WEBVTT - 011 Rich on Tech Radio Show - March 18, 2023 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:05.399 Big Mobile sells out to T Mobile, YouTube TV hikes prices, 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:12.200 the FCC fights to stop robotexts, plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:13.840 What's going on. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.439 I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:18.599 show where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:23.240 you should know about and answer your questions about technology. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:27.400 I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.720 Welcome to the show. Phone lines are now open one 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.360 eight eight eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.800 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:41.560 me a call if you have a question about technology 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.400 or otherwise just want to chat. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:46.160 A big news this week. 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.320 Two big stories, actually a lot of big stories, but 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.440 two that really resonated on my Twitter, and that's usually 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.720 where I figure out what people care about, for better 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:00.440 or for worse. But T Mobile is buying mint Mobile, 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.360 which the irony is so strong here because Mint Mobile 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.039 was for folks who wanted to stick it to the 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:11.640 man by not subscribing to a big wireless company. And 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.840 now Mint Mobile sells out to the man. So Mint Mobile, 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.759 which you know, you know them for their quirky advertising. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.319 Ryan Reynolds is an owner. They had these plans that 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.320 were kind of like Costco. The more you bought in advance, 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.240 the cheaper it was. So if you bought three months 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.440 of service, six months of service, you paid for a 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.600 year in advance. That's how you saved money. They had 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.120 plans as low as fifteen bucks a month. It was 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.199 a good value. In fact, I have a Mint line 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.319 as a tester line, not my main line, and I've 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.600 got a family member that has been on Mint for 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.120 many years. And they would tell a lot of people 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.440 about Mint saying I pay fifteen bucks a month, and 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.760 you know, I get everything I need And people would 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.360 be like, how do you do that? I don't understand. 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.200 That's of course with some limited data. But T Mobile 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.080 why did they buy Mint Mobile? Well, they want their marketing. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.600 They want the way that they market things. That's really 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.480 what they purchased here for oh a cool one point 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.440 three five billion dollars. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.840 So Ryan Reynolds made out in this deal. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.359 They also get two other companies that this two other 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.000 brands that this company owns. Kayena Corporation is the is 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.240 the parent company. They get Mint Mobile, Ultramobile, and then 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.640 a wholesaler called Plum. So this is the quote that 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.160 really stuck with me over the long term will benefit 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.400 from applying the marketing formula Mint has become famous for 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.880 across more parts of T Mobile, so that's what they want. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.080 They want the marketing, they want the way that Mint 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.119 Mobile does business, and they're going to keep the Mint 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.480 Mobile brands around. But realistically, the way I see this 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.040 not good for consumers. It's never good for consumers when 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.280 a big company gobbles up a competitor, small company because 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.239 people went to that small company. They didn't want to 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.800 be with the big company, and now they have no choice. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.680 They are folded into them, and many people probably wondering 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.639 do I stick with Mint Mobile. Nothing's going to change overnight, 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.799 but over time realistically T Mobile are they going to 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.160 compete with themselves? I mean, these are two different kind 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.360 of segments. T Mobile trying to push the ultra premium 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.320 you know, eighty dollars a month plans for unlimited everything, 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.640 whereas Mint Mobile is pushing the lower end plans for 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.400 the value oriented consumer. So, if you're with Mint Mobile, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.840 do you need to switch right now? Probably not, but 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.040 you might have your eye on a different carrier, a 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.799 more independent brand. Even though we all know that all 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.400 of these brands are the same. They all run on 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.920 one of three networks in America, which is T Mobile, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.320 Verizon or AT and T. I've got a guest coming 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.840 on the show from whistle Out, Sherry Riggs. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.880 She is going to talk more about this. It's not 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:49.560 really a merger. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.559 I guess it's a purchase and some of the alternative 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.520 plans out there, and just kind of get her take 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.600 on this whole thing. She covers wireless all day long, 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.760 so we'll hear what she has to say. The other 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.080 big story is a price increase, and we've gotten a 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.800 lot of these price increases. YouTube TV now the latest 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.640 to raise their prices. I was very excited about YouTube TV. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.480 I'm a subscriber there as well, and it was very 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.000 exciting because the other company I work for, KTLA in 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:22.480 Los Angeles, they announced that they are coming to YouTube tv, 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.600 so the channel I work for on TV would be 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.800 available streaming first time ever, and that was exciting. At 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.200 sixty five dollars a month, now it's going to seventy 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:33.960 two to ninety nine a month, So we take the good, 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.800 we take the bad. Eight extra dollars a month not 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.760 make or break for a lot of folks, but it's 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.400 the principle of things, you're getting more and are you 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.760 really watching eight more dollars worth of stuff? 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:46.320 I don't know. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:52.040 Current subscribers will see this new update on April eighteenth. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:56.520 That's when the price change kicks in to soften the 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.560 blow a little bit. The four K add on, which 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.760 used to be twenty dollars a month, which is wild, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.039 is only nine to ninety nine now. So realistically, if 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.920 you're subscribing to YouTube TV, you're now paying seventy three 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.120 dollars a month for one hundred channels you don't watch 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.719 and three channels that you actually watch. And YouTube TV 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.600 is fantastic, don't get me wrong. They give you unlimited DVR. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:19.640 They just gave you the new feature where I can 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.560 watch four different things at once, which is perfect timing 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.040 with the final four happening March Madness. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.679 So it's cool, but is it worth seventy three dollars 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:30.039 a month? 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.880 I mean, we all canceled cable because we wanted to 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.719 get away from these giant cable prices, and now here 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.440 they are again. So I don't know, but this made 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.560 me think about the idea of the bundle. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:41.920 Right. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:47.120 Companies love bundling because math is hard for us. We 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.120 all wanted a la carte, right, this is what we 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:53.520 all went to streaming for. But now, as we've all realized, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.240 you start subscribing to all these individual streaming services and 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.120 they add up really fast. See, you get more money 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.479 for a bundle, but you also get stuff that you 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:07.159 don't need. For example, the Triple Play. How many people 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.719 have paid for phone lines they don't need, just to 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.279 get that deal on cable TV and Internet. I know 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.800 many many people, including myself, did this. The Triple Play 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.160 was like ninety nine bucks for everything you needed Internet, 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.840 cable TV, your phone line that you never needed, and 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.800 if you bought them separately, it'd be way more. YouTube Premium. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.640 I've got a subscription to that. I get YouTube music included. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.040 I don't need YouTube music. I already pay for another 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.720 music service, but yet there it is, and I feel 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.320 guilty because I need to stream on it, because I 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.359 need to pay, you know, get my money's worth YouTube Premium. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.640 By the way, price for that just went up. Apple One, 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.839 I'm a subscriber there. I pay like thirty three dollars 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.719 a month. I know it's absolutely insane how much I 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.520 pay for Apple One, but I need two out of 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.680 these seven things I get included there, I get two 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.359 terabytes of storage, which I love because my kids have 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.720 their iPads and they're recording things all the time. And 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:03.720 you know, you get that message on your iPhone that 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.680 you're out of iCloud storage. And we had that for 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.320 many years because I resisted, and now I finally gave in. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.520 We don't get the message anymore. But now we have 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.440 Apple News. We have Apple Fitness, which I do like. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.600 We have Apple Music, which again don't really want, but 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.240 I have and I use it. Nothing against Apple Music, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.640 but it's just one of these things that I feel 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.000 guilty because I pay for it that I want to 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:26.400 use it. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.000 What else do I get with Apple One? 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.520 I get like, a, oh, there's so many things Apple 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:32.880 News I mentioned that I get. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:34.440 Let me let me look down the list here. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.960 Oh, Apple TV. My wife watches one show on there, 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.640 so we get that Apple Arcade. My kids used to 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.480 play games on that iCloud. Okay, we use that Apple 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.480 News plus three hundred newspapers and magazines. I haven't looked 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.680 at one of them. Apple Fitness plus I do like 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:53.000 and I do use. So again, a couple of things 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.920 I like, but I don't need it all. Verizon now 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.960 they're doing a bundle. They're giving people Netflix free for 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.080 a year, but you have to described to something else 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:01.600 to get that. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:03.320 Disney Plus. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.440 I subscribe to Disney plus, Hulu plus, ESPN plus, so 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.760 many pluses in these things. It's cheaper to get them 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.680 together than to get them separate. Bundles are sticky. Companies 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.280 know this. They know we love the bundle because it 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.360 feels like we're getting a value. T Mobile plans, they 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:23.160 include Netflix, they include Major League Soccer. Airlines they offer 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.320 a bundle. You buy a ticket. They say, hey, for 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.600 an extra sixty bucks, you can board the plane faster, 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.400 you can get a better seat. In the end, we 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:35.280 are spending more, but we're probably using less. But yet, 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.440 as consumers, we have these brains that are just wired 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.440 a certain way. You feel good when you're getting a value. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.800 You go to a fast food place. It's cheaper to 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.000 buy the value meal than it is to buy the 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.359 fries and the burger by themselves. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:49.720 It's just the way it works. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.680 It's marketing one oh one, and we fall hook line 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.480 and sinker. So YouTube TV, yes, what I like to 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.240 just choose the fifteen channels that I might actually watch 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.000 on YouTube TV for ten fifteen twenty dollars a month. Absolutely, 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.000 will they ever let me do that? No, nobody lets 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.199 you do that. You always have to buy a bundle. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.600 All right, Well, this show is a package deal. We've 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.520 got three hours of tech to talk about coming up 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.599 on today's show. We've got so much great stuff to 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:23.000 talk about. The FCC has new rules to help stop robotexts. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.720 We'll see if those are gonna work. I've got three 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.240 great guests this week. Ben Parr is gonna join us. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.720 He's gonna talk AI and the impact on your job. Yes, 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.280 it's gonna affect me, it's gonna affect you, It's gonna 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:40.240 affect everyone this week alone, Microsoft, Google, and Chat GPT 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.680 all have brand new developments when it comes to AI. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.920 Like I mentioned, Sherry Riggs from Whistle Out, She's gonna 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.640 join us to talk alternatives to mint Mobile and just 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.920 talk about the state of the wireless industry in general. 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:57.000 And then later Ember CEO Klay Alexander is gonna join us. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.040 He's gonna talk about their new self warming baby bottle. Now, 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.720 thankfully I am out of that stage with the whole 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.280 baby bottle thing. But I remember warming these things up. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.280 They're like a gremlin. The baby bottle you can't you 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.079 can't put it in the microwave. There's so many rules 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.320 about the baby bottle. So we're going to talk about 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.000 that as well. You are listening to Rich on Tech. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.719 Your calls at triple eight Rich. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:19.040 One oh one. 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.000 The phone lines are open right now. Give me a 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.080 call eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.440 zero one. If you have a question, you've got a 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.320 thought about technology, I want to hear from you. We've 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.360 got so much more to talk about in this show. Ah, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.880 can you tell them fired up today? Yes, that's the 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.400 energy I want on this show. Give me a call 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.200 if you share that enthusiasm. You're listening to rich on Tech. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.800 Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is Rich 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:54.200 dmiro online at richontech dot tv. You can find me 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:58.400 on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, all the regular places. Taking your 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.280 calls right now at triple eight Rich one O one. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:05.440 That's eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.200 Gilda is in La Mesa, California. Gilda, you are on 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.520 with Rich How you doing? 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:16.679 Excuse me? Hi, Thank you for taking my call. I 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.880 need to purchase a new modem, and I'm wondering if 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.280 a separate router is better or just a combo of 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.520 a modem and router together and it whichever, And also 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.480 if you could recommend a brand to me? 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.000 Okay, So what company are you going? 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:35.199 With? 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.920 Cox? From my internet service? 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.640 And so they offer you, pardon me, they offer you 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.840 a selection of Is it a rental fee every. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:45.080 Month or what? 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:45.960 No? 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:46.960 I buy my own? 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:48.480 Oh so you have to buy your own? 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.720 No, I don't have to, but I prefer to buy 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:52.160 my own. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:53.240 Why And they. 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.880 Did send me a list of all the compatible products 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.199 is quite a huge list. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:11:59.920 Yeah, well, why do you want to buy your own? 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.080 I'm just curious. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:06.480 Mine is about fifteen years old and it's been kind 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.040 of slowing down. So when I contacted them, they could 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.600 tell on my end that my router is making my 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.959 internet flow. And I don't have cable, I just stream everything. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:19.280 I have Roku, right. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.000 And so, how you've been with this company for how 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:21.840 many years? Fifteen? 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:22.200 You said? 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:26.000 Oh, my router, I mean my modem is about fifteen, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:30.120 but I've been with cos for probably like twenty five years. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.720 Oh wow, okay, So, and do they charge a rental fee? 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.400 I don't know, because every company's a little differ. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:36.679 They do. How much is that do? 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.080 I really don't know. I would imagine about fifteen dollars 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:41.520 a month. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.920 Okay, Well, at fifteen dollars a month, you should probably 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:45.199 purchase because. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:45.559 You'll break you. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.280 I would rather do the math. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:48.520 So okay. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.640 So the question is do you get an all in 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.760 one or do you get you know, two separate devices. 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:56.960 I personally would get one that's all in one. I 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:58.679 mean that isn't that just a little bit easier? 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.200 Oh? Yeah, I prefer to have an all in one. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.880 The question is if you get in all in one. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.360 There's a list that they have on their website, so 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.600 I mean, you know, you can't. It depends like kind 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.760 of what you want out of this. Do you have 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.960 like a mesh network already? Like are you using how 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.400 like how many rooms are you trying to get this in? 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:22.880 Oh? Just in one room? 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:24.199 Oh? Okay, just in one room? 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:25.599 Yeah? 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.040 In that case you can go with one room. Okay. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.559 In that case, you can go with a very simple router. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.120 I mean I'm looking at their list that they have 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.360 on here of the combo ones, and I mean any 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.280 of these will work. You probably want a Doosis three 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.199 point oh. Have they mentioned that because that gives you 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:41.079 the highest speeds? 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.960 No, they did, but yeah. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.960 So there's different levels of modems, and the three point 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.520 zero is the most recent one, So that's the one 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.560 that I would recommend getting. As for the specific brand, 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.720 I mean there's really any of these are going to work. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.319 A linksis you know, rus is the brand that they 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.160 use that most of the time they give out, But realistically, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:05.719 any of these are going to work. I would just 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.400 kind of see which one's available on Amazon, like just 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.440 look down their list. I mean Cox has it on 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.640 their website of all the different cable modems that they certify. Okay, 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.760 but I would definitely go with a three point zero 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:21.880 to get the fastest speed, and that'll keep. Yeah, it's 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.280 if it's fifteen years old, it's it's it doesn't. It 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.920 just doesn't accommodate the faster speed. So you may upgrade 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.600 to the one. What internet speed are you getting? What 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:31.640 are you paying for? 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.560 I think is I have the lowest one. I think 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.520 it's fifty fifty. 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.520 Okay, Well, I mean you don't need the three point 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.080 oh to get the fifty, but I'm just future proofing things. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.880 If you ever feel like you want to upgrade to 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.000 a faster speed, you'll want that faster modem. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.200 But okay, excellent, But. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.280 Yeah, I would just do a little quick price comparison 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.640 of a couple of brands. You're when you start searching 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.800 down the list of the ones that are available, you're 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.560 going to see very quickly, like which one is on Amazon, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.720 quickly and easily, Like if it's Prime next day, that's 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:02.680 a pretty popular one. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:03.320 I just go with that. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.880 I would stick to like the main brands, whether it's 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.280 net Gear or I mean they have a TP link 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.320 on here. I mean, there's so many that they give you. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.920 There's probably the list of like fifteen of them. 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.880 Okay, wonderful, Thank you so much for your health. 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.680 All right, Gilda, enjoy the new modem. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.320 Okay, thank you. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.120 All right, take care. All right. 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.560 Let me talk about the FCC with its new rules 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.760 on scam text. This is such a problem that I 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.840 don't know if the FCC is going to solve them 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.480 with these new rules, but they are working to do it, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.760 and we've seen the amazing progress they've made with spam calls. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.120 Kind of kidding, we still get those two. But they 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.360 do have new rules so these new rules are going 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:50.720 to require mobile service providers to block certain robotext messages 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.400 that are highly likely to be illegal. They say illegal. 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.680 I don't think anyone's gone to jail for setting a robotext. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.040 But you know, legitimate companies do by these rules. The 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.120 problem is it's folks that are not legitimate that are 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:05.840 sending these things. 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.080 They don't really care about the rules. The FCC says that. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.680 Robotechs pose a unique threat to consumers because they are 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.560 hard to ignore. That is very true. They also contain 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.160 links to phishing websites or websites that inn install that 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.320 can install malware, and of course we're tempted to click 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.640 these links even though we know many of them are fake. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.920 The FCC the new rule requires blocking of text messages 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.120 that appear to come from phone numbers that are unlikely 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:37.520 to transmit text messages. This includes invalid, unallocated or unused numbers. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.200 So they're going to go through sort of a process 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.000 to figure out, Okay, is this number legitimate? 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:44.400 Should it be setting a text? 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.200 No, okay, We're going to criticize and look at this 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.840 number a little bit closer and hopefully block those texts. 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.640 And that's of course on the provider, so these providers 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.480 have to start doing this. The FCC recommends that consumers 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.040 take steps to protect themselves, and I would recommend this 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.720 as well. Do not interact in any way with suspicious texts, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.000 do not click on the links, or do not write 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:06.600 back to them. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:08.320 That's the best thing you can do. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.960 You can also forward unwanted spams to our spam texts 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.840 to spam spam seven seven two six, and just delete 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.040 suspicious texts. I know a lot of these things are 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.760 going around right now because it says you've got a 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.720 package delivery or your Netflix account is canceled. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.800 You got to take action right now. Just ignore them. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.560 The best thing to do is not to reply because, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.359 just like a spam email, the second you reply to 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.800 these messages is sends a signal to these spammers that 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.800 this is a good phone number. And you do not 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:39.640 want them to know that your number is good because 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.000 guess what they're going to send more? 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:42.440 All right, Coming up. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.080 Next, we're going to talk to Ben Parr about AI 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.680 and the impact on your job. Plus your calls triple 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.400 eight Rich one oh one. You are listening to Rich 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:59.240 on tech more or right after this welcome back to 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:04.200 Rich on tech. My name is Rich DeMuro and another 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.800 week in the tech world, and just another major announcement 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.320 by tech companies when it comes to AI. In fact, 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:18.720 three major announcements. Google they embedded AI into Docs and Gmail. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.600 Microsoft put AI into Office three six or now they 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.520 call it Microsoft three sixty five. We're talking word Excel, 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.240 PowerPoint outlook, teams, all those good things. And then open 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:35.720 Ai released GPT four, the next version of their AI, 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.720 just as we're getting used to the old version. Let 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.199 me let me tell you about some of these some 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.520 of these developments here. Okay, So Google first off says 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:49.360 that they are embedding generative AI into Google Docs and 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.240 into Gmail. So, like I've mentioned on the show before, 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.000 you no longer need to do a first draft of 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.679 anything AI is going to write that first draft. Then 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.040 you've got Microsoft three sixty five. They're calling it Copilot, 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.320 so they're embedding this in word Excel, PowerPoint Outlook, and 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.040 teams and in teams specifically. This is how wild it is. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.399 The Copilot, which is their AI name, is gonna listen 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.879 to what everyone's saying on that team's call and teams 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.840 is kind of like zoom if you're not familiar with it. 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.600 They're gonna listen to what everyone's saying and discussing. Then 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.200 if you come to the meeting late, the AI will 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.760 just summarize what everyone's saying, and not just summarize, but 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:31.800 also give you kind of an update. How are people 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.640 feeling about this? Here to talk about all these developments 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.959 is Ben Parr, journalist and author of The Social Analyst, 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:45.680 a newsletter available on substack at benpar dot subsack dot com. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.160 I'll put the link on my website. Rich on tech 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.480 dot TV. All right, I think we got Ben here. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:50.680 Ben? 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.919 Are you there? Yeah, okay, welcome to the show. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:20:00.680 And congratulations, I heard that you just got engaged, faccurate. 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.560 Thank you really appreciate it. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:06.200 That's the start of a whole new journey and very exciting. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:11.640 So congrats on that. Let's talk about AI. So these 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:17.280 announcements by Google, Microsoft and Chat GPT to GPT four 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.520 this week, which one struck you as the most interesting? 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:29.159 So GPT four is a fundamental change to the large 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.040 language models that are powering this big raws and AI. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:38.080 So for everyone out there, GPT is the technology behind Chat. 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.160 GPT the fastest growing tech product in human history. Which 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.280 is crazy when you think about it. Oh yeah, and 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.399 it was run on a product called GPT three and 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.679 GPT three point five. So this week the company behind 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:55.680 chat GPT released GPT four and it is significantly better 0:20:55.800 --> 0:21:00.359 at sounding humans, at giving more detailed results, at not 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:04.879 making mistakes and errors as often, at speaking other languages, 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:08.159 and to do it can see And what that means 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.640 is if you uploaded a picture to GPT four, as 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.960 you asked what was going on in the picture. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.720 It could tell you, which is incredible. 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:19.080 And you know, I kind of tweeted about this, but 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:22.560 this whole reality of kind of implications of this, there's 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.960 just so many. But I'm sure that like the social 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:31.600 media networks like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok are all using AI 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:35.520 to scan what we upload, especially images. You know, it's 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:37.560 like we've used hashtags in the past, but do you 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:39.440 think there will be a need for those in the future. 