WEBVTT - Google's incredible new cheap airfare tool 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.720 New summer travel tools from Google. How to check the 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.880 battery on your air Tags and passwords might be a 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.320 thing of the past. Oh plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.000 What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:24.960 on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.000 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.280 place where I answer the questions you send me. Once again, 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.360 my name is Rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.280 five in Los Angeles. What is going on? Welcome to 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.720 the show. Welcome if you're listening on Twitter spaces. Still 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.720 a lot going on in the tech world just never 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.680 never ends, huh. But kind of fun stuff, a lot 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.320 of cool stuff to talk about, like a lot of 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.760 like a lot of like new tools that I want 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.480 to talk about this week, like just handy, handy stuff. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.080 So let me just give you a background on me 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.440 and kind of my philosophy on what I like to 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.880 talk about both on TV and on this podcast. There 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.760 are so many people out there that love to talk rumors, speculation, 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.880 hot takes. You know, you can find opinions all over 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:17.480 the web. But personally, I don't care. I want good information, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.320 I want news I can use. I want tools, I 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.399 want tips. I want things that I sit there and 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.160 I'm like, Rich, stop talking, because I need to write 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.280 this down. I need to like, hold on, wait what 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.119 was that app? Hold on? What was that? So ninety 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.320 nine percent of the people that meet me in real 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:37.000 life IRL, they they literally, without fail, say hey, Rich, 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.119 I loved your tip on this, or Rich, I downloaded 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.199 that app you mentioned, or Rich, I got this phone 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.880 because of your review. That's the kind of stuff that 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.000 I want to do. So when you look at technology 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:52.520 news on TV, on the web, pretty much anywhere unless 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.000 you're on these real enthusiast sites, a lot of it 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.800 is just like you know, it's a lot of like 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.800 what what did Elon say today? What is Elon going 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.480 to do? To Twitter? And everyone has an opinion on 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.560 this stuff, and personally, I think it's fun, and of 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.240 course you want to look at some of that stuff. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.840 Most of the time, I don't, to be honest, you know, 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.800 even with the Apple roomor stuff. It's like for years 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.480 on TV, I just didn't cover Apple rumors. I mean, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.880 anyone can write up an Apple rumor, and now you know, 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.200 I'll report on some of them and some of the 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:27.240 more I guess the more reputable sources. But the reality is, 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:28.960 like I want to know what new products are out 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.600 whether I should buy them, what new apps are useful, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.880 what new features are out there. Those are the kind 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.240 of things that I think are the most useful. So 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.320 I am in a constant battle with kind of the hype, 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.280 the clickbait, the you know, just anyone and everyone that 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.000 wants to lead me into this direction of you know, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.440 stuff that it's like almost like uh, popcorn. You know. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.440 It's like it's like you're sitting there with your popcorn 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.079 just eating and like, oh yeah, that's you know, the 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.240 stuff that makes you angry, the stuff that makes you happy, 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.000 the stuff that makes you sad. I I've always tried, 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.040 and I'm not saying look, I mean I try to 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.600 hold this stuff to a higher standard. It doesn't always happen, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.000 but in general, Like if you're wondering why I'm not 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.600 super controversial or why I'm not super edgy, that's the reason. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.280 I just want this to be a show and my 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.120 reports to be a place where you learn cool stuff 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.760 about technology, you see cool stuff, and you can use 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.040 the stuff that I talk about. So I could scare 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.480 you every day with privacy stuff. I could make you 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.200 fear for your you know, security of your phone. I 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.000 can make you tell you that you need to update 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.720 Chrome every day. That's just not how I roll. I 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.760 will tell you when I think there's something that you 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:41.440 need to know about security, about you know, your privacy, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.600 of course I will tell you that stuff, but just 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.960 kind of making these large giant statements about you know, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.240 you should be scared or your location or you know. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.400 One of my favorites is like, you know, there's always 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.920 these roundups of like you know, Android apps that are 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.480 stealing information on your phone. Nine times out of ten, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.720 those apps are sideloaded by a tiny percentage of people 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.320 in a different country, and they have no bearing on 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.600 the average person here in the US, which is my 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:13.040 primary audience. And so it's like, yeah, I'll tell you, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.120 like what steps you should take to protect your phone. