WEBVTT - iPhone's New AI Tricks, Wireless Charging Roads & Deepfake Defense 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.519 YouTube TV hikes prices again, but there might be a workaround. 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:10.160 Apple's latest AI features bring even more smarts to the iPhone. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.240 And Santa is on chat GPT talk to the big 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:18.120 guy himself this holiday season. Santa, is that you? 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:27.160 Oh yes, indeed, my dear, it is I Santa Claus. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.760 What a joy to hear from you. What can I 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:31.880 do for you today? 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.240 We'll talk to Santa in just a little bit. Plus 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.519 your tech questions answered. Oh there. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:43.000 You wish to chat? Okay, jolly day, my friend. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.480 What's going on in Rich Demiro And this is Rich 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.160 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.239 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.520 also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.920 I believe the tech should be interesting, useful and fun. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.480 Let's open up those phone lines at triple eight Rich 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.800 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:11.720 two four one zero one eight eight eight seven four 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.319 to two four one zero one. Give me call. If 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.520 you have a question about technology. Email is also open. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.280 Just go to Rich on tech dot tv and hit 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:27.959 contact guests. This week on the show, we've got Jared Schnader, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.640 Senior bus director at cal Start he's going to talk 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:37.200 about California's first electric road charging system. Then later we've 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:41.119 got cyber security expert Perry Carpenter. He's going to share 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.000 insights from his new book about protecting ourselves against AI 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:50.640 generated deep fakes and deceptions. And uh, even later, Miami 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.200 parents Natalia Daniel and oded pelld are going to talk 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.840 about first Ease. This is their new app that I 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.280 wish I had when my kids were young. This helps 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.600 you capture or organize and share your kid's milestone moments. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.160 We had one of those books, you know, where you 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.880 write in it as your kid grows up, and I 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.280 think we did the first entry, you know, and that 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:16.680 was it. First smile, that was it. I hope you're 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.040 having a great week. This week, I drove up to 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.960 the San Francisco Bay area, where apparently Kim tells me 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:27.960 right now, where she's answering calls, there's a tornado warning. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.760 What the heck? What is happening in California? So be 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.839 careful up there. She's going to answer your calls best 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.440 she can from her storm shelter. I think she's taking shelter. 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.640 But I experienced something driving up there that I'd never 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.680 experienced in my life the thickest fog I have ever 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:47.560 driven through. 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:47.800 Now. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.760 I remember living in Louisiana and driving through a storm 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.200 that was like you couldn't see in front of your car. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.840 This was like that, except there was no storm. It 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.040 was just fog that was so thick that I was like, 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.280 am I in a joke here? Like what is happening like? 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.639 And I had to go so slow, following the car 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.320 in front of me, which I couldn't even see. So 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:08.880 I was like, okay, I don't want to. The worst 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.160 thing in that situation is like if there's a car 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.679 that you come up on that's like stopped on the freeway, 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:15.720 and of course you're gonna ram right into it, so 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.320 you got to be very very careful. I considered pulling 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.520 off the road, but I couldn't even see the place 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.399 to pull off. I was like, well that's dangerous too, 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.560 So I just went really slow and I posted about 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.880 my Instagram at rich on Tech, and I got so 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.080 many messages from folks and apparently this has a name. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:36.720 It's called tule fog, and so this is what it's. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.520 That's what it is, and I guess it's like really 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.480 thick fog that collects a certain I don't know whatever. 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.160 The weather is kind of weird anyway, that was a 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.040 new one. I can't tell you what I went up 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.040 to San Francisco for just yet, but in the new year, 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.440 it's very very cool. All right, let's talk about Apple. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.160 You got some new features on the iPhone this week, 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:00.840 iOS eighteen point two, So keep in mind you can 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.920 update to iOS eighteen point two on a lot of iPhones, 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.840 but only the latest iPhones, the iPhone fifteen Pro and 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.800 the iPhone fifteen Pro Max, plus all the iPhone sixteen 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.560 models get these Apple Intelligence features. This is a second 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.640 round of Apple Intelligence features, and I think this is 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.680 the better of the two so far. So you know 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.719 you've got the new update when you see that new 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.880 image playground app icon on your home screen. This is 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.560 kind of like a little mini Pixar studio on your phone. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.120 You're gonna have a lot of fun with this because 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.599 it lets you generate AI images. And of course Apple 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.080 puts their own spin on just about every aspect of 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.600 what they do, and this is no different. So most 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.800 of the AI image generators, it's just a textbox and 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.800 you say, okay, let me think about what I want 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.840 to generate. But of course Apple gives you a couple prompts, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:53.080 so it has different themes, costumes, all kinds of things 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.600 that you can add to your image without you having 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.200 to think of them. So you can say, Okay, I 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:01.159 want this person to be a birthday, a disco, a party, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.240 winter holidays. I want a costume like an artist, an astronaut, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.120 a chef, a scientist. I want an accessory like a 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.520 beanie or a party hat or a hard hat. Or 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.360 you can add the place like a city does, desert, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.479 stadium or space. So it's got a whole bunch of 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.120 things to kind of get you started, and you can 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.400 mix and match these. And the other neat thing is 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.239 that you can start with a picture of a person. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.800 A lot of these AI generation tools don't want to 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.280 use people, but Apple just went there and they're like, 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.120 you know what, we know how to program this thing. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.280 We were going to make it safe. So you can 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.400 just take a picture of yourself and literally just make 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.240 yourself into like a Pixar character. That's what it looks like. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.240 So that's really fun. My brother texted me, I put 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.400 my picture that I made of my newsletter this morning. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.240 First thing. I woke up to my brother said, oh, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.520 I'm glad I had to see this first thing this morning. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.320 I was like, what, you didn't like it? I thought 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.960 it was pretty cool. Jen Moji this is another feature. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.719 So this is the ability to make any emoji. So 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.920 you know how you're texting with someone and you think 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:58.520 to yourself, Ah, it'd be great if I had an 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:03.840 emoji of a a jet squirrel riding a jet ski. Well, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.240 you probably never thought about that, but now you can. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.440 And so you can generate any emoji you want. They 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.640 call them gen moojis. So to get to this, just 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.599 go to your keyboard on the iPhone after you have 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.880 the update and tap the emoji icon in the lower 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.640 left hand corner and you'll see a new search field 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.279 at the top that says describe an emoji, and you 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.360 can just type in anything. And you know, obviously there's 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.760 some guardrails on this, so go ahead test it out, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.400 see what the limits are. But it will generate an 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.960 emoji for you on the fly, and if you swipe, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.680 it'll just keep generating new versions of it. So I 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.560 did a cactus lollipop or a lollipop cactus, whatever you 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.960 want to call it and you know it kind of 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.280 like didn't really get it, but it kind of did, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.920 so I just kept swiping through. So that's fun. You're 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.760 gonna see a lot more emojis in your conversations that 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.760 are kind of random. Then the writing tools on the 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.600 iPhone now integrate chat GBT. So the big difference here 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.760 is that the writing tools used to be sort of canned. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.360 You can highlight some text on the iPhone. You could 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.440 bring up writing tools and a little kind of like 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.640 swiper selector up there when you select text. And now 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.720 there's a new option when you select writing tools, it 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.720 says describe your change. It used to be you could 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.760 just like bullet point it, summarize it whatever you want 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.880 like that. Like these canned responses, Now you can say, 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.640 elaborate this in Shakespearean and it will change your text 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.120 to do that. And that's also going to draw upon 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.240 chat gibt if it needs to. And so the other 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.440 side of this is that Siri now has chat GBT, 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.240 So if Siri doesn't know the answer to your question, 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.360 it will ask chat gibt for that answer. Now, of 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.800 course you're in charge of this. It will say the 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.360 first time you try it and say, hey, can I 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.600 ask chat GBT for that answer? You can say yes 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.840 or no, and then you can actually go into your 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.680 settings and turn off the asking. So if you just 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.760 always want it to go to chat GBT when it 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.240 needs to, you can turn that feature off. That's something 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.640 Apple didn't announce in the original keynote, but it's nice 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.480 to see that that's there because so many of us 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.080 are used to chat GBT at this point, and if 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.600 you have a subscription to chat gbt, you could actually 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.920 put that in on your settings so that you don't 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.720 go over any sort of limits and you get some 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.239 more advanced features as well. So check that out. Under Siri, 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.400 it's called Apple Intelligence. You can add your account. And 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.960 the other neat thing is that it's not just chat GBT. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.480 You can see they've set this up to accommodate almost 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.040 any AI that wants to work with Apple in the future, 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.920 so it's like you can see it says AI extensions 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.320 in the settings under Siri, so you can understand a 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.599 world where Gemini will be an option, Claude will be 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.280 an option, Mistroll will be an option, Perplexity will be 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.200 an option. But I think they have to craft their 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.360 app to work with iPhone in a certain safe manner 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.440 that it will work in that selection. So that's kind 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.560 of cool as well. Let's see Visual Intelligence now. This 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.560 is basically Apple's version of Google Lens, and this is 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.360 exclude to the iPhone sixteen models that have that new 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.840 camera control button on the side. If you press and 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.600 hold that, you can take a picture of an object 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.920 or a building or whatever, and it will give you 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.040 information about that and it will use chat GBT to search, 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.520 or it will use Google to search the image. So 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.800 it's now pretty much Google Lens built into the iPhone. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.160 The other new feature is called image wand, and this 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.200 is inside notes, so if you craft a new note, 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.280 you can use your handwriting. This would be handy on 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.800 the iPad. You can write down your notes and then 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.720 you select this image wand tool down at the bottom, 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.640 and the pallette of tools you circle what you want 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.200 to change, and if it's a drawing, it will make 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.360 your drawing into whatever you think it is. Like if 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.360 you draw a house and say, oh, that's a house, 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.320 it will literally make it into like the best looking 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.680 house ever. Or it will change your handwriting into text. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.200 So those are the new features. The other thing is that. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:54.839 And Kim talked about this. She said, Hey, are you 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.000 gonna mention the photos app? Yeah, Apple really messed up 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.199 the photos app and the first version of iol Us 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.520 eighteen Apparently they've cleaned it up a little bit. In 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.760 iOS eighteen point two, it was really tough to find things. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.160 But my advice is open up the photos app, scroll 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.320 all the way to the bottom. You'll see an option 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.520 that says customize and reorder and get rid of almost 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.680 everything except the things that you want to see, which 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.479 for me is basically nothing except my recents, my favorites, 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.760 and you know the pictures that I have. All Right 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.080 there you have it. iOS eighteen point two available for 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.359 the iPhone, fifteen Pro models and up, plus some iPads 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.040 with the M chip and other Apple devices. Eight to 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.120 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.200 two four one zero one. My name is rich Damuro 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.559 and you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.079 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.920 talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O one. That's 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.400 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:00.280 This week's music done by my friend Diana in the 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.440 music industry works in the music industry for many, many years, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.600 and I'm learning her taste, learning her tastes in music. