Speaker 1: Interesting I saw on the show floor. Chat GBT is
Speaker 1: getting into your health, Gmail is getting a big AI redesign.
Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on. I'm Rich
Speaker 1: Dmiro and this is rich on Tech. This is the
Speaker 1: show where I talk about the tech stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also the place where I
Speaker 1: answer your questions about technology. I believe that tech should
Speaker 1: be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open up those phone
Speaker 1: lines at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four two four one zero one. Give
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Speaker 1: Email is also open. Just go to the website rich
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Speaker 1: great show lined up for you today. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about cees all neat things I've seen here, plush. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to open AI about their new chat GPT
Speaker 1: health experience. Yes, chat ebt wants you to upload your
Speaker 1: health information to their chatbot so you can gain insights
Speaker 1: about yourself. That will be interesting. Well, I am here
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas for CS twenty twenty six. Now the
Speaker 1: show floor is officially closed, but I am still here
Speaker 1: after an entire week, and I have to say, I'm
Speaker 1: quite proud of myself for actually staying pretty healthy throughout
Speaker 1: the week. That is no easy feat in a city
Speaker 1: of Las Vegas, where the air is drier than any
Speaker 1: place I've been. I mean, it's really really dry, and
Speaker 1: there's one hundred thousand, over one hundred thousand people from
Speaker 1: all over the world, touching things, talking, and so this
Speaker 1: is a big show. It takes over the convention center,
Speaker 1: it takes over the surrounding hotels, it takes over the city.
Speaker 1: I have walked the floor, I've seen people, I've had meetings,
Speaker 1: have gone to dinners. It's really where the tech world
Speaker 1: comes together. Now you might be saying, rich, doesn't CS
Speaker 1: stand for Consumer Electronics Show. It not. So CS is
Speaker 1: put on by an organization called CTA, which does stand
Speaker 1: for the Consumer Technology Association. They dropped the you know
Speaker 1: CES Consumer Electronics Show moniker a while ago. Now it's
Speaker 1: just CS because it's not just gadgets. It's everything on
Speaker 1: that show floor. There is health tech, there are cars,
Speaker 1: there's AI, there's wearables. I mean, there's so many things
Speaker 1: to see. It's not just one size fits all. We're
Speaker 1: no longer talking about DVD players and radios and TVs,
Speaker 1: although TVs are still a very big part of this show. Now,
Speaker 1: I saw a ton of stuff this week. I walked
Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand steps, and I know that because
Speaker 1: all week long I wore the Samsung ring. Basically, you know,
Speaker 1: I've had this thought about smart rings, which is great.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to wear them because twenty four
Speaker 1: to seven you can get your health insights. But I
Speaker 1: don't like the idea of wearing two rings. So I
Speaker 1: politely asked my wife and said, hey, do you mind
Speaker 1: if I replace my wedding ring with a smart ring
Speaker 1: just to see how it feels, just to see how
Speaker 1: I like having this thing on. And sure enough, because
Speaker 1: I'm already used to having a ring on that finger,
Speaker 1: I had no problem all week wearing this thing, and
Speaker 1: I really kind of loved it. Like every morning I'd
Speaker 1: wake up and I'd check my sleep. Now in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: you know, sleep is very precious, especially at a show
Speaker 1: like this. I was also carrying around the Samsung S
Speaker 1: twenty five Ultra phone for capturing everything. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: why I wanted to switch from the iPhone this week,
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to see how it could do
Speaker 1: in a sort of a content creator situation, and I
Speaker 1: gotta say I was very impressed that thing really kept up,
Speaker 1: and I kind of remembered just how less, how many
Speaker 1: less taps it takes to do things on an Android
Speaker 1: than an iPhone, And voice to text on Android is
Speaker 1: infinitely better than on an iPhone. It's like you tap
Speaker 1: once you're already talking to text, or you're already talking
Speaker 1: to search. It's so much easier. The bummer was I
Speaker 1: could not find a signal in this entire town, and
Speaker 1: I was carrying around phones all the carriers. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the deal is with Las Vegas, but all
Speaker 1: throughout the convention center, all throughout the hotels, in the
Speaker 1: you know, the bottoms of these hotels, there is just
Speaker 1: no signal. So I'm sitting there trying to post all
Speaker 1: my stuff to social media and it was just almost impossible.
Speaker 1: Now at my hotel, I will tell you I did
Speaker 1: use a hack that was actually really good that I
Speaker 1: want to share. So, you know, you go to these
Speaker 1: hotels nowadays, it used to be you can connect as
Speaker 1: many devices as you want. And I guess this depends
Speaker 1: on the hotel you stay at. But where I'm staying
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars if you connect more than two devices, and
Speaker 1: I was like, no way, I've got like twenty devices
Speaker 1: I need to connect. So here's what you can do.
Speaker 1: If you have an Android phone, you can turn that
Speaker 1: into a mobile router where it not just shares a
Speaker 1: hotspot connection from your cellular which of course draws from
Speaker 1: your cellular data. It can take that hotel Wi Fi
Speaker 1: connection and actually reshare it. Even if you have to
Speaker 1: log in, it will still do that. And this is
Speaker 1: a thing that not many people know, not many people
Speaker 1: realize or use. This doesn't work on the iPhone, it's
Speaker 1: only on Androids, but if you want to know how
Speaker 1: to do it, it's on the Samsung. I'll put the
Speaker 1: link in the show notes. But it's Wi Fi tethering,
Speaker 1: and it is such a helpful thing because I basically
Speaker 1: connected my one Samsung phone to the hotel's internet, and
Speaker 1: then I connected all of my other devices to the
Speaker 1: Samsung device the Wi Fi hotspot, which again is not
Speaker 1: pulling from cellular. It was pulling from the hotel's Wi Fi,
Speaker 1: which I think is brilliant.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell this story because it's really sad,
Speaker 1: but I did something very stupid this week. And there's
Speaker 1: a reason I'm telling you this because I thought the
Speaker 1: technology behind it was kind of interesting. So I went
Speaker 1: to this event. The first night I got here. It's
Speaker 1: at the Mandalay Bay and I had to park. You know,
Speaker 1: the parking lot was cramped and crowded, so I pulled
Speaker 1: into one of these spots. I wedged my car in
Speaker 1: there well. As I was pulling out at the end
Speaker 1: of the night, I was really close to a poll
Speaker 1: and I was talking to my wife on the phone
Speaker 1: and the kids, and I came like one inch away from,
Speaker 1: you know, clipping my side view mirror, right my driver's
Speaker 1: side mirror. And I was like, oh, that was a
Speaker 1: close call. Oh my gosh. And so I get back
Speaker 1: to my hotel, I valet my car. I don't think
Speaker 1: about it for the rest of the week. I get
Speaker 1: down to the valet to get my car. It comes
Speaker 1: back with this big, giant scrape on the driver's side
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, you guys, I think you
Speaker 1: scratched my car. They said, no, we didn't. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: you did, and they said because I told the guys,
Speaker 1: the valet guys, the story about almost hitting my car,
Speaker 1: they said, no, we remember you told us you almost
Speaker 1: hit your car. You did hit your car. I said what,
Speaker 1: and they said, well, we have cameras that can show
Speaker 1: when you entered the garage, like the valet garage. Every
Speaker 1: time the valet brings a car into the garage, it
Speaker 1: captures photos of it, kind of like that hurts Ai
Speaker 1: thing I was telling you about last weekend. So they
Speaker 1: do that, which I thought was brilliant. And so they
Speaker 1: showed me my car. They show it clearly going in
Speaker 1: at the time I brought it in, and they said, yeah,
Speaker 1: it already had the problem on your car and on
Speaker 1: this door. I said, Oh my gosh, I am so sorry.
Speaker 1: It's been such a long week. I completely forgot I
Speaker 1: did that. But how stupid am I that I hit
Speaker 1: my car. I didn't even look at the door because
Speaker 1: I thought I didn't hit it. So now I got
Speaker 1: to get my car fixed. Oh my gosh, brand new car.
Speaker 1: Not fun. But I will say it's very smart of
Speaker 1: this hotel, and I'm sure other valets do that. Of
Speaker 1: taking a picture of every single car, all they do
Speaker 1: is scan my ticket brought it right to that picture,
Speaker 1: and that's very smart because I bet a lot of
Speaker 1: people try to get over on the system and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you guys messed up my car. Now you get to pay,
Speaker 1: and they say not so fast. So I thought that
Speaker 1: was good, even though I'm really sad that I need to.
Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things where you're spending
Speaker 1: money to get back to where you were, Like I'm
Speaker 1: going to repair my car just to get it back
Speaker 1: to where it was, which is always the worst spending
Speaker 1: of money. Instagram this week, if you got one of
Speaker 1: those password reset emails, it seems like it's some sort
Speaker 1: of system issue. I would not engage with it. So
Speaker 1: the first time I got the text from someone, they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's this deal? Why'd I get this email? I said,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Usually that's when someone tries to get
Speaker 1: into your account. Then I get another email from someone,
Speaker 1: Hey I'm getting this. They send me a screenshop. Then
Speaker 1: I get another one. Then my wife sends it to me,
Speaker 1: then my mom sends it to me. Then a couple
Speaker 1: other people on Instagram, Hey, rich what's going on. That's
Speaker 1: when I realize it's a trend and something's happening. So
Speaker 1: that's when I post and on Instagram and said, hey,
Speaker 1: if you're getting one of these things, you might want
Speaker 1: to be on the lookout. Don't engage with this email
Speaker 1: because I'm not sure what's happening. So if you get
Speaker 1: one of those emails it says, hey, on Instagram, we
Speaker 1: got a request to reset your password. Just leave it
Speaker 1: alone for now because we don't know what's happening. The
Speaker 1: good news is this is a reminder to tell you
Speaker 1: use a strong, unique password. If this is a hack
Speaker 1: where someone got access to a whole bunch of passwords
Speaker 1: and they're trying to log into accounts, anyone who has
Speaker 1: a weak password, they're going to get into your account.
Speaker 1: So make sure you have a strong password on. Make
Speaker 1: sure you have two factor authentication turned on. That is
Speaker 1: very important. All right, So at CS throughout the show,
Speaker 1: I'm going to sprinkle the show with all the cool
Speaker 1: stuff I saw. I'll tell you a couple of things
Speaker 1: right now, but overall, themes Ai Huge Ai one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things we saw there. It was in just
Speaker 1: about every product. Every company is throwing whatever they can
Speaker 1: at the wall to see what sticks. Robots I cannot
Speaker 1: tell you. I don't think I've ever seen more robots
Speaker 1: under one roof in one place in my entire life.
Speaker 1: And that was my most viral video from CS I
Speaker 1: posted a whole bunch of stuff at Richon Tech on Instagram.
Speaker 1: My video that went viral with almost six million views
Speaker 1: in counting. Is a human fighting a robot in a
Speaker 1: boxing ring at the unitary booth. Yes, a human fighting robot. Now,
Speaker 1: I think he was throwing pretty easy punches at this robot.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you, when robots are throwing punches
Speaker 1: back at humans, that is scary. And the other thing
Speaker 1: about these robots because right now, it takes a lot
Speaker 1: of time for these robots to learn how to do
Speaker 1: things that humans can do in seconds, Like they had
Speaker 1: all these laundry folding robots and things. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: that really stuck with me. One of the people I
Speaker 1: interviewed said, before we had to program these robots, there
Speaker 1: there's no data to show a robot how to fold laundry.
Speaker 1: But in the future, as these robots are walking around
Speaker 1: and they're learning about the world around them, they're going
Speaker 1: to start collecting data about wait, hold on, how do
Speaker 1: you fold laundry, how do you open a car door,
Speaker 1: how do you sweep a floor, how do you help
Speaker 1: someone or how do you hold their hand without crushing it.
Speaker 1: They're going to start learning because they're going to collect
Speaker 1: all this data from the world in real world circumstances,
Speaker 1: not just seeing it, but physically doing it themselves and
Speaker 1: making it better and better and better, and then sharing
Speaker 1: that knowledge with other robots. So that is a paradigm
Speaker 1: shift in our world because of AI. No longer do
Speaker 1: you have to sit there and say, okay, all this
Speaker 1: lines of code to say how to lift your hand
Speaker 1: and turn it and swap it and do this. No,
Speaker 1: now the robot learns on its own because of AI.
Speaker 1: That is a major shift in how fast we're going
Speaker 1: to see these robots develop from here on out. Right now,
Speaker 1: you may watch some of these videos on my Instagram, say,
Speaker 1: Rich those robots, you know, yeah, sure they can do
Speaker 1: this and that, but they're not really helpful. We are
Speaker 1: going to see an acceleration like never before in the
Speaker 1: next couple of years because of AI and because of
Speaker 1: what these robots can learn on their own. So check
Speaker 1: that out for sure. All right, I'll be telling you
Speaker 1: more about some of this stuff. I mean, I saw
Speaker 1: a robot that can climb the stairs, a vacuum robot. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see. I saw a vending machine that three D
Speaker 1: prints chocolate. I saw snap on nails, press on nails
Speaker 1: that change color digitally, a lollipop that plays music, so
Speaker 1: much more. I'll tell you all about CS twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six right here on rich on Tech plus your calls
Speaker 1: at Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining me in Las Vegas. More rich on Tech coming
Speaker 1: your way right after this. Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Yes, coming
Speaker 1: to you live from Las Vegas today, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite cities. I love coming to Las Vegas. I know
Speaker 1: not everyone does. I posted on my Facebook Facebook dot
Speaker 1: com slash rich on Tech and I said vaggas love
Speaker 1: it or not for you, and the comments came flowing in.
Speaker 1: A lot of people love it, A lot of people
Speaker 1: think it's fun. A lot of people think it's gotten
Speaker 1: very expensive, which it has. I've been coming to Las
Speaker 1: Vegas long enough to remember the ads for ninety nine
Speaker 1: cent shrimp cocktail. I never took advantage of that, And
Speaker 1: now I don't think you can because now that same
Speaker 1: shrimp cocktail is like ninety nine dollars and it's a
Speaker 1: seafood tower of shrimp cocktail. But here's what I love
Speaker 1: about Vegas. When adults come to Las Vegas, they come
Speaker 1: to enjoy themselves, right Like everyone here wants to have
Speaker 1: a good time. And I think that's very unique for
Speaker 1: a city because you walk around, people are smiling, they're laughing,
Speaker 1: they're with their friends. They usually have a little group
Speaker 1: of folks with them, and it's just kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying everyone, you know, there's definitely some
Speaker 1: people here that you see them and you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: you feel a little sad. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: people that are flying into Las Vegas, they are definitely
Speaker 1: here to take advantage of some downtime, be an adult,
Speaker 1: enjoy some you know, nice food, nice play, nice shows, whatever.
