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Speaker 2: Well, I hope you are having a happy new year.
Speaker 1: This is the official kickoff to year number two of
Speaker 1: this show. They said it wouldn't happen. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: Nobody said that, but I'm sure some people wondered. But
Speaker 1: here we are, year number two. Very very exciting to
Speaker 1: be kicking off a whole another year of this show
Speaker 1: with you. I am It's been an amazing run so far,
Speaker 1: it really has. And honestly, I come in here every
Speaker 1: weekend just looking forward to this being over. No, I'm kidding,
Speaker 1: just I got a lot more jokes in the new year. No,
Speaker 1: I look forward to this. You have no idea. I
Speaker 1: think about this show every day of the week, mostly
Speaker 1: because I'm wondering what I'm going to talk about for
Speaker 1: three hours. But it really goes fast, and I sit
Speaker 1: there and I told my wife yesterday, I said, you know,
Speaker 1: three hours sounds like a lot, but it goes really fast,
Speaker 1: and there's so much I've got a whole list of
Speaker 1: things I want to tell you about today. This week,
Speaker 1: as part of our New year, we did something different.
Speaker 1: We got a dumpster at the house. Now, I know
Speaker 1: this sounds weird, but my wife got this idea from
Speaker 1: her sister to get a dumpster, literally, one of those
Speaker 1: like industrial dumpsters you see at like a job site.
Speaker 1: We got that outside of our house. No, we're not
Speaker 1: doing construction, not doing anything special. We just wanted a
Speaker 1: cleanse and we cleansed. We just threw out everything, all
Speaker 1: the stuff we had moved to our house years ago,
Speaker 1: and we had boxes we had still not opened.
Speaker 2: We just tossed him into the dumpster.
Speaker 1: Everything that, you know, all that stuff that you just
Speaker 1: say you'll figure out one of these days. You put
Speaker 1: it in the garage, you put it in the back
Speaker 1: of the closet. We just got rid of it. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, what, if we haven't needed it at this point,
Speaker 1: we are never gonna need it.
Speaker 2: So it was great.
Speaker 1: We feel more accomplished at the beginning of this new year.
Speaker 1: Than we ever have in our lives. So I highly
Speaker 1: recommend the dumpster method. It really makes you feel good.
Speaker 1: And we were brutal. We threw out so much stuff.
Speaker 1: In fact, my wife just texted me and she said, Rich,
Speaker 1: you know, we threw out our kids karate shirt like
Speaker 1: his literally his karate shirt in the closet. So now
Speaker 1: they're going to karate and he has no shirt. He
Speaker 1: has to get anyone. So us throwing everything out has
Speaker 1: now cost me more money.
Speaker 2: Very very exciting.
Speaker 1: Well, I mentioned this is the kick off off to
Speaker 1: the new year, and right in the new year, what
Speaker 1: does it start with?
Speaker 2: Every year?
Speaker 1: Cees CS twenty twenty four is happening in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Many of my tech friends are flying there as we speak.
Speaker 1: I will be heading to Las Vegas to show you
Speaker 1: and talk to you about everything I will see in
Speaker 1: the next week. And it's pretty wild. I had to
Speaker 1: go back in my notes and check I've now been
Speaker 1: covering CES for sixteen years. Who I can't believe it's
Speaker 1: been that long. So I looked up my first video.
Speaker 1: I was working for c neet at the time my
Speaker 1: first CS. I was in New York and I looked
Speaker 1: up my first video I did, and it was hit
Speaker 1: the ground running. I was there for eleven days in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas and it was wild. I mean, talk about
Speaker 1: being thrown into the fire. I mean it was just
Speaker 1: like NonStop. I did have a lot of help, which
Speaker 1: I think was great with c NET. They had a
Speaker 1: lot of producers that they assigned you and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: so it was really helpful. But I found my first
Speaker 1: CS video I was hosting with Veronica Belmont, a show
Speaker 1: called Crave. Veronica was like one of the superstar personalities
Speaker 1: at CINAT and so just getting to do anything with
Speaker 1: her was like incredible for me because I was like
Speaker 1: the new guy and she was the person that was
Speaker 1: just she was like a superstar. She was there for
Speaker 1: a long time and ended up leaving and now I
Speaker 1: think she's at Adobe. But anyway, sixteen years ago, first CES.
Speaker 1: Then I kind of looked through all my videos that
Speaker 1: went viral over the years. I remember my very first
Speaker 1: viral video from CS. It was in twenty nineteen. It
Speaker 1: was a fold of It was called the foldy Mate.
Speaker 1: This was a laundry folding machine and the video is
Speaker 1: only about I don't know, thirty or something seconds, but
Speaker 1: I remember posting this to my Instagram or my Facebook
Speaker 1: or I think it was Facebook back in the day,
Speaker 1: and I had never seen anything like this. The video
Speaker 1: is fifty four seconds and I was like, this looks interesting,
Speaker 1: and I just posted. I said, this is the laundry folding.
Speaker 1: This is the laundry folding robot dreams are made of.
Speaker 1: And it went wild. I had never seen a video
Speaker 1: go that viral in my entire career thus far. And
Speaker 1: I just watched the numbers just go and go and go,
Speaker 1: and every single person, you know, it was shown on
Speaker 1: TV across the world, and the company that made it
Speaker 1: out of Israel, they were like, do you want to
Speaker 1: come to Israel, and like come to our factory and
Speaker 1: this and that, and I don't know what happened with
Speaker 1: the machine. I don't know if it ever like saw
Speaker 1: the light of day, but that was pretty wild. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, it was a pizza making robot that went viral.
Speaker 1: So this was an AI pizza machine and it was
Speaker 1: called Picnic. And of course this was twenty twenty, so
Speaker 1: four years ago. AI and this machine. I watched it
Speaker 1: make the pizza. I got the video, I posted it
Speaker 1: and people went wild. I tried the pizza. It was
Speaker 1: actually pretty good, and it was fully automated from start
Speaker 1: to finish, and so that was really interesting. Now, in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, it was a pandemic year and so
Speaker 1: CS actually called me to host. They were doing a
Speaker 1: virtual cs CS Digital and so I actually went up
Speaker 1: to Seattle and hosted the entire show, which was not
Speaker 1: in person, it was all virtual, and I hosted it
Speaker 1: with my friend Brian Tong and I Justine and we
Speaker 1: went up there and it was so great. We had
Speaker 1: such a good time, and it was it was at
Speaker 1: the Microsoft campus, so we actually did it inside this
Speaker 1: cool studio that was fully.
Speaker 2: Virtual and it was just it was wild.
Speaker 1: And so that was CS twenty twenty one, and of
Speaker 1: course I had to get a lot of permissions to
Speaker 1: do that form my TV station, but it all worked out.
Speaker 1: They thought it was pretty awesome. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: it was another robot. See the trend here they're all robots.
Speaker 1: This was a Mica and this was a robot that
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if there was a person behind the
Speaker 1: scenes talking for the robot or if it was an
Speaker 1: actual real robot.
Speaker 2: But it was so humanistic. Is that a word humanistic,
Speaker 2: and it just the way it moved, the way it flowed,
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 1: It answered questions, and this thing went wild online. You
Speaker 1: can always tell a good viral video when everyone just
Speaker 1: steals your video and re uploads it to their website
Speaker 1: and it still goes viral, And so that was really
Speaker 1: an interesting one to watch as well. Now last year
Speaker 1: it was twenty twenty three, it was all about this
Speaker 1: color changing BMW. So BMW had this car that they
Speaker 1: covered in e ink display panels and so it didn't change.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was like physic like actual colors.
Speaker 1: I think it was just like black and white, like
Speaker 1: shades of gray, right, and so I think that's as
Speaker 1: I remember it. But it was basically like a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of Kindle displays that they put on this car
Speaker 1: and it could just change from like you know, black
Speaker 1: to white to gray to like anything in between. And
Speaker 1: so the comments on that were just wild. You know,
Speaker 1: talk about car chases in LA. We've got a black
Speaker 1: car on chase. Oh no, we've got a white car
Speaker 1: on chase. Oh no, it's a gray BMW on chase.
Speaker 1: So that was pretty wild. And there was two videos
Speaker 1: that went kind of viral, the Ring Carcam, which was
Speaker 1: the first ring cam for your car. It's like kind
Speaker 1: of like a dash cam. And then the ring drone,
Speaker 1: which is this little ring camera that flies around your house.
Speaker 1: And so that launched and I don't think it ever
Speaker 1: really did very well, but the carcam did. And by
Speaker 1: the way, I started this very radio show. So I
Speaker 1: remember I had to cut my CS short. Typically at
Speaker 1: CS I will stay maybe an extra night. This last year,
Speaker 1: I had to come back so so nervous about starting
Speaker 1: this new radio show, but I was excited because I
Speaker 1: would have so much to talk about because it was
Speaker 1: a brand new show and I had just been to CS.
Speaker 1: So a little trip down memory lane, you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like anything before twenty nineteen. There's a big gap
Speaker 1: between two thousand and six and twenty nineteen. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's more things that kind of went viral or that
Speaker 1: were notable, but I couldn't find them very quickly. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up on today's show, a Verizon settlement. Did you
Speaker 1: get the email? It is very real. You might have
Speaker 1: up to one one hundred dollars coming your way, but
Speaker 1: first it is your turn.
Speaker 2: Give me a call.
Speaker 1: Your calls coming up at eight eight eight rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. You can follow me online. I'm at
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Give me a call if you have
Speaker 1: a question about technology. My name is rich Tamiro and
Speaker 1: you are listening to rich on tech Thurman in Winchester, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Yes, I guess good morning for you. Going for me.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about especially from Verismon where I've had
Speaker 3: some you know, signal drops the last few months to
Speaker 3: uh subby. I first I thought, I go AT and T,
Speaker 3: just try out that network, But then I understand there
Speaker 3: are things like pure Talk that use the AT and
Speaker 3: T network, and they've now added FOURIGN coverage, so that's good.
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm tempted to make the punge, but I
Speaker 3: just wonder if you've had an opinions on these discount
Speaker 3: wild wireless carriers that are piggyback on the main network.
Speaker 1: Great question, and I will tell you this off the bat.
Speaker 1: I trust one of these mv and o's to my mom,
Speaker 1: So if it's good enough for her, believe me, I
Speaker 1: think they are good enough for everyone. Now Here is
Speaker 1: the main difference. Okay, So with the main carriers like
Speaker 1: a Verizon, an AT and T or a T Mobile.
Speaker 1: They want you on one of their fancy unlimited plans
Speaker 1: which includes a lot of stuff. It includes Netflix, it
Speaker 1: includes mobile hotspot, it includes some sort of foreign roaming.
Speaker 1: So it's all about getting you on that big unlimited plan.
Speaker 1: And also they have a lot of discounts with phones,
Speaker 1: and people get their phone through the carrier. I feel
Speaker 1: like the mv and o's are kind of a play
Speaker 1: on your budget, so you can get more for your
Speaker 1: money if you're bringing especially if you're bringing your.
Speaker 2: Own phone to the table.
Speaker 1: And a lot of these mv and o's have their
Speaker 1: own phone deals as well. Now, what's an mv and
Speaker 1: O mobile virtual network operator. There's only three networks in
Speaker 1: the US. That's AT and T, T Mobile, and Verizon.
Speaker 1: All of these other companies that you hear advertised are
Speaker 1: running on their networks. Now, the downsides of something like
Speaker 1: an mv and O is really you have to check
Speaker 1: out the plan to see what you get and what
Speaker 1: you don't get. So there are some people that believe
Speaker 1: that AT and T or Verizon or T Mobile will
Speaker 1: prioritize their highest paying customers first and then so if
Speaker 1: you're in a really congested area, you may not get
Speaker 1: the top speed or the top service in that area. Now,
Speaker 1: I will tell you I have a test line for
Speaker 1: Mint Mobile, and I find that it is excellent. It
Speaker 1: really really works very nicely. And I've tested many other
Speaker 1: mv and o's over the years, and they're really good
Speaker 1: as long as you know what you're getting. Some of
Speaker 1: them have limited minutes, some of them have limited data,
Speaker 1: some of them may not have you know, all the
Speaker 1: little perks of those unlimited plans, But if you know
Speaker 1: what you're getting for that price, it's a really good value.
Speaker 1: So Thurman, I have no problem recommending that you switch
Speaker 1: to one of these, and look, if you don't like it,
Speaker 1: you can always switch back. Some of these, you know,
Speaker 1: or almost every single one of them is month to month,
Speaker 1: so you basically pay for it. You're kind of paying
Speaker 1: in advance, and that's it. They just billy every month
Speaker 1: with something like a Mint Mobile.
Speaker 2: Some of them give you.
Speaker 1: A bigger discount if you pay for more than one
Speaker 1: month at a time.
Speaker 2: But it's a new year.