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.080 Like if you're sideloading apps and you even know what 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.400 that is, you're probably a little tech savva the most 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.120 people anyway, so you already know what the dangers are 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.360 of sideloading an app, Especially when it comes to the iPhone. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.640 You know, there's always you know, is it spying on you? 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.880 Is that this is that like I'll talk about that stuff, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.599 but just to put these blanket statements, like the fact 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.479 that you know, you download an app and it's just 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.800 literally taking over your iPhone and suddenly spying on your 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.280 every move and using your cameras and this and that, 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.880 like it generally does not happen. So I'll talk about 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.000 this stuff, but in general, that's where I'm coming from. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:48.440 I just kind of wanted to get that out there 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.120 so that you understand, if you know, if there's a 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.400 certain story I don't mention, or like a rumor in 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.960 the news that I'm just avoiding, there's a reason behind 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.440 my madness. There's a reason why I cover this stuff 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.800 that I do. All right, without further ado, let's get 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:05.960 into the first story of the week. Twitter, everyone's favorite 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.520 topic right now, is testing a new Twitter circle feature. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.359 So this is so you can share your tweets with 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.040 a smaller group of people, and this makes a lot 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.919 of sense. Instagram has this close Friends feature, which I 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.400 really like because I've got a lot of followers on 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.640 Instagram and I love them, but they're not all my 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.560 family members and close friends, and sometimes I'm just sharing 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.680 stuff that's a little bit more family oriented or it's 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.599 not secret, but it's just like you know, maybe it's 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.480 just more Yeah, it's mostly just family oriented or where 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.560 I am at a certain place or time that might 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.960 not need to be public information. So I'll use that 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.159 close friends feature a lot. You can tell when someone 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.039 is showing you something on your close friends list because 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.480 I think there's a little green circle around the story 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.120 or around the person that's sharing the story, and so 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.280 you can tell that that's meant for just your eyes 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.320 and not everyone's eyes. And Twitter kind of testing the 0:05:58.320 --> 0:05:59.839 same thing. You'll be able to share tweets with up 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.479 two one hundred and fifty people in this inner circle, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.200 and you can change those people at any time. It 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.279 doesn't I don't. Let's see, does it tell you when 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:13.080 you're added or deleted from this circle? I don't think so. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.279 Uh yeah, you can edit your participants at any time. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.719 So anyway, I mean, look, there's gonna be there's going 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.440 to be some changes at Twitter over the next six 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.040 months to a year. Obviously it's got new ownership, so 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.280 or it's going to have new ownership, so we're gonna 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.840 see a lot of changes. I hope they make it better. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.680 I love Twitter, I really do. I've said this on 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.560 this show before. I think it's a great social network. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.200 I think that I mentioned this on Twitter. Actually, how 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.680 Instagram to me has just become a complete mess with 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.000 all the changes and things that they're doing there trying 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.400 to really I mean, look, everyone is scared of reals, sorry, 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:51.280 of TikTok, and so you have the TikTok influence is 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:55.880 so apparent on Facebook and Instagram it's not even funny. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.279 I mean they literally if they could just switch out 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.839 everything in Facebook and Instagram to become reels when you 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.240 open up the app, they would, But they want to 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.520 tread carefully because they know that people didn't sign up 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.720 for that necessarily, and so they they want to make 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.280 sure that they're not missing out on the bandwagon when 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.200 it comes to the TikTok style videos. But they also 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.720 don't want to alienate every single person that's already using 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.080 the app. So, but if you've noticed, you know, there's 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:25.440 a bunch maybe not so much on Instagram, on a Facebook, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.280 but on Instagram, the TikTok influence is just so apparent, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.520 and they're doing such a bad job compared to TikTok. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.400 When you open up TikTok it opens up full screen 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.400 into the videos. You flip up and you switch through 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.000 the videos. It's a very simple experience. Instagram has like 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.920 one thousand and one ways you can browse Instagram at 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.720 this point, and it's just getting very crowded, very confusing, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.600 and I feel like they've lost direction on what they 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.360 want to be and we'll just see what happens with 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.000 that whole situation. I mean, they really I think that 0:07:56.120 --> 0:08:01.600 the uh, the one minute short is like literally my 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.440 favorite storytelling method right now. I used to be a 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:09.560 guy who literally hated vertical video. I thought it was evil, 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.280 and now I'm not kidding. I stay up at awake 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.840 at night just thinking about making reels and one minute 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:21.400 really impactful videos for this for these platforms, because it's 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.200 such a powerful way to reach people. You have one minute. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.800 You have to be succinct. I mean, it's all of 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:33.560 my training in journalism because it combines video, pictures and audio, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.600 and I like actually narrating them because that's my world. 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:39.520 I mean, I write packages for a living. That's what 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.920 we call our stories on TV. They're called a package, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.880 and they're short. They're only a minute thirty and so 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.160 real is a minute but it's vertical, so it's a 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.480 little bit tougher to squeeze in your video in that way, 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.560 but also you have to be really succinct, tell a story, 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.040 capture their attention. I personally am obsessed with it. I 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:01.160 think it's such a cool genre of video at this point, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:05.400 and I'd bet everything it's going to become the only 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.679 thing on mobile after a couple of years. All right, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.400 you heard those clacking sounds. That means time for our 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.480 first question. Hello, Rich, I have poor vision. It's very 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.840 difficult for me to read letters and documents. I only 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.360 use an iPad for the Internet and communicating. What would 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.280 be the best way for me to import a document 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.600 to my iPad and have the screen reader read it 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.280 to me. I try a scanner called doxy Go, but 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.080 the iPad would not read the file. I have a 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.480 first generation ten inch iPad which is running iOS fifteen. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.720 Do you have any suggestions? Keep up the good work, Thanks, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:40.119 Bob Bob. I think that you just use the scanning, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.880 the tech scanning feature that's built into iOS. So if 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.640 you notice on the notes app, they've actually made it 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.640 a little bit easier to access. So if you go 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.960 you open notes and you compose a new note. There's 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.280 a little camera icon and when you tap that above 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.240 the keyboard, there's an option for tech scanning, And so 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.040 you just tap that thing, you know, it opens up 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.520 the camera on your phone. You hold it over some 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.640 text and literally it doesn't even miss a beat. It 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.560 will scan the text, convert it, you know, from text 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.480 ocr whatever you call it, and insert that text into 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.760 a document on your phone. And then after you do that, 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.960 you can use the built in screen reader on iOS. 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.600 It's under accessibility to speak what you're listen what you're 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.920 seeing on your screen, so super super easy. All of 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.600 the tools are built into the iPad. Apple has done 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.960 some really nice things with accessibility and helping you take 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.520 advantage of the things that you know, we take for granted, 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.480 and that's vision. So I think that they've done a 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.760 really good job with the importing of text. I think 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.960 they've done a really good job with the speaking of text. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.559 And this is the beauty of the iPhone in general, 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.440 is that there are just so many little features built in. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.920 It's kind of like an onion. You don't know. If 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.840 you don't need them, you don't even think about them, 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.240 But when you need them, you can use them, and 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.880 Apple has them there for you. So that would be 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.480 my recommendation that one two punch. So again, you take 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.559 the document, you scan it with the text scan feature, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.800 and then use the screen reader to actually have the 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.240 iPad read it out to you. Great question, Bob, and 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:21.200 thanks for emailing me. All right, let's get to the 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.439 next story of the day. Apple, Google and Microsoft are 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.199 looking to we're going to figure out how to get 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.839 rid of passwords, and we've seen a little progress in 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.240 this area, but ninety nine percent of the time you 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.360 still got to use a password to log in. We're 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.720 seeing more use of those what's called magic links, which 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.480 you put your email address into a website and they 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.480 email you a link and that link takes you to 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.280 log in. It could be a little complicated on the 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.360 iPhone because of the architecture of the operating system depending 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.440 on what app you're using for your email, but I 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:55.280 won't get into that. But this is a good thing. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.800 So Microsoft, Google, and Apple have joined the FIDO Alliance. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.400 That has nothing to do with all fight out is 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:05.000 short for Fast Identity Online, and so what they want 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.720 to do is help you log into apps and websites 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.240 with things like fingerprint readers, face scanners, or your phone. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.880 Now we already see a level of this on Google 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.880 and some other apps as well, but a lot of 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.040 these apps are getting away from the SMS confirmation codes 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.680 to say are you who you say you are, and 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.160 they're switching to at least for Google, when you log 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.680 into a Google property, it will say okay, now open 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.920 up your iPhone and open up Gmail and tell us 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.400 you know and click the yes you know confirmation code. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.559 So the idea is that if a hacker was trying 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.240 to log into your Google account on a computer somewhere, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:49.360 they probably don't have your smartphone, and so by saying okay, 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.400 we'll open up the Google app on your smartphone and 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.240 confirm that it's you, the hacker would be like, ohh 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.840 foiled again. But you, as a as a person that 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.280 actually owns that account, could say, oh, yeah, my phone's here. 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.520 Let me open up Gmail and you say, yeah, that's me. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.959 You click the confirmation code or the screen or whatever 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.480 it is. Sometimes it's a button, sometimes it's a number, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.800 and you know it confirms it it's you, because it's 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.600 trying two different ways of making sure it's you. You've 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.920 got your log in and then also that secondary authentication 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.240 sometimes we call that two factor authentication, but this is 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.040 just a different way. It's not texted to you. It 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:28.400 is actually a confirmation screen, so we can see more 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.520 things like that. Like next time you go to Amazon 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.760 on your computer, it might say, hey, open up the 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.679 Amazon app on your phone and boom, is this you 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.440 trying to log in? You say yes, and it just 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.600 logs you in without having to use a password. Now 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.120 does this mean that all passwords are going away forever? 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.920 Probably not. We're still going to need sort of a 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.200 master password for things, or you know, a password to 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.559 get in the first time. I think this is more 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:56.720 geared towards relogging in or accessing websites on different things. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.720 But I don't know. I mean it could be you know, 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.360 maybe maybe they'll figure out a way to get rid 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.640 of the password altogether. I don't know. But the other 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.160 thing that they're doing is they said, according to the 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.520 cenet article, that they are working on something as soon 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.200 as the end of this year, So we might have 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.800 devices powered by software from Apple, Google, and Microsoft in 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.359 the next year that take advantage of this Fido technology. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.160 So kind of cool, very exciting. I did an interview. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.120 I'll have this on KTLA soon. But I did an 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.960 interview with a security expert, really really great interview. You know, 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.600 I'll be honest. Sometimes I do interviews and they're just 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.400 not that good. Other times I do interviews and I 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.200 just wish I had kind of a live interview show 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.360 because I want every single thing that person says on 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.200 TV because it's just so good. And this was an 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:47.640 example of that. This guy's name was Roger Grimes. He's 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:52.320 a security expert with oh gosh, what's it NOB four 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.840 or something like that, but he just the things he 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.440 was saying were just so great about our passwords and 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.040 how hackers are hacking us. And all I have I 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.640 have to say is if you are not using strong passwords, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.240 strong unique passwords, if you think you're able to make 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.600 up passwords that you know you have the upper hand, 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.200 you don't. These hackers are relentless and they are working 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:17.320 twenty four to seven to hack our stuff. And if 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.760 you think you're coming up with these little c passwords, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:24.480 I use my dog's name plus twenty plus an explanation point. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.000 Now not gonna happen. These guys are cracking. Guys in 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.760 Galas are cracking I think, he said, eighteen digit codes 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.000 at this point, if they are made by humans, if 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:40.240 they're randomly generated by a password service like a you know, 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.920 a last pass or a dash lane or any sort 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.520 of password generator, he said, eleven characters is kind of 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.360 the magic spot where they still can't crack that easily 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.560 or even at all. He said, So the last person 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:57.080 I interviewed from Bitwarden, he said, I think sixteen was 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.120 his magic number. That he said that was overkill, but 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.640 it kind of preps you for the future of how 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.320 these hackers are getting even more sophisticated. So sixteen, So 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:10.280 anywhere between eleven and sixteen randomly generated characters are going 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.120 to protect you at this point, plus of course two 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.920 factor authentication. But do it. I'm not kidding. The other 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:17.520 thing he mentioned that I thought was kind of cool 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.520 and I had not really thought of this, But something 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.840 you can do is if you can't use a password 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.680 generator like let's say, for instance, typing logging into your laptop. Now, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.680 on my laptop, I've got a fingerprint scanner, but there 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.640 are times that I still need to use my password, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.560 and so I'll be honest, it's I shouldn't say this, 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.280 but it's a simpler password because I know I have 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.520 to type it all the time. But he did say 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.800 that if you want to, you know, have to type 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.200 something in all the time, use what's called a pass phrase. 