Speaker 1: And it's just kind of a different atmosphere than a
Speaker 1: lot of places. It's almost like a vacation every single day,
Speaker 1: which of course makes it interesting when you're here for
Speaker 1: something like a big technology show like CES, because the
Speaker 1: whole rest of the city is partying and you're trying
Speaker 1: to work, so it's definitely a different dynamic for sure.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the first caller, Arnold in Rancho Cucamonga,
Speaker 1: Line one, Arnold, you're on with Rich Arnold? Are you there?
Speaker 2: My Microsoft subscription to a Microsoft perpetual license and then
Speaker 2: so then I was unable to access it. So I
Speaker 2: changed to Libert Office because it was free to get
Speaker 2: access to my word documents. But then when I try
Speaker 2: and save, I get an air message I finally got
Speaker 2: access to. And then when I try and save my
Speaker 2: MS word documents, I get this air message It says, sorry,
Speaker 2: we can't open htpps A, doots, live, whatever, all this stuff.
Speaker 2: And if I click okay to exit that error message,
Speaker 2: it takes me to this UH to save the file
Speaker 2: to the thing it says users arenal app data roaming
Speaker 2: Microsoft Windows network shortcuts. But this all seemed to and
Speaker 2: then what happened was it seemed to be related to
Speaker 2: my subscription expireds that my one drive. It tells me
Speaker 2: that there's not enough cloud storage, and it asked me
Speaker 2: either to upgrade but ord to free up space, and
Speaker 2: I can't. I'm unable to free up space, so I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's two separate issues.
Speaker 3: Hope that makes sense.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't really make sense. I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 1: So what are you trying to You're trying to double
Speaker 1: click a file on your computer and it's not opening,
Speaker 1: and it's saying it's this weird like HTTP, like almost
Speaker 1: like a web r L.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's like when I'm working on a word file and
Speaker 2: then I go to save it, and because I'm getting
Speaker 2: the message saying this file is like unsaved and you
Speaker 2: need to save it, and it's just it's just continually reads.
Speaker 2: It has the name of the files that's saving. It's
Speaker 2: just continually saving.
Speaker 5: And I don't want to save that from just in
Speaker 5: a word, just a word file of my you know,
Speaker 5: a word file that I'm working on, you know.
Speaker 1: In the Libra office.
Speaker 2: I changed I did.
Speaker 5: Get rid of the lever stuff and I changed it
Speaker 5: back to word. I changed a bunch of things in
Speaker 5: the settings that I'm back to my I was finally
Speaker 5: able to get into my I believe it's my perpetual
Speaker 5: license and I'm so I'm back to.
Speaker 3: Using a word.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it sounds like, are you trying to save
Speaker 1: it to the cloud or to your hard drive.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to save it to my hard drive, but
Speaker 2: so I turn off the I turn off that open
Speaker 2: the yeah, but it always pops up and I can't
Speaker 2: seem to get rid of it. And I don't want
Speaker 2: I never wanted to save to one drive, but I
Speaker 2: can't get rid of that red dot and white X
Speaker 2: on all these files. Now they just sitting there.
Speaker 1: Okay, well it sounds it sounds like your one drive
Speaker 1: is completely filled up. That's what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 1: So it is. I would I would go in there
Speaker 1: and you can do this maybe from the web interface.
Speaker 1: To make life easier for you. You got to go
Speaker 1: in there and either drag some files out, delete some files,
Speaker 1: and just free up space. And I think that should
Speaker 1: solve a lot of the problems.
Speaker 2: And the problem I can't find those. So when I
Speaker 2: can't find where to do that at, I don't see
Speaker 2: any files.
Speaker 1: Just go to OneDrive dot live dot com and that'll
Speaker 1: bring you to your files as long as you're logged
Speaker 1: in on your Microsoft account. You have to be logged
Speaker 1: in on the same account, So if you go there,
Speaker 1: that'll bring your files and you can see I'll say,
Speaker 1: you know, home my files shared, and I can see
Speaker 1: right at the bottom it should say storage how much
Speaker 1: storage is being used out of your If you're just
Speaker 1: on the free version, you got five gigabytes, so I
Speaker 1: would do that would also empty the recycling bin. Depends
Speaker 1: on the cloud service. Some cloud services count the recycling
Speaker 1: bin as storage, some do not, So it just sort
Speaker 1: of depends on the different cloud storage that you're using,
Speaker 1: so you can check that. But I think it sounds
Speaker 1: like a lot of these issues are related to the
Speaker 1: cloud storage being overfilled, and so it's trying to save
Speaker 1: things on the cloud storage and it can't. Now if
Speaker 1: you want to save them in a different location when
Speaker 1: you're in word, you know, just use that menu to
Speaker 1: save as into a different location on your hard drive.
Speaker 1: But then you have to worry about your stuff not
Speaker 1: being in sync or not being backed up rather, and
Speaker 1: so I would recommend that you probably use one edrive
Speaker 1: just because it's better to have things in the cloud.
Speaker 1: If this is all very frustrating to you, you can
Speaker 1: also just switch to Google Docs and you can use
Speaker 1: Google Docs on the web. It's completely free. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna have any issues with this stuff. They're going to
Speaker 1: give you fifteen gigabytes of storage, so you do have
Speaker 1: some options there. And then Microsoft does have a web
Speaker 1: version of their apps as well, so if you type
Speaker 1: in Office three sixty five web app, they should have
Speaker 1: some free versions of those as well. It says free
Speaker 1: Microsoft three sixty five online. Thanks for the call. Arnold
Speaker 1: eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking
Speaker 1: technology at triple eight Rich one O one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four two four one zero one. Let's go
Speaker 1: to let's see what we have here. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Mike in Minnesota. Line is that that is line three I. I.
Speaker 1: You know, Bobo has to uh, since it's a remote show,
Speaker 1: Bobo has to bring up the caller. So that's why
Speaker 1: I'm calling out the lines in case you know a
Speaker 1: little behind the scenes information for you. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: calling out the lines today. Mike, thanks for joining. What
Speaker 1: what can we help you with today? What's going on? Hey?
Speaker 4: So I've got Mike, so I've got uh do looking
Speaker 4: for it? So I got Mike. I was able to
Speaker 4: fix my router. So I was able to because the
Speaker 4: night Night Hawk app is accessible for visually impaired. So
Speaker 4: the the thing I wanted to know is how do
Speaker 4: I get rid of or not get rid of, Like
Speaker 4: how do I disable Microsoft Edge on my co gutter
Speaker 4: because it's like the co pilot. I don't like that,
Speaker 4: It's it's really irritating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you have to set your default app. So
Speaker 1: uninstalling Edge from Windows is it might be possible, but
Speaker 1: it's not easy, and I don't think it's for the uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the average person to do because they've sort
Speaker 1: of built it into the entire program, right, it's built
Speaker 1: directly into the operating system. So but what you can
Speaker 1: do is you can easily set Google Chrome as your default.
Speaker 1: So there's a couple of ways you can do this.
Speaker 1: You can either go into Chrome and in the settings.
Speaker 1: So you can go into Chrome and then you know,
Speaker 1: tap those three little lines in the upper right hand
Speaker 1: corner tap settings, and then you can go into default
Speaker 1: and see where it says default browser on the left
Speaker 1: hand sid. You can tap that and then it'll say
Speaker 1: Google Chrome is your default browser. So that's how you
Speaker 1: can confirm if it is or not. If it's not,
Speaker 1: then you've got to go into your search and just
Speaker 1: type in defaults and it'll bring up default apps and
Speaker 1: you tap that, and now you can go down to
Speaker 1: Chrome that's installed. And let's see here trying to find
Speaker 1: Google Chrome. Here it's set to faults for application on
Speaker 1: a search Chrome. Okay, now I search Chrome, tap Google Chrome,
Speaker 1: and now at the top it says make Google Chrome
Speaker 1: your default browser. And so if you look at my
Speaker 1: list right now, it's a mishmash like some things are Chrome,
Speaker 1: some things are Edge. I'm gonna tap set default and
Speaker 1: now all the important stuff will switch over to Google Chrome.
Speaker 1: And then when you're trying to open up documents and links,
Speaker 1: it will open in Google Chrome. It's not gonna get
Speaker 1: rid of the edge browser completely, but it will get
Speaker 1: rid of when you try to open things up in
Speaker 1: different apps that they open up into the Edge browser.
Speaker 1: So's it's one of those things that you know, it
Speaker 1: should be a little bit more straightforward. On Windows. I
Speaker 1: feel like they should get people more of an option,
Speaker 1: maybe like a one switch to turn off these things
Speaker 1: like Copilot. I'm looking in here, I've got Copilot. I
Speaker 1: think there is a setting to make sure that you
Speaker 1: know it doesn't come up as much. Let me see
Speaker 1: if I go, I remember looking at this one time.
Speaker 1: Oh that's recall. Okay, that's a whole other thing. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, let's let's not open that can of worms.
Speaker 1: Recall is the feature that basically remembers everything that comes
Speaker 1: across your screen on your Windows PC. So I think
Speaker 1: it's turned off by default. I have it turned on
Speaker 1: just for testing purposes, but actually forgot. But it's interesting
Speaker 1: because the first clue is that to even open up
Speaker 1: the app, they wanted me to put in my code
Speaker 1: because you know, there could be some very private information
Speaker 1: in there. But again, Mike, you can do that by
Speaker 1: just going into the settings uh default apps and switching
Speaker 1: that over and hopefully that should help. But yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, Windows, they do give you a
Speaker 1: lot of options, and power users know how to kind
Speaker 1: of tweak every single little thing. But I think the
Speaker 1: average person just kind of deals with what Microsoft gives them.
Speaker 1: And that's what companies like because most people are not
Speaker 1: changing the defaults. They're just using whatever they get, and
Speaker 1: that is an advantage for these companies that want to
Speaker 1: propagate their software to everyone. Thanks for the call. Eight
Speaker 1: eight eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Glad you got
Speaker 1: the other. I remember Mike called a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago about another question with his router, and he actually
Speaker 1: got that fixed, which is great to hear. Let's see
Speaker 1: what let me tell you more about CS some of
Speaker 1: these things I saw. Okay, so I guess I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the oddest thing that I saw. And I've got
Speaker 1: it right here. I'm not even you can hear the
Speaker 1: packaging a gadget call. Now at CES, there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, right, there's like stuff you might see
Speaker 1: in the future, stuff you may never see, prototypes, concepts,
Speaker 1: stuff that's coming out, you know. Like TCL they launched
Speaker 1: their new flagship TV and they made it available that day,
Speaker 1: Like that's never done practically. Most companies announce stuff and
Speaker 1: then it's another three to six months before you can
Speaker 1: actually get it. TCL actually made their TV. Let me
Speaker 1: see if I can get the the actual name of
Speaker 1: the TV, because I went to this whole big TCL briefing. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it is the let's see what it was. It was
Speaker 1: the Oh yes, it's the sq D. So their TCL
Speaker 1: SQD X eleven l that's their twenty twenty six flagship
Speaker 1: X eleven l SQD Mini LED And this thing is
Speaker 1: like super It looks amazing, by the way, Like this
Speaker 1: TV is incredible, Like the screen is so good, it's
Speaker 1: almost old. Like they showed it next to an olead
Speaker 1: and it looked better than an OLEAD. So I was
Speaker 1: very impressed with this thing. But what they did was
Speaker 1: they made it available the same day they announced it,
Speaker 1: which is like, no one does that. So I love
Speaker 1: that because like people like me that want something, you
Speaker 1: don't have to wait another three to six months for it.
Speaker 1: But this this odd gadget that I have in my
Speaker 1: hands here, it's called Lollipop Star, and it is a
Speaker 1: lollipop that plays music in your head. So when you
Speaker 1: put this thing in your mouth, uses bone conduction technology
Speaker 1: to let you hear music. So a lot of headphones
Speaker 1: and earplugs are at earplugs, you know, earbuds will use
Speaker 1: bone conduction or not really earbuds, I guess it's really
Speaker 1: it kind of going the outside of your ear. And
Speaker 1: so this lollipop uses that same technology, and so you
Speaker 1: turn the thing on. It's a real lollipop, but the
Speaker 1: bottom of the stick has like electronics built in and
Speaker 1: then you can hear music. And this one I have
Speaker 1: is from Ice Spice. It's a pink peach pink frost
Speaker 1: and it's a white peach strawberry ice lollipop and you
Speaker 1: put it in your mouth and you basically hear music.
Speaker 1: It plays up to sixty minutes and when it's over,
Speaker 1: that's it. You got to throw out the whole thing,
Speaker 1: which is kind of wasteful because it's a one time
Speaker 1: used thing, but and it's also unique. Nine dollars for
Speaker 1: the lollipop, lollipop stars the name. But here's what I
Speaker 1: love about ces. This is and this is why I
Speaker 1: think if you, if you own a small business, if
Speaker 1: you are someone it has like a little candy shop
Speaker 1: or something, you need to come to shows like this.
Speaker 1: Why because you need something that is on the cutting
Speaker 1: edge to attract customers to your business. And so if
Speaker 1: you run a candy shop, I saw a machine that
Speaker 1: three D prints chocolate figurines. You want that in your
Speaker 1: candy shop because it's gonna give you an advantage over
Speaker 1: when people are walking down some main street and some
Speaker 1: little vacation city they're going to and they come at
Speaker 1: your candy shop and they see the same old candy,
Speaker 1: you know, the salty saltwater taffy and the gummy bears
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Okay, I've seen all this stuff.
Speaker 1: They'll walk around for a minute. But when you have
Speaker 1: an attraction like this, like a lollipop that plays music,
Speaker 1: yeah it's silly, but it's something nobody's seen before. So
Speaker 1: now you're gonna have that curiosity factor of someone's gonna
Speaker 1: come in. They've got discretionary money, they're on vacation, they're
Speaker 1: gonna buy it, and now you've just made more money
Speaker 1: for your business. Same thing with this machine. It's called
Speaker 1: the Choco Print chalco Print. This is one of the
Speaker 1: videos that also is going viral on my Instagram rich
Speaker 1: on tech. This is a vending machine that three D
Speaker 1: prints chocolate figurines. Now people are debating the merits of it.
Speaker 1: The company that was demoing it made a mistake. The
Speaker 1: mistake is that they put the sample price, like the
Speaker 1: price on the screen was like twenty dollars for the figurine,
Speaker 1: which is not really what people are going to be paying.
Speaker 1: They said it's more like five to six dollars. So
Speaker 1: when you're demoing a machine. Don't put a really expensive
Speaker 1: price on the screen because people are all fixated on
Speaker 1: the price, which is not really representative what people are
Speaker 1: actually going to pay for this thing, this little figurine.