Speaker 1: A lot of these companies are giving deals right now,
Speaker 1: and so I think you'll be fine. And if you
Speaker 1: want to try an AT and T, you can actually
Speaker 1: go to a website called whistle Out Whistle whistle out
Speaker 1: dot com and they will help you compare all of
Speaker 1: the different sell plans out there. The website again whistle
Speaker 1: out dot com, and you can say if you want
Speaker 1: it to run on the AT and T network, or
Speaker 1: the Verizon network or the T Mobile network. A lot
Speaker 1: of the mv and os run on T Mobile. That's
Speaker 1: probably the most common one. AT and T is probably
Speaker 1: the second most common, and then Verizon is probably the
Speaker 1: least common for mv and os. The main one that
Speaker 1: they've run is their own, which is called Visible, and
Speaker 1: that's basically you know, when Visible first came out, I
Speaker 1: interviewed the CEO Visible, and I couldn't even believe it.
Speaker 1: I said, how are you offering Verizon's network at a
Speaker 1: fraction of the price.
Speaker 2: I think it was like thirty bucks a month.
Speaker 1: And the big thing was that it was limited in
Speaker 1: your speed, So your speed was download limited to about
Speaker 1: five megabits per second. They've since done away with that,
Speaker 1: but that was kind of like the delineation. If you
Speaker 1: want the fastest Verizon network speed, you got to go
Speaker 1: with Verizon. If you don't really care, and you want
Speaker 1: to save a bunch of money and pay thirty dollars
Speaker 1: a month, go with visible. So great question, Thurman to
Speaker 1: kick off the show for the new year.
Speaker 2: Appreciate the call, all right.
Speaker 1: Speaking of these different cell phone companies, Verizon, a lot
Speaker 1: of people have emailed me saying, I got this class
Speaker 1: action settlement email.
Speaker 2: Is it legitimate? Yes, it is legitimate.
Speaker 1: If you get this in your email, you do need
Speaker 1: to file a claim by April fifteenth. You can get
Speaker 1: up to one hundred dollars from Verizon if you were
Speaker 1: a customer between January first, twenty sixteen and November eighth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. And the whole lawsuit is related to
Speaker 1: these administrative charges on their wireless accounts.
Speaker 2: These were accounts that they.
Speaker 1: Charge fees that someone said, I don't think these fees
Speaker 1: we were good or they weren't legitimate whatever. All of
Speaker 1: these class action settlements. The company is not saying they
Speaker 1: did anything wrong. They're just saying, look, we don't want
Speaker 1: to deal with this. We're just going to put a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of money towards this. We're going to give
Speaker 1: everyone a hundred bucks and you don't get to file
Speaker 1: a claim personally against this. That's how class action works.
Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer, but that's how I understand it.
Speaker 1: So when you get this one hundred dollars, you're giving
Speaker 1: up your right to file a bigger claim against Verizon
Speaker 1: for these administrative charges. Happens all the time. There's another
Speaker 1: one right now with Visio. I'll talk about that a
Speaker 1: little bit later in the show. But again, if you
Speaker 1: got this email from Verizon that was about this class
Speaker 1: action settlement, oh, I can't believe it as I'm speaking.
Speaker 1: I just got this email in my inbox for myself.
Speaker 1: So I had an account with them, I guess during
Speaker 1: this timeframe, and I just got it. The email comes
Speaker 1: from do not Reply at Verizon Administrative Charge Settlement dot com.
Speaker 1: So if you haven't gotten it, it clearly seems like
Speaker 1: this is rolling out because I got a bunch of
Speaker 1: emails about it yesterday from people asking me. Now, I
Speaker 1: just got one myself. Richontech dot tv is the website.
Speaker 1: I'll put all the links that I talk about right there.
Speaker 1: Coming up, Brian Kamiski, futurist at CTA, is going to
Speaker 1: talk about what to expect from this year CS twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four happening in Las Vegas this week.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich dam So here hanging out with you, talking technology
Speaker 1: and guess what. CEES twenty twenty four is just around
Speaker 1: the corner. It happens in Las Vegas January ninth through twelfth,
Speaker 1: and of course I will be there. Joining me now
Speaker 1: is Brian komiskey futurist at the Consumer Technology Association. They
Speaker 1: put on CS in Las Vegas every year. Brian, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining me.
Speaker 4: Of course, thank you so much, Rich for having me.
Speaker 4: It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1: So tell me about CES and CTA. What's the relationship
Speaker 1: between those two, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 5: So the Consumer Technology Association, we're not for profit trade association.
Speaker 5: We're the largest North America representing tech companies from your
Speaker 5: startups all the way to your global multinationals right representing
Speaker 5: cross the United States and Canada, just everything that is
Speaker 5: consumer technology. Beyond that, I probably most people know us
Speaker 5: best as the owners and producers of CEES, which is
Speaker 5: one of the largest in the world for technology.
Speaker 4: So that's the relationship there between CTA and CES.
Speaker 1: Okay, So CS is happening January ninth through twelfth this year.
Speaker 1: It's actually a little bit later than in previous years,
Speaker 1: which I kind of.
Speaker 2: Like explain CS for someone.
Speaker 1: Who has not been. I mean, I've been for many years.
Speaker 1: It is kind of like a tech circus, if you might.
Speaker 5: The way I describe it is when you think about
Speaker 5: technology and gathering a lot of companies or exhibitors and
Speaker 5: innovation together, it's very nostalgic.
Speaker 6: For me.
Speaker 5: It reminds me a lot of like what one would
Speaker 5: read about from the World's Fair back in the day
Speaker 5: in Chicago, or another more.
Speaker 4: Modern example is EPCOT.
Speaker 5: Right, EPCOT stands for Experimental pro type Community of Tomorrow
Speaker 5: is what it actually was at Disney. So in many
Speaker 5: ways it has always felt like this big tent and
Speaker 5: I'm god, you said circus, like this big tent of
Speaker 5: every innovation you can think of, and it's not just
Speaker 5: consumer gadgets, it is also enterprise technologies.
Speaker 4: We're also we're one.
Speaker 5: Of the largest car shows in the world, but we're
Speaker 5: actually large mobility show because we include boats and even
Speaker 5: flying cars as well.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 5: So it's really this sort of every facet of innovation,
Speaker 5: from a spark of an idea all the way to
Speaker 5: a proven concept and product comes to CEES.
Speaker 1: I mean I get some of my best story ideas
Speaker 1: for the entire year from the week that I spend
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, and not just like the stuff I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show, but it's also like an understanding of you know,
Speaker 1: what are these companies kind of focusing on this year.
Speaker 1: Some of this stuff is early stage, so you attrack
Speaker 1: it throughout the year and maybe even into the next year.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's a great way to meet people and
Speaker 1: to you know, meet people in person from around the
Speaker 1: world because a lot of these startups and different companies
Speaker 1: bring everyone in. How do you determine what sort of
Speaker 1: themes you are going to.
Speaker 2: Have for that year's CES.
Speaker 5: I don't think it will be surprised where you'll see
Speaker 5: every industry vertical, but the three technology trends that will
Speaker 5: really kind of act horizontally and cut across every industry vertical,
Speaker 5: so cut across gaming, digital, health, mobility, and others will
Speaker 5: be things like artificial intelligence, sustainability, and then accessible or
Speaker 5: inclusive tech design. Right, the idea of it's about addition,
Speaker 5: not subtracting, adding more people who can use your product
Speaker 5: regardless of either disability or to.
Speaker 4: Make sure that you're representing people in your tech design.
Speaker 2: Let's start with the AI aspect.
Speaker 7: AI.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like the Internet.
Speaker 1: Back in the day when I went to CS, the
Speaker 1: Internet was built into every product that you could imagine.
Speaker 2: You saw a mug, it has Internet for better or
Speaker 2: for worse for some products. So what do you see
Speaker 2: as being kind of interesting about AI at CES this year?
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, And so when you think about AI,
Speaker 5: I think it's important to start with, well, why has
Speaker 5: it been so exciting this year? A lot of that
Speaker 5: has been driven by generative AI and chat GPT. Right,
Speaker 5: it's a tangible way. I think a lot of consumers
Speaker 5: got to experience AI responding to them in real time
Speaker 5: and it's incredible technology. But it's just a slice of
Speaker 5: the overall ecosystem. So at CS you're going to see
Speaker 5: the entire ecosystem, and we have historically shown this in AI,
Speaker 5: and that starts with chips. So what's the AI hardware
Speaker 5: that's going to power the AI innovations that you'll see,
Speaker 5: Think industrial metaverses to control factory floors, or even living
Speaker 5: represent our virtual representations of the human heart, to advance
Speaker 5: research on cardiological diseases, so that has so many applications
Speaker 5: out of its own right, we'll also see platforms, and
Speaker 5: what that means is more advanced chatbots or even digital
Speaker 5: humans that can serve in a kiosk and be responsive
Speaker 5: in real time to any questions that you have if
Speaker 5: you're at an office or at an amusement park or
Speaker 5: something like that. Finally, we'll even see it in robotics, right,
Speaker 5: and that will range from those consumer robotics like your vacuums,
Speaker 5: or robotic baristas or countertop robots for your food, all
Speaker 5: the way to industrial robots for logistics. So it's going
Speaker 5: to be really every sort of underpinning. And then of
Speaker 5: course AI is going to appear in some unexpected ways.
Speaker 5: You'll see it in your TV sets more and more displaced.
Speaker 5: A wireless TV provider will have AI shopping on board
Speaker 5: their TV sets, and you'll even see an AI electronic
Speaker 5: healthcare monitoring to reduce infection after surgery. So it's applications
Speaker 5: that are not just beneficial to make your life more fun,
Speaker 5: but also to benefit your life directly by maybe you know,
Speaker 5: reducing a hospital stay. So it's pretty impressive how AI
Speaker 5: is going to come about at CES.
Speaker 1: What do you make of this drive, we've seen towards
Speaker 1: sustainability from the major tech companies that have been putting
Speaker 1: products into the world for many years, and increasingly they
Speaker 1: are thinking more about the materials they're using and also
Speaker 1: how those products can be recycled when they're done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, and I think that's been a consideration
Speaker 5: for quite some time if you actually look at it.
Speaker 5: The Paris Agreement was signed back in twenty sixteen and
Speaker 5: the target dates for for twenty thirty. We're actually past
Speaker 5: the halfway point now, so you're starting to see an
Speaker 5: acceleration of some concepts companies were already doing. You mentioned
Speaker 5: sort of packaging recyclable materials. That's always been part of
Speaker 5: the consumer technology story, and you'll see that cs. In fact,
Speaker 5: one of the examples that I'm really excited to see
Speaker 5: person is power Foiled by Exeger. This is a flexible
Speaker 5: or customizable solar cell that you can put on everyday
Speaker 5: consumer electronics like headphones that have partnership with Urbanista. You
Speaker 5: can put it on GPS tracker enabled dog harnesses, and
Speaker 5: it's basically just solar empowering every.
Speaker 4: Consumer gadget you have in your life.
Speaker 5: That's one facet, right but we also see at CEES
Speaker 5: alternative power source innovation, whether that's green hydrogen from big
Speaker 5: players like sk or some of your changes in electric
Speaker 5: vehicle models on the show for at West Hall.
Speaker 4: And then you'll even see more novel.
Speaker 5: And experimental ways where there's a company that's going to
Speaker 5: showcase how do you harvest sound waves from ambient noise
Speaker 5: into electrical energy. So it's this larger story, all hands
Speaker 5: on deck towards this more greener tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the accessibility kind of initiatives
Speaker 1: by these companies. We're seeing technology really enable so many
Speaker 1: amazing things for people of varying abilities. What can we
Speaker 1: expect to see at CS this year?
Speaker 5: Innovation comes in two ways, right, see the revolutionary where
Speaker 5: you take these moonshot leaps in one place for a
Speaker 5: technology category, or it's evolutionary, it's iterative. Last year we
Speaker 5: saw some great advancements from Loril actually with their Hapta
Speaker 5: device which allows you to apply lipstick if you have
Speaker 5: limited mobility. Another story is Sony introduced their all Access
Speaker 5: controller concept last year. It's on the market as of
Speaker 5: a few weeks ago, and this is a modular controller
Speaker 5: that allows anyone with limited mobility to be able to
Speaker 5: play a game. So this year where we're going to
Speaker 5: see it is you're going to see that continued advancement.
Speaker 5: So Garman is bringing their Venue three, which has a
Speaker 5: wheelchair mode on their wearable watch. When you think about
Speaker 5: wearing a wearable you kind of take for granted that
Speaker 5: tracks your steps, your physical activity if you're able to walk.
Speaker 4: Now if you're in a wheelchair, you'll get those same stats.
Speaker 5: We'll also see a rig that attaches to treadmills that
Speaker 5: a lot of people in wheelchairs that also be able
Speaker 5: to compete in esports or do physical activities in a
Speaker 5: sort of metaverse like environment. Beyond that, though, again it's
Speaker 5: sort of leveling up this concept of accessibility to think
Speaker 5: about getting more people included in the technology in terms
Speaker 5: of who's designing and how this is that inclusive nature.
Speaker 5: These stories really about how do you add and build
Speaker 5: to your market and you know what it actually improves
Speaker 5: the bottom line. There's some recent report showing that you
Speaker 5: increase your revenue by one point six times if you
Speaker 5: focus on accessible inclusive design in your product.
Speaker 4: So it actually has paysed dividends quite literally.
Speaker 2: CS has certainly evolved over the years.
