WEBVTT - Microsoft's new feature wins the metaverse 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:15.040 Microsoft gives us their vision for the metaverse. Facebook ditches 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:19.479 facial recognition, the two factor tech scam you need to 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.560 know about? Plus your tech questions answered? What is going on? 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.200 Amriche Demiro And this is rich on Tech, the podcast 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.360 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.840 should know about. It's also the place where I answer 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.360 the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter at 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:41.279 KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Thank you if you 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.840 are tuning in on the Facebook page Facebook dot com 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.960 slash rich on Tech. I am live streaming today's show 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.360 on the page. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. 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You got to get people to call in, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.880 which is not too tough, but you know, it's just 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.120 one of those things where the questions that people send 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.320 me have you know, that way I can pick the 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.360 ones that I like that people send. I mean, I 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.360 get so many of them, but I try to pick 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.120 ones that have like the broadest appeal to other people 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.640 as well, and they're just interesting in whatever. Anyway, So 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.880 thank you for listening to the show. I do appreciate it, 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:19.000 and thanks for your continued downloads and listening and emails. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.600 I do want to say that after all my complaining, 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.720 I did get a Pixel six pro in my hands. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.600 So here it is. Oh you can't see on the 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:31.680 podcast because you're you're listening, but it is a It 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.000 is definitely, I will say, the best phone that Google 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.640 has ever made. There's just no doubt about it. I 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.919 can already tells it's excellent. The photo quality is excellent, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.040 the screen is really nice, the software is nice. But 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.440 with that said, there are a lot of quirks on 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.360 this phone that I think ninety nine percent of them 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.640 will be fixed with software updates, so I'm not too worried. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.040 I mean, the fingerprint reader is just as slow as 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.360 other reviewers have said. That's probably the biggest downside of 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.720 this phone at this pay point. The second biggest downside 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.639 is the size. It is a huge, huge, huge phone, 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:11.040 and I'm I'm okay with big phones, but I've sort 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.079 of gotten used to the sweet form factor of the 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.240 standard iPhone. I call it the two in the middle, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.799 the iPhone thirteen and the thirteen Pro, and last year 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.960 the twelve and the twelve Pro. But I don't know, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.399 It's just one of these things where having a smaller 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.320 I love the big screen because you can do a 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.359 lot more on it. You know, you can watch videos. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.280 It just gives you a bigger canvas for things. But 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.480 I don't like it because it's just so much tougher 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.280 to sort of manipulate on a daily basis. Like today, 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.760 I was trying to take a selfie. I know, bad example, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.640 but you know, it's things that we do, and typically 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.520 I just I can easily hold my iPhone in one 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.560 hand take a selfie, no problem. I can do it 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.840 all one handed. There's no you know, there's no kind 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.520 of wrangling the phone with two hands, and with this phone, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.960 there's just a lot of wrangling with two hands. So 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:58.640 I think it's one of those things you can get 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.840 used to. I've also got really used to these squared 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.120 off edges on the iPhone, and I'm going back to 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.480 round edges on here, and that's also tough because it's 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.560 just not as comfortable in your hand. But overall, if 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.080 you want an Android phone, I've only had this for 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.840 twenty four hours and I can already tell you it's 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:20.680 the best Android phone probably of the past decade. Well 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.760 maybe not that the first pixel was really sort of 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.160 magical for me because it really showed the power of Google, 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.520 and maybe the second pixel, but this one is really 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.160 really fantastic. So if you can deal with the large size, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.520 I think you'll really like it. I'm still forming my 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.640 full review these are just sort of my initial impressions 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.800 after twenty four hours. The other thing is, I don't know, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:45.600 if you need the Pro, you could probably go at 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.320 the slightly smaller six. They did not send me the six, 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.839 so I don't have that to compare the size, but 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.520 I imagine it's just a little bit smaller than the Pro, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.320 and the Pro really only gives you a faster refresh 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.120 rate and the improved zoom camera. So if you don't 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.880 need those two things, save the three hundred dollars and 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.520 go with the lesser one. Anyway, that's kind of the 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.039 first impression of the Pixel six Pro, and I just 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.320 think that it's like one of these things where it 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.359 finally feels like Google made a phone that like is 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.080 really good, like not just the camera, like the software 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.600 is really nice. Battery life leaves a little to be 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.520 desired right now, but some people are saying there's like 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.840 a two week kind of break in period where it 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.120 learns your battery use and gets better. But it's just 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.320 very googly, and I'm looking forward to trying this out, 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.040 although it's going to be tough for me to give 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:36.840 up the iPhone and I'm not sure I'm gonna do 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.760 that I will let you know I've not switched my 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.400 sim card at this point. All right, let's get into 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.760 the first story of the week, Facebook by any other 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:52.000 name ditching the facial recognition of their business. So this 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.760 is kind of a surprise announcement. But you know, Facebook 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.040 is now called Meta. I didn't cover that in last 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:01.080 week's episode because it happened after my deadline, basically after 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.440 I recorded the show. But Facebook parent company is now 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.120 called Meta. You know that you've seen it in the news. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.279 Nothing is changing about the apps that you use from Facebook. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.520 They are all continuing to be called what they're called, 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:19.080 so Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus. They are all just now 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.880 under a bigger umbrella of a company named Meta instead 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.960 of Facebook. I know, not really that confusing, but it 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.719 just seems like it would be. But it's not. So. 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:34.600 Meta said that they're shutting down the face recognition system 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.160 on Facebook, and they say it's part of a company 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.240 wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.680 their products. And the main way that you saw facial 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.440 recognition on Facebook was when you uploaded a picture, you 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:51.680 would see your friends suggested in tags. Now it's been 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.200 a while since I've used Facebook personally. I use it 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.720 for my public page, but personally I don't really use it. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.440 I've kind of switched over to Instagram for that. So 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.360 it's been a while. But this was really the first 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.440 introduction that many of us had to face recognition, and 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.720 when those little tags popped up, we were like, whoa, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.720 what is that? Wow? How do they know? Well, it's 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.880 not that tough, I mean facial recognition. At this point, 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.640 we're ten years in. It's pretty standard. I mean Google 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.000 Photos has I mean everything has it. Google Photos has it, 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.840 Apple Photos has it. You've got it on your iPhone 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.520 to unlock it. It was on the pixel last year 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:31.960 to unlock it. So it's it's been around, but Facebook 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.160 or a meta. The reason they are giving for this 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.040 change is they say, you know what, there's so many 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.280 concerns about the place of this in society, and regulators 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.720 are still trying to figure out rules governing its use. 