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:45.320 It's going in a crazy direction so fast it's hard 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:48.520 to tell what will exactly happen. So let's break down 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:52.239 a little bit. Both Google and Microsoft announced tools that 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:56.960 will automatically help you write your documents and turn those 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:01.160 documents into presentations and help you write your email. If 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.600 it's in all of your Gmail, for example, a lot 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.000 of your emails back and forth, you might be AI 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:10.440 generated or at least partially AI generated. You're going to 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:13.520 see a whole different way in which people are doing productivity. 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:17.359 I saw, for example, somebody earlier this week who asked 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.560 GPT four or advice on how to make the most 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:25.480 money possible and started following it's advice and started making money. 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.640 I'm actually going to ask it to tell me how 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:32.280 to triple my newsletter subscribers, and it gave really good advice. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.440 There's like a lot of crazy things that are happening 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:36.160 all at once. 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.920 What's wild about this is it's so much more natural 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.080 than the previous way of searching. Right if you wanted 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.560 to look to see how to increase your newsletter subscribers, 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:49.000 there's a million websites that can tell you little tips 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:52.160 and things. But the way that this sort of summarizes 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:56.120 and just makes it so clear is really what's most 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:59.760 interesting to me. Like, for instance, i wanted to cook 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:03.440 a dinner, a corn beef dinner right for Saint Patrick's Day, 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:07.520 and I just asked the chat GPT and also being AI, 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:09.240 I just wanted to try them both. I said, hey, 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:12.840 make me a shopping list for a traditional corn beef dinner, 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:15.480 and sure enough, they both did it in different ways. 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:19.000 But it's just that kind of idea of just asking 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:22.240 our computers to do stuff and they really give us 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:24.600 the results that we're kind of looking for very quickly 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:25.200 and easily. 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:29.800 The chat is the most natural interface that we are 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:32.479 used to and that we as humans used, and so 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:35.520 it makes sense to have this go give me back 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:37.679 and forth in chat, and I kind of think of 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:40.320 chat GPT and some of the AI to was kind 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:43.440 of like a brainstorming buddy, somebody who is not going 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:45.840 to judge you, somebody who has access to the Internet 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:48.399 and can give you lots of advice, will not always 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:50.960 be right, but will often be correct. And I think 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:52.639 that's how a lot more people are starting to use 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:55.840 it to boot too as well. It's just really smart 0:23:55.880 --> 0:23:58.480 at a lot of things. So GPT three point five 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:02.000 it tested in the Mottom ten percent of test takers 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.359 for the bar exam, GPT four tested in the top 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:09.880 ten percent. That's how quickly this technology is advancing month 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:10.520 by month. 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:14.440 It can also do ap calculus. According to your newsletter, 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:18.320 the Social analyst. It can do AP calculus, AP chemistry, 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:22.040 AP physics better. Like you said, it does the visual inputs, 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:24.399 So now you can pop a picture into this and 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:27.480 it can describe what's happening in that picture. My kid 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:30.960 watched the video about Google Docs and how it was 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:34.119 doing AI in there, and he was like, this is incredible, Dad, 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:36.080 this is just wild what it's going to be able 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:38.679 to do. So what I've been saying is the first 0:24:38.760 --> 0:24:41.400 draft is pretty much always going to be AI at 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:43.920 this point, and then we're going to be, as humans 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:46.960 the ones to to sort of figure out, you know, 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.359 how do we polish this, Which brings me to the 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:50.359 job situation. 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:54.320 What is the impact on jobs when it comes to AI. 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:59.320 This is one of the big debates that we are 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:03.520 all having right now. And the founder of Open AI, 0:25:03.800 --> 0:25:06.679 his name is Sam Maltman. He also founded an incubator 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:10.359 called by Combinator. He's said before that he believes when 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:15.560 there's this thing called AGI artificial general intelligence basically an 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:19.480 AI where you could it's like a human, that the 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:24.240 idea of capitalism itself will will be obsolete. I'm not 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:26.119 sure where I fall on that debate, but what I 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:29.520 will say is that you can be two or four 0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:32.840 times as productive as you were before as a writer 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:36.719 or a presentation maker or as an artist with AI. 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:40.200 And the results may very well be that, while we're 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:44.159 not going to eliminate all jaw that a company could 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:48.280 be built with a lot less people, it's entirely plausible 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:51.520 that someone builds a billion dollar company with just a 0:25:51.600 --> 0:25:55.520 small handful of people as a result of AI. So 0:25:56.119 --> 0:26:00.959 there's real questions to be asked. Politicians and epsids are 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:05.360 asking those questions. It's not like past times, in my opinion, 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:08.880 where we were able to immediately find a whole brand 0:26:08.880 --> 0:26:09.959 new set of jobs. 0:26:10.400 --> 0:26:11.159 We are going to. 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:14.399 Be navigating this in real time. It's going to be both. 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:17.240 I was writing this in my newsletter. It's both bogs 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:19.280 firing and a little scary. 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:20.520 Yeah, it's scary. 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:23.480 It's also scary how fast it's all changed and how 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:26.920 and how right on it is. So, just for one example, 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:29.919 so I write scripts for TV. I write like my 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:32.159 little script of my we call it a package. It's 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:34.879 a story that I air on TV, and it's written 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:37.760 in a certain way for TV. Right, it's short, it's sweet, 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:40.719 it's got sound bites. And then I asked chat ebt 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:43.239 or rewrite this as a blog post yesterday, because then 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:45.520 I post it to the website. But you know, you 0:26:45.520 --> 0:26:47.639 can't write a script on the website because it's just 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:50.040 it's not the way you read stuff. And so I 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:53.320 watched this transform what I had written into something that 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:56.280 was much more a blog post, and it was It 0:26:56.320 --> 0:26:58.280 was interesting to me because I'm sitting there going hmmm, 0:26:58.520 --> 0:27:00.680 this is like ready to go, but I didn't feel 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:03.760 right using it because the AI wrote it. And so 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:05.920 it's like these little questions we're going to have along 0:27:05.960 --> 0:27:09.240 the way of how do we navigate this new landscape? 0:27:10.240 --> 0:27:10.480 Oh? 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:15.480 Absolutely, and look, you know, the AI does not understand 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:19.080 human condition. There are certain things like writing the you know, 0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:22.280 a super amazing script that people will love that the 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:26.000 AI probably can't get to. It's still too generic, but 0:27:26.080 --> 0:27:28.880 it's getting more advanced, and if someone really knows how 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:31.919 to talk to an AI like chow ChiPT, they can 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:34.720 get a really strong first result and start moving from there. 0:27:35.000 --> 0:27:38.040 And yes, transforming content from one type to another is 0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:40.439 a real strength of AI. I feel like in the 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:43.000 next year, the idea that you would build a presentation 0:27:43.119 --> 0:27:46.720 from scratch, like a PowerPoint will not exist anymore. You 0:27:46.760 --> 0:27:49.120 will literally just type in some notes in a doc, 0:27:49.680 --> 0:27:52.239 ask it to translate into a presentation, and it's going 0:27:52.280 --> 0:27:54.520 to make that. And that's in the next couple months 0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:57.480 with both Microsoft and Google. Who knows what will happened 0:27:57.480 --> 0:27:58.240 three months from now. 0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:00.840 Absolutely well, I think we're gonna leave it there. 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:02.359 I think a lot of people will be happy to 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:04.840 not have to do a presentation ever. Again, well, this 0:28:04.840 --> 0:28:06.679 still have to make the presentation, they just won't have 0:28:06.720 --> 0:28:09.160 to build it. Ben Par, thanks so much for joining 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:10.119 me today. I appreciate it. 0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:12.640 Thank you and everyone. 0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:14.560 It will be only right, I promise. 0:28:14.800 --> 0:28:15.159 Thank you. 0:28:15.240 --> 0:28:17.920 I'm glad we need that reassurance, all right, Benpar dot 0:28:17.960 --> 0:28:22.120 substack dot com. The newsletter is the Social Analyst. I'll 0:28:22.119 --> 0:28:25.159 put a link there on my website. Rich on tech 0:28:25.400 --> 0:28:26.080 dot TV. 0:28:26.600 --> 0:28:27.320 All right, coming up. 0:28:27.359 --> 0:28:30.119 If you have a comment or a question about technology, 0:28:30.160 --> 0:28:32.280 give me a call at triple eight rich. 0:28:32.160 --> 0:28:32.720 One oh one. 0:28:32.760 --> 0:28:36.000 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:40.240 zero one. If you've got a Samsung or a Pixel phone, 0:28:40.880 --> 0:28:44.360 you want to hear about how hackers might be able 0:28:44.400 --> 0:28:47.520 to take control with just your phone number, I'll tell 0:28:47.520 --> 0:28:49.520 you about that and how to protect yourself. All coming 0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:55.040 up here. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome 0:28:55.080 --> 0:28:58.000 back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro hanging out with 0:28:58.040 --> 0:29:04.400 you here talking technology. Let's see we got Ryan and 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:06.480 North Hollywood. Ryan, you have a comment about the T 0:29:06.680 --> 0:29:07.440 mobile acquisition. 0:29:08.200 --> 0:29:12.560 All right, Well, I'm a met Mobile customer and I'm 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:16.960 gonna keep using online prepaid through October of twenty twenty three. 0:29:17.240 --> 0:29:20.280 But I'm on Apple now. 0:29:20.400 --> 0:29:22.720 But I kind of soured on them for security reasons 0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:27.160 about a month ago. Based on the custom APN. They 0:29:27.200 --> 0:29:30.520 have Android users user, they direct Android users use. 0:29:31.000 --> 0:29:33.080 Oh what, well, what, what's what's wrong with that? 0:29:34.360 --> 0:29:39.040 Well, there's stop instructions directly to an APN where if 0:29:39.520 --> 0:29:41.160 like if you just pop the sin cardon and go, 0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:45.000 or if you're using Apple that you know Apple's walled 0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:48.959 garden doesn't let you do that. But T Mobile by 0:29:48.960 --> 0:29:53.360 default forces you to connect using IBV six and the 0:29:55.120 --> 0:30:00.720 mobile custom APM has a i TV four connections that 0:30:00.760 --> 0:30:03.520 it shoots you to almost every time. And if you 0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:06.840 check like your IP address using third party site, that 0:30:06.960 --> 0:30:10.440 shows the carrier. But if you look on internal Android settings, 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:15.080 that APN redirects to IP addresses that four out of 0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:17.920 five times will show up as the Department of the Fense, 0:30:18.520 --> 0:30:20.360 and like that fifth or sixth time will show up 0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:21.320 as a Ministry. 0:30:20.960 --> 0:30:21.880 Of Defense in the UK. 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:26.320 And if you who is query those IP addresses, like 0:30:26.600 --> 0:30:29.040 mornings come up saying you're not allowed to query this 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:34.160 except for certain legal reasons. And I think it's because 0:30:34.800 --> 0:30:37.560 all these MVNOs there, a lot of them are sold 0:30:37.560 --> 0:30:40.800 to people traveling to the US that are not registering 0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:44.560 them or therefore GPS tracking the quip more alarm systems. 0:30:45.200 --> 0:30:48.760 But from a security standpoint, I don't think it's good. 0:30:48.840 --> 0:30:51.320 I think, you know, I'm not overly word. I'm going 0:30:51.360 --> 0:30:54.200 to keep using them. I have private d DNS, I 0:30:54.520 --> 0:30:56.280 use encrypted chat, I'm on Apple. 0:30:56.360 --> 0:30:57.240 You know, I feel. 0:30:57.000 --> 0:31:00.760 Okay about it, but I think ultimately and the enos 0:31:00.880 --> 0:31:03.160 are not a good way to go forward with the. 0:31:03.080 --> 0:31:05.920 Consumer Interesting, all right, well, that's uh, you got a 0:31:05.960 --> 0:31:09.520 lot packed in there, and I see wow. I mean 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:12.080 there's a little bit of a conspiracy theory in there. 0:31:12.120 --> 0:31:16.040 I understand that, and I think that for most people 0:31:16.680 --> 0:31:20.160 it's probably you know, maybe not a consideration, but I 0:31:20.200 --> 0:31:23.160 would agree that if you feel like this is redirecting 0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:26.800 to places that may be monitoring your traffic. Then yeah, 0:31:26.920 --> 0:31:30.280 I would definitely use a VPN or use some sort 0:31:30.320 --> 0:31:33.440 of cloaking mechanism if you're worried about that. But that's 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:37.040 that's an interesting point, Ryan, and thank you for bringing 0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:39.120 that up. Just one more thing to think about when 0:31:39.160 --> 0:31:42.160 we when we make these decisions. All right, let's go 0:31:42.200 --> 0:31:45.400 to Dennis in Marina del Rey. Dennis, you're on with Rich. 0:31:46.040 --> 0:31:49.080 Hey, Rich, I appreciate your program. You're doing a great job, 0:31:49.160 --> 0:31:49.520 my friend. 0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:50.240 Oh, thank you. 0:31:50.760 --> 0:31:54.480 Hey. I've got a Windows ten machine. It's a desktop machine, 0:31:55.200 --> 0:31:59.400 and it's a four K monitor, an LG monitor, and 0:31:59.760 --> 0:32:02.920 I but older guys seventy eight head cataract surgery, so 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:06.320 I don't see things quite as clearly, even with corrective classes. 0:32:06.760 --> 0:32:10.040 But when I go in and I see the list. 0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:13.280 In other words, if I open a drive, I see 0:32:13.320 --> 0:32:15.560 the list of everything on the left hand side, and 0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:17.720 then if I click on a folder on the left 0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:20.680 hand side, it opens it on the right and you 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:24.760 can adjust the size from small icons the larger icons 0:32:24.760 --> 0:32:28.520 to a list. That's not a problem. How do I 0:32:28.600 --> 0:32:31.680 adjust the list on the left hand side so that 0:32:31.800 --> 0:32:32.920 it's much larger. 0:32:34.040 --> 0:32:38.080 So you're talking when you're inside a folder, right Okay, 0:32:38.400 --> 0:32:40.720 well I think at this point you so, have you 0:32:40.800 --> 0:32:43.520 gone through the standard kind of right click the desktop 0:32:43.600 --> 0:32:44.320 going into view. 0:32:44.400 --> 0:32:45.000 Have you done that? 0:32:45.480 --> 0:32:45.720 Yeah? 0:32:45.800 --> 0:32:47.960 Yeah, I have it, and it will work on the 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:50.920 right hand side. It'll make the folders larger. But the 0:32:51.000 --> 0:32:54.760 list on the left hand side, the list all of 0:32:54.440 --> 0:32:57.720 the files on the drive, it's just too small. 0:32:58.000 --> 0:32:58.240 Okay. 0:32:58.920 --> 0:33:00.960 It sounds like this point you might want to go 0:33:01.000 --> 0:33:02.360 into the accessibility settings. 0:33:02.400 --> 0:33:05.360 Have you gone into there? Okay? 0:33:05.440 --> 0:33:10.400 So, uh, Windows Icon plus, set Windows icon settings, and 0:33:10.440 --> 0:33:13.400 then ease of access and I believe, I believe you 0:33:13.440 --> 0:33:17.160 can press Windows key plus you to get there directly. 0:33:17.840 --> 0:33:19.640 Uh you know the Windows key right, the little one 0:33:20.000 --> 0:33:22.640 next to the keyboard. So that is where you're going 0:33:22.680 --> 0:33:26.240 to find all of the bigger I should say, the 0:33:26.320 --> 0:33:30.760 deeper settings for specifically for accessibility. So we're talking ways 0:33:30.800 --> 0:33:35.440 to make the text bigger across everything, make everything bigger. 0:33:35.440 --> 0:33:37.240 If you just want to make everything bigger on the screen, 0:33:37.280 --> 0:33:38.840 you can do that. If you want to change the 0:33:38.880 --> 0:33:41.880 size of the mouse pointer, the colors, the contrast, all 0:33:41.920 --> 0:33:45.479 that stuff. The main settings that you're seeing when you 0:33:45.480 --> 0:33:47.800 go into the view is just the standard kind of 0:33:48.080 --> 0:33:50.479 you know, do you want your icons bigger, smaller, whatever. 