WEBVTT - Your car is spying on you 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.800 What is that email from Facebook about your saved payment 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:09.720 information really mean? Amazon has yet another new fee even 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:14.400 for prime members. eBay embraces AI as a way to 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:19.800 help you sell your stuff faster. Plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.200 What's going on? I'm Rich Schamiro and this is Rich 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.760 on Tech broadcasting live from Los Angeles, coast to coast. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.440 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.800 stuff I think you should know about, and it's the 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:39.040 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.720 that tech should be interesting, useful and fun. Phone lines 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.040 are now open. 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I'll get that 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.200 in at the end of the show some great guests. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.200 This week, we're going to talk to the head of 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:36.280 Uber Live in Sports to explain how Uber Eats is 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.800 now at stadiums nationwide. Yes, you can order Uber Eats 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:44.479 from your seat. I'll explain what that all means. Jen 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.240 call Trid of Mozilla is going to talk about how 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:52.600 our cars are spying on us. This is a big 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.080 topic of conversation. This week. Mozilla Foundation came out with 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.960 a big report about all the different ways our cars 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.680 are watching everything we do. So Jen, we'll talk about that, 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.600 and then later in the show, Julian Vargas, mobile access 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.880 technology specialist will explain some of the latest ways that 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:15.000 tech is helping the blind and low vision users. We 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.320 got a lot lined up today. I'm back from Berlin. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:23.000 As you might imagine, I tried the mobile passport at 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.160 the airport. I had to connect, thank you. I had 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.000 to connect at Newark and let me tell you the 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.840 line for the Okay, so I was very embarrassed. I 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.320 was walking off the plane with a bunch of colleagues 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.400 that were also at the show. I went to EFO Berlin, 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.440 and so we all took the flight from Berlin to Newark, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.560 which you know I'm from New Jersey, so I have 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:46.000 a fond appreciation of all things Jersey, and Newark is 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.120 one of them. I've been to that airport many, many times, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.360 but this time I had to go through the passport 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.480 control and so we're all getting off the plane. All 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.840 the people I'm with peeled off into the what's it 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.000 called Global what's it? Let's it's like TSA, but it's 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.200 like for Global Global Entry. And they all go there 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.800 and like, Rich, you don't have Global Entry. We thought 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.120 you traveled a lot. And I was so embarrassed. It 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.400 was like a total like diss like dude, what's your deal? 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.079 And I was like, no, I never signed up for that. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.440 So they all go through Global Entry. It takes them 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.800 about one second to exit the airport. I go in 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.400 this line that is absolutely massive, and I'm not kidding. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.519 I had to change my flight twice while I was 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.240 in that line because I missed my flight twice because 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.000 of how long this line was. And my wife, of course, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.120 you know, she's on the text and I'm complaining to 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.560 her and she's like, well, just tell someone, And of 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.480 course I don't want to do that, because you know, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.600 I know that I'm gonna be publicly shamed if I 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:44.960 try to say anything out loud. So sure enough, when 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.839 I get close enough to the person with the red 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.800 jacket on this says ask me for help, I say, hey, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.280 you know, I'm gonna miss my flight because of this line, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.640 like I already had to change my flight twice. And 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.000 no joke, he says to me. He goes, everyone in 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.360 this line has a connection and everyone's missing their flight, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.200 So you're you know, you're not special, buddy, And I 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.280 was like, wow, what a nice welcome back to the US. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.520 Long story short, I did make it on my flight. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.360 It did take forever. It was fine. Thankfully Newark has 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.440 a bunch of flights back to la like almost one 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.440 every hour. But I will tell you my pro tip. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.680 So when I was changing my flight the first time, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.120 because my flight was actually delayed the first time, so 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.120 I had to I couldn't do it from the app 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.960 for some reason. So I called in and the person 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.200 changed the flight. It was just fine. But then at 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.000 the end before they hung up, I said, hey, real quick, 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.000 before you go, can I get anything because my flight 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:37.840 is delayed? Like can you give me like a credit 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.760 or something, or you know, some sort of whatever, and 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.640 she's like, oh, I can't, but you know, I'll submit 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.359 something for you and they'll let you know within the 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.440 next week. And I was like, okay, they kind of 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.360 like just passed me off, right. Well, sure enough, when 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.839 I landed, I had an email from the airline five 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:58.120 hundred dollars credit. Amazing. I was so happy, and I said, 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.039 you know what, all the a role of this day, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.680 all the stuff. I tell you this not to brag 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.160 in the fact that I have five hundred dollars in 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.480 my travel bank, but I tell you this because next time, 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.159 just ask. Literally all I did was ask. I just 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.000 said the magic words at the end, Hey, is there 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.360 anything you can do for me? And it was literally 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.440 as she was hanging up the phone when I asked that, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.440 so oh hold on and yes, sure, I'll put something 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.000 in for you. Five hundred dollars for just asking a 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.680 single question. So when in doubt, ask your airline what 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.320 they can do for you. I don't know if there's 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.359 like a law or a rule or any sort of 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.159 whatever they have to do, but they did it and 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.600 I was very happy. So anyway, that was nice. Let's see, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.800 National Star Trek Day was happening. This week, so I 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.480 was participating. Paramount Plus sent me a little gift package 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.359 with like the main thing was blue vodka. It's like 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.520 a Now, if you're a Star Trek fan, you probably 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.240 know the vodka. It is like what they used on 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.960 the show, in the container they used on the show. Now, 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.880 I never watched Star Trek, so I thought that this 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.520 was a good entree. So last night, celebrating National Star 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.599 Trek Day, I turned on the first episode from nineteen 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.359 sixty six, fifty seven years old, and I gotta say 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.280 I was. I was taken, Like I was into it immediately. 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.760 It's futuristic, it's fun. It's stuff that like I kind 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.240 of like like little gadgets and the way they do things. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.479 So I was digging it until we got to the 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.920 aliens that I don't want spoiler alert from fifty seven 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.520 years ago. I mean, come on, haven't watched it by now? 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.160 I mean you still can. So that's the whole thing. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.839 You could stream the whole series on Paramount Plus. And 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.479 so my kids were in the room, and you know, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.520 it was fine, but at some point my little one, 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.000 I was like, okay, this maybe when the guy the 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.080 alien's brain, like the veins as they were talking, started 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.160 like pulsating in his brain. I was like, all right, 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.080 maybe that's a little bit too much, even though it 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.560 was very innocent. Anyway, So I will be watching more 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.560 of Star Trek. I'm sure. I'm sure there are some 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.920 of you that are Star Trek fans that are like, ray, 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.159 how are you just watching this for the first time. Well, 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:06.839 you know what happens. This is the gentle slide into 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:11.880 the holidays and ultimately ces for me. The tech folks 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.840 have called this Tectober, but we're gonna send this into 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.400 Teptember for September because let me just give you a 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.440 rundown of the events that are coming up in the 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.480 next couple of weeks. Okay, you've got Apple on September twelfth, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:28.720 that's next week. They're calling this wonder lust iPhone fifteen models, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:33.320 the big change there usb C and also let's see 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.119 what is it, it's USBC. Oh yeah, and one hundred 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.240 dollars price increase perhaps and also the top of the 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.640 line models are going to get better zoom. So Apple 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.920 is going to consume the tech world for the next 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.480 week or so with all of the headlines and all 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.640 of the news, and you're gonna be wondering should I 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.800 get the new phone. I mean, if you're one of 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.280 those folks that just upgrades all the time, then you're 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.320 just gonna want it no matter what. It's this magnetic 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.640 draw of Cooper Tino to your wallet that just want 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.720 to suck that money right out of your wallet. And 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.080 it's fine. The new iPhones are always fun because they're new, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.200 they're exciting, and Apple has done a good thing with 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:10.200 their ecosystem. September twentieth, then we've got Amazon. They are 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.960 going to do a special let's see, what do they 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.840 call it? A Device and Services event, And so that's 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.560 where I mean they throw out a ton of stuff. 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:22.960 We're talking new fire TVs, new echo speakers, new ring devices, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.520 new euro devices. I mean, Amazon has a ton of brands. 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.320 So they'll be doing that on September twentieth, and they're 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.520 actually doing it from their new HQ two. Do you 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.000 remember the whole kind of like to do about this thing. 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.600 They were going to open it like outside of New 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.240 York and people literally like said no way, They protested, 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.280 we don't watch you here, and so they went to 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.760 Virginia and I guess they opened. They're opening HQ two there, 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.480 so they're going to do that event from there. Then 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:53.160 you've got Let's See Microsoft on September twenty first, and 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.839 Microsoft is expected to unveil Let's See a special event 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.599 on September twenty first in New York City, likely to 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.400 announces new surface hardware, including the Go four, the laptop 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.720 Studio four, and the Laptop Go three. I don't know 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.240 what's happening with that little Surface duo thing. Remember that 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.640 little phone they had that was kind of a foldy, flippy, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.840 openee thing. I don't know if they're coming out with 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.040 the third edition of that, but that may be a surprise. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.680 But Microsoft always has a lot of surface People love 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.080 the surface stuff, So that's happening. Then on September twenty seventh, 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.200 Facebook Metaconnect. This is where they show off all of 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.040 their VR stuff, and I think there's gonna be a 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.480 little bit more of a emphasis on this one because 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.439 of what Apple's doing with their VR. So you've got 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.440 that happening up in San Francisco Menlo Park on September 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.040 twenty seventh. Then we pingpong back over to New York City. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:45.400 Google October fourth, releasing the new Pixel eight phones and 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.120 Google's really weird. They put their stuff out there before 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:49.599 they even launch it. So if you go to the 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.760 Google like Pixel website, they already have pictures of the 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.160 Pixel eight in, the Pixel eight Pro and the new Watch. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.640 Why do they do that, I don't know. I guess 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.240 they just figure, you know what, let's just be a 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.640 little bit different. Then we've got one plus expected to 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.680 do something with their one plus fold I think it's 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.120 called the one plus Open. That's another foldable phone. Obviously 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.360 a lot of there's a lot of emphasis on foldables 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.160 these days. I've been using the Google Pixel Foldable and 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.959 it's been quite fun to use, and I like that 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:19.800 it's different than the phone that everyone else has. I 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.719 mean everyone's got a Samsung or an iPhone. So when 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.280 I have something different, it's like I hope that people 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.360 take notice, but nobody really cares. I'll be honest. I've 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.240 been carrying different phones around for ten years now, and 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:32.840 I always like kind of make a big deal to 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.880 open them in front of people. And like I was 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.240 using the iPhone like a week before and when had it, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.120 nobody cared. I like had at my son's baseball game. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.240 I like it had the always on display. I put 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.840 it on the bleachers, hoping someone would be like, WHOA, 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:50.240 what's that? No one cared. Then you've got the Code 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.560 conference in late September, which, by the way, I got 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.480 an invite to for the first time ever. I've been 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.960 wanting an invite to this forever and they finally invited me. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.760 Invite me? Is that a word? Invited me? And uh, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.400 I don't know. We'll see if I can go to that. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.400 And then finally after the holiday CS a little bit 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.880 later this year January ninth through twelfth. So anyway, that's 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.280 what's on my calendar. How about yours. That's what's happening 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.520 with me. So needless to say, I've got a lot 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.680 of stuff happening in the next couple of months and 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.439 a lot to tell you about. All right, coming up, 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.520 what does that email from Facebook about your saved payment 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.679 information really mean? I'm gonna break that down explain what 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.480 you need to know. But first I think I've talked enough. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.600 It is your turn. We're gonna have some of your 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.440 calls coming up next at triple eight rich one oh one. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.040 That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.120 one zero one. Give me a call if you have 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.200 a question about technology. My name is rich Dmuro. You 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:52.200 are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:56.040 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.320 Hope you're having a fantastic day. You can follow me 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:05.600 on social media. I'm at rich on Tech. That's on Instagram, Facebook, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:13.600 x x x marks, the Twitter spot and threads, so 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.120 lots of places to choose from. I'll be honest, most 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.600 of the time, I'm hanging out on Instagram Stories. I 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.720 just kind of like that the best. Let's go to UHH, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.360 phone lines open triple eight rich one O one eight 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.240 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.920 Let's go to Jerry and Anaheim. You're on with rich. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.000 Hey, rich morning, Hey, good morning. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.240 So, uh it might be a simple thing, but so 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.320 on my iPhone, how do I change the iPhone name 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:44.559 on the. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:47.600 For the. 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.640 Baby? So when I go to Seddy, my name chills on. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.040 But when it's goes down to the bottom with my 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.960 iPhone has a different name, So how can I change that? 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:02.040 Ah? Okay, so the name of your I phone is 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.400 not what you want? What does it say? 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.000 So it's it's the name out a want? 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.800 Okay, got it? So here's the deal. A lot of 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.439 people when they set up their phone, the name carries 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.199 over from the old days, like their old phone or 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.320 something they set up a long time ago, or just 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:22.080 as iPhone, or if it just says iPhone, you know, eleven, 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.840 whatever time you decided to like set it up. So 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.439 I just had this someone emailed me this question the 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.080 other day, and I have a fun little tip for 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.360 you as well. But it's very simple to do, and 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.200 ninety nine percent of people do not do this. But 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.520 I highly recommend you customize the name of your iPhone. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.079 Why because it helps you identify your phone in a 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.840 variety of ways. If it just says iPhone twelve or 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:48.720 iPhone fourteen or you know whatever, that's not very helpful 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.560 when you're trying to do air drop or you're trying 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.080 to identify your phone on find my. So take a 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.120 minute to identify your phone and set up the name properly. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.079 Here's how you do it. Okay, you go into settings 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.520 on your phone, you go into general and then you 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.880 tap about and then right at the top it says name. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.960 And I've got mine named Rich's iPhone fourteen pro. And 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.160 here is the pro tip. Well, two tips on this line. Okay, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:18.040 Number one, you probably do not want to use a 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.760 lot of personal information, so I probably would not use 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.440 my last name here. Name is probably fine, like Jim's 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.760 iPhone whatever, But if you want to be slicker about it, 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.040 maybe consider not using your name and maybe using something 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.760 that you can identify but others cannot. Because if you're 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.800 in a crowded room or a place or your work 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:38.840 and you have your air drop on, maybe you don't 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.000 want people knowing that your phone is nearby. Maybe you 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.120 just don't want them knowing that you're nearby. Whatever. But 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.520 the other pro tip is that you could actually add 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.000 an emoji to your name, which I didn't realize until 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.080 someone asked me if they could, and I was like, 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.360 I don't know, let me try it out, And sure enough, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.280 I added a little I don't know what the emoji's called, 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.560 but it's that little smiley face with like the magnet 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.440 the monocle over the eye. I don't know why. It's 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.120 like you're kind of looking at something a little bit 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.120 more in depth, and so I kind of like that one. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.560 So anyway, you can add that to there. Once you 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.720 add that name, it will propagate throughout find mine and 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.720 all the different places that your iPhone has its name, 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.480 and so again it's probably good to do that, especially 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.560 when the new iPhone is coming out. If you're upgrading 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.040 to the new iPhone, maybe go in and instead of 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.000 it saying you know, Rich's you know new iPhone or 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.160 Rich's iPhone fourteen Pro, it'll now say you know, Rich's 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.320 iPhone fifteen or whatever. Now when it comes to my Kindle, 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.720 same thing, you might want to rename your Kindle. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:40.840 Now. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.800 I don't know about you, but I've installed the Kindle 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.920 app on so many different devices, on my Android phones 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.920 that I test and the iPhones that I test. That Literally, 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.400 when I install an Android app and I go to 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.200 send a Kindle book, it says Rich is like forty 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.080 fifth Kindle or something like that. It's just like it's embarrassing, 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.240 and again I can't tell, like what does that mean? 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.920 Is that my iPhone is at the Android So you 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.000 can also go in and change the name of your Kindle. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.000 So to do that, go to your Kindle device and 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.840 you know, go to the menu, click the three dots, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.440 go into settings and then your account and then it 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.280 says device name, and so you can change the Kindle 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:21.360 device name there. You can also do it on the website. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.200 So if you go to the Amazon just search like 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:28.320 Amazon Manager Devices and there should be a Kindle account section, 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:30.560 and then you go to the Kindle that you want 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.840 to change the name for and you can rename. So 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.080 if your Kindle has a name that you don't like, 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.480 because maybe you've upgraded your Kindle over the years and 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.000 it has an old name, you can rename that as well. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.680 So I'm a big fan. You know what, while I'm here, 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.080 I might as well just tell you how to rename 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.520 your Android phone too. Right, So on Android, you go 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.960 into your settings. And it's been a while since I 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:52.720 do this, but I think you do it in Bluetooth. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.600 So go to settings and oh gosh, I need to 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.520 find I shouldn't have said this before I knew. Okay, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.440 So you go into Settings and then Bluetooth Connections and 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.560 then Bluetooth Advanced Settings. Oh gosh, I shouldn't have done 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:11.280 this because now I got to I can't really Okay, well, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.040 I should have probably looked at how to do that 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.919 before I tried to do it on live radio, So 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.680 I will. I will figure it out on the Android. 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.159 But I believe it's in the Bluetooth settings and the 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.280 same thing happens where you need to you know, if 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.560 you're trying to connect your phone to your car, it 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.040 comes up with this random name, so rename it. I'll 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:28.359 tell you how to do it, all right. Coming up, 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.240 we're gonna talk to Kim Gullick, head of Live Sports 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.520 at Uber, to explain how Uber Eats is now at stadiums. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:41.480 You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.400 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.480 technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.640 eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.119 Before the break, we got a question about changing the 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.600 name on your phone and I couldn't find it fast 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.280 enough on the Android, but I found it. I'm telling 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.040 you just do this, just take a second. Do this, 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.239 all right. You go into your settings. Okay, and if 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:06.639 you don't know how to get into settings, you kind 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.160 of pull down on the top of the screen. Look 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.399 for that little gear icon. You go to about phone 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.000 and then you see where it says the name of 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.800 your phone. You can press edit and there's your phone 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.040 name and it says this will be shown on other 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.440 devices when your phone is available using Bluetooth, Wi Fi 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.439 Direct and other methods. So basically anytime someone's trying to 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.960 identify your phone, and that's pretty much the same way 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.680 on the pixel on Samsung. For a while, I had 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:37.960 my phone named rich'siphone dot exe and that's I know, 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.199 that's kind of like an old school thing, but I 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.000 just thought it was funny because like, the last thing 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.200 you want is like an executable on when you're trying 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.399 to share something, it just looks really scary, and so 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:49.960 I thought that was pretty you know, it's tech humor, 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.480 you know what. That's that's who I am, all right. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.440 Joining me now is so Uber uber Eats is now 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:01.400 available at stadiums nationwide. So joining me now to explain 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.720 what this is all about. Kim Gullick, head of Uber 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.880 Live in Sports. Kim, welcome to the show. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:10.440 Thanks, it's nice to be. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:16.080 Here, all right, So let's talk about Uber eats. It's everywhere, obviously, 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.320 but now it is inside stadiums, and there was when 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.280 I mentioned this on KTLA someone said, wait a second, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.120 I got to exit the stadium to get my food. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.040 I said, no, no, no, it doesn't work that way. 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:31.240 So explain what this new partnership is all about sure. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:36.399 So currently we are at Sofi Stadium and this is 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.119 our first NFL stadium that we're launching the technology and 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.080 we're thrilled to help fans quickly get a bite of 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:47.080 their favorite gave Damiolk. We are currently at twenty five 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:51.040 other locations throughout the globe and we're continuing to grow that. 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.280 So basically, all you have to do is, when you're 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.879 in the stadium, you open the Uber eat app and 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.080 if you text whether the user is a a partner venue, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.760 so then they get a welcome screen and let them 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.480 know that they're available to order food for pickups at 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.000 one of the Uber Eats locations. Then all you have 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.360 to do is select your location where you're in the stadium. 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.120 You're going to be able to see all of those 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.320 locations that are available to you from the closest locations 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.080 that you selected. You just take a look at the menu, 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.800 select your favorite, place your order, and then once you 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.400 place your order, you're going to get a notification confirming 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.960 that your order is placed, and then another one that 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.159 says your order is ready, And just like that, you 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.119 head over to the Uber Eats brand of designated pickup planes, 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.400 you skip the lines, grab your food and drink. It's 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.480 super simple, convenient, and allows you to get back to 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.280 that game so you don't miss a moment of the action. 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:45.920 So so Far is the first stadium that you're doing 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.280 this at, or are you're doing it at multiple stadiums. 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:50.560 So FI is our. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.800 First NFL stadium. We are currently at twenty five locations 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.840 throughout the globe we do. Yeah, so this is just 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.200 our first NFL data that we have been around since 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:03.720 twenty twenty one. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.760 Oh wow, okay, And so what is sort of the 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:08.840 advantage I mean, is it cutting the lines? Is it 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:10.239 just I mean, I like the idea that I can 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.320 kind of you know, whenever I get to I was 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.520 just at so Far for the Taylor Swift concert, and 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:16.360 of course, like you want to walk around to see 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.960 what's available to you, right, and then by the time 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.000 you walk around, you've done all this legwork You're like, oh, 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:22.560 never mind, I want that place that was right by 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:25.040 my seat. So is this more? Is this just kind 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.520 of helpful to like see what's available to you where 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:28.760 you are. 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:29.359 Yeah. 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:31.680 So what you can do is, once you open the app, 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:34.320 you can take a look at what locations we have. 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:39.000 Currently we're opening twenty five stands throughout Sofi Stadium, So 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.439 whatever level you're on, there'll be a choice for you 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.040 to be able to order pick up. There's a variety 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:46.480 of food selections. You open the app, it will show 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.000 you the menu that's available. And so you could just 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.080 be sitting at your seat, go ahead and place your order. 