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.880 We are just going to drop it for now until 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.240 things sort of settle down and we can figure out 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.800 how best to use this. They're not going to press 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.960 delete on the face recognition software on their servers. They're 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.640 not going to get rid of all the work that 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.320 they've done over the past ten years, but they are 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.200 going to stop using it and they are going to 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.920 delete all of the faces that they have recognized. So 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.280 they're going to delete more than a billion people's individual 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.920 facial recognition templates in this process. So if they have 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.400 been able to recognize you in the past, they will 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:22.680 be deleting that stockpile of data around faces. So that's 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.760 pretty interesting. Is this a surprise? So I think that 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.040 it's a bit of a surprise, but Facebook is really 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.800 trying to change its image at this point. I think 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.960 that there's been a lot of They've been bounced around 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.680 in the news a lot, and I see the writing 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.280 on the wall. I mean, I think it's a really 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.160 they're in a really tough spot because Facebook, for so 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.280 many years was the de facto standard and it's still 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.760 pretty much is for a social network. But in my experience, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.920 just looking at my group of friends, we're not really 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:59.000 on Facebook. We're not really exchanging things on Facebook like 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.920 we used to, and so I think that that's a 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.280 pretty big deal for them that they need to figure out. Okay, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.960 our users are going to TikTok, well, not even going 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.440 to TikTok, they're new users are going right to TikTok. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.560 Existing users are still there, but they're kind of phasing 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.000 it out of their lives. And then when it comes 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.440 to Instagram, it's still pretty much a powerhouse, but there's 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.880 a lot of danger there in people leaving Instagram and 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.360 it's not the same as Facebook. Facebook still has a 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.800 place for sharing certain things like stories and pictures and 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.040 this and that, but I don't know. So anyway, that's 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.720 what they're doing, and no more facial recognition on Facebook, 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.160 and we'll continue to watch and see what happens with that. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.320 Oh and by the way, Facebook says that things like 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.120 the iPhone that do facial recognition, it's all happening on 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.959 the device, and so they think that that's a better 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.720 model instead of building these databases of people's faces. So 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.280 that's something that I would probably agree with. All right, 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.760 First question of the day, high Rich, please help I 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.240 get at least five Instagram follow requests a day. I 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.960 have a private account. I searched on Google how to 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.840 stop them. I thought I took care of it, but 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.680 I still get the requests. I would appreciate your help. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.840 Thank you as always. Marsha Marsha Marsha. Marsha, I'm not 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.119 sure there is a way to blanket stop follow requests 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.480 on Instagram. You have a private account, which means people 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.360 can't see what you're posting. You're probably already friends with 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.440 the people that you want to be friends with. So 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.600 I would say, except for the nuisance of notifications, which 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.560 I believe you can probably turn off in settings, I 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.679 would think that's the best way to do it, and 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.200 just once a month go through and delete the friend requests. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.360 I was going to say, I'm not even sure. I 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.480 never even saw friend requests, but my account is public, 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.360 so I wouldn't have any friend requests on Facebook. But 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.840 if you have them, I would just go through, maybe 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.200 once a month, and just delete the friend requests that 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:02.920 you have. So if we look at notifications here, let's 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:07.400 see followers and following. So it looks like you might 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.560 be able to change some of those things in your 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.480 notifications settings. I can't seem to tell just because I 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.079 don't have that enabled on my account. Like, my account 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.199 is public, so anyone they don't have to request me, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.040 they just have to basically, you know, that's it. They 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.280 just basically have to follow me. And so I don't know, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:32.079 maybe Facebook, I think this would be an interesting I mean, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.560 it goes against their sort of the whole point of 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.000 Instagram and all these companies is they want to grow. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:38.920 They want to grow the network, and the more people 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.840 that you have in your network, the more you're going 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.840 to use it, the more you're gonna check in. So 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.680 it's kind of one of those things that is counterintuitive 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.920 to what they want to accomplish. But we've seen them 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.920 change things before in the past that are counterintuitive, so 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.280 things like saying, hey, you've been on here, or you're 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.719 all caught up, or you know, timers and how much 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.160 you've been on your account. So it's not out of 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.840 the question that they might add a setting that lets 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.920 you turn off all follow requests. But at the same time, 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.120 I don't think it's that huge of a priority for them, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.800 because if you have these notifications turned off, then it's 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.040 not that big of a deal because they're not really 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.800 doing any harm. It's probably mostly bots, to be honest, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.439 But I can see how in the case of maybe 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:26.000 a younger user, say for instance, a minor that's just 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.480 you know, starting out with their account, maybe someone that's thirteen, 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.319 they get these bots that are, you know, usually scantily 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:37.760 clad women requesting, you know, a friendship on Instagram, and 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.959 then you click and there's of course spam, and it's 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.280 a website that you might not want your child going to. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:47.199 So I can see that argument for why Instagram should 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.320 take care of this problem and let people turn off 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.000 follow requests completely. But at the same time, you know, 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:57.160 friend requests are are part and parcel of both Instagram, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.960 Facebook and almost all of the social media networks out there, 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.960 so it might be tough for them to completely completely 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.760 stop this. But good question, and thanks for asking. All right, 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:12.360 let's talk about Microsoft Mesh Mesh for Microsoft teams, and 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.960 I actually think this is really really cool. And so 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.599 we've heard of this idea of the metaverse. The metaverse 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:24.560 is this Internet that exists in a virtual world, and 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.439 so what can you do in the metaverse. You can 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.080 it's kind of like virtual reality, it's kind of like 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.400 mixed reality. It's whatever you want it to be. The 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:37.679 metaverse is imagine the Internet, but much more three dimensional, 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.640 much more a place you can explore in VR ar XR, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.600 which I guess is kind of like a mixed reality. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.760 So this is going to take a while. For us 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.880 to all get used to the idea of and also 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.400 of course get in there. And if you've used a 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.920 virtual reality headset, sure you've been in a portion of it. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.560 But until you've actually interacted with other humans in the 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:05.200 metaverse or explored places that are much more interactive, I 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.559 don't think that we've really truly gotten to appreciate what 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.600 this world will hold for us. And these companies are 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.680 working on it. We know that Facebook was really the 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.720 first to popularize popularize the word, and now Microsoft is 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.320 using the same word, and so they specifically called out 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.720 the metaverse and said here's what we think is our 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.480 idea of it. And they're starting small, but it's a 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.840 really cool idea. And the idea is that in Microsoft Teams, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.320 you can create an avatar of yourself that you can 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.920 use to video chat. And you might say, rich, there's 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.120 been companies that can do this, and there's been ways 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.640 of doing this, absolutely, but this is Microsoft Teams. This 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:48.640 is a big deal. This is a program that a 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:53.000 lot of companies use. And I think that what's magical 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.760 about this solution is that it's almost like so simple 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.120 that why did we not think of this before? And 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.160 so what you do is you create your little avatar 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.640 and right now it's just a torso they're leaving out 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.840 the bottom half and you kind of float around this 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.359 world where you can meet up in a virtual room 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:17.200 or at the very basic functionality of this, instead of 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.400 logging onto your standard video chat on teams or you 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.040 know zoom as we call it, or more commonly call it, 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:29.080 you would show up as a as an avatar. And 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.400 so what does that mean. Well, it means that you 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.320 can be in your pajamas and you can be in, 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.960 you know, something that might not be you know, the 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.480 not appropriate. I'm not saying you should show up in 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.800 something that's not appropriate for work, but something that you know, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.280 you may just be more casual. But the reality is 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.840 you're in your avatar and so you look very professional 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.160 because you're wearing a suit or however you design yourself 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.840 to look and that avatar. Think of this, it's so 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.120 brilliant that it's it's kind of tough for me to explain, 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.960 but think of this as remember how blurring your back 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.600 was such a big deal in the Zoom days. Well, 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:08.080 imagine this is the digital equivalent of blurring your background. 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.720 But you're blurring your entire being, so that you can 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.880 show up and sit in front of your computer and 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.680 have your microphone on and talk to people, but the 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.040 avatar is what they see, and so your mouth is moving. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.960 You can show things off, you can show off your PowerPoint, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.640 you can do a presentation, and it's just one step 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.240 into the metaverse. It's kind of like a very easy 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.120 tiptoe for people because if you're in a place, let's 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.800 say you're taking a conference call at your home, or 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.040 you're taking a conference call in your car as a 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.160 passenger of course, or maybe in the backseat of an 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.400 uber as you drive to the airport, why do you 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.160 have to show up as yourself? Why can't you show 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.320 up as your avatar and people can just see you 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.040 and hear you, but you know, they get that sort 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.160 of cartoonized version of you. So I think this is 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.280 a really brilliant idea. This is going to roll out 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.040 in twenty twenty two in something called Mesh for Microsoft Teams, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.320 but there's a whole bunch of other features as well. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.560 You can have virtual meeting rooms. So I just think 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.720 this is a great idea. It's so smart. I think 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.959 Zoom needs to do something very similar because a lot 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.320 of people use Zoom and there are programs that allow 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.680 you to do this kind of as a third party, 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.000 so you can get like a helper program for your 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.760 video camera that would enable you to become anything. And 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.040 one of the big ones is actually made from Snapchat. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.560 It's oh gosh, what is it called video? It's like 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:37.399 Snapchat avatar app. Let me see what it's actually called. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:43.520 It's not bit moji, but it was the app. Remember 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.680 this story with the person who turned into a potato. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.320 That was this app. Oh, snap camera app. That's what 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.879 it's called. Now, before you install it, I would just 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.040 warn against installing it because once you install this app 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.720 on your computer, it will turn you into a potato 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.479 and you will be showing up on your Zoom calls 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.000 as a potato because you will not be able to 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:08.840 figure out how to turn this thing off. Believe me 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.959 me as a tech person, it's complicated to turn this off. 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.480 Your webcam always sort of defaults. Think of it as 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.679 a program that sort of takes over your webcam and 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.240 kind of inserts a new image in between you and Zoom. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.840 And so if you're not totally savvy on your computer, 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.520 it could be a little tricky to turn that off, 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.800 and that's why that person turned into a potato last 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.520 year and they couldn't get that off their screen because 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:36.280 they didn't know how to turn this feature off. But 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.080 it does work, and they have a whole bunch of 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.600 different lenses and they're pretty wild. I mean, you could 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.240 turn yourself into so many different things. So if you 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.479 want a similar feature, that's kind of where you can 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.159 get it right now. But I just think this is 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.440 a really simple, fun, interesting way of getting people into 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:58.200 this quote unquote metaverse. It's fun, it's easy, and in fact, 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.680 I think it would be really cool if I had 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.040 you know, I should do this right now. I should 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:03.440 just do this with a snap camera. I should just 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.920 start doing my podcast weekly, because when I'm doing my podcast, 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:08.960 do I really feel like sitting there in front of 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:10.639 a camera every week? I don't know. I mean, I 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.560 sit in front of a camera all day for my 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.760 my TV job. My podcast is supposed to be more 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:16.640 relaxed because I'm I don't need to be in front 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.520 of the camera. But it is kind of fun if 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.320 you were watching it on YouTube to kind of see 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:24.239 a an avatar representation of me. And maybe maybe this 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:31.400 is something that I would do, so kind of cool. Oh, 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.840 I don't know what happened there, something something when went 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.320 awry on the uh on the Facebook page. So the 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:43.560 live room stopped, but I will continue going. Matthew has 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.000 some feedback on the podcast. I got a couple of 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.840 emails about the last podcast I was talking about. I 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.639 was giving an answer to a question about someone asked 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.400 if you can schedule a text message on the iPhone 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.280 and I said, no, not easily, and on the Android, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.680 it's just sort of build into Android messages. You long 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.119 pressed the little arrow when you go to send, and 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.840 it will give you the option to schedule. Well, Matthew 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.679 wrote in and said that one question someone had I 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:11.920 had heard on your podcast last week about being able 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.360 to set up a text message at a different time. 