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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

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Speaker 1: It is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Meta's got some new

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks so much for having me important topic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, how much of a problem is this? Like

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Speaker 3: a new contact, we will actually warn you and then

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Speaker 3: give you options to send that chat to an AI

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Speaker 3: scam review, and if it does appear that it is scam,

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Speaker 3: we will give you just options right away to address it,

443
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Speaker 3: so you can either immediately block the contact or report

444
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Speaker 3: the suspicious account. So again just trying to add some friction,

445
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Speaker 3: helping you take a beat, think about this before you engage,

446
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Speaker 3: and really try to understand what's coming at you.

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Speaker 1: And then on WhatsApp, I guess people scammers try to

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Speaker 1: pressure people into sharing their screens and then tricking them

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Speaker 1: into giving away sensitive information.

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Speaker 2: So now you've got this screen share warning. Explain what

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Speaker 2: that's going to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think you know this is something where

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Speaker 3: someone might try to have you share your screen, get

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Speaker 3: you to share personal information like potentially account information, banking information.

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Speaker 3: So what we are launching now on WhatsApp is if

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Speaker 3: you are having video calls, it will automatically give you

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Speaker 3: a warning before you try to share your screen with

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Speaker 3: someone on those video calls. So again just really helping

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Speaker 3: to make you think a bit before you do something

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Speaker 3: and make sure you really trust the circumstance that you're

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Speaker 3: in before you share potentially private information.

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Speaker 2: And that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's people thing that are saying,

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Speaker 1: like rich, I can't believe anyone would share their screen

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Speaker 1: and go to their bank and you know, you can

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Speaker 1: see everything that's on there. But the problem is people

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Speaker 1: actually do and by putting this little bit of friction

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Speaker 1: in between, like when you start a screen share for

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Speaker 1: the first time with someone that you don't know and

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Speaker 1: you say, hey, just heads up, people do this and

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Speaker 1: then you go, oh, wow, I didn't even think about that,

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Speaker 1: and oh I've just got saved from this getting scammed.

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Speaker 1: But it's like those warnings at the counter at the

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Speaker 1: all the stores now with the gift cards. You know,

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Speaker 1: it used to be people are getting scammed out of

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Speaker 1: gift cards left and right now anywhere you go, the

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Speaker 1: cashier will literally say to you like, hey, just making

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Speaker 1: sure you're not using this as a payment for you

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Speaker 1: know whatever. And it's just you know, the more people know,

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Speaker 1: the better, I guess. Tell me about this National Elder

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Speaker 1: Fraud Coordination Center. You guys are working with them now

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Metta just recently announced that we are joining

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Speaker 3: the National Elder Fraud Coordination Center. So this is a

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Speaker 3: great nonprofit that really works to strengthen cross sector efforts

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Speaker 3: to combat fraud. It is targeting older adults. So this

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Speaker 3: is working with law enforcement across multiple jurisdictions as well

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Speaker 3: as industry to make sure that we're kind of collaborating

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Speaker 3: and sharing resources because these bad actors are not operating

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Speaker 3: in one jurisdiction, They're not operating on one platform. So

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Speaker 3: if we can make sure that we're kind of polling

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Speaker 3: our resources and sharing information across these sectors, we can

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Speaker 3: make sure that we're really targeting these networks and better

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Speaker 3: protect people across all of our services.

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Speaker 1: My biggest fear is losing access to my Instagram or

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Speaker 1: my Facebook because I do have a decent amount of

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Speaker 1: followers there. So I've kind of locked everything down with

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Speaker 1: two factor authentication. I set up like I think it's

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Speaker 1: not a recovery contact, but something like that where you know,

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Speaker 1: my wife can kind of help me get back in

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Speaker 1: if I need that help. But explain what people can

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Speaker 1: do to protect their accounts versus just you know, having

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Speaker 1: like a standard password that they've reused a thousand times

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Speaker 1: on the web somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So a couple of things you can do

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Speaker 3: I'd encourage everyone listening to visit either Instagram dot com

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Speaker 3: slash help or Facebook dot com slash help, and on

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Speaker 3: those help platforms you can run security and privacy checkups.

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Speaker 3: And this is going to be something that kind of

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Speaker 3: helps run through all the different features on your account

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Speaker 3: to understand if you're doing the most you can to

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Speaker 3: keep your account secure. It's a really user friendly way

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Speaker 3: just to make sure that you're keeping that good hygiene,

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Speaker 3: doing the best you can. And I would just encourage

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Speaker 3: everyone to do it, you know, even just once a year,

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Speaker 3: just to make sure you're still keeping up with the

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Speaker 3: latest trends. Another thing that you can do on Facebook

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Speaker 3: that's super exciting is you can set up past keys.

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Speaker 3: So basically what this does is it kind of works

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Speaker 3: with features that you might already have set up on

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Speaker 3: your phone. So think about biometrics, using your face to

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Speaker 3: open your phone or a fingerprint to open your phone.

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Speaker 3: You can have your Facebook account actually use those features

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Speaker 3: through your phone so that you don't have to log

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Speaker 3: a password in and you can just use your biometrics.

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Speaker 3: And that's great because one if you're like me and

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Speaker 3: you always forget your password, I'm not going to forget

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Speaker 3: my face, so I'm going to have easy access to

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Speaker 3: my account. But more importantly for this conversation, you know,

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Speaker 3: a hacker can't hack your biometrics, right, Like that is

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Speaker 3: your face, it's on you. You can access that account

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Speaker 3: and we know it's you. So it's also a more

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Speaker 3: secure way to make sure that only you are accessing

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Speaker 3: your accounts. So I would encourage folks to visit, like

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Speaker 3: I said, those help centers, just to get all that

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Speaker 3: set up to make sure you're doing what you can

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Speaker 3: to keep yourself secure.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting. I was watching Black Rabbit on Netflix and

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Speaker 1: the investigator, the person was on I think they were

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Speaker 1: dead on the ground, but they literally took their iPhone

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Speaker 1: and they just like said sorry and they swiped it

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Speaker 1: in front of their face to like unlock the phone

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Speaker 1: to get into it. I was like, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: can they really do that? So when you said that

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Speaker 1: they can't hack your face, I was like, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: I need to check into that because I remember when

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Speaker 1: that first face id first came out. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of debate about it, but I need to look into

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Speaker 1: that real quick before we go. Big question, I get

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Speaker 1: what to do if your Facebook or Instagram account is hacked,

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Speaker 1: what's the first thing you need to do to try

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Speaker 1: to regain access to that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I would say go to that Facebook dot

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Speaker 3: com slash help go through our recovery passes to make

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Speaker 3: sure that we're helping you get back into that. But

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Speaker 3: to your point earlier, you can do some work now

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Speaker 3: to make sure you're setting up those recovery system systems

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Speaker 3: if you go into our security and privacy checkups.

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Speaker 8: So I would do that work now to.

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Speaker 3: Just make that easier on the other side, so that

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Speaker 3: you can regain access if you are hacked.

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Speaker 1: Because most of the time people are getting tricked into

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Speaker 1: handing over their account. It's not as if someone's actively trying,

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Speaker 1: you know, to target just you per se yep, exactly.

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Speaker 3: So I mean again, just don't you should never be

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Speaker 3: sharing your password. Facebook will never ask you, you know,

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Speaker 3: we'll never call you and ask you for your password,

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Speaker 3: the same you know security that you should take with

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Speaker 3: your banking information, your social security number. You should be

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Speaker 3: really treating your passwords like that as well, because people

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Speaker 3: do want this because then they can use it to

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Speaker 3: trick your friends into doing things because they think they

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Speaker 3: trust you. So it's just important to be doing that

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Speaker 3: good hygiene, making sure you're doing all you can to

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Speaker 3: keep your account safe because scammers do you want to

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Speaker 3: access it?

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Speaker 6: All?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 1: Metas Kate Ross, thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. Once again, I'll put all the links

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Speaker 1: on the website, but go to the Instagram dot com

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Speaker 1: slash help, Facebook dot com slash help set up those

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Speaker 1: pass keys and do the security checkup on Facebook and Instagram,

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Speaker 1: and do the privacy checkup on WhatsApp. A little work

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Speaker 1: now goes a long way later in protecting your account.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, we are going to talk about actually more

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Speaker 2: of your calls.

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Speaker 1: Eighty to eight Rich one oh one eighty eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Plus I do

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Speaker 1: have a feature you should activate on Google to make

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Speaker 1: sure you never get locked out of your account.

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Speaker 7: There.

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Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro Here, let's go to Jason in San Diego. Jason,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 9: Hey Rich, how you doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic. What can I help you with?

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Speaker 9: Thanks for taking my call. I have a question about it.

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Speaker 10: I'm in the.

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Speaker 9: I guess you could say I'm in the Apple ecosystem,

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Speaker 9: and I have thousands of songs that I've downloaded over

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Speaker 9: the years, but the album art doesn't match, like mismatched

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Speaker 9: with the songs. So like on my phone, on my Mac,

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Speaker 9: it's matched up. So when I I'm trying to I

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Speaker 9: tried almost everything sinking my phone. The album art just

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Speaker 9: doesn't match up. And so I don't know, it's been

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Speaker 9: like this for years. It drove me crazy.

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Speaker 2: That would not what to do about it. That would

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Speaker 2: definitely drive me crazy.

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Speaker 1: So this is this is your own music that you

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Speaker 1: have loaded onto your iPhone or is it music that

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Speaker 1: you're sinking from iTunes on a computer?

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Speaker 2: And what kind of computer do you have?

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Speaker 9: The iMac it's got the the the M one chip,

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Speaker 9: you know, the colorful iMac. I have an iPhone sixteen.

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Speaker 9: But this has been happening since before, you know, with

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Speaker 9: older Max. It's been it's songs that I've bought off

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Speaker 9: iTunes and maybe in the early arts, you know, downloaded

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Speaker 9: some songs.

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Speaker 7: Maybe for free.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it happened like that.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that might have something to do with the album

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Speaker 9: art not sinking up to the song.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm curious because I don't know if there is

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Speaker 1: a way on the iPhone to go into the like

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Speaker 1: are you using Apple music to play these songs or

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Speaker 1: to third party app I'm using that iTunes, yeah, to

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Speaker 1: play the song like just a built in like music

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Speaker 1: player on the phone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well there is a way have you and I

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Speaker 1: assume you've tried this, but there's a way on the

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Speaker 1: desktop to go into you know, to grab the album

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Speaker 1: art You've done.

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Speaker 9: That, yes, yes, look on that.

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Speaker 2: And so when you go to when.

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Speaker 1: You go to file library, get album artwork, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: fill in the artwork for the for the songs that

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Speaker 1: you have.

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Speaker 10: I would go on like the iTunes you know that way,

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Speaker 10: and then yeah, like I would just drag and drop

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Speaker 10: the album art into you know, the space provided.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, got it album Okay, So you're doing it

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Speaker 1: that way. So there's okay. So there's a couple I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give you a couple of pointers on this, so

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Speaker 1: I think will help. So, first off, built into Apple Music,

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Speaker 1: which is now if you're not using Apple Music, you

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Speaker 1: might want to update to Apple Music versus iTunes because

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Speaker 1: I don't even think they make that for the Mac anymore.

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Speaker 1: But if you go into your library and then you

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Speaker 1: press file and then it says library, there's an option

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Speaker 1: to get album artwork, And we'll ask you, are you

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Speaker 1: sure you want to get album artwork? And you say

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Speaker 1: get album artwork, and it will go through and look

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Speaker 1: through all of your songs and find the artwork for

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Speaker 1: those songs. Now, that should also sync to your phone

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Speaker 1: if you are syncing your libraries. Now, if you're not

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Speaker 1: sinking them like, you may have to delete the stuff

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Speaker 1: off your phone and rebring it on because if you're

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Speaker 1: not using Apple like Apple Music Cloud Library, it's not

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Speaker 1: dragging the album art into iTunes. That's fine, but again

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Speaker 1: you have to set then sync that information to your phone.

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Speaker 1: in the settings and see if there's one, because sometimes

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Speaker 1: Apple puts things. But yeah, let's see library audio download.

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Speaker 2: Let's see. I'm looking for anything animated art. Nope.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I don't really see anything that says you

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Speaker 1: can sync the artwork. But there is a way to

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Speaker 1: say sync library. So if you have that, any content

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Speaker 1: you add from Apple Music or import to iTunes will

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Speaker 1: change across all of you your products there, so your

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Speaker 1: iPhone and your computer. So make sure that that's on

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Speaker 1: the sync library on your iPhone. And then the other

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Speaker 1: way to do it is just to use a third

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Speaker 1: party program. There's one that people have found a lot

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Speaker 1: of luck with. It's called MP three tag MP three tag,

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Speaker 1: and it looks like there is a I know it's

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Speaker 1: for Mac. Yeah, it's in the app store. So MP

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Speaker 1: three tag that will get your stuff. Now that's twenty

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Speaker 1: five bucks, but you know it's going to fix your problem.