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:54.480 It's going to tell you when it's ready, and then 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:56.320 you just go and pick it up, so you don't 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.120 have to wait in those really long lines. I mean, 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.640 it's such a bummer sometimes you see you know you're 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.520 in these long lines, You've have kids or whatever, it's 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.560 just it's you just don't don't want to be hanging out. 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:09.000 So this is just a really a game changer for 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.920 us and makes it really convenient for the fans. 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.480 So what about pricing, and I mean I assume there's 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:18.520 a similar Is it that the pricing is similar? Are 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.480 there extra fees? And also anyway with if you have 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:25.360 like uber one, does that make a difference, Yes, it does. 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.720 So with with there are no delivery fees, there are 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.280 in some of our stadiums, there are small convenience fees 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:35.400 that are added. And yes, if you're an Uber eat 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:38.359 or excuse me, an Uber one member, you will you 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:40.159 will get that discount as well as long as you 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:41.360 make that minimum threshold. 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.800 And what about delivery? So you know when people think 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.879 Uber Eats, they think delivery. So is that part of 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:50.080 the plan down the line? Is that? I mean, I 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:52.959 know some stadiums do delivery and already, so is that 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:54.040 part of the plan or what? 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:55.520 Yeah? 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:59.399 So, actually that's a great question. We are at Yankee Stadium. 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:01.560 We have in seat delivery as well as we just 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.800 launch Oracle Park in seat delivery, so we know that's 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.440 something that the fans really want. So with our partnership 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:09.760 with SOFI, we will be looking at that for the 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:10.560 future for sure. 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:13.800 Wow. All right, and how about the food selection? Is it? 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:15.920 Is it pretty wide ranging? How many places are you 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:17.440 working with inside the stadium? 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.760 Currently we're at twenty five locations. It's a variety of food. 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:25.199 We make sure that you can get those options that 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:27.879 you get as if you were walking up. So again, 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:31.880 twenty five locations we're current. We will you know over 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:34.680 the season we will expand that to more. But yes, 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:37.760 there's anything that you want, you can get that through 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:38.359 Uber Eats. 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:40.040 Oh what about alcohol. 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:44.440 Alcohol, Yes, you can order that as well. 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:46.640 Oh wow, okay, yeah. 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:48.439 Yeah, so food and drinks, and even at some of 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:52.200 our other locations you can order some merchandise as well. 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:55.680 So that's coming hopefully to Sofi Stadium, but currently it's. 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:56.600 Just food and drink. 0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:00.800 Okay. So this is happening the mobile ordering at Sofi 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:03.840 Stadium in La for the La Chargers home opener game, 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:07.760 which is this weekend. So if you're there, try it out. 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:09.879 Open up the uber etz app on your phone and 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:12.119 see what happens. So it's gonna find, it's gonna know 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:13.840 that you're there. It's gonna say, hey, we see you're 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:16.280 at Sofi that is correct you. 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:19.000 We'll get a welcome screen saying welcome to Sofi Stadium, 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:21.240 and then you just select your location and off you're 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:23.760 ready to select your food and drinks from there. 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:27.000 All right. Kim Gullick, head of Uber Live in Sports 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:28.680 and Uber, thanks so much for joining me today. I 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:29.280 appreciate it. 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:31.440 Yeah, thank you. Have a great day. 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:31.760 Now. 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:36.840 You've made me hungry. Uh yeah, what did I have 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:39.080 when I was there? I think I got nachos both 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:40.960 times that I was there. I don't know why. Nachos 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:43.080 just seems to fit when you're at a stadium, right, 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:48.679 nachos and you know some some adult beverages perhaps. Okay, 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:52.000 So I got so many emails about this, I need 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:55.639 to address it everyone pretty much. If you have a 0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:58.360 Facebook account, you got this email from Facebook. This says 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:02.720 important update on your saved payment information and it says, hey, 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:06.760 your saved payment information will move to account Center's Accounts 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:09.560 Center in the next few weeks. This change will make 0:25:09.600 --> 0:25:12.240 it easier for you to securely manage your payment information 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:14.679 in one place, as well as shop and donate across 0:25:14.680 --> 0:25:18.280 Facebook and Instagram. And of course, because payment information was 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:20.520 in the email, not your payment but you know the 0:25:20.520 --> 0:25:23.840 fact that it mentioned this, people thought it was a scam. 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:26.919 People were surprised to know that Facebook might even have 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:29.800 their payment information, and they were just wondering, like, what 0:25:29.880 --> 0:25:32.720 is this all about? So let me explain. So, Facebook 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:37.640 is basically merging the payment information that you have, either 0:25:37.760 --> 0:25:40.960 you saved it on Facebook or Instagram. So they're taking 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:43.600 that information and they're putting it in one place, this 0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:46.920 new account center. And so if you want to go 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:49.600 and see if you have now they're giving you an 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:53.439 opportunity basically to delete this information before they share it 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:55.840 across their different platforms, because both of these are owned 0:25:55.840 --> 0:25:59.240 by Meta and So. And I think Metaquest is also 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:01.119 part of this because when I went to the account center, 0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:04.200 it had my Metaquest in there as well. So it's 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:06.360 going to be, you know, they're just consolidating because it's 0:26:06.359 --> 0:26:08.160 one company. They want to just kind of make things 0:26:08.200 --> 0:26:10.879 easier for everyone. If you have a credit card saved 0:26:10.920 --> 0:26:12.600 in one place, or a debit card, it's just going 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:14.879 to work for everything. And the whole point of this 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:17.919 is obviously a bigger point that if you do something 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:20.679 on Facebook, Let's say you donate to a cause, and 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:23.359 then all of a sudden you're on Instagram watching a 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:25.880 live stream and you want to give that person a 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:28.919 badge or a super thanks or whatever they call it, 0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:30.360 you know, to give them some cash or you want 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:33.000 to subscribe. You'll be like, oh, my credit card's already 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:35.639 in there. That makes life so much easier. And so 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:37.679 that's the whole point is basically to get you to 0:26:37.720 --> 0:26:41.480 spend more eventually. So I explained this on my Instagram. 0:26:41.480 --> 0:26:43.560 If you want to check out where it is at, 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:47.720 richon Tech is my Instagram. So you can go into 0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:50.520 Instagram and open up your profile and look at your 0:26:50.560 --> 0:26:53.320 payment methods there. You can also go into Facebook, open 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:56.119 up your settings and see your payment methods there. And 0:26:56.160 --> 0:26:58.639 if you want to remove the card that you have saved, 0:26:58.680 --> 0:27:01.199 if you even have one saved, you can easily do 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:04.320 that from both of these places. But if you don't, 0:27:04.680 --> 0:27:07.480 eventually these cards will make their way into this new 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:10.680 account center. I also explain how you can find that online. 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:15.359 You basically go to Accountscenter dot Facebook dot com and 0:27:15.400 --> 0:27:18.760 that will show you all of your connected information with meta. 0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:23.399 So again, the save payment information email is legitimate, nothing 0:27:23.440 --> 0:27:25.160 to really be alarmed about. They're not going to charge 0:27:25.200 --> 0:27:27.240 your card for anything. They're not, you know, if you 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:29.359 put in your card. Basically they're saying, look, we have 0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:32.200 this info and we're gonna start sharing it across all 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:35.399 of our different products. So do as you like with that, 0:27:36.040 --> 0:27:39.120 all right? 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Phone 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:34.560 lines are open triple eight rich one on one eight 0:28:34.640 --> 0:28:38.360 eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. 0:28:38.360 --> 0:28:40.640 If you have a question about technology, give me a call. 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:46.440 Surely is in Belmont Shore, California. Surely you're on with Rich. 0:28:47.920 --> 0:28:53.120 Hi, Good afternoon. So I have a job where I 0:28:53.160 --> 0:28:55.840 get to go in a couple of days and stay 0:28:55.840 --> 0:28:57.600 home most of the other days. 0:28:57.640 --> 0:28:58.280 Good for you. 0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:01.960 I know, I can't even say enough. 0:29:02.000 --> 0:29:05.320 You know, it makes a big difference, makes a big difference. 0:29:05.320 --> 0:29:05.560 Weird. 0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:07.160 I was just talking about that my wife. I said, 0:29:07.200 --> 0:29:09.280 you know, it's just even one day working from home 0:29:09.480 --> 0:29:11.960 is just like for mental and physical well being, so 0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:14.320 great anyway, So great. 0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:17.440 I work more at home. It's so funny, but it's 0:29:17.480 --> 0:29:20.640 a good thing. Yeah, so okay, So here's the deal. 0:29:21.400 --> 0:29:24.400 I noticed that when I bring my computer home and 0:29:24.440 --> 0:29:26.600 when I'm doing my same work that I do at 0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:32.040 the office, my computers slower. I've had my router check 0:29:32.440 --> 0:29:35.360 my internet check. I am close enough to the router. 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:39.640 I've had a refurversed computer which is running excellent. At work. 0:29:40.720 --> 0:29:43.080 I'm taking it very personal. And so I noticed that 0:29:43.120 --> 0:29:46.760 when I'm doing my keyboard, mainly just entering keys, I 0:29:46.920 --> 0:29:50.680 noticed that this stall happens. It just starts stalling. And 0:29:50.720 --> 0:29:53.440 I'm like, wow, if I got a new keyboard, same thing. 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:56.600 If there's no pattern of time, it just happens. And 0:29:56.880 --> 0:29:59.040 there's one thing I have that replaced and I didn't 0:29:59.040 --> 0:30:00.880 know if it mattered. It's all accords that go to 0:30:00.920 --> 0:30:04.920 my computers to my from my computer to everything else 0:30:05.040 --> 0:30:07.080 that you know. I just never replaced him. Since I've 0:30:07.080 --> 0:30:08.840 been working at home, it's been about three years. 0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:11.200 Is this the same computer you're using at home and 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:14.840 work or is it a different computer? Same so, same computer, 0:30:15.120 --> 0:30:17.560 and when you're at work it works fine. When you're 0:30:17.600 --> 0:30:20.000 at home, it's slow, it. 0:30:20.000 --> 0:30:25.960 Bugs, it bugs and I related to my keyboards obviously, well, 0:30:26.000 --> 0:30:28.240 because I'm typing and all of a sudden the little 0:30:28.240 --> 0:30:31.520 spinner comes up, or a program one of four will 0:30:31.640 --> 0:30:34.800 just crash. I'll just restart it, no problem. But it 0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:37.040 never happens at work. And I know work is probably 0:30:37.080 --> 0:30:39.440 really set up for like pro status. 0:30:39.440 --> 0:30:42.360 But wow, I mean, you know, it doesn't take much 0:30:42.400 --> 0:30:44.720 to run a computer, you know, with Wi Fi. So 0:30:44.880 --> 0:30:46.920 are you on? Are you on the same type of 0:30:46.920 --> 0:30:48.040 connection at each place? 0:30:49.280 --> 0:30:51.880 No, of course not, because you know, at businesses I 0:30:51.920 --> 0:30:55.040 believe at least are I don't know who their provider is, 0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:58.800 but it's like probably some phenomenal one. Okay, a couple 0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:02.080 of kinds of working a day. 0:31:02.120 --> 0:31:04.680 Are you on? I okay? So I yeah, I imagine 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:06.680 the speed is probably slightly different. But are you on 0:31:06.720 --> 0:31:09.240 the same type of connection, whether it's Wi Fi or 0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:12.240 whether it's Ethernet, like, is it wired? It's the Internet? 0:31:12.280 --> 0:31:15.240 Now that yes, I believe we are. Now that's a 0:31:15.280 --> 0:31:17.800 good question. Thank you for saying that. I've been told 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:18.160 we are. 0:31:18.400 --> 0:31:20.400 So you're on Wi Fi at home and Wi Fi 0:31:20.440 --> 0:31:20.840 at work? 0:31:21.880 --> 0:31:22.400 Yes? 0:31:22.680 --> 0:31:25.920 Okay? How far is your computer from the router? 0:31:26.840 --> 0:31:27.400 Ten feet? 0:31:27.640 --> 0:31:27.880 Okay? 0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:28.840 That's super close. 0:31:29.080 --> 0:31:32.640 Yeah, that is close. It Actually you'd be surprised. Sometimes 0:31:32.680 --> 0:31:35.080 it's weird. The closer you are sometimes to the why 0:31:35.320 --> 0:31:38.880 the Wi Fi source, the weirder your your devices can 0:31:38.920 --> 0:31:43.280 act sometimes, So a couple things maybe, uh, you know, 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:45.360 and ten feet is actually pretty far, So I think 0:31:45.360 --> 0:31:49.600 you'd be okay there. I think you know you can now. 0:31:50.080 --> 0:31:52.440 It's weird that it's just happening at your house. That's 0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:54.760 the weird thing. And I would say that it would 0:31:54.800 --> 0:31:56.960 be your your connection. But here's I'd like you to do. 0:31:57.560 --> 0:31:59.880 So I think a couple things, just for maintenance reasons, 0:32:00.200 --> 0:32:03.640 just to see what's happening here. There could be some 0:32:03.680 --> 0:32:06.200 sort of program that's running on your computer that's trying 0:32:06.240 --> 0:32:09.960 to like phone home that only works at your work, 0:32:10.480 --> 0:32:12.240 that does not work at your home, like some sort 0:32:12.240 --> 0:32:15.280 of program that your your work requires. That maybe it's 0:32:15.720 --> 0:32:19.120 just not connecting to the service that you know, and 0:32:19.120 --> 0:32:21.280 that's what's causing your computer to act a little wonky. 0:32:21.680 --> 0:32:23.600 So what I would do personally is, first off, I 0:32:23.640 --> 0:32:27.280 would just check my connection. So at work, next time 0:32:27.320 --> 0:32:31.560 you're there, go to the website fast dot com and 0:32:31.600 --> 0:32:33.960 do a speed test, or you can go to uh 0:32:34.320 --> 0:32:36.680 I believe it's speed test. Let's see, I don't want 0:32:36.720 --> 0:32:40.240 to say the wrong thing. Speed test dot net and 0:32:40.600 --> 0:32:43.040 check your network and just see how fast it is 0:32:43.080 --> 0:32:47.120 and compare home and work. If your home is significantly slower, 0:32:47.520 --> 0:32:49.320 that could be causing some of the issues, like if 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:52.800 you're like at one, two, three, four, five megabits per second, 0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:55.680 but if you're anything over ten, you're probably gonna be fine. 0:32:56.720 --> 0:32:58.720 That's the first thing I do. The second thing I 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:01.560 would do is I would install any program that you 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:04.880 don't recognize or need on your computer. And I would 0:33:04.880 --> 0:33:07.800 also look at the programs that run on your computer 0:33:07.840 --> 0:33:12.120 when you first started up. So those are the login programs, 0:33:12.120 --> 0:33:14.320 so you can look in the Windows settings to find 0:33:14.360 --> 0:33:17.920 those things. Otherwise, you might just want to run some 0:33:17.960 --> 0:33:21.960 diagnostics on your computer. And a popular program to do 0:33:22.040 --> 0:33:27.239 that is cee Cleaner. Ce Cleaner is the app, and 0:33:27.400 --> 0:33:30.240 you can download that for free. It'll have limited unless 0:33:30.280 --> 0:33:33.280 you pay, but it does a decent amount of stuff 0:33:33.280 --> 0:33:36.800 for the limited price or the limited a price of free, 0:33:36.840 --> 0:33:39.520 I should say. And so you can do that if 0:33:39.560 --> 0:33:41.720 you feel like, you know, maybe that'll find something that's 0:33:42.080 --> 0:33:44.440 causing it. But it's kind of odd, I mean It 0:33:44.520 --> 0:33:47.440 shouldn't be It shouldn't be happening. Your computer should work 0:33:47.600 --> 0:33:49.280 pretty much the same way. Now, if you told me 0:33:49.320 --> 0:33:52.560 you were downloading files on Dropbox and they were coming 0:33:52.560 --> 0:33:54.960 through faster at work and not as fast at home, 0:33:55.000 --> 0:33:57.080 I would understand that because your work probably has a 0:33:57.080 --> 0:34:00.880 better Internet connection. But with a laggy keyboard, that's a 0:34:00.920 --> 0:34:04.240 weird thing. And I just don't really know why that 0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:08.040 would be happening on your computer at home versus work. 0:34:08.480 --> 0:34:10.160 The only thing I can think of is something is 0:34:10.280 --> 0:34:13.560 running on your computer that is not really working properly 0:34:13.600 --> 0:34:17.640 when you're at your home setup versus your your work setup. 