Speaker 1: Can you give me some numbers to expect, like how
Speaker 1: many people attend CS, how many exhibitors are there?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 5: We're tracking for about one hundred and thirty thousand attendees
Speaker 5: right now, which we're really excited about. Last year was
Speaker 5: about one hundred and eighteen or so. But if you're going,
Speaker 5: you're also going to see more than four thousand exhibit
Speaker 5: companies as well as within that category, about twelve hundred
Speaker 5: of them are going to be startups.
Speaker 1: And I hate to be the bearer of bad news
Speaker 1: for someone that's listening that wants to go, but you
Speaker 1: have to be in the industry.
Speaker 2: It's not open to the public. Will they ever change that?
Speaker 4: I mean, that's always a good question.
Speaker 5: I wish I sent in the research apartment, so I
Speaker 5: can't speak to if they change the attendance policy.
Speaker 4: But yes, it is industry for now.
Speaker 1: Brian kamiskey futurist at the Consumer Technology Association.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 4: Of course, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Rich All right, more Rich on tech coming your way
Speaker 2: right after this.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to David in your Belinda. David, you're on
Speaker 2: with Rich.
Speaker 6: Well, Hi, Rich, we're a long time We're longtime fans
Speaker 6: from Channel five and now on the radio, so thank you.
Speaker 6: I am looking to get a good camera phone and
Speaker 6: because on vacations I have a carried the camera and
Speaker 6: the phone, and I'm thinking, well, I want your opinion.
Speaker 6: I'm not that tanky, so you know, a point and
Speaker 6: shoot and good quality is what I'm.
Speaker 2: Looking for for a cell phone.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I'm just looking at the Pixel Pro eight
Speaker 6: and the.
Speaker 8: Fifteen Pro.
Speaker 1: Okay, so iPhone fifteen Pro and then the Pixel eight Pro.
Speaker 1: Those are probably two of the top choices out there.
Speaker 1: I would throw in a third the Samsung Galaxy S
Speaker 1: twenty three Ultra, but I wouldn't get a Samsung at
Speaker 1: this point just because and I haven't talked about this
Speaker 1: yet on the show, but their event is happening in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks where they're going to launch their
Speaker 1: new smartphone. So I would actually tell you, David, right
Speaker 1: now as we speak, I probably wouldn't make any decisions
Speaker 1: right now until about maybe the end of January, if
Speaker 1: you can wait that long. Because Samsung's gonna announce their
Speaker 1: phones on January seventeenth. That means they probably will come out,
Speaker 1: you know, a week or two after that, and I
Speaker 1: think that'll give reviewers like myself enough time to come
Speaker 1: up with a strong opinion on whether that is a
Speaker 1: contender for the best photos and videos outside of the
Speaker 1: Pixel or the iPhone. But let me tell you where
Speaker 1: I stand right now and the two phones that I
Speaker 1: carry on, well, I carry three, but.
Speaker 2: They're you know, it's three I just mentioned.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you that the iPhone overall, iPhone
Speaker 1: fifteen Pro overall takes the best.
Speaker 2: Photos and videos. Especially when it comes to videos.
Speaker 1: There is not a phone out there that can take
Speaker 1: a better video than the iPhone fifteen Pro. And that
Speaker 1: is not just my opinion. It is everyone I run with,
Speaker 1: everyone I talk to. It is just one hundred percent
Speaker 1: the way it is. So yes, it's an opinion, but
Speaker 1: it's kind of like agreed with by everyone. Now when
Speaker 1: it comes to photos, that is where there is a
Speaker 1: bit of a divide. So I will say after using
Speaker 1: the iPhone fifteen Pro, the Pixel eight Pro, and the
Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy S twenty three Ultra, they all have their
Speaker 1: strong and weak points when it comes to photos. For
Speaker 1: just standard point and shoot, I really like the way
Speaker 1: the Pixel eight Pro looks, and I think that your
Speaker 1: photos pretty much every time nail it, you know, they
Speaker 1: just look really really good. I think the selfies look
Speaker 1: not so good. I think the iPhone really gets those.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to overall, the S twenty three
Speaker 1: Ultra is a really good camera for pictures, but there
Speaker 1: are some places where it lags a little bit. And
Speaker 1: I would say for people they look really good. I
Speaker 1: mean just the skin tones and all that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff just look really nice and well done on the
Speaker 1: S twenty three. But sometimes people think that the S
Speaker 1: twenty three or the Samsung pictures in general, they look
Speaker 1: a little bit too saturated, a little bit too fake.
Speaker 1: So I think if you want something now, then maybe
Speaker 1: go with the iPhone fifteen Pro, and that's going to
Speaker 1: be a good mix of kind of everything.
Speaker 2: You need. So if you want to wait though, until you.
Speaker 1: Know mid January, end of January, that might be the
Speaker 1: best time to buy, just because we already know what
Speaker 1: the Pixel does, We already know what the iPhone does,
Speaker 1: but we don't know what that new Samsung does. And
Speaker 1: let's be honest, smartphone sales are kind of in the
Speaker 1: tank right now. They're not doing doing very well, and
Speaker 1: so I feel like Samsung really needs to bring it
Speaker 1: with this new phone to make it something that people
Speaker 1: want to go out and buy. And I know there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of AI built into it. That's
Speaker 1: kind of like the big selling point. And I'm just
Speaker 1: looking at the notes that you have right here. You'll
Speaker 1: currently have a Samsung A thirteen, So anything you get
Speaker 1: is going to be a very very big upgrade from that.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, David in your Belinda, and thanks
Speaker 1: for watching on KTLA and finding me here on the radio.
Speaker 2: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
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Speaker 1: If you want to hop on the phone and give
Speaker 1: me a call if you have a question about technology,
Speaker 1: So let me just mention this Samsung just kind of
Speaker 1: to finish that up. Samsung put out their invitation for
Speaker 1: Galaxy Unpacked twenty twenty four. It's gonna happen January seventeenth
Speaker 1: in San Jose.
Speaker 2: I will be there. This is where we will see
Speaker 2: the new S twenty four Ultra on veiled. And again
Speaker 2: this is just stuff I'm going by. We don't know
Speaker 2: for sure that it's gonna be called that, but we
Speaker 2: pretty much do.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna happen at ten am, and they
Speaker 1: said it's gonna usher in a new era of mobile AI.
Speaker 2: So this is all about AI.
Speaker 1: Of course, AI is the big buzzword both at CS
Speaker 1: and of course with every product that's gonna come out
Speaker 1: in the next couple of years. So the S series,
Speaker 1: S twenty four, S twenty four plus S twenty four
Speaker 1: Ultra will all have a dose of AI.
Speaker 2: And what does that mean.
Speaker 1: Well, they're promoting this new AI zoom functionality, so I
Speaker 1: guess your pictures will look better and you can also
Speaker 1: edit with AI as well. It's kind of very similar
Speaker 1: to what we've seen with the pixel But again I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to it because I think Samsung really brings
Speaker 1: it with their phones and they kind of have like
Speaker 1: the best hardware out there.
Speaker 2: I think the software for me leaves a little bit
Speaker 2: to be desired. It's like a little bit, a little
Speaker 2: bit too much, but we'll see. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Samsung Unpacked twenty twenty four. All right, if you have
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Speaker 1: Plus I'm going to tell you how to stop Facebook
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Fred in Pasadena, Fred Aron with Rich.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year.
Speaker 9: Rich.
Speaker 8: I have a question regarding communication platforms in the workplace.
Speaker 8: During the pandemic, my team organization, we transition to using
Speaker 8: platforms like Slack in particular, and it's been working very
Speaker 8: well and using it for over three years now. But
Speaker 8: I'm curious outside of that one, are there any others
Speaker 8: that you would recomen that had the same functionality, you know,
Speaker 8: so that I can use with my teams.
Speaker 2: What what don't you like about Slack? What's it not doing?
Speaker 8: I actually like everything about Slack. I like Flack, but
Speaker 8: my organization is also looking at other options like teams,
Speaker 8: even like hangouts, things like that. Yeah, I want to
Speaker 8: be sure that you know that I am in position
Speaker 8: to advocate for the one I'm using, or if there's
Speaker 8: another one out there that has other bells and whistles
Speaker 8: that I'm not aware of, that I can also take
Speaker 8: a look at those good question.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: I mean Slack obviously kind of they created the market here.
Speaker 1: Before Slack, it was texting, email, It wasn't this unified
Speaker 1: platform for messaging that workplace is used. And Slack really
Speaker 1: started out with startups they would use it, and then
Speaker 1: I think corporations caught on later on, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's decently priced, it does all the stuff you want.
Speaker 1: And I think I personally don't use Slack, but I
Speaker 1: think the appeal to me. And now it's owned by Salesforce,
Speaker 1: by the way, But I think the beauty of Slack
Speaker 1: is that it is it was created to solve a
Speaker 1: problem and it solved that problem really well.
Speaker 2: And what's that problem.
Speaker 1: Well, you know communication in the workplace, Email gets too crowded,
Speaker 1: chatting and text messaging is not really on the company,
Speaker 1: so it's it's kind of like outside of the company
Speaker 1: realm with this, you can search with this, you can
Speaker 1: have you know, company directories integrated, and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, video meetings, audio meetings. I think what you're
Speaker 1: talking about the two biggest competitors are Microsoft Teams and
Speaker 1: then of course Google Workspace. Now, I think what it
Speaker 1: really come down to is what you're using for the
Speaker 1: rest of your company. So if you are a Microsoft
Speaker 1: Office three sixty five company, you may want to look
Speaker 1: into Teams because Teams is going to do a lot
Speaker 1: of the same things that Slack does, but it's going
Speaker 1: to be more tightly integrated with all of the Microsoft products.
Speaker 1: And the same thing goes with Google. If you want
Speaker 1: to use Google Chat and all the stuff that Google
Speaker 1: has to offer inside Google Workspace, that might be a
Speaker 1: better fit because again it's everything all in one place.
Speaker 1: And so I think that's what it really comes down to.
Speaker 1: What I've seen with companies is that they're sort of
Speaker 1: siding with whatever they use, whether it's Google, whether it's
Speaker 1: Microsoft or some sort of third party solution. You know,
Speaker 1: Slack fits into those, but if you're using Microsoft or Google,
Speaker 1: you kind of want to stay in line with that
Speaker 1: because everything's going to be all in one place, So
Speaker 1: I think those are the three that are the main,
Speaker 1: you know, the main ones that I see people using.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's probably a thousand other ones out there.
Speaker 1: But if you like and it's working, I don't see
Speaker 1: a reason to change it, because as an employee of
Speaker 1: a company, you know who wants change.
Speaker 2: No one really wants to change things up.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, it's funny because we saw
Speaker 1: Zoom really take off during the pandemic and it's great.
Speaker 1: But then of course we saw some companies go to
Speaker 1: teams and then of course Google with Google Meet if
Speaker 1: they're using Google Workspace. So there's a lot of ways
Speaker 1: to do this, but it really comes down to how
Speaker 1: much grief do you want from your employees by making
Speaker 1: a major change in the way they message. And also,
Speaker 1: what are the other products you're using? Uh, does that
Speaker 1: fit in with them? And are you paying extra? So
Speaker 1: if you're paying extra for Slack and you're paying for
Speaker 1: Google or Microsoft, it's probably better to just streamline it
Speaker 1: all and pay one price every month per user. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the question, Fred in Pasadena, appreciate it. Triple eight
Speaker 1: rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Let's go to Karen in
Speaker 1: Charter Oak, California. Karen, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 10: Hi.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Hi?
Speaker 2: What can I help you with?
Speaker 11: Thank you so much for sharing all your new tech
Speaker 11: stuff over the years, and also, I mean everything from
Speaker 11: new tech to scams. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 11: I also want to tell you you and your family
Speaker 11: are quite adorable.
Speaker 2: Ah, well, thank you.
Speaker 9: You're welcome.
Speaker 11: Okay, So we've had a book. We had a bunch
Speaker 11: of old computers in the garage. Before we got rid
Speaker 11: of them. My nephew removed all the hard drives. So
Speaker 11: I have a pile of hard drives. What can I
Speaker 11: do with those?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 11: Can I get information off of those?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah you can.
Speaker 1: It's uh it's going to require a cable or a doc.
Speaker 1: So if you go on Amazon and you look up
Speaker 1: let's see what can you look up? Hard drive to
Speaker 1: USB adapter? So if you look up what kind of
Speaker 1: computer do you have? Like a macor PC?
Speaker 9: I have that?
Speaker 11: No, not an I have. So if the brand is SA,
Speaker 11: B R, E.
Speaker 2: And T okay, and what it's not working?
Speaker 11: It's two point five to USB three point zero. No
Speaker 11: it doesn't. There's no like when you plug it in
Speaker 11: you have, like, no, what.
Speaker 2: Would you call like, it doesn't mount the drive.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and there's no graphical of anything.
Speaker 2: To go on, like, it doesn't show that the drive
Speaker 2: is there, right, Oh? Interesting? How old are these drives?
Speaker 11: Oh they are, some are fifteen years old.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, that that could be it. They could
Speaker 1: be in a format that your new computer doesn't read.
Speaker 1: And if they're not showing up, do none of them
Speaker 1: show up?