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Speaker 1: And I think if you said you got all that

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Speaker 1: free music back in the day, what's twenty five dollars, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, why not? That's a small price to pay,

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Speaker 1: but hopefully that should solve it. Jason, I know that's Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's a tricky issue you've got. You know, you're sitting

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Speaker 1: there trying to get this stuff. You know it's there,

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Speaker 1: you know it should be there, and it's not. But

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Speaker 1: hopefully one of those three solutions should get that stuff

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Speaker 1: synced up to your phone. So good question. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the call today. Eight eight eight rich one oh one

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Speaker 1: The website for the show is rich on tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: There you can get show notes. So I know I

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Speaker 1: will put that all in the show notes. So this

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Speaker 1: is episode one five. That'll take you right there. Just

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Speaker 1: go to the website and you can also submit your

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Speaker 1: questions too. Hit contact up at the top and you

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Speaker 1: can submit your questions. I get I've I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 1: Every week I have a backlog of more and more

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Speaker 1: questions from you, and I get to a majority of

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Speaker 1: them on the show, but I just don't get to

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Speaker 1: them every week.

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Speaker 2: So I just print them out and I've got.

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Speaker 1: Them all right coming up, I am gonna I did

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Speaker 1: promise you this Google feature that helps you recover your

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Speaker 1: locked to count. I will tell you about that. We'll

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Speaker 1: have the gadget of the week and much much more.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about open ai and their new browser right

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Speaker 1: here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Triple

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Speaker 1: eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Give me a call

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Speaker 1: if you have a question about technology. Coming up this hour,

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Speaker 1: we are going to talk with c NET Scott Stein

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Speaker 1: about the new Samsung VR headset. They call it Samsung

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Speaker 1: Galaxy XR. So it's eighteen in a time when I

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Speaker 1: don't think anyone's really trying to spend that much on

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Speaker 1: a headset at this point, especially a first gen device.

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Speaker 2: But we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, and I think it's done some pretty

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Speaker 1: cool things and it is half the price of apples.

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Speaker 2: So there's that. Uh let's uh, let's go to Kevin

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Speaker 2: in San Clementy. Kevin, you're on with Rich Kevin. Are

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Speaker 2: you there? Going? Once? Going twice? Kevin?

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Speaker 1: One, two three, Okay, we'll try to get here. Oh

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Speaker 1: there you go. Okay, you're back. Can I hear you?

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Speaker 2: Are you there?

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Speaker 7: I am here?

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Speaker 5: Are you there?

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 5: A quick question? Well not quick question, but two questions.

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Speaker 5: One regarding spam blockers I e. Norton type of software

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Speaker 5: and then hitting unsubscribed. So when I get a spam email,

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Speaker 5: or let's say I get an email from you on

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Speaker 5: rish On Tech and I want to unsubscribe for that,

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Speaker 5: and I go to the your unsubscribed I get that tomorrow,

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Speaker 5: I'll get you know, uh, Kevin on Tech. I'll get

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Speaker 5: unsubscribed in the next day, I'll get marked on you

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Speaker 5: know tech. Should I not be hitting those unsubscribed buttons

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Speaker 5: when I get spam email?

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Speaker 1: Okay, let me give you my uh the rich on

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Speaker 1: tech tried and true method for dealing with spam because

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Speaker 1: this is uh. I you know, I've got my email

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Speaker 1: address pretty much out there, and so if anyone will

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Speaker 1: get a lot of spam, it's me right and my

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Speaker 1: inbox is pretty tamed.

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Speaker 2: So I will tell you here's what I do.

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Speaker 1: Number One, if you get a legitimate email from a

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Speaker 1: legitimate sender or sending platform, what does that mean? Something

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Speaker 1: like a home depot, a best buy, a target, or

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Speaker 1: something like a mail chimp. You know, all these platforms

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Speaker 1: that send out emails, like a mailing list program, those

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Speaker 1: are all safe to unsubscri scribe to, no problem. So

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Speaker 1: if you signed up for a coupon at home depot

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Speaker 1: and next thing you know, they're bombarding you with emails,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, unsubscribe.

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Speaker 2: You can do that. It's safe. They're going to respect that,

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Speaker 2: no problem. Then there is the middle ground.

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Speaker 1: There's like a thing that you never really signed up for,

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Speaker 1: but it's coming from a legitimate sender. So for me

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Speaker 1: as a journalist, I get put on a zillion and

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Speaker 1: one mailing address lists, but I can tell when the

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Speaker 1: email is coming from a sender that's legitimate, right, like

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Speaker 1: a you know, like I said, a mail Chimp or

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Speaker 1: something like that usually says something like one click unsubscribe

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Speaker 1: or something like that. So if it comes from one

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Speaker 1: of those constant contact mailchimp substack, those are all going

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Speaker 1: to respect your right to unsubscribe, So you can safely

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Speaker 1: unsubscribe from those. Now, the third type of email you

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Speaker 1: get is completely unexpected, uninvited, and it is just spam,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes they make your way to your spam or

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Speaker 1: your inbox. So those you do not want to click

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Speaker 1: unsubscric al, right, because that will send a signal to

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Speaker 1: the person sending it or the organization or whoever that Hey,

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Speaker 1: we got a live one, Let's send them more. And

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Speaker 1: that's how you get bombarded with even more spam emails

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Speaker 1: because a lot of times these spammers are just finding

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Speaker 1: lists online on the dark Web or on the open Web,

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Speaker 1: and they're just they're just importing all those email addresses

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Speaker 1: and blasting them, and then the people that actually open

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Speaker 1: the email or interact with the email, then they will

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Speaker 1: go to a secondary list of Oh, we got some

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Speaker 1: good folks here, let's email them more. So the way

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Speaker 1: I cut down on that is number one, you can

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Speaker 1: just delete the email without even opening it, or you

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Speaker 1: can report it as spam to your email provider if

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Speaker 1: you really want to, and you know that'll block the

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Speaker 1: sender as well. Sometimes the other thing you can do

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Speaker 1: is let's see you open up Oh yeah, depending on

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Speaker 1: your email provider, you can block images. So even if

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Speaker 1: you open that mail, the sender would not know that

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Speaker 1: you open that email because nothing is getting sent back.

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Speaker 1: So so a lot of these spam emails and emails

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Speaker 1: in general, they basically phone home. So when you open

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Speaker 1: that email, there's a little tiny tracking pixel in that email,

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Speaker 1: and as soon as that pixel is loaded, you can't

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Speaker 1: even see it's naked to the you know, to the

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Speaker 1: naked eye, it's invisible. But computers can do that, and

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Speaker 1: so they see, oh, Rich's email, this email address loaded

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Speaker 1: this tracking pixel. Now we know he looked at this,

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Speaker 1: and so then again they'll use that signal as a

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Speaker 1: way to send you more. So what I do is

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Speaker 1: I go into my settings and it's a little annoying,

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Speaker 1: but there's a setting for a lot of email programs

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Speaker 1: to not display external images. So I have asked before

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Speaker 1: displaying external images turned on?

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Speaker 2: And so what does that mean.

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Speaker 1: It means that every single image I get, every single

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Speaker 1: email I get, is the images are not loaded. And yes,

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Speaker 1: does it take me an extra click to load those

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Speaker 1: images if I want to see them, Yes, But it

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Speaker 1: saves me a lot of spam because people don't know

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Speaker 1: that I've looked at their email if I've opened it.

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Speaker 2: So that's the other way to do it.

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Speaker 1: Now, there are a whole bunch of companies out there

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Speaker 1: that can say, oh, we'll clean up your spam, we'll

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Speaker 1: clean up your inbox. I don't like giving access to

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Speaker 1: my email to a third party, so just be careful

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Speaker 1: with those. And then if you want to unsubscribe from

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Speaker 1: legitimate mailing lists. If you're using Gmail, they just added

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Speaker 1: a new feature. If you tap in the left hand

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Speaker 1: side where it says inbox, starreds, sent drafts, expand that

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Speaker 1: menu and scroll down a little bit and you'll see

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Speaker 1: something that says manage subscriptions. And when you tap that,

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Speaker 1: it will give you a list of all the people

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Speaker 1: that are emailing you the most, and it will say

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Speaker 1: how many emails they've sent you recently, and you could

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Speaker 1: just tap and say unsubscribe. So this actually puts the

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Speaker 1: biggest senders in a list and you could easily unsubscribe

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Speaker 1: from those. And it's a pretty good little feature. It's

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Speaker 1: not going to be perfect, but again that's Gmail. Under

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Speaker 1: the inbox, scroll down a little bit, you'll see where

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Speaker 1: it says manage subscriptions. And that's a good way to

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Speaker 1: do it. Thanks for the call, Kevin, Do appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Eighty to eight Rich one one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one give me a

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Speaker 1: call if you have a question about technology.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: To protect your Gmail account, Google just introduced a new

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Speaker 1: feature called Recovery Contacts.

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Speaker 2: Set this up.

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Speaker 1: You have no idea how many people call me or

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Speaker 1: email me and say Rich I can't access my phone

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Speaker 1: number for my Google account. I can't access my recovery email,

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Speaker 1: and they want to send me a code to that

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Speaker 1: email or that phone number, and I can't get it,

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Speaker 1: so that means I cannot log into my account. Don't

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Speaker 1: let this happen to you. They have a feature called

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Speaker 1: Recovery Contacts. You basically pick a trusted friend or family

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Speaker 1: member who can help verify your identity. So if you

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Speaker 1: lose access, like if you forget your password or you

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Speaker 1: you know, don't have access to your phone or another

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Speaker 1: email account, Google will send that code to your recovery contact.

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Speaker 1: So say it's your spouse, you would just say, hey, Lynn,

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Speaker 1: did Google just send you that code? Give me that

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Speaker 1: Now I can type it into the website and that

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Speaker 1: will help you securely regain access. And they don't have

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Speaker 1: access to your account in any way, shape or form.

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Speaker 1: They're just almost like, think about it like a two

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Speaker 1: factor authentication, but your friend is the two factor. So

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Speaker 1: do this with someone you trust, even though they couldn't

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Speaker 1: really do anything with this, but you know, just make

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Speaker 1: sure it's someone you trust. Google says it's a simple,

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Speaker 1: private way to add an extra of layer of security

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Speaker 1: and you can add someone you trust by going to

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Speaker 1: g dot co slash recovery, dash Contacts. Okay, you will

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Speaker 1: g dot co. That's a standard Google shortcut slash recovery.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to it right now, Dash Contacts. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: just typed it in and yes, it will make you

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Speaker 1: verify you are who you say you are. You log

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Speaker 1: in there and then you can add someone. I'll put

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Speaker 1: that up on the website. Rich on tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's see how long do we have. What

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Speaker 1: do we got?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yes, two minutes. Oh my gosh, I still have two minutes. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's do let's do an email question. I've got so

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Speaker 1: many email questions here. GW from Pasadena rites in. I've

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Speaker 1: been using TurboTax on my Windows ten computer for years now.

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Speaker 1: They're telling me it won't work for tax here twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five unless I upgrade to Windows eleven. My computer

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Speaker 1: can't be upgraded, so my only choices are buying a

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Speaker 1: new one using the online version, or switching to another

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Speaker 1: service like H and R block, all more expensive. I

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Speaker 1: think this is something that's going to catch a lot

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Speaker 1: of people by surprise, GW.

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Speaker 2: Good point.

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Speaker 1: But yes, Windows ten Microsoft ended free support and security

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Speaker 1: updates on October fourteenth, which means I think TurboTax is

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Speaker 1: just saying, look, I know that Microsoft is doing the

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Speaker 1: extended security updates and a lot of people have signed

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Speaker 1: up for those to extend Windows ten support, but Turbo

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Speaker 1: tax can't be sure, and so I think they're just

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Speaker 1: playing it safe here and saying, look, we can't let

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Speaker 1: you know. Taxes are a very secure thing and you're

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Speaker 1: putting all your personal information in here. We don't want

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Speaker 1: to take any chances. So again, TurboTax says you have

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Speaker 1: two options. Upgrade to Windows eleven if your PC supports it,

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Speaker 1: or use Turbo tax online. And I think you'll find

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Speaker 1: that Turbo tax online kind of mimics what the desktop

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Speaker 1: program does. I know they still sell these things in

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Speaker 1: boxes at stores, but you can do a lot of

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Speaker 1: this online. I've gotten to the point where I do

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Speaker 1: my taxes for my phone practically. That's how that's how

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Speaker 1: simple these things have gotten with all these software updates

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Speaker 1: and things.

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Speaker 2: So that's a good warning. GW. Thanks for that.

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Speaker 1: Let's see here. Oh Tom just asked for that. That's interesting.

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Speaker 1: Tom asked the same question that we just had on

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Speaker 1: the air. Let's see finally here, let's see Tom from

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Speaker 1: Los Alamitos says, I keep seeing ads for the game

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Speaker 1: Royal Kingdom. It's promoted as having no ads inside the app.

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Speaker 1: So how does it make money? Are they selling our

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Speaker 1: phone data to someone? I don't understand this business model,

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Speaker 1: and honestly it's a little scary. Yes, apps like that

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Speaker 1: usually make money by collecting your data and in app purchases.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to get to that next level,

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Speaker 1: you want to skip something, you pay and they make

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Speaker 1: a lot of money on in app purchases even if

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Speaker 1: they don't show ads. So it's always smart to check

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Speaker 1: the app's privacy policy to see what kind of data

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Speaker 1: they're collecting before you download it. And I take it

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Speaker 1: a step further. If you look on the app store

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Speaker 1: page for any app that you're downloading, there is a

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Speaker 1: section that says in app purchases, and so if you

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Speaker 1: scroll down underneath, let's see where is it okay underneath

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Speaker 1: where it says information in app purchases. So a free

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Speaker 1: game like Roadblocks, oh, you can buy premium for five dollars.