0:34:17.680 --> 0:34:21.160 So Sureley, keep me posted, let me know what's happening 0:34:21.200 --> 0:34:22.920 once you do the speed test, and maybe we could 0:34:22.960 --> 0:34:26.719 do some more some more fixing on that. Let's go 0:34:26.760 --> 0:34:31.120 to Janine in Carlsbad. Janine, you're on with Rich Oh. 0:34:31.200 --> 0:34:34.960 Hello, Hello, this is the first time I've heard the show, 0:34:35.040 --> 0:34:37.080 and I really need your advice. 0:34:37.440 --> 0:34:39.440 Okay, Well, thank you for finding me. 0:34:40.239 --> 0:34:42.080 Well, in a couple months, I'm going to be the 0:34:42.080 --> 0:34:45.320 Big seventy six and lation shot. 0:34:45.880 --> 0:34:46.080 Well. 0:34:46.160 --> 0:34:49.560 Believe it or not, I am a dinosaur. I've never 0:34:49.640 --> 0:34:54.160 had a computer or a tablet all I've had is 0:34:54.239 --> 0:34:59.080 my Apple phone, okay, my Apple fourteen, which is not 0:34:59.239 --> 0:35:03.160 working right now. So I'm kind of out in the 0:35:03.160 --> 0:35:07.799 world drifting. But I have been doing a ton of 0:35:07.840 --> 0:35:13.560 research and I need your advice before I invest. Okay, 0:35:14.200 --> 0:35:18.880 I have a choice. People have told me, oh, go 0:35:18.880 --> 0:35:25.640 go Apple all the way, Apple Macair computer with and 0:35:25.680 --> 0:35:27.160 then Apple Mac. 0:35:28.719 --> 0:35:28.959 Ten. 0:35:30.080 --> 0:35:34.480 Well wait a minute, ten points something. What do they 0:35:34.480 --> 0:35:34.759 call it? 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:35.200 A pad? 0:35:35.280 --> 0:35:35.960 What do they call it? 0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:38.520 Okay, I've got about a minute. So I'm you're trying 0:35:38.520 --> 0:35:40.359 to figure out which which computer to get? 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:45.440 All with Mac? Or can I go with my my 0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:53.560 Apple phone and two two cheaper or less expensive Samsung products. 0:35:53.760 --> 0:35:55.839 Well, and you want a laptop or what do you want? 0:35:55.840 --> 0:35:57.040 What other products? 0:35:57.800 --> 0:36:02.240 I want a laptop and I also want the Patty tablet. 0:36:02.280 --> 0:36:04.680 Okay, I think you go all Apple. Honestly, I think 0:36:04.719 --> 0:36:07.719 the tablet's Apple has the best tablet with the iPad, 0:36:08.400 --> 0:36:10.759 I think you go with the MacBook Air for your laptop. 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:13.680 If you have the money to spend, get the newer version. 0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:16.440 I would recommend the thirteen or fifteen inch if you 0:36:16.520 --> 0:36:18.479 don't want to spend as much since you're buying a lot, 0:36:18.880 --> 0:36:22.400 But is your birthday, sure, Janine, So you know, maybe splurch, 0:36:22.680 --> 0:36:23.160 but go with. 0:36:23.120 --> 0:36:25.960 The anybody has a dog come down to dot Beach 0:36:26.080 --> 0:36:29.520 tomorrow from eight to twelve right there by the del 0:36:29.920 --> 0:36:30.520 Race track. 0:36:31.080 --> 0:36:32.239 Dress your dog up. 0:36:34.480 --> 0:36:39.040 All right. You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back 0:36:39.080 --> 0:36:42.239 to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, 0:36:42.560 --> 0:36:47.560 talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's 0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:51.440 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero 0:36:51.520 --> 0:36:57.399 one coming up this hour. Jen call Trider of Mozilla 0:36:57.840 --> 0:37:01.280 will join us to talk about how our are spying 0:37:01.320 --> 0:37:05.320 on us. Mozilla had a big report this week, Privacy 0:37:05.440 --> 0:37:09.520 not included. They said that basically cars are the worst 0:37:09.719 --> 0:37:14.680 thing they have ever tested for privacy, and they collect 0:37:14.880 --> 0:37:18.640 twenty five all kinds of personal information. They tested twenty 0:37:18.640 --> 0:37:23.640 five different brands, twenty five brands failed, and they collect 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:27.960 some really surprising stuff about us. So Jen will join 0:37:28.040 --> 0:37:30.279 us to talk about that. I'm also going to tell 0:37:30.280 --> 0:37:36.279 you about Amazon's new fee even for prime customers, why 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:40.439 you should update your Apple products right now, and some 0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:45.160 sneaky new ad settings on Google Chrome. Let's go to 0:37:45.520 --> 0:37:47.520 Melody in Carlsbad. Melody. 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:53.120 You're on with Rich Hi, Rich Listen, I have this question. 0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:56.120 For a long time, been meaning to call you about it. 0:37:57.000 --> 0:38:01.319 I'm a senior citizen and from time to time I 0:38:01.400 --> 0:38:05.359 will get an email that lists all the stores that 0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:09.879 provide senior discounts. Now, obviously I'm not going to keep 0:38:09.920 --> 0:38:13.920 this email in my pocket when I'm out shopping, But 0:38:14.080 --> 0:38:18.000 I'm wondering, is there an app that will alert me 0:38:18.480 --> 0:38:22.239 while I'm out shopping. Let's say I walk into Marshalls 0:38:23.040 --> 0:38:27.000 and that I have my location on on my iPhone, 0:38:27.840 --> 0:38:32.520 and then it notifies me, Oh, you're in Marshalls. Hey, 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:38.000 they have a discount for seniors today. Is there such 0:38:38.040 --> 0:38:39.840 an app that exists like that. 0:38:40.640 --> 0:38:44.279 It's a good idea, for sure. You know, there are 0:38:44.320 --> 0:38:47.960 lots of apps that have discounts and freebies and deals. 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:53.680 I don't know of one specific for seniors. But and 0:38:53.800 --> 0:38:57.400 also you know that would require your your location obviously 0:38:57.480 --> 0:38:59.640 to be on and to know where you are, so 0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:01.480 some people would be a little bit concerned with that. 0:39:02.280 --> 0:39:04.399 But I do think there are some ways to sort 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:06.080 of figure this out. So I'll go through some of 0:39:06.080 --> 0:39:08.160 the ways that I And by the way, I think 0:39:08.160 --> 0:39:11.560 it's great that you're thinking about this, because I'm not 0:39:11.680 --> 0:39:13.320 kidding it kind of goes back to what I was 0:39:13.360 --> 0:39:17.239 talking about with the airline. Just by asking a majority 0:39:17.280 --> 0:39:19.640 of the time or even searching, you can find things 0:39:19.680 --> 0:39:21.480 that you know may save you a lot of money. 0:39:21.960 --> 0:39:23.879 A good example I gave a couple of months ago 0:39:23.920 --> 0:39:25.640 on the show was my wife and I were in 0:39:25.760 --> 0:39:28.440 CVS and before we checked out, I said, let me 0:39:28.520 --> 0:39:30.560 just check the app to see if there's any sort 0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:33.120 of discount, and sure enough, there was like a thirty 0:39:33.160 --> 0:39:37.920 percent coupon in the CVS app. So what I do personally, 0:39:38.600 --> 0:39:41.640 every time I am checking out or in a store, 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:45.759 I will just fire up either the stores app or 0:39:45.840 --> 0:39:47.760 I will just search for the name of the store 0:39:48.040 --> 0:39:51.800 and either discount or coupon and see if there's something 0:39:51.840 --> 0:39:55.920 that's running. A lot of these discount codes, a lot 0:39:56.000 --> 0:39:58.480 of these websites that say they have codes, You're going 0:39:58.560 --> 0:40:00.600 to sit there for an hour trying these and they're 0:40:00.600 --> 0:40:03.720 not going to work, and especially in store, a majority 0:40:03.760 --> 0:40:06.640 of the time, it's just going to be bogus. So 0:40:06.920 --> 0:40:08.960 until someone comes up with an app like you're talking 0:40:08.960 --> 0:40:10.879 about that, you know you can sit. You know you're 0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:14.480 in the coals, you're in the you know, Walmart, whatever 0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:16.520 it is. You could say Hey, show me all the 0:40:16.560 --> 0:40:20.560 available discounts for this right here. That'd be a good idea, 0:40:20.760 --> 0:40:22.440 but I don't know if that exists. But I will 0:40:22.480 --> 0:40:24.360 tell you the places that I look so after I 0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:26.680 do the whole you know, I think the number one 0:40:26.719 --> 0:40:29.760 place to look right now is the store's own app. 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:34.359 That's a great way to do it. The second thing 0:40:34.440 --> 0:40:36.719 is just to search on Google and say the name 0:40:36.719 --> 0:40:39.560 of the store plus discount or senior discount, and that'll 0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:42.240 bring up a list if you're just looking on Google. 0:40:42.360 --> 0:40:45.120 There's like this this website called the Senior List dot 0:40:45.160 --> 0:40:48.840 com and they've got a whole bunch of deals. Looks 0:40:48.920 --> 0:40:53.759 like interesting, So like, yeah, they've got a list of 0:40:53.760 --> 0:40:55.879 all different places. It doesn't look like it's too many 0:40:55.920 --> 0:41:00.360 there though. Then they've got another website that I like 0:41:00.560 --> 0:41:04.759 is called dealnews dot com. So deal News has a 0:41:04.800 --> 0:41:07.759 post that looks like they continue to update it, the 0:41:07.840 --> 0:41:11.640 seventy eight best senior discounts to use in twenty twenty three. 0:41:12.000 --> 0:41:14.400 And again, I know, Melody that you asked for an 0:41:14.400 --> 0:41:17.759 app that would alert you. I don't know of that. 0:41:17.880 --> 0:41:19.600 So I'm just telling you the different ways that I 0:41:19.600 --> 0:41:21.520 would do this to make sure that I get a 0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:25.000 discount every time. The other place I like, which actually 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:30.080 is quite good, is called couponcabin dot com, and so 0:41:30.120 --> 0:41:33.359 you can search for the name of a retailer inside this. 0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:36.400 So let's say you're in right Aid, you can search 0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:39.319 for right Aid and it gives you all the coupons 0:41:39.320 --> 0:41:42.920 that are available at that moment. But also on the 0:41:43.000 --> 0:41:46.279 left hand side, it gives you little shopping hacks for 0:41:46.400 --> 0:41:49.480 that store, so it'll tell you different ways that you 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:53.879 might be able to save on your purchases at that store. 0:41:53.920 --> 0:41:57.319 And for right Aid there's like seventeen little tips. And 0:41:57.360 --> 0:42:00.600 look at that. It says that right aid offers customers 0:42:00.640 --> 0:42:03.640 over the age of sixty five a twenty percent discount 0:42:03.640 --> 0:42:06.640 on the first Wednesday of the month. Wow, look at that. 0:42:07.320 --> 0:42:08.080 Where's my bell? 0:42:09.480 --> 0:42:09.960 Ding? Ding? 0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:12.320 Oh? 0:42:12.400 --> 0:42:16.720 Let's see what else there we go. The other website 0:42:16.760 --> 0:42:19.399 that I check on a daily basis is called slick 0:42:19.480 --> 0:42:25.320 dealsslickdeals dot net. And then of course AARP. They have discounts, 0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:28.600 but it looks like AARP mostly shows discounts that they 0:42:28.680 --> 0:42:31.800 have because of your card, but they do have a lot. Actually, 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:36.839 now that I'm scrolling through, Wow, Corner Bakery, Annie's ooh, 0:42:36.880 --> 0:42:41.399 I always like one of those like pretzels. Yeah, who 0:42:41.440 --> 0:42:44.279 can resist those pretzels? You know, like the smell is 0:42:44.320 --> 0:42:46.759 just wafting out into the mall. It's just like I 0:42:46.840 --> 0:42:49.520 become like a zombie. I'm like, please give me a 0:42:49.560 --> 0:42:52.719 cinnamon sugar pretzel. Like I didn't go into the mall. 0:42:52.880 --> 0:42:55.680 Does anyone ever go into the mall expecting to buy 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:59.720 like a cinnabon or well maybe cinnabon. Yeah, actually that's true, 0:43:00.120 --> 0:43:03.719 both saying yes, oh missus fields, all these things that 0:43:03.880 --> 0:43:06.600 just like they only exist in the mall, right, just 0:43:06.680 --> 0:43:11.200 to like capture our our noses and our money. Oh 0:43:11.239 --> 0:43:13.279 and it's so good and you and you wolf it 0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:16.319 down so fast. The uh, those are the places that 0:43:16.400 --> 0:43:18.279 I look. And again, I'll put all these links on 0:43:18.320 --> 0:43:22.439 the website. Rich on tech dot TV. Are we still 0:43:22.480 --> 0:43:25.200 on the air? Did they? Did they cancel us yet? 0:43:25.719 --> 0:43:26.279 Uh? 0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:28.440 Okay, let me tell you about this triple eight rich 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:30.560 one O one eighty eight seven four to two four 0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:32.279 one zero one. You know what, Save it for the 0:43:32.280 --> 0:43:34.760 feedback segment. Tell me what you think in the feedback. 0:43:34.840 --> 0:43:37.399 Go to rich on tech dot TV, hit contact, put 0:43:37.400 --> 0:43:39.359 it in the feedback and I will read that at 0:43:39.360 --> 0:43:42.280 the end of the show. Amazon is gonna start charging 0:43:42.320 --> 0:43:48.800 a dollar ninety nine for in garage delivery starting October fourth. 0:43:49.239 --> 0:43:54.359 So this was previously a free service where Amazon, if 0:43:54.360 --> 0:43:56.520 you had the ability, they could open up your garage 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:58.440 and put your stuff in your garage. I know when 0:43:58.440 --> 0:44:01.000 it first came out, people were like, wait what, but 0:44:01.000 --> 0:44:02.680 but it's not a bad idea if you live in 0:44:02.719 --> 0:44:05.600 a place where something might get taken from your front 0:44:05.600 --> 0:44:07.960 porch or you just want you know, it's just convenient. 0:44:08.400 --> 0:44:10.200 But it took a lot of equipment. Anyway, they were 0:44:10.239 --> 0:44:13.800 pushing this really hard because they said, hey, it's safe, 0:44:13.840 --> 0:44:16.279 it's nice, and of course it helps them because less 0:44:16.320 --> 0:44:18.200 theft means that they don't have to replace so many 0:44:18.280 --> 0:44:21.000 items that they deliver. But now they're going to charge 0:44:21.000 --> 0:44:26.080 a dollar ninety nine for this delivery unless you choose 0:44:26.120 --> 0:44:28.160 your Amazon Day. So if you haven't set up your 0:44:28.160 --> 0:44:32.600 Amazon Day, this is basically a day you designate every 0:44:32.640 --> 0:44:34.839 week where they will deliver all the stuff that you 0:44:34.960 --> 0:44:37.359 order in that week on that day. So for me, 0:44:37.480 --> 0:44:40.759 my Amazon Day is Fridays. Oh should I have told 0:44:40.760 --> 0:44:42.319 you that? Well, now you know which day to come 0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:46.880 to my house. Anyway, I don't use it very often, 0:44:46.920 --> 0:44:50.360 and because Amazon literally it's it's so wild because if 0:44:50.400 --> 0:44:52.520 you live in a big city, Amazon can deliver like 0:44:52.800 --> 0:44:55.239 so fast to you that it's always like, oh, do 0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:57.840 you want your Amazon Day on Friday or would you 0:44:57.920 --> 0:44:59.840 like us to get to this to you by nine o'clock? 0:45:00.280 --> 0:45:01.960 And I'm like, well, of course, if it's free, I'm 0:45:01.960 --> 0:45:05.080 gonna take the nine o'clock tonight. But so don't be 0:45:05.160 --> 0:45:07.640 alarmed if you see the headline that says Amazon's going 0:45:07.680 --> 0:45:09.600 to start charging for all this stuff. It's only if 0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:13.000 you're doing in garage deliveries, and only if you're doing 0:45:13.000 --> 0:45:15.040 them not on your Amazon Day. So if you're still 0:45:15.080 --> 0:45:18.120 just doing Amazon Prime, you know, your regular deliveries, those 0:45:18.160 --> 0:45:21.840 are still free for now. But as we know, Amazon 0:45:21.880 --> 0:45:27.799 has definitely been tightening, you know, ratcheting things up with 0:45:27.840 --> 0:45:30.399 all the little kind of things they do. I still 0:45:30.400 --> 0:45:32.640 think they're pretty incredible for how fast they get stuff 0:45:32.680 --> 0:45:35.759 to my house, but you know, they've raised like the minimums, 0:45:35.800 --> 0:45:39.160 and of course with the groceries, everyone's grumbling about that 0:45:39.239 --> 0:45:41.920 because groceries used to be really easy to get those delivered, 0:45:41.960 --> 0:45:45.160 and now that's expensive. They've added fees on that and 0:45:45.239 --> 0:45:47.440 Prime membership keeps going up and up and up, so 0:45:48.000 --> 0:45:50.239 you know, it's still a very good service. It's just 0:45:50.400 --> 0:45:52.600 it's evolved and changed like everything else. You know, all 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:56.840 these prices have gone up lately, and finally, not finally, 0:45:56.880 --> 0:45:59.040 but for now. Before we go to break, update your 0:45:59.080 --> 0:46:03.960 Apple products. Apple has released software updates for iPhones, iPads, Macs, 0:46:04.040 --> 0:46:07.919 and Apple Watches. This is all because of two zero 0:46:08.160 --> 0:46:11.880 day vulnerabilities. Zero day vulnerabilities are pretty much the worst. 0:46:12.440 --> 0:46:15.680 It means that someone could could take over your phone 0:46:16.040 --> 0:46:19.120 without you doing anything, which is really scary. That means 0:46:19.120 --> 0:46:22.200 they could just send you a malicious image or a 0:46:22.239 --> 0:46:25.880 malicious attachment and literally they have control of your phone. Now, 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:28.799 it would take special software and obviously the know how 0:46:28.840 --> 0:46:30.920 to do this, but it's pretty scary. It's like the 0:46:30.960 --> 0:46:33.759 scariest of all of the exploits on phones are these 0:46:33.840 --> 0:46:36.160 zero day things. So if you have an iPhone, you 0:46:36.160 --> 0:46:37.600 have an iPad, you have a Mac, you have an 0:46:37.600 --> 0:46:40.839 Apple Watch, definitely go ahead and update them as soon 0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:45.840 as you can. The update ISOs sixteen point six. I 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:48.560 think we're up to and by the way, we're going 0:46:48.640 --> 0:46:52.680 to get new iOS very soon to iOS seventeen Yeah, 0:46:52.760 --> 0:46:56.000 sixteen point six point one. That's what you want to 0:46:56.000 --> 0:46:58.600 be on and I'm just looking at mine. It says 0:46:58.640 --> 0:47:02.160 this update provides importance security fixes and is recommended for 0:47:02.200 --> 0:47:07.000 all users. Yeah. Think Apple is patched thirteen zero days 0:47:07.040 --> 0:47:10.080 in twenty twenty three. A lot of the zero day 0:47:10.120 --> 0:47:13.560 stuff is used for this what's called Pegasus spyware, and 0:47:13.719 --> 0:47:18.360 this UH spyware is basically used to target journalists, activists 0:47:18.400 --> 0:47:21.360 and UH world leaders that they want to get on 0:47:21.400 --> 0:47:24.759 their phone because there's some good information on there and it's, uh, 0:47:24.920 --> 0:47:27.560 it's stuff that you know, the bad folks really want 0:47:27.600 --> 0:47:30.239 access to. But for you and I, I mean, well 0:47:30.280 --> 0:47:32.239 I am a journalist, so people probably do target me, 0:47:32.360 --> 0:47:35.400 but they're you know, for the average person, Like, is 0:47:35.440 --> 0:47:37.840 someone trying to take over your phone? Probably not? But 0:47:38.280 --> 0:47:40.879 should you do this? Of course? Of course, of course, 0:47:40.920 --> 0:47:44.560 of course. There you have it. Rich on Tech dot 0:47:44.640 --> 0:47:46.600 TV of course for the link. The phone line for 0:47:46.719 --> 0:47:49.960 the show is triple eight rich one oh one eight 0:47:50.080 --> 0:47:53.520 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:47:53.600 --> 0:47:58.719 You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:47:59.200 --> 0:48:02.879 rich on Tech, Triple eight rich one oh one. That's 0:48:02.920 --> 0:48:06.040 eight eight eight seven four to two four to one 0:48:06.360 --> 0:48:09.560 zero one coming up this hour, I will tell you 0:48:09.680 --> 0:48:12.359 about the Chrome settings you might want to change if 0:48:12.360 --> 0:48:15.960 you don't like ads tracking you. And also speaking of 0:48:16.520 --> 0:48:20.080 tracking us, our cars are spying on us in a 0:48:20.120 --> 0:48:22.480 big way. Now we all kind of assumed this was happening, 0:48:22.560 --> 0:48:24.799 but now we kind of have the data to back 0:48:24.840 --> 0:48:27.839 it up. So my guests, in just a couple of 0:48:27.840 --> 0:48:30.920 minutes here we'll talk about the their new report at 0:48:30.960 --> 0:48:35.000 Mozilla Privacy not included just all the different ways cars 0:48:35.080 --> 0:48:39.319 are tracking us. Let's go to uh, Peter and San Gabriel. Peter, 0:48:39.400 --> 0:48:40.080 you're on with Rich. 0:48:41.080 --> 0:48:46.800 Hi, Rich, pleasure to talk to you. I have a question. 