Speaker 11: I've tried. I don't know if I tried all of them,
Speaker 11: but I tried most of them. Yeah, and they do
Speaker 11: not show up.
Speaker 2: None of them show up. Okay.
Speaker 1: In that case, if they're not showing up, you might
Speaker 1: need the help of what's called a data doctor, And
Speaker 1: you can go on Yelp and search, you know, data
Speaker 1: doctor in your area and find one, you know.
Speaker 2: Call.
Speaker 1: What I usually recommend with Yelp is like call the
Speaker 1: top two and see which one you feel better about
Speaker 1: when you call and talk to them. If one of
Speaker 1: them gives you a better vibe, go with that person.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if they're not showing up on your computer,
Speaker 1: then it's it could be an invalid file format. It
Speaker 1: could be just that they're not you know, they're so
Speaker 1: old that it's just not working anymore. I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of old drives in the garage
Speaker 1: that I've been meaning.
Speaker 2: To get rid of.
Speaker 1: But if you don't need the data on these, then
Speaker 1: I would just recommend bringing them to a shredding company.
Speaker 1: So like you can look up an e waste company
Speaker 1: that has a drive shredder. And I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people keep these old drives around the house because
Speaker 1: they have personal data on them. They don't want to
Speaker 1: get rid of them, they want to erase them.
Speaker 2: But you can.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could drill a whole through them too
Speaker 1: if you want, or maybe take a hammer to them.
Speaker 1: Be careful with that that part of it. But if
Speaker 1: the if the drive doesn't work, or the DOC doesn't work,
Speaker 1: or the USB cable doesn't work, then maybe just get
Speaker 1: rid of these if the data is unnecessary, that's probably
Speaker 1: your second best bet after the data doctor. If you
Speaker 1: want this stuff off of them, you know, you got
Speaker 1: to go to a data doctor and see if they
Speaker 1: can reclaim that stuff. Good question, Karen, Thank you for
Speaker 1: calling today from Charter Oak, California. Sounds like a school,
Speaker 1: Charter Oak. My kids go to Charter Oak.
Speaker 2: It's very nice. It's among the wilderness. It's got some
Speaker 2: nice trees there.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, I'm gonna tell you how to
Speaker 1: do I have time to talk about Facebook?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 1: Right, I don't think so, Okay, I got time. Okay,
Speaker 1: So let me tell you about this because I thought
Speaker 1: this was a pretty big story this week. Facebook now
Speaker 1: has this new thing called link history. So the next
Speaker 1: time you open up a link on your Facebook mobile
Speaker 1: app on your phone, you might be presented with this
Speaker 1: new option that says, hey, do you want us to
Speaker 1: track the links that you have that you click on Facebook?
Speaker 1: And we'll put them in this link history for thirty
Speaker 1: days and that way you can easily go back and
Speaker 1: find the stuff that you clicked on in Facebook. It
Speaker 1: sounds great, Okay, it could be helpful. But the other
Speaker 1: side of this is that they're using your link history
Speaker 1: to quote improve your ads across meta technologies.
Speaker 2: What does that mean.
Speaker 1: Well, they look at the websites that you visit and
Speaker 1: they sell ads based on that information. So if you're
Speaker 1: visiting a lot of sneaker websites or a lot of
Speaker 1: travel websites, they will then use that data to sell
Speaker 1: ads to you for sneakers and travel and so you
Speaker 1: can turn this off.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Facebook tells me that this is off by default, and
Speaker 1: so if you don't do anything, it's off. But it's
Speaker 1: kind of weird because the first time that you click
Speaker 1: a link, it'll say never lose a link again, and
Speaker 1: there's a little toggle switch that says allow link history
Speaker 1: and then the confirm button. Now on my phone, the
Speaker 1: allow link history was lit up, toggled on right, it
Speaker 1: was highlighted in blue, so that means it's on, and
Speaker 1: I would have to toggle the turn the toggle off,
Speaker 1: and then press confirm to turn this feature off. So
Speaker 1: no matter what, you can turn this off if you
Speaker 1: don't like it by opening up the Facebook app, going
Speaker 1: into the menu, going into settings and Privacy, then settings
Speaker 1: and then browser and then toggling the switch next to
Speaker 1: allow link History off or on if you want to
Speaker 1: keep it on. I've got those instructions on my Instagram
Speaker 1: at rich On Tech. Look for the It looks like
Speaker 1: a post with a click like an icon for a pointer,
Speaker 1: and also it says Facebook found a sneaky new way
Speaker 1: to track you.
Speaker 2: Here's how to disable it.
Speaker 1: So if you want to disable it, you can, but
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where if you don't mind
Speaker 1: the more targeted ads, then leave it on. But if
Speaker 1: you don't like the idea of someone tracking you more
Speaker 1: than they need to, you can turn it off. But again,
Speaker 1: it's called Facebook link history. You will likely see it
Speaker 1: the next time you click a link on your mobile
Speaker 1: Facebook app. This is only on mobile right now, So
Speaker 1: if you're on iPhone Android, then that's how you have
Speaker 1: to access this and turn it on or off. The
Speaker 1: desktop it's not on there at this point. So anyway,
Speaker 1: now you know what that's all about, the next time
Speaker 1: you see it. All right, coming up, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk to Titanya Jordan about what you need to know
Speaker 1: about child and teen safety. Plus we'll take more of
Speaker 1: your calls at triple eight rich one oh one. That's
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Speaker 1: My name is rich Dmiro. Back after this, Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology. I love data like this rideshare data from
Speaker 1: Lyft says where we went on New Year's Eve. Cities
Speaker 1: with colder winters and January tend to have a higher
Speaker 1: percentage of riders going out On Year's Eve. Buffalo, New
Speaker 1: York had the most four point three percent of all
Speaker 1: yearly rides. Most popular destinations bars, restaurants, hotels, and clubs. Okay,
Speaker 1: no surprise there. But then they say some of the
Speaker 1: top places in various cities, which again, these lyft drivers
Speaker 1: and of course uber iwo, they know where people are going.
Speaker 1: They know popular places before we know popular places because
Speaker 1: they can look at the data. People stayed out about
Speaker 1: an hour later on New Year's Eve across the US,
Speaker 1: with Miami having fifty one percent of rides after three am.
Speaker 1: Times Square partiers stayed out almost an hour later than
Speaker 1: last year. Maybe it was warmer in Times Square than
Speaker 1: it was last year. That looks miserable to me to
Speaker 1: stand in those like those pens they have for people
Speaker 1: in New York City like no thank you, Virginia Beach, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: and Indianapolis most likely to be hungover based on very
Speaker 1: short rides on January first, people didn't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that correlation is, but whatever, and
Speaker 1: only zero point three percent of rides on January first
Speaker 1: were to gym's.
Speaker 2: So I guess people lift says people postpone.
Speaker 1: Their New Year's resolutions. Now, I don't know how many
Speaker 1: people are taking a lift to the gym on Your's day.
Speaker 1: I mean, aren't Jim's like near you and you drive?
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 9: What do I know?
Speaker 1: Anyway, Lyft always comes out with these like data points,
Speaker 1: which I think are pretty fun.
Speaker 2: So that's why I shared.
Speaker 1: We did take uber on New Year's Eve this year,
Speaker 1: and it was actually the easiest year it was to
Speaker 1: get it. In the last four or five years, we've
Speaker 1: been going to the same place and it always takes
Speaker 1: a while, you know, cars cancel on you. This year,
Speaker 1: but I think we went earlier than midnight, and that's
Speaker 1: probably why. Let's go to Eddie in Temple City, California. Eddie,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 9: Hi Rick, Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
Speaker 2: What can I help you with?
Speaker 14: Stray with a problem?
Speaker 8: Listen?
Speaker 14: I have an iPhone ten, which is the ex YEP.
Speaker 14: When I go to the settings, it tells me that
Speaker 14: I still have like twenty or thirty gigabytes of storage.
Speaker 2: Right okay, but.
Speaker 14: Apple keeps bugging me, sending me messages telling me that
Speaker 14: I'm running out of space. I'm asking me to pay
Speaker 14: a monthly fee, which I refuse because I don't want
Speaker 14: my pictures on the in the cloud.
Speaker 2: Okay, So.
Speaker 14: The main question is maybe two questions. The first one,
Speaker 14: if I switch to Samsung, would they be bothering me
Speaker 14: with the same thing no? Or what can I do
Speaker 14: with iPhones to download my pictures like every I don't know,
Speaker 14: like every month somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so I mean you could do that if
Speaker 1: I mean the thing I recommend for that is called
Speaker 1: the I expand And at this point you can really
Speaker 1: plug any hard drive into the iPhone. But I think
Speaker 1: the sand disk eye that's the letter I, X, P,
Speaker 1: A and D. I think they have the best software
Speaker 1: for downloading your photos from the phone. If you're an
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime member, you can sorry you didn't want the cloud.
Speaker 1: So okay, that makes sense. But you know, iPhone seems
Speaker 1: to have this weird thing with like the storage situation
Speaker 1: where people are getting that message that you're out of storage,
Speaker 1: and you know, they really just try to push people
Speaker 1: to getting cloud storage because the way the iPhone is
Speaker 1: set up, you can't really access the files that are
Speaker 1: on your phone, so you can't really know like what's
Speaker 1: going on, where things are, what's taking up space, what's
Speaker 1: not taking up space. But the thing I would do
Speaker 1: before you make any changes, Eddie is go into your settings,
Speaker 1: go into your Apple ID. I'm assuming you have some
Speaker 1: sort of iCloud on your account, maybe not, but there's
Speaker 1: this thing called recommended for you, and there are a
Speaker 1: couple of ways to free up storage on there, so
Speaker 1: you can look at that under your recommendations.
Speaker 2: But if you want to see the storage that's on your.
Speaker 1: Phone, you can go to iPhone settings and then general
Speaker 1: and then storage.
Speaker 2: Where is that? I just saw it there?
Speaker 1: Why can't I find it about? And then it will
Speaker 1: tell your storage how much things are taken up. But
Speaker 1: let's see, I thought there was a storage on here.
Speaker 1: I just saw it, but I can't seem to find
Speaker 1: it at this point. Well anyway, so it's in there,
Speaker 1: and you know, I find the iPhone to be really
Speaker 1: complicated with the storage situation. And believe me, it's just
Speaker 1: like you know, they just they want people to go
Speaker 1: to the cloud because they make it confusing on purpose,
Speaker 1: it seems now I don't know that for a fact,
Speaker 1: but on Android, I feel like it's very much more straightforward.
Speaker 1: You can look at the storage on your phone, you
Speaker 1: can see where things are stored, you can plug in
Speaker 1: a drive, you can move things around. And you know, Samsung,
Speaker 1: they're in the hardware business mostly where if you look
Speaker 1: at Apple, yes they're in the hardware business, but increasingly
Speaker 1: services and software are a huge part of their revenue,
Speaker 1: and so they're looking to get people to upgrade to
Speaker 1: these you know, higher iCloud plans and all the other
Speaker 1: things they offer that are monthly subscriptions. So download the
Speaker 1: pictures to a flash drive. Make sure they're backed up.
Speaker 2: That's the main thing. Make sure they are backed up.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the question.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we'll talk about child and teen safety online.
Speaker 2: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 2: rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here talking technology, hanging out with you at
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven.
Speaker 2: Four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Joining me now, it's Titanya Jordan, author and founder of
Speaker 1: Parenting in a Tech World and Bark Technology's Chief parent Officer.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Titanya, Hi, thank you so much.
Speaker 9: For having me.
Speaker 1: I should say, welcome back to the show. You were
Speaker 1: one of the early guests last year, so thanks for
Speaker 1: joining me again. Uh so you post all about child
Speaker 1: and teen safety online, So first off, tell me what
Speaker 1: Bark is all about? The company that you work for.
Speaker 7: Sure, so Bark launched the safest smartphone for kids within
Speaker 7: the past year, which is incredible, and what's so incredible
Speaker 7: about it is that it has our tech baked into
Speaker 7: the smartphone. And so in twenty fifteen, Bark launched as
Speaker 7: an AI based software solution that alerted parents and caregivers
Speaker 7: to dangers happening in their children's social media, text and email.
Speaker 7: So we started with an app and then we moved
Speaker 7: to a smartphone.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, now when parents think about you know, like
Speaker 1: I get this question like how do I monitor what
Speaker 1: my kids are doing on their phone?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 2: So what can Bark do?
Speaker 1: And I know with iOS and Android things are a
Speaker 1: little bit different, right, like what you can search and
Speaker 1: what you can scant? Can you explain the difference? Like
Speaker 1: what if a parent has if a kid has an iPhone,
Speaker 1: which of course a lot of kids want the iPhone,
Speaker 1: Like what can parents monitor on that?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 4: Great question?