Speaker 1: So you pick your design. It makes a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of different designs, everything from like little rabbits to you know,
Speaker 1: different NFL helmets, whatever, And then you choose your design.
Speaker 1: You take a tray, you put it in the machine,
Speaker 1: and some people are saying, Okay, I don't like that
Speaker 1: because people are putting their hands into the machine. And
Speaker 1: then the little three D print head prints out the
Speaker 1: design with chocolate, and it takes about, you know, three
Speaker 1: to four minutes for this to happen. You get to
Speaker 1: watch it, so you get to show and then it
Speaker 1: pops out, little figurine. You can keep it, you can
Speaker 1: eat it, you can show your friends. You'll probably take
Speaker 1: a picture of it and post it to social media.
Speaker 1: And the machine itself is about twelve thousand dollars. Nobody's
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not saying you're buying that machine unless
Speaker 1: you ran a small business. But you can see how
Speaker 1: you can make a return on this. But again, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that this machine is going to succeed or fail.
Speaker 1: But it's one of these things where when you are
Speaker 1: and this is kind of like why I go to
Speaker 1: all this stuff, you have to be aware of what's
Speaker 1: out there so that when people ask you about things,
Speaker 1: you know what the market has and what it doesn't have.
Speaker 1: So there's so many things like that. I saw another
Speaker 1: idea in the market. Now I'm gonna I'll talk about this,
Speaker 1: but there's this little there's this little section that I
Speaker 1: personally love of CS called Eureka Park. These are all
Speaker 1: the kind of scrappy startups from all over the world,
Speaker 1: and they usually have just one little product that they
Speaker 1: are just launching. I think that one of the people
Speaker 1: told me the product has to launch at CS, like
Speaker 1: it can't be something that's been on the market. Has
Speaker 1: to at least a new version or a new feature.
Speaker 1: But one of these things was a digital lock for
Speaker 1: bathrooms at like a gas station, and you would have
Speaker 1: to tap to pay to get into the lock, which
Speaker 1: I thought was really interesting. It is called flush Locks USA,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna start selling this thing and it just
Speaker 1: looks like a digital lock for your front door, except
Speaker 1: it's got a screen pad, it's got number keys, on it.
Speaker 1: It's got tap to pay and you can open this
Speaker 1: bathroom door by yourself if you pay the dollar ninety
Speaker 1: nine for access. Now you may be saying rich, that's
Speaker 1: so evil. I have public restrooms. A public restroom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: have you been to public restroom lately? They're horrific. I mean,
Speaker 1: the things that have happened in there are like I
Speaker 1: don't even know. And so I would gladly pay a
Speaker 1: dollar for a clean restroom on a road trip. Why not?
Speaker 1: And so this company's gonna start putting these things in
Speaker 1: the marketplace. We'll see. I don't know if that's gonna work.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what the rules and regulation are.
Speaker 1: But a lot of these places you go into, they're like, sorry,
Speaker 1: no public restroom. But if you're making money on your
Speaker 1: restroom and people are happy to pay for a clean restroom,
Speaker 1: I think it's a win win situation for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. So again, all these ideas you see at CS.
Speaker 1: It's still a place where new ideas take flight, and
Speaker 1: I love to be there for that. And I've got
Speaker 1: many more to tell you about. I got to tell
Speaker 1: you about these color changing press on nails. Unbelievable. I
Speaker 1: don't know how they work, but that's a wild thing.
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. More rich
Speaker 1: on Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology. Triple eight rich one O one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. Let's
Speaker 1: go to line one. We've got Mike on Mark on
Speaker 1: the line in Seattle. Mark, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Rich, Hey, I have a VRBO and I would
Speaker 3: like remotely control the heat, you know, control the heat
Speaker 3: with the guests they make sure the heats off. And
Speaker 3: i'd also like to if if it's possible to have
Speaker 3: a door that I could change the combinations to remotely,
Speaker 3: because currently I just have a key box that I'm
Speaker 3: manually set, and I have a manual thermostat, and a
Speaker 3: lot of times the guests will even though they're started
Speaker 3: to turn the heat down, they don't cuss. It eats
Speaker 3: into my funds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well you just gotta you gotta go with digital,
Speaker 1: a digital door lock and a digital thermostat. So what
Speaker 1: do you have right now for those things you just
Speaker 1: you said you have a lock box or just a physical.
Speaker 3: Everything's just manual. Now. The thermostat's you know, battery operated
Speaker 3: like digital thermostat and it controls electric heat.
Speaker 1: Do you have a Wi Fi cant? Do you have
Speaker 1: a router or Wi Fi connection?
Speaker 3: Yes, d r bo if you have a dr bio
Speaker 3: in this neck of the witch, you need to have
Speaker 3: a high speed internet, so yes, I do.
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect. So I was gonna say, I mean, I
Speaker 1: you know, unless people are trying to stay there to
Speaker 1: disconnect from everything, you gotta have you gotta have Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: I mean that would be a problem if you didn't. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well you can. So I have one of these locks
Speaker 1: on my door, like the smart lock, and basically you
Speaker 1: can create different codes for different people, so you can
Speaker 1: do it right from the app. You can do it instantly.
Speaker 1: It will update. Now I'm looking online right now, and
Speaker 1: it's interesting because you're using Verbo. It looks like some
Speaker 1: of these actually integrate with the app, so I would
Speaker 1: look to see it right now, I'm only seeing it.
Speaker 1: Looks like Airbnb has a couple of models that integrate
Speaker 1: with the app, which means when someone rents a place
Speaker 1: on Airbnb, it generates a code for the front door
Speaker 1: and then it sends it to your lock, so that
Speaker 1: person has a unique code and that's it. It only works
Speaker 1: for them when they flog in, which is, by the way,
Speaker 1: would be a lot less work for you.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, how often I might lose some control over
Speaker 3: it too. I don't just go through rent it from
Speaker 3: vrbo iver in it through other sources also.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, the good news is you it's easy to
Speaker 1: do this, so you've got I mean, Schlague is the
Speaker 1: one that I've tested that I like. It works and
Speaker 1: you can definitely do that remotely. So you would just
Speaker 1: get one of these. I mean, they have a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of different ones, but the encode plus uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just look for one of those that they have and
Speaker 1: they will let you change the codes from the app
Speaker 1: and you can have up to one hundred codes. Now,
Speaker 1: you probably want one that's a little bit more reinforced
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be used by a lot of people, right,
Speaker 1: so you want to make sure you're getting a heavy
Speaker 1: duty one that's number one. Yale is another brand that
Speaker 1: has one that you know is obviously very popular as well.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to look at this one let's see, uh,
Speaker 1: it's got some good weather resistance and it's got the
Speaker 1: Wi Fi connect. Okay, that's good. And then let's see okay,
Speaker 1: and then there's one called Lockley. That one's interesting. I'm
Speaker 1: not familiar with that, but it's it's coming up here
Speaker 1: and it's saying that basically, it can issue offline access code,
Speaker 1: so if the internet connection ever happened to go down,
Speaker 1: it would still work with a code offline, which could
Speaker 1: be interesting. But it looks like a lot of these
Speaker 1: things can have up to one hundred codes at one time,
Speaker 1: so you could either rotate through those codes or just
Speaker 1: give you know, sign people a code however you want
Speaker 1: to do it. But that's definitely easily doable. So that's
Speaker 1: number one. When it comes to the thermostat, I would say,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's really two thermostats out there that are
Speaker 1: good for this sort of thing. I would say the
Speaker 1: Nest thermostat is kind of like, you know, it's the
Speaker 1: thermostat that invented the entire genre of smart thermostats. So
Speaker 1: the neat thing about the Nest thermostat, and a lot
Speaker 1: of the other ones do this too, is that they
Speaker 1: do have presence sensing built in, so even if the
Speaker 1: people leave this airbeing or this verbo and they forget
Speaker 1: to turn it down like you ask them to, this
Speaker 1: thermostat is smart enough to know when everyone leaves the
Speaker 1: house and it's vacated, it will automatically fault to the
Speaker 1: temperature that you set in the app to go, or
Speaker 1: you could just go into the app and manually set that.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of ways to do that. But
Speaker 1: those are the two things that you need to get
Speaker 1: this set up. And I think your your guests will
Speaker 1: really appreciate that. I think a lot of them will
Speaker 1: know how to use the nest, so I would probably
Speaker 1: go with that. The other, the other one that a
Speaker 1: lot of people like is called ecob or echo be
Speaker 1: on how I say it, but it's that's they make
Speaker 1: smart thermostats that a lot of people like as well,
Speaker 1: and they also have thermostats that have those presence detection
Speaker 1: sensors in them as well. So those are your options, Mark,
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna really help you out there. Pretty cool.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a nice little business to have. You
Speaker 1: got those got that rental property, you got people coming in.
Speaker 1: I you know, I've only stayed in a handful of
Speaker 1: these airbnbs or these verbos. I think they're really interesting.
Speaker 1: I think that you know, it's it serves such a
Speaker 1: purpose for what you want to do. Right, Like if
Speaker 1: you're like we had you know, my my mother in
Speaker 1: law's birthday at like this giant house that we rented, right,
Speaker 1: you can't you can't have two four, six, eight, ten, twelve,
Speaker 1: you know, twelve people in a how in a hotel room?
Speaker 1: Like you just can't do that. I mean maybe there's
Speaker 1: an hotel room, but it's like, you know, and plus
Speaker 1: you had this great estate, you had this great pool,
Speaker 1: so it's really amazing. How again, when you look at
Speaker 1: what Airbnb invented, And I went to the Airbnb event
Speaker 1: this year where you know the guy who started it,
Speaker 1: he just Brian Cheskey talks about you know, how he
Speaker 1: came up with this idea and it was just literally
Speaker 1: him and a couple of people in San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: I think there was a conference coming to town, and
Speaker 1: he said, hey, why don't we put some like air
Speaker 1: mattresses on the floor and rent them out to people
Speaker 1: that are coming to this conference it's like a tech conference.
Speaker 1: And sure enough that is now a multi billion dollar company,
Speaker 1: and people have made a living getting places, renting places,
Speaker 1: making their places great.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so amazing that when you think
Speaker 1: about and I guess I'm just inspired right now because
Speaker 1: of everything I saw at CES. There's still so many
Speaker 1: ideas out there that there's just waiting to be born.
Speaker 1: And you know, people may be frustrated, they may say, oh,
Speaker 1: everything's been thought of. Sometimes all you have to do
Speaker 1: is modify an idea to make it better. I mean,
Speaker 1: who would have thought that a guy with an air
Speaker 1: mattress would take on Marriot. If you told me that,
Speaker 1: you'd say, no, way, you can't. Mariot's got a hotel
Speaker 1: in every every single city in the world. And you know,
Speaker 1: now people stay in Airbnb. It's a it's a proprietary eponym.
Speaker 1: No one said, you know, no one says I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stay in Marriot. They say I'm gonna stay in a hotel,
Speaker 1: but they do say I'm gonna stay in Airbnb. Eighty
Speaker 1: eight Rich one O one eighty eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one more after this, Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich On Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology. Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. I
Speaker 1: am looking at an incredible view right now of the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas sphere. Wizard of Oz is playing today at
Speaker 1: eleven am and two pm. Buy tickets now I can
Speaker 1: see that. Yeah, if you have not seen this fear
Speaker 1: in real life, it is quite incredible. It's been outside
Speaker 1: my hotel room. Yes, I'm broadcasting live from Las Vegas
Speaker 1: this week because of CS and CS is the big
Speaker 1: technology show that everyone from around the world pretty much attends.
Speaker 1: Not open to the public, by the way, so don't
Speaker 1: try to come. We were talking to some folks at
Speaker 1: the bar last night and he said, Oh, I wanted
Speaker 1: to go to the show see all those cool robots
Speaker 1: and things. And I realized you can't. You can't buy
Speaker 1: a ticket. No, you cannot. But I've talked to CS
Speaker 1: about this. I said, you guys need to do one
Speaker 1: day where the public can come to the show. You
Speaker 1: would make so much money. The public would gladly pay
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, thirty forty fifty dollars for a ticket
Speaker 1: to see all this cool stuff. Now, the floor is
Speaker 1: crowded as it is, so I don't think they would
Speaker 1: do it during the normal show, but maybe you stay
Speaker 1: open an extra day and you let the public in.
Speaker 1: They would love to experience this stuff. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not a year goes by where people say, Rich, I
Speaker 1: would love to go to CES. I want to see that.
Speaker 1: But I'm still here looking at I can see the
Speaker 1: convention center. By the way, they remodeled the convention Center
Speaker 1: this year. It was kind of a surprise. Maybe a
Speaker 1: couple years ago they remodeled one of the wings. Now
Speaker 1: they've remodeled I think it was a west wing. Now
Speaker 1: they've remodeled the north and central hallwing, and it looks incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's now a proper entrance to this convention center.
Speaker 1: And I think they still have the South wing to go.
Speaker 1: That's the final wing to be remodeled. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's only a couple of cities that can handle a
Speaker 1: giant conference like this. I think Orlando's one of them.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. I'm not sure where else can handle you
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand people at the same time
Speaker 1: in a city, especially with the hotel rooms just absorbing that.
Speaker 1: Saw so many cool things that CS. I'll get to
Speaker 1: a call in just a second, but let me just
Speaker 1: tell you about this one. I just got a If
Speaker 1: you haven't checked out my instagram at rich on Tech,
Speaker 1: you gotta go there. I've got so many things posted
Speaker 1: from CS and they're just so fun. I posted the
Speaker 1: most visual stuff at richon Tech on Instagram. Just just
Speaker 1: scroll through and just have a you know, just sit
Speaker 1: down your couch have you know, still listen to the
Speaker 1: show obviously, but just you know, maybe grab a a
Speaker 1: soda or whatever you want. I mean, I'm not telling
Speaker 1: you if drink soda, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and you know, just sit there and scroll. It's fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many cool visual things from this show.
Speaker 1: One of them I saw is this startup called eye Polish.
Speaker 1: They're making color changing press on nails. They are digital
Speaker 1: I don't know what this material is, but you pick
Speaker 1: a color on the iPad. Yeah, it sends it via
Speaker 1: bluetooth to this little device. You pop your nail into
Speaker 1: the device and suddenly the nail flickers and the color changes.
Speaker 1: And yes, if you watch Total Recall, I've got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people sending me the clip from that movie.
Speaker 1: It's exactly what it looked like in that movie where
Speaker 1: the person taps their finger and the color of their
Speaker 1: nail changes. And I watched this demo of this girl
Speaker 1: changing the color of her nails a bunch of times,
Speaker 1: and I still couldn't figure out how it's done, and
Speaker 1: she couldn't really explain it either, So I said, how
Speaker 1: is this being done? What kind of digital witchcraft is this?