0:48:47.239 --> 0:48:52.400 I had been looking for a phone call recording app 0:48:52.920 --> 0:48:59.560 okay uh for my phone, and I had downloaded one 0:48:59.600 --> 0:49:02.040 app said it was free, you know for a pre 0:49:02.200 --> 0:49:05.600 one Yeah, and then they asked for a credit cards. Yeah, 0:49:05.600 --> 0:49:09.239 but it was only just to start it, just like 0:49:09.920 --> 0:49:12.840 to see if I have I guess money and the 0:49:12.880 --> 0:49:18.799 account or whatever. But then after it then it when 0:49:18.840 --> 0:49:22.680 it would say when I put in my card, information 0:49:22.840 --> 0:49:27.480 would say it wasn't going through and it wasn't accepting 0:49:27.560 --> 0:49:31.600 and all that, and then finally it said I was 0:49:31.719 --> 0:49:35.080 like the app was only three for about five days, 0:49:35.080 --> 0:49:37.160 and there was going to be forty nine ninety five 0:49:37.200 --> 0:49:41.319 a month. Yep, I was so christ and I can't 0:49:41.360 --> 0:49:42.279 say bad words, but. 0:49:43.760 --> 0:49:45.439 Well we don't want to say him on the radio either, 0:49:45.440 --> 0:49:48.160 because I've already I've already ran this show off the 0:49:48.239 --> 0:49:51.440 rails today once. Yeah, so you're are you here looking 0:49:51.520 --> 0:49:55.759 for you're looking for a call recorder? And are you 0:49:55.800 --> 0:49:56.880 on iPhone or Android? 0:49:57.960 --> 0:49:58.400 Android? 0:49:58.480 --> 0:50:01.520 Okay? So Android definitely makes it a little bit easier. 0:50:01.640 --> 0:50:06.160 But the thing is a lot of these are not free. 0:50:06.440 --> 0:50:08.759 And I think what you've found is that is that 0:50:08.800 --> 0:50:11.040 you're you're looking for these and they say free and 0:50:11.040 --> 0:50:15.600 they're not. So I will tell you the way that Well, 0:50:15.600 --> 0:50:17.279 there's a couple of things I know that you can do, 0:50:17.640 --> 0:50:21.920 so if you're looking for completely free the thing that 0:50:22.000 --> 0:50:24.880 I do, or I've done in the past is Google Voice. 0:50:24.920 --> 0:50:26.240 Do you have a Google Voice number? 0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:29.160 Yeah? 0:50:29.400 --> 0:50:32.600 Okay, So in Google Voice, you can actually record a 0:50:32.640 --> 0:50:36.360 call and it's quite simple, it's quite easy, and it's 0:50:36.480 --> 0:50:39.920 free and unlimited as far as I know. Maybe it 0:50:39.960 --> 0:50:42.120 takes up some of the storage on your Google account, 0:50:42.200 --> 0:50:45.200 but if you let's see, let me just type in 0:50:45.239 --> 0:50:48.279 how to do it. Record a call. So basically, if 0:50:48.280 --> 0:50:52.320 someone calls you on your Google Voice number, you basically 0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:54.799 just have to press the number four and that will 0:50:54.800 --> 0:50:57.080 start recording the call. And then I think it just 0:50:57.280 --> 0:50:58.840 downloads it as a like a you know, you just 0:50:58.840 --> 0:51:01.640 download it from your Google Voy stashboard. But that's like 0:51:01.680 --> 0:51:04.520 the easiest and the simplest and the cheapest way to 0:51:04.560 --> 0:51:06.920 do it that I know. But the only caveat is 0:51:06.960 --> 0:51:08.920 that they do have to call your Google Voice number 0:51:09.000 --> 0:51:09.880 to get that started. 0:51:10.360 --> 0:51:14.000 And you know, obviously, I you know, I have to 0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:18.440 basically have a Google Voice account. 0:51:18.200 --> 0:51:21.279 Or yes, and that's in it. I believe it's free. 0:51:21.320 --> 0:51:23.200 I mean I've had Google Voice forever. I don't think 0:51:23.200 --> 0:51:26.080 they charged for that. So you could sign up for that, 0:51:26.200 --> 0:51:28.360 get a phone number, and then just start doing that. 0:51:28.400 --> 0:51:30.440 Whenever you want to record a call, just tell the 0:51:30.440 --> 0:51:31.560 person to call that number. 0:51:32.640 --> 0:51:35.960 I can't use this saying that my own cell phone 0:51:36.040 --> 0:51:37.319 number for that. 0:51:38.040 --> 0:51:38.080 Er. 0:51:39.719 --> 0:51:42.200 Yeah, I mean there's I mean, look, you can have 0:51:42.280 --> 0:51:45.000 your number forward. You can forward your number to Google 0:51:45.080 --> 0:51:47.760 Voice then have it do it that way. That might work, 0:51:47.960 --> 0:51:50.120 but you know, it gets a little tricky there because 0:51:50.120 --> 0:51:53.839 then all your calls would do that. I'm looking at, uh, 0:51:54.480 --> 0:51:58.319 this other one called call x for Android. But the 0:51:58.400 --> 0:52:02.560 problem is, I'm wondering if this needs root, you know, 0:52:02.719 --> 0:52:04.560 access to root on your phone. I think for a 0:52:04.560 --> 0:52:07.200 lot of security reasons, they don't allow this to happen. 0:52:09.000 --> 0:52:13.440 Let's see call recorder. The other thing is that so 0:52:13.480 --> 0:52:15.719 a lot of these these call recorders, the way they 0:52:15.760 --> 0:52:19.120 work is instead of actually recording the call from your phone, 0:52:19.719 --> 0:52:22.520 they make you call a third number, so you kind 0:52:22.520 --> 0:52:24.919 of do like a three way call, and you will 0:52:24.960 --> 0:52:28.600 it records it that way. So and the other one 0:52:28.640 --> 0:52:30.920 I know of is true Caller. Now we had them 0:52:30.920 --> 0:52:33.400 on the show, so I know they're legitimate. They have 0:52:33.440 --> 0:52:35.520 a call recording, but again you will have to pay 0:52:35.520 --> 0:52:38.759 for that. So I don't have an answer for you 0:52:38.880 --> 0:52:42.319 on a free call recorder. Besides the Google Voice, like 0:52:42.360 --> 0:52:45.440 the app situation, I'm looking at this one app. And 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:47.600 the other thing is, see this app wasn't even updated 0:52:47.719 --> 0:52:52.520 since October twenty twenty two. But I think a lot 0:52:52.600 --> 0:52:55.120 of these things that I'm just looking at quickly here 0:52:55.880 --> 0:52:57.719 are they all seem the same Like people are like, 0:52:57.719 --> 0:53:00.319 oh they don't work, they don't you know. But the 0:53:00.320 --> 0:53:03.000 good news about this show, Peter, is that you know, 0:53:03.000 --> 0:53:05.279 there's a lot of people listening, and we've got the 0:53:05.280 --> 0:53:09.320 feedback segment. So if you know of a good phone 0:53:09.360 --> 0:53:14.439 call recording app that works very easily on Android, uh, 0:53:14.480 --> 0:53:17.000 send it to me, So Rich on Tech, hit the 0:53:17.000 --> 0:53:19.359 contact button and let me know which one you use. 0:53:20.000 --> 0:53:23.520 The other one that I do like that is very popular, 0:53:23.560 --> 0:53:26.160 but again I think it's gonna cost money. And I've 0:53:26.200 --> 0:53:28.719 done an interview with this company too, is called Tape 0:53:28.719 --> 0:53:31.640 a Call, and this is probably one of the top 0:53:31.640 --> 0:53:34.760 apps out there for doing this and tape a Call 0:53:35.360 --> 0:53:38.560 dot com and if you uh look at that one, 0:53:38.600 --> 0:53:42.000 it will it's very very easy, and it says that 0:53:42.040 --> 0:53:43.720 you can do this on a call that you're already 0:53:43.719 --> 0:53:48.800 on incoming calls. But again, uh, it's gonna I believe 0:53:48.800 --> 0:53:51.240 they're going to charge you after a while. Yeah, monthly 0:53:51.239 --> 0:53:55.520 planned nine ninety nine a month, annual plan sixty dollars. So, 0:53:55.640 --> 0:53:57.759 and also I want to put the caveat out there 0:53:57.760 --> 0:54:00.400 as a journalist that you can't just rea cort a 0:54:00.400 --> 0:54:03.640 phone call without the other person knowing. So that is 0:54:03.680 --> 0:54:06.880 something that you do need to look into your state's laws, 0:54:07.080 --> 0:54:10.880 your local laws for recording phone calls. You can't just 0:54:10.920 --> 0:54:13.399 record a call without someone knowing. In most states I 0:54:13.520 --> 0:54:16.040 or many I think almost every state as far as 0:54:16.080 --> 0:54:17.560 I know, you have to tell the person on the 0:54:17.560 --> 0:54:20.440 other line, but definitely check your local laws. All right, 0:54:20.440 --> 0:54:23.040 Coming up next, we're going to talk to Gen call 0:54:23.120 --> 0:54:26.919 Trid of Mozilla about how our cars are spying on us. 0:54:27.160 --> 0:54:32.359 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 0:54:32.480 --> 0:54:35.560 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology and 0:54:35.719 --> 0:54:39.680 joining me now is Jen Calltrid, head of the Privacy 0:54:39.960 --> 0:54:42.799 Not Included team at Mozilla. You know them for the 0:54:42.800 --> 0:54:45.440 web browser. Jen, thanks so much for joining me today. 0:54:46.080 --> 0:54:47.080 Hey, thanks for having me. 0:54:47.880 --> 0:54:50.680 Okay, so you've got this report out, this new report 0:54:50.719 --> 0:54:55.160 that is causing quite the stir. It's basically about how 0:54:55.280 --> 0:54:59.160 our cars are spying on us. So can you explain 0:54:59.280 --> 0:55:01.719 this Privacy Not Included report just a bit. 0:55:02.400 --> 0:55:02.960 Yeah. 0:55:03.480 --> 0:55:06.600 We looked into the privacy and security of twenty five 0:55:06.760 --> 0:55:10.680 popular car brands, everything from Volkswagen to Nissan, to Tesla 0:55:10.800 --> 0:55:14.600 to Kia. And we looked at the privacy, how they'd 0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:17.279 use data, how much data they're collecting, if they secure it, 0:55:17.360 --> 0:55:19.960 things like that. And what we found is that all 0:55:20.080 --> 0:55:23.120 twenty five car brands that we reviewed earned our privacy 0:55:23.160 --> 0:55:27.120 not including warning label because they're absolutely terrible at privacy. 0:55:27.560 --> 0:55:29.800 And this isn't the first time that you've done this label. 0:55:29.920 --> 0:55:33.240 You typically look at all kinds of things to see 0:55:33.239 --> 0:55:35.719 what the privacy policies are and how they collect data. 0:55:36.840 --> 0:55:38.759 Yeah, we have a buyer privacy not included as a 0:55:38.760 --> 0:55:41.120 buyer's guide for users to go and look up their 0:55:41.160 --> 0:55:44.440 fitbits or their smart speakers or their robot vacuums and review. 0:55:44.480 --> 0:55:46.680 We review them lots of products for privacy. 0:55:47.320 --> 0:55:50.120 We've reviewed hundreds of products for privacy over the years. 0:55:50.440 --> 0:55:53.560 Cars is a little different beast because they are a beast. 0:55:53.680 --> 0:55:56.640 There there's multiple ways that they can collect data through 0:55:57.280 --> 0:56:00.840 the cars themselves, as devices, the connected service, the apps, 0:56:00.960 --> 0:56:04.800 and so it was a unique experience to review cars 0:56:05.040 --> 0:56:06.760 and it ended up being quite frightening. 0:56:07.880 --> 0:56:10.080 Okay, so it's really interesting that you came out with 0:56:10.120 --> 0:56:12.120 this report on the same day that I got a 0:56:12.160 --> 0:56:15.360 new rental car. And when I plugged my phone into 0:56:15.400 --> 0:56:18.280 this car, I'm not kidding, there was a fleeting moment 0:56:18.320 --> 0:56:21.280 where I saw a message on the screen that basically 0:56:21.320 --> 0:56:24.359 said we can collect all kinds of data, and it 0:56:24.440 --> 0:56:26.960 was so fast and I couldn't do anything. And I 0:56:27.080 --> 0:56:28.600 pulled out my phone and I tried to plug it 0:56:28.640 --> 0:56:30.680 back in. I could never see that message again, but 0:56:30.800 --> 0:56:33.200 I was like, Wow, this really is happening in a 0:56:33.239 --> 0:56:36.080 big way. Can you tell me about some of the 0:56:36.120 --> 0:56:39.120 ways that these car companies collect data from drivers? Is 0:56:39.160 --> 0:56:41.200 it coming from the cars themselves? 0:56:41.760 --> 0:56:44.880 Yeah, it's coming from all over, It's coming from the 0:56:44.920 --> 0:56:47.800 cars themselves. You know a lot of people haven't driven 0:56:47.960 --> 0:56:51.040 a new car recently. You might be surprised that there's 0:56:51.080 --> 0:56:53.160 no such thing as a smart car anymore. There's just 0:56:53.400 --> 0:56:55.840 all our cars are connected, and they come with sensors 0:56:55.880 --> 0:56:58.319 that tract you know, where we drive and how much 0:56:58.360 --> 0:56:59.680 we weigh, and how many people. 0:56:59.480 --> 0:57:00.520 Are in the car with us. 0:57:00.560 --> 0:57:03.600 They have microphones, they have cameras that face in and 0:57:03.719 --> 0:57:06.719 cameras that face out. But then the cars come with 0:57:06.760 --> 0:57:10.360 connected services. You know, you're on star R, your serious 0:57:10.520 --> 0:57:14.920 XM radio, your your navigation, you know, all those connected 0:57:14.960 --> 0:57:18.200 services also can can be collecting and sharing data. 0:57:18.600 --> 0:57:20.240 And then cars come with apps. 0:57:20.240 --> 0:57:23.040 Now you know, so you can you know, start, stop 0:57:23.080 --> 0:57:26.080 your car, remotely, honk your horn. But those apps also 0:57:26.120 --> 0:57:28.200 collect data, and that's kind of the tip of the 0:57:28.240 --> 0:57:29.640 iceberg with data collection. 0:57:29.720 --> 0:57:30.080 With cars. 0:57:30.080 --> 0:57:32.480 We didn't even dig into you know, what your car 0:57:32.520 --> 0:57:36.040 dealers can collect or what insurances companies can. We just 0:57:36.080 --> 0:57:38.920 looked at the cars, the connected services and the apps 0:57:38.960 --> 0:57:40.800 and those collected and enough data to scare us. 0:57:41.520 --> 0:57:45.120 So what types of sensors in these cars are collecting 0:57:45.160 --> 0:57:48.240 the data and what type of data are they collecting? 0:57:48.280 --> 0:57:50.360 Like is it you know, like someone that you know, 0:57:50.480 --> 0:57:53.080 the car companies doesn't have a live stream to my camera, 0:57:53.160 --> 0:57:53.520 do they? 0:57:55.440 --> 0:58:00.240 Well they could, right, I mean, there was a story 0:58:00.280 --> 0:58:03.880 that has been reported about Tesla with employees looking at 0:58:03.880 --> 0:58:08.080 Tesla cameras that without authorization. So that's the potential anything 0:58:08.080 --> 0:58:10.720 that has a camera or a microphone. You know, you 0:58:10.880 --> 0:58:12.800 just kind of have to trust that the company is 0:58:12.840 --> 0:58:17.200 going to protect that respect that which you know, that's 0:58:17.200 --> 0:58:18.760 the day and age we live in, and you know, 0:58:18.880 --> 0:58:21.439 most things come with cameras and microphones. You know, there's 0:58:21.480 --> 0:58:24.360 also the sensors that that tell how fast you're going, 0:58:24.400 --> 0:58:26.720 or how much you weigh, or what the temperature is outside, 0:58:26.800 --> 0:58:30.120 things like that. But when you read the privacy policies 0:58:30.160 --> 0:58:32.760 of these car companies, that's when the eyebrows really go up, 0:58:32.800 --> 0:58:35.439 because they they have these handy little tables in number 0:58:35.480 --> 0:58:37.640 of them where they lay out all the personal information 0:58:37.760 --> 0:58:40.280 they say they can collect on you, and we saw 0:58:40.400 --> 0:58:44.440 things like sex life. Kia mentioned they could collect information 0:58:44.480 --> 0:58:49.680 about your sex life, Nissan mentioned sexual activity, genetic information, 0:58:50.280 --> 0:58:54.920 medical information, uh, you know, race, immigration, and then they 0:58:54.920 --> 0:58:57.160 can they say they can go on and collect even 0:58:57.160 --> 0:58:59.520 more data about you by by collecting it from third 0:58:59.520 --> 0:59:02.640 party so versus like buying it from data brokers or 0:59:02.640 --> 0:59:05.760 getting it from public information public sources that they can 0:59:05.760 --> 0:59:09.080 then combine into, you know, a bigger profile on you. 0:59:09.160 --> 0:59:11.560 And then they say they talk about making inferences about 0:59:11.560 --> 0:59:14.640 things like your intelligence or your abilities, and I don't 0:59:14.640 --> 0:59:16.560 know about you, but I don't need a car company 0:59:16.560 --> 0:59:18.320 making any inferences about my intelligence. 0:59:18.360 --> 0:59:19.400 That just feels creepy. 0:59:20.320 --> 0:59:23.000 It sounds like it's the wild West. It sounds like 0:59:23.080 --> 0:59:26.080 it's the early days of sort of the Internet, and 0:59:26.120 --> 0:59:29.160 when everything tracked you. You'd go to shop for a 0:59:29.760 --> 0:59:32.240 mattress on one website and it would show up for 0:59:32.280 --> 0:59:35.280 ads on thousands of other websites. Is that what's happening 0:59:35.280 --> 0:59:37.920 with the car companies. Nobody's ever really thought about this before, 0:59:38.000 --> 0:59:41.000 so they're just doing whatever they can before people realize 0:59:41.000 --> 0:59:41.600 that they're doing this. 0:59:42.240 --> 0:59:43.280 It sure feels that way. 0:59:43.400 --> 0:59:45.200 It feels like this beast kind of got out of 0:59:45.200 --> 0:59:47.520 control before people started paying attention. 0:59:47.560 --> 0:59:49.000 I mean, I'm guilty of that. 0:59:49.040 --> 0:59:52.080 We started doing this research, and as we were looking 0:59:52.080 --> 0:59:54.040 into it and realized just how bad it was, we're like, 0:59:54.560 --> 0:59:56.240 why aren't more people talking about this? 0:59:56.240 --> 0:59:57.280 This is really bad? 0:59:58.080 --> 1:00:00.200 And then we realized, well, we're the ones that our 1:00:00.280 --> 1:00:02.240 job to talk about this, So I'm glad that you're 1:00:02.240 --> 1:00:05.439 talking about this. And then in terms of the wild West, 1:00:05.560 --> 1:00:08.200 you know, I think consumers are probably pretty kind of 1:00:08.320 --> 1:00:10.200 numb to the fact that their data is collected and 1:00:10.320 --> 1:00:11.360 used for advertising. 1:00:11.640 --> 1:00:12.480 But when you think. 1:00:12.320 --> 1:00:14.680 About cars and you think about the data that can 1:00:14.720 --> 1:00:16.720 be collected and shared, and also just kind of how 1:00:16.720 --> 1:00:19.600 we see cars in our culture, and when you read 1:00:19.640 --> 1:00:22.360 lines in privacy policies that say things like a car 1:00:22.400 --> 1:00:25.240 company could share your personal information with government or law 1:00:25.280 --> 1:00:27.880 enforcement based on something as simple as a formal or 1:00:28.000 --> 1:00:30.919 informal request, then you start to get in the land 1:00:30.960 --> 1:00:33.200 of where things get really kind of scary, because if 1:00:34.000 --> 1:00:36.720 nothing more than an informal request from the government would 1:00:36.800 --> 1:00:39.080 let them listen in on the microphone or track your 1:00:39.120 --> 1:00:42.920 every move, or you know, monitor how many people you 1:00:43.000 --> 1:00:43.920 have in your car. 1:00:44.720 --> 1:00:45.840 That gets really scary. 1:00:46.800 --> 1:00:49.520 So what's the risk of all of this, what's the 1:00:49.560 --> 1:00:53.320 potential consequences of all of this? Why should we be concerned? 1:00:54.560 --> 1:00:57.160 Well, the big reason I think people should be concerned 1:00:57.280 --> 1:00:59.880 is there's not Consumers don't have choice now, you know, 1:01:00.000 --> 1:01:03.200 so if you go and look up a smart fitness tracker, 1:01:03.320 --> 1:01:05.120 you know, we can tell you some that are going 1:01:05.160 --> 1:01:05.840 to do better at. 1:01:05.800 --> 1:01:06.880 Privacy than others. 1:01:07.480 --> 1:01:11.320 With cars, we can't recommend any car companies that are 1:01:11.320 --> 1:01:12.640 going to that are doing better. 1:01:13.400 --> 1:01:14.160 And that's scary. 1:01:14.160 --> 1:01:16.360 And there's not a lot of you know, like this 1:01:16.480 --> 1:01:18.240 is just starting to be talked about, So what are 1:01:18.280 --> 1:01:19.000 the solutions? 1:01:19.760 --> 1:01:21.320 Consumers don't have a lot of options. 1:01:21.360 --> 1:01:24.440 It's time for the policy makers and regulators to step in. 1:01:24.760 --> 1:01:26.800 But we all know that takes a lot of time. 1:01:27.400 --> 1:01:29.600 And the car companies, I mean, let's be honest, car 1:01:29.600 --> 1:01:32.400 companies don't have a long history of very ethical behavior, 1:01:32.520 --> 1:01:35.280 so pushing them to do what's right is going to 1:01:35.320 --> 1:01:37.560 take all of us. And so i'd say, you know, 1:01:38.040 --> 1:01:41.400 if you feel outraged after seeing you know what we're reporting, 1:01:41.920 --> 1:01:44.240 great and then take an action, you know, contact and 1:01:44.320 --> 1:01:47.200 elected official, you know, find out who's a regulator in 1:01:47.240 --> 1:01:48.640 your state and contact them. 1:01:48.720 --> 1:01:50.560 Just make a little bit of noise, because that's what's 1:01:50.560 --> 1:01:51.760 going to take to make change. 1:01:52.120 --> 1:01:55.400 Are there these like options to opt out in the 1:01:55.440 --> 1:01:57.160 app or on the car itself. 1:01:57.880 --> 1:01:59.480 Yeah, opting out is very interesting. 1:01:59.600 --> 1:02:03.080 Tugh's privacy policy basically says you can opt out of 1:02:03.400 --> 1:02:07.480 data collection, but yeah, your car might become inoperable. 1:02:06.960 --> 1:02:08.360 And that's not much of a choice. 1:02:08.360 --> 1:02:12.080 General Motors is interesting because there were reports that some 1:02:12.160 --> 1:02:15.560 of their cars started coming with an option and the 1:02:15.600 --> 1:02:18.040 sticker price that people couldn't opt out of. So it 1:02:18.080 --> 1:02:20.320 wasn't much of an option for fifteen hundred dollars for 1:02:20.360 --> 1:02:24.120 their on Star connected services. And if people are paying 1:02:24.120 --> 1:02:26.160 fifteen hundred dollars for a service that they don't want 1:02:26.200 --> 1:02:29.320 to use because of privacy reasons, you know, that's not fair. 1:02:29.400 --> 1:02:30.280 That's not right. 1:02:30.480 --> 1:02:33.880 And so choice and consent are both really big concerns. 1:02:33.920 --> 1:02:36.000 I mean, consent is a real big issue. You know, 1:02:36.080 --> 1:02:38.920 some car companies basically say you getting in the car 1:02:38.960 --> 1:02:42.280 and being a passenger as a connected car is in essence? 1:02:42.520 --> 1:02:45.800 Can they consider that consent to their privacy policy? And 1:02:45.960 --> 1:02:48.480 neither one of those things are right. And so this 1:02:48.640 --> 1:02:52.520 is why cars are the worst privacy category we've ever reviewed. 1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:56.680 Why is our data so valuable? 1:02:57.320 --> 1:03:00.720 Follow the money right, Like data equals money. The more 1:03:00.760 --> 1:03:03.080 they can tell about you. You know, if Nissan knows 1:03:03.120 --> 1:03:05.800 about your sex life and your intelligence, they can make 1:03:05.960 --> 1:03:09.440 a lot of inferences that you know, would allow marketers 1:03:09.440 --> 1:03:12.200 to target you with things. And it gets really scary 1:03:12.200 --> 1:03:14.120 when you think, you're like, oh, what's an ad what's 1:03:14.160 --> 1:03:17.760 that matter? But if somebody can determine, you know, you 1:03:17.800 --> 1:03:20.880 know where your weaknesses lie based on those inferences, they 1:03:20.920 --> 1:03:24.720 can manipulate you. And you see that a lot in 1:03:25.080 --> 1:03:28.080 our on our internet, you know, people being manipulated and 1:03:28.720 --> 1:03:31.160 lead in places that are not healthy. 