Speaker 7: So yeah, I will say, if you're listening to this
Speaker 7: and you have not yet bought your child a smartphone,
Speaker 7: please avoid the iPhone. That's the equivalent of giving your
Speaker 7: child a Ferrari when they turn sixteen instead of a
Speaker 7: very sensible Honda or Toyota. Apple is great for adults
Speaker 7: who need privacy, but it's very cumbersome for parents to
Speaker 7: try to manage that. Said, Bark can monitor your children's
Speaker 7: iPhones and iPads and Apple watches to an extent, whether
Speaker 7: it's text, message, email, social media, camera, roll video, all
Speaker 7: kinds of things, we can monitor it. I will say
Speaker 7: one of the most popular apps that children eventually want
Speaker 7: is Snapchat, and Bark isn't able to really monitor Snapchat
Speaker 7: on an iPhone, not because of Bark's limitations, because Snapchat
Speaker 7: has decided it doesn't want to open its API to
Speaker 7: a platform that could help keep kids safer on the platform.
Speaker 7: The good news is that with Android phones and the
Speaker 7: Bark smartphone, we can connect to and monitor Snapchat, which
Speaker 7: is just one more reason why androids and the Bark
Speaker 7: phone are a better.
Speaker 2: Option for parents.
Speaker 1: My wife works with teens and she was telling me
Speaker 1: that Snapchat is everything. I mean, text messaging is not
Speaker 1: even they don't even care anymore. Like I thought it
Speaker 1: was all about, you know, for adults, this whole blue bubble,
Speaker 1: green bubble I message thing. But for teens it is
Speaker 1: all about Snapchat. And I think it's because of I'm
Speaker 1: guessing the fleeting nature of the chats, which I'm laughing,
Speaker 1: but it's really serious. It's like they you know, they
Speaker 1: like it because things disappear, right.
Speaker 7: It's very serious. They do like it because things apparently disappear.
Speaker 7: But you know, one thing that we've really got to
Speaker 7: get across to everybody that uses tech is that anything
Speaker 7: you do online, even if the platform tells you it disappears,
Speaker 7: doesn't actually disappear. It lives on a server somewhere. You know,
Speaker 7: if you recycle your phone to get a new like,
Speaker 7: there's still data that lives on that phone, even if
Speaker 7: you wiped it clean. So it's important to get that
Speaker 7: message across. Also, you know, kids love Snapchat not only
Speaker 7: because it has purported disappearing messages, but it also has
Speaker 7: for my eyes only, So if a parent does go
Speaker 7: into the app to try to see what's going on,
Speaker 7: they might not be able to access certain things that
Speaker 7: the child has hidden in the my eyes only vault.
Speaker 7: Snapchat also has snap maps, which essentially gives anyone that
Speaker 7: you're connected to your real time location, which is not
Speaker 7: a problem if your child is only connected to three
Speaker 7: of their friends that they know and who are good people.
Speaker 7: It's a bigger problem if your kid has two hundred
Speaker 7: contacts and they only know twenty of them.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that's an interesting one too.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the most pressing kind of
Speaker 1: situation affecting teens and children right now when it comes
Speaker 1: to technology?
Speaker 2: Ooh, that's ah, we need a lot more where we start.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 7: Overall, it's the fact that parents and caregivers and educators
Speaker 7: and physicians and legislators currently cannot help protect kids digitally
Speaker 7: like they can in real life with seat belts and
Speaker 7: sunscreens and healthy diets, et cetera. There's a world of
Speaker 7: danger living deep in children's digital signal, and it is
Speaker 7: harming them, not at low rates, but at frequent rates.
Speaker 7: And it's the worst of the worst. Whether it's exposure
Speaker 7: to extreme violence, graphic sexual content, suicidal ideation, disordered eating,
Speaker 7: you name it. Kids are encountering it at a much
Speaker 7: younger age and a much more frequent rate, and parents
Speaker 7: who care about them have no idea. So that's that's
Speaker 7: the problem, and it's not getting better.
Speaker 2: Do we have a solution or do you you know
Speaker 2: what what is a solution?
Speaker 1: Because parents, you know, they want and like you said,
Speaker 1: we do all these things for our kids, you know,
Speaker 1: teach them how to you know, walk and ride their
Speaker 1: bikes safely and all this stuff. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to the phones and tablets, most of the kids are
Speaker 1: actually more advanced than the parents they are.
Speaker 7: And that's why it's a multifaceted approach. While the Bark
Speaker 7: app and the Bark smartphone are one key component to it,
Speaker 7: right because at least we're giving you insights and helping
Speaker 7: you help your child have a healthier relationship with tech,
Speaker 7: it's not the total solution. It starts with education and awareness.
Speaker 7: As parents and caregivers, we need to know what is
Speaker 7: happening and the rate at which it's happening. We need
Speaker 7: to have multiple, candid conversations with our children much earlier
Speaker 7: than we might think, at a more frequent rate, because
Speaker 7: it's all about that relationship that you have with your
Speaker 7: child that will help you navigate these rocky waters as
Speaker 7: they grow. Up, So using tech like bark, having that
Speaker 7: conversation and those relationships, understanding you know, just the new
Speaker 7: and then advocating for change. Right now, the laws aren't
Speaker 7: set up to protect children from the harms that social
Speaker 7: media causes them, and so reaching out to your local
Speaker 7: legislator to advocate for change and reform that will hold
Speaker 7: social media companies more accountable. I mean, just over the
Speaker 7: past year, social media has generated over eleven billion dollars
Speaker 7: in revenue off of minors children under the age of eighteen.
Speaker 7: So they do not have a vested interest in minimizing
Speaker 7: the amount of time children are spending on their platforms.
Speaker 1: It starts with us, Wow, that's a lot of money. Okay,
Speaker 1: you posted something the other day about incognito mode. There's
Speaker 1: been Was there something that kind of bubbled up about
Speaker 1: it that made you post that or is it just
Speaker 1: in general because you know, people think that they're protected
Speaker 1: or private.
Speaker 2: Tell me what we need to know about incognito mode.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm always looking to cover topics that will
Speaker 7: cut through the clutter everybody scrolling and there's a you know,
Speaker 7: we've got to fight for people's eyeballs and attention, right,
Speaker 7: And I thought you know what, a lot of people
Speaker 7: don't use incognito mode or don't get it, or think
Speaker 7: it's more private than it is. So let me make
Speaker 7: a reel about this and see, you know, see.
Speaker 9: How it lands.
Speaker 7: And it landed. It got a lot of attention. And
Speaker 7: essentially children are using incognito mode because they think it's
Speaker 7: completely anonymous, when in fact, this goes back to the
Speaker 7: snapchat conversation. We just had that information lifts somewhere just
Speaker 7: because your parent can't get on that computer and see
Speaker 7: your browser history, the internet service provider, the websites.
Speaker 4: And apps that you visited.
Speaker 7: You know, they know where you went, and if needed,
Speaker 7: that information can be shared with your parent or let's say,
Speaker 7: employer when you get older. So it's an important and
Speaker 7: misunderstood concept that does get abused. Certainly, it's a very
Speaker 7: cool aspect if you're trying to, you know, hide search
Speaker 7: history when you're trying to shop for a present for somebody,
Speaker 7: but it's obviously used for more nefarious purposes.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got to run, but I just want
Speaker 1: to take away for parents, like all these new gadgets
Speaker 1: they just got, you know, the xboxes, the PlayStations, all
Speaker 1: the different things. The kids set them up, the kids
Speaker 1: get them running, the kids play on them. The parents
Speaker 1: are in a different room. What's your advice to parents
Speaker 1: about the safety tools that are built into some of
Speaker 1: these products.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, Well cut me off at any time,
Speaker 7: but here we go, lightning round. Don't give your kid unfettered,
Speaker 7: unmonitored access to the Internet. Keep connected tech and common
Speaker 7: areas at the home, not in their bedrooms. Don't let
Speaker 7: them access it overnight. Don't let your child have access
Speaker 7: to things that you have not spent time on yourself.
Speaker 7: Make sure that you just take them, like one minute
Speaker 7: literally to google whatever your child can access, plus the
Speaker 7: term parental controls and see what free built in options
Speaker 7: you have right at your disposal that you might not
Speaker 7: even know about.
Speaker 2: And then finally, just talk to your kids.
Speaker 7: Let them know that they are loved unconditionally and they
Speaker 7: can talk to you about anything and you won't freak out.
Speaker 1: To Tanya Jordan, author and founder of Parenting in a
Speaker 1: Tech World and Bark Technologies Chief Parent Officer, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: For joining me today. Thank you for having me. Happy
Speaker 2: New Year, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: I love having you on the show. Please follow it
Speaker 1: to Tanya on Instagram. T I T A n I
Speaker 1: A Jordan on Instagram, she posts great rules about all
Speaker 1: this stuff that you need to know. At least it'll
Speaker 1: get you thinking. At least it'll remind you that you
Speaker 1: have to do this stuff. I know it's tough as
Speaker 1: a parent, Believe me. It is so easy to hand
Speaker 1: our kids our phone or their phone, or let them
Speaker 1: play these games for half an hour an hour, and
Speaker 1: it just continues to go and go and go. So please,
Speaker 1: we're all on this together, trying to do the best
Speaker 1: thing for our kids. Again, Thanks so much for joining me.
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Speaker 1: zero one. Hope is in a Hemmett, California. Hope you're
Speaker 1: on with Rich.
Speaker 15: Hi there, Hi, I'm calling because I was contacted by
Speaker 15: a large company that's trying to get me to change
Speaker 15: my TV service, et cetera, et cetera. They said they
Speaker 15: could provide me with a landline plus all this other
Speaker 15: stuff for a specific amount of money. When I questioned
Speaker 15: them about what they meant by landline, I even talked
Speaker 15: to their technical department, and they're talking about because I
Speaker 15: need to have the router, et cetera. And I said, well,
Speaker 15: you're talking about voice, not a landline, and they don't
Speaker 15: seem to know the difference. Am I right?
Speaker 2: Well, if it's a cable company, is it a cable company?
Speaker 15: Yeah, basically yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean unless it's like AT and T.
Speaker 1: They're not doing a You're you're talking about copper cable
Speaker 1: versus voice over IP.
Speaker 15: I don't want voice, you don't want I have a
Speaker 15: real lineline, Okay, I need it my business, So, uh.
Speaker 2: Why do you? I'm just curious, why do you.
Speaker 15: Why I have to be able to fax documents over voice?
Speaker 2: Interesting?
Speaker 15: You can't fax over internet anything?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you can if you use like an
Speaker 2: e fact service.
Speaker 15: Well why should I pay for it?
Speaker 1: When I myself, Yeah, if you already have it and
Speaker 1: you've got it and you're doing it, I mean why, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say you don't need to worry about it,
Speaker 1: But I get it.
Speaker 2: You want the cost savings of the bundle.
Speaker 15: Right, Well, I was looking at that. Yeah, but uh,
Speaker 15: when they're when they're technical depart and couldn't tell me
Speaker 15: the difference between voice and a landline. Yeah, it makes
Speaker 15: me very nervous that they don't know what they're talking
Speaker 15: about and most of them are just reading out of
Speaker 15: a manual anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, hope you you seem to have a little
Speaker 1: bit more knowledge than the average bear here, and I
Speaker 1: think that some of these people that are getting jobs
Speaker 1: and you know, they're getting trained on this, and to
Speaker 1: be quite honest, you know, landlines are something that is
Speaker 1: not it's not something that's offered or readily available at
Speaker 1: this point anymore. I mean, voipe has been around for
Speaker 1: a long time. The cable companies when they got into it,
Speaker 1: they would have a much cheaper price because they were
Speaker 1: just literally sending these calls and voice over the Internet.
Speaker 1: And so basically yeah, I mean well, yeah, yeah exactly,
Speaker 1: I mean cell phones, look, it all works a little
Speaker 1: bit differently, but at this point, yes, I would say
Speaker 1: about probably ninety nine percent of voice traffic is running
Speaker 1: through the Internet and not through an action like old
Speaker 1: school copper cable or even with cellular Back in the day,
Speaker 1: it was like cell phones were running voice in a
Speaker 1: different way than they are now. Now it's mostly just
Speaker 1: voiceover IP as well. But it's gotten so good that
Speaker 1: we don't really know the difference. But I would agree
Speaker 1: with you. If they don't know the difference, it's not
Speaker 1: a good sign. But I also I can't fault them
Speaker 1: because I would say ninety percent of people probably don't
Speaker 1: need an actual Copper cable landline, but.
Speaker 2: I would I would feel more.
Speaker 1: You know, you're like me, You feel more comfortable when
Speaker 1: someone speaks your language, right, It's like, okay, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. And when they don't, or they're
Speaker 1: even fighting you on it. They're saying, no, it's a landline,
Speaker 1: but it's not a landline.
Speaker 2: It is, but it's not.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at some of the websites for you know,
Speaker 1: these cable companies, and it says reliable home phone services,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't necessarily say it is a Let's see
Speaker 1: if the word landline appears on their website at all.
Speaker 1: I don't hope does it. Nope, it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: it does anyway. So are you gonna stick with your
Speaker 1: your Copper cable?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 15: Yeah, my house is copper table wired and.
Speaker 2: They're not trying, and the phone company is not trying
Speaker 2: to take it away from you.
Speaker 15: Oh they tried.
Speaker 1: I thought so, because that you know, it costs them
Speaker 1: money to to maintain those lines at this How are
Speaker 1: things in heaven? Everything else good over there?
Speaker 15: Yes, it's not blowing, the wind is not blowing, and
Speaker 15: it's a beautiful blue sky.
