help me with my problem. I have 1:05:04.880 --> 1:05:09.720 a friend who's ninety three, and she's wonderful and she 1:05:09.800 --> 1:05:12.440 loves watching the chor to France and decided she needed 1:05:12.440 --> 1:05:14.520 a TV in her kitchen so she could do that. 1:05:15.240 --> 1:05:17.320 So we got a new TV. We hooked it up, 1:05:17.400 --> 1:05:21.760 Comcast came and got it all wired. Everything's great, except 1:05:22.200 --> 1:05:24.960 when we changed the volume to make it a little louder, 1:05:24.960 --> 1:05:27.040 and she's not hard of hearing. She hears better than 1:05:27.080 --> 1:05:31.640 I do. The little lady in the TV tells us 1:05:31.720 --> 1:05:33.880 it is not a smart TV, it's just a regular 1:05:34.080 --> 1:05:37.720 new or TV. It tells us that, yes, your volume 1:05:37.840 --> 1:05:40.640 is up or whatever, and shows the little bar It 1:05:40.720 --> 1:05:43.800 works both with the Comcast remote and the regular one 1:05:43.800 --> 1:05:47.200 that came with the TV. But the volume doesn't hold there. 1:05:48.200 --> 1:05:51.480 As she watches, it eventually reverts to the level that 1:05:52.280 --> 1:05:55.240 was on before. So we're not sure where the problem 1:05:55.320 --> 1:05:56.880 is and how to fix it. 1:05:57.480 --> 1:06:00.640 Huh. So as she's listening to the the TV, the 1:06:00.720 --> 1:06:03.800 volume's just gradually slowly going down. 1:06:04.280 --> 1:06:04.720 Correct? 1:06:05.360 --> 1:06:09.360 Huh? And so does this happen on every channel or 1:06:09.520 --> 1:06:10.720 just the Tour de France. 1:06:10.960 --> 1:06:13.920 Good question, because she's only watched so far as far 1:06:13.920 --> 1:06:18.000 as I know, because she lives alone. She's amazing. I'll 1:06:18.040 --> 1:06:21.320 ask her if she has the same problem on other channels. 1:06:21.560 --> 1:06:25.400 Well, I certainly have heard of volume issues on TVs 1:06:25.520 --> 1:06:28.600 where the volume goes up and down based on commercials 1:06:28.720 --> 1:06:31.320 or programming, or some people can't hear the dialogue. I mean, 1:06:31.360 --> 1:06:33.880 those are all very common. But the fact that the 1:06:34.280 --> 1:06:37.400 volume is going down as she's listening, does it get 1:06:37.400 --> 1:06:39.760 to a spot where she can no longer hear it? 1:06:40.160 --> 1:06:44.080 No, doesn't go that far. It just sort of reverts 1:06:44.240 --> 1:06:48.360 to a level that's not terrible. I mean, she says, 1:06:48.440 --> 1:06:50.880 it's I'm living with it, but it's kind of weird. 1:06:51.200 --> 1:06:53.680 Yeah, if you set the volume at a certain level, 1:06:53.680 --> 1:06:55.360 of the volume should stay at that level. 1:06:55.600 --> 1:06:56.400 That's what we thought. 1:06:56.800 --> 1:07:00.479 Now here's my other question. When she's having this issue happen. 1:07:00.600 --> 1:07:02.840 Is there anything on the TV that shows that the 1:07:02.880 --> 1:07:03.840 volume's going down? 1:07:04.080 --> 1:07:09.640 No? No, the bar does not come back. The bar disappears, 1:07:09.680 --> 1:07:11.960 you know, after you first ask it to do whatever. 1:07:12.120 --> 1:07:15.800 Okay, Now here's my other question. Is the volume through 1:07:15.840 --> 1:07:17.280 the box or through the TV? 1:07:17.480 --> 1:07:18.440 So through the TV? 1:07:18.800 --> 1:07:23.240 Okay, because sometimes these cable boxes will use their own 1:07:23.280 --> 1:07:26.800 sort of volume and then the TV is secondary. So 1:07:27.280 --> 1:07:31.440 here's here's my quick sort of solution that you can try. 1:07:32.280 --> 1:07:35.360 Is I understand that you're using the remote that the 1:07:35.400 --> 1:07:38.880 cable box came with to adjust the volume? Correct? 1:07:39.160 --> 1:07:41.560 Well, we tried both. Oh, you have tried both and 1:07:41.560 --> 1:07:42.520 they do both work. 1:07:42.760 --> 1:07:44.439 Okay. Yeah, I was gonna say, because I think what's 1:07:44.440 --> 1:07:48.360 happening is the cable box sends a signal out to 1:07:48.440 --> 1:07:51.680 the TV with and so what cable companies have done 1:07:51.720 --> 1:07:55.040 over the years, because people have sort of issues in 1:07:55.120 --> 1:07:58.480 general with audio and connecting and making sure that the 1:07:58.520 --> 1:08:01.680 cable box controls the TV as a universal remote, what 1:08:01.760 --> 1:08:03.880 they've done to get around that is the cable box 1:08:03.960 --> 1:08:07.080 itself will adjust the volume up and down the signal 1:08:07.080 --> 1:08:08.960 that it's sending to the TV, so that even though 1:08:09.000 --> 1:08:11.840 it seems like you're adjusting it, you're actually just adjusting 1:08:11.880 --> 1:08:15.240 the cable box volume. So the volume on the TV 1:08:15.400 --> 1:08:18.200 is sort of separate. So I would try I know 1:08:18.240 --> 1:08:20.120 you said you did this, but I would try setting 1:08:20.120 --> 1:08:22.600 the volume on the TV. Does it bring up the 1:08:22.600 --> 1:08:23.559 same exact menu? 1:08:24.800 --> 1:08:29.760 Uh? Not quite sure how to answer that. You get 1:08:29.800 --> 1:08:30.120 a bar? 1:08:30.600 --> 1:08:33.479 Yeah, because I feel like I'm curious if you get 1:08:33.520 --> 1:08:35.599 the same bar with both because if you're. 1:08:35.720 --> 1:08:38.400 Good question, I'm not there now, so I can't tell you. 1:08:38.560 --> 1:08:41.040 Because if you get the bar with the cable box 1:08:41.200 --> 1:08:43.760 or one or the other, then they may be independent 1:08:43.840 --> 1:08:46.760 volumes from each other. Oh wow, you know what I mean, 1:08:46.800 --> 1:08:48.680 Like the TV may have Now. I don't think the 1:08:48.720 --> 1:08:50.840 TV is anything to do with this. I think that 1:08:50.880 --> 1:08:54.439 the TV is innocent. I think that the TV. The 1:08:54.439 --> 1:08:56.680 TV is not the culprit here. I do believe it's 1:08:56.680 --> 1:08:58.840 the cable box and it either has some sort of 1:08:58.960 --> 1:09:04.240 leveling function that's happening or something is adjusting it. She 1:09:04.280 --> 1:09:06.439 wouldn't happen to have a cat that's stepping on this remote, 1:09:06.439 --> 1:09:10.439 would she, because that happens in my house. We have 1:09:10.520 --> 1:09:12.640 we've foster kittens and they step on the remote and 1:09:12.680 --> 1:09:16.439 they change things, and it's really unfortunate. Okay, So what 1:09:16.600 --> 1:09:18.439 I would do to try to figure this out is 1:09:18.720 --> 1:09:22.160 I would go into the settings on the cable box 1:09:22.560 --> 1:09:26.680 and look for anything to do with audio, and in 1:09:26.840 --> 1:09:31.000 specifically anything to do with audio leveling or audio limiting 1:09:31.520 --> 1:09:34.439 or dialogue, and I would change those settings and see 1:09:34.479 --> 1:09:37.639 because I think that this cable box is somehow switching 1:09:37.720 --> 1:09:39.719 the settings. That's that's my theory. 1:09:40.000 --> 1:09:42.560 That sounds like a good idea. We tried the settings 1:09:42.640 --> 1:09:46.240 on the TV. I cannot find how to get to 1:09:46.320 --> 1:09:48.320 the settings on the cable box. 1:09:48.520 --> 1:09:50.760 Well, on the cable remote, there should be either a 1:09:50.800 --> 1:09:53.360 menu There should be there should be a menu button 1:09:53.360 --> 1:09:54.920 on there. You may not, you may not have looked 1:09:54.920 --> 1:09:57.559 for that, but that's what I would look for and see. 1:09:57.600 --> 1:09:59.760 I think the cable box is the culprit here. That's 1:10:00.200 --> 1:10:00.960 my theory. 1:10:01.400 --> 1:10:04.960 Okay, I will try it and she will be very appreciative. 