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:48.080 And so you can say something like I always eat 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.800 watermelon in the summer with salt exclamation point, you know, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.040 something like that, where that's you know, that's really tough 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.680 for someone to figure out. That's still pretty long and random. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.640 And so you can try something like a pass phrase 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.040 if you must use a password that you are creating. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.480 All right, moving right along here, let's get to the 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.119 next question of the show. Barry says, hey, Rich, what 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.800 was the app you talked about for sports card values? 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.240 I may be sitting on a small fortune, thanks Barry. Barry. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.760 The app is called collects coll X. We featured this 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.159 on KTLA and ooh do we get a response? So, 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.520 if you're like me, you collected baseball cards when you 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.760 were a kid, and what was the biggest challenge of 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.919 those cards finding the good ones? Right? You always wondered 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.400 if you had a really good card in your collection. Now, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.879 I grew up at a time before the internet was huge, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.240 and so there wasn't like an eBay you could just 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.840 search on. There were actually guides. I think he called 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.080 it the Beckett Guide. I kind of remember this. I had, 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.679 like the pink pages with the little tiny writing and 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.520 the card values in there. But again you had to 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.120 buy that book. And as a broke kid, I wasn't 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.159 buying that book. So what did you do? You just 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.480 talked to your friends, Hey, Adam, do you know if 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.359 this card is worth anything? And you'd always have that 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.160 one friend that could go through your collection and kind 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:04.720 of size it up and see if you had any 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.760 good cards in there. Well, now kids today don't need 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.280 to do any of that. Father and son team out 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.880 of New Jersey came up with this app called collect Colx. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:18.000 You installed on your phone and basically you scan the 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:22.720 baseball card. It kind of looks for prices on various sites, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.840 including eBay and the Beckett Guide and all these different places, 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.840 aggregates those into an average price, and it tells you 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:34.840 how much the card is approximately worth. Brilliant IDEA kid 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.320 is ten years old going to do very good things 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.560 in this life. The dad, I guess, had some background 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:46.159 in image recognition, so that's the app. Brilliant and I 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.240 can't wait to go home and scan all my cards 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.680 in my old binder. I'm also going to do a 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.480 reels about this because I've got to get the SAP 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.919 out there. It's so cool. Now. On this note, I 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.960 got an email. Hey, Rich I've been collecting baseball cards 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.560 my entire life. I saw your segment this morning about collects. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.240 Have you received any input from the app. I've had 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:05.720 a chance to use it, and I'd like to know 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.440 what I'd like you to know what I think of it. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.119 It's easy to use. Just take a picture of the 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:11.880 front and back of your card. So far, I've done 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.800 twelve and they are all graded. After scanning the third card, 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.359 the app slows down and freezes. I think that once 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:19.679 kinks are worked out, it will not do that. Some 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.720 of the cards are mislabeled, especially the ones with multiple players. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.760 This is easily fixed by editing the picture. The prices 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.159 seem to be about right, although slightly off, meaning they 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.199 are displaying a lower value than other sites which price cards, 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.760 but for the most part they are good. Could rather 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:35.680 me not use his full name, which I typically don't 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.360 do on the show, but he said he would give 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:43.720 this site a B plus. I'll share this app with 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.840 my friends and family. Thanks for talking about this product. 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:51.040 So anyway, yeah, there you go. It sounds like a 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.840 pretty glowing review. And again, you know, I'm pretty early 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.159 on this app. It's a pretty brand new app. But again, 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.320 this will continue to be evolved and tweak, and I 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.560 think that it's just one of these things that as 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.199 a kid like, can you I can't imagine having this 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.040 as a kid like with all the work I had 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.440 to do to figure out the price of one baseball card, 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:11.360 the fact that you can just scan them and get 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.760 and look, these prices are not gonna be exact. It's 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.720 not gonna be the exact amount you're gonna sell it for, 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.000 but it's gonna give you a ballpark figure, no pun intended, right, 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.560