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Speaker 1: You can buy a subscription, you can buy a lifetime.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many things. So check that out.

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Speaker 1: And if I have time, I'll check out this Royal Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Let's just see if they have in app purchases, like

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Speaker 1: I wondered, Royal Kingdom. Royal Kingdom free game. So yes,

946
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Speaker 1: it is free to download.

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Speaker 2: There it is. But lo and behold we scroll down.

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Speaker 2: Are there in app purchases?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 2: You better bet there are.

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Speaker 1: You can get a mini coin pack for two bucks,

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Speaker 1: King's Favor for seven dollars, Superior Chess for twenty dollars.

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Speaker 1: So yes, these apps are not hurting for cash. Eighty

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Speaker 1: to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one Coming up. We'll

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Speaker 1: take some more of your calls and I will get

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Speaker 1: to the gadget of the week.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On Sech. I've been grooving to

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Speaker 2: this new song from Tame and Paula. If you know them,

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Speaker 2: the songs.

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Speaker 1: Are usually epic, but this this is called Dracula, and

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Speaker 1: it just came out probably time for the holiday.

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Speaker 2: Obviously.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a marketing specialist, but I mean

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Speaker 1: I just have a hunch. But it's such a it's

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Speaker 1: such a catchy, fun tune. It's like dark but like

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Speaker 1: kinda you know, it's just whimsical. I like that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff. Uh, are you subscribing to My free newsletter

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Speaker 1: is packed with helpful tips, tricks, and the latest tech

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Speaker 1: sign up. Gadget of the Week this week the Alura

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Speaker 1: Tech e paper Wi Fi digital photo frame. This is

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Speaker 1: kind of the next generation. You know, we've talked about

975
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Speaker 1: these digital photo frames, but the next generation of frames.

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Speaker 1: And this is officially a trend. Even though I've been

977
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Speaker 1: testing this for a couple months now, it's now a trend.

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Speaker 1: The trend is e ink displays. So this is a

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Speaker 1: wireless e paper photo frame that looks more like traditional art.

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Speaker 1: So the alorateech is a thirteen point three inch ePaper

981
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Speaker 1: frame uses the same technology found in e reader, so

982
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Speaker 1: the images look like they're printed, not backlit.

983
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 2: And it's cool because you don't need AC power.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to put a picture like above

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Speaker 1: your mantle or something, and you don't want a wire

986
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Speaker 1: running to the digital frame, this runs you up to

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Speaker 1: two years on a charge. You know, obviously depending on

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00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: how much you update it. And again you can this

989
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,359
Speaker 1: connects to Wi Fi. You can send it right, send

990
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: photos right from the app. They appear on the screen

991
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: and you know they've got a white or black mat

992
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,240
Speaker 1: so you can change it to blend in with your decore.

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Speaker 1: And it's good for family photos digital r. I had

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Speaker 1: one of those famous picassos in there at some point,

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Speaker 1: so and then I've got family art.

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00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.

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00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: So it's just it's a different way of thinking about

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00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,439
Speaker 1: an ePaper frame or a digital photo frame. I will

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Speaker 1: tell you it's not going to look as good as

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00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: a backlit picture, but it looks different. It looks almost

1001
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 1: like just like an actual piece of art. So I

1002
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: find that art looks really good because it just looks

1003
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Speaker 1: like you would not know that this is digital in

1004
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form if you look at it.

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Speaker 1: And this is this is three hundred and fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: available now at a Laura tech dot com. And this

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Speaker 1: ePaper kind of thing is having a moment right now

1008
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Speaker 1: because just this week, the brand that I talk about

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Speaker 1: a lot with these frames, Aura, they just launched their

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Speaker 1: own or a ink frame using e ink with color

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Speaker 1: Display Tech. So again now we're seeing the trend of

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Speaker 1: a couple of companies are doing this and it's just different.

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00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 2: It's cool.

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00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to run out and change

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Speaker 1: your frame up right away, but it's just kind of

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Speaker 1: nice to know about it, Like if you want to

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Speaker 1: put that frame above your mantle and you don't want

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Speaker 2: I'm only well, you probably heard.

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Speaker 1: The news this week that chat gbt launched its own

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Speaker 1: web browser. It's called chat gpt at Liss. And what's

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Speaker 1: neat about this is it works the way that I've

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Speaker 1: been talking about on this show. It's your web browser

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Speaker 1: with chat gybt on the right hand side. So the

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Speaker 1: idea is this is a super assistant that understands what

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Speaker 1: you're doing online and helps you do it faster. So

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Speaker 1: instead of switching between chat gbt and your web browser

1072
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Speaker 1: like you're probably already doing at list, lets you ask

1073
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Speaker 1: questions in the same window. So it's one window for everything.

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Speaker 1: And what's really neat is that chat gybt can see

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Speaker 1: and read the page that you're on. So if you're

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Speaker 1: on a website, it can understand what that website is

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Speaker 1: and you can ask it questions about that website. Hey,

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Speaker 1: summarize this movie review? Or do you think this product

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Speaker 1: has it compared to other products out there? What's the

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Speaker 1: price like on this product? It could also summarize and

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Speaker 1: compare information for multiple websites. And the neat thing is

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Speaker 1: I found the killer functionality here is E so I

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Speaker 1: have my Gmail open. I've got the chat EBT. I

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Speaker 1: used to have to copy and paste. Now it just

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Speaker 1: reads the email and says, hey, here's a response. Just

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Speaker 1: you know, here you go copy and paste it right

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Speaker 1: in there. It's so easy anyway. Available now on mac

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Speaker 2: Coming soon. It's called chat GBT at list.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll talk Samsung's VR headset right here, I'm

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich

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Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple

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Speaker 1: A Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Well, this week

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Speaker 1: we got a new XR headset, Samsung Galaxy x R

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Speaker 1: VR headset, at a time when you know, we've got

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Speaker 1: a bunch on the market, everything from Apple's top of

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Speaker 1: the line Vision Pro to the Quest headsets to a

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Speaker 1: lot of other types of headsets out there. So let's

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Speaker 1: see what Samsung is doing differently and whether it's worth

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Speaker 1: the splurge. Joining me now is Scott Stein, editor at

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Speaker 1: Large at c NEET, to discuss Samsung Galaxy XR. You're

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Speaker 1: wearing it right now. It looks a lot like Apple

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Speaker 1: Vision Pro. It does, explain what this is for someone

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Speaker 1: who may not understand what an XR headset is.

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Speaker 8: Sure, so the Samsung Galaxy XR is their return to

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Speaker 8: VR and AR. Samsung and Google have both been in

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Speaker 8: this space before, but it's kind of in between where

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Speaker 8: Meta is with the Quest headset and Apple is the

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Speaker 8: Vision Pro. From my using it, you know, this is

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Speaker 8: built off chips that are more similar to the Quest headsets,

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Speaker 8: but with the display technology like Apple Vision Pro. But

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Speaker 8: the thing that's different, why are they doing this?

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Speaker 2: It's all about AI right now.

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Speaker 5: Gemini.

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Speaker 8: The ability for Gemini to see live through the cameras

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Speaker 8: and microphones on this headset is the new thing because

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Speaker 8: no other headset is currently doing that, and that's directly

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Speaker 8: related to where they're going next year with smart glasses.

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Speaker 2: So that's cool.

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Speaker 1: So wait, anything that you're looking at, like if you're

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Speaker 1: looking at a mountain range or you know, you're fixing

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Speaker 1: a car, you can just say, hey, Gemini, like, explain

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Speaker 1: this to me.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, so you could say, what with with varying degrees

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Speaker 11: of success, you know, which is true with AI in general,

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Speaker 11: But what it can do is it you could totally

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Speaker 11: see things, So you could say, you know, what is

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Speaker 11: that over there.

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Speaker 8: It could describe, you know, what's.

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Speaker 6: In the room with you.

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Speaker 8: It can describe what's on the screen. It can it

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Speaker 8: can summarize or try to bring up related things to

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Speaker 8: whatever's up there. It could be YouTube or you know,

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Speaker 8: if you brough up Netflix. It has the ability to

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Speaker 8: see stuff. But what I found so far is like

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Speaker 8: knowing exactly where it can control things is a little

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Speaker 8: hit and miss. But I think Google is working on

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Speaker 8: this as a development, you know, stepping stone to figure

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Speaker 8: out what else they can be doing on glasses.

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Speaker 1: Okay, interesting, So it's got all the AI stuff built in.

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Speaker 1: So I heard you can also do like circle to

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Speaker 1: search on this thing too.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so circle the search is kind of a similar

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Speaker 8: to if you want to be more targeted, you could

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Speaker 8: circle a particular area and then it could search for

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Speaker 8: that or give you more information about that. I think

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Speaker 8: it's one of the interesting things is you could be

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Speaker 8: a little more targeted with where it looks. You also

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Speaker 8: can give it permission to only look at certain apps,

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Speaker 8: so if you're worried about it like seeing everything in

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Speaker 8: your space, which I think is important because we're heading

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Speaker 8: to a point where everyone's afraid of the idea of

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Speaker 8: cameras on your face anyhow, and what is going to

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Speaker 8: go on with tech and big tech and AI with this,

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Speaker 8: there have to be some idea of some privacy cutoffs

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Speaker 8: or abilities to not have it be aware of things too.

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Speaker 1: How's the quality on this display, like, how does it

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Speaker 1: compare to what Meta's doing and what Apple's doing with

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Speaker 1: Vision Pro.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so this is a micro al led display technology

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Speaker 8: which Apple is also using on Vision Pro, and Samsung's

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Speaker 8: resolution for this, to no surprise, is higher and it's

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Speaker 8: four K displays paride, it's a little bit higher. It

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Speaker 8: looks equivalently sharp and good. The one thing is that

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Speaker 8: I would say the total av experience on this headset

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Speaker 8: there's a little more plasticky and the fit is a

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Speaker 8: little different. It's not as ideal for watching movies. But

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Speaker 8: you can put screens in YouTube and Netflix anywhere, just

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Speaker 8: like Vision Pro, so you know that capability is totally

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Speaker 8: there in this headset.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now you mentioned the two apps that are that

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Speaker 1: are noticeably absent from Vision Pro, so Apple huge company.

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Speaker 1: I mean how they don't have the support of YouTube

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Speaker 1: and Netflix is beyond me.

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Speaker 2: On this Vision Pro.

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Speaker 1: This has it because it's it's from Google, I guess

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Speaker 1: from the side of Google side of things.

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Speaker 2: But tell me about those apps.

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Speaker 1: Is that is that kind of like a good thing

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Speaker 1: that these apps are on there because they're so popular.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, Netflix, it turns out when I launched it,

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Speaker 8: I don't I don't see any real difference between that

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Speaker 8: and launching it in a browser. So I don't think

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Speaker 8: it's a tremendous loss that the vision Pro doesn't have it,

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Speaker 8: But it's annoying because I just wanted to able to

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Speaker 8: launch easily and not bring it up in a browser.

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Speaker 8: There's a little surprised so far. I didn't see Netflix

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Speaker 8: having any deep immersive features in the app that's on

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Speaker 8: the headset. But YouTube is great because it has a

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Speaker 8: lot of built in three hundred and sixty degree and

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Speaker 8: three D and immersive videos that have been there over

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Speaker 8: the years that you can watch on this headset. And

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Speaker 8: that is you can do that in headset if you

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Speaker 8: get into the browser on a quest but you can't

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Speaker 8: do it on a vision Pro. And the other frustrating

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Speaker 8: thing that Apple hasn't gotten into that's even bigger than

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Speaker 8: me is maps. Not that I would navigate with a headset,

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Speaker 8: but just the ability to explore places. The Google Maps

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Speaker 8: app that's on this headset is great and you can

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Speaker 8: get into immersive views of all sorts of locations. And

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Speaker 8: also there are some locations that have been three D

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Speaker 8: scanned by Google. Not a ton, but some restaurants in

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Speaker 8: big cities. You can go in and you can walk

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Speaker 8: around and look at the space and it's a fantastic

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Speaker 8: use of what you'd.

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Speaker 2: Use this for.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: When I was at Google's Io, I put on a headset.

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Speaker 1: Was that an early version of this or something? Because

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Speaker 1: it was like it had that was it?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: So yeah, it was called Project Muhan before I know

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Speaker 8: it's called Galaxy XR. It may have had some design changes,

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Speaker 8: but I think it's very similar to what I wore

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Speaker 8: last year, also getting an early demo of this. There's

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Speaker 8: a band that tightens it. The design of this is

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Speaker 8: more like VR headsets I've seen in the past. Metaquest

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Speaker 8: Pro had this type of design. There's still a battery

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Speaker 8: pack that this thing has to connect to, which is

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Speaker 8: connected just like the Vision Pro you know, with a tether,

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Speaker 8: which is which is not ideal.

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Speaker 1: No, but if they're both doing it, I mean clearly

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Speaker 1: there's a reason, because we're just not there yet with

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Speaker 1: all the battery technology to put it on your face.

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Speaker 1: So I guess my question is who needs this? I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it's eighteen hundred dollars, which is, you know,

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Speaker 1: half the price of what Apple's charging thirty five hundred

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Speaker 1: for their headset. But that's all a lot of money

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Speaker 1: for number one, a first generation product and something that

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I need.