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:13.120 Mellow but classic, but also aclectic. Okay, So I mentioned 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.120 a lot of stuff in the beginning of the show 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.360 website for the show rich on tech dot TV. If 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.160 you want links to anything I mentioned, it's always there 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.200 on the website rich on tech dot tv show notes 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.959 by hitting the light bulb icon, or you can just 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.079 go to the website. This is episode number one oh 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.680 one right on the homepage there. So I mentioned that 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.920 you can now chat with Santa in chat GPT. This 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.959 is a limited time only. This is really cool, probably 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.240 one of the best Santa chats I've ever experienced because 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.520 it's smart and it sounds like Santa. So this is 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.680 one of Santa's helpers. Obviously for the kids, you know, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.640 but if you want to access this, I think it'll 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.559 be really fun to do with the kids. Go to 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.000 chat EBT on the home screen and in the upper 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.720 right hand corner you'll see a new chat. You tap that, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:06.840 and then once you get into that, you want to 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.400 press the voice button, and so that's in the lower 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.880 right hand corner, I know, kind of crazy. And then 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.240 once you're there, you have to select the Santa voice, 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.080 so it looks like the settings up in the upper 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.000 right hand corner again, and you just swipe, you know, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.880 where you select your voice for chat GBT, you'll see 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.000 a new one called Santa. So once you're there, you 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.640 can chat with Santa. So let's bring them up. Hey, Santa, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.160 how are you doing today? 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:39.200 I'm feeling merry and bright as always. How about you, 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:39.920 my friend? 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.280 I'm doing I'm doing great, just doing the rich on 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.079 Tech radio show. Do you like that show? 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:52.959 That sounds wonderful. It's always nice to tune into something 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:57.880 that brings joy and information. I hope your show goes splendidly. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.600 Can you tune it in at the North Pole or what? 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:08.320 The North Pole is quite magical, you know, we have 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.520 our own ways of keeping up with all the wonderful 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:16.200 things happening around the world. So in a way, yes, all. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:17.839 Right, I think I think he's dodging some of my 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.880 questions there, But anyway, you get the idea. Now, if 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.200 you're on the iPhone, you can actually save a chat 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.800 that you have with Santa and share it, so you 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.400 can there's a little share icon in the upper right 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.319 hand corner and if you had a fun conversation with Santa, 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.440 or you want to record something for your kids, you 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.040 can do that on the iPhone on iOS. So kind 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.920 of cool. Anyway, Neat Neat feature available seasonally and Chatchy BT. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.720 I you know, I've said in the past I used Claude, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.400 but I've sort of switched now to CHATCHYBT because they've 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.679 added so many new features that it's gotten really really good. 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.600 And in fact, they just added a new feature this 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.200 morning that I've wanted for a while, and it's it's 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.280 like these you can keep conversations onmost like pinned and 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.959 so that's a really handy one. All right, eighty eight 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.280 Rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.560 four one zero one. Let's go to Denis in Pasadena. Dennis, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:10.280 you're on with Rich. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.920 Hey, Rich, thank you. Here's my deal. I have an 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:20.440 epsom Eco tank printer and I have an AT and 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:25.880 T Internet Air Modem Wi Fi modem. When I want 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.680 to print something, I turn them on my printer. I 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.920 see the little Wi Fi icon come up. That's good. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.760 I go into my iPad, I fix something I want 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.960 to print. It says searching for air printer. Half the 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.920 time it finds it, half the time it doesn't. And 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.480 I don't see any pattern in that, so it's kind 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.080 of a crapshew. I never know if it's going to 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:48.040 find a printer or not. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:50.120 Any thoughts on that. 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.120 Huh. Okay, So it does work, you know, it does work. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.800 Yes, it does work. Seems to be half maybe sixty 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.160 seventy percent of the time. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.960 Hmm, okay, well that's true, not always. So I would 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.720 say two things here. It's either your Wi Fi signal 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.000 is not you know, one of them. One of them, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.400 the Wi Fi signal is not reaching. So that's that's 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:16.720 what I think is the issue, because if it's happening to. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.960 The print I'm really close to the Wi Fi router, 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:19.680 if that makes. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.520 Any difference the printer is or your iPad both they're. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.160 Both in the same room and they're like two feet away. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.360 And there's nothing that you notice that's uh, that's changed 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.280 when you're when you're trying to print, like sometimes there's 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:34.600 just no rhyme or reason to this. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:36.520 That's how I can see. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:41.200 Yeah, I don't know, okay, so I would my I 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.480 guess what I would do is probably update the software 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.080 for everything, and make sure the software is updated on 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.600 the printer, make sure the software is updated on this router. 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.360 I'm surprised you're one of the very few people that 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.640 has AT and T Internet Air because it's a it's 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.880 tough to get because they're only putting it in places 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.240 where they don't have a strong fiber presence or DSL presence. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.400 I don't even know if they do DSL anymore, but 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:08.000 fiber at least. So I think that I would update 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.440 the software on those things, then the iPad, and then 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.440 I would what I would do is disconnect both the 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.560 iPad from your WiFi and the printer from your WiFi 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.800 and reconnect both of those things. Have you tried doing that? 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.760 Just just safe forget? 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:27.000 Yeah, exactly, safe forget and and and do those things. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.160 That is that is probably your best your best bet 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.200 with that situation because it's it's frustrating, but it's like 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.400 there's not a way to reproduce it. You know. I 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.320 would say, if you had like your microwave going or 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.280 something and it was like, you know, messing with the 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.880 signal in your house, sure, but if there's no rhyme 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.840 or reason, that's pretty frustrating. The only other thing is 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.560 your your printer might be in sort of a deep 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.920 sleep mode. I've noticed at times with my printer when 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.880 I go to print sometimes it's not necessarily showing up, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:55.440 and I'm like, and I'll go there and I'll tap 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.360 the screen on the printer and it will come to 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.600 life and then it will be there. So that's the 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.200 only other thing I can think of. But those those 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.080 are the things that I would do and reconnect everything 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.680 and then see if it still happens. Eighty eight rich 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.360 one one eight eight eight seven four to two, four 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.679 to one zero one. Coming up, we're gonna talk about 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:18.800 wireless roads that can charge vehicles. This is rich on Tech. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.680 Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.280 out with you, talking technology. Eight eight eight rich one 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.240 o one eighty eight seven four to two four one 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:34.720 zero one. H Jim writes in from Let's see Central 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.879 of California Central Valley, says grew up in Fresno regularly 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.800 experienced the fog it's pronounced two leaf fog. I remember 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.960 driving on roads with no lines with the windows rolled down, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.040 looking at the side of the road for guidance. Looking 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.360 forward through the windshield was absolutely worthless. Yeah, you don't 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.560 realize how thick fog can be until you feel this. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.800 LG is no longer making Blu ray players. LG will 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:06.560 stop making Blu ray players, leaving Panasonic as the last 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.840 manufacturers making Blu ray players. So Samsung has gotten out 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.760 of the physical Blu ray player, Sony has gotten out 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.639 of it, and that's it. Everyone wants you to go digital. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.400 You know why, because you don't own the digital stuff. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.200 You are renting it basically physical media like Blu ray 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.560 and DVDs. You can't even find him anymore. Last year, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.720 I went into best Buy and I was like, wait, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.440 what's different about this store? Oh yeah, the whole middle 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.880 of the store had no Blu rays or CDs in there. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.960 So I know a lot of people sad about this, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.879 but not really because come on, let's be honest. You 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.160 know you're streaming your stuff, or most of us are. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:44.639 But it was fun at one point in life to 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.080 kind of have that collection of physical media. I gave 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.440 up on it a long time ago, but I understand 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.880 it's like that feels like it's yours versus you know 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.000 all these other services you're just paying four monthly and 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.600 you don't really own any of it. Times are changing, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.360 all right, Let's bring up Jared Schnader. He is a 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:07.600 senior bus director at cal Start. Jared, Welcome to the show. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:09.600 Thanks Rich, thanks for having me. 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.240 So saw the story about this, I guess over in Westwood. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.400 Here in Los Angeles, they are going to make a 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:19.119 small stretch of the street electrified and then the buses 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.479 are going to charge as they drive along this. So 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:26.280 can you explain? This is California's first electric road charging system. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:27.720 Yeah, that's correct. 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.679 So the way it works is that it's known as 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.360 dynamic inductive charging. So if you think of your cell 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.040 phone that you may just set down on an inductive 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.080 charging pad where you just set on top and it's 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:45.600 able to charge. It's regular static inductive charging is where 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.320 a vehicle comes over a pad and it just charges. 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:49.479 It sits there and charges. 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.080 Dynamic is where you're actually in motion and the vehicle 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.640 is charging while it's driving over this system. 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:57.720 So, yeah, first one in California. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.119 It's actually it's a really exciting project that we're going 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:01.040 to be working on here. 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:04.040 So how long is this street? Number one? Have you 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.160 done this in other places yet? 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:08.560 So this has been done across the world. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.600 Specifically in Europe, there are a number of roads that 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.159 are electrified. The technology is still in kind of a 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.119 nascent stage because you are having to pull up a 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.120 road or pull up parts of a road install coils 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:21.440 in it. 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.280 For the dynamic part of it. 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.639 Inductive charging has been done for years in terms of 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.040 just the static sitting over top of a pad and 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:32.040 vehicles charging. This has been done for a very long time, 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.000 so nothing's really new about that. I think what we're 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.679 actually seeing now and what makes this really exciting, is 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:42.800 that we're changing the way that we're thinking about charging currently. 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.919 You would have anyone that's seen an electric vehicle will 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.760 know the pull up to a charger, you plug it in. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.440 I think the national average right now is about twenty 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.800 five percent of those are down at any given time, 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:59.639 whether that's for hardware malfunctions or software malfunctions. We're getting 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.480 better at that year after year. These are improving. However, 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.919 when you think about the number of vehicles that are 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.320 out there and putting one charger, you know, kind of 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.520 a one to one in the charger space, it doesn't 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.840 really make much sense. When you're looking at something like 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:20.080 long roadways, it's an opportunity for vehicles to be able 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.159 to charge wilid motion instead of having to stop and 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.840 charge back up. And again, when you think about this 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.639 kind of linear progression of if your battery is one 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.160 hundred percent full and you just start driving it, you know, 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.520 as as you're driving along, it reduces the amount of 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.199 energy within that battery, but it's not going back up. 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.720 Really, when you start adding. 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:45.399 In something like a dynamic inductive charging system, while you 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.240 are still reducing the amount of power within the battery, 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:52.760 it's also charging back up, so it's not a run 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.080 down to twenty percent then go back up to eighty percent. 