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:16.800 You can actually do that with the shortcuts app that 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.160 Apple has, And you're right, Matthew, that is one way 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:24.760 of doing it. But remember I gear this podcast towards 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:28.040 the average tech consumer, and to be quite honest, the 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.879 shortcuts functionality on the iPhone is very, very powerful and 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.400 it's actually pretty amazing what Apple did with that. It 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:39.360 reminded me when it first came out of the Tasker 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:44.000 functionality on Android, which for Android power users was always 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.320 such an amazing app because you could schedule your phone 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:50.040 to do all kinds of stuff automatically. And the iPhone 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:53.040 came out with a much more streamlined, and some would 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:57.200 say much more maybe not as powerful, much more consumer 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.840 friendly version of shortcuts, but it never really took off. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.159 But yes, you can do all kinds of stuff with 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.400 shortcuts if you put your mind to it, and if 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.160 you actually program them in, or you can just find 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:11.760 them online and adopt them as your own. And Marvin 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.120 also chimed in and say, hey, Rich, you can send 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.400 delayed texts on an iPhone. I do it every day 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:20.000 and night. Just set up a shortcut automation. It's easy. Thanks, 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:24.000 love your shows, Marvin. And yes, Marvin again, I agree 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.560 you could do it. I know you say it's easy, 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:29.840 but I just don't know if for the average person 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.720 it's very easy. So I did also have one more 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:37.640 person send me a text that basically said they created 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:39.720 their own shortcuts and they sent me them. I never 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.360 really tested it out, but you can do it. It's 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:49.080 definitely doable. So yes, I'm always open to responses to 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.800 the answers. I give on the podcast, and in some cases, 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.440 I'm you know, sometimes I'm looking for answers myself, and 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.440 so the more we can get people to collaborate, the better, 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.880 See says Holiday. Tech spending is going to reach one 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:07.320 hundred and forty two point five billion dollars in twenty 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:11.680 twenty one, which is a half of a percentage increased 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:15.919 from twenty twenty. Now, the fact that it's actually increasing 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.720 is it's probably not a surprise. I mean, we've we've 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:22.000 heard so much with the economy and with inflation right now. 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:29.240 So far tech gadgets have not price wise been fully impacted, 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.240 like we're seeing prices sort of stay the same, except 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:35.680 for Sonos. They actually did raise the price on all 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:40.320 of their products. Tesla, the Tesla that I purchased, actually 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.200 was perfect timing because the price went up no less 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:47.760 than four thousand dollars on the exact car that I purchased. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:50.919 And the reason for that is because Tesla you know, 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:53.040 typically have to wait you know, three to six months 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.080 to get a Tesla, and so they are hedging against 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:59.679 future inflation. So yeah, the car might not cost two 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:03.160 thousand dollars more four thousand dollars more right now, to make, 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:06.040 but in six months when people actually pay their bills 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:11.399 for those Teslas they ordered right now, the economy or whatever, 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:13.040 the parts may have gotten to a place where they 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:16.119 are more expensive. And so I think I had perfect 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:19.680 timing with mine. And by the way, I continue to absolutely, 0:23:20.560 --> 0:23:23.200 absolutely love my car. I got my first software update, 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.119 I think I mentioned it last week in the show. 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:29.160 And I also installed the charger now in my garage. 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:32.760 So it's just it literally like once you have all 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:34.879 this stuff set up, like I really really want to 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:37.000 get my wife one of these cars because I love 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:39.560 it so much, but she does not need a new car. 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:42.520 So I am resisting and we're not doing that right now, right, 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:46.159 We're not doing it. No, we are not. Okay, So, 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:49.679 what are the top five tech wish list items for 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:55.000 consumers in twenty twenty one? Number one smartphones and so 0:23:55.040 --> 0:24:01.520 smartphones number one, number two, laptops and notebook computers number three, 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:05.000 wearable devices, which actually jumped from fifth last year now 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:07.200 they're up to number three, And I think the interest 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:09.760 in the Apple Watch is a huge driver in that, 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:14.239 although they don't specifically say that, Television's number four and 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:18.560 then tied video game consoles and tablets and e readers. Now, 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:20.919 I'm guessing that video game console sort of drop down 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:23.639 the list a little bit just because there is not 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:26.639 a new, brand new console this year. We saw that 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:30.040 last year during the holidays, and so maybe people who 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:33.240 got those or that were interested already got those. But 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:36.600 the reality is the Xbox and the PlayStation five still 0:24:36.680 --> 0:24:40.200 seem pretty elusive even this year, and so I'm sure 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:43.240 people will be purchasing those in big numbers. But when 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:46.639 when you compare them to smartphones and laptops and wearables 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:51.200 and TVs, definitely those are higher up on the list 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:54.200 because I would say video game consoles are a little 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:58.119 bit more niche for most people, Like if they want that, 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:00.960 they've sort of you just go in and buy it, 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:03.560 like you've you've wanted to have, You've you've had your 0:25:03.560 --> 0:25:06.600 eye on that for a while now. The other interesting 0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:11.400 part about this release is that smartphone replacement rates are 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:16.560 now reaching four plus years, so smartphone interest during this 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:20.159 holiday season is expected to be strong. CTA says, these 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:21.960 are the folks that put on cs. By the way, 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:25.320 forty eight percent of holiday tech shoppers expect to purchase 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:27.679 one as a gift, up from forty one percent in 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:30.520 twenty nineteen. And that makes a lot of sense because 0:25:30.560 --> 0:25:34.520 the iPhone thirteen and you've got you've got phones this 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:39.720 year that were probably the best reviewed phones of any 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:43.320 year I can remember. So you've got the iPhone thirteen, 0:25:43.400 --> 0:25:46.520 which is probably the best reviewed phone I've ever seen. 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:51.400 Then you've got the foldables from Samsung, which were very 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:56.800 well received, especially the Z the z Flip three that's 0:25:56.840 --> 0:25:59.800 the smaller the fold great, but yeah, it's it's very 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:04.000 so it's not totally mainstream, but the Flip people said, hey, 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:06.760 this is a great alternative to the standard Samsung phones. 0:26:07.400 --> 0:26:10.200 The S twenty one Ultra well reviewed. And then you've 0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:13.520 got the Pixel six and Pixel six Pro, which are 0:26:13.600 --> 0:26:18.600 also really well reviewed phones. And so I can definitely 0:26:18.600 --> 0:26:22.359 see I think this holiday season will probably be the 0:26:22.480 --> 0:26:27.360 highest sales we've ever seen for smartphones, just because all 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:30.920 of the stars are aligned. You've got great phones, and 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:33.440 people are sort of looking for that upgrade. Maybe they 0:26:33.480 --> 0:26:36.320 held off and since they're seeing all the reviews come 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:39.480 out for these phones equally as well, Like you can't 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:41.800 go wrong whether you go with the S twenty one Ultra, 0:26:41.880 --> 0:26:44.000 whether you got the Pixel six Pro, whether you go 0:26:44.040 --> 0:26:46.639 with the flip or whether you go with the iPhone, 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:49.399 you're going to get a fantastic phone. Now, there are 0:26:49.480 --> 0:26:53.760 preferences in there, and I have my preferences, but there's 0:26:54.000 --> 0:26:56.560 you know, you can't go wrong. If you want a foldable, 0:26:56.760 --> 0:26:59.159 there you go. Twenty nine percent of people, according to 0:26:59.200 --> 0:27:02.080 this are going to buy a foldable. Also, work at 0:27:02.080 --> 0:27:06.400 home continues to play out according to the CTA. Printers, 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:10.679 desktop computers, and monitors also high on the list of 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:13.280 things that people will purchase. I just purchased a brand 0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:15.960 new HP printer. I talked about it on the show 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:18.879 I Believe, and it's been good. I mean it's been 0:27:19.040 --> 0:27:21.359 it's been ten years I think since I purchased a printer. 