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Speaker 8: No, you don't need it, And actually I was just

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Speaker 8: talking to someone on the phone about this yesterday. When

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Speaker 8: it comes to this type of tech, I think there's

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Speaker 8: only three types of products right now that you still

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Speaker 8: don't need, but I think are worthwhile getting the Metaquest

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Speaker 8: headsets because they're they're super affordable and they play games.

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Speaker 8: AI glasses like the basically Meta ray bands at this point,

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Speaker 8: but the Warby Parker one's coming next year, so I'm

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Speaker 8: really fascinated by Google and display glasses, which again you

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Speaker 8: don't need them, but one's made by Extra Real and

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Speaker 8: Vitcher are are fun ways to display everything. Else like

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Speaker 8: Vision Pro Galaxy X are, they're either too expensive too experimental,

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Speaker 8: and I agree with you, I think I think the

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Speaker 8: Vision Pro is far more thinness, but has also been

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Speaker 8: out there a lot longer and is more expensive, but

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Speaker 8: I don't think people need that either. And I and

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Speaker 8: even though this is half the price, I don't think

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Speaker 8: people need this either. But I think it's it's much

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Speaker 8: clearer with Google and Samsung, they've already laid out and

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Speaker 8: I wrote a story about it today how this is

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Speaker 8: building towards the glasses they're making after this, So it's

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Speaker 8: interesting that they really are using this as a developer platform,

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Speaker 8: and I think that's a lot of why it exists

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Speaker 8: right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've no doubt that this is incredible technology

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Speaker 1: and I love it like it is when you put

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Speaker 1: on one of these headsets, it is a completely different

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Speaker 1: experience than.

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Speaker 2: What you are used to see the.

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Speaker 1: World around you overlaid with information and to be able

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Speaker 1: to you know, just being in VR in general. And

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Speaker 1: this is kind of XR, so you can see the

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Speaker 1: world and things. But like, it really is incredible. It's

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Speaker 1: just so expensive that it's tough to like get this

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Speaker 1: into the mass kind of hands of folks.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's still big. But one of the cool

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Speaker 8: things about this type of design if you've never worn

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Speaker 8: a headset like this, because it doesn't have It's not

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Speaker 8: sticking to your face, it's resting over it. It actually

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Speaker 8: feels when you're wearing it like it's continuing the world

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Speaker 8: around you. Because I have more sense of the peripheral view,

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Speaker 8: and then the mixed reality which uses the pass through cameras,

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Speaker 8: it just feels like they all blend, which is actually

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Speaker 8: a really neat trick on this versus the vision pro

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Speaker 8: so I could I could still look at something on

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Speaker 8: my phone, I could look across the room and still

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Speaker 8: see stuff in the headset a lot easier. But I

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Speaker 8: think also with Android XR, people should be aware Google

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Speaker 8: is particularly interested in knitting a lot of different headsets

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Speaker 8: and glasses into the mix. So you know, unlike one

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Speaker 8: manufacturer doing this, we could have many manufacturers developing products here.

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Speaker 8: I'm not sure when they're all going to emerge, but

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Speaker 8: you know, exactly like you could have. You could have

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Speaker 8: other VR headsets coming out, other glasses and other connected things,

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Speaker 8: and that means like you definitely would want to hold

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Speaker 8: off and see what's coming.

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Speaker 1: Right, Because this is a new platform, Android XR, which

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Speaker 1: means it's kind of like Android. Anyone can take advantage

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Speaker 1: of it, and that means that anyone can one up

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Speaker 1: the other company by making something cheaper, smaller, lighter, faster, whatever.

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Speaker 1: And I like that idea of the mixed reality where

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Speaker 1: it like kind of blends. So if what you're saying

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Speaker 1: is I'm understanding it like I'm looking at something on

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Speaker 1: my paper. That paper is almost lit up like a

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Speaker 1: digital frame or like of digital newspaper, I can read

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Speaker 1: something on there, but everything else around me I'm seeing,

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Speaker 1: like my actual desktop, which is kind of not being

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Speaker 1: affected in a way.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: So, and I think that's going to be a little

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Speaker 8: more what it's going to feel like when you have

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Speaker 8: smart glasses with displays, when they get better and better,

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Speaker 8: that type of tech is going to start feeling like

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Speaker 8: that where it's literally overlaid with your world or you

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Speaker 8: have more focus in a particular part. And I think

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Speaker 8: the openness of this is really interesting. It's not, you know,

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Speaker 8: Gemini AI right now is the main AI that it's using.

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Speaker 8: But I was asking Google's Android head about this in

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Speaker 8: the story that I think they're aiming to have more

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Speaker 8: AI platforms work on this, and the goal is to

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Speaker 8: work with phones and watches and rings down the road,

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Speaker 8: which are all you know on the Android ecosystem, but

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Speaker 8: Google already exists across a lot of devices and platforms,

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Speaker 8: so it's interesting in terms of, you know where that

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Speaker 8: could possibly go. Whereas Apple is clearly designing it to

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Speaker 8: work with Apple products, and Meta is a little bit

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Speaker 8: in a corner where they have their own products but

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Speaker 8: that they haven't figured out how to work with everything

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Speaker 8: else seamlessly yet.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot going on with Android because there's

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Speaker 1: so many different manufacturers and Gemini has been built into

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Speaker 1: just about everything at this point. It just keeps going.

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Speaker 1: So that's going to be interesting to see how that

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Speaker 1: all develops. All right, Scott Sein, thanks so much from

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Speaker 1: c net. If you want to check him out, just

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Speaker 1: google c net Scott segn. He covers all things vr

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Speaker 1: AR for them and he does a great job at it.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we are going to talk about

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Speaker 1: Oh we're going to take some more of your calls.

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Speaker 1: Eighty to eight Rich one on one eighty eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two, four one zero one.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On Tech.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Kristen in Arcadia. Kristin, you're on with

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Speaker 1: rich Hi, Rich how are you good? Thanks for holding sure?

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Speaker 12: I was telling about photosticks like the thumb drives that

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Speaker 12: you put it into your computer or your phone and

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Speaker 12: it extracts all the photos and eliminates duplicates and things

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Speaker 12: like that. I was just wondering if you could give

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Speaker 12: me a recommendation on what the best one or the

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Speaker 12: easiest one to use would be.

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Speaker 2: I don't trust them. I don't.

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Speaker 1: There's one that's advertised everywhere. I have emailed them to

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Speaker 1: get a to get a sample, you know, to review,

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Speaker 1: to try it, and they will not write me back.

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Speaker 1: So I do not I do not trust the advertised

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Speaker 1: the ones that you see online. So I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's an easy fix for this. I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: a simple way to do this. What are you trying

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Speaker 1: to accomplish? And I can help that way?

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Speaker 12: I think I'm just trying to get all my photos

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Speaker 12: in one place and just have a bad backup copy

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Speaker 12: of them. But I also don't want ten versions of

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Speaker 12: the same photo in the right in the backup.

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Speaker 1: So well, I mean, there's so many ways to manage

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Speaker 1: a photo collection, and I think that there's not one

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Speaker 1: way for everyone. I have the What I do is

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Speaker 1: I just dump all my photos into Google Photos and

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Speaker 1: while It does not find duplicates, which is absolutely insane

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Speaker 1: to me. It does find similar pictures and it groups

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Speaker 1: them together, which makes life a lot easier. So if

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Speaker 1: you took like ten pictures in a row, it will

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Speaker 1: group those pictures now in a stack, they call it,

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Speaker 1: and then you can pick the one that the computer

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Speaker 1: says is the best and just delete all the rest.

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Speaker 2: And so that's kind of.

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Speaker 1: A way to management manage it, okay. But what I

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Speaker 1: would say is number one. You probably want if you're

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Speaker 1: going to start organizing your photos, you've got them in

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Speaker 1: your computer, you want to make sure you have a

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Speaker 1: backup first before you do anything. So what I would

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Speaker 1: do is just take your collection, put it on a

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Speaker 1: hard drive and just now you have a backup before

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Speaker 1: you start going in and making changes. That's number one.

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Speaker 1: And then you can use a program like the one

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Speaker 1: that I've tested that I like is called Duplicate photos

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Speaker 1: Fixer dot com. Duplicate photos Fixer dot com. They have

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Speaker 1: a version for Mac, for Windows, for Android and iOS,

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Speaker 1: and you can use that to get rid of your

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Speaker 1: duplicates on your computer now, okay, And then once you

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Speaker 1: do that, you could go through and kind of do

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Speaker 1: this and then you can back them up. So got

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Speaker 1: it backing them up? Are you on iPhone? Are you

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Speaker 1: on a Mac or Windows?

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Speaker 4: I'm on a Mac.

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Speaker 1: Oh you're on a Mac. Okay, so with Mac. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's also another app that I like called Gemini. It's

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Speaker 1: from uh it's from MacPaw and that will find duplicates

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Speaker 1: as well, so you can use you can check out

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Speaker 1: those two programs and see which one you like better.

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Speaker 1: But once you have them on the you know, all

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Speaker 1: figured out and you're kind of you know, you've got

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Speaker 1: them narrowed down to the ones you want, then you

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Speaker 1: can put them into I would do a cloud service

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Speaker 1: and that could be iCloud if you want to keep

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Speaker 1: it easy. But if you have Amazon Prime, Amazon gives

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Speaker 1: you unlimited photo storage, so you can dump them all

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Speaker 1: into there as a backup and then they can just

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Speaker 1: be backed up into Amazon Photos and that's free. The

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Speaker 1: only downside to that is that it does not give

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Speaker 1: you a lot of storage for videos, so you would

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Speaker 1: just want to do.

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Speaker 2: The pictures in there.

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Speaker 1: But the one that I like the most is really

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Speaker 1: Google Photos. I think it's still the best out of

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Speaker 1: everything out there. It's super easy to use and the

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Speaker 1: neat thing about this. You were talking about getting everything

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Speaker 1: into one place. You could actually go to photos dot

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Speaker 1: Google dot com and just drag and drop your albums

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Speaker 1: in there, your your folders in there from your computer

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Speaker 1: and it will actually sort out the duplicates. So when

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Speaker 1: you're uploading, that's the only time that Google will really

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Speaker 1: do this is it will It will stop you from

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Speaker 1: putting the same picture in twice as long as the

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Speaker 1: picture is identical. If it's similar, you made some changes

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Speaker 1: this and that, it will you both. But in general,

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Speaker 1: if you drag and drop the same picture, and you

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Speaker 1: can try this, just take a picture and drag it

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Speaker 1: into Google Photos like three times, it will only take

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Speaker 1: the first one and the other ones it will not.

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Speaker 1: And so that's another way of just kind of taking

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Speaker 1: all your photos from this folder on your computer, dragging

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Speaker 1: and dropping them in there, and it will just grab

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Speaker 1: all the first run copies or whatever you want to

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Speaker 1: call it. And Google also has an app for your

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Speaker 1: computer for Google Photos. It's called let's see what's it

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Speaker 1: called now? I guess they just call it Google Drive

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Speaker 1: at this point, but it will back up your any

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Speaker 1: folders that you want on your computer to Google Photos.

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Speaker 1: So if you type in Google Photos apps, oh wow,

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Speaker 1: why did that do that? Let me see here?

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Speaker 2: Where is it?

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Speaker 3: Here?

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Speaker 2: They are.

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Speaker 1: So if you go to Google Photos apps, you can

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Speaker 1: find the apps for your different platforms, and one of

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Speaker 1: them is Google Photos your computer and let's see here. Interesting,

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Speaker 1: the link is not working. That's huh, Google, you got

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Speaker 1: to fix that. But yeah, it's I think it's if

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Speaker 1: you download the Google Drive app, Google Photos is built

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Speaker 1: into there, and so on Google Drive you can go

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Speaker 1: into your preferences and you'll see it says backing up

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Speaker 1: Google Photos, and you just take whatever you can do

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Speaker 1: your whole computer and just you list that as the drive.

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Speaker 1: It will go through your whole computer hard drive, find

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Speaker 1: every photo and upload it to Google Photos. And that's

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Speaker 1: a one way upload, and it's a it's a really

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Speaker 1: handy way to get all that stuff in there. But Christin,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the call today, appreciate it and get those

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Speaker 1: get those photos organized. I'm gonna wait until I'm retired

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Speaker 1: to do this, because there's just no way I What

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Speaker 1: I do is, at the end of the day, I

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Speaker 1: will go through my Google Photos app and I'll just delete,

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Speaker 1: like anything nonsense from that day or maybe at the

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Speaker 1: end of the week. But just managing everything in my

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Speaker 1: photos collection is just impossible at this point. And I

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Speaker 1: can tell you because Google tells you how many photos

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Speaker 1: I have in there.

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Speaker 2: At this point, I am backing up. Let's see what

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Speaker 2: do I got here.

