WEBVTT - Facebook intros "link history" tracking & are cheaper cell phone plans worth it? 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:05.680 Facebook has a sneaky new way to track you. Sam 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.119 Sung ready to show off their new phones. I'll tell 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:12.280 you when do you still want a physical keyboard for 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:17.439 the iPhone? A new gadget can help. Plus your tech 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.360 questions answered. What's going on on richdmiro and this is 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:26.600 Rich on Tech broadcasting live from Los Angeles coast to coast. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.160 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.639 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:36.360 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.720 that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:41.360 Let's open up the. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.560 Phone line for the first time in twenty twenty four. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.319 Phone lines are now open at triple eight Rich one 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:51.200 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:55.320 four one zero one. I can see Kim blowing the 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.760 dust off of the board getting those phone calls back 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:00.240 up and running for the first time. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:02.000 Give me a call. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.120 If you have a question about technology, email also open. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.560 Just go to Rich on Tech dot tv hit contact. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.679 We got some great guests this week. Brian Kamiski, futurist 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.920 at CTA, is going to talk about what to expect 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.560 from this year's CEES twenty twenty four in Las Vegas 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:25.080 to Tana Jordan, author and founder of Parenting in a 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:29.080 Tech World and Bark Technologies Chief parent Officer. We'll talk 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.240 about what parents need to know about child and teen 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.319 safety online, especially if you got them some new gadgets 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:39.640 over the holidays, and Chris Hoffman from the Windows Intelligence 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.560 Newsletter is going to join to chat all things Windows, 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.080 tips and Tricks. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.280 Well, I hope you are having a happy new year. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.960 This is the official kickoff to year number two of 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.520 this show. They said it wouldn't happen. No, I'm just kidding. 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.800 Nobody said that, but I'm sure some people wondered. But 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:04.200 here we are, year number two. Very very exciting to 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.320 be kicking off a whole another year of this show 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.560 with you. I am It's been an amazing run so far, 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.440 it really has. And honestly, I come in here every 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:18.480 weekend just looking forward to this being over. No, I'm kidding, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.160 just I got a lot more jokes in the new year. No, 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.359 I look forward to this. You have no idea. I 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.120 think about this show every day of the week, mostly 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:29.920 because I'm wondering what I'm going to talk about for 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.320 three hours. But it really goes fast, and I sit 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.080 there and I told my wife yesterday, I said, you know, 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.680 three hours sounds like a lot, but it goes really fast, 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.240 and there's so much I've got a whole list of 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.360 things I want to tell you about today. This week, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.079 as part of our New year, we did something different. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.600 We got a dumpster at the house. Now, I know 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.960 this sounds weird, but my wife got this idea from 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.320 her sister to get a dumpster, literally, one of those 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.880 like industrial dumpsters you see at like a job site. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:58.600 We got that outside of our house. No, we're not 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.680 doing construction, not doing anything special. We just wanted a 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:07.200 cleanse and we cleansed. We just threw out everything, all 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.320 the stuff we had moved to our house years ago, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.000 and we had boxes we had still not opened. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:13.560 We just tossed him into the dumpster. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.079 Everything that, you know, all that stuff that you just 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.040 say you'll figure out one of these days. You put 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.320 it in the garage, you put it in the back 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.440 of the closet. We just got rid of it. It's like, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.760 you know, what, if we haven't needed it at this point, 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:25.120 we are never gonna need it. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:26.560 So it was great. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.200 We feel more accomplished at the beginning of this new year. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.959 Than we ever have in our lives. So I highly 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.880 recommend the dumpster method. It really makes you feel good. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.760 And we were brutal. We threw out so much stuff. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.960 In fact, my wife just texted me and she said, Rich, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.840 you know, we threw out our kids karate shirt like 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.480 his literally his karate shirt in the closet. So now 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.480 they're going to karate and he has no shirt. He 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.280 has to get anyone. So us throwing everything out has 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:54.560 now cost me more money. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:55.920 Very very exciting. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.400 Well, I mentioned this is the kick off off to 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.680 the new year, and right in the new year, what 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:03.360 does it start with? 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:04.000 Every year? 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.520 Cees CS twenty twenty four is happening in Las Vegas. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.200 Many of my tech friends are flying there as we speak. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.480 I will be heading to Las Vegas to show you 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.880 and talk to you about everything I will see in 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.960 the next week. And it's pretty wild. I had to 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.839 go back in my notes and check I've now been 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:30.440 covering CES for sixteen years. Who I can't believe it's 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.960 been that long. So I looked up my first video. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.599 I was working for c neet at the time my 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.760 first CS. I was in New York and I looked 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.240 up my first video I did, and it was hit 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.400 the ground running. I was there for eleven days in 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:47.159 Las Vegas and it was wild. I mean, talk about 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.279 being thrown into the fire. I mean it was just 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.839 like NonStop. I did have a lot of help, which 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.240 I think was great with c NET. They had a 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.920 lot of producers that they assigned you and stuff like that, 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.760 so it was really helpful. But I found my first 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.840 CS video I was hosting with Veronica Belmont, a show 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.840 called Crave. Veronica was like one of the superstar personalities 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.480 at CINAT and so just getting to do anything with 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.240 her was like incredible for me because I was like 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.240 the new guy and she was the person that was 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.359 just she was like a superstar. She was there for 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.240 a long time and ended up leaving and now I 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:26.960 think she's at Adobe. But anyway, sixteen years ago, first CES. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:28.960 Then I kind of looked through all my videos that 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.600 went viral over the years. I remember my very first 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.039 viral video from CS. It was in twenty nineteen. It 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.080 was a fold of It was called the foldy Mate. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:43.000 This was a laundry folding machine and the video is 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.719 only about I don't know, thirty or something seconds, but 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.120 I remember posting this to my Instagram or my Facebook 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.680 or I think it was Facebook back in the day, 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.600 and I had never seen anything like this. The video 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.880 is fifty four seconds and I was like, this looks interesting, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.719 and I just posted. I said, this is the laundry folding. 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.600 This is the laundry folding robot dreams are made of. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.359 And it went wild. I had never seen a video 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.400 go that viral in my entire career thus far. And 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.400 I just watched the numbers just go and go and go, 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.120 and every single person, you know, it was shown on 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.000 TV across the world, and the company that made it 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:23.440 out of Israel, they were like, do you want to 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.440 come to Israel, and like come to our factory and 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.520 this and that, and I don't know what happened with 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:28.960 the machine. I don't know if it ever like saw 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.120 the light of day, but that was pretty wild. In 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.800 twenty twenty, it was a pizza making robot that went viral. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.159 So this was an AI pizza machine and it was 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.960 called Picnic. And of course this was twenty twenty, so 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.480 four years ago. AI and this machine. I watched it 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.680 make the pizza. I got the video, I posted it 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.760 and people went wild. I tried the pizza. It was 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.600 actually pretty good, and it was fully automated from start 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.800 to finish, and so that was really interesting. Now, in 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.359 twenty twenty one, it was a pandemic year and so 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.840 CS actually called me to host. They were doing a 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.720 virtual cs CS Digital and so I actually went up 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.240 to Seattle and hosted the entire show, which was not 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.520 in person, it was all virtual, and I hosted it 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.240 with my friend Brian Tong and I Justine and we 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.200 went up there and it was so great. We had 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.120 such a good time, and it was it was at 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.040 the Microsoft campus, so we actually did it inside this 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.160 cool studio that was fully. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.360 Virtual and it was just it was wild. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.280 And so that was CS twenty twenty one, and of 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:32.720 course I had to get a lot of permissions to 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.400 do that form my TV station, but it all worked out. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.680 They thought it was pretty awesome. In twenty twenty two, 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.480 it was another robot. See the trend here they're all robots. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.880 This was a Mica and this was a robot that 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.000 I couldn't tell if there was a person behind the 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.200 scenes talking for the robot or if it was an 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:51.320 actual real robot. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.040 But it was so humanistic. Is that a word humanistic, 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.920 and it just the way it moved, the way it flowed, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:58.320 the way. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.360 It answered questions, and this thing went wild online. You 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.400 can always tell a good viral video when everyone just 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.960 steals your video and re uploads it to their website 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.840 and it still goes viral, And so that was really 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.360 an interesting one to watch as well. Now last year 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.320 it was twenty twenty three, it was all about this 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.160 color changing BMW. So BMW had this car that they 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:26.800 covered in e ink display panels and so it didn't change. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.440 I don't think it was like physic like actual colors. 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.320 I think it was just like black and white, like 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:36.240 shades of gray, right, and so I think that's as 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.240 I remember it. But it was basically like a whole 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.680 bunch of Kindle displays that they put on this car 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.680 and it could just change from like you know, black 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.840 to white to gray to like anything in between. And 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.040 so the comments on that were just wild. You know, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.280 talk about car chases in LA. We've got a black 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.120 car on chase. Oh no, we've got a white car 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.920 on chase. Oh no, it's a gray BMW on chase. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.560 So that was pretty wild. And there was two videos 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.920 that went kind of viral, the Ring Carcam, which was 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.360 the first ring cam for your car. It's like kind 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.760 of like a dash cam. And then the ring drone, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.880 which is this little ring camera that flies around your house. 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.520 And so that launched and I don't think it ever 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:20.040 really did very well, but the carcam did. And by 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.720 the way, I started this very radio show. So I 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.559 remember I had to cut my CS short. Typically at 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.480 CS I will stay maybe an extra night. This last year, 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.679 I had to come back so so nervous about starting 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.640 this new radio show, but I was excited because I 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.079 would have so much to talk about because it was 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.480 a brand new show and I had just been to CS. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.440 So a little trip down memory lane, you know, I 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.520 feel like anything before twenty nineteen. There's a big gap 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.480 between two thousand and six and twenty nineteen. I'm sure 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.480 there's more things that kind of went viral or that 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.440 were notable, but I couldn't find them very quickly. All right, 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.520 coming up on today's show, a Verizon settlement. Did you 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.040 get the email? It is very real. You might have 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.440 up to one one hundred dollars coming your way, but 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:03.600 first it is your turn. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:04.240 Give me a call. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.800 Your calls coming up at eight eight eight rich one 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.920 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four two four 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.200 one zero one. You can follow me online. I'm at 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:16.679 rich on Tech. Give me a call if you have 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.560 a question about technology. My name is rich Tamiro and 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:29.959 you are listening to rich on tech Thurman in Winchester, Massachusetts. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:30.720 You're on with Rich. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.080 Yes, I guess good morning for you. Going for me. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:38.520 I was thinking about especially from Verismon where I've had 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.360 some you know, signal drops the last few months to 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.080 uh subby. I first I thought, I go AT and T, 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.480 just try out that network, But then I understand there 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.840 are things like pure Talk that use the AT and 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:58.000 T network, and they've now added FOURIGN coverage, so that's good. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.080 So I'm I'm tempted to make the punge, but I 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.920 just wonder if you've had an opinions on these discount 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.920 wild wireless carriers that are piggyback on the main network. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.600 Great question, and I will tell you this off the bat. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.600 I trust one of these mv and o's to my mom, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.480 So if it's good enough for her, believe me, I 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.880 think they are good enough for everyone. Now Here is 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.880 the main difference. Okay, So with the main carriers like 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.920 a Verizon, an AT and T or a T Mobile. 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.320 They want you on one of their fancy unlimited plans 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.720 which includes a lot of stuff. It includes Netflix, it 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.720 includes mobile hotspot, it includes some sort of foreign roaming. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.600 So it's all about getting you on that big unlimited plan. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.079 And also they have a lot of discounts with phones, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.839 and people get their phone through the carrier. I feel 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.240 like the mv and o's are kind of a play 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.719 on your budget, so you can get more for your 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.480 money if you're bringing especially if you're bringing your. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:57.640 Own phone to the table. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.600 And a lot of these mv and o's have their 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.640 own phone deals as well. Now, what's an mv and 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:07.400 O mobile virtual network operator. There's only three networks in 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.600 the US. That's AT and T, T Mobile, and Verizon. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.559 All of these other companies that you hear advertised are 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.560 running on their networks. Now, the downsides of something like 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.200 an mv and O is really you have to check 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.559 out the plan to see what you get and what 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:27.920 you don't get. So there are some people that believe 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.600 that AT and T or Verizon or T Mobile will 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:36.400 prioritize their highest paying customers first and then so if 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.840 you're in a really congested area, you may not get 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.480 the top speed or the top service in that area. Now, 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.600 I will tell you I have a test line for 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.600 Mint Mobile, and I find that it is excellent. It 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.240 really really works very nicely. And I've tested many other 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.680 mv and o's over the years, and they're really good 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.680 as long as you know what you're getting. Some of 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.160 them have limited minutes, some of them have limited data, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.480 some of them may not have you know, all the 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.679 little perks of those unlimited plans, But if you know 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.520 what you're getting for that price, it's a really good value. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.160 So Thurman, I have no problem recommending that you switch 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.000 to one of these, and look, if you don't like it, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.480 you can always switch back. Some of these, you know, 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.760 or almost every single one of them is month to month, 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.840 so you basically pay for it. You're kind of paying 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.280 in advance, and that's it. They just billy every month 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:32.600 with something like a Mint Mobile. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:33.240 Some of them give you. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.280 A bigger discount if you pay for more than one 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:37.400 month at a time. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:38.880 But it's a new year. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.040 A lot of these companies are giving deals right now, 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.240 and so I think you'll be fine. And if you 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.600 want to try an AT and T, you can actually 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:52.600 go to a website called whistle Out Whistle whistle out 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.719 dot com and they will help you compare all of 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.880 the different sell plans out there. The website again whistle 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.200 out dot com, and you can say if you want 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.120 it to run on the AT and T network, or 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.439 the Verizon network or the T Mobile network. A lot 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.880 of the mv and os run on T Mobile. That's 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.160 probably the most common one. AT and T is probably 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.360 the second most common, and then Verizon is probably the 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.600 least common for mv and os. The main one that 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.640 they've run is their own, which is called Visible, and 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.160 that's basically you know, when Visible first came out, I 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.360 interviewed the CEO Visible, and I couldn't even believe it. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.600 I said, how are you offering Verizon's network at a 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:33.600 fraction of the price. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.320 I think it was like thirty bucks a month. 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.920 And the big thing was that it was limited in 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.880 your speed, So your speed was download limited to about 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.000 five megabits per second. They've since done away with that, 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:45.960 but that was kind of like the delineation. If you 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.640 want the fastest Verizon network speed, you got to go 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.680 with Verizon. If you don't really care, and you want 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.480 to save a bunch of money and pay thirty dollars 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.640 a month, go with visible. So great question, Thurman to 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:56.800 kick off the show for the new year. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.400 Appreciate the call, all right. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.800 Speaking of these different cell phone companies, Verizon, a lot 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.480 of people have emailed me saying, I got this class 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:07.840 action settlement email. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.200 Is it legitimate? Yes, it is legitimate. 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.440 If you get this in your email, you do need 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.840 to file a claim by April fifteenth. You can get 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.480 up to one hundred dollars from Verizon if you were 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.000 a customer between January first, twenty sixteen and November eighth, 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:25.920 twenty twenty three. And the whole lawsuit is related to 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.400 these administrative charges on their wireless accounts. 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.920 These were accounts that they. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.880 Charge fees that someone said, I don't think these fees 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.440 we were good or they weren't legitimate whatever. All of 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.400 these class action settlements. The company is not saying they 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.600 did anything wrong. They're just saying, look, we don't want 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:44.960 to deal with this. We're just going to put a 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:46.600 whole bunch of money towards this. We're going to give 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.080 everyone a hundred bucks and you don't get to file 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.600 a claim personally against this. That's how class action works. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.360 I'm not a lawyer, but that's how I understand it. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.760 So when you get this one hundred dollars, you're giving 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:01.200 up your right to file a bigger claim against Verizon 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.640 for these administrative charges. Happens all the time. There's another 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.720 one right now with Visio. I'll talk about that a 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.920 little bit later in the show. But again, if you 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.240 got this email from Verizon that was about this class 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.960 action settlement, oh, I can't believe it as I'm speaking. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.520 I just got this email in my inbox for myself. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.080 So I had an account with them, I guess during 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.040 this timeframe, and I just got it. The email comes 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:28.960 from do not Reply at Verizon Administrative Charge Settlement dot com. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.920 So if you haven't gotten it, it clearly seems like 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:33.760 this is rolling out because I got a bunch of 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.440 emails about it yesterday from people asking me. Now, I 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.760 just got one myself. Richontech dot tv is the website. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.840 I'll put all the links that I talk about right there. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.800 Coming up, Brian Kamiski, futurist at CTA, is going to 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.520 talk about what to expect from this year CS twenty 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.680 twenty four happening in Las Vegas this week. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.240 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.320 Rich dam So here hanging out with you, talking technology 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:07.000 and guess what. CEES twenty twenty four is just around 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:11.159 the corner. It happens in Las Vegas January ninth through twelfth, 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.520 and of course I will be there. Joining me now 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:19.040 is Brian komiskey futurist at the Consumer Technology Association. They 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.680 put on CS in Las Vegas every year. Brian, thanks 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:23.399 so much for joining me. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.200 Of course, thank you so much, Rich for having me. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:26.280 It's a pleasure to be here. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:32.240 So tell me about CES and CTA. What's the relationship 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.280 between those two, Yeah. 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:34.400 Of course. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:38.520 So the Consumer Technology Association, we're not for profit trade association. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.639 We're the largest North America representing tech companies from your 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:47.680 startups all the way to your global multinationals right representing 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.280 cross the United States and Canada, just everything that is 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.639 consumer technology. Beyond that, I probably most people know us 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.680 best as the owners and producers of CEES, which is 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:01.639 one of the largest in the world for technology. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.879 So that's the relationship there between CTA and CES. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:09.679 Okay, So CS is happening January ninth through twelfth this year. 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.240 It's actually a little bit later than in previous years, 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:13.919 which I kind of. 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.080 Like explain CS for someone. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.680 Who has not been. I mean, I've been for many years. 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.960 It is kind of like a tech circus, if you might. 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.680 The way I describe it is when you think about 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.159 technology and gathering a lot of companies or exhibitors and 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.600 innovation together, it's very nostalgic. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:31.840 For me. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.280 It reminds me a lot of like what one would 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.320 read about from the World's Fair back in the day 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.560 in Chicago, or another more. 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:39.680 Modern example is EPCOT. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.840 Right, EPCOT stands for Experimental pro type Community of Tomorrow 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.520 is what it actually was at Disney. So in many 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.560 ways it has always felt like this big tent and 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.560 I'm god, you said circus, like this big tent of 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.200 every innovation you can think of, and it's not just 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.720 consumer gadgets, it is also enterprise technologies. 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:58.480 We're also we're one. 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.640 Of the largest car shows in the world, but we're 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.880 actually large mobility show because we include boats and even 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:05.080 flying cars as well. 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:05.320 There. 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:09.400 So it's really this sort of every facet of innovation, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.480 from a spark of an idea all the way to 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.720 a proven concept and product comes to CEES. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.800 I mean I get some of my best story ideas 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.840 for the entire year from the week that I spend 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.359 in Las Vegas, and not just like the stuff I'm 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.639 gonna show, but it's also like an understanding of you know, 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.040 what are these companies kind of focusing on this year. 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.800 Some of this stuff is early stage, so you attrack 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.480 it throughout the year and maybe even into the next year. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.240 Of course, it's a great way to meet people and 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.800 to you know, meet people in person from around the 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.639 world because a lot of these startups and different companies 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.680 bring everyone in. How do you determine what sort of 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:47.560 themes you are going to. 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.600 Have for that year's CES. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:51.720 I don't think it will be surprised where you'll see 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.440 every industry vertical, but the three technology trends that will 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.960 really kind of act horizontally and cut across every industry vertical, 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.360 so cut across gaming, digital, health, mobility, and others will 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:08.359 be things like artificial intelligence, sustainability, and then accessible or 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:12.000 inclusive tech design. Right, the idea of it's about addition, 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.080 not subtracting, adding more people who can use your product 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.879 regardless of either disability or to. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.119 Make sure that you're representing people in your tech design. 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:22.240 Let's start with the AI aspect. 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:23.200 AI. 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:24.520 It's kind of like the Internet. 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:26.720 Back in the day when I went to CS, the 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.680 Internet was built into every product that you could imagine. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.800 You saw a mug, it has Internet for better or 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.720 for worse for some products. So what do you see 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:39.680 as being kind of interesting about AI at CES this year? 