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:52.920 But accessibility is really where you're going to get those 0:33:52.960 --> 0:33:55.240 those fine controls, and I think that's what you're looking 0:33:55.240 --> 0:33:56.880 for at this point because that's going to make everything 0:33:56.920 --> 0:33:58.880 bigger on the screen, which is what you're saying right 0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:00.680 you need you need right now. 0:34:00.680 --> 0:34:02.680 I appreciate that. And a great shout out to your 0:34:02.760 --> 0:34:06.240 screender at Kim chapter. She's still there, so she's doing 0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:08.880 a great job for you. Really love your program. Just 0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:12.080 wish you guys growing on Sunday too. I miss you on. 0:34:12.120 --> 0:34:14.480 Sunday, man, I know, but you know I do work 0:34:14.560 --> 0:34:17.359 five days a week at my other job. So as 0:34:17.400 --> 0:34:19.840 much as my wife was excited to have me gone 0:34:19.880 --> 0:34:22.560 both days on the weekend, I said, I think one 0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:24.160 day is enough for three hours. 0:34:24.160 --> 0:34:26.920 So absolutely all righty God bless you have a great day. 0:34:26.960 --> 0:34:29.239 All right, Dennis, appreciate the call, Thank you, and thanks 0:34:29.280 --> 0:34:30.120 for the kind words. 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:32.600 So many things. 0:34:33.440 --> 0:34:36.080 So what I love about this show is the unique 0:34:36.120 --> 0:34:39.239 aspect of what everyone everyone has different sort of like 0:34:39.320 --> 0:34:41.680 wants and needs when it comes to tech, and that's 0:34:41.960 --> 0:34:44.440 you know, we all come from this certain perspective that 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:47.399 we have in our world. Because let's be honest, our 0:34:47.440 --> 0:34:50.560 world revolves around us. And so what I love, and 0:34:50.640 --> 0:34:53.879 I also love this as a journalist is I get 0:34:53.920 --> 0:34:57.200 to see the world from so many different perspectives, and 0:34:57.800 --> 0:35:01.400 I love that aspect of things because if you're just 0:35:01.680 --> 0:35:05.720 involved in yourself, there's a whole nother world out there. 0:35:05.960 --> 0:35:09.160 Believe me, it's not just all about you. I mean 0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:11.200 sometimes it feels like it is, and in your life 0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:14.520 it is, but there's so much more out there. All right, 0:35:14.600 --> 0:35:18.440 let me tell you about this story, the Samsungs and 0:35:18.480 --> 0:35:23.960 the Pixels. Okay, so there is a security issue that 0:35:24.200 --> 0:35:26.000 a lot of phones have already gotten an update, but 0:35:26.320 --> 0:35:28.680 some have not. So if you have a Google Pixel 0:35:28.760 --> 0:35:31.520 or a Samsung phone, Google has said hold on, there's 0:35:31.520 --> 0:35:33.319 a little bit of a problem. Hackers could take over 0:35:33.360 --> 0:35:36.520 your phone without you knowing. So there's a couple of vulnerabilities. 0:35:36.680 --> 0:35:39.680 If you have a Samsung device S twenty two, the 0:35:39.800 --> 0:35:42.200 M thirty three, whole bunch of these M lines and 0:35:42.239 --> 0:35:45.719 the A lines, a Vivo device, or a Pixel six 0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:48.360 or a Pixel seven, or pretty much any phone that 0:35:48.440 --> 0:35:52.600 uses the Xenos Auto T five to one twenty three chipset. 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:55.400 This is a motem inside the phone. Now, this bug 0:35:55.560 --> 0:35:59.560 lets hackers take over your phone. Pixel seven series already 0:35:59.560 --> 0:36:03.160 got thisecurity update to fix it. That's the March security update. 0:36:03.160 --> 0:36:06.160 Pixel six series doesn't have it yet. Google says if 0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:10.360 you have that phone, you should disable voice over LTE 0:36:10.640 --> 0:36:13.640 and void and Wi Fi calling. So do that for 0:36:13.680 --> 0:36:15.839 the time being until you get your security updates. And 0:36:15.880 --> 0:36:18.680 do your security updates. This is why we do them. 0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:21.920 We don't want hackers to take over our phone, all right, 0:36:21.920 --> 0:36:23.799 more of your calls Triple eight rich one O one. 0:36:23.840 --> 0:36:26.719 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four to 0:36:26.800 --> 0:36:30.520 one zero one. You are listening to Rich on tech 0:36:30.560 --> 0:36:35.799 more after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 0:36:35.880 --> 0:36:38.919 DeMuro here hanging out with you. Uh our number two 0:36:40.960 --> 0:36:43.839 taking your calls at triple eight rich one oh one. 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:47.360 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four. 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:49.160 One zero one. 0:36:49.920 --> 0:36:52.080 You know I love telling you about when I find 0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:54.960 good new apps, right, so I'm gonna go over a 0:36:55.040 --> 0:36:55.920 couple of apps. 0:36:56.320 --> 0:36:57.239 Kind of thought about this. 0:36:57.520 --> 0:37:02.080 Last weekend was the Academy Awards, And I've talked about 0:37:02.120 --> 0:37:04.680 this before, but it's really tough to find things to watch, 0:37:05.200 --> 0:37:07.800 even if you subscribe to a bunch of streaming services. 0:37:07.840 --> 0:37:10.719 It's really really tricky because what you end up doing 0:37:10.800 --> 0:37:13.080 is going to Netflix checking to see if there's anything 0:37:13.120 --> 0:37:15.400 on there. Then you go to Hulu you see if 0:37:15.440 --> 0:37:18.000 there's anything on there. Then you go to HBO you 0:37:18.000 --> 0:37:21.000 see if there's anything on there. And I hate that method. 0:37:21.040 --> 0:37:24.719 I hate like sitting down with you know, at the 0:37:24.800 --> 0:37:27.200 TV and trying to figure out something to watch at 0:37:27.200 --> 0:37:29.240 that moment. I want to have this all figured out before. 0:37:29.480 --> 0:37:32.839 So with that in mind, I did find my new 0:37:32.880 --> 0:37:35.560 absolute favorite, but I'm gonna save that for the last one. 0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:38.839 But I'm gonna tell you all the different solutions that 0:37:38.880 --> 0:37:43.520 you have. Okay, So number one and by the way, 0:37:43.520 --> 0:37:45.600 this all comes down to like making the most out 0:37:45.600 --> 0:37:47.959 of the streaming services that you already pay for. 0:37:48.120 --> 0:37:49.240 That's what it's really about. 0:37:49.520 --> 0:37:51.239 So the app that I've liked in the past that 0:37:51.280 --> 0:37:54.759 I've used is called Real Good ore e E l 0:37:54.960 --> 0:37:58.680 g oo D Real Good Get It Movie, Real Real Good. 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:01.200 So what I like about this one is it's clean, 0:38:01.360 --> 0:38:03.920 it's modern, it's up to date. It works with over 0:38:04.000 --> 0:38:06.920 three hundred streaming services according to them. I mean, I 0:38:07.160 --> 0:38:10.040 hope you don't pay for that many, but it's really 0:38:10.120 --> 0:38:12.960 nice because you can keep a watch list and it 0:38:13.040 --> 0:38:16.080 divides your watch list into two things, stuff that's on 0:38:16.120 --> 0:38:19.160 your streaming services and stuff that's not on them, and 0:38:19.239 --> 0:38:21.960 anything that becomes available, they'll move it to the other one. 0:38:22.360 --> 0:38:24.040 So what I like about that is you can save 0:38:24.160 --> 0:38:27.600 any movie, whether it's on your streaming services or not, 0:38:27.880 --> 0:38:30.560 and then when it comes time to watch a movie, 0:38:31.080 --> 0:38:33.279 you just go to this little list you have and 0:38:33.480 --> 0:38:35.520 the ones that you want to watch that are on 0:38:35.560 --> 0:38:38.719 your services are at the top, and then you can 0:38:38.760 --> 0:38:41.480 sort them. You can sort them by your favor you know, 0:38:41.960 --> 0:38:45.240 the top rated, the most popular, however you want to sort. 0:38:45.600 --> 0:38:48.000 I usually do either top rated or most popular, and 0:38:48.040 --> 0:38:49.879 then you can decide what to watch. And of course 0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:51.520 the movie that pops up at the top is never 0:38:51.560 --> 0:38:53.879 the thing I want to watch when when I sit 0:38:53.960 --> 0:38:56.960 down on the couch and watch TV. So that's real good. 0:38:57.920 --> 0:39:01.120 That's available for iOS and Android. Next up is this 0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:05.359 service called just Watch, and just Watch is another one 0:39:05.400 --> 0:39:07.799 that I've used in the past that's pretty good. What's 0:39:07.840 --> 0:39:10.440 neat about this one is it shows you this matrix 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:16.080 of streaming, rental and purchase options, so you can see 0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:20.560 how much this movie rents or is available for purchase 0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:24.120 on different services. So it's almost like buying a plane ticket, 0:39:24.160 --> 0:39:26.080 you know the dates and everything, but it shows you 0:39:26.560 --> 0:39:29.480 the price. So what I've noticed is most of the 0:39:29.520 --> 0:39:33.200 time the prices these days are the same, but sometimes 0:39:33.239 --> 0:39:34.759 they could be different, like it might be on sale 0:39:34.840 --> 0:39:38.239 on YouTube or on sale and iTunes whatever. So that's 0:39:38.440 --> 0:39:41.319 just watch that's also available for iOS and Android. The 0:39:41.360 --> 0:39:44.040 neat thing about this, if you have caught up to 0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:47.560 all of your different services, you can see a timeline 0:39:47.560 --> 0:39:50.160 of new releases, so it literally shows you as you 0:39:50.200 --> 0:39:54.360 scroll down. Yesterday, these three movies were released on Netflix. 0:39:54.680 --> 0:39:58.719 These two movies were released on HBO Max, and so 0:39:58.840 --> 0:40:01.120 if you really want to up to this stuff, you 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:04.799 can see that timeline. It also tracks sports if you're 0:40:04.800 --> 0:40:10.040 into that. There's this app called ydeo y idio. Now, 0:40:10.040 --> 0:40:13.279 this is one of the early apps that track the 0:40:13.320 --> 0:40:16.160 streaming stuff, and I used to use it. When I 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:21.000 revisited it for this comparison, not so great. The neat 0:40:21.000 --> 0:40:23.839 thing about this it does have preset filter, so if 0:40:23.840 --> 0:40:26.239 you're searching for the same sort of thing over and over, 0:40:26.640 --> 0:40:29.920 you can save that as a filter and then you 0:40:29.960 --> 0:40:31.600 can just tap that filter and. 0:40:31.560 --> 0:40:33.280 It will show you those items. 0:40:33.640 --> 0:40:36.160 So if you want to see new movies that are 0:40:36.200 --> 0:40:40.920 streaming on Netflix that are you know, indie films that 0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:43.920 are thrillers. You can save that and then you can 0:40:44.040 --> 0:40:46.800 just tap and see what's new in that preset filter. 0:40:47.719 --> 0:40:49.320 I feel like the interface on this app is a 0:40:49.320 --> 0:40:52.880 little confusing, so not the best one. I gave that 0:40:52.920 --> 0:40:55.000 one two stars out of five. And by the way, 0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:56.920 I put all of this on my Instagram at rich 0:40:57.000 --> 0:40:59.279 On Tech. I did a little swipe through, so you 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:02.160 can go to my Instagram profile and look for the 0:41:02.200 --> 0:41:05.520 movie Night, Popcorn and all these apps I'm talking about 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:07.000 are there all right? 0:41:07.200 --> 0:41:08.120 Apple TV app. 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:10.360 You might not realize, but you can actually use the 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:14.200 Apple TV app to not only see where things are streaming, 0:41:14.680 --> 0:41:18.160 but also save those items in sort of a watch list. Now, 0:41:18.200 --> 0:41:20.799 of course this is Apple, so it only works on 0:41:20.840 --> 0:41:23.600 Apple devices, and it works best if you have an 0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:28.200 Apple TV as well. So Apple is really confusing at 0:41:28.200 --> 0:41:31.760 this point with the streaming because you've got the Apple 0:41:31.840 --> 0:41:35.360 TV box, which has been around forever. Then you have 0:41:35.440 --> 0:41:41.000 the Apple TV app, which is available across the iPhone 0:41:41.239 --> 0:41:44.279 and the tablets that they have. But then you have 0:41:44.360 --> 0:41:48.399 Apple TV Plus, which is a streaming service, and that's 0:41:48.440 --> 0:41:52.560 available across a whole bunch of different platforms, not just 0:41:52.680 --> 0:41:56.319 Apple devices. Gets really really confusing with Apple. They need 0:41:56.360 --> 0:42:00.680 to sort of figure this stuff out. About the Apple 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:03.759 TV app is, if you're totally invested in the Apple ecosystem, 0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:05.480 this is going to be a great way to keep 0:42:05.520 --> 0:42:08.120 track of things that you want to watch because you 0:42:08.160 --> 0:42:11.120 can go on your phone. It's beautifully designed, as many 0:42:11.200 --> 0:42:14.400 Apple things are, and it will show you where that 0:42:14.440 --> 0:42:16.480 item is playing. So if you search for a movie 0:42:16.480 --> 0:42:18.920 in the Apple TV app, it'll tell you, oh, this 0:42:19.000 --> 0:42:21.879 is streaming on HBO Max and you can just open 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:25.400 it up in HBO. The only streaming service that is 0:42:25.480 --> 0:42:29.400 really not there is Netflix, and that's a pretty big one. 0:42:29.880 --> 0:42:31.880 So I don't know what the war is between Apple 0:42:31.920 --> 0:42:34.279 and Netflix, but it seems like it's Apple against the world. 0:42:34.400 --> 0:42:36.920 Sometimes it's like, Okay, you're either going to do it 0:42:36.920 --> 0:42:39.240 our way or you're not included in this. And Netflix 0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:42.520 has been out of this process since day one, so clearly, 0:42:43.320 --> 0:42:49.239 again frenemies, this is iOS only. So the Apple TV 0:42:49.239 --> 0:42:51.680 app is pretty handy. And the other cool thing is 0:42:51.680 --> 0:42:53.480 that if you add something to your what's called it 0:42:53.640 --> 0:42:55.680 up next list, which is sort of your watch list 0:42:55.960 --> 0:42:58.440 when you sit down at your Apple TV. On your 0:42:58.480 --> 0:43:01.000 Apple TV home screen, you'll see the stuff that you 0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:02.920 want to watch and you can just click into it 0:43:02.960 --> 0:43:06.160 and watch it. Then you've got Google TV. Their app 0:43:06.520 --> 0:43:09.360 is very similar to Apple TV, except it's available across 0:43:09.360 --> 0:43:12.320 iOS and Android. It is one of the few apps 0:43:12.320 --> 0:43:14.920 that includes Rotten Tomatoes scores, so if you live and 0:43:14.960 --> 0:43:17.440 die by Rotten Tomatoes scores, which a lot of people like, 0:43:18.239 --> 0:43:20.920 those are included in the Google TV ratings, which is 0:43:21.000 --> 0:43:24.480 kind of cool. Obviously it's Google. It's going to give 0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:28.239 you really good personalized recommendations. It's very easy to see 0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:31.960 what's free and what's paid. One more time, Netflix is 0:43:32.000 --> 0:43:34.480 notably absent, So I guess maybe it's not Apple. I 0:43:34.520 --> 0:43:37.840 take it back, it's really Netflix. That is kind of 0:43:37.840 --> 0:43:40.880 the person that's the problem here. What is a Taylor 0:43:40.920 --> 0:43:41.439 Swift song? 0:43:41.800 --> 0:43:45.000 It's me? No, wait, what is it? It's me? It's 0:43:45.120 --> 0:43:48.960 no whatever, I can it's me. You, I'm the problem. 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:49.680 It's me. That's it. 0:43:49.719 --> 0:43:52.120 Okay, so Netflix should be singing that song from Taylor. 0:43:53.200 --> 0:43:55.680 And then the cool thing about this, kind of like Apple, 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:57.839 the watch list sinks with chrome casts, so if you're 0:43:57.880 --> 0:43:59.560 a big chrome cast person, you can see. 0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:00.160 All the stuff there. 0:44:00.360 --> 0:44:03.480 Then of course Roku has their own app, so this 0:44:03.560 --> 0:44:08.320 is a great companion to Roku hardware. Their interface is okay, 0:44:08.719 --> 0:44:11.720 it's really focused on just getting you to watch stuff fast. 0:44:11.840 --> 0:44:14.440 Their search is good, it'll go across all the different 0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:17.160 providers and tell you where something is streaming, but they 0:44:17.160 --> 0:44:20.200 don't have many filters to narrow down all. Right, Now 0:44:20.239 --> 0:44:23.440 we get to the one that I've discovered doing this research, 0:44:23.440 --> 0:44:26.319 and I absolutely love it and this is my new favorite. 0:44:26.400 --> 0:44:28.920 It is not an app, it's only a website, but 0:44:29.000 --> 0:44:35.640 it is called flick Metrics flick me t Rix, and 0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:38.839 this is I'm giving five stars to this website. It 0:44:38.920 --> 0:44:42.120 is the best that I've seen. What's great about this 0:44:42.200 --> 0:44:47.520 website is that it is fast, it's simple, it's easy, 0:44:47.920 --> 0:44:51.200 and it works across all the major providers, all the 0:44:51.200 --> 0:44:56.400 big ones Netflix, Amazon, Disney Plus, BritBox, Hulu, Paramount, Peacock, 0:44:57.120 --> 0:45:03.040 Showtime Stars, Hbo, iTunes, Apple TV, and Movie. And what's 0:45:03.080 --> 0:45:07.000 great about this is it's just very simple. You can 0:45:07.080 --> 0:45:10.080 choose you want movies, you want TV shows. You can 0:45:10.120 --> 0:45:13.400 do the different categories, so if you want action, adventure, 0:45:13.560 --> 0:45:17.200 documentary and then so basically there's three things to do. 0:45:17.640 --> 0:45:19.959 You choose what you want to watch, then you choose 0:45:20.000 --> 0:45:22.279 the services that you want it on, and then you 0:45:22.320 --> 0:45:25.399 can choose the year and the rating, and it does 0:45:25.400 --> 0:45:32.319 an average rating among Metacritic, IMDb, Letterboxed, and critics and 0:45:32.400 --> 0:45:36.439 so it is super easy. It has found so many 0:45:36.440 --> 0:45:39.360 great movies on the services that I subscribe to. You 0:45:39.360 --> 0:45:41.520 can also do a list like a watch list if 0:45:41.520 --> 0:45:43.640 you want. You can favorite things, you can mark things. 0:45:43.640 --> 0:45:45.840 This scene doesn't really give recommendations as far as I 0:45:45.880 --> 0:45:48.440 can tell, but you don't need them because now you 0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:50.879 can just sort by like all the stuff you want 0:45:50.920 --> 0:45:56.040 to watch again. The website is flick Metrics flick met 0:45:56.400 --> 0:45:59.200 ri i X. So far this has served me up 0:45:59.280 --> 0:46:01.719 two really good good movies. Well, i'd say one and 0:46:01.760 --> 0:46:03.680 a half. My wife didn't like the movie you watched 0:46:03.760 --> 0:46:04.239 last night. 0:46:04.840 --> 0:46:05.680 It was weird. 0:46:06.160 --> 0:46:09.040 She's not really into weird movies. It was called Black 0:46:09.040 --> 0:46:14.480 Bear and it's starring what's her name. I keep forgetting 0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:16.440 her name, even though we've watched so many things with her. 0:46:17.040 --> 0:46:21.360 Aubrey Plaza. She's the actress from White Lotus and of 0:46:21.400 --> 0:46:24.400 course Parks and rec back in the day. But she 0:46:24.560 --> 0:46:27.520 was in this movie that was pretty quirky, very odd, 0:46:28.280 --> 0:46:29.799 and it's one of those movies that you kind of 0:46:29.840 --> 0:46:32.120 like you're watching and it's kind of like White Lotus 0:46:32.120 --> 0:46:35.279 where you're just you're watching because you're not sure if 0:46:35.320 --> 0:46:37.640 it's gonna get good. It's like, but then you've gone 0:46:37.680 --> 0:46:39.239 the whole movie and you're like, Okay, I just watched 0:46:39.239 --> 0:46:40.960 that whole movie. I'm not sure if that's good, even 0:46:40.960 --> 0:46:43.640 though I watched the whole thing. So but the other 0:46:43.680 --> 0:46:47.640 movie it helped me find was called Vengeance, and this 0:46:47.880 --> 0:46:50.640 was a movie Oh gosh, how do you say it? 0:46:50.680 --> 0:46:54.800 Oh gosh, how you say it? Maybe it's maybe it's not. Anyway, 0:46:55.040 --> 0:46:57.960 it was. It takes place in Texas and it stars 0:46:58.000 --> 0:47:02.000 the guy from bj Novak, which is you know, from 0:47:02.040 --> 0:47:03.960 the office. And I thought this was a great movie 0:47:03.960 --> 0:47:08.400 and I hadn't known about it, and this flick metrics 0:47:08.400 --> 0:47:11.600 helped me find it. Anyway, flick metrics is that my 0:47:11.880 --> 0:47:14.759 new top pick for finding movies. I think you'll like it. 0:47:15.360 --> 0:47:17.000 Let me know if you find a movie that you like. 0:47:17.080 --> 0:47:19.680 Through it again on Instagram at rich on Tech. Look 0:47:19.719 --> 0:47:22.520 for the movie logo on my profile and you can 0:47:22.560 --> 0:47:25.000 swipe through all those movie services that I just mentioned 0:47:25.520 --> 0:47:27.480 I'm all about finding the stuff that I'm paying for. 0:47:27.520 --> 0:47:28.960 My kids are like, Dad, will you rent a movie? 