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Speaker 1: If you go into your Google Photos, there's a little

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Speaker 1: backup complete icon and if you tap that, it'll tell

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Speaker 1: you I've got two hundred and twenty two nine and

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Speaker 1: thirty nine photos backed up. I am not going through

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Speaker 1: those today, that is for sure. Talk to me next week.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if we can do those. HBO Max before

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Speaker 1: we go to break is raising prices once again, the

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Speaker 1: third time in three years. HBO Max going up anywhere

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Speaker 1: from a dollar to two dollars a month. I do

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Speaker 1: think HBO Max has some good programming, but the premium

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Speaker 1: plan is now twenty three dollars a month. The cheapest

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Speaker 1: plan now eleven dollars a month. You'll start seeing these

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Speaker 1: prices for existing subscribers on November twentieth eighty eight. Rich

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Speaker 1: one oh one eighty eight seven four to two four

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Speaker 1: one zero one back after this. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking

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Speaker 1: technology at triple A rich one oh one eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. This week I

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Speaker 1: finished listening to the the Michael J. Fox book brand new.

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Speaker 1: It's called Future Boy. So if you love Back to

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Speaker 1: the Future, you will love this book. It is just

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Speaker 1: about that, just the movie. So it gets into his

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Speaker 1: personal life a little bit as he was an actor

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Speaker 1: coming up in the world, but it's mostly about filming

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Speaker 1: the movie. It's a quick, easy read. I listened to

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Speaker 1: it and it was Michael J. Fox reading it, so

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Speaker 1: that was kind of fun. But it doesn't go into

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Speaker 1: you know, his illness or anything like that, but or

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Speaker 1: medical It just really sticks to this movie and the

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Speaker 1: fact that he, you know, came up pretty fast in

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Speaker 1: the world in Hollywood and then he was doing Family

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Speaker 1: Ties and he was doing Back to the Future at

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Speaker 1: night on the same day, which was just wild to

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Speaker 1: hear and just a little like I didn't realize that

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Speaker 1: Eric Stoltz was the original main character and they did

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Speaker 1: a swap with Michael J. Fox, and you know, of course,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure people on the set were not happy with that,

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Speaker 1: but it probably would not have been in the movie today.

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Speaker 1: And we don't know, I mean, who knows, but he

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Speaker 1: said he played the role very different from Eric Stultz.

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Speaker 1: They filmed like six weeks of this movie with the

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Speaker 1: first actor and then the rest with Michael J.

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Speaker 2: Fox.

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Speaker 1: So I'm a big Back to the Future fan, so

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01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:22,760
Speaker 1: I just ate every second of it.

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Speaker 2: I was just like, I love this, I love this,

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Speaker 2: I love this.

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Speaker 1: It's just a lot of anecdotes about the set and

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Speaker 1: filming and how they did things.

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Speaker 2: And it's so weird.

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Speaker 1: Because you know, I didn't grow up in Southern California,

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Speaker 1: but the whole movie, like, I didn't realize where it

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Speaker 1: was filmed. But yes, it was filmed in southern California,

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Speaker 1: but just at these places that became other places. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know Courthouse Square at Universal obviously I worked there.

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Speaker 1: I was a backlot tram tour guide at Universal Studios

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood, Yes, I was, so you might have been

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Speaker 1: on my tram at one point. It was a fun job.

1521
01:13:55,360 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 1: You just basically sat there until they needed you to

1522
01:13:58,439 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 1: do a tram tour, and then you do the tram

1523
01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:02,639
Speaker 1: tour and then you'd sit there again and wait until

1524
01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:03,320
Speaker 1: they need you again.

1525
01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:05,960
Speaker 2: But it's fun. There's all these like Hollywood types. I

1526
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:07,760
Speaker 2: just love talking to you.

1527
01:14:07,840 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: Just sit there and chat with them the whole time

1528
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:11,400
Speaker 1: until your time was up, and then you go up

1529
01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: there and you'd memorize your whole spiel, give people a

1530
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:18,360
Speaker 1: backlot tour, and do it all over again. Let's go

1531
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 1: to Bob in Sunland, California. Bob, you're on with Rich Here.

1532
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:29,080
Speaker 7: Rich, I'm trying to download some medi cassettes from my

1533
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:33,200
Speaker 7: digital camera to my computer. But for some reason, Windows

1534
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 7: seems to say that doesn't recognize the devices, and that's

1535
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 7: to USB. So I'm going, is there some kind of

1536
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:42,439
Speaker 7: a driver that's available or a program that could use

1537
01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:44,719
Speaker 7: to try to do that? Well?

1538
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 2: What type of camera is this? What's the what's the type?

1539
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:54,599
Speaker 7: Is it? Sony cassette cameras? I also have two can

1540
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 7: and still both of them are not able to be

1541
01:14:57,479 --> 01:15:02,040
Speaker 7: recognized by my computer. Now about something called Dazzle. I

1542
01:15:02,040 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 7: think it's about Pinnacle and it also says it doesn't

1543
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:06,679
Speaker 7: recognize the USB connection.

1544
01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:08,599
Speaker 2: So right, okay, I've done it.

1545
01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:13,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, go ahead, I've done it before with my old

1546
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:15,960
Speaker 7: Windows ninety eight. Is this the computer? I believe it

1547
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:18,880
Speaker 7: not for my own Mac G four, But for some

1548
01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:22,280
Speaker 7: reason it's used that Windows does not support that kind

1549
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,599
Speaker 7: of a device anymore.

1550
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:27,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's what's happening here is that these

1551
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:30,760
Speaker 1: uh these devices, do they have the standard RCA cables

1552
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 1: out or no like connections?

1553
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 7: Well, they do have the yellow table and the red

1554
01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 7: on one of the cameras. Then the other ones are

1555
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:43,160
Speaker 7: like a fireworks connection that you could come out also. Yeah,

1556
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:45,559
Speaker 7: but other than that, I'm not sure what else I

1557
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 7: could use it to correct to the computer.

1558
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:50,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, the direct USB connection is not going to work

1559
01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:52,920
Speaker 1: on these as far as I know, because the USB

1560
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,559
Speaker 1: is just not I don't know what you did in

1561
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 1: the past how that worked. But typically these cameras are

1562
01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 1: not in a format where the computer can just grab

1563
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:04,760
Speaker 1: that video off of the camera because it's a it's

1564
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 1: just not a format where it's it's you can pull

1565
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:08,800
Speaker 1: it off like if you pop in a cell phone

1566
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:10,599
Speaker 1: these days, you know you can pull the digital video

1567
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:13,560
Speaker 1: off of it, no problem. But these are typically I

1568
01:16:13,600 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 1: would assume they're recorded in an analog format, even though

1569
01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 1: if they say digital and so you would need some

1570
01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 1: level of conversion. Now the fire wire that would work,

1571
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:24,839
Speaker 1: but you'd have to find a mac that has that connection.

1572
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:27,160
Speaker 2: I'm not even sure that's that route is worth going down.

1573
01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: I think the easiest way to do this since you

1574
01:16:30,560 --> 01:16:33,680
Speaker 1: still have the camcorder. That's like the toughest part of

1575
01:16:33,680 --> 01:16:37,000
Speaker 1: this whole process. But basically, you can buy one of

1576
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 1: these VHS to DVD converters which will capture video from

1577
01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 1: your camquorder and put it on your computer. I think

1578
01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 1: that's the easiest way to do it. That's what I've done,

1579
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:49,760
Speaker 1: And you just basically hook up your camcorder with those

1580
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 1: three cables, the red, the yellow, and the white, and

1581
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 1: then you plug it into this little device that will

1582
01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:00,280
Speaker 1: convert the signal from analog to digital and then your

1583
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:03,880
Speaker 1: computer records it. So it's a it's a kind of

1584
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:06,640
Speaker 1: a time stake. It takes a lot of time to

1585
01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:08,840
Speaker 1: do this because it's all done in real time, but

1586
01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:10,720
Speaker 1: that's the easiest way to do it. And then you

1587
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 1: get that digital file that you can then trim, edit,

1588
01:17:13,280 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: upload to YouTube whatever you want, put it in your

1589
01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 1: your photo collection.

1590
01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 9: That.

1591
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:18,759
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1592
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:21,240
Speaker 1: So the two that I recommend are and there's a

1593
01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:24,240
Speaker 1: million of these on on on Amazon. And here's the

1594
01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:26,680
Speaker 1: reason why I recommend these two because at the end

1595
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:29,040
Speaker 1: of the day, it comes down to the software. So Bob,

1596
01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 1: if you are like you know, pretty advanced with things

1597
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 1: and you can find your way around software and everything.

1598
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 1: Then go with one of the cheap ones and you

1599
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 1: can do it that way. But if you want something

1600
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:43,240
Speaker 1: that's a little bit easier, Roxio makes the easy VHS

1601
01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:45,640
Speaker 1: to DVD converter. That one's good. You can get an

1602
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:47,960
Speaker 1: Amazon or Best Buy. And then the other one is

1603
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 1: called El Gato E L G A t O and

1604
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:53,320
Speaker 1: that does the same thing, and they both have software

1605
01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:56,160
Speaker 1: that that I think is it's all pretty much the same,

1606
01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 1: but it's just a little bit easier to understand than

1607
01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 1: some of these other companies that I've ordered their products

1608
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:02,720
Speaker 1: on Amazon and it just comes and it's it's like

1609
01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:06,479
Speaker 1: you can't figure it out. The other thing, and I

1610
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:10,599
Speaker 1: have not tested this one is the clear Click. So

1611
01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:12,960
Speaker 1: this is kind of an all in one. It looks

1612
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 1: like a little black box with a screen on it,

1613
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: and so this way you can bypass your computer completely.

1614
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:21,400
Speaker 1: So you would connect the camcorder to this little device,

1615
01:18:21,880 --> 01:18:24,639
Speaker 1: press record and it would record it to an SD

1616
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:26,760
Speaker 1: card and then you could pop out that SD card,

1617
01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:32,040
Speaker 1: put it in your computer and get the video. So yeah,

1618
01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 1: how many tapes do you have?

1619
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:36,639
Speaker 7: Unfortunately I have about twenty and they're all about ten

1620
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 7: years old, family members and stuff like that. So I

1621
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 7: thought now would be a good time to try to

1622
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 7: send into my family was still alive to enjoy. But

1623
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:46,160
Speaker 7: I've been trying a couple of months to figure out

1624
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:46,680
Speaker 7: how to do it.

1625
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:50,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, these two, these two, these three methods will will

1626
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: really help you get a headstart on that. And I think,

1627
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, even if you're spending one hundred dollars in

1628
01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: one of these converters, I think that's well worth it

1629
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:58,320
Speaker 1: for twenty tapes. Your those memories are going to be

1630
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:01,800
Speaker 1: you know, invaluable in the future. And the other thing is,

1631
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:04,120
Speaker 1: you know, you'll notice on a lot of these tapes,

1632
01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of these memories have started to

1633
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:09,439
Speaker 1: go and so you want to get them. You want

1634
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: to get them digitized because you know, we're talking it's

1635
01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:15,040
Speaker 1: probably been thirty to forty years since you captured some

1636
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:15,719
Speaker 1: of these videos.

1637
01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:17,360
Speaker 2: Maybe you know minimum thirty years I'm.

1638
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:19,599
Speaker 7: Guessing, right, yeah, exactly.

1639
01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:24,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they decline, you know, in time, just like us. Right,

1640
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 1: I'm not as as a surprise, I used to be

1641
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:31,840
Speaker 1: thirty years ago. Anyway, it's a fun project, and it

1642
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:33,800
Speaker 1: is it is something that does take some time, but

1643
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 1: is once you get it done. It's if you feel

1644
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 1: really good getting this, and like you said, you have

1645
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:41,559
Speaker 1: these cam quarters, which is literally the toughest part. Like

1646
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: when I was doing this, I had to go on

1647
01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:45,880
Speaker 1: Amazon to buy you know, stuff I had to I

1648
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 1: had to borrow them from friends and family. But you

1649
01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 1: know it's or sorry I went on ebaying by by

1650
01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:56,040
Speaker 1: a camquarder. But yeah, so anyway, good luck with the project, Bob.

1651
01:19:57,040 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 6: I'll get fixtures, all right.

1652
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:01,720
Speaker 1: Another fun thing about this is that once you take

1653
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:04,320
Speaker 1: those videos. I did this, I dropped them all into

1654
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:08,479
Speaker 1: Google Photos, and I'm not kidding. It will find people's

1655
01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: faces in those videos. So if you want to find

1656
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 1: a video, a picture, a clip of Grandma, you can

1657
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: find it because Google Photos will say, oh, Grandma's in

1658
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 1: this video, or whoever it is, Uncle Marty whatever. It's

1659
01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 1: so cool that it goes frame by frame on those

1660
01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:28,639
Speaker 1: videos that you upload and it will identify the faces

1661
01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:31,320
Speaker 1: in them and the places. So if you captured a

1662
01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:33,639
Speaker 1: video in Italy back in the nineties, you just type

1663
01:20:33,640 --> 01:20:35,679
Speaker 1: in Italy it'll find that video.

1664
01:20:36,280 --> 01:20:38,000
Speaker 2: So it's really really it to me.

