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Speaker 1: richon Tech dot TV. Well hello there from Austin, Texas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here for the Iheartcountry Festival. This is a concert that
Speaker 1: we are going to. Very exciting. So of course Austin
Speaker 1: a little bit different than Los Angeles. So we got
Speaker 1: in and we immediately went and got some barbecue and
Speaker 1: What I love about the world of Instagram and social
Speaker 1: media is that there are so many suggestions from folks.
Speaker 1: It makes it really easy to pick where to go.
Speaker 2: So I put a.
Speaker 1: Story on my Instagram saying, hey, where do you think
Speaker 1: we should go to eat while we're in Austin? And
Speaker 1: I got lots of good suggestions, and so of course
Speaker 1: I just took the best ones that bubbled up to
Speaker 1: the top, that were the most. So if I got
Speaker 1: the most suggestions for a place, clearly a lot of
Speaker 1: people like it, a lot of people have been there.
Speaker 1: So we picked our barbecue place last night based on
Speaker 1: you and it was excellent. It was exactly what I want,
Speaker 1: cafeteria style. You walk through the line, it kind of
Speaker 1: snakes through all the different food, and then they carve
Speaker 1: up the barbecue right in front of you.
Speaker 2: And it was.
Speaker 1: Delicious, so so good. So thank you for your suggestions
Speaker 1: on my Instagram.
Speaker 2: At rich on.
Speaker 1: Tech last night, we also went out for a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a very lively city and I've been
Speaker 1: here a bunch of times for south By Southwest. My
Speaker 1: wife has never been here, so it was kind of
Speaker 1: exciting for her to see it for the first time.
Speaker 1: And of course we took in some live music, which
Speaker 1: is there are many many places to do that here.
Speaker 1: But I noticed something that's kind of interesting that the
Speaker 1: performers now instead of sort of a tip jar, which
Speaker 1: they still kind of have, but they all have these
Speaker 1: QR codes that you can scan to tip them via
Speaker 1: Venmo or the cash app. And I thought that was
Speaker 1: interesting because, I mean, the tip the cash tip is still.
Speaker 2: I think the best thing out there.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of reasons why you want to have
Speaker 1: that QR code. It's because people aren't carrying as much
Speaker 1: cash these days, and so I get that, but it
Speaker 1: just feels weird to scan a code and give someone
Speaker 1: a tip versus just going up there and giving them
Speaker 1: a couple of bucks.
Speaker 2: And I get it.
Speaker 1: Maybe people tip more because it's Venmo, and like, are
Speaker 1: you really going to tip a dollar on Venmo?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: You're probably gonna give like five bucks.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's a better thing that they have both options,
Speaker 1: but I just thought that was interesting. Also, the hotel
Speaker 1: where we're saying is kind of cool. It has a
Speaker 1: record player in the room. So I chose the hotel
Speaker 1: because that was kind of the the thing that I
Speaker 1: thought was really neat to have a record player in
Speaker 1: the room. So we actually got to our first room
Speaker 1: and the first thing I looked for was the record player,
Speaker 1: and lo and behold, no record player. And I was like,
Speaker 1: wait what The one thing I wanted at this hotel
Speaker 1: was the record player in the room. They didn't have
Speaker 1: it in the room, and so I called down to
Speaker 1: the front desk. I said, no, it's there. Just look around.
Speaker 1: I said, I can see the entire room where I'm
Speaker 1: standing right now, and I don't see a record player.
Speaker 2: Oh, we can bring one up.
Speaker 1: So I went back down to the room, went back
Speaker 1: down and said, you know, can you just give us
Speaker 1: a room that has it? And they said, sure, we'll
Speaker 1: give you a different room. So we get in the
Speaker 1: other room and sure enough, record players right there. They
Speaker 1: also have a record concierge, so they have a person
Speaker 1: whose job it is to help you select records.
Speaker 2: So you go down to the lobby.
Speaker 1: The person standing there, obviously they know music, and gave
Speaker 1: us about five or six albums. Said hey, start the
Speaker 1: night out with this and the night with this. And
Speaker 1: it was so great because I'm putting on records something
Speaker 1: I haven't done well. I mean, look, I grew up
Speaker 1: with record with a record player in my home. It
Speaker 1: was not something I typically used, like my era started
Speaker 1: a little bit more with tapes and then CDs and
Speaker 1: then MP three's and then streaming so and of course
Speaker 1: you know FM radio, so delivering my newspapers, listening to
Speaker 1: my FM radio walkman. But the record player was something
Speaker 1: we had and it was really neat, so I was
Speaker 1: aware of how it worked, and so I didn't know
Speaker 1: if I was going to know how to put the
Speaker 1: record on and play it. But sure enough, I put
Speaker 1: the little record on, I moved the needle. You get
Speaker 1: that little crackly sound at the beginning, and it plays
Speaker 1: the music and it just was really fun because it's
Speaker 1: a record and it's not something that you typically do.
Speaker 2: But the problem with the record, and.
Speaker 1: I remember this from one of my best friends who
Speaker 1: happens to be from Texas, and he would always have
Speaker 1: a record playing when we went to dinner at his
Speaker 1: place and we'd go over there and you know, he'd
Speaker 1: play the record and the problem was the record would
Speaker 1: stop after about a half an hour. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what a side of a record last.
Speaker 1: It didn't seem like it's more than a half an hour.
Speaker 1: But we've become so accustomed to unlimited music that it's
Speaker 1: kind of odd to have something stop. But on the
Speaker 1: flip side, when you are putting a record on, it
Speaker 1: is very is a very mindful activity, right. You can't
Speaker 1: just randomly listen to music. When you're putting a record on.
Speaker 1: You have to select the record, you have to take
Speaker 1: it out of its sleeve, you have to place it
Speaker 1: on the record player, you have to move that needle
Speaker 1: and you are playing something. If you're using one of
Speaker 1: these music apps, there's no way you just press shuffle
Speaker 1: and it starts and it goes on forever and ever
Speaker 1: and ever. This is a much more mindful way of
Speaker 1: listening to music, so you know the album, you know
Speaker 1: the artist, and it's a different experience. So I highly
Speaker 1: recommend if you have not played with the record player
Speaker 1: in a long time to try it now. Myself, I
Speaker 1: have a Sonos system at home, and when I was
Speaker 1: at CES, I saw this record player that connects to Sonos.
Speaker 1: It's let's see, what's the brand here, Victrola, which obviously
Speaker 1: that's a brand that's been around forever. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if it's the same company ownership as it was back
Speaker 1: in the day. But they have a turntable, the Aunks
Speaker 1: that works with Sonos, so this wirelessly connects to your
Speaker 1: sons Now. The reason I didn't buy it immediately when
Speaker 1: I saw it at CES, even though I thought it
Speaker 1: was cool, is because it's six hundred dollars. But after
Speaker 1: talking to my wife last night and how much we
Speaker 1: enjoyed this record hair situation, I think I may have
Speaker 1: convinced her to let me invest in this record player.
Speaker 1: And it does work with my Sonos system. But then,
Speaker 1: of course now I have to start buying albums and
Speaker 1: I've got to do that whole thing. But there's just
Speaker 1: something so classic and so fun about listening to vinyl
Speaker 1: that it's a very very neat experience.
Speaker 2: So I may do this. Ah, so much fun stuff
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 1: Google Io was this week, which is Google's big developers conference.
Speaker 1: This was the first time in four years that Google
Speaker 1: did something in person. So they've done their developers conference
Speaker 1: throughout the pandemic, but it just wasn't really a big deal.
Speaker 1: They still had announcements, but this was the first time
Speaker 1: in four years that you could go up there, and
Speaker 1: so I did. I was in Mountain View earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Google does this at a place called Shoreline Amphitheater and
Speaker 1: it's a big kind of outdoor amphitheater that they do
Speaker 1: concerts at, but they also do Google Io and Google
Speaker 1: Io is where they have developers come to sort of
Speaker 1: see what tools are available to them to code apps,
Speaker 1: to code search things, to code Android, just what tools
Speaker 1: Google is working on to let developers use in whatever
Speaker 1: they're making that works with Google.
Speaker 2: And so it was really fun.
Speaker 1: It was such a great experience to go up there
Speaker 1: and not just see all of the products, because they
Speaker 1: announced three new products, a five hundred dollars pixel phone,
Speaker 1: a brand new eighteen hundred dollars foldable pixel phone that's
Speaker 1: something I'm also trying to maybe that might be my
Speaker 1: next phone, and also a pixel tablet. But by going
Speaker 1: to these events, it gives me the perspective I need
Speaker 1: to be able to talk about these products. And later
Speaker 1: in the show we're going to talk to someone else
Speaker 1: that was there as well and talk to them and
Speaker 1: kind of get their thoughts on all these different things.
Speaker 1: And this show is going to be very Google heavy,
Speaker 1: I will admit, So if you don't like Google or
Speaker 1: you have a problem with Google. You may not like
Speaker 1: the show today, but I promise it's still going to
Speaker 1: be fun. It's still going to be interesting, and we're
Speaker 1: still going to have lots of calls and lots of
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. These events that I go to.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, you know. You go up there, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of other journalists. We're all trying to get
Speaker 1: our stories filed. I had to file mine for TV
Speaker 1: for the next day. I was actually shooting my entire
Speaker 1: story myself, So I went up there solo recorded everything
Speaker 1: and then wrote the story and then sent it back
Speaker 1: to my editor in Los Angeles. He edited it, and
Speaker 1: then I flew back and then we were on the
Speaker 1: news in the morning. So it's a lot, but it
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. It was a lot of challenge.
Speaker 1: But the best thing was that the internet was so
Speaker 1: slow this year. I don't know why. I was on
Speaker 1: Wi Fi and I had like twelve gigs of stuff.
Speaker 1: I had to send twelve gigabytes of stuff like video
Speaker 1: that I just sent down to Los Angeles, and it
Speaker 1: just wasn't happening. It was giving me like hours and
Speaker 1: hours of time that it was going to take. And
Speaker 1: I was like that's not going to work. So I
Speaker 1: found a wired Ethernet connection. I plugged my computer in
Speaker 1: and I'm not kidding. It was the fastest Internet I
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen in my life. Because the twelve
Speaker 1: gigabytes that was taking about seventeen hours to go up
Speaker 1: via the Wi Fi. It went up in about I
Speaker 1: would say less than a minute. It was maybe sixty seconds.
Speaker 1: And I texted my photographer and I said, hey, everything's up.
Speaker 1: It's ready to go, and he's like, what changed? I said,
Speaker 1: I found some Ethernet. So if you ever need stuff
Speaker 1: to go up much faster, just find an Ethernet connection
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that will take care of it. All right,
Speaker 1: I've got lots more to talk about with Google throughout
Speaker 1: the show. I'm gonna talk about all the different hardware announcements,
Speaker 1: the way AI is gonna get into more things. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about how search is changing. There is so
Speaker 1: much to talk about when it comes to Google. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about all of that. But I've got
Speaker 1: some great guests as well coming up on today's show.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do the Pixel, We're gonna do the
Speaker 1: Pixel tablet, We're gonna do the pixel fold. Then I've
Speaker 1: got some great guests. We've got Miriam Juar of the
Speaker 1: Mobile Tech Podcast. They're gonna join me to talk all
Speaker 1: things Google, especially that pixel seven A and that fold.
Speaker 1: I've got n gadget Sherlyn Lowe to explain the difference,
Speaker 1: to explain her experience with Project Starline. This is Google's
Speaker 1: holographic version of Zoom. It's quite incredible. It's quite interesting, uh, Sherilyn.
Speaker 1: We will talk about that and then later. If you've
Speaker 1: got a gamer in your life, they're playing one of
Speaker 1: two games right now. They're either playing Zelda or they're
Speaker 1: playing the new game from Pokemon Go Paradot. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to Eric Switzer ofthegamer dot com about those
Speaker 1: two games, which are a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: But first it is your turn.
Speaker 1: We've got your phone calls coming up next at triple
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Speaker 2: You are listening to rich on Tech. I'm Rich Demiro.
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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology from Austin, Texas.
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Speaker 1: to one zero one. Welcome to the show Google Io
Speaker 1: held this week up in Mountain View, California. I was there,
Speaker 1: and everyone's sort of wondering what Google is going to
Speaker 1: do with AI. Google has some of the best AI
Speaker 1: engineers in the world. They've been talking about AI long
Speaker 1: before it was cool, long before every other company has
Speaker 1: jumped on the bandwagon.
Speaker 2: And I don't think that.
Speaker 1: Google is going to get AI wrong because number one,
Speaker 1: they're already using it in so many little ways in
Speaker 1: their products. Maybe they didn't talk it up as much,
Speaker 1: but they've always infused AI into a lot of their things.
Speaker 1: And so here are some of the new things coming
Speaker 1: out with AI in Google. So number one, they showed
Speaker 1: off this feature called help me Write in Gmail. So
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen we got something I can't believe it's
Speaker 1: been that long.
Speaker 2: Called smart Reply.
Speaker 1: So these are the little replies when you're on the
Speaker 1: Gmail app or the website that if someone says, hey,
Speaker 1: is lunch at twelve thirty, good for you, and at
Speaker 1: the bottom it might say good for me. Sounds good, yep,
Speaker 1: And so you can just tap one of those and
Speaker 1: send off the email, and that's called a smart reply.
Speaker 1: Then came smart Compose, which if you're typing an email,
Speaker 1: it will kind of complete your sentence. So if I
Speaker 1: say something like sure, that sounds really good, it'll complete
Speaker 1: that or great, it'll say to hear from you, and
Speaker 1: you just press tab and it will complete your Gmail typing.
Speaker 1: So that's really cool. But now they've got help Me Write.
Speaker 1: This is an AI feature that will write your entire email.
Speaker 1: And what's neat about this is that it can use
Speaker 1: details from a previous email. So the example they gave is,
Speaker 1: let's say your airline canceled your flight or changed your
Speaker 1: flight or something. They said, hey, we're going to give
Speaker 1: you a seventy five dollars credit. Well, you can respond
Speaker 1: to that email and then say Google, help me write.