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:41.760 Yeah, of course, And so when you think about AI, 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.080 I think it's important to start with, well, why has 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.240 it been so exciting this year? A lot of that 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.680 has been driven by generative AI and chat GPT. Right, 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.240 it's a tangible way. I think a lot of consumers 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.280 got to experience AI responding to them in real time 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.680 and it's incredible technology. But it's just a slice of 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.360 the overall ecosystem. So at CS you're going to see 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.320 the entire ecosystem, and we have historically shown this in AI, 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:08.040 and that starts with chips. So what's the AI hardware 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.040 that's going to power the AI innovations that you'll see, 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:15.880 Think industrial metaverses to control factory floors, or even living 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.520 represent our virtual representations of the human heart, to advance 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:23.959 research on cardiological diseases, so that has so many applications 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.040 out of its own right, we'll also see platforms, and 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.240 what that means is more advanced chatbots or even digital 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.720 humans that can serve in a kiosk and be responsive 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:35.760 in real time to any questions that you have if 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.320 you're at an office or at an amusement park or 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:42.000 something like that. Finally, we'll even see it in robotics, right, 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.200 and that will range from those consumer robotics like your vacuums, 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:49.479 or robotic baristas or countertop robots for your food, all 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:53.040 the way to industrial robots for logistics. So it's going 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.760 to be really every sort of underpinning. And then of 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:57.960 course AI is going to appear in some unexpected ways. 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:01.240 You'll see it in your TV sets more and more displaced. 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:04.359 A wireless TV provider will have AI shopping on board 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:07.200 their TV sets, and you'll even see an AI electronic 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:12.280 healthcare monitoring to reduce infection after surgery. So it's applications 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.760 that are not just beneficial to make your life more fun, 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:18.840 but also to benefit your life directly by maybe you know, 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:21.960 reducing a hospital stay. So it's pretty impressive how AI 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:23.920 is going to come about at CES. 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:26.720 What do you make of this drive, we've seen towards 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:30.520 sustainability from the major tech companies that have been putting 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:34.000 products into the world for many years, and increasingly they 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:36.600 are thinking more about the materials they're using and also 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.680 how those products can be recycled when they're done. 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:42.440 Yeah, of course, and I think that's been a consideration 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:45.240 for quite some time if you actually look at it. 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:48.960 The Paris Agreement was signed back in twenty sixteen and 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:51.840 the target dates for for twenty thirty. We're actually past 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.359 the halfway point now, so you're starting to see an 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.960 acceleration of some concepts companies were already doing. You mentioned 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:01.720 sort of packaging recyclable materials. That's always been part of 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.240 the consumer technology story, and you'll see that cs. In fact, 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:07.400 one of the examples that I'm really excited to see 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:11.840 person is power Foiled by Exeger. This is a flexible 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:15.320 or customizable solar cell that you can put on everyday 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:18.840 consumer electronics like headphones that have partnership with Urbanista. You 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:24.879 can put it on GPS tracker enabled dog harnesses, and 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:27.359 it's basically just solar empowering every. 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:28.720 Consumer gadget you have in your life. 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:31.960 That's one facet, right but we also see at CEES 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:36.040 alternative power source innovation, whether that's green hydrogen from big 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:40.000 players like sk or some of your changes in electric 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:42.120 vehicle models on the show for at West Hall. 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:44.880 And then you'll even see more novel. 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:47.240 And experimental ways where there's a company that's going to 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:51.760 showcase how do you harvest sound waves from ambient noise 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:55.399 into electrical energy. So it's this larger story, all hands 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:57.800 on deck towards this more greener tomorrow. 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:02.960 Let's talk about some of the accessibility kind of initiatives 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:06.720 by these companies. We're seeing technology really enable so many 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:10.920 amazing things for people of varying abilities. What can we 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:12.960 expect to see at CS this year? 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:15.680 Innovation comes in two ways, right, see the revolutionary where 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:19.159 you take these moonshot leaps in one place for a 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:23.000 technology category, or it's evolutionary, it's iterative. Last year we 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:25.879 saw some great advancements from Loril actually with their Hapta 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:28.159 device which allows you to apply lipstick if you have 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:32.320 limited mobility. Another story is Sony introduced their all Access 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:35.600 controller concept last year. It's on the market as of 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:38.440 a few weeks ago, and this is a modular controller 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:41.080 that allows anyone with limited mobility to be able to 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:43.200 play a game. So this year where we're going to 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:45.120 see it is you're going to see that continued advancement. 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:47.800 So Garman is bringing their Venue three, which has a 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:51.160 wheelchair mode on their wearable watch. When you think about 0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:53.800 wearing a wearable you kind of take for granted that 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:56.560 tracks your steps, your physical activity if you're able to walk. 0:24:57.040 --> 0:24:59.720 Now if you're in a wheelchair, you'll get those same stats. 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:03.480 We'll also see a rig that attaches to treadmills that 0:25:03.560 --> 0:25:05.320 a lot of people in wheelchairs that also be able 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:09.359 to compete in esports or do physical activities in a 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:12.600 sort of metaverse like environment. Beyond that, though, again it's 0:25:12.640 --> 0:25:15.159 sort of leveling up this concept of accessibility to think 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:18.560 about getting more people included in the technology in terms 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:21.240 of who's designing and how this is that inclusive nature. 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:24.399 These stories really about how do you add and build 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:27.200 to your market and you know what it actually improves 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:29.840 the bottom line. There's some recent report showing that you 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:32.359 increase your revenue by one point six times if you 0:25:32.480 --> 0:25:35.520 focus on accessible inclusive design in your product. 0:25:35.560 --> 0:25:38.719 So it actually has paysed dividends quite literally. 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:41.640 CS has certainly evolved over the years. 0:25:41.680 --> 0:25:44.000 Can you give me some numbers to expect, like how 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:47.440 many people attend CS, how many exhibitors are there? 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:48.159 Right now? 0:25:48.200 --> 0:25:50.800 We're tracking for about one hundred and thirty thousand attendees 0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:53.560 right now, which we're really excited about. Last year was 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:56.440 about one hundred and eighteen or so. But if you're going, 0:25:56.480 --> 0:25:59.919 you're also going to see more than four thousand exhibit 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:03.960 companies as well as within that category, about twelve hundred 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:05.600 of them are going to be startups. 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:08.520 And I hate to be the bearer of bad news 0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:11.200 for someone that's listening that wants to go, but you 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:12.439 have to be in the industry. 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:14.840 It's not open to the public. Will they ever change that? 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:16.680 I mean, that's always a good question. 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:18.680 I wish I sent in the research apartment, so I 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:21.360 can't speak to if they change the attendance policy. 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:22.960 But yes, it is industry for now. 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:26.840 Brian kamiskey futurist at the Consumer Technology Association. 0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:28.560 Thanks so much for joining me today. 0:26:28.920 --> 0:26:29.879 Of course, Thank you so much. 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:32.080 Rich All right, more Rich on tech coming your way 0:26:32.160 --> 0:26:32.600 right after this. 0:26:32.720 --> 0:26:34.800 If you have a question about technology, give me a 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:37.399 call triple eight Rich one oh one, that's eight eight 0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:47.119 eight seven four to two four one zero one. 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So it is pretty incredible when you 0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:36.000 think about how this whole thing works. I sit here, 0:27:36.200 --> 0:27:39.600 I talk, and it just goes everywhere. It's it's amazing 0:27:39.720 --> 0:27:42.280 and I love the fact that what keeps me going 0:27:42.400 --> 0:27:45.359 on this show is the response I get from you. 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:47.760 There is not a day that goes by that someone 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:50.760 doesn't say, rich that thing you mentioned it worked out 0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:51.280 really well. 0:27:51.560 --> 0:27:52.360 You helped me out. 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:54.879 I traveled here, I did that, and that's what it's 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:57.359 all about. I don't know everything there is to know, 0:27:58.000 --> 0:28:00.760 but I can figure out the way to find the 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:04.240 right answers. And what I love is getting these questions 0:28:04.280 --> 0:28:08.679 from you that helped me understand, you know, what's vexing 0:28:08.720 --> 0:28:11.159 people like, what is really challenging people out there in 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:11.840 the world of tech. 0:28:13.560 --> 0:28:16.240 Let's go to David in your Belinda. David, you're on 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:16.680 with Rich. 0:28:18.680 --> 0:28:22.520 Well, Hi, Rich, we're a long time We're longtime fans 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:25.840 from Channel five and now on the radio, so thank you. 0:28:26.080 --> 0:28:33.520 I am looking to get a good camera phone and 0:28:33.880 --> 0:28:37.879 because on vacations I have a carried the camera and 0:28:38.040 --> 0:28:41.840 the phone, and I'm thinking, well, I want your opinion. 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:46.080 I'm not that tanky, so you know, a point and 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:50.560 shoot and good quality is what I'm. 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:52.440 Looking for for a cell phone. 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:57.840 Yeah, and I'm just looking at the Pixel Pro eight 0:28:58.240 --> 0:28:58.680 and the. 0:29:00.280 --> 0:29:01.040 Fifteen Pro. 0:29:01.480 --> 0:29:05.400 Okay, so iPhone fifteen Pro and then the Pixel eight Pro. 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:08.840 Those are probably two of the top choices out there. 0:29:08.920 --> 0:29:12.000 I would throw in a third the Samsung Galaxy S 0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:15.440 twenty three Ultra, but I wouldn't get a Samsung at 0:29:15.480 --> 0:29:18.240 this point just because and I haven't talked about this 0:29:18.360 --> 0:29:20.600 yet on the show, but their event is happening in 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:22.360 a couple of weeks where they're going to launch their 0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:25.560 new smartphone. So I would actually tell you, David, right 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:28.160 now as we speak, I probably wouldn't make any decisions 0:29:28.400 --> 0:29:32.239 right now until about maybe the end of January, if 0:29:32.280 --> 0:29:35.400 you can wait that long. Because Samsung's gonna announce their 0:29:35.440 --> 0:29:39.120 phones on January seventeenth. That means they probably will come out, 0:29:39.640 --> 0:29:41.200 you know, a week or two after that, and I 0:29:41.240 --> 0:29:43.959 think that'll give reviewers like myself enough time to come 0:29:44.040 --> 0:29:47.160 up with a strong opinion on whether that is a 0:29:47.280 --> 0:29:51.720 contender for the best photos and videos outside of the 0:29:51.760 --> 0:29:53.520 Pixel or the iPhone. But let me tell you where 0:29:53.520 --> 0:29:56.600 I stand right now and the two phones that I 0:29:56.720 --> 0:29:59.040 carry on, well, I carry three, but. 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:01.040 They're you know, it's three I just mentioned. 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:04.440 But I will tell you that the iPhone overall, iPhone 0:30:04.480 --> 0:30:08.360 fifteen Pro overall takes the best. 0:30:08.200 --> 0:30:11.360 Photos and videos. Especially when it comes to videos. 0:30:11.880 --> 0:30:14.000 There is not a phone out there that can take 0:30:14.000 --> 0:30:17.720 a better video than the iPhone fifteen Pro. And that 0:30:17.880 --> 0:30:20.320 is not just my opinion. It is everyone I run with, 0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:23.560 everyone I talk to. It is just one hundred percent 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:27.560 the way it is. So yes, it's an opinion, but 0:30:27.680 --> 0:30:31.320 it's kind of like agreed with by everyone. Now when 0:30:31.320 --> 0:30:34.080 it comes to photos, that is where there is a 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:37.360 bit of a divide. So I will say after using 0:30:37.600 --> 0:30:41.840 the iPhone fifteen Pro, the Pixel eight Pro, and the 0:30:41.920 --> 0:30:45.200 Samsung Galaxy S twenty three Ultra, they all have their 0:30:45.320 --> 0:30:48.240 strong and weak points when it comes to photos. For 0:30:48.480 --> 0:30:50.959 just standard point and shoot, I really like the way 0:30:51.040 --> 0:30:53.400 the Pixel eight Pro looks, and I think that your 0:30:53.440 --> 0:30:55.880 photos pretty much every time nail it, you know, they 0:30:55.960 --> 0:30:59.160 just look really really good. I think the selfies look 0:30:59.600 --> 0:31:02.600 not so good. I think the iPhone really gets those. 0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:08.480 And when it comes to overall, the S twenty three 0:31:08.600 --> 0:31:11.880 Ultra is a really good camera for pictures, but there 0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:15.080 are some places where it lags a little bit. And 0:31:15.560 --> 0:31:18.360 I would say for people they look really good. I 0:31:18.440 --> 0:31:20.520 mean just the skin tones and all that kind of 0:31:20.560 --> 0:31:23.040 stuff just look really nice and well done on the 0:31:23.440 --> 0:31:26.280 S twenty three. But sometimes people think that the S 0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:29.000 twenty three or the Samsung pictures in general, they look 0:31:29.040 --> 0:31:31.440 a little bit too saturated, a little bit too fake. 0:31:32.040 --> 0:31:35.840 So I think if you want something now, then maybe 0:31:35.920 --> 0:31:39.200 go with the iPhone fifteen Pro, and that's going to 0:31:39.240 --> 0:31:41.160 be a good mix of kind of everything. 0:31:41.240 --> 0:31:45.040 You need. So if you want to wait though, until you. 0:31:45.080 --> 0:31:47.400 Know mid January, end of January, that might be the 0:31:47.440 --> 0:31:49.840 best time to buy, just because we already know what 0:31:49.920 --> 0:31:51.880 the Pixel does, We already know what the iPhone does, 0:31:51.960 --> 0:31:54.880 but we don't know what that new Samsung does. And 0:31:55.280 --> 0:31:58.720 let's be honest, smartphone sales are kind of in the 0:31:58.800 --> 0:32:01.320 tank right now. They're not doing doing very well, and 0:32:01.440 --> 0:32:03.920 so I feel like Samsung really needs to bring it 0:32:04.040 --> 0:32:07.520 with this new phone to make it something that people 0:32:07.720 --> 0:32:09.840 want to go out and buy. And I know there's 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:11.680 gonna be a lot of AI built into it. That's 0:32:11.760 --> 0:32:14.840 kind of like the big selling point. And I'm just 0:32:14.920 --> 0:32:17.240 looking at the notes that you have right here. You'll 0:32:17.360 --> 0:32:21.600 currently have a Samsung A thirteen, So anything you get 0:32:22.040 --> 0:32:24.880 is going to be a very very big upgrade from that. 0:32:25.600 --> 0:32:28.320 Thanks for the call, David in your Belinda, and thanks 0:32:28.360 --> 0:32:31.000 for watching on KTLA and finding me here on the radio. 0:32:32.440 --> 0:32:35.680 Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:32:35.840 --> 0:32:38.320 four to two four one zero one. 0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:40.520 If you want to hop on the phone and give 0:32:40.560 --> 0:32:42.480 me a call if you have a question about technology, 0:32:42.920 --> 0:32:45.680 So let me just mention this Samsung just kind of 0:32:45.760 --> 0:32:49.760 to finish that up. Samsung put out their invitation for 0:32:49.880 --> 0:32:53.960 Galaxy Unpacked twenty twenty four. It's gonna happen January seventeenth 0:32:54.120 --> 0:32:54.880 in San Jose. 0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:57.560 I will be there. This is where we will see 0:32:57.560 --> 0:33:01.800 the new S twenty four Ultra on veiled. And again 0:33:01.880 --> 0:33:04.400 this is just stuff I'm going by. We don't know 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:06.320 for sure that it's gonna be called that, but we 0:33:06.440 --> 0:33:07.000 pretty much do. 0:33:07.600 --> 0:33:09.680 So this is gonna happen at ten am, and they 0:33:09.800 --> 0:33:12.920 said it's gonna usher in a new era of mobile AI. 0:33:13.720 --> 0:33:15.360 So this is all about AI. 0:33:15.480 --> 0:33:18.400 Of course, AI is the big buzzword both at CS 0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:20.360 and of course with every product that's gonna come out 0:33:20.360 --> 0:33:22.800 in the next couple of years. So the S series, 0:33:23.080 --> 0:33:26.200 S twenty four, S twenty four plus S twenty four 0:33:26.320 --> 0:33:28.800 Ultra will all have a dose of AI. 0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:30.200 And what does that mean. 0:33:30.360 --> 0:33:34.720 Well, they're promoting this new AI zoom functionality, so I 0:33:34.760 --> 0:33:37.280 guess your pictures will look better and you can also 0:33:37.520 --> 0:33:39.880 edit with AI as well. It's kind of very similar 0:33:39.920 --> 0:33:41.920 to what we've seen with the pixel But again I'm 0:33:41.920 --> 0:33:43.960 looking forward to it because I think Samsung really brings 0:33:44.000 --> 0:33:45.640 it with their phones and they kind of have like 0:33:45.720 --> 0:33:46.920 the best hardware out there. 