1665
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:42,880
Speaker 1: Digitizing your old pictures and videos feels like you're unlocking

1666
01:20:42,920 --> 01:20:45,559
Speaker 1: them for the next generation. And I'll be honest, I

1667
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:47,720
Speaker 1: did a lot of mine. I still have a lot

1668
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:50,599
Speaker 1: more to go. Both at my mom's house. She's got

1669
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:52,559
Speaker 1: a ton of pictures that she's kind of holding on

1670
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 1: too and not letting me get to and I'm like, mom,

1671
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:57,720
Speaker 1: I gotta get these things. We did some there when

1672
01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:00,680
Speaker 1: I went home one time, but she doesn't really want

1673
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 1: to send them to me. It's kind of a thing

1674
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,960
Speaker 1: where you have to be there to do it. And

1675
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,040
Speaker 1: then the video tapes, I've got a bunch at my

1676
01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: place that I still need to do. I'm a busy guy,

1677
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 1: so you know, it's been proven to be tough to

1678
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:13,960
Speaker 1: do that. But I did a bunch of them, and

1679
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: I did a lot of the VHS tapes. So did

1680
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 1: almost all the VHS. But I still have some other

1681
01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:20,960
Speaker 1: versions of tapes, like the High eight and the what

1682
01:21:21,040 --> 01:21:22,479
Speaker 1: was the other version? There was one of like a

1683
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:25,759
Speaker 1: some version that we used to use for like news

1684
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:27,599
Speaker 1: gathering back in the day. So all my old news

1685
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 1: stuff is on there, like when I first started out

1686
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 1: in the business. So but it is fun to have

1687
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:33,760
Speaker 1: those things digitized. And then you got to grab the

1688
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 1: family bring them into the living room and make them

1689
01:21:36,160 --> 01:21:38,800
Speaker 1: sit through these boring When we used to videotape things,

1690
01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:43,280
Speaker 1: we used to videotape the entire event, like from start

1691
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:45,760
Speaker 1: to finish. Like it would be like Dad would be

1692
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:48,120
Speaker 1: on the camcorder and he would just start recording and

1693
01:21:48,160 --> 01:21:51,600
Speaker 1: it would be like thirty minutes of nothing. Nowadays we

1694
01:21:51,680 --> 01:21:53,840
Speaker 1: only record, like when we have a kid's birthday party,

1695
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 1: you literally record your kid blown out the candles and

1696
01:21:56,160 --> 01:21:58,320
Speaker 1: that's it. It's like a thirty second clip. You don't

1697
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:00,600
Speaker 1: have anything else. There's no perspective, there's no you know.

1698
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:02,000
Speaker 1: It used to be you take the cam cord, you

1699
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,360
Speaker 1: go around the house, be like, you know, Aunt Mabel,

1700
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:06,599
Speaker 1: say hello, you know, like say hi to the camera

1701
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 1: and they'd be like hello. They take their cigarette out,

1702
01:22:08,360 --> 01:22:11,479
Speaker 1: you know, put it down and they say hello. Was

1703
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:12,639
Speaker 1: your family party like that?

1704
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 2: Mine was?

1705
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:19,160
Speaker 1: Hey, can you put down that beer and say hi

1706
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:19,799
Speaker 1: to the kids?

1707
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:21,760
Speaker 2: Was your family party like that?

1708
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one On one eighty eight seven four

1709
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:26,639
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one.

1710
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 2: Back after this.

1711
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:36,519
Speaker 1: Rich Tomuro here hanging out with you talking technology, triple

1712
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:39,160
Speaker 1: eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to

1713
01:22:39,160 --> 01:22:43,800
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Uh The website is rich

1714
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:48,040
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. Uh there you can hit contacts

1715
01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 1: submit your question that way. We were talking about old

1716
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:55,600
Speaker 1: family parties and uh, I have so many memories. I

1717
01:22:55,600 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 1: grew up in a big family, five kids, you know,

1718
01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:01,599
Speaker 1: my parents, and uh so it was just always always

1719
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:06,200
Speaker 1: it's just always a party, like any day of the week.

1720
01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: But we used to have a lot of family parties

1721
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:10,559
Speaker 1: because it was always someone's birthday or a holiday. And

1722
01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:13,360
Speaker 1: I won't I won't mention the family member. I don't

1723
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:16,160
Speaker 1: think they listen, but they might. But I remember my family.

1724
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 1: I had one family member who always used to say

1725
01:23:18,320 --> 01:23:20,920
Speaker 1: children should be seen and not heard. And I just

1726
01:23:20,960 --> 01:23:24,960
Speaker 1: looked that up thanks to the magic of AI. This

1727
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:29,559
Speaker 1: the It's an outdated and harmful expression that is widely

1728
01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 1: rejected today by child development experts. The phrase suggests that

1729
01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:37,800
Speaker 1: children should be presentable but quiet in the company of adults.

1730
01:23:38,040 --> 01:23:38,759
Speaker 2: Uh yeah.

1731
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:44,080
Speaker 1: Traced back to the fifteenth century England, child's thoughts and

1732
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:46,439
Speaker 1: opinions were less important than an adults. I mean, we

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01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:49,000
Speaker 1: know I've got two kids, but believe me, we know

1734
01:23:49,120 --> 01:23:52,200
Speaker 1: that's not the case anymore. Kids are like it's gone,

1735
01:23:52,920 --> 01:23:55,160
Speaker 1: what eighty like? Kids are you know? Kids says one thing.

1736
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 1: You're like, hold on, what let me hold on? Write

1737
01:23:58,040 --> 01:24:03,799
Speaker 1: that down? That was amazing kidding. But my wife, Corrap

1738
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 1: says the same thing. She says that she had a

1739
01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:09,760
Speaker 1: family member who's said the same exact thing. Children should

1740
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:11,799
Speaker 1: be seen and not heard. That is not the case anymore,

1741
01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:15,360
Speaker 1: and that is not the case kids are now. It's

1742
01:24:15,400 --> 01:24:17,960
Speaker 1: such a different world that we live in where kids

1743
01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:20,400
Speaker 1: are just part of everything now. I mean it's like,

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01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:22,479
Speaker 1: I mean it's funny you go to like a fancy

1745
01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:24,799
Speaker 1: restaurant and kids are just there, like on their iPad.

1746
01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:27,759
Speaker 1: It's like dad's paying like eighty bucks for a stake

1747
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 1: and the kid is literally on like roadblocks.

1748
01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:31,679
Speaker 2: I could care less that they're there.

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01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:38,400
Speaker 1: Amazon Luna is adding a game Night and free Prime games.

1750
01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: So Amazon Luna is Amazon's cloud gaming platform. They just

1751
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 1: redesigned it and now Prime members get accessed to over

1752
01:24:45,400 --> 01:24:48,360
Speaker 1: fifty games included for free. And one of the big

1753
01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:50,600
Speaker 1: additions is called game Night, which is a collection of

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01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:54,880
Speaker 1: twenty five plus family friendly local multiplayer games.

1755
01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:55,599
Speaker 2: What does this mean?

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01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:57,680
Speaker 1: It means you can play games with your friends in

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01:24:57,680 --> 01:25:00,599
Speaker 1: front of your TV like casual games. You can use

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01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:02,479
Speaker 1: your phone as a controller, so you scan a QR

1759
01:25:02,520 --> 01:25:05,559
Speaker 1: code on the TV to join in. There's classics like Clue,

1760
01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:08,680
Speaker 1: Ticket to Ride, Angry Birds, and I was wondering if

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01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:10,960
Speaker 1: they would include this, and sure enough they did. Jackbox,

1762
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: so you know Jackbox, the party game we played a.

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01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:16,799
Speaker 2: Lot during the pandemic. That is included.

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01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:20,760
Speaker 1: There's also an original title called Courtroom Chaos starring Snoop Dogg.

1765
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:24,960
Speaker 1: This is an AI powered voice driven improv game where

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01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:28,400
Speaker 1: you play out absurd court cases before judge Snoop Dogg.

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01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg's got his hand in everything. All of this

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01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:35,720
Speaker 1: runs on devices you have like your Fire TV devices

1769
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 1: and your phones, your tablets and that kind of stuff.

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01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:39,719
Speaker 2: So kind of cool.

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01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 1: Anyway, if you have an Amazon Fire TV device, definitely

1772
01:25:44,160 --> 01:25:46,000
Speaker 1: check out Amazon Luna if you want to play games

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01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 1: with your friends.

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01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 2: That's fun. Let's see.

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01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:53,479
Speaker 1: Let's see Carlos in Brooksville, Carlos in Florida.

1776
01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:54,080
Speaker 2: What's up?

1777
01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:56,360
Speaker 4: Okay, what's going on?

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01:25:56,760 --> 01:26:01,360
Speaker 13: Thanks for taking my call? But what is up with

1779
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:04,640
Speaker 13: the I get a phone call? It could be an

1780
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:08,479
Speaker 13: eight hundred number. It could be a local like I'm

1781
01:26:08,479 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 13: in the three five two area, coulde it could be

1782
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:11,840
Speaker 13: a local number.

1783
01:26:12,240 --> 01:26:13,080
Speaker 5: I look at it.

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01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 13: I don't know. It doesn't say who it is. I

1785
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 13: pick it up and I say hello, and they're silent.

1786
01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 13: Thirty seconds later it hangs up. Yes, what kind of

1787
01:26:28,040 --> 01:26:29,720
Speaker 13: information are they getting from that?

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01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:30,200
Speaker 6: Well?

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01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:36,120
Speaker 13: Sometimes lately, lately they've been saying. Lately they've been saying goodbye.

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01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:39,240
Speaker 1: Well, here's what I think is happening. I mean, there's

1791
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:41,759
Speaker 1: so many of these scams out there with these these numbers.

1792
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:42,400
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.

1793
01:26:42,439 --> 01:26:45,120
Speaker 1: My phone, my personal phone got on some sort of list.

1794
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:47,840
Speaker 1: I am not kidding when I tell you, Carlos, it

1795
01:26:47,920 --> 01:26:52,760
Speaker 1: is getting a call now almost every fifteen minutes. And

1796
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:57,080
Speaker 1: thank god that Apple added this call screening feature because

1797
01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: that's the only thing I'm saving my number right now.

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01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:01,160
Speaker 1: Otherwise I have to change my phone number. But I'm

1799
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:04,000
Speaker 1: not kidding. I've got unknown callers. I've got twenty two

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01:27:04,240 --> 01:27:08,719
Speaker 1: in the past three days, so it's just like non

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01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:11,920
Speaker 1: stop anyway. What they're trying to do I think is

1802
01:27:12,120 --> 01:27:15,680
Speaker 1: active identify, like if your phone number is active, So

1803
01:27:15,880 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: in general they're calling and there's like, so, what's happening

1804
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:22,680
Speaker 1: is do scammers feed a million phone numbers into their

1805
01:27:22,680 --> 01:27:26,760
Speaker 1: computer system computer system dials all those numbers automated very

1806
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:28,760
Speaker 1: quickly gets through to you.

1807
01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:30,720
Speaker 2: They know that ninety nine percent.

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01:27:30,439 --> 01:27:32,720
Speaker 1: Of those nobody's gonna pick up, nobody's gonna answer, or

1809
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:34,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna be some sort of call screening, so it

1810
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,080
Speaker 1: just hangs up. But when you pick up your phone

1811
01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:39,920
Speaker 1: and you say hello, all of a sudden, they're saying,

1812
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:41,640
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, we got a live one. We

1813
01:27:41,760 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 1: got one, and then it will take that number in

1814
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:47,040
Speaker 1: a route it to someone who's in some sort of

1815
01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:50,040
Speaker 1: boiler room somewhere that's taking these calls, and they will

1816
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:53,599
Speaker 1: pick up and say, oh, hello, Carlos, Yes, we would

1817
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:56,000
Speaker 1: love to sell you on this or whatever. You know,

1818
01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:57,920
Speaker 1: you've got to warn out or whatever they try to

1819
01:27:57,920 --> 01:27:59,920
Speaker 1: do to scam you. And that's really what they're doing,

1820
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:03,960
Speaker 1: is they are trying to get a live lead, and

1821
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:07,880
Speaker 1: so that kind of delay you're hearing is all of

1822
01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:11,479
Speaker 1: their systems working to kind of, you know, get that call,

1823
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 1: verify that there's a live human on the other end,

1824
01:28:14,040 --> 01:28:17,040
Speaker 1: and then flip that call to a live scam artist

1825
01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:19,080
Speaker 1: that's going to try to take you for everything you're worth.

1826
01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:22,880
Speaker 1: The reason why you're hearing goodbye is when something doesn't

1827
01:28:22,920 --> 01:28:25,120
Speaker 1: work like their system, you know, times out, or it

1828
01:28:25,120 --> 01:28:28,240
Speaker 1: doesn't get to a person, or all the scammers are busy,

1829
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:30,920
Speaker 1: you know, so maybe they're all on calls with other people.

1830
01:28:31,040 --> 01:28:33,559
Speaker 1: So that's what I think is happening there. But there

1831
01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:36,160
Speaker 1: are so many different scams out there. I actually this

1832
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:38,320
Speaker 1: is probably why I'm getting so many calls. I answer

1833
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:40,439
Speaker 1: a lot of these scam calls, and I will try

1834
01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:42,360
Speaker 1: to see like what they're doing, just to kind of

1835
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:44,760
Speaker 1: get educated on what they're trying to do to us.

1836
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:47,840
Speaker 1: Because if they're asking, like, hey, Rich, you know, can

1837
01:28:47,880 --> 01:28:50,920
Speaker 1: we get your social just to confirm things, and I'm like, dude,

1838
01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:52,720
Speaker 1: come on, like you got to try harder than that.