Speaker 1: Gmail helped Me Write, and it will take the details
Speaker 1: from that previous email, your flight info, how much they
Speaker 1: offered you, all that good stuff, and it will compose
Speaker 1: an entire email with a couple of things from you.
Speaker 1: So you might say, help me write an email back
Speaker 1: to this airline that says I don't think your seventy
Speaker 1: five dollars is good enough. I think I deserve a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars flight credit, and it will write the entire email.
Speaker 1: And then you can go ahead, after it writes the
Speaker 1: entire email, say can you be more persuasive, and it
Speaker 1: will even tweak it further. You can say can you
Speaker 1: be more conversational? Can you be more fun? Whatever you want.
Speaker 1: So that is a really cool feature that's just going
Speaker 1: to help people write entire emails. And like we've said before,
Speaker 1: everything is going to start with a first draft. From
Speaker 1: now on, you're never gonna have to really write anything
Speaker 1: from scratch, which is kind of wild because that's a
Speaker 1: big departure from what we've experienced in the past. All right,
Speaker 1: in Google Maps, they've got this new immersive view. So
Speaker 1: let's say, for instance, last night we were here in Austin.
Speaker 1: We were wondering if we can walk to the restaurant,
Speaker 1: and you're kind of curious, like, what are you walking through?
Speaker 1: It looked like we were walking through a campus of
Speaker 1: a college, and so can you do that? Well now
Speaker 1: on Google Maps, because they've all of these images from
Speaker 1: street view, and they've got all of these satellite images,
Speaker 1: they fuse them together for something called immersive view for routes.
Speaker 1: So you can actually take a look at the route
Speaker 1: and take a bird's eye flyover view and see exactly
Speaker 1: what it's going to look like to walk, drive, or
Speaker 1: bicycle a certain route. Now, this reminds me of a
Speaker 1: feature that All Trails recently put on their app, and
Speaker 1: I told you about it on the show. I forget
Speaker 1: what it's called, but it's like an immersive view as well.
Speaker 1: But you can take a look at what a trail
Speaker 1: is going to look like before you hike that trail.
Speaker 2: And it's a very similar feature that Google has now introduced.
Speaker 1: So in the future we're gonna be able to ride
Speaker 1: or drive or fly over a route before we actually
Speaker 1: ever take it.
Speaker 2: So that's interesting.
Speaker 1: So that's maps that's going to roll out this summer
Speaker 1: launch in fifteen cities by the end of the year,
Speaker 1: including London, New York, Tokyo, and San Francisco. The other
Speaker 1: cool thing, of course, this is quite googly. You can
Speaker 1: check the air quality, traffic, and weather to see how
Speaker 1: they might change depending on the time of day that
Speaker 1: you are taking that route. So they showed off that
Speaker 1: as well. If it's going to be raining, you can
Speaker 1: see that on the route and then in Google Photos
Speaker 1: they've got this new Magic Editor experience. So this was
Speaker 1: first introduced. The magic eraser was first introduced on Google Photos.
Speaker 1: That's where you can just circle something and have it
Speaker 1: erase what's in a picture. But this is much more thorough.
Speaker 1: This will kind of transform everything in the picture. And
Speaker 1: so the example they used is, let's say you've got
Speaker 1: this kid sitting on a bench. Took a picture of
Speaker 1: your kid holding some balloons on a bench, but you
Speaker 1: kind of were a little bit too over, so the
Speaker 1: balloons are cut off and you want to center up
Speaker 1: the child a little bit more in the picture. Well
Speaker 1: you literally just just take, you know, hover over the
Speaker 1: child and then pull them over to the right into
Speaker 1: the center of the picture, and AI will generate what's
Speaker 1: missing from the left side of the picture. So all
Speaker 1: of the balloons, it'll complete them, it will complete the bench,
Speaker 1: and the child can move over. And then of course
Speaker 1: it will make the entire picture kind of smoothed out
Speaker 1: so it doesn't look.
Speaker 2: Like you edited it.
Speaker 1: It will kind of make the lighting look right and
Speaker 1: the sky look right, whatever you want. And this is
Speaker 1: called Magic Editor, and that's coming out soon. It looks
Speaker 1: like that is going to come out to Pixel owners first,
Speaker 1: so if you have a Pixel smartphone, that will come
Speaker 1: to you first. But again, these are just some of
Speaker 1: the small examples of AI that are coming to Google products.
Speaker 1: Those were the three big ones. They also showed off
Speaker 1: what search is going to look like, and search is
Speaker 1: now going to have AI at the top of your results,
Speaker 1: and then at the bottom are going to be those
Speaker 1: ten blue links. So if you want to try these
Speaker 1: things now, they actually have a certain website you can
Speaker 1: go to. If you're searching on Google, you will see
Speaker 1: a little kind of experimental beaker in the upper left
Speaker 1: hand corner of your search. You tap that and you
Speaker 1: can sign up to try some of these new features.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we've got Miriam Juar to talk
Speaker 1: all things Google. Miriam's from the Mobile Tech podcast that's
Speaker 1: coming up next right here on rich on Tech on
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro plus your calls at triple eight rich one
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Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight
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Speaker 1: to two, four to one zero one. If you have
Speaker 1: a question about technology, give me a call. Maybe you're
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Speaker 1: You can also email hello at richontech dot TV. All right,
Speaker 1: My next guest is host of Mobile Tech podcast, Miriam
Speaker 1: Juwar was up there in Mountain View with me at
Speaker 1: the Google event and welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Miriam.
Speaker 4: Hi, Why Rich?
Speaker 5: How's it going?
Speaker 1: It is going fantastic, So so much to talk about
Speaker 1: from Google's big events. Where should we start. What was
Speaker 1: your initial impression of sort of the event at large?
Speaker 5: Lots of AI? I was like, why if I had
Speaker 5: to summarize it, you know, lots of AI and some
Speaker 5: cool devices, that would be my summary.
Speaker 1: And how do you think Google delivered with the AI stuff?
Speaker 1: Because you know a lot of people are wondering this
Speaker 1: is a big change in the way Google does business
Speaker 1: because potentially, when you're asking AI for answers, you know
Speaker 1: there might not be room for as much advertising as
Speaker 1: there is in traditional search. So do you feel like
Speaker 1: that's a threat to Google's kind of prime business?
Speaker 5: I think ultimately it is, but I think they were
Speaker 5: prepared for it, you know they have. When they announced
Speaker 5: bart I thought, hey, there, this is this is the
Speaker 5: first shoe to drop, and the second shoe will be
Speaker 5: adding you know, some sort of eye to search. And
Speaker 5: then of course, you know, there's the whole they've been
Speaker 5: working on Palm, you know now that Palm two, which
Speaker 5: is there, you know, a large language model for a
Speaker 5: while now, and that seems to be getting integrated in
Speaker 5: so many products. That's the thing that really surprised me.
Speaker 5: It wasn't just search, but they have, like, you know,
Speaker 5: ways for Gmail to improve your email writing. They have
Speaker 5: ways for you to create documents and Google docs. They
Speaker 5: have ways to if you're a Google Cloud customer, to
Speaker 5: integrate the AI into that. So it's not just a
Speaker 5: consumer play, it's like a business play. They're going basically
Speaker 5: all in and it makes sense. They don't really have
Speaker 5: a choice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also they're really good at AI, and it
Speaker 1: kind of makes sense for what the products that they offer.
Speaker 1: They've always been largely infused with a sort of an
Speaker 1: AI machine learning kind of stuff, but nowadays it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: AI is the hot thing, so let's let's just go
Speaker 1: all in on that. Okay, So we also saw a
Speaker 1: lot of products, well three products in particular. We saw
Speaker 1: a five hundred dollars Pixel seven A, and we saw
Speaker 1: an eighteen hundred dollars Pixel fold which is a foldable phone,
Speaker 1: and then we also saw a Pixel tablet. So let's
Speaker 1: start with that seven A. So this is the five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars kind of entry level Pixel phone. They made
Speaker 1: some improvements this year, things like face unlock, it's got
Speaker 1: a little bit more ram, it's got a better display.
Speaker 1: But this is a I think, from everything I've heard
Speaker 1: from everyone talking about it, a really solid choice for
Speaker 1: an entry level phone, even though it is fifty dollars
Speaker 1: more than it was, you know, in years past.
Speaker 2: So what do you make of this phone?
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's a proper flagship for five hundred dollars,
Speaker 5: which is quite the feat. You know. I think that
Speaker 5: the Pixel A series with this seven as finally gone
Speaker 5: from you know, a mid ranges phone with some flagship
Speaker 5: features to a proper flagship and fifty dollars more. For that,
Speaker 5: I think it's worth it. But it tells me another story,
Speaker 5: and the story is that, you know, Google's try to
Speaker 5: simplify a little bit all those new products include the
Speaker 5: same new ten Sergy two chip that came with the
Speaker 5: Pixel seven and seven Pro in the fall, so they're
Speaker 5: using a flagship chip on everything. And in addition to that,
Speaker 5: you know, we're seeing these this this Pixel seven A
Speaker 5: gaining things like high refresh rate niney hertz display, like
Speaker 5: wireless charging. So that tells me the Pixel eight right
Speaker 5: that is going to replace the seven which is right
Speaker 5: now only one hundred dollars more than this new seven
Speaker 5: A is probably going to cost more and might have
Speaker 5: more features, because it would be nice to space them
Speaker 5: two hundred dollars apart right now. You know, the seven
Speaker 5: A starts at five hundred, then you had six hundred,
Speaker 5: you got the seven which is you know, almost identical really,
Speaker 5: and then you know, like the nine hundred dollars you
Speaker 5: have the seven Pro and that's a big jump, right,
Speaker 5: So I'm thinking two hundred dollars apart once they eight
Speaker 5: and eight pro land in October. But for now, I
Speaker 5: think this is a killer phone if you can, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of pry yourself away from Apple or Samsung, which
Speaker 5: are the two dominant phonemakers in North America and the
Speaker 5: US in particular. I would say, this is a killer
Speaker 5: package for the money. It has absolutely everything you need.
Speaker 1: It is the phone that I trust my mom with,
Speaker 1: so I get her the Google the kind of the
Speaker 1: A or one of the pixels.
Speaker 2: Every year or not every year, every.
Speaker 1: Time she upgrades, and it's always it's always a fantastic device,
Speaker 1: and people are always saying like, how are your pictures
Speaker 1: so good?
Speaker 2: How are your pictures so good?
Speaker 1: The thing that she doesn't get is the like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: the whole I message world, which you know, Apple has
Speaker 1: been really really good about keeping that exclusive to their products,
Speaker 1: and it makes sense because it keeps a lot of
Speaker 1: people on their devices. All right now, this pixel fold
Speaker 1: this is an eighteen hundred dollars device. This is not
Speaker 1: going to be for everyone, but it's actually pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sitting here like, could this be my
Speaker 1: next phone? Because I'm ready. I'm kind of bored with
Speaker 1: the standard phones at this point. I've tested all of them,
Speaker 1: and this one is really unique because it opens up
Speaker 1: to a giant seven point six inch screen, so that's
Speaker 1: kind of like a tablet size. On the outside of
Speaker 1: the phone, you get a nice I think it's a
Speaker 1: five point eight in screen that's actually usable, unlike the
Speaker 1: Samsung one.
Speaker 2: So tell me your thoughts about this phone.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I'm a pixel user. I have a
Speaker 5: Pixel seven pro, so obviously very interested in a folding pixel.
Speaker 2: This is it.
Speaker 5: There are obviously some things that could be better, but overall,
Speaker 5: I think this is a proper competitor to Samsung's Galaxy
Speaker 5: z Fold four, which will be soon, you know, be
Speaker 5: followed by a z Fold five. So let's see what
Speaker 5: happens there. But I think, as you kind of nailed it,
Speaker 5: the thing that really matters here is the form factor.
Speaker 5: Right abroad in China and other countries in Europe, there's
Speaker 5: a company named Oppo, and they make a folding phone
Speaker 5: that has a similar form factor, more like a passport
Speaker 5: so basically shorter height, a little wider rather than that
Speaker 5: super skinny form factor that Samsung has been using with
Speaker 5: the z fold series. And personally, I think this is
Speaker 5: a better form factor because you can use it one
Speaker 5: handed when it's shut, and then you can up to
Speaker 5: this huge tablet experience I mean usual relatively speaking for
Speaker 5: something that unfolds, and I think that's going to differentiate
Speaker 5: this phone. And it's about the same price as the
Speaker 5: Galaxy Z Fold. So you know, in that sense, I
Speaker 5: think it's it's a pretty good competitor. You know, the pixel,
Speaker 5: the tensor G two chip, the chip that runs the
Speaker 5: show here is not as powerful as what Qualcom and
Speaker 5: Media Tech can deliver these days, or even Apple with
Speaker 5: their chips. So there's a bit of that, but I
Speaker 5: think it mostly reflects in terms of battery life. So
Speaker 5: we'll see in our reviews how battery life folds up.
Speaker 5: We know the cameras are going to be killer, and
Speaker 5: then you know, there's the other thing that I think
Speaker 5: could be improved is the charging speed. Twenty one wht
Speaker 5: is a little slow these days in the flagship space,
Speaker 5: but look for a first try. It's one of the
Speaker 5: thinnest falling phones you can buy six millimeters or something
Speaker 5: slightly thicker than the Champion, which is a phone out
Speaker 5: of China called the Chami Mi Mix to fold. And
Speaker 5: so you know, like you can complain. I think Google
Speaker 5: did their homework and it does everything, has it does
Speaker 5: have everything, and the kitchen sink.
Speaker 2: So so the fold.