Speaker 1: Well, what more can you ask for? Hope, love the name,
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Thanks for calling today, Thank you? All right,
Speaker 1: take care.
Speaker 2: Uh let's go. How long do we have We have
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes here. If we have time for
Speaker 2: one more call, let's go to Uh, let's go to
Speaker 2: John in Palm Springs. John, you're on with Rich?
Speaker 12: Hi, Rich, Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
Speaker 2: How's it going? How can I help?
Speaker 12: I bought a new twenty three phone, and when they
Speaker 12: copied everything off of the old phone, I am missing
Speaker 12: hundreds of photos. I still have the old phone and
Speaker 12: they are missing there now as well. And so I
Speaker 12: read that they are probably still there and I can
Speaker 12: hire somebody to retrieve them. But if true, I have
Speaker 12: no idea who that would be.
Speaker 1: Okay, where do you store these photos? Are they just
Speaker 1: on like your phone, or they go to the cloud somewhere.
Speaker 14: No, they're just on the phone.
Speaker 12: Unfortunately, I am the most illiterate tech guy in the world.
Speaker 1: So, okay, and you're sure you're not using because on
Speaker 1: Samsung devices they like to send these to one drive.
Speaker 1: Are you sure they're not sync to one drive in
Speaker 1: some way?
Speaker 9: Well, they could be.
Speaker 12: I see one drive on my phone, okay, but I
Speaker 12: never knew what it was. I didn't never even clicked
Speaker 12: on it.
Speaker 1: Okay, well click on it, and and uh, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a there's a section of the Samsung phone in
Speaker 1: the settings that is called I'm trying to look here,
Speaker 1: accounts and backup. And if you look there, let's see
Speaker 1: backup data. So so in here it's it says where
Speaker 1: these things are backed up. I'm trying to find this
Speaker 1: while we talk live. I know it's tricky, but there's
Speaker 1: a couple of places. A couple of places I would look.
Speaker 1: Number one, I would on a website. I would do
Speaker 1: use Google at all, I I guess. Okay, so if
Speaker 1: you have a Google account, I would try going to
Speaker 1: photos dot Google dot com on a website on your computer,
Speaker 1: so on a desktop browser and see and log in
Speaker 1: with your Google and see if any of the photos
Speaker 1: made their way there. Then I would go to one
Speaker 1: drive dot com again from a computer and log in
Speaker 1: with either your Samsung account or your usually it's linked
Speaker 1: to a Microsoft account if you you have that, and
Speaker 1: see if they're there. Otherwise, on your old phone, I
Speaker 1: would go into the files app and uh, there's a
Speaker 1: there's like a an app on the old on the
Speaker 1: Samsung that is lets you see all the files on
Speaker 1: that phone. And so I would go in there and
Speaker 1: look for one a folder that says camera and see
Speaker 1: if you can find them in there. If not, I
Speaker 1: recommended this earlier, but there's someone called a data doctor,
Speaker 1: and that's who you probably want to talk to. But
Speaker 1: the file, the folder is called my files on the Samsung.
Speaker 1: Look for that, and in there it says images, videos,
Speaker 1: audio files, documents, downloads, and it also shows the storage
Speaker 1: areas I was talking about, including one drive.
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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at
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Speaker 2: Please follow me there. I post a lot of helpful.
Speaker 1: Information, especially on my stories, because most of this stuff,
Speaker 1: I'll be quite honest, comes from you. You email me
Speaker 1: something and I say, huh, that's interesting, and I make
Speaker 1: a post about it. So, for instance, we've had a
Speaker 1: couple of earthquakes here in Los Angeles lately, and so
Speaker 1: I figured I would tell people how to make sure
Speaker 1: they get the earthquake alerts on their phone and on
Speaker 1: Android it's built into the operating system, and on iPhone
Speaker 1: to download an app called my Shake if you want
Speaker 1: to get those. And then of course I have an
Speaker 1: infographic about how to disable that Facebook tracking. Got a
Speaker 1: fun video of the Scotty vest which holds like what
Speaker 1: is a whole twenty six pockets for gadgets, a post
Speaker 1: about the spectrum free Disney, and you know, of course
Speaker 1: intersparsed with some pictures of my family that I post from,
Speaker 1: you know, all the little adventures we take.
Speaker 13: Oh.
Speaker 1: One of my fun posts I did was of the
Speaker 1: Moto Q smartphone. I was in my garage and I
Speaker 1: found my smartphone that I loved from two thousand and
Speaker 1: six and it was like kind of Motorola's answer to
Speaker 1: the BlackBerry.
Speaker 2: So that was pretty fun. Let's see, Carol is in
Speaker 2: summer Land. Carol, what's your comment?
Speaker 13: Hi, hi, yees a comment? You had just spoken with
Speaker 13: the lady regarding the landline. Yes, and my Well, first
Speaker 13: of all, I learned gosh years ago when I bundled
Speaker 13: mine with Cox back when I lived in Golita, and
Speaker 13: all of the utilities are buried at least in the
Speaker 13: area that we lived, and anytime we had heavy rain,
Speaker 13: the cable went out and therefore the phone went out
Speaker 13: because the yeah, and so I went back to a
Speaker 13: real landline. And so when I moved here to Summerland,
Speaker 13: the same thing I got, you know, the landline. And
Speaker 13: when the back to back disasters have at the top,
Speaker 13: excuse me, the Thomas fire and then the debris flow,
Speaker 13: we were just an island, you know, we had no contact,
Speaker 13: we had no electricity, uh, nothing, you know, cable everything
Speaker 13: was down, and luckily I had a landline, and and
Speaker 13: my daughter who lives up in the Bay Area, would
Speaker 13: stream on her iPad the four o'clock what do you
Speaker 13: call it, news, disaster report whatever, Yeah, and then you know,
Speaker 13: put her iPhone up to it. I would take notes,
Speaker 13: and then I go down to the center of town
Speaker 13: and tell people what was going on. Oh wow, fairly
Speaker 13: a mile away, you.
Speaker 2: Were, like the town caller.
Speaker 13: I was.
Speaker 9: So it's just the.
Speaker 13: Necessity for especially here in California, for a real landline.
Speaker 13: And most people think that they have a landline when
Speaker 13: they actually have cable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's coming from your cable company, most of
Speaker 1: the time it is. It is voiceover IP. But you know,
Speaker 1: with that said, you know, these these traditional phone companies
Speaker 1: do not want the landlines because they're expensive and.
Speaker 13: So exactly, and they've had to come out here several
Speaker 13: times to repair right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I agree it is the most reliable form of communication.
Speaker 1: But I will say, you know, and I tweeted about
Speaker 1: this the other day. You know, Apple has that satellite
Speaker 1: built into the iPhone and right now you can use
Speaker 1: it to call their call center, which is really great.
Speaker 1: If there's an emergency and you need help, and even
Speaker 1: in a natural disaster, you will still be able to
Speaker 1: get that connection to the satellite because it's going from
Speaker 1: your iPhone literally to outer space. But I said, it
Speaker 1: would be kind of neat if Apple, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: they'll do this at some point, is they'll let you
Speaker 1: go from your phone to another iPhone via satellite to
Speaker 1: message someone else. Because in a real, true emergency, when
Speaker 1: you know, things really get bad and if the infrastructure
Speaker 1: is you know, taking a hit, you know, you would
Speaker 1: not be able to let's say you lived in California,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, whatever, you would find it really hard to
Speaker 1: get a message out to someone somewhere else or check
Speaker 1: on someone because there's no real way to do that. Now.
Speaker 1: I think with the Internet, you know, there's you know,
Speaker 1: with Facebook doing the crisis check in all this stuff.
Speaker 1: We are getting better, but it's still it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where like you just kind of don't want
Speaker 1: to think about it too much because it is a
Speaker 1: concern and it is like we're not really sure.
Speaker 2: But anyway, thanks for the call, Carol in Summerlin. Today
Speaker 2: let's go. We're kind of going.
Speaker 1: This is almost like the feedback section here. Victor quick
Speaker 1: comment about what.
Speaker 9: Well. Earlier today you spoke about this Facebook link that
Speaker 9: saves your links of things that you're looking for. Sure,
Speaker 9: and I do very much understand that if I'm looking
Speaker 9: for luggage or if I'm looking for a specific brand
Speaker 9: or something, that the little lads will show up as
Speaker 9: I'm as I'm browsing through the internet data completely understand. Sure,
Speaker 9: But we played a little game. I run it. I
Speaker 9: run a small sale team, and I go, we have
Speaker 9: theory in that particular office and where we play music
Speaker 9: on and so forth, and the series very much like
Speaker 9: Alexa right, And I said, I bet you you guys,
Speaker 9: why don't we start We're from La, So I was like,
Speaker 9: why don't we start talking about the Disneyland resort in Orlando?
Speaker 9: Would you like to go there? And then she raised up,
Speaker 9: I would love to go to Disneyland Resort Orlando. And
Speaker 9: I go, but what about you? And he goes, yeah,
Speaker 9: Disneyland Resort in Thelando sounds great to me. And it
Speaker 9: really was less than three minutes. Then we all started
Speaker 9: receiving little Hey, there's a deal at the Disneyland Resort
Speaker 9: in Lando, and I'm like a weird beat, and I'm
Speaker 9: not a huge conspiracy.
Speaker 2: You're in sales.
Speaker 1: Come on, you know that Disney's always advertising. They're they're
Speaker 1: reaching every I see a Disney ad.
Speaker 2: Once a day.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but is is the words that we're saying relaying
Speaker 9: back to a database saying, hey, she just asks for
Speaker 9: a pair of sow from so and so. Hey this
Speaker 9: guy just asked for Southwest Airlines the cheapest ticket, right,
Speaker 9: Hey that I'm a fair first.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 9: My conspiracy thing is are they they Well?
Speaker 2: I know, I know it seems that way.
Speaker 1: And it's funny you say that because when I told
Speaker 1: my wife about the link history. Because I'll be quite honest,
Speaker 1: I got I got a phone call from Facebook last
Speaker 1: night about my post because they were unhappy with it.
Speaker 1: They were like, hey, what's your deal? What do you
Speaker 1: have against this? Why are you posting about this? And
Speaker 1: you know, we literally like, I this is what these
Speaker 1: big companies do, and this is why I am on
Speaker 1: your side. I had literally, at six o'clock last night,
Speaker 1: had to speak with someone from Facebook corporate. They called
Speaker 1: my cell phone to say, dude, like, tell me about
Speaker 1: this post.
Speaker 14: What do you you know?
Speaker 2: What do you make of this feature?
Speaker 1: And I was literally fighting with them, saying, no, here's
Speaker 1: how I see it, here's why I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: people about it, and yes, I'm going to talk about
Speaker 1: in the radio tomorrow. So this is the kind of
Speaker 1: stuff that go in the background that I don't normally
Speaker 1: bring up, but you know, I just figured I would.
Speaker 2: But it's funny.
Speaker 1: When I got off the phone with my you know,
Speaker 1: my wife was on the couch and she goes, ah,
Speaker 1: I'm not concerned about the link history, sho, I'm concerned
Speaker 1: about Facebook listening to my conversations. And I said, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: let's not get into that because we know that's not
Speaker 1: really happening if you search online and look, people have
Speaker 1: been debating this since the beginning of mankind with the smartphone.
Speaker 1: Is Facebook and Instagram listening to your conversations? They one
Speaker 1: hundred percent say they do not.
Speaker 2: And I get it.
Speaker 1: We have all had the experience where you're at a party,
Speaker 1: you talk to someone about the mattress they just purchased,
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you see the ad for
Speaker 1: that mattress on your Facebook account. I get it, it happens,
Speaker 1: but they say they're not listening. It's other indicators that
Speaker 1: they're using. And I'll just give you one example. Someone
Speaker 1: shops for a mattress your best friend. They search for
Speaker 1: it on their phone, and then you go and hang
Speaker 1: out with them. Facebook may see that they search for
Speaker 1: that in some of their you know whatever. However, they
Speaker 1: track and they say, Okay, well maybe this person mentioned
Speaker 1: this mattress too rich because they just bought it, and
Speaker 1: so we're going to show them an ad for that
Speaker 1: just to remind them.
Speaker 2: That's just one idea of how this might work.
Speaker 1: People have done many, many tests of you know, saying
Speaker 1: something in a closed room with the phone nearby, to
Speaker 1: see if those ads show up. Sometimes they do, sometimes
Speaker 1: they don't. It's not a guarantee, but yes, we have
Speaker 1: all casually observed this phenomenon.
Speaker 2: Believe me, I have. Everyone has.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see. I guess we'll just stick on the privacy.
Speaker 1: Tom is in Riverside.
Speaker 10: Tom, you got a question, oh, Rich, Yeah, I wanted
Speaker 10: to ask about Apple seventeen. I got a fourteen pro
Speaker 10: right now and I like it, okay, but I you know,
Speaker 10: I had it two years now. One to see is
Speaker 10: the seventeen next? Or what's coming up for Apple?
Speaker 2: For I for the model number or the software?
Speaker 10: Now the phone, the phone, the phone?
Speaker 2: Okay, and what's the question? Just what's coming up?
Speaker 13: Well?
Speaker 9: Yeah, is it seventeen?