0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:23.800 It's one of those things that is not really top 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:25.879 of the list, but when you get one, it's kind 0:27:25.920 --> 0:27:31.600 of nice. Kids are enjoying the color printing. Broaderick says 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:35.399 Oculus would be cheaper to get it now or should 0:27:35.440 --> 0:27:40.800 I wait until the hollid Hollywood holiday sales? Thanks uh oh, Broaderick. 0:27:40.880 --> 0:27:43.119 This perfectly fits into what I was just talking about. 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:47.280 But I would I would wait. Oculus is probably one 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:49.520 of those things that will go down in price over 0:27:50.080 --> 0:27:53.119 Black Friday and during the holiday shopping season. So what 0:27:53.200 --> 0:27:56.560 I would do is set up a couple of price alerts. 0:27:56.600 --> 0:27:59.720 So I would do, do they even sell this on 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:04.359 ammaz on Oculus Let's see, let's see Oculus Quest two. 0:28:04.480 --> 0:28:07.240 Yes they do, Okay, So Oculus Quest two is two 0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:10.240 hundred and ninety nine dollars for the one hundred and 0:28:10.320 --> 0:28:13.639 twenty eight gigabyte version, and let's just see if the 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:16.520 price on that has gone down at all. So I'm 0:28:16.520 --> 0:28:19.760 going to Camel Camel Camel, and I'm gonna pop this 0:28:19.960 --> 0:28:22.480 into their little system and see if the price has 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:28.040 ever gone down and ooh, it is not so interesting. 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:31.919 Price has never changed on Amazon as long as this 0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:35.000 thing has been on Amazon. So I would say what 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:37.960 they might do. You might not get a discount, but 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:40.920 you might get a bundle situation going on, or they 0:28:41.000 --> 0:28:44.240 might bundle like a you know, an extra maybe not 0:28:44.280 --> 0:28:48.080 an extra controller, but I don't know what you'd get bundled, 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:50.920 maybe an extra game, maybe some sort of extra accessory. 0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:53.520 But at this point, it doesn't look like the price 0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:58.000 historically has gone down. But at the same time, uh, 0:28:58.040 --> 0:29:01.040 it probably will. I mean you'll probably get something for 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:04.280 oh wow, sorry, I'm a little distracted. I'm on Amazon's 0:29:04.280 --> 0:29:07.880 website right now, and my pal Tricia Hirschberger is on 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:11.920 the banner. I guess she's on celebrating Amazon's or Alexa's 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:16.440 birthday with Amazon Shopping Live. That's so funny. Trisha is 0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:20.240 a gosh. She's a friend that we used to run 0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:23.840 around a lot with. Oh there's a group of us 0:29:23.880 --> 0:29:25.600 in LA that used to run around a lot at 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:27.680 these tech events and she was one of them. So anyway, 0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:30.680 that's cool. Good to see her doing so well. Anyway, 0:29:31.040 --> 0:29:35.600 I digress as I typically do. But the yeah Oculus 0:29:35.680 --> 0:29:37.760 quest too. I don't know. It might go down in price, 0:29:37.800 --> 0:29:40.080 it might not, but I would definitely if you've waited 0:29:40.080 --> 0:29:42.240 this long, I would say just wait in general and 0:29:42.320 --> 0:29:43.800 just see what kind of deal you might get a 0:29:43.880 --> 0:29:46.320 you might get a discount somewhere, or some sort of 0:29:47.240 --> 0:29:49.080 gift card thrown in. I was trying to look and 0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:50.880 see if there was any sort of deals last year. 0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:53.120 I didn't at first glance, didn't really see that, but 0:29:53.680 --> 0:29:57.440 you never know, so good question. Always at this point, 0:29:57.480 --> 0:29:59.440 always a good time to sort of wait through the 0:29:59.480 --> 0:30:03.200 holidays for some of those deals. If you've got your 0:30:03.720 --> 0:30:06.880 eye on a tech product. All right, So I talked 0:30:06.880 --> 0:30:10.920 about Facebook's new camera sunglasses called ray Band Stories. I'm 0:30:10.920 --> 0:30:12.680 not sure how much I went into them on the 0:30:12.760 --> 0:30:16.040 last show or previous shows. Maybe I mentioned that I 0:30:16.080 --> 0:30:18.680 was using them, but I will give you my review now. 0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:22.400 I did this review on KTLA, and so they're called 0:30:22.400 --> 0:30:25.480 the ray Band Stories. These are Facebook sunglasses. There's a camera, 0:30:25.520 --> 0:30:28.520 there's a microphone, and there's speakers so you can capture 0:30:28.560 --> 0:30:31.240 what you see. So I put these on for probably 0:30:31.280 --> 0:30:33.200 warm for you know, on and off for two weeks, 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:37.240 three weeks, whatever, and they're really fun. They are definitely 0:30:37.240 --> 0:30:39.960 the best camera sunglasses I've ever put on, and I've 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:43.160 put on several pairs, especially the ones from Snapchat and 0:30:43.440 --> 0:30:47.200 maybe some others, but these are the best. They look 0:30:47.200 --> 0:30:50.880 and feel like regular sunglasses. They're lightweight, they've got the 0:30:51.000 --> 0:30:54.600 everything was for a first generation these were These really 0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:57.120 nailed it. Now. The number one thing that I kind 0:30:57.120 --> 0:30:59.520 of figured is the privacy factor is a big one. 0:30:59.800 --> 0:31:01.880 So I kind of felt like when I put them on, 0:31:01.920 --> 0:31:03.600 like I was almost doing something wrong, Like I was 0:31:03.640 --> 0:31:07.479 a little not creepy, but you know, I was kind 0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:09.960 of like, I don't know, skirting the law or something like. 0:31:10.000 --> 0:31:11.960 People need to know that these have a camera in them. 0:31:11.960 --> 0:31:14.240 And yes, there's a little light on them that lets 0:31:14.240 --> 0:31:16.560 you know when you're that let other people know when 0:31:16.560 --> 0:31:21.000 you're recording as well as yourself. But do people expect 0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:23.840 to be recorded with a pair of sunglasses? Not necessarily, 0:31:23.960 --> 0:31:26.920 and so that was one thing. But you know, they 0:31:26.960 --> 0:31:30.200 are fun. They are three hundred dollars, so they're expensive, 0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:33.680 but they do look a lot like my regular ray bands. 0:31:33.800 --> 0:31:35.680 The stems are just a bit thicker. They also come 0:31:35.720 --> 0:31:38.320 in that charging case I mentioned, which charges it a 0:31:38.360 --> 0:31:40.960 couple of times. I think maybe the rated is I 0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:43.000 don't know how many times, but it was fine. So 0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:45.400 you would plug in the charging case, charge them in there, 0:31:45.440 --> 0:31:46.960 and then it would charge them up a couple of 0:31:46.960 --> 0:31:50.040 times after you charge them. So battery life was just 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:52.120 okay on the glasses, but I never I never like 0:31:52.200 --> 0:31:55.800 ran out. But if you have the the Hey Facebook 0:31:55.800 --> 0:32:00.000 functionality turned on, it definitely uses the battery much longer, 0:32:00.160 --> 0:32:03.240 are much faster than it does if you just press 0:32:03.320 --> 0:32:05.480 the shutter button on it. And if you press the 0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:08.480 shutter button, it'll capture up to thirty seconds of video 0:32:08.960 --> 0:32:11.720 and you can also press a hold to capture photos, 0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:14.680 so video is definitely preferred. Let's be honest. These are 0:32:14.920 --> 0:32:17.040 They're called ray Band Stories. The whole point of these 0:32:17.080 --> 0:32:19.560 glasses is that you can share what's happening in front 0:32:19.600 --> 0:32:22.840 of you to your Instagram Stories or to your Facebook Stories. 0:32:22.840 --> 0:32:24.959 But you can also export this video to work on 0:32:25.040 --> 0:32:27.760 any social media app. In fact, the app that you 0:32:27.880 --> 0:32:31.000 use to sort of sync these glasses is called Facebook. 0:32:31.080 --> 0:32:34.200 It's not even Facebook, it's just called View. And so 0:32:34.640 --> 0:32:36.520 when you open up this app, it'll show you all 0:32:36.520 --> 0:32:39.920 the stuff that you recorded. You can download that video 0:32:40.080 --> 0:32:42.040 to your phone and then edit it. It can make 0:32:42.080 --> 0:32:45.280 little highlight reels, or it can share it out as well. Now, 0:32:46.640 --> 0:32:50.080 the process to share that or to sync that video 0:32:50.200 --> 0:32:53.520 from the glasses to your actual phone is a bit 0:32:53.680 --> 0:32:56.960 convoluted because they give you like a little preview thumbnail, 0:32:57.040 --> 0:32:58.960 but then it's like still downloading the background. So I 0:32:59.040 --> 0:33:01.360 kept like wondering, like, wait is this done? And on 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:04.640 Android it downloads a lot better in the background, but 0:33:04.720 --> 0:33:07.760 on iOS not so much. Just the way iOS is built, 0:33:07.800 --> 0:33:09.800 you have to kind of sit there with the app 0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:13.720 open and make sure that you download these things so 0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:17.680 the video images and videos look great in bright light 0:33:17.920 --> 0:33:20.640 quality is not so good in low light, and it's 0:33:20.680 --> 0:33:23.080 fun to capture life's little moments. I mean, there's no 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:26.160 denying that these things are really fun, but the video 0:33:26.360 --> 0:33:28.120 is just okay. In fact, a lot of it is 0:33:28.160 --> 0:33:31.840 not usable. And even myself, who is a video professional, 0:33:32.200 --> 0:33:34.680 found myself with a lot of video that just was 0:33:34.800 --> 0:33:38.160 too wobbly. It was all over the place. I'm looking around, 0:33:38.360 --> 0:33:41.760 I'm darting my eyes all around. And there's one weird 0:33:41.840 --> 0:33:43.880 thing about these glasses that I think you should know 0:33:44.080 --> 0:33:48.680 is that what you're looking at is not necessarily what 0:33:48.760 --> 0:33:52.120 the glasses are capturing. So I feel like the glasses 0:33:52.200 --> 0:33:55.920 are tuned to a bit of a higher point of 0:33:56.040 --> 0:33:59.600 view than your eyes where they look naturally. And that's 0:33:59.600 --> 0:34:01.760 a problem because when I was looking at something like 0:34:01.800 --> 0:34:04.640 a smartphone, Let's say I had something in my hand 0:34:04.680 --> 0:34:07.040 that I wanted to show you, it would only capture 0:34:07.080 --> 0:34:09.279 like half of that because the glasses need to be 0:34:09.320 --> 0:34:12.440 like much further looking down, like she almost need to 0:34:12.440 --> 0:34:15.880 like really aim your neck down or your chin down 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:18.759 to capture what you're truly looking at. So that was 0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:20.680 kind of weird, and actually, I would say that's the 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:22.920 biggest downside of these things, is that they just weren't 0:34:22.960 --> 0:34:26.000 really capturing what I was specifically looking at, which I 0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:28.960 think is kind of a problem. But otherwise they are 0:34:29.000 --> 0:34:31.359 really cool. I think they're going to continue to get better. 