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny because it's eighteen hundred dollars, but
Speaker 1: they're giving you this this watch with it right, the
Speaker 1: Pixel Watch, which is like three hundred and fifty to
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars. So a lot of people are saying,
Speaker 1: why don't you just not give me the watch and
Speaker 1: take four hundred dollars off the price of this phone,
Speaker 1: because fourteen hundred dollars seems a lot better. That's like
Speaker 1: much more achievable if you really want something that's high end.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, that's the thing that's been happening. A
Speaker 5: lot of people are buying these flagship phones, whether they're
Speaker 5: Pixels or Samsung or Apple even iPhones, you know, with
Speaker 5: trade ins and getting deals right, and that they have
Speaker 5: a lot of Pixel watches sitting around. It hasn't been
Speaker 5: a super popular product, even though it's a great android
Speaker 5: to watch right. So I think they're probably like, this
Speaker 5: is a great way to kind of satisfy people without
Speaker 5: you know, having to drop the price. And if you
Speaker 5: look at the Pixel seven A, there's some great deals too.
Speaker 5: If you get it directly from Google, you can get
Speaker 5: a custom color called Coral, which is this orange superb color,
Speaker 5: and then you can get a pair of Pixel buds
Speaker 5: a for free. And I think if you buy it
Speaker 5: from best Buy, you get a fifty dollars rebate like
Speaker 5: a card you can use. So I think this is
Speaker 5: kind of part for the course. I don't think this
Speaker 5: watch thing is you know, a replacement for selling this.
Speaker 5: That fourteen hundred is just kind of like, well, let's
Speaker 5: sweeten the deal. But we I think they're not making
Speaker 5: any money on this phone. There's no way, you know.
Speaker 1: And I really fell in love with the Samsung by
Speaker 1: the way, except for that tiny outside screen. I was
Speaker 1: doing everything on the Fold. I was doing you know,
Speaker 1: I was reading, like I used it as a kindle.
Speaker 1: It was great because you can watch movies and videos
Speaker 1: on it on the plane without any sort of like
Speaker 1: extra you know, accessories, And it was just that outside
Speaker 1: screen was so small. So the fact that Google made
Speaker 1: this outside screen usable and it feels great in your hand,
Speaker 1: like it's easy to hold, I think this phone is
Speaker 1: actually an early winner. It's just the price point is
Speaker 1: going to turn off so many people.
Speaker 5: But then again, the price point turns off a lot
Speaker 5: of people from the Galaxy Fold, you know. So I
Speaker 5: think I think it's it's more it's harder to you know,
Speaker 5: to accept that price when you know it's a pixel, right.
Speaker 5: I think that's the problem. I think we're conditioned to
Speaker 5: take whatever pricing Apple and Samsung gives us, and I
Speaker 5: think this is something we should revisit because Google has
Speaker 5: to make money. They can't just be completely losing money,
Speaker 5: although I'm pretty sure they are not making money on this,
Speaker 5: at least not much. I have used that Apple Find
Speaker 5: and End two that has the same form factor as
Speaker 5: the pixel and I tell you it's a much better
Speaker 5: form factor than the Z fold from Samsung. So I'm
Speaker 5: very excited about the pixel fold having this new form
Speaker 5: factor because I think for some you know, everybody's got
Speaker 5: a different thing. Some people will prefer the fold, no doubt,
Speaker 5: but for me, this is a better form factor for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, Miriam Jouir of the Mobile Tech Podcast, how
Speaker 1: can folks follow you online?
Speaker 2: Simple?
Speaker 5: The podcast leaves at Mobile tech podcast dot com and
Speaker 5: we're on all the major platforms, so your podcast needs
Speaker 5: just look for it.
Speaker 2: It's called the.
Speaker 5: Mobile Tech Podcast. And then of course you can find
Speaker 5: me on Twitter at tank Girl, like the comic book character,
Speaker 5: but you drop all the vowels, who ends up being
Speaker 5: t NK g R L. And that's also my Instagram
Speaker 5: if you want to see pretty pictures of phones and
Speaker 5: cars and things I reviewed.
Speaker 1: Awesome, You're always somewhere. Thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 1: Miriam Duir of the Mobile Tech podcast. Coming up more
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: About a new Chrome update error attack. You gotta watch
Speaker 1: out for this one. It can fool anyone. You're listening
Speaker 1: to Rich DeMuro here on rich on Techy. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on tech Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
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Speaker 1: Tom did just that, he said, I'm an executive level
Speaker 1: IT leader, typically a chief information officer. My recruiter resources
Speaker 1: are lacking contacts who can take my background and old
Speaker 1: resume and overhaul it so it's great and scores high
Speaker 1: when application tracking systems ATS evaluate it. That's sort of
Speaker 1: those automated systems.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping you know someone.
Speaker 1: Or a tool that can help me overhaul my resume asap.
Speaker 2: Thoughts.
Speaker 1: Uh so, Tom, I think uh a service I did
Speaker 1: a story with the guy who started the latterers dot com,
Speaker 1: which is like a job search website, and he's got
Speaker 1: a service called Leaked Resumes l E E t resumes
Speaker 1: dot com. And I know this sounds kind of weird,
Speaker 1: but they will help you write your resume for free.
Speaker 1: I know it's so wild. There's not even a way
Speaker 1: to pay. But here's what they do. So they will,
Speaker 1: you know, you give them your old resume, you answer
Speaker 1: a couple questions, they rewrite your resume, and of course
Speaker 1: it's all driven for these, like you said, these ats
Speaker 1: system these application tracking systems. And then if you like
Speaker 1: your resume, you tip your writer. And that's how it works.
Speaker 1: They say the average tip is forty dollars. And you
Speaker 1: know in the facts on the website it says, you
Speaker 1: know what's the catch and it says, basically, if you
Speaker 1: take your how much you make, let's see here what's
Speaker 1: the hidden cost. So if you like your resume, we
Speaker 1: recommend tipping your writer. Your salary in thousands divided by two,
Speaker 1: So for instance, if you make eighty thousand dollars a year,
Speaker 1: we recommend a forty dollars tip. So in addition, we'll
Speaker 1: make introductions to job boards that can provide jobs with
Speaker 1: titles you're looking for. So that's that's it. Lead Resumes
Speaker 1: L E. E. Tmes dot com is the website.
Speaker 2: Check it out.
Speaker 1: I have not personally used this because I have not
Speaker 1: written a resume in a long time, and I'm sure chat,
Speaker 1: GPT and all these things can help you write it,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of nice to have a human actually
Speaker 1: help you write a resume, because it's just you need
Speaker 1: that human touch every once in a while. A new
Speaker 1: Chrome update error attack. I got to tell you about
Speaker 1: this one because I'm looking at my Chrome right now
Speaker 1: on my computer and it says update in the upper
Speaker 1: right hand corner. And the way that Chrome updates is
Speaker 1: it downloads the software in the background, the update to
Speaker 1: the to the Chrome web browser, and then it gives
Speaker 1: you this little message that says update, and then you
Speaker 1: just relaunch Chrome to update it. It's very simple process.
Speaker 1: It's very easy. Well well, well, of course, the scam
Speaker 1: artists have figured out a way to socially engineer the
Speaker 1: Chrome updates. And here's what happens. This is according to
Speaker 1: trend Micro, the new attack campaign distributes malware by posing
Speaker 1: as a Chrome update error message. It started a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago and it's impacting a lot of people.
Speaker 1: The message displayed reads update exception and error occurred in
Speaker 1: Chrome Automatic update. And you say, oh, interesting, Okay, I
Speaker 1: know Chrome updates automatically, but there's an error. I better
Speaker 1: spring into action. It says, please update, Please install the
Speaker 1: update package manually later or wait for the next automatic update.
Speaker 1: And then a link is provided at the bottom of
Speaker 1: this fake error message that takes the user to a
Speaker 1: what's misrepresented as a link that will help you do
Speaker 1: a Chrome manual update, But that link downloads file that
Speaker 1: will put malware on your system that might degrade your performance,
Speaker 1: but it can also potentially compromise your sensitive information potentially
Speaker 1: the way that you log into websites. Now this is
Speaker 1: installed on your computer. Now here's what's so brilliant about
Speaker 1: this campaign, and this is what all of these socially
Speaker 1: engineered phishing attacks, smishing attacks, all these little scams that
Speaker 1: are going around, they all play to something that is
Speaker 1: somewhat true. We know that if we use Chrome, it
Speaker 1: needs to update every once in a while, and typically
Speaker 1: it works just fine. It's a very simple process. But
Speaker 1: this one is a little error message that says, oh,
Speaker 1: something went wrong with the automatic update. Here, manually do it,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to be unprotected on your computer,
Speaker 1: so you go ahead and do it.
Speaker 2: So why this is.
Speaker 1: So effective is because it's it looks routine, it looks
Speaker 1: like it's innocent. There's no big threat window. It doesn't
Speaker 1: blank red like some of these ransomware attacks. It just says, hey,
Speaker 1: your update failed. Here, go ahead and install it. And
Speaker 1: then there you go. You install it and it really
Speaker 1: messes up your computer. So the reality is we can
Speaker 1: never be off our guard when it comes to any
Speaker 1: sort of thing that we are doing on our computer,
Speaker 1: whether we.
Speaker 2: Are installing software.
Speaker 1: Don't, like I say, do not just go through those
Speaker 1: whenever you're installing something. Don't just go through the motions
Speaker 1: of pressing go, go, go, go go, because that will
Speaker 1: get you into trouble. That will be a major problem.
Speaker 2: Don't do it. That's that's the issue that I talk about,
Speaker 2: because you just it's not good.
Speaker 1: So again, if you're looking at Chrome and you see
Speaker 1: this thing, just be sure you're on guard all right.
Speaker 2: Phone number by the way, triple.
Speaker 1: Eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four to one zero one I'll get to
Speaker 1: some of your calls in just a moment here, But
Speaker 1: first I watched this this Apple movie.
Speaker 2: It's called Ghosted. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: With all the reviews and ratings and things out there,
Speaker 1: it's it's very tricky because you want to watch something
Speaker 1: that's highly reviewed, highly regarded, highly rated, and sometimes you
Speaker 1: just want something that's fun. So every time I opened
Speaker 1: up Apple TV Plus on my computer or on my TV,
Speaker 1: I would see this ad for a movie called Ghosted.
Speaker 2: And I never heard of it. I never knew what
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: It just looks like an action kind of you know,
Speaker 1: romantic action movie, whatever that means. And so I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this looks interesting. Of course, all the app all the
Speaker 1: reviews for it are not very good, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'll give it a try because it just looked like
Speaker 1: something I want something that was kind of like no
Speaker 1: brainer movie.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, this is an Apple show. So this is
Speaker 2: an Apple movie.
Speaker 1: And every time you watch something on Apple TV plus,
Speaker 1: any of the original programming from Apple.
Speaker 2: It features a heavy dose of Apple products.
Speaker 1: I mean they just give these producers like here, take
Speaker 1: an iPad, take a an iMac, take a take ten iPhones,
Speaker 1: everything happens with these Apple products in these Apple movies,
Speaker 1: which is kind of distracting, but I get it. It's synergy.
Speaker 1: It's like if someone on an Amazon movie was shopping
Speaker 1: on you know.
Speaker 2: Best buy dot com. It wouldn't really wouldn't feel right.
Speaker 1: Well, anyway, every Apple movie is an ad for all
Speaker 1: things Apple, except when it's not in their favor. And
Speaker 1: on this Ghosted movie, what do they use for the
Speaker 1: tracking device? It's a tile, It's not an air tag,
Speaker 1: because they didn't want to seem like their products were
Speaker 1: being put in a bad light. So I just thought
Speaker 1: that was really funny. So if you watch the movie Ghosted,
Speaker 1: I recommend it. I thought it was pretty good. But
Speaker 1: just notice that. Notice that little quirk. Why didn't they
Speaker 1: use an air tag? Didn't fall in Apple's favor. You're
Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. More of your calls up
Speaker 1: next at Triple eight.
Speaker 2: Rich one O one.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking
Speaker 1: technology with you at Triple eight rich one on one.
Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to
Speaker 1: one zero one. The show coming to you today from Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: site of the iHeart Country Fest, which I will be attending.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited for that. Also excited for barbecue. You
Speaker 1: can't have enough barbecue when you're here, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: The only question is what kind of sauce you want
Speaker 1: on it?
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into like a big barbecue debate.
Speaker 1: I know there's like dry I mean, barbecue people are
Speaker 1: very very serious about their craft, and I don't tend.
Speaker 2: To be a barbecue expert.
Speaker 1: All I know is that I will eat the brisket
Speaker 1: with some sort of barbecue sauce slathered on it, and
Speaker 1: I will be a very happy person. All right, enough
Speaker 1: about me, Let's go to Pat in Laguna Hills. Pat,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 2: Pat? Are you there? Pat? And Laguna Hills?
Speaker 1: Okay, I can't hear you, Pat, but okay, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: get you on in a second. Here, let's talk while
Speaker 1: we're waiting for Pat. Oh, there you are, Hello, Pat, Welcome.
Speaker 4: I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: You know, we're you know there's the show is if
Speaker 1: you if you knew the technology behind this show, it's
Speaker 1: quite impressive. We've got people in all corners of the
Speaker 1: US today. We've got Kim up in near San Francisco.
Speaker 1: We've got Bobo producing the show in Los Angeles, and
Speaker 1: we've got myself sitting in Austin. And then somehow, you know,
Speaker 1: the show goes up to a satellite somewhere it comes
Speaker 1: back down through the road.
Speaker 4: I don't know, because you're in auction. Yeah, I imagine.
Speaker 2: We'll believe it on Texas. What's up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay. I have a Chromebook since twenty fifteen. I bought
Speaker 4: another one last year because I have one upstairs and
Speaker 4: one downstairs. I want to give my twenty fifteen Chromebook
Speaker 4: to a friend to practice on and in buying a
Speaker 4: new one. I see this. There's two hard drives, an
Speaker 4: SSD and an eMMC if in fact, that is a
Speaker 4: hard drive e m MC. And I do banking on
Speaker 4: this CHLME book, and I prefer the chrome book only
Speaker 4: because I think it's safer with all the updates. Yes,
Speaker 4: and I only use the one that's updated, not the
Speaker 4: other one for banking so or paying bills and stuff.
