WEBVTT - Self-Driving Cars & Dark Web Privacy Protection Tips 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:05.440 China orders Apple to remove WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and more 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.760 the hot new audio app. Lots of people are trying 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:14.200 out the wearable that turns your conversations into your own 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:19.919 personal chat GPT, Memory Bank plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.800 What's going on rich dmiro And this is Rich on Tech. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.239 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.560 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.560 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:36.640 that tech should be interesting, useful and fun. 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She's going to 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.720 share her tips and tricks for being more productive, but 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.480 also that well being aspect as well. Then we've got 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.800 Dan O'Dowd of the Dawn Project. He's going to explain 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.840 why Tesla's full self driving software isn't ready for the streets. 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:40.480 And Rosie Okamura, voice actor and content creator, is going 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.040 to talk about her viral videos where she prank calls 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.280 scam callers to waste their time. She'll offer tips on 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:53.320 how to stay safe from these people. So this week 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:58.360 I've been having the Tesla self driving software drive me around. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.480 And the reason for that, and the reason I'm talking 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.960 about this is because Tesla recently slashed the price of 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.800 its self driving software. So it used to be something 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.000 in the range of about ten to twelve thousand dollars 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.280 if you bought it out right, but if you wanted 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.000 to subscribe monthly, it'd be something like two hundred dollars. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.440 But now it is just one hundred dollars. 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.400 And I say just one hundred, I still think that's 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.200 too expensive, but I have been testing it out. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.680 It is a sort of hit or miss. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.720 It's good when it works, scary when it doesn't work, 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.280 and it does do some odd things. 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.440 Now just to give you some background. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.760 The first time I got into a self driving car 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.920 was in twenty twelve Tokyo, Japan. I remember this. I 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.160 was very scared because even though we were only doing 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.720 a small circular loop in this Nissan, it had a 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.000 whole bunch of computers in the backseat. We did have 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.480 a safety engineer in the driver's seat to take over 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.480 if something went wrong, but it was a very odd 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.920 feeling to give up control of that car for the 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:05.160 very first time. So there are five levels of autonomous driving. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:09.160 Let me explain. Level zero, no automation. The drivers in 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.079 full control of the vehicle at all times. That's pretty 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.639 much what ninety nine percent of the time most of 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.600 us are doing, right, we're driving the car. Level one 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.040 driver assistance. The vehicle can assist with some functions like 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.399 steering or accelerating, but you must remain in full control. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.639 Level two partial automation. The vehicle can control both steering 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.560 and accelerating and braking in certain situations, but you must 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:40.080 remain alert and ready to take control. Level three conditional automation. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.920 The vehicle can handle most driving tasks under certain conditions, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.920 but the driver must be ready to take control when requested. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.280 I would say maybe the Tesla is at level three 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:56.040 conditional automation. Then you've got level four, which is high automation, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.400 and level five full automation, so the vehicle can handle 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.680 all driving tasks without any human intervention. Level five there's 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.400 not even a steering wheel or brake pedals. And yes, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.320 there are some companies doing that right away or right now, 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.000 I should say, so where do we stand with Tesla? 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.080 So this is where it gets confusing because they call 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.400 it autopilot, and they also call it full self driving 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.039 at the highest level, and so people think that is 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.080 a level four high automation, the car can do whatever 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:27.800 it needs to do without human interaction. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.000 That is just not true. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.560 And having used this new full self driving supervised, which 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.680 they've added that word supervised to the self driving, it's 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.719 because people were getting too they were giving too much 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.920 trust to the Tesla, and that's how accidents happen. That's 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.800 how issues happen. So in the Tesla, let me just 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.080 give you my quick review. In the autopilot cruise control, 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.080 a lot of cars have. This is traffic aware cruise control, 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.840 which it just basically matches your vehicle speed to the 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.640 surrounding traffic. That's pretty simple. Auto steer. It can help 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.640 steer into different lanes or marked lanes using traffic aware 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.800 cruise control. So that means your car I always say, 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.599 this is kind of like the basics. You put on 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.119 cruise control, your car stays in the lane. It also 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.440 stays at a good speed from the car in front 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.880 of you. That's pretty basic. Many cars today have that. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.880 Then you've got enhanced autopilot. You can navigate, which means 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.119 the vehicle can go from on ramp to off ramps, 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.800 suggests lane changes, navigate interchanges, turns on the turn signals, 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.000 takes the correct exit. It will change lanes on the highway. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.520 It can auto park, which I feel like that is 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.400 a very good feature. If you don't like parking, that 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.280 might be worth the one hundred dollars. This I have 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.240 not really tried, but it moves the vehicle in and 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.520 out of tight spaces using the mobile app or the key. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:43.320 That's kind of weird. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.440 And then smart someone will find you in a parking 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.680 lot so you can know your car will come to you. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:50.880 I have not tried that yet. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.200 And then the full self driving includes autopilot and enhanced autopilot. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.240 It can auto steer on city streets. Yes, I've tried that. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.359 And it has the traffic stop sign control, so it 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.280 knows when the stop signs are there, it knows when 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:08.640 the traffic lights change. So it's pretty good at doing 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.000 these things. Is it perfect? 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:10.320 No? 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.760 Do you have to remain in control at all times 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.120 and very aware at all times? 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:15.599 Yes? 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.400 So I think that Tesla has done a really cool thing. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.520 But we have to be very careful in understanding that 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.040 this is not full autonomous driving. So it's a little 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.080 bit more stressful in certain aspects because you're either in 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.440 control of the car or you're not. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.320 In this case, you're in some sort of in between world. 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.080 Now, I figured i'd go over some of the other 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.599 companies because this is an inevitability. This is going to 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.560 happen on almost every car. Are you still going to 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.599 have the opportunity to drive your own car? Probably, But 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.279 every major car company is working on some sort of 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.000 level of autonomous driving. Ford has something called Blue Crews. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.919 This is hands free highway driving available on some of 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.400 their cars. Reduces stress, they say, allows you to connect 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.640 with passengers and enjoy the scenery. It works on most 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.840 highways in the US and some newer versions of this 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.880 software have lane changing and also repositioning, so that's Ford 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.440 Blue Cruise. Then you've got Chevy Super Cruise. This is 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.440 from GM. This is hands free driver assistance technology. It 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.920 uses GPS, cameras and maps to automatically steer on compatible roads. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.160 That's the key here. They have gone out and they 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.840 have somehow mapped these roads to make them compatible with 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:29.400 the supercrews. It works with adaptive cruise control, so it 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.080 works really nicely in stop and go traffic. It requires 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:37.520 your driver's attention and remaining alert, but you can take 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.640 your hands off the wheel. I have tested that it 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.320 works pretty well. I feel pretty confident about that one. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:48.240 Now Toyota, they've got their Ciana minivan. They've got Autano Moss, 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.560 which combines autonomous driving with mobility as a service. So 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.600 they're testing this out with the Ciana minivan and they're 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.880 thinking that this might be used in an application like 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.680 ride sharing. But that's what Toyota has right now. They 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.360 don't really have an autonomous as far as I can tell, 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:08.480 consumer facing product. Now, Honda, they have hands free highway 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.080 driving technology called Honda Sensing. They're going to introduce this 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.280 in the US by the end of the decade. This 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:18.120 will be available as an upgrade called Honda Sensing three sixty, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.200 which has automatic lane changes, and that will become standard 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:25.000 on all Honda vehicles by twenty thirty. It aims to 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.440 launch level four capable self driving cars by twenty twenty five. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:32.000 Remember level four high automation. That means it can do 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.400 a lot of tasks without human intervention, but it will 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:38.640 still have the driver's steering wheel and the control so 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.360 that'll be something inside the standard car. BMW says they've 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.440 been working on autonomous driving since nineteen nineties with the 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.720 goal of making self driving cars a reality. Right now, 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.400 they only have up to level two, but they do 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.520 have plans to introduce higher levels of automation in the future. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:02.679 Volkswagen testing first auton miss driving in Austin, Texas. This 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.200 will be starting This started last year ten all electric 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.200 ID buzz vehicles equipped with autonomous driving tech developed by 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.560 Volkswagen and Mobile Eye. Over the next three years, they're 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.920 going to test this in more cities, aiming for a 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:20.040 commercial launch of autonomous vehicles in Austin by twenty twenty six. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.880 Then you've got Nissan and I have tested this pro 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.840 Pilot Assist. This is a driver assistance program that combines 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.160 adaptive cruise control in lane centering to help you maintain 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.600 a set speed and keeping the vehicle in the lane. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.520 I actually tested this a couple of years ago and 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.000 driving back from Las Vegas. This must have been eight 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.319 years ago or something, a very early version of this, 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.440 and it was pretty incredible because it was the first 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.400 time that I tried the cruise control and the ability 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.200 to stay in the lane. So it pretty much was 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.560 you know, that's very simple now, like a lot of 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:52.160 cars do that. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.880 Then you've got Weaimo. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.080 Waimo has Weimo Driver and this can navigate roads, which 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.800 it's doing already in a couple cities including Los Angeles. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.880 And this relies on highly detailed maps, all kinds of 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.120 sensors including LDAR, cameras and radar, plus advanced software to 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.360 predict the behavior of other road drivers to make the 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.160 safest route. They've driven this on tens of millions of 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.600 public roads, billions of miles in simulation, and yes, that's 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.040 happening on La streets, just not on the freeway. Then 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.680 you've got Zeokes. This is Amazon's autonomous driving technology. I 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:32.760 saw this car at CS and this is fully a 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.680 car that was created from start to finish to have 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.079 no driver inside whatsoever. So when you get inside this car, 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.280 it's almost like a little box and it has no 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.960 steering wheel and no controls for drivers or passengers. So 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.760 it's being controlled by software. And the interesting thing here 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.280 is that you're using teleguidance, so someone can tap in 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.880 and remotely monitor this car. And if there's some sort 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.920 of odd situation where you need to human to interact 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.120 or I guess take over the driving of the car, 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:05.839 the human can do that. The other thing about the 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.160 zookes it can drive forward or backwards. The car is 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.240 built the same way on both sides so that it 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.200 can drive either direction. So again that's kind of forward thinking. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.280 This is happening. The autonomous cars are happening right now. Tesla, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.760 I think, is pretty much in the lead with the 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.960 what they're doing for the average consumer, but every major 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.760 car company has got their hands in this. All right, 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.920 coming up, I'm gonna tell you about China and why 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.000 they are banning certain social media apps and messaging apps. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:38.839 But first we'll take some of your calls. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.439 Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.640 four to two four one zero one. My name is 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.560 Rich Dmiro. You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.400 back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.800 with you talking technology. The phone line for the show 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.760 eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:58.679 seven four. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.640 To two for one zero one. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.080 So go to Steve in Los Angeles with a comment 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:04.800 about the self driving cars. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:05.760 Steve, you're on with Rich. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:11.200 Yeah, I work with veterans and a big problem is 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.360 they a lot of times they have to cancel their appointments, 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.680 their doctors appointment because they did they have transportation and 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.080 the ride services are very unreliable. And I was also 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.520 thinking of our seniors, you know, who tent drive any more. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:28.080 So if somehow these big companies are someone, could you know, 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.040 donate car because they're not gonna be able to afford 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.440 to buy a self driving car. But that's a big 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.400 problem with our veterans is getting transportation or not being 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.959 able to driving inhabit to cancel their appointments. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.480 Yeah, this is actually I didn't mention this in my 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:46.160 initial talking about these self driving cars. There's another aspect 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.400 and that's a way moo, and this is accessibility and 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.319 Waimo is a huge proponent of this. Uh, people with disabilities, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:58.600 limited site, limited movement. Uh, there are these cars will 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.320 be a huge, huge win for that. 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:03.240 Well they don't. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.560 They won't need to because with something like way Mow, 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.880 they'll be able to just to just hail it, so 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:09.000 you'll be able to just get. 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:09.600 It to pick you up. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.360 And so now Uber and some of these companies they 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.280 do have like an accessibility where you can hail like 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.440 an accessibility version of that car where you may have 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.000 assistance you have a wheelchair or something like that. But 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.600 I think the next level of especially for someone who 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:28.120 has a vision issue or hearing issue or any sort 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.600 of limited mobility, these things could really be a huge win. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.840 Yeah, because I had one. I had one veteran who 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.280 the Uber that came for him couldn't accommodate like his 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.520 his device or whatever the thing is the only other 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.600 thing I was saying because I thought like if I 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.280 won the lottery or whatever, man I start my own 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.439 right service to give veterans right. And then I thought, well, 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.640 the reason why that probably has been done is because 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.880 all these billboards you see around will fight for you 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.679 have you been injured. It's like this is why your 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.200 insurance rates is so high, so they'd probably be you know, 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.240 litigated out of business. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.360 Yeah, it's definitely an issue. And I think that obviously 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:05.920 we need to take care of our elderly, We need 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:07.840 to take care of our veterans who you know, have 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.400 fought for this country. So I think that's a big 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.640 area of it. And I think that it's just something 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.600 that technology will continue to improve people who are you know, 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.080 in these positions that you know, it's just a little 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.240 bit different than than everyone else out there. So Steve, 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.640 thanks for the comment. Appreciate that. Good good point. There, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.640 really good point. Let's go to Rick in Manhattan Beach. Rick, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:31.320 you're on with Rich. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.800 I have an old iPhone shuffle and I usually go 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.480 on iTunes or I used to go on iTunes download music, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.640 but now I can do that. So is there an 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.640 half or anything that I can use to downlo music 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.920 because the shuffle I used and used for swimming at 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.280 the waterproof. I linked the shuffle about four or five 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:52.800 years old. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.640 So four years old, yeah, kind of. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.440 I was going to say it may be older than is. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.080 Someone was telling me that the iPod shuffle it was 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.560 like a secret that it's like it's water resistant or something. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:06.480 Is that true? 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.040 Yeah, I got some company. I bought it online. I 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.760 guess they buy them in a retrofit them to make 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.360 them water resistant. So yeah, it's great for swimming, for 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.360 doing labs. So any suggestions at all. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.920 The program I know is called Walter Pro, and I'm 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.680 sure there's other ways of doing this, but the one 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.600 that I know that's pretty easy for drag and drop 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.440 is Walter w A l t R pro And I'm 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:37.320 looking at the kr Wa LTR pro and it says 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:42.280 it supports iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch all generations, iPod Classic, Nano, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.160 and Shuffle all generations. 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.440 And so this is a paid app. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.160 But as far as I remember using this app, you 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:53.440 literally just drag and drop the files onto the app 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.760 once you connect your device, and it puts them into 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.080 the right place on that app. So it's been a 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:00.880 bit since I used it, but it looks like it's 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.640 still up to date. It's uh thirty five bucks for 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.720 the year. So and I like this company, and I'm 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.160 looking for like an alternative to that. There's probably some 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.840 sort of open source device that can do or software 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.280 that can do this as well. But when you connect 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:17.920 it to iTunes, it's not supported anymore. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:18.520 Is that the deal? 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.240 No, No, it's not interesting. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.240 Okay, well I would plug it in, you know, with 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:24.880 the actually the cord. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:26.240 Yeah. And the other thing. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.000 The other question people always have is they're wondering, how 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.360 do I get the music off my iPod? Because Apple 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.440 kind of made them a one way street. And I 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:35.960 guess that was for a reason back in the day, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.160 but it was much more like loading stuff onto them. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.000 And I feel like the sinc never really worked that 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.880 well with these things. It went there and then like 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.280 people were just very confused about it. But check out 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.080 walter Wa lt R Pro and I'll look in the 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.560 commercial and see if there's any if there's any sort 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.160 of like open source alternative to that program that may 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:54.680 be free. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.280 But I think that's your best bet for right now. 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:58.440 And try it. You could try it out. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.480 You can download it to try it, see if it works, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.560 and then if it does, you know, maybe pay the 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:03.680 thirty five bucks to do it. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.840 Okay, thank you very much, all right, Rick, appreciate it. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.880 Uh eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.040 seven four to two four one zero one might have 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:18.800 heard this. Uh China ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp Threads 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.800 and other messaging apps, including Signal and Telegram, from the 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.720 app store in China. Apple said it's doing what it's 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.800 told it was due to national security concerns. They didn't 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.960 give many other details, but China is concerned that the 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.720 apps could be used to spread negative content and called 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:37.680 and cause social unrest. 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:38.440 HM. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.680 Now, where have we heard this? TikTok uh? 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:41.960 Oh? 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.600 So this is going to be interesting and China, I 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.560 don't think there was much thought. They were probably just like, 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.640 let's just do this. They didn't ask anyone, They didn't 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.920 ask you know, they didn't take a vote. So will 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.480 this impact TikTok here in the US? Time will tell 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.120 eighty to eight Rich one O one eight eight eight 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.159 seven four to two four ones. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.679 Year a one. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.359 Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.080 out with you, talking technology. Joining me now, Laura May Martin, 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.639 executive productivity advisor at Google and author of a new 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:19.680 book called Uptime, A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:21.720 Laura, thanks so much for joining me today. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.360 Thanks so much for having me so your. 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.720 Book really speaks to me because I'm always trying to 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.720 be more productive. And I think this is kind of 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.359 new to the mix, this idea of well being, something 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.600 that might not have been in the conversation until maybe 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:36.440 a couple of years ago. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.199 Yeah, I think that some people think of productivity and 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.800 well being as being two opposite sides, and so they're competing. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.159 But the book really talks about that not only is 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.480 it important to prioritize well being, but it makes you 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.760 more productive, and so how to integrate it into your 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:50.840 overall workflow. 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.400 So what's sort of a simple yet maybe effective routine 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.400 change that people can make to boost their productivity. 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.639 So one routine change I talk about is just getting 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:02.760 control of your mornings. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.880 So mornings are that way of setting up your day. 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:06.880 So even if you can only take five or ten 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.800 minutes before your first commitment and wake up and do 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.639 something that fills your own energy tank, whether that's meditating, journaling, 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.680 just sitting in silence, drinking coffee, whatever it is, that's 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.639 one small thing, just a few minutes that carries you 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.439 into the rest of your day and gives you that 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.600 big energy boost before you start handing out energy everywhere else. 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.199 I don't typically do that on the weekdays, but on 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.560 the weekends. I really relish being up before everyone else 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.080 and having that first cup of coffee when everything is 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.520 just silent, and I really do enjoy that. Okay, So 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:41.680 email is one of my biggest work areas. I'm always 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.919 just overloaded with so many messages, which I love because 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:48.000 that's a good thing, but it's also really tough to 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:49.800 get through all of those. So what's your top tip 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.439 for sorting and prioritizing messages? So? 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.480 I think you want to first clear out anything you 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.560 don't need to see. So sometimes people say, I have 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:59.719 tens of thousands of emails in my inbox, but most 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.440 of them I don't need to open. So the first 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:04.200 tip is just maybe searching the word unsubscribe and getting 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.119 rid of things that you don't need to see. In Gmail, 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:07.680 you can just do it right within the email and 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:08.680 subscribe from list. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:10.120 Secondly, you want. 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:11.639 To pop out things you do need to see, So 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.360 emails from your manager directly to you should look important, 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.200 and you can do that by setting up filters in 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.080 Gmail and attaching a red label when those emails come in. 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.240 So now you're visually prioritizing. And then the third step 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.320 is thinking about how to sort your email. The same 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.680 way you do your laundry. So you empty your inbox 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.520 like your dryer. You put things into piles based on 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:32.840 what future you needs to do with those next, whether 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.360 it's read, review, respond, and then you go through those 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:37.399 piles all at once. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.119 Okay, I just heard you say to put a red label. 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:45.000 So can you have different color labels in email? 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:45.600 You can? 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.040 So once you create a label, you can attach it 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:49.800 with a filter. So in this case, it would be 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.919 from my manager to me, always apply this label. And 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.240 then on the left side in Gmail, when you're hovered 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.880 over a label name, you'll see three dots, and when 0:20:57.920 --> 0:20:59.840 you click on those three dots, you're able to change 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:01.920 the label color based on how you want to feel 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:03.080 when it comes to here in box. 