0:33:47.240 --> 0:33:49.280 I think the software for me leaves a little bit 0:33:49.320 --> 0:33:51.280 to be desired. It's like a little bit, a little 0:33:51.320 --> 0:33:54.320 bit too much, but we'll see. So there you go. 0:33:54.520 --> 0:33:58.120 Samsung Unpacked twenty twenty four. All right, if you have 0:33:58.520 --> 0:34:02.560 Spectrum TV, you now get Disney Plus for free. 0:34:03.040 --> 0:34:03.400 That's right. 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:06.800 If you have Spectrum TV, if you're paying Spectrum TV customer, 0:34:07.120 --> 0:34:10.439 you get Disney Plus for free. This is traditional TV. 0:34:10.600 --> 0:34:13.719 You have to have the Spectrum TV Select package and 0:34:14.000 --> 0:34:15.360 this is not something that you just have. 0:34:15.560 --> 0:34:17.160 You know, you have to sign up for this. It's 0:34:17.200 --> 0:34:19.480 something you have to activate, but it is a free perk. 0:34:20.000 --> 0:34:22.920 So if you have Spectrum TV Select, you can go 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:27.840 to this website Spectrum dot com slash Disney Plus and 0:34:28.160 --> 0:34:30.440 you have to log in with your Spectrum account and 0:34:30.520 --> 0:34:34.000 then you can activate a free Disney Plus Basic subscription. 0:34:34.560 --> 0:34:37.279 That is the Disney Plus that has ads. I think 0:34:37.320 --> 0:34:39.759 it's about I don't know, six to nine dollars a 0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:42.919 month value. And you are going to get ESPN Plus 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:44.879 as well for free in the next couple of months. 0:34:45.320 --> 0:34:48.600 So if you have Spectrum TV, you're paying for standard 0:34:48.680 --> 0:34:51.200 you know TV that comes in through cable for your 0:34:51.280 --> 0:34:53.560 house or I guess even through the Internet. 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Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:35:28.160 --> 0:35:31.200 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at 0:35:31.280 --> 0:35:35.360 Triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:39.040 four to two four one zero one. I hope you're 0:35:39.040 --> 0:35:41.520 having a fantastic day. This is the show where I 0:35:41.560 --> 0:35:43.479 talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:35:44.080 --> 0:35:47.839 It's also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:35:48.920 --> 0:35:53.160 Coming up this hour Titanya Jordan, author and founder of 0:35:53.480 --> 0:35:58.320 Parenting in a Tech World and Bark Technology's Chief Parent Officer. 0:35:59.280 --> 0:36:01.680 T Tanya we've had on the show before. She has 0:36:01.719 --> 0:36:03.840 a great resource. She's going to talk about what parents 0:36:03.880 --> 0:36:07.279 need to know about child and teens safety online. He's 0:36:07.320 --> 0:36:10.160 going to talk about incognito mode on the web browser too, 0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:12.960 because there's a lot of misconceptions about what that does 0:36:13.160 --> 0:36:14.400 and does not hide. 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:17.759 So we'll talk to Titanya in just a little bit. 0:36:18.040 --> 0:36:21.120 Later on in the show, Chris Hoffman from the Windows 0:36:21.280 --> 0:36:24.880 Intelligence Newsletter is going to join to chat about. 0:36:24.719 --> 0:36:26.520 Windows tips and tricks. 0:36:27.200 --> 0:36:30.040 Plus I'm going to tell you how to stop Facebook 0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:33.440 from tracking your web browsing. They have a new feature 0:36:34.000 --> 0:36:37.240 that looks like it's helpful, but may not be depending 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:39.560 on you know where you stand on that whole tracking thing. 0:36:41.400 --> 0:36:44.680 Let's go to Fred in Pasadena, Fred Aron with Rich. 0:36:46.120 --> 0:36:46.239 Hi. 0:36:47.360 --> 0:36:48.120 Happy New Year. 0:36:49.960 --> 0:36:50.120 Rich. 0:36:50.320 --> 0:36:54.640 I have a question regarding communication platforms in the workplace. 0:36:55.800 --> 0:37:00.359 During the pandemic, my team organization, we transition to using 0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:05.640 platforms like Slack in particular, and it's been working very 0:37:05.680 --> 0:37:09.120 well and using it for over three years now. But 0:37:09.239 --> 0:37:14.320 I'm curious outside of that one, are there any others 0:37:14.400 --> 0:37:18.759 that you would recomen that had the same functionality, you know, 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:20.520 so that I can use with my teams. 0:37:21.480 --> 0:37:24.279 What what don't you like about Slack? What's it not doing? 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:29.640 I actually like everything about Slack. I like Flack, but 0:37:29.800 --> 0:37:34.520 my organization is also looking at other options like teams, 0:37:34.920 --> 0:37:37.840 even like hangouts, things like that. Yeah, I want to 0:37:37.880 --> 0:37:40.280 be sure that you know that I am in position 0:37:40.400 --> 0:37:43.919 to advocate for the one I'm using, or if there's 0:37:43.920 --> 0:37:46.720 another one out there that has other bells and whistles 0:37:46.800 --> 0:37:48.759 that I'm not aware of, that I can also take 0:37:48.760 --> 0:37:50.239 a look at those good question. 0:37:50.360 --> 0:37:50.640 I think. 0:37:50.719 --> 0:37:54.160 I mean Slack obviously kind of they created the market here. 0:37:54.600 --> 0:37:58.799 Before Slack, it was texting, email, It wasn't this unified 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:03.080 platform for messaging that workplace is used. And Slack really 0:38:03.120 --> 0:38:05.680 started out with startups they would use it, and then 0:38:05.840 --> 0:38:09.480 I think corporations caught on later on, and you know, 0:38:09.600 --> 0:38:13.120 it's decently priced, it does all the stuff you want. 0:38:13.440 --> 0:38:16.920 And I think I personally don't use Slack, but I 0:38:17.040 --> 0:38:20.560 think the appeal to me. And now it's owned by Salesforce, 0:38:20.640 --> 0:38:23.720 by the way, But I think the beauty of Slack 0:38:24.080 --> 0:38:28.320 is that it is it was created to solve a 0:38:28.360 --> 0:38:30.839 problem and it solved that problem really well. 0:38:31.320 --> 0:38:32.200 And what's that problem. 0:38:32.280 --> 0:38:35.640 Well, you know communication in the workplace, Email gets too crowded, 0:38:36.400 --> 0:38:39.280 chatting and text messaging is not really on the company, 0:38:39.400 --> 0:38:41.760 so it's it's kind of like outside of the company 0:38:41.800 --> 0:38:44.640 realm with this, you can search with this, you can 0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:47.120 have you know, company directories integrated, and all that kind 0:38:47.120 --> 0:38:51.440 of stuff, video meetings, audio meetings. I think what you're 0:38:51.640 --> 0:38:55.480 talking about the two biggest competitors are Microsoft Teams and 0:38:55.560 --> 0:38:59.400 then of course Google Workspace. Now, I think what it 0:38:59.560 --> 0:39:03.040 really come down to is what you're using for the 0:39:03.120 --> 0:39:06.120 rest of your company. So if you are a Microsoft 0:39:06.480 --> 0:39:09.120 Office three sixty five company, you may want to look 0:39:09.160 --> 0:39:11.319 into Teams because Teams is going to do a lot 0:39:11.400 --> 0:39:13.880 of the same things that Slack does, but it's going 0:39:13.960 --> 0:39:17.600 to be more tightly integrated with all of the Microsoft products. 0:39:18.080 --> 0:39:20.520 And the same thing goes with Google. If you want 0:39:20.560 --> 0:39:22.800 to use Google Chat and all the stuff that Google 0:39:22.880 --> 0:39:26.000 has to offer inside Google Workspace, that might be a 0:39:26.080 --> 0:39:29.320 better fit because again it's everything all in one place. 0:39:30.040 --> 0:39:32.200 And so I think that's what it really comes down to. 0:39:32.320 --> 0:39:34.960 What I've seen with companies is that they're sort of 0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:38.440 siding with whatever they use, whether it's Google, whether it's 0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:42.400 Microsoft or some sort of third party solution. You know, 0:39:42.600 --> 0:39:45.560 Slack fits into those, but if you're using Microsoft or Google, 0:39:45.680 --> 0:39:47.239 you kind of want to stay in line with that 0:39:47.480 --> 0:39:50.719 because everything's going to be all in one place, So 0:39:50.800 --> 0:39:53.080 I think those are the three that are the main, 0:39:54.520 --> 0:39:56.319 you know, the main ones that I see people using. 0:39:56.760 --> 0:39:58.920 Of course, there's probably a thousand other ones out there. 0:39:59.280 --> 0:40:01.879 But if you like and it's working, I don't see 0:40:01.880 --> 0:40:04.920 a reason to change it, because as an employee of 0:40:04.920 --> 0:40:07.440 a company, you know who wants change. 0:40:07.600 --> 0:40:09.319 No one really wants to change things up. 0:40:09.880 --> 0:40:13.759 And I think, you know, it's funny because we saw 0:40:13.960 --> 0:40:17.759 Zoom really take off during the pandemic and it's great. 0:40:17.880 --> 0:40:19.880 But then of course we saw some companies go to 0:40:20.160 --> 0:40:23.319 teams and then of course Google with Google Meet if 0:40:23.320 --> 0:40:26.480 they're using Google Workspace. So there's a lot of ways 0:40:26.520 --> 0:40:28.920 to do this, but it really comes down to how 0:40:29.000 --> 0:40:31.479 much grief do you want from your employees by making 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:34.120 a major change in the way they message. And also, 0:40:34.280 --> 0:40:36.560 what are the other products you're using? Uh, does that 0:40:36.760 --> 0:40:38.920 fit in with them? And are you paying extra? So 0:40:38.960 --> 0:40:40.920 if you're paying extra for Slack and you're paying for 0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:44.840 Google or Microsoft, it's probably better to just streamline it 0:40:44.880 --> 0:40:48.120 all and pay one price every month per user. Thanks 0:40:48.160 --> 0:40:51.160 for the question, Fred in Pasadena, appreciate it. Triple eight 0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:54.200 rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to 0:40:54.239 --> 0:40:58.520 two four one zero one. Let's go to Karen in 0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:01.839 Charter Oak, California. Karen, you're on with Rich. 0:41:04.120 --> 0:41:04.239 Hi. 0:41:04.360 --> 0:41:05.640 Thank you, Hi? 0:41:06.360 --> 0:41:07.120 What can I help you with? 0:41:07.960 --> 0:41:10.479 Thank you so much for sharing all your new tech 0:41:10.840 --> 0:41:15.000 stuff over the years, and also, I mean everything from 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:17.080 new tech to scams. I appreciate it. 0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:18.279 Yeah, thank you. 0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:20.320 I also want to tell you you and your family 0:41:20.400 --> 0:41:21.280 are quite adorable. 0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:22.440 Ah, well, thank you. 0:41:23.400 --> 0:41:23.920 You're welcome. 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:27.120 Okay, So we've had a book. We had a bunch 0:41:27.239 --> 0:41:30.239 of old computers in the garage. Before we got rid 0:41:30.280 --> 0:41:32.719 of them. My nephew removed all the hard drives. So 0:41:32.800 --> 0:41:35.000 I have a pile of hard drives. What can I 0:41:35.120 --> 0:41:35.719 do with those? 0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:36.000 Now? 0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:38.040 Can I get information off of those? 0:41:38.920 --> 0:41:39.040 Uh? 0:41:39.239 --> 0:41:39.839 Yeah you can. 0:41:40.080 --> 0:41:44.839 It's uh it's going to require a cable or a doc. 0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:48.480 So if you go on Amazon and you look up 0:41:48.880 --> 0:41:50.960 let's see what can you look up? Hard drive to 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:55.320 USB adapter? So if you look up what kind of 0:41:55.360 --> 0:41:57.279 computer do you have? Like a macor PC? 0:41:57.560 --> 0:41:58.000 I have that? 0:41:58.239 --> 0:42:02.919 No, not an I have. So if the brand is SA, 0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:03.840 B R, E. 0:42:04.000 --> 0:42:06.440 And T okay, and what it's not working? 0:42:07.239 --> 0:42:11.759 It's two point five to USB three point zero. No 0:42:11.880 --> 0:42:14.000 it doesn't. There's no like when you plug it in 0:42:14.520 --> 0:42:16.640 you have, like, no, what. 0:42:16.680 --> 0:42:18.839 Would you call like, it doesn't mount the drive. 0:42:19.719 --> 0:42:22.720 Yeah, and there's no graphical of anything. 0:42:22.440 --> 0:42:24.919 To go on, like, it doesn't show that the drive 0:42:25.040 --> 0:42:28.720 is there, right, Oh? Interesting? How old are these drives? 0:42:30.000 --> 0:42:33.759 Oh they are, some are fifteen years old. 0:42:33.920 --> 0:42:36.239 Oh wow, Okay, that that could be it. They could 0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:38.879 be in a format that your new computer doesn't read. 0:42:40.200 --> 0:42:42.239 And if they're not showing up, do none of them 0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:42.640 show up? 0:42:44.400 --> 0:42:47.080 I've tried. I don't know if I tried all of them, 0:42:47.160 --> 0:42:49.440 but I tried most of them. Yeah, and they do 0:42:49.560 --> 0:42:50.239 not show up. 0:42:50.640 --> 0:42:51.719 None of them show up. Okay. 0:42:52.520 --> 0:42:54.440 In that case, if they're not showing up, you might 0:42:54.600 --> 0:42:57.719 need the help of what's called a data doctor, And 0:42:58.000 --> 0:43:00.560 you can go on Yelp and search, you know, data 0:43:00.640 --> 0:43:03.279 doctor in your area and find one, you know. 0:43:03.440 --> 0:43:03.640 Call. 0:43:04.000 --> 0:43:05.880 What I usually recommend with Yelp is like call the 0:43:05.960 --> 0:43:08.120 top two and see which one you feel better about 0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:10.000 when you call and talk to them. If one of 0:43:10.040 --> 0:43:12.040 them gives you a better vibe, go with that person. 0:43:12.680 --> 0:43:15.120 But yeah, if they're not showing up on your computer, 0:43:15.680 --> 0:43:19.320 then it's it could be an invalid file format. It 0:43:19.360 --> 0:43:20.960 could be just that they're not you know, they're so 0:43:21.120 --> 0:43:24.200 old that it's just not working anymore. I'm not really sure. 0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:26.720 I've got a couple of old drives in the garage 0:43:26.760 --> 0:43:27.680 that I've been meaning. 0:43:27.560 --> 0:43:28.080 To get rid of. 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:31.319 But if you don't need the data on these, then 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:33.960 I would just recommend bringing them to a shredding company. 0:43:34.520 --> 0:43:36.520 So like you can look up an e waste company 0:43:36.560 --> 0:43:39.640 that has a drive shredder. And I know a lot 0:43:39.640 --> 0:43:41.640 of people keep these old drives around the house because 0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:43.520 they have personal data on them. They don't want to 0:43:43.560 --> 0:43:45.120 get rid of them, they want to erase them. 0:43:45.880 --> 0:43:46.560 But you can. 0:43:47.400 --> 0:43:48.880 I mean, you could drill a whole through them too 0:43:48.920 --> 0:43:51.680 if you want, or maybe take a hammer to them. 0:43:51.760 --> 0:43:55.040 Be careful with that that part of it. But if 0:43:55.080 --> 0:43:57.520 the if the drive doesn't work, or the DOC doesn't work, 0:43:57.600 --> 0:43:59.719 or the USB cable doesn't work, then maybe just get 0:43:59.840 --> 0:44:04.120 rid of these if the data is unnecessary, that's probably 0:44:04.160 --> 0:44:06.400 your second best bet after the data doctor. If you 0:44:06.440 --> 0:44:08.719 want this stuff off of them, you know, you got 0:44:08.840 --> 0:44:10.680 to go to a data doctor and see if they 0:44:10.719 --> 0:44:14.480 can reclaim that stuff. Good question, Karen, Thank you for 0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:18.720 calling today from Charter Oak, California. Sounds like a school, 0:44:18.960 --> 0:44:21.640 Charter Oak. My kids go to Charter Oak. 0:44:22.040 --> 0:44:24.640 It's very nice. It's among the wilderness. It's got some 0:44:24.760 --> 0:44:25.560 nice trees there. 0:44:26.800 --> 0:44:28.600 All right, coming up, I'm gonna tell you how to 0:44:29.120 --> 0:44:31.040 do I have time to talk about Facebook? 0:44:31.200 --> 0:44:31.239 No? 0:44:31.480 --> 0:44:34.120 Right, I don't think so, Okay, I got time. Okay, 0:44:34.160 --> 0:44:35.480 So let me tell you about this because I thought 0:44:35.520 --> 0:44:38.680 this was a pretty big story this week. Facebook now 0:44:38.760 --> 0:44:42.359 has this new thing called link history. So the next 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:45.400 time you open up a link on your Facebook mobile 0:44:45.440 --> 0:44:48.360 app on your phone, you might be presented with this 0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:52.960 new option that says, hey, do you want us to 0:44:53.360 --> 0:44:57.840 track the links that you have that you click on Facebook? 0:44:58.320 --> 0:45:00.400 And we'll put them in this link history for thirty 0:45:00.480 --> 0:45:03.200 days and that way you can easily go back and 0:45:03.360 --> 0:45:05.480 find the stuff that you clicked on in Facebook. It 0:45:05.600 --> 0:45:09.520 sounds great, Okay, it could be helpful. But the other 0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:12.240 side of this is that they're using your link history 0:45:12.920 --> 0:45:16.200 to quote improve your ads across meta technologies. 0:45:16.239 --> 0:45:16.879 What does that mean. 0:45:17.320 --> 0:45:20.320 Well, they look at the websites that you visit and 0:45:20.760 --> 0:45:25.000 they sell ads based on that information. So if you're 0:45:25.080 --> 0:45:27.600 visiting a lot of sneaker websites or a lot of 0:45:27.680 --> 0:45:31.479 travel websites, they will then use that data to sell 0:45:32.200 --> 0:45:36.520 ads to you for sneakers and travel and so you 0:45:36.640 --> 0:45:37.440 can turn this off. 0:45:38.000 --> 0:45:38.160 Now. 0:45:38.920 --> 0:45:42.400 Facebook tells me that this is off by default, and 0:45:44.000 --> 0:45:47.040 so if you don't do anything, it's off. But it's 0:45:47.120 --> 0:45:49.040 kind of weird because the first time that you click 0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:51.640 a link, it'll say never lose a link again, and 0:45:51.760 --> 0:45:55.880 there's a little toggle switch that says allow link history 0:45:56.040 --> 0:45:58.920 and then the confirm button. Now on my phone, the 0:45:59.000 --> 0:46:02.160 allow link history was lit up, toggled on right, it 0:46:02.280 --> 0:46:04.759 was highlighted in blue, so that means it's on, and 0:46:04.840 --> 0:46:07.719 I would have to toggle the turn the toggle off, 0:46:07.800 --> 0:46:10.320 and then press confirm to turn this feature off. So 0:46:10.680 --> 0:46:12.840 no matter what, you can turn this off if you 0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:15.600 don't like it by opening up the Facebook app, going 0:46:15.680 --> 0:46:19.640 into the menu, going into settings and Privacy, then settings 0:46:19.760 --> 0:46:22.360 and then browser and then toggling the switch next to 0:46:22.600 --> 0:46:25.200 allow link History off or on if you want to 0:46:25.239 --> 0:46:28.680 keep it on. I've got those instructions on my Instagram 0:46:28.840 --> 0:46:31.719 at rich On Tech. Look for the It looks like 0:46:31.760 --> 0:46:35.000 a post with a click like an icon for a pointer, 0:46:35.400 --> 0:46:37.480 and also it says Facebook found a sneaky new way 0:46:37.480 --> 0:46:37.840 to track you. 0:46:37.960 --> 0:46:38.960 Here's how to disable it. 0:46:39.520 --> 0:46:41.520 So if you want to disable it, you can, but 0:46:42.280 --> 0:46:44.640 it's one of those things where if you don't mind 0:46:44.680 --> 0:46:47.920 the more targeted ads, then leave it on. But if 0:46:47.960 --> 0:46:50.399 you don't like the idea of someone tracking you more 0:46:50.440 --> 0:46:52.919 than they need to, you can turn it off. But again, 0:46:52.960 --> 0:46:55.920 it's called Facebook link history. You will likely see it 0:46:56.040 --> 0:46:58.280 the next time you click a link on your mobile 0:46:58.360 --> 0:47:01.120 Facebook app. This is only on mobile right now, So 0:47:01.200 --> 0:47:04.000 if you're on iPhone Android, then that's how you have 0:47:04.080 --> 0:47:06.680 to access this and turn it on or off. The 0:47:07.360 --> 0:47:10.560 desktop it's not on there at this point. So anyway, 0:47:10.640 --> 0:47:12.200 now you know what that's all about, the next time 0:47:12.239 --> 0:47:14.920 you see it. All right, coming up, we're going to 0:47:14.960 --> 0:47:18.000 talk to Titanya Jordan about what you need to know 0:47:18.040 --> 0:47:20.160 about child and teen safety. Plus we'll take more of 0:47:20.200 --> 0:47:23.040 your calls at triple eight rich one oh one. That's 0:47:23.120 --> 0:47:26.600 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:29.520 If you want to link to something I mentioned, go 0:47:29.680 --> 0:47:34.560 to rich on tech dot tv slash wiki wiki. Everything 0:47:34.600 --> 0:47:37.200 I talk about is posted in real time right there. 0:47:37.600 --> 0:47:45.560 My name is rich Dmiro. Back after this, Welcome back 0:47:45.600 --> 0:47:48.400 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:47:48.640 --> 0:47:54.160 talking technology. I love data like this rideshare data from 0:47:54.320 --> 0:47:58.840 Lyft says where we went on New Year's Eve. Cities 0:47:58.880 --> 0:48:01.200 with colder winters and January tend to have a higher 0:48:01.239 --> 0:48:03.960 percentage of riders going out On Year's Eve. Buffalo, New 0:48:04.040 --> 0:48:07.080 York had the most four point three percent of all 0:48:07.160 --> 0:48:12.279 yearly rides. Most popular destinations bars, restaurants, hotels, and clubs. Okay, 0:48:12.320 --> 0:48:15.000 no surprise there. But then they say some of the 0:48:15.080 --> 0:48:19.040 top places in various cities, which again, these lyft drivers 0:48:19.120 --> 0:48:21.719 and of course uber iwo, they know where people are going. 