1:10:05.080 --> 1:10:06.760 Yeah, and call me back and let me know, because 1:10:06.760 --> 1:10:09.280 I really I'm this is like, this is stumping, Like 1:10:09.320 --> 1:10:11.000 I want to drive there, like I might have to 1:10:11.000 --> 1:10:13.519 do a wine tasting trip and just stop. 1:10:13.640 --> 1:10:15.040 We could manage that. 1:10:15.320 --> 1:10:17.519 I may have to like figure it because now you've 1:10:17.560 --> 1:10:20.280 really got me thinking about this. So the good news 1:10:20.360 --> 1:10:22.599 is about this show, there's other people listening that may 1:10:22.640 --> 1:10:25.000 be like, rich this is how we fix this. And 1:10:25.080 --> 1:10:27.559 so hopefully in the next week in the feedback segment, 1:10:27.680 --> 1:10:30.040 someone's listening that says, I know how to fix this. Andy, 1:10:30.320 --> 1:10:32.479 They say, this is what I did. But in the meantime, 1:10:33.160 --> 1:10:35.439 I think, look in those menu settings for anything with 1:10:35.479 --> 1:10:39.719 audio on the cable box and see what the deal 1:10:39.800 --> 1:10:41.960 is with that. But Carrie, hopefully we can figure this out. 1:10:42.200 --> 1:10:44.040 Thank you very much, and thank you for your help. 1:10:44.320 --> 1:10:45.559 Ver love yourself. 1:10:45.720 --> 1:10:48.479 Thank you so much. Good luck with that one, all right? 1:10:48.920 --> 1:10:51.360 Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 1:10:51.479 --> 1:10:53.760 four to two four to one zero one. Man, that 1:10:53.800 --> 1:10:57.479 one really really stumped me. Man, I want to know 1:10:57.560 --> 1:11:00.400 what's causing that TV to go up and down in 1:11:00.439 --> 1:11:04.160 the volume. Leslie is in Laguna Beach. Leslie, you're on 1:11:04.240 --> 1:11:04.639 with Rich. 1:11:06.160 --> 1:11:07.920 Hey Rich, thanks for taking my call. 1:11:08.160 --> 1:11:10.160 Yeah, help you. 1:11:10.439 --> 1:11:15.080 I use the app meant to track my expenses because 1:11:15.120 --> 1:11:18.600 it coordinates with the bank and everything, and so I 1:11:18.600 --> 1:11:22.479 can have everything in one spot. And the last few 1:11:22.520 --> 1:11:25.439 months my connection with Chase banks. They say that you 1:11:25.560 --> 1:11:30.840 have to reconnect, which has happened before with other banks 1:11:31.000 --> 1:11:34.320 or other accounts. But the difference this time is that 1:11:35.200 --> 1:11:40.200 when it reconnected, it deleted all of my data three 1:11:40.240 --> 1:11:44.160 months before. That's annoying and I looked at up online 1:11:44.200 --> 1:11:46.679 and people are having a problem, but there's no response 1:11:46.720 --> 1:11:49.519 from ment on what's happening or how you can get 1:11:49.520 --> 1:11:50.120 that back. 1:11:50.479 --> 1:11:53.479 No, and this has been going on forever. Well, I 1:11:53.479 --> 1:11:55.519 mean you may or may not be able to get 1:11:55.520 --> 1:11:58.120 it back because Chase only offers a certain amount of 1:11:58.200 --> 1:12:02.519 data transactions through the service, and so they may they 1:12:02.520 --> 1:12:04.400 may only and I don't know if it's ninety days 1:12:04.439 --> 1:12:07.120 or thirty days. But the beauty of Mint is that 1:12:07.160 --> 1:12:09.880 they keep those transactions for the year, and if you 1:12:09.920 --> 1:12:11.519 delete them, you go to do your taxes at the 1:12:11.560 --> 1:12:14.639 end of the year, and it's all gone. So I've 1:12:14.720 --> 1:12:17.920 used Mint forever. I think that it's been It was 1:12:17.920 --> 1:12:20.360 better when it was independent. Now it's owned by Into It. 1:12:20.360 --> 1:12:22.920 It's kind of like, you know, it's they're trying to 1:12:22.920 --> 1:12:24.720 get you to pay, trying to get you to pay 1:12:24.720 --> 1:12:29.240 for stuff. So you can't reconnect your Chase because sometimes 1:12:29.280 --> 1:12:31.080 you just reconnect and the stuff is back in there. 1:12:32.240 --> 1:12:35.000 Now it happens three times now, And what are. 1:12:34.880 --> 1:12:38.080 You using for this? What are you doing on Mint? 1:12:38.120 --> 1:12:38.200 Like? 1:12:38.200 --> 1:12:40.360 Are you just trying to see your value or you 1:12:40.439 --> 1:12:42.200 just are you like your your financials or are you 1:12:42.240 --> 1:12:43.599 trying to actually budget through this? 1:12:44.680 --> 1:12:46.559 No, I'm not budgeting, but I use at the track 1:12:46.600 --> 1:12:49.840 line expenses of the categories. Okay, So at the end 1:12:49.880 --> 1:12:51.840 of each month, I look at the category total and 1:12:51.920 --> 1:12:54.080 I transfer it to an Excel spreadsheet so I can 1:12:55.479 --> 1:12:57.240 compare months to months and year to year. 1:12:57.520 --> 1:12:59.439 Okay. The only thing I can do is offer you 1:12:59.479 --> 1:13:04.000 some some alternatives to Mint. But I would I would 1:13:04.040 --> 1:13:07.000 try to delete this log in and maybe change your 1:13:07.040 --> 1:13:11.960 password on Chase and then relink it because it should work. 1:13:12.040 --> 1:13:14.400 Mint is pretty big and so is Chase, and I 1:13:14.400 --> 1:13:16.560 think they work pretty well together. If it was a 1:13:16.600 --> 1:13:19.080 different bank, I might say other some other things. You 1:13:19.080 --> 1:13:23.759 can look at every dollar and there's one called personal capital, 1:13:23.760 --> 1:13:25.840 which I think they call them power. 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People are sick of paying for their streaming services. 1:15:27.160 --> 1:15:30.880 Now they want these free services like Pluto TV and 1:15:30.920 --> 1:15:35.000 all these other ones. Free V from Amazon and Roku 1:15:35.120 --> 1:15:38.479 Channel available now on Google TV. So if you have 1:15:38.520 --> 1:15:41.519 one of those, you can download Roku Channel and watch 1:15:41.560 --> 1:15:45.120 some new stuff. All right, let's go to Let's go 1:15:45.160 --> 1:15:50.160 to Linda in San Clementy. Linda, you're on with Rich Hi. 1:15:50.280 --> 1:15:50.880 Can you hear me? 1:15:51.160 --> 1:15:52.599 I hear you great, what's up? 1:15:52.680 --> 1:15:55.360 Well, I'm sitting here charging my chestla, so I'm not 1:15:55.439 --> 1:15:56.200 at my computer. 1:15:56.560 --> 1:15:58.360 Oh nice, you have a basic. 1:15:58.160 --> 1:15:59.439 Question for you. 1:16:01.120 --> 1:16:03.160 I'm sure your screeno may have told you, but so 1:16:03.240 --> 1:16:04.760 I don't want to go on and on. But it's 1:16:04.800 --> 1:16:08.600 about my track pad. It's an Apple track pad, or 1:16:08.640 --> 1:16:12.040 I guess you'd call it mouse, okay, And I have 1:16:12.160 --> 1:16:18.679 a desktop computer Apple, and it has always done, for instance, email, 1:16:18.840 --> 1:16:20.479 I click on it and I move it over to 1:16:20.520 --> 1:16:24.720 some fork into I drag it to my folders. But 1:16:24.800 --> 1:16:27.120 all of a sudden it stopped being able to drag, 1:16:27.200 --> 1:16:29.320 and I have to click on it and then pull 1:16:29.360 --> 1:16:32.439 it down to move too. It Also, if I go 1:16:32.560 --> 1:16:35.439 to take an email and forward it, and i'd like 1:16:35.479 --> 1:16:38.240 to take some of the email away, I used to 1:16:38.240 --> 1:16:40.439 be able to blue it out by holding it down 1:16:40.880 --> 1:16:43.160 and delete it, and now I have to take the 1:16:43.479 --> 1:16:46.439 cursor to one side, and each line out. 1:16:47.400 --> 1:16:47.960 I went up. 1:16:48.200 --> 1:16:49.200 I googled. 1:16:49.320 --> 1:16:51.320 I found out you know, what to do about the 1:16:51.360 --> 1:16:54.200 track pad is all fine in the settings as far 1:16:54.240 --> 1:16:58.599 as I'm sure, and I hard closed the computer a 1:16:58.640 --> 1:17:03.639 few times, however that remains okay. 1:17:03.720 --> 1:17:06.040 So it's just it's it's acting kind of funky like 1:17:06.080 --> 1:17:07.479 the not the way it used to act. 1:17:08.320 --> 1:17:10.439 Yeah, I just doesn't do the two things I generally 1:17:10.600 --> 1:17:12.920 is it for, which is moving you know, an email 1:17:13.040 --> 1:17:14.720 or something I purchased, But I'd like to put it 1:17:14.760 --> 1:17:18.040 over on the side of online quorterers, and now I 1:17:18.080 --> 1:17:20.680 have to do it. It's kind of like manually. 