0:47:29.000 --> 0:47:31.920 I said, no, I'm paying for all these services. I'm 0:47:31.960 --> 0:47:34.120 not paying six ninety nine to rent a movie. I 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:35.880 barely want to go to the movie theater because I'm 0:47:35.880 --> 0:47:38.880 paying so much for these streaming services that when I 0:47:38.920 --> 0:47:41.200 when I watch a movie on one of these services, 0:47:41.239 --> 0:47:43.960 even if I watched just one a month, I am 0:47:43.960 --> 0:47:44.400 happy that. 0:47:44.719 --> 0:47:45.640 I'm totally good. 0:47:45.719 --> 0:47:47.520 Like if I got one good movie out of these 0:47:47.560 --> 0:47:49.479 services I pay for, I'm like, Okay, I'm good. 0:47:49.480 --> 0:47:49.960 I made it. 0:47:50.600 --> 0:47:52.879 Triple eight rich one oh one phone number to call 0:47:53.000 --> 0:47:55.879 eight eight eight seven four to two four to one 0:47:56.160 --> 0:47:59.200 zero one. Coming up, we're going to talk to Sherry 0:47:59.280 --> 0:48:02.000 Riggs of Allout. She's going to talk about some of 0:48:02.000 --> 0:48:04.600 the alternatives to mint Mobile and just kind of some 0:48:04.640 --> 0:48:07.680 of these low cost carriers in general, the pros, the cons, 0:48:07.760 --> 0:48:10.120 all that good stuff. Plus more of your calls. I'm 0:48:10.120 --> 0:48:15.640 gonna tell you about ways's new feature. If you have 0:48:15.680 --> 0:48:18.560 an EV you'll probably like it. You're listening to rich 0:48:18.600 --> 0:48:23.440 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. There's the 0:48:23.560 --> 0:48:25.480 song I was trying to think of the lyrics to 0:48:28.000 --> 0:48:30.600 how do I not know anti hero? My kids are 0:48:30.640 --> 0:48:34.239 singing this NonStop. My wife is singing it. I mean, 0:48:35.480 --> 0:48:37.360 if I admit it, I yes, I'm going to the 0:48:37.400 --> 0:48:42.759 Taylor Swift concert. You know, look, what can I say? 0:48:42.800 --> 0:48:45.160 My wife's a fan. I mean, I don't mind the music. 0:48:45.840 --> 0:48:46.640 I'm not gonna say. 0:48:46.680 --> 0:48:46.759 No. 0:48:47.840 --> 0:48:50.080 I think my wife wasted like two hours at work 0:48:50.120 --> 0:48:52.200 getting those tickets. You know, is that day when everyone 0:48:52.239 --> 0:48:54.440 was having trouble with ticket masters, somehow she got in. 0:48:55.160 --> 0:48:58.279 She only got two tickets, and then my kids are like, oh, 0:48:58.320 --> 0:49:00.360 we're not going. She's like, no, I didn't of you. 0:49:02.600 --> 0:49:05.040 When you have kids, everything is more expensive. It's like 0:49:05.120 --> 0:49:07.400 times four. Like when I used to fly by myself 0:49:07.440 --> 0:49:10.359 back home to New Jersey, it was like one ticket. Sure, 0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:12.480 it's you know, a couple hundred bucks. Now it's like 0:49:12.600 --> 0:49:15.839 anywhere I go it is times that by four. And 0:49:15.880 --> 0:49:20.040 that's just the price of admission for anything. Yeah, kids 0:49:20.040 --> 0:49:22.600 are expensive. Eight eight eight rich one o one eight 0:49:22.680 --> 0:49:26.239 eight eight seven four to two four to one zero one. 0:49:26.960 --> 0:49:30.919 Michael is in Livermore, California. You didn't call to hear 0:49:30.960 --> 0:49:33.719 me complain, did you? 0:49:33.760 --> 0:49:34.680 No? No, I didn't. 0:49:34.920 --> 0:49:36.120 Well, how can I help? 0:49:37.960 --> 0:49:41.480 I'm having an issue logging into my mode. I put 0:49:41.520 --> 0:49:44.520 in the user name, I put in the password, and 0:49:44.560 --> 0:49:47.759 when whenever I clicked the login button or even the 0:49:47.960 --> 0:49:51.600 enter button on my keyboard, it adds three extra characters 0:49:51.640 --> 0:49:53.120 to the password. 0:49:53.680 --> 0:49:58.120 M like little asterisk or what? Okay, yeah, because it's 0:49:58.200 --> 0:50:00.200 it's not showing you what you're typing right. 0:50:01.600 --> 0:50:01.839 Right? 0:50:02.320 --> 0:50:04.480 So what why are you trying to log in just 0:50:04.520 --> 0:50:06.680 out of curiosity? Trying to change some settings or something? 0:50:08.800 --> 0:50:10.640 The IP address on my devices? 0:50:10.719 --> 0:50:11.120 Okay? 0:50:12.239 --> 0:50:15.439 So, uh, there's apps that can do that, by the way, 0:50:15.480 --> 0:50:17.479 that can help. I can't remember the one I used 0:50:17.480 --> 0:50:18.799 off the top of my head, but there are some 0:50:18.840 --> 0:50:21.680 apps that can do that, like a network kind of 0:50:22.160 --> 0:50:27.759 sniffer app. Okay, So have you set the password on 0:50:27.800 --> 0:50:29.719 this modem or using the one that's built in? 0:50:31.719 --> 0:50:33.960 I believe this one that's built in. It's been a 0:50:34.040 --> 0:50:36.239 long time since I've logged in. I don't think I've 0:50:36.320 --> 0:50:38.080 changed it from the basic one. 0:50:38.760 --> 0:50:41.280 And is the motive is the password on the bottom 0:50:41.320 --> 0:50:45.719 of the modem and that's the one that you're trying 0:50:45.760 --> 0:50:50.200 to type in right. Interesting, now, when you type on 0:50:50.280 --> 0:50:53.759 your computer in general, are there extra characters kind of 0:50:54.160 --> 0:50:55.160 happening anywhere else. 0:50:55.360 --> 0:50:58.560 No, And the thing is even if I've tried it 0:50:58.600 --> 0:51:00.799 on my phone also and it does the same thing. 0:51:02.360 --> 0:51:06.040 Now, the password that you're entering, is it a small 0:51:06.120 --> 0:51:07.040 number of characters? 0:51:07.080 --> 0:51:09.200 Like, is it like only like five digits or something. 0:51:10.360 --> 0:51:14.560 Well, it's it's a Motorola modem and the password is Motorola. 0:51:14.800 --> 0:51:19.200 Oh well, that's that's a great password. 0:51:20.239 --> 0:51:20.879 Okay. 0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:23.839 So what I would do in this case, and it's 0:51:23.920 --> 0:51:27.440 probably not I mean, it's probably not the easiest thing 0:51:27.480 --> 0:51:30.040 to do, But are you okay with trying to reset 0:51:30.040 --> 0:51:31.200 this modem to factory? 0:51:34.000 --> 0:51:36.240 That wouldn't involve me having to call up my provider 0:51:36.320 --> 0:51:36.720 or anything. 0:51:37.040 --> 0:51:39.840 No. There there's basically a little tiny pinhole on the 0:51:39.880 --> 0:51:41.719 back that you can press, you know, put like a 0:51:41.719 --> 0:51:44.760 paper clip into and press and hold for like thirty seconds, 0:51:44.760 --> 0:51:47.600 and it would bring it back to factory. That's probably 0:51:47.640 --> 0:51:50.200 the thing that I would do with this situation, because 0:51:50.960 --> 0:51:52.919 there's only so many times I could enter the same 0:51:52.920 --> 0:51:55.680 exact password and it's not working, and it just keeps 0:51:55.719 --> 0:51:58.480 giving me this page. Have you tried a different web browser? 0:51:58.520 --> 0:51:59.760 You said you try it on your phone? 0:52:00.360 --> 0:52:02.280 I have, Yes, I have yet. 0:52:02.280 --> 0:52:04.360 And the same thing every time. Huh. 0:52:05.280 --> 0:52:05.560 Yep. 0:52:05.760 --> 0:52:07.400 That's really frustrating. Hmm. 0:52:08.200 --> 0:52:09.120 Yeah. 0:52:09.160 --> 0:52:12.560 And were you ever able to log into this when 0:52:12.600 --> 0:52:13.800 I first got it. 0:52:14.040 --> 0:52:17.200 I've had it for probably close to two years now. 0:52:17.840 --> 0:52:18.000 Hm. 0:52:18.880 --> 0:52:21.040 Now the other I mean, because the problem is once 0:52:21.080 --> 0:52:24.920 you reset this to factory, now, have you changed the 0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:28.880 the Wi Fi network that this puts out? Have you 0:52:29.000 --> 0:52:32.160 changed that to it's something custom? 0:52:32.400 --> 0:52:35.880 Okay? You haven't, Okay. So the good news is when you. 0:52:35.719 --> 0:52:38.399 Reset this fact to factory, it's going to put out 0:52:38.440 --> 0:52:42.080 the same Wi Fi password like SSI D and password 0:52:42.120 --> 0:52:44.360 for your for your devices, so those are going to. 0:52:44.360 --> 0:52:45.120 Still connect to this. 0:52:45.760 --> 0:52:47.399 So that's what I would do, and I would see 0:52:47.440 --> 0:52:49.399 if that works, because it seems like there's something going 0:52:49.440 --> 0:52:51.600 on here. Once you do that, by the way, and 0:52:51.640 --> 0:52:53.879 once you log in, I would also look to see 0:52:53.880 --> 0:52:57.279 if there's a software update for this modem because it 0:52:57.360 --> 0:52:59.480 might be that there's some sort of security thing going 0:52:59.520 --> 0:52:59.879 on here. 0:53:02.680 --> 0:53:06.200 All right, Michael, all right, keep me posted. 0:53:05.960 --> 0:53:10.799 Let me know, all right, thanks, alrighty, all right, Uh, 0:53:10.960 --> 0:53:13.200 that's that's an odd one. I've seen that I've seen 0:53:13.239 --> 0:53:15.839 that happen when I copy and paste a password into 0:53:15.840 --> 0:53:18.360 a field, and I've seen where I copy and paste 0:53:18.400 --> 0:53:21.200 one thing, but then it becomes like much longer and 0:53:21.360 --> 0:53:24.360 clearly whenever that happens, there's something wrong. The other thing, Michael, 0:53:24.400 --> 0:53:26.920 you might want to try, and this could this could 0:53:27.480 --> 0:53:30.399 be a solution to to try is try typing out 0:53:30.520 --> 0:53:33.960 motorola on a on a website, like on a different page, 0:53:34.640 --> 0:53:37.719 copy it and then paste it into that field and 0:53:37.800 --> 0:53:40.920 see if that works. And maybe the act of pasting 0:53:40.960 --> 0:53:43.640 it will will work to get that password in it 0:53:43.680 --> 0:53:47.839 correctly and kind of trigger things to to log you in. 0:53:48.800 --> 0:53:50.319 All right, I said, I was gonna mention this new 0:53:50.360 --> 0:53:53.040 feature on Ways, pretty simple feature but one that if 0:53:53.080 --> 0:53:55.359 you drive an EV you're gonna love. You can now 0:53:55.400 --> 0:53:58.080 put in your EV car type and plug type into 0:53:58.080 --> 0:54:01.720 the Ways app and it will find EV charging stations 0:54:01.760 --> 0:54:04.359 along your route that are compatible with your car. Now, 0:54:04.360 --> 0:54:08.040 you may not have this feature immediately. It is rolling out, 0:54:08.120 --> 0:54:10.759 which are my two most hated words in the tech world, 0:54:10.760 --> 0:54:12.799 because you never know when you're gonna get it. But 0:54:13.640 --> 0:54:16.839 Ways is crowdsourced, so they're saying the information in there 0:54:16.960 --> 0:54:20.120 hopefully is more up to date, more comprehensive. And if 0:54:20.200 --> 0:54:23.600 you drive a non Tesla EV, the whole thing is 0:54:23.640 --> 0:54:27.280 that you want to find compatible charging stations along your route, 0:54:28.000 --> 0:54:31.000 which is different than just finding one somewhere that's where 0:54:31.000 --> 0:54:33.960 you're going. So update the ways app look for the 0:54:34.120 --> 0:54:38.680 EV charging information inside your app. More calls a Triple 0:54:38.719 --> 0:54:41.279 eight rich one on one and we're gonna talk to 0:54:41.320 --> 0:54:46.480 Sherry Riggs of whistle Out about cheap cell phone provider plans. 0:54:46.520 --> 0:54:47.200 Coming up next. 0:54:48.520 --> 0:54:51.600 Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro here hanging 0:54:51.600 --> 0:54:55.640 out with you talking technology. Phone lines are open Triple 0:54:55.680 --> 0:54:59.120 eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:54:59.160 --> 0:55:03.799 to two four one zero one. My next guest is 0:55:04.080 --> 0:55:07.919 Sherry Riggs. She works for a website called whistle Out. 0:55:08.400 --> 0:55:10.480 This is a great website if you are looking to 0:55:10.560 --> 0:55:14.920 compare cell phone plans, internet plans, all that good stuff. 0:55:16.400 --> 0:55:17.520 Sherry, Welcome to the show. 0:55:19.640 --> 0:55:21.160 Hi, Yeah, I'm happy to be here. 0:55:21.920 --> 0:55:26.680 So the mint Mobile news this week. It did you 0:55:26.719 --> 0:55:29.680 see that coming? Yeah? 0:55:29.800 --> 0:55:30.520 Yeah, you know it. 0:55:30.640 --> 0:55:32.560 There had been whispers of it, and I think it 0:55:32.600 --> 0:55:35.200 was only a matter of time before T Mobile was like, Ah, 0:55:35.400 --> 0:55:37.759 these guys are getting too big. We need to help them. 0:55:38.800 --> 0:55:41.879 I mean, isn't it frustrating for folks that picked mint 0:55:41.920 --> 0:55:45.920 Mobile as an alternative to the big mobile companies and 0:55:45.960 --> 0:55:48.319 then they get purchased by the big mobile company even 0:55:48.360 --> 0:55:52.960 though the service always ran on the big mobile companies network, right. 0:55:53.080 --> 0:55:56.399 So it's kind of a complicated relationship, I would say, 0:55:56.480 --> 0:56:00.279 because yeah, mint Mobile was a separate entity although it 0:56:00.520 --> 0:56:04.520 ran on T mobiles infrastructure. And I think the big 0:56:04.560 --> 0:56:07.440 worry for most people is that, Okay, now that one 0:56:07.480 --> 0:56:10.480 of the big three has acquired mint Mobile. 0:56:10.840 --> 0:56:11.760 What's going to change? 0:56:11.960 --> 0:56:15.320 And don't I don't think much is going to change. 0:56:15.320 --> 0:56:17.359 I think T Mobile is just still going to give 0:56:17.400 --> 0:56:21.719 the reins, mainly to mint Mobile to handle everything, and 0:56:21.840 --> 0:56:24.520 I think T Mobile just wanted a piece of the pie, really. 0:56:25.080 --> 0:56:27.839 So explain the concept of an mv and O. This 0:56:27.880 --> 0:56:30.040 is what mint Mobile is pretty much. If you're not 0:56:30.200 --> 0:56:33.279 using T Mobile, Verizon or AT and T, if you 0:56:33.320 --> 0:56:35.799 have another company that's providing your service, it's an mv 0:56:35.880 --> 0:56:38.040 and O. Because we only have three networks here in 0:56:38.080 --> 0:56:41.120 the US. I think Dish is building their own, right. 0:56:42.160 --> 0:56:47.080 Dish is trying, and you know, if that works out, 0:56:47.120 --> 0:56:50.600 then we'll have four again. But but yeah, So an 0:56:50.680 --> 0:56:55.560 MVNA is a mobile virtual network operator, basically meaning a 0:56:55.680 --> 0:56:59.520 smaller carrier rent space on a major carrier network. So 0:57:00.200 --> 0:57:04.280 mobile is a perfect example of that kind of because 0:57:04.320 --> 0:57:08.160 they aren't T Mobile. And then Visible Mobile is another 0:57:08.200 --> 0:57:12.000 good example of an MVNL and they rent space on 0:57:12.160 --> 0:57:16.560 Verizons network. So yeah, it's really like buying a generic 0:57:16.640 --> 0:57:19.120 cereal at a grocery store or something like that. 0:57:19.440 --> 0:57:22.200 But the interesting thing is that Visible has always been 0:57:22.200 --> 0:57:25.960 owned by Verizon. And then you've got Cricket, which is 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:29.040 I think AT and T purchased them, right, They weren't 0:57:29.040 --> 0:57:30.160 always AT and T. 0:57:31.080 --> 0:57:34.080 Right, right, Yeah, Cricket was purchased by AT and T 0:57:34.280 --> 0:57:38.880 most recently. But yeah, so I think what's happening is 0:57:39.200 --> 0:57:42.360 the major carriers are seeing how much success can come 0:57:42.920 --> 0:57:46.680 with these smaller carriers offering lower prices, and they still 0:57:46.840 --> 0:57:49.400 just want a little bit more money, so they're they're 0:57:49.520 --> 0:57:51.920 dishing out and buying up these smaller guys and hopes 0:57:51.960 --> 0:57:53.840 of pumping up their own numbers. 0:57:54.160 --> 0:57:57.200 So why do people go with one of these alternative 0:57:57.240 --> 0:57:59.720 carriers versus the big carriers? 0:58:00.840 --> 0:58:01.640 Yeah, so, I. 0:58:01.600 --> 0:58:05.960 Think mainly it is its costs. So all of these 0:58:06.000 --> 0:58:09.280 smaller carriers come at a cheaper price, and that's mainly. 0:58:09.920 --> 0:58:12.560 They offer the same service as the main carriers. It's 0:58:12.560 --> 0:58:14.520 the exact same coverage, So how do they keep it 0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:19.360 lower while with smaller carriers come less a customer service 0:58:19.600 --> 0:58:22.720 and potentially less help if you run into a problem. 0:58:22.960 --> 0:58:25.840 Most of these smaller guys all of it's run online 0:58:25.840 --> 0:58:27.920 and you kind of have to troubleshoot yourself if you 0:58:28.000 --> 0:58:31.720 run into problems. So that's where you pay more money 0:58:31.840 --> 0:58:34.360 is generally the customer service with the big carriers, and 0:58:34.480 --> 0:58:38.360 even that doesn't go well people. 0:58:38.520 --> 0:58:40.720 So the fact that I can walk into a Verizon 0:58:40.800 --> 0:58:43.919 store is to justifying the extra fifty bucks a month 0:58:43.960 --> 0:58:46.080 that you pay for a Verizon plan pretty much. 0:58:46.240 --> 0:58:47.240 Yeah, yeah, that. 0:58:47.320 --> 0:58:50.920 And generally the main carriers offer a bit more in 0:58:51.040 --> 0:58:54.360 terms of turks, like Verizon will give you the Disney 0:58:54.400 --> 0:58:58.200 Bundle and then T Mobile will offer Netflix, and so 0:58:58.280 --> 0:59:01.240 you do get a few other per along with those 0:59:01.240 --> 0:59:04.720 bigger cell phone plans. But but yeah, the big, in 0:59:04.760 --> 0:59:08.920 my opinion, the really big difference here is a is 0:59:09.160 --> 0:59:11.160 a brick and mortar store, a person to talk to. 0:59:11.760 --> 0:59:14.160 Yeah, that was a big when I did a story. 0:59:14.440 --> 0:59:16.360 So the first like MV and O that I did 0:59:16.360 --> 0:59:20.040 a story with at KTLA was Visible, and I mean 0:59:20.200 --> 0:59:22.560 I'd heard of them, but Visible was very appealing because 0:59:22.560 --> 0:59:25.400 it was so cheap, and it was on Verizon's network, 0:59:25.400 --> 0:59:27.280 and I was like, and it was unlimited. So I'm like, wait, 0:59:27.320 --> 0:59:30.800 what's the catch here? And sure enough that you know, 0:59:30.800 --> 0:59:33.160 a lot of people did switch after our story. But 0:59:33.240 --> 0:59:35.480 the biggest feedback I got is that when they had 0:59:35.560 --> 0:59:39.080 any sort of problem, it was tough to you know, 0:59:39.120 --> 0:59:40.920 you couldn't walk into a store. You had to do 0:59:41.040 --> 0:59:44.120 you had to troubleshoot everything, either online on the phone 0:59:44.360 --> 0:59:47.040 or through chat that you know which people if you're 0:59:47.160 --> 0:59:50.160 used to that hands on service at like a Verizon store, 0:59:50.280 --> 0:59:52.920 at and T store, it's like, uh, sorry. 0:59:52.840 --> 0:59:55.680 Can't go. You can't get help with that inside the store. 0:59:56.040 --> 0:59:58.080 All right, I'm looking at I'm looking at some of 0:59:58.080 --> 1:00:01.880 these whistle Out expert picks on the website. So can 1:00:01.920 --> 1:00:03.840 you explain what whistle out does, by the way, like 1:00:04.000 --> 1:00:04.960 how the website works. 1:00:05.800 --> 1:00:06.160 Yeah? 1:00:06.200 --> 1:00:10.360 Absolutely, So the best way to describe it is whistle 1:00:10.400 --> 1:00:13.720 Out compares cell phone plans and internet plans like Expedia 1:00:13.800 --> 1:00:16.920 can compare flights. So you can put in all of 1:00:17.000 --> 1:00:19.520 the requirements you want in a cell phone plan, and 1:00:19.600 --> 1:00:24.160 we have a database that will list out every single 1:00:24.200 --> 1:00:26.680 option for you, and you can sort it by price. 1:00:26.760 --> 1:00:31.960 You can sort it by carrier. It really helps simplify 1:00:32.000 --> 1:00:35.200 the process of either switching carriers or finding a new carrier. 1:00:35.840 --> 1:00:38.640 Whistleout dot com is the website, so I'm going through 1:00:38.640 --> 1:00:41.560 some of your expert picture. Best unlimited phone plan is 1:00:41.680 --> 1:00:45.360 Visible by Verizon. Why does whistle out like that one? 1:00:46.520 --> 1:00:50.240 So this is a new one. We recently changed this one, 1:00:50.240 --> 1:00:53.320 but we do love Visible because a it runs on 1:00:53.440 --> 1:00:57.960 Verizon's network and they have the most for GLT coverage 1:00:57.960 --> 1:01:00.760 in the country, so you'll pretty much always have coverage 1:01:00.760 --> 1:01:04.120 wherever you are. And then Visible's new cell phone plan 1:01:04.200 --> 1:01:09.000 options of Visible Plus offers some incredible perks in terms 1:01:09.040 --> 1:01:12.840 of data allotments and a gig a hotspot alignment as well, 1:01:13.320 --> 1:01:16.440 so you get a lot for the cost which is 1:01:16.600 --> 1:01:19.160 really low. I believe thirty five dollars a month. 1:01:19.600 --> 1:01:22.720 Now, this one the best cheap phone plan. US Mobile. 1:01:23.360 --> 1:01:27.560 I actually really like this company because it's all online. 1:01:27.600 --> 1:01:32.200 Obviously they rent from Verizon and T Mobile, but it's 1:01:32.240 --> 1:01:35.080 really good and it's like very customizable. So for five 1:01:35.360 --> 1:01:37.680 gigs of data it's just ten bucks a month. That's 1:01:37.840 --> 1:01:40.680 I mean, should we feel concerned going to US Mobile 1:01:40.680 --> 1:01:42.080 because we haven't heard of them before? 1:01:43.160 --> 1:01:46.560 No, not at all. You know, US Mobile is one 1:01:46.560 --> 1:01:48.920 of those hidden gems. I like to call it. It's 1:01:48.920 --> 1:01:51.880 a unicorn cell phone carrier because their prices are so 1:01:52.040 --> 1:01:55.560 low and incredibly customizable, and on top of that, you 1:01:55.600 --> 1:01:57.480 get to choose which carrier you want to be with, 1:01:57.800 --> 1:02:00.280 either T Mobile or Verizon, and it's the same price 1:02:00.280 --> 1:02:03.040 across the board. So yeah, it can be scary going 1:02:03.080 --> 1:02:05.919 with a name you don't know, but it doesn't take 1:02:05.960 --> 1:02:10.000 away from how good they are as a carrier, and. 1:02:10.000 --> 1:02:12.439 I've personally tested them and they were excellent. I've talked 1:02:12.440 --> 1:02:14.320 to the CEO of this company and it's just one 1:02:14.360 --> 1:02:16.840 of those companies that literally I never heard of because 1:02:16.840 --> 1:02:19.000 they don't advertise as far as I can tell, maybe 1:02:19.000 --> 1:02:20.840 online or something that I just haven't seen. 1:02:21.560 --> 1:02:24.520 Yeah, they don't do a whole lot of advertising, I 1:02:24.520 --> 1:02:27.120 think mainly because the proof is in the pudding, as 1:02:27.160 --> 1:02:29.240 they say, once you've tested it out and looked at 1:02:29.280 --> 1:02:33.080 the prices and you make the switch, it's it's pretty 1:02:33.120 --> 1:02:36.120 incredible to see how much money you can save and 1:02:36.200 --> 1:02:40.120 still get incredible quality service. And in fact, US mobiles 1:02:40.160 --> 1:02:42.960 new Unlimited plan is one of my favorites at forty 1:02:43.000 --> 1:02:46.000 five dollars a month. You get premium data at one 1:02:46.080 --> 1:02:50.560 hundred gigabytes, a giant hotspot, a lotminut fifty and it's 1:02:50.800 --> 1:02:55.320 one of the best deals out there. It's quickly going 1:02:55.360 --> 1:02:58.160 to the top of my list as most recommended unlimited plan. 1:02:58.440 --> 1:03:02.280 Wow, okay, best fan plan. Reach Mobile. I've never heard 1:03:02.280 --> 1:03:02.800 of them. 1:03:04.200 --> 1:03:07.640 Yeah, Reach is a small one, but Reach does some 1:03:07.840 --> 1:03:12.040 really great work. And they also have family pricing, which 1:03:12.080 --> 1:03:14.200 is which is awesome, and you don't often get that 1:03:14.240 --> 1:03:19.160 with MBN out so keeping that in mind, you don't 1:03:19.240 --> 1:03:22.000 with the major carriers. You generally get a discount for 1:03:22.040 --> 1:03:25.800 multiple lines. With many nbnos they don't do multi line discounts, 1:03:25.840 --> 1:03:28.480 but some do and that is an awesome perk. 1:03:29.040 --> 1:03:33.040 And finally, the best prepaid phone plan, Mint Mobile, still 1:03:33.120 --> 1:03:36.160 has it right now, unlimited data. So I have a 1:03:36.160 --> 1:03:38.720 family member that has Mint and they've been telling all 1:03:38.760 --> 1:03:40.600 their friends about it because they've had it for years. 