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:33.759 I think they're going to work on the stabilization the 0:34:33.800 --> 0:34:37.360 image quality. But it does remove sort of that barrier 0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:40.719 to social sharing, and that may or may not be 0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:43.359 a good thing. But three hundred dollars available now in 0:34:43.560 --> 0:34:52.400 a bunch of stores, including Sunglass Hut. All Right, Keith says, 0:34:52.480 --> 0:34:54.759 good afternoon, mister Demiro. My name is Keith. I'm a 0:34:54.800 --> 0:34:59.640 forty nine year old quadraplegic who has been mentoring, training, 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:02.320 and co coaching basketball players for more than thirty years. 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:05.640 Well at least I was until the pandemic, sooner than later. 0:35:05.680 --> 0:35:07.439 I hope to get back to doing what I love best, 0:35:07.520 --> 0:35:08.920 and I would like to be able to record my 0:35:09.000 --> 0:35:12.160 activities in coaching, but also my adventures when traveling. My 0:35:12.280 --> 0:35:14.719 question for you, which cell phone would you suggest as 0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:17.680 best for someone who is a quadriplegic. I have no 0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:19.880 use in my upper body, but soon I hope to 0:35:19.880 --> 0:35:22.359 have a robotic arm, but until then I would need 0:35:22.400 --> 0:35:25.440 something that has the most accessibility with voice command. I 0:35:25.440 --> 0:35:27.840 look forward to your thoughts on the subject. Have a 0:35:27.840 --> 0:35:32.640 great day, Keith. This person that emailed me has no 0:35:32.920 --> 0:35:36.719 use of their upper body, and I can tell just 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:40.719 from this email that Keith is an amazing person with 0:35:41.080 --> 0:35:45.040 an amazing outlook on life. He has been mentoring, training, 0:35:45.120 --> 0:35:48.560 and coaching basketball players for more than thirty years. I mean, 0:35:49.920 --> 0:35:52.239 just I don't even have words for this right now 0:35:52.280 --> 0:35:55.120 when I read this, and I'm just sitting here saying 0:35:55.880 --> 0:35:58.960 this person is amazing, And the fact that he's just 0:35:59.040 --> 0:36:04.600 emailing and explaining his situation in life, and just me 0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:09.160 understanding that I can already tell that Keith is a positive, 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:12.719 amazing person is pretty cool that I can tell that 0:36:12.760 --> 0:36:16.600 through his email. So Keith, number one, keep up the 0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:19.839 amazing work, keep up that amazing attitude. I bet you're 0:36:19.960 --> 0:36:24.680 an amazing coach for these players. With that said, which 0:36:24.800 --> 0:36:28.160 phone do I think is the best for someone like you? 0:36:30.440 --> 0:36:32.239 I have not. Now there's a couple of things here. 0:36:32.239 --> 0:36:34.560 You want to you record your activities in coaching and 0:36:34.600 --> 0:36:38.399 also your adventures when traveling, but you want voice command. Now, 0:36:39.040 --> 0:36:41.440 the iPhone is probably the best when it comes to 0:36:41.960 --> 0:36:46.680 video overall, and you know, recording things just setting it 0:36:46.719 --> 0:36:48.719 and forgetting it. There's a lot of accessories that you 0:36:48.760 --> 0:36:51.080 can use, like a tripod to set it up. But 0:36:51.200 --> 0:36:54.680 when it comes to voice command, I'm not sure that 0:36:54.680 --> 0:36:58.800 that's the best phone out there. But you know, especially 0:36:58.800 --> 0:37:00.400 if you're going to be trying to do tech and 0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:02.640 things or just in general using your voice for this 0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:06.359 to command this phone. So Apple does have a lot 0:37:06.360 --> 0:37:08.520 of accessibility features, and I think they've done a really 0:37:08.560 --> 0:37:11.520 great job with their accessibility features. In fact, some of 0:37:11.520 --> 0:37:13.919 them have become so popular they sort of crossed over 0:37:14.080 --> 0:37:19.040 into mainstream use. But with that said, I think that 0:37:19.120 --> 0:37:21.399 the phone to look at would maybe be the new 0:37:21.440 --> 0:37:23.839 Pixel six. And the reason for that is that the 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:29.239 voice command on Google is pretty phenomenal, not just the 0:37:29.280 --> 0:37:32.360 transcription that you get, but also the things that you 0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:34.799 can do with this phone just by asking it to 0:37:34.880 --> 0:37:39.320 do things. And it's interesting because Google did the entire 0:37:40.760 --> 0:37:44.479 announcement for the Pixel six without really putting a lot 0:37:44.480 --> 0:37:47.560 of emphasis into the Google Assistant as they had in 0:37:47.640 --> 0:37:51.480 years past. But it's pretty powerful in reaching into the 0:37:52.200 --> 0:37:54.799 far corners of this phone in being able to do 0:37:54.960 --> 0:37:58.080 a lot of functionality that you might not be able 0:37:58.080 --> 0:38:00.720 to do on the iPhone and so so I would 0:38:00.960 --> 0:38:03.319 I would take a look at that, and if there's 0:38:03.520 --> 0:38:05.040 a way that you can, you know, get one of 0:38:05.080 --> 0:38:07.080 these phones to play with or take a look at, 0:38:07.160 --> 0:38:09.360 I would definitely do that before you make a purchase, 0:38:09.840 --> 0:38:13.120 and maybe also go to the Apple Store and kind 0:38:13.160 --> 0:38:15.920 of check out some of the accessibility settings on the 0:38:16.120 --> 0:38:19.360 iPhone and see which one you think might do a 0:38:19.360 --> 0:38:22.120 better job in assisting you with what you're trying to accomplish. 0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:25.640 But you say voice command, I don't know, I'm thinking 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:28.680 voice command. Google is pretty much the leader when it 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:31.400 comes to voice control. So I would I would probably, 0:38:31.480 --> 0:38:35.880 I would probably look there first. Good question, Keith, thanks 0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:42.959 so much for listening. Zoom is going to start having advertisements. Yeah, 0:38:43.000 --> 0:38:44.960 we knew this was probably gonna happen. It's been a 0:38:45.000 --> 0:38:47.759 free ride on Zoom for a very long time. So 0:38:47.800 --> 0:38:50.719 you have to keep in mind Zoom started out as 0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:54.960 a service for enterprise users. What does that mean enterprise? 0:38:55.040 --> 0:38:58.680 These are companies with big bucks. These are companies to say, hey, 0:38:58.719 --> 0:39:01.080 we're not going to create our own video chat system, 0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:04.960 we are going to use Zoom to video chat with colleagues. 0:39:05.040 --> 0:39:08.400 And when you think about it, video chat has always 0:39:08.440 --> 0:39:10.560 been around. We've been for a long time now. I 0:39:10.560 --> 0:39:13.399 mean we've had FaceTime, we've had Skype, we've had some 0:39:13.440 --> 0:39:17.000 sort of video chat functionality for a long time. But 0:39:17.120 --> 0:39:22.319 when the pandemic hit, Zoom became a proprietary eponym for 0:39:22.719 --> 0:39:25.319 video chat or web chatting whatever you want, or video 0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:29.520 whatever you want to call it, video meetings, and now 0:39:29.719 --> 0:39:32.600 everyone says, you know, this is this is it, this 0:39:32.680 --> 0:39:34.759 is uh you know, when you want to take a 0:39:34.840 --> 0:39:39.680 video call, it's Zoom. And free users have enjoyed a 0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:42.600 lot of the same features that paid users have enjoyed, 0:39:42.880 --> 0:39:46.360 with that exception of the forty minute limit on Zoom 0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:51.080 free meetings, but otherwise it's been pretty amazing how many 0:39:51.120 --> 0:39:55.560 people have used Zoom without paying a penny to Zoom. 0:39:56.080 --> 0:39:58.400 And that costs Room money. I mean, they've got to 0:39:58.400 --> 0:40:00.480 pay for servers, they've got to pay for develop and 0:40:00.960 --> 0:40:04.120 they've been kind of floating this bill for a long time, 0:40:04.440 --> 0:40:06.200 but now they need to pay it. And so they said, 0:40:06.280 --> 0:40:10.680 beginning today, we are going to start rolling out ads 0:40:10.800 --> 0:40:14.600 on a browser page for free users, and so free users, 0:40:14.880 --> 0:40:17.479 so free to free users. So this is someone who 0:40:17.520 --> 0:40:20.799 is making a free call to another Zoom user. They 0:40:20.840 --> 0:40:24.120 will see an advertisement on their web browser at the 0:40:24.400 --> 0:40:27.640 end of the meeting, and it's very small. It's one 0:40:27.680 --> 0:40:31.480 little banner page right now and or one little banner 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:34.600 ad right now, And that's how they're going to pay 0:40:34.600 --> 0:40:36.520 for a portion of what they're doing. I don't think 0:40:36.520 --> 0:40:38.239 that's going to take in a lot of money. Maybe 0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:40.640 it will because there's so many calls being placed on Zoom, 0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:42.799 But the main thing that they want you to know 0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:45.000 is that this is rolling out. You may not see 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:47.440 it immediately. They got to pay their bills. That's what 0:40:47.440 --> 0:40:50.280 they're explaining. And there is one thing that the blog 0:40:50.320 --> 0:40:52.399 post says they want to be very clear about. They 0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:55.400 have updated their privacy statement to say they will not 0:40:55.520 --> 0:41:02.000 use meetings, webinars, or any messages that you send through Zoom, 0:41:02.200 --> 0:41:06.880 specifically audio, video files and messages, any chats for marketing 0:41:06.960 --> 0:41:11.200 promotions or third party advertising. So what they're saying is 0:41:11.400 --> 0:41:14.960 they're not going to use the contents of your meeting 0:41:15.600 --> 0:41:18.839 to target ads against you. So if you were doing 0:41:18.880 --> 0:41:23.239 a meeting about you know, Instagram influencers and you were 0:41:23.239 --> 0:41:26.160 talking about you know, marketing tactics, they would not put 0:41:26.160 --> 0:41:30.360 an ad for hoot Suite on your on your page 0:41:30.400 --> 0:41:34.319 because they know that you're talking about marketing. But that 0:41:34.360 --> 0:41:36.759 doesn't mean that you won't see that ad because there's 0:41:36.800 --> 0:41:40.280 other ways of targeting you, and that might involve cookies, 0:41:40.320 --> 0:41:42.799 that might involve third party content that you've you know, 0:41:42.840 --> 0:41:47.120 websites that you've gone to, So don't be surprised if 0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:49.520 you see stuff that could be related to your field 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:51.960 of work. But they're saying that you know your your 0:41:52.040 --> 0:41:56.040 content is not being scanned to target these ads towards you, 0:41:56.120 --> 0:41:58.760 which is nice. I'm glad they clarified that. But anyway, 0:41:59.160 --> 0:42:07.320 ads on Zoom coming soon or maybe already there. Ryan 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:10.799 writes in Hello, how do I set my Android phone 0:42:10.840 --> 0:42:13.239 to announce who the caller is? I can't find it 0:42:13.280 --> 0:42:17.400 on your website? Sincerely, Ryan, Uh Ryan. I know the 0:42:17.400 --> 0:42:19.920 website is kind of tricky sometimes to find stuff, but 0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:23.360 here's the best way of finding something that I've mentioned 0:42:23.480 --> 0:42:27.279 on TV or on social media or anywhere that you 0:42:27.360 --> 0:42:31.279 hear me. The best way is to google me. So 0:42:31.480 --> 0:42:35.040 google when I when someone says, uh, you know, caller ID, 0:42:35.160 --> 0:42:39.320 so I would type caller I d announce ktla DeMuro 0:42:40.280 --> 0:42:43.880 And when I do that, I see the story that 0:42:44.000 --> 0:42:48.400 I mentioned this I think I mentioned this in and 0:42:48.440 --> 0:42:50.880 this this is called how to uh here are some 0:42:50.920 --> 0:42:53.880 of the latest ways to stop spam calls. And so 0:42:54.560 --> 0:42:57.680 let's see, did I mention this. I didn't announce I 0:42:57.719 --> 0:43:04.480 didn't mention it in there, but let's see im now 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:07.840 maybe I mentioned it on TVs and passing or something. Anyway, 0:43:08.400 --> 0:43:10.480 So the way to do this on an Android phone 0:43:10.719 --> 0:43:14.560 is you have to download the phone by Google app. 0:43:15.080 --> 0:43:17.160 And if you download the phone by Google App, go 0:43:17.200 --> 0:43:20.040 into the settings. This will replace your standard phone call 0:43:20.520 --> 0:43:24.360 system on the Android. You can do that under Advanced 0:43:24.400 --> 0:43:27.560 you'll see something called caller ID announcement. You flip that 0:43:27.640 --> 0:43:30.480 on and then your phone will speak the caller ID 0:43:30.680 --> 0:43:33.680 information when someone calls. I actually have this turned on 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:38.000 on my iPhone, and you know, it's one of those 0:43:38.040 --> 0:43:39.560 things that's kind of nice. I don't get a ton 0:43:39.600 --> 0:43:44.799 of phone calls that I answer. I mean, I you know, 0:43:44.920 --> 0:43:47.200 most people text nowadays, and if they're calling you, they 0:43:47.239 --> 0:43:49.239 text you first, which is I find a little odd, 0:43:49.239 --> 0:43:51.240 but that's the way people do it. Whenever I call people, 0:43:51.760 --> 0:43:55.759 you know, this is kind of the scenario. Someone I'm 0:43:55.800 --> 0:43:57.640 emailing with, I'm like, hey, can I call you real quick? 