1:17:20.240 --> 1:17:21.960 I guess. Yeah, it's just it's just not working the 1:17:21.960 --> 1:17:25.000 way it used to work. So a couple of things. Uh, 1:17:25.080 --> 1:17:27.760 you start, You restarted your computer? Yes? 1:17:27.840 --> 1:17:27.920 What? 1:17:28.320 --> 1:17:32.479 Okay, so that's done. You did that. What about this? 1:17:33.040 --> 1:17:35.599 I'm assuming it's like an Apple track pad, right, it's 1:17:35.640 --> 1:17:39.320 like an Apple branded one. Yes, okay. Have you tried 1:17:39.520 --> 1:17:41.559 resetting the actual track pad? 1:17:42.640 --> 1:17:42.840 Well? 1:17:42.880 --> 1:17:46.320 I went up the settings and I looked at how 1:17:46.360 --> 1:17:48.880 it is set, but I don't know how to reset it. 1:17:48.920 --> 1:17:51.360 Is it in that I go to settings? Will it 1:17:51.439 --> 1:17:52.679 say reset your trackpad? 1:17:53.080 --> 1:17:55.519 There should be a physical button on the track pad. 1:17:55.600 --> 1:17:58.439 I don't have mine with me here, but there should 1:17:58.479 --> 1:17:59.320 be a physical button. 1:17:59.680 --> 1:18:01.840 Have you on that button that turns it on and 1:18:01.880 --> 1:18:03.200 off light? 1:18:03.360 --> 1:18:03.559 No? 1:18:03.600 --> 1:18:04.519 I have not done that. 1:18:04.560 --> 1:18:06.559 Okay, so what I would do is do that next. 1:18:06.600 --> 1:18:10.120 So press that for five seconds until it turns off, 1:18:10.640 --> 1:18:14.439 and then press it for five more seconds while you 1:18:14.479 --> 1:18:16.200 turn it on instead of just pressing it quick to 1:18:16.240 --> 1:18:19.200 turn it on, hold it, press it for five seconds 1:18:19.200 --> 1:18:22.160 to turn it on until the light starts flashing, and 1:18:22.200 --> 1:18:24.519 that will kind of like that'll kind of reset it. 1:18:24.600 --> 1:18:27.839 So you may have to reconnect it to your computer 1:18:28.080 --> 1:18:31.800 after that situation and that that hopefully should bring it 1:18:31.840 --> 1:18:35.800 back to the factory settings and everything will be back 1:18:35.880 --> 1:18:38.759 to the way you remember it. If that doesn't work, 1:18:38.840 --> 1:18:41.680 I would also maybe go into the Bluetooth settings on 1:18:41.680 --> 1:18:46.040 your computer and delete the track pad and reconnect it 1:18:46.520 --> 1:18:49.280 and see if that helps. But those are those are 1:18:49.280 --> 1:18:51.040 the things that I would do to kind of like 1:18:51.240 --> 1:18:54.599 see if it can come back to life the way 1:18:54.640 --> 1:18:56.360 that you wanted it. And you said you checked in 1:18:56.400 --> 1:18:57.920 your settings, because I would go in there and just 1:18:57.960 --> 1:19:01.320 make sure that nothing got changed because there are a 1:19:01.400 --> 1:19:04.920 considerable amount of settings when it comes to these track pads. 1:19:04.920 --> 1:19:06.760 I know, it just seems like a simple point click, 1:19:06.880 --> 1:19:09.400 drag whatever, but there are a lot of things that 1:19:09.400 --> 1:19:13.040 these little track pads can do, and so you know, 1:19:13.200 --> 1:19:15.320 that's that's something that you might want to look into 1:19:15.439 --> 1:19:19.240 as well, especially the point and click, and you know, 1:19:19.320 --> 1:19:22.000 sometimes there's there's different little settings in there that may 1:19:22.840 --> 1:19:25.679 the gestures are you know, just that could have changed. 1:19:26.040 --> 1:19:27.760 I'm not saying they did, but I think that this 1:19:27.960 --> 1:19:31.280 just is a little bit needs a reconnection. Let's put 1:19:31.320 --> 1:19:31.679 it that way. 1:19:31.760 --> 1:19:32.080 Thank you. 1:19:32.600 --> 1:19:35.120 I will definitely try that. I love your program. I 1:19:35.200 --> 1:19:37.519 learn a lot because I'm not techy, but after listening 1:19:37.600 --> 1:19:40.720 to you, I feel like, I, you know, recharge my 1:19:40.720 --> 1:19:41.439 my techi brain. 1:19:41.720 --> 1:19:44.000 I love it. Well, you're you're recharging your tesla and 1:19:44.040 --> 1:19:46.720 your brain. How do you? How do you like the Tesla? 1:19:46.920 --> 1:19:47.839 I love my titts. 1:19:47.960 --> 1:19:48.320 I've had. 1:19:48.360 --> 1:19:50.800 This is my third your third test, so you were 1:19:50.880 --> 1:19:55.240 early on you? Why not? Wow? Okay, Well I love mine. 1:19:55.280 --> 1:19:58.960 I I think it's great. So except someone someone hit mine. 1:19:58.960 --> 1:20:00.840 If you listen to the show, you know I talked 1:20:00.880 --> 1:20:02.639 about someone hit and run and I had I didn't 1:20:02.640 --> 1:20:06.120 have my cameras turned on, so I didn't have the 1:20:06.160 --> 1:20:07.840 recording of that hit. 1:20:08.479 --> 1:20:11.679 Well, my first one was the ass and my son, 1:20:11.760 --> 1:20:14.960 being young, he ordered it for me with ludicrous. I 1:20:15.080 --> 1:20:17.679 never used that portion of the car. 1:20:17.960 --> 1:20:20.160 Oh you should have. You gotta try that. 1:20:21.080 --> 1:20:21.880 I tried it once. 1:20:22.040 --> 1:20:25.200 Yeah, that was the best. Tesla lent me a car 1:20:25.240 --> 1:20:27.560 one time, and I did the all I did was 1:20:27.600 --> 1:20:31.000 literally take every friend and family member I knew down 1:20:31.040 --> 1:20:33.439 a street and we just all, like, you know, shot 1:20:33.520 --> 1:20:34.639 back into the seat. Right. 1:20:35.080 --> 1:20:37.600 Oh yeah, I felt like I was a mission impossible 1:20:37.600 --> 1:20:38.400 movie for sure. 1:20:38.560 --> 1:20:41.880 Exactly. All Right, Linda, thanks so much and keep me 1:20:41.920 --> 1:20:43.599 posting on if you get this working again. 1:20:43.640 --> 1:20:46.320 Okay, thank you, thanks for taking my call. 1:20:46.560 --> 1:20:50.960 Thanks for calling. Appreciate it. All right. Uh man, there's 1:20:51.000 --> 1:20:53.160 a lot of a lot of issues this weekend. I 1:20:53.200 --> 1:20:56.759 think the heat is bringing out the issues in people. 1:20:57.120 --> 1:20:59.360 Let me, let me hold on, let me grab this. 1:21:00.120 --> 1:21:02.920 I mean, I want to talk about this. But since 1:21:03.479 --> 1:21:07.120 Linda was talking about her Tesla, you know, EV's in 1:21:07.200 --> 1:21:09.880 the sun, in the heat, and we're going through a 1:21:09.920 --> 1:21:11.800 heat wave, not only here in Los Angeles, but in 1:21:11.840 --> 1:21:15.880 a lot of different cities right now. You're ev it'll 1:21:15.880 --> 1:21:19.719 be okay in the heat, but the heat definitely taxes 1:21:19.760 --> 1:21:22.240 the battery a little bit more. So, here's what you 1:21:22.320 --> 1:21:26.840 need to know. If you've got an electric car, you 1:21:26.840 --> 1:21:31.040 know this heat could affect your battery's health, especially over time. 1:21:31.080 --> 1:21:34.800 It could decrease the range. The reason is the chemicals 1:21:34.800 --> 1:21:37.280 in the battery. I don't want to get into the 1:21:37.360 --> 1:21:41.679 technical details. Of that, but basically they speed up and 1:21:41.840 --> 1:21:45.320 it can it can cause issues with the long term 1:21:45.520 --> 1:21:49.960 range of the battery. So if your car is in 1:21:50.040 --> 1:21:53.120 a hot garage for a long time, that can affect it. 1:21:53.960 --> 1:21:57.000 Cold water or cold weather not so much, doesn't really 1:21:57.040 --> 1:22:01.280 it changes the range just temporarily but not permit. And 1:22:01.360 --> 1:22:04.519 of course many evs are in places like California, Texas 1:22:04.600 --> 1:22:09.439 and Florida where the temperatures are the highest. So battery 1:22:09.479 --> 1:22:14.439 tips according to La Times park in this shade. Don't 1:22:14.479 --> 1:22:17.639 fast charge unnecessarily, So if you don't need to fast charge, 1:22:17.840 --> 1:22:21.920 don't like charge overnight. Slowly keep your car plugged in 1:22:22.400 --> 1:22:24.200 when you're not using it, Like if you have it 1:22:24.240 --> 1:22:26.519 in the garage, you can plug it in. That will 1:22:26.600 --> 1:22:30.400 let your car naturally keep the battery cool because it 1:22:30.439 --> 1:22:33.280 has systems in place to do that. And you can 1:22:33.320 --> 1:22:37.240 