Speaker 10: Is the next Apple?
Speaker 9: Or is it?
Speaker 10: I mean it's on fifteen right now? Is it going
Speaker 10: to be sixteen or is it going to be seventeen
Speaker 10: or what is it going to be?
Speaker 1: Well right now, only Apple knows, but uh, it's I'm
Speaker 1: guessing it's going to be sixteen because Apple, I don't
Speaker 1: did they skip a number in the I gotta think
Speaker 1: about that, five, six, seven, eight nine. Then they went
Speaker 1: X eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: they've skipped. I know, I know Samsung skipped. They went
Speaker 1: from the uh like the I think it was like
Speaker 1: the ten to the twenty, so but no, Apple has
Speaker 1: kept them in order.
Speaker 3: But what is that?
Speaker 2: Is that all you need to know?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, well yeah, the whether it's gona come up? And
Speaker 10: then I wanted to ask a couple of questions about
Speaker 10: AI and a couple questions.
Speaker 1: Tom, how much time do you think I have on
Speaker 1: this show? I wish I wish I had more. Believe me,
Speaker 1: it's I feel like they're always pushing me to break
Speaker 1: they're like, you gotta go, you gotta go. But yes,
Speaker 1: here's my advice. I know that's what I feel like.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Look AI, all this stuff, the
Speaker 1: privacy stuff, this is the stuff I talk about every week,
Speaker 1: day and day out on the show. And believe me,
Speaker 1: I understand it's a lot. I understand. You know this
Speaker 1: show is for the average person. It's not even for techies,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot to kind of manage. So believe me,
Speaker 1: keep listening. I will talk about this stuff. I will
Speaker 1: address again in the beginning of the show.
Speaker 2: Here's what I say.
Speaker 1: This is a show where I talk about the tech
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about, and that's really
Speaker 1: what it's all about. There's a ton of stuff that
Speaker 1: I come across every single week. I try to direct
Speaker 1: it to the stuff that I think is the most important,
Speaker 1: and that's that's really what it comes down to.
Speaker 2: All Right.
Speaker 1: You can find me on the website rich on tech,
Speaker 1: dot TV, social media at rich on Tech. Coming up,
Speaker 1: we'll talk the new keyboard for the iPhone, Wow, and
Speaker 1: the new app from Microsoft that you might want to
Speaker 1: install on your phone because it gives you free access
Speaker 1: to the best chat GPT you are listening to Rich
Speaker 1: on tech. Let's see, we got an email from Marcy.
Speaker 1: Marcy says, hey, Rich, just an FYI anyone with a
Speaker 1: copper landline and wishes to keep it for emergency needs, earthquake,
Speaker 1: power outage.
Speaker 2: When voipe would go down.
Speaker 1: Just know that if you switch to a cable voipeline,
Speaker 1: your copper line will be cut and you can never
Speaker 1: get it back. Happen to me now. I keep my
Speaker 1: Internet and router on a battery backup. Love your show,
Speaker 1: Thanks for your expertise, Marcy. Yeah, Marcy, Like I said,
Speaker 1: these companies they will rip out these lines. I think
Speaker 1: they take the copper cable and they take it directly
Speaker 1: to the scrapshop and like cash it in because it's
Speaker 1: so valuable. I literally think the copper cable is worth
Speaker 1: more than the monthly fee.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: The iPhone is getting a new physical keyboard, not from Apple,
Speaker 1: but from a new company called Clicks Technology.
Speaker 2: The device is called Clicks.
Speaker 1: It's a physical keyboard accessory for the iPhone, provides a
Speaker 1: techtile typing experience, and it says you get twice the
Speaker 1: screen real estate because there's no keyboard on your screen
Speaker 1: like the on screen keyboard. It attaches to your phone
Speaker 1: directly using lightning or USBC. It has no battery. It
Speaker 1: uses the phone for power and data transfer. You can
Speaker 1: also use shortcut keys, has a backlight for typing in
Speaker 1: low conditions. And it was created by a team of
Speaker 1: mobile experts, including the guy behind the website that's very
Speaker 1: popular called Crackberry, and YouTube tech reviewer mister Mobile, Michael Fisher.
Speaker 1: It can be pre ordered now. It's one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty nine dollars. It ships February first. It's got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of fun color. It's going to be on
Speaker 1: display at CS in January, which is next week, so
Speaker 1: I will see it, and I find that very fascinating.
Speaker 1: There was a keyboard made or backed by Ryan Seacrest
Speaker 1: many many years ago called Typo Typo, and it was
Speaker 1: that CS. I found my old picture from the iPhone
Speaker 1: five it connected to that. It's very similar to what
Speaker 1: we have now. So if you still want that keyboard
Speaker 1: on your iPhone, you're gonna have an option. And if
Speaker 1: you want the best of chat GBT on your iPhone
Speaker 1: or Android, there's a web an app that you might
Speaker 1: want to download. It's called Microsoft Copilot. This is. It's
Speaker 1: basically an AI chatbot. Lets you do all kinds of
Speaker 1: stuff AI conversations. It can draft messages and emails, it
Speaker 1: can draw pictures. The big thing about this is that
Speaker 1: it includes GPT four for free. If you're on chat GBT,
Speaker 1: you got to pay twenty bucks for access to that,
Speaker 1: so you basically get it for free. But this also
Speaker 1: includes bing so it's got access to the web. So
Speaker 1: you might have heard me talk about bing ai in
Speaker 1: the past. Microsoft is rebranding bing ai to what's called Copilot,
Speaker 1: and so if you want to download this, it's a
Speaker 1: little tricky to find it in the app stores because
Speaker 1: you search Copilot, there's some other things that come up.
Speaker 1: So I put the direct links on my wiki for
Speaker 1: the show Rich on tech dot tv slash wiki. And finally,
Speaker 1: Google is eliminating third party cookies from Chrome. You might
Speaker 1: hear about this. The advertising industry does not like this.
Speaker 1: Third party cookies are those cookies that travel from site
Speaker 1: to site. When you go to one website, they tell
Speaker 1: another website that you were just there. So let's say
Speaker 1: you go to a sneaker website and then you go
Speaker 1: to a newspaper website and you see an ad for
Speaker 1: that sneaker that you just looked at. That's a third
Speaker 1: party cookie. Google says they're getting rid of these. They're
Speaker 1: eliminating them by the end of twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 1: this is throwing the whole tech advertising world into upheaval,
Speaker 1: but of course it's better for our privacy. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Chris Hoffman from the Windows
Speaker 1: Intelligence Newsletter.
Speaker 2: He's going to share some Windows tips and tricks with us.
Speaker 2: You are listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. Very excited for my next guest.
Speaker 1: I subscribe to his newsletter all of one issue, and
Speaker 1: I invited him on the show because it was so good.
Speaker 1: Chris Hoffman writes the Windows Intelligence Newsletter, welcome.
Speaker 2: To the show.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: So the websites I know you're gonna want it is
Speaker 1: the Intelligence dot Com slash Windows. So the way the
Speaker 1: newsletter is written is it's for anyone to understand. So
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of like this show where it is
Speaker 1: very approachable and I appreciate that about what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Chris, Thank you absolutely.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about First off, the number one
Speaker 1: question I get, and this one, actually I think gets
Speaker 1: kind of complicated because you addressed it in a recent newsletter.
Speaker 1: But the question I get all the time, can you
Speaker 1: still upgrade to Windows eleven for free?
Speaker 16: So the easy answer is yes. The simple answer is yes.
Speaker 16: We can get into the weeds in a second, but
Speaker 16: the simple answer is if Window If Microsoft says Windows
Speaker 16: eleven is compatible with your computer, if you have Windows ten,
Speaker 16: you can just open the settings up on your Windows
Speaker 16: ten PC. You can look at Windows Update in settings
Speaker 16: and it will tell you right there, you know if
Speaker 16: it's if it's available, it'll say yes, you can upgrade
Speaker 16: to Windows eleven now, and you can click right there
Speaker 16: and it's good and it's free, and you know you're
Speaker 16: done now. It may say it's not compatible. Now you
Speaker 16: might assume that means it's not compatible, because that's the
Speaker 16: definition of the word. But actually, really you really get
Speaker 16: into the weeds here. There are ways to kind of
Speaker 16: get around that, depending on your PC's hardware. It really
Speaker 16: gets into kind of the weeds here. Of there's kind
Speaker 16: of three tiers of computer. One is really compatible within
Speaker 16: Windows eleven. One can't run Windows eleven at all, and
Speaker 16: in the middle there's this gray zone of these Windows
Speaker 16: ten PCs that they technically can run Windows eleven if
Speaker 16: you go through a little bit of a backdoor, but
Speaker 16: Microsoft says Microsoft doesn't want to offer them the upgrades.
Speaker 16: So you know, for the average person, I would say,
Speaker 16: just go to Windows Update and if it says it
Speaker 16: is not compatible, just don't worry about it, because you know,
Speaker 16: your Windows Time PC is still getting free security updates
Speaker 16: until October twenty twenty five. That's nearly two years, right,
Speaker 16: So that's not bad, and your compare will work fine.
Speaker 16: But if you're a geek like me, you know, if
Speaker 16: you want to get into this stuff, you can, and
Speaker 16: you can look into it. There's a tool called rufous
Speaker 16: that I just recommended, and it has it will let
Speaker 16: you create a Windows eleven installer that has a bit
Speaker 16: of a bypass, and it's little bypass requirements, like you know,
Speaker 16: we get into the weeds here, right TPM two point
Speaker 16: zero with TPM one point two instead, and but it ultimately,
Speaker 16: you know, there are tools you can look at it.
Speaker 16: You can see why is your computer not compatible? And
Speaker 16: if you can kind of look into it, and it
Speaker 16: actually isn't too hard to install, you know, Windows level
Speaker 16: with RUFUS if you want. But for the average person,
Speaker 16: you know, don't worry about it. But if you are
Speaker 16: a geek like you can, you know, dig into this
Speaker 16: and some sometimes you'd be surprised, like you may be
Speaker 16: able to just change once any of your computers like
Speaker 16: bios or u UE five firmware. Because strangely enough, like
Speaker 16: there are computers that have TPM two point out but
Speaker 16: they were shipped with it disabled and you actually have
Speaker 16: to go into bias and enable it and then it
Speaker 16: can stall Windows leven. So it's really complicated upgrade processes
Speaker 16: time around. But the good news is that Windows ten
Speaker 16: is still supported for a nearly two more years.
Speaker 1: Okay, so so I think, I think for the average user.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the website is r U f
Speaker 1: U S dot I E.
Speaker 2: But that's it. That's only if you're advanced. Don't don't
Speaker 2: go to that.
Speaker 1: If you're not, you know, if you don't know your
Speaker 1: way around BIOS and all that stuff and bootable USB
Speaker 1: drives and you know, don't you know, don't mess with
Speaker 1: your computer if you don't know that stuff. But here's
Speaker 1: my question for you, Chris, if a person's running Windows ten,
Speaker 1: do they need to upgrade to eleven because obviously they're
Speaker 1: probably getting that push notification on their system, Oh update Update,
Speaker 1: but you're saying it's you still have two years to
Speaker 1: make this decision, right.
Speaker 16: Yeah, so the upgrade will still be free up until
Speaker 16: you know, I mean, unless Microsoft changes his mind, which
Speaker 16: I doubt, the upgrade will still be free, you know,
Speaker 16: in October twenty twenty five, nearly two years from now.
Speaker 16: So if you're not, if you don't upgrade, there's don't upgrade.
Speaker 16: You can click the button to upgrade in like a
Speaker 16: year for now and sixteen months from now, so that'll
Speaker 16: that'll be that's free now, and that'll be free then
Speaker 16: if it's available, so there's no rush to upgrade.
Speaker 2: Is there a benefit to upgrading?
Speaker 13: You know?
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, you know, you know Windows eleven is good.
Speaker 16: There's some things, you know, the taskbar, you can't move
Speaker 16: the taskbar to other edges of your screen. Then there's
Speaker 16: some stuff that's different, not naturally better, but different. And
Speaker 16: one of the big things that Microsoft is pushing on
Speaker 16: now is AI and AIPCS and oh you get copilot
Speaker 16: Windows level. Well, actually, Microsoft just changed their minds and
Speaker 16: they're actually going to be delivering Copilot to Windows ten.
Speaker 16: So if you have Windows ten and you're really interested
Speaker 16: in this copilot thing, like in a few months, it's
Speaker 16: just going to be in your taskbar, just like Windows level.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's interesting.
Speaker 16: And if you're thinking, oh no, I don't want down
Speaker 16: on my PC, don't worry.
Speaker 4: You can turn it off.
Speaker 16: But but some of these, like you know, the big
Speaker 16: premier features coming to Windows ten anyway, so you know,
Speaker 16: if you're not passionate about Windows eleven, your computer's fine,
Speaker 16: then great, you know, keep using Windows ten until October
Speaker 16: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Okay, the other question I have, Uh, there's a new
Speaker 1: Outlook coming soon for Windows computers.