Speaker 4: So that's that's my question. I don't know what to.
Speaker 1: Buy now, Okay, Well, good question. I like that you're
Speaker 1: thinking about safety and security with this device, and I
Speaker 1: would agree that it is a safe device, because there's
Speaker 1: not I don't think there's any viruses for a chromebook
Speaker 1: at this point, So I mean, you could still get
Speaker 1: caught into phishing emails and all that stuff. So you
Speaker 1: still have to be on cars.
Speaker 4: And thank you for what you said before about I
Speaker 4: didn't know about the era, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, these people are tricky. They will figure out
Speaker 1: ways of I mean a lot of these ninety nine
Speaker 1: percent of the attacks that I hear about are either
Speaker 1: your password you didn't have two factor authentication, or you
Speaker 1: hand over your password with some sort of social engineering
Speaker 1: attack where you're logging into a website that looks legitimate
Speaker 1: and you just don't realize anyway, onto these chromebooks. So, okay,
Speaker 1: there's two different things you're talking about here, eMMC and
Speaker 1: also SSD. So these are in fact they are a
Speaker 1: hard drive in a colloquial term like it is a
Speaker 1: storage device. But these are both sort of solid state
Speaker 1: flash you know, they're both solid state drives. There's no
Speaker 1: moving parts on these. eMMC is a type of flash memory,
Speaker 1: whereas an SSD is a solid state drive. It's also memory,
Speaker 1: but these things don't move, not like the old hard
Speaker 1: drives that's spun right. eMMC is going to be a
Speaker 1: little bit slower, but it's going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit cheaper, And there's also some size limitations there, so
Speaker 1: you may not get a drive that's as big, whereas
Speaker 1: SSD is kind of like you know, it's a much
Speaker 1: higher end technology that is in much higher end devices.
Speaker 1: So if you're comparing these two chromebooks, I'm guessing that
Speaker 1: the SSD is more expensive.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 4: But is one more secure than the other? That's really
Speaker 4: what I want to know.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think that one is more secure than
Speaker 1: the other because at the end of the day, these
Speaker 1: are just storing your data, and so you know, when
Speaker 1: it comes to storing data, that's pretty much going to
Speaker 1: function in the same way. So I don't think you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a problem with this with the security of
Speaker 1: these two devices. I think it's really comes down to
Speaker 1: what you want out of a price and what you
Speaker 1: want out of the performance. So I think that the
Speaker 1: SSD overall is going to be a better choice. If
Speaker 1: you have the money and it's in your budget and
Speaker 1: you're comparing two things, the SSD I think is going.
Speaker 2: To be better. But if you're just not really caring.
Speaker 1: You just want this thing to log onto your bank
Speaker 1: account and pay your bills and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: In the standard eMMC, it's going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: I don't think that one is more secure than the other.
Speaker 4: Okay, And what about using the Chrome browser? Should I
Speaker 4: use a different browser?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I think the Chrome browser is a great browser to use.
Speaker 1: Keep it up to date, just keep away from those
Speaker 1: issues that I was talking about. And also when it
Speaker 1: comes to the extensions, if you're installing extensions on the
Speaker 1: Chrome browser, that's you know, those are the potential for
Speaker 1: you know, leaking information or putting.
Speaker 2: Something on there.
Speaker 4: Meaning what extension.
Speaker 1: Extensions are little browser add ons that you can get
Speaker 1: that kind of help your browser do different things. For instance,
Speaker 1: I have one that will help me print a page
Speaker 1: or save something to the kindle.
Speaker 4: I don't use them every time I do a banking transaction.
Speaker 4: I get out of it and shut it down and
Speaker 4: come back. Okay, that's how secure and the other very skeptical.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I would recommend when it comes
Speaker 1: to doing the banking on the computer is I always
Speaker 1: try to keep that limited to at home or on
Speaker 1: a simular connection if you're out of that. So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that on like a public Wi Fi connection.
Speaker 1: That's kind of my rule of thumb with it.
Speaker 4: Definitely not. And I just have one little question, what
Speaker 4: about a tablet? Is banking secure on a tablet since
Speaker 4: you're using a different you're using a cell uh yes,
Speaker 4: and a Wi Fi you're using the cell cell thing, right.
Speaker 1: Well, it depends, I mean yeah on the table Well,
Speaker 1: on the tablet, you can use a hot spot or
Speaker 1: you can use Wi Fi, depending on where you are.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're at your house, you might just
Speaker 1: use Wi Fi, but you can. You know a lot
Speaker 1: of people when they're out and about, they're just connecting
Speaker 1: their tablet to their phone. I think that's that's very
Speaker 1: secure as well. Again number one, I mean we have
Speaker 1: we have millions and millions of people that are doing
Speaker 1: their online banking on a daily basis, and so these
Speaker 1: banks have gotten really good at trying to keep people secure.
Speaker 1: I think the online banking is not the the insecure part.
Speaker 1: It's really these money apps that are that are leaking
Speaker 1: money because people get requests and they send money to
Speaker 1: someone that's not the right person or the right phone number.
Speaker 1: So I think in that case, you need to be
Speaker 1: really careful with with sending money.
Speaker 4: To connect those too. I don't use zill and I
Speaker 4: don't I might do them though, I don't know. I
Speaker 4: have to research. But Zell is out.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I used to really like zel and I I came
Speaker 1: to not like it as much because the problem with
Speaker 1: Zell is it's a one way street. So if there's
Speaker 1: a problem, it's these banks have really shown over and
Speaker 1: over that they're not really interested in getting your money
Speaker 1: back to you if you send it to the wrong person,
Speaker 1: or if there's a problem or if you you know,
Speaker 1: if you get some sort of scam attack and you
Speaker 1: send money to someone that you shouldn't have and you
Speaker 1: realize that it's it's really tough to get that money back.
Speaker 1: With VENMO, I feel like there's a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a there's a little bit more of a barrier,
Speaker 1: almost like using a credit card versus a debit card.
Speaker 4: Agreed, Okay, all right, I I totally agree with you. Then,
Speaker 4: so uh so, Yeah, I still don't want to send
Speaker 4: big amounts of money through them all.
Speaker 6: I still write checks and send.
Speaker 4: Them credit return, receive credit.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Smart, Well, Pat, you sound You sound like the perfect
Speaker 1: listener for the rich On Tech Radio show because you
Speaker 1: said you agree with everything I said, so I like that.
Speaker 1: Thumbs up to you, Pat, Thanks so much for listening
Speaker 1: today in Laguna Hills. Coming up, we've got a lot
Speaker 1: more to talk about. Apple is bringing Final Cut Pro
Speaker 1: and Logic Pro to the iPad, and later on.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about projects Starline.
Speaker 1: This is Google's version of Zoom, but in a holographic way.
Speaker 2: I call it holographic.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that that's the exact technology they're using,
Speaker 1: but we've got Sherylyn Low from ngadget. She actually experienced
Speaker 1: this up at Google Io and she's going to talk
Speaker 1: to us about that as well, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to mention this real quick before we
Speaker 1: go to break Peloton recalling two million of its exercise bikes.
Speaker 1: This company cannot catch a pass. They just really can't.
Speaker 1: So this Peloton bike, if you have one model PLO
Speaker 1: one that's pretty much the original one, the bike's seat
Speaker 1: post assembly can break during use, posing fall and injury hazards.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Think you're on a bike seat and you're pedaling along,
Speaker 1: and if this thing has a problem. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: want to be on that bike seat when this happens.
Speaker 1: So they've got a repair as an issue to help
Speaker 1: you get that fixed. Recall two point two million of
Speaker 1: these Pelotons and so far they say consumers should immediately
Speaker 1: stop using the exercise bikes and contact Peloton for a
Speaker 1: free repair. They'll give you a new seat post that
Speaker 1: can be self installed, and thirty five reports of the
Speaker 1: seat post breaking and detaching from the bike during use,
Speaker 1: thirteen reports of injuries, including a fractured wrist, lacerations and
Speaker 1: bruises due to falling from the bike. These were sold
Speaker 1: from January twenty eighteen to May twenty twenty three, pretty
Speaker 1: much the entire time during the pandemic. They were sold
Speaker 1: through Peloton, Amazon, and Dick Sporting Goods nationwide for about
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred dollars. Ah, this is not good for Peloton
Speaker 1: because we've seen, you know, Peloton was was flying high
Speaker 1: during the pandemic and then after the pandemic things didn't
Speaker 1: go so well for them. And I still love Peloton,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but if you got one of
Speaker 1: these bikes, definitely check to make sure if your model
Speaker 1: number pl zero one and you've been using this thing.
Speaker 1: You want to get this free repair because I'm know
Speaker 1: about you. I don't want to be on a bike
Speaker 1: seat and have that thing break and there's a bar
Speaker 1: there that can really hurt you. So my wife and
Speaker 1: I were debating this last night. She said, well, only
Speaker 1: thirty five people. I said, do you want to be
Speaker 1: one of those thirty five people that got hurt on
Speaker 1: this thing?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: All right, more of your calls a triple eight rich
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Speaker 1: Tech pull in. Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: You can find me online at richon Tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: You can find me on all the social media networks
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. I posted a video this week
Speaker 1: on my Instagram, actually a couple a couple of videos
Speaker 1: this week on my Instagram. First is this little flick
Speaker 1: flick smart button. This was really cool testing this thing out.
Speaker 1: And it's a little smart button that you can program
Speaker 1: to do a whole bunch of different things. So think
Speaker 1: of it as like a almost like a light switch,
Speaker 1: but it's a smart button, so you can make it
Speaker 1: turn on and off lights.
Speaker 2: You can make it ring your phone.
Speaker 1: You can make it play your sons, play a special playlist, whatever,
Speaker 1: all by programming it through your phone. I also posted
Speaker 1: the automated pancake maker at my hotel up in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I never saw this before, and I thought it was
Speaker 1: so neat. You just press a button and it pops
Speaker 1: out too fresh pancakes that it kind of makes on
Speaker 1: a griddle that's inside this little robotic mechanism, So you
Speaker 1: can watch that on my Instagram. And then I got
Speaker 1: this security tracker from u fee that's the size of
Speaker 1: a credit card, so it's basically an air tag but
Speaker 1: the size of a credit card.
Speaker 2: You can it in your wallet.
Speaker 1: I have another one from Chippolo already in use, but
Speaker 1: this was on sale on Amazon for sixteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: and I get so many questions about these things. I
Speaker 1: ordered it came the next day. It's very very.
Speaker 2: Simple when I like about it.
Speaker 1: It uses the Apple Find My network, so you can
Speaker 1: find this thing on a map pretty much anywhere in
Speaker 1: the world because it uses all the other iPhone devices
Speaker 1: to locate it, so you can find those all on
Speaker 1: my Instagram at Richon Tech, and I got a lot
Speaker 1: of questions about the trackers because people are saying, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: you know, I want a tracker for Android. My advice
Speaker 1: in the Android tracker situation is just to wait. Because Google,
Speaker 1: we talked about this last week or the week before.
Speaker 1: Google and Apple are working together to come up with
Speaker 1: a common framework.
Speaker 2: So very soon there is going to be a whole bunch.
Speaker 1: Of air tag style devices on the market that will
Speaker 1: work with both iPhone and Android much better than they
Speaker 1: do right now. Google at their annual event, the Io Event,
Speaker 1: announced that they're going to make the find My network
Speaker 1: use all of the Android phones to help you look
Speaker 1: devices from a wide variety of manufacturers, so Samsung, Tile, Chipolo,
Speaker 1: so you have the air tag for the iPhone. That's
Speaker 1: been about a couple of years now. Now everyone's going
Speaker 1: to have access to this same technology. So that's really
Speaker 1: really cool. Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four two four to one zero one. Ron
Speaker 1: is in Arizona.
Speaker 2: Ron. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 7: Hey, Rich, can you hear me?
Speaker 2: I can hear you? What's up?
Speaker 7: Our church has Wi Fi right now, but it's sketchy
Speaker 7: in some parts of the church. We have basically, you know,
Speaker 7: one router and then they they use some of those extenders.
Speaker 7: And I have a Mesh network. I have a Mesh
Speaker 7: network at home and it works really well to our house.
Speaker 7: Our house is not real big though, it's about nineteen
Speaker 7: hundred square feet. So I'm wondering the size of the building.
Speaker 7: That foundation size of our church building is about thirteen
Speaker 7: thousand square feet. Can you take you know, just your
Speaker 7: standard Mesh network like a Google or something, and just
Speaker 7: add more modules to it to extend me because most
Speaker 7: of the time they talk about covering you know, forty
Speaker 7: five hundred, five thousand square feet something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean typically with something that big, you'd want
Speaker 1: more of a corporate you know, more of a professional solution.
Speaker 1: This may be somewhere in the middle. So if you go,
Speaker 1: which one do you have at home? Which which system?
Speaker 5: The Google?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: You have the Google? Okay, So you know, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I think that you know, if you look at like
Speaker 1: euro which is kind of like the they kind of
Speaker 1: started this whole thing with the mesh networking systems for
Speaker 1: the home. You know, this might have been going on
Speaker 1: in the corporate kind of world for much longer. But
Speaker 1: if you look on Euro's website, you know, because I've
Speaker 1: got euro and I was wondering, like how many of
Speaker 1: these things can you add?
Speaker 2: You know, just how large?
Speaker 1: This says that you can add as many beacons or
Speaker 1: euros to your house as you'd like. Now they always
Speaker 1: say home, so they don't ever mention that this is
Speaker 1: for corporate now, you know, I think you can use
Speaker 1: it at a church if it's just something you want
Speaker 1: to try. The good news is this is all sort
Speaker 1: of off the shelf. You can buy it, you can
Speaker 1: set it up, and if it works, that's great. You know,
Speaker 1: some homes are probably I don't know about thirteen thousand
Speaker 1: square feet, but I'm you know, I'm sure there's some
Speaker 1: pretty big homes that have you know, these mesh networks
Speaker 1: in them and it works. I think the problem with
Speaker 1: the church is that it, you know, the what's the foundation,
Speaker 1: Like what's the you know, is it a lot of
Speaker 1: concrete and brick and stone and things like that.