limit charging to eighty percent. So I know you get 1:22:37.240 --> 1:22:39.799 this car and you want it to go the full range, 1:22:41.120 --> 1:22:43.439 but I do believe I've been plugging mine in and 1:22:43.520 --> 1:22:45.200 charging it up to one hundred percent for a couple 1:22:45.240 --> 1:22:47.480 of years now, and I do think that has definitely 1:22:47.880 --> 1:22:52.040 taking the range down for sure. So eighty percent that's 1:22:52.080 --> 1:22:54.400 where you want to be on a daily basis. Sure 1:22:54.439 --> 1:22:56.200 you can charge full if you're going on a road 1:22:56.200 --> 1:22:57.880 trip or something like that, but on a day to 1:22:57.960 --> 1:23:03.240 day basis commuting and all that is the magic number. Yeah, 1:23:03.320 --> 1:23:05.519 the heat definitely will have an issue, will have an 1:23:05.520 --> 1:23:08.479 effect on it. So just know that if you have 1:23:08.520 --> 1:23:11.439 an EV it'll be fine, but just know that it 1:23:12.000 --> 1:23:16.200 could potentially have some long term issues with your car. 1:23:17.160 --> 1:23:20.280 All right, let's uh, let's take a break. Triple eight 1:23:20.400 --> 1:23:23.120 rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to 1:23:23.120 --> 1:23:26.280 two four to one zero one is the phone number 1:23:26.320 --> 1:23:29.439 to call. You can also email It's hello at richon 1:23:29.560 --> 1:23:32.400 tech dot tv. And if you haven't checked out the website, 1:23:32.479 --> 1:23:37.200 rich on tech dot tv brand new, cleaned up, ready 1:23:37.200 --> 1:23:39.920 to go. And I'll put the show notes for everything 1:23:39.920 --> 1:23:42.160 I mentioned here. So do I have time? I have 1:23:42.200 --> 1:23:44.200 time for one more? I have time for one more 1:23:44.280 --> 1:23:46.920 quick thing? I'm getting the look from Bobo that I 1:23:46.920 --> 1:23:49.760 got I got like quick quickick. I'll just tell you 1:23:49.760 --> 1:23:53.919 two quick things that are happening inside Google Google Calendar. 1:23:55.200 --> 1:23:58.960 In Google Calendar, they have added a feature that lets 1:23:58.960 --> 1:24:02.080 you send a link to someone and you can find 1:24:02.120 --> 1:24:04.920 a mutual time to meet. So it's kind of like 1:24:04.960 --> 1:24:09.320 this app called calendar Calendly. How do you say that 1:24:09.920 --> 1:24:14.400 calendly c A L E N D L y calendly 1:24:15.360 --> 1:24:17.720 calendly dot com. A lot of people use this to 1:24:18.040 --> 1:24:20.479 find a time that works for both people. Now they've 1:24:20.479 --> 1:24:24.000 built that directly into Gmail, so you can find that 1:24:24.600 --> 1:24:27.080 when you're composing an email, look for a new calendar 1:24:27.320 --> 1:24:29.840 icon and it will show you the times that you're free, 1:24:30.280 --> 1:24:32.719 or you can share a link to someone and both 1:24:32.760 --> 1:24:34.519 find a time that you can meet. So that's kind 1:24:34.560 --> 1:24:36.760 of cool. And then this is really neat. If you 1:24:36.880 --> 1:24:40.760 have a business that relies on paid appointments, you can 1:24:40.800 --> 1:24:45.280 actually take paid appointment bookings right through Google Calendar. Now 1:24:45.479 --> 1:24:47.800 all you have to do is connect your Stripe, set 1:24:47.840 --> 1:24:51.200 a price, and create a booking page, and then customers 1:24:51.240 --> 1:24:54.200 can go to your little page and pay for the booking. 1:24:54.640 --> 1:24:57.320 So if you have some sort of consulting business or 1:24:57.360 --> 1:25:01.080 whatever you do where people pay for your time, you 1:25:01.120 --> 1:25:04.599 can now do that directly in Google Calendar. And Google 1:25:04.600 --> 1:25:07.120 Calendar says that they connect to Stripe, they don't process 1:25:07.160 --> 1:25:09.880 the payments themselves. You have to deal with all that 1:25:09.920 --> 1:25:13.839 through Stripe. But you can enable this paid booking feature 1:25:14.000 --> 1:25:17.920 inside Google calendar. So if you want to get charged 1:25:17.960 --> 1:25:21.200 for your time or charge for your time, there you go. 1:25:21.600 --> 1:25:23.479 I'll put all this on the website rich on tech dot. 1:25:23.520 --> 1:25:27.639 You all right, now we're going to break. Welcome back 1:25:27.640 --> 1:25:34.479 to rich on Tech where we're talking technology. Let's go 1:25:34.520 --> 1:25:40.400 to Jerry in Rancho San Rancho Santa Margarita. Is that right? 1:25:40.560 --> 1:25:40.760 Yep? 1:25:40.840 --> 1:25:44.080 But I've got Rancho San Margarita on my notes here, 1:25:44.120 --> 1:25:45.920 so I was like, I don't know if it's San 1:25:46.000 --> 1:25:48.240 Margarita or Santa, but welcome to the show. 1:25:49.120 --> 1:25:53.920 Well, it is Rancho Santa like clause Margarita. 1:25:53.479 --> 1:25:55.559 Oh wow, so you got You got Santa Claus and 1:25:55.600 --> 1:25:58.280 Margarita all in the same name. That's a that's a 1:25:58.280 --> 1:25:59.960 fun place. What can I help you out? 1:26:00.479 --> 1:26:05.200 Well, it is Rancho Santa like clause Margarita. 1:26:04.800 --> 1:26:06.880 Oh wow, so you got You got Santa Claus and 1:26:06.920 --> 1:26:09.600 Margarita all in the same name. That's a that's a 1:26:09.640 --> 1:26:11.400 fun place. What can I help you with? 1:26:12.120 --> 1:26:15.400 Well, I'm a longtime follower. You and I have traded 1:26:15.479 --> 1:26:19.680 emails over the past years. My question, I've been a 1:26:19.760 --> 1:26:23.520 mac Apple user since. 1:26:23.400 --> 1:26:26.000 Day one and day one of what. 1:26:27.560 --> 1:26:29.280 Well nineteen ninety. 1:26:29.280 --> 1:26:31.960 Oh wow, okay, so day one, I. 1:26:31.960 --> 1:26:33.920 Don't want to show my I don't want to show 1:26:33.920 --> 1:26:38.280 my age. But I've since been on Mac computers and 1:26:38.280 --> 1:26:40.680 and of course they're iOS forever. 1:26:41.160 --> 1:26:45.000 Okay, Well, the question is Rich. 1:26:45.120 --> 1:26:48.479 I don't know if you've run across this, but I've 1:26:48.520 --> 1:26:54.280 got a external eight terabyte card drive that I use 1:26:54.439 --> 1:26:59.280 for time Machine and for backups on my MacBook and 1:26:59.560 --> 1:27:05.559 my desk stop and some reason I got this NTFS 1:27:05.600 --> 1:27:12.000 that popped up, and now the external drive says read only, 1:27:12.800 --> 1:27:17.240 and there are like a bunch of sites that want 1:27:17.280 --> 1:27:23.840 to charge for like I guess to fix it, to 1:27:23.880 --> 1:27:27.880 fix it, but then I sent the email to them, 1:27:27.920 --> 1:27:31.560 I said, what happens if I canceled the subscription? And 1:27:31.640 --> 1:27:35.519 they said, well then it won't work. So I don't 1:27:35.560 --> 1:27:38.520 know if I'm going to have to just get a 1:27:38.560 --> 1:27:43.680 new external drive, move everything over to that one, and 1:27:43.720 --> 1:27:47.000 then reform at this one that says read only. 1:27:47.520 --> 1:27:50.599 Okay, well, what hold on? So what have you used 1:27:50.640 --> 1:27:51.759 this drive on your computer? 1:27:52.720 --> 1:27:52.880 Oh? 1:27:52.960 --> 1:27:55.920 Yeah, I mean it was my main backup for and 1:27:56.000 --> 1:27:59.080 I can't do it. Won't let me do time Machine, 1:27:59.120 --> 1:28:02.840 it says, they back up sales because it's read only. 1:28:02.800 --> 1:28:05.439 Now, okay, did you plug this into a different computer. 1:28:06.360 --> 1:28:10.840 No, it just I think this NTFS pop up came 1:28:10.920 --> 1:28:16.719 on and I thought maybe it was my error that 1:28:17.439 --> 1:28:19.880 I tried to get rid of it, and I think 1:28:19.920 --> 1:28:26.400 it installed this Microsoft NTFS that you know obviously is 1:28:26.439 --> 1:28:28.800 not compatible with the Yeah. 1:28:29.080 --> 1:28:33.080 Yeah, NTFS is is a format for the drive that 1:28:34.000 --> 1:28:38.160 the Mac does not like, and so that it's interesting 1:28:38.200 --> 1:28:40.920 that that it switched, though I'm trying to figure out 1:28:40.960 --> 1:28:41.960 what made it switch. 