1:03:41.000 --> 1:03:43.240 And they pay once a year, so it's a one 1:03:43.280 --> 1:03:45.360 time fee. They pay for the whole year at once, 1:03:45.480 --> 1:03:46.920 and they love it because they don't have to think 1:03:46.960 --> 1:03:47.640 about their bill. 1:03:48.080 --> 1:03:49.360 And people are like, I don't believe you. 1:03:49.400 --> 1:03:50.960 I don't see how you can have the same service 1:03:51.000 --> 1:03:53.000 that I have for paying one bill a month, it's 1:03:53.040 --> 1:03:54.360 like three hundred bucks or whatever it is. 1:03:55.040 --> 1:03:58.320 Right, Yeah, it's there. That can be an upside and 1:03:58.480 --> 1:04:01.840 a downside. Right, paying for service for one year might 1:04:01.880 --> 1:04:04.520 seem like a big bill at one point, but it 1:04:04.600 --> 1:04:08.400 is incredibly cheap. And once you just pay it, you 1:04:08.400 --> 1:04:10.200 set it aside for one year and you're good to go. 1:04:10.960 --> 1:04:13.959 That's one of the best things that I appreciate about 1:04:14.000 --> 1:04:16.480 mint Mobile is that you are able to buy in 1:04:16.560 --> 1:04:18.920 bulk and so far in advance, and if you love 1:04:18.960 --> 1:04:21.200 the service, it makes it that much easier and that 1:04:21.320 --> 1:04:21.800 much better. 1:04:22.240 --> 1:04:24.280 In fact, I got an email for I have a 1:04:24.320 --> 1:04:26.800 mint Mobile test line, and I've got an email today. 1:04:26.840 --> 1:04:30.160 How funny is this that my three months? I guess 1:04:30.200 --> 1:04:32.320 I had three months that I bought and I got 1:04:32.320 --> 1:04:35.520 three months free and today is the anniversary of that date. 1:04:35.920 --> 1:04:38.720 I don't know, so funny. 1:04:38.720 --> 1:04:40.120 Thank you, so exciting. 1:04:40.480 --> 1:04:43.800 And I've used an average of three point nine gigs 1:04:43.840 --> 1:04:46.960 a month on this test line, so anyway, Wow, I know, 1:04:47.160 --> 1:04:49.120 all right, Cherry, tell folks how they can find you. 1:04:49.200 --> 1:04:51.160 I know you do a lot of YouTube videos. Tell 1:04:51.560 --> 1:04:52.760 folks how they can find you on there? 1:04:53.560 --> 1:04:56.960 Yeah, so we're on YouTube on the internet. You just 1:04:57.000 --> 1:04:59.720 need to search whistle Out USA and you will find 1:04:59.800 --> 1:05:02.960 us and you will hopefully find a better deal than 1:05:03.000 --> 1:05:05.760 you have right now. I promise we'se save you some money. 1:05:06.520 --> 1:05:08.880 All right, Sherry Riggs of whistle Out, thanks so much 1:05:08.880 --> 1:05:09.920 for joining me today on the show. 1:05:09.960 --> 1:05:10.520 Appreciate it. 1:05:10.920 --> 1:05:12.640 All right, Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about a 1:05:12.680 --> 1:05:15.480 new podcast app that I really like. Plus, I'm going 1:05:15.560 --> 1:05:17.840 to dive into that Verizon deal where they're giving you 1:05:17.880 --> 1:05:19.920 like a free year of Netflix. I'm gonna explain what 1:05:20.000 --> 1:05:22.480 the catch is there, and we'll have more of your calls. 1:05:22.520 --> 1:05:23.080 Give me a call. 1:05:23.400 --> 1:05:25.800 Phone lines are opens triple eight rich one O one 1:05:25.880 --> 1:05:29.720 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:05:29.760 --> 1:05:35.160 You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 1:05:35.240 --> 1:05:38.840 on Tech. Rich Timuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. 1:05:39.440 --> 1:05:43.880 I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. 1:05:44.640 --> 1:05:47.680 All right, DK Wrights, Hey, Rich, I hope you read this. 1:05:48.280 --> 1:05:53.920 My niece accidentally deleted all thirteen thousand pictures on her phone. 1:05:55.440 --> 1:05:57.720 She has a Galaxy S twenty two Ultra. She has 1:05:57.760 --> 1:06:00.920 tried everything she can to restore the photos. They were 1:06:00.920 --> 1:06:03.560 backed up to Google one eighteen hours ago, but when 1:06:03.560 --> 1:06:06.880 she checked there was nothing there. I'm hoping you might 1:06:06.880 --> 1:06:10.280 be able to help. Would greatly appreciate any suggestion. Thank 1:06:10.320 --> 1:06:16.000 you kindly, Debbie Huh. Okay, So first off, I'm very 1:06:16.000 --> 1:06:20.120 curious how thirteen thousand pictures were deleted because you got 1:06:20.120 --> 1:06:23.200 to work really hard to delete that many pictures off 1:06:23.200 --> 1:06:26.160 of your phone, and also it takes a while to 1:06:26.200 --> 1:06:29.840 delete thirteen thousand pictures. So my first question is how 1:06:29.840 --> 1:06:35.640 did this happen because that's nearly impossible to I mean 1:06:35.680 --> 1:06:38.440 on the iPhone, you know, and all these phones, you 1:06:38.480 --> 1:06:41.880 basically have to go in, select all your photos and 1:06:41.920 --> 1:06:44.000 then say delete all. And there's like a couple of 1:06:44.560 --> 1:06:47.960 steps to do that. It doesn't just say like delete everything. 1:06:48.640 --> 1:06:52.720 So okay, that aside, I'm just curious about that. So 1:06:52.760 --> 1:06:55.560 what I would do is a couple of places. Number One, 1:06:55.720 --> 1:06:58.200 you said that they were backed up in Google one. 1:06:58.920 --> 1:07:01.160 The good news about it an Android phone is that 1:07:01.200 --> 1:07:05.320 typically things are backed up automatically like it's it's pretty 1:07:05.400 --> 1:07:08.040 rare that they're not. So the first place I would 1:07:08.080 --> 1:07:11.800 go is one dot Google dot com, and once you 1:07:11.880 --> 1:07:15.080 go there, you can check to see your different devices. 1:07:15.120 --> 1:07:19.200 So go to storage and you have different It says 1:07:19.200 --> 1:07:23.160 your device backups and you should see the Galaxy S 1:07:23.200 --> 1:07:27.960 twenty two Ultra in there, and mine says backup incomplete. 1:07:28.080 --> 1:07:30.960 So if you see backup incomplete, that means that things 1:07:31.000 --> 1:07:31.320 are not. 1:07:31.360 --> 1:07:32.240 Backed up properly. 1:07:32.840 --> 1:07:35.080 So that's the first place I'd look and see if 1:07:35.160 --> 1:07:37.320 that backup is in there, and then you can click 1:07:37.360 --> 1:07:40.720 see details and it will show you photos and videos. 1:07:40.800 --> 1:07:44.360 In my case, it says they're in Google Photos. Now 1:07:44.400 --> 1:07:49.720 on the Samsungs, they have a thing where they also 1:07:49.760 --> 1:07:53.240 sync to one drive. Samsung has a deal with Microsoft, 1:07:53.280 --> 1:07:56.080 so your photos may be in one drive, and so 1:07:56.160 --> 1:07:58.960 that's what I would check as well, and look in 1:07:59.000 --> 1:08:01.360 one drive and see if your photo's there. 1:08:01.360 --> 1:08:02.480 And that's one edrive. 1:08:03.120 --> 1:08:06.439 Dot Microsoft dot com and you can log in there 1:08:07.080 --> 1:08:09.040 and it might be your Samsung log in. You might 1:08:09.080 --> 1:08:12.439 have a link to your Microsoft login, so check there. 1:08:13.360 --> 1:08:15.440 The other thing I would do is go to photos 1:08:16.479 --> 1:08:19.800 dot Google dot com and if these were backing up 1:08:19.800 --> 1:08:23.559 to Google Photos, they should still be in there, because 1:08:23.640 --> 1:08:27.000 even if you deleted them, they would be in the trash. 1:08:27.240 --> 1:08:29.519 And so you can go to photos dot Google dot com, 1:08:29.880 --> 1:08:33.080 click the trash and items in the trash are deleted 1:08:33.080 --> 1:08:36.880 after sixty days, so all these thirteen thousand pictures should 1:08:36.920 --> 1:08:40.280 be in there now. If she went through and emptied 1:08:40.280 --> 1:08:44.599 the trash, that's a whole nother problem. And again, you know, 1:08:44.640 --> 1:08:47.280 these tech companies try to do their best to protect 1:08:47.520 --> 1:08:50.400 us from ourselves. And again there's a lot of steps 1:08:50.400 --> 1:08:54.000 involved in deleting thirteen thousand pictures. That process physically takes 1:08:54.000 --> 1:08:56.559 a little bit of time. So hopefully it's in one 1:08:56.600 --> 1:09:01.520 of those places, Debbie. And once you find these pictures 1:09:01.760 --> 1:09:05.880 and recover them, please back up your photos. I know 1:09:05.880 --> 1:09:07.919 there's a lot of confusion when it comes to photos, 1:09:08.240 --> 1:09:11.280 but I'm just gonna give you my advice. On your phone, 1:09:11.320 --> 1:09:14.919 you want your photos backed up somewhere, choose a program 1:09:14.960 --> 1:09:16.920 to back them up. If you're on the iPhone, you 1:09:16.920 --> 1:09:19.040 can use iCloud. It's not my favorite, but you can 1:09:19.200 --> 1:09:21.360 use it. And just remember, if you delete a picture 1:09:21.400 --> 1:09:24.280 off your phone on your iPhone, it mirrors iicloud, so 1:09:24.360 --> 1:09:28.120 it will delete it off iCloud as well. I personally 1:09:28.200 --> 1:09:30.760 like Google Photos. I think it's the best easiest way 1:09:30.800 --> 1:09:33.320 to figure out where your photos are. Yes, you might 1:09:33.360 --> 1:09:35.040 have to pay for a little bit of storage, but 1:09:35.479 --> 1:09:37.680 that to me is the best one. The other thing 1:09:37.680 --> 1:09:39.759 you can do is if you're an Amazon Prime member, 1:09:39.800 --> 1:09:43.200 you can use this as a secondary backup Amazon Photos. 1:09:43.680 --> 1:09:46.960 Download it, sign in with your Amazon account. As long 1:09:46.960 --> 1:09:49.439 as you have an Amazon membership, that's a secondary place 1:09:49.520 --> 1:09:52.560 to do it. The only thing is on the iPhone, 1:09:52.640 --> 1:09:56.920 if you're using Amazon Photos, it doesn't automatically back up 1:09:57.040 --> 1:10:00.760 in the background necessarily. You do have to you open 1:10:00.880 --> 1:10:02.920 up the app every once in a while to back 1:10:02.920 --> 1:10:05.519 it up. Just remember that on the iPhone you have 1:10:05.560 --> 1:10:07.559 to open up the app. You can use one drive. 1:10:08.520 --> 1:10:10.280 I don't care if you use, you know, whatever app 1:10:10.280 --> 1:10:11.760 you want to use. Just make sure that you open 1:10:11.800 --> 1:10:13.559 it up and check to make sure your stuff is 1:10:13.560 --> 1:10:15.000 backed up every once in a while. 1:10:16.680 --> 1:10:17.000 All right. 1:10:17.040 --> 1:10:19.080 I said that Verizon was giving away a free year 1:10:19.120 --> 1:10:22.960 of Netflix Premium twenty dollars a month value if you 1:10:23.000 --> 1:10:25.680 have a Verizon Unlimited plan. They're trying to promote this 1:10:25.720 --> 1:10:29.320 new Verizon Plus Play program that they have, which is 1:10:29.360 --> 1:10:32.960 a hub for all of your streaming subscriptions. So if 1:10:33.000 --> 1:10:35.640 you want to get free Netflix, the catch is that 1:10:35.720 --> 1:10:39.000 you have to subscribe to some other service. Those services 1:10:39.040 --> 1:10:44.160 include AMC Plus, Stars, Paramount Peloton. Subscribe to one of 1:10:44.160 --> 1:10:47.599 those services, you'll get Netflix for free. The tricky part 1:10:47.680 --> 1:10:50.040 is the timing getting it all right. But if you 1:10:50.080 --> 1:10:52.040 want to save two hundred and forty bucks a year 1:10:52.080 --> 1:10:54.760 on Netflix, try it out. Go to the website. If 1:10:54.800 --> 1:10:57.200 you've got one of these other services anyway, you might 1:10:57.240 --> 1:10:58.880 as well. I'm gonna try it out. We'll see I 1:10:58.920 --> 1:11:02.560 do Peloton all right. Eight eight eight rich one on 1:11:02.640 --> 1:11:04.920 one eight eight eight seven four to two, four to 1:11:05.000 --> 1:11:07.400 one zero one. Give me a call if you got 1:11:07.439 --> 1:11:10.040 a tech question. More of your calls coming up next. 1:11:10.840 --> 1:11:14.160 Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro hanging out 1:11:14.200 --> 1:11:19.599 with you, talking technology. Eight eight eight rich one oh 1:11:19.640 --> 1:11:23.400 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:11:23.760 --> 1:11:27.320 zero one. Got a couple of guests coming up later 1:11:27.439 --> 1:11:32.120 this hour. Xavier Journ again. This is a really cool interview. 1:11:33.120 --> 1:11:38.680 Xavier is the Spotify's first AI DJ. So if you've 1:11:38.680 --> 1:11:41.200 got Spotify, you might have seen this new little feature. 1:11:41.280 --> 1:11:44.439 It's an AI DJ. It's a DJ that's personalized just 1:11:44.479 --> 1:11:47.400 for you. Kind of interesting. So I talked to him 1:11:47.400 --> 1:11:51.000 about being that voice and what's that like and how 1:11:51.120 --> 1:11:54.880 they do it. Then I've got Clay Alexander He is 1:11:55.080 --> 1:11:58.200 the CEO and founder of Ember. You might know Ember 1:11:58.720 --> 1:12:04.120 as the company that the temperature controlled mug keeps your 1:12:04.160 --> 1:12:07.840 coffee or your tea at the same temperature the whole time. Well, 1:12:07.880 --> 1:12:10.720 now they have a new product. It's for babies, a 1:12:10.760 --> 1:12:16.519 baby bottle. So I'll talk about that. Ember, by the way, 1:12:17.000 --> 1:12:18.920 Westlake Village, California company. 1:12:19.360 --> 1:12:21.240 They just moved to new offices and. 1:12:21.320 --> 1:12:24.639 Wow, it reminded me of that movie or that TV 1:12:24.720 --> 1:12:26.280 show Severance on Apple TV. 1:12:26.280 --> 1:12:28.840 I don't know if you saw it. 1:12:28.160 --> 1:12:31.920 Very like futuristic like it just it looked like the 1:12:31.960 --> 1:12:36.559 headquarters of a tech company. It was just really cool 1:12:36.600 --> 1:12:38.960 lines and stuff. I put out my Instagram at rich 1:12:39.040 --> 1:12:42.000 on Tech if you want to see it. Apple this 1:12:42.040 --> 1:12:47.519 week introduced a new feature called Specialist Shop with a 1:12:47.560 --> 1:12:50.519 Specialist over Video. Say that ten times fast Shop with 1:12:50.560 --> 1:12:53.960 a Specialist over Video. This is a feature that's kind 1:12:54.000 --> 1:12:55.920 of like a video chat, but it's a one way 1:12:56.000 --> 1:12:59.920 video chat. They can't see you, but you can see them. 1:13:00.400 --> 1:13:02.960 So the idea is you're on the Apple website or 1:13:02.960 --> 1:13:05.720 on your phone and you want to shop for a 1:13:05.760 --> 1:13:07.799 new phone. You don't feel like going into the store, 1:13:08.280 --> 1:13:12.000 so you can fire up one of these retail specialists. 1:13:12.479 --> 1:13:15.360 Their video pops up on your screen while you're browsing 1:13:15.360 --> 1:13:20.000 the website. It's a one way video shopping session. You 1:13:20.040 --> 1:13:22.200 can ask them to do things like, Hey, can you 1:13:22.240 --> 1:13:25.920 show me the difference between the iPhone fourteen and the 1:13:25.960 --> 1:13:28.799 fourteen plus? Hey? Can you show me the different colors 1:13:28.840 --> 1:13:30.640 of the phones? Can I see them in hand so 1:13:30.680 --> 1:13:33.840 I can decide which one I want? 1:13:34.360 --> 1:13:34.519 Hey? 1:13:34.560 --> 1:13:36.919 Can you tell me about trade and offers different deals? 1:13:37.760 --> 1:13:39.880 And it's interesting A lot of people don't realize this, 1:13:39.960 --> 1:13:42.639 but you can go to the Apple Store and they 1:13:42.680 --> 1:13:46.519 can help you no matter which carrier you have, whether 1:13:46.560 --> 1:13:49.920 you have AT and T, Verizon, T Mobile, whatever. They 1:13:49.960 --> 1:13:52.679 can help you switch plans, switch to a new phone. 1:13:52.720 --> 1:13:55.640 You don't have to go to your carrier store. My 1:13:55.720 --> 1:13:57.840 sister was shopping for a phone and I told her that. 1:13:57.920 --> 1:13:59.200 She's like, wait, what, I don't have to go to 1:13:59.479 --> 1:14:02.200 whatever come because she has so Yeah, you could just 1:14:02.200 --> 1:14:03.559 go to the Apple Store. And I think it's almost 1:14:03.640 --> 1:14:07.960 better because their retail associates kind of know the different 1:14:08.000 --> 1:14:10.760 plans and the different deals from all the different carriers, 1:14:11.160 --> 1:14:13.880 so they might be able to help you. So this 1:14:13.960 --> 1:14:17.040 shop with a specialist over video is available to customers 1:14:17.040 --> 1:14:22.240 in the US seven am to seven pm Pacific every day. Again, 1:14:22.560 --> 1:14:26.160 they can't see you, you can see them, and it's 1:14:26.200 --> 1:14:27.719 all about just making things. 1:14:27.520 --> 1:14:32.040 Easier to shop. It's interesting. 1:14:32.040 --> 1:14:33.920 I mean, I wonder. I asked them, I said, hey, 1:14:34.400 --> 1:14:37.759 were these people located? Like where are they in the stores? 1:14:38.720 --> 1:14:41.479 And they didn't really answer the question. But it seems 1:14:41.479 --> 1:14:46.080 like it's a It seems like the retail associates are 1:14:46.160 --> 1:14:48.559 in stores and they're just you know, hey, can you go? 1:14:49.080 --> 1:14:49.320 Man? 1:14:49.360 --> 1:14:52.320 The website phone calls for an hour, but I guess 1:14:52.400 --> 1:14:56.960 video calls in this case. Minecraft is coming to the Chromebook. 1:14:57.439 --> 1:14:59.680 This is a long time coming for kids that have 1:14:59.720 --> 1:15:04.080 a Chrome Book, and this is an early access version 1:15:04.160 --> 1:15:07.960 of Minecraft. Minecraft is available in a lot of different places, 1:15:08.000 --> 1:15:11.400 but the Chromebook is not one of them historically. So 1:15:11.520 --> 1:15:16.559 the Minecraft Bedrock Edition releasing on Chromebook. It'll give you 1:15:16.600 --> 1:15:19.960 access to cross device play with friends, the Minecraft marketplace, 1:15:20.520 --> 1:15:23.559 the ability to play on realms, and it's not going 1:15:23.640 --> 1:15:25.800 to be on all the chromebooks. I did check on 1:15:25.840 --> 1:15:28.200 my kids chromebook and it was available, so he's going 1:15:28.280 --> 1:15:30.519 to test it out for me. You can go to 1:15:30.560 --> 1:15:33.720 the Google Play Store and type in Minecraft. If you 1:15:33.760 --> 1:15:35.880 have a Chromebook and it will let you know if 1:15:35.880 --> 1:15:38.920 it's available to you. It has to have a certain 1:15:40.439 --> 1:15:45.200 spec count on your Chromebook, so it's not all of them, 1:15:46.280 --> 1:15:49.240 and you can go to the Minecraft website and tell 1:15:49.320 --> 1:15:51.439 you it'll tell you exactly what. 1:15:51.320 --> 1:15:52.080 The requirements are. 1:15:52.200 --> 1:15:55.519 Let me look them up here, Chrome OS one eleven 1:15:56.040 --> 1:15:59.040 sixty four bit system architecture. You've got to have a 1:15:59.040 --> 1:16:03.679 certain process or Intel cleron Media Tech Qualcom, four gigs 1:16:03.680 --> 1:16:09.120 of RAM and one gig for game installation. So I 1:16:09.200 --> 1:16:11.600 know that doesn't sound like very high end specs, but 1:16:11.720 --> 1:16:15.960 chromebooks are known for having notoriously low end specs. It 1:16:15.960 --> 1:16:19.280 doesn't make them a bad machine. It's just chromebooks don't 1:16:19.360 --> 1:16:23.519 require too much to run, but you do need four 1:16:23.560 --> 1:16:27.519 I mean, those specs aren't totally wild, but you do 1:16:27.640 --> 1:16:30.120 need those to run this. And the whole idea here 1:16:30.160 --> 1:16:31.400 is that they're going to test to see how the 1:16:31.439 --> 1:16:34.360 game performs on the chromebooks before they expand it to more. 1:16:34.840 --> 1:16:36.120 So expect some bugs. 1:16:36.439 --> 1:16:38.760 But if your kid is a fan of Minecraft and 1:16:38.840 --> 1:16:40.400 so far they have not been able to play it 1:16:40.439 --> 1:16:43.120 on their chromebook, it's kind of cool and some of 1:16:43.160 --> 1:16:45.160 the kids like having the keyboard because it's easier to 1:16:45.200 --> 1:16:48.680 play these games with a keyboard versus just having the 1:16:48.720 --> 1:16:53.840 touch screen on the iPad. So there you go. And 1:16:53.880 --> 1:16:56.240 then I told you that I found a new podcast 1:16:56.320 --> 1:16:59.559 app that's kind of cool. It's called Wonder This is 1:16:59.600 --> 1:17:05.000 from a of newsletter called Wonder Tools, and I suggest 1:17:05.040 --> 1:17:08.679 you subscribe to it. It's really good. It's a substack snipped. 1:17:08.720 --> 1:17:14.679 It's called snipd snipd. What's cool about this podcast app 1:17:14.880 --> 1:17:19.000 is that it allows you to snip little interesting parts 1:17:19.080 --> 1:17:21.120 of the shows that you watch and either save them 1:17:21.160 --> 1:17:23.719 for later or you can share them out to social 1:17:23.760 --> 1:17:26.320 media so you can build. And I always love this 1:17:26.400 --> 1:17:28.320 idea because when I'm listening in my car to like 1:17:28.400 --> 1:17:32.040 an audiobook or something, sometimes I want to bookmark a 1:17:32.120 --> 1:17:34.799 place for later to like listen, and it's really tricky. 1:17:34.880 --> 1:17:36.840 On the audiobook apps, you can do it, but it's 1:17:36.880 --> 1:17:39.800 not very easy. So same thing with podcasts. Like you 1:17:39.840 --> 1:17:41.879 hear something interesting, you're like, oh, I want to bookmark 1:17:41.920 --> 1:17:43.000 that for later, you can't. 1:17:43.560 --> 1:17:46.479 Well, this lets you do it. So the app is 1:17:46.520 --> 1:17:47.680 called snipd. 1:17:48.400 --> 1:17:52.680 What's also neat is that it actually does a transcript 1:17:52.680 --> 1:17:55.240 of the podcast, so you can kind of scour around 1:17:55.880 --> 1:17:59.280 and see if there's something interesting that the person talked 1:17:59.280 --> 1:18:02.840 about in the pot. So it seems to be free. 1:18:03.360 --> 1:18:05.479 I didn't take a deep dive into it, but I 1:18:05.600 --> 1:18:07.760 just kind of looked at it and tried it out 1:18:07.760 --> 1:18:12.040 and it was pretty cool. So SNIPD is the podcast. 1:18:13.160 --> 1:18:17.519 All right, let's get to a question here. Tom writes 1:18:17.560 --> 1:18:20.519 in hey Rich, I'm looking to buy a Windows eleven 1:18:20.680 --> 1:18:23.720 Dell XPS laptop and wondering if it's better to buy 1:18:23.720 --> 1:18:26.800 it without the bloatwear for an additional charge or just 1:18:26.880 --> 1:18:31.280 remove it once I get it. Mainly it's the av software, Norton, etc. 1:18:31.600 --> 1:18:32.479 That I do not need. 1:18:32.680 --> 1:18:37.800 Thank you, good question. And the bloatwear on computers is 1:18:37.840 --> 1:18:41.799 out of control. I remember when I did a story 1:18:41.840 --> 1:18:44.559 with the Microsoft Store. They said, hey, by the way, 1:18:44.600 --> 1:18:47.680 you know, if you buy a computer here, we do 1:18:47.800 --> 1:18:51.519 not allow bloatwear to be pre installed. So if you 1:18:51.680 --> 1:18:53.719 want a good place to buy a computer, it's probably 1:18:53.760 --> 1:18:55.280 best to buy it for the Microsoft Store. 