1:03:31.560 --> 1:03:32.800 And so that's a big reason. 1:03:32.880 --> 1:03:34.840 You know, companies see it as a way to make money, 1:03:35.720 --> 1:03:37.760 but bad actors see it as a way to manipulate 1:03:37.800 --> 1:03:40.800 people with advertising, and and then it just. 1:03:40.840 --> 1:03:41.959 Kind of spirals from there. 1:03:42.480 --> 1:03:44.760 Where can folks find more information about all this? 1:03:45.320 --> 1:03:47.760 Oh, just go to Privacy Not Included dot org. We 1:03:47.920 --> 1:03:51.320 have articles there, We have the twenty five car reviews. 1:03:51.360 --> 1:03:53.880 Just click on the car tab and if you see 1:03:53.880 --> 1:03:55.280 something that we didn't review. 1:03:55.080 --> 1:03:55.920 Please shoot us out. 1:03:55.920 --> 1:03:58.080 There's a form you can tell us and we'll hopefully 1:03:58.120 --> 1:04:01.360 get to it Somedayah. 1:04:00.200 --> 1:04:03.560 Call Trider, head of the Privacy Not Included team at Mozilla. 1:04:03.600 --> 1:04:04.920 Thanks so much for joining me today. 1:04:05.320 --> 1:04:05.680 Thank you. 1:04:06.280 --> 1:04:08.000 All right, we'll have more rich on Tech coming up 1:04:08.040 --> 1:04:09.760 after this. If you have a question, give me a call. 1:04:09.840 --> 1:04:13.120 Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 1:04:13.240 --> 1:04:19.920 four to two four one zero one. Welcome back to 1:04:20.440 --> 1:04:27.600 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you. Yes, surprising, 1:04:27.680 --> 1:04:30.360 huh about all the car situation, I mean there's really 1:04:30.720 --> 1:04:35.440 the takeaway is can you do anything about it? Not really. 1:04:35.960 --> 1:04:38.000 You know, a lot of these websites and things, you know, 1:04:38.000 --> 1:04:39.880 you can at least say I want to opt out 1:04:40.240 --> 1:04:43.560 the privacy situation. You know, there's a lot of settings 1:04:43.600 --> 1:04:47.440 and a lot of privacy safeguards in place for some 1:04:47.480 --> 1:04:52.160 of these established things. But with cars, again, it's kind 1:04:52.160 --> 1:04:54.680 of like the Wild West. I feel like they're just 1:04:54.760 --> 1:04:57.040 they're just doing whatever they can to get as much 1:04:57.280 --> 1:05:01.080 information they can until someone says something. And by the way, 1:05:01.640 --> 1:05:05.080 when I was in Europe, it's interesting they have a 1:05:05.120 --> 1:05:08.160 lot of Europe in California have like probably the strictest 1:05:08.160 --> 1:05:13.680 privacy laws and regulations, and in Europe It's interesting when 1:05:13.680 --> 1:05:15.280 you go to a website, you know how you get 1:05:15.280 --> 1:05:18.080 those pop ups on every website that says, do you 1:05:18.080 --> 1:05:22.000 want to accept these cookies? And I would always recommend 1:05:22.000 --> 1:05:24.880 that you say reject if you can. But in America, 1:05:25.920 --> 1:05:30.520 the websites usually have two options. It says, dis let's 1:05:30.520 --> 1:05:33.560 see what does this say? Basically accept all or go 1:05:33.600 --> 1:05:35.400 into settings. And then you got to go into these 1:05:35.440 --> 1:05:38.840 settings to like select, you know, de select each individual one, 1:05:38.840 --> 1:05:40.360 which is kind of a pain, so you end up 1:05:40.360 --> 1:05:43.840 saying just select say yes to everything. Well, in Europe 1:05:43.920 --> 1:05:48.720 the only two options are accept all and reject all. Somehow, 1:05:49.160 --> 1:05:52.120 reject all got lost in translation here in the US, 1:05:52.240 --> 1:05:55.440 which would make life a lot easier for us because 1:05:55.480 --> 1:05:57.920 then we don't have to have all these different websites 1:05:57.960 --> 1:06:02.960 following us. So anyway, over in Europe a little bit 1:06:02.960 --> 1:06:05.240 more privacy when it comes to that stuff. They had 1:06:05.240 --> 1:06:08.760 GDPR over there, which is all their data protection regulations, 1:06:09.240 --> 1:06:11.280 So we're kind of getting some of that here in 1:06:11.320 --> 1:06:15.000 the US, but it is still still pretty wild. I mean, really, 1:06:15.080 --> 1:06:17.280 the biggest company to do anything with data privacy was 1:06:17.320 --> 1:06:21.520 Apple when they turned on their little privacy switch on 1:06:21.560 --> 1:06:25.920 the iPhone through the software. I mean that really changed things. 1:06:26.080 --> 1:06:29.160 I mean Facebook overnight lost like ten billion dollars in 1:06:29.200 --> 1:06:32.080 AD revenue because it was just like they couldn't track 1:06:32.120 --> 1:06:36.320 people as much anymore. What's that called. I think it's 1:06:36.320 --> 1:06:40.120 called let's see, I gotta remember what it was called. 1:06:40.920 --> 1:06:46.720 It's called like app tracking transparency. I think app tracking transparency. 1:06:46.840 --> 1:06:49.760 App tracking. It's when you see that little message that 1:06:49.800 --> 1:06:51.680 pops up that says, hey, would you like this app 1:06:51.720 --> 1:06:55.520 to follow you around? You're like, no, yeah, att app 1:06:55.640 --> 1:07:01.200 tracking transparency. This is where iOS asks users for permission 1:07:01.200 --> 1:07:03.520 to share their data. And when they turn this on, 1:07:03.600 --> 1:07:06.040 obviously everyone was just like, no, don't follow me around. 1:07:06.160 --> 1:07:08.720 I gotta watch you to follow me, and that really 1:07:08.960 --> 1:07:13.479 mess things up. Now, ironically, Chrome Google Chrome is doing 1:07:13.520 --> 1:07:17.440 something in the opposite way, and I'll tell you about that. 1:07:17.560 --> 1:07:19.720 Let me take this call. Lisa's been on hold for 1:07:19.760 --> 1:07:21.640 a while. Lisa is in spring Hill. I'll tell you 1:07:21.680 --> 1:07:24.320 about the the Chrome setting after this. Lisa, you're on 1:07:24.400 --> 1:07:24.800 with Rich. 1:07:25.880 --> 1:07:27.919 Hey, Rich, thank you for taking my call. 1:07:28.160 --> 1:07:29.000 Thanks for calling in. 1:07:30.640 --> 1:07:31.080 Sorry. 1:07:32.360 --> 1:07:39.120 I have an HP Pavilion twenty touchscreen a computer and 1:07:39.280 --> 1:07:43.000 it's running currently Windows eight point one. It is a 1:07:43.000 --> 1:07:47.480 little bit older it's not a primary PC. And I 1:07:47.560 --> 1:07:52.400 have a medically fragile son that average life span is 1:07:52.440 --> 1:07:55.160 six and he's actually going to be thirty four next 1:07:55.200 --> 1:08:01.480 a month. Oh wow, Yeah, amazing and cognitively kindergarten first grade. 1:08:01.680 --> 1:08:08.080 And I have a number of older PC software discs 1:08:08.320 --> 1:08:13.800 that really use like ninety five three point one ninety eight. 1:08:14.560 --> 1:08:17.760 Is it realistic for me at all to think that 1:08:17.840 --> 1:08:21.679 I can take this computer not have it beat internet 1:08:21.760 --> 1:08:25.360 access because that's much too advance for him, but for 1:08:25.439 --> 1:08:30.400 him to be able to enjoy these software games currently. 1:08:31.320 --> 1:08:35.800 Well, first off, I'm sure this has been tough for 1:08:35.880 --> 1:08:38.920 you with your son, and I feel for you, so 1:08:39.640 --> 1:08:42.639 I think you've you've done really well. So I just want. 1:08:42.520 --> 1:08:44.960 To let you know that it's a gift and a blessing. 1:08:45.200 --> 1:08:49.640 Yeah. Yeah, So anyway, I just want to get that 1:08:49.640 --> 1:08:54.120 out of the way. But with this setup. So my 1:08:54.240 --> 1:08:57.000 thoughts on this are you can try it. I think 1:08:57.040 --> 1:08:58.960 that it's going to be a little bit of work 1:08:59.000 --> 1:09:02.640 to try to get these two and you know, it 1:09:02.680 --> 1:09:04.639 may work. Some of them may work. Do you now 1:09:04.680 --> 1:09:06.920 when you say you have the discs, are you trying 1:09:06.920 --> 1:09:08.920 to put these discs in the new machine? Like does 1:09:08.920 --> 1:09:12.920 the machine have the slots for these disks? Are they sloppies? 1:09:13.840 --> 1:09:18.599 It does have a dvblat and when I put them in, 1:09:20.160 --> 1:09:25.679 majority of them are just telling me that the things 1:09:25.720 --> 1:09:26.320 don't match. 1:09:26.600 --> 1:09:28.439 Oh so it's not even letting you that. 1:09:29.200 --> 1:09:32.200 Yeah, I was curious if I could just you know, 1:09:32.360 --> 1:09:35.760 clean this out and put in like if I have 1:09:35.960 --> 1:09:39.400 a Windows ninety eight or a Windows ninety five CD 1:09:40.800 --> 1:09:44.680 to make that be I'm not sure what I apologize, 1:09:44.720 --> 1:09:47.839 My computer knowledge is not that great. But to figure 1:09:47.920 --> 1:09:52.120 out if I can install that in lieu of the 1:09:52.240 --> 1:09:55.960 current system, that if that would be able to be 1:09:56.040 --> 1:09:58.400 done on this type of a computer. 1:09:58.360 --> 1:10:00.920 Well, I mean that's an option. You know, it's been 1:10:01.000 --> 1:10:04.040 it's been a long time since I installed Windows, you know, 1:10:04.120 --> 1:10:06.559 ninety eight, ninety five, Windows three point one. It's been 1:10:06.600 --> 1:10:10.400 a very long time since these things. So but with 1:10:10.520 --> 1:10:12.479 that said, I mean, if you're on a computer and 1:10:12.479 --> 1:10:14.960 you've got the DVD drive, it really would come down 1:10:14.960 --> 1:10:18.000 to I think the like the firmware and the bootloader, 1:10:18.080 --> 1:10:20.920 like whether they would allow this to be installed on there. 1:10:21.520 --> 1:10:24.080 And so I think that you'd probably need to enlist 1:10:24.120 --> 1:10:25.920 the help of someone to kind of you know, like 1:10:25.960 --> 1:10:28.719 maybe find like a good, you know, helpful tech person 1:10:28.760 --> 1:10:30.479 in your area that just wants to do this out 1:10:30.479 --> 1:10:33.760 of the goodness of their heart, and you know, maybe 1:10:33.800 --> 1:10:38.400 they can format that drive and run the if you 1:10:38.520 --> 1:10:41.880 have the disc for it Windows ninety five ninety eight. Now, 1:10:41.920 --> 1:10:43.240 the other thing you might be able to do, and 1:10:43.240 --> 1:10:44.960 I'm sure I'm gonna get a lot of emails about 1:10:44.960 --> 1:10:47.360 this with some suggestions, but I think the other thing 1:10:47.360 --> 1:10:50.519 you could do is maybe try like an emulator program. 1:10:51.080 --> 1:10:53.360 So I think on these discs, if you look at 1:10:53.360 --> 1:10:55.040 the way these discs are, if you can put them 1:10:55.040 --> 1:10:57.360 into the computer and actually just see what's on them 1:10:57.760 --> 1:11:02.120 instead of running the installer, maybe try to drag the 1:11:02.160 --> 1:11:05.479 information from the disc to the computer, and then you 1:11:05.560 --> 1:11:08.720 might be able to run these inside like a DOS emulator, 1:11:09.160 --> 1:11:11.200 because a lot of these programs need stuff that does 1:11:11.400 --> 1:11:14.040 the newer programs. The newer version of Windows just doesn't 1:11:14.080 --> 1:11:17.640 have on it anymore. And so that's one way. So 1:11:17.680 --> 1:11:20.519 if you can get the games to install, they're like, 1:11:20.560 --> 1:11:22.760 if you can get the the exse file on there, 1:11:23.439 --> 1:11:26.000 you might be able to do what's called compatibility mode, 1:11:26.360 --> 1:11:29.400 and you can right click that games, you know, the 1:11:29.439 --> 1:11:33.120 ex file, and you click properties and there's a compatibility 1:11:33.160 --> 1:11:36.639 tab and you can actually select the version of Windows 1:11:36.680 --> 1:11:38.680 you want to run this thing in. So that might 1:11:38.720 --> 1:11:41.000 be the easiest way you could try that. So again 1:11:41.040 --> 1:11:44.320 that's called that's called compatibility mode. So you can search 1:11:44.560 --> 1:11:46.760 search Google for that and show you how to do that. 1:11:47.320 --> 1:11:49.519 But that might be like the easiest way if you 1:11:49.520 --> 1:11:51.760 can get these games on the computer, you know, if 1:11:51.800 --> 1:11:53.760 you can get the programs. The other thing is a 1:11:53.920 --> 1:11:56.360 DOS emulator, so I would check out something called dos 1:11:56.400 --> 1:12:01.120 box and see if that would work. You can also 1:12:01.360 --> 1:12:04.519 run an older version of Windows in a virtual machine 1:12:04.560 --> 1:12:06.559 as well, so if you want to try that. But again, 1:12:07.240 --> 1:12:09.240 all of these things are getting a little bit like 1:12:09.760 --> 1:12:14.040 you know, they're getting a little complicated, right, So if 1:12:14.040 --> 1:12:15.240 you're if you're really. 1:12:15.040 --> 1:12:18.960 Not an expert, Yeah, no I'm not. 1:12:19.920 --> 1:12:22.080 But I think I would if I were you, I 1:12:22.080 --> 1:12:25.000 would enlist the help find someone at some sort of 1:12:25.080 --> 1:12:28.160 program there that you know that just look online for 1:12:28.240 --> 1:12:31.200 someone in your area that's got the you know, that 1:12:31.240 --> 1:12:34.080 wants to help people and maybe it is working at 1:12:34.080 --> 1:12:37.320 like a nonprofit or something computer nonprofit that might be 1:12:37.360 --> 1:12:38.760 able to help you set this up because a lot 1:12:38.800 --> 1:12:40.640 of times they'll take old computers and they'll get them 1:12:40.680 --> 1:12:43.400 running again. We've got a guy here in La called 1:12:43.560 --> 1:12:47.280 the Laptop Elf and he does that and so you know, 1:12:47.280 --> 1:12:48.800 maybe even look him up and he might be able 1:12:48.840 --> 1:12:52.679 to guide you on there. But Lisa, great question. Thanks 1:12:52.720 --> 1:12:56.719 for being such an amazing person out there in spring Hill, Florida. 1:12:57.360 --> 1:12:59.519 Best of luck to you and your son with these games. 1:13:00.040 --> 1:13:02.559 Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:13:02.680 --> 1:13:08.519 four to two four one zero one. Back rich DeMuro 1:13:08.680 --> 1:13:14.040 here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight 1:13:14.320 --> 1:13:18.040 Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four 1:13:18.080 --> 1:13:26.599 to two four one zero one. So much to talk about. Still, 1:13:27.520 --> 1:13:29.880 new ad settings on Google Chrome that you might want 1:13:29.880 --> 1:13:33.559 to change. 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If you don't want to call in, you're 1:14:15.640 --> 1:14:17.479 a little embarrassed, you don't want to be on the phone, 1:14:17.520 --> 1:14:19.960 you want to be in live radio, you can go 1:14:20.040 --> 1:14:22.360 to my website rich on tech dot TV. Look for 1:14:22.400 --> 1:14:25.160 the microphone button in the lower right hand corner. You 1:14:25.200 --> 1:14:27.440 can tap that and you can leave me a voicemail. 1:14:27.960 --> 1:14:31.439 Just my advice is be concise, right, I mean, you know, 1:14:31.560 --> 1:14:35.519 you just just be concise, and we will perhaps play 1:14:35.520 --> 1:14:38.320 that on the air in the feedback section of the 1:14:38.360 --> 1:14:42.679 show which comes up at the end. Here, let's see, 1:14:43.240 --> 1:14:47.800 let me tell you about this Google Chrome ad settings situation. 1:14:47.960 --> 1:14:52.680 So Google Chrome is rolling out something called Enhanced ad Privacy, 1:14:52.760 --> 1:14:57.080 which sounds great, right, But this actually targets ads to 1:14:57.080 --> 1:15:00.439 you based on your browsing history using something called the 1:15:00.640 --> 1:15:04.479 Topics API. So basically what's happening is this kind of 1:15:04.479 --> 1:15:06.880 goes back to what I was saying about Apple all 1:15:06.960 --> 1:15:11.000 there's a big kind of backlash against sharing the exact 1:15:11.040 --> 1:15:13.280 things that you're doing on your phone and the websites 1:15:13.280 --> 1:15:16.800 that you're going to with other websites using what's called 1:15:16.800 --> 1:15:19.400 third party cookies. I know it gets a little complicated, 1:15:19.600 --> 1:15:21.679 but basically, if you've ever seen one of those ads 1:15:22.120 --> 1:15:24.840 that follows you around the web, that's because of what's 1:15:24.840 --> 1:15:27.760 called a third party cookie. That means that when you 1:15:27.880 --> 1:15:31.719 visit one website, right and you shop for a new comforter, 1:15:32.560 --> 1:15:35.679 there's a little cookie that remembers that on your web browser. 1:15:36.120 --> 1:15:40.000 And then when you go to another website that sells stuff, 1:15:40.760 --> 1:15:43.599 it looks at your cookies and it says, oh, this 1:15:43.640 --> 1:15:46.000 guy was looking for a comforter, let me show him 1:15:46.040 --> 1:15:49.120 ads for comforters. So that's kind of how that works 1:15:49.160 --> 1:15:52.479 in a nutshell. And there's companies that kind of broker 1:15:52.600 --> 1:15:56.559 these cookies. So and it's even more complicated. So when 1:15:56.560 --> 1:15:58.679 you go to a website, there might be a list 1:15:58.680 --> 1:16:02.680 of like thirty other tracking companies that work with that 1:16:02.760 --> 1:16:07.679 website to gather the data of you, what you're doing, 1:16:07.800 --> 1:16:09.880 how you're doing it, and then they exchange that data 1:16:09.880 --> 1:16:12.599 with other websites, and websites pay for all this. It's 1:16:12.640 --> 1:16:15.599 like our guest earlier said, it's all about the money. 1:16:16.400 --> 1:16:19.479 And so people are getting hip to this. They're blocking 1:16:19.520 --> 1:16:23.719 third party cookies, they're using ad blockers, they're using enhanced 1:16:23.800 --> 1:16:29.519 tracking search engines like Duck duck Go, and browsers like Brave, 1:16:29.640 --> 1:16:32.040 and so it's getting tougher and tougher for these companies 1:16:32.040 --> 1:16:34.479 to figure out who you are, what you're doing, what 1:16:34.479 --> 1:16:36.559 you're looking at, and so they're coming up with new 1:16:36.560 --> 1:16:39.280 ways of doing it. So Google, who obviously has a 1:16:39.280 --> 1:16:43.479 lot to lose in this situation because they're entirely ad 1:16:43.520 --> 1:16:46.559 revenue based, they're saying, Okay, well, let's come up with 1:16:46.600 --> 1:16:48.920 something that seems to be private, but let's make it 1:16:48.960 --> 1:16:51.599 work for people. So they call it the Topics API, 1:16:51.640 --> 1:16:54.240 and this works for advertisers and you. So they're saying, look, 1:16:54.240 --> 1:16:56.439 we're not going to share who you are, but we're 1:16:56.439 --> 1:16:58.160 just going to kind of figure out the things that 1:16:58.200 --> 1:17:00.439 you're interested in, and we're going to share those things 1:17:00.479 --> 1:17:03.280 with companies the websites that you visit. We're gonna say, look, 1:17:03.360 --> 1:17:10.040 riches into motorcycles, riches into travel, riches into you know, premium, 1:17:11.320 --> 1:17:16.439 you know whatever, and that's the information we'll share with 1:17:16.560 --> 1:17:18.760 the website. And then the website goes, Okay, we got 1:17:18.800 --> 1:17:21.680 a guy here who likes motorcycles. Let's show them accessories 1:17:21.680 --> 1:17:25.960 for motorcycles. And that's how this works. Now. The bad 1:17:26.000 --> 1:17:28.799 part about this is that Google is pretty much making 1:17:28.840 --> 1:17:31.559 this where you have to turn it off if you 1:17:31.600 --> 1:17:34.080 don't want it. So they're putting a pop up on 1:17:34.120 --> 1:17:36.920 your screen that says here's what we're doing. Got it, 1:17:37.000 --> 1:17:40.160 and you press got it, and you've just turned this on. Now, 1:17:40.320 --> 1:17:44.280 like I said, in Europe, a lot of the menus 1:17:44.280 --> 1:17:47.360 are saying turn it on instead of got it, but 1:17:47.439 --> 1:17:49.160 here in the US it just says got it. So 1:17:49.160 --> 1:17:51.040 you press got it and you're like, okay, well that's 1:17:51.120 --> 1:17:53.840 whatever that was, and really you just turned on this 1:17:53.880 --> 1:17:56.479 new feature. So some are saying this is what's called 1:17:56.479 --> 1:18:00.599 a dark pattern because you're opting in by DeFi rather 1:18:00.640 --> 1:18:04.080 than saying, hey, I don't want this. And so I 1:18:04.160 --> 1:18:05.760 tell you all this because there is a way to 1:18:05.760 --> 1:18:08.960 turn this off, and I would kind of I'm not 1:18:09.000 --> 1:18:10.640 saying you have to turn it off, but I'm just 1:18:10.760 --> 1:18:13.479 letting you know about this so you can decide if 1:18:13.520 --> 1:18:16.439 you want to turn it off. So, if you're running 1:18:16.479 --> 1:18:20.120 Chrome on your computer, go to the menu, and the 1:18:20.160 --> 1:18:23.320 menu are those three dots that are next to your name, 1:18:23.360 --> 1:18:27.280 the three vertical dots and then you tap settings, and 1:18:27.320 --> 1:18:30.160 then once you're in settings, there's something called privacy and Security. 1:18:30.200 --> 1:18:33.280 You tap that and then you'll see something that says 1:18:33.520 --> 1:18:37.519 AD privacy, customize the info used by sites to show 1:18:37.520 --> 1:18:40.120 you ads, and you can go in there and it 1:18:40.160 --> 1:18:45.160 says AD topics, site suggested Ads, and AD measurement. All 1:18:45.200 --> 1:18:48.840 three of these settings are probably turned on on your Chrome. 1:18:50.000 --> 1:18:52.880 I have them turned off just because I feel like 1:18:53.040 --> 1:18:57.679 the less information floating out there about me is better. 1:18:58.360 --> 1:19:00.280 So I like these turned off, but you can them 1:19:00.320 --> 1:19:02.360 on if you want more targeted ads. That's fine. I 1:19:02.360 --> 1:19:04.639 don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. I just think 1:19:04.680 --> 1:19:06.639 that you should know how to turn these on and off. 1:19:07.160 --> 1:19:12.920 So again, menu settings, Privacy and Security, and then go 1:19:12.960 --> 1:19:15.840 to AD Privacy and you'll see those three toggles to 1:19:15.880 --> 1:19:18.400 turn on or off. While you're in here, you might 1:19:18.439 --> 1:19:21.519 also want to look at third party cookies. I would 1:19:21.560 --> 1:19:26.640 suggest blocking third party cookies on your web browser, and 1:19:26.720 --> 1:19:31.439 so that way these third party cookies aren't sharing as 1:19:31.479 --> 1:19:34.599 much information about you either, So that's an option. Most 1:19:34.640 --> 1:19:36.919 of the time, it says either allow third party cookies, 1:19:37.000 --> 1:19:40.439 block third party cookies and incognito, or block third party cookies. 