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:57.960 I have to explain this to people all the time 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.400 because they say, well, if you're driving, how long does 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.160 it take to get from twenty percent of your battery 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.479 life or your battery up to eighty percent. We have 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:08.760 to think about the way that we do charging differently 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:12.240 instead of thinking about, you know, twenty percent up to 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.960 eighty percent. Look at from the flip side, if your 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:18.280 battery is eighty percent charged and goes down to seventy percent, 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:21.240 then it comes up to seventy two percent, then goes 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.520 down to sixty five percent and up to call it 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:24.280 sixty eight percent. 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:25.000 Whatever it is. 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:29.000 As it's driving along, it's extending the amount of range 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:31.720 that you have. But also when you do come back 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.359 to either your if you're at a fleet, like coming 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:36.520 back to your lot or coming back to your home 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:39.480 to charge up, you're not having to charge from you know, 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.439 essentially a dead battery all the way up. The amount 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.760 of energy that you're requiring is so much smaller because 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:47.600 you've been able to charge throughout the day in these 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:49.280 small increments. 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.800 Okay, got it interesting? So and I know you know 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:57.520 with my phone, obviously plug in chargings the fastest wireless 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:00.480 chargings a little bit slower, but I imagine dynamic wireless 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:02.360 charging has got to be a bit slower than sort 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.560 of steady or static charging, is correct? 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:10.240 Yeah, no, absolutely, it's not. This it solves everything kind 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:14.720 of technology. What does is it helps enable the deployment 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:19.320 on larger scale of vehicles because the way that the 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:22.240 dynamic inductive charging is set up, it can be utilized 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:26.520 in multiple vehicle classes. So when you're looking at kind 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:28.800 of a heavy duty vehicle, or think about your iPhone. 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:30.720 Let's just if you have an iPhone or an Android, 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:34.520 you're charging plugs may be different when you're looking at 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.760 charging for your car versus a bus. Those are different chargers, 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:42.439 those are different connectors, different powers. However, with something like 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:46.080 the inductive charging systems, we're talking about things that can 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:48.919 now be utilized across all vehicle classes, so you can 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:51.560 actually share the infrastructure. So instead of having to say, 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:55.000 I've got one charger for this one bus, it can 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:57.679 be a roadway that can be utilized for everyone driving 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:00.480 up and down it if they have the rest receivers 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:03.720 that are installed on the vehicle to be able to 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:05.600 utilize the inductive charging. 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:08.480 And do we know how long like this road is? 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:09.960 Is it like a couple of miles or is it 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:11.919 like a portion of a mile like what. 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:14.320 This first one I believe is going to be just 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:17.800 over a quarter of a mile I believe, But again 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:20.520 we're talking about pilots here. We also have another one 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:22.920 up in Detroit that we're working on, in another one 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:25.800 in upstate New York that we're doing to show the 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:27.639 technology and what it can do. 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:29.080 The one at UCLA. 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:31.720 One of the really exciting parts about this is not 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.879 just the fact that it'll be utilized for the Olympics, 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:38.720 for the Olympic Village but also that where it's located, 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.560 there are seven other transit agencies that are coming in 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:45.040 and laying over there. And the goal is that once 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:48.160 this is proven out with the UCLA, these other seven 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:51.320 agencies are going to be utilizing that same area. We 0:24:51.359 --> 0:24:53.959 would love to get them to kind of join in 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:55.840 and say, yeah, we'd love to put some receivers on 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:58.280 here to charge our vehicles while we're driving up and down. 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:00.840 It's a way to expand the technology you into other 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:01.879 transit agencies. 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:04.000 Now, what about the safety of this, Like can I 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:04.960 walk on this road? 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:05.240 Yeah? 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:07.520 Across? Am I going to be like blowing green? After 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:08.560 I get across the road? 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:12.080 If you're glowing green, it's not from the inductive charging? 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:12.960 Okay? 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:15.720 But no, no, it is safe. This is like I said, this. 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:18.159 Is metal shoes, Like what if there's metal in that? 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:19.960 I mean, is there any way you could What if 0:25:20.000 --> 0:25:21.760 I put my phone on the ground and it's you know, 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:24.240 an iPhone that has like the wireless charging, is it 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:24.840 going to charge that? 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:25.520 Great question? 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:28.600 No, these are all because it's all bluetooth Like. There 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:31.760 has to be an actual way to communicate between the 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:34.560 the receiver and the charger itself to activate it can 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:38.600 people have so uh, any look, let's be very honest. 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:39.719 Anything could be hacked. 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:42.159 But this the way that is set up is that 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:45.360 it's it is like secure from a like the security 0:25:45.440 --> 0:25:48.240 envelope is much stronger than you would have from a 0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:51.479 traditional charger that you would have, but like you know, 0:25:51.600 --> 0:25:52.560 anything can be hacked. 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:53.359 So I don't want to sit. 0:25:53.280 --> 0:25:55.080 Here and say it's one hundred percent like no one 0:25:55.080 --> 0:25:57.359 can ever do anything because any of your's asking for 0:25:57.440 --> 0:25:58.439 people to try something. 0:25:58.480 --> 0:26:00.800 But no, I mean, this is a very safe system. 0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:03.479 And it is like I said, it's a secure system 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:05.200 for the infrastructure because they have to. 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:07.640 Be wow, and so this is going to be when 0:26:07.680 --> 0:26:10.399 are they going to start this project? And what about that? 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:13.360 Isn't there one already in Detroit? So did you work 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:14.400 on that one or yes? 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:18.119 Yeah we're yeah, so cal Start we are doing the 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:21.800 data collection for the Detroit project, but the bus the 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:24.560 bus system has not started yet, so we haven't been 0:26:24.560 --> 0:26:27.520 able to start collecting data on that one. The one 0:26:27.560 --> 0:26:30.800 for UCLA, which we'll be doing data collection on that 0:26:30.880 --> 0:26:33.520 as well. We're just to back up real quick. Cal 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:36.320 Start is a nonprofit. We are the ones that kind 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:38.919 of step in in a lot of these technologies to 0:26:39.000 --> 0:26:42.000 validate them, because you need a neutral third party to 0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:44.879 say whether or not something works, because our whole goal 0:26:45.000 --> 0:26:48.760 is to drive down emissions and decarbonized transportation across the country, 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:51.480 and so we need technologies that work. So we are 0:26:51.520 --> 0:26:53.920 an honest broker when it comes to the information because 0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:56.480 the whatever we say, if it works or doesn't work, 0:26:56.480 --> 0:26:59.040 we're going to let people know about it. That said, 0:26:59.119 --> 0:27:02.000 with UCLA, one of the I guess one of our 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:04.720 big challenges that we're going to be facing is not 0:27:04.800 --> 0:27:08.600 so much the technology but the construction because you do 0:27:08.720 --> 0:27:10.800 have to pull up parts of a road to install this. 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:15.520 This is not a very a very heavily built out system. 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:18.520 It's just coils within the road. Can be done in 0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:21.320 any kind of normal maintenance that may be done on 0:27:21.359 --> 0:27:24.560 the road anyway, because you know, we're always repairing asphalt, 0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:27.400 and so when we're pulling up certain parts, the coils 0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:30.240 can be installed and then asphalt go back over top 0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:33.199 of them. So this has a lot of potential and 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:36.880 it's a really exciting thing to see, especially the fact 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:39.239 that we're going to be utilizing this. I said, with 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:43.120 seven agencies, all kind of circling around this. It has 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:46.119 the ability to really transform the way that charging is 0:27:46.200 --> 0:27:48.320 done in southern California. 0:27:48.880 --> 0:27:52.080 Very cool. Well, good luck with it. Jared Schnader of 0:27:52.480 --> 0:27:56.920 Calstart the website calstart dot org. I'll be looking forward 0:27:56.920 --> 0:27:59.639 to seeing how this develops over the next couple of years. 0:27:59.680 --> 0:28:01.640 Thanks sounds great, Thanks so much. 0:28:02.160 --> 0:28:05.280 Eighty eight rich one one eight eight eight seven four 0:28:05.359 --> 0:28:09.080 to two four one zero one. Coming up YouTube TV. 0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:12.639 It's kind of sounding a lot like cable. 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It's on all of them. iHeart Spotify, Apple Podcasts. 0:28:55.600 --> 0:28:58.400 I even founded on the serious XM app. I was 0:28:58.440 --> 0:29:00.760 surprised they just added that to test I saw searching 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:03.800 around and sure enough we're on there as well. So 0:29:03.920 --> 0:29:08.320 lots of ways to listen. Let's go to Jamie in Tampa. Jamie, 0:29:08.320 --> 0:29:09.200 you're on with rich. 0:29:11.000 --> 0:29:11.320 On today. 0:29:11.360 --> 0:29:13.200 Man, I'm doing great, how about you? 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:14.800 Better than I deserve? 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:15.040 Man? 0:29:15.960 --> 0:29:16.960 And during this hot. 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:19.680 Florid of weather, Oh wow, hot there, it's actually cold 0:29:19.680 --> 0:29:21.440 in LA, which is ironic. 0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:26.760 Right, So so we've all heard of inflation, right, sure, 0:29:27.720 --> 0:29:32.000 christ Tree inflation. That's what I'm battling, right it, because yeah, 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:35.719 TV went up, went up, went up again, and uh 0:29:35.920 --> 0:29:38.440 and and just the thought of having dependent the boat 0:29:38.440 --> 0:29:40.160 makes me just want to pull my hair out. But 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:41.880 since I don't really have much hair right now because 0:29:41.920 --> 0:29:45.520 it gets cut every month, I usually just screen, I 0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:50.560 hear you, So, so yeah, it keeps going up. And 0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:53.800 then the Disney Plus and because I'm tired of all 0:29:53.840 --> 0:29:59.000 the password crackdown and every it's like every week it's 0:29:59.040 --> 0:30:01.640 going up. Whatever service today, whether it's on demand or 0:30:01.720 --> 0:30:04.760 live TV, there's got to be something I can do, 0:30:05.000 --> 0:30:08.200 and I need some help because if I get I'm 0:30:08.400 --> 0:30:10.640 because I have a friend that sad, he's so much 0:30:10.680 --> 0:30:12.600 is going back to cables. But have been what he's 0:30:12.600 --> 0:30:15.080 doing now with big YouTube TV and Hulu and all 0:30:15.080 --> 0:30:17.880 this other stuff because he can't take it anymore. It 0:30:17.920 --> 0:30:18.600 neither can I. 0:30:18.520 --> 0:30:20.360 On Besty Kid, No, I hear you. 0:30:20.440 --> 0:30:22.959 I A yeah. So here's what's happening. So you've got 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:24.760 a couple of things going on. So you've got uh, 0:30:25.480 --> 0:30:28.880 you've got YouTube TV raised prices this week, which you know, 0:30:29.120 --> 0:30:31.520 sent a lot of people into the tailspin of saying, 0:30:31.520 --> 0:30:34.200 you know what, I'm done with this. Because when YouTube 0:30:34.200 --> 0:30:36.720 TV started, I was there at the launch event. It 0:30:36.840 --> 0:30:41.360 was thirty five dollars a month. This was in twenty seventeen. Now, 0:30:41.480 --> 0:30:44.720 given back then, they did not have a lot of channels, 0:30:44.920 --> 0:30:47.600 they did not have a lot of sports. But you know, 0:30:47.640 --> 0:30:49.560 I'm not sure they had the I think they had 0:30:49.640 --> 0:30:52.120 unlimited VR back then. But you know, they they've been 0:30:52.200 --> 0:30:54.840 slowly but surely adding all the features and all the 0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:57.120 channels that you want. And now they have a lot 0:30:57.200 --> 0:30:59.920 of channels, they have a lot of sports, they have DVRs, 0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:02.800 they have four K, but they have offline where you 0:31:02.840 --> 0:31:04.920 can download stuff, so they give you a lot, but 0:31:05.120 --> 0:31:07.720 the price just keeps going up. So thirty five dollars 0:31:07.720 --> 0:31:11.480 in twenty seventeen last week it was seventy three dollars. 0:31:11.560 --> 0:31:14.440 Now it is eighty three dollars, effective immediately for new 0:31:14.440 --> 0:31:20.080 subscribers existing customers starting January thirteenth. So what do you 0:31:20.120 --> 0:31:23.760 do if you're a subscriber like myself. First off, Jamie, 0:31:23.800 --> 0:31:28.440 you got to try the subscription cancelation hack. So if 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:32.240 you go to my Instagram at richon Tech, basically if 0:31:32.280 --> 0:31:36.480 you go to cancel your account, they might give you 0:31:36.520 --> 0:31:39.160 sixty dollars off the next six months, So ten dollars 0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:42.360 off each month for the next six months, which doesn't 0:31:42.400 --> 0:31:45.240 save you any money. It actually just fends off this 0:31:45.400 --> 0:31:47.400 price increase for the next six months. That gives you 0:31:47.440 --> 0:31:49.920 some time to breathe, some time to think about it, 0:31:49.960 --> 0:31:52.520 and some time to say, Okay, nothing's changed, but let 0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:54.280 me just see what I can do, what my options 0:31:54.280 --> 0:31:59.000 are now. Meanwhile, let me grab this. You've got other 0:31:59.040 --> 0:32:01.840 companies like Spec smells the Blood in the water, right, 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:05.680 So Spectrum, of course perfectly timed press release says we 0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:09.560 are now including Max and Max. If you are following 0:32:09.600 --> 0:32:11.640 the streaming stuff. That's like basically it used to be 0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:14.360 called HBO Max. Now it's just Max. It's all the 0:32:14.400 --> 0:32:18.240 stuff from HBO, Warner Brothers, DC, all the different You know, 0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:20.280 they've got a whole bunch of stuff mixed in from 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:24.160 Warner Brothers IP into this service. So now, if you're 0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:27.720 a Spectrum TV Select customer, you can get Max with 0:32:27.920 --> 0:32:30.680 ads for free, and that's usually ten dollars a month. Now, 0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:35.360 they include a whole bunch of streaming services with your 0:32:35.880 --> 0:32:39.440 Spectrum TV Select. So they include Disney Plus, ESPN Plus, 0:32:39.480 --> 0:32:44.080 Paramount Plus, and a couple others including Max, all included 0:32:44.080 --> 0:32:46.040 in your monthly fee. Now, I don't know how much 0:32:46.080 --> 0:32:50.920 Spectrum TV Select monthly is, but you know, it's probably 0:32:50.960 --> 0:32:55.080 about the same price as the YouTube TV, maybe a 0:32:55.120 --> 0:32:58.760 little bit more or less. I'm not sure, because you know, 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:00.200 you got to go on their website and pray it 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:04.000 all out. Now, here's the difference. The reason why we 0:33:04.080 --> 0:33:07.920 have switched to services like YouTube TV and Hulu Live 0:33:08.000 --> 0:33:11.360 tv is because, guess what. Signing up for Spectrum TV 0:33:11.560 --> 0:33:14.280 is very easy. It's when you want to change your cancel, 0:33:14.520 --> 0:33:16.360 it's not going to be so easy. They're probably going 0:33:16.400 --> 0:33:19.160 to make you talk to a representative. It's probably not 0:33:19.240 --> 0:33:21.640 self service. It's probably gonna be a little trickier because 0:33:21.640 --> 0:33:24.400 they have those retention tactics. And so that's the reason 0:33:24.440 --> 0:33:26.920 why we like these streaming services in the first place, 0:33:26.960 --> 0:33:30.840 because they put the customer in charge. When Netflix sends 0:33:31.160 --> 0:33:34.040 a price increase to you, what do they do. They 0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:36.560 don't say, please call our customer service hotline and we'll 0:33:36.600 --> 0:33:38.080 help you out and we'll maybe give you a better deal. 0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:41.160 They say, here's the cancelation link, go ahead, cancel. What 0:33:41.200 --> 0:33:43.120 do we care. We've got, you know, two hundred and 0:33:43.160 --> 0:33:46.160 fifty million people subscribe to us. And by the way, 0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:47.640 we know that you're going to stick with us because 0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:49.760 it's twenty three dollars a month or fifteen or seven 0:33:49.800 --> 0:33:52.680 whatever you're paying, and it's probably a pretty good value. 