Speaker 7: We've got one really large room where the services take place,
Speaker 7: and then we have a couple of like classrooms for
Speaker 7: the Sunday school, and then there's a an upstairs balcony
Speaker 7: where the sound equipment is and the you know, the
Speaker 7: computer for running the slide during the service and stuff
Speaker 7: like that, So we'd really like to reach all of
Speaker 7: those areas fairly well. So I just kind of walked
Speaker 7: off the foundation just to see, well, how big, how
Speaker 7: big is the building itself, not just the total square
Speaker 7: footage like a realtor would estimate it right, right, And
Speaker 7: that's where I came up with that thirteen thousand.
Speaker 1: Well I would recommend I mean, look you can you
Speaker 1: can kind of investigate the euro situation and see. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I would use Google because that's a
Speaker 1: much more consumer device. Ero kind of is in the
Speaker 1: middle there. They do a lot of like pro stuff
Speaker 1: as well. But I would also look at something like Ubiquity.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of that?
Speaker 7: The name sounds familiar, so that.
Speaker 1: Is sort of a it's more of a prosumer kind
Speaker 1: of model. And I'm looking on their website for the
Speaker 1: different devices that they have, and it seems like it
Speaker 1: would be much more suited. And it's not that expensive, so,
Speaker 1: I mean, these devices are anywhere from one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: to two hundred and seventy nine dollars for each device,
Speaker 1: depending on which one you want. So they've got a
Speaker 1: light a long range of professional and enterprise and then
Speaker 1: the mesh hub. So I think that that's probably something
Speaker 1: to look at, and it's going to give you more
Speaker 1: a professional installation than something like an euro which is
Speaker 1: really meant for the home. This will give you some
Speaker 1: enterprise grade access tools and things, especially when you have
Speaker 1: a lot of people using it, including visitors, it might
Speaker 1: give you more of the tools that you need to
Speaker 1: manage that. So that's at UI dot Com. I would
Speaker 1: check that out. Of course, the big one that comes
Speaker 1: to mind is a Ruba networks that is a much
Speaker 1: more corporate industrial solution as well. So I would check
Speaker 1: those two things out. And Ron great question. I know
Speaker 1: we've become so accustomed to these mesh networks. We need
Speaker 1: them everywhere, all right. Coming up, we're going to talk
Speaker 1: to Sherlyn Lowe about projects Starline, Google's new video chat
Speaker 1: that is just wild. You're listening to rich on Tech.
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Speaker 1: So there's this really cool demo up at Google Io
Speaker 1: that I did not get to do.
Speaker 2: But it's Project star Line.
Speaker 1: So this is a video conferencing sort of I don't
Speaker 1: know what you call it, like contraption that Google has
Speaker 1: come up with that makes it look like the person
Speaker 1: is sitting in front of you and you can talk
Speaker 1: to them. So I'll just bring on Sharlen Lowe from
Speaker 1: n Gadget. She actually got to experience this. Charlyn, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 8: Hey, rich thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Okay, so can you explain Project Starline better than I can,
Speaker 1: because you got to try this out and I just
Speaker 1: feel like it's holographic video conferencing, like this stuff you
Speaker 1: imagine would be around when I was a kid, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, talking face to face to someone that's not
Speaker 1: really there is that kind of it's accurate.
Speaker 8: You're basically sitting in front of what's really big TV,
Speaker 8: like a forty ish inch TV, but instead of a
Speaker 8: regular screen is a light field display and that allows
Speaker 8: the sort of holographic projection to up here like a
Speaker 8: person is really there in three D in front of you.
Speaker 8: They're protruding out of the screen kind of Oh.
Speaker 1: So it is Okay, I've been saying this is holographic.
Speaker 1: It is actually holographic. Okay, cool, all right, so I
Speaker 1: got something right. So you wrote all about this, uh
Speaker 1: in your experience with it, So take me from start
Speaker 1: to finish.
Speaker 2: You walk in here in what happens?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I walked. These are a hush hush displays. Okay,
Speaker 8: they're not letting us teak photos or videos because it's
Speaker 8: hard to capture on camera, so we're gonna have to
Speaker 8: verbally describe it as best as we can. You walk into
Speaker 8: a room. There's this long office table or desk in
Speaker 8: front of the setup, the prototype. The news at schole
Speaker 8: i OWE this year is that there's newer prototypes.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 8: Project styling was first and down about two years ago,
Speaker 8: and since then the prototypes have gone from requiring an
Speaker 8: entire room of space to being somewhat portable. I mean
Speaker 8: the take up more like a whiteboard amount of the
Speaker 8: space now. So I went in through my friend the chair,
Speaker 8: the office chair in front of the table and then
Speaker 8: the other person on the other side of the call,
Speaker 8: who themselves is sitting in front of another Project Starline prototype,
Speaker 8: steps into frame. And when they're sitting down and I'm saying, now,
Speaker 8: we're both kind of like facing the screen dead on.
Speaker 8: There's no real sense that this is anything extra special.
Speaker 8: They look life size, They're like, you know, not like
Speaker 8: a little laptop size of a video call. But without
Speaker 8: kind of looking around, you don't get the sense that
Speaker 8: this is protruding. But everything changed when this person, the
Speaker 8: Google executive on the other side of the call, picked
Speaker 8: up an apple on his end and kind of reached
Speaker 8: it through the screen in front of his face. It
Speaker 8: looked like it was coming right at me. It looked
Speaker 8: like I could grab it from his hand, because that's
Speaker 8: really what you felt, the spatial distance kind of change.
Speaker 8: And that's what's really different with Project Starline as opposed
Speaker 8: to your typical video conference is the holographic thing. This
Speaker 8: is supposed uh, more realistic, more in person experience way
Speaker 8: of communicating. It's just really different. We tried other things tough,
Speaker 8: We tried high fiving, we tried fist bumping, and you know, again,
Speaker 8: this is Overcaul, He's not actually there. So I didn't
Speaker 8: actually grab his fist or touch his palm or whatever,
Speaker 8: but it felt like I could. I actually made virtual contact,
Speaker 8: my real palm sort of overlaid on top of his
Speaker 8: his virtual one, if that make sense.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was gonna I was wondering about that, like
Speaker 1: when you put the apple out, like, did you go
Speaker 1: to reach for it and what hit him? Does it
Speaker 1: just feels like there's nothing there? Like does it does
Speaker 1: it break up the image?
Speaker 2: Like what is?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So when I when I went to grab it, and
Speaker 8: when you know, he hadn't outstretched his uh hand that
Speaker 8: far yet, I just was kind of grabbing it and
Speaker 8: it wasn't The image wasn't breaking at all. What was
Speaker 8: happening was uh as you wouldn't realize when you cover something,
Speaker 8: it kind of like you block it from your vision, right,
Speaker 8: and it was happening here except when my hand wasn't
Speaker 8: grabbing anything with such a space. So it's kind of strange.
Speaker 8: I think my brain didn't really process it, right. I
Speaker 8: will say that when he the caller, did outstretched his
Speaker 8: hand a little further, it would start to hit boundaries
Speaker 8: and it would his face would term blue, like as
Speaker 8: if you were hitting an outer limit and it gained
Speaker 8: you Oh wow, yeah, that's sort of feel. And also
Speaker 8: when I when I sat in my seat and I
Speaker 8: would move my body from side to side to kind
Speaker 8: of like you know, see him from the profile and
Speaker 8: stuff like that to see if it was more three D.
Speaker 8: It wasn't. Indeed, more like a three D experience was
Speaker 8: protruding more, but you would get messages on screen that
Speaker 8: would tell you hate remain centered in the frame. Stop
Speaker 8: moving around your tea so much, because, uh, the experience
Speaker 8: is really tailored for a specific position because they're you know,
Speaker 8: a life of this way is you know, projecting all
Speaker 8: the themes to your eye, so it's kind of needing
Speaker 8: your perspective to be within a controllable area.
Speaker 1: We're talking with Sharlen Lowe, editor at n Gadget about
Speaker 1: Project Starline. This is Google's holographic video conferencing exproment, which
Speaker 1: they showed off at Google Io in a very private way.
Speaker 1: This was something that you kind of had to sign
Speaker 1: up for and it was a you know, it was
Speaker 1: an appointment only kind of thing. So what do you
Speaker 1: think is the implication of this. I imagine it's very expensive,
Speaker 1: it's very early technology. Google says that they've done several
Speaker 1: thousand hours of testing with this, but what do you
Speaker 1: think the impact of this is? Do we need this
Speaker 1: in our world?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So what's happening too is alongside the new prototype, Google
Speaker 8: also announced that some of these new prototypes have been
Speaker 8: shared with exclusive access partners like T Mobile. We work
Speaker 8: in salesforce and they're trying to see, you know, gather
Speaker 8: real world feedback to see how these work. In what
Speaker 8: they're saying, are distributed a workforce or work workplaces. Right, So,
Speaker 8: I think the idea is that now that we're doing
Speaker 8: so much hybrid and remote work, that some sort of
Speaker 8: bridge between the video an alternative solution to the traditional
Speaker 8: video conferencing is necessary and their wholefully or they're thinking
Speaker 8: that this might provide them of that in person experience
Speaker 8: without really you know, short of teleporting, someone is giving
Speaker 8: you sort of that experience. My take though, I'm not
Speaker 8: quite sure. I think, yeah, sure, it felt like a
Speaker 8: person was kind of in front of me, only their
Speaker 8: top half though, And yes, you can get more non
Speaker 8: verbal cues from a person if you have you know,
Speaker 8: I was making direct eye contact with the person that
Speaker 8: felt like you know, every little smirk, every little frown,
Speaker 8: you could really tell because it's just so much more
Speaker 8: detail in this experience. I don't know that we're still
Speaker 8: going to be able to fully replace in person call
Speaker 8: or in person in chat with this. It might be
Speaker 8: better than a laptop call by quite a lot. It
Speaker 8: never has been a substitute the real real thing, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I talked to someone else about this, and they said
Speaker 1: up at Google Io after they tested out, they said
Speaker 1: that it was like almost a little eerie to like
Speaker 1: look them in the eye, the other person, and so
Speaker 1: they had to look away at some point because it
Speaker 1: was like too much, it was too intense.
Speaker 8: I think I think that was the demo person. They think.
Speaker 8: They were really trying to hammer home the point that
Speaker 8: I can make eye contact with you, you don't have to, right,
Speaker 8: But there is an uncanny Valley sort of aspect to this,
Speaker 8: because during my demo there were a little, you know,
Speaker 8: a few glitches here and there, your typical tech support
Speaker 8: technical era stuff, right like if we were both talking
Speaker 8: at the same time, I could tell if you couldn't
Speaker 8: hear anything.
Speaker 1: I was saying.
Speaker 8: And some of these issues can be talked up to
Speaker 8: the WI Fi at the event, which was very spotty.
Speaker 8: As you and I were both there, we know the
Speaker 8: Wi Fi struggled. And this to be clear, it is
Speaker 8: the cameras around the screen are gathering your data and
Speaker 8: then they're sending that information to the cloud, where it's
Speaker 8: then generating a three D model of you and the
Speaker 8: caller on the other side, and then beating that back
Speaker 8: down to your respective light field display. So it's a
Speaker 8: lot of bandis that's necessary, a lot of processing that's happening,
Speaker 8: So some hiccups are understandable at the moment, I understand that.
Speaker 8: You know, there's going to be some sort of feriness
Speaker 8: or uncanny valley going on, and I don't think that
Speaker 8: that's ever going to go away, really.
Speaker 2: Do you think? Well?
Speaker 1: And by the way, I mentioned a story earlier about
Speaker 1: how when I was sending my video back for editing
Speaker 1: back to Los Angeles, it was so slow. Like Google
Speaker 1: is known for really good Wi Fi, and this year,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but the Wi Fi was
Speaker 1: just really bad at the event that remember the first
Speaker 1: year they had like they had like one gigabit connections
Speaker 1: at like every seat.
Speaker 2: At one point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, do you think we're gonna have something like
Speaker 1: Project Starline in our homes at some point, and you
Speaker 1: could just I mean, as someone who lives far away
Speaker 1: from their family myself, like my parents live in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: I live in LA it'd be really cool to just
Speaker 1: like hop into this Project star Line and chat with
Speaker 1: them on a Saturday. Do you think we would ever
Speaker 1: have this in our homes?
Speaker 8: I think one day. I think that that's Google's goal perhaps,
Speaker 8: but it is going to be a long way as
Speaker 8: the way. I think the over rich people will have
Speaker 8: them within the next three years, but regular your average
Speaker 8: people probably another I don't.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't use the crime to do like a decade.
Speaker 8: And even then, you know, like it doesn't really take
Speaker 8: off because again, you don't if people want to be
Speaker 8: around other people, and this so far feels like a
Speaker 8: one person at a time experience, and you know, there's
Speaker 8: there's just something about social gatherings in person that technology
Speaker 8: can't fully replicate.
Speaker 9: You just can't.
Speaker 1: I agree, And I also mentioned that about Io, because
Speaker 1: half of it is just seeing the people that you
Speaker 1: see on Twitter, and it's like, you know, it's funny
Speaker 1: because even with the advent of social media, you feel
Speaker 1: like you know all of your friends and what they're
Speaker 1: up to. But even just spending ten minutes with someone
Speaker 1: in real life, you are caught up in a way
Speaker 1: that Instagram and Twitter and all these things can never
Speaker 1: catch you up.
Speaker 8: I agree absolutely, and I have so much fun at IO.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think you and I met what for
Speaker 8: the first ish time there in person, and then you know,
Speaker 8: I got to see all my friends. I got to
Speaker 8: within like the said ten minutes, I met such a
Speaker 8: gamut of people at once without and getting to know
Speaker 8: them and getting the sense I pick up on vibes
Speaker 8: like to say, oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Have everyone you know absolutely.