1:19:40.880 --> 1:19:43.040 I would say block third party cookies, that would be 1:19:43.080 --> 1:19:47.000 my suggestion, but again it's up to you. Now, if 1:19:47.000 --> 1:19:48.800 you want an easy I know that's a lot. So 1:19:48.840 --> 1:19:51.120 if you want an easy to follow way to do this, 1:19:51.720 --> 1:19:54.599 just go to my instagram at rich on Tech and 1:19:54.920 --> 1:19:59.360 look for the posts that says Chrome Privacy Alert. You 1:19:59.439 --> 1:20:02.880 can just tap that and it's very very simple. I've 1:20:02.880 --> 1:20:04.600 got the instructions there. I'll also put it on the 1:20:04.640 --> 1:20:10.759 show notes. Oh let's see, let's go to uh Mike 1:20:10.960 --> 1:20:14.280 in Long Beach. Mike, you're on with rich Hi, how 1:20:14.320 --> 1:20:16.840 are you doing. I'm doing fantastic. What can I help 1:20:16.880 --> 1:20:17.120 you with? 1:20:17.720 --> 1:20:17.880 Uh? 1:20:18.000 --> 1:20:25.879 Yeah, I I want either a computer or tablet or iPad. 1:20:27.560 --> 1:20:30.800 And the whole purpose of it is just to do 1:20:31.120 --> 1:20:36.360 investing and financial so you know, pay bills, not gonna 1:20:36.360 --> 1:20:41.519 do email, not going to even do browsing. That's that's 1:20:41.520 --> 1:20:44.640 the only thing I want to do because there's things 1:20:45.240 --> 1:20:47.040 that I could do with that that I can't do 1:20:47.160 --> 1:20:48.080 on my iPhone. 1:20:49.080 --> 1:20:52.400 Right, just having that desktop browser and all that stuff. 1:20:53.360 --> 1:20:54.759 I'm thinking more like a notebook. 1:20:54.840 --> 1:20:59.520 But it just so you want a laptop. 1:21:01.240 --> 1:21:04.599 Probably because I don't have a lot of room, Okay, house. 1:21:04.880 --> 1:21:07.240 Well, I would not recommend a tablet. I think that 1:21:07.280 --> 1:21:09.559 if you're if you're trying to do you know, your 1:21:09.560 --> 1:21:13.599 banking on there investing, I think a tablet is good, 1:21:13.640 --> 1:21:15.439 but I think a tablet is more for sort of 1:21:15.439 --> 1:21:20.880 content consumption. And so I would recommend a laptop because 1:21:20.880 --> 1:21:23.519 it's going to be easier. Now, you may not need 1:21:23.560 --> 1:21:25.400 a laptop. Are you taking Are you doing this from 1:21:25.439 --> 1:21:27.280 the couch or are you gonna take this around the 1:21:27.280 --> 1:21:29.360 house or are you just you know, are you gonna 1:21:29.360 --> 1:21:30.720 set this up like in an office? 1:21:32.240 --> 1:21:35.080 Uh no, I I just do it on my iPhone 1:21:35.160 --> 1:21:39.960 wherever I'm at in the house, either either sitting in 1:21:40.080 --> 1:21:42.360 the TV or sometimes in the bedroom. 1:21:42.479 --> 1:21:44.920 Okay, well then I then maybe you want a laptop 1:21:44.960 --> 1:21:46.320 so you can bring it around the house, but I 1:21:46.560 --> 1:21:49.519 don't think you need something that's very high powered. We 1:21:49.600 --> 1:21:51.920 had a guest on a couple of weeks ago that 1:21:52.000 --> 1:21:56.960 went through some of the top laptops for twenty twenty three, 1:21:57.200 --> 1:22:00.600 and especially the laptops that were the best value, and 1:22:00.680 --> 1:22:02.800 so I'm going to recommend too that I think would 1:22:02.800 --> 1:22:06.440 work for your situation. The first is the the Asus 1:22:06.680 --> 1:22:12.000 zen Book fourteen o LEAD and this is a Windows laptop, 1:22:12.560 --> 1:22:14.840 and it's got the specs that you need, and it's 1:22:15.160 --> 1:22:16.680 got the price that you need. So it's going to 1:22:16.720 --> 1:22:20.080 be under one thousand dollars. And we are coming up 1:22:20.080 --> 1:22:23.360 to the holidays, and these are going to be discounted 1:22:23.439 --> 1:22:25.439 during the holidays, So if you can wait a little bit, 1:22:26.120 --> 1:22:28.400 I personally would just kind of watch the price on 1:22:28.439 --> 1:22:32.639 these things and see what happens with the pricing, because, 1:22:33.080 --> 1:22:36.599 believe me, there's a glut of computers in the market 1:22:36.680 --> 1:22:39.599 at this point because everyone was buying them during the pandemic. 1:22:39.960 --> 1:22:43.200 The manufacturers were ramped up sales, and now of course 1:22:43.280 --> 1:22:45.599 everyone's set up and they don't need these as much. 1:22:46.160 --> 1:22:49.439 So this one's got great specs, it's got a nice 1:22:49.479 --> 1:22:53.160 big screen for you, fourteen inches, running the latest Windows, 1:22:53.640 --> 1:22:55.920 and it's a good price under a thousand bucks. It 1:22:55.960 --> 1:22:59.559 looks like it's running about maybe seven to eight hundred dollars, 1:22:59.640 --> 1:23:03.280 depending on how you get get it configured. The other 1:23:03.360 --> 1:23:05.880 thing is a MacBook. If you want to go Apple, 1:23:06.200 --> 1:23:09.400 I would recommend a MacBook. They've got a new MacBook Air, 1:23:09.439 --> 1:23:12.519 but it's pricey, obviously, it's starting at thirteen hundred dollars. 1:23:12.960 --> 1:23:16.160 That's the MacBook Air. Fifteen. That'll give you a really 1:23:16.280 --> 1:23:19.480 nice big screen to work on. If you don't particularly 1:23:19.520 --> 1:23:23.719 need that, you can go with the thirteen inch. Oh wow, 1:23:23.800 --> 1:23:27.639 this actually let's see. Oh, the MacBook Airs is actually 1:23:27.680 --> 1:23:31.080 on sale on Amazon right now. It's down to it's 1:23:31.080 --> 1:23:33.880 basically fifteen percent off, down to eleven hundred bucks, so 1:23:33.880 --> 1:23:36.080 that's pretty good. But again, these prices are going to 1:23:36.080 --> 1:23:40.000 be coming down. If you want an inexpensive Mac computer. 1:23:40.600 --> 1:23:43.599 The twenty twenty version of the MacBook Air, which has 1:23:43.640 --> 1:23:45.519 their M one chip, which is a little bit old 1:23:45.560 --> 1:23:48.040 at this point, but it still works pretty well. That's 1:23:48.080 --> 1:23:50.080 got a thirteen inch display. They're selling that for about 1:23:50.120 --> 1:23:53.040 seven hundred and fifty dollars. So those are a couple 1:23:53.040 --> 1:23:55.200 of options for you. I think any of those will 1:23:55.240 --> 1:23:58.080 work for what you're doing, because you're just talking about 1:23:58.120 --> 1:24:03.839 doing basic web browsing, investing, banking. I'd recommend a Chromebook, 1:24:03.880 --> 1:24:06.200 but I think that that's even too basic for what 1:24:06.280 --> 1:24:09.880 you want. I think a standard desktop running either a 1:24:09.920 --> 1:24:12.680 standard web browser it would be best for you. Even 1:24:12.720 --> 1:24:14.760 though Chromebook does that, I think that that's probably the 1:24:14.760 --> 1:24:17.280 best for you. So, Mike, I think that's going to 1:24:17.360 --> 1:24:19.719 do it. I hope you make a lot of money 1:24:19.720 --> 1:24:22.400 with this laptop, and then when you need a new one, 1:24:22.439 --> 1:24:25.400 you can just upgrade. All right, Thanks for the call today, 1:24:25.439 --> 1:24:28.920 appreciate it. From their long beach phone number, Triple eight 1:24:29.040 --> 1:24:31.240 rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two 1:24:31.439 --> 1:24:34.240 four one zero one. Coming up later in the show, 1:24:34.280 --> 1:24:36.320 I'll tell you about Oh we're going to talk to 1:24:37.000 --> 1:24:41.120 Julian Vargas mobile access technology specialists. He's going to run 1:24:41.120 --> 1:24:44.160 over some of the latest ways technology is helping the blind. 1:24:44.600 --> 1:24:50.719 You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 1:24:50.760 --> 1:24:53.800 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you at 1:24:53.840 --> 1:24:57.240 Triple eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight 1:24:57.479 --> 1:25:02.360 seven four to two four one zero one, website, rich 1:25:02.400 --> 1:25:04.680 on Tech dot tv, or you can find me on 1:25:04.720 --> 1:25:08.479 social media at rich on Tech. Let's go to Don 1:25:08.680 --> 1:25:10.960 in Utah. Don. You're on with rich. 1:25:11.479 --> 1:25:12.840 Hey, Rich, I love your show. 1:25:13.760 --> 1:25:17.080 It's very informative. It keeps me happy every. 1:25:17.000 --> 1:25:17.839 Time I'm listening. 1:25:18.000 --> 1:25:18.880 Oh, thank you. 1:25:19.479 --> 1:25:22.600 I hope this is a simple question. I have my 1:25:22.720 --> 1:25:25.479 Apple iPhone thirteen. I've had it for a few years 1:25:25.520 --> 1:25:29.760 and I've recorded like barbershops songs, like like thousands of hours. 1:25:29.920 --> 1:25:33.040 Okays, some little things that I just post up like 1:25:33.080 --> 1:25:33.680 do do do Do? 1:25:33.680 --> 1:25:34.240 Do Do Do Do. 1:25:35.320 --> 1:25:36.840 I would like to figure out how to get that 1:25:36.920 --> 1:25:39.360 on the internet somehow so everybody can hear that. I'll 1:25:39.400 --> 1:25:40.639 I can post them all somewhere. 1:25:41.760 --> 1:25:42.839 How long are these. 1:25:44.000 --> 1:25:46.680 Well some of them are two or three hours, and 1:25:46.720 --> 1:25:48.320 some of them are just a few seconds. 1:25:48.520 --> 1:25:50.439 Oh wow, okay? How did you. 1:25:50.479 --> 1:25:53.679 Record them on my voice and noms on my iPhone? 1:25:53.840 --> 1:25:57.560 Oh? Okay? And is it is this copyrighted stuff or 1:25:57.600 --> 1:25:58.760 is this stuff you did? 1:25:59.160 --> 1:26:01.760 No, it's just my bar course it's not. You know, 1:26:01.800 --> 1:26:02.160 it's fine. 1:26:02.200 --> 1:26:03.040 I think I can put it up. 1:26:03.200 --> 1:26:07.960 Oh it's your chorus. Okay, so it's your okay, okay. Uh, 1:26:08.439 --> 1:26:12.479 I would think that. Well, hmmm, it's probably a couple 1:26:12.479 --> 1:26:15.200 of ways. I mean, do you want so you can 1:26:15.280 --> 1:26:17.400 do a you know, like a simple website and you 1:26:17.400 --> 1:26:19.760 want this for free? By the way, Yeah, I just. 1:26:19.680 --> 1:26:21.800 Want to post it so everybody can hear it about it? 1:26:21.840 --> 1:26:22.519 Cool stuff on there. 1:26:22.560 --> 1:26:24.040 I just want to get it out there for everybody. 1:26:24.520 --> 1:26:26.599 Well, a lot of the free stuff has gone away, 1:26:26.680 --> 1:26:29.680 so I'm trying to see. SoundCloud obviously is one of 1:26:29.720 --> 1:26:32.920 the biggest, you know, places that people post stuff. But 1:26:32.960 --> 1:26:36.840 I'm wondering if they have now started to charge. Uh, 1:26:36.960 --> 1:26:41.439 let's see if they SoundCloud. It's like there, you know 1:26:41.479 --> 1:26:44.320 what they should have it. They should have a requirement 1:26:44.520 --> 1:26:48.080 that these websites should have the pricing information right on 1:26:48.120 --> 1:26:51.160 the front page. Because it's so many of the websites 1:26:51.200 --> 1:26:53.880 now will let you get started and then all of 1:26:53.880 --> 1:26:56.200 a sudden it's like, oh yeah, by the way, it's uh, 1:26:56.360 --> 1:27:01.000 this is it. Okay, so let's see a sound cloud. Okay. 1:27:01.040 --> 1:27:03.919 So it looks like next is up to three hours 1:27:03.960 --> 1:27:11.920 of track uploads. So that may not work for you, right, 1:27:12.920 --> 1:27:15.120 I don't know. So I think that they're all in 1:27:15.120 --> 1:27:15.599 one place. 1:27:15.640 --> 1:27:17.200 They're different, you know. 1:27:17.240 --> 1:27:20.240 Each one's okay. I think the best way to go 1:27:20.280 --> 1:27:23.559 about this is probably going to be YouTube because YouTube 1:27:23.600 --> 1:27:27.400 lets you pretty much upload unlimited for free, and the 1:27:27.439 --> 1:27:29.880 only trick is you're going to have to add video 1:27:29.960 --> 1:27:34.960 to the audio. Right. Oh yeah, yeah, so that's that's 1:27:34.960 --> 1:27:36.680 the main thing. So there's a couple of ways you 1:27:36.720 --> 1:27:40.839 can do this. There's some there's apps on the iPhone 1:27:41.000 --> 1:27:43.600 you can just like, you know, put video like a 1:27:43.640 --> 1:27:46.639 background to it. There's a whole bunch of just video 1:27:46.680 --> 1:27:49.800 apps that you can do that with, you know, like 1:27:49.840 --> 1:27:50.559 a cap cut. 1:27:50.640 --> 1:27:55.000 Have you ever heard of that cap cut Yep? 1:27:55.400 --> 1:27:57.439 Yeah, I mean you just you just being needed. I mean, 1:27:57.520 --> 1:27:59.519 I'm saying, you just add a picture. So if you 1:27:59.680 --> 1:28:02.479 down the app called cap cut, you would basically just 1:28:02.560 --> 1:28:05.639 choose a background image and then you would put your 1:28:05.680 --> 1:28:08.400 audio under that image and it would generate a video. 1:28:08.479 --> 1:28:11.240 Because the reason I'm telling you that is because with YouTube, 1:28:11.280 --> 1:28:14.200 you have to upload a video file, not an audio file. 1:28:14.600 --> 1:28:16.479 So it's kind of like you're you're almost like hacking 1:28:16.479 --> 1:28:18.120 the system a little bit, but not really, It's not 1:28:18.160 --> 1:28:21.800 like you're doing anything wrong. It's just YouTube wants you 1:28:21.840 --> 1:28:23.600 to have some sort of background video. So if you 1:28:23.680 --> 1:28:26.479 just upload any sort of photo or picture or whatever, 1:28:26.600 --> 1:28:29.360 even even it's something you can create on Canva. Have 1:28:29.439 --> 1:28:29.960 you heard of that. 1:28:31.640 --> 1:28:33.360 Canvava? 1:28:33.520 --> 1:28:37.320 Yep, Canva c a n va. So I would. So 1:28:37.439 --> 1:28:40.840 here's what I would do. So take your audio, take 1:28:40.880 --> 1:28:44.920 your your take, sorry, start at cap cut, download that file, 1:28:45.040 --> 1:28:48.720 download that app, have that on your phone. Okay, then 1:28:48.760 --> 1:28:51.120 you're gonna go to Canva. You can download that app 1:28:51.160 --> 1:28:54.160 on your phone and create an image. So you're you're 1:28:54.200 --> 1:28:57.320 going to create a thumbnail image for this video. So 1:28:57.400 --> 1:29:01.400 let's say your barbershop song is about you know, the 1:29:01.760 --> 1:29:05.920 wide open you know, sunset whatever you would, you know, 1:29:06.040 --> 1:29:10.000 just go on on Canva and look for a sunset 1:29:10.080 --> 1:29:13.120 image and just put that on there and then export that. 1:29:13.479 --> 1:29:16.040 Now you have your picture, you'll have your audio from 1:29:16.080 --> 1:29:19.200 your voice memos. You go to cap cut and you 1:29:19.320 --> 1:29:21.880 merge those two together. So you basically drag and drop 1:29:21.960 --> 1:29:24.439 the picture in, you drag and drop the audio in, 1:29:24.640 --> 1:29:27.599 and now you export it as a file. It will 1:29:27.600 --> 1:29:30.719 ask you you know which aspect ratio. It'll have YouTube 1:29:30.720 --> 1:29:33.600 as a preset. You export it and then you go 1:29:33.640 --> 1:29:36.360 to the YouTube app you upload it. That sounds like 1:29:36.400 --> 1:29:39.519 a lot, but it is not. It's very very easy, 1:29:39.600 --> 1:29:42.080 and it's very very simple, and many many people do it, 1:29:42.600 --> 1:29:46.360 and it'll just get your stuff out there on YouTube. Now, 1:29:46.400 --> 1:29:48.920 the other thing you can do, there's a website that 1:29:48.960 --> 1:29:51.840 I like called Headliner. So if you want those kind 1:29:51.840 --> 1:29:55.040 of like fun little waveform images that people like to 1:29:55.080 --> 1:29:58.479 have on static audio, you can use an app called 1:29:58.520 --> 1:30:02.280 Headliner to do that. So that's called headliner dot app. 1:30:02.600 --> 1:30:04.439 And again I'll put all of this in the show notes. 1:30:04.479 --> 1:30:07.040 So if you're listening and you're like, wait, what, but 1:30:07.160 --> 1:30:10.839 that's unlimited as well, so I might even try that first, 1:30:10.880 --> 1:30:15.960 just because I feel like the waveform moving is kind 1:30:15.960 --> 1:30:19.120 of fun to have on your audio file. If it's 1:30:19.120 --> 1:30:22.360 on YouTube, it's just a static thing. So that's what 1:30:22.439 --> 1:30:25.920 I use to create the to create the podcast video 1:30:26.479 --> 1:30:28.920 video podcast of this show, because it's just a static 1:30:28.960 --> 1:30:31.880 image on YouTube. But don that's what I would do, 1:30:32.000 --> 1:30:34.200 and then upload them there. You'll get unlimited and just 1:30:34.640 --> 1:30:38.599 send people the link to the YouTube page. Let's see 1:30:38.720 --> 1:30:42.160 Roadblocks coming to PlayStation. Roadblox is gonna come to PlayStation 1:30:42.400 --> 1:30:46.759 on PlayStation four and PlayStation five in October. It's already 1:30:46.800 --> 1:30:51.360 on pretty much every platform except PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. 1:30:51.600 --> 1:30:53.759 So your kids are gonna be asking to play Roadblocks 1:30:53.760 --> 1:30:56.639 on PlayStation now. You know, one more way to waste 1:30:56.680 --> 1:30:59.559 their time. Triple eight Rich one on one eight eight 1:30:59.680 --> 1:31:03.120 eight seven two four one zero one. Coming up, we're 1:31:03.120 --> 1:31:05.679 going to talk about tech for the blind. You're listening 1:31:05.680 --> 1:31:11.320 to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:31:11.560 --> 1:31:17.679 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology and 1:31:17.920 --> 1:31:23.080 uh on the line. You've got a familiar voice from 1:31:23.120 --> 1:31:29.440 the previous show. Julian Vargas, Mobile access technology specialist passionate 1:31:29.479 --> 1:31:33.320 about empowering blind and low vision users to uh leave 1:31:33.840 --> 1:31:37.280 fuller lives with mobile devices and apps. Julian, thanks so 1:31:37.360 --> 1:31:38.320 much for joining me today. 1:31:38.880 --> 1:31:40.000 Thanks for having me on. Rich. 1:31:40.080 --> 1:31:42.200 Hey, I know that you called in the show a 1:31:42.200 --> 1:31:44.360 long time ago and you were you were giving a 1:31:44.400 --> 1:31:46.000 suggest and I said to Kim, I said, hey, why 1:31:46.000 --> 1:31:47.880 don't we just have Julian on the show one time? 1:31:47.920 --> 1:31:49.720 So it's taken a little bit, but I finally got 1:31:49.720 --> 1:31:51.400 you on. Why don't you tell me a little bit 1:31:51.439 --> 1:31:52.559 about yourself? First off? 1:31:53.600 --> 1:31:58.720 So, first of all, I am blind, and the reason 1:31:58.760 --> 1:32:02.519 why that's significant is because I'm not just somebody who 1:32:02.560 --> 1:32:05.400 went and learned how to use these services or things 1:32:05.479 --> 1:32:08.760 and now it's teaching it to people. I actually live 1:32:08.920 --> 1:32:11.719 this stuff. I use it every day. It has made 1:32:11.720 --> 1:32:15.839 me productive and independence. So it's just my greatest pleasure 1:32:15.840 --> 1:32:17.960 in life when I can pass it along to somebody. 1:32:18.520 --> 1:32:21.519 Do you feel like technology has gotten better in recent 1:32:21.600 --> 1:32:24.800 years when it comes to assisting the blind and low vision? 1:32:25.680 --> 1:32:28.200 It certainly has. It's not to say that there isn't 1:32:28.439 --> 1:32:30.720 a long way to go in certain areas, but by 1:32:30.800 --> 1:32:34.640 and large, absolutely it has made a tremendous difference in 1:32:35.360 --> 1:32:38.160 just about all my everyday tasks. 1:32:39.160 --> 1:32:42.040 And so I guess explain for someone you know, because 1:32:42.080 --> 1:32:45.000 I think people you know they have an idea of 1:32:45.040 --> 1:32:48.200 what you know, blind is, what low vision is, Can 1:32:48.240 --> 1:32:50.120 you explain, like just kind of like give me an 1:32:50.120 --> 1:32:53.400 idea of how it impacts your life on a daily basis. 1:32:54.320 --> 1:32:57.400 So blindness is if you think of it on a spectrum. 1:32:57.520 --> 1:33:01.120 Very few people who are called blind really are completely 1:33:01.160 --> 1:33:05.320 and totally blind, meaning no light perception or anything. The 1:33:05.439 --> 1:33:11.240 vast majority of us have some either light perception or 1:33:11.320 --> 1:33:15.200 can see certain things. Maybe it's blurry, maybe it's only 1:33:15.360 --> 1:33:18.960 certain colors. So and some of it depends on light. 1:33:19.040 --> 1:33:24.680 Like my condition is a hereditary disease, so it's very 1:33:24.720 --> 1:33:27.960 similar to written pigmentosa, but it's a little different. And 1:33:29.840 --> 1:33:33.519 as I age, obviously normal sight deteriors anyway, but this 1:33:33.640 --> 1:33:37.880 condition particularly is known to deteriorate. So when I was 1:33:37.920 --> 1:33:41.240 about my early to mid thirties, I started to really 1:33:41.280 --> 1:33:45.200 notice that decline and realize that I had to start 1:33:45.240 --> 1:33:48.880 adopting the blindness methods of doing things, even if I 1:33:48.880 --> 1:33:51.960 still had some usable vision, because at the end of 1:33:51.960 --> 1:33:53.360 the day, you know, if you know how to do 1:33:53.400 --> 1:33:57.519 the blindness methods, it doesn't matter how bright it is, 1:33:57.560 --> 1:34:00.000 how dark it is, what the conditions are, what colors, whatever, 1:34:00.479 --> 1:34:01.160 you can function. 1:34:01.560 --> 1:34:03.880 Okay, thank you for that. That was very helpful for me. 1:34:04.720 --> 1:34:08.240 Let's talk about some of these features. First off, Google Lookout. 1:34:08.400 --> 1:34:11.000 Didn't this just recently get an update from Google? 1:34:12.320 --> 1:34:14.519 It's it's in the pipeline, you know how Google is. 1:34:14.560 --> 1:34:17.720 They announced something just like security updates, and then it 1:34:18.720 --> 1:34:22.000 determines the Google Gods determined when your device is blessed 1:34:22.080 --> 1:34:23.040 enough to receive a bit. 1:34:23.320 --> 1:34:26.080 That's so annoying, by the way, I believe me, I 1:34:26.400 --> 1:34:29.479 call it on TV. I always say whenever someone whenever 1:34:29.479 --> 1:34:32.280 a tech company says rolling out, it's the worst two 1:34:32.360 --> 1:34:34.960 words in the English language for a person that wants 1:34:35.000 --> 1:34:36.960 that feature, because you never know when you're gonna get it. 1:34:37.680 --> 1:34:39.200 I wish they could be like Apple. You know, when 1:34:39.200 --> 1:34:42.360 Apple announces an update, it happens and all the devices 1:34:42.400 --> 1:34:43.760 get it. You don't have to sit here and wait. 1:34:43.920 --> 1:34:46.400 But yeah, that's just the impatient part of me that 1:34:46.800 --> 1:34:47.960 likes to tinker with things. 1:34:48.200 --> 1:34:50.400 So Google Lookout, what does that do exactly? 1:34:51.160 --> 1:34:54.320 So Google Lookout is I almost think of it as 1:34:54.320 --> 1:34:57.759 a Swiss army knife of blindness tools. There's a similar 1:34:57.840 --> 1:35:02.559 app on iOS called Being Ai from Microsoft, and it's 1:35:02.640 --> 1:35:05.400 various different things. You can have it, for example, read 1:35:05.560 --> 1:35:07.960 text that it sees in front of the camera at 1:35:07.960 --> 1:35:11.200 that moment. You can have it describe objects that are 1:35:11.200 --> 1:35:13.320 put in front of the camera at that moment. Or 1:35:13.400 --> 1:35:16.200 you can take a picture of a document and perform 1:35:16.240 --> 1:35:19.439 optical character recognition and then have it read to you aloud. 