0:48:21.840 --> 0:48:24.920 They know popular places before we know popular places because 0:48:24.920 --> 0:48:27.680 they can look at the data. People stayed out about 0:48:27.680 --> 0:48:30.040 an hour later on New Year's Eve across the US, 0:48:30.560 --> 0:48:34.160 with Miami having fifty one percent of rides after three am. 0:48:35.200 --> 0:48:38.480 Times Square partiers stayed out almost an hour later than 0:48:38.560 --> 0:48:41.520 last year. Maybe it was warmer in Times Square than 0:48:41.560 --> 0:48:43.840 it was last year. That looks miserable to me to 0:48:43.960 --> 0:48:46.719 stand in those like those pens they have for people 0:48:46.760 --> 0:48:50.800 in New York City like no thank you, Virginia Beach, Phoenix, 0:48:50.880 --> 0:48:55.400 and Indianapolis most likely to be hungover based on very 0:48:55.520 --> 0:48:58.760 short rides on January first, people didn't want to go anywhere. 0:48:58.760 --> 0:49:02.040 I don't know what that correlation is, but whatever, and 0:49:02.600 --> 0:49:05.839 only zero point three percent of rides on January first 0:49:05.920 --> 0:49:07.040 were to gym's. 0:49:07.200 --> 0:49:10.600 So I guess people lift says people postpone. 0:49:10.120 --> 0:49:12.279 Their New Year's resolutions. Now, I don't know how many 0:49:12.320 --> 0:49:14.799 people are taking a lift to the gym on Your's day. 0:49:14.960 --> 0:49:17.439 I mean, aren't Jim's like near you and you drive? 0:49:17.520 --> 0:49:17.960 But I don't know. 0:49:18.040 --> 0:49:18.480 What do I know? 0:49:19.040 --> 0:49:21.600 Anyway, Lyft always comes out with these like data points, 0:49:21.600 --> 0:49:22.640 which I think are pretty fun. 0:49:22.760 --> 0:49:23.960 So that's why I shared. 0:49:25.160 --> 0:49:29.080 We did take uber on New Year's Eve this year, 0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:31.320 and it was actually the easiest year it was to 0:49:31.400 --> 0:49:33.440 get it. In the last four or five years, we've 0:49:33.480 --> 0:49:35.799 been going to the same place and it always takes 0:49:35.800 --> 0:49:37.920 a while, you know, cars cancel on you. This year, 0:49:38.320 --> 0:49:40.719 but I think we went earlier than midnight, and that's 0:49:40.760 --> 0:49:45.680 probably why. Let's go to Eddie in Temple City, California. Eddie, 0:49:45.719 --> 0:49:47.120 you're on with Rich. Welcome to the show. 0:49:48.040 --> 0:49:50.839 Hi Rick, Happy New Year, Happy New Year. 0:49:51.640 --> 0:49:52.360 What can I help you with? 0:49:53.200 --> 0:49:54.080 Stray with a problem? 0:49:54.400 --> 0:49:54.640 Listen? 0:49:54.719 --> 0:49:58.640 I have an iPhone ten, which is the ex YEP. 0:50:00.280 --> 0:50:02.719 When I go to the settings, it tells me that 0:50:02.800 --> 0:50:06.280 I still have like twenty or thirty gigabytes of storage. 0:50:06.400 --> 0:50:08.080 Right okay, but. 0:50:09.600 --> 0:50:14.120 Apple keeps bugging me, sending me messages telling me that 0:50:14.480 --> 0:50:18.640 I'm running out of space. I'm asking me to pay 0:50:18.680 --> 0:50:21.480 a monthly fee, which I refuse because I don't want 0:50:21.520 --> 0:50:23.640 my pictures on the in the cloud. 0:50:24.000 --> 0:50:25.719 Okay, So. 0:50:28.239 --> 0:50:31.160 The main question is maybe two questions. The first one, 0:50:31.200 --> 0:50:34.279 if I switch to Samsung, would they be bothering me 0:50:34.400 --> 0:50:37.239 with the same thing no? Or what can I do 0:50:37.960 --> 0:50:42.480 with iPhones to download my pictures like every I don't know, 0:50:42.560 --> 0:50:44.440 like every month somewhere. 0:50:44.840 --> 0:50:46.839 Yeah, okay, so I mean you could do that if 0:50:47.080 --> 0:50:48.839 I mean the thing I recommend for that is called 0:50:48.880 --> 0:50:51.719 the I expand And at this point you can really 0:50:51.800 --> 0:50:53.960 plug any hard drive into the iPhone. But I think 0:50:54.040 --> 0:50:58.239 the sand disk eye that's the letter I, X, P, 0:50:58.440 --> 0:51:00.880 A and D. I think they have the best software 0:51:01.040 --> 0:51:03.799 for downloading your photos from the phone. If you're an 0:51:03.800 --> 0:51:07.160 Amazon Prime member, you can sorry you didn't want the cloud. 0:51:07.200 --> 0:51:11.320 So okay, that makes sense. But you know, iPhone seems 0:51:11.400 --> 0:51:14.360 to have this weird thing with like the storage situation 0:51:14.520 --> 0:51:17.240 where people are getting that message that you're out of storage, 0:51:17.320 --> 0:51:19.440 and you know, they really just try to push people 0:51:19.560 --> 0:51:22.560 to getting cloud storage because the way the iPhone is 0:51:22.560 --> 0:51:25.319 set up, you can't really access the files that are 0:51:25.360 --> 0:51:27.879 on your phone, so you can't really know like what's 0:51:27.960 --> 0:51:30.680 going on, where things are, what's taking up space, what's 0:51:30.760 --> 0:51:33.200 not taking up space. But the thing I would do 0:51:33.360 --> 0:51:37.000 before you make any changes, Eddie is go into your settings, 0:51:37.320 --> 0:51:39.800 go into your Apple ID. I'm assuming you have some 0:51:39.960 --> 0:51:44.279 sort of iCloud on your account, maybe not, but there's 0:51:44.320 --> 0:51:47.279 this thing called recommended for you, and there are a 0:51:47.280 --> 0:51:50.400 couple of ways to free up storage on there, so 0:51:50.520 --> 0:51:52.760 you can look at that under your recommendations. 0:51:53.640 --> 0:51:55.839 But if you want to see the storage that's on your. 0:51:55.840 --> 0:51:59.880 Phone, you can go to iPhone settings and then general 0:52:00.560 --> 0:52:01.879 and then storage. 0:52:01.960 --> 0:52:03.640 Where is that? I just saw it there? 0:52:03.760 --> 0:52:06.440 Why can't I find it about? And then it will 0:52:06.480 --> 0:52:08.759 tell your storage how much things are taken up. But 0:52:09.200 --> 0:52:10.839 let's see, I thought there was a storage on here. 0:52:10.880 --> 0:52:12.520 I just saw it, but I can't seem to find 0:52:12.560 --> 0:52:15.759 it at this point. Well anyway, so it's in there, 0:52:16.040 --> 0:52:19.000 and you know, I find the iPhone to be really 0:52:19.120 --> 0:52:22.200 complicated with the storage situation. And believe me, it's just 0:52:22.320 --> 0:52:25.040 like you know, they just they want people to go 0:52:25.120 --> 0:52:27.520 to the cloud because they make it confusing on purpose, 0:52:27.560 --> 0:52:29.919 it seems now I don't know that for a fact, 0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:34.040 but on Android, I feel like it's very much more straightforward. 0:52:34.520 --> 0:52:36.279 You can look at the storage on your phone, you 0:52:36.360 --> 0:52:38.360 can see where things are stored, you can plug in 0:52:38.400 --> 0:52:42.200 a drive, you can move things around. And you know, Samsung, 0:52:42.920 --> 0:52:46.239 they're in the hardware business mostly where if you look 0:52:46.280 --> 0:52:49.600 at Apple, yes they're in the hardware business, but increasingly 0:52:50.400 --> 0:52:54.719 services and software are a huge part of their revenue, 0:52:55.160 --> 0:52:57.520 and so they're looking to get people to upgrade to 0:52:57.600 --> 0:53:00.920 these you know, higher iCloud plans and all the other 0:53:01.000 --> 0:53:04.840 things they offer that are monthly subscriptions. So download the 0:53:04.880 --> 0:53:07.680 pictures to a flash drive. Make sure they're backed up. 0:53:07.760 --> 0:53:10.480 That's the main thing. Make sure they are backed up. 0:53:10.920 --> 0:53:11.680 Thanks for the question. 0:53:11.800 --> 0:53:15.120 Coming up next, we'll talk about child and teen safety online. 0:53:15.200 --> 0:53:24.600 You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:53:25.000 --> 0:53:25.600 rich on Tech. 0:53:25.719 --> 0:53:28.920 Rich Demiro here talking technology, hanging out with you at 0:53:29.000 --> 0:53:32.640 triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven. 0:53:32.480 --> 0:53:35.000 Four to two four one zero one. 0:53:35.880 --> 0:53:38.960 Joining me now, it's Titanya Jordan, author and founder of 0:53:39.080 --> 0:53:44.320 Parenting in a Tech World and Bark Technology's Chief parent Officer. 0:53:44.960 --> 0:53:47.960 Welcome to the show, Titanya, Hi, thank you so much. 0:53:48.000 --> 0:53:48.480 For having me. 0:53:48.680 --> 0:53:50.600 I should say, welcome back to the show. You were 0:53:50.680 --> 0:53:53.560 one of the early guests last year, so thanks for 0:53:53.760 --> 0:53:57.440 joining me again. Uh so you post all about child 0:53:57.600 --> 0:54:01.880 and teen safety online, So first off, tell me what 0:54:02.120 --> 0:54:03.960 Bark is all about? The company that you work for. 0:54:05.000 --> 0:54:10.239 Sure, so Bark launched the safest smartphone for kids within 0:54:10.280 --> 0:54:15.000 the past year, which is incredible, and what's so incredible 0:54:15.040 --> 0:54:18.040 about it is that it has our tech baked into 0:54:18.160 --> 0:54:22.439 the smartphone. And so in twenty fifteen, Bark launched as 0:54:22.600 --> 0:54:27.160 an AI based software solution that alerted parents and caregivers 0:54:27.200 --> 0:54:30.840 to dangers happening in their children's social media, text and email. 0:54:31.040 --> 0:54:33.279 So we started with an app and then we moved 0:54:33.360 --> 0:54:34.279 to a smartphone. 0:54:34.800 --> 0:54:38.200 Okay, now, now when parents think about you know, like 0:54:38.280 --> 0:54:40.000 I get this question like how do I monitor what 0:54:40.080 --> 0:54:41.360 my kids are doing on their phone? 0:54:41.520 --> 0:54:41.680 Right? 0:54:42.239 --> 0:54:44.759 So what can Bark do? 0:54:45.120 --> 0:54:47.239 And I know with iOS and Android things are a 0:54:47.239 --> 0:54:49.279 little bit different, right, like what you can search and 0:54:49.360 --> 0:54:51.759 what you can scant? Can you explain the difference? Like 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:53.960 what if a parent has if a kid has an iPhone, 0:54:53.960 --> 0:54:55.760 which of course a lot of kids want the iPhone, 0:54:56.239 --> 0:54:58.719 Like what can parents monitor on that? 0:55:00.000 --> 0:55:00.080 Oh? 0:55:00.239 --> 0:55:00.799 Great question? 0:55:01.239 --> 0:55:03.279 So yeah, I will say, if you're listening to this 0:55:03.440 --> 0:55:05.480 and you have not yet bought your child a smartphone, 0:55:05.760 --> 0:55:09.120 please avoid the iPhone. That's the equivalent of giving your 0:55:09.200 --> 0:55:11.960 child a Ferrari when they turn sixteen instead of a 0:55:12.120 --> 0:55:16.520 very sensible Honda or Toyota. Apple is great for adults 0:55:16.520 --> 0:55:20.680 who need privacy, but it's very cumbersome for parents to 0:55:20.760 --> 0:55:25.960 try to manage that. Said, Bark can monitor your children's 0:55:26.400 --> 0:55:30.959 iPhones and iPads and Apple watches to an extent, whether 0:55:31.000 --> 0:55:36.360 it's text, message, email, social media, camera, roll video, all 0:55:36.440 --> 0:55:39.160 kinds of things, we can monitor it. I will say 0:55:39.680 --> 0:55:43.080 one of the most popular apps that children eventually want 0:55:43.200 --> 0:55:48.080 is Snapchat, and Bark isn't able to really monitor Snapchat 0:55:48.239 --> 0:55:51.880 on an iPhone, not because of Bark's limitations, because Snapchat 0:55:51.960 --> 0:55:54.920 has decided it doesn't want to open its API to 0:55:55.040 --> 0:55:58.080 a platform that could help keep kids safer on the platform. 0:55:58.480 --> 0:56:01.360 The good news is that with Android phones and the 0:56:01.480 --> 0:56:05.960 Bark smartphone, we can connect to and monitor Snapchat, which 0:56:06.040 --> 0:56:08.440 is just one more reason why androids and the Bark 0:56:08.520 --> 0:56:09.960 phone are a better. 0:56:09.840 --> 0:56:11.600 Option for parents. 0:56:12.080 --> 0:56:15.040 My wife works with teens and she was telling me 0:56:15.160 --> 0:56:19.360 that Snapchat is everything. I mean, text messaging is not 0:56:19.520 --> 0:56:21.640 even they don't even care anymore. Like I thought it 0:56:21.680 --> 0:56:23.680 was all about, you know, for adults, this whole blue bubble, 0:56:23.719 --> 0:56:26.719 green bubble I message thing. But for teens it is 0:56:26.880 --> 0:56:29.719 all about Snapchat. And I think it's because of I'm 0:56:29.800 --> 0:56:33.960 guessing the fleeting nature of the chats, which I'm laughing, 0:56:34.040 --> 0:56:36.200 but it's really serious. It's like they you know, they 0:56:36.680 --> 0:56:38.400 like it because things disappear, right. 0:56:39.000 --> 0:56:43.800 It's very serious. They do like it because things apparently disappear. 0:56:44.239 --> 0:56:46.680 But you know, one thing that we've really got to 0:56:46.719 --> 0:56:50.040 get across to everybody that uses tech is that anything 0:56:50.080 --> 0:56:52.719 you do online, even if the platform tells you it disappears, 0:56:53.040 --> 0:56:57.640 doesn't actually disappear. It lives on a server somewhere. You know, 0:56:57.760 --> 0:57:00.480 if you recycle your phone to get a new like, 0:57:00.800 --> 0:57:02.920 there's still data that lives on that phone, even if 0:57:02.960 --> 0:57:05.480 you wiped it clean. So it's important to get that 0:57:05.640 --> 0:57:09.799 message across. Also, you know, kids love Snapchat not only 0:57:09.880 --> 0:57:13.920 because it has purported disappearing messages, but it also has 0:57:14.080 --> 0:57:16.360 for my eyes only, So if a parent does go 0:57:16.560 --> 0:57:18.520 into the app to try to see what's going on, 0:57:19.560 --> 0:57:21.640 they might not be able to access certain things that 0:57:21.680 --> 0:57:24.800 the child has hidden in the my eyes only vault. 0:57:25.360 --> 0:57:30.360 Snapchat also has snap maps, which essentially gives anyone that 0:57:30.440 --> 0:57:34.640 you're connected to your real time location, which is not 0:57:34.760 --> 0:57:37.000 a problem if your child is only connected to three 0:57:37.560 --> 0:57:39.840 of their friends that they know and who are good people. 0:57:40.040 --> 0:57:42.200 It's a bigger problem if your kid has two hundred 0:57:42.240 --> 0:57:44.480 contacts and they only know twenty of them. 0:57:45.000 --> 0:57:46.880 Wow. Yeah, that's an interesting one too. 0:57:47.880 --> 0:57:51.280 What do you think is the most pressing kind of 0:57:51.840 --> 0:57:56.360 situation affecting teens and children right now when it comes 0:57:56.400 --> 0:57:57.320 to technology? 0:57:58.320 --> 0:58:02.479 Ooh, that's ah, we need a lot more where we start. 0:58:03.040 --> 0:58:03.240 Yeah. 0:58:03.440 --> 0:58:03.600 Right. 0:58:05.040 --> 0:58:10.840 Overall, it's the fact that parents and caregivers and educators 0:58:11.040 --> 0:58:16.840 and physicians and legislators currently cannot help protect kids digitally 0:58:17.400 --> 0:58:19.640 like they can in real life with seat belts and 0:58:19.760 --> 0:58:23.280 sunscreens and healthy diets, et cetera. There's a world of 0:58:23.400 --> 0:58:26.560 danger living deep in children's digital signal, and it is 0:58:26.760 --> 0:58:30.360 harming them, not at low rates, but at frequent rates. 0:58:30.760 --> 0:58:33.520 And it's the worst of the worst. Whether it's exposure 0:58:33.600 --> 0:58:40.240 to extreme violence, graphic sexual content, suicidal ideation, disordered eating, 0:58:40.800 --> 0:58:43.439 you name it. Kids are encountering it at a much 0:58:43.520 --> 0:58:47.480 younger age and a much more frequent rate, and parents 0:58:47.600 --> 0:58:50.680 who care about them have no idea. So that's that's 0:58:50.760 --> 0:58:52.520 the problem, and it's not getting better. 0:58:53.280 --> 0:58:56.400 Do we have a solution or do you you know 0:58:56.680 --> 0:58:57.760 what what is a solution? 0:58:57.880 --> 0:59:00.560 Because parents, you know, they want and like you said, 0:59:00.720 --> 0:59:02.720 we do all these things for our kids, you know, 0:59:03.360 --> 0:59:05.600 teach them how to you know, walk and ride their 0:59:05.640 --> 0:59:07.280 bikes safely and all this stuff. But when it comes 0:59:07.320 --> 0:59:10.040 to the phones and tablets, most of the kids are 0:59:10.040 --> 0:59:13.200 actually more advanced than the parents they are. 0:59:13.720 --> 0:59:18.760 And that's why it's a multifaceted approach. While the Bark 0:59:18.800 --> 0:59:22.520 app and the Bark smartphone are one key component to it, 0:59:22.760 --> 0:59:25.920 right because at least we're giving you insights and helping 0:59:26.040 --> 0:59:29.040 you help your child have a healthier relationship with tech, 0:59:29.360 --> 0:59:33.360 it's not the total solution. It starts with education and awareness. 0:59:33.720 --> 0:59:36.680 As parents and caregivers, we need to know what is 0:59:36.760 --> 0:59:39.480 happening and the rate at which it's happening. We need 0:59:39.600 --> 0:59:44.000 to have multiple, candid conversations with our children much earlier 0:59:44.080 --> 0:59:46.760 than we might think, at a more frequent rate, because 0:59:46.760 --> 0:59:48.880 it's all about that relationship that you have with your 0:59:48.960 --> 0:59:51.760 child that will help you navigate these rocky waters as 0:59:51.800 --> 0:59:55.520 they grow. Up, So using tech like bark, having that 0:59:55.800 --> 0:59:59.840 conversation and those relationships, understanding you know, just the new 1:00:00.840 --> 1:00:04.440 and then advocating for change. Right now, the laws aren't 1:00:04.480 --> 1:00:07.160 set up to protect children from the harms that social 1:00:07.240 --> 1:00:10.760 media causes them, and so reaching out to your local 1:00:10.880 --> 1:00:15.720 legislator to advocate for change and reform that will hold 1:00:16.160 --> 1:00:19.600 social media companies more accountable. I mean, just over the 1:00:19.640 --> 1:00:24.120 past year, social media has generated over eleven billion dollars 1:00:24.280 --> 1:00:27.840 in revenue off of minors children under the age of eighteen. 1:00:28.280 --> 1:00:32.760 So they do not have a vested interest in minimizing 1:00:32.800 --> 1:00:35.360 the amount of time children are spending on their platforms. 1:00:35.560 --> 1:00:38.680 It starts with us, Wow, that's a lot of money. Okay, 1:00:38.760 --> 1:00:41.640 you posted something the other day about incognito mode. There's 1:00:41.680 --> 1:00:43.960 been Was there something that kind of bubbled up about 1:00:43.960 --> 1:00:45.880 it that made you post that or is it just 1:00:46.000 --> 1:00:49.600 in general because you know, people think that they're protected 1:00:49.720 --> 1:00:50.240 or private. 1:00:50.480 --> 1:00:53.080 Tell me what we need to know about incognito mode. 1:00:53.920 --> 1:00:57.360 You know, I'm always looking to cover topics that will 1:00:57.360 --> 1:01:01.080 cut through the clutter everybody scrolling and there's a you know, 1:01:01.120 --> 1:01:03.360 we've got to fight for people's eyeballs and attention, right, 1:01:03.440 --> 1:01:05.200 And I thought you know what, a lot of people 1:01:05.680 --> 1:01:09.800 don't use incognito mode or don't get it, or think 1:01:09.920 --> 1:01:12.680 it's more private than it is. So let me make 1:01:12.720 --> 1:01:15.200 a reel about this and see, you know, see. 1:01:15.040 --> 1:01:15.680 How it lands. 1:01:15.720 --> 1:01:18.600 And it landed. It got a lot of attention. And 1:01:19.200 --> 1:01:24.680 essentially children are using incognito mode because they think it's 1:01:24.920 --> 1:01:28.000 completely anonymous, when in fact, this goes back to the 1:01:28.040 --> 1:01:31.880 snapchat conversation. We just had that information lifts somewhere just 1:01:32.000 --> 1:01:34.959 because your parent can't get on that computer and see 1:01:35.000 --> 1:01:39.040 your browser history, the internet service provider, the websites. 1:01:38.560 --> 1:01:39.560 And apps that you visited. 1:01:39.800 --> 1:01:42.800 You know, they know where you went, and if needed, 1:01:42.960 --> 1:01:46.560 that information can be shared with your parent or let's say, 1:01:46.680 --> 1:01:50.280 employer when you get older. So it's an important and 1:01:50.440 --> 1:01:55.720 misunderstood concept that does get abused. Certainly, it's a very 1:01:55.800 --> 1:01:59.360 cool aspect if you're trying to, you know, hide search 1:01:59.440 --> 1:02:01.560 history when you're trying to shop for a present for somebody, 1:02:01.720 --> 1:02:05.040 but it's obviously used for more nefarious purposes. 1:02:05.360 --> 1:02:07.720 All right, we've got to run, but I just want 1:02:07.760 --> 1:02:10.680 to take away for parents, like all these new gadgets 1:02:10.720 --> 1:02:13.840 they just got, you know, the xboxes, the PlayStations, all 1:02:13.920 --> 1:02:16.919 the different things. The kids set them up, the kids 1:02:16.960 --> 1:02:18.880 get them running, the kids play on them. The parents 1:02:18.920 --> 1:02:21.640 are in a different room. What's your advice to parents 1:02:21.840 --> 1:02:24.200 about the safety tools that are built into some of 1:02:24.240 --> 1:02:24.840 these products. 1:02:25.560 --> 1:02:27.520 Oh my gosh, Well cut me off at any time, 1:02:27.560 --> 1:02:32.080 but here we go, lightning round. Don't give your kid unfettered, 1:02:32.280 --> 1:02:36.080 unmonitored access to the Internet. Keep connected tech and common 1:02:36.160 --> 1:02:38.600 areas at the home, not in their bedrooms. Don't let 1:02:38.640 --> 1:02:41.480 them access it overnight. Don't let your child have access 1:02:41.520 --> 1:02:44.040 to things that you have not spent time on yourself. 1:02:44.800 --> 1:02:47.000 Make sure that you just take them, like one minute 1:02:47.120 --> 1:02:50.520 literally to google whatever your child can access, plus the 1:02:50.640 --> 1:02:54.080 term parental controls and see what free built in options 1:02:54.160 --> 1:02:56.360 you have right at your disposal that you might not 1:02:56.480 --> 1:02:57.120 even know about. 