0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:55.400 It's less than the price of one movie ticket. So 0:33:56.000 --> 0:33:58.520 what do you do, Jamie? You can go to this 0:33:58.560 --> 0:34:04.200 website called the Streamable, the streamable dot com slash matchmaker, 0:34:04.240 --> 0:34:07.440 And what live TV really comes down to is what 0:34:07.520 --> 0:34:10.400 channels do you want to watch and what sports teams 0:34:10.560 --> 0:34:13.200 do you want to watch. That's what really drives what 0:34:13.200 --> 0:34:16.080 people subscribe to. If you just want to watch the 0:34:16.080 --> 0:34:19.360 Hallmark channel, it's not going to cost that much because 0:34:19.400 --> 0:34:22.279 you can subscribe to Filo for twenty eight dollars a month. 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:25.520 It's when you want to watch the Yankees or the 0:34:25.640 --> 0:34:29.520 Jets or the Rams or whatever team is in your area, 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:32.040 or whatever team you follow, that's when it gets a 0:34:32.080 --> 0:34:34.000 little bit more expensive. And that's when you need one 0:34:34.000 --> 0:34:36.400 of these premium services. So if you go to the 0:34:36.400 --> 0:34:39.560 streamabol dot com slash matchmaker, I really like it because 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:41.719 you type in the channels and the teams that you 0:34:41.800 --> 0:34:44.359 want to watch, and it will tell you the services 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:48.440 that actually have those channels and those teams. And I'm 0:34:48.440 --> 0:34:50.359 telling you, if you're talking sports, not going to be cheap. 0:34:50.640 --> 0:34:52.560 The other thing to do is go back to an antenna. 0:34:52.960 --> 0:34:55.799 You can easily. A lot of people emailed me said, hey, Rich, 0:34:55.800 --> 0:34:58.399 I'm going back to antenna. I'm putting that on my roof, 0:34:58.480 --> 0:35:00.680 or I'm putting it inside, or I'm putting in your window. 0:35:01.000 --> 0:35:03.759 Antennasdirect dot com you can check them out. They can 0:35:03.760 --> 0:35:06.160 tell you which antenna might be working for your house. 0:35:07.320 --> 0:35:09.120 But I've got an antenna on my roof. I might 0:35:09.160 --> 0:35:12.400 go back to that. But the problem is getting the 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:15.320 DVR service. You can use something like Tableau t a 0:35:15.440 --> 0:35:20.600 b l O that will record live TV. But you 0:35:20.600 --> 0:35:23.320 know TVO used to do it. That might still be around. 0:35:23.320 --> 0:35:25.800 I'm not even sure, but an Amazon used to have 0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:28.600 a device that would record live TV, but they've just 0:35:28.719 --> 0:35:31.759 continued that. So those are your options. You've got to 0:35:31.760 --> 0:35:33.799 pay up or get rid of some of these services. 0:35:34.000 --> 0:35:37.719 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:35:37.840 --> 0:35:41.399 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:35:41.480 --> 0:35:45.440 triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:48.160 four two four one zero one. This is the show 0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:50.120 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 0:35:50.160 --> 0:35:52.360 should know about. It's also the place where I answer 0:35:52.360 --> 0:35:54.359 your question, so give me a call. You can also 0:35:54.400 --> 0:35:58.160 go to the website rich on Tech dot tv hit 0:35:58.239 --> 0:36:00.480 contact if you want to get in touch that way, 0:36:00.560 --> 0:36:04.239 send me a message, or you can let's see what 0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:06.239 else can you do? You can just go there and 0:36:06.280 --> 0:36:08.200 sign up for the newsletter Why Not. You get more 0:36:08.239 --> 0:36:10.279 information about the things I talk about here and the 0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:13.680 notes on everything I mentioned, so let's see. I am 0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:17.040 fascinated with this story about the drones in New Jersey, 0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:20.360 not just because I'm from New Jersey, but because I 0:36:20.520 --> 0:36:24.759 just find it really hard to believe that these drones 0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:28.440 are flying in the skies above New Jersey and nobody 0:36:28.440 --> 0:36:31.200 knows what they are. Now, I've got all my family 0:36:31.239 --> 0:36:33.239 that lives there, and so I asked him on our 0:36:33.280 --> 0:36:35.360 group chat, I said, hey, have you seen these things? 0:36:36.000 --> 0:36:40.560 And they've all said yes. So how in the world 0:36:40.640 --> 0:36:44.560 are there just thousands of drone sightings and nobody knows 0:36:44.560 --> 0:36:47.480 what they are? The government doesn't know, the police don't know, 0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:51.440 the firefighters don't know. My sister said, she took dozens 0:36:51.440 --> 0:36:56.839 of pictures and nobody knows who they are. Saw not 0:36:56.920 --> 0:37:01.240 a passenger plane, saw a jet flying super low and slow. 0:37:01.360 --> 0:37:04.520 Well what is that? I mean, come on, wouldn't we 0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:08.719 be freaking out if we saw this? I mean, I 0:37:09.040 --> 0:37:11.759 will tell you when I go outside, and here's what 0:37:11.840 --> 0:37:14.080 I think could be happening. Like there's a heat map 0:37:14.120 --> 0:37:16.840 online of all the different sightings in New Jersey. What 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:20.360 happens is that when one person sees something, suddenly a 0:37:20.400 --> 0:37:21.560 lot of people see stuff. 0:37:21.640 --> 0:37:21.839 Right. 0:37:22.120 --> 0:37:24.319 And I don't know about you, but nine times out 0:37:24.360 --> 0:37:25.839 of ten, when I see a plane in the sky, 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:28.359 I'm like, Oh, that's a UFO, And then I'm like, wait, 0:37:28.520 --> 0:37:33.239 no it is, Oh that's Southwest. Sometimes they look like 0:37:33.280 --> 0:37:36.600 they're just slow and like hovering. But I'm all for it. 0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:39.239 I mean, I love stuff like this, Like it just 0:37:39.280 --> 0:37:41.600 reminds you of a movie. Right, Like we're like we 0:37:41.640 --> 0:37:44.560 are literally you know, we're not under attack, but we're 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:47.360 just like under surveillance, and they're just like kind of 0:37:47.400 --> 0:37:50.799 testing the waters, coming in, seeing what's happening, seeing how 0:37:50.800 --> 0:37:53.120 we react, seeing how far they can go, how close 0:37:53.160 --> 0:37:55.680 they can get, and then you know, who knows what's 0:37:55.680 --> 0:37:58.680 gonna happen. But anyway, I am absolutely fascinated with this story. 0:37:59.080 --> 0:38:00.960 Now here's the funny thing. I've asked my family to 0:38:01.000 --> 0:38:04.120 send me the pictures they've taken of these things. Not one. 0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:06.600 No one sent me a picture or video, even though 0:38:06.600 --> 0:38:09.040 they've seen them so many times. So I don't know, 0:38:09.120 --> 0:38:12.480 draw your own conclusions there. Let's see, Mike and uh 0:38:13.160 --> 0:38:19.680 San Fernando. Mike, you're on with rich Hey, drones there 0:38:19.680 --> 0:38:23.360 in the y. I'm sorry, have you seen any UFOs 0:38:23.400 --> 0:38:24.759 or drones in the valley. 0:38:25.320 --> 0:38:27.360 Waiting for a night fall? Then I'll probably get a 0:38:27.360 --> 0:38:28.160 whole bunch of them there. 0:38:28.160 --> 0:38:28.480 Okay. 0:38:30.000 --> 0:38:32.480 I wish I called earlier when you had the gentleman 0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:36.279 on there discussing just dynamic charging, charging the vehicles while 0:38:36.280 --> 0:38:40.040 you're driving down a road via induction. Yeah, I have 0:38:40.160 --> 0:38:42.680 the pacemaker, and I'm supposed to stay away from anything 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:46.719 magnetic electronic. I wear a harness that keeps myself on 0:38:47.040 --> 0:38:49.560 the right because all pocketed T shirts have it the 0:38:49.600 --> 0:38:52.920 pocket right over the heart. Yeah, would you happen to 0:38:52.960 --> 0:38:55.840 know anything, like if I'm coming up on one of 0:38:55.840 --> 0:38:58.000 these roads, pull off to the side, take a detour 0:38:58.040 --> 0:39:01.279 or whatever. Is it safe for the like me who 0:39:01.280 --> 0:39:02.120 have pacemakers. 0:39:02.600 --> 0:39:06.280 That's a great question. I would imagine that the folks 0:39:06.320 --> 0:39:08.760 who are creating these roads are thinking about that stuff. 0:39:08.800 --> 0:39:11.040 But I would also imagine that the magnets are probably 0:39:11.040 --> 0:39:14.200 pretty prevalent in these roads, because that's how this all works. 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:17.319 I do know with the Apple stuff, you know, when 0:39:17.320 --> 0:39:19.719 they came out with the mag safe on the back 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:21.600 of the iPhone, there was a lot of talk about 0:39:21.719 --> 0:39:25.600 pacemakers and the impact, and so I think there is 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:27.719 a concern. I think that's some you know, I'm not 0:39:27.760 --> 0:39:29.279 an expert on this, but I think there is a 0:39:29.360 --> 0:39:32.279 level of like how strong the magnet is. I do 0:39:32.400 --> 0:39:35.880 know that myself and my photographer, we you know, shoot 0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:38.640 TV stories and we use these little wireless mics that 0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:40.759 have a really strong magnet on the back because they 0:39:40.760 --> 0:39:43.320 can just click it to your shirt. And I always 0:39:43.680 --> 0:39:46.440 uh ask people like, hey, do you have any medical 0:39:46.560 --> 0:39:48.600 like things we need to know about before we clip 0:39:48.680 --> 0:39:50.280 this thing too? Is it okay to put a magnet 0:39:50.280 --> 0:39:53.799 on your chest? Whatever? So it's something that I think 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:57.680 that is prevalent in this kind of thought process. I 0:39:57.719 --> 0:39:59.600 don't have the answer for you, Mike, but I will 0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:01.759 ask the the guy we had on last Jared. I'll 0:40:01.760 --> 0:40:03.520 send him an email and see what he says about that. 0:40:03.600 --> 0:40:05.600 Now, that would be fantastic because I don't hear a 0:40:05.680 --> 0:40:09.040 but even at the airport, I don't recall seeing anything 0:40:09.040 --> 0:40:10.840 if you have a pacemaker or something like that, because 0:40:11.080 --> 0:40:13.160 I don't even think if you got wanded and you 0:40:13.280 --> 0:40:15.640 just have to do the old, good old fashioned at down, 0:40:15.719 --> 0:40:19.440 which is fine by me. Obviously you don't want to 0:40:19.480 --> 0:40:22.719 mess with a pacemaker with electronics or magnetics. And as 0:40:22.760 --> 0:40:25.560 you said, driving on a road to recharge a car, 0:40:25.680 --> 0:40:30.000 you probably have magnetics go lore and well they better 0:40:30.080 --> 0:40:32.480 set up detours before I hit that road, you know, 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:33.360 or anyone like me? 0:40:33.640 --> 0:40:35.880 Absolutely, I mean, well, what is what does your doctor 0:40:35.920 --> 0:40:37.880 say have they you know, when they put this thing in, 0:40:37.920 --> 0:40:40.319 do they say like, hey, be careful around this or that, 0:40:40.520 --> 0:40:42.080 or do they exactly. 0:40:42.160 --> 0:40:44.880 It was maybe a five minute conversation right after I 0:40:44.920 --> 0:40:48.279 came to from the surgery and all of that. No 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:52.400 more magnetics, no more this. You can't, No, MRI, you 0:40:52.440 --> 0:40:54.520 cannot get wanded at the airport. 0:40:54.640 --> 0:40:54.960 You can't. 0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:58.080 Then I got it, and uh, well, where I work, 0:40:58.160 --> 0:41:00.200 it helps to have a pocketed T shirt. That's where 0:41:00.200 --> 0:41:03.120 I keep the cell phone, and it's like a thousand 0:41:03.200 --> 0:41:06.879 percent full pocket, and T shirts have the pocket over 0:41:06.920 --> 0:41:10.799 the heart. In fact, even some companies make a pacemaker 0:41:10.800 --> 0:41:13.480 friendly T shirt. All they do is shift the pocket 0:41:13.480 --> 0:41:16.120 to the other side. To me, that's still a little 0:41:16.120 --> 0:41:19.360 too close to the device. So I just wear a 0:41:19.360 --> 0:41:21.400 harness and keep the thing up to the side, and 0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:22.520 that's the best I can do. 0:41:22.800 --> 0:41:23.400 Wow. 0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:27.439 But the thing, the trend getting everything getting electronic and 0:41:27.719 --> 0:41:31.520 chargeable and chargeable on the go. I think that's fantastic, 0:41:31.640 --> 0:41:33.759 But you know, I got to see if it's safe 0:41:33.760 --> 0:41:34.000 for me. 0:41:34.400 --> 0:41:36.799 Yeah. Well, good question and good thing for them to 0:41:36.840 --> 0:41:40.520 think about as they keep things in mind. I've also heard, 0:41:40.560 --> 0:41:42.799 you know, the electric cars. I'm curious, like you know, 0:41:42.840 --> 0:41:45.359 that could be an issue too, so but I'm sure 0:41:45.400 --> 0:41:47.759 plenty of people have pacemakers that drive those as well. 0:41:47.760 --> 0:41:51.520 But always consideration with any of this kind of stuff, 0:41:52.200 --> 0:41:53.799 and a lot of it falls on you, I guess. 0:41:53.840 --> 0:41:55.200 I mean a lot of it just falls on the 0:41:55.200 --> 0:42:01.160 person that has whatever medical condition or whatever medical you know, 0:42:02.120 --> 0:42:06.080 procedure or instrument in their body. I guess it comes 0:42:06.080 --> 0:42:08.120 to them to like kind of be aware of this stuff. 0:42:08.120 --> 0:42:10.120 And like you said, with the wanding and things like that. 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:13.000 But great question, Mike, and I will pass it along 0:42:13.040 --> 0:42:16.680 to Jarrett to see what he says about that. This 0:42:16.760 --> 0:42:20.400 is you know, we hear about AI so much Google 0:42:20.440 --> 0:42:23.040 This week. Google had a bunch of news this week. 0:42:23.280 --> 0:42:26.359 They had this really super fast computer chip and now 0:42:26.360 --> 0:42:30.240 they've got this new Gemini AI. So Gemini is Google's 0:42:30.360 --> 0:42:33.720 version of AI. And I've said this before, but Google 0:42:33.880 --> 0:42:36.759 is pretty much they are feeling the heat right now. 0:42:37.120 --> 0:42:39.879 Because I was thinking about this the other day because 0:42:39.880 --> 0:42:42.200 I've been using chatchibt now ever since they added the 0:42:42.239 --> 0:42:45.440 web search. It's really really good. Now it's not perfect, 0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:48.840 but it's still pretty good that you can now search 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:52.799 the web with chatch ebt. But now, you know, so 0:42:52.880 --> 0:42:55.040 Google is definitely feeling the heat. So they have been 0:42:55.080 --> 0:42:56.680 I don't know if you've noticed, but Google's kind of 0:42:56.680 --> 0:43:00.160 been ramping things up, especially in the AI department. They've 0:43:00.200 --> 0:43:02.680 been working on AI for a very long time, but 0:43:02.800 --> 0:43:04.839 now they seem to have new products all the time 0:43:04.880 --> 0:43:06.880 with their AI. So this new one this week is 0:43:06.920 --> 0:43:12.160 called deep Research, and this is basically an AI powered 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:16.480 tool that will perform web based research for you and 0:43:16.520 --> 0:43:19.719 create a report. And I watched this thing work. The 0:43:20.160 --> 0:43:25.239 idea is that the AI can control your Internet and 0:43:25.360 --> 0:43:27.239 just go and browse the Internet for you and create 0:43:27.239 --> 0:43:31.319 a report. So, for instance, I asked it to make 0:43:31.400 --> 0:43:35.040 me a report on a topic and let's see if 0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:39.520 I can find it. I made like a So you 0:43:39.560 --> 0:43:40.960 have to go You have to be paying for this, 0:43:41.000 --> 0:43:43.160 by the way, so you have to go into it's 0:43:43.160 --> 0:43:46.760 called Deep Research. You go into Gemini Advance with Deep Research, 0:43:47.280 --> 0:43:51.720 and you can say, draft me a report on the 0:43:51.800 --> 0:43:57.520 prevalence of UFOs over the past decade in the US, 0:43:58.400 --> 0:44:01.200 and it will literally go on to the internet search 0:44:01.400 --> 0:44:05.560 all these different sites and it will show you what 0:44:05.600 --> 0:44:08.560 it's doing. So I have to press start research. So 0:44:08.600 --> 0:44:11.719 it's going to say, okay, find reports from reputable news 0:44:11.760 --> 0:44:15.880 organizations and scientific journals, find data and statistics, and it 0:44:15.960 --> 0:44:20.399 literally when I press start research, it shows me the 0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:23.960 internet as it's searching the internet. So it's going off 0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:26.319 on the web. And now this is AI searching the 0:44:26.360 --> 0:44:30.640 web and compiling all this information and then generating a report. 0:44:31.440 --> 0:44:33.440 And here it is. It's now it's going to YouTube. 0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:37.960 It went to History dot Com, went to some government websites, CIA, 0:44:38.480 --> 0:44:40.840 went to the BBC, went to the Pentagon's showing me 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:44.200 all the websites that it is visiting right now, Reddit 0:44:45.200 --> 0:44:47.879 map of UFO sightings around the world. And then once 0:44:47.920 --> 0:44:50.920 it does all this, so it says researching thirty one websites. 0:44:51.719 --> 0:44:54.520 It's going to collect all that information and then draft 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:57.520 a report that I can put into Google Docs. I mean, 0:44:57.600 --> 0:45:00.640 this is what we did in school. And by the way, 0:45:00.760 --> 0:45:03.400 all the sites, you know, they put that little you know, 0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:04.960 you have to cite all your stuff at the bottom 0:45:04.960 --> 0:45:06.520 of the report, like where do you get this info? 0:45:06.760 --> 0:45:08.840 It will put all that in there as well, so 0:45:08.920 --> 0:45:11.759 now AI can do your research for you. Now, my 0:45:11.880 --> 0:45:13.960 kids struggle with this stuff because you know, they're in 0:45:14.040 --> 0:45:16.760 school and they've got to do all kinds of stuff, 0:45:16.760 --> 0:45:18.120 and they're like, Dad, do you think it's okay if 0:45:18.120 --> 0:45:20.080 I use AI for this, Dad, Do you think it's okay? 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:23.359 If I proofread with AI, I say go for it. 0:45:23.719 --> 0:45:27.240 Because AI is now rst lne. You ever watch Wheel 0:45:27.239 --> 0:45:30.200 of Fortune? What are the first letters people choose? Rst Lene. 0:45:30.600 --> 0:45:33.160 It's the table stakes and everything, every puzzle that they 0:45:33.160 --> 0:45:36.319 solve Wheel of Fortune gives that to you now, and 0:45:36.400 --> 0:45:39.000 so now it's like that's a given, you're gonna get 0:45:39.040 --> 0:45:42.479 those letters. Everyone in the world has access to AI now, 0:45:42.920 --> 0:45:45.640 so you have to move beyond that, and you have 0:45:45.680 --> 0:45:48.320 to use that to your advantage. So if you're scared 0:45:48.360 --> 0:45:51.799 of AI, you're intimidated by it, you're not using it. 0:45:51.880 --> 0:45:53.840 You think you're better than it, you think that you 0:45:53.880 --> 0:45:56.759 shouldn't be using it because it's cheating all. Throw all 0:45:56.760 --> 0:46:00.880 that out the window. Everyone is using it, Everyone is 0:46:00.960 --> 0:46:04.719 using it, Everyone has it as a tool. So if 0:46:04.719 --> 0:46:07.400 you're not using it, you're actually put at a disadvantage. 0:46:07.560 --> 0:46:09.080 If you're sitting here trying to come up with this 0:46:09.200 --> 0:46:11.799 UFO report on your own, Sure you can do that, 0:46:12.000 --> 0:46:14.839 and I understand at the base level you should know 0:46:14.880 --> 0:46:17.520 how to do that. But then once you know how, 0:46:18.040 --> 0:46:19.640 you can let these tools do it, and you have 0:46:19.680 --> 0:46:22.440 to build upon that eyda to eight rich one O 0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:25.440 one eight eight eight seven four to two four to 0:46:25.440 --> 0:46:28.600 one zero one. The website rich on Tech dot tv. 0:46:28.920 --> 0:46:31.480 If you're right back, welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:46:31.560 --> 0:46:35.080 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:46:35.480 --> 0:46:38.279 triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:46:38.760 --> 0:46:42.120 seven four two four one zero one. You can find 0:46:42.120 --> 0:46:44.880 me on social media. I am at rich on Tech. 0:46:45.400 --> 0:46:49.719 I'm active on Instagram, I'm active on Facebook and X 0:46:50.320 --> 0:46:52.800 Trying to get into the blue sky thing. It's proving 0:46:52.800 --> 0:46:54.720 to be a little tough because it's kind of boring 0:46:54.800 --> 0:46:56.680 right now. I'll be honest, There's there's not a lot 0:46:56.719 --> 0:46:59.319 going on in there, but you know it's growing, so 0:46:59.440 --> 0:47:03.080 we'll see. Let's go to Jimmy in Los Angeles. Jimmy, 0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:04.040 you're on with rich. 0:47:06.600 --> 0:47:06.960 Jimmy. 0:47:07.080 --> 0:47:09.520 Hey, Hey, how you doing. 0:47:09.560 --> 0:47:13.399 Hey? My name is Jimmy Day. And sometimes when I'm 0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:15.920 talking on a cell phone like i'm talking now, I 0:47:16.080 --> 0:47:19.800 run into a few the podcasts or videos on woodworking 0:47:20.040 --> 0:47:23.160 and metallurgy metal working, and what I want to know 0:47:23.320 --> 0:47:28.040 is how can I transfer those to my desktop video, 0:47:28.280 --> 0:47:29.720 I mean desktop computer. 