1:35:20.479 --> 1:35:22.559 You know, you can have it identify currency, you can 1:35:22.600 --> 1:35:24.200 have it read barcode, you can have it du all 1:35:24.280 --> 1:35:28.559 kinds of things. But lately AI has entered the equation 1:35:28.920 --> 1:35:31.600 and it's making a huge difference in a lot of 1:35:31.640 --> 1:35:33.479 areas because you know, at the end of the day, 1:35:33.479 --> 1:35:37.280 we're limited in what the operating system makes the thing 1:35:37.360 --> 1:35:41.639 capable of doing. But AI, it just it just blows 1:35:41.640 --> 1:35:44.240 me away the amount of details that you get in descriptions. 1:35:44.320 --> 1:35:47.479 Wow. Okay, so you've got Seeing Ai from Microsoft, You've 1:35:47.479 --> 1:35:50.160 got the Google Lookout, and then you also have this one. 1:35:50.360 --> 1:35:52.720 Now I've heard of this Be my Eyes app. Now 1:35:52.720 --> 1:35:54.040 they have be My AI. 1:35:55.080 --> 1:35:57.080 Yeah, so b my Eyes is long known for the 1:35:57.080 --> 1:36:01.559 longest time. It's volunteers that agree to help blind people 1:36:02.080 --> 1:36:05.040 when they need a pair of vise to borrow. But 1:36:05.200 --> 1:36:07.680 what this does is it makes it so that now 1:36:07.760 --> 1:36:10.920 you can ask in AI. It's powered by chat GPT Force, 1:36:10.960 --> 1:36:14.040 it's the latest and greatest that they are their offerings 1:36:14.280 --> 1:36:17.000 and you could either take a picture or share a 1:36:17.040 --> 1:36:21.360 picture to it and it comes back with these stunning descriptions. 1:36:21.400 --> 1:36:24.360 In fact, it's very very lengthy, and a lot of 1:36:24.360 --> 1:36:27.360 times you just want to know about one particular thing 1:36:27.360 --> 1:36:28.960 in the picture. So that's what I like about it 1:36:29.000 --> 1:36:31.479 is that I can take a picture. For example, I 1:36:31.520 --> 1:36:34.280 took a picture. I'm a hammer operator, took a picture 1:36:34.280 --> 1:36:37.200 of one of my handheld radios, and of course it 1:36:37.640 --> 1:36:40.439 describes all the buttons, the layout, all that stuff. But 1:36:40.520 --> 1:36:42.680 I wanted to know what was on the display, so 1:36:42.760 --> 1:36:45.120 I could do a follow up question and say what 1:36:45.160 --> 1:36:48.040 does the display say? And it'll either tell me what 1:36:48.080 --> 1:36:50.639 the display says or tell me you know that part's glory. 1:36:50.720 --> 1:36:53.320 Could you send another picture, try to aim more towards 1:36:53.320 --> 1:36:55.479 the display and it kind of helps you to help 1:36:55.560 --> 1:36:57.400 it give me the information that I need. 1:36:57.600 --> 1:37:00.320 So wait, is that going through a volunteer that looking 1:37:00.400 --> 1:37:01.679 at this or is that through AI? 1:37:02.560 --> 1:37:03.240 That's through AI? 1:37:03.360 --> 1:37:04.280 That's that's oh wow. 1:37:04.880 --> 1:37:05.840 Four on the other end. 1:37:06.000 --> 1:37:10.120 So that's pretty advanced, it is. That's incredible, okay, And 1:37:10.160 --> 1:37:11.200 is that available now? 1:37:12.200 --> 1:37:14.439 It's it's available, but you have to sign up for 1:37:14.520 --> 1:37:16.760 because it's currently in beta, but they are opening that 1:37:16.840 --> 1:37:20.200 beta to more and more people these days. So anybody 1:37:20.200 --> 1:37:23.880 who has to be My Eyes app, if you haven't already, 1:37:23.960 --> 1:37:26.320 hit the button that says to sign up for to 1:37:26.320 --> 1:37:28.479 get on the waiting list for be my AI. I 1:37:28.600 --> 1:37:30.800 recommend doing it because then they put you on the 1:37:30.800 --> 1:37:32.720 list and when you get chosen, they send you an 1:37:32.720 --> 1:37:34.839 email thing welcome to be my AI. 1:37:35.200 --> 1:37:39.519 Wow. Okay, let's move on to iOS seventeen. Obviously, Apple 1:37:39.640 --> 1:37:42.040 is I feel like they've done a pretty good job 1:37:42.120 --> 1:37:45.280 with their accessibility features. You kind of have to, you know, 1:37:45.320 --> 1:37:47.439 look for them and enable the ones that work for you. 1:37:47.520 --> 1:37:49.559 But tell me about this new point and speak feature. 1:37:50.560 --> 1:37:55.000 So earlier on they've added things. Of all things they 1:37:55.000 --> 1:37:57.400 addeded in the Magnifier app, so you kind of have 1:37:57.439 --> 1:37:59.960 to know to look there, okay, but they've they've been 1:38:00.120 --> 1:38:04.360 doing things like like door detection and certain object detection. 1:38:04.840 --> 1:38:07.240 Well now they're adding this thing called point and Speak. 1:38:07.479 --> 1:38:09.719 And the reason why this is helpful is, let's say 1:38:09.920 --> 1:38:14.400 I'm at a facility or someplace that has a vending 1:38:14.439 --> 1:38:17.280 machine and it's got all these different buttons on it. Well, 1:38:17.400 --> 1:38:19.880 I can take a picture, or you know, I could 1:38:20.000 --> 1:38:22.280 put the camera in front of it. And from what 1:38:22.320 --> 1:38:24.960 I understand, if I put my finger over my finger 1:38:25.000 --> 1:38:27.120 over one of the buttons, it's going to tell me 1:38:27.560 --> 1:38:30.439 what I'm pointing to. So this is what makes the 1:38:30.479 --> 1:38:32.519 big difference is that now I don't have to try 1:38:32.520 --> 1:38:35.960 to guess that what it read to me and hope 1:38:35.960 --> 1:38:37.800 that I hit the right one. It's going to tell 1:38:37.800 --> 1:38:39.880 me when I'm hovering my finger over the right one. 1:38:40.000 --> 1:38:42.360 Oh wow, that's interesting. So you kind of point your 1:38:42.360 --> 1:38:44.479 finger at it. Does a camera see that? 1:38:45.600 --> 1:38:49.120 Yes? The camera season and I guess the stuff in 1:38:49.560 --> 1:38:52.960 the app season and computes it and all that stuff 1:38:53.000 --> 1:38:55.559 and makes it happen. The thing is, though, you need 1:38:55.600 --> 1:38:58.120 a light our equipped phone, which I currently don't have. 1:38:58.200 --> 1:39:01.400 But I am strongly considering getting the iPhone fifteen Pro 1:39:01.520 --> 1:39:04.040 this year because lightar has been around for a while 1:39:04.040 --> 1:39:05.920 and I was waiting for it to mature and to 1:39:05.960 --> 1:39:07.479 see how it is going to get put to use. 1:39:07.520 --> 1:39:09.320 And now I've seen a use case that makes sense 1:39:09.320 --> 1:39:10.800 for me to add it to my toolbox. 1:39:10.960 --> 1:39:14.000 Okay, So light R was introduced on the iPhone twelve, 1:39:14.120 --> 1:39:17.720 so if you have iPhone twelve, iPhone thirteen, iPhone fourteen, 1:39:18.880 --> 1:39:22.280 or the upcoming iPhone fifteen. Yeah, they kind of introduced 1:39:22.360 --> 1:39:24.599 light AR with like all the AR stuff, and that 1:39:24.680 --> 1:39:27.200 never really took off with Apple. But now, of course 1:39:27.240 --> 1:39:31.720 they're doing the whole headset. So what do you think 1:39:31.760 --> 1:39:36.559 of that? The headset, by the way, do you think that's. 1:39:36.160 --> 1:39:37.960 I wish I had the bundy to spend on it, 1:39:38.040 --> 1:39:40.360 but I think there's a lot of potential with it 1:39:40.400 --> 1:39:42.960 because again, and this is the beauty of an Apple 1:39:43.200 --> 1:39:45.640 from day one. I've already seen demos of this that 1:39:45.720 --> 1:39:49.599 we're done at WWDC where it has voiceover in it, 1:39:50.080 --> 1:39:53.720 so already it's got custom gestures hand gestures that you 1:39:53.760 --> 1:39:56.720 do to interact with it. So I think there's a 1:39:56.760 --> 1:40:00.200 lot of potential to help blind in low vision in 1:40:00.240 --> 1:40:03.320 the futures it develops, and of course as a hopefully 1:40:04.760 --> 1:40:07.479 it price comes down a little bit, becomes a little 1:40:07.520 --> 1:40:09.080 more affordable to the masses. 1:40:09.120 --> 1:40:12.080 Let's help. So I was also looking at some of 1:40:12.120 --> 1:40:15.760 the features on iOS seventeen that are coming out, and 1:40:15.800 --> 1:40:18.080 this is not This is not necessarily an accessibility feature, 1:40:18.080 --> 1:40:21.240 but it's still handy. You can you'll be able to say, Siri, 1:40:21.439 --> 1:40:27.439 read this, and it will automatically read an article to you, 1:40:27.439 --> 1:40:29.559 you know, on the like if you're on a web page. 1:40:29.960 --> 1:40:31.040 So that's kind of cool. 1:40:31.920 --> 1:40:35.559 Yeah, that's particularly handy for people who are high enough 1:40:35.840 --> 1:40:41.200 in vision that don't maybe use voiceover consistently, but may 1:40:41.240 --> 1:40:43.720 occasionally need some spot reading or some a little bit 1:40:43.760 --> 1:40:45.080 of help here and there. And that's what I like 1:40:45.200 --> 1:40:48.800 features like that, or Speak Screen that are also in accessibility, 1:40:49.000 --> 1:40:50.960 so help those people. 1:40:51.240 --> 1:40:54.880 Speak screen is inside the accessibility features. Yes, And who 1:40:54.920 --> 1:40:56.519 do you think is doing a better job? iOS or 1:40:56.560 --> 1:40:58.360 Android with the accessibility stuff? 1:40:59.120 --> 1:41:01.880 You know, Android has come a long way, I have 1:41:01.920 --> 1:41:07.639 to say, and I keep hoping that eventually it's going 1:41:07.640 --> 1:41:09.160 to get so good that I'm going to be able 1:41:09.160 --> 1:41:11.320 to make an Android my daily driver, because I like 1:41:12.000 --> 1:41:15.360 the idea of Android better than io s. But iOS, 1:41:15.439 --> 1:41:18.080 at least in my use case, is still the more 1:41:18.120 --> 1:41:21.519 functional tool. I have both phones because I have to 1:41:21.520 --> 1:41:23.320 know what I'm talking about for each of these platforms, 1:41:23.360 --> 1:41:26.760 so I do play with both, but I think they're 1:41:26.800 --> 1:41:29.519 both getting better. That there's one that's better at one thing, 1:41:29.600 --> 1:41:31.720 one that's better at the other. And I think in 1:41:31.760 --> 1:41:34.120 the end, it's a beautiful world we live in now 1:41:34.120 --> 1:41:37.160 that all the major operating systems more or less has 1:41:37.160 --> 1:41:39.160 some form of accessibility built into them. 1:41:39.320 --> 1:41:42.240 Absolutely, the fact that they're thinking about this and considering 1:41:42.240 --> 1:41:45.479 it and actually building the tools is pretty incredible. And 1:41:45.880 --> 1:41:47.519 before we go real quick, I just want to say, 1:41:47.520 --> 1:41:49.519 I was watching a movie the other day and you 1:41:49.560 --> 1:41:53.439 said retinus pigments pigmentosa. Is that what you said earlier? 1:41:54.400 --> 1:41:58.040 Mine is similar? Mine actually is called Leber's congenital amaurosis 1:41:58.200 --> 1:42:02.400 or LCA. That's my specific condition, but the one that 1:42:02.400 --> 1:42:05.519 it's very similar to is retinitis pigmentosa. 1:42:04.880 --> 1:42:07.160 Okay rtnitis. So I never heard that term in my 1:42:07.240 --> 1:42:09.240 life until a couple of weeks ago. I was watching 1:42:09.280 --> 1:42:12.600 a movie on Netflix called Happiness for Beginners, and I 1:42:12.640 --> 1:42:15.160 don't want to give away the whole movie, but they 1:42:15.240 --> 1:42:17.559 mentioned that in the movie. It's kind of a turning point, 1:42:17.600 --> 1:42:19.920 and so I anyway, I don't know if you heard 1:42:19.960 --> 1:42:23.839 of that, but that's uh. It's it put I issues 1:42:23.880 --> 1:42:26.080 front and center in a in a mainstream movie, which 1:42:26.120 --> 1:42:27.280 I thought was pretty neat. 1:42:27.760 --> 1:42:28.519 That is awesome. 1:42:29.080 --> 1:42:32.439 Julian Vargas Mobile Access, Technology, training and consulting. How can 1:42:32.479 --> 1:42:34.400 folks get in touch with you online? 1:42:34.880 --> 1:42:38.360 Best way to go is to my website www dot tech, 1:42:38.840 --> 1:42:41.920 JV dot com. That's T E, C. H JS and 1:42:42.000 --> 1:42:45.439 John Vis Invictor dot com. All my contact info is 1:42:45.439 --> 1:42:48.000 there for those who don't have the Internet and want 1:42:48.000 --> 1:42:51.080 to get a hold of me. Eight one eighth seven 1:42:52.080 --> 1:42:53.360 nine five four. 1:42:53.840 --> 1:42:55.720 All right, Julian, thanks so much for joining me today. 1:42:55.720 --> 1:42:57.040 I hope you come on the show again. 1:42:57.720 --> 1:42:59.960 I look forward to it. I'm available anytime you're like. 1:43:00.160 --> 1:43:04.400 Thanks a lot. Okay, coming up the feedback segment, and 1:43:04.439 --> 1:43:06.639 I got to tell you about this new AI feature 1:43:06.840 --> 1:43:14.599 on eBay. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome 1:43:14.640 --> 1:43:18.040 back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out 1:43:18.080 --> 1:43:21.880 with you talking technology, and it is time for your 1:43:22.320 --> 1:43:26.600 favorite part of the show, the feedback segment. What I 1:43:26.640 --> 1:43:31.480 love about this show is you sometimes you have the answers, 1:43:31.600 --> 1:43:36.439 the insight, the comments, the feedback that just really brings 1:43:36.479 --> 1:43:39.720 this show together. So I do appreciate you sending in 1:43:39.760 --> 1:43:43.080 this information. Let me get through a couple things before 1:43:43.120 --> 1:43:46.360 I get to that. First off, eBay says that they've 1:43:46.400 --> 1:43:50.479 got a new magical listing tool that uses AI to 1:43:50.560 --> 1:43:54.639 make selling on eBay faster, easier, and more accurate. So 1:43:55.000 --> 1:43:57.760 if you've ever posted anything to eBay, you know the challenge, right. 1:43:57.800 --> 1:44:00.240 You want to make things as specific as possible because 1:44:00.240 --> 1:44:02.680 people want to know specifics of what you're selling. But 1:44:02.840 --> 1:44:05.000 it also takes a long time to do that. Sometimes 1:44:05.000 --> 1:44:07.720 you're trying to identify the item you have, you know, 1:44:07.760 --> 1:44:09.599 you're typing in a whole bunch of stuff and then 1:44:09.800 --> 1:44:12.439 you know, so it takes a long time, and if 1:44:12.479 --> 1:44:15.160 you're doing a bunch of stuff, that could really get annoying. 1:44:15.240 --> 1:44:19.240 So eBay says they're now using AI with like eerie accuracy. 1:44:19.760 --> 1:44:23.400 They've got this new magical listing tool which literally lets 1:44:23.439 --> 1:44:26.840 you take a picture of something and watch AI fill 1:44:26.880 --> 1:44:30.880 in the details. It can write titles, descriptions, information which 1:44:30.920 --> 1:44:35.320 might even include the product release date, detailed category and subcategory. 1:44:35.640 --> 1:44:39.120 Plus it then cross references other products to suggest a 1:44:39.160 --> 1:44:42.080 listing price and a shipping cost. So this will really 1:44:42.120 --> 1:44:44.280 help people who may have something in their attic or 1:44:44.280 --> 1:44:46.160 in their garage and don't know where to start, like 1:44:46.200 --> 1:44:49.640 a vintage radio or you know, a collectible and the 1:44:49.720 --> 1:44:51.720 AI is like, oh, we know exactly what this is. 1:44:51.800 --> 1:44:55.320 Here you go, and so this is going to be 1:44:55.400 --> 1:44:57.840 really really cool. They also say that they've rolled out 1:44:57.880 --> 1:45:00.679 a better background removal tool. 1:45:00.760 --> 1:45:00.920 Now. 1:45:00.920 --> 1:45:03.720 I find it funny that people like images without backgrounds. 1:45:03.960 --> 1:45:06.439 When I was shopping on eBay and selling on eBay 1:45:06.479 --> 1:45:09.160 back in the day, I thought the background, having like 1:45:09.200 --> 1:45:11.240 a little bit of like personality in the background was 1:45:11.240 --> 1:45:12.800 a good thing because then you could tell that was 1:45:12.800 --> 1:45:15.439 a real item versus something that was just taken on 1:45:15.680 --> 1:45:18.200 a blank background. But I guess people like, you know, 1:45:18.600 --> 1:45:20.599 if you're taking a picture like in your garage or something, 1:45:20.600 --> 1:45:23.200 you just want to see the image whatever. This is 1:45:23.240 --> 1:45:25.360 going to come out in the next couple of months 1:45:25.400 --> 1:45:27.840 as a public beta, so right now they're testing it 1:45:27.840 --> 1:45:31.360 with employees. Let's see. Polaroid has a new instant camera, 1:45:31.680 --> 1:45:34.800 the I two six hundred dollars. Would you pay six 1:45:34.880 --> 1:45:37.559 hundred bucks for a Polaroid at this point? But it's 1:45:37.560 --> 1:45:42.200 got some manual controls plus some high tech stuff. It 1:45:42.200 --> 1:45:45.920 can better focus, it's got light ar auto focus, got bluetooth, 1:45:45.960 --> 1:45:50.519 a better battery that's rechargeable. Six hundred dollars. It's the 1:45:50.560 --> 1:45:56.280 most premium instant camera from Polaroid. Guess what film seventeen 1:45:56.360 --> 1:45:59.320 dollars for eight pictures. I don't know about that one 1:45:59.360 --> 1:46:01.879 for me. I mean, I love the idea of a Polaroid. 1:46:01.960 --> 1:46:04.519 My kids have like the little cheapy ones, but they 1:46:04.600 --> 1:46:06.559 barely use them. I mean, it's all about the phone 1:46:07.760 --> 1:46:13.280 website Taste bud Dot taste dash bud dot io powered 1:46:13.280 --> 1:46:16.840 by AI. You type in what's in your fridge or 1:46:16.920 --> 1:46:18.960 an ingredient or a couple that you have, and it 1:46:19.040 --> 1:46:23.479 uses chat GPT and stable diffusion to brainstorm and dream 1:46:23.560 --> 1:46:26.719 up recipes. This was created by a couple of folks 1:46:26.720 --> 1:46:28.280 who just wanted to have fun. It's kind of a 1:46:28.320 --> 1:46:33.400 cool retro looking website. Taste dash bud dot io and 1:46:33.800 --> 1:46:36.280 Duo Lingo is adding math lessons. So if you know 1:46:36.360 --> 1:46:39.920 that app for their foreign language lessons, dual Lingo is 1:46:39.960 --> 1:46:42.920 adding math. Come October eleventh, they're going to announce more 1:46:42.920 --> 1:46:46.360 about that. All right, let's see question how long do 1:46:46.400 --> 1:46:48.479 we have? We got a couple of minutes here, let's 1:46:48.479 --> 1:46:50.679 go Oh gosh, I don't think we'll have time for questions, 1:46:50.680 --> 1:46:52.439 so maybe we'll just get to the comments. All right, 1:46:52.479 --> 1:46:55.519 You want to get to the first to voicemail comment. 1:46:55.560 --> 1:46:56.439 Let's hear the voicemail. 1:47:00.120 --> 1:47:03.240 Hi, Rich, I just want to say you're so helpful 1:47:03.280 --> 1:47:07.920 and informative and even for a gen X or slash 1:47:08.000 --> 1:47:13.320 millennial who think she knows some tech stuff. You know, 1:47:13.400 --> 1:47:15.960 can here myself free you tech savvy, but you have 1:47:16.040 --> 1:47:20.639 a lot. And also that segment on ringing and trying 1:47:20.640 --> 1:47:25.000 to get my parents to get a ring what's very helpful. 1:47:25.080 --> 1:47:26.000 So you rock. 1:47:26.080 --> 1:47:30.040 Thank you well, thank you. I love that. Melissa, thanks 1:47:30.040 --> 1:47:33.920 for leaving the voicemail. Dan email says love the radio 1:47:33.960 --> 1:47:36.360 show podcast. My son just started a new school year. 1:47:36.400 --> 1:47:38.360 The school bus is taking a different route because there's 1:47:38.400 --> 1:47:40.280 more kids to pick up, but it's taking more than 1:47:40.320 --> 1:47:42.120 an hour for my son to get to school on 1:47:42.160 --> 1:47:44.759 the bus. Is there a maps app that can coordinate 1:47:44.760 --> 1:47:47.559 a trip with multiple stops in the most efficient manner? 1:47:48.400 --> 1:47:51.400 I tried out AI. I just popped into Claude AI 1:47:51.479 --> 1:47:53.280 a bunch of addresses and I said, can you make 1:47:53.320 --> 1:47:56.360 the most efficient route? And it seemed to work, and 1:47:56.479 --> 1:47:59.639 Dan said, uh, he's working on it, so that might 1:47:59.680 --> 1:48:02.360 be one way. AI is really really wild with all 1:48:02.439 --> 1:48:06.320 this stuff. Let's see. We got to comment from Blue 1:48:06.320 --> 1:48:10.439 Green on Instagram about the privacy stuff with cars, he said, 1:48:10.560 --> 1:48:12.800 I switched to the Ford Mochee. It's shocking how much 1:48:12.800 --> 1:48:16.200 privacy I don't have. There's cameras everywhere. I've covered many 1:48:16.200 --> 1:48:19.360 of them. I bought an Amazon cover to cover one. 1:48:19.800 --> 1:48:22.360 It also assists with the sun. When I wear my sunglasses, 1:48:22.400 --> 1:48:24.600 the car yells at me to watch the road, so 1:48:24.680 --> 1:48:26.880 I have to cover that up. And no, I don't 1:48:26.880 --> 1:48:30.880 get lane assistance with that. These cars have live stream. 1:48:31.640 --> 1:48:35.160 And then he a whole bunch of emojis, peanuts, a clown, 1:48:35.320 --> 1:48:39.360 and a world so whatever that means. And then let's 1:48:39.360 --> 1:48:41.519 see here. Carol says, I got a random one dollar 1:48:41.600 --> 1:48:43.680 charge of my Spectrum account via my credit card. I 1:48:43.720 --> 1:48:45.120 called in. They said, if I want to pay my 1:48:45.160 --> 1:48:49.479 account via representative, I have to pay an extra five dollars. 1:48:49.880 --> 1:48:51.920 I said, nope, if I want to talk to a 1:48:51.960 --> 1:48:57.120 real person, no, I'm not doing that. So they yeah, 1:48:57.320 --> 1:49:01.760 fees are everywhere. Fees are everywhere. Please, if you ever 1:49:01.760 --> 1:49:03.519 get a feed just ask them to waive it and 1:49:03.560 --> 1:49:05.400 see what they say. I've done that with a couple 1:49:05.400 --> 1:49:09.120 of phone companies and things like that. All right, that's 1:49:09.160 --> 1:49:11.760 it for the feedback right now. If you can believe it. 1:49:11.920 --> 1:49:14.759 That's going to do it. For this episode of the show. 1:49:15.200 --> 1:49:17.160 You can find links to anything I mentioned here on 1:49:17.160 --> 1:49:20.040 my website. Just go to Richontech dot tv. This is 1:49:20.080 --> 1:49:22.479 show number thirty six. You can find me on social 1:49:22.560 --> 1:49:24.840 media at rich on Tech. Say hi to me there. 1:49:25.200 --> 1:49:27.960 Next week all about the iPhone fifteen. I'll be up 1:49:27.960 --> 1:49:30.040 at Apple's event. I'll be telling you everything I saw 1:49:30.080 --> 1:49:32.800 there hands on with the new phone. Thank you so 1:49:32.960 --> 1:49:34.960 much for listening. There are so many ways you can 1:49:35.000 --> 1:49:37.400 spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right 1:49:37.400 --> 1:49:39.360 here with me. I just want to say thanks to 1:49:39.439 --> 1:49:44.600 everyone who makes this show possible. Kim Bobo, Bill engineers 1:49:45.439 --> 1:49:49.040 at all the radio stations across America. My name is 1:49:49.120 --> 1:49:51.960 rich Demiro. Thank you for listening. I will talk to 1:49:51.960 --> 1:49:52.840 you real soon.