1:02:57.360 --> 1:02:59.240 And then finally, just talk to your kids. 1:02:59.520 --> 1:03:02.280 Let them know that they are loved unconditionally and they 1:03:02.320 --> 1:03:04.560 can talk to you about anything and you won't freak out. 1:03:05.240 --> 1:03:08.160 To Tanya Jordan, author and founder of Parenting in a 1:03:08.280 --> 1:03:12.880 Tech World and Bark Technologies Chief Parent Officer, thanks so much. 1:03:12.760 --> 1:03:15.360 For joining me today. Thank you for having me. Happy 1:03:15.400 --> 1:03:16.440 New Year, Happy New Year. 1:03:16.440 --> 1:03:18.080 I love having you on the show. Please follow it 1:03:18.120 --> 1:03:22.080 to Tanya on Instagram. T I T A n I 1:03:22.280 --> 1:03:26.360 A Jordan on Instagram, she posts great rules about all 1:03:26.520 --> 1:03:28.680 this stuff that you need to know. At least it'll 1:03:28.680 --> 1:03:31.360 get you thinking. At least it'll remind you that you 1:03:31.520 --> 1:03:33.400 have to do this stuff. I know it's tough as 1:03:33.440 --> 1:03:36.120 a parent, Believe me. It is so easy to hand 1:03:36.160 --> 1:03:38.760 our kids our phone or their phone, or let them 1:03:38.760 --> 1:03:41.360 play these games for half an hour an hour, and 1:03:41.480 --> 1:03:44.720 it just continues to go and go and go. So please, 1:03:45.200 --> 1:03:47.240 we're all on this together, trying to do the best 1:03:47.280 --> 1:03:49.600 thing for our kids. Again, Thanks so much for joining me. 1:03:49.880 --> 1:03:52.480 Rich on Tech dot tv is the website. Phone lines 1:03:52.480 --> 1:03:55.480 are open eight eight eight rich one oh one eight 1:03:55.600 --> 1:03:59.080 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one 1:03:59.280 --> 1:04:00.080 more rich on Tech. 1:04:00.200 --> 1:04:09.480 Come your way right after this. Welcome back to rich 1:04:09.560 --> 1:04:09.919 on Tech. 1:04:10.040 --> 1:04:13.400 Rich DeMuro here talking technology at Triple eight Rich one 1:04:13.440 --> 1:04:16.680 O one eight eight eight seven four two four one 1:04:16.960 --> 1:04:21.520 zero one. Hope is in a Hemmett, California. Hope you're 1:04:21.520 --> 1:04:22.080 on with Rich. 1:04:22.800 --> 1:04:26.920 Hi there, Hi, I'm calling because I was contacted by 1:04:27.080 --> 1:04:31.120 a large company that's trying to get me to change 1:04:32.040 --> 1:04:35.800 my TV service, et cetera, et cetera. They said they 1:04:35.800 --> 1:04:40.600 could provide me with a landline plus all this other 1:04:40.680 --> 1:04:43.920 stuff for a specific amount of money. When I questioned 1:04:43.960 --> 1:04:48.479 them about what they meant by landline, I even talked 1:04:48.520 --> 1:04:53.840 to their technical department, and they're talking about because I 1:04:54.000 --> 1:04:56.640 need to have the router, et cetera. And I said, well, 1:04:56.640 --> 1:05:01.000 you're talking about voice, not a landline, and they don't 1:05:01.080 --> 1:05:03.520 seem to know the difference. Am I right? 1:05:04.560 --> 1:05:07.880 Well, if it's a cable company, is it a cable company? 1:05:08.400 --> 1:05:10.919 Yeah, basically yeah, I don't. 1:05:10.960 --> 1:05:12.320 I mean unless it's like AT and T. 1:05:12.640 --> 1:05:15.760 They're not doing a You're you're talking about copper cable 1:05:15.880 --> 1:05:17.200 versus voice over IP. 1:05:17.960 --> 1:05:20.800 I don't want voice, you don't want I have a 1:05:20.840 --> 1:05:25.720 real lineline, Okay, I need it my business, So, uh. 1:05:26.200 --> 1:05:27.680 Why do you? I'm just curious, why do you. 1:05:27.800 --> 1:05:31.919 Why I have to be able to fax documents over voice? 1:05:32.960 --> 1:05:33.440 Interesting? 1:05:33.600 --> 1:05:35.920 You can't fax over internet anything? 1:05:36.640 --> 1:05:40.520 Well, I mean you can if you use like an 1:05:40.600 --> 1:05:41.560 e fact service. 1:05:42.840 --> 1:05:44.000 Well why should I pay for it? 1:05:44.040 --> 1:05:46.120 When I myself, Yeah, if you already have it and 1:05:46.160 --> 1:05:48.240 you've got it and you're doing it, I mean why, Yeah, 1:05:48.400 --> 1:05:50.280 I would say you don't need to worry about it, 1:05:51.160 --> 1:05:51.680 But I get it. 1:05:51.760 --> 1:05:53.959 You want the cost savings of the bundle. 1:05:53.800 --> 1:05:56.800 Right, Well, I was looking at that. Yeah, but uh, 1:05:57.760 --> 1:06:01.280 when they're when they're technical depart and couldn't tell me 1:06:02.360 --> 1:06:06.320 the difference between voice and a landline. Yeah, it makes 1:06:06.360 --> 1:06:09.320 me very nervous that they don't know what they're talking 1:06:09.360 --> 1:06:11.120 about and most of them are just reading out of 1:06:11.160 --> 1:06:12.080 a manual anyway. 1:06:12.360 --> 1:06:14.959 Yeah, well, hope you you seem to have a little 1:06:14.960 --> 1:06:17.960 bit more knowledge than the average bear here, and I 1:06:18.040 --> 1:06:20.480 think that some of these people that are getting jobs 1:06:20.600 --> 1:06:24.240 and you know, they're getting trained on this, and to 1:06:24.320 --> 1:06:28.360 be quite honest, you know, landlines are something that is 1:06:28.560 --> 1:06:32.800 not it's not something that's offered or readily available at 1:06:32.800 --> 1:06:34.840 this point anymore. I mean, voipe has been around for 1:06:34.880 --> 1:06:37.640 a long time. The cable companies when they got into it, 1:06:38.320 --> 1:06:41.040 they would have a much cheaper price because they were 1:06:41.200 --> 1:06:44.760 just literally sending these calls and voice over the Internet. 1:06:44.880 --> 1:06:48.840 And so basically yeah, I mean well, yeah, yeah exactly, 1:06:48.840 --> 1:06:51.120 I mean cell phones, look, it all works a little 1:06:51.120 --> 1:06:54.160 bit differently, but at this point, yes, I would say 1:06:54.240 --> 1:06:58.200 about probably ninety nine percent of voice traffic is running 1:06:58.280 --> 1:07:00.760 through the Internet and not through an action like old 1:07:00.840 --> 1:07:04.280 school copper cable or even with cellular Back in the day, 1:07:05.040 --> 1:07:08.040 it was like cell phones were running voice in a 1:07:08.080 --> 1:07:10.120 different way than they are now. Now it's mostly just 1:07:10.520 --> 1:07:13.800 voiceover IP as well. But it's gotten so good that 1:07:14.040 --> 1:07:16.640 we don't really know the difference. But I would agree 1:07:16.680 --> 1:07:19.320 with you. If they don't know the difference, it's not 1:07:19.440 --> 1:07:22.280 a good sign. But I also I can't fault them 1:07:22.360 --> 1:07:25.560 because I would say ninety percent of people probably don't 1:07:25.640 --> 1:07:28.440 need an actual Copper cable landline, but. 1:07:28.520 --> 1:07:30.400 I would I would feel more. 1:07:30.640 --> 1:07:32.640 You know, you're like me, You feel more comfortable when 1:07:32.640 --> 1:07:34.800 someone speaks your language, right, It's like, okay, you know 1:07:34.840 --> 1:07:36.960 what I'm talking about. And when they don't, or they're 1:07:36.960 --> 1:07:39.120 even fighting you on it. They're saying, no, it's a landline, 1:07:39.480 --> 1:07:41.120 but it's not a landline. 1:07:41.400 --> 1:07:42.200 It is, but it's not. 1:07:44.240 --> 1:07:47.160 And I'm looking at some of the websites for you know, 1:07:47.240 --> 1:07:51.680 these cable companies, and it says reliable home phone services, 1:07:52.680 --> 1:07:55.600 but it doesn't necessarily say it is a Let's see 1:07:55.600 --> 1:07:58.960 if the word landline appears on their website at all. 1:08:00.600 --> 1:08:03.480 I don't hope does it. Nope, it doesn't seem like 1:08:03.560 --> 1:08:06.880 it does anyway. So are you gonna stick with your 1:08:07.080 --> 1:08:08.280 your Copper cable? 1:08:09.080 --> 1:08:09.200 Oh? 1:08:09.280 --> 1:08:11.640 Yeah, my house is copper table wired and. 1:08:11.640 --> 1:08:13.919 They're not trying, and the phone company is not trying 1:08:13.920 --> 1:08:14.680 to take it away from you. 1:08:15.320 --> 1:08:16.280 Oh they tried. 1:08:17.120 --> 1:08:19.120 I thought so, because that you know, it costs them 1:08:19.120 --> 1:08:25.640 money to to maintain those lines at this How are 1:08:25.680 --> 1:08:27.439 things in heaven? Everything else good over there? 1:08:27.840 --> 1:08:30.320 Yes, it's not blowing, the wind is not blowing, and 1:08:30.439 --> 1:08:31.519 it's a beautiful blue sky. 1:08:32.720 --> 1:08:36.439 Well, what more can you ask for? Hope, love the name, 1:08:36.520 --> 1:08:39.240 Happy New Year, Thanks for calling today, Thank you? All right, 1:08:39.360 --> 1:08:39.720 take care. 1:08:40.280 --> 1:08:42.000 Uh let's go. How long do we have We have 1:08:42.000 --> 1:08:43.720 a couple of minutes here. If we have time for 1:08:43.800 --> 1:08:46.720 one more call, let's go to Uh, let's go to 1:08:46.840 --> 1:08:48.960 John in Palm Springs. John, you're on with Rich? 1:08:50.280 --> 1:08:52.240 Hi, Rich, Happy New Year, Happy New Year. 1:08:52.360 --> 1:08:54.080 How's it going? How can I help? 1:08:55.280 --> 1:09:00.439 I bought a new twenty three phone, and when they 1:09:00.560 --> 1:09:04.000 copied everything off of the old phone, I am missing 1:09:04.160 --> 1:09:08.360 hundreds of photos. I still have the old phone and 1:09:08.600 --> 1:09:15.920 they are missing there now as well. And so I 1:09:16.680 --> 1:09:19.360 read that they are probably still there and I can 1:09:19.439 --> 1:09:23.840 hire somebody to retrieve them. But if true, I have 1:09:24.000 --> 1:09:25.080 no idea who that would be. 1:09:25.439 --> 1:09:28.600 Okay, where do you store these photos? Are they just 1:09:28.760 --> 1:09:31.040 on like your phone, or they go to the cloud somewhere. 1:09:31.960 --> 1:09:33.120 No, they're just on the phone. 1:09:33.240 --> 1:09:39.559 Unfortunately, I am the most illiterate tech guy in the world. 1:09:39.680 --> 1:09:42.479 So, okay, and you're sure you're not using because on 1:09:42.920 --> 1:09:47.040 Samsung devices they like to send these to one drive. 1:09:47.280 --> 1:09:49.200 Are you sure they're not sync to one drive in 1:09:49.320 --> 1:09:49.679 some way? 1:09:51.000 --> 1:09:51.960 Well, they could be. 1:09:52.160 --> 1:09:56.320 I see one drive on my phone, okay, but I 1:09:56.520 --> 1:09:58.920 never knew what it was. I didn't never even clicked 1:09:59.000 --> 1:09:59.160 on it. 1:09:59.360 --> 1:10:02.360 Okay, well click on it, and and uh, there's a 1:10:02.520 --> 1:10:07.400 there's a there's a section of the Samsung phone in 1:10:07.520 --> 1:10:11.320 the settings that is called I'm trying to look here, 1:10:11.439 --> 1:10:16.120 accounts and backup. And if you look there, let's see 1:10:16.240 --> 1:10:21.479 backup data. So so in here it's it says where 1:10:21.560 --> 1:10:23.479 these things are backed up. I'm trying to find this 1:10:23.600 --> 1:10:26.400 while we talk live. I know it's tricky, but there's 1:10:26.400 --> 1:10:28.000 a couple of places. A couple of places I would look. 1:10:28.080 --> 1:10:30.720 Number one, I would on a website. I would do 1:10:30.880 --> 1:10:36.400 use Google at all, I I guess. Okay, so if 1:10:36.439 --> 1:10:38.519 you have a Google account, I would try going to 1:10:38.600 --> 1:10:42.120 photos dot Google dot com on a website on your computer, 1:10:42.600 --> 1:10:45.320 so on a desktop browser and see and log in 1:10:45.400 --> 1:10:47.160 with your Google and see if any of the photos 1:10:47.240 --> 1:10:50.760 made their way there. Then I would go to one 1:10:50.920 --> 1:10:54.760 drive dot com again from a computer and log in 1:10:55.120 --> 1:10:58.679 with either your Samsung account or your usually it's linked 1:10:58.720 --> 1:11:01.400 to a Microsoft account if you you have that, and 1:11:01.520 --> 1:11:06.560 see if they're there. Otherwise, on your old phone, I 1:11:06.600 --> 1:11:10.439 would go into the files app and uh, there's a 1:11:10.640 --> 1:11:13.560 there's like a an app on the old on the 1:11:13.640 --> 1:11:17.680 Samsung that is lets you see all the files on 1:11:17.760 --> 1:11:20.280 that phone. And so I would go in there and 1:11:20.439 --> 1:11:24.519 look for one a folder that says camera and see 1:11:24.560 --> 1:11:27.600 if you can find them in there. If not, I 1:11:27.720 --> 1:11:31.000 recommended this earlier, but there's someone called a data doctor, 1:11:31.680 --> 1:11:33.800 and that's who you probably want to talk to. But 1:11:33.920 --> 1:11:38.879 the file, the folder is called my files on the Samsung. 1:11:39.000 --> 1:11:42.160 Look for that, and in there it says images, videos, 1:11:42.200 --> 1:11:47.080 audio files, documents, downloads, and it also shows the storage 1:11:47.080 --> 1:11:48.960 areas I was talking about, including one drive. 1:11:49.840 --> 1:11:57.280 You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 1:11:57.360 --> 1:11:57.720 on Tech. 1:11:57.960 --> 1:12:01.639 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at 1:12:01.760 --> 1:12:05.479 triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 1:12:05.640 --> 1:12:08.760 four to two four one zero one. The website for 1:12:09.000 --> 1:12:14.439 the show rich on Tech dot TV. There you can 1:12:14.600 --> 1:12:18.360 peruse all of the segments I do for television. Got 1:12:18.400 --> 1:12:22.760 a great segment on cybersecurity tips, how to turn off 1:12:22.800 --> 1:12:25.000 Facebook's latest way to track you, how to make your 1:12:25.040 --> 1:12:28.160 old computer run like new again. And then if you 1:12:28.200 --> 1:12:30.519 go to my Instagram, I've got some good information as 1:12:30.560 --> 1:12:32.280 well at rich on Tech. 1:12:32.439 --> 1:12:35.800 Please follow me there. I post a lot of helpful. 1:12:35.520 --> 1:12:38.920 Information, especially on my stories, because most of this stuff, 1:12:38.920 --> 1:12:41.600 I'll be quite honest, comes from you. You email me 1:12:41.680 --> 1:12:43.960 something and I say, huh, that's interesting, and I make 1:12:44.000 --> 1:12:46.439 a post about it. So, for instance, we've had a 1:12:46.479 --> 1:12:50.000 couple of earthquakes here in Los Angeles lately, and so 1:12:50.120 --> 1:12:53.000 I figured I would tell people how to make sure 1:12:53.000 --> 1:12:55.600 they get the earthquake alerts on their phone and on 1:12:55.720 --> 1:12:59.400 Android it's built into the operating system, and on iPhone 1:13:00.040 --> 1:13:02.639 to download an app called my Shake if you want 1:13:02.680 --> 1:13:04.599 to get those. And then of course I have an 1:13:04.640 --> 1:13:09.439 infographic about how to disable that Facebook tracking. Got a 1:13:09.520 --> 1:13:13.920 fun video of the Scotty vest which holds like what 1:13:14.080 --> 1:13:17.719 is a whole twenty six pockets for gadgets, a post 1:13:17.800 --> 1:13:22.120 about the spectrum free Disney, and you know, of course 1:13:22.560 --> 1:13:25.599 intersparsed with some pictures of my family that I post from, 1:13:26.000 --> 1:13:27.599 you know, all the little adventures we take. 1:13:27.760 --> 1:13:27.920 Oh. 1:13:28.920 --> 1:13:31.040 One of my fun posts I did was of the 1:13:31.320 --> 1:13:34.680 Moto Q smartphone. I was in my garage and I 1:13:34.760 --> 1:13:38.040 found my smartphone that I loved from two thousand and 1:13:38.320 --> 1:13:41.320 six and it was like kind of Motorola's answer to 1:13:41.400 --> 1:13:42.040 the BlackBerry. 1:13:43.040 --> 1:13:47.560 So that was pretty fun. Let's see, Carol is in 1:13:48.400 --> 1:13:50.559 summer Land. Carol, what's your comment? 1:13:51.000 --> 1:13:54.200 Hi, hi, yees a comment? You had just spoken with 1:13:54.280 --> 1:13:59.800 the lady regarding the landline. Yes, and my Well, first 1:13:59.800 --> 1:14:04.280 of all, I learned gosh years ago when I bundled 1:14:04.320 --> 1:14:07.760 mine with Cox back when I lived in Golita, and 1:14:08.600 --> 1:14:12.519 all of the utilities are buried at least in the 1:14:12.640 --> 1:14:15.679 area that we lived, and anytime we had heavy rain, 1:14:17.040 --> 1:14:20.240 the cable went out and therefore the phone went out 1:14:20.400 --> 1:14:24.840 because the yeah, and so I went back to a 1:14:24.960 --> 1:14:28.240 real landline. And so when I moved here to Summerland, 1:14:29.320 --> 1:14:33.560 the same thing I got, you know, the landline. And 1:14:35.640 --> 1:14:39.720 when the back to back disasters have at the top, 1:14:40.080 --> 1:14:43.599 excuse me, the Thomas fire and then the debris flow, 1:14:45.080 --> 1:14:48.640 we were just an island, you know, we had no contact, 1:14:49.439 --> 1:14:54.439 we had no electricity, uh, nothing, you know, cable everything 1:14:54.560 --> 1:15:00.040 was down, and luckily I had a landline, and and 1:15:00.520 --> 1:15:03.639 my daughter who lives up in the Bay Area, would 1:15:04.680 --> 1:15:10.960 stream on her iPad the four o'clock what do you 1:15:11.040 --> 1:15:15.960 call it, news, disaster report whatever, Yeah, and then you know, 1:15:16.040 --> 1:15:19.080 put her iPhone up to it. I would take notes, 1:15:20.200 --> 1:15:23.120 and then I go down to the center of town 1:15:23.439 --> 1:15:26.280 and tell people what was going on. Oh wow, fairly 1:15:26.360 --> 1:15:27.640 a mile away, you. 1:15:27.680 --> 1:15:28.759 Were, like the town caller. 1:15:29.160 --> 1:15:29.640 I was. 1:15:31.720 --> 1:15:34.000 So it's just the. 1:15:34.160 --> 1:15:41.480 Necessity for especially here in California, for a real landline. 1:15:41.680 --> 1:15:44.680 And most people think that they have a landline when 1:15:44.720 --> 1:15:46.639 they actually have cable. 1:15:46.800 --> 1:15:49.040 Yeah, if it's coming from your cable company, most of 1:15:49.080 --> 1:15:52.040 the time it is. It is voiceover IP. But you know, 1:15:52.200 --> 1:15:55.759 with that said, you know, these these traditional phone companies 1:15:55.840 --> 1:15:58.960 do not want the landlines because they're expensive and. 1:15:59.040 --> 1:16:02.880 So exactly, and they've had to come out here several 1:16:02.960 --> 1:16:04.240 times to repair right. 1:16:04.560 --> 1:16:04.760 Yeah. 1:16:05.400 --> 1:16:09.200 Well, I agree it is the most reliable form of communication. 1:16:10.240 --> 1:16:13.000 But I will say, you know, and I tweeted about 1:16:13.000 --> 1:16:16.240 this the other day. You know, Apple has that satellite 1:16:16.439 --> 1:16:19.800 built into the iPhone and right now you can use 1:16:19.840 --> 1:16:22.360 it to call their call center, which is really great. 1:16:22.479 --> 1:16:25.960 If there's an emergency and you need help, and even 1:16:26.000 --> 1:16:28.600 in a natural disaster, you will still be able to 1:16:28.640 --> 1:16:31.360 get that connection to the satellite because it's going from 1:16:31.439 --> 1:16:34.320 your iPhone literally to outer space. But I said, it 1:16:34.360 --> 1:16:36.160 would be kind of neat if Apple, and I'm sure 1:16:36.200 --> 1:16:39.000 they'll do this at some point, is they'll let you 1:16:39.160 --> 1:16:42.880 go from your phone to another iPhone via satellite to 1:16:43.040 --> 1:16:46.880 message someone else. Because in a real, true emergency, when 1:16:47.120 --> 1:16:49.840 you know, things really get bad and if the infrastructure 1:16:50.080 --> 1:16:53.360 is you know, taking a hit, you know, you would 1:16:53.400 --> 1:16:55.120 not be able to let's say you lived in California, 1:16:55.240 --> 1:16:57.760 Los Angeles, whatever, you would find it really hard to 1:16:57.800 --> 1:17:01.200 get a message out to someone somewhere else or check 1:17:01.280 --> 1:17:04.160 on someone because there's no real way to do that. Now. 1:17:04.200 --> 1:17:06.400 I think with the Internet, you know, there's you know, 1:17:06.479 --> 1:17:09.040 with Facebook doing the crisis check in all this stuff. 1:17:09.040 --> 1:17:12.280 We are getting better, but it's still it's one of 1:17:12.320 --> 1:17:14.040 those things where like you just kind of don't want 1:17:14.040 --> 1:17:16.040 to think about it too much because it is a 1:17:16.200 --> 1:17:18.360 concern and it is like we're not really sure. 1:17:19.520 --> 1:17:22.120 But anyway, thanks for the call, Carol in Summerlin. Today 1:17:22.840 --> 1:17:23.800 let's go. We're kind of going. 1:17:23.880 --> 1:17:27.400 This is almost like the feedback section here. Victor quick 1:17:27.439 --> 1:17:28.200 comment about what. 1:17:29.920 --> 1:17:35.680 Well. Earlier today you spoke about this Facebook link that 1:17:37.240 --> 1:17:40.120 saves your links of things that you're looking for. Sure, 1:17:40.160 --> 1:17:43.880 and I do very much understand that if I'm looking 1:17:44.040 --> 1:17:47.280 for luggage or if I'm looking for a specific brand 1:17:47.520 --> 1:17:50.639 or something, that the little lads will show up as 1:17:50.720 --> 1:17:54.760 I'm as I'm browsing through the internet data completely understand. Sure, 1:17:56.760 --> 1:17:59.000 But we played a little game. I run it. I 1:17:59.160 --> 1:18:02.880 run a small sale team, and I go, we have 1:18:03.080 --> 1:18:06.840 theory in that particular office and where we play music 1:18:06.920 --> 1:18:08.920 on and so forth, and the series very much like 1:18:08.960 --> 1:18:14.040 Alexa right, And I said, I bet you you guys, 1:18:14.080 --> 1:18:16.479 why don't we start We're from La, So I was like, 1:18:16.479 --> 1:18:19.479 why don't we start talking about the Disneyland resort in Orlando? 1:18:19.520 --> 1:18:22.720 Would you like to go there? And then she raised up, 1:18:23.520 --> 1:18:26.240 I would love to go to Disneyland Resort Orlando. And 1:18:26.400 --> 1:18:28.360 I go, but what about you? And he goes, yeah, 1:18:28.479 --> 1:18:31.439 Disneyland Resort in Thelando sounds great to me. And it 1:18:31.640 --> 1:18:35.080 really was less than three minutes. Then we all started 1:18:35.120 --> 1:18:39.240 receiving little Hey, there's a deal at the Disneyland Resort 1:18:39.280 --> 1:18:41.720 in Lando, and I'm like a weird beat, and I'm 1:18:41.760 --> 1:18:42.880 not a huge conspiracy. 1:18:43.560 --> 1:18:44.240 You're in sales. 1:18:44.280 --> 1:18:46.840 Come on, you know that Disney's always advertising. They're they're 1:18:46.880 --> 1:18:48.439 reaching every I see a Disney ad. 1:18:48.360 --> 1:18:48.840 Once a day. 1:18:50.280 --> 1:18:54.960 Yeah, but is is the words that we're saying relaying 1:18:55.160 --> 1:18:59.240 back to a database saying, hey, she just asks for 1:18:59.320 --> 1:19:03.000 a pair of sow from so and so. Hey this 1:19:03.160 --> 1:19:07.439 guy just asked for Southwest Airlines the cheapest ticket, right, 1:19:07.600 --> 1:19:11.400 Hey that I'm a fair first. 