1:18:55.280 --> 1:18:56.439 I said, wow, that's interesting. 1:18:57.600 --> 1:19:01.080 And so the Microsoft stores, of course, have mostly gone 1:19:01.120 --> 1:19:03.760 out of business. They mostly just do their stuff online. Now. 1:19:03.800 --> 1:19:05.759 They might have a couple of them here and there, 1:19:05.920 --> 1:19:08.840 but they're not as elaborate as they used to be 1:19:09.000 --> 1:19:12.840 with their locations. So would I pay extra to get 1:19:12.920 --> 1:19:16.800 rid of the stuff I don't need? Absolutely, so I 1:19:16.800 --> 1:19:18.240 don't know how much. I didn't even know this was 1:19:18.240 --> 1:19:20.479 an option on Dell that you can say, hey, I 1:19:20.479 --> 1:19:23.040 don't want all this garbage on my computer. I mean, 1:19:23.840 --> 1:19:27.679 that's interesting if they even give you that option. It's 1:19:27.720 --> 1:19:30.000 sad that all this stuff is included on these computers. 1:19:30.000 --> 1:19:32.720 Sometimes people might call it helpful, but no. This was 1:19:32.720 --> 1:19:35.040 a big problem on cell phones as well, especially the 1:19:35.760 --> 1:19:39.080 Samsungs of the world. They would come pre installed. Not 1:19:39.120 --> 1:19:41.519 just Samsung, almost every phone except the Pixel would come 1:19:41.560 --> 1:19:44.519 pre installed with all this junkie software that you didn't need. 1:19:45.120 --> 1:19:48.479 Why because these companies pay to put it on there. 1:19:48.800 --> 1:19:51.120 So Facebook at some point would be pre installed on 1:19:51.160 --> 1:19:56.880 the Samsungs, they'd have LinkedIn Microsoft apps, whatever. And it's 1:19:56.920 --> 1:20:01.120 all because these companies pay for that placement, and as 1:20:01.160 --> 1:20:04.360 the end user, you're left with disabling it or trying 1:20:04.400 --> 1:20:07.360 to uninstall it. With the Samsung, I've noticed a lot 1:20:07.400 --> 1:20:10.479 of it's easily uninstalled nowadays. In fact, I don't think 1:20:10.520 --> 1:20:12.000 that there's a lot that comes on there if you 1:20:12.040 --> 1:20:14.040 get it from your carrier. Yeah, there's probably a lot 1:20:14.040 --> 1:20:17.439 of like AT and T, T Mobile Verizon software that 1:20:17.479 --> 1:20:19.760 comes pre installed that they do deals to get this 1:20:19.800 --> 1:20:21.760 stuff on there, but most of the time you can 1:20:21.840 --> 1:20:24.920 uninstall it. But yes, I would pay the extra money 1:20:25.320 --> 1:20:29.479 to not have this stuff pre installed. There's a feature 1:20:29.680 --> 1:20:34.040 on Windows machines called fresh Start that will let you 1:20:34.160 --> 1:20:39.200 reset your computer and do a clean installation of Windows. 1:20:40.080 --> 1:20:42.960 But do you really want to do that right when 1:20:42.960 --> 1:20:43.879 you get your computer. 1:20:44.080 --> 1:20:44.479 I don't know. 1:20:44.520 --> 1:20:47.880 It seems like a lot, so it will get rid 1:20:47.920 --> 1:20:50.040 of most of the stuff on your computer that's not 1:20:50.080 --> 1:20:53.200 supposed to be there. If you do this clean Start, 1:20:53.439 --> 1:20:58.120 it's basically inside Windows eleven, Windows ten you can go 1:20:58.160 --> 1:21:03.880 to settings, System Recovery and reset the PC. But I 1:21:03.920 --> 1:21:06.040 don't know that that's like icky to have to do 1:21:06.080 --> 1:21:08.760 that right when you get a new computer. So if 1:21:08.840 --> 1:21:11.240 Delle's giving you the option, yeah, I would say definitely 1:21:11.240 --> 1:21:14.640 take the option, because that's the other thing about the 1:21:14.680 --> 1:21:17.759 Chromebooks that people like is that they don't come installed. 1:21:18.400 --> 1:21:21.559 There's really no malware or viruses or things for these 1:21:21.600 --> 1:21:25.120 kind of computers because they don't come with stuff pre installed. 1:21:25.120 --> 1:21:28.280 It's just basically a Chrome web browser. But yeah, My 1:21:28.400 --> 1:21:31.360 favorite thing to do is a clean install. Mac computers 1:21:31.360 --> 1:21:33.680 don't really come with a lot of bloatwear. I mean 1:21:33.680 --> 1:21:35.920 it comes with a lot of Mac software pre installed, 1:21:36.800 --> 1:21:41.280 like numbers, pages, iMovie, keynote, garage band. I don't really 1:21:41.360 --> 1:21:43.599 use any of that stuff, news books, I don't use 1:21:43.640 --> 1:21:48.559 any of that stuff stocks, iMovie. Maybe if you need 1:21:48.600 --> 1:21:53.000 a video editing program, but anyway, yes, I would do that. 1:21:53.560 --> 1:21:56.240 Tom. Probably a good idea to just pay the extra 1:21:56.280 --> 1:21:57.920 money to do that. All right. 1:21:57.960 --> 1:22:00.280 Coming up, we're gonna talk to Xavier Journ again. He's 1:22:00.320 --> 1:22:03.920 gonna tell us what it's like to be Spotify's first 1:22:03.960 --> 1:22:07.639 AI DJ Plus, we'll talk about the new Ember product 1:22:07.640 --> 1:22:12.639 for babies, and yet another Google product is going away, 1:22:12.720 --> 1:22:15.759 one that I used personally. I'll tell you which one 1:22:16.080 --> 1:22:20.360 they're sending to the trash can. Coming up, you got 1:22:20.360 --> 1:22:22.680 a question, Give me a call Triple eight rich one 1:22:22.680 --> 1:22:25.120 on one eight eight eight seven four two four one 1:22:25.200 --> 1:22:28.880 zero one, or give me an email Hello at Richontech 1:22:28.920 --> 1:22:31.280 dot tv is the email address, or find me on 1:22:31.320 --> 1:22:35.000 social media at rich on Tech. You are listening to 1:22:35.479 --> 1:22:38.720 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro Here at 1:22:38.720 --> 1:22:41.679 Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:22:41.800 --> 1:22:45.840 four two four one zero one. Now you know, I'm 1:22:45.880 --> 1:22:50.200 a real person sitting behind this microphone. But in the future, 1:22:51.080 --> 1:22:53.880 you might be listening to someone that is AI inn 1:22:53.920 --> 1:22:58.280 AI voice. In fact, Spotify recently announced that they have 1:22:58.280 --> 1:23:00.800 a new feature called ai DJ on their app. 1:23:00.840 --> 1:23:02.400 I just got access to it this week. 1:23:02.400 --> 1:23:05.360 And when you press it, the person that comes on 1:23:06.160 --> 1:23:08.720 sounds like they're talking to you. They say your name, 1:23:09.240 --> 1:23:11.439 they say, Hey, we know you've been listening to this lately. 1:23:11.520 --> 1:23:14.240 Let's give you more of this, or let's introduce you 1:23:14.280 --> 1:23:18.479 to this song. It's all AI. It's an AI voice model. 1:23:19.040 --> 1:23:21.800 And recently I talked to the person that served as 1:23:21.840 --> 1:23:26.600 the model for the voice, Xavier x journ Again. He 1:23:27.000 --> 1:23:29.839 did a podcast and a morning show over at Spotify. 1:23:29.880 --> 1:23:32.960 He's also the head of Cultural Partnerships there, and he 1:23:33.040 --> 1:23:36.719 explained all about what it's like to be the voice 1:23:37.200 --> 1:23:38.040 of AIDJ. 1:23:38.200 --> 1:23:41.040 Take a listen, So tell me about being the voice 1:23:41.080 --> 1:23:43.479 of AIDJ. What does that entail? 1:23:43.840 --> 1:23:46.240 What entails in terms of how it works or how 1:23:46.240 --> 1:23:49.000 it came together. Let's start with how it came together, 1:23:49.280 --> 1:23:51.080 the way it came together. I've been at Spotify for 1:23:51.120 --> 1:23:53.320 six and a half years. I started out as the 1:23:53.360 --> 1:23:55.879 head of music editorial for play Listening. 1:23:56.040 --> 1:23:58.000 So I did that for a while and then one day. 1:23:57.840 --> 1:24:00.680 I got asked to host a podcast. Then that led 1:24:00.720 --> 1:24:03.679 to me getting as the host internal and external Spotify events, 1:24:04.080 --> 1:24:06.040 and then this came along and they said you're the 1:24:06.040 --> 1:24:08.559 perfect voice. It was a list of one they said 1:24:08.600 --> 1:24:11.320 you're the list, which is super flattering, and they said 1:24:11.320 --> 1:24:14.320 we're coming out with this thing. It's AIDJ and I 1:24:14.360 --> 1:24:16.880 had to wrap my mind around it, which was hard 1:24:16.920 --> 1:24:21.439 to because they're like, it's not voice recordings, it's text 1:24:21.600 --> 1:24:25.280 to voice and it's going to talk exactly like you. 1:24:25.640 --> 1:24:28.840 Are you in Yes, Oh, you have a great voice. 1:24:28.920 --> 1:24:30.760 Thank you. I have heard that for a while. 1:24:30.760 --> 1:24:32.519 I heard that a few times, but you know what 1:24:32.560 --> 1:24:35.160 it was like, not just my voice, but my personality 1:24:35.280 --> 1:24:37.839 and the fact that I'm rooted in the music industry 1:24:37.880 --> 1:24:41.479 and entertainment. It gave it a sense of authenticity, you 1:24:41.560 --> 1:24:42.960 know what I mean that I'm really in an industry 1:24:43.000 --> 1:24:44.479 and not just a voice actor. 1:24:44.880 --> 1:24:46.120 So it's really about. 1:24:46.200 --> 1:24:49.120 Going into the booth, training the voice model pow to 1:24:49.160 --> 1:24:51.479 sound like me. What does a period sound like? What 1:24:51.520 --> 1:24:53.720 does a comma sound like? What do I sound like? 1:24:53.720 --> 1:24:56.040 Excited? What I sound like calm. 1:24:56.280 --> 1:24:58.120 So we had to train it and that was a lot, 1:24:58.160 --> 1:25:00.000 you know, a lot of different sessions that we did 1:25:00.160 --> 1:25:02.960 training the model. They took a lot of audio from 1:25:03.040 --> 1:25:05.160 other podcasts ideas and then they took all of that 1:25:05.320 --> 1:25:07.599 they fed it into the voice model and that's how 1:25:07.640 --> 1:25:08.840 it came into being. 1:25:08.960 --> 1:25:11.080 And once my mama said it sounded like me, I 1:25:11.160 --> 1:25:11.920 knew it was legit. 1:25:12.400 --> 1:25:15.080 So okay, your mom said it sounded like you, What 1:25:15.120 --> 1:25:15.759 do you think? 1:25:15.880 --> 1:25:19.439 It sounds exactly like me. It blew me away. When 1:25:19.439 --> 1:25:22.120 we got to the final version, even the first version, 1:25:22.479 --> 1:25:24.920 we all thought, like everybody was like, don't head your beads, 1:25:25.240 --> 1:25:27.000 it's gonna be okay. 1:25:27.280 --> 1:25:31.799 We were like, this is crazy, Like this is unreal. 1:25:32.320 --> 1:25:35.519 Okay, So explain to me when you're introduced, Well, first off, 1:25:35.560 --> 1:25:36.880 what is the DJ doing? 1:25:37.160 --> 1:25:40.479 Yes, so you get segments of five songs. I'll welcome you. 1:25:40.760 --> 1:25:43.000 I'm your friend writing along with you. I may be 1:25:43.000 --> 1:25:44.760 slightly cooler than you because I know a little bit 1:25:44.840 --> 1:25:47.200 like a fun facts, know a little bit about the artists. 1:25:47.240 --> 1:25:49.760 It was very much built on my personality. So I'm 1:25:49.760 --> 1:25:52.120 giving you fun facts about the music. I'm giving you 1:25:52.160 --> 1:25:54.800 fun facts about how you listen. I'm giving you context 1:25:55.080 --> 1:25:58.360 because Spotify has been great in personalization for a long time. 1:25:58.400 --> 1:26:00.760 We're known for that. That's one of our hall But 1:26:00.880 --> 1:26:04.240 now you get the context. This is why you're getting 1:26:04.240 --> 1:26:06.479 this song. I'm gonna take you back to twenty sixteen. Now, 1:26:06.479 --> 1:26:08.679 I'm gonna tell you about twenty sixteen and when you're 1:26:08.680 --> 1:26:10.839 gonna get what you listen to and when that comes together, 1:26:11.520 --> 1:26:14.479 magic happens. And we also introduce you to new artists, 1:26:14.880 --> 1:26:18.360 new music based on your listening habits. So we're gonna 1:26:18.360 --> 1:26:21.200 introduce you to that with the context, and we know 1:26:21.320 --> 1:26:24.960 through our data, through our history, when you have that context, 1:26:25.400 --> 1:26:29.040 you're most likely to check it out, follow that artist, 1:26:29.080 --> 1:26:29.880 and then become a fan. 1:26:30.240 --> 1:26:31.920 Do you have to go in every day to say 1:26:32.000 --> 1:26:34.160 new things? Are you saying these artists names? Are you 1:26:34.160 --> 1:26:36.240 saying where they grew up, all these cities? You know 1:26:36.400 --> 1:26:38.680 what they're doing, who they collabed with? Did you have 1:26:38.720 --> 1:26:41.240 to say ten thousand words for all this suffer? Is 1:26:41.280 --> 1:26:44.559 it generating this based on new text? 1:26:44.760 --> 1:26:46.680 That's what it is. It's generating it now. 1:26:46.720 --> 1:26:49.240 I said a lot of different words, like when I 1:26:49.280 --> 1:26:51.160 was training the model, Like we said a lot of 1:26:51.160 --> 1:26:53.440 the artists names because they had to learn my intonation, 1:26:54.040 --> 1:26:56.840 my cadence, teach the voice model to learn all of that. 1:26:57.200 --> 1:26:59.639 But then once they learned it, Nope, it's a whole 1:26:59.640 --> 1:27:02.559 writer's room. Is generative AI that we use. We put 1:27:02.600 --> 1:27:04.639 in the hands of our music editors. So we put 1:27:04.680 --> 1:27:06.600 in the hands of our experts. I'm a part of 1:27:06.600 --> 1:27:09.240 a writer's room and we write. We have cultural experts, 1:27:09.320 --> 1:27:12.719 we have data curators, we have a whole ux writing team, 1:27:12.800 --> 1:27:16.400 we have actual script writers, and we put that into 1:27:16.400 --> 1:27:17.240 the AI as well. 1:27:17.560 --> 1:27:19.960 And as I get it, I'm just like my mind, 1:27:20.080 --> 1:27:20.559 I see it. 1:27:20.960 --> 1:27:22.959 I see a lot like you're trying to process. 1:27:23.160 --> 1:27:25.000 So have you had to go back in to re 1:27:25.000 --> 1:27:27.120 record like let's say a new artist comes out. 1:27:27.439 --> 1:27:29.000 No, do you have to re record their name? 1:27:29.200 --> 1:27:29.640 I do not. 1:27:30.120 --> 1:27:32.080 We can do it on the back end. The AI 1:27:32.400 --> 1:27:35.280 knows how to do it. So if there's something like 1:27:35.320 --> 1:27:37.240 we can train it on the back end. Now, so 1:27:37.280 --> 1:27:40.519 there's enough data that we put in, okay, and then 1:27:40.880 --> 1:27:41.240 so if. 1:27:41.160 --> 1:27:43.559 A name is pronounced a certain way, it puts the 1:27:43.600 --> 1:27:45.519 intonation somewhere else. If they can go in on the 1:27:45.560 --> 1:27:47.000 back end and tweak it and say, now that's. 1:27:46.840 --> 1:27:49.560 Where you put the intonation that's exactly right, and and 1:27:49.600 --> 1:27:50.839 we want to be authentic. 1:27:50.880 --> 1:27:53.919 We want to pronounce the names properly. 1:27:54.360 --> 1:27:56.920 This is really new to a lot of people. They're 1:27:56.960 --> 1:27:58.080 going to feel like they know you. 1:27:58.880 --> 1:28:00.200 Yes, I'm your friends. 1:28:00.280 --> 1:28:03.120 That's what Like when I was recording, I thought about 1:28:03.160 --> 1:28:05.880 one person, not a group of people. I'm talking to 1:28:05.920 --> 1:28:08.200 one person. I want to connect with that one person. 1:28:08.280 --> 1:28:10.000 This is about connection. So I feel the sense of 1:28:10.000 --> 1:28:14.280 purpose in doing this work because if somebody feels this connection, 1:28:14.320 --> 1:28:17.599 they'll feel seen, they'll feel value, they'll feel heard, and 1:28:17.720 --> 1:28:20.759 that's what magic happens. So I feel purpose in it. 1:28:20.760 --> 1:28:23.840 It's a little wild because it's so big and like 1:28:23.840 --> 1:28:27.200 it's blowing up. But I'm honored and humble to be 1:28:27.240 --> 1:28:31.200 the voice like around the World X, Around the World, 1:28:31.920 --> 1:28:33.240 X around the World. 1:28:33.320 --> 1:28:33.960 US and Canada. 1:28:34.040 --> 1:28:36.240 Start there, you go right. 1:28:37.760 --> 1:28:41.240 There, you have it, Xavier a Journeygain voice of dj 1:28:41.840 --> 1:28:47.760 X on Spotify AI DJs. It's so weird to think 1:28:47.800 --> 1:28:50.720 about that that's happening in our world when here I 1:28:50.800 --> 1:28:54.360 am lending my voice for three hours to this show. 1:28:54.920 --> 1:28:58.360 I understand why Spotify is doing it, but as a 1:28:59.080 --> 1:29:03.960 radio lover, I really appreciate the sound of someone that's 1:29:04.000 --> 1:29:08.120 telling me the songs, the you know, the artists, they're 1:29:08.160 --> 1:29:10.040 giving me the background. Like I get that we live 1:29:10.040 --> 1:29:13.439 in this world of streaming music where there's just random 1:29:13.600 --> 1:29:17.519 songs next to each other that play forever. But there's 1:29:17.520 --> 1:29:20.799 something so nice about someone behind the microphone that actually 1:29:21.280 --> 1:29:24.240 knows what that song is and introduces it for me. 1:29:25.680 --> 1:29:29.400 You're listening to rich on Tech. Coming up next, we're 1:29:29.400 --> 1:29:33.120 going to talk about Ember's new product for babies. Yes, 1:29:33.200 --> 1:29:37.519 the world's first self warming baby bottle. You're listening to 1:29:37.680 --> 1:29:41.000 rich on Tech. More of your calls and interviews after this. 1:29:41.760 --> 1:29:44.599 Rich Demiro here rich on Tech, Welcome back to the show. 1:29:44.640 --> 1:29:45.400 I'm here in. 1:29:45.280 --> 1:29:50.640 Westlake Village, California with Clay Alexander, CEO of Ember. You 1:29:50.800 --> 1:29:54.800 may know this company for its temperature controlled mugs, but 1:29:54.960 --> 1:29:57.839 now they are branching out into all kinds of temperature 1:29:57.840 --> 1:30:01.759 control systems. The latest product is a self warming baby 1:30:01.760 --> 1:30:02.519 bottle system. 1:30:02.880 --> 1:30:04.640 Clay, welcome to the show. 1:30:04.680 --> 1:30:05.720 Thank you for having me. 1:30:05.840 --> 1:30:06.000 Rich. 1:30:06.040 --> 1:30:08.160 I'm happy to be here. So a lot of folks 1:30:08.280 --> 1:30:10.519 may know Ember for the mugs. 1:30:11.000 --> 1:30:13.400 This is the first product that I tried from Ember, 1:30:13.520 --> 1:30:16.759 and it's a temperature controlled mug, tell me the idea 1:30:16.800 --> 1:30:17.360 behind that. 1:30:18.400 --> 1:30:22.880 So actually it started with scrambled eggs. 1:30:22.920 --> 1:30:23.280 Okay. 1:30:23.360 --> 1:30:26.679 So in two thousand and nine, I had just sold 1:30:26.800 --> 1:30:29.960 my light bulb to GE. It was the world's large, 1:30:30.240 --> 1:30:34.280 brightest led light bulb, and GE had bought the rights 1:30:34.320 --> 1:30:37.120 to it. And I was sitting there, you know, thinking, Okay, 1:30:37.120 --> 1:30:39.080 what am I going to do next with my life? 1:30:39.200 --> 1:30:39.400 Right? 1:30:39.800 --> 1:30:42.640 And I was eating scrambled eggs with my wife in 1:30:42.720 --> 1:30:45.640 the kitchen. I get about halfway through my eggs and 1:30:45.680 --> 1:30:48.439 my eggs get cold on my plate. This happens every 1:30:48.439 --> 1:30:51.280 time I eat scrambled eggs, so I thought. I remember 1:30:51.280 --> 1:30:54.640 looking down and thinking, okay, this is the twenty first century. 1:30:54.800 --> 1:30:57.040 At a bare minimum, my dinner plate should be able 1:30:57.080 --> 1:31:00.320 to keep my food at a decent eating temperature. So 1:31:00.439 --> 1:31:03.080 I've been an inventor since Berth and I thought, okay, 1:31:03.160 --> 1:31:07.240 let me make I started strapping RC car batteries and 1:31:07.320 --> 1:31:10.639 temperature control circuitry to the bottom of the dinner plates 1:31:10.640 --> 1:31:11.280 in my kitchen. 1:31:11.520 --> 1:31:13.720 I'm sure, I'm sure your wife loved you. 1:31:13.760 --> 1:31:16.120 No, I was making a big giant mass in the 1:31:16.200 --> 1:31:19.439 kitchen with electronics and wires and benchtop powers supplies and 1:31:19.439 --> 1:31:21.800 all that good stuff. So I created the world's first 1:31:21.800 --> 1:31:24.680 self warming interplay, and I started eating my meals off 1:31:24.720 --> 1:31:28.360 of at steaks, salmon, etc. You get halfway through the meal, 1:31:29.000 --> 1:31:31.800 thirty minutes later, you're taking your time. You cut into 1:31:31.840 --> 1:31:35.639 the salmon, steam still comes out. It's the perfect temperature, 1:31:35.680 --> 1:31:39.040 perfect bike. So I had invented this, and I remember 1:31:39.200 --> 1:31:43.839 thinking to myself looking around the kitchen going gosh, coffee mugs, 1:31:44.320 --> 1:31:48.439 soup bowls, shafing dishes, baby bottles, all the things that 1:31:48.560 --> 1:31:53.960 can benefit from temperature control. And the real question was, well, 1:31:53.960 --> 1:31:56.760 where do we start right And at that time, this 1:31:56.840 --> 1:31:59.439 is back in twenty fourteen fifteen when I was making 1:31:59.439 --> 1:32:03.240 this decision, coffee, high end coffee was on the rise 1:32:03.360 --> 1:32:06.960 big time. So we created the world's first self warming 1:32:07.520 --> 1:32:10.799 coffee cup, and we made prototypes and I remember drinking 1:32:10.800 --> 1:32:14.040 out of it, carrying it around town, and it looked 1:32:14.120 --> 1:32:18.000 like a crazy invention. It had batteries strapped to the 1:32:18.080 --> 1:32:21.800 side and wires and circuitry, but the user experience was 1:32:21.800 --> 1:32:25.000 phenomenal because you know, you got thermusigetti and all these others, 1:32:25.160 --> 1:32:28.720 and those are dual wall vacuum insulation. The temperature that 1:32:28.800 --> 1:32:31.680 you pour in is what it holds it at If 1:32:31.720 --> 1:32:34.080 you pour hot coffee, brood coffee comes out at one 1:32:34.160 --> 1:32:37.960 hundred and eighty degrees, burns your mouth, or you wait 1:32:38.000 --> 1:32:40.479 for a very long period of time for tacool, you 1:32:40.560 --> 1:32:43.200 get distracted, you go back, and now it's too cool cold. 1:32:43.360 --> 1:32:45.800 So I thought, gosh, what if I could What if 1:32:45.840 --> 1:32:50.520 we could create technology that actually locks your drinking temperature 1:32:50.680 --> 1:32:55.960 in whatever your preferred specific drinking temperature is. You set 1:32:56.000 --> 1:32:58.880 it in a number mug one thirty five for instances mine, 1:32:59.439 --> 1:33:01.800 and every time I pour a cup of coffee, no 1:33:01.840 --> 1:33:03.920 matter where I am, and I poured a number mug, 1:33:04.000 --> 1:33:06.240 it goes to one hundred and thirty five degrees on 1:33:06.400 --> 1:33:10.519 the nose. And every sip, every sip, no matter where 1:33:10.520 --> 1:33:13.080 I go. It's battery powered, carried around the meetings, et cetera. 1:33:13.280 --> 1:33:14.920 Is at one hundred and thirty five degrees. 1:33:15.000 --> 1:33:18.240 Okay, so let's talk about the self warming baby bottle system. 1:33:18.320 --> 1:33:21.000 This is brand new from Ember, over ten years in 1:33:21.040 --> 1:33:23.200 the making. Where did the idea for this come from? 1:33:23.439 --> 1:33:24.679 Okay, this is a great story. 