0:47:30.600 --> 0:47:34.080 So the podcasts or the videos. 0:47:33.719 --> 0:47:35.640 That I'm looking at on my cell phone. How can 0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:37.800 I transfer that to my desktop computer? 0:47:38.040 --> 0:47:38.200 Oh? 0:47:38.239 --> 0:47:40.120 The videos okay, so like on YouTube or what? 0:47:41.360 --> 0:47:41.480 Uh? 0:47:41.760 --> 0:47:43.440 Most of them are on YouTube somewhere on. 0:47:45.360 --> 0:47:45.760 Google. 0:47:46.280 --> 0:47:50.360 Okay, well typically, so I mean you probably want to 0:47:50.360 --> 0:47:53.719 access them. There are various third party tools that can 0:47:53.800 --> 0:47:57.560 download videos. Many of them operate in sort of a 0:47:57.600 --> 0:48:02.040 gray area. But there is a website called Cobalt Tools 0:48:02.040 --> 0:48:05.239 c O B A L T dot Tools, and that 0:48:05.280 --> 0:48:08.040 will let you pretty much download a video from almost 0:48:08.040 --> 0:48:16.799 any website including Blue Sky, daily Motion, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, YouTube, 0:48:16.840 --> 0:48:21.240 I mean pretty much everything, Twitter, TikTok x, whatever it is, Vimeo. 0:48:21.800 --> 0:48:24.520 So if you paste the link into that website, it 0:48:24.560 --> 0:48:29.160 will generate a download. And so it's called Cobalt Tools 0:48:29.360 --> 0:48:32.640 co O B A L T dot Tools. Now, the 0:48:32.760 --> 0:48:35.480 tool is not illegal in any way. I mean you could, 0:48:35.600 --> 0:48:37.440 you know, you can use this to download your own 0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:41.080 videos or whatever. It's it's depends on sort of the 0:48:41.080 --> 0:48:43.759 copyright of the video and the gray area that it's 0:48:43.800 --> 0:48:47.799 operating in when it comes to what you're downloading. So 0:48:48.000 --> 0:48:49.719 you have to you know, go by that with what 0:48:49.760 --> 0:48:51.040 you're you know, if you're just using it for your 0:48:51.040 --> 0:48:53.960 own personal stuff, you know, you got to figure out 0:48:54.000 --> 0:48:56.000 what the rules and regulations are around that. But that's 0:48:56.000 --> 0:48:58.600 the best way to do it. Cobalt Tools, uh, and 0:48:58.640 --> 0:49:01.960 it's Cobalt dot Tools. And this is a really really 0:49:02.040 --> 0:49:04.920 handy website. You can do video, you can do audio, 0:49:05.120 --> 0:49:07.440 and like I said, it works with almost every major 0:49:07.960 --> 0:49:11.680 video and audio website out there. So pretty simple, pretty easy. 0:49:12.040 --> 0:49:14.560 That's what I would recommend. Jimmy, Thanks for the call, 0:49:14.640 --> 0:49:18.120 appreciate it. Eighty eight Rich one oh one eight eight 0:49:18.200 --> 0:49:21.760 eight seven four two four one zero one. Talking earlier 0:49:21.840 --> 0:49:27.200 about the price increases on YouTube TV, Danny writes in 0:49:27.239 --> 0:49:30.040 from Charlotte, North Carolina. I said, Hey, Rich, I have 0:49:30.719 --> 0:49:33.720 I used TVO and have for over twenty three years. 0:49:33.760 --> 0:49:36.480 Still works for me. I have a four tuner model 0:49:36.600 --> 0:49:39.920 and yes, sometimes record over the air four channels at 0:49:39.920 --> 0:49:44.120 the same time. There you go, Danny, and Charlotte says 0:49:44.120 --> 0:49:47.440 that TVO still works. Michael in Sherman Oaks says Ota 0:49:47.680 --> 0:49:53.320 DVR lives. Hey Rich alone with Tableau, whose fourth generation 0:49:54.040 --> 0:49:56.640 products are a great way to DVR over the air. 0:49:57.040 --> 0:49:59.640 TVO still does have their Bolt models or even better, 0:50:00.200 --> 0:50:03.600 Zapperbox has an over the air DVR that not only 0:50:03.640 --> 0:50:07.160 records regular TV, but also the new ATSC three point 0:50:07.239 --> 0:50:10.759 zero next gen broadcasts. That's uh yeah, that's like a 0:50:10.760 --> 0:50:13.200 whole new thing. Hasn't taken off as much as I'm 0:50:13.200 --> 0:50:16.160 sure the broadcasters have wanted, but I also haven't really 0:50:16.200 --> 0:50:20.800 seen it promoted as much. But yes, the next gen broadcast, 0:50:20.880 --> 0:50:22.959 A lot of the channels are broadcasting in this new 0:50:23.560 --> 0:50:28.960 format that uh, I guess has more data with the show. 0:50:29.560 --> 0:50:32.720 So it's it allows you to do some different things, 0:50:32.760 --> 0:50:35.040 you know, like almost like interactive TV, where they can 0:50:35.040 --> 0:50:37.799 see if you're watching, they know if you've seen an AD. 0:50:37.840 --> 0:50:39.920 It's kind of like a two way thing versus just 0:50:40.320 --> 0:50:43.640 you know, broadcast, which is just one way. So the 0:50:44.000 --> 0:50:47.000 broadcasters like that. But and then I saw some of 0:50:47.040 --> 0:50:50.839 these boxes at CES that take in the signal, and yes, 0:50:50.880 --> 0:50:53.440 a lot of them have DVRs built in. But also 0:50:53.480 --> 0:50:56.080 I think that the broadcasters can control that as well, 0:50:56.120 --> 0:50:57.680 like they can decide if they want you to be 0:50:57.680 --> 0:51:00.160 able to DVR or not. Don't quote me on that, 0:51:00.239 --> 0:51:02.440 but I think that's what they were saying. But if 0:51:02.480 --> 0:51:04.600 you want to learn about ats C three point oh, 0:51:04.600 --> 0:51:08.400 I think let's see what's what's the website at s 0:51:08.480 --> 0:51:11.920 C three point h uh. I thought it was like 0:51:12.040 --> 0:51:14.760 next gen TV dot com or something, but it's at 0:51:14.920 --> 0:51:19.400 sc dot org. That's the Broadcast Standards Association, so you 0:51:19.440 --> 0:51:23.480 can check that out. Let's see here. Let's go to 0:51:23.560 --> 0:51:28.200 Jerry Jerry and Palace Verdes. Jerry, you're on with Rich Hi. 0:51:28.760 --> 0:51:33.319 Uh I thowt the tenth generation ipada, you know, on 0:51:33.440 --> 0:51:38.040 Black Friday, and for some reason, the I download the 0:51:38.280 --> 0:51:45.719 countour which is the Cox cable ad, and the iPad 0:51:45.760 --> 0:51:49.640 doesn't allow me to use that for some reason. You 0:51:49.880 --> 0:51:51.640 any news for that? 0:51:52.000 --> 0:51:54.360 Does? It lets you down it lets you download it, 0:51:54.360 --> 0:51:55.160 but it doesn't let. 0:51:55.120 --> 0:51:55.440 You use it. 0:51:55.840 --> 0:51:59.359 I downloaded, but it doesn't work well. 0:51:59.560 --> 0:52:01.239 I it real life. 0:52:01.880 --> 0:52:03.560 Yeah, I'm looking. 0:52:03.320 --> 0:52:04.120 At I called it. 0:52:04.200 --> 0:52:04.520 Yeah. 0:52:04.680 --> 0:52:08.359 I called a cable company. They wanted ten dollars per month, 0:52:09.200 --> 0:52:13.239 and I say, you Daniel alternative. They told me you 0:52:13.320 --> 0:52:17.120 have to talk to a hebh. That's strange. 0:52:17.239 --> 0:52:19.560 Okay. So they want ten dollars a month to to 0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:23.799 to add this feature to your to your service. Okay, yeah, 0:52:23.800 --> 0:52:27.560 because it looks like it works on oh you know what, 0:52:28.000 --> 0:52:30.479 it doesn't say anything about Oh it does say iPhone okay, 0:52:30.480 --> 0:52:33.280 so it says iPhone and iPad iOS fourteen or higher. 0:52:34.760 --> 0:52:37.759 But it looks like I'd have to look at this, 0:52:38.000 --> 0:52:40.560 but I have to see if you if you need 0:52:40.600 --> 0:52:44.279 to pay extra to use this, I'll look at this 0:52:44.360 --> 0:52:45.960 and then talk about it on the way back from 0:52:45.960 --> 0:52:47.520 the break. Coming up, we're going to talk about deep 0:52:47.520 --> 0:52:50.319 fakes right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:52:50.400 --> 0:52:52.520 rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, 0:52:52.640 --> 0:52:57.799 talking technology. Phone lines are open eighty eight rich one 0:52:57.840 --> 0:53:01.239 one eight eight eight seven four four one zero one. 0:53:02.040 --> 0:53:04.319 My friend Diana did the music for this week's show, 0:53:04.440 --> 0:53:07.959 keeping things mellow, like real mellow like I usually am doing, 0:53:08.040 --> 0:53:11.040 like you know, I'm usually choosing like the you know, 0:53:11.080 --> 0:53:15.120 mood booster stuff, but this is mellow. Before the break, 0:53:15.160 --> 0:53:19.120 we had Jerry and Palas Verdes ask about Contour, this 0:53:19.200 --> 0:53:23.160 app for cocks. It looks like the app is free, 0:53:23.200 --> 0:53:26.360 but depending on what you can do, you know, depending 0:53:26.400 --> 0:53:30.200 on your your subscription through COS that determines what you 0:53:30.280 --> 0:53:32.439 can do on this app. So you might be able 0:53:32.440 --> 0:53:35.359 to download it to your iPad, but depending on what 0:53:35.480 --> 0:53:38.759 you have on your subscription, that determines if you can 0:53:39.000 --> 0:53:43.000 watch live TV or stream or manage your DVR. So 0:53:43.080 --> 0:53:45.279 it all depends and that's sort of like, you know 0:53:45.400 --> 0:53:47.319 what I was talking about earlier with the whole cable thing. 0:53:47.360 --> 0:53:49.000 You know, it's like it gets confusing because it's all 0:53:49.000 --> 0:53:52.160 about the package that you subscribe to. So that's probably 0:53:52.160 --> 0:53:55.359 why you're having issues with that on your iPad. All right, 0:53:55.719 --> 0:53:59.160 Joining me now, Perry Carpenter, cybersecurity expert, has a new 0:53:59.160 --> 0:54:02.640 book called Fake, A Practical Guide to Living in a 0:54:02.680 --> 0:54:09.080 World of Deep Fakes, different disinformation, and AI generated deceptions. Perry, 0:54:09.160 --> 0:54:10.919 thanks for joining me, Welcome to the show. 0:54:12.120 --> 0:54:13.400 Yeah, thanks so much for having me. 0:54:13.680 --> 0:54:15.759 So what was the reason for writing the book? What 0:54:16.239 --> 0:54:18.799 trend did you see happening that you figured people needed 0:54:18.840 --> 0:54:19.479 to know more about. 0:54:20.680 --> 0:54:24.560 Well, I think the trend is fairly obvious. Over the 0:54:24.640 --> 0:54:28.080 past two plus years, there's been a huge surge and 0:54:28.800 --> 0:54:33.160 AI generated stuff out there because of this whole field 0:54:33.160 --> 0:54:36.880 of generative AI, which is what chat, GPT and all 0:54:37.000 --> 0:54:41.200 the image generation technologies and video generation technologies that we're 0:54:41.239 --> 0:54:46.160 seeing falls under and that was creating a lot of questions, confusion, 0:54:47.040 --> 0:54:51.160 and then also excitement about what the future is. And 0:54:51.360 --> 0:54:55.239 the book was all around really giving people the right 0:54:55.320 --> 0:54:58.239 terminology to be able to talk about it, helping them 0:54:58.400 --> 0:55:04.719 understand what the opportunities are, what the dangers are, how 0:55:04.760 --> 0:55:07.000 it's going to be taken advantage of and is being 0:55:07.040 --> 0:55:10.799 taken advantage of by cyber criminals and disinformation artists, and 0:55:10.840 --> 0:55:13.480 then how to fortify our minds to deal with the 0:55:13.520 --> 0:55:15.320 new reality that we're all stepping into. 0:55:15.920 --> 0:55:18.920 So give me an example of what these people are 0:55:18.960 --> 0:55:20.479 doing with AI to trick us. 0:55:21.920 --> 0:55:25.640 Yeah, I mean the examples are many. So when you 0:55:25.719 --> 0:55:28.920 think about deep fakes that gets in this area that 0:55:28.960 --> 0:55:33.200 we call synthetic media, which is just computer generated media 0:55:33.840 --> 0:55:36.439 and by media that could be text. So if you've 0:55:36.520 --> 0:55:41.640 used chat, GPT, that's an example. Images things like Dolly 0:55:41.719 --> 0:55:44.399 and mid Journey and Stable Diffusion or programs that people 0:55:44.440 --> 0:55:49.160 are fairly aware of there, and then video and voice 0:55:49.840 --> 0:55:53.480 and of course in election cycles what we've been like 0:55:53.560 --> 0:55:56.160 what we have been in there was a lot of 0:55:56.200 --> 0:56:00.840 that for political purposes, and then in just well generally 0:56:00.880 --> 0:56:04.200 having fun and being on the Internet. There's lots of 0:56:04.280 --> 0:56:06.920 examples of that. But if we flash back to something 0:56:06.960 --> 0:56:11.399 that's a little bit old news right now. During the 0:56:11.440 --> 0:56:15.680 primary season for this presidential election, in the New Hampshire primary, 0:56:15.800 --> 0:56:20.080 somebody created a deep fake audio of Joe Biden's voice 0:56:20.560 --> 0:56:23.959 and put that on a robocall circuit to call people 0:56:24.000 --> 0:56:26.120 around and say, you don't need to go out and 0:56:26.239 --> 0:56:28.960 vote in the primary today, And. 0:56:28.920 --> 0:56:31.520 We talked about that story. I totally remember that, Yeah. 0:56:32.400 --> 0:56:36.000 Yeah, and the voice was pretty good. It's not the 0:56:36.040 --> 0:56:39.239 best version of that that I have heard. But the 0:56:39.400 --> 0:56:43.680 thing that makes this an interesting example is that every 0:56:43.880 --> 0:56:47.960 deep fake, when it's intended for something other than fun, 0:56:48.440 --> 0:56:52.120 every deep fake, every bit of disinformation, every scam is 0:56:52.320 --> 0:56:57.160 after either two things or both money or mimes. And 0:56:57.440 --> 0:57:02.680 in this what they were after really is making people 0:57:02.719 --> 0:57:05.080 who would have voted for Joe Biden in the primary 0:57:05.239 --> 0:57:08.640 sit out. And we would immediately think, well, that that 0:57:08.680 --> 0:57:12.200 means that's a Republican challenger that was doing that. That 0:57:12.360 --> 0:57:15.120 was you know, somebody on the other side was doing that. 0:57:15.480 --> 0:57:18.120 Turns out it was actually another Democrat, but it was 0:57:18.960 --> 0:57:21.720 somebody that was on that party that was trying to 0:57:21.800 --> 0:57:24.440 challenge Joe Biden in the primary because they wanted their 0:57:24.520 --> 0:57:27.040 name on the ticket. So the thing that makes that 0:57:27.080 --> 0:57:28.880 really interesting to me is that there's, you know, that 0:57:29.000 --> 0:57:32.720 multifaceted aspect and trying to understand the motivations of the 0:57:32.720 --> 0:57:37.200 people that create these these bits of disinformation, propaganda, or 0:57:37.600 --> 0:57:38.600 just scam material. 0:57:38.920 --> 0:57:43.160 So I guess it depends on so the the products themselves, 0:57:43.440 --> 0:57:46.040 Like a deep fake is not necessarily illegal, but I 0:57:46.080 --> 0:57:48.080 guess it's how it's done or what it's used for, 0:57:48.080 --> 0:57:50.720 because I know we've seen stories about you know, teenagers 0:57:50.720 --> 0:57:55.040 in high schools are making deep fakes, usually sexually explicit 0:57:55.160 --> 0:57:59.800 deep fakes of fellow students, and that's obviously a used 0:57:59.800 --> 0:58:01.400 to is not good. 0:58:02.680 --> 0:58:07.360 Yeah, there's uh, I mean every people think of yeah, 0:58:07.400 --> 0:58:12.920 they should because at that point, you're you're defaming people, 0:58:13.080 --> 0:58:18.360 you're also creating a fraud, You're I mean, there's so 0:58:18.440 --> 0:58:21.840 many things that are wrapped into that. But it's like 0:58:21.920 --> 0:58:25.520 any technology, any technology can be used for good or bad. 0:58:25.600 --> 0:58:27.680 And what I say over and over and over in 0:58:27.720 --> 0:58:31.800 the book is that every tool wields, every tool will 0:58:31.800 --> 0:58:34.760 mold to the hand and intention of the person who's 0:58:34.800 --> 0:58:39.360 picking it up. And deep fake technology, uh is like that. 0:58:40.400 --> 0:58:44.360 When when you look at what this country and the 0:58:44.400 --> 0:58:46.880 world is trying to deal with right now, it is 0:58:46.920 --> 0:58:49.720 the fact that there is that dual nature and we 0:58:49.760 --> 0:58:57.440 can create really interesting, good, productive, creative uses for AI 0:58:57.640 --> 0:59:03.200 technology that will their humanity and help people thrive. At 0:59:03.200 --> 0:59:05.680 the same time, it can become a cudgel, it can 0:59:05.720 --> 0:59:09.880 become a weapon, it can become a tool of disinformation 0:59:10.400 --> 0:59:14.560 or a tool that scam artists go to. And so 0:59:14.640 --> 0:59:19.320 when you look at the ability to curtail that darker 0:59:19.480 --> 0:59:22.600 use of it, that's what people are really struggling with. 0:59:22.960 --> 0:59:25.200 And in California, of course, there were a couple of 0:59:25.560 --> 0:59:28.280 bills that were passed prior to the to the election, 0:59:29.640 --> 0:59:33.160 and what those bills were really trying to struggle with 0:59:33.280 --> 0:59:36.600 is that dual use. They were trying to protect things 0:59:36.720 --> 0:59:42.800 like you know, good use and parity and even you know, 0:59:42.880 --> 0:59:47.919 the cynical, sarcastic use of these for political commentary, while 0:59:47.960 --> 0:59:51.640 at the same time recognizing the fact that people would 0:59:51.680 --> 0:59:55.280 weaponize deep fake technology to try to trick people and 0:59:55.360 --> 0:59:57.920 what they came to, which I think is a good start, 0:59:57.920 --> 1:00:00.840 but it's not all the way. There is that for 1:00:01.000 --> 1:00:04.160 social media platforms that are over a certain revenue threshold 1:00:04.280 --> 1:00:08.880 and have a certain user account, if they are alerted 1:00:08.920 --> 1:00:13.520 to or discover a use of the technology. You know, 1:00:13.520 --> 1:00:16.000 a piece of deep fake technology like a video or 1:00:16.040 --> 1:00:19.520 audio clip or an image, if it is if its 1:00:19.600 --> 1:00:23.880 purpose is intended to deceive. They have seventy two hours 1:00:23.880 --> 1:00:26.000 to take it down, So I call that. 1:00:25.960 --> 1:00:26.600 A good start. 1:00:26.720 --> 1:00:28.720 Their their hearts are are in the right place, but 1:00:28.800 --> 1:00:31.880 seventy two hours is an entire news cycle, and people 1:00:31.920 --> 1:00:36.439 will make actions and build belief systems based on that 1:00:36.680 --> 1:00:40.439 way before the chance to take it down ever rolls around. 1:00:40.520 --> 1:00:43.520 So it's a good start. But more than anything, it 1:00:43.560 --> 1:00:45.880 points into the direction of the fact that this is 1:00:45.920 --> 1:00:47.600 something we're going to wrestle with well. 1:00:47.640 --> 1:00:50.960 And as a journalist, you know, I've been a journalist 1:00:50.960 --> 1:00:53.720 for many, many years, and it used to be that 1:00:53.800 --> 1:00:57.800 people would turn to folks like myself for like, you know, 1:00:57.920 --> 1:01:00.480 vetted information, and I would post something on my Facebook 1:01:00.480 --> 1:01:02.560 and people would know, like, oh, that's rich and you know, 1:01:02.600 --> 1:01:04.720 he works for a major news outlet and obviously he's 1:01:04.720 --> 1:01:07.120 posting stuff that's real. But then I saw in the 1:01:07.160 --> 1:01:10.040 past couple of years people questioning even stuff that I'm posting, 1:01:10.480 --> 1:01:12.840 you know, is this real? Is this are you for 1:01:12.920 --> 1:01:15.840 real here? Which is just wild because that's now everything, 1:01:15.880 --> 1:01:18.480 you know, Like when I'm scrolling on social media, the 1:01:18.560 --> 1:01:20.720 first thing that comes to mind with every single video 1:01:21.040 --> 1:01:24.200 or image I see is is this real? And so 1:01:25.080 --> 1:01:26.920 how are we going, and I know they've got like 1:01:27.040 --> 1:01:29.160 water marks and all this a but there's always going 1:01:29.200 --> 1:01:31.880 to be ways around these things. So what is kind 1:01:31.880 --> 1:01:35.040 of the bottom line here is that are we kind 1:01:35.080 --> 1:01:37.720 of like we have to understand what to look out for. 1:01:39.280 --> 1:01:42.160 I think you're onto it, So I'm really glad you 1:01:42.200 --> 1:01:45.600 said that even though there's watermarks and other technologies, there's 1:01:45.640 --> 1:01:49.440 always ways around it, because there are, and those will 1:01:49.480 --> 1:01:53.000 be effective a percentage of the time, but we can't 1:01:53.040 --> 1:01:57.120 count on those. And so what I really advocate for 1:01:57.520 --> 1:02:01.320 is just this idea of cognitive security, And that's the 1:02:01.440 --> 1:02:05.000 mental piece of this, because technology, as good as it is, 1:02:05.120 --> 1:02:08.960 is never going to protect us from these things. They 1:02:09.000 --> 1:02:11.360 will slip into our social media feed they will get 1:02:11.360 --> 1:02:14.360 into our inbox, they will get into our text messages 1:02:14.720 --> 1:02:19.520 and so on. Because the people that are out there 1:02:19.640 --> 1:02:24.920 using these creating weaponized information with them, they're persistent and 1:02:24.960 --> 1:02:27.360 so it will get to us and they're not playing. 1:02:27.080 --> 1:02:27.720 By the rules. 1:02:28.480 --> 1:02:33.280 No, not exactly. So even when open AI or anybody 1:02:33.280 --> 1:02:37.120 else develops really good robust water marking, somebody will just 1:02:37.320 --> 1:02:40.800 use a different tool set that doesn't have that, or 1:02:40.840 --> 1:02:44.040 they'll find the way around, and then they'll weaponize that information, 1:02:44.400 --> 1:02:47.720 so we cannot rely on that, and I think we 1:02:47.800 --> 1:02:50.800 do a disservice to the population when we say, oh, 1:02:50.840 --> 1:02:53.120 you'll always be able to tell that something's a deep 1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:57.320 fake because of X, Y and Z. Instead, like you, 1:02:57.680 --> 1:03:03.320 I am directionally pushed people towards asking critical questions like 1:03:03.880 --> 1:03:06.400 why did this piece of media land in front of me? 1:03:07.000 --> 1:03:09.920 What story is it trying to tell? What emotion is 1:03:09.960 --> 1:03:13.160 it trying to invoke? And then ultimately what does it 1:03:13.200 --> 1:03:16.160 want me to do or believe? And when I ask 1:03:16.320 --> 1:03:19.520 those critical questions, for me, it doesn't matter if the 1:03:19.520 --> 1:03:21.800 thing that landed in front of me is real or fake. 1:03:22.560 --> 1:03:27.560 It starts to unpack the broader implications of it, because 1:03:28.240 --> 1:03:30.680 we were moving into a world where a lot of 1:03:30.720 --> 1:03:33.880 what we see will be fake for some of that 1:03:34.000 --> 1:03:37.560 for legitimate reasons, just because the tools exist, and so 1:03:38.200 --> 1:03:40.720 being able to tell whether it's synthetically created or not 1:03:40.840 --> 1:03:44.760 is going to be marginally important, but not really the 1:03:44.840 --> 1:03:46.600 be all, end all tell that we need to be 1:03:46.640 --> 1:03:49.320 looking out for. We need to understand the narrative and 1:03:49.360 --> 1:03:50.280 the intention. 