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:07.640 Wow, I love it. I just learned something so very good. 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.120 This entire interview is worth it. So many people feel 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.000 guilty taking down time, and there was a point in 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.240 my life when I felt really guilty doing this as well. 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:20.600 But how can scheduling breaks actually make us feel more productive? 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.199 So not only does downtime help to prevent burnout and 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.240 give you that chance to decompress and process everything that 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.480 you've heard and thought about all day, but Actually, research 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.639 shows that you're most creative during downtime. So those times 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.320 in your workout, your commute, on a walk, those are 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:38.800 times when you're actually coming up with your best ideas. 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:40.680 It's not in another meeting for the day. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:43.800 And so if you really think about scheduling, downtime is 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:47.680 making you more creative, long term, holistic when it comes 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:51.000 to productivity, it's easier to make sure you're prioritizing that 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:53.000 as something you need to do to be productive. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:53.960 I agree. 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:56.800 I always get my best ideas when I'm literally not 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.439 thinking about what I should be thinking about. And that's 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:01.240 why I take a look a lot of notes and 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:03.560 then send them to my email and when I get back, I'm. 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.160 Like, oh, yeah, that was a good frout perfect. 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:07.119 Smartphones. 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.600 We love them, we hate them, where everything in between. 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:14.040 They are such a big part of our lives, but 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:18.560 they are really addictive. They make us engage at times 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:21.720 maybe we don't want to, but we also need them. 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:24.160 So what's sort of a practical first step we can 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.399 take to develop a healthier relationship with this thing that 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:28.520 is always with us? 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:31.560 Right, And like you said, technology is so helpful. It 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:33.879 connects us in so many ways and it's really just 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:36.600 about finding the right way to make technology work for 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:38.439 you instead of against you. So that could be as 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:40.919 simple as what I do is create a schedule on 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:43.159 my phone for my social media apps and things I 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:45.800 don't want to open during the workday. I have times 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:48.200 when I'm locked out of them until the evening when 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:51.280 I've decided. I also have a bedtime for my phone 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.639 and a bedroom for my phone, and it's outside of 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:55.879 my bedroom, so the alarm goes off, I put my 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:57.919 phone to bed on the charger, and then I have 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:00.560 some time away from screens before going to bed, and 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:02.159 when I wake up in the morning, I do at 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:04.600 least one thing before touching my phone. And so I 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:07.600 think just having those small habits just help us make 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:10.000 sure that we're not getting distracted by technology, but that 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:11.600 it's working for us in the right ways. 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:13.840 I love the idea of putting the phone to bed, 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:17.200 like rocking it to sleep, maybe reading it or reading 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:18.400 in a story. 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:19.399 Singing in a little song. 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:20.840 I love. 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:23.439 So, what are some of the common signs that we 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:27.160 have become too attached to our phone? Is it that 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:30.639 kind of last scroll before closing your eyes to sleep? 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:31.880 Is that like the dead giveaway. 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:34.440 I like to say, think of your phone or any 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:36.680 work in your home or device, kind of like in laws. 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:38.600 You want to create the same type of boundaries you 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:40.359 would have if they lived with you, So you would 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:42.520 not invite them into your room first thing in the morning, 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:44.560 you would not sit with them until the minute you 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:46.520 go to bed, and so same thing that you would 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:48.439 do with your phone. You want to say, you know, 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:50.560 I'm having that healthy tie away from it, or I 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:52.840 find myself checking my phone when I don't plan on. 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:53.720 Doing anything about it. 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:55.440 I think that's one of the biggest things, when it's 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.119 you know, I'm not actively working, I'm not responding to 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:00.440 emails right now, I'm just kind of checking to and. 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.120 So just giving yourself maybe one evening a week. 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:05.880 I do a challenge at Google called no Tech Tuesday Night, 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:08.920 and it's just for six weeks, one evening just saying 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:12.000 from dinner to the following morning, try and plugging from 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:14.520 your device or putting it in another room and checking it, 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:17.640 you know, occasionally if you have urgent things, but in general, 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:21.480 finding ways to do hobbies or you know, play a 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:24.040 board game or be really present, or just taking one 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:26.199 night to see how that feels and how it affects 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:28.320 your sleep and the following morning being more. 0:24:28.160 --> 0:24:30.200 Productive the next day is actually one of the top 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:31.000 feedback from. 