1:28:43.040 --> 1:28:46.600 I might have, you know, when I think back, and 1:28:46.640 --> 1:28:48.960 it's been I've been trying for like a couple of 1:28:49.000 --> 1:28:52.320 months to you know, go on different sites and do 1:28:52.439 --> 1:28:55.400 different searches to see how to fix it. And some 1:28:55.520 --> 1:28:59.880 people have suggested, well, the best thing to do is 1:29:00.479 --> 1:29:03.560 get another drive and you're going to have to reform 1:29:03.560 --> 1:29:06.120 at it and then it'll be fine. But this is 1:29:06.160 --> 1:29:09.519 a great Sea Day eight terabyte that I've had for 1:29:09.560 --> 1:29:10.599 a couple of years. 1:29:10.880 --> 1:29:14.559 Well okay, okay, Well so here's my so Number one, 1:29:14.600 --> 1:29:16.240 you could a couple of things you could do with this. 1:29:16.720 --> 1:29:19.200 First off, you could try to repair the permissions. So 1:29:19.280 --> 1:29:21.920 have you tried to do that in finder? Have you 1:29:21.960 --> 1:29:23.400 done that at all? Well? 1:29:24.320 --> 1:29:28.960 I think with the you know, and I thought about 1:29:29.080 --> 1:29:33.479 taking it to and I knew about fixing permissions. Yeah, 1:29:33.520 --> 1:29:35.120 but for some reason they won't. 1:29:35.439 --> 1:29:38.519 Yeah, probably won't do it because it's NTFS. Uh. 1:29:38.960 --> 1:29:42.879 Well, but I think when I talked to someone at Apple, 1:29:43.920 --> 1:29:48.400 when I went to a Genius bar the latest I 1:29:48.439 --> 1:29:53.080 guess iOS is on desktops or such that Mac os, 1:29:53.200 --> 1:29:55.800 they said they won't let you do like years ago 1:29:56.080 --> 1:29:58.360 used to be able to go in and click permissions. 1:29:58.439 --> 1:30:00.720 Well, you could still do it, it's on. It's in. If 1:30:00.760 --> 1:30:03.560 you do a command eye, you can see the permissions 1:30:03.560 --> 1:30:06.360 and just switch it, you know, to read and write. 1:30:06.400 --> 1:30:09.479 But if it's in NTFS is probably not going to 1:30:09.520 --> 1:30:10.600 let you do that. So a couple of things you 1:30:10.600 --> 1:30:13.800 can do here. If this is a drive that you 1:30:13.960 --> 1:30:17.040 want to keep but the information on it is you 1:30:17.080 --> 1:30:18.800 can get rid of it. You can just go into 1:30:18.840 --> 1:30:21.360 disc utility and format it and just make sure you 1:30:21.439 --> 1:30:25.600 format it as a drive for the mac which you 1:30:25.680 --> 1:30:28.120 probably want to use the Mac os extended. You know. 1:30:28.360 --> 1:30:31.280 Yeah, I've got so many files, like three or four 1:30:31.439 --> 1:30:33.800 terabytes of stuff that I need that you need. 1:30:33.880 --> 1:30:35.800 Okay, all right, So in that case, I. 1:30:35.760 --> 1:30:37.360 Guess I have to get a new drive. 1:30:37.520 --> 1:30:40.240 I guess, well, I don't. I think you could try 1:30:40.280 --> 1:30:43.519 to repair this with you can try a program. The 1:30:43.520 --> 1:30:45.519 one that I use that I think you could may 1:30:45.560 --> 1:30:48.960 be able to do on here is is clean my Mac. 1:30:49.080 --> 1:30:51.599 That may do it. The other thing. The other thing 1:30:51.680 --> 1:30:55.320 is you might be able to go into disc utility 1:30:55.800 --> 1:31:01.080 and click first aid and see if that yeah, I 1:31:01.439 --> 1:31:01.880 won't do it. 1:31:01.920 --> 1:31:07.840 Okay, go the disutilities and I haven't you clean my map, but. 1:31:07.880 --> 1:31:09.600 I would you can see if that can do it. 1:31:09.640 --> 1:31:11.719 But if it's not, this is a tricky one because 1:31:11.720 --> 1:31:15.040 it is format in a different way. I would say, maybe, uh, 1:31:15.160 --> 1:31:17.280 you got to transfer this data if you can't get 1:31:17.280 --> 1:31:20.880 the Mac to read this without losing everything. All right, 1:31:20.880 --> 1:31:23.519 coming up next, we're gonna talk. We're gonna talk nothing 1:31:23.560 --> 1:31:28.400 phone on rich On Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 1:31:28.520 --> 1:31:32.720 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology man. 1:31:32.800 --> 1:31:35.680 So many great questions today, Thanks for calling in at 1:31:35.720 --> 1:31:38.600 Triple eight. Rich one o one joining me now is 1:31:38.600 --> 1:31:41.559 a guest that I'm very excited to have because he 1:31:41.720 --> 1:31:44.760 is someone that I look forward to watching his reviews 1:31:45.280 --> 1:31:48.360 on YouTube and not just that, but all of his travels. 1:31:49.080 --> 1:31:53.520 Benson is a tech reviewer UH based in Los Angeles, 1:31:53.640 --> 1:31:57.479 but lives in Hong Kong, so or well, Ben, you 1:31:57.479 --> 1:31:59.840 can explain. Ben, You're now You're in Thailand, so you 1:32:01.040 --> 1:32:03.920 are you are all over my friends, but you do 1:32:04.000 --> 1:32:06.280 Ben's gadget reviews on YouTube and you also write for 1:32:06.320 --> 1:32:09.080 the tech website XDA Developers. Welcome to the show. 1:32:10.760 --> 1:32:11.880 Thanks for having me on. 1:32:12.160 --> 1:32:14.120 So where do you actually live these days? Because I 1:32:14.160 --> 1:32:15.920 know you've been in LA for a while and then 1:32:16.000 --> 1:32:17.600 you're you know you're in Hong Kong, So where do 1:32:17.680 --> 1:32:19.200 you actually live nowadays? 1:32:20.120 --> 1:32:22.040 I'm actually living in La. 1:32:22.120 --> 1:32:25.000 I was in Hong Kong for the past eight nine years, 1:32:25.000 --> 1:32:27.880 and I moved back to LA about like six months ago. 1:32:28.040 --> 1:32:29.519 Okay, and now. 1:32:29.600 --> 1:32:32.599 Right now fine, just because I'm happen to be between 1:32:32.760 --> 1:32:35.320 work trips. I have to go to go to Beijing 1:32:35.400 --> 1:32:37.519 for work and there's going to be another work trip 1:32:37.520 --> 1:32:40.880 in Seoul, which I know you know about. Yeah, waiting 1:32:41.040 --> 1:32:41.360 for that. 1:32:41.800 --> 1:32:43.320 Okay, I'm actually going to be there so I will 1:32:43.360 --> 1:32:46.840 see you. I'm going cool, nice, I'm excited. It's a 1:32:46.960 --> 1:32:50.439 Samsung event, so I'm I'm looking. I've never been so 1:32:51.040 --> 1:32:56.360 to Korea. Okay, let's talk about the nothing phone. This 1:32:56.439 --> 1:32:58.680 is the nothing phone too. I talked about it a 1:32:58.720 --> 1:33:00.800 little bit earlier in the show. Without was a while ago, 1:33:00.880 --> 1:33:02.640 So let me see if I have any notes on 1:33:02.680 --> 1:33:06.400 this phone. But I this is a startup that it's 1:33:06.439 --> 1:33:09.439 formerly a couple of people from one plus went over 1:33:10.320 --> 1:33:13.280 London based startup it's called Nothing. This is their second 1:33:13.320 --> 1:33:16.759 phone and it's the first time it's available in the US, 1:33:17.200 --> 1:33:20.280 and it's an Android device six point seven inch screen. 1:33:21.720 --> 1:33:25.200 What is your impression of this phone? 1:33:26.560 --> 1:33:30.439 I like it quite a lot because I like it 1:33:31.200 --> 1:33:34.080 it has a lot of personality, which you can't always 1:33:34.120 --> 1:33:39.920 say about about phones that aren't like instead a flagship level, 1:33:40.000 --> 1:33:42.280 like this is like a little bit below the flagship level. 1:33:42.280 --> 1:33:44.799 It's what I would call like an upper midrange phone, 1:33:45.200 --> 1:33:47.640 and I think that has a lot of personality considering 1:33:47.840 --> 1:33:48.960 it's in that segment. 1:33:50.040 --> 1:33:52.360 Yeah, that's what's interesting about it, is like it's it's 1:33:52.439 --> 1:33:56.360 a basic Android device, but to me, it's one of 1:33:56.400 --> 1:33:58.559 these devices that, like I've had a hard time putting 1:33:58.560 --> 1:34:01.000 it down because I really think that I called it 1:34:01.120 --> 1:34:03.800 the you know, almost like the iPhone of Android. Like 1:34:03.800 --> 1:34:07.639 it's just it's simple, the software is clean, the phone 1:34:07.680 --> 1:34:10.559 does what you need it to do. The battery last forever. 