1:33:24.800 --> 1:33:29.639 So my beautiful daughter Charlotte was born eleven years ago 1:33:30.080 --> 1:33:32.960 and my wife did most of the feedings. Every once 1:33:32.960 --> 1:33:35.280 in a while. It was Dad's turn, and I remember 1:33:35.760 --> 1:33:37.679 Charlotte waking up in the middle of the night crying, 1:33:37.840 --> 1:33:42.000 you know, starving. It's like I'm carrying her downstairs, going 1:33:42.000 --> 1:33:45.640 into the kitchen, getting a bowl of water, running the 1:33:45.680 --> 1:33:48.200 water in the sink, warming up the water, putting the 1:33:48.200 --> 1:33:50.880 baby bottle in the water. It's bobbing around because you know, 1:33:50.920 --> 1:33:53.320 my wife didn't want me to use the microwave. And 1:33:53.360 --> 1:33:55.960 then you're like squirting milk on your wrists and you're going, 1:33:56.400 --> 1:33:58.480 I'm a new parent, I have all these other anxieties 1:33:58.520 --> 1:34:01.639 about parenthood, and I don't know if this temperature is right. 1:34:01.680 --> 1:34:03.400 I'm just trying to sense it on my wrist. 1:34:03.640 --> 1:34:07.320 So it was a very honestly, the anxiety level was 1:34:07.439 --> 1:34:09.519 very high at that time for me as a parent, 1:34:09.920 --> 1:34:11.960 and I thought, there's got to be a better way. 1:34:12.280 --> 1:34:14.920 And I thought, gosh, what if the baby bottle could 1:34:15.000 --> 1:34:19.240 warm the milk itself right up to the perfect body 1:34:19.240 --> 1:34:21.280 temperature and let you know when it's ready. And that 1:34:21.360 --> 1:34:22.879 was kind of the origin idea. 1:34:23.560 --> 1:34:26.000 And so now we've got the baby bottle. It comes 1:34:26.000 --> 1:34:29.160 with this sort of warming puck on the bottom. Can 1:34:29.200 --> 1:34:30.400 you explain how it works? 1:34:30.720 --> 1:34:32.760 There's a puck that you can throw in your back 1:34:32.800 --> 1:34:36.479 pocket or anywhere, and you can basically throw the bottle 1:34:36.479 --> 1:34:40.200 on the puck and it warms milk or formula up 1:34:40.240 --> 1:34:44.000 to body temperature within less than five minutes. And part 1:34:44.040 --> 1:34:45.560 of the beauty of it is if you want to 1:34:45.600 --> 1:34:48.160 keep the milk cold for on the go, we also 1:34:48.280 --> 1:34:50.599 have that comes in the kit that we just launched, 1:34:50.840 --> 1:34:53.800 a what we call a thermal dome. So the cold 1:34:53.800 --> 1:34:55.880 milk comes out of the fridge with the bottle and 1:34:55.920 --> 1:34:58.000 you throw it on the puck, you throw the thermal 1:34:58.040 --> 1:35:01.839 dome over it. It's all magnetic sucks together. The thermal 1:35:01.880 --> 1:35:05.800 dome will keep the milk in the bottle cold for 1:35:06.000 --> 1:35:08.680 up to four hours on the go. So you have 1:35:08.800 --> 1:35:12.000 this little like we call it like an infant feeding kit, 1:35:12.280 --> 1:35:14.280 throw in your diaper bag, throw it in your backpack 1:35:14.640 --> 1:35:18.360 on the go, and when your baby is hungry, you 1:35:18.439 --> 1:35:20.640 just open up your iPhone or Android device and you 1:35:20.720 --> 1:35:22.679 go to the Amber Baby app, you click warm Milk. 1:35:22.960 --> 1:35:25.479 It actually warms the milk while the baby bottle is 1:35:25.560 --> 1:35:29.519 in your bag, and then it just notifies you when 1:35:29.560 --> 1:35:32.960 you're ready on either your connected watch or on your phone. 1:35:33.280 --> 1:35:35.280 And if you don't want to necessarily use the app, 1:35:35.280 --> 1:35:37.160 which you probably want to because if you have something 1:35:37.200 --> 1:35:39.559 like this, you're into apps and phones and stuff. But 1:35:39.600 --> 1:35:41.840 there's also a physical button on the bottom of the 1:35:41.880 --> 1:35:42.800 puck that you can just. 1:35:42.800 --> 1:35:44.160 Press five lights. 1:35:44.200 --> 1:35:45.920 When they all light up, it lets you know that 1:35:45.960 --> 1:35:50.080 the milk is at the right temperature. The baby bottle 1:35:50.160 --> 1:35:52.759 is super lightweight, lighter than you would think. 1:35:53.120 --> 1:35:54.880 It is all dishwashers safe. 1:35:54.880 --> 1:35:57.120 All of the parts that touch the milk the puck 1:35:57.160 --> 1:36:01.320 obviously is the electronics, and you also the bulk of 1:36:01.320 --> 1:36:03.720 the electronics in the bottom, like the Bluetooth is not 1:36:03.920 --> 1:36:06.040 near the baby bottle itself. 1:36:05.680 --> 1:36:08.280 That's right. So in early in the early days, in 1:36:08.320 --> 1:36:11.040 our first version of the Umber baby bottle, we put 1:36:11.080 --> 1:36:15.479 the battery technology and the Bluetooth radio and such in 1:36:15.560 --> 1:36:17.599 the bottom of the bottle is part of the bottle, 1:36:18.080 --> 1:36:20.240 just like an Emmer mug. Right, And in a lot 1:36:20.240 --> 1:36:23.760 of early focus groups, parents said, you know, I don't 1:36:23.760 --> 1:36:26.280 really want a Bluetooth radio near my baby's face. I 1:36:26.280 --> 1:36:30.479 don't really want a batteries. So we pivoted and we 1:36:30.520 --> 1:36:33.080 re engineered the product so that we put the Bluetooth 1:36:33.160 --> 1:36:34.880 radio and the batteries and all that stuff into a 1:36:34.920 --> 1:36:37.400 little kind of hockey puck that you throw in your 1:36:37.400 --> 1:36:40.599 back pocket that's magnetic to the bottle. That way the bottle. 1:36:40.640 --> 1:36:45.000 The bottle has you know, a microprocessor, heaters and temperature 1:36:45.000 --> 1:36:48.840 control sensors all kind of embedded in there safely. But 1:36:48.920 --> 1:36:51.760 there's no you know, batteries or bluetooth radio or any 1:36:51.760 --> 1:36:54.160 of that kind of stuff. So it's it's all solid 1:36:54.200 --> 1:36:55.639 state electronics in there. 1:36:55.520 --> 1:36:57.800 And safety for this. This is something that you know, 1:36:57.880 --> 1:36:59.040 babies are going to be holding. 1:36:59.560 --> 1:37:03.439 Yeah, So safety has been a number one priority for 1:37:03.560 --> 1:37:06.960 us from the very very beginning. And one of the 1:37:06.960 --> 1:37:08.880 things that we really wanted to make sure we got 1:37:08.960 --> 1:37:10.000 right is the heating. 1:37:10.080 --> 1:37:10.240 Right. 1:37:10.320 --> 1:37:14.000 We never wanted to be over body temperature, so you know, 1:37:14.120 --> 1:37:16.920 ninety eight point five degrees in this case. And so 1:37:17.360 --> 1:37:22.360 we actually designed the ember Baby bottle with three independent 1:37:22.600 --> 1:37:28.120 circuits that run inside the bottle. If the first circuit fails, right, 1:37:28.200 --> 1:37:30.639 if the milk goes up, you know, ninety eight point 1:37:30.720 --> 1:37:35.040 six boom, the second circuit kicks in senses that it 1:37:35.080 --> 1:37:37.799 went a point of a degree up and then opens 1:37:37.840 --> 1:37:42.080 the circuit, essentially killing heating. If the second circuit fails, 1:37:42.280 --> 1:37:45.439 there is a third circuit that can then catch it, 1:37:45.720 --> 1:37:48.760 so it is absolutely bomb proof, never go it will 1:37:48.800 --> 1:37:53.120 never go above that body temperature. And so that took 1:37:53.240 --> 1:37:55.479 us actually probably almost two years to engineer just what 1:37:55.520 --> 1:37:58.440 I was saying right there, this triple redundancy. 1:37:59.200 --> 1:38:02.080 The self forming baby bottle system from ember Cells for 1:38:02.120 --> 1:38:02.880 four hundred dollars. 1:38:02.920 --> 1:38:04.479 Some people may balk at that price. 1:38:04.760 --> 1:38:08.200 So in the future we'll launch less expensive versions that 1:38:08.400 --> 1:38:11.559 just have maybe one bottle and one puck, but at launch, 1:38:11.640 --> 1:38:14.880 we want to have an entire system that really takes 1:38:14.960 --> 1:38:17.120 care of you, and it's an infant feeding system. 1:38:17.200 --> 1:38:19.880 Any advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. 1:38:19.520 --> 1:38:24.000 I would say, honestly, grit to go from an idea 1:38:24.280 --> 1:38:29.800 in your mind to building a global brand. It's definitely 1:38:29.840 --> 1:38:33.000 the hardest thing I've ever done in my life X ten. 1:38:33.680 --> 1:38:37.320 And I would just say, you, like, the reason that 1:38:37.520 --> 1:38:40.439 I like can't sleep at night, work seven days a week, 1:38:40.479 --> 1:38:44.360 et cetera, is because of my passion of what I'm 1:38:44.520 --> 1:38:48.040 doing right Like, I'm so excited about every product that 1:38:48.080 --> 1:38:52.480 we create and launch. And if you don't have that passion, 1:38:52.600 --> 1:38:55.240 you're not going to have the grit and the determination 1:38:55.800 --> 1:38:58.080 to actually pull it off. And especially when you go 1:38:58.120 --> 1:39:00.800 through tough times, you just got to keep pushing that 1:39:00.880 --> 1:39:02.920 big giant boulder up the hill. 1:39:03.760 --> 1:39:07.479 Clay Alexander, CEO of EMBER and founder, thanks so much 1:39:07.479 --> 1:39:08.320 for joining me today. 1:39:08.720 --> 1:39:11.280 Thank you, Rich It was great to have you all right. 1:39:11.320 --> 1:39:13.120 If you want to learn more about what Ember's doing, 1:39:13.200 --> 1:39:16.360 check out the website. Just go to rich on Tech 1:39:16.600 --> 1:39:19.920 dot TV. I'm rich Tibureau more of rich on Tech 1:39:20.200 --> 1:39:27.559 after this welcome back to rich on Tech. I mentioned 1:39:27.600 --> 1:39:31.439 that a feature Google loves to just kill things. Google 1:39:31.560 --> 1:39:35.200 loves to kill products. Now they've got a new product 1:39:35.200 --> 1:39:39.360 they're killing Google trip summaries. This is a feature that 1:39:39.439 --> 1:39:40.840 I really liked. I thought it was kind of a 1:39:40.840 --> 1:39:42.880 fun hidden feature on Google. And I guess it was 1:39:42.920 --> 1:39:46.800 too hidden, so either people aren't using it or they 1:39:46.880 --> 1:39:48.040 just couldn't make money off of it. 1:39:48.080 --> 1:39:50.200 I don't know, but I like it. 1:39:50.280 --> 1:39:52.600 I mean, I'm looking at my upcoming trip to Nashville, 1:39:52.640 --> 1:39:55.439 and what's cool about this is Google as long as 1:39:55.479 --> 1:40:01.360 you're getting your travel itineraries in your Gmail, it kind 1:40:01.400 --> 1:40:05.560 of parses the information and puts it into an itinerary 1:40:06.120 --> 1:40:09.760 on Google Travel. So if you go to let's see 1:40:09.760 --> 1:40:13.080 what the website is here, Google dot com slash travel, 1:40:14.160 --> 1:40:17.160 and you know, you'll see the different places that you're 1:40:17.200 --> 1:40:19.719 going to, so I can see my flights here to Nashville, 1:40:19.760 --> 1:40:22.040 I can see where I'm staying. And then at the 1:40:22.120 --> 1:40:25.360 end it says discover Nashville. So it's using the you know, 1:40:25.400 --> 1:40:27.800 the itinerary information to give you ideas and what to 1:40:27.840 --> 1:40:30.200 see while you're there. And then it gives you what 1:40:30.360 --> 1:40:33.639 people ask see popular questions from Google search. Is Nashville 1:40:33.680 --> 1:40:36.760 worth visiting? What's the best best month to visit? What's 1:40:36.800 --> 1:40:38.880 the number one thing to do? Is three days enough? 1:40:40.320 --> 1:40:41.080 And then it gives you. 1:40:41.080 --> 1:40:42.280 Top travel articles. 1:40:43.200 --> 1:40:45.320 And I thought this was a really cool little feature, 1:40:45.479 --> 1:40:48.440 but apparently it's just not going to continue. 1:40:48.479 --> 1:40:50.000 So as of May. 1:40:49.880 --> 1:40:54.559 First, Google trip summaries are going away, and it's got 1:40:54.560 --> 1:40:56.720 this little message at the top of the screen that 1:40:56.800 --> 1:41:00.639 explains it says trip summaries won't be available anymore beginning 1:41:00.800 --> 1:41:03.920 May first, though, your travel reservations may still appear in 1:41:04.000 --> 1:41:08.160 other Google services, so that means that, in another word, 1:41:08.680 --> 1:41:13.840 they're scanning your Gmail travel reservations to still serve up 1:41:13.880 --> 1:41:15.599 ads based on where you might be going. 1:41:15.680 --> 1:41:16.800 That's the way I interpret that. 1:41:17.520 --> 1:41:20.040 To save a trip summary, click or tap on the 1:41:20.200 --> 1:41:22.760 share button, but you can only do that, by the way, 1:41:22.800 --> 1:41:26.120 if you put restaurant reservations, car travel, anything, it would 1:41:26.160 --> 1:41:27.760 just all go into there. It was really really a 1:41:27.760 --> 1:41:31.120 neat little feature. The other thing I would do, I guess, 1:41:31.400 --> 1:41:36.200 is just use an app like Tripsy trips Y, the 1:41:36.200 --> 1:41:38.880 one that I really like that I use. And this 1:41:38.920 --> 1:41:42.960 is probably why Google's going being done with this is 1:41:43.000 --> 1:41:46.479 because I switched to a ward wallet. So a ward 1:41:46.520 --> 1:41:49.400 wallet has this great thing called Timeline and if you 1:41:49.439 --> 1:41:51.400 give it access to your Gmail, which I know there 1:41:51.439 --> 1:41:53.719 is a security risk there, but you have to figure 1:41:53.720 --> 1:41:55.800 out if you want to do that or not. And 1:41:56.120 --> 1:41:59.559 once you do that, it can scan your Gmail for 1:41:59.600 --> 1:42:03.120 any confirmations you get and it will put this all 1:42:03.160 --> 1:42:06.200 on one big timeline. I love this. I even have 1:42:06.280 --> 1:42:09.519 my ticket Master tickets in here. It'll even find those. 1:42:10.240 --> 1:42:13.040 It's got hotel rooms, it's got car rentals, it's got 1:42:13.640 --> 1:42:18.280 car restaurant reservations, everything. Anything that gets sort of a 1:42:18.320 --> 1:42:22.200 confirmation email, Award Wallet will suck it up and put 1:42:22.240 --> 1:42:25.080 it into this great little timeline. It's really really convenient. 1:42:25.320 --> 1:42:30.160 So it's a good alternative as well. So Tripsy award Wallet, 1:42:30.960 --> 1:42:32.879 I mean, you can use tripe it as well. That'll 1:42:33.080 --> 1:42:38.080 do the same thing. Amazon this week showed off its 1:42:38.280 --> 1:42:47.080 new project Kuiper. This is their competition for Starlink. So 1:42:47.240 --> 1:42:53.000 Amazon is putting into low or orbit orbit orbit orbitbit 1:42:54.200 --> 1:42:57.040 a satellite network so they will be able to deliver 1:42:57.040 --> 1:43:03.759 a broadband across the globe. So this is starting now. 1:43:03.960 --> 1:43:07.040 I mean they're just gonna start kind of working on this. 1:43:07.040 --> 1:43:09.360 This is not going to happen for another couple of years. 1:43:10.120 --> 1:43:14.640 First sort of customers looks like twenty twenty four, so 1:43:14.760 --> 1:43:17.800 next year, so it's not we got a while. But 1:43:18.000 --> 1:43:22.960 they showed off their satellite I guess receivers for the 1:43:23.000 --> 1:43:26.120 home and so there's three different ones. Actually it's residential 1:43:26.160 --> 1:43:28.920 and small business, so there's three different receivers they have. 1:43:29.960 --> 1:43:32.519 So they've got this really high performance one that's the 1:43:32.560 --> 1:43:37.479 biggest one. They have five pounds without its bracking mounting bracket. 1:43:38.200 --> 1:43:41.479 It's one of the most powerful commercially available customer terminals 1:43:41.479 --> 1:43:43.920 of its size, delivering speeds up to four hundred megabits 1:43:43.960 --> 1:43:48.000 per second. That's really fast for space internet. Amazon says 1:43:48.000 --> 1:43:49.880 they're going to produce these terminals for less than four 1:43:49.920 --> 1:43:51.360 hundred dollars each I don't know if that means they're 1:43:51.360 --> 1:43:52.680 going to sell it for that price or that's how 1:43:52.720 --> 1:43:55.559 much's going to cost them. Then they've got this ultra 1:43:55.800 --> 1:43:59.280 compact design. This is really cool. This is a seven 1:43:59.400 --> 1:44:04.080 inch square So this is Project Kuiper's smallest and most 1:44:04.080 --> 1:44:07.360 affordable customer terminal. It weighs just a pound. It will 1:44:07.360 --> 1:44:09.880 give you speeds up to one hundred megabits per second. 1:44:10.080 --> 1:44:13.360 It's portability and affordability will create opportunities to serve even 1:44:13.360 --> 1:44:16.519 more customers around the world. This is for residential customers 1:44:16.560 --> 1:44:17.960 who want a low cost model. 1:44:19.000 --> 1:44:19.559 So cool. 1:44:19.800 --> 1:44:21.799 I mean, you could bring this thing anywhere, get speeds 1:44:21.880 --> 1:44:24.080 up to one hundred megabits anywhere you can see a satellite. 1:44:24.160 --> 1:44:28.000 That's really really cool. The fact that it's portable is fun. 1:44:28.880 --> 1:44:31.800 Then they've got this high bandwidth design. This is the 1:44:31.880 --> 1:44:36.040 biggest one they have. This measures nineteen inches by thirty inches. 1:44:36.680 --> 1:44:39.679 It will deliver speeds up to one gigabit per second 1:44:40.479 --> 1:44:41.839 for space Internet. 1:44:42.640 --> 1:44:43.120 I love this. 1:44:43.280 --> 1:44:45.320 I love the fact that Starlink is doing this. I 1:44:45.360 --> 1:44:47.879 love the fact that now Amazon is doing it, although 1:44:48.280 --> 1:44:52.800 I'm a little concerned about Amazon's following through with this. 1:44:53.120 --> 1:44:55.160 You know, Amazon likes to start a lot of things, 1:44:55.200 --> 1:44:57.280 but maybe not finish them, so I hope that they 1:44:57.320 --> 1:44:59.160 finished this. I think this is in their best interest 1:44:59.240 --> 1:45:01.960 because the more people that can get online around the world, 1:45:02.040 --> 1:45:04.639 the more people that can use Amazon products and services. 1:45:04.680 --> 1:45:07.360 So it's in their best interest to see this through. 1:45:07.439 --> 1:45:11.320 And launching satellite internet is not cheap, so once they 1:45:11.320 --> 1:45:15.000 get those satellites up in space, it's probably something they 1:45:15.040 --> 1:45:18.160 want to continue doing. Amazon says we have built and 1:45:18.200 --> 1:45:21.599 shipped hundreds of millions of devices for customers, including low 1:45:21.640 --> 1:45:24.439 cost products like the Echo Dot and the Fire TV stick. 1:45:25.000 --> 1:45:28.719 Project Kiper is applying that experience to its customer terminal 1:45:28.720 --> 1:45:32.320 design and production process. They are so excited to build 1:45:32.360 --> 1:45:35.080 tens of millions of units for customers. I'm excited for this. 1:45:35.800 --> 1:45:38.240 I mean, at this point, when it comes to home internet, 1:45:38.320 --> 1:45:40.519 you really have a couple of options. You've got the 1:45:40.520 --> 1:45:44.120 wired internet from the local providers, then you've got the 1:45:44.160 --> 1:45:47.439 five G Internet from the cellular providers. That's just sort 1:45:47.479 --> 1:45:50.439 of starting. It's not even available where I live, and 1:45:50.479 --> 1:45:53.040 now you're going to have space Internet, and space internet 1:45:53.080 --> 1:45:55.519 typically is more expensive, so it's been reserved for people 1:45:55.520 --> 1:45:58.919 that live in sort of rural areas or underserved areas 1:45:59.439 --> 1:46:02.120 by tradition means so the fact that now we have 1:46:02.720 --> 1:46:07.840 Amazon and starlink as an alternative, it's just it's letting 1:46:07.840 --> 1:46:12.600 more people live wherever they want, and work wherever they want, 1:46:12.760 --> 1:46:15.080 and do whatever they want in those places. You're no 1:46:15.160 --> 1:46:20.320 longer needing to run a line for something that's really cool. 1:46:21.200 --> 1:46:24.280 So thank you Amazon. All right. 1:46:24.280 --> 1:46:31.040 Final story Samsung this week, big brew haha about how 1:46:31.479 --> 1:46:35.679 Samsung phones take really good pictures of the moon, and 1:46:35.840 --> 1:46:37.519 a Reddit user said, not. 1:46:37.520 --> 1:46:38.960 So fast, this is fake. 1:46:39.960 --> 1:46:42.799 So what this user did is they took a picture 1:46:42.880 --> 1:46:46.679 of a moon picture on their computer screen from across 1:46:46.720 --> 1:46:49.920 the dark room and lo and behold the moon that 1:46:49.960 --> 1:46:53.240 they took a picture of looked amazing. All the details 1:46:53.240 --> 1:46:55.600 were there, even though it was a tiny picture to start, 1:46:56.000 --> 1:46:58.080 and so this of course made the rounds. Everyone was 1:46:58.120 --> 1:47:02.680 debating whether the samsungung photos are fake. So Samsum came 1:47:02.720 --> 1:47:06.160 out with a blog post and they explained how this 1:47:06.200 --> 1:47:08.400 is happening. They said, okay, ever since the S twenty 1:47:08.400 --> 1:47:12.160 one series, we've used this scene optimizer to recognize the 1:47:12.200 --> 1:47:16.160 moon and take a good picture of it. They apply 1:47:16.840 --> 1:47:22.000 detail enhancement so to explain how it works. They said, look, 1:47:22.439 --> 1:47:25.759 we take ten images at a twenty five times zoom 1:47:25.840 --> 1:47:29.280 or higher, and it needs all those images to enhance 1:47:29.320 --> 1:47:33.640 the clarity and other details. When the moon is recognized, 1:47:34.240 --> 1:47:37.000 this goes into effect. And they say they built their 1:47:37.160 --> 1:47:39.719 model on a whole bunch of shapes and sizes of moons, 1:47:40.400 --> 1:47:42.800 and they will actually at the last line they say, 1:47:42.800 --> 1:47:45.320 we're going to continue to make this better to reduce 1:47:45.360 --> 1:47:47.680 any potential confusion that may occur between the act of 1:47:47.720 --> 1:47:49.599 taking a picture of a real moon and an image 1:47:49.600 --> 1:47:52.240 of the moon. A reference to that Reddit thing. But yes, 1:47:52.360 --> 1:47:54.920 these Samsung phones do take really good pictures of the moon. 1:47:55.240 --> 1:47:58.479 They look very clear and very nice. I've done it. 1:47:58.600 --> 1:48:00.439 I don't know how many images of a moon you need. 1:48:01.600 --> 1:48:03.800 All Right, that's gonna do it for this episode of 1:48:03.840 --> 1:48:06.160 the show. Thanks so much for listening. Next week we're 1:48:06.160 --> 1:48:10.000 gonna talk NFTs. I'm headed to the NFT Expo in 1:48:10.080 --> 1:48:14.519 Los Angeles. It's NFT LA. It's called Outer Edge LA 1:48:14.600 --> 1:48:17.000 this year. It's happening this week in Los Angeles. So 1:48:17.000 --> 1:48:19.479 I'm gonna hear about what the state of affairs is 1:48:19.520 --> 1:48:22.400 when it comes to NFTs. You can find me on 1:48:22.439 --> 1:48:24.959 social media. I am at rich on tech my website 1:48:25.080 --> 1:48:28.160 richontech dot TV. There you can see all the stuff 1:48:28.200 --> 1:48:31.040 I talked about here, watch my TV segments. Find me 1:48:31.080 --> 1:48:33.880 on social media. My name is Richdmiro. Thanks so much 1:48:33.880 --> 1:48:35.679 for listening. There are so many ways you can spend 1:48:35.680 --> 1:48:38.040 your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here 1:48:38.040 --> 1:48:40.519 with me. I'll talk to you real soon.