Speaker 1: Sherlin Low, deputy editor at n Gadget. How can folks
Speaker 1: follow you online?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I am on Twitter still at c h e r
Speaker 8: l y n n l O W or my Instagram
Speaker 8: at c h r l i n N at t
Speaker 8: h e r e M.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me today. I love the qualification, the
Speaker 1: qualifier with Twitter. I'm still on Twitter, I know, so
Speaker 1: am I yeah for now till anything changes, all right,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Sherylyn, thanks for having me.
Speaker 6: Betthew Saturday all.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, you too. All right.
Speaker 1: Coming up on the show, we are going to talk
Speaker 1: about Oh gosh, we have so much to talk about.
Speaker 2: Still speak, you know me? Speaking of Twitter.
Speaker 1: Twitter's got a new CEO, Linda Jacharino. That's really all
Speaker 1: there is to mention about that. Linda came from NBC Universal.
Speaker 1: She was advertising chief there and now in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks she will take over as CEO of Twitter.
Speaker 2: We'll see what changes happened there.
Speaker 1: Coming up, I'll talk about Apple bringing Final Cut Pro
Speaker 1: to the iPad.
Speaker 2: Finally, welcome back to Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology, listening
Speaker 1: to some country music because the show is originating from Austin,
Speaker 1: Texas this weekend. Yep, I'm here for a country fest.
Speaker 1: iHeart country fest. Triple eight Rich one oh one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: I've been to Austin many times for South by Southwest.
Speaker 1: This is the big music and interactive and what was
Speaker 1: it music, film and interactive.
Speaker 2: I always went for the tech part.
Speaker 1: And they've launched a lot of apps here, a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of big apps launched here. I believe
Speaker 1: Twitter's square like a lot of these things originally started
Speaker 1: at south By Southwest where they showed them off to
Speaker 1: the world. Let's go to Sam in Hemmett, California. Sam,
Speaker 1: you're on with rich Sam?
Speaker 2: Are you there?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 9: I am, sir. Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for calling in. What can I help you with?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 9: I have an old phone that I'm about ready to
Speaker 9: just get rid of, but there are some games on
Speaker 9: there that I would like to save the progress on.
Speaker 9: They just cannot be attached to anything like Facebook or Twitter.
Speaker 9: I'm curious if I can if I put them onto
Speaker 9: a micro s D card, could I transfer them from
Speaker 9: the old device to a new one?
Speaker 1: Well potentially, so, I mean the way that I mean,
Speaker 1: you'd have to get all the data along with the game,
Speaker 1: right and can you do that?
Speaker 2: Are you sure you can?
Speaker 1: You can move the game data and like the actual
Speaker 1: they call it on Android and APK, but can you
Speaker 1: grab that along with the data?
Speaker 2: Do you know if you're able to do that?
Speaker 9: I'm not a real tip savvy person, and so the
Speaker 9: best I could do is just tell you a little
Speaker 9: bit about each of the phones. The old one that
Speaker 9: I want the data off of I use in much
Speaker 9: the same way a person would use a tablet computer
Speaker 9: and it is a Samsung Galaxy a ten E on
Speaker 9: a three G system, and I want to move it
Speaker 9: from and I want to move it to a Google
Speaker 9: Pixel that's on five G.
Speaker 2: Okay, And are you trying to what are you trying
Speaker 2: to do? Exactly? What's you know? Because you can you
Speaker 2: want to keep the game.
Speaker 9: From Yeah, I want to keep my games and the
Speaker 9: progress through those games, okay, and take them from the
Speaker 9: Samsung and put them into the Google Pixel.
Speaker 2: Okay. So now number one, A lot of this depends.
Speaker 1: So if you you've tried to have you tried to
Speaker 1: install the game on the new phone and see if
Speaker 1: it picks up where you left.
Speaker 9: Off, Yes, and it won't do it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I was wondering that because some games, you know, it
Speaker 1: depends on the game's If it's a game that's relying
Speaker 1: on a cloud sync, it's going to just pick up
Speaker 1: where you left off. For instance, I've got the Pokemon
Speaker 1: all right. Sorry, the Paradot game installed on two phones
Speaker 1: and it's pretty much synked between the two phones. But
Speaker 1: that's a newer game. So these obviously, since these are
Speaker 1: on an old three G phone, these are much older games.
Speaker 1: I doubt that they have any sort of cloud sinking
Speaker 1: involved in these things. So I would say, try there's
Speaker 1: a there's an app. Gosh, I've used it so long ago,
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure it's still around, but it's like
Speaker 1: a backup app. There's a couple of them on the
Speaker 1: Google Play Store. One of them is that I used
Speaker 1: to use as Titanium backup, and I'm just not sure
Speaker 1: it's been updated recently, because a lot of these things
Speaker 1: are so like you just don't need them anymore.
Speaker 2: But that's what I was. Yeah, the last time.
Speaker 1: This was updated, Oh gosh, this shows you how old
Speaker 1: this thing is November twenty four, twenty nineteen. But there
Speaker 1: are some apps that will help you back up from
Speaker 1: Google Play or from one phone to another. So I
Speaker 1: would try one of those and see if you can
Speaker 1: just grab the you know, go into the app. It
Speaker 1: should give you a list of all of the different
Speaker 1: apps installed in that phone, and then you select the
Speaker 1: app that you want to transfer over.
Speaker 2: It will either upload it to.
Speaker 1: The cloud, or you can transfer it, like you said,
Speaker 1: to a little flash drive at the bottom of the
Speaker 1: phone and then plug it into the new phone and
Speaker 1: carry that over.
Speaker 2: But I'm not sure if all that data is going
Speaker 2: to come over.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's you know, it really sort of
Speaker 1: depends on how that game is architected and figured out.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 9: Among them is the Bejewel game series.
Speaker 2: M that's okay, yeah, what else are you playing there?
Speaker 9: There's Checkers, Solitaire, Mageong, yacht Ti.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So it sounds like you have a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: these things.
Speaker 1: So if if these if these games are linked to
Speaker 1: Google Play, if you can go into the settings and
Speaker 1: link them to any sort of account, I think that
Speaker 1: they would transfer over something like Bejeweled, especially because that's
Speaker 1: a that's a very popular game. And these these whether
Speaker 1: you're on Android or Apple, they both have these sort
Speaker 1: of game center things. And if you ever launch a
Speaker 1: game and it says like game center.
Speaker 9: Okay, they're both. They're both Android phones. I prefer Android
Speaker 9: to Apple. Apple I think is more overrated than it
Speaker 9: really is. Okay, well that's to me, it's a better one.
Speaker 1: It's funny I've been using I went to the Google
Speaker 1: event this week and I kind of retook a look
Speaker 1: at the Google Pixel seven. So I've been using that
Speaker 1: for a couple of days, and the difference between these
Speaker 1: operating systems is so apparent. And the best way I
Speaker 1: can put it is this Apple really and Apple's great.
Speaker 1: I think, look, there's Apple is a amazing A lot
Speaker 1: of people use Apple products and iPhones. It's it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a standard issue here in America. But everything
Speaker 1: on Apple sort of pushes you to use Apple stuff
Speaker 1: right the way that Apple wants you to do things.
Speaker 1: And I've noticed with Google just using the last couple
Speaker 1: of days again from a fresh start, by the way,
Speaker 1: that it really just gives you a lot of options
Speaker 1: on how to do things and it doesn't necessarily push
Speaker 1: you to one particular way of doing things. And so
Speaker 1: I can understand that some people may like that, and
Speaker 1: you know, may like that approach a little bit better
Speaker 1: than the Apple approach. Apple stuff works, and it works
Speaker 1: really well, and it's very simple because of that.
Speaker 2: But a lot of times they.
Speaker 1: Will just sort of push you towards their products, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's Apple Maps, whether it's Safari, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: Apple Mail. People just use the default apps that are
Speaker 1: built into the phone, and you know, they may stray
Speaker 1: if they if they feel like they know something better
Speaker 1: or they know how to do it better, but otherwise
Speaker 1: they just kind of build it in. But Sam, to
Speaker 1: answer your question, I think that it's a matter of
Speaker 1: trying this download if you haven't downloaded this already. There's
Speaker 1: an app on Google called the Google Play Games app.
Speaker 1: Install that on the old phone and the new phone,
Speaker 1: and that may help save some.
Speaker 2: Of your progress in these games. But that's that's what
Speaker 2: I would do.
Speaker 1: And you can try one of these backup utilities, like
Speaker 1: a Titanium backup or some sort of backup and restore
Speaker 1: utility to see if that can get the game from
Speaker 1: one phone to another.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I haven't done that before. And
Speaker 2: most of the games that.
Speaker 1: I've played are just sort of cloud based and pretty casual,
Speaker 1: so and I'm not a big gamer on these casual
Speaker 1: games to begin with, so that's not even something that
Speaker 1: I'm totally doing all the time. But great question, Sam,
Speaker 1: And congrats on the new Pixel. That's a fantastic phone,
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. All right, coming up, we'll talk
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking
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Speaker 1: to you today from Austin, Texas. Welcome to our number
Speaker 1: three of the show. I mentioned earlier in the show
Speaker 1: that one of the cool things about the hotel room
Speaker 1: I'm staying in is that it has a record player,
Speaker 1: which I thought was kind of neat.
Speaker 2: And they've got a little record not a.
Speaker 1: Store, but almost like a record library where you can
Speaker 1: check out some cool records, and they have a curator
Speaker 1: there that can help you pick out some stuff. So
Speaker 1: we did this, but I will tell you last night
Speaker 1: it was raining. It was raining really hard here in Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of dripping sounds outside the room. Well,
Speaker 1: there was sort of this clicking sound all night long,
Speaker 1: and at one point I thought it was the dripping
Speaker 1: of the rain outside. And at one point it just
Speaker 1: seemed way too like regular to be dripping of rain,
Speaker 1: and it just seemed to go on way too long,
Speaker 1: and it occurred to me that the record player was
Speaker 1: still on, so I had you forget and it just
Speaker 1: happened to me again, which is why I'm telling the story.
Speaker 2: The record player.
Speaker 1: When it's done playing the I guess the needle just
Speaker 1: goes to the middle and it just stays there and
Speaker 1: just like kind of clicks and just you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know anyway, So last night, in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, I was like, Oh my gosh, this this
Speaker 1: record player has been on for hours, just kind of
Speaker 1: circling around and clicking and clicking and clicking.
Speaker 2: So I guess that's one.
Speaker 1: Of the uh analog technology a little bit different than
Speaker 1: you know, the new digital options we have out there.
Speaker 1: So that threw me for a loop last night. But
Speaker 1: I'm still all in on the record situation. I think
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Rich in Carol Stream, Illinois. Rich. You're
Speaker 2: on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Rich. Thank you paying well. I really do appreciate your show.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.
Speaker 3: I've got a strange question. I wasn't trying to word
Speaker 3: it properly. I've got all my music files that you'll record,
Speaker 3: my CDs recorded.
Speaker 6: To my PC.
Speaker 3: I've got at least ten thousand to ten to eleven
Speaker 3: thousand songs on my PC and that was the iPad.
Speaker 3: I mean the iPod is discontinued, I believe, or it's
Speaker 3: no longer and the use is there a because I'm wondering,
Speaker 3: is there a way for me to listen to my
Speaker 3: music without anything relying on my PC? Because to port
Speaker 3: you know, to enjoy these songs on the go, like
Speaker 3: take them, you know, you know, take them as a portable.
Speaker 3: Is there like a replacement for an iPod that I
Speaker 3: could maybe perhaps consider transfer these files to the device
Speaker 3: of some sort.
Speaker 2: Oh good question. Now what do you mean what kind
Speaker 2: of device like your iPhone.
Speaker 3: Or what well I want to use or if.
Speaker 2: You want to use the files that you have somewhere else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the files on my PC, my Windows PC.
Speaker 3: But I don't I just I don't have an iPhone.
Speaker 3: I just have my my my S twenty one Galaxy.
Speaker 2: But what about just loading them directly onto the phone?
Speaker 3: Like what ten thousand songs really don't I'm not really
Speaker 3: well versed in terms of I may tarms of what
Speaker 3: ten thousand songs can eat up a lot of memory
Speaker 3: on a on an Android phone.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I mean if you have an S twenty one,
Speaker 1: you know you've got a bunch of storage on there.
Speaker 1: You can put a subset of those songs. I mean,
Speaker 1: if each MP three is about you know, let's say
Speaker 1: it's three megabytes, four megabytes. If you got ten thousand,
Speaker 1: you want to put all ten thousand times four, that's
Speaker 1: forty thousand megabytes. You know, that's a couple gigs right there.
Speaker 1: That's not too bad. I mean, that's that's something that's
Speaker 1: that's doable. There are there were in the past. Google
Speaker 1: had a system where you could upload your songs into
Speaker 1: something like Google Music Manager I think it was called,
Speaker 1: and you could you could upload all of your songs
Speaker 1: into there and then you can play them from any device.
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure that that's around anymore. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: looks like it was. Uh, looks like it was discontinued. Yeah, Google.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, I think that was gone. H Google
Speaker 1: play music Cloud. Yeah, this is something that you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this article. It's like from ten years ago.
Speaker 1: That was back in the day where you could you
Speaker 1: could physically upload all of your music. The other thing
Speaker 1: you could do is you could potentially maybe upload it
Speaker 1: something like Dropbox and then listen to it through there
Speaker 1: on the on a cloud player on your phone. I
Speaker 1: should know a better answer to this, because I feel
Speaker 1: like there's something that's simple that I'm just not thinking
Speaker 1: about right off the top of my head here. But
Speaker 1: I know this was something that was popular a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, but now, of course, with the advent
Speaker 1: of these streaming services, there's just not really a lot
Speaker 1: of other options.