1:34:11.000 --> 1:34:13.559 The camera's pretty decent. I mean, I think they came 1:34:13.640 --> 1:34:15.160 up with a pretty good device here. 1:34:17.120 --> 1:34:19.800 Yeah, I think that's exactly what our call paid the 1:34:20.080 --> 1:34:23.280 CEO of Nothing. That's what he's aiming for to make 1:34:23.320 --> 1:34:28.040 a kind of stylish and minimalistic device that you know, 1:34:28.439 --> 1:34:30.679 kind of takes on a little bit. That's like Apple's 1:34:30.760 --> 1:34:32.760 m right, like stylish, minimal. 1:34:34.080 --> 1:34:35.960 What about the back of this phone? It's got this 1:34:36.160 --> 1:34:39.599 glyph interface. Do you think some people are saying it's 1:34:39.600 --> 1:34:42.360 basically these lights that you can program to, you know, 1:34:42.400 --> 1:34:44.519 so you put your phone face down, and if you 1:34:44.520 --> 1:34:47.439 get an important text or an important voicemail, it will 1:34:47.520 --> 1:34:50.920 light up just those glyphs instead of you know, ringing 1:34:50.960 --> 1:34:54.120 your whole phone or making you look at the notifications 1:34:54.120 --> 1:34:56.240 all the time. Do you think this is a gimmick 1:34:56.360 --> 1:34:58.000 or do you actually find some use out of this. 1:35:00.080 --> 1:35:05.120 I lean slightly towards the gimmick part, although I in 1:35:05.160 --> 1:35:08.000 my review I didn't call it that, But I'm slightly 1:35:08.120 --> 1:35:11.320 leaning in that direction, mostly because I feel like a 1:35:11.320 --> 1:35:14.840 lot of people would just they're completely okay looking at 1:35:14.840 --> 1:35:16.559 the front of the phone, because the whole point of 1:35:16.600 --> 1:35:18.960 the Cliff interface is you're still looking at your phone, 1:35:19.000 --> 1:35:21.680 you're just looking at the back instead of the front. 1:35:21.840 --> 1:35:25.000 And call pay gave this whole speech about how like 1:35:25.040 --> 1:35:28.800 he wants to keep people's screen time down to help 1:35:28.880 --> 1:35:32.160 them more focus in the moment. And I guess some 1:35:32.200 --> 1:35:35.640 people that could be very useful for them, But for me, 1:35:35.680 --> 1:35:37.920 I find that all of them the likes looking very cool. 1:35:38.040 --> 1:35:39.640 I most of the times I just rather look at 1:35:39.680 --> 1:35:40.599 the front of the phone. 1:35:40.680 --> 1:35:42.760 I kind of agree with that, Like, I felt like 1:35:42.880 --> 1:35:46.000 it was odd to place my phone face down. As 1:35:46.080 --> 1:35:49.479 much as I understand the reasoning for that, I feel 1:35:49.479 --> 1:35:52.200 like we've all kind of gotten to this point where, yeah, 1:35:52.240 --> 1:35:55.000 some people are like super you know, they can't stop 1:35:55.040 --> 1:35:59.120 looking at their notifications, but there's also a helpfulness there, 1:35:59.200 --> 1:36:02.920 so you know, I think that's a maybe just a 1:36:04.000 --> 1:36:06.800 personal preference for how you want to use it. What 1:36:06.840 --> 1:36:10.360 did you think about the software and the cameras, especially 1:36:10.360 --> 1:36:12.400 because I you know, when I first took a couple 1:36:12.400 --> 1:36:14.200 of pictures, I was like, Wow, this camera is actually 1:36:14.200 --> 1:36:16.880 like I just I just I'm so programmed to be 1:36:16.920 --> 1:36:20.240 disappointed by things and so I but when I started 1:36:20.280 --> 1:36:22.640 taking pictures, like this is actually pretty good. 1:36:24.360 --> 1:36:28.360 Yeah, considering it's a relatively, you know, you know, it's 1:36:28.439 --> 1:36:31.240 price range. There's actually some debate on whether or not 1:36:31.280 --> 1:36:35.320 this phone is it's priced properly on the internet right now, 1:36:35.560 --> 1:36:38.840 particularly coming from other regions like not the US. But 1:36:39.360 --> 1:36:43.200 for me, this this phone isn't expensive, and I think 1:36:43.200 --> 1:36:46.519 at this price range of camera is quite good. But 1:36:46.920 --> 1:36:49.599 I'm also not that surprised because it uses the same 1:36:49.680 --> 1:36:52.280 image sensor. The main camera is a lot of one 1:36:52.320 --> 1:36:55.760 plus phones, and I believe nothing like the software team 1:36:55.800 --> 1:36:58.120 right now, it's like sixty five percent of it. It's 1:36:58.160 --> 1:37:01.960 former one plus engineer, so Calpa has poshed a lot 1:37:02.080 --> 1:37:06.360 as former colleagues to jump over and one plus make 1:37:06.439 --> 1:37:08.880 pretty good phone. So I think that the camera is 1:37:08.960 --> 1:37:12.839 about what I was expecting, and that's what software. 1:37:13.400 --> 1:37:14.080 I like it a lot. 1:37:14.120 --> 1:37:17.760 It's very clean, as fast as minimal. So one of 1:37:17.800 --> 1:37:20.759 the cool things about the software, or maybe gimmicky things. 1:37:20.840 --> 1:37:24.120 It's all monochrome, at least when you first boot up 1:37:24.120 --> 1:37:26.320 the phone. You can change it back to color later, 1:37:27.080 --> 1:37:29.799 but it's monochrome and the app icons don't have titles 1:37:29.840 --> 1:37:31.400 on it, so at first I was a little bit 1:37:31.400 --> 1:37:34.400 thrown off. I had a hard time identifying which apps 1:37:34.800 --> 1:37:37.040 I want to tap on. But after a day, I 1:37:37.080 --> 1:37:39.760 actually have grown to like it, and I kind of 1:37:39.840 --> 1:37:42.360 like how I really like the home screen, how it looks. 1:37:42.360 --> 1:37:44.120 Sometimes I just found myself looking at it. 1:37:45.040 --> 1:37:47.920 Yeah, So it's a little odd because their whole mo 1:37:48.200 --> 1:37:50.280 is to get you to use the phone less. So 1:37:50.280 --> 1:37:52.800 they have the monochromatic mode, they have the icons that 1:37:52.840 --> 1:37:55.920 are sort of black and white and no labels, and 1:37:55.960 --> 1:38:00.519 so it makes you kind of much more thoughtful in 1:38:00.560 --> 1:38:02.599 how you use your phone. I don't know, I can't 1:38:02.640 --> 1:38:04.559 get used to that. I tried it. I just couldn't 1:38:04.600 --> 1:38:06.160 get used to it, and it just was one of 1:38:06.200 --> 1:38:09.439 those things where I had to switch back. But the okay, 1:38:09.520 --> 1:38:11.439 let's talk about some of the downsides of this phone. 1:38:11.520 --> 1:38:15.360 So number one, there's no optical zoom to speak of, 1:38:16.080 --> 1:38:19.200 so it's you know, it's more like an iPhone I guess, 1:38:19.240 --> 1:38:21.920 you know, fourteen, it's not like a pro device. There's 1:38:21.920 --> 1:38:25.400 no e sim. I thought that the screen was kind 1:38:25.400 --> 1:38:28.760 of tough to see in bright light, and maybe that's 1:38:28.800 --> 1:38:30.519 just you know, I was at the beach kind of thing, 1:38:30.600 --> 1:38:33.040 like it was really tough to see, like in direct sunlight. 1:38:33.400 --> 1:38:36.360 And then of course the water resistance is pretty low 1:38:36.560 --> 1:38:40.800 for a phone in twenty twenty three. Are those kind 1:38:40.840 --> 1:38:42.160 of the downsides that you saw? 1:38:44.160 --> 1:38:45.000 Yeah, I agree. 1:38:45.040 --> 1:38:48.680 And the lack of a zoom lens in particular, it's 1:38:48.720 --> 1:38:51.360 disappointing to me because I really like using a zoom 1:38:51.439 --> 1:38:55.599 lens on all my smartphones, and I found the ULTRAI 1:38:55.720 --> 1:39:00.960 camera to be quite underwhelming in lowla conditions. During the 1:39:01.040 --> 1:39:03.639 day is fine, but at night, the Ultra camera photos 1:39:03.680 --> 1:39:04.839 are very very soft. 1:39:05.640 --> 1:39:09.759 M hmm. Interesting. Uh, I you know, I it's funny 1:39:09.760 --> 1:39:11.920 because I thought that the the odd thing was that 1:39:12.000 --> 1:39:16.000 even in like pretty brightly lit situations, I was still 1:39:16.000 --> 1:39:18.519 getting like a police hold still for like a couple 1:39:18.520 --> 1:39:21.240 of seconds to take a picture, which I thought was 1:39:21.320 --> 1:39:23.839 kind of odd because like this, you know, shouldn't shouldn't 1:39:23.840 --> 1:39:26.439 really be happening, Like it's it's pretty bright. But overall, 1:39:26.560 --> 1:39:28.639 I mean, would you recommend this device to people? 