1:19:11.720 --> 1:19:11.920 Yep. 1:19:13.120 --> 1:19:18.960 My conspiracy thing is are they they Well? 1:19:19.080 --> 1:19:20.559 I know, I know it seems that way. 1:19:20.680 --> 1:19:22.360 And it's funny you say that because when I told 1:19:22.400 --> 1:19:25.320 my wife about the link history. Because I'll be quite honest, 1:19:25.360 --> 1:19:27.880 I got I got a phone call from Facebook last 1:19:27.960 --> 1:19:30.760 night about my post because they were unhappy with it. 1:19:30.840 --> 1:19:33.120 They were like, hey, what's your deal? What do you 1:19:33.200 --> 1:19:35.360 have against this? Why are you posting about this? And 1:19:35.479 --> 1:19:37.439 you know, we literally like, I this is what these 1:19:37.479 --> 1:19:40.000 big companies do, and this is why I am on 1:19:40.160 --> 1:19:43.360 your side. I had literally, at six o'clock last night, 1:19:43.400 --> 1:19:46.439 had to speak with someone from Facebook corporate. They called 1:19:46.520 --> 1:19:49.639 my cell phone to say, dude, like, tell me about 1:19:49.640 --> 1:19:50.040 this post. 1:19:50.120 --> 1:19:50.640 What do you you know? 1:19:50.720 --> 1:19:51.679 What do you make of this feature? 1:19:51.720 --> 1:19:54.120 And I was literally fighting with them, saying, no, here's 1:19:54.160 --> 1:19:55.680 how I see it, here's why I'm going to tell 1:19:55.720 --> 1:19:57.240 people about it, and yes, I'm going to talk about 1:19:57.240 --> 1:19:59.560 in the radio tomorrow. So this is the kind of 1:19:59.560 --> 1:20:01.679 stuff that go in the background that I don't normally 1:20:01.760 --> 1:20:03.360 bring up, but you know, I just figured I would. 1:20:03.720 --> 1:20:04.400 But it's funny. 1:20:04.400 --> 1:20:06.080 When I got off the phone with my you know, 1:20:06.160 --> 1:20:07.920 my wife was on the couch and she goes, ah, 1:20:07.960 --> 1:20:10.080 I'm not concerned about the link history, sho, I'm concerned 1:20:10.120 --> 1:20:13.720 about Facebook listening to my conversations. And I said, no, no, no, 1:20:13.960 --> 1:20:15.640 let's not get into that because we know that's not 1:20:15.760 --> 1:20:19.479 really happening if you search online and look, people have 1:20:19.560 --> 1:20:22.960 been debating this since the beginning of mankind with the smartphone. 1:20:23.360 --> 1:20:26.360 Is Facebook and Instagram listening to your conversations? They one 1:20:26.439 --> 1:20:27.760 hundred percent say they do not. 1:20:29.000 --> 1:20:29.600 And I get it. 1:20:29.760 --> 1:20:32.599 We have all had the experience where you're at a party, 1:20:32.720 --> 1:20:35.160 you talk to someone about the mattress they just purchased, 1:20:35.200 --> 1:20:37.160 and next thing you know, you see the ad for 1:20:37.240 --> 1:20:39.920 that mattress on your Facebook account. I get it, it happens, 1:20:40.640 --> 1:20:44.479 but they say they're not listening. It's other indicators that 1:20:44.560 --> 1:20:48.240 they're using. And I'll just give you one example. Someone 1:20:48.520 --> 1:20:51.360 shops for a mattress your best friend. They search for 1:20:51.479 --> 1:20:54.040 it on their phone, and then you go and hang 1:20:54.080 --> 1:20:57.040 out with them. Facebook may see that they search for 1:20:57.160 --> 1:20:59.160 that in some of their you know whatever. However, they 1:20:59.280 --> 1:21:02.759 track and they say, Okay, well maybe this person mentioned 1:21:02.800 --> 1:21:05.439 this mattress too rich because they just bought it, and 1:21:05.479 --> 1:21:06.640 so we're going to show them an ad for that 1:21:06.760 --> 1:21:07.439 just to remind them. 1:21:07.760 --> 1:21:10.360 That's just one idea of how this might work. 1:21:10.960 --> 1:21:14.160 People have done many, many tests of you know, saying 1:21:14.240 --> 1:21:17.120 something in a closed room with the phone nearby, to 1:21:17.240 --> 1:21:20.839 see if those ads show up. Sometimes they do, sometimes 1:21:20.880 --> 1:21:23.840 they don't. It's not a guarantee, but yes, we have 1:21:24.000 --> 1:21:28.960 all casually observed this phenomenon. 1:21:29.120 --> 1:21:31.160 Believe me, I have. Everyone has. 1:21:32.280 --> 1:21:36.000 Okay, let's see. I guess we'll just stick on the privacy. 1:21:36.200 --> 1:21:37.200 Tom is in Riverside. 1:21:37.240 --> 1:21:42.759 Tom, you got a question, oh, Rich, Yeah, I wanted 1:21:42.800 --> 1:21:46.680 to ask about Apple seventeen. I got a fourteen pro 1:21:46.920 --> 1:21:51.200 right now and I like it, okay, but I you know, 1:21:51.360 --> 1:21:54.560 I had it two years now. One to see is 1:21:54.640 --> 1:21:58.439 the seventeen next? Or what's coming up for Apple? 1:21:58.640 --> 1:22:02.320 For I for the model number or the software? 1:22:04.080 --> 1:22:07.599 Now the phone, the phone, the phone? 1:22:07.640 --> 1:22:10.360 Okay, and what's the question? Just what's coming up? 1:22:11.400 --> 1:22:11.559 Well? 1:22:11.680 --> 1:22:13.160 Yeah, is it seventeen? 1:22:13.400 --> 1:22:14.719 Is the next Apple? 1:22:14.800 --> 1:22:15.080 Or is it? 1:22:15.520 --> 1:22:17.920 I mean it's on fifteen right now? Is it going 1:22:17.960 --> 1:22:19.839 to be sixteen or is it going to be seventeen 1:22:20.000 --> 1:22:20.760 or what is it going to be? 1:22:21.040 --> 1:22:24.040 Well right now, only Apple knows, but uh, it's I'm 1:22:24.200 --> 1:22:27.840 guessing it's going to be sixteen because Apple, I don't 1:22:27.960 --> 1:22:31.080 did they skip a number in the I gotta think 1:22:31.120 --> 1:22:34.360 about that, five, six, seven, eight nine. Then they went 1:22:34.680 --> 1:22:38.680 X eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. Yeah, I don't think 1:22:38.680 --> 1:22:41.080 they've skipped. I know, I know Samsung skipped. They went 1:22:41.160 --> 1:22:43.479 from the uh like the I think it was like 1:22:43.560 --> 1:22:46.240 the ten to the twenty, so but no, Apple has 1:22:46.320 --> 1:22:47.040 kept them in order. 1:22:47.160 --> 1:22:48.240 But what is that? 1:22:48.439 --> 1:22:49.240 Is that all you need to know? 1:22:50.360 --> 1:22:50.479 Uh? 1:22:50.960 --> 1:22:55.360 Yeah, well yeah, the whether it's gona come up? And 1:22:55.439 --> 1:22:57.719 then I wanted to ask a couple of questions about 1:22:57.800 --> 1:23:00.240 AI and a couple questions. 1:23:00.880 --> 1:23:02.680 Tom, how much time do you think I have on 1:23:02.760 --> 1:23:08.360 this show? I wish I wish I had more. Believe me, 1:23:08.479 --> 1:23:10.679 it's I feel like they're always pushing me to break 1:23:10.680 --> 1:23:12.880 they're like, you gotta go, you gotta go. But yes, 1:23:13.439 --> 1:23:17.320 here's my advice. I know that's what I feel like. 1:23:17.439 --> 1:23:20.640 But here's the thing. Look AI, all this stuff, the 1:23:20.720 --> 1:23:23.200 privacy stuff, this is the stuff I talk about every week, 1:23:23.360 --> 1:23:25.200 day and day out on the show. And believe me, 1:23:25.920 --> 1:23:28.560 I understand it's a lot. I understand. You know this 1:23:28.720 --> 1:23:31.479 show is for the average person. It's not even for techies, 1:23:32.160 --> 1:23:34.320 and it's a lot to kind of manage. So believe me, 1:23:34.760 --> 1:23:37.080 keep listening. I will talk about this stuff. I will 1:23:37.120 --> 1:23:39.160 address again in the beginning of the show. 1:23:39.240 --> 1:23:39.920 Here's what I say. 1:23:40.920 --> 1:23:42.519 This is a show where I talk about the tech 1:23:42.600 --> 1:23:45.400 stuff I think you should know about, and that's really 1:23:45.479 --> 1:23:47.080 what it's all about. There's a ton of stuff that 1:23:47.120 --> 1:23:50.280 I come across every single week. I try to direct 1:23:50.360 --> 1:23:53.040 it to the stuff that I think is the most important, 1:23:54.720 --> 1:23:56.400 and that's that's really what it comes down to. 1:23:57.280 --> 1:23:57.599 All Right. 1:23:57.640 --> 1:23:59.439 You can find me on the website rich on tech, 1:23:59.479 --> 1:24:02.840 dot TV, social media at rich on Tech. Coming up, 1:24:03.000 --> 1:24:07.320 we'll talk the new keyboard for the iPhone, Wow, and 1:24:07.479 --> 1:24:09.560 the new app from Microsoft that you might want to 1:24:09.600 --> 1:24:12.160 install on your phone because it gives you free access 1:24:12.200 --> 1:24:15.760 to the best chat GPT you are listening to Rich 1:24:15.880 --> 1:24:24.000 on tech. Let's see, we got an email from Marcy. 1:24:24.120 --> 1:24:26.800 Marcy says, hey, Rich, just an FYI anyone with a 1:24:26.880 --> 1:24:31.400 copper landline and wishes to keep it for emergency needs, earthquake, 1:24:31.520 --> 1:24:32.520 power outage. 1:24:33.040 --> 1:24:34.200 When voipe would go down. 1:24:34.720 --> 1:24:38.000 Just know that if you switch to a cable voipeline, 1:24:38.439 --> 1:24:41.280 your copper line will be cut and you can never 1:24:41.360 --> 1:24:45.120 get it back. Happen to me now. I keep my 1:24:45.240 --> 1:24:48.160 Internet and router on a battery backup. Love your show, 1:24:48.280 --> 1:24:52.639 Thanks for your expertise, Marcy. Yeah, Marcy, Like I said, 1:24:52.720 --> 1:24:54.840 these companies they will rip out these lines. I think 1:24:54.880 --> 1:24:56.960 they take the copper cable and they take it directly 1:24:57.040 --> 1:24:59.720 to the scrapshop and like cash it in because it's 1:24:59.760 --> 1:25:03.160 so valuable. I literally think the copper cable is worth 1:25:03.280 --> 1:25:06.439 more than the monthly fee. 1:25:07.280 --> 1:25:07.639 All right. 1:25:07.720 --> 1:25:11.599 The iPhone is getting a new physical keyboard, not from Apple, 1:25:11.680 --> 1:25:14.000 but from a new company called Clicks Technology. 1:25:14.600 --> 1:25:15.880 The device is called Clicks. 1:25:15.960 --> 1:25:19.680 It's a physical keyboard accessory for the iPhone, provides a 1:25:19.760 --> 1:25:23.400 techtile typing experience, and it says you get twice the 1:25:23.479 --> 1:25:26.080 screen real estate because there's no keyboard on your screen 1:25:26.280 --> 1:25:29.360 like the on screen keyboard. It attaches to your phone 1:25:29.880 --> 1:25:34.080 directly using lightning or USBC. It has no battery. It 1:25:34.280 --> 1:25:37.439 uses the phone for power and data transfer. You can 1:25:37.479 --> 1:25:40.840 also use shortcut keys, has a backlight for typing in 1:25:40.920 --> 1:25:43.960 low conditions. And it was created by a team of 1:25:44.040 --> 1:25:47.479 mobile experts, including the guy behind the website that's very 1:25:47.520 --> 1:25:53.240 popular called Crackberry, and YouTube tech reviewer mister Mobile, Michael Fisher. 1:25:54.479 --> 1:25:56.200 It can be pre ordered now. It's one hundred and 1:25:56.240 --> 1:25:59.080 thirty nine dollars. It ships February first. It's got a 1:25:59.080 --> 1:26:00.640 whole bunch of fun color. It's going to be on 1:26:00.760 --> 1:26:04.000 display at CS in January, which is next week, so 1:26:04.160 --> 1:26:07.440 I will see it, and I find that very fascinating. 1:26:07.880 --> 1:26:11.439 There was a keyboard made or backed by Ryan Seacrest 1:26:11.520 --> 1:26:15.720 many many years ago called Typo Typo, and it was 1:26:15.760 --> 1:26:18.639 that CS. I found my old picture from the iPhone 1:26:18.760 --> 1:26:20.960 five it connected to that. It's very similar to what 1:26:21.040 --> 1:26:22.960 we have now. So if you still want that keyboard 1:26:23.040 --> 1:26:26.120 on your iPhone, you're gonna have an option. And if 1:26:26.160 --> 1:26:29.320 you want the best of chat GBT on your iPhone 1:26:29.400 --> 1:26:31.559 or Android, there's a web an app that you might 1:26:31.600 --> 1:26:36.080 want to download. It's called Microsoft Copilot. This is. It's 1:26:36.240 --> 1:26:39.320 basically an AI chatbot. Lets you do all kinds of 1:26:39.360 --> 1:26:43.560 stuff AI conversations. It can draft messages and emails, it 1:26:43.600 --> 1:26:46.960 can draw pictures. The big thing about this is that 1:26:47.160 --> 1:26:51.519 it includes GPT four for free. If you're on chat GBT, 1:26:51.680 --> 1:26:53.400 you got to pay twenty bucks for access to that, 1:26:53.840 --> 1:26:55.559 so you basically get it for free. But this also 1:26:55.640 --> 1:26:58.760 includes bing so it's got access to the web. So 1:26:58.840 --> 1:27:01.240 you might have heard me talk about bing ai in 1:27:01.320 --> 1:27:07.000 the past. Microsoft is rebranding bing ai to what's called Copilot, 1:27:07.479 --> 1:27:09.040 and so if you want to download this, it's a 1:27:09.080 --> 1:27:12.080 little tricky to find it in the app stores because 1:27:12.120 --> 1:27:14.519 you search Copilot, there's some other things that come up. 1:27:14.920 --> 1:27:18.080 So I put the direct links on my wiki for 1:27:18.160 --> 1:27:23.920 the show Rich on tech dot tv slash wiki. And finally, 1:27:24.080 --> 1:27:27.559 Google is eliminating third party cookies from Chrome. You might 1:27:27.640 --> 1:27:30.880 hear about this. The advertising industry does not like this. 1:27:31.240 --> 1:27:35.080 Third party cookies are those cookies that travel from site 1:27:35.120 --> 1:27:37.120 to site. When you go to one website, they tell 1:27:37.160 --> 1:27:39.760 another website that you were just there. So let's say 1:27:39.760 --> 1:27:43.360 you go to a sneaker website and then you go 1:27:43.479 --> 1:27:46.320 to a newspaper website and you see an ad for 1:27:46.400 --> 1:27:48.360 that sneaker that you just looked at. That's a third 1:27:48.400 --> 1:27:50.800 party cookie. Google says they're getting rid of these. They're 1:27:50.800 --> 1:27:53.960 eliminating them by the end of twenty twenty four, and 1:27:54.439 --> 1:27:57.719 this is throwing the whole tech advertising world into upheaval, 1:27:58.479 --> 1:28:02.960 but of course it's better for our privacy. Coming up next, 1:28:03.040 --> 1:28:05.639 we're going to talk to Chris Hoffman from the Windows 1:28:05.800 --> 1:28:07.080 Intelligence Newsletter. 1:28:07.520 --> 1:28:10.120 He's going to share some Windows tips and tricks with us. 1:28:10.240 --> 1:28:12.519 You are listening to rich on Tech. 1:28:17.240 --> 1:28:20.320 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 1:28:20.360 --> 1:28:23.960 out with you, talking technology. Very excited for my next guest. 1:28:24.920 --> 1:28:29.720 I subscribe to his newsletter all of one issue, and 1:28:29.840 --> 1:28:31.840 I invited him on the show because it was so good. 1:28:32.120 --> 1:28:37.600 Chris Hoffman writes the Windows Intelligence Newsletter, welcome. 1:28:37.280 --> 1:28:37.679 To the show. 1:28:38.640 --> 1:28:39.280 Thanks for having me. 1:28:39.880 --> 1:28:42.600 So the websites I know you're gonna want it is 1:28:42.800 --> 1:28:47.479 the Intelligence dot Com slash Windows. So the way the 1:28:47.560 --> 1:28:51.560 newsletter is written is it's for anyone to understand. So 1:28:51.680 --> 1:28:53.400 it's it's kind of like this show where it is 1:28:53.560 --> 1:28:56.840 very approachable and I appreciate that about what you're doing. 1:28:56.920 --> 1:28:59.280 Chris, Thank you absolutely. 1:28:59.600 --> 1:29:01.840 Okay, so let's talk about First off, the number one 1:29:01.920 --> 1:29:04.720 question I get, and this one, actually I think gets 1:29:04.800 --> 1:29:07.719 kind of complicated because you addressed it in a recent newsletter. 1:29:08.200 --> 1:29:10.080 But the question I get all the time, can you 1:29:10.240 --> 1:29:12.559 still upgrade to Windows eleven for free? 1:29:14.080 --> 1:29:17.920 So the easy answer is yes. The simple answer is yes. 1:29:18.800 --> 1:29:20.519 We can get into the weeds in a second, but 1:29:20.720 --> 1:29:23.840 the simple answer is if Window If Microsoft says Windows 1:29:23.880 --> 1:29:26.800 eleven is compatible with your computer, if you have Windows ten, 1:29:27.080 --> 1:29:29.160 you can just open the settings up on your Windows 1:29:29.200 --> 1:29:31.759 ten PC. You can look at Windows Update in settings 1:29:31.920 --> 1:29:34.400 and it will tell you right there, you know if 1:29:34.400 --> 1:29:36.479 it's if it's available, it'll say yes, you can upgrade 1:29:36.479 --> 1:29:39.160 to Windows eleven now, and you can click right there 1:29:39.240 --> 1:29:41.200 and it's good and it's free, and you know you're 1:29:41.240 --> 1:29:44.760 done now. It may say it's not compatible. Now you 1:29:44.880 --> 1:29:47.120 might assume that means it's not compatible, because that's the 1:29:47.240 --> 1:29:49.680 definition of the word. But actually, really you really get 1:29:49.720 --> 1:29:51.720 into the weeds here. There are ways to kind of 1:29:51.760 --> 1:29:57.040 get around that, depending on your PC's hardware. It really 1:29:57.080 --> 1:29:59.720 gets into kind of the weeds here. Of there's kind 1:29:59.760 --> 1:30:03.679 of three tiers of computer. One is really compatible within 1:30:03.760 --> 1:30:07.080 Windows eleven. One can't run Windows eleven at all, and 1:30:07.240 --> 1:30:09.320 in the middle there's this gray zone of these Windows 1:30:09.360 --> 1:30:13.320 ten PCs that they technically can run Windows eleven if 1:30:13.320 --> 1:30:15.040 you go through a little bit of a backdoor, but 1:30:15.200 --> 1:30:18.240 Microsoft says Microsoft doesn't want to offer them the upgrades. 1:30:18.320 --> 1:30:20.720 So you know, for the average person, I would say, 1:30:20.840 --> 1:30:22.479 just go to Windows Update and if it says it 1:30:22.479 --> 1:30:25.200 is not compatible, just don't worry about it, because you know, 1:30:25.479 --> 1:30:27.880 your Windows Time PC is still getting free security updates 1:30:28.040 --> 1:30:31.160 until October twenty twenty five. That's nearly two years, right, 1:30:31.479 --> 1:30:34.200 So that's not bad, and your compare will work fine. 1:30:34.240 --> 1:30:36.040 But if you're a geek like me, you know, if 1:30:36.080 --> 1:30:37.439 you want to get into this stuff, you can, and 1:30:37.520 --> 1:30:40.759 you can look into it. There's a tool called rufous 1:30:41.120 --> 1:30:43.920 that I just recommended, and it has it will let 1:30:43.960 --> 1:30:47.519 you create a Windows eleven installer that has a bit 1:30:47.560 --> 1:30:50.920 of a bypass, and it's little bypass requirements, like you know, 1:30:51.000 --> 1:30:53.200 we get into the weeds here, right TPM two point 1:30:53.280 --> 1:30:58.879 zero with TPM one point two instead, and but it ultimately, 1:30:59.000 --> 1:31:00.400 you know, there are tools you can look at it. 1:31:00.439 --> 1:31:02.680 You can see why is your computer not compatible? And 1:31:03.000 --> 1:31:04.920 if you can kind of look into it, and it 1:31:05.160 --> 1:31:07.519 actually isn't too hard to install, you know, Windows level 1:31:07.560 --> 1:31:10.320 with RUFUS if you want. But for the average person, 1:31:10.920 --> 1:31:13.000 you know, don't worry about it. But if you are 1:31:13.000 --> 1:31:14.960 a geek like you can, you know, dig into this 1:31:15.080 --> 1:31:18.880 and some sometimes you'd be surprised, like you may be 1:31:18.960 --> 1:31:20.800 able to just change once any of your computers like 1:31:20.880 --> 1:31:24.360 bios or u UE five firmware. Because strangely enough, like 1:31:24.400 --> 1:31:26.320 there are computers that have TPM two point out but 1:31:26.360 --> 1:31:28.479 they were shipped with it disabled and you actually have 1:31:28.520 --> 1:31:30.840 to go into bias and enable it and then it 1:31:30.880 --> 1:31:34.080 can stall Windows leven. So it's really complicated upgrade processes 1:31:34.200 --> 1:31:36.040 time around. But the good news is that Windows ten 1:31:36.080 --> 1:31:37.720 is still supported for a nearly two more years. 1:31:37.720 --> 1:31:40.280 Okay, so so I think, I think for the average user. 1:31:40.360 --> 1:31:42.240 And by the way, the website is r U f 1:31:42.400 --> 1:31:43.400 U S dot I E. 1:31:44.360 --> 1:31:46.280 But that's it. That's only if you're advanced. Don't don't 1:31:46.320 --> 1:31:46.600 go to that. 1:31:46.720 --> 1:31:48.000 If you're not, you know, if you don't know your 1:31:48.040 --> 1:31:51.200 way around BIOS and all that stuff and bootable USB 1:31:51.400 --> 1:31:53.479 drives and you know, don't you know, don't mess with 1:31:53.560 --> 1:31:55.679 your computer if you don't know that stuff. But here's 1:31:55.720 --> 1:31:59.240 my question for you, Chris, if a person's running Windows ten, 1:31:59.560 --> 1:32:01.760 do they need to upgrade to eleven because obviously they're 1:32:01.760 --> 1:32:04.960 probably getting that push notification on their system, Oh update Update, 1:32:05.000 --> 1:32:07.000 but you're saying it's you still have two years to 1:32:07.080 --> 1:32:08.240 make this decision, right. 1:32:09.479 --> 1:32:13.000 Yeah, so the upgrade will still be free up until 1:32:13.400 --> 1:32:15.880 you know, I mean, unless Microsoft changes his mind, which 1:32:15.920 --> 1:32:18.160 I doubt, the upgrade will still be free, you know, 1:32:18.280 --> 1:32:20.840 in October twenty twenty five, nearly two years from now. 1:32:20.880 --> 1:32:23.360 So if you're not, if you don't upgrade, there's don't upgrade. 1:32:23.400 --> 1:32:25.040 You can click the button to upgrade in like a 1:32:25.120 --> 1:32:27.719 year for now and sixteen months from now, so that'll 1:32:27.960 --> 1:32:29.680 that'll be that's free now, and that'll be free then 1:32:29.720 --> 1:32:31.799 if it's available, so there's no rush to upgrade. 1:32:32.800 --> 1:32:34.120 Is there a benefit to upgrading? 1:32:35.680 --> 1:32:35.840 You know? 1:32:37.200 --> 1:32:40.080 Yeah, you know, you know, you know Windows eleven is good. 1:32:40.600 --> 1:32:43.360 There's some things, you know, the taskbar, you can't move 1:32:43.400 --> 1:32:45.519 the taskbar to other edges of your screen. Then there's 1:32:45.560 --> 1:32:48.400 some stuff that's different, not naturally better, but different. And 1:32:49.560 --> 1:32:52.240 one of the big things that Microsoft is pushing on 1:32:52.360 --> 1:32:55.080 now is AI and AIPCS and oh you get copilot 1:32:55.120 --> 1:32:57.400 Windows level. Well, actually, Microsoft just changed their minds and 1:32:57.400 --> 1:32:59.920 they're actually going to be delivering Copilot to Windows ten. 1:33:00.160 --> 1:33:02.320 So if you have Windows ten and you're really interested 1:33:02.320 --> 1:33:04.120 in this copilot thing, like in a few months, it's 1:33:04.120 --> 1:33:05.920 just going to be in your taskbar, just like Windows level. 1:33:06.040 --> 1:33:07.280 Ah, that's interesting. 1:33:08.160 --> 1:33:09.640 And if you're thinking, oh no, I don't want down 1:33:09.640 --> 1:33:10.559 on my PC, don't worry. 1:33:10.560 --> 1:33:11.320 You can turn it off. 1:33:11.400 --> 1:33:13.519 But but some of these, like you know, the big 1:33:13.960 --> 1:33:17.800 premier features coming to Windows ten anyway, so you know, 1:33:18.000 --> 1:33:20.920 if you're not passionate about Windows eleven, your computer's fine, 1:33:20.920 --> 1:33:23.400 then great, you know, keep using Windows ten until October 1:33:23.520 --> 1:33:24.240 twenty twenty five. 1:33:24.600 --> 1:33:27.280 Okay, the other question I have, Uh, there's a new 1:33:27.360 --> 1:33:30.160 Outlook coming soon for Windows computers. 