Speaker 1: It is really cool. The device is going to sell
Speaker 1: for like one hundred dollars and then each individual set
Speaker 1: of nails is you know, it sounded pretty reasonable. I
Speaker 1: can't remember the exact price, but it wasn't overly crazy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you can change. Let's say you put these on.
Speaker 1: They last about two weeks. You put these on your nails,
Speaker 1: and every single day you can change the color of
Speaker 1: your nails to match your outfit. Now I'm not doing
Speaker 1: this personally, but I could see the appeal. My wife,
Speaker 1: she loves. During the pandemic, she found these like press
Speaker 1: on nails. Remember back in the day when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, they had Lee press on nails. I remember that.
Speaker 1: I think that was the name, right. I could just
Speaker 1: it's just like it's seared in my head from when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, Lee press on nails famous since
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. Now she uses a different brand. Oh
Speaker 1: it's called Dashing Divas. That's right. See, these are the
Speaker 1: things I know because I see the bill. But Dashing
Speaker 1: Divas she discovered during the pandemic and she loves them. Now,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of work. She's sitting there at our
Speaker 1: table and she literally looks like she working in a
Speaker 1: nail salon. She's like filing her nails putting all these
Speaker 1: things on. It takes a lot of work, but they
Speaker 1: look great, especially for you know, at home nails. But
Speaker 1: now we're taking a step further. You gotta check out
Speaker 1: the video again. The company is called I Polish. They're
Speaker 1: a startup out of Florida, and they're gonna be selling
Speaker 1: these things soon. But yeah, that was really cool. She
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta see that. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: Vanessa Vanessa online three calling from You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: tell me how to say the name of this city, Vanessa.
Speaker 1: What's what's the how do you say the name of
Speaker 1: your city? Paromp See, I wouldn't have said that.
Speaker 6: You could come over here. Need be hear in the now?
Speaker 1: Oh really? All right, Well, I'll make my way after
Speaker 1: the show what's what's there to do in perump over
Speaker 1: the Hump?
Speaker 6: Not a whole lot. It's the home of a lethal
Speaker 6: brothels into that.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, well you know, I'm surprised I haven't
Speaker 1: been there before. No, I'm just kidding. Uh oh my gosh.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Kim apparently knew that. And Bobo's taking notes all right,
Speaker 1: in all seriousness, what what's happening? What's what's going on?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 6: I tried to change from Last Past to Bitwarden, and
Speaker 6: I cannot figure out the instructions. I try, I read,
Speaker 6: I've downloaded it. I tried importing from last Pass and
Speaker 6: I can't get it to work.
Speaker 2: Really, I was wondering if you have if you.
Speaker 6: Have a simple plot, a simplified instructions for that.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me let me see Bitwarden import from Last Past.
Speaker 1: I think they would have it on their help page.
Speaker 1: I did this recently and I found the process to
Speaker 1: be quite easy. So I will definitely link up the
Speaker 1: help page that bitwarden has. But where how are you?
Speaker 1: Where are you doing this? Are you doing this on
Speaker 1: your computer or on your smartphone?
Speaker 2: On my computer?
Speaker 1: Okay? So when you open up Last Past, you found
Speaker 1: the ability to export your vault correct, correct, okay, and
Speaker 1: you get.
Speaker 9: That file file yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, you saved it to an Excel file. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: that might be the problem. You gotta say. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: now when you say excel, is it a CSV that's
Speaker 1: a comma separated value file? Is that with the dot CSV?
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Okay?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Excel okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you don't need to open it in Excel.
Speaker 1: Do you don't need to open this at all? So
Speaker 1: don't open it, export it and then don't open it. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's number one. Now, once you once you get that file,
Speaker 1: that export dot CSV, you're going to go into bitwarden
Speaker 1: on your computer. Okay, And I'm trying to see if
Speaker 1: you can do this. Yes, so you have to do this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can do this on your computer. You have a
Speaker 1: Chrome web browser.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay.
Speaker 1: So did you install the bitwarden extension on your web browser?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you did that. Now, when you go into
Speaker 1: settings on bitwarden, can you open up there? Can you
Speaker 1: open up bitwarten, go to settings. Once you go there,
Speaker 1: you'll see vault options and it says import items. You
Speaker 1: tap that and then you go and you look at
Speaker 1: your data. It says data file and it will say
Speaker 1: last pass, so you tap that, and then it even
Speaker 1: gives you an option to import directly directly from last pass.
Speaker 1: You can try that, but I think you already have
Speaker 1: the CSV, so just do that. You choose your file,
Speaker 1: and it will import all of those passwords into bitwarden
Speaker 1: and that's it. It should be pretty straightforward. Have you
Speaker 1: done all those steps? Okay, well I think we lost Joan,
Speaker 1: but sorry, Vanessa. But if you've done those steps, it
Speaker 1: should be pretty straightforward, and then when you go into bitwarden,
Speaker 1: all of your passwords should be in your vault. Now
Speaker 1: I did this recently and it really is a quite
Speaker 1: easy process and there's really not much more you have
Speaker 1: to do other than that. The only thing I will
Speaker 1: I will tell you Vanessa, once you're done with that file,
Speaker 1: I would delete it and get rid of it, because
Speaker 1: the reason you want to get rid of it is
Speaker 1: because it has all of your passwords on there, So
Speaker 1: definitely delete that. You don't want that lingering around getting
Speaker 1: in the wrong hands, and then you can go in.
Speaker 1: Now what I would do is don't go ahead and
Speaker 1: delete last past. The first day. You do this, give
Speaker 1: yourself a couple of weeks of overlap. That's what I
Speaker 1: did for myself when I change from my old password manager,
Speaker 1: And so you give yourself a couple of weeks of
Speaker 1: overlap because if you're having trouble you can't find a password,
Speaker 1: something imported wrong, you can go back to last pass
Speaker 1: and find that password and correct it. But you can
Speaker 1: always do a password reset nine times out of ten
Speaker 1: and before you get you know, once you're up and
Speaker 1: running on bitwarden, then you can go into last Pass.
Speaker 1: You can delete your account, you can delete the app,
Speaker 1: get rid of everything, and you can now finally, you know,
Speaker 1: completely use bitwarden in your day to day. But that's
Speaker 1: what I would recommends. That's the process that I used,
Speaker 1: and it worked pretty well. And I'm not look nothing
Speaker 1: against last Pass, nothing against all these other password managers.
Speaker 1: But Bitwarden is completely free. And you may be saying, well, rich,
Speaker 1: if it's free, it can't be that good. It is good.
Speaker 1: And I've met with the CEO. I've talked to them
Speaker 1: extensively about their plan and their product, and they do
Speaker 1: open source a lot of it so that people can
Speaker 1: check to make sure what they're doing is on the
Speaker 1: up and up. That's a great thing. And why is
Speaker 1: it free? Well, even if you want it to pay
Speaker 1: for bitwarden, the personal pricing is so cheap that, in fact,
Speaker 1: I got an email this week someone said, hey, rich
Speaker 1: why don't you just pay just to support them, which
Speaker 1: I probably will do. It's like ten bucks. Let's say
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the personal and if you look
Speaker 1: at a view all plans so free, free forever, zero dollars,
Speaker 1: unlimited devices, some of these some of these apps that
Speaker 1: are free for your password, they'll limit you to a
Speaker 1: certain amount of devices, one or two devices. You get
Speaker 1: pass keys, management, all the core functionality, and it's always
Speaker 1: going to be free. Plus you can share with one
Speaker 1: other user premium ten dollars a year. You can swing
Speaker 1: that ten bucks a year, why not? And you get
Speaker 1: even more features like file attachments. I'll put a link
Speaker 1: to all of this on the website Vanessa, including that
Speaker 1: help page. Rich on Tech dot TV eighty to eight
Speaker 1: rich one oh one more rich on Tech on the
Speaker 1: way after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight.
Speaker 1: Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Phone lines are open. Give
Speaker 1: me all if you have a question about technology. The
Speaker 1: website also an option go to Rich on tech dot
Speaker 1: tv hit contact. I will tell you. If you sent
Speaker 1: me an email on the past week or so and
Speaker 1: I've not gotten to it, there's a reason for that.
Speaker 1: I've been in Las Vegas for CS and it consumes
Speaker 1: all of my time. Like I'm talking all of my time. Now,
Speaker 1: I am testing a new feature on Gmail called AI Inbox,
Speaker 1: and let me tell you, it is incredible. So this
Speaker 1: week Gmail or Google I guess, added a couple of
Speaker 1: new AI features to Gmail that you're now getting for free.
Speaker 1: These are things that you used to have to pay for,
Speaker 1: and a couple of them. Basically, it's like smart replies
Speaker 1: and all these different things that you know. It's kind
Speaker 1: of turning your Gmail inbox into like an AI assistant.
Speaker 1: So number one has features that help you write emails.
Speaker 1: It'll summarize emails and suggest replies in your own tone.
Speaker 1: That was the thing that was missing before. Now it's
Speaker 1: looking at all your emails. You know, I have twenty
Speaker 1: years worth of emails in there. It knows exactly how
Speaker 1: I write my emails, which by the way, are usually
Speaker 1: like one or two words, but it will suggest replies
Speaker 1: in my own voice. That's all going to be free,
Speaker 1: and that's rolling out to Gmail users now in the US,
Speaker 1: so don't be surprised if you start typing an email
Speaker 1: and it wants to help you write it. That used
Speaker 1: to be a paid feature which I've been using for
Speaker 1: a long time. Now everyone's getting it, which is incredible.
Speaker 1: Also summarized, so when you look at the top of
Speaker 1: your email, it'll have a little summary of the email,
Speaker 1: which is really helpful, especially when you get into like
Speaker 1: a long back and forth with someone, you could just
Speaker 1: see what the latest is. And then smart replies you're getting,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, more personal with the way
Speaker 1: that you do that. Now, this is the other cool
Speaker 1: thing that it's getting that is just truly, truly incredible.
Speaker 1: They have basically taken all of your emails. Now this
Speaker 1: is for paid users, and they are now letting you
Speaker 1: search those through those emails the way you would search
Speaker 1: with a chatbot. So I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: you know, you make a reservation for something, you trying
Speaker 1: to find that exact email with that information, you can
Speaker 1: never find it quickly for some reason. Now, AI Overview
Speaker 1: will synthesize the information. It will scour your inbox, find
Speaker 1: the information, even if it's across a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: different emails, and put that into a little summary up
Speaker 1: at the top, just the way that AI is doing
Speaker 1: it on CHATGBT, the way that AI is doing it
Speaker 1: on AI overview for Google, or when you see that
Speaker 1: little AI summary up at the top of your search.
Speaker 1: Now that's going to happen in Gmail, but you have
Speaker 1: to be a paying Gmail user to get that. And
Speaker 1: I am, and I already have it, and it is
Speaker 1: so amazing. You can ask questions of your email, your
Speaker 1: past twenty years of emails. You can ask questions just
Speaker 1: like you would an AI chatbop. And it's only programmed
Speaker 1: on your emails. Now I know, before you send me
Speaker 1: the angry emails. Yes, this is private. Google is not
Speaker 1: using your email to train their AI box. They're not
Speaker 1: sharing your information with anyone else. This is all done
Speaker 1: a very private way. Think about as your email is
Speaker 1: a little vault, and their AI box can look into
Speaker 1: that vault, but it can't share that information with anyone else,
Speaker 1: nor is it being trained on that vault. So come on,
Speaker 1: this is Google. They're gonna do things in a private
Speaker 1: way because they know there would be backlash if they didn't.
Speaker 1: So I am absolutely loving that feature. Now, the new feature,
Speaker 1: the super new feature that I'm testing that is only
Speaker 1: available to a handful of people, and I beg them
Speaker 1: to give me. This is called AI Inbox. And this
Speaker 1: just takes your whole email, changes the way your inbox
Speaker 1: looks completely, and it gives you as soon as you
Speaker 1: get to the top, it says, hey, right, you have
Speaker 1: eleven suggested to do s and fourteen topics to catch
Speaker 1: up on. And it gives me all the things I
Speaker 1: need to do in my inbox that are like pressing,
Speaker 1: whether it's paying a bill, whether it's an RSVP, whether
Speaker 1: it's a reply, whether it's a sign an agreement, submit
Speaker 1: a time card, pay your taxes, update billion information. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is stuff that's on there right now. It's amazing,
Speaker 1: It's totally amazing. Then you've got topics to catch up on,
Speaker 1: and it's got all the little things that you need
Speaker 1: to know that people wrote you in an email, like
Speaker 1: ten thousand characters, but it summarizes it and it organizes it.
Speaker 1: It is truly incredible. I will be such a productive
Speaker 1: person because of this. But Google, if you're listening on
Speaker 1: these suggested to dos, you need a checkbox so I
Speaker 1: can get rid of it, because I already it says
Speaker 1: you have to update my ex billing information. I already
Speaker 1: did that. I figured it out. Now I want to
Speaker 1: get rid of that card. So I need a way
Speaker 1: to get rid of that, and it's not there yet.
Speaker 1: But again, it's day two, so I'll give you a
Speaker 1: little bit of a break there. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to Kathleen in Santa Clarita line for Kathleen.
Speaker 6: You're on with Rich Hello, how are you today? Thank
Speaker 6: you so much.
Speaker 10: I love, love, love your show being.
Speaker 6: Oh you will help me so much.
Speaker 9: Well, I don't love to hear that.
Speaker 1: I love to do this show. I love to talk
Speaker 1: to folks like you, and that really means a lot
Speaker 1: to me. What can I help you with?
Speaker 10: So when I am driving and using either Google Maps
Speaker 10: or Apple Maps, I do not use ways anymore because
Speaker 10: it has sent me in some strange places. Queen another
Speaker 10: one bites the Dutch constantly played, I cannot put on
Speaker 10: my navigation if I don't have like iHeart or my
Speaker 10: Audibles or Spotify plane. I do not have Apple Music.
Speaker 10: I do have an iPhone, more newer one I think,
Speaker 10: maybe like a thirteen, but it's sometimes I just want
Speaker 10: to drive in quiet when I'm listening to directions and
Speaker 10: I can't, and I don't want to listen to Queen
Speaker 10: another one by. It just plays over and over and over.
Speaker 10: It doesn't stop.
Speaker 1: Okay, it sounds. Do you have an iPhone?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 1: Okay? Do you have this in your Apple Music library?
Speaker 1: This song?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I and I don't have apples.
Speaker 6: I don't have Apple Music.
Speaker 10: I looked on my apps and I can't find it.