1:39:31.880 --> 1:39:32.720 I would. 1:39:34.160 --> 1:39:37.600 Certain type of users, I think. The lack of I 1:39:37.600 --> 1:39:41.720 think nothing in the US. The only selling directly to themselves, right, 1:39:41.720 --> 1:39:44.760 it's not through a carrier. Yeah, so that might that 1:39:44.840 --> 1:39:47.160 might be a tough sell in the US because a 1:39:47.160 --> 1:39:50.040 lot of American consumers just to get the phones through 1:39:50.080 --> 1:39:52.920 a carrier. So they can get subsidies and discounts and 1:39:52.960 --> 1:39:56.000 all that. So even though I like the phone, and 1:39:56.040 --> 1:39:59.280 I think if you're like an enjoy entusiast, because if 1:39:59.320 --> 1:40:01.280 you're an enjoy dou sy as like a phone geek, 1:40:01.880 --> 1:40:05.400 I definitely would recommend a phone. But like the average person, 1:40:05.560 --> 1:40:09.280 like if like my cousin or my mom passed me, 1:40:10.600 --> 1:40:12.679 they would still be it would still be the safer 1:40:12.720 --> 1:40:15.680 bed to get an iPhone or get a Samsung Galaxy 1:40:15.920 --> 1:40:17.559 because you can get it to a carrier, so you 1:40:17.560 --> 1:40:19.960 can get it at a cheaper price, and those phones 1:40:20.640 --> 1:40:22.920 probably still have a little bit more proven track record 1:40:22.960 --> 1:40:25.120 of getting software updates down the line. 1:40:25.840 --> 1:40:28.040 And this is a It starts at five hundred and 1:40:28.080 --> 1:40:30.120 ninety nine dollars for a one hundred and twenty eight 1:40:30.120 --> 1:40:35.240 gigabyte model. It's available starting July seventeenth directly from the company, 1:40:35.680 --> 1:40:38.040 and it works on AT and T and T Mobile 1:40:38.080 --> 1:40:41.840 here in the US. Now there are Verizon antennas inside, 1:40:41.960 --> 1:40:45.640 but Verizon is really picky about letting certain devices on 1:40:45.680 --> 1:40:49.400 its network that are not verified whatever that means, and 1:40:49.479 --> 1:40:52.000 so you may be able to activate this on Verizon, 1:40:52.040 --> 1:40:54.080 but after a couple of days they will shut you down, 1:40:54.160 --> 1:40:57.360 so I wouldn't even bother. But I will say Ben 1:40:57.400 --> 1:41:01.040 that I really overall think that they did a really 1:41:01.160 --> 1:41:03.080 nice job with this device. I think that there's like 1:41:03.120 --> 1:41:04.960 a couple of little things where I'm like, ah, it's 1:41:05.000 --> 1:41:07.720 just maybe not the best device in the world, and 1:41:07.760 --> 1:41:09.680 maybe if the price is cheaper, I would feel a 1:41:09.680 --> 1:41:12.040 little bit differently, But I still think it's a pretty 1:41:12.120 --> 1:41:16.439 nice little second going from nothing. What since I have 1:41:16.479 --> 1:41:18.120 you and you test all these phones, what are sort 1:41:18.120 --> 1:41:21.320 of your top three devices that you recommend to people 1:41:21.360 --> 1:41:25.960 these days looking for Android or iOS? I guess so 1:41:26.080 --> 1:41:26.880 this question. 1:41:26.720 --> 1:41:30.599 Is always tricky for me to answer because I basically 1:41:30.680 --> 1:41:32.599 have to look at it from two different scenes. There's 1:41:32.640 --> 1:41:35.920 like the American phone scene, which is relatively limited compared 1:41:35.960 --> 1:41:39.000 to what Asia and Europe gets because there are a 1:41:39.040 --> 1:41:42.000 lot of Chinese brands that don't sell in the US 1:41:42.120 --> 1:41:44.920 at all, but they are major players in Asia and 1:41:45.040 --> 1:41:47.439 Europe and they make very good phones. So I was 1:41:47.520 --> 1:41:49.920 looking at the US scene, my top three phones would 1:41:50.000 --> 1:41:52.559 have to be I still like the Google Pixel seven 1:41:52.680 --> 1:41:55.559 prol the best. I think the camera is still my 1:41:55.640 --> 1:41:58.960 favorite of the bunch of all the phones in the US. Anyway, 1:41:59.479 --> 1:42:02.120 the second would be the glass z Phone four because 1:42:02.160 --> 1:42:05.320 I am fully on board the foldable phone BANDWRAG and 1:42:05.360 --> 1:42:08.559 I like having a larger screen that fits into my pocket. 1:42:09.160 --> 1:42:12.240 And then number three would probably be the iPhone fourteen 1:42:12.360 --> 1:42:13.440 Pro Max. 1:42:15.000 --> 1:42:15.679 In the US. 1:42:15.760 --> 1:42:17.880 And then if you care to know about my non US, 1:42:17.920 --> 1:42:20.600 there's like two you know, brands that Americans have never 1:42:20.680 --> 1:42:22.080 heard of, so maybe they're not relevant. 1:42:22.240 --> 1:42:24.720 Give me give me your top non US because I 1:42:24.760 --> 1:42:27.120 know this is why you travel a lot, so I mean, 1:42:27.120 --> 1:42:29.200 you see these things in other countries that we don't 1:42:29.200 --> 1:42:30.080 have access to here. 1:42:31.800 --> 1:42:35.120 So my overall number one phone would probably be the 1:42:35.320 --> 1:42:38.120 shaw Me thirteen Ultra. Shaw Mei is one of the 1:42:38.120 --> 1:42:41.599 biggest tech companies in China, and the thirteen Ultra phone 1:42:41.640 --> 1:42:44.360 has in my opinion, the best overall cameras were now 1:42:44.400 --> 1:42:47.719 even better than the Pixel seven pros. This main camera 1:42:47.800 --> 1:42:50.559 has a one inch image sensor from Sony. It's the 1:42:50.560 --> 1:42:54.679 same sensor used in like point and shoot Sony camera, 1:42:54.800 --> 1:42:57.000 so it's it's like almost like a real camera. 1:42:57.200 --> 1:43:00.040 Wow. And are you excited? Do you think that the 1:43:00.080 --> 1:43:02.559 Samsung folds that are coming out in a couple of 1:43:02.560 --> 1:43:05.160 weeks do you think they're gonna be something to rival 1:43:05.400 --> 1:43:06.439 what we have right now. 1:43:08.360 --> 1:43:10.760 I think they're going to from the leagues i've seen, 1:43:11.520 --> 1:43:13.960 they are going to be improvements, but maybe not as 1:43:13.960 --> 1:43:15.720 big as a lot of people have hoped for. The 1:43:15.840 --> 1:43:19.759 Full five in particular look almost identical to the Full four, 1:43:20.240 --> 1:43:23.240 but the Flip five gets a big upgrade because outside 1:43:23.240 --> 1:43:24.400 screens are gonna be much bigger. 1:43:24.439 --> 1:43:25.280 So that will be fun. 1:43:25.400 --> 1:43:28.200 That's the trend that we're seeing with those flippables. You 1:43:28.280 --> 1:43:31.439 got the flippable and the foldable, Ben Sin, We're gonna 1:43:31.479 --> 1:43:33.240 leave it there. Thanks so much for joining me today. 1:43:33.280 --> 1:43:35.920 I know it's early in Thailand. Thank you. I will 1:43:35.920 --> 1:43:38.800 see you in a couple of weeks in Korea, and 1:43:39.479 --> 1:43:41.439 I've got all the information on the website. If you 1:43:41.479 --> 1:43:45.040 want to follow Ben on Twitter, it's Ben c Sin 1:43:45.400 --> 1:43:48.719 s I N and check out his review on XDA 1:43:48.800 --> 1:43:52.719 developers of the Nothing Phone two. Ben, thanks for joining 1:43:52.760 --> 1:43:56.120 me today. Thanks for having me on all right, appreciate 1:43:56.160 --> 1:43:59.799 it all right. Coming up next it is the feedback segment. 