1:03:50.320 --> 1:03:52.280 And I imagine, Perry, We're going to leave it there, 1:03:52.280 --> 1:03:55.160 but I imagine that there will be degrees in this 1:03:55.240 --> 1:03:58.680 stuff and how to tell you know, be an expert 1:03:58.760 --> 1:04:00.640 in deep fakes and how to tell this stuff is 1:04:00.640 --> 1:04:01.000 really or not? 1:04:01.040 --> 1:04:01.320 All right. 1:04:01.320 --> 1:04:06.280 The book is called fake f a Ik. The website 1:04:06.320 --> 1:04:11.000 this book is fake faik dot com. Perry Carpenter, thanks 1:04:11.040 --> 1:04:11.840 so much for joining me. 1:04:12.680 --> 1:04:14.520 Thank you eight eight eight. 1:04:14.440 --> 1:04:16.480 Rich one O one. We'll get to those phone lines 1:04:16.520 --> 1:04:22.919 coming up right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:04:23.040 --> 1:04:26.800 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. 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Or you can just 1:04:54.280 --> 1:04:57.200 look for a show one O one and you'll see 1:04:57.320 --> 1:04:59.600 a nice list of everything that I mentioned here. 1:05:00.280 --> 1:05:00.440 Uh. 1:05:00.520 --> 1:05:04.360 Diana and Torrance has some feedback on the coxsapp. Diana, 1:05:04.400 --> 1:05:04.840 what's up? 1:05:05.880 --> 1:05:06.720 Hi, Rich? 1:05:07.400 --> 1:05:09.320 I was just calling in to give you my two 1:05:09.360 --> 1:05:14.320 cents based on my experience with that cocks app that 1:05:14.840 --> 1:05:23.919 your caller that you just from Palisferti contour, Yes, I 1:05:24.360 --> 1:05:27.600 I use, I downloaded and I used that app all 1:05:27.640 --> 1:05:31.560 the time on iPhones and an iPad airs. The iPad 1:05:31.600 --> 1:05:34.080 air I used is like a couple of years old. 1:05:34.440 --> 1:05:38.280 I know he mentioned he has a tenth generation iPad 1:05:38.320 --> 1:05:41.000 that he got from Black Friday. But so what I 1:05:41.040 --> 1:05:44.040 would say is my parents have the Cox table. They 1:05:44.040 --> 1:05:47.360 live in Palisberti's and I think he just needs to 1:05:47.360 --> 1:05:53.240 make sure that whatever his table subscription includes, the you know, 1:05:53.320 --> 1:05:55.280 allowed him to do the streaming. 1:05:54.920 --> 1:05:55.680 From that app. 1:05:55.880 --> 1:05:57.640 I think that's the main thing, is that because I 1:05:57.680 --> 1:06:01.960 was looking at you know, the environments is really iOS 1:06:02.080 --> 1:06:05.160 fourteen it says, which is like three, you know, four 1:06:05.240 --> 1:06:07.840 years old. So his iPad definitely runs that the tenth 1:06:07.880 --> 1:06:10.760 generation does. But I think what it comes down to is, 1:06:10.800 --> 1:06:13.400 like you said, what can you do with the subscription 1:06:13.520 --> 1:06:15.640 you have? You know you can't just like you can't 1:06:15.680 --> 1:06:17.640 just download this and expect it to work if you're 1:06:18.000 --> 1:06:20.480 I don't know if on a basic subscription or don't 1:06:20.520 --> 1:06:23.600 even subscribe to Cox, but how much are you pay 1:06:23.640 --> 1:06:24.960 in a month? For them, and what do you have 1:06:25.000 --> 1:06:26.800 to pay extra for this contour apples? 1:06:26.920 --> 1:06:27.480 Oh you know what? 1:06:27.680 --> 1:06:30.600 That I don't know for sure because it's my parents 1:06:30.680 --> 1:06:35.200 subscription and I don't have the breakdown, but I go 1:06:35.280 --> 1:06:38.080 there frequently and I kind of administer their stuff. So 1:06:38.120 --> 1:06:39.680 I'll have to take a look and see if that's 1:06:39.760 --> 1:06:41.920 like a I thought it was just included. 1:06:42.080 --> 1:06:44.000 Yeah, I mean you're yeah, I. 1:06:43.920 --> 1:06:45.720 Don't know if it's a separate item that you have 1:06:45.760 --> 1:06:46.520 to subscribe to. 1:06:46.760 --> 1:06:48.960 It's tough to get the information on their website. I'm 1:06:49.000 --> 1:06:52.200 looking at the Uh. The website doesn't really say like 1:06:52.320 --> 1:06:54.080 if you have to pay extra for it or if 1:06:54.120 --> 1:06:57.840 it's included. It doesn't say like it. Now here's the thing. Okay, 1:06:58.240 --> 1:07:01.520 So on the facts, it's says can I watch live 1:07:01.600 --> 1:07:06.160 TV out of home depending on your subscription. So it 1:07:06.280 --> 1:07:08.880 must be based on your subscription what you can do, 1:07:09.480 --> 1:07:10.120 because I've. 1:07:09.920 --> 1:07:12.560 Done that too, and I do watch the live TV 1:07:12.760 --> 1:07:15.400 when I'm at their house on their home network. 1:07:15.760 --> 1:07:15.880 Right. 1:07:15.960 --> 1:07:17.840 I also stream at when I'm on the go and 1:07:18.000 --> 1:07:19.520 not on their home network. 1:07:19.720 --> 1:07:21.959 Yeah, so and there's probably different rules for that too, 1:07:22.120 --> 1:07:23.400 So it all just depends. 1:07:23.400 --> 1:07:25.640 But okay, but check into it. 1:07:25.600 --> 1:07:28.040 And if I find out anything, I'll send you an 1:07:28.080 --> 1:07:29.080 email or something. 1:07:29.400 --> 1:07:31.560 All right, Dan, I appreciate it. My recorder on the 1:07:31.560 --> 1:07:34.760 ground there and tourans appreciate it today. Okay, thank you 1:07:34.960 --> 1:07:38.200 have a great one eighty eight rich one on one 1:07:38.320 --> 1:07:42.160 eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. 1:07:43.320 --> 1:07:46.720 Let's see here we've got David in Whittier. David, you're 1:07:46.760 --> 1:07:50.600 on with Rich Hi, Rich, I am doing great. What 1:07:50.640 --> 1:07:51.240 can I help with? 1:07:51.840 --> 1:07:54.160 Well, I had a little problem here. I had a 1:07:54.720 --> 1:08:01.680 I bought a satellite link from Startlingk's. The minimum is 1:08:01.760 --> 1:08:06.120 like fifty gigs per month, and which should be fine, 1:08:06.400 --> 1:08:10.840 But what I'm trying to do is get or create 1:08:11.520 --> 1:08:15.320 a security system. I had it with the telephone when 1:08:15.360 --> 1:08:18.280 I had access to a telephone out there five hundred 1:08:18.320 --> 1:08:22.160 miles away. But I don't have that anymore. So I 1:08:22.320 --> 1:08:25.760 bought the satellite service, and I didn't think far enough 1:08:25.800 --> 1:08:28.920 ahead to figure out how I can get it to 1:08:29.520 --> 1:08:32.000 What I really needed to do is just send me 1:08:32.080 --> 1:08:39.800 a notification and then connect the camera or cameras so 1:08:39.840 --> 1:08:44.919 I can see what's going on without having the cameras 1:08:45.000 --> 1:08:49.040 online all the time. And because I'm limited to fifty 1:08:49.080 --> 1:08:52.280 gigs a month, which is a lot, but I guess 1:08:52.400 --> 1:08:55.360 you're going if the camera got turned on and was 1:08:55.400 --> 1:08:57.840 going twenty four to seven, that might overrun that. 1:08:59.280 --> 1:09:01.760 Well, it depends on the camera. So most of these 1:09:01.760 --> 1:09:04.720 security cameras, they're not streaming twenty four to seven. They 1:09:04.800 --> 1:09:06.920 might be monitoring twenty four to seven, but they're not 1:09:06.960 --> 1:09:10.639 necessarily sending everything to the cloud. And so it depends 1:09:10.680 --> 1:09:13.880 on the camera that you have. And so you can 1:09:13.880 --> 1:09:16.360 get some cameras that will just send. So there's a 1:09:16.400 --> 1:09:22.080 brand out there called Kangaroo Ka and Ga Roo and 1:09:22.160 --> 1:09:25.040 so these cameras, you know, they can send you a 1:09:25.080 --> 1:09:28.280 snapshot of what they're seeing and then if you need to, 1:09:28.439 --> 1:09:32.040 you can stream in. And so that's like just one example, 1:09:32.080 --> 1:09:33.960 but there's the other one is called Blink. Have you 1:09:34.000 --> 1:09:35.519 looked at those cameras from Amazon? 1:09:36.840 --> 1:09:37.599 Was that blink? 1:09:37.760 --> 1:09:38.000 Yeah? 1:09:38.120 --> 1:09:38.479 Blink? 1:09:39.880 --> 1:09:40.040 No? 1:09:40.080 --> 1:09:40.519 I haven't. 1:09:40.640 --> 1:09:42.920 Yeah, So those cameras their whole thing, and Amazon I 1:09:42.960 --> 1:09:44.960 think paid like I don't know how much for this company, 1:09:45.000 --> 1:09:49.160 probably a billion dollars. But they their whole thing is 1:09:49.200 --> 1:09:52.479 that they invented a system where these phones are these 1:09:52.840 --> 1:09:56.280 these cameras last like a year on like two double 1:09:56.320 --> 1:09:59.599 A batteries, so they are certainly not streaming twenty four 1:09:59.640 --> 1:10:03.240 to seven, but they're monitoring twenty four to seven. If 1:10:03.240 --> 1:10:05.800 you have them connected to this star link, they will 1:10:05.800 --> 1:10:08.200 send you a snapshot of what they're seeing. 1:10:08.240 --> 1:10:08.400 You know. 1:10:08.439 --> 1:10:10.519 I think that's where the term blink came from, right, 1:10:11.160 --> 1:10:12.920 and so they'll send you a snapshot and then if 1:10:12.960 --> 1:10:15.840 you need to, you can get more and stream from 1:10:15.840 --> 1:10:19.320 that camera. So that's what I would look for, And 1:10:19.439 --> 1:10:21.519 you know, there's a bunch of cameras that can do this. 1:10:21.760 --> 1:10:24.840 I would say even the ring cameras, like my ring cameras, 1:10:24.880 --> 1:10:27.120 are not streaming up to the cloud twenty four to seven. 1:10:27.160 --> 1:10:29.360 Only two of them are because they're certain like they're 1:10:29.400 --> 1:10:32.800 connected hardwired. But the rest of them, they mostly they'll 1:10:32.840 --> 1:10:38.000 see the movement and then they trigger recording. So you know, 1:10:38.080 --> 1:10:40.400 unless you're getting one of these big systems like a 1:10:40.439 --> 1:10:42.680 Swan system or something like that, most of them are 1:10:42.720 --> 1:10:45.960 not twenty four to seven recording. The nest cams are. 1:10:46.320 --> 1:10:48.120 You can have them set up that way, but it 1:10:48.160 --> 1:10:50.479 all depends on the camera. So David, what are you 1:10:50.479 --> 1:10:51.160 trying to monitor? 1:10:52.360 --> 1:10:55.479 Just just the premises, just a vacation home. 1:10:55.760 --> 1:10:57.920 Okay, Yeah, I mean I think I would check into 1:10:57.920 --> 1:11:01.080 the Blink cameras first. I would also check into the 1:11:01.080 --> 1:11:07.280 Wise cameras wy Ze, and you know, both of those 1:11:07.280 --> 1:11:09.840 cameras will do exactly what you're saying. And the Wise 1:11:09.880 --> 1:11:12.120 cameras have an SD card so they can record the 1:11:12.160 --> 1:11:14.320 whole time to that card if you put up a 1:11:14.360 --> 1:11:18.160 solar panel. But you'll get those notifications when they see motion. 1:11:18.760 --> 1:11:22.040 Eighty eight Rich one O one Rich on tech dot TV. 1:11:22.240 --> 1:11:27.200 Back after this Rich on tech Rich Tamiro here hanging 1:11:27.240 --> 1:11:30.240 out with you. We should have played this song after 1:11:30.960 --> 1:11:34.200 In our interview the deep fakes man Elvis was talking 1:11:34.240 --> 1:11:36.479 about deep fakes back in nineteen sixty eight when he 1:11:36.520 --> 1:11:43.320 wrote this, that's wild edge of reality. I mean, that's 1:11:43.320 --> 1:11:45.280 where we are in our world right with all this 1:11:45.400 --> 1:11:49.519 deep fake stuff. Welcome to the show. Welcome back. My 1:11:49.600 --> 1:11:51.519 name is Rich Jamiro. This is the show where we 1:11:51.560 --> 1:11:53.639 talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 1:11:53.800 --> 1:11:56.920 I also answer your questions. Eighty eight Rich one O 1:11:57.040 --> 1:11:59.280 one is the phone number for the show. Eight eight 1:11:59.360 --> 1:12:02.840 eight seven four to four one zero one. If you 1:12:02.880 --> 1:12:04.960 want to get in touch on the website, it's Rich 1:12:05.040 --> 1:12:09.240 on tech dot TV. A couple of feedback items to 1:12:09.280 --> 1:12:13.120 get through before we get to our caller. Let's see. 1:12:13.200 --> 1:12:17.160 Charlie in Tahunga says, watching YouTube videos on my phone 1:12:17.200 --> 1:12:20.000 creates a history in my YouTube account, which enables me 1:12:20.080 --> 1:12:22.880 to find them easily on my Apple TV or desktop computer, 1:12:23.360 --> 1:12:27.840 much easier than downloading them as was recommended to the caller. Yes, 1:12:28.600 --> 1:12:31.320 but Charlie, I didn't you know he wanted a recommendation 1:12:31.400 --> 1:12:34.360 to download them, like I didn't you know. There's many 1:12:34.400 --> 1:12:36.200 ways to do this, to watch a video that you 1:12:36.200 --> 1:12:38.120 see on your phone on your computer or TV. But 1:12:38.479 --> 1:12:41.280 he specifically was asking for the download. But yes, you're right. 1:12:41.320 --> 1:12:44.080 I have often do that myself. I will just watch 1:12:44.080 --> 1:12:46.120 a video for a second on my phone just to 1:12:46.160 --> 1:12:47.880 get it in that YouTube history, and then go to 1:12:47.920 --> 1:12:51.559 my TV and I can watch it there easily. Steve 1:12:51.600 --> 1:12:54.600 writes in from Fairfax, you are the bomb. I just 1:12:54.600 --> 1:12:57.479 saved sixty dollars from your tip about starting to cancel 1:12:57.560 --> 1:13:01.559 YouTube TV to get a six month EXCEP. Thank you. Well, 1:13:01.600 --> 1:13:03.760 I'm happy to help, Steve. That's what I'm here for. 1:13:03.960 --> 1:13:06.479 I appreciate that I did it myself so I know 1:13:06.520 --> 1:13:09.320 it works. Darryl writes in, you can get a cheap 1:13:09.360 --> 1:13:12.080 converter box that also acts as a DVR. They're between 1:13:12.080 --> 1:13:15.200 twenty and forty dollars plus the cost of a thumb drive. 1:13:15.560 --> 1:13:18.920 They're available from Walmart and Amazon. The brands are Ematic 1:13:19.040 --> 1:13:24.479 and Medsnic. They record on they record HD on HD channels. 1:13:24.479 --> 1:13:27.040 I have two of them. Darryl Okay. Yeah, that must 1:13:27.040 --> 1:13:28.800 be like a converter box. Remember they were giving us 1:13:28.840 --> 1:13:31.800 out for free for a while because they wanted everyone 1:13:31.800 --> 1:13:34.599 to switch. Remember the big switch from analog to digital. 1:13:34.640 --> 1:13:37.920 Oh my gosh, but I think we made it through that. 1:13:38.760 --> 1:13:42.920 Let's go to Sandy in Huntington Beach. Sandy, you are 1:13:43.040 --> 1:13:45.040 on with rich Oh. 1:13:45.120 --> 1:13:47.920 I hope you can help me. I've got I just 1:13:47.960 --> 1:13:50.080 had to get a new phone. My other one pretty 1:13:50.160 --> 1:13:53.960 much died and I got an A thirty five. I 1:13:54.040 --> 1:13:56.840 just need the basics. I don't do anything financial. My 1:13:56.960 --> 1:13:59.080 other one was an A twenty one. It worked great. 1:13:59.360 --> 1:14:01.920 Never had a with that little guy. But this one, 1:14:02.000 --> 1:14:04.280 it's like, it took me forever to get into you. 1:14:05.000 --> 1:14:08.320 And then I was on hold and it disconnected, and 1:14:08.520 --> 1:14:10.800 it does it just goes blank. It goes blank, and 1:14:10.840 --> 1:14:14.080 then it disconnects. It hasn't done it on Bluetooth in 1:14:14.120 --> 1:14:16.640 my car but it does it in my house and 1:14:16.680 --> 1:14:17.320 out and about. 1:14:17.560 --> 1:14:17.840 Okay. 1:14:17.880 --> 1:14:21.080 So it's a new phone. I have to decide this week. 1:14:21.120 --> 1:14:23.400 Am I going to keep it and get my rebate 1:14:23.560 --> 1:14:26.160 or do I give it back? Is it an internal antenna? 1:14:26.600 --> 1:14:27.679 I have no idea. 1:14:27.960 --> 1:14:28.840 Well, okay, and I'm not. 1:14:28.800 --> 1:14:30.519 A checking person, but you're the wizard. 1:14:31.000 --> 1:14:34.280 I guess. I guess. The question is when it When 1:14:34.280 --> 1:14:37.360 this is happening, is the phone restarting or is it 1:14:37.439 --> 1:14:38.639 just dropping the call? 1:14:40.040 --> 1:14:43.000 It just robs the call, Okay, So I couldn't once. 1:14:43.040 --> 1:14:45.160 It did it when I was on with you, and 1:14:45.200 --> 1:14:48.000 it went away when I tried. When I called again, 1:14:48.080 --> 1:14:50.439 it said your phone is not connected to a network. 1:14:51.680 --> 1:14:52.679 Yeah, so I couldn't. 1:14:52.720 --> 1:14:53.400 I couldn't call. 1:14:53.800 --> 1:14:57.639 Okay. It sounds like the antenna in this phone. What 1:14:57.640 --> 1:14:58.640 what service are you on? 1:14:59.800 --> 1:15:00.599 Uh Mobile? 1:15:00.680 --> 1:15:04.400 Okay, So it sounds like the service or the signal 1:15:04.520 --> 1:15:06.800 or the antenna on this phone is not as strong 1:15:06.840 --> 1:15:08.759 as the old one. That's what I'm thinking is happening 1:15:08.800 --> 1:15:10.679 here because you're using it in the same place, which 1:15:10.720 --> 1:15:15.240 is your house, but it's dropping the calls. So I 1:15:15.280 --> 1:15:17.960 think that it's the antenna and you might need to, 1:15:19.320 --> 1:15:22.040 you know, maybe think about getting rid of this phone. 1:15:22.240 --> 1:15:24.200 So here's the deal. I will tell you this because 1:15:24.200 --> 1:15:26.840 I know from Okay. So in my house over the 1:15:27.000 --> 1:15:29.160 over the well, this is the weekend. But over the 1:15:29.160 --> 1:15:31.400 week I had some work being done on my internet, 1:15:31.920 --> 1:15:34.240 and when that internet was being worked, one I didn't 1:15:34.280 --> 1:15:36.479 have Wi Fi for a while. And I'm not kidding. 1:15:36.800 --> 1:15:38.679 I tried to make a phone call from the place 1:15:38.720 --> 1:15:41.000 I make a phone call all the time, and my 1:15:41.080 --> 1:15:43.880 phone wouldn't work. It kept just saying, you know, disconnected 1:15:43.960 --> 1:15:47.120 signal note call failed whatever. I was like, that's so weird. 1:15:47.160 --> 1:15:48.920 I never realized that I have no signal in this 1:15:49.040 --> 1:15:51.800 room because I've been on Wi Fi calling the whole time. 1:15:51.920 --> 1:15:53.880 So a couple of things you can do. First off, 1:15:54.520 --> 1:15:59.120 you can try to reset your network settings. But who 1:15:59.200 --> 1:16:00.960 set up this phone for you? Is it T Mobile 1:16:00.960 --> 1:16:01.519 at the store? 1:16:02.880 --> 1:16:07.240 Costco, Kiosk Mobile ko Okay? 1:16:07.320 --> 1:16:09.280 So, I mean I'm sure they set it up properly. 1:16:09.479 --> 1:16:12.080 You could. The problem is if you reset your network settings, 1:16:12.080 --> 1:16:14.559 which you can do yourself in the settings, it's going 1:16:14.640 --> 1:16:17.519 to reset everything like you know, Bluetooth, Wi Fi, your 1:16:17.600 --> 1:16:21.320 cellular that, yeah, and then you have to set it 1:16:21.320 --> 1:16:23.040 all up again. You got to connect it your WiFi, 1:16:23.160 --> 1:16:25.519 it might be worth it just to see if that helps. 1:16:26.880 --> 1:16:28.840 The other thing is that you could use Wi Fi 1:16:28.880 --> 1:16:31.800 calling when you're in your house. So have you set 1:16:31.880 --> 1:16:33.160 up that feature on your phone? 1:16:34.120 --> 1:16:34.320 Yes? 1:16:34.720 --> 1:16:37.040 Okay? And does that does that call drop when you 1:16:37.080 --> 1:16:37.439 have that on? 1:16:38.479 --> 1:16:39.200 My husband's here? 1:16:39.520 --> 1:16:43.200 So the Wi Fi the Wi Fi in the house 1:16:43.479 --> 1:16:47.280 is Spectrum okay, but the service for the phones is 1:16:47.320 --> 1:16:48.280 T Mobile. 1:16:48.080 --> 1:16:50.639 Right okay. So if you set up Wi Fi calling 1:16:50.680 --> 1:16:52.000 on your phone, and I don't think this is this 1:16:52.120 --> 1:16:53.640 is just a stop gap. I mean, you may have 1:16:53.680 --> 1:16:56.360 this problem forever. Does your husband have a Tea mobile 1:16:56.400 --> 1:16:59.720 in the house as well, and does his phone work? 1:16:59.760 --> 1:17:00.760 What phone does he have? 1:17:02.240 --> 1:17:04.759 He has an LG an old LG oh wow. 1:17:04.520 --> 1:17:08.400 Old LG okay, LG velvet Oh LG oh wow. The 1:17:08.479 --> 1:17:12.240 dulcet tones of the LG velvet look. I think it 1:17:12.280 --> 1:17:14.840 could be the antenna on this phone is just not 1:17:14.960 --> 1:17:17.280 pulling in the same signal that your old phone was. 1:17:17.400 --> 1:17:19.920 So I think it's. 1:17:19.400 --> 1:17:22.360 This model of phone for this particular phone. 1:17:22.640 --> 1:17:24.559 Well, it could be both. So what I would do 1:17:24.680 --> 1:17:26.959 first is I would just take it back to the Kiosk. 1:17:27.040 --> 1:17:28.760 I think it's since it's cost go they're going to 1:17:28.840 --> 1:17:31.639 be pretty accepting of it. Tell them what's happening. Say, look, 1:17:31.640 --> 1:17:33.320 you know, I used to have an old Samsung in 1:17:33.439 --> 1:17:35.080 a twenty one and this thing used to work in 1:17:35.120 --> 1:17:37.880 my house, no problem. Now I get the thirty five 1:17:38.040 --> 1:17:40.400 and it's worse, and I'm dropping calls left and right. 1:17:40.720 --> 1:17:42.679 And they may say, oh, you're the third person that's 1:17:42.680 --> 1:17:44.679 come back and told us this, or they may say okay, 1:17:44.960 --> 1:17:47.160 and you say, look, I want to swap out my 1:17:47.200 --> 1:17:48.880 phone for a new model, just to make sure it's 1:17:48.880 --> 1:17:51.920 not a hardware defect. Get the new model, see if 1:17:51.920 --> 1:17:53.720 it works. I know it's a pain because all your 1:17:53.720 --> 1:17:56.640 stuff is on this phone and everything, but you know, 1:17:56.680 --> 1:17:58.200 like you said, this is only a week old. You 1:17:58.240 --> 1:18:00.919 don't want to sit here and deal with this issue 1:18:01.320 --> 1:18:03.160 for the next couple of years. As you have this phone. 1:18:03.240 --> 1:18:04.960 Sounds like you keep your phone for a bit, So 1:18:06.280 --> 1:18:08.719 I would do that first. If you want to try 1:18:08.720 --> 1:18:12.720 the network settings reset, you can try that. And you 1:18:12.720 --> 1:18:15.360 can go into your settings and just search for network 1:18:15.400 --> 1:18:17.960 settings or just search for reset and you can look 1:18:18.000 --> 1:18:20.000 for that. That will not you know, you don't want 1:18:20.000 --> 1:18:22.320 to factory reset your phone because that will delete everything. 1:18:22.800 --> 1:18:25.120 But I would do that first. If it was me personally, 1:18:25.160 --> 1:18:27.680 I would do a network settings reset and then I 1:18:27.680 --> 1:18:29.800 would see if my phone works. If it doesn't, if 1:18:29.840 --> 1:18:32.200 it keeps dropping the calls, then I would take it 1:18:32.240 --> 1:18:34.160 back to the Kiosk, say hey, can we swap this 1:18:34.240 --> 1:18:37.160 out for a new hardware, And if that keeps dropping calls, 1:18:37.520 --> 1:18:39.080 then I would look into a different phone. But I 1:18:39.080 --> 1:18:41.800 will tell you you know, Sandy, I test every phone 1:18:41.840 --> 1:18:46.200 in the world, and they definitely, one hundred percent pull 1:18:46.240 --> 1:18:51.719 in different signals. Some phones have a greater signal than others, 1:18:51.800 --> 1:18:53.519 and it's just the way the phone is set up. 1:18:53.920 --> 1:18:56.320 It's just the way that the phone is created. So 1:18:56.560 --> 1:18:58.800 this phone may just pull in less of the T 1:18:58.960 --> 1:19:01.160 Mobile signal than your old phone. And that's just the 1:19:01.200 --> 1:19:02.240 reality of this device. 