Speaker 6: So when my.
Speaker 10: Daughter was here, when she got Spotify, she mustn't delete it.
Speaker 1: So okay, so I would go ahead, redownload Apple Music
Speaker 1: from the app store, go in there and see if
Speaker 1: that song is in there, and delete it. Do you
Speaker 1: have an older car? Newer car?
Speaker 10: Seing Honda, so it's it's older. It's like okay, okay,
Speaker 10: so the fancy stuff.
Speaker 1: There's a feature, Kathleen, where basically, when you plug in
Speaker 1: your iPhone on older cars, it will automatically play the
Speaker 1: first song in your library. A lot of people replace
Speaker 1: that with a silence song. Look it up search iPhone,
Speaker 1: play silent song in car connection, and a lot of people.
Speaker 1: You'll see. There's a whole bunch written about this. I'll
Speaker 1: link it up on the website as well. Rich on
Speaker 1: Tech dot TV, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology Triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one oh one. Uh, you can call in. I
Speaker 1: know the lines are slammed, but we will get to
Speaker 1: you after this. We've got a great guest, someone who's
Speaker 1: been on the show many times before. Matt. You may
Speaker 1: Matt Swider from the show, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 9: Thanks for having me Rich.
Speaker 1: He literally took a red Eye from Las Vegas to
Speaker 1: fly back to New York City, still made it in
Speaker 1: time for this hit. I am so impressed with you
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 9: Thanks. I barely made it, but I did make it.
Speaker 1: You're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Tell me about CS twenty twenty six. What did you
Speaker 1: What was your what's your key takeaway?
Speaker 11: I'd say, we're seeing you know, gadgets, the next generation
Speaker 11: of gadgets, but also AI integrated smartly.
Speaker 9: It's not just a marketing term.
Speaker 11: So we're seeing a lot of you know, smarter programmatic
Speaker 11: gadgets that are trying to predict what you want and
Speaker 11: personalize to you. For me, there's good AI and bad AI.
Speaker 11: And good AI is able to you know, predict what
Speaker 11: you want, but bad AI kind of you know, it's
Speaker 11: AI slop as as we've been calling it. So it
Speaker 11: depends on Hey, how useful is this information that they're
Speaker 11: collecting from you and trying to, you know, figure out
Speaker 11: what you want? All right, So I'm seeing it in TVs.
Speaker 11: I'm seeing it in graphics processes from Nvidia where they're
Speaker 11: trying to take a graphics card that's usually in a
Speaker 11: desktop and use AI to double the frames or you know,
Speaker 11: double the resolution without having to have a large graphic process.
Speaker 11: So stuff like that that's really good AI in my opinion.
Speaker 1: You do the website the shortcut dot com. This is
Speaker 1: a newsletter that you in website that you know is
Speaker 1: all for consumers and all the gadgets that you're you're
Speaker 1: trying to get has got some great advice there. You
Speaker 1: gave out awards at the show, so you've got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of a list of gadgets that won year awards.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to go down the list of some
Speaker 1: things that I think are interesting and you can kind
Speaker 1: of give me a couple thoughts about them very you know,
Speaker 1: quickly obviously, so I want to get through as many
Speaker 1: as possible. The Pawport Smart pet door. Why did you
Speaker 1: give that an award?
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 11: So then we saw that to you years ago. We
Speaker 11: really liked the idea, but it was more of like
Speaker 11: a kickstarter thing. And then two years later they come
Speaker 11: out with one, and they said it's so much more doorable,
Speaker 11: Like it opens up the doggy door, the traditional doggy door,
Speaker 11: but it does it with either an app or motion, right,
Speaker 11: So it's kind of like one of these smart door locks,
Speaker 11: but for your pet. And now it's bulletproof, so that's
Speaker 11: how durable it is. And I was like, you know what,
Speaker 11: I don't think by my dogs would be packing, but
Speaker 11: just you know.
Speaker 1: Your dogs would be like, let me in. Now the
Speaker 1: dog has like a little a little like dongle on
Speaker 1: the chain on the the collar right to only open
Speaker 1: it for them, isn't that part of it? Yes?
Speaker 11: And like you wolf can't get in, and they yes,
Speaker 11: they demonstrated to us, and it was, uh, you know,
Speaker 11: is it in working order?
Speaker 9: It went out sale Black Friday. Of this past year.
Speaker 11: So it is out there and that's why we're like, Okay,
Speaker 11: this is mature enough where it's actually in consumers homes.
Speaker 11: And it reminds me of something that should be, you know,
Speaker 11: on the Jets, and it reminds me of the future.
Speaker 11: And I don't know if you remember that scene from
Speaker 11: Home Alone where Marv gets into the doggy door for
Speaker 11: Kevin mcgows's home. This stops something like that, right, you
Speaker 11: don't want to open, you know, door, So this is
Speaker 11: something in the future, has like two swinging doors that
Speaker 11: come open.
Speaker 9: Very cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty smart. And make sure no other critters
Speaker 1: get into your house either. Okay, this was a trend
Speaker 1: we saw over and over, these smart glasses, the even
Speaker 1: Realities G two. I tried these on. They kind of
Speaker 1: have a little screen in them. What do you think
Speaker 1: Even Realities is doing well with these?
Speaker 11: I think it's the fact that there's the smart glasses
Speaker 11: that don't have the screen, and then there's the Apple
Speaker 11: Vision pro on the other side, and there's certain companies
Speaker 11: ray Ben or there's a companies like a Rainio and
Speaker 11: Even Realities that are starting to put a screen inside.
Speaker 11: Ray Ben is doing it with the meta glasses, but
Speaker 11: the functionality doesn't work for me nearly as well.
Speaker 9: And this did all right. It's simple.
Speaker 11: It has heads up display, kind of like your Some
Speaker 11: cars have those heads up displays.
Speaker 9: I think that's the intriguing part.
Speaker 11: It's it's getting to the middle of I want a display,
Speaker 11: but I don't need the Apple Vision pro. I just
Speaker 11: want something that's telling the information, that's give given me
Speaker 11: notifications that I can use as you know, when I
Speaker 11: need to read a script for on air, Like I
Speaker 11: find that intriguing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, okay, now did you test the teleprompter functionality,
Speaker 1: because it's really cool. But the thing that they need
Speaker 1: to figure out is they need to make the screen
Speaker 1: sort of float in front of you more than move
Speaker 1: around every time your head moves. You know, that's the
Speaker 1: only issue. Because I'm not kidding, this is game changing.
Speaker 1: If we can get that teleprompter. I want a circuit
Speaker 1: of a speaking circuit just with these glasses, like I
Speaker 1: will bring it. Come have me talk to your people,
Speaker 1: and I will tell you I will make the whole
Speaker 1: thing on a script and I will you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I'll affect it, but it would be so helpful.
Speaker 11: Absolutely can you imagine, like you you know, head talks,
Speaker 11: instead of having those monitors and a lot of gear,
Speaker 11: it's just someone wearing a pair of glasses and the
Speaker 11: words are getting piped to them that they've previously written.
Speaker 9: So I find that intriguing.
Speaker 11: Yes, that it's those are the kinks where it's like,
Speaker 11: this is great conceptual, award winning technology, but there's gonna
Speaker 11: be a version three or version four down the line
Speaker 11: that fixes those issues. Uh, you want to pick something, Yeah,
Speaker 11: let's go with the lg EVO C six and W six.
Speaker 11: So the W six is more intriguing to me than
Speaker 11: anything because again it's, oh, it's a wallpaper TV.
Speaker 1: Have you seen this? Oh yeah, oh my gosh. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was like it's like it's a is it like
Speaker 1: nine millimeters thin? Is that the.
Speaker 11: Size exactly right? And you know that is something that
Speaker 11: stands out at me. It's when this this technology is
Speaker 11: not only vibrant, which it is and it has all
Speaker 11: the you know, the resolution capabilities that you need, but
Speaker 11: it fits into a home where you're not It's almost
Speaker 11: like an art piece in a lot of ways. Where
Speaker 11: it does look like wallpaper, you could mistake it for
Speaker 11: blending into the rest of your wall. I found that
Speaker 11: super interesting and uh and at the same time, I'll
Speaker 11: go ahead and say another one. Samsung has a one
Speaker 11: hundred and thirty inch micro RGBTV. It looks like it's
Speaker 11: on an easel. That's that's how they actually have it
Speaker 11: set up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, oh that okay, so that was how they
Speaker 1: that's how they present it. I thought that was just
Speaker 1: for the show. But that's how you could have it
Speaker 1: in your house.
Speaker 11: I believe you know, they're they're pitching it as you know.
Speaker 11: This is for someone who's building their mansion and they're
Speaker 11: they're choosing the TV and building the house around around it.
Speaker 1: So you'd have to put the TV in first and
Speaker 1: build the walls around it because it's so big.
Speaker 11: That's the only way you have to do it. I mean,
Speaker 11: that's that's when you have that much money. I don't
Speaker 11: know how much it costs yet, but uh, it will
Speaker 11: be an expensive accessory for a home.
Speaker 9: But but the something, the.
Speaker 1: Great thing is in ten years you'll be going to
Speaker 1: cost go for that rotisserie chicken. You'll just pick up
Speaker 1: one of these TVs.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, yes, the amount of you know, just how affordable
Speaker 11: things are after I'd say five years, like, oh lead,
Speaker 11: O Lead was like ten thousand dollars when at first launch,
Speaker 11: if not more right when I saw my first O
Speaker 11: Lead And now now it's you know, under a thousand
Speaker 11: for a lot of O led TVs.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of other stuff. You got. You
Speaker 1: got the Samsung trifold on here, which I went hands
Speaker 1: on with. That's the screen phone. The Dell XPS. Dell
Speaker 1: got a lot of publicity because they brought back the
Speaker 1: the XPS name, right.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we were toying around with that when we're like
Speaker 11: the Shortcut team when we were giving out awards, were like,
Speaker 11: do we just love this because it's a great laptop,
Speaker 11: which it is, or because they kind of changed the
Speaker 11: name last year after years of Dell XPS being their
Speaker 11: their brand name and their you know, the most iconic
Speaker 11: laptop name, they got rid of it and it came
Speaker 11: back because they realized, oh, like a Dell Pro and
Speaker 11: stuff like that, like del Max's not really good naming
Speaker 11: conventions and confused a lot of people. So they almost
Speaker 11: made a whoop see last year and then made up
Speaker 11: for it this year by just saying, you know what,
Speaker 11: let's pretend that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: So very smart on love when I love when companies
Speaker 1: can do that and admit like, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: we try this, it's not working. We're going back. And
Speaker 1: people celebrated it, and they got a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of publicity for that because people, you know,
Speaker 1: especially in the tech world, that missed that name, they
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that. I saw this the my que Secure
Speaker 1: View three and one smart lock. This was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It's like basically every way you can imagine getting into
Speaker 1: your lock, they've got it built in.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: They have actually five ways you can tap into it,
Speaker 11: including the past code, including traditional key, but also face unlocked.
Speaker 11: So my Q has built a really good face unlocked
Speaker 11: feature that I haven't seen in a lot of other
Speaker 11: smart locks.
Speaker 9: There are other smart locks.
Speaker 11: There's actually a lot of smart locks at cees, but
Speaker 11: this one kind of intrigued me. It's a dead boat,
Speaker 11: it's a security camera, and of course it's a smart
Speaker 11: lock that unlocks when you approach it, and that that
Speaker 11: to me. I see a lot of these airbnbs, which
Speaker 11: is very cool, these these smart locks, because it beach
Speaker 11: trying to fetch a lock from a little lock box
Speaker 11: and It just makes things so much more seamless. When
Speaker 11: there's a keypad on there, there's face on lock, there's
Speaker 11: traditional locks, there's fingerprint sss, there's lots of ways to
Speaker 11: access your home. And also what I like is my
Speaker 11: parents have you know, they have a Yale lock and
Speaker 11: a nest those kind those are kind of outdated.
Speaker 9: This is the whole package. It's a three on one device.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's amazing. All right, we may have time for
Speaker 1: one more. Let's try. Let's do one more of your
Speaker 1: choice and we'll see if we have time for one more.
Speaker 11: Sure, let's go with the Legion Lenovo Legion pro Rollable.
Speaker 11: This to me was it's got our Best Concept award.
Speaker 11: What I really liked about this is it expands the
Speaker 11: screen on a gaming laptop. Right, Lenovo also has this
Speaker 11: on like a regular laptop that goes up and down.
Speaker 11: This takes a screen and makes it wider, so like
Speaker 11: a sixteen by nine by like a twenty one by nine,
Speaker 11: and it expands out. Usually with these out Yeah, so
Speaker 11: usually with these screens we see we see like expanding
Speaker 11: screens or like unfolding screens on a thin and light
Speaker 11: device that kind of sacrifices some performance. We see that
Speaker 11: all the time. This is a gaming laptop. So that's
Speaker 11: what really intrigued me about this. It's one of my
Speaker 11: favorite things of the show. Lenovo always brings good concepts
Speaker 11: to see. Yes, it's things that you may not see
Speaker 11: in reality on sore shelves for like five years. But
Speaker 11: you know, their legion lineup of gaming laptops is very good.
Speaker 11: This might be the future where you're like, I need
Speaker 11: more screen space, but also I need to stow this
Speaker 11: in my backpack.
Speaker 9: So the fact that you can do gaming is a
Speaker 9: huge thing.
Speaker 1: It looks like that XPEC I don't know how you
Speaker 1: say that z beec those screens that you attach those
Speaker 1: laptop screen extenders on the sides. It looks like that
Speaker 1: built into the laptop.
Speaker 9: That's a great analogy.
Speaker 11: And I'm not quite sold on having wings on my
Speaker 11: screen for you know, accessories kind of like you mentioned,
Speaker 11: I see those sold in Walmart and Amazon all the time.
Speaker 11: This having it built in is kind of luxury. It's
Speaker 11: it's motorized. We were having so much fun playing with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that that will actually I think that will
Speaker 1: happen because it's it's something that every single person that
Speaker 1: has a laptop needs. You always need that screen real estate,
Speaker 1: especially with you know, these chat apps and the things
Speaker 1: you want to keep in the sidebar. Matt, we're gonna
Speaker 1: leave it there. Thank you so much for doing this today.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. The Shortcut dot com check it out.
Speaker 1: Matt Swider does such a great job. You started this
Speaker 1: business from the ground up, and I think you're doing
Speaker 1: such an incredible job. You're really taking on some of
Speaker 1: these established media companies at their own game and doing
Speaker 1: a better job at it. So thank you for that.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Rich, Thank you, and please come on our show.