1839
01:28:53,520 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Carlos, appreciate it quickly before we

1840
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:02,400
Speaker 1: go to our next inner. Verizon has a new home

1841
01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 1: Internet plan, a wireless home Internet plan called Light twenty

1842
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:10,080
Speaker 1: five dollars a month. That's after all the discounts, but

1843
01:29:10,160 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 1: it's for light Internet users, so think email, web browsing.

1844
01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:16,959
Speaker 1: Streaming shows speeds range from ten to twenty five megabits

1845
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,840
Speaker 1: per second, and it doesn't it slows down after one

1846
01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:23,080
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty gigs, but it always stays online. So anyway,

1847
01:29:23,120 --> 01:29:26,680
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a month home Internet light from Verizon.

1848
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 1: So if you want to get something that's cheap and

1849
01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 1: it just does the trick home Internet light from Verizon

1850
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:32,120
Speaker 1: New Plan.

1851
01:29:32,040 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 2: Check it out.

1852
01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:35,240
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're going to talk about rental cars that

1853
01:29:35,280 --> 01:29:41,800
Speaker 1: get delivered to you autonomously. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

1854
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:44,840
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology triple

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01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:47,760
Speaker 1: eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four

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01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:51,320
Speaker 1: to two four to one zero one. Christy writes in Rich,

1857
01:29:51,400 --> 01:29:53,840
Speaker 1: I enjoy your Saturday radio show and newsletter. I've learned

1858
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:56,280
Speaker 1: so much on the past. You recommended a robot vacuum,

1859
01:29:56,280 --> 01:29:58,840
Speaker 1: but I can't remember which one. Can you remind me

1860
01:29:58,880 --> 01:30:02,679
Speaker 1: what models suggested? And your favorite password manager? Oh, Christy,

1861
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:04,400
Speaker 1: you just want to know it all. But yes, it's

1862
01:30:04,439 --> 01:30:05,240
Speaker 1: the robo Rock.

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01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:07,800
Speaker 2: Is it the F twenty five?

1864
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:09,360
Speaker 1: Hold on, I got to make sure I got this one,

1865
01:30:09,439 --> 01:30:13,240
Speaker 1: robo Rock F twenty five. It's a vacuum mop all

1866
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:16,920
Speaker 1: in one which I love. And then for password manager

1867
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:19,960
Speaker 1: for free, I like Bitwarden, which is free, open source

1868
01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:21,160
Speaker 1: works and all the platforms.

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01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:22,719
Speaker 2: It is really really good.

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01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:24,720
Speaker 1: And then Bob writes, in a few weeks ago you

1871
01:30:24,800 --> 01:30:26,880
Speaker 1: raved about whisper flow on your show. I tried it

1872
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:29,639
Speaker 1: on my Mac and it was really impressive, fast, accurate,

1873
01:30:29,640 --> 01:30:31,719
Speaker 1: and easy. But then I started seeing other user's dictation

1874
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 1: show up, which made me think they could see mine.

1875
01:30:35,040 --> 01:30:36,960
Speaker 1: Contacted their support. I only got to thank you for

1876
01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:40,360
Speaker 1: your patience. I'm blind and had high hopes for whisper flow,

1877
01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 1: but this is a deal breaker. I hate to go

1878
01:30:42,160 --> 01:30:45,240
Speaker 1: back to Apple Dictation. Is there a reliable, secure dictation

1879
01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:49,759
Speaker 1: app for Mac that does not require Windows? Yeah, whisper

1880
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:51,799
Speaker 1: flow should still be perfect.

1881
01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 2: It is not.

1882
01:30:52,479 --> 01:30:54,840
Speaker 1: You know, they've got privacy built in. Believe me. I

1883
01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:56,920
Speaker 1: use it on a daily basis. I will tell you.

1884
01:30:57,360 --> 01:30:59,840
Speaker 1: And this might have corresponded to when you had this happen.

1885
01:31:00,240 --> 01:31:04,880
Speaker 1: That AWS outage drove me nuts because nothing was working

1886
01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 1: with whisper flow. And then the other thing is you'll

1887
01:31:07,080 --> 01:31:10,680
Speaker 1: notice this with all these ais. If you're recording and transcribing,

1888
01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:13,439
Speaker 1: you don't say anything. It just hallucinates stuff, it'll make

1889
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 1: up things. So maybe that's what was happening. You were

1890
01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:19,080
Speaker 1: pausing or something for a very long time, and that

1891
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 1: was just bringing up random words that you might have

1892
01:31:21,320 --> 01:31:23,880
Speaker 1: thought were other people's. But with all that said, if

1893
01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:25,559
Speaker 1: you want to try an alternative. There is another one

1894
01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:29,640
Speaker 1: I've been testing. It's called monologue mon monologue, I mean,

1895
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:33,360
Speaker 1: you know how to spell that monologue for mac And

1896
01:31:33,439 --> 01:31:38,280
Speaker 1: they've got a dictation app that's very similar monologue dot t.

1897
01:31:39,240 --> 01:31:43,000
Speaker 1: So check it out. Yeah there you go. All right,

1898
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:49,000
Speaker 1: we've got Thomas vander Oh here from they they are

1899
01:31:49,040 --> 01:31:53,559
Speaker 1: doing remote driven door to door car rental. Let's talk

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01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:55,559
Speaker 1: to Thomas about how this is all working. Thomas, thanks

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01:31:55,560 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 1: for joining me.

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01:31:56,800 --> 01:31:58,559
Speaker 6: Hi Rich be on air here.

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01:31:58,800 --> 01:32:03,840
Speaker 14: Yeah, So what they is there is a complete new

1904
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 14: mobility service and actually doesn't exist anywhere outside of Las

1905
01:32:07,840 --> 01:32:10,559
Speaker 14: Vegas these days. And basically how it works is you

1906
01:32:10,600 --> 01:32:13,000
Speaker 14: can just open the way app and you click a

1907
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:15,720
Speaker 14: button and within a few minutes you just get an

1908
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:18,400
Speaker 14: electric car delivered to your doorsteps so wherever you are,

1909
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:21,559
Speaker 14: right and no person in there, because that's been taken

1910
01:32:21,600 --> 01:32:24,800
Speaker 14: care of our remote driver who basically remotely brings you

1911
01:32:24,880 --> 01:32:27,920
Speaker 14: that car, and one that car is in front of

1912
01:32:27,920 --> 01:32:30,200
Speaker 14: your door, you as a customer, you get inside and

1913
01:32:30,240 --> 01:32:32,600
Speaker 14: you actually drive the car yourself. Right, So then it

1914
01:32:32,600 --> 01:32:35,720
Speaker 14: becomes a car rental and you can do whatever you

1915
01:32:35,720 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 14: want with a car, right. You can use it for

1916
01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:40,120
Speaker 14: twenty minutes, for two hours to go grocery shopping, or

1917
01:32:40,160 --> 01:32:40,960
Speaker 14: for two days.

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01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:44,280
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter because it's very flexible.

1919
01:32:44,320 --> 01:32:46,160
Speaker 14: And at the end of the right, let's say you're

1920
01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:49,600
Speaker 14: in front of your office or in front of your destination.

1921
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:51,760
Speaker 14: You just get out and you don't have to find

1922
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:54,360
Speaker 14: parking because then another remote driver comes and parks the

1923
01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:54,920
Speaker 14: car for you.

1924
01:32:55,280 --> 01:32:57,360
Speaker 1: Okay, this is such a wild concept because you keep

1925
01:32:57,400 --> 01:33:01,240
Speaker 1: saying remote driver. So someone is drying this car remotely

1926
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:03,640
Speaker 1: from like and I've seen this in the past. I

1927
01:33:03,640 --> 01:33:07,200
Speaker 1: saw Demo another company that was doing this, and basically

1928
01:33:07,280 --> 01:33:09,559
Speaker 1: they were at like a almost like a gaming setup

1929
01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 1: with like a bunch of screens, and they were with

1930
01:33:11,360 --> 01:33:14,280
Speaker 1: a steering wheel in like an office building and they're

1931
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:16,800
Speaker 1: literally driving the car down the streets of Las Vegas.

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01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:17,880
Speaker 2: Is that what's happening here?

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01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:19,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's exactly right.

1934
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:25,280
Speaker 14: Imagine you know, a centralized office space right where people come.

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01:33:25,160 --> 01:33:26,920
Speaker 6: To work the job of the future.

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01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:29,680
Speaker 14: If you also remote drivers, they come there, they sit

1937
01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:32,479
Speaker 14: in front of a remote driving station. So you have

1938
01:33:32,880 --> 01:33:36,600
Speaker 14: displaced monitors, you have a remote driving steering wheel, you

1939
01:33:36,640 --> 01:33:39,160
Speaker 14: have gas pedals and brake pedals, and you hear the

1940
01:33:39,200 --> 01:33:42,599
Speaker 14: audio from the vehicle and then in real time video

1941
01:33:42,600 --> 01:33:44,600
Speaker 14: gets transmitted from a vehicle that can be in the

1942
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:47,120
Speaker 14: same city, right, but it can also be hundreds of

1943
01:33:47,120 --> 01:33:51,240
Speaker 14: miles away, transmit the video and the audio over redundant networks,

1944
01:33:51,479 --> 01:33:53,920
Speaker 14: and then that remote driver basically takes it all into

1945
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:55,680
Speaker 14: account and then remotely drives that car.

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01:33:55,920 --> 01:33:57,519
Speaker 2: So what do I put on my resume for this

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Speaker 2: remote driver?

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Speaker 9: Like?

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Speaker 2: Am I like, oh, I'm good at Mario or Forza.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, we haven't seen that in CVS, or at least

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Speaker 14: I'm I'm not aware of that. But yeah, we see

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Speaker 14: a lot of remote drivers actually who are Uber drivers, right,

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Speaker 14: who might not like the interaction often with rowdy customers, right,

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Speaker 14: because you don't have this physical interaction with with the

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Speaker 14: person in the car. So we see many folks coming

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Speaker 14: from Uber or Lift. Also a lot of female drivers,

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Speaker 14: right because of these security benefits. We also have younger

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Speaker 14: folks but also elderly folks, all different kinds of you know,

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Speaker 14: drivers who are interested in new technology and who also

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Speaker 14: really enjoy being surrounded by other teammates to have coffee breaks,

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Speaker 14: have bathroom breaks, right, to have a good time with

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Speaker 14: other remote drivers around you.

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Speaker 1: It's such a brilliant idea because I lived when I

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Speaker 1: lived in the New York area, I use a thing

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Speaker 1: called zip car. This was many many of your and

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Speaker 1: the toughest part was you had to get to the

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Speaker 1: car to rent it. Now, the whole rental process was automated.

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Speaker 1: You would, you know, open it up with your phone

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Speaker 1: or whatever. I can't remember exactly how we did it,

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Speaker 1: you know, but getting to the car and then dropping

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Speaker 1: off the car at a certain time was always like

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Speaker 1: such a pain. This is you get the car on

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Speaker 1: demand on the app. It delivers it to the front

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Speaker 1: of wherever you are, and then when you're done with it,

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Speaker 1: you can be at the same place or a completely

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Speaker 1: different place and just someone will remote drive it off exactly.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, I think zip car is a good comparison to

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Speaker 14: the zip card is obviously car rentals. But I think

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Speaker 14: I mean, we've been working on this now for over

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Speaker 14: seven years with over one hundred and fifty people to

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Speaker 14: make this technology work, and it just doesn't exist anywhere.

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Speaker 14: And the what I find what really drives us is

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Speaker 14: that we believe this new mobility service we.

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Speaker 6: By the way, we call this driverless rental cars.

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Speaker 14: Right, so we see the future where hopefully there will

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Speaker 14: be robotaxis kind of the next generation of taxis or

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Speaker 14: right hailing, and then there will be driverless rental cars.

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Speaker 14: This is the concept that that we build, which is

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Speaker 14: the next generation of course of car rental right or

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Speaker 14: car sharing, as well as private car ownership right. And

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Speaker 14: we believe this will significantly change how we live in

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Speaker 14: cities hopefully. You know, we want to be seen as

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Speaker 14: the company that got rid of private co ownership in

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Speaker 14: cities because they're clogging our streets and not moving very much.

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Speaker 14: And the main reason why we believe it's going to

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Speaker 14: be so so big because it is door to door right,

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Speaker 14: so we don't have to walk and.

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Speaker 6: You don't have to park.

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Speaker 14: But at the same time, it's half the price of

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Speaker 14: the next best alternative, which is right hailing right, so

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Speaker 14: it's by far, by far the most affordable way to

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Speaker 14: get from A to B. And by lowering this price point,

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Speaker 14: we really hope that we see a lot of people

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Speaker 14: and we start seeing that using our service. You know,

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Speaker 14: they day in and day out to get from A

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Speaker 14: to B in cities.