Speaker 2: People are getting messages about that and what we need
Speaker 2: to know about that.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 16: So so this is such a confusing topic because you know,
Speaker 16: basically Microsoft has a ton of different email clients and services, right,
Speaker 16: so you know, I'll just rattle some off, right. So
Speaker 16: we have you know, Microsoft Outlook, which is you know,
Speaker 16: the traditional desktop email Windows in Mac and so many
Speaker 16: businesses use it. And now there's something called I'll Look
Speaker 16: on the web, and that used to be called I'll
Speaker 16: look Web Access and that's actually just kind of the
Speaker 16: desktop application on the web. But then you know, you
Speaker 16: have a Luk dot com, which actually isn't you know,
Speaker 16: there isn't microloft that look, that's just what you know,
Speaker 16: it was hotmail and out outload dot com. And then
Speaker 16: there's an Outlook mobile app on phones and it's actually
Speaker 16: a whole different thing Microsoft by the startup in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 16: And then there's also a mail app on Windows and
Speaker 16: that just comes on all Windows PCs for free, and
Speaker 16: that's different from you know, mic shot Outlook, and it's
Speaker 16: all you know, it's all a mess, it's all confusing.
Speaker 16: There are too many outlooks, there are too many email
Speaker 16: products there, and then that's that's one big problem mic
Speaker 16: Slot has. Ther Microsoft problem mic Slot has is that
Speaker 16: they don't really like the old Outlook. They don't like
Speaker 16: the old business e outlook. It's this ancient kind of
Speaker 16: you know, I know a lot of people have it,
Speaker 16: so I shouldn't. It's this old code base, it's this
Speaker 16: complicated program that is just a deptop program has all
Speaker 16: these features. So Microsoft, long term we like to get
Speaker 16: rid of that. They want to have something more modern
Speaker 16: that is the same on every platform and everything. So
Speaker 16: there's something called the New Outlook and this is going
Speaker 16: to be the modern application that kind of brings everything together.
Speaker 16: So it's already out there in preview form and for
Speaker 16: now it's really just replacing the Mail app on Windows
Speaker 16: and it's you know, pretty similar to the Mail up
Speaker 16: and know this is pretty simple. And actually, this is
Speaker 16: another kind of weird confusing thing is the actually the
Speaker 16: New Outlook is based on the the code for outlook
Speaker 16: dot com, like the web web interface for outlet dot com.
Speaker 4: But it's it's a desktop.
Speaker 16: Application and it can also kind of to other email
Speaker 16: services because as you know, we may know, like modern
Speaker 16: desktop applications are becoming kind of very web based in general.
Speaker 16: So so Microsoft wants to kind of bring everything together.
Speaker 16: And you know, if you're using mail on the Mail
Speaker 16: app on Windows, you'll eventually be moved to, you know,
Speaker 16: the New Outlook. But the big thing is is that
Speaker 16: long term, Microsoft would actually love to like to move
Speaker 16: everyone to the New New Outlook, even people using the
Speaker 16: classic traditional desktop application Outlook you know, in business, and
Speaker 16: that that's going to be a while though, because like
Speaker 16: the the there's so many ad ins, there's so many
Speaker 16: weird feature, weird features, so many you know, even in
Speaker 16: Word or Excel. There's so many options that have built
Speaker 16: up in these applications for you know, twenty years, and
Speaker 16: it's going to take a while from Microsoft to bring
Speaker 16: the new Ella to a point where Microsoft can push
Speaker 16: it on you know, businesses. But Microsoft, you know, I
Speaker 16: spoke to people from Microsoft and they absolutely want to
Speaker 16: do that. So the old Outlook is on its way out.
Speaker 16: How many years it will be, I don't know. It
Speaker 16: might be quite a few years, so I wouldn't panic,
Speaker 16: but I wouldn't panic if you love the old outlook.
Speaker 16: But you know, eventually Microsoft just bring everything into this
Speaker 16: new kind of simplified, modern web based kind of Outlook application,
Speaker 16: including the Classic Outlook.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're chatting with Chris Hoffman from the Windows Intelligence newsletter.
Speaker 1: Give me a popular tip or trick for Windows that
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you shared in one of your newsletters
Speaker 1: and people seem to like it.
Speaker 2: What do we need to know?
Speaker 16: You know, I really love and recommend Microsoft Power Toys
Speaker 16: to people. It's this free package of utilities provided by
Speaker 16: Microsoft themselves, is packed with all kinds of cool stuff
Speaker 16: that you can change any key on your keyboard to
Speaker 16: functions any other key, or you can make any window
Speaker 16: always on top of other windows, or you can battery
Speaker 16: name a ton of files at once and do all
Speaker 16: kind of cool things like that. And it's the kind
Speaker 16: of stuff that you would normally have to hunt down,
Speaker 16: like twenty different prouns for online. You have to do
Speaker 16: your research, like what's the best way program for this?
Speaker 13: And that.
Speaker 16: It's twenty things and it takes forever, right, But this
Speaker 16: is just this big prepackage of tools provided by Microsoft themselves.
Speaker 16: You know, they're all fresh, they're modern, they're they don't
Speaker 16: have ads, they don't have other drunks. So I would
Speaker 16: really go look for microshoft Power Toys and you can
Speaker 16: find it in the Microsoft Store app on Windows ten
Speaker 16: or Windows eleven, Windows ten, definitely Windows eleven, and you know,
Speaker 16: or you can download it from the web.
Speaker 4: But I really love power Toys. I recommend it to everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at all the little things you can do.
Speaker 1: There's like all these like you can keep your computer awake,
Speaker 1: you can and there's just so many like fun little tweaks.
Speaker 2: Why don't they just build this stuff into into Windows?
Speaker 9: Is it?
Speaker 2: It kind of reminds me of I don't know if
Speaker 2: you use Samsung, but they have this thing.
Speaker 1: Called like what is it good luck or something where
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, they have all these like extra tools
Speaker 1: that are like for power users.
Speaker 2: I guess. I guess it's power toys.
Speaker 16: Yeah, exactly, And there was power toys back in the
Speaker 16: Windows XP days two, which I think is where the
Speaker 16: name comes from. But why isn't the Windows, I mean,
Speaker 16: answer a good question. You know, the fact that it's
Speaker 16: not in Windows means that microshoft kind of keep it updated,
Speaker 16: updating it separately, and I think in general Microsoft would
Speaker 16: like to kind of have you know, Windows have fewer
Speaker 16: things than they can kind of be updated separately more
Speaker 16: through the store anyway, So this is plus this way.
Speaker 16: You know, I bet there's all kinds of support reasons,
Speaker 16: like if it's including Windows, and if it's the business
Speaker 16: has a support contract, it's included component and microshift that
Speaker 16: support it on a business level, and you know it's
Speaker 16: just you know, it's just a free package of stuff
Speaker 16: that Microsoft provides and they don't really you know, it works, but.
Speaker 1: There's no guarantees like yeah, you're at you're running these
Speaker 1: at your own risk. I guess all right, Chrish Hoffman,
Speaker 1: we're gonna leave it there. Thanks so much for joining
Speaker 1: me today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 9: All right, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: All right, Windows Intelligence Newsletter it's the Intelligence dot Com
Speaker 1: slash Windows. If you want to get some tips and
Speaker 1: tricks about Windows and just keep up to date, it's
Speaker 1: a great resource for that. All right.
Speaker 2: Coming up, we're gonna do the feedback segment.
Speaker 1: Plus, uh, let's see, we're going to talk about Oh,
Speaker 1: these are some fighting words. The best way to listen
Speaker 1: to a podcast is actually faster than you might think.
Speaker 1: And the thirteen year old that beat Tetris, I'm so jealous.
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty to two hundred and forty effective
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Speaker 1: only sixty, but software was making them one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty or two forty. So if you're a California resident,
Speaker 1: you purchase a Visio TV after April thirtieth, twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: you can get I think it's up to fifty bucks.
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Speaker 1: over alleged misleading refresh rate claims. You know, higher refresh
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Speaker 1: from Apple, you know this is our fitness offering. They've
Speaker 1: got a couple of new things for twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: a new sound meditation theme called Sound featuring soothing tones
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Speaker 2: This is fun. If you haven't tried this, try it.
Speaker 1: Time to Walk is basically they interview like a celebrity
Speaker 1: for a walking workout, like they walk with the celebrity,
Speaker 1: but for the first time. You can get this for
Speaker 1: free through Apple Podcasts. So if you want to listen
Speaker 1: to you some Time to Walk episodes, they're going to
Speaker 1: be for free on Apple Podcasts. It's kind of nice.
Speaker 1: It makes the walk go by. I personally listen to
Speaker 1: this show, but you know that's just me.
Speaker 14: And Katie No.
Speaker 1: Topolists writing for Business Insider says the ideal speed for
Speaker 1: listening to podcasts and.
Speaker 2: Audiobooks is one point two x.
Speaker 1: Listening at one point two speed is fast enough to
Speaker 1: save time, but not so fast that you lose track
Speaker 1: of the content. You listen to audiobooks faster, and anything
Speaker 1: faster than one point two is too just too fast.
Speaker 1: She says, really you got to pay attention really close.
Speaker 1: But if you're doing one point two, it's just fast
Speaker 1: enough where you can get through the content faster, but
Speaker 1: you can still understand it. And I tried this last
Speaker 1: night with my own show, and I talked pretty fast already.
Speaker 1: I'm working on that, by the way, but one point
Speaker 1: two X I was easily able to understand what I
Speaker 1: was saying. So next time you see that little indicator
Speaker 1: on your YouTube or your podcast app, try one point
Speaker 1: two X see what happens. And a thirteen year old
Speaker 1: boy first to beat Tetris. First human, Willis Gibson, thirteen
Speaker 1: year old from Oklahoma, got so far on the original
Speaker 1: Nintendo game of Tetris that the game froze. This is
Speaker 1: known as reaching the kill screen. Previously only artificial intelligence
Speaker 1: could do this. He got through one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: seven levels of Tetris using a new rolling technique.
Speaker 2: I love me some Tetris feedback.
Speaker 1: Now, Charles says. I listen every weekend via iHeart from Rochester,
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Speaker 1: Debbie says, Happy New Year. I saw your post regarding
Speaker 1: Google Maps. We just got back from England.
Speaker 2: And Ireland.
Speaker 1: I downloaded maps of London and basically we could not
Speaker 1: use walking directions offline.
Speaker 2: I did not know that.
Speaker 1: Apparently it says transit, bicycling or walking directions are unavailable
Speaker 1: offline on Google Maps, so good to know if you're
Speaker 1: trying to save your data on an international trip iPhone.
Speaker 1: Apple Maps just added offline maps so you can try that.
Speaker 1: I believe walking directions will work, and I actually kind
Speaker 1: of prefer the walking directions on Apple Maps for international maps.
Speaker 1: They work really, really well if you have an Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: It's kind of fun.
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Speaker 1: Michael said, I'm sure someone has told you by now
Speaker 1: there's no iPhone nine.
Speaker 2: Uh, here we go. Let's see Michael. Oh, Michael's not
Speaker 2: being nice.
Speaker 1: Michael says, I give a lot of inaccurate answers, a
Speaker 1: lot in bold. I don't say that to be a jerk,
Speaker 1: but seriously, a lot. Hope this lands as intended. And Michael,
Speaker 1: if you want to host the show, be my guest.
Speaker 1: You can come over here and answer the questions anytime
Speaker 1: you want. You know, people answer questions. I'm answering these
Speaker 1: things on the fly using the knowledge that is in
Speaker 1: my brain. And of course I know there's no iPhone
Speaker 1: nine if I go back and think about it, but
Speaker 1: on the fly, as I'm counting, okay, iPhone eight. You're right,
Speaker 1: they skipped iPhone nine. They went directly to iPhone ten.
Speaker 1: So if that's enough to never listen to this show
Speaker 1: again for you, Michael, but clearly you're listening, so I
Speaker 1: guess you like something about it, right, But he wants
Speaker 1: me to change my tagline. I think he says, taking
Speaker 1: your tech questions implies you're an expert. I describe you
Speaker 1: as an enthusiast, but not an expert. And Michael, you
Speaker 1: happened upon something that is very important. I have never
Speaker 1: ever called myself an expert. I am not a tech expert.
Speaker 1: In fact, I am a tech enthusiast. And that's what
Speaker 1: I think ninety nine percent of people want. Because an
Speaker 1: expert talks an expert terms. I talk in terms that
Speaker 1: every single person can understand, and that is the entire
Speaker 1: point of this show. And so I'm not an expert.
Speaker 1: People call me an expert in tech. I don't correct them,
Speaker 1: but I never call myself a tech expert. That's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. All right, Well, thank you Michael
Speaker 1: for the feedback. It's you know, it's been fifty fifty
Speaker 1: two shows. This is fifty three, so and I take
Speaker 1: the good and the bad.
Speaker 2: Believe me, you know I have.
Speaker 1: I don't ever pretend to know everything about this stuff.
Speaker 1: And quite honestly, off the top of my head, forgetting
Speaker 1: that there is no iPhone nine, I am sad about
Speaker 1: that because I've been to every single iPhone launched since
Speaker 1: I think like the fourth iPhone or third iPhone, whatever,
Speaker 1: it was all right, if you.
Speaker 2: Can believe it, that's going to do it.
Speaker 1: For this episode of the show, you can find links
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