Speaker 11: We have the Shortcut live premiere at CES so we're
Speaker 11: doing a daily live show, so it would be honored
Speaker 11: for you to be the first guest to pipe in.
Speaker 1: Amazing. I will do it even more. Love it all right.
Speaker 1: I'll put a link on the website rich on Tech
Speaker 1: dot tv more of your calls at rich on Tech
Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Let's just
Speaker 1: get right to the phones. By the way, coming from
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. That's why we have all the Vegas music.
Speaker 1: CS twenty twenty six just wrapped up in this city,
Speaker 1: and boy do people have a tech hangover. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: a lot of technology under one roof in one place.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a big week, but really really fun.
Speaker 1: Great to see all the people that make the trek
Speaker 1: here to Las Vegas and all the gadgets and just
Speaker 1: so much innovation on display. And that's just one part
Speaker 1: of it. There's also you know, speaker tracks and you
Speaker 1: know presentations, and I mean there's just so much. There's
Speaker 1: no way to see it all or experience at all.
Speaker 1: Mary is in Riversideline one, Mary and Riverside. You are
Speaker 1: on with Rich. What's up?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 8: Rich?
Speaker 7: Hi am I can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I hear you a loud and clear.
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you. Years and years and years ago, when
Speaker 7: I first got my first desktop computer, I signed up
Speaker 7: for AOL and it was free.
Speaker 1: A lot of people did, yeah.
Speaker 7: And I've kept it all these years. And oh, several
Speaker 7: years ago, not several, but a couple of years ago,
Speaker 7: I received a notice from AOL saying I needed to
Speaker 7: change it to AO AOL Gold and it was gonna
Speaker 7: be four ninety nine a month. Well, it made it
Speaker 7: sound like I needed to do that, so I did.
Speaker 7: Now that is six ninety nine a month. I don't
Speaker 7: see any difference between my free AOL and the sixth
Speaker 7: ninety nine AOL Gold And if there any way I
Speaker 7: can go.
Speaker 1: Back, you know, absolutely absolutely, so AOL Desktop goal number one,
Speaker 1: are you still using the desktop version, like you still
Speaker 1: have the download of AOL on there or using the
Speaker 1: website at this point, I'm not sure.
Speaker 7: I log on and then I click on the icon
Speaker 7: on my desktop and it's.
Speaker 1: Yep. So it sounds like it's actually like an AOL
Speaker 1: application that you have on your computer. Okay. So the
Speaker 1: AOL Desktop Gold is like an enhanced version of the
Speaker 1: standard AOL software. So it's got some you know, anti
Speaker 1: phishing like security. You can customize it more, you get
Speaker 1: more support. So they're giving you a couple of things
Speaker 1: extra for that price. But you do not need this.
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you that, Thank you. So the deal
Speaker 1: is you've got to downgrade to AOL, which is which
Speaker 1: you can do. And uh, let's see here, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find the actual page here. Okay, So, uh, to
Speaker 1: download your AOL account or to downgrade your AOL account
Speaker 1: to a free plan, you have to go to this
Speaker 1: website my subscriptions dot aol dot com. Okay, have you
Speaker 1: been there yet? Okay? No, I keep forget, keep forgetting that. Okay, Sorry.
Speaker 1: I know it's a remote show, so sometimes the calls
Speaker 1: get a little different than our typical studio. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So have you gone to my subscriptions dot aol dot com.
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 9: Okay, so go there donning?
Speaker 1: Okay, so go to that website. Can you open up
Speaker 1: a regular website? Like do you know how to go
Speaker 1: to like a regular website on the computer, Like just
Speaker 1: if you went to like Google dot com or something?
Speaker 8: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Okay, So, so go to a web browser, go to
Speaker 1: that website, my subscriptions dot aol dot com, and you sign.
Speaker 7: In with descriptions dot aol dot com.
Speaker 1: Correct, And you're gonna sign in with your AOL count.
Speaker 1: Do you know your user name and password for that?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: I don't share it here, but you know you have that.
Speaker 1: You sign in, and then you're gonna basically go to
Speaker 1: next to your subscription. You'll probably see something that says
Speaker 1: AOL Gold or AOL Premium or wherever they I guess
Speaker 1: they still call it desktop gold. Click manage next to
Speaker 1: that and then change plan and it's going to try
Speaker 1: to get you today. It's gonna say, Mary, your life
Speaker 1: will never be the same if you get rid of this, Mary,
Speaker 1: how are you gonna do without this? How are you
Speaker 1: going to do without this thing that you don't even
Speaker 1: know what it is and you don't even know why
Speaker 1: you're paying for it, but you still need it. Get
Speaker 1: rid of it. Just ignore all that stuff and just
Speaker 1: keep pressing until you get to the cancel my billing
Speaker 1: and then cancel my subscription. That's the bottom line. So
Speaker 1: it's okay, manage change plan.
Speaker 7: Answer.
Speaker 1: So it's managed change plan. Cancel my billing, cancel subscription,
Speaker 1: and that's it. This will be out of your life.
Speaker 1: You'll still have AOL. You may have to download a
Speaker 1: new version of that Desktop Gold, or it may just
Speaker 1: the desktop Gold naming may just disappear. But I think
Speaker 1: no matter what, you'll still you're all account will still
Speaker 1: be there. Everything will still be intact. Do you still
Speaker 1: use the AOL email? Is that what you use?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that will still be there. It's just all
Speaker 1: going to be free. Which, by the way, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, they they probably got people to subscribe to
Speaker 1: this AOL Desktop Gold just because back in the day
Speaker 1: people were used to paying for AOL, then it became
Speaker 1: free because of high speed internet, and now they're trying
Speaker 1: to you know, they tried to get people to pay again.
Speaker 1: Nobody's really paying for this, So go ahead and do that.
Speaker 1: I will link this up on the website. If you
Speaker 1: send me an email, Mary, I will send this directly
Speaker 1: to you. It's a hello at richontech dot tv. But
Speaker 1: otherwise you can go to the website rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot tv. This is episode one fifty six. So if
Speaker 1: you just search one five to six in the search bar,
Speaker 1: it will bring this up and the link to this
Speaker 1: help page that tells you exactly how to ditch this
Speaker 1: AOL subscription will be on there and you will free
Speaker 1: your life. How much? Let's see what are they charging
Speaker 1: for desktop gold? Let's see desktop gold is what did
Speaker 1: you say? Six ninety nine a month? Get rid of it. Goodbye,
Speaker 1: see you later. That wraps up this hour. We'll be
Speaker 1: back with more rich on Tech right after this eight
Speaker 1: eight eight rich one on one give me a call
Speaker 1: if you have a question, plus more tech news and
Speaker 1: topics from CS twenty twenty six right here when we
Speaker 1: come back. Welcome back to rich On tech. Rich Demiro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology, Triple eight Rich
Speaker 1: one on one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one, coming to you live from Las Vegas. Yes,
Speaker 1: the site of CS twenty twenty six. A lot of
Speaker 1: people ask, what does CES stand for? Doesn't stand for
Speaker 1: anything anymore. Used to be Consumer Electronics Show. Now it
Speaker 1: is just CEES. That is the name of the show,
Speaker 1: and that's to reflect kind of the changing nature of
Speaker 1: all this technology. I mean, there's so many things on
Speaker 1: the show floor, more so than just the TVs and
Speaker 1: the radios and the DVD players and TVO made its
Speaker 1: debut here. I mean, so many gadgets over the years
Speaker 1: made their debut here. I've been covering this show for
Speaker 1: more than fifteen years, if you can believe it. I
Speaker 1: remember my very first show. I was with CNET and
Speaker 1: I stayed in the Palms Hotel. My stay was eleven days,
Speaker 1: eleven days in Las Vegas, and by the way, that
Speaker 1: was so far away from the convention center. Now I
Speaker 1: like to stay a little bit closer. It's not really
Speaker 1: walking distance per se, that would be the ultimate goal.
Speaker 1: There is. There are a handful of hotels that are
Speaker 1: walking distance to the convention center. I like to just
Speaker 1: be on the monorail, so that's a lot easier. Eighty
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one richontech dot tv is the website.
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Speaker 1: the best way to keep up with everything that I do,
Speaker 1: all the smart tips, I share all the coverage that
Speaker 1: I have, and on my Instagram as well at rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Follow me on Instagram. So it's really just
Speaker 1: a couple of places to find me. Instagram, the newsletter,
Speaker 1: the website, TV radio. Is there anything else? I think
Speaker 1: that's it. A couple other things I saw at CS
Speaker 1: and then I'll take a call here. Ultrasonic chef's knife
Speaker 1: company called Seattle Ultrasonics designed a chef's knife that vibrates
Speaker 1: thousands of times per second at an ultra high frequency
Speaker 1: to help you cut through food easier. So I tried
Speaker 1: this on a tomato. I tried it on a potato.
Speaker 1: Anything that rhymes, I tried it on, and yeah it does.
Speaker 1: It slices through very easily. It glides through with less
Speaker 1: effort fifty percent less effort. Yes, very expensive. Three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars kind of bulky. You got to recharge it.
Speaker 1: The charging device is one hundred and fifty dollars, so
Speaker 1: five hundred bucks if you want to use this thing
Speaker 1: in your house more than once. But I think in
Speaker 1: the future this will probably be something that we take
Speaker 1: for granted. We just all have kind of like a
Speaker 1: ultrasonic toothbrush, same principle there. That's from Seattle Ultrasonics. And
Speaker 1: I love this the glide smart hair clipper. Remember the flowbe.
Speaker 1: I never had a Flowbee as a kid, but I
Speaker 1: always saw those commercials on TV, and I always wanted
Speaker 1: one because I thought it was so efficient. Why go
Speaker 1: to the barber shop when you just put this thing
Speaker 1: on a vacuum suck it up on. I don't know,
Speaker 1: just I guess the clippers somehow change or rotate when
Speaker 1: they're you know, on the vacuum head, and then you
Speaker 1: just kind of move it around your head and you've
Speaker 1: got a haircut. Now. They kind of left out the
Speaker 1: fact that you still got to do like all the trimming,
Speaker 1: you know, around the ears and you know, the back
Speaker 1: of your neck, all that good stuff. But hey, why
Speaker 1: not you get a free haircut? But Glide is an
Speaker 1: AI version of this, so it looks like a hair clipper,
Speaker 1: but there's no plastic guard attachments. The blade automatically adjusts
Speaker 1: as you move it up and down your head, so
Speaker 1: you can get like a perfect fade.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: They did not test this on me, although I was
Speaker 1: completely open to them doing that because I need a
Speaker 1: haircut right now. But that's another one. Glide g l
Speaker 1: Yde smart hair clipper. Who knows that I'll take off?
Speaker 1: This one was just silly. The ice Plosion instant carbonated
Speaker 1: slushy machine. It's kind of like a soda stream, but
Speaker 1: it makes slushies and they are carbonated and they're frozen.
Speaker 1: So a soda stream, I didn't realize the soda doesn't
Speaker 1: come out cold. You can't like get instantly unless I'm mistaken,
Speaker 1: that's what I understood. But this it instantly makes a
Speaker 1: carbonated slushy that's frozen. And it's seven hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: the machine, which is a lot of money. The pods
Speaker 1: are about a dollary each, kind of like a cakeup.
Speaker 1: You pop it in there, you wait four minutes, it
Speaker 1: spits out this slushy. I've got a video of this
Speaker 1: on my Instagram at rich On Tech, they call it
Speaker 1: ice splosion. Yeah, when the slushy came out, it like
Speaker 1: is splattered everywhere, like all over my suits. I was
Speaker 1: like cracking up. But I did try it and it
Speaker 1: was delicious. I've tried the sugar free blue Raspberry and
Speaker 1: it was really good. Even though there's no straw to
Speaker 1: use it with. I had to like dump it into
Speaker 1: my mouth and yeah, got everywhere. So that's the ice explosion.
Speaker 1: Then you've got this other company called camel Oh c
Speaker 1: cha m E l O. They make these sunglasses or
Speaker 1: I guess just glasses in general, that adjust their tint
Speaker 1: with a tap of the side, so they have like
Speaker 1: different tint colors and sort of the amount of tint
Speaker 1: that this eyeglass can have. You just tap the side
Speaker 1: and it changes. So it's a photochromatic lens and it's
Speaker 1: you know, the idea is that the sun is not
Speaker 1: always the same brightness. Sometimes you want lighter, sometimes you
Speaker 1: want darker, and so you can just adjust them and
Speaker 1: they are rechargeable. Some of them have Bluetooth music built
Speaker 1: into them. Some of them actually automatically adjust their tint.
Speaker 1: But this company got a lot of publicity here Chimelo
Speaker 1: c h A M E l O. They start at
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars and finally this one. I absolutely loved
Speaker 1: Plant Pets. This looked like the booth looked like little
Speaker 1: Shop of Horrors because all the plants were moving in unison.
Speaker 1: So this looks like a regular plant pot, but it
Speaker 1: turns your houseplant into an interactive companion that moves, reacts,
Speaker 1: and can even quote unquote talk to you. So you
Speaker 1: put this probe in the soil, and somehow that probe
Speaker 1: makes it so that when you touch the leaves, the
Speaker 1: pop reacts and it can move, It can make little sounds.
Speaker 1: If it needs water, it's gonna make a gurgling sound
Speaker 1: instead of dying, like you know all plants do that
Speaker 1: I bring home. I thought this was just so funny.
Speaker 1: They're already selling the earlier version on Amazon. It's called
Speaker 1: Plant Pets. The new version has a couple more features.
Speaker 1: So I just thought this was such a great idea.
Speaker 1: I kind of want one of these from my house
Speaker 1: because when does your plant move it, it literally gives
Speaker 1: this plant almost a lifelike kind of a life on
Speaker 1: its own. The Plant Pets p l A N T
Speaker 1: Petz Robotic Planner is already on Amazon's one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty nine dollars, but the guy told me it's gone
Speaker 1: on sale for as low as seventy nine dollars, so
Speaker 1: watch for those price drops. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: Linda in San Pedro. You are online three, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich Hey.
Speaker 8: Rites, you sound like a kid in the Candy Story
Speaker 8: going to that tech event.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's so fun. It's just it really
Speaker 1: is like I wish I had two weeks here, to
Speaker 1: be honest, because I don't get to see everything. But
Speaker 1: I just, you know, I just have to smile when
Speaker 1: I see some of this stuff, like who thinks of
Speaker 1: a plant pot that you know comes to life. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just silly, but it's fun and I think people
Speaker 1: will like it. Anyway, go ahead with your question.
Speaker 8: And those fingernail things is bizarre.
Speaker 1: Anyways, Oh yeah, you saw the video.
Speaker 8: I haven't seen it, but I'm going to pull it up.