0:43:57.640 --> 0:43:59.680 And they're like no, They're like, uh, you can call 0:43:59.800 --> 0:44:02.080 next Tuesday at two o'clock. I'm like, oh, okay, I 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:04.200 thought you were at your email. But today I did this. 0:44:04.400 --> 0:44:06.799 Just this morning, I emailed someone about a story. They 0:44:06.800 --> 0:44:08.680 wrote me back and I said, hey, you have a 0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:10.799 couple of minutes to hop on a call, and sure enough, 0:44:10.840 --> 0:44:12.640 I gave my phone number and they called right away. 0:44:13.440 --> 0:44:16.480 And so anyway, that's how you set it up. Download 0:44:16.480 --> 0:44:20.279 the phone by Google app, look under caller ID announcement 0:44:20.760 --> 0:44:23.439 under advance. I don't think that Samsung has a way 0:44:23.480 --> 0:44:26.640 to do this built into their phones, so if they do, 0:44:27.719 --> 0:44:29.640 I could be mistaken. But you can just go into 0:44:29.640 --> 0:44:31.920 your phone settings on Samsung and see if they have 0:44:32.000 --> 0:44:35.359 anything that says caller ID announcement. They very well may. 0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:37.000 I just don't have a Samsung in front of me 0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:40.000 right now to test that. On iPhone you can do 0:44:40.040 --> 0:44:43.080 it as well. It is under the phone settings in 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:45.879 your phone, so just go ahead and you can turn 0:44:45.920 --> 0:44:48.160 that on. I have it turned on. It's it's a 0:44:48.200 --> 0:44:50.719 little jarring because it does announce publicly. You know, if 0:44:50.760 --> 0:44:55.080 someone's around you, they'll hear who's calling you, and so 0:44:55.360 --> 0:44:57.040 you may or may not like that. But that's how 0:44:57.360 --> 0:44:59.880 that's how you turn it on. Good question, Ryan, thanks 0:45:00.560 --> 0:45:05.360 listening to the show and asking. Oh, speaking of phone calls, 0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:08.840 this I thought was a really interesting new scam from 0:45:09.480 --> 0:45:13.839 reported by Vice Motherboard, which is their kind of tech 0:45:14.200 --> 0:45:19.759 section there. Joseph Cox, Joseph Cox is the reporter on this, 0:45:20.000 --> 0:45:25.680 and this is a really interesting scam, one that I 0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:28.720 was not aware of, and it's it's quite brilliant actually. 0:45:29.239 --> 0:45:33.800 But here's what they do. So you know how, you're okay, 0:45:33.880 --> 0:45:35.719 there's so many layers to this, but you know how 0:45:35.760 --> 0:45:38.560 when you're I always say, don't use the same password 0:45:38.640 --> 0:45:40.560 over and over. Okay, Well there's a reason for that 0:45:40.960 --> 0:45:43.359 because right now on the internet, one of your old 0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:47.239 passwords is floating around with your email address. It just is. 0:45:47.880 --> 0:45:51.640 And so what happens is, there's been so many data 0:45:51.640 --> 0:45:55.040 breaches over the years. What these hackers do is they 0:45:55.040 --> 0:45:59.120 buy a whole bunch of user names and passwords and 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:02.160 then they go ahead they try them, and so they 0:46:02.200 --> 0:46:05.520 try to see which combinations work and on different websites. 0:46:05.520 --> 0:46:08.759 So if you're using the same email address and password 0:46:08.920 --> 0:46:12.719 on a different website than the one that was originally hacked, well, 0:46:12.800 --> 0:46:14.880 now they have access to that website. And this has 0:46:14.920 --> 0:46:17.680 happened to me. I can tell you firsthand because a 0:46:17.719 --> 0:46:22.240 website that I used was hacked and thankfully I had 0:46:22.320 --> 0:46:27.719 a specific password on that website. Because this password's out there. 0:46:27.760 --> 0:46:29.359 I know it is because I got an alert on 0:46:29.400 --> 0:46:34.239 my monitoring situation that I subscribe to, and so or 0:46:34.320 --> 0:46:36.600 monitoring service I should say. And so I said, hey, 0:46:36.640 --> 0:46:38.680 this password has been hacked. We found it not just 0:46:38.719 --> 0:46:41.239 with your password, but here's your email address and also 0:46:41.360 --> 0:46:43.600 your address and all this other information. And so they 0:46:43.640 --> 0:46:46.320 have that. But I've always talked about how you should 0:46:46.320 --> 0:46:51.840 always use two factor authentication, and what that does is 0:46:51.840 --> 0:46:54.600 when someone logs in with your information, it will send 0:46:54.680 --> 0:46:57.279 you a code to your phone or you use your 0:46:57.280 --> 0:46:59.480 authentication app, which is a better way of doing it 0:46:59.760 --> 0:47:06.279 to authenticate this log in. Well, the scam artists know 0:47:06.360 --> 0:47:09.239 that people are starting to use this two factor authentication. 0:47:09.360 --> 0:47:11.799 So how do you get around that. Well, here's what 0:47:11.840 --> 0:47:15.719 they do. They now log into your they now have 0:47:15.880 --> 0:47:19.239 let's say they have your website, your email and password, 0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:21.760 and they're ready to try to log into your bank account. 0:47:22.000 --> 0:47:25.160 So what they'll do is they will call you and 0:47:25.239 --> 0:47:28.880 say they'll use these automated bots. And so these automated 0:47:28.880 --> 0:47:31.920 bots will call you. You'll get a voice a message 0:47:32.000 --> 0:47:34.000 on your phone, not a message like a phone call 0:47:34.239 --> 0:47:38.440 that says, Hello, this is PayPal. Someone is trying to 0:47:38.520 --> 0:47:42.279 log into your account. Please, we have just texted you 0:47:42.360 --> 0:47:45.160 with a one time password. Please type in that password 0:47:45.200 --> 0:47:48.319 so we can secure your account. And this might be 0:47:48.400 --> 0:47:51.480 for Apple, this might be for PayPal, Amazon, Coinbase, all 0:47:51.560 --> 0:47:54.080 kinds of different banks. And you say, oh gosh, oh 0:47:54.120 --> 0:47:57.319 my gosh, thank you for finding this this breach. Let 0:47:57.320 --> 0:47:59.440 me type in this code, and sure enough the code 0:47:59.440 --> 0:48:02.400 comes right, it's your phone. As you are listening to 0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:04.360 this message, you type in the code, and guess what 0:48:04.520 --> 0:48:09.200 just happened. You actually just gave access to your account 0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:12.840 to the hackers. Because now they have the two factor 0:48:12.840 --> 0:48:14.840 authentication code to your account. And what are they going 0:48:14.920 --> 0:48:17.560 to do? Immediately? They're going to go ahead and change 0:48:17.600 --> 0:48:19.799 the password. They're going to turn off two factor or 0:48:19.880 --> 0:48:22.960 change it to their information. And now they're gonna they're 0:48:23.000 --> 0:48:25.160 going to take all your information that they can and 0:48:25.239 --> 0:48:27.400 all your money and whatever they can do. And so 0:48:27.520 --> 0:48:30.719 this is something that's really scary. It's something that could 0:48:30.800 --> 0:48:36.279 trick even a smart savvy tech person, because it's so 0:48:36.440 --> 0:48:39.880 new and it's so unique, and so this is something 0:48:39.920 --> 0:48:42.200 that you just have to be aware of. Do not 0:48:42.480 --> 0:48:46.920 give those two factor authentication codes to anyone, and just 0:48:47.000 --> 0:48:50.719 be very anytime you're logging into a website. I know 0:48:50.760 --> 0:48:52.759 we want to do these things very quickly. And I 0:48:52.800 --> 0:48:55.960 know that people use these variations of passwords and they 0:48:56.480 --> 0:48:58.160 think they've got it down and they think it's not 0:48:58.160 --> 0:49:00.120 going to happen to them. But I'm telling you, I've 0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:01.799 told you once, I've told you twice, I will tell 0:49:01.800 --> 0:49:06.080 you a thousand times. Please be careful with your credentials. 0:49:06.480 --> 0:49:11.319 Please use a password manager. Please use unique passwords for 0:49:11.480 --> 0:49:14.160 every website that you are logging into, even when you 0:49:14.200 --> 0:49:15.799 sign up on your phone. I know you want to 0:49:15.840 --> 0:49:19.120 do it so fast. I'm guilty of this. Just take 0:49:19.239 --> 0:49:23.280 the extra sixty seconds to go into your password manager, 0:49:23.600 --> 0:49:27.320 create a password, save the log in information, copy and paste, 0:49:27.400 --> 0:49:30.160 and then put it into the field that says password, 0:49:30.960 --> 0:49:33.960 and then set up two factor authentication. And then anytime 0:49:34.000 --> 0:49:37.040 you're logging into one of your accounts, just just think 0:49:37.200 --> 0:49:39.920 before you type in any of this information, look at 0:49:39.920 --> 0:49:42.319 the website you're typing it into. Look at the two 0:49:42.400 --> 0:49:45.360 factor authentication code. Make sure that you're actually trying to 0:49:45.400 --> 0:49:47.279 get into a website at the time you're being sent 0:49:47.320 --> 0:49:49.840 one of these things, and just take a deep breath 0:49:49.920 --> 0:49:52.960 and just realize that there are people that are actively 0:49:53.080 --> 0:49:56.000 trying to get a hold of your account. And if 0:49:56.040 --> 0:49:58.280 you can just take a little bit of extra time 0:49:59.239 --> 0:50:02.319 to create those passwords and those logins, and then take 0:50:02.360 --> 0:50:04.440 your extra time to log in with the two factor 0:50:04.520 --> 0:50:08.080 and make sure everything is verified, it will. Believe me, 0:50:08.200 --> 0:50:10.320 it will save you a big headache in the future. 0:50:10.360 --> 0:50:14.359 So I'm gonna go ahead. I already contacted Joseph at 0:50:14.440 --> 0:50:17.440 Motherboard to do a story about this for TV. I 0:50:17.480 --> 0:50:19.960 think this is something that people really really need to 0:50:20.000 --> 0:50:23.399 know about on a very basic consumer level. The fact 0:50:23.400 --> 0:50:31.279 that this is happening is pretty scary. Brenda writes in Hey, Rich, 0:50:31.320 --> 0:50:33.360 I hope you and your family had a great Halloween. 0:50:33.440 --> 0:50:36.640 I've been debating about downloading the new iOS fifteen point 0:50:36.719 --> 0:50:40.600 one to my iPhone eleven pro, but I finally caved in. Unfortunately, 0:50:40.680 --> 0:50:42.640 I keep getting an error message, so I don't really 0:50:42.680 --> 0:50:44.759 know what could be wrong. Hopefully you can give me 0:50:44.800 --> 0:50:49.799 some recommendations. PS. Thanks for always posting cool stuff Brenda s. 0:50:51.400 --> 0:50:55.320 Brenda also attached a screenshot that says unable to install 0:50:55.520 --> 0:51:00.160 update and error occurred installing iOS fifteen point one. Okay, hey, 0:51:00.239 --> 0:51:02.360 let's break this down. Brenda number one, hope you and 0:51:02.440 --> 0:51:06.200 your family had a great Halloween. Yes we did. The 0:51:06.320 --> 0:51:08.960 kids went out with their friends, We had all the 0:51:09.120 --> 0:51:13.040 adults over, We had nice dinner before and then we 0:51:13.080 --> 0:51:15.080 all went out trick or treating, and then we came 0:51:15.160 --> 0:51:17.759 back and we continued to have some fun while the 0:51:17.800 --> 0:51:19.800 kids all looked at their candy dumped it on the floor. 0:51:19.840 --> 0:51:21.920 So it was really fun. The only thing that was 0:51:21.960 --> 0:51:25.760 missing this year was the brand new Pixel. So Halloween 0:51:25.840 --> 0:51:28.719 every year is literally when I get to test out 0:51:28.800 --> 0:51:33.480 the nightsight prowess on the new Google Pixel. And since 0:51:33.520 --> 0:51:35.840 I didn't have mine in time, I was using the 0:51:35.880 --> 0:51:39.320 iPhone thirteen Pro, which I have to say has gotten 0:51:39.400 --> 0:51:41.640 really good. I mean, I just think that the iPhone 0:51:41.640 --> 0:51:45.239 thirteen Pro camera overall and the device is just so good. 0:51:45.440 --> 0:51:51.360 It's it's like, it's like pretty much my my perfect phone. 