Speaker 2: That are left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I would say I would just upload these
Speaker 1: to your phone and just have them on your phone
Speaker 1: and maybe make a couple playlists.
Speaker 2: Maybe don't do all ten thousand. I mean you could
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 1: I mean, go on their computer and see how much
Speaker 1: that those ten thousand songs are taking up on the
Speaker 1: hard drive, and then go to your Android phone, see
Speaker 1: how much storage you have, and then transfer, you know,
Speaker 1: a subset of them or all of them if you
Speaker 1: have enough storage. Now, the S twenty one, Does the
Speaker 1: S twenty one have an SD card slot or no?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember when they discontinued that.
Speaker 3: I'll be yes, I haven't looked at I have to
Speaker 3: go to verify that.
Speaker 1: No, I'm looking at an article and it's the twenty
Speaker 1: one was when they did away with it, So okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: some of the older Samsungs had the SD card slot,
Speaker 1: but the S twenty one did not. That's yeah, because
Speaker 1: I would say otherwise you could just put it on
Speaker 1: an SD card and just throw that into your phone.
Speaker 2: And now you've got all your music on there.
Speaker 3: I see.
Speaker 1: I'm coming up with a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: dead ends to this. What what kind of music? How
Speaker 1: did you amass this collection just through the years?
Speaker 3: I just you know, record you know, just uh copy
Speaker 3: my CD collections my PC over the years, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I just saved it over the years from my PC,
Speaker 3: one PC to another, and and some of my collective CDs.
Speaker 3: That's it. You'll be bigging from the nineteen eighties, mid
Speaker 3: nineteen eighties. So I've got to at least ten to
Speaker 3: eleven thousand songs by now, maybe a few donald. I
Speaker 3: don't really download it much material. Mostly it's just from
Speaker 3: the hard copy.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at some of these alternatives to these things,
Speaker 1: and I'm just not really finding a ton of things
Speaker 1: that you can do. Now here's the thing. It's interesting
Speaker 1: because there is so it used to be that you
Speaker 1: could upload a bunch of songs into this Google you know,
Speaker 1: this music manager, and I'm wondering if if Google still
Speaker 1: lets you do that with their YouTube music which they've
Speaker 1: they've now switched to, but I'm just not seeing the
Speaker 1: ability to do that.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, here we go, hold on, upload music, hold on,
Speaker 2: Oh we got it. Okay, So here's a solution.
Speaker 1: They did switch it over music dot YouTube dot com
Speaker 1: and if you go to your profile on the upper
Speaker 1: right hand corner, it says upload music. So it looks
Speaker 1: like you can upload your music there and then use
Speaker 1: the YouTube music player on your phone to play the
Speaker 1: songs that you own. So I would go to this
Speaker 1: music dot YouTube dot com and then sign in. And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you have to be paid or
Speaker 1: not this I am paid on this, so I do
Speaker 1: have a membership. I'm not sure if that matters or not.
Speaker 1: But you can go and check out hit your profile
Speaker 1: on the upper right hand corner. It says upload music.
Speaker 1: Drag a couple of MP threes in there, just to
Speaker 1: try it out, and then go to your phone, open
Speaker 1: up the YouTube music app and see if that lets
Speaker 1: you do it. But it seems like it's still there,
Speaker 1: at least on my end here, so that's actually pretty cool.
Speaker 3: I'll go, I'll definitely I'll play with that and see
Speaker 3: if it works. Solfully.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you got you got the directions down right.
Speaker 1: You go to music dot YouTube dot Com, go to
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner, tap your profile and it
Speaker 1: says upload music. Drag a couple of MP threes in there,
Speaker 1: get them uploaded. And then once you have them on there,
Speaker 1: open up the YouTube music app on your phone and
Speaker 1: it should have a section of your own music in
Speaker 1: your library, and press play and see what happens there.
Speaker 3: I'll give it a shut rich. Thank you so much
Speaker 3: for your time.
Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate I've heard of Carol Stream Illinois
Speaker 1: so many times. What's what are they famous for? Was
Speaker 1: that like we're like Columbia like music? Like what was
Speaker 1: What's in Carol Stream Illinois that I know of?
Speaker 2: Is that like a big customer service.
Speaker 3: Uh, Billy Corgan went to high school and Carol Streams.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what I was thinking of,
Speaker 1: But I love this. I love the Smashing Pumpkins just
Speaker 1: as much as the next person. But I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that was what it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're a western suburb of Chicago. We're about Miles's Chicago.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just where I send all the all my
Speaker 1: bills back in the day to Carroll's.
Speaker 3: That makes sense because there is a major post office
Speaker 3: about here, and uh, that's where a lot of bills
Speaker 3: are being sent and you know, distribute area to the
Speaker 3: local area.
Speaker 1: I sent many of my bills there back in the day.
Speaker 1: All right, Rich, thanks so much for calling in today.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Uh, coming up more of your calls at
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Speaker 1: Apple is bringing Final Cut Pro to the iPad. This
Speaker 1: is very exciting for mobile creators. This is a brand
Speaker 1: new version of Final Cut Pro with a touch interface.
Speaker 1: So it's got this new tool that they call, uh,
Speaker 1: well it's nothing new. I mean, it's it's a new tool.
Speaker 2: For final cut.
Speaker 1: But the idea if it's not new it's a jog wheel,
Speaker 1: but it's digital, so that means you can, you know,
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Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out how to do this
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Speaker 1: the Apple pencil to draw graphics on your video. So
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Speaker 2: And so that's one of the features.
Speaker 1: The other feature that they talk about is multiicam video,
Speaker 1: so they showed a demo where you can shoot multiicam
Speaker 1: video and just tap your finger to switch between.
Speaker 2: The cameras, which is really neat.
Speaker 1: It also takes advantage of the Apple Silicon, the really
Speaker 1: fast processors inside the new iPads. By the way, you
Speaker 1: need at least an Apple M one chip inside the
Speaker 1: iPad to use this, and really M two to get
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Speaker 1: a green screen to remove the background typically in something
Speaker 1: that you shoot, well you don't even need a green screen.
Speaker 1: You can literally just say remove the background, and this
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Speaker 1: figure out what the background is and remove it. That
Speaker 1: is really cool. There's also an autocrop feature that will
Speaker 1: adjust your footage for vertical, square or other aspect ratios.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is really cool. It also has professional
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Speaker 1: and you can start a project on the iPad and
Speaker 1: then move it to Final cut pro on your computer
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Speaker 2: Now I get it.
Speaker 1: This is mostly for either creative professionals or mobile professionals
Speaker 1: or influencers, so not necessarily the average person that's going
Speaker 1: to be using this, but I think more will because
Speaker 1: it's more accessible. A final cut on the desktop was
Speaker 1: like a several hundred dollars program. This will be five
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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people that are asking,
Speaker 1: are kind of complaining about the fact that this is
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Speaker 1: I think that we've gotten so accustomed to subscriptions. Five
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Speaker 1: it's going to get a lot more people to try
Speaker 1: this out. Logic Pro is also coming to iPad, but
Speaker 1: since I don't really use that, I know it's for
Speaker 1: more audio editing.
Speaker 2: I just don't use that.
Speaker 1: So if you're into that, you'll be excited for that
Speaker 1: as well. Let's see antivirus programs. So this this is
Speaker 1: from this website that I really like called av test.
Speaker 1: Whenever people ask me, like, hey, Rich, what's the best
Speaker 1: antivirus program for my computer? I always say Windows Defender
Speaker 1: is pretty good because it's built in. Just activate it,
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Speaker 1: whether it is Mac, PC, Windows, sorry Android. You can
Speaker 1: see what's top rated. Well, this is interesting because a
Speaker 1: lot of people use Microsoft Defender. That's great, but it
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Speaker 1: They gave these things all kinds of different points for
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Speaker 2: Maybe use more battery, use more energy. Whatever.
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Speaker 2: So those are the.
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Speaker 1: by the way, Microsoft Defender was all the way down
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Speaker 2: Number I guess it came in at sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV, all right, coming up, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk Zelda and the new game for the
Speaker 1: makers of POKEMONO. It's called Paradot. You're listening to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here talking technology with you at triple eight Rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four
Speaker 1: to one zero one. So a couple of games came
Speaker 1: out this week that are proving.
Speaker 2: To be very popular. First off, Zelda.
Speaker 1: This is a brand new Zelda game that is just
Speaker 1: the highly anticipated sequel to a game that came out
Speaker 1: many years ago, that launched with the switch in fact,
Speaker 1: and so everyone was downloading this at midnight on Thursday
Speaker 1: to play all day Friday and of course throughout the weekend.
Speaker 1: So if you know a gamer in your life, they're
Speaker 1: probably playing the Zelda game. There's also another game called Paradot,
Speaker 1: which is from the makers of Pokemon GO, and so
Speaker 1: that's another new game. Let's see, let's bring up Eric
Speaker 1: Switcher from the gamer dot com. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: we're connecting with Eric, but do we have Eric?
Speaker 9: I'm here?
Speaker 2: Oh hey, Eric, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: Hi, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: We're doing the show remote today, so everything is sort
Speaker 1: of well, I'm just all over the place. Everyone else
Speaker 1: is very professional and calm and cool and collected. But
Speaker 1: I am I am just you know, it happens anyway.
Speaker 1: So tell me about the Which game do you want
Speaker 1: to start with? You want to start with Paradout or Zelda.
Speaker 6: Let's start with Zelda.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So every single person on my timeline that is any
Speaker 1: sort of gamer is was very, very excited for this
Speaker 1: new Zelda game. So why are people so excited for
Speaker 1: Zelda Tears.
Speaker 2: Of the Kingdom.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So, like you mentioned, it is a sequel to
Speaker 6: Breath of the Wild, which came out in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 6: and Breath of the Wild is a pretty important game
Speaker 6: in video game history. It's sold thirty million copies. It
Speaker 6: launched alongside the Nintendo Switch, so it kind of ushered
Speaker 6: in the new generation of Nintendo, which has become the
Speaker 6: biggest Nintendo council of all time. So there was a
Speaker 6: lot of anticipation for this game, and Nintendo was very
Speaker 6: secretive about it for the months leading up to it.
Speaker 6: We really didn't know much about what the game would
Speaker 6: have to offer. So it's just sort of a perfect
Speaker 6: storm of coming off of a game that's so popular
Speaker 6: and on a Council. That's so popular.
Speaker 1: People were really excited about it, and so it's getting
Speaker 1: like near perfect reviews.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, I think the Metacritics score is at a
Speaker 6: ninety six, which gets it tied for third highest rated
Speaker 6: game of all time. There's quite a few games that
Speaker 6: have in ninety six, but it is quite quite high.
Speaker 2: And why do you think, I mean, what are people
Speaker 2: saying about it? Why is it so good?
Speaker 6: So there's a lot of new things that it has
Speaker 6: coming off of Breath of the Wild. I think that
Speaker 6: the big new feature that people are so excited about
Speaker 6: is an ability that the character link has. It's called
Speaker 6: ultrahand and it seems complicated, but what it really boils
Speaker 6: down to is that you can take any objects in
Speaker 6: the world and combine them together to make something new.
Speaker 6: So it's really really unlocking people's creativity to invent new
Speaker 6: machines and come up with interesting vehicles, and it helps
Speaker 6: you to explore the world in creative ways.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's I mean you I love how you
Speaker 1: said this is really complicated, but you made it sound
Speaker 1: so easy. I mean you you explained it very well.
Speaker 1: So that's a good job for explaining it. In that
Speaker 1: simple way now.
Speaker 6: And it is so easy to use. Yeah, I think
Speaker 6: that the genius of it is that, you know, you
Speaker 6: can make these really complicated vehicles and machines and stuff,
Speaker 6: but it's a very intuitive and I think that's what
Speaker 6: people are really grabbing onto.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: This is also the first Switch game that is at
Speaker 1: a higher price point, right, isn't this this the first
Speaker 1: seventy dollars game for the Switch?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's correct. That's a trend that the industry has
Speaker 6: been moving in. PA started doing that with the launch
Speaker 6: of the PS five. Xbox recently did that a couple
Speaker 6: of weeks ago with the release of a game called Redfall.
Speaker 6: So we're going to be seeing games come out at
Speaker 6: seventy dollars pretty consistently from here on out.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, if you're listening and you have
Speaker 1: someone in your life that has a Switch and they
Speaker 1: like games, do you recommend that they would get this
Speaker 1: for a birthday gift or some sort of gift for
Speaker 1: the gamer in their life.
Speaker 6: Yeah? Absolutely. You know, the beauty of Zelda is the
Speaker 6: way that it really crosses all ages. It's approachable for kids,
Speaker 6: and it has so much depth for experienced gamers. Too.
Speaker 6: It is a wonderful game, and it's also just sort
Speaker 6: of a cultural moment that I think people want to
Speaker 6: be a part of.
Speaker 1: And when do you think we'll see a new Switch?
Speaker 1: I mean, this thing is going on many, many years old.
Speaker 1: They've come out with various versions of it throughout the years,
Speaker 1: but it's all pretty much basically the same.
Speaker 2: Do you think we're going to see a new Switch?
Speaker 2: Maybe next year or no.
Speaker 6: I think that's a pretty reasonable expectation. This has come
Speaker 6: out to be the longest council generation Nintendo has ever had,
Speaker 6: where we're coming up on seven years, and we've never
Speaker 6: had to wait that long for a new Nintendo. So
Speaker 6: I think it's pretty reasonable to assume we'll be seen
Speaker 6: a new one next year.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we're talking with Eric Switzer. He is
Speaker 1: the features editor at the gamer dot com and your
Speaker 1: bio says that you specialize in Pokemon, So I imagine
Speaker 1: you are a big Pokemon player. But now that you've
Speaker 1: got this new game from the makers of Pokemon Go
Speaker 1: called Paradot, So what can you tell me about this game?
Speaker 1: Which I've been playing a little bit, but I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what it's all about.
Speaker 6: Okay, cool, Yeah, I've been playing a lot of paradigt too.