Speaker 1: That's the Oh you got to pull it up. It's
Speaker 1: so wild. It just looks so weird. But go ahead.
Speaker 8: I have a question regarding videos that are online. I
Speaker 8: like to look at animal videos and it comes you know,
Speaker 8: with a whole bunch of Anyway, when I pull up
Speaker 8: my front page of the Internet and some videos, they'll
Speaker 8: say and please subscribe. And so I have two questions
Speaker 8: about that. What I don't want to subscribe to anything
Speaker 8: because I don't know what's going to happen. I don't
Speaker 8: know if I'm going to be hit with advertisements or
Speaker 8: a bunch of other videos that I don't want. So
Speaker 8: what do they do with my in sol? That's one question.
Speaker 8: The next one is what is the videographer whatever you
Speaker 8: call them, What is the videographer? Get out of it?
Speaker 1: If oh, this is this is a great way to
Speaker 1: support them? Are you talking YouTube?
Speaker 8: Well, I don't see the logo YouTube logo. I see
Speaker 8: there's like an animal logo with a pawprint, uh in
Speaker 8: the corner, but I don't see any YouTube logo.
Speaker 1: Well, if they're hosting it on YouTube, then if you
Speaker 1: are what's called subscribing to the channel, Like just so,
Speaker 1: YouTube has these like paid subscriptions, and so if you
Speaker 1: if you are a channel subscriber that's paid, you can
Speaker 1: actually you're supporting the person that's making that channel. So
Speaker 1: I actually think that's a pretty good thing. They called
Speaker 1: a channel membership, and so these you know, YouTubers need
Speaker 1: to make money in a variety of ways because they
Speaker 1: only make so much on the ad revenue that YouTube
Speaker 1: tube shares with them. But when you become a subscriber
Speaker 1: or a member rather, they're getting seventy percent of that revenue.
Speaker 1: So let's say I run a channel doing tech videos
Speaker 1: and I post them all the time, and I go
Speaker 1: to all these different shows and you like to watch them,
Speaker 1: and you subscribe. Do you become a member of my channel,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get seventy percent of that five dollars
Speaker 1: a month or whatever you you know, whatever this subscription is.
Speaker 1: And so it's a great way to support your favorite
Speaker 1: creators because you know, they need to make money because
Speaker 1: they're they're doing this on a daily basis. Now, what
Speaker 1: what do they see about you? Not very much? So
Speaker 1: I'm looking in my I don't I don't sub I
Speaker 1: don't have a channel membership offered on my YouTube channel
Speaker 1: because I'm not really focused on YouTube. But the only
Speaker 1: thing that I can see with my audience if I
Speaker 1: go into my analytics is basically their watch behavior. So
Speaker 1: I can see like kind of when they're watching when
Speaker 1: they're online. I can also see their gender. So I
Speaker 1: can see that sixty eight percent of my subscribers on YouTube,
Speaker 1: which again I don't really focus on our mail thirty
Speaker 1: one female. I can see their age range. I don't
Speaker 1: see their names. I don't even see their user names
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell. There might be a
Speaker 1: way to see that, but they're not. I don't even
Speaker 1: think they're getting your email address. So it's something that
Speaker 1: is pretty private in a way. But you are directly
Speaker 1: supporting your favorite creators by by joining that subscription or
Speaker 1: that membership to them. Does that make a lot of sense.
Speaker 8: Oh, they don't give out my information to anybody else.
Speaker 1: Now this is just on YouTube. It depends what you're joining.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's lots of video subscriptions out there in general.
Speaker 1: Unless it is something like you know, Patreon, you would
Speaker 1: have to look at the privacy page for whatever you're joining. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, I have a substack, which when you join
Speaker 1: my substack, I can see your email address directly. Now
Speaker 1: that is a rarity in a creator world because what
Speaker 1: happens is a lot of the creator focused websites they
Speaker 1: want to control the relationship. So let's say you're on
Speaker 1: something like Threads and someone follows you, Threads is not
Speaker 1: going to give up the email addresses of all the
Speaker 1: people that are following you because for privacy reasons and
Speaker 1: other reasons. But they want to control that relationship. They
Speaker 1: want you to go through Threads or Facebook or whatever
Speaker 1: to post things to your following. So some of these
Speaker 1: more creator focused programs, like a Patreon or like a substack,
Speaker 1: they may be more generous and what they share with
Speaker 1: you because they want you to control that relationship with
Speaker 1: your fans and subscribers. So it really depends on the
Speaker 1: setup of the specific video site that you're talking about.
Speaker 1: But what I would do is just google the name
Speaker 1: of that site and say, you know, if I become
Speaker 1: a member or a subscriber, what information do you share
Speaker 1: with that creator? And in most cases it's going to
Speaker 1: be a pretty private relationship, unless it is a site
Speaker 1: like a substack, where they give you you know, they
Speaker 1: give your name, or they may give your name and
Speaker 1: your email address and that's about it. But substack was
Speaker 1: specifically created to put newsletter writers in charge of their
Speaker 1: membership so that they control that membership and really can
Speaker 1: have a great relationship with those people. So but it
Speaker 1: all depends on the website. Good question, Linda, Thanks for
Speaker 1: the call today. Eighty eight Rich one on one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one
Speaker 1: more rich on Tech coming your way right after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. Let's go to Let's go
Speaker 1: to Will in Colorado Springs Line too. Will You're on
Speaker 1: with Rich hit there. Rich, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 12: Hey, I'm glad to hear your voice. It sir, I
Speaker 12: have a Hewlett Packard and I did something wrong and
Speaker 12: I now it doesn't want to function. It's a laptop.
Speaker 1: What'd you do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 12: I was trying to delete a function and I ended
Speaker 12: up deleting it. Now it doesn't want to function. It
Speaker 12: says no Internet.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 12: I don't know what I did, but I'm in an
Speaker 12: assisted living and all the other laptops in the household work,
Speaker 12: but mine says no Internet. And I don't know how
Speaker 12: to retrieve this.
Speaker 1: So the computer works, It just says no Internet.
Speaker 12: No Internet. That's what it says.
Speaker 1: Okay, does everything else work on it?
Speaker 12: I don't know what I did, but it doesn't want
Speaker 12: to function anymore. I can't even get googled.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it just sounds like you got disconnected from
Speaker 1: the Internet. How are you connecting to the internet? Typically?
Speaker 1: Is it Wi Fi inside this facility?
Speaker 12: I believe yes, yes, okay, all right.
Speaker 1: It sounds to me like you might have deleted the
Speaker 1: Wi Fi connection to this facility. So if you go
Speaker 1: in the lower right hand corner of this computer, there
Speaker 1: should be a little signal. It looks like little Wi
Speaker 1: Fi signal. Do you know what that looks like? It's
Speaker 1: kind of like a almost like a like a van. Yes, exactly?
Speaker 1: Is that lit up when you when you tap that?
Speaker 1: Does it? Are you on this computer?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay? Does this say you're connected to anything underneath?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 1: Is it highlighted in blue?
Speaker 12: So what comes on is not connected? No way it works?
Speaker 12: And then it says Bluetooth on.
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect. So where it says not connected, I would
Speaker 1: tap that that arrow and it should bring up a
Speaker 1: list of all the Wi Fi networks that are available
Speaker 1: to you, and one of them should be the facility
Speaker 1: that you're in or whatever. Are you paying for this
Speaker 1: internet or do they just give you internet? Okay, so
Speaker 1: you have to tap the internet, you know, the Wi
Speaker 1: Fi network that they give you and you have to
Speaker 1: put in probably a password or it may remember this.
Speaker 1: But I think what happened is you might have deleted
Speaker 1: this network by accident or disconnected from it and deleted it.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's not automatically reconnecting, because it should
Speaker 1: automatically once you do this once, it should automatically reconnect.
Speaker 1: So unfortunately, okay, so find that network. Can you see
Speaker 1: the network in the list? Are you looking at it
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 12: Let me connect to this, uh says it says the address.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, it's I must say.
Speaker 12: I don't know what I did, but it's it's disconnected, yes.
Speaker 1: Sir, okay, so it says disconnected underneath. So you see
Speaker 1: the network name, but it says disconnected.
Speaker 12: This connecting is trying.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, it's trying to connect. That's a good sign,
Speaker 1: so you might okay, so what do you want to do?
Speaker 12: Is I did what I did? I did it?
Speaker 1: Well, it happens, you know, we you know, play around
Speaker 1: on these things sometimes and they just kind of you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes it just it just happens. Okay. So what sounds
Speaker 1: to me is that you need to forget this network
Speaker 1: and then reconnect it. Okay, And so that is something
Speaker 1: that connect right next to it above all this, Yes,
Speaker 1: and I would disconnect, ye, disconnect or forget. I would
Speaker 1: hit forget. And then is there someone that can tell
Speaker 1: you the password to this network?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 4: Is there?
Speaker 1: Before you disconnect it? Is there someone that can tell
Speaker 1: you the right password?
Speaker 12: Sure?
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, like some someone that works there.
Speaker 12: I'll do that right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So disconnect from that network, go grab the
Speaker 1: person that has the password, and then reconnect. And I
Speaker 1: think that's going to solve your problems. And I think
Speaker 1: that's what's going on, is just somehow the password got
Speaker 1: changed or deleted, and then once you're reconnected there will
Speaker 1: you should be able to use your computer, you know,
Speaker 1: as as you previously did. So that that's what I
Speaker 1: think is going on there. So good question today. So
Speaker 1: you know, some of these things that happen are are
Speaker 1: just you know, they're very simple. You know, you think
Speaker 1: you have a big problem with your can computer, but
Speaker 1: it could be just a simple fix. You know, we
Speaker 1: we we often go through these computer screens really fast.
Speaker 1: And I know I'm guilty of it, My kid is
Speaker 1: guilty of I always give them a hard time because
Speaker 1: when we're doing something on the iPad together or his computer,
Speaker 1: he's going through these screens at a million miles an
Speaker 1: hour and I'm like, hey, Tanner, dude, like slow down.
Speaker 1: You gotta you know. And I'm guilty of it too,
Speaker 1: because we we think we know what these screens are
Speaker 1: gonna say, and they don't all the time. So that's
Speaker 1: what I would do. If you ever get disconnected from
Speaker 1: your Internet, you know, you can just go in there,
Speaker 1: forget the network and rejoin the network. Of course, you
Speaker 1: will need to know the password to do that, but
Speaker 1: that's a pretty simple fix. Thanks for the call today,
Speaker 1: Let's see what else before we have to So coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to Kate Rowse. She is with open Ai.
Speaker 1: This week, chatchy BT came out with a new offering
Speaker 1: called chatchybt Health and basically they want you to upload
Speaker 1: or connect some of your smart devices like your Apple
Speaker 1: Watch and some of your health records to their service
Speaker 1: and then you can chat with AI about your health. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know it's very interesting and not everyone's gonna like that,
Speaker 1: but let's hear them out. Coming up, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to Kate raw from open Ai. All did to hear
Speaker 1: all about this new offering called chat ebt Health. You're
Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech more show coming up right
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name
Speaker 1: is rich Demiro, hanging out with you talking technology at
Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four two four one zero one. We will get back
Speaker 1: to the phone lines in just a moment. But first,
Speaker 1: open Ai made a big announcement this week. They have
Speaker 1: a new product. It's called chat GPT Health, and here
Speaker 1: to talk about it is the chief marketing officer at
Speaker 1: open Ai, Kate raw Kate, thanks so much.
Speaker 3: For joining me.
Speaker 13: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: So I've read the announcement and people are already using
Speaker 1: chat gbt for health, so this is a natural extension.
Speaker 1: So explain to me what the new offering is exactly
Speaker 1: versus just the standard chatbot.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, So this week we announced two new new features
Speaker 14: for chat eybt and open Ai. The first is for
Speaker 14: everyday people and that's chatchybt Health, which is a new
Speaker 14: private space inside of chat eibt where you can bring
Speaker 14: together your medical records and then any connected health apps
Speaker 14: that you may be using. So things like ploton or
Speaker 14: weight watchers, or you know, a fitness tracker for things
Speaker 14: like steps or sleep. Now you can connect that all
Speaker 14: into chat gybt directly in a private, standalone area.
Speaker 3: Of the app.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a natural extension of the way people
Speaker 1: have already been using CHATCHYBT. You mentioned that it's private.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the privacy aspect right away, because I
Speaker 1: think most people when they hear health, you know, they're
Speaker 1: concerned about privacy. These are the medical records, these are
Speaker 1: their stats. So explain to me how this is private
Speaker 1: and does my data go anywhere? Is it training your models?
Speaker 1: Is it going to show up on someone else's chat somehow?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Great question.
Speaker 14: We've built this with privacy absolutely top of mind. The
Speaker 14: baseline chatchbt experience is already has a very strong level
Speaker 14: of privacy.
Speaker 13: But this new health feature you can really think of
Speaker 13: as a vault.
Speaker 14: So the information that you're putting in and potentially connecting,
Speaker 14: like your medical records, like your fitness trackers, they're staying
Speaker 14: within that vault and not going anywhere. It's not going
Speaker 14: to open AI, it's not being used to train models.
Speaker 14: It's really there for you.
Speaker 13: And you alone.
Speaker 1: So let's back up a little bit and just kind
Speaker 1: of what was the inspiration for this. I mean, you
Speaker 1: guys know that people are already asking chatchubt all kinds
Speaker 1: of health questions. What are people using chat eibt for
Speaker 1: when it comes to health already?
Speaker 14: Yeah, so we see that forty million people a day
Speaker 14: turn to chat ubt for health and wellness questions, which
Speaker 14: is really incredible. And here we're trying to build towards
Speaker 14: the demand and use cases that people are already showing
Speaker 14: us that they want to use the product for and
Speaker 14: are using it for. The three biggest cases that we
Speaker 14: see are one, people using chat to help them prepare
Speaker 14: for their clinician appointments, for their doctor's appointments, so we
Speaker 14: all know that time with our doctor can be limited
Speaker 14: and precious, and for folks navigating serious diagnoses, but also
Speaker 14: just for people who are trying to better understand their
Speaker 14: lab results and be their healthy at self, Chat can
Speaker 14: really really help you take advantage of the limited time.
Speaker 13: That you have with your doctor.
Speaker 14: The second place we see people really leaning on Chat
Speaker 14: is helping navigate insurance and benefits. And then finally a
Speaker 14: lot of people are turning to Chat for general wellness.
Speaker 1: So you spoke about using this to kind of prepare
Speaker 1: for the doctor and for diagnosis. You've spoken publicly about
Speaker 1: using AI during your own cancer diagnosis, So what did
Speaker 1: it help you understand better about that?