0:51:51.920 --> 0:51:54.520 Dare I say, except for some of the features of iOS, 0:51:54.600 --> 0:51:57.640 but even that has gotten so good that, you know, 0:51:57.680 --> 0:51:59.920 there are some things I like about Android better. But 0:52:00.040 --> 0:52:02.640 iOS has gotten so good and the ecosystem. So anyway, 0:52:02.960 --> 0:52:06.160 we had a great time. Halloween was awesome and we 0:52:06.200 --> 0:52:07.960 didn't get a ton of trigger truders. But we came 0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:09.880 back to the house so late that we did the 0:52:09.920 --> 0:52:12.360 thing where we left out the candy on the doorstep, 0:52:12.440 --> 0:52:14.920 and people were respectful and took the candy. But I've 0:52:14.960 --> 0:52:17.200 got my video cameras anyway outside the front door, so 0:52:17.200 --> 0:52:19.360 I would have seen if anyone was too too wild 0:52:19.480 --> 0:52:24.120 with that. Thanks for posting cool stuff. I appreciate it. 0:52:24.160 --> 0:52:26.560 I do try to post cool stuff, and it's funny 0:52:26.560 --> 0:52:29.560 when I post stuff to my social media, like good example, 0:52:29.640 --> 0:52:34.360 I posted a video of the cart escalator at Target, 0:52:34.440 --> 0:52:36.680 and I was in Target, and I've seen the cart 0:52:36.800 --> 0:52:39.920 escalator a thousand times, but it never ceases to amaze 0:52:39.960 --> 0:52:41.880 me because it's so mesmerizing. You know, you put your 0:52:41.920 --> 0:52:45.120 cart on this little escalator, it latches into the bottom 0:52:45.160 --> 0:52:46.840 of it and it brings it up to the second 0:52:46.880 --> 0:52:49.400 floor or down to the first floor. Here in Los Angeles, 0:52:49.680 --> 0:52:53.320 they're very commonplace because you know, Land is at a 0:52:53.480 --> 0:52:56.239 very very tight premium here and so they build these 0:52:56.280 --> 0:53:00.239 Targets and other stores that are several floors high. You know, 0:53:00.360 --> 0:53:03.720 usually two floors maybe I don't think I've seen a three, 0:53:04.080 --> 0:53:06.719 but in other places they're not. But anyway, I just 0:53:06.760 --> 0:53:09.239 posted this saying like, hey, this never ceases to amaze me. 0:53:09.640 --> 0:53:11.680 It's also quite frightening because I always think of like 0:53:11.719 --> 0:53:14.360 getting stuck in this thing and like just it ripping 0:53:14.400 --> 0:53:17.279 you apart, because it's like this machine that is just 0:53:17.800 --> 0:53:20.120 you know, it's grabbing this cart at the bottom, and 0:53:20.160 --> 0:53:22.440 like there's all these pieces and it's just really it's 0:53:22.480 --> 0:53:26.719 like an escalator somewhat exposed. So like, escalators are still dangerous. 0:53:26.800 --> 0:53:29.640 Believe me, I had to save someone of the lax 0:53:29.640 --> 0:53:32.440 one time who fell backwards and I caught them, thank god, 0:53:33.680 --> 0:53:35.160 but you know, I had to like hold them up, 0:53:35.160 --> 0:53:36.640 and it was you know, these things you can lose 0:53:36.640 --> 0:53:40.279 your Don't take an escalator for granted. They are very 0:53:40.320 --> 0:53:43.120 dangerous and if you lose your footing while on an escalator, 0:53:43.200 --> 0:53:46.239 especially with luggage or whatever, believe me, in a matter 0:53:46.280 --> 0:53:48.960 of seconds you could be hurt. And so don't you know, 0:53:49.000 --> 0:53:51.920 don't think that an escalator, don't don't be on your phone, 0:53:51.960 --> 0:53:55.680 don't do anything like stay stay on task when you're 0:53:55.680 --> 0:53:57.919 on the escalator. It is. It is a dangerous piece 0:53:57.920 --> 0:54:00.520 of machinery, and I feel like the car escalator is 0:54:00.560 --> 0:54:02.640 even more dangerous because a lot of it's exposed to 0:54:02.640 --> 0:54:06.320 be able to grab onto the car. Anyway, I posted 0:54:06.320 --> 0:54:08.359 that video not thinking much about it, and it sort 0:54:08.360 --> 0:54:10.960 of blew up on social media because people were amazed 0:54:10.960 --> 0:54:13.360 by it. They had not seen it before. They're also 0:54:13.400 --> 0:54:15.560 amazed by it if they had seen it. So anyway, 0:54:15.920 --> 0:54:17.839 I'm glad you like when I post cool stuff, because 0:54:17.880 --> 0:54:19.960 sometimes it just post stuff that I find interesting, and 0:54:20.000 --> 0:54:22.920 I have no idea if people are gonna like it. Anyway, 0:54:23.239 --> 0:54:25.799 what to do about this unable to install update. What 0:54:25.880 --> 0:54:29.000 I would recommend is you probably have filled up your 0:54:29.000 --> 0:54:31.920 phone and it's not able to get the space that 0:54:31.960 --> 0:54:36.680 it needs to actually download and install the software update 0:54:36.719 --> 0:54:39.480 on your iPhone. That's what I'm guessing. It's one of 0:54:39.480 --> 0:54:42.560 those things where apples should probably be able to figure 0:54:42.560 --> 0:54:44.680 out a way around this, but they can't. And so 0:54:44.840 --> 0:54:47.320 I would go through and delete maybe a couple of apps, 0:54:47.360 --> 0:54:49.440 maybe a couple of big videos that are backed up, 0:54:49.760 --> 0:54:52.000 and try it again and see if you can install 0:54:52.120 --> 0:54:55.960 the update. All right, now, we're gonna get hungry and 0:54:56.520 --> 0:54:59.319 at the time i'm recording this, I am hungry. I'm 0:54:59.360 --> 0:55:01.959 really hungry. And yesterday I had a chance to try 0:55:01.960 --> 0:55:07.720 the new mcplant Burger at McDonald's. And before you say, rich, rich, rich, 0:55:08.440 --> 0:55:12.680 how is all this food talk tech? Give me a break. 0:55:12.760 --> 0:55:15.920 You just like to go eat food at these places 0:55:15.960 --> 0:55:18.279 and talk about it, And yeah, that's part of it. 0:55:18.320 --> 0:55:20.799 I do. But I'm also fascinated. You know that I'm 0:55:21.000 --> 0:55:25.120 very much into this plant based stuff. Not because I 0:55:25.160 --> 0:55:27.879 am a vegetarian or a vegan. I'm not. I love 0:55:27.920 --> 0:55:30.240 a steak on a Saturday night. Believe me, my wife 0:55:30.239 --> 0:55:33.480 and I that's our favorite meal. So the mcplant burger 0:55:33.600 --> 0:55:36.040 is now at McDonald's. It's at eight US restaurants. And 0:55:36.080 --> 0:55:38.440 the reason why this is tech is because they're using 0:55:38.640 --> 0:55:44.040 Beyond meat patty, and this patty is exclusive to McDonald's. 0:55:44.120 --> 0:55:46.640 This is not the same patty that you would buy 0:55:46.680 --> 0:55:48.839 in the grocery store from Beyond. So if you want 0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:51.680 to try this version of the patty, you have to 0:55:51.680 --> 0:55:54.840 go to McDonald's. And the reason once you taste this patty, 0:55:54.920 --> 0:55:57.920 you know that it is a McDonald's specific patty. So 0:55:58.040 --> 0:56:02.040 this burger has it's it's not a big mac it's 0:56:02.080 --> 0:56:04.799 more like a quarter pounder with cheese. So it's got 0:56:04.800 --> 0:56:07.759 the beyond patty, which is made from let's see, what's 0:56:07.760 --> 0:56:11.279 it made from? Rice, peas, potatoes and other things. It's 0:56:11.320 --> 0:56:15.480 served on a sesame seed bun. It's got tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, mayonnaise, ketchup, 0:56:15.520 --> 0:56:18.319 and mustard, and then a slice of American cheese. Now, 0:56:18.360 --> 0:56:21.840 notice some of those ingredients are not vegan. Mayonnaise and 0:56:21.920 --> 0:56:25.240 American cheese, So if you want to make this vegan, 0:56:25.360 --> 0:56:28.200 it's not really possible. Even for the fact, well, you 0:56:28.239 --> 0:56:30.520 can leave those things out, but they do say that 0:56:30.560 --> 0:56:34.200 the meat is griddled on the same grill as the 0:56:34.840 --> 0:56:38.160 meat patties the standard burger. So if you're trying to 0:56:38.200 --> 0:56:40.160 be vegan, you know, maybe you don't care about that. 0:56:40.200 --> 0:56:43.200 I don't know, but I imagine some people do if you're 0:56:43.239 --> 0:56:46.680 a strict vegan. So I tasted this burger and I 0:56:46.719 --> 0:56:49.440 got to say it was excellent. It tasted just like 0:56:49.480 --> 0:56:52.040 what you would expect from a McDonald's burger. It was 0:56:52.120 --> 0:56:55.000 really good. I actually ate one and a half of 0:56:55.000 --> 0:56:57.600 these burgers because I recorded all my videos for KTLA 0:56:57.640 --> 0:56:59.239 and then social media, so I had to eat one 0:56:59.280 --> 0:57:00.920 and then another Well, I didn't have to eat the 0:57:00.960 --> 0:57:02.719 full thing. I ate it because I liked it. It 0:57:02.800 --> 0:57:06.759 was really good. The burger itself is a little mushier. Yeah, 0:57:06.840 --> 0:57:09.879 the standard burger is probably going to be a little 0:57:09.920 --> 0:57:12.840 bit more satisfying, because if that's what you're used to. 0:57:13.440 --> 0:57:16.000 Like me, I am a meat eater, so I am 0:57:16.160 --> 0:57:19.400 used to the standard burger flavor and taste and the 0:57:19.440 --> 0:57:22.000 way it feels. But at the same time, I also 0:57:22.120 --> 0:57:25.760 really appreciate a plant based burger if done well. And 0:57:25.800 --> 0:57:28.800 I think Beyond doing them really well. And Beyond is tech. 0:57:29.080 --> 0:57:32.000 Now I'm not saying this is a Franken patty, but 0:57:32.200 --> 0:57:37.800 the technology is used to recreate the feeling and taste 0:57:37.960 --> 0:57:42.320 of a meat product. And so I've been inside Beyond 0:57:42.440 --> 0:57:46.960 Meats facility, and believe me, they employ a lot of 0:57:47.000 --> 0:57:50.480 food technologists. And what these food scientists do is they 0:57:50.520 --> 0:57:53.280 sit there all day breaking down meat to a molecular 0:57:53.440 --> 0:57:56.479 level to figure out what makes it taste this way, 0:57:56.520 --> 0:57:58.320 what makes it feel this way in your mouth, what 0:57:58.400 --> 0:58:00.840 makes it break up a certain way, what makes it 0:58:01.160 --> 0:58:03.840 smell a certain way, and what makes it smell another 0:58:03.880 --> 0:58:06.920 way when it cooks. And so for all these reasons. 0:58:07.280 --> 0:58:13.920 I'm not defending my segments on plant based food because 0:58:14.000 --> 0:58:16.880 it is technology. In fact, a lot of the food 0:58:17.160 --> 0:58:20.520 that we eat today, sadly is technology. Sad or for 0:58:20.560 --> 0:58:22.520 better or worse, I should say not sadly. Some of 0:58:22.560 --> 0:58:24.960 it's really good because we're able to feed people in 0:58:25.040 --> 0:58:26.840 ways that we were never able to feed them in 0:58:26.840 --> 0:58:29.840 a mass way before. Now you can argue me on 0:58:29.920 --> 0:58:32.680 McDonald's whether it's good or bad, whether they should be 0:58:32.720 --> 0:58:36.680 doing this, but the reality is it's options. It's just 0:58:36.760 --> 0:58:40.160 another option for people that go to McDonald's. If I 0:58:40.160 --> 0:58:42.560 go to McDonald's with my kids, and typically I'm not 0:58:42.600 --> 0:58:46.040 going to eat a burger, you know, because I've already 0:58:46.040 --> 0:58:48.840 had meat that day or whatever, this gives me another 0:58:48.920 --> 0:58:51.200 option to say, Okay, cool, I'll get the plant based burger. 0:58:51.280 --> 0:58:55.560 And the nutrition facts on this thing. It's about five 0:58:55.600 --> 0:58:58.600 hundred calories for this burger. It does have, you know, 0:58:59.160 --> 0:59:02.200 a decent amount of fat and saturated fat, not so 0:59:02.320 --> 0:59:04.560 much cholesterol. I think it was like eight percent, about 0:59:04.600 --> 0:59:07.200 forty five percent of your sodium, and about twenty two 0:59:07.200 --> 0:59:10.640 grams of protein. So they're not there. There is nothing 0:59:10.680 --> 0:59:13.840 in the marketing materials at McDonald's or beyond that says 0:59:13.880 --> 0:59:16.520 this is a healthy alternative to a burger. No, they 0:59:16.560 --> 0:59:19.360 just say it is an option, and that's all it 0:59:19.440 --> 0:59:22.160 is at this point, is an option. McDonald's is testing 0:59:22.200 --> 0:59:25.560 this at eight restaurants. I'll tell you the locations, Irving 0:59:25.640 --> 0:59:29.960 and Carrollton, Texas, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Jennings and Lake Charles, Louisiana, 0:59:30.200 --> 0:59:34.000 and then Elsigundo and Manhattan Beach, California. I visited the 0:59:34.080 --> 0:59:38.360 Manhattan Beach, California location. We will see if they expand 0:59:38.400 --> 0:59:43.600 this to more locations. I knew it there. It is 0:59:44.800 --> 0:59:47.160 that music means that's gonna do it for this episode 0:59:47.200 --> 0:59:48.960 of the show. If you would like to submit a 0:59:49.040 --> 0:59:51.160 question for me to answer, just go to my Facebook page, 0:59:51.160 --> 0:59:54.040 Facebook dot com, slash rich on Tech hit the big 0:59:54.080 --> 0:59:56.720 blue send email button, or you can go to rich 0:59:56.760 --> 1:00:00.800 on Tech dot tv and hit the email icon. Also, 1:00:00.840 --> 1:00:03.160 I would love it if you would rate and review 1:00:03.360 --> 1:00:05.640 the podcast. 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