1:19:03.360 --> 1:19:03.719 Lovely. 1:19:04.000 --> 1:19:07.439 Another thing it does, and you were talking about AI earlier. 1:19:08.800 --> 1:19:11.679 When I with my other phone for texting, I could 1:19:11.720 --> 1:19:15.519 just talk, everything would come out perfect. This one it 1:19:15.640 --> 1:19:18.559 doesn't do that. It puts in its own punctuation, puts 1:19:18.560 --> 1:19:20.519 in its own words. It doesn't even come out what 1:19:20.560 --> 1:19:24.200 I've said. That is there a setting that can change that? 1:19:24.520 --> 1:19:26.920 There is. There's a couple settings. So it depends on 1:19:26.960 --> 1:19:29.839 the voice to text that you're using. Typically with Samsung, 1:19:29.920 --> 1:19:33.360 the default is Samsung's I like to change it to Google. 1:19:34.000 --> 1:19:37.000 So you can go ahead and download what's called g 1:19:37.160 --> 1:19:41.720 board g bo ar D. That's Google's keyboard, and that 1:19:41.760 --> 1:19:45.800 will use Google's own audio voice to text. You can 1:19:45.800 --> 1:19:48.559 also go into your settings on the Samsung and there 1:19:48.560 --> 1:19:51.280 are If you go to the keyboard settings, it says 1:19:52.040 --> 1:19:55.560 text to speech, says something like I don't have my 1:19:55.600 --> 1:19:57.200 Samsung in front of me, but it says something like 1:19:57.240 --> 1:20:02.679 text to speech driver or system and typically, well always, 1:20:02.720 --> 1:20:04.760 the default is Samsung. 1:20:05.920 --> 1:20:07.360 Turn off Google's AI. 1:20:08.960 --> 1:20:11.400 Well that's a little different. Turning off. Well, that's a 1:20:11.400 --> 1:20:13.720 whole other thing. Google is building the AI into all 1:20:13.720 --> 1:20:19.000 these devices that Google's AI s Okay, well that. 1:20:18.960 --> 1:20:21.360 Is right here when I'm talking to you, right above it. 1:20:21.439 --> 1:20:25.679 It has this little lift and it has it within 1:20:25.800 --> 1:20:28.439 a circle. It says text call. What does that have 1:20:28.479 --> 1:20:29.040 anything to. 1:20:28.960 --> 1:20:32.559 Do with it? I'm not really sure because I'm not 1:20:32.560 --> 1:20:36.160 sure what that what what that's saying on their screen 1:20:36.240 --> 1:20:38.639 right now for a text call. But but the bottom 1:20:38.720 --> 1:20:41.040 line is, look, I think that the Google Voice to 1:20:41.080 --> 1:20:42.800 text is going to be just fine if you switch 1:20:42.880 --> 1:20:45.040 that keyboard out. I think it's going to be much 1:20:45.040 --> 1:20:48.200 better to what you want. The Samsung one is fine, 1:20:48.240 --> 1:20:51.680 but I think Google's is better. The AI stuff, you know, 1:20:51.720 --> 1:20:53.280 you got to go into your settings and try to 1:20:53.360 --> 1:20:54.760 you know, turn some of that stuff off if you 1:20:54.760 --> 1:20:57.080 don't want that to toggle. But uh, you know, you 1:20:57.160 --> 1:20:58.639 might get used to some of that stuff as well. 1:20:58.640 --> 1:21:02.800 And and Android and Google well in general is you know, 1:21:02.880 --> 1:21:06.000 they're they're still figuring all this stuff out, so it's 1:21:06.040 --> 1:21:08.280 not you know, look, you've got a totally different phone. 1:21:08.320 --> 1:21:09.920 You've got a phone that's a little bit newer than 1:21:09.920 --> 1:21:12.160 your old phone, so there are going to be some changes. 1:21:12.560 --> 1:21:14.200 The other thing that I would do, Sandy, is make 1:21:14.240 --> 1:21:16.120 sure that your software is up to date on this 1:21:16.160 --> 1:21:18.920 device and see if that helps as well. But you 1:21:19.000 --> 1:21:21.240 can you can try toggling on the Wi Fi calling. 1:21:21.280 --> 1:21:24.000 If you're having issues with getting a signal in your home, 1:21:24.439 --> 1:21:26.160 or you're in a place where your signal is not 1:21:26.200 --> 1:21:28.920 that great, you could use Wi Fi calling to kind 1:21:28.920 --> 1:21:32.200 of paste that signal. What Wi Fi calling does is 1:21:32.400 --> 1:21:35.360 it routes the call. All calls these days, no matter 1:21:35.360 --> 1:21:37.400 what if you're making it over cellular or Wi Fi, 1:21:37.680 --> 1:21:40.360 they're all routed over the Internet. Your voice is changed 1:21:40.400 --> 1:21:44.120 into you know, a voice over IP, so it's not 1:21:44.360 --> 1:21:47.080 it's no longer analog. It's not taking that recording of 1:21:47.080 --> 1:21:49.479 your voice and sending it over the signal. It's actually 1:21:49.520 --> 1:21:53.480 just transforming it into little ones and o's and recompiling 1:21:53.479 --> 1:21:56.040 it at the other end, so you can go to 1:21:56.120 --> 1:21:58.040 Wi Fi calling. What Wi Fi calling does is it 1:21:58.040 --> 1:22:02.720 will transfer your call over your spectrum Internet, which is 1:22:02.720 --> 1:22:06.120 stronger than your T mobile signal. When you're out of 1:22:06.120 --> 1:22:07.840 your house, it'll still go T Mobile. When you're in 1:22:07.880 --> 1:22:09.760 your house, it'll go over the spectrum or your whatever 1:22:09.760 --> 1:22:12.760 your WiFi is. Eight eight eight rich one on one 1:22:12.880 --> 1:22:15.879 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:22:16.240 --> 1:22:20.960 We'll be right back. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:22:21.040 --> 1:22:24.599 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 1:22:24.840 --> 1:22:28.679 Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:22:28.800 --> 1:22:31.519 four to two four one zero one, the website rich 1:22:31.640 --> 1:22:34.040 on Tech dot TV. While you're there, sign up for 1:22:34.080 --> 1:22:38.800 my free newsletter. Thank you for enjoying that. I do 1:22:38.960 --> 1:22:41.880 enjoy the feedback I get from sending that out. Usually 1:22:41.880 --> 1:22:46.120 I send it out every Saturday morning, so thirty seven 1:22:46.160 --> 1:22:50.719 thousand of you getting it currently, that's been pretty pretty wild. Uh, 1:22:50.800 --> 1:22:53.280 if you want to submit your question, comments and more 1:22:53.320 --> 1:22:55.280 to the feedback, We're gonna get to that in just 1:22:55.320 --> 1:22:57.040 a little bit. Just go to Rich on tech dot 1:22:57.120 --> 1:23:01.160 TV hit contact and in this hour next segment, actually 1:23:01.200 --> 1:23:04.640 we're going to talk to Miami parents. They created an 1:23:04.680 --> 1:23:08.880 app called Firsties. This helps you capture, organize, and share 1:23:08.920 --> 1:23:11.800 your kids milestone moments. But first let's go to Mark 1:23:12.439 --> 1:23:14.360 in Woodland Hills. Mark, you're on with Rich. 1:23:14.960 --> 1:23:18.639 Yeah, good afternoon, Rich. This all came about because something 1:23:18.840 --> 1:23:21.280 a scam that was basically pulled on an in law. 1:23:21.760 --> 1:23:23.759 I guess she got into one of these dating sites 1:23:23.840 --> 1:23:28.960 or whatever. But it got me to thinking, there's sometimes 1:23:28.960 --> 1:23:31.519 I buy things online. I've never heard of the company before. 1:23:31.800 --> 1:23:33.960 I don't know if they're a scam artists, I don't know. 1:23:34.520 --> 1:23:39.080 I don't want my real credit card attached to anything 1:23:39.120 --> 1:23:40.920 that they may take advantage of like they did my 1:23:40.960 --> 1:23:41.400 in law. 1:23:41.680 --> 1:23:41.920 YEP. 1:23:42.160 --> 1:23:45.400 Is it possible to get like virtual cards that you 1:23:45.439 --> 1:23:47.679 can load up with money so that at least if 1:23:47.760 --> 1:23:50.800 that is attacked, it doesn't lead back to any of 1:23:50.800 --> 1:23:55.360 your financial institutions or whatever. I guess she got caught 1:23:55.400 --> 1:23:58.720 in one of these dating sites or something, and some 1:23:58.760 --> 1:24:01.679 fellow wanted her to send money to apply him to London, 1:24:01.760 --> 1:24:03.760 and I got a hold of her before she did it, 1:24:03.800 --> 1:24:05.200 and I thank god, I did you know? 1:24:05.840 --> 1:24:08.320 Oh yeah, this is it's so it's so wild because 1:24:08.360 --> 1:24:10.040 we talk about this stuff all the time on this 1:24:10.080 --> 1:24:12.920 show and I hear these stories and I'm just like, 1:24:13.280 --> 1:24:15.840 who falls for this? But people do good people like 1:24:15.960 --> 1:24:18.760 everyday people, and it's happening all the time. So what 1:24:18.840 --> 1:24:23.760 you're talking about, Mark, is a virtual card number. So yes, 1:24:23.840 --> 1:24:25.800 and I think it's very smart. So a couple of 1:24:25.840 --> 1:24:28.000 things my wife and I, so I typically use a 1:24:28.000 --> 1:24:30.080 debit card. You know, I do have a credit card, 1:24:30.120 --> 1:24:33.040 but I most of the time use that when my 1:24:33.200 --> 1:24:36.160 card leaves my hand, right So if I am putting 1:24:36.160 --> 1:24:38.479 my card in on the internet, that's leaving my hand 1:24:38.560 --> 1:24:40.760 because it's out of my hands. So I will use 1:24:40.760 --> 1:24:42.519 a credit card for that. And then of course at 1:24:42.520 --> 1:24:45.400 restaurants and places where they take your card off site. 1:24:45.520 --> 1:24:47.760 But if I'm typically just using you know, tap to 1:24:47.800 --> 1:24:51.400 pay somewhere, Tap to pay protects your card number, I 1:24:51.400 --> 1:24:53.479 will use my debit card. But what you're talking about 1:24:53.560 --> 1:24:57.639 virtual card number, there's actually a great service which would 1:24:57.920 --> 1:25:02.760 really help in any situation. But it's called privacy dot com. 1:25:03.000 --> 1:25:06.000 And so privacy dot com, you sign up with this 1:25:06.520 --> 1:25:08.840 and you have to link your debit card or a 1:25:08.840 --> 1:25:11.800 bank account, I believe. But once you do that, you 1:25:11.840 --> 1:25:15.400 can generate cards one time use cards, or they can 1:25:15.439 --> 1:25:19.280 be reused, but you can control everything about them. So 1:25:19.400 --> 1:25:21.560 you can say, okay, let's say you're signed up for 1:25:21.600 --> 1:25:23.519 a free trial of something right and you know you're 1:25:23.520 --> 1:25:25.960 going to forget to cancel this free trial. You can 1:25:26.000 --> 1:25:28.559 go through and say, okay, here's my card for this 1:25:28.600 --> 1:25:32.439 free trial, and don't let it charge more than a 1:25:32.479 --> 1:25:35.480 dollar to this card. So they can do that authorization 1:25:35.640 --> 1:25:38.000 charge of one dollar. But then when they try to 1:25:38.080 --> 1:25:39.920 charge you ninety nine dollars, when you forget about that 1:25:39.960 --> 1:25:42.360 subscription in seven days, they will not be able to 1:25:42.360 --> 1:25:44.559 do that. That card number will not go through. So 1:25:44.600 --> 1:25:47.639 that's called privacy dot com. Now that's a whole other 1:25:47.800 --> 1:25:50.479 level of control. So you can say I only want 1:25:50.520 --> 1:25:52.920 this card to work for ten dollars a month, So 1:25:53.000 --> 1:25:55.599 if your subscription ever goes above ten dollars a month, 1:25:55.720 --> 1:25:58.880 it won't work. It'll the charge won't go through. So 1:25:59.120 --> 1:26:02.680 that is a service. Most of it is free. I 1:26:02.680 --> 1:26:05.400 think you get a certain amount. I've never paid for it, 1:26:05.479 --> 1:26:08.840 so I think that you get a certain amount of 1:26:09.560 --> 1:26:12.080 free usage per month, a certain amount of cards that 1:26:12.120 --> 1:26:15.360 you can generate. I'm sure that that's changed since I 1:26:15.439 --> 1:26:18.360 signed up. It's probably, you know, lesser than what I 1:26:18.400 --> 1:26:19.800 had when I signed up. It was you know, they 1:26:19.840 --> 1:26:23.200 probably gave much more back then, and I think it's 1:26:23.240 --> 1:26:25.000 like five whatever. I don't know what the point is, 1:26:25.040 --> 1:26:27.479 what the what the pricing is at this point, but 1:26:27.600 --> 1:26:30.479 that's how that works, and so you can really just 1:26:30.560 --> 1:26:35.320 control every aspect of your cards that you that you 1:26:35.439 --> 1:26:37.599 create on this website. I'm trying to see if they 1:26:37.800 --> 1:26:40.559 here we go pricing in plans. So for free, you 1:26:40.600 --> 1:26:44.559 can create up to twelve cards per month. For five dollars, 1:26:44.560 --> 1:26:46.560 you can create up to five dollars a month. Is 1:26:46.640 --> 1:26:49.880 up to twenty four cards a month, ten dollars a month, 1:26:50.000 --> 1:26:52.080 up to thirty six cards a month, and then twenty 1:26:52.080 --> 1:26:54.040 five dollars a month, up to sixty cards a month. 1:26:54.080 --> 1:26:57.160 I don't know what you're doing for sixty virtual cards 1:26:57.200 --> 1:27:02.439 a month, but okay, so that's privacy dot Com. Now 1:27:02.600 --> 1:27:04.320 there's another way you can do this mark And there's 1:27:04.320 --> 1:27:07.160 also what's called a virtual card number from your credit 1:27:07.200 --> 1:27:10.880 card company, and so Capital One I believe has the 1:27:11.080 --> 1:27:14.559 City Bank has them, Discover has them. I think the 1:27:14.600 --> 1:27:17.559 Apple card lets you do a virtual card number. Now 1:27:17.600 --> 1:27:19.280 that's a little different because I don't think it gives 1:27:19.320 --> 1:27:21.680 you the same level of control, Like I don't think 1:27:21.720 --> 1:27:25.000 you can say, Discover, let me make this card number, 1:27:25.000 --> 1:27:27.000 and it only works once you may be able to 1:27:27.040 --> 1:27:30.320 I don't have experience doing those, but that's another way 1:27:30.360 --> 1:27:32.880 to do it, where you can call your credit card 1:27:32.880 --> 1:27:35.120 company or just google the name of your credit card 1:27:35.120 --> 1:27:37.880 and say one time card number and see what it 1:27:37.880 --> 1:27:40.640 comes up with or virtual card number. And some of 1:27:40.680 --> 1:27:44.120 the banks, the big banks, you know, the City, these 1:27:44.160 --> 1:27:47.559 big banks don't really necessarily like this idea because they 1:27:47.640 --> 1:27:50.000 just want, you know, they just want it simple, and 1:27:50.000 --> 1:27:51.600 they want it to be able to people, to be 1:27:51.640 --> 1:27:54.120 able to charge you whenever they want. And so I 1:27:54.160 --> 1:27:56.200 think that they haven't really embraced this in a big 1:27:56.240 --> 1:27:57.720 way that I would have liked to see. Like you 1:27:57.720 --> 1:27:59.639 would think every credit card company would say, oh, yeah, 1:27:59.640 --> 1:28:02.240 we know people shop online. Let's give them these virtual 1:28:02.280 --> 1:28:03.840 card numbers to make it easier for them. And they 1:28:03.840 --> 1:28:06.280 don't forget about things and they don't get charged for stuff, 1:28:06.280 --> 1:28:08.519 and they can feel safe giving their card number out 1:28:08.560 --> 1:28:11.880 to people. But I haven't really seen the adoption in 1:28:11.920 --> 1:28:14.600 a big way, but I think privacy dot com is 1:28:14.600 --> 1:28:17.360 probably the best one. The only downside to it, I think, 1:28:17.520 --> 1:28:19.639 is that you have to use your debit or credit 1:28:20.120 --> 1:28:22.960 debit card or your bank account to actually sign up. 1:28:23.240 --> 1:28:26.160 I don't believe you can use a credit card to 1:28:26.320 --> 1:28:29.840 fund the virtual card that you're creating, so that's kind 1:28:29.840 --> 1:28:32.559 of the only caveat there. But I do have a 1:28:32.600 --> 1:28:34.679 couple of them set up there. They work really well 1:28:35.000 --> 1:28:38.120 and it's definitely saved me a couple of times from 1:28:38.200 --> 1:28:41.760 getting hit with charges when I forgot about stuff. Great 1:28:41.840 --> 1:28:45.679 question Mark and Woodland Hills, Oh my gosh, that already segment. 1:28:45.760 --> 1:28:50.479 All right, coming up, We've got parents, a group of 1:28:50.520 --> 1:28:53.840 parents who created an app called first Ease. We're going 1:28:53.920 --> 1:28:58.320 to talk to them right after this. Welcome back to 1:28:58.400 --> 1:29:00.680 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 1:29:00.800 --> 1:29:04.200 talking technology. The website for the show rich on Tech 1:29:04.240 --> 1:29:06.800 dot Tv. There you can see the show notes by 1:29:06.840 --> 1:29:09.519 hitting the light bulb, or you can watch my TV 1:29:09.600 --> 1:29:12.960 segments that I do for KTLA TV in Los Angeles. 1:29:12.960 --> 1:29:15.160 That's all there on the website. Rich on tech dot TV. 1:29:16.160 --> 1:29:18.240 I was playing around this morning with an app, you know, 1:29:18.320 --> 1:29:20.800 Mint Money went away, so I was trying to find 1:29:20.840 --> 1:29:24.599 a replacement app for that, and I think I found it. 1:29:24.680 --> 1:29:28.040 The problem is it costs money, but it's called Monarch Money. 1:29:28.080 --> 1:29:30.200 And if you're looking to like kind of do all 1:29:30.200 --> 1:29:32.639 of your net worth, you know, put all your accounts 1:29:32.640 --> 1:29:34.479 into one place, which I know is a little scary 1:29:34.520 --> 1:29:36.479 to aggregate them all, but you know you want to 1:29:36.520 --> 1:29:39.040 see all your net worth on one page. This one 1:29:39.120 --> 1:29:41.720 is really good at that. It also does your you know, 1:29:41.760 --> 1:29:45.400 your car, your house, whatever you've got, plus your investments, 1:29:45.439 --> 1:29:47.280 your bank accounts, puts it all on one page, so 1:29:47.320 --> 1:29:49.479 you can see a net worth exactly what Mint used 1:29:49.520 --> 1:29:51.920 to do really well. The problem is they want to 1:29:51.960 --> 1:29:54.040 charge I think it's about one hundred bucks a year. 1:29:54.200 --> 1:29:56.800 So anyway, it might be worth just taking a look 1:29:56.840 --> 1:29:58.800 at it, because I have been testing out Rocket Money 1:29:58.800 --> 1:30:01.880 as well, which I like, but you know they don't 1:30:01.920 --> 1:30:03.920 do as good of a job with the net worth stuff. 1:30:03.960 --> 1:30:07.240 So if you're looking for a replacement for Mint Mobile, 1:30:07.560 --> 1:30:10.880 then Monarch Money might be the way to do it. Also, 1:30:11.040 --> 1:30:14.400 I was at Target yesterday and I was purchasing a 1:30:14.439 --> 1:30:19.320 gift card Bobo Hide Your Ears, and I noticed they 1:30:19.320 --> 1:30:22.000 have a whole new system to keep the thieves from 1:30:22.200 --> 1:30:24.479 draining gift cards. So now when you buy a gift 1:30:24.479 --> 1:30:27.960 card at least at Target, a Target gift card, they 1:30:27.960 --> 1:30:31.800 don't put the redemption barcode on the back until after 1:30:31.840 --> 1:30:34.840 you buy it. So it's actually so you know, the 1:30:35.160 --> 1:30:38.320 these thieves will go into stores, they'll scrape off or 1:30:38.400 --> 1:30:41.479 somehow tamper with the gift cards. They'll record the numbers 1:30:41.520 --> 1:30:42.920 off the back of the gift cards, and then when 1:30:42.960 --> 1:30:45.720 you buy it at the register, somehow they're alerted that 1:30:45.760 --> 1:30:48.240 it's been activated, and they will instantly go in and 1:30:48.320 --> 1:30:50.080 drain that account before you even get to use it. 1:30:50.120 --> 1:30:52.759 This happened to us last year. It's a very common occurrence, 1:30:52.760 --> 1:30:54.559 so I guess Target has found a way around that. 1:30:54.680 --> 1:30:58.320 So kudos to them for figuring out a more secure system. 1:30:58.920 --> 1:31:02.080 All right, Joining me on the show, Miami Parents, Natalia 1:31:02.160 --> 1:31:06.599 Daniel and Odd Pellet Pellett. They have a new app 1:31:06.640 --> 1:31:09.439 that they created. It's called first Ease. And this is 1:31:09.439 --> 1:31:11.800 an app that I wish I had when I originally, 1:31:12.280 --> 1:31:14.160 you know, had my kids. Back in the day, I 1:31:14.200 --> 1:31:16.040 think we wrote one thing down in a book and 1:31:16.040 --> 1:31:19.519 then we never wrote another thing, like first steps, first smile, 1:31:19.560 --> 1:31:21.600 and that was it. But this is an app that 1:31:21.600 --> 1:31:25.360 helps you capture, organize, and share your kids milestone moments. 1:31:25.920 --> 1:31:26.680 Welcome to the. 1:31:26.640 --> 1:31:29.719 Show, Hello, rich how about. 1:31:30.120 --> 1:31:33.200 I am doing fantastic. So tell me what gave you 1:31:33.240 --> 1:31:35.920 the inspiration for this this first d'z app. 1:31:36.960 --> 1:31:39.160 Well, I think it's so as parents, we all had 1:31:39.200 --> 1:31:42.080 the same moments. We all just wrote a few pictures, 1:31:42.160 --> 1:31:45.559 you know, first steps and first smile, and that's about it, 1:31:45.760 --> 1:31:49.240 and we stopped. And so actually I realized that when 1:31:49.240 --> 1:31:52.200 I was trying to put together a book for our kids, 1:31:52.360 --> 1:31:54.040 and I realized there was a lot of moments that 1:31:54.120 --> 1:31:57.320 I didn't capture. You know, there was the basic ones, 1:31:57.360 --> 1:32:00.280 but there's so many other milestones and moments that go 1:32:01.360 --> 1:32:04.479 not record it. And when I found the picture, I 1:32:04.479 --> 1:32:08.360 also found that they were scattered on multiple devices and 1:32:08.400 --> 1:32:10.640 it was really time consuming to bring them all in 1:32:10.680 --> 1:32:13.479 one place. So I turned to my husband, who works 1:32:13.479 --> 1:32:15.280 in tech, and I'm like, we have to come up 1:32:15.280 --> 1:32:18.320 with something a little bit easier for parents and really 1:32:18.360 --> 1:32:21.040 help them in capturing those moments that you know, go 1:32:21.080 --> 1:32:24.320 away really quickly if you don't capture them and help 1:32:24.360 --> 1:32:26.599 them retrieve them in a very easy way. 1:32:26.760 --> 1:32:29.840 So this is firsties and I love that it's not 1:32:29.960 --> 1:32:33.040 just like you know, it actually gives you prompts. So 1:32:33.080 --> 1:32:35.960 it says like, hey, you know, capture their first haircut, 1:32:36.240 --> 1:32:39.519 Capture their first going to a restaurant, Capture their first umbrella, 1:32:39.760 --> 1:32:41.800 you know, using an umbrella. So it's like all these 1:32:41.800 --> 1:32:43.840 little things that we take for granted as adults, but 1:32:43.920 --> 1:32:46.160 as kids, it's all brand new to them. Like almost 1:32:46.160 --> 1:32:48.360 everything they do is like they're going to do it 1:32:48.360 --> 1:32:49.080 for the first time. 1:32:50.960 --> 1:32:53.360 Yes, for sure, we definitely take it all for granted. 