1:44:00.439 --> 1:44:03.559 We're going to close out the show with everything you 1:44:04.080 --> 1:44:07.760 had to say this week. You're listening to rich on Tech. 1:44:09.680 --> 1:44:13.400 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:44:13.439 --> 1:44:18.720 out with you closing out the show with the feedbag segment. Yeah, 1:44:18.760 --> 1:44:24.360 I said feedbag. It's your feedback, but I called it 1:44:24.360 --> 1:44:28.000 the feedbag one time, and I guess that stuck. Got 1:44:28.040 --> 1:44:32.200 an email from Daniel. He said, hey, Rich, you had 1:44:32.200 --> 1:44:34.240 a caller on that said they couldn't get an NTFS 1:44:34.320 --> 1:44:37.080 drive to work on their Mac. I only use NTFS 1:44:37.200 --> 1:44:40.880 drives because I can share between my MAX and PCs. 1:44:40.960 --> 1:44:44.519 All you have to do is buy a program called 1:44:44.760 --> 1:44:49.400 NTFS for Mac from Paragon Software. It's not expensive and 1:44:49.439 --> 1:44:53.519 I think you get a thirty day free trial. There 1:44:53.560 --> 1:44:55.960 you go. I've used it for yours. Thank you, Daniel 1:44:56.120 --> 1:45:01.120 and Barry. Now you have it. Check it out. Paragon 1:45:01.280 --> 1:45:08.240 Software NTFS for Mac and says it's fully compatible with 1:45:08.280 --> 1:45:14.760 Apple Silicon M one and M two. So this is 1:45:14.800 --> 1:45:19.960 why I love this show. Listeners contribute to the show. 1:45:20.040 --> 1:45:24.760 It's amazing, all right. Message from Data, Hey Rich, I 1:45:24.760 --> 1:45:27.160 have an Apple iMac that's from twenty thirteen. It's no 1:45:27.240 --> 1:45:30.120 longer getting security updates. I just purchased a new Mac Mini. 1:45:30.560 --> 1:45:32.679 How can I transfer my data from my old Mac 1:45:32.720 --> 1:45:35.040 to the new one. I've not done a backup. I 1:45:35.080 --> 1:45:36.840 really don't have many files on it. Can I just 1:45:36.880 --> 1:45:38.880 put my files on a flask drive and upload to 1:45:38.880 --> 1:45:40.879 the new computer, or is there a way to transfer 1:45:40.960 --> 1:45:45.240 some other way? Thanks? Yeah, you know what I would say. 1:45:45.240 --> 1:45:47.000 If you don't have a lot of files, just put 1:45:47.040 --> 1:45:49.400 them on a flask drive and move them over. You 1:45:49.400 --> 1:45:52.160 can do a time machine backup and restore it that way. 1:45:52.439 --> 1:45:54.679 It'll ask you during setup if you have an old 1:45:54.720 --> 1:45:57.360 Mac that you want to move from personally, because this 1:45:57.439 --> 1:46:00.519 computer's so old. I would just take what you need, 1:46:00.880 --> 1:46:03.840 put it on the flask drive, set up the computer fresh, 1:46:04.120 --> 1:46:07.519 the new Macmini, and then just drag over the files 1:46:07.560 --> 1:46:09.080 that you have in the flash drive. I think that's 1:46:09.120 --> 1:46:10.759 going to be the easiest way to do it. Data. 1:46:11.280 --> 1:46:14.479 That way, you get a nice, clean new computer with 1:46:14.720 --> 1:46:18.559 your files on there. Alexander says, thoughts on your opening 1:46:18.600 --> 1:46:23.800 monologue accessibility features. Forgive my cynicism, but you really think 1:46:23.880 --> 1:46:27.240 that's the only reason. I mean, there's probably some other benefits, 1:46:27.280 --> 1:46:31.960 but that will come in later. To play right. Alexander 1:46:32.200 --> 1:46:37.200 is referring to the voice situation on the new iOS 1:46:37.280 --> 1:46:41.000 seventeen where you can have it say anything you want. 1:46:41.840 --> 1:46:44.560 And this is my it's called personal voice. This is 1:46:44.560 --> 1:46:47.280 what it sounds like, what's going on? 1:46:47.320 --> 1:46:49.760 I'm Rich Demurou and this is riched on Tech, the 1:46:49.800 --> 1:46:51.760 show where I talk about the text off I think 1:46:51.800 --> 1:46:53.760 you should know about and answer your question. 1:46:53.960 --> 1:46:57.240 So that's what it sounds like. Does it sound just 1:46:57.400 --> 1:46:59.040 like me? I don't know. I mean I could have 1:46:59.080 --> 1:47:02.719 to say anything I want, but I don't think Apple's 1:47:02.760 --> 1:47:07.360 being nefarious. They said. The reason for this is specifically 1:47:07.439 --> 1:47:11.919 they called out als. So if you have that condition 1:47:12.320 --> 1:47:16.920 and you lose your voice over time because of that, 1:47:17.400 --> 1:47:20.000 this is a way to have your computer speak in 1:47:20.040 --> 1:47:23.679 your voice when you're talking to people versus a computerized voice. 1:47:23.960 --> 1:47:26.880 But yes, they're will As long as there's AI, computers 1:47:26.920 --> 1:47:31.719 and technology, there will always be nefarious reasons for people 1:47:31.800 --> 1:47:37.040 using everything. Right, let's see James says, Hey, Rich, any 1:47:37.040 --> 1:47:39.759 suggestions what can I do with this lost air tag 1:47:40.280 --> 1:47:44.000 I left behind when I visited Sedona in February. I'm 1:47:44.120 --> 1:47:46.720 able to activate lost mode, but no one contacted me, 1:47:46.760 --> 1:47:52.240 and now somehow it's moved to Flagstaff. Yeah, James, that's 1:47:52.280 --> 1:47:56.760 a lost cause. Just delete it from your system and 1:47:57.200 --> 1:47:59.400 that's I hope it wasn't attached. And did you just 1:47:59.479 --> 1:48:01.679 lose the air or did you lose what was attached 1:48:01.680 --> 1:48:05.080 to it, because usually the AirTags are connected to something, 1:48:05.640 --> 1:48:08.960 but it says you just lost an AirTag. So number 1:48:09.000 --> 1:48:10.880 one thing to do when you lose an AirTag enable 1:48:10.920 --> 1:48:13.200 the lost mode and if you find an air tag, 1:48:13.800 --> 1:48:16.040 use your phone, make sure the NFC is on and 1:48:16.120 --> 1:48:18.360 tap the top of the AirTag to the top of 1:48:18.400 --> 1:48:21.840 your phone and it should give you the information. I'll 1:48:21.840 --> 1:48:26.720 bring up a website with a person's information. Let's see here. 1:48:28.479 --> 1:48:31.080 Laura says, Hey, Rich, I purchased the ring dash cam 1:48:31.120 --> 1:48:33.120 in January after you did a segment on it. It was 1:48:33.120 --> 1:48:35.559 supposed to be delivered by today. Now the delivery date 1:48:35.600 --> 1:48:38.920 pushed to March twentieth, twenty twenty four. Why is there 1:48:38.960 --> 1:48:44.760 such a delay? Don't know. Maybe either they're recalling this 1:48:44.920 --> 1:48:49.120 cam or there's just I think Amazon delivery days change 1:48:49.120 --> 1:48:53.160 a lot, so hopefully March twenty twenty four. Wow, I 1:48:53.160 --> 1:48:55.240 think that's a fluke. Hopefully maybe a lot of people 1:48:55.400 --> 1:48:57.599 ordered them during Prime Day and they just pushed it, 1:48:58.040 --> 1:49:01.479 but hopefully you'll get it earlier. Keep me posted hosted. Uh, 1:49:01.680 --> 1:49:04.760 let's see, Leo says Leo. Leo says, I don't know 1:49:04.800 --> 1:49:08.640 if you're boomerang Email yourself is still working, but mine's not. 1:49:08.760 --> 1:49:10.599 It appears to be gone from both the Apple and 1:49:10.600 --> 1:49:13.479 Android store. Even if you can install it, it does 1:49:13.560 --> 1:49:17.160 not work. This leaves me with email myself. Yes, I 1:49:17.200 --> 1:49:19.960 switched to email myself as well, Leo, and I don't 1:49:20.000 --> 1:49:21.760 like it as much because I don't like the icon, 1:49:22.360 --> 1:49:26.120 but it does the trick. And finally, David says, is 1:49:26.120 --> 1:49:30.559 there a way to convert American airlines miles into gift cards? Google? 1:49:30.560 --> 1:49:33.120 Bard says to create an account at points dot com, 1:49:33.520 --> 1:49:35.519 but I can't find a way. If you have an idea, 1:49:35.680 --> 1:49:37.400 I don't think you can do it. David. I think 1:49:37.520 --> 1:49:41.000 points dot com is now doing sort of white label stuff. 1:49:41.040 --> 1:49:43.879 They're not doing their own. They used to exchange points 1:49:44.360 --> 1:49:46.519 in their own way, but apparently they don't do that anymore. 1:49:48.040 --> 1:49:50.080 Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the show. 1:49:50.160 --> 1:49:52.960 Check out the notes at richontech dot tv. Next week, 1:49:53.000 --> 1:49:55.800 I'm going to tell you about new AI enforcement technology 1:49:56.280 --> 1:50:00.599 cities are using to help buses write tickets to cars 1:50:00.760 --> 1:50:04.040 blocking their lanes. My name is rich DeMuro. Thanks so 1:50:04.120 --> 1:50:06.080 much for listening. There are so many ways to spend 1:50:06.080 --> 1:50:08.800 your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here 1:50:08.840 --> 1:50:10.320 with me. I'll talk to you real soon.