1:33:30.600 --> 1:33:33.559 People are getting messages about that and what we need 1:33:33.640 --> 1:33:34.120 to know about that. 1:33:35.240 --> 1:33:35.439 Yeah. 1:33:35.520 --> 1:33:38.200 So so this is such a confusing topic because you know, 1:33:38.320 --> 1:33:41.640 basically Microsoft has a ton of different email clients and services, right, 1:33:41.760 --> 1:33:43.920 so you know, I'll just rattle some off, right. So 1:33:44.000 --> 1:33:46.200 we have you know, Microsoft Outlook, which is you know, 1:33:46.360 --> 1:33:49.439 the traditional desktop email Windows in Mac and so many 1:33:49.479 --> 1:33:51.720 businesses use it. And now there's something called I'll Look 1:33:51.760 --> 1:33:53.160 on the web, and that used to be called I'll 1:33:53.160 --> 1:33:54.880 look Web Access and that's actually just kind of the 1:33:55.400 --> 1:33:57.840 desktop application on the web. But then you know, you 1:33:57.920 --> 1:34:00.240 have a Luk dot com, which actually isn't you know, 1:34:00.320 --> 1:34:02.680 there isn't microloft that look, that's just what you know, 1:34:03.000 --> 1:34:05.040 it was hotmail and out outload dot com. And then 1:34:05.320 --> 1:34:07.719 there's an Outlook mobile app on phones and it's actually 1:34:07.760 --> 1:34:10.320 a whole different thing Microsoft by the startup in twenty fourteen. 1:34:10.840 --> 1:34:12.519 And then there's also a mail app on Windows and 1:34:12.560 --> 1:34:14.800 that just comes on all Windows PCs for free, and 1:34:14.880 --> 1:34:17.120 that's different from you know, mic shot Outlook, and it's 1:34:17.160 --> 1:34:19.000 all you know, it's all a mess, it's all confusing. 1:34:19.400 --> 1:34:21.080 There are too many outlooks, there are too many email 1:34:21.120 --> 1:34:24.000 products there, and then that's that's one big problem mic 1:34:24.040 --> 1:34:26.760 Slot has. Ther Microsoft problem mic Slot has is that 1:34:26.880 --> 1:34:28.760 they don't really like the old Outlook. They don't like 1:34:28.800 --> 1:34:31.760 the old business e outlook. It's this ancient kind of 1:34:32.000 --> 1:34:33.280 you know, I know a lot of people have it, 1:34:33.320 --> 1:34:35.920 so I shouldn't. It's this old code base, it's this 1:34:36.200 --> 1:34:39.600 complicated program that is just a deptop program has all 1:34:39.640 --> 1:34:42.080 these features. So Microsoft, long term we like to get 1:34:42.160 --> 1:34:44.160 rid of that. They want to have something more modern 1:34:44.280 --> 1:34:46.160 that is the same on every platform and everything. So 1:34:46.840 --> 1:34:50.040 there's something called the New Outlook and this is going 1:34:50.120 --> 1:34:52.920 to be the modern application that kind of brings everything together. 1:34:53.040 --> 1:34:54.720 So it's already out there in preview form and for 1:34:54.880 --> 1:34:57.519 now it's really just replacing the Mail app on Windows 1:34:58.360 --> 1:34:59.840 and it's you know, pretty similar to the Mail up 1:34:59.840 --> 1:35:02.040 and know this is pretty simple. And actually, this is 1:35:02.040 --> 1:35:04.479 another kind of weird confusing thing is the actually the 1:35:04.560 --> 1:35:07.200 New Outlook is based on the the code for outlook 1:35:07.240 --> 1:35:10.599 dot com, like the web web interface for outlet dot com. 1:35:11.200 --> 1:35:12.960 But it's it's a desktop. 1:35:12.560 --> 1:35:15.280 Application and it can also kind of to other email 1:35:15.360 --> 1:35:18.200 services because as you know, we may know, like modern 1:35:18.720 --> 1:35:22.280 desktop applications are becoming kind of very web based in general. 1:35:22.400 --> 1:35:24.439 So so Microsoft wants to kind of bring everything together. 1:35:25.000 --> 1:35:26.920 And you know, if you're using mail on the Mail 1:35:26.920 --> 1:35:29.240 app on Windows, you'll eventually be moved to, you know, 1:35:29.320 --> 1:35:31.640 the New Outlook. But the big thing is is that 1:35:31.960 --> 1:35:34.360 long term, Microsoft would actually love to like to move 1:35:34.640 --> 1:35:37.040 everyone to the New New Outlook, even people using the 1:35:37.200 --> 1:35:41.240 classic traditional desktop application Outlook you know, in business, and 1:35:41.600 --> 1:35:43.200 that that's going to be a while though, because like 1:35:43.320 --> 1:35:45.880 the the there's so many ad ins, there's so many 1:35:45.960 --> 1:35:49.200 weird feature, weird features, so many you know, even in 1:35:49.280 --> 1:35:52.000 Word or Excel. There's so many options that have built 1:35:52.040 --> 1:35:54.720 up in these applications for you know, twenty years, and 1:35:54.960 --> 1:35:56.720 it's going to take a while from Microsoft to bring 1:35:56.760 --> 1:35:58.639 the new Ella to a point where Microsoft can push 1:35:58.720 --> 1:36:01.120 it on you know, businesses. But Microsoft, you know, I 1:36:01.160 --> 1:36:03.200 spoke to people from Microsoft and they absolutely want to 1:36:03.240 --> 1:36:05.720 do that. So the old Outlook is on its way out. 1:36:05.840 --> 1:36:07.400 How many years it will be, I don't know. It 1:36:07.520 --> 1:36:09.360 might be quite a few years, so I wouldn't panic, 1:36:10.040 --> 1:36:12.320 but I wouldn't panic if you love the old outlook. 1:36:12.400 --> 1:36:15.600 But you know, eventually Microsoft just bring everything into this 1:36:15.760 --> 1:36:19.760 new kind of simplified, modern web based kind of Outlook application, 1:36:19.960 --> 1:36:21.639 including the Classic Outlook. 1:36:21.960 --> 1:36:26.559 Okay, we're chatting with Chris Hoffman from the Windows Intelligence newsletter. 1:36:27.040 --> 1:36:30.720 Give me a popular tip or trick for Windows that 1:36:31.280 --> 1:36:33.240 you know, maybe you shared in one of your newsletters 1:36:33.280 --> 1:36:34.640 and people seem to like it. 1:36:35.040 --> 1:36:35.720 What do we need to know? 1:36:37.920 --> 1:36:41.519 You know, I really love and recommend Microsoft Power Toys 1:36:41.600 --> 1:36:44.840 to people. It's this free package of utilities provided by 1:36:44.880 --> 1:36:47.280 Microsoft themselves, is packed with all kinds of cool stuff 1:36:47.360 --> 1:36:49.720 that you can change any key on your keyboard to 1:36:49.760 --> 1:36:51.759 functions any other key, or you can make any window 1:36:51.760 --> 1:36:53.960 always on top of other windows, or you can battery 1:36:54.040 --> 1:36:55.640 name a ton of files at once and do all 1:36:55.720 --> 1:36:57.479 kind of cool things like that. And it's the kind 1:36:57.479 --> 1:36:59.120 of stuff that you would normally have to hunt down, 1:36:59.200 --> 1:37:01.120 like twenty different prouns for online. You have to do 1:37:01.240 --> 1:37:03.360 your research, like what's the best way program for this? 1:37:03.439 --> 1:37:03.600 And that. 1:37:03.840 --> 1:37:06.120 It's twenty things and it takes forever, right, But this 1:37:06.240 --> 1:37:10.040 is just this big prepackage of tools provided by Microsoft themselves. 1:37:10.439 --> 1:37:13.080 You know, they're all fresh, they're modern, they're they don't 1:37:13.120 --> 1:37:15.160 have ads, they don't have other drunks. So I would 1:37:15.200 --> 1:37:17.240 really go look for microshoft Power Toys and you can 1:37:17.280 --> 1:37:19.840 find it in the Microsoft Store app on Windows ten 1:37:19.920 --> 1:37:24.360 or Windows eleven, Windows ten, definitely Windows eleven, and you know, 1:37:24.880 --> 1:37:26.040 or you can download it from the web. 1:37:26.080 --> 1:37:28.760 But I really love power Toys. I recommend it to everyone. 1:37:28.840 --> 1:37:30.560 Yeah, I'm looking at all the little things you can do. 1:37:30.680 --> 1:37:33.120 There's like all these like you can keep your computer awake, 1:37:33.360 --> 1:37:37.040 you can and there's just so many like fun little tweaks. 1:37:37.080 --> 1:37:39.400 Why don't they just build this stuff into into Windows? 1:37:39.479 --> 1:37:39.600 Is it? 1:37:39.680 --> 1:37:40.840 It kind of reminds me of I don't know if 1:37:40.840 --> 1:37:42.160 you use Samsung, but they have this thing. 1:37:42.120 --> 1:37:44.679 Called like what is it good luck or something where 1:37:44.880 --> 1:37:47.120 it's like, yeah, they have all these like extra tools 1:37:47.160 --> 1:37:48.280 that are like for power users. 1:37:48.320 --> 1:37:49.639 I guess. I guess it's power toys. 1:37:50.520 --> 1:37:52.479 Yeah, exactly, And there was power toys back in the 1:37:52.520 --> 1:37:54.280 Windows XP days two, which I think is where the 1:37:54.360 --> 1:37:56.880 name comes from. But why isn't the Windows, I mean, 1:37:56.880 --> 1:37:58.360 answer a good question. You know, the fact that it's 1:37:58.360 --> 1:38:01.160 not in Windows means that microshoft kind of keep it updated, 1:38:01.479 --> 1:38:03.920 updating it separately, and I think in general Microsoft would 1:38:03.960 --> 1:38:06.639 like to kind of have you know, Windows have fewer 1:38:06.680 --> 1:38:08.519 things than they can kind of be updated separately more 1:38:08.560 --> 1:38:10.920 through the store anyway, So this is plus this way. 1:38:10.960 --> 1:38:13.439 You know, I bet there's all kinds of support reasons, 1:38:13.479 --> 1:38:15.599 like if it's including Windows, and if it's the business 1:38:15.640 --> 1:38:18.200 has a support contract, it's included component and microshift that 1:38:18.280 --> 1:38:20.360 support it on a business level, and you know it's 1:38:20.439 --> 1:38:22.679 just you know, it's just a free package of stuff 1:38:22.680 --> 1:38:25.000 that Microsoft provides and they don't really you know, it works, but. 1:38:25.720 --> 1:38:29.080 There's no guarantees like yeah, you're at you're running these 1:38:29.120 --> 1:38:31.799 at your own risk. I guess all right, Chrish Hoffman, 1:38:31.840 --> 1:38:33.599 we're gonna leave it there. Thanks so much for joining 1:38:33.640 --> 1:38:34.720 me today. I appreciate it. 1:38:35.600 --> 1:38:36.479 All right, thanks so much. 1:38:36.720 --> 1:38:41.280 All right, Windows Intelligence Newsletter it's the Intelligence dot Com 1:38:41.600 --> 1:38:45.000 slash Windows. If you want to get some tips and 1:38:45.080 --> 1:38:47.439 tricks about Windows and just keep up to date, it's 1:38:47.479 --> 1:38:49.720 a great resource for that. All right. 1:38:49.800 --> 1:38:52.120 Coming up, we're gonna do the feedback segment. 1:38:52.280 --> 1:38:54.960 Plus, uh, let's see, we're going to talk about Oh, 1:38:55.720 --> 1:38:58.200 these are some fighting words. The best way to listen 1:38:58.240 --> 1:39:01.400 to a podcast is actually faster than you might think. 1:39:03.800 --> 1:39:06.719 And the thirteen year old that beat Tetris, I'm so jealous. 1:39:08.160 --> 1:39:18.720 You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1:39:19.280 --> 1:39:23.439 rich on Tech. Time to close out the show, Let's 1:39:23.479 --> 1:39:25.559 get through a few stories I wanted to mention before 1:39:25.640 --> 1:39:29.080 we get to the feedback. Amazon Prime Video we'll start 1:39:29.120 --> 1:39:33.680 having ads on January twenty ninth. Amazon Prime Video is 1:39:33.720 --> 1:39:36.639 included with your Prime membership. There will be no cost 1:39:36.960 --> 1:39:40.439 change to Prime memberships. You don't need to do anything special, 1:39:40.560 --> 1:39:42.880 but you will have ads starting January twenty ninth, so 1:39:43.040 --> 1:39:46.320 reads the email from Amazon. If you don't want ads 1:39:46.479 --> 1:39:49.720 on your Amazon Prime videos and movies, you can pay 1:39:49.720 --> 1:39:53.280 an extra three dollars a month to go back to 1:39:53.400 --> 1:39:59.160 what you already had for free. See that three dollars 1:39:59.240 --> 1:40:02.240 to get back to what's had Visio. This is just 1:40:02.280 --> 1:40:05.639 for my California listeners. Three million dollars in a settlement 1:40:06.479 --> 1:40:12.439 over misleading alleged misleading refresh rate claims. This is from 1:40:12.479 --> 1:40:16.559 a twenty eighteen class action lawsuit. Visio sether TVs had 1:40:17.560 --> 1:40:20.440 one hundred and twenty to two hundred and forty effective 1:40:20.600 --> 1:40:24.320 hurts effective refresh rates and someone said there were really 1:40:24.360 --> 1:40:26.760 only sixty, but software was making them one hundred and 1:40:26.760 --> 1:40:29.479 twenty or two forty. So if you're a California resident, 1:40:29.520 --> 1:40:33.320 you purchase a Visio TV after April thirtieth, twenty fourteen, 1:40:34.080 --> 1:40:36.400 you can get I think it's up to fifty bucks. 1:40:36.800 --> 1:40:38.280 But you do have to put a claim in. You 1:40:38.360 --> 1:40:40.759 do have to show proof of purchase like a receipt 1:40:40.960 --> 1:40:43.960 or a serial number. You have until March thirtieth to 1:40:44.080 --> 1:40:48.320 do that again. Visio three million bucks for California consumers 1:40:48.439 --> 1:40:53.759 over alleged misleading refresh rate claims. You know, higher refresh 1:40:53.880 --> 1:40:58.320 rates sell TVs because it sounds better. And Fitness Plus 1:40:58.400 --> 1:41:00.840 from Apple, you know this is our fitness offering. They've 1:41:00.880 --> 1:41:02.800 got a couple of new things for twenty twenty four, 1:41:03.320 --> 1:41:09.120 a new sound meditation theme called Sound featuring soothing tones 1:41:09.200 --> 1:41:13.400 and rhythms. They've got some new workout programs, including Yoga 1:41:13.520 --> 1:41:19.400 for Golfers, Yoga Strength and Core for Golfers, and Time 1:41:19.520 --> 1:41:19.920 to Walk. 1:41:20.080 --> 1:41:22.160 This is fun. If you haven't tried this, try it. 1:41:23.000 --> 1:41:25.559 Time to Walk is basically they interview like a celebrity 1:41:26.439 --> 1:41:29.160 for a walking workout, like they walk with the celebrity, 1:41:29.560 --> 1:41:31.000 but for the first time. You can get this for 1:41:31.120 --> 1:41:33.400 free through Apple Podcasts. So if you want to listen 1:41:33.479 --> 1:41:37.560 to you some Time to Walk episodes, they're going to 1:41:37.600 --> 1:41:40.000 be for free on Apple Podcasts. It's kind of nice. 1:41:40.040 --> 1:41:42.439 It makes the walk go by. I personally listen to 1:41:42.560 --> 1:41:44.880 this show, but you know that's just me. 1:41:45.920 --> 1:41:48.519 And Katie No. 1:41:48.720 --> 1:41:54.280 Topolists writing for Business Insider says the ideal speed for 1:41:54.439 --> 1:41:55.720 listening to podcasts and. 1:41:55.800 --> 1:41:59.240 Audiobooks is one point two x. 1:42:00.200 --> 1:42:02.320 Listening at one point two speed is fast enough to 1:42:02.360 --> 1:42:04.400 save time, but not so fast that you lose track 1:42:04.479 --> 1:42:08.280 of the content. You listen to audiobooks faster, and anything 1:42:08.479 --> 1:42:12.280 faster than one point two is too just too fast. 1:42:12.400 --> 1:42:15.439 She says, really you got to pay attention really close. 1:42:15.960 --> 1:42:18.120 But if you're doing one point two, it's just fast 1:42:18.200 --> 1:42:20.800 enough where you can get through the content faster, but 1:42:20.920 --> 1:42:23.160 you can still understand it. And I tried this last 1:42:23.240 --> 1:42:25.799 night with my own show, and I talked pretty fast already. 1:42:26.680 --> 1:42:29.040 I'm working on that, by the way, but one point 1:42:29.120 --> 1:42:31.280 two X I was easily able to understand what I 1:42:31.360 --> 1:42:34.200 was saying. So next time you see that little indicator 1:42:34.280 --> 1:42:37.479 on your YouTube or your podcast app, try one point 1:42:37.520 --> 1:42:40.360 two X see what happens. And a thirteen year old 1:42:40.400 --> 1:42:45.320 boy first to beat Tetris. First human, Willis Gibson, thirteen 1:42:45.400 --> 1:42:49.360 year old from Oklahoma, got so far on the original 1:42:49.439 --> 1:42:52.600 Nintendo game of Tetris that the game froze. This is 1:42:52.680 --> 1:42:56.840 known as reaching the kill screen. Previously only artificial intelligence 1:42:56.840 --> 1:42:59.400 could do this. He got through one hundred and fifty 1:42:59.560 --> 1:43:03.240 seven levels of Tetris using a new rolling technique. 1:43:04.560 --> 1:43:08.080 I love me some Tetris feedback. 1:43:07.760 --> 1:43:11.559 Now, Charles says. I listen every weekend via iHeart from Rochester, 1:43:11.720 --> 1:43:14.679 New York. Enjoy it very much. Thank you Charles for listening. 1:43:15.640 --> 1:43:18.200 Debbie says, Happy New Year. I saw your post regarding 1:43:18.240 --> 1:43:21.160 Google Maps. We just got back from England. 1:43:21.280 --> 1:43:21.879 And Ireland. 1:43:21.920 --> 1:43:26.680 I downloaded maps of London and basically we could not 1:43:26.960 --> 1:43:28.920 use walking directions offline. 1:43:29.920 --> 1:43:30.640 I did not know that. 1:43:30.800 --> 1:43:35.600 Apparently it says transit, bicycling or walking directions are unavailable 1:43:35.680 --> 1:43:38.040 offline on Google Maps, so good to know if you're 1:43:38.040 --> 1:43:41.400 trying to save your data on an international trip iPhone. 1:43:41.720 --> 1:43:45.400 Apple Maps just added offline maps so you can try that. 1:43:45.520 --> 1:43:48.000 I believe walking directions will work, and I actually kind 1:43:48.000 --> 1:43:52.080 of prefer the walking directions on Apple Maps for international maps. 1:43:52.120 --> 1:43:54.200 They work really, really well if you have an Apple Watch. 1:43:54.439 --> 1:43:55.120 It's kind of fun. 1:43:56.439 --> 1:43:58.479 Tony from New Jersey says rich I just saw you 1:43:58.560 --> 1:44:00.640 on New York's Picks eleven. I didn't know you're on there. 1:44:00.680 --> 1:44:01.000 I love it. 1:44:01.120 --> 1:44:02.800 Thanks for all the tech info you give us. Have 1:44:02.840 --> 1:44:05.240 a happy and healthy New Year to you and your family. 1:44:05.479 --> 1:44:08.160 Tony from New Jersey The Taylor harm Ham part of 1:44:08.200 --> 1:44:12.519 the state. Taylor Ham loved it as a kid, can't 1:44:12.560 --> 1:44:12.960 really have it. 1:44:12.960 --> 1:44:14.760 As much as an adult. You know the whole like, 1:44:15.040 --> 1:44:17.599 you know, just just tougher to have that stuff. 1:44:18.400 --> 1:44:21.440 Wes says, well done. For the first year, every episode 1:44:21.560 --> 1:44:23.840 has something helpful. Thank you for the time you put 1:44:23.880 --> 1:44:25.679 into the show. Each and every week. 1:44:26.000 --> 1:44:26.240 Wes. 1:44:27.000 --> 1:44:29.880 Thank you, Wes. Good mix to the feedback. If you 1:44:29.920 --> 1:44:31.800 want to submit something for the show, just go to 1:44:31.880 --> 1:44:35.960 the website. It is rich on tech dot tv and 1:44:36.320 --> 1:44:40.200 there is a contact button. Oh, here we go, Michael. 1:44:41.520 --> 1:44:43.880 Michael said, I'm sure someone has told you by now 1:44:43.920 --> 1:44:45.080 there's no iPhone nine. 1:44:46.040 --> 1:44:54.160 Uh, here we go. Let's see Michael. Oh, Michael's not 1:44:54.240 --> 1:44:54.679 being nice. 1:44:54.720 --> 1:44:57.560 Michael says, I give a lot of inaccurate answers, a 1:44:57.720 --> 1:45:00.400 lot in bold. I don't say that to be a jerk, 1:45:00.439 --> 1:45:06.479 but seriously, a lot. Hope this lands as intended. And Michael, 1:45:06.640 --> 1:45:08.439 if you want to host the show, be my guest. 1:45:08.720 --> 1:45:11.080 You can come over here and answer the questions anytime 1:45:11.120 --> 1:45:13.920 you want. You know, people answer questions. I'm answering these 1:45:13.960 --> 1:45:16.600 things on the fly using the knowledge that is in 1:45:16.760 --> 1:45:19.559 my brain. And of course I know there's no iPhone 1:45:19.600 --> 1:45:21.640 nine if I go back and think about it, but 1:45:21.760 --> 1:45:24.640 on the fly, as I'm counting, okay, iPhone eight. You're right, 1:45:24.800 --> 1:45:27.320 they skipped iPhone nine. They went directly to iPhone ten. 1:45:27.800 --> 1:45:30.479 So if that's enough to never listen to this show 1:45:30.520 --> 1:45:33.240 again for you, Michael, but clearly you're listening, so I 1:45:33.280 --> 1:45:35.519 guess you like something about it, right, But he wants 1:45:35.520 --> 1:45:38.920 me to change my tagline. I think he says, taking 1:45:38.960 --> 1:45:42.040 your tech questions implies you're an expert. I describe you 1:45:42.120 --> 1:45:44.200 as an enthusiast, but not an expert. And Michael, you 1:45:44.720 --> 1:45:47.679 happened upon something that is very important. I have never 1:45:47.840 --> 1:45:50.599 ever called myself an expert. I am not a tech expert. 1:45:50.640 --> 1:45:53.160 In fact, I am a tech enthusiast. And that's what 1:45:53.240 --> 1:45:56.920 I think ninety nine percent of people want. Because an 1:45:56.960 --> 1:46:00.320 expert talks an expert terms. I talk in terms that 1:46:00.400 --> 1:46:03.360 every single person can understand, and that is the entire 1:46:03.520 --> 1:46:07.400 point of this show. And so I'm not an expert. 1:46:07.479 --> 1:46:09.840 People call me an expert in tech. I don't correct them, 1:46:10.080 --> 1:46:12.240 but I never call myself a tech expert. That's just 1:46:12.320 --> 1:46:16.679 the way it is. All right, Well, thank you Michael 1:46:16.840 --> 1:46:20.160 for the feedback. It's you know, it's been fifty fifty 1:46:20.240 --> 1:46:22.640 two shows. This is fifty three, so and I take 1:46:22.680 --> 1:46:23.320 the good and the bad. 1:46:23.400 --> 1:46:24.680 Believe me, you know I have. 1:46:25.200 --> 1:46:28.759 I don't ever pretend to know everything about this stuff. 1:46:29.360 --> 1:46:32.320 And quite honestly, off the top of my head, forgetting 1:46:32.360 --> 1:46:34.760 that there is no iPhone nine, I am sad about 1:46:34.760 --> 1:46:38.120 that because I've been to every single iPhone launched since 1:46:38.160 --> 1:46:41.040 I think like the fourth iPhone or third iPhone, whatever, 1:46:41.080 --> 1:46:42.840 it was all right, if you. 1:46:42.840 --> 1:46:43.800 Can believe it, that's going to do it. 1:46:43.840 --> 1:46:45.400 For this episode of the show, you can find links 1:46:45.400 --> 1:46:47.200 to everything I mentioned on my website. Just go to 1:46:47.320 --> 1:46:49.720 rich on tech dot tv for the show notes. You 1:46:49.760 --> 1:46:52.000 can find me on social media. I am at rich 1:46:52.080 --> 1:46:52.439 on tech. 1:46:53.120 --> 1:46:53.880 Next week we. 1:46:53.920 --> 1:46:56.759 Will talk Cees twenty twenty four in Las Vegas. 1:46:56.840 --> 1:46:58.479 I cannot wait. Thanks so much for listening. 1:46:58.520 --> 1:46:59.960 There are so many ways you can spend your time. 1:47:00.240 --> 1:47:02.400 I do appreciate you spending it right here with me. 1:47:02.920 --> 1:47:05.160 Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. My name 1:47:05.200 --> 1:47:08.120 is rich Demiro. I will talk to you real soon.