1:32:53.920 --> 1:32:57.599 So we have five hundred plus milestone prompts to inspire 1:32:57.760 --> 1:32:59.519 parents in capturing all those moments. 1:33:00.360 --> 1:33:03.360 And like you said, there are so many sweet moments 1:33:03.400 --> 1:33:07.160 that we regret for not capturing, especially with our first son. 1:33:07.800 --> 1:33:10.600 And you know when you ask parents, for example, do 1:33:10.640 --> 1:33:13.240 you have a video when of your kid first time 1:33:13.320 --> 1:33:16.240 seeing the reflection reflection in the mirror, you know, it's 1:33:16.240 --> 1:33:18.479 such a sweet moment. And most of your parents we 1:33:18.520 --> 1:33:20.720 talked to like, oh, no, I wish I captured it. 1:33:21.080 --> 1:33:23.679 And you know, what's your excuse? You had the phone, 1:33:23.720 --> 1:33:25.679 you had the camera, but a lot of time with life, 1:33:26.160 --> 1:33:29.000 we just don't think, right, life goes by and suddenly 1:33:29.080 --> 1:33:30.880 your kid is like ten years old, and you were like, oh, 1:33:30.920 --> 1:33:32.800 I wish I captured this, and I wish I captured that. 1:33:33.320 --> 1:33:35.360 So that was really kind of like the thing that 1:33:35.439 --> 1:33:38.880 Natalia came to me with. And you know my background, 1:33:39.080 --> 1:33:42.840 I've been in consumer tech in mobile gaming for almost 1:33:42.920 --> 1:33:45.439 fifteen years, and I was like, that actually can be 1:33:45.479 --> 1:33:49.599 a really fun idea to also gamify, right, And there's 1:33:49.640 --> 1:33:52.000 a lot of apps and I always talk about due Lingo, 1:33:52.760 --> 1:33:55.880 the language learning app that did a fantastic job putting 1:33:55.880 --> 1:33:58.640 on top of it like a layer of gamification and 1:33:58.720 --> 1:34:03.280 rewarding the users for not skipping a day and for 1:34:03.720 --> 1:34:07.880 like having a continuous experience and engagement with the app. 1:34:08.240 --> 1:34:09.320 So we thought the same thing. 1:34:09.320 --> 1:34:14.000 We said, first, let's create and gather those hundreds of 1:34:14.080 --> 1:34:17.600 milestone suggestions, and we did it, you know, working and 1:34:17.640 --> 1:34:21.240 collaborating with a group of moms and parents and pediatricians. 1:34:21.320 --> 1:34:24.559 Right so right now it's actually almost seven hundred super 1:34:24.640 --> 1:34:27.320 cute suggestions prompts in different categories. 1:34:27.640 --> 1:34:29.559 And then on top of that, we said, okay, let's 1:34:29.640 --> 1:34:36.040 reward that the parents for capturing those moments, right, and you're. 1:34:35.880 --> 1:34:38.080 Probably familiar and all the audience is probably familiar. A 1:34:38.080 --> 1:34:40.160 lot of mobile games or games in general, give. 1:34:40.080 --> 1:34:44.320 You achievements for achieving certain things inside the game. In 1:34:44.360 --> 1:34:46.920 this case, it's an app. But for example, as soon 1:34:46.960 --> 1:34:51.120 as you capture or upload five Thirsties, you get gems. 1:34:51.160 --> 1:34:54.160 You get rewards inside the app that they can later 1:34:54.200 --> 1:34:56.880 on use, for example for making and we'll talk about 1:34:56.880 --> 1:35:00.759 it more. Hopefully you can make you know, beautiful musical 1:35:00.840 --> 1:35:03.519 videos of the child, or you can order a real 1:35:04.160 --> 1:35:04.919 photo books. 1:35:05.439 --> 1:35:06.879 So that that's. 1:35:06.680 --> 1:35:10.400 Really the the what we've been developing now for almost 1:35:10.520 --> 1:35:11.280 three years. 1:35:11.680 --> 1:35:12.720 Super excited about it. 1:35:12.760 --> 1:35:16.960 You know, our team is almost eighteen people working hard 1:35:17.000 --> 1:35:21.160 on creating this is this appened. And the other thing 1:35:21.280 --> 1:35:26.120 is as we were building and developing, all started with, 1:35:26.160 --> 1:35:28.679 you know, in Natalia's idea about like not missing capturing 1:35:28.760 --> 1:35:32.120 these moments. The other thing that we realize very quickly 1:35:32.640 --> 1:35:36.840 is that we as parents, we share those moments that 1:35:36.920 --> 1:35:39.400 we did capture across multiple channels. 1:35:39.479 --> 1:35:39.639 Right. 1:35:40.040 --> 1:35:43.120 Some I share, you know, with my family via what'sapp. 1:35:43.720 --> 1:35:45.559 Some friend does not have what's PP, so I use 1:35:45.680 --> 1:35:49.439 SMS and here is on by email, and sometimes we 1:35:49.520 --> 1:35:53.160 live a digital footprint on on social media and suddenly 1:35:53.160 --> 1:35:55.000 you're like all this stuff. 1:35:54.960 --> 1:35:56.160 Like where is it? You know? 1:35:56.240 --> 1:35:59.360 And we wanted to create something that is like one 1:36:00.160 --> 1:36:03.639 centralized place, super secure, private. 1:36:03.720 --> 1:36:04.639 We can talk about that. 1:36:04.720 --> 1:36:08.599 There's a lot of technology that went into securing our app. 1:36:08.840 --> 1:36:11.519 Yeah, talk about to talk about the privacy aspect, because 1:36:11.520 --> 1:36:13.719 you know, people are sharing their you know, their memories 1:36:13.760 --> 1:36:16.800 in this app. You know, how have you made you know, 1:36:16.840 --> 1:36:18.880 what is the privacy? Are their ads? Do you collect 1:36:18.960 --> 1:36:19.800 data on people? 1:36:19.880 --> 1:36:19.960 Like? 1:36:20.000 --> 1:36:22.680 What can you feel confident knowing that you know what 1:36:22.720 --> 1:36:24.760 you're putting in here is going to remain private. 1:36:26.320 --> 1:36:27.120 One hundred percent. 1:36:27.200 --> 1:36:30.240 And again that's the thing that we wanted to differentiate 1:36:30.280 --> 1:36:34.760 and build Here no ads. The platform was built not 1:36:35.080 --> 1:36:38.600 like traditional social media that was really built for broadcasting 1:36:38.680 --> 1:36:39.200 to the world. 1:36:39.479 --> 1:36:40.840 This is by invite only. 1:36:41.320 --> 1:36:44.240 When you send an invite to a close family member, 1:36:44.280 --> 1:36:48.799 a close friend, they have three days to accept the invites. 1:36:48.880 --> 1:36:51.280 Everything is encrypted. A lot of a lot of work 1:36:51.320 --> 1:36:53.800 went through encryption. I know you spoke about it, I 1:36:53.800 --> 1:36:56.479 believe last week in your podcast. 1:36:56.280 --> 1:36:59.720 What is Encryption? So a lot of effort went into that, 1:37:00.920 --> 1:37:03.919 and yeah, no, no ads, We don't collect data. 1:37:04.840 --> 1:37:10.400 It's really a private inner circle platform for sharing your 1:37:10.400 --> 1:37:12.320 most precious moments with the family. 1:37:12.760 --> 1:37:14.880 And what I know you've got So you can start 1:37:14.920 --> 1:37:18.599 for free. You've got a completely free version, and then 1:37:18.640 --> 1:37:21.360 you've got the premium version, So explain kind of the difference. 1:37:21.400 --> 1:37:22.280 What do you get with each? 1:37:23.760 --> 1:37:26.439 So we wanted to give enough for the users to 1:37:26.520 --> 1:37:28.759 really appreciate and enjoy the app. 1:37:29.120 --> 1:37:32.960 The app is, most of the features are free. It 1:37:33.040 --> 1:37:36.519 comes with a complimentary storage. You can upload almost one 1:37:36.560 --> 1:37:40.479 hundred photos and videos for free. You can upload one 1:37:40.560 --> 1:37:43.040 proof file or kid. 1:37:43.200 --> 1:37:46.720 We actually just added also inside a pet version, so 1:37:46.760 --> 1:37:48.960 if you have you know, we all have our pets, 1:37:49.000 --> 1:37:49.479 so you. 1:37:49.360 --> 1:37:52.559 Can add a child that part of the family. 1:37:53.640 --> 1:37:56.960 There's a lottery of stickers and filters and a lot 1:37:56.960 --> 1:38:00.080 of cute animations that you can add on. 1:38:01.720 --> 1:38:04.280 Their photos and videos. That's free as well. 1:38:04.680 --> 1:38:07.880 But obviously, if someone wants to use the app, and 1:38:07.960 --> 1:38:10.320 you know, and we we ourselves have been using it 1:38:10.320 --> 1:38:12.640 now for like a year and a half, and you know, 1:38:12.760 --> 1:38:15.800 the fos in the videos keep gathering, you know, you 1:38:15.840 --> 1:38:18.400 need more storage, and especially. 1:38:18.080 --> 1:38:20.880 If you want to have more of the advanced. 1:38:20.320 --> 1:38:23.600 Features, we're using a lot of the I of the 1:38:23.640 --> 1:38:27.439 apps for making the videos, for creating the photobook for you. 1:38:27.920 --> 1:38:32.560 That requires the premium subscription. The subscription both the subscription 1:38:32.720 --> 1:38:37.080 has a seven day free trial and it's nine ninety 1:38:37.120 --> 1:38:41.439 nine a month or sixty year, which comes to like 1:38:41.600 --> 1:38:43.639 five dollars and eighty three cents a month. 1:38:44.640 --> 1:38:48.200 And again, this is the This is the first das app. 1:38:48.280 --> 1:38:52.479 It is for kind of cataloging your child's milestones. It's 1:38:52.520 --> 1:38:56.240 available for iOS and Android Natalia. Are you happy with 1:38:56.280 --> 1:38:58.000 the way the app turned out? You had the idea? 1:38:58.160 --> 1:38:59.760 Are you happy the way it was executed? 1:39:01.640 --> 1:39:04.000 It's way better than I thought. And I wish I 1:39:04.040 --> 1:39:07.080 had it when our kids were younger because I would 1:39:07.160 --> 1:39:10.920 have captured so many moments. Not only it's super useful, 1:39:11.040 --> 1:39:14.479 but it looks really good and it's really well designed 1:39:14.520 --> 1:39:15.480 and very practical. 1:39:15.560 --> 1:39:16.760 So I'm more. 1:39:16.920 --> 1:39:19.519 I'm so happy with and I really hope people enjoy 1:39:19.560 --> 1:39:19.960 you as well. 1:39:20.200 --> 1:39:25.320 Okay, the website first D's dot com again catalog all 1:39:25.439 --> 1:39:29.519 the first moments with your child, all the milestones, and 1:39:29.560 --> 1:39:32.759 you can also share those privately with friends and family. 1:39:33.080 --> 1:39:34.640 Makes me want to have another kid. I don't know. 1:39:35.040 --> 1:39:38.720 Minor passed the first step though we're almost in high 1:39:38.720 --> 1:39:40.840 school now. Thanks so much for coming on the show. 1:39:40.960 --> 1:39:46.320 Natalia Daniel oded pelled first D's app creators. Coming up, 1:39:46.360 --> 1:39:48.240 We're going to open up the feedback see what you 1:39:48.320 --> 1:39:50.800 have to say about last week's show. This is rich 1:39:50.840 --> 1:39:56.160 on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech, rich Demiro. 1:39:56.320 --> 1:39:58.559 Here a couple items of note before we open up 1:39:58.600 --> 1:40:03.840 the feedbag. iHeartRadio app got a major redesign, so if 1:40:03.880 --> 1:40:07.719 you update your iHeartRadio app, you'll notice a whole bunch 1:40:07.720 --> 1:40:11.080 of new features. Number one, custom presets. You can now 1:40:11.160 --> 1:40:14.360 save up to fifteen of your favorite stations, playlists, or 1:40:14.400 --> 1:40:18.439 podcasts for quick access. I would recommend that you save 1:40:18.560 --> 1:40:22.080 rich on Tech my podcast kfive. You're in the LA 1:40:22.200 --> 1:40:25.160 area or whatever station you're listening on, you can save 1:40:25.200 --> 1:40:27.560 that as a preset, and of course KTLA if you 1:40:27.560 --> 1:40:29.320 want to listen to the morning news that I work 1:40:29.320 --> 1:40:31.640 on as well. They have a scan button now so 1:40:31.680 --> 1:40:35.360 you can scan different radio stations, kind of like back 1:40:35.400 --> 1:40:37.599 in the day in the radio car dial. Same thing. 1:40:37.960 --> 1:40:39.840 Then they have a live radio dial so you can 1:40:39.880 --> 1:40:43.080 see the live radio stations that are near you, organized 1:40:43.080 --> 1:40:48.160 by genre and location, lyrics and also what's trending. So 1:40:48.240 --> 1:40:51.080 the app rollout. The brand new app is rolling out 1:40:51.160 --> 1:40:54.240 to iOS and Android users, will be available to everyone 1:40:54.320 --> 1:40:57.080 by the end of December. It's a big one. I 1:40:57.120 --> 1:40:59.599 already got it on one of my phones and it's 1:40:59.640 --> 1:41:04.280 a nice upgrade. And Moxie. This is a robot that 1:41:04.439 --> 1:41:08.720 was for kids and it's gonna shut down so Embodied, 1:41:08.800 --> 1:41:11.360 the company behind it, says they don't have enough money, 1:41:11.600 --> 1:41:14.280 so they got to shut down their operations. This is 1:41:14.320 --> 1:41:16.840 an eight hundred dollars robot that was marketed as an 1:41:16.840 --> 1:41:21.200 emotional support and educational companion for kids, a lot of 1:41:21.240 --> 1:41:24.280 kids on the autism spectrum. It was also marketed as 1:41:24.320 --> 1:41:28.400 good for them. And the robot is going to stop 1:41:28.439 --> 1:41:34.240 functioning entirely. Shutdown could occur within days, so no refunds. 1:41:34.439 --> 1:41:37.000 Maybe someone who purchased within the last thirty days might 1:41:37.040 --> 1:41:39.360 get a refund, but if you're you know. And the 1:41:39.400 --> 1:41:41.680 other thing is that apparently people are still paying this 1:41:41.720 --> 1:41:44.799 thing off, So you're gonna be paying off a robot 1:41:44.840 --> 1:41:47.000 that you can no longer use. So what is the 1:41:47.040 --> 1:41:48.680 moral of the story. Why do I tell you this? 1:41:49.200 --> 1:41:52.880 It's because all these products nowadays, they all need sort 1:41:52.920 --> 1:41:56.520 of a cloud connection, not just Internet, but a proprietary 1:41:56.600 --> 1:42:00.080 cloud connection from the company that runs the product to 1:42:00.120 --> 1:42:03.160 operate properly. And so if that company shuts down or 1:42:03.200 --> 1:42:05.880 runs out of money, you're out of luck. And I 1:42:05.920 --> 1:42:07.920 think about this with the electric car companies. You know, 1:42:07.920 --> 1:42:09.360 I'm not going to mention them by name, but there's 1:42:09.360 --> 1:42:11.920 a lot of electric car companies, these startups that are 1:42:11.960 --> 1:42:13.920 kind of on the bubble, and you're like, what happens 1:42:14.000 --> 1:42:15.800 if they go out of business? What happens to my 1:42:15.880 --> 1:42:18.800 car is they's still going to run. As happens with 1:42:18.880 --> 1:42:22.400 electric bikes. Same thing, all these devices that require a 1:42:22.400 --> 1:42:26.400 cloud connection, not just an Internet connection, but a cloud 1:42:26.400 --> 1:42:29.559 connection to this company that runs it. Yeah, all right, 1:42:29.640 --> 1:42:32.080 let's open up the feedback. These are the emails, the questions, 1:42:32.120 --> 1:42:33.800 the comments, all the stuff that you wrote to me 1:42:33.840 --> 1:42:37.360 in the past couple of weeks. Stand Ward writes in 1:42:37.400 --> 1:42:40.240 Hey Rich, great one hundredth show. Wanted to share my 1:42:40.320 --> 1:42:44.360 experience after listening to your segment on Coinbase and crypto scams, 1:42:44.800 --> 1:42:47.240 a girl I was writing to tried convincing me to 1:42:47.280 --> 1:42:49.640 open a Coinbase account and act as a middleman for 1:42:49.720 --> 1:42:53.920 moving crypto red flag red Flag. She claims she needed 1:42:54.000 --> 1:42:56.599 money to get back to the US from Spain. Turn 1:42:56.640 --> 1:42:58.760 out to be total bs. Thanks to your advice, I 1:42:58.800 --> 1:43:01.160 gave her a big no, and I hope I avoided 1:43:01.200 --> 1:43:04.479 getting scammed. Wishing you and your family a great Christmas. Stanward, 1:43:04.520 --> 1:43:08.560 I'm glad you avoided that. Stacey from Westlake Village rights in. 1:43:08.600 --> 1:43:10.599 I've been watching you on KTLA for years. I love 1:43:10.640 --> 1:43:14.400 your newsletter. As the quote computer tutor, I teach seniors 1:43:14.400 --> 1:43:16.560 how to use their tech devices. Stacy we Shavy on 1:43:16.600 --> 1:43:19.080 the show, I use a MacBook and iPad, but prefer 1:43:19.160 --> 1:43:22.599 Google Pixel phones. I've had one since the Pixel three. 1:43:22.960 --> 1:43:25.040 Thanks to your tips, I got the ten dollars discount 1:43:25.080 --> 1:43:27.439 on YouTube TV for six months. You're so informative and 1:43:27.479 --> 1:43:31.000 fun to follow. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Well, Stacy, 1:43:31.160 --> 1:43:34.000 thank you, and Merry Christmas to you as well. Jeff 1:43:34.040 --> 1:43:36.559 from Frisco, Texas writes in on your recent show, the 1:43:36.560 --> 1:43:38.680 guy had the old Samsung phone. You wanted to move 1:43:38.720 --> 1:43:41.800 his pictures, You might consider an SD card reader like 1:43:41.880 --> 1:43:47.439 this the Anchor mag Go USB adapter USBC adapter. Yes, 1:43:47.479 --> 1:43:49.200 that is a great way to move pictures. I probably 1:43:49.200 --> 1:43:50.960 should have mentioned that I can't remember exactly what his 1:43:51.000 --> 1:43:53.320 problem was, but yeah, that would work as well. You 1:43:53.360 --> 1:43:56.040 can always Yes, you can plug an SD card reader 1:43:56.120 --> 1:43:58.519 right into the bottom of most modern smartphones, whether it's 1:43:58.520 --> 1:44:02.880 iPhone or Android, and answer files that way. Jeff says, 1:44:02.920 --> 1:44:05.840 By the way, as a retired school technology director of 1:44:05.840 --> 1:44:08.240 thirty years, I really appreciate how you never judge your 1:44:08.240 --> 1:44:10.960 callers and always do your best to solve their problems. 1:44:11.040 --> 1:44:13.640 Keep up the great work, love the show. Thank you, 1:44:13.720 --> 1:44:17.920 Jeff from Frisco. Pete from Avila Beach writes in hey, Rich, 1:44:17.960 --> 1:44:20.360 I saw that starlink now offers a mini portable device 1:44:20.400 --> 1:44:22.640 for backpackers, starting at just fifty bucks a month for 1:44:22.680 --> 1:44:25.800 fifty gigs of service. It weighs about three pounds with 1:44:25.840 --> 1:44:28.840 the battery, perfect for anyone needing fast internet at the beach. 1:44:28.960 --> 1:44:31.599 I download and listen to your Saturday podcast every week. 1:44:31.880 --> 1:44:34.880 You're always so interesting. Keep up the great work, Pete. Yeah, 1:44:34.960 --> 1:44:38.200 Pee is referring to the caller that said he was 1:44:38.240 --> 1:44:40.839 doing metal detecting on the beach and needed like mobile 1:44:40.840 --> 1:44:44.559 internet access, And I said, I don't think starlink does 1:44:44.600 --> 1:44:47.280 it that portable, but I guess it does. So there 1:44:47.280 --> 1:44:50.120 you go. You can get Internet anywhere. Annie from Central 1:44:50.160 --> 1:44:52.640 Florida writes in Hey Rich, regarding the lady with the 1:44:52.720 --> 1:44:55.560 ray band OH with the I issue who needed the 1:44:55.640 --> 1:44:59.160 ray band metaglasses, she should first file an appeal. If 1:44:59.160 --> 1:45:01.479 that doesn't work, can file a complaint with her state's 1:45:01.520 --> 1:45:05.200 insurance commissioner, mentioning that other insurance companies are covering the cost. 1:45:05.240 --> 1:45:08.759 If she's low income on a Medicare advantage plan with Medicaid, 1:45:08.840 --> 1:45:11.400 she might have access to one thousand dollars in funds 1:45:11.760 --> 1:45:15.160 for items not covered by medical insurance. If she's legally 1:45:15.200 --> 1:45:18.240 blind and disabled, she might also qualify for SSDI and 1:45:18.320 --> 1:45:21.599 Medicare after two years of disability. It's a bit confusing, 1:45:21.640 --> 1:45:24.479 so it's best to contact her insurance agent for guidance. 1:45:24.960 --> 1:45:27.080 Thank you, Annie, that sounds like you got some good 1:45:27.120 --> 1:45:30.720 options there. Audrey from Chatsworth writes in Hey Rich, I 1:45:30.760 --> 1:45:32.559 just wanted to say thanks for all the helpful advice 1:45:32.600 --> 1:45:35.439 in your newsletters and podcasts. I showed my dad how 1:45:35.479 --> 1:45:37.760 to use his AirPods for the enhanced hearing, and it's 1:45:37.760 --> 1:45:40.880 been life changing. He hears me clearly now and his 1:45:40.920 --> 1:45:44.040 communication is so much better. His only complaint, there's an 1:45:44.080 --> 1:45:47.559 occasional echo, but otherwise it's been a game changer. Wishing 1:45:47.600 --> 1:45:51.320 you and your family a happy holiday season. OG podcast 1:45:51.400 --> 1:45:55.760 listener number seventy seven Audrey and I commented that I 1:45:55.880 --> 1:45:58.519 like that she gave herself a listener number, and I 1:45:58.520 --> 1:46:01.880 guess there's a show Mark and Brian on Klos back 1:46:01.880 --> 1:46:04.120 in the day that they used to sign their I 1:46:04.120 --> 1:46:06.240 don't know. It's like something that they used to do with, 1:46:06.320 --> 1:46:09.880 like listener numbers. I don't know the phone Yeah, me too, 1:46:09.880 --> 1:46:10.960 I have to look it up. I was like, wait, 1:46:11.000 --> 1:46:15.160 what so anyway, I guess not. Yeah, let's see here. 1:46:16.479 --> 1:46:19.439 Let's see Neil from Ohio. Not sure if you're doing 1:46:19.479 --> 1:46:21.200 an end of your recap, but here are the best 1:46:21.200 --> 1:46:23.479 things from your show. I'm thankful for the Aura frame. 1:46:23.560 --> 1:46:26.280 They do it right local send. I use it every month, 1:46:26.320 --> 1:46:29.120 replacing one drive. I amazing. Even though I didn't pay, 1:46:29.120 --> 1:46:31.719 it's still quite good, although the licensing model put me off. 1:46:32.160 --> 1:46:35.879 Wishing you and your impressive family a happy holiday season. 1:46:36.360 --> 1:46:39.720 Thank you, Neil. Uh okay, I think we're gonna get 1:46:39.720 --> 1:46:42.519 to uh that's it. That's gonna do it for this 1:46:42.560 --> 1:46:44.759 episode of the show. You can find links to everything 1:46:44.760 --> 1:46:46.400 I mentioned on the website just go to rich on 1:46:46.479 --> 1:46:49.160 Tech dot TV. If you want to get your feedback 1:46:49.200 --> 1:46:51.160 in just go there and hit contact. You can find 1:46:51.160 --> 1:46:53.479 me on social media. I am at rich on Tech. 1:46:54.080 --> 1:46:58.559 Next week, our guests include Marcia Collier. She is author 1:46:58.640 --> 1:47:03.000 of Android smart Phone Owns for Seniors for Dummies. She's 1:47:03.040 --> 1:47:05.040 going to share tips from her new book. And we 1:47:05.120 --> 1:47:09.360 also have Jonathan Garner Mind over Tech. He's going to 1:47:09.360 --> 1:47:12.560 talk about how to develop a healthier relationship for technology, 1:47:13.120 --> 1:47:14.960 which we can all use going into the new year. 1:47:15.040 --> 1:47:16.559 Thank you so much for listening. There are so many 1:47:16.600 --> 1:47:18.920 ways you can spend your time. I do appreciate you 1:47:18.960 --> 1:47:21.160 spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who 1:47:21.200 --> 1:47:24.679 makes this show possible. Bobo Kim, My name is rich Dmiro. 1:47:24.800 --> 1:47:26.200 I will talk to you real soon.