Speaker 14: Yeah, so last year, a month into my new job
Speaker 14: at open AI, I was diagnosed with a pretty serious
Speaker 14: breast cancer. And thankfully I'm totally cancer free and healthy now,
Speaker 14: but at the time that was an extremely overwhelming experience.
Speaker 14: I'm the mom of two very young children, three and
Speaker 14: six at the time of my diagnosis, and while I
Speaker 14: worked with an absolutely amazing team of doctors, they were
Speaker 14: specialists across a really wide range of medical specialties, from
Speaker 14: oncology to surgeons to radiologist, and frankly, I used CHAT
Speaker 14: to do things like really help me understand coming into
Speaker 14: appointments with my specialists, what were the different options being proposed,
Speaker 14: What did the clinical literature that they were kind of
Speaker 14: pointing me to really mean in terms that.
Speaker 13: I could understand.
Speaker 14: What were the most important questions for me to be
Speaker 14: asking them, As I mentioned a lot of people do.
Speaker 13: I also used it to help me get.
Speaker 14: My care covered and navigate my insurance, and then I
Speaker 14: use it for everyday things like identifying, you know, if
Speaker 14: a renny nose was a symptom of my cancer treatment
Speaker 14: or just you know, a cold.
Speaker 13: Is this something that I, you know, other people experienced
Speaker 13: or not.
Speaker 14: How to talk to my three year old about what
Speaker 14: was going on in an age appropriate way, identify children's
Speaker 14: books I could read him.
Speaker 13: Really the wide range of use cases that I relied
Speaker 13: on through my treatment.
Speaker 1: Kate, thanks for daring that story. I know that's a lot,
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you doing that, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: you're doing better, So thank you for that. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Where does CHATCHIBT get its knowledge of health? And how
Speaker 1: how well can we trust that knowledge?
Speaker 12: You know?
Speaker 14: Yeah, chatg EPT is trained with a huge variety of sources,
Speaker 14: including peer reviewed medical literature.
Speaker 13: It's also designed by.
Speaker 14: In partnership with clinicians and doctors around the world, so
Speaker 14: we fine tune the responses that chat GPT gives based
Speaker 14: on feedback and advice from many medical professionals, and we
Speaker 14: hold ourselves accountable for accuracy on benchmarks. It's kind of pest,
Speaker 14: if you will, of the of the underlying technology that
Speaker 14: doctors and clinicians and scientists help design. So we have
Speaker 14: one called health bench, which is really in the industry's standard,
Speaker 14: and you've seen that even from a baseline of high accuracy,
Speaker 14: the models and technology powering chatch ebt has had an
Speaker 14: eightfold increase in accuracy.
Speaker 13: Over the past year or so.
Speaker 14: So we also really design the responses to make sure
Speaker 14: that we are directing people to medical professionals at the
Speaker 14: appropriate time in their line of questioning.
Speaker 1: So along those lines, I know we've heard a lot
Speaker 1: about mental health with these chatbots, this specific chatch ebt
Speaker 1: health is not really associated with that aspect of things.
Speaker 1: And also, how are you working to make sure that
Speaker 1: people with mental health issues, you know, get the help
Speaker 1: they need when they need it.
Speaker 14: Like you just said, absolutely right that this experience is
Speaker 14: designed for you know, kind of physical, physical health and
Speaker 14: wellness and not specific to mental health. Mental health is
Speaker 14: obviously an area that we take very seriously and encourage
Speaker 14: people and direct them to professional help when we can
Speaker 14: identify that.
Speaker 13: That a user is in distress.
Speaker 1: You move around, people have various doctors, you have you know,
Speaker 1: medical facilities that don't necessarily talk to each other. I've
Speaker 1: always imagined in the future, we're going to have this
Speaker 1: giant like you said, almost vault of everything from birth
Speaker 1: till now of our data and to have AI get
Speaker 1: insights from that data and see trends over time, I
Speaker 1: think is going to be game changing for the entire industry.
Speaker 1: This is just a small beginning of that, but in
Speaker 1: the future, I do think that that will be something
Speaker 1: that will benefit so many millions of people, not just
Speaker 1: in America but around the world. So where can people
Speaker 1: go to get on the list to try this out?
Speaker 13: Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 14: I'm also extremely optimistic and I have obviously personally benefited
Speaker 14: and hope others can find this as useful as I have.
Speaker 13: For health questions.
Speaker 14: Today, anyone can go to chat ept and ask if
Speaker 14: bury million people already are doing every day for the
Speaker 14: new feature where you can more easily connect your trackers
Speaker 14: and medical records.
Speaker 13: There's a waitlist.
Speaker 14: It will be rolling out to everyone for free over
Speaker 14: the coming over the coming weeks, but if you want
Speaker 14: to kind of get first on the list, it's go
Speaker 14: to chatch ebt dot com, backslash Health backslash waitlist and
Speaker 14: you can sign up to raise your hand to be
Speaker 14: one of the first.
Speaker 13: To get the feature.
Speaker 1: All right. Kate row, Chief marketing Officer, at open AI.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us and telling your story
Speaker 1: and explaining this new feature.
Speaker 13: Thank you so much. I appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: All right, get those phone calls in triple eight Rich
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Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology from Las
Speaker 1: Vegas CS twenty twenty six. Wrapped up. I didn't even
Speaker 1: get to tell you about this new gadget I'm wearing.
Speaker 1: I picked it up during the show. It's called b
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. This is unlike anything I've ever worn
Speaker 1: in my life. B Dot Computer. This is a startup
Speaker 1: that was purchased by Amazon and think fitbit style bracelet
Speaker 1: that is listening twenty four to seven and tapping into
Speaker 1: your conversations, summarizing them, feeding it into AI, and putting
Speaker 1: it all on your phone. So when you go to
Speaker 1: the app, not only does it remember all little things
Speaker 1: in your life, but it's given you insights, reminders to
Speaker 1: do lists. It is truly unlike anything I have ever tried.
Speaker 1: Imagine a twenty four to seven bracelet that is listening
Speaker 1: to everything that is going on around you. Yes, there
Speaker 1: are lots of privacy concerns. There are lots of thoughts
Speaker 1: I have on this. I don't know. This is wild.
Speaker 1: This is the wild future we are a part of. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I will have an interview with the founder of b
Speaker 1: Computer coming up in next week's show. But oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this is the reality. Everything's so cheap now that you
Speaker 1: can have a device like this, The battery last fourteen days,
Speaker 1: a little bracelet and it's already you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: listened to this whole radio show. I mean, it's just wild. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I will continue We'll talk about that more next week
Speaker 1: because I ran out of time this week. But let
Speaker 1: me get to the feedbag. Let's open it up. Jeff
Speaker 1: from Frisco, Texas, listening on the podcast, says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: you joked about being passed out in a ditch in
Speaker 1: Tokyo and how anyone would know who you are. Here's
Speaker 1: what I do. I create a Google doc with my
Speaker 1: basic info and share it with anyone with the link.
Speaker 1: Then I make a QR code that points to that
Speaker 1: document and I print it out for my wallet. You
Speaker 1: can also save the QR code as your phone's lock
Speaker 1: screen image, and if anything changes, you just update the
Speaker 1: document and the QR code still works. It's great for
Speaker 1: anyone who scans it. They can see your info instantly.
Speaker 1: That's a that's yeah, it's that's one solution for sure, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I may look into that. There's a little bracelet that
Speaker 1: you can get also like an emergency risk bracelet, but
Speaker 1: this is a more high tech version. Ross in Canada says,
Speaker 1: I heard you talking about using AI on the show,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to share how I've been using it.
Speaker 1: I love making short video clips with Sora, then stitching
Speaker 1: them together on TikTok. I've also used Gemini to create
Speaker 1: storybooks for my grandkids. Lately, I've been experimenting with music.
Speaker 1: I use Gemini to write song lyrics, then an app
Speaker 1: called Suno turns those words into songs. I even made
Speaker 1: one about you Rich on Tech. I've been using chatch
Speaker 1: ebt to build playlists in Apple Music. I'm sharing the
Speaker 1: song with you, Bobo. Can we listen to a little
Speaker 1: bit of this song that Ross created using AI? About me?
Speaker 3: Listen calls on.
Speaker 9: A Saturday Show, Questions coming, fast watch.
Speaker 1: And knowledge, fo, no job and no Love, Just the
Speaker 1: facts you need to keeping the solved too.
Speaker 13: Mons.
Speaker 1: That is not bad, Boss, not bad at all. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I mean, who knew it would become a
Speaker 1: country song? That's pretty wild. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for
Speaker 1: sharing that again. The app is to know if you
Speaker 1: want to try making something like that. Wes and Memphis
Speaker 1: says they couldn't have picked a better person to take over.
Speaker 1: You've done a great job these past three years, and
Speaker 1: you add some fun humor to the weekly show and podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Wes, appreciate you listening there in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: For Jeff writes in Hey, Rich, quick question, How can
Speaker 1: I tell if my desktop computer is running Windows eleven? Easy? Easy, easy.
Speaker 1: If the search bar is in the middle of your
Speaker 1: screen at the bottom, it's Windows eleven. If it's on
Speaker 1: the left, it's Windows ten. That's the easiest way. You
Speaker 1: can also go into settings and then System and then
Speaker 1: about and it'll say Windows ten or eleven right there.
Speaker 1: Gennaro says Rich, that good Sun story really hit home.
Speaker 1: It highlights a bigger issue for seniors like me. We're
Speaker 1: getting locked out of everyday life because we're not tech
Speaker 1: savvy enough. Grocery stores give you better price if you're digital.
Speaker 1: I just found out to use Uber. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: I think I read this one before. So anyway, well, Gennaro,
Speaker 1: thank you for sending that. Even though looks like I
Speaker 1: read it. Maybe I read it live on the show
Speaker 1: last week, so I'm recalling that. Wendy and Irvine says, Rich,
Speaker 1: have you ever help? If you ever feel like helping
Speaker 1: someone else untangle their tech stuff, please let us know.
Speaker 1: We're much closer than New Jersey since we live right
Speaker 1: in California. Love your newsletter, radio show and TV segments.
Speaker 1: Take care, you know. I don't do tech support visits
Speaker 1: at home, but you know, maybe if this radio thing
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, maybe I'll do that. But in all seriousness, yes,
Speaker 1: that was referring to my newsletter last week with my
Speaker 1: dad and talking about all the stuff that he went
Speaker 1: through and I upgraded at his house. So yes, I
Speaker 1: do love to help people with their technology in real
Speaker 1: life too. Bob and Charlotte along the same Along the
Speaker 1: same lines, Rich, bless you you're a good son and
Speaker 1: happy y two K plus twenty six from a fix
Speaker 1: it senior citizen and dad. When tech is complicated but intuitive,
Speaker 1: that's okay. Otherwise not so much. Wishing you many Ota
Speaker 1: broadcast hours seventy three. What's seventy three mean? Is that
Speaker 1: his age? Okay? Thank you, Bob. Joanne says, Hey Rich,
Speaker 1: I've started using Costco to reserve my car rentals. It
Speaker 1: might be a false sense of security, but if something
Speaker 1: goes wrong, I feel like I have more leverage with
Speaker 1: Costco behind me. On top of that, the rates usually
Speaker 1: seem better through that behemoth. Thanks for all the helpful
Speaker 1: tech updates. Happy New Year, Joanne. I was inspired by
Speaker 1: you to actually use Costco from an ex car rental
Speaker 1: because you know, I ditched the company that rhymes with
Speaker 1: shirts because they did me wrong. So now I'm using
Speaker 1: whatever company is cheapest at Costco, and that's what I
Speaker 1: used to book my next rental. So I will follow
Speaker 1: up in a future show to tell you how that went.
Speaker 1: Claudia and Irvine says, Hey, Rich, I love Today's newsletter.
Speaker 1: Before moving to California in the sixties, I grew up
Speaker 1: in Massapequa on Long Island. Fun side note, I lived
Speaker 1: next door to Neil Diamond and even baby sat his
Speaker 1: infant daughter Marjorie. That was right when he was starting
Speaker 1: out and releasing songs like Solitary Man and Cherry Cherry.
Speaker 1: I tried your CHATCHYBT photo restoration prompt on a couple
Speaker 1: pictures from that time and they turned out great. I
Speaker 1: still love the black and white versions, but it was
Speaker 1: really fun to see them restored in color. Thanks again.
Speaker 1: Oh that's such a cool story. Wow. I love that
Speaker 1: you live next door to Neil Diamond. Wow. That's quite
Speaker 1: the story to tell your friends. Huh. All right, we
Speaker 1: got a scam warning up next from John. I consider
Speaker 1: myself pretty tech savvy, but I still got scammed. I
Speaker 1: was looking for a puppy for the holidays, and I
Speaker 1: thought I bought one from a website that looked legit.
Speaker 1: After emails and phone calls, I sent six hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty dollars through Venmo and then guess what happened and
Speaker 1: the person disappeared. Venmo basically told me there's nothing they
Speaker 1: can do, even though their account was active. I reported
Speaker 1: it to the FTC and wanted to warn you and
Speaker 1: your audience. Thank you, John, I'm sorry this happened to you,
Speaker 1: but the puppy scam is going around a lot, and
Speaker 1: I actually did a story on this on TV. Might
Speaker 1: have been last year, even the year before. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the big issue with those cash apps like Venmo is
Speaker 1: that once you send the money, it is really tough
Speaker 1: to get back. You might in some cases, but it's
Speaker 1: like cash. And they warn you that A great resource
Speaker 1: for checking out scams and reporting them and researching them
Speaker 1: is the Better Business Bureau Scam Tracker BBB Scam Tracker.
Speaker 1: Look it up. Stephanie says, hey, Rich, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: I used an app. I used an app to convert
Speaker 1: all my live photos into standard photos. Now it looks
Speaker 1: like I lost about seven hundred captions. Is that really possible?
Speaker 1: Big fan of the show, That could be possible if
Speaker 1: you convert those photos. I'm not sure those captions would
Speaker 1: stay with those pictures. But my advice here, always test
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do something big, Always test the change
Speaker 1: on a handful of something before applying it to your
Speaker 1: entire library, because you could make a change that you
Speaker 1: will never recover from and also have backups. Because that
Speaker 1: is a bummer. I am so sorry that happened to you.
Speaker 1: All right, that is gonna do it for this week's show.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe it went this fast. I just love
Speaker 1: how this show. I'm sad that it flies by this fast,
Speaker 1: but it's also a testament to how much fun I
Speaker 1: have doing this. Thanks for listening to this episode. You
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Speaker 1: so many ways to spend your time. I do appreciate
Speaker 1: you spending it right here with me. Please don't drive distracted. Please,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you don't do it. Thanks everyone who makes
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