Speaker 6: You know, it's pretty fascinating. Like you said, it's from
Speaker 6: the creators of Pokemon Go is a company called Iontic
Speaker 6: looking for their next big mobile game, and this is
Speaker 6: a I guess you would call it a pet simulator.
Speaker 6: Your audience might reach member of the Tamagatchi key chains
Speaker 6: in the nineties, when kids would walk around training their
Speaker 6: little pets and feeding them and playing with them. This
Speaker 6: is sort of a modern evolution of that idea. So
Speaker 6: it's an augmented reality game, which means that you play
Speaker 6: it on your phone. Through your camera lens, you're looking
Speaker 6: at the real world, and then the game puts in
Speaker 6: virtual objects into your frame. So you have a virtual
Speaker 6: pet that can go on walks with you. You can
Speaker 6: feed it and play with it, and it's all through
Speaker 6: the lens of your camera.
Speaker 1: And it's neat because I was looking at it. Because
Speaker 1: it's augmented reality, it says it can learn like your couch.
Speaker 1: It kind of knows the surfaces that it's looking at
Speaker 1: through your camera, and it kind of interacts with those
Speaker 1: surfaces in different ways. So it's a really unique spin
Speaker 1: on sort of the standard, you know, video game that
Speaker 1: you might play on your phone, because it is using
Speaker 1: that augmented reality to kind of do different things.
Speaker 2: In the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's some really impressive technology that went into this game.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: It recognize the differences between all kinds of different services,
Speaker 6: so it knows grass, water, concrete, shrubs, and the game
Speaker 6: will ask you to find certain things for your pet.
Speaker 6: Your pet will want to go look at a tree
Speaker 6: so it can scratch on it, and you'll have to
Speaker 6: go out into the real world and point your camera
Speaker 6: at a tree, and then you'll get to see your
Speaker 6: your pet run over dude and scratch on it. It's
Speaker 6: pretty impressive stuff.
Speaker 1: I named my paradot. I guess they're called dots, but
Speaker 1: I named him Spot or them. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's what it is, but I
Speaker 1: named it Spot. And it's very cute, and it's sort
Speaker 1: of like modeled after various creatures in the real world,
Speaker 1: but it's it's definitely just a made up being, but
Speaker 1: it's it is very cute, it's very like affable, and
Speaker 1: it's just kind of fun. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm doing in this game, to be honest, But
Speaker 1: it's it's fun and I like just you know, throwing
Speaker 1: the ball and having this little creature fetch it and
Speaker 1: putting the creature in these various places where I am it.
Speaker 2: Just it looks like it's a part of the world
Speaker 2: that I'm in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, in terms of gameplay, it is pretty bare.
Speaker 6: You can walk with them, you can play with them,
Speaker 6: and you can see them. But the real hook of
Speaker 6: the game is the breeding function, because all of these
Speaker 6: dots that you described, they all have a series of
Speaker 6: unique traits and really no two dots are the same.
Speaker 6: So I think that the real hook of the game
Speaker 6: is finding other dots to mate with to make new
Speaker 6: dots that have more complex and interesting traits.
Speaker 1: And I noticed on kind of the sharing aspect is
Speaker 1: that you can see dots that are nearby, and so I.
Speaker 2: Was a little bit curious about that too.
Speaker 1: There's like on a map you can see dots that
Speaker 1: were either visiting the same area or near the same area.
Speaker 1: My big question for you, Eric, do you think this
Speaker 1: will be a blockbuster hit the way that Pokemon Go
Speaker 1: was and still plays a big role in the mobile
Speaker 1: gaming world.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a good question, and I'm sure that Niantic
Speaker 6: is wondering the same thing. You know, Pokemon Go's strength
Speaker 6: is the Pokemon ip and while I think Pokemon Go
Speaker 6: is a great game, it wouldn't be the game it
Speaker 6: was if the world didn't love Pokemon as much as
Speaker 6: we do. So Paradox has an uphill battle on that way.
Speaker 6: I think the tech is really impressive, the characters are
Speaker 6: super adorable. I think for them, what it's really going
Speaker 6: to come down to is how fair and reasonable their
Speaker 6: monetization is. You know, more and more with mobile games,
Speaker 6: what is attracting players is the approachability aspect, and if
Speaker 6: they're asked to pay lots and lots of money to
Speaker 6: continue playing that game, it's what pushes them away. And
Speaker 6: I think paradoig is trying to find a way to
Speaker 6: balance that at the moment with what they're expecting their
Speaker 6: players to pay for.
Speaker 1: All Right, Eric Switzer from TheGamer dot Com thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining me today. I really appreciate it. So
Speaker 1: which game are you going to play next? Are you
Speaker 1: going to play more of Zelda or more of Paradox
Speaker 1: this weekend?
Speaker 6: H I am hooked into Zelda. I can't put it down.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's amazing. All right, I've got it loaded up
Speaker 1: on my switch here. I was not able to download
Speaker 1: it at the airport, so I had to wait. But
Speaker 1: I've got it on there and I just have to
Speaker 1: start playing and any tips you can give me, anything
Speaker 1: that I could kick off with.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of big gumball machines that are scattered
Speaker 6: around the world, and if you interact with those, they'll
Speaker 6: give you lots and lots of extra parts that you
Speaker 6: can use to make fun machines. So don't ignore those
Speaker 6: when you see them, all right.
Speaker 1: Eric Switzer from TheGamer dot Com, thanks for much for
Speaker 1: joining me today.
Speaker 2: Coming up, we're going to close out the show.
Speaker 1: We're going to do the feedback section, which is one
Speaker 1: of your favorite sections of the show. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you about a traffic light that only turns green when
Speaker 1: you're driving at the right speed. You're listening to Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here on rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: More of the show coming up.
Speaker 1: Next, Welcome back to Britcha on Tech. Rich Demiro here
Speaker 1: talking technology with you.
Speaker 2: We have had it all country line up today.
Speaker 1: For the most part, it's been a couple other little
Speaker 1: things sprinkled in here and there, But we got a
Speaker 1: lot of country in this Austin based show today. Got
Speaker 1: a couple of things to talk about, and then we'll
Speaker 1: get to the feedback section. First off, Lift making a
Speaker 1: lot of changes. Big change they're going to make. They
Speaker 1: are discontinuing pooled rides. These were the super duper cheap
Speaker 1: rides that would put you in there with someone else
Speaker 1: in the car, not just the driver, but a random
Speaker 1: person that also needed to go somewhere. And yes, I've
Speaker 1: tried this. I've tried all of the different like Lift
Speaker 1: and Uber offerings throughout the years, and so I did
Speaker 1: this lift all I can't remember it was Left or Uber,
Speaker 1: one of them. But I did like the pool because
Speaker 1: it was so much cheaper. I was going to I
Speaker 1: believe it was an Apple event, going from the airport
Speaker 1: to the Apple of which was being held at like
Speaker 1: the San Jose Convention Center. And I figured, everyone else
Speaker 1: that's landing with me right now at the airport must
Speaker 1: be going to the same place, So chances are I'm
Speaker 1: just going to be linked up with someone else that's
Speaker 1: going to the convention center and my ride is going
Speaker 1: to be like seven bucks instead of like thirty. And
Speaker 1: sure enough, it was great, it was fine. We didn't
Speaker 1: really chat with the person that was I didn't chat
Speaker 1: with the person in the car.
Speaker 2: I might have said hi.
Speaker 1: But ANYWAYT is discontinuing shared rides, they said this week.
Speaker 1: The reason it takes people out of their way because
Speaker 1: not every time you're going to be going to the
Speaker 1: same place as the person in the car with you.
Speaker 1: I mean they tried to make it to the same area,
Speaker 1: but not always the same place. Lift started these things
Speaker 1: back in twenty fourteen. Uber followed with Uber pool. The
Speaker 1: companies both stopped doing these pooled rides during the pandemic
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, and they gradually reintroduced them last year.
Speaker 1: But now Lift is saying no more. Yes, we'll still
Speaker 1: do this. If they still do it, I'm not really
Speaker 1: sure if they do it. But Lift is focusing on
Speaker 1: boosting their airport rides, which makes up about ten percent
Speaker 1: of their trips. They want to make it easier for
Speaker 1: customers to pre book a trip. I noticed that I
Speaker 1: got a notification on my phone. I guess it was
Speaker 1: connected to my calendar, and it said, hey, do you
Speaker 1: want to book a ride to the airport. When I
Speaker 1: noticed that I was going to the airport. And the
Speaker 1: thing about these airport scheduled rides with Lift and Stuff
Speaker 1: and Uber is like, since Uber and Lyft are on demand,
Speaker 1: I always find.
Speaker 2: It odd to schedule a ride.
Speaker 1: It's like, why not just do it on demand because
Speaker 1: you can get a car most of the time pretty easily.
Speaker 1: I actually tested out a service called Alto for my
Speaker 1: ride to the airport this time, and this is super
Speaker 1: duper fancy stuff.
Speaker 2: So this Alto situation.
Speaker 1: Is a company that they have their own fleet of
Speaker 1: luxury vehicles and all of their drivers are w two employees,
Speaker 1: so they give them benefits like four oh one k's
Speaker 1: hourly pay and health benefits. This is operating in Houston, Dallas, LA, Miami, Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And San Francisco. And so they have the
Speaker 1: guy picked me up. It was a scheduled ride. Way
Speaker 1: more I would say, way more expensive than sort of
Speaker 1: a Lift or an Uber at their cheapest tier, but
Speaker 1: maybe on par with an Uber Black or a Lift Lux,
Speaker 1: you know where it's like the really high end. This
Speaker 1: is more like a car service if you're familiar with that.
Speaker 1: So Alto is much more of like a almost like
Speaker 1: a show first service. I would say women in safety.
Speaker 1: That's the main reason why people use Alto.
Speaker 2: To.
Speaker 1: Fifty five percent of Alto riders are women and Alto
Speaker 1: drivers eleven Let's see Alto.
Speaker 2: What am I looking at here? Oh? That I thought
Speaker 2: this was cool. The Alto vehicles.
Speaker 1: Come equipped with cameras in real time monitoring, so I
Speaker 1: thought that was neat, which is linked to a manned
Speaker 1: Alto dispatch center. They've got two thousand drivers and four
Speaker 1: hundred vehicles on the road. They have six hundred to
Speaker 1: hit the road in twenty twenty three. And you have
Speaker 1: to be a member, by the way, or you don't
Speaker 1: have to be, but it's cheaper if you're a member,
Speaker 1: so they say seventy five percent are member. So anyway,
Speaker 1: Alto if you want an alternative to lift an uber,
Speaker 1: but just keep in mind it is more expensive, but
Speaker 1: it's more like a chauffeur. So this is like think fancy, fancy,
Speaker 1: fancy ride to the airport or fancy fancy ride to
Speaker 1: pick up someone from the airport. Okay, let's let me
Speaker 1: tell you about this new light. This traffic light in Quebec.
Speaker 1: It only turns green for safe drivers. This is in
Speaker 1: the Canadian city of Brossard. Near Montreal, they have a
Speaker 1: new traffic light in a school zone that turns green
Speaker 1: for safe drivers. They call it fred. The light is
Speaker 1: red by default, but it turns green when the speed
Speaker 1: camera detects your car going at a speed limit that's
Speaker 1: under the posted speed. So it's not really a real
Speaker 1: signal per se, but it just makes you slow down.
Speaker 2: I guess if you see a red light, you're probably
Speaker 2: gonna stop. I guess.
Speaker 1: So. Similar signals have been used in Europe for years.
Speaker 1: This is on a ninety day trial in a two
Speaker 1: lane street that runs through a suburban area. The mayor
Speaker 1: said most vehicles go through that area at twenty five
Speaker 1: miles an hour, but in the past week average speeds
Speaker 1: have dropped to eighteen miles an hour. They say it
Speaker 1: doesn't record any private information. It's just a text that
Speaker 1: the vehicle is doing the speed it should to kind
Speaker 1: of help people just slow down in that area.
Speaker 2: So kind of a smart idea. I like that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the feedback. Dion says, great
Speaker 1: show you put out Sunday. I'm listening in Montana. I
Speaker 1: heard a woman call in wanting to know how to
Speaker 1: get internet on her radio. I have not found a
Speaker 1: way to do this either. What I do want to share,
Speaker 1: I have a transistor radio which continuously picks up plays
Speaker 1: the weather that has picked.
Speaker 2: Off picked up off of an FAA wave.
Speaker 1: It's not Internet, but I'd say it's as close to
Speaker 1: as she's going to come with a radio device. Got
Speaker 1: a lot of feedback about the caller last week that
Speaker 1: was asking for some sort of radio that would pick
Speaker 1: up Internet radio streaming and also THEAA radio stream. Greg says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I heard the segment with a woman that wanted anaa radio.
Speaker 1: Sporties dot com has some aviation radios. The cheapest one
Speaker 1: is one hundred and ninety nine dollars. They're kind of expensive.
Speaker 1: And let's say I think there's one more on this, oh,
Speaker 1: Neil said, and this is about the Aura frame. The
Speaker 1: guest we had last week, the digital frame called Aura.
Speaker 1: He said, when we became grandparents, our daughter gifted us
Speaker 1: one of these frames. They seem expensive, but they work
Speaker 1: really well and they have all the features being spot on.
Speaker 1: Being ten hours away from our kids is balanced by
Speaker 1: receiving new pictures as grandchild grows. Neil so Neil liked
Speaker 1: the guest talking about the Aura frames. I love that thing.
Speaker 1: Great gift. I can't believe that's going to do it
Speaker 1: for this show. Next week, I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: about a website that lets you research and report scams
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Speaker 1: mentioned here, I also put them in the podcast, so
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Speaker 1: This has been a fantastic show from Austin, Texas.
Speaker 2: What a cool city.
Speaker 1: I love traveling because it gives me so much perspective
Speaker 1: on the world. For instance, I can tell you prices
Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas are cheaper than prices in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing I've noticed here so far. And
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