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Speaker 1: So you're doing this in Las Vegas, how do you

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Speaker 1: scale up in other cities and also places where this

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Speaker 1: type of thing may not be allowed.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, so it's super exciting right now in Las Vegas. Right,

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Speaker 14: so we cross over twenty five thousand trips, right, so

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Speaker 14: you can actually get us in downtown Las Vegas. You

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Speaker 14: can also get us on this strip right where there's

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Speaker 14: all the hotels. We're growing now to one hundred vehicles,

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Speaker 14: right and then beyond that in twenty twenty six. And yeah,

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Speaker 14: we don't want to just be in Las Vegas, but

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Speaker 14: we also want to launch other cities, right, so there

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Speaker 14: is a backlock of cities that we've been talking to. Actually,

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Speaker 14: a lot of cities really want us to come. How

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Speaker 14: you can imagine this, and we made this public. We

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Speaker 14: recently actually remotely drove in San Francisco right from Las Vegas,

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Speaker 14: So think about that. Unlike, for example, robot taxis where

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Speaker 14: you have to do a lot of you know a

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Speaker 14: lot of time to go into a new city, with

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Speaker 14: remote driving, you don't have to create very intensive you know,

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Speaker 14: three D often based on lighter maps in the city,

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Speaker 14: but it's a much faster process. So within like one

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Speaker 14: to two weeks, we were able to remotely drive in

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Speaker 14: San Francisco without any person inside, but from Las Vegas,

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Speaker 14: So you can think about that. We have our centralize

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Speaker 14: remote driving center in Las Vegas, and then we can

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Speaker 14: just launch other cities.

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Speaker 1: So you can activate a new city pretty quickly without

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Speaker 1: you know, building a big, you know place for people

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Speaker 1: to drive remotely.

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Speaker 2: They could drive from anywhere. In the future.

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Speaker 1: I imagine people theoretically be able to drive from their

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Speaker 1: homes too.

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Speaker 6: I mean that's you know, actually, it's funny.

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Speaker 14: We just had a massive announcement in one of the

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Speaker 14: newspapers where it says a home office for drivers. So

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Speaker 14: many people think that that will be possible. It might

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Speaker 14: be actually also downe in the let's say medium future.

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Speaker 14: But of course, our remote driving center is highly like

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Speaker 14: technology basically of course redundant power, redundant fiber, there's all

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Speaker 14: kinds of you know, lock ins and so forth. So

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Speaker 14: there's there's a lot of redundancy, safety, security and so

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Speaker 14: forth that happens on the remote driver center side.

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Speaker 6: So let's say for.

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Speaker 14: The near future, it will still be in a centralized,

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Speaker 14: centralized location.

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Speaker 1: We're talking with the Thomas vander Oh of Vey dot

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Speaker 1: iovey dot io. They are basically a rental car that's

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Speaker 1: delivered driver list to your wherever you are, and then

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Speaker 1: you can drop it off wherever you want and the

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Speaker 1: remote driver will pick it up and virtually, I guess

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Speaker 1: I should say, and just drive it back to the

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Speaker 1: next person or whatever. Well, can you ever install this

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Speaker 1: technology in someone's car, like a personal car, like like

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Speaker 1: my car? Could you adapt it to like where I

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Speaker 1: can make money by you using it?

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Speaker 14: So that's basically down the line what we call integration

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Speaker 14: to personal cars right now. So if you think about

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Speaker 14: our technologies as a camera based system, so we don't

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Speaker 14: need a lot of computers, we don't need light, oars,

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Speaker 14: radars and all like the many senses that robotaxis need.

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Speaker 14: So it's a very very inexpensive technology that you have

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Speaker 14: to put put on vehicles. It takes in order to

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Speaker 14: adapt to a new vehicle model. It takes a few weeks, right,

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Speaker 14: So it's not like that we can just put it

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Speaker 14: on any car. If you happen to have a Kia

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Speaker 14: Electric e Nero that's the one that we're using, we

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Speaker 14: could also put it onto your personal car. But yeah,

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Speaker 14: it's not that we can just take our technology and

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Speaker 14: put it onto any car right away. Having said that,

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Speaker 14: we have you know, various partnerships in the works. One

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Speaker 14: that we announced with stillentis which is like RAM and

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01:40:19,920 --> 01:40:24,120
Speaker 14: you know Pujol. And the exciting thing is that all

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Speaker 14: the new vehicles that are being produced, they already have cameras, right,

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Speaker 14: They all have the software and the pieces that is

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01:40:31,640 --> 01:40:35,080
Speaker 14: needed to basically make a vehicle remote driveable. So we

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Speaker 14: see a future but that takes probably still like a

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Speaker 14: couple of years, two three years maybe where you start

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Speaker 14: seeing from the production line, you know, personal cars or

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Speaker 14: any kind of vehicle being remote drivable, right because you

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Speaker 14: don't need to add any additional hardware on these vehicles

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Speaker 14: because they already have the cameras and so forth. So

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01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:56,040
Speaker 14: then in your personal car, you can get a car

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Speaker 14: and then say, okay, I don't want to part my

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01:40:57,720 --> 01:41:00,200
Speaker 14: own car, so you can get a remote valet or

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01:41:00,240 --> 01:41:02,240
Speaker 14: maybe had a few glasses to drink at the party,

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01:41:02,280 --> 01:41:04,640
Speaker 14: and that car drives you back right fully, So you

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Speaker 14: have your own personal chauffeur or drives your kids to school,

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01:41:08,680 --> 01:41:11,240
Speaker 14: or the Airbnb of cars, you can share your car

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Speaker 14: with friends and families or with a larger network. So

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01:41:13,600 --> 01:41:15,479
Speaker 14: all these things will be possible, but it will take

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01:41:15,880 --> 01:41:18,040
Speaker 14: a little bit of time just because that needs full

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Speaker 14: integration with the automobiles.

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Speaker 1: With the tech stack built into the car. All right,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Vandro a fascinating conversation. Check it out. It's vay

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Speaker 1: dot Io. Next time you're in Las Vegas, get a

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Speaker 1: rental car delivered driverless, and then you drive. You take

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Speaker 1: over and drive it, and then you just return it.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one oh one. We're gonna do feedback

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Speaker 1: coming up right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: We are going to get right into the feedback segment

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Speaker 1: because see it is overflowing this week. Jan writes in

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Speaker 1: l L listening and OMG, children should be seen and

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Speaker 1: not heard. Came out of my father's mouth on a

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Speaker 1: regular basis like you. I grew up in New Jersey,

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Speaker 1: Italian family, second of seven. Wouldn't trade it for anything.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy your show. My tech life started selling IBM typewriters,

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Speaker 1: ending with Cisco. I'm obviously much older than you, but

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Speaker 1: thrilled to have been in tech. Thanks for all you do. Jan,

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Speaker 1: Oh Jan, I'm glad I'm not the only one. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So I guess that was a thing that people said.

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Speaker 1: Karen writes in thank you, I found a great local

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Speaker 1: tech who did exactly what you suggested from my Windows

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Speaker 1: ten to eleven upgrade. I now have a Microsoft account

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Speaker 1: and I'm all set for another year. He's a fan

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Speaker 1: of you two. I watch you regularly on TV. I'm

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Speaker 1: constantly amazed at your knowledge. You're such a nice guy

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Speaker 1: and so smart.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you, Karen. I'll let you talk all day.

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Speaker 1: To take the time to help someone like me who's

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Speaker 1: not very techy, Ron writes in I know I'm a

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Speaker 1: bit behind, but I wanted to mention something that might

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Speaker 1: help the listener who lost music files on their Mac

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Speaker 1: or iPhone. Apple still offers iTunes Match, even though they

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Speaker 1: don't promote it much anymore. It stores all your music

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Speaker 1: in the cloud, including songs rip from CDs, and it

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Speaker 1: does not count against your cloud storage. You can stream

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Speaker 1: or download your songs anytime, and if you upload a

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Speaker 1: lower quality track, Apple replaces it with a higher quality version.

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Speaker 1: It's about twenty five dollars a year, and I found

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Speaker 1: it worth every penny. Have a blessed day, Rich Thanks

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Speaker 1: for your show. Your attitude, patience, and knowledge are all

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Speaker 1: greatly appreciated. Love the variety of things you cover. Wow,

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Speaker 1: iTunes Match with sort of this middle technology back in

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Speaker 1: the day when we were going from our own collections

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Speaker 1: to the cloud. But it sounds like they still offer it,

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Speaker 1: and if you have your own collection, easy way to

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Speaker 1: take advantage of that. Paul from Columbus, Indiana says Rich,

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Speaker 1: I enjoy your show, but I wanted to point out

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Speaker 1: that Apple TV Plus is more than just comedies. They're

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Speaker 1: doing incredible work in sci fi with shows like for

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Speaker 1: All Mankind, Foundation, Invasion, Dark Matter, Silo, Monarch, and The Gorge.

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Speaker 1: That's why I subscribe. If you're into high quality sci

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Speaker 1: fi shows, give them a try. I think you'll be

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Speaker 1: pleasantly surprised. I think that was last week I said

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Speaker 1: that I'm paying all this money for Apple TV Plus

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Speaker 1: I only watch like one thing.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll give those a shot.

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Speaker 1: Todd writes in Rich great newsletter about your Japan trip.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was the only one still using STM bags.

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Speaker 1: Microcenter used to carry them years ago, and I really

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Speaker 1: liked them. Thanks again for your trip report. I'm still

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Speaker 1: looking through your travel gear to see what I can

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Speaker 1: add to my own bag. Yes, last week's newsletter was

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Speaker 1: everything I brought to Japan, and Yes, Ronald writes in

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Speaker 1: along the same notes, Hey, Rich, with all the tech

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Speaker 1: gear you packed, did you have any room left for clothes.

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Speaker 1: I've heard that if you do what you love is

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Speaker 1: your job, you never work a day in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy my suitcase. My carry on was mostly gadgets. My

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Speaker 1: suitcase was all my clothes, and I've got packing down

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Speaker 1: to a science. Believe me, down to a science. I

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Speaker 1: do not bring one thing that I do not need.

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Speaker 1: Leo writes in, once again, great show. I have to

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Speaker 1: disagree with your advice to toss that spare wired keyboard.

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Speaker 1: As someone who refurbishes and repairs computers, I've seen plenty

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Speaker 1: of situations where having one on hand can save the day,

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Speaker 1: like when you spill coffee on your main keyboard right

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Speaker 1: before work. Plug in the spare and you're back up

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Speaker 1: and running instead of heading to the store. And yes,

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Speaker 1: keyboards do go bad. Thank you, Leo. Yeah, Leo writes

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Speaker 1: in often too either dispute what I say or agree

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Speaker 1: with what I say.

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Speaker 2: Either way, I love it. I'm always here for it, Leo.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Jim rights in Leo, by the way, works for us,

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Speaker 1: should mention the laptop ELF so they refurbished computers and

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Speaker 1: give them to charity, so the Laptop Elf Project.

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Speaker 2: Look it up.

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Speaker 1: Jim rights in, I upgraded my Lenovo to Windows eleven.

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Speaker 1: Geek Squad removed two viruses, deleted twenty eight gigs of

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Speaker 1: temp files, and did a tune up. The upgrade costs

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty nine dollars. To tune up was

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Speaker 1: ninety nine. They did not replace the hard drive. They

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Speaker 1: upgraded it to be compatible with Windows eleven. What does

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Speaker 1: that mean? My computer is much faster and it was

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Speaker 1: already okay before. Well, good job, Jim Mark says, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I heard you about talking about TVs that won't turn

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Speaker 1: back on.

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Speaker 2: I've been there.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was on candid camera the first time

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Speaker 1: it happened. I've had a long history at Samsung, and

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Speaker 1: just recently I had to unplug my TV overnight and

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Speaker 1: hold the power button down for fifteen seconds to discharge it.

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Speaker 1: Believe it or not, that actually fixed the problem. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's see here, uh okay, Rick writes in here's a

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Speaker 1: creative way to stop robocalls. Put in your contacts a

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Speaker 1: friendly ring tones you know when it's someone you want

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Speaker 1: to answer for everyone else, Set a default RINGTNE. In

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Speaker 1: my case, the CSI Las Vegas theme. Who are you

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Speaker 1: so that when that rings you let it go to voicemail?

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Speaker 1: All right, Rick, that's a lot of work though, to

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Speaker 1: set up everyone as their own ring tone. Les rights in, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I heard your segment of Microsoft Office and I wanted

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Speaker 1: to share that I've had great success with the open

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Speaker 1: source Libra Office. It can open and save Microsoft Office

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Speaker 1: files with no problem. Always enjoy your show and newsletter.

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Speaker 1: Hope all is well, and Jan writes in to say

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Speaker 1: thank you. I love your show, which I listened to

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Speaker 1: on seven to ten wor in New York. Thank you

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Speaker 1: Jan for listening there, appreciate it. That's going to do

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Speaker 1: it for this episode of the show. You can find

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Speaker 1: links to everything I mentioned on my website. Just go

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Speaker 1: to rich on tech dot tv. I am on social media.

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Speaker 1: You can find me at rich on tech. Next week

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have the journalist on who created her own

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Speaker 1: AI assistant and the app that claims to be even

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Speaker 1: more secure than Signal. Thank you so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: There are so many ways you can spend your time.

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Speaker 1: I really do appreciate you spending it right here with me.

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Speaker 1: Just go to my website rich on tech dot tv,

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Speaker 1: week of all the things that I'm thinking about and

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Speaker 1: talking about and telling you about, it is all there

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Speaker 1: in the newsletter. One reminder before I go, please do

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Speaker 1: not text and drive. Do not drive distracted, not just

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Speaker 1: for your safety but for the safety of everyone around you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks everyone who makes the show possible. We've got yurrel

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Speaker 1: here today. Thank you filling in for Bobo. Bobo is

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Speaker 1: there supervising. We've got Kim on phones. My name is

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Speaker 1: rich Demiro. I will talk to you real soon.