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:32.200 That great advice. 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:36.359 Okay, saying no to people and requests and just everything 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:37.520 is really really tough. 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:40.920 How can we say no in a nice way? 0:24:41.240 --> 0:24:41.400 Yeah? 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:43.720 I think some people say no is a complete sentence, 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:45.960 but for me that always felt uncomfortable. And you want 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:49.600 to maintain that social capital and friendliness and you know, approachability, 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.040 and so finding ways that say no but in a 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:56.159 way that feels approachable, and so saying no because you know, 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:59.120 giving people true insight into what you're prioritizing, what you're 0:24:59.160 --> 0:25:01.679 working on and why you can't attend, or saying no 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:03.720 but you know, I can't speak at your event, but 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:06.120 here's a ton of resources from past events I've done 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:08.560 or other speakers you might want to consider or not 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:11.320 right now, that's not something I can prioritize currently, but 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:13.199 please reach back out in a few months and my 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:15.600 priorities may have changed. And so all of those are 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:17.880 still ways of saying no, but they help you and 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:20.280 the person who's requesting feel a little better about it. 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:23.240 We're hearing a lot more about work life balance. This 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:25.760 probably goes to the well being section of your book. 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:29.240 But what's a boundary that someone can set with their 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:33.760 employer or maybe the people they work with that you recommend. 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:37.200 Yeah, So whenever you're setting a boundary, I always recommend 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:39.359 talking about what you do do instead of what you 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:41.400 don't do. So let's say that you're trying to leave 0:25:41.440 --> 0:25:43.919 every day at five pm to spend time with your 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:47.000 children and you know, be present at dinner and maybe 0:25:47.000 --> 0:25:49.320 you'll check back on later. But instead of saying I 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:52.240 don't take meetings after five, you can say I take 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:54.800 meetings between eight and five, and then I'm available after 0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:57.040 eight pm for anything urgent. So now you're showing them 0:25:57.040 --> 0:25:59.840 what you will do and giving them that full picture 0:25:59.880 --> 0:26:02.359 of when you're available, versus trying to tell them everything 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:04.240 you won't do. So that's a good way of saying, 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:05.879 you know, this is a boundary that I have and 0:26:05.920 --> 0:26:06.760 here's how to reach me. 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:09.680 Now. For some it may seem like a long time. 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:11.720 Ago, but a lot of people are still adjusting to 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:16.119 that work work from home, that hybrid kind of atmosphere. 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:20.360 So what can home based workers do to optimize their productivity? 0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:21.480 So, first you. 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:23.800 Want to ask yourself, are you what I call a homebaser, 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:26.440 which means you focus better at home, or an outfielder, 0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:29.000 which means you focus better out And so based on 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:31.480 your answer to that, you can start to structure your schedule. 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:34.480 It's really just about knowing yourself and setting up your environments. 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:36.639 The other cool thing you can do is by picking 0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:39.560 what I call hot spots. So instead of having everything 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:41.760 be done at your desk, if you were working from home, 0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:46.400 you can say, I always code at my desk, I always. 0:26:46.040 --> 0:26:49.600 Answer emails outside on my porch. I always make phone 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:50.639 calls on a walk. 0:26:50.680 --> 0:26:52.640 And so what that does is it helps your brain 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:55.879 associate those spots with those types of activities, and then 0:26:55.920 --> 0:26:58.080 it's easier for you to slip into that mood. When 0:26:58.119 --> 0:27:00.679 you go on the porch, you're already thinking email, and 0:27:00.720 --> 0:27:03.240 so that helps with working from home but still having 0:27:03.280 --> 0:27:05.200 different places for different things. 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:08.560 Laura may Martin, executive productivity advisor at Google. 0:27:08.600 --> 0:27:09.919 Thanks so much for joining me today. 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:10.879 Thanks for having me. 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:12.199 This is great, all right. 0:27:12.240 --> 0:27:16.919 The book is called Uptime, A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity. 0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:16.920 And well Being. 0:27:16.960 --> 0:27:19.479 You can find it anywhere you buy books. I'll put 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:21.800 it on the website as well rich on Tech dot 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:23.880 TV more rich on Tech coming your. 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:25.000 Way right after this. 0:27:25.520 --> 0:27:28.959 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking 0:27:29.040 --> 0:27:33.280 technology at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight 0:27:33.320 --> 0:27:36.679 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:39.080 If you have a question about technology, give me a call. 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:44.879 Website is rich on Tech dot TV. Once you're there, 0:27:45.080 --> 0:27:48.680 you can hit contact to send me an email, and 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:51.800 you can also sign up for my newsletter. Let's go 0:27:51.880 --> 0:27:55.280 to Angie in Los Angeles. Angie, you're on with Rich. 0:27:56.960 --> 0:28:00.399 Hi. I just recently found out that my life top 0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:05.200 has what seems to be maybe of root kit or 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:08.640 like a kernel route type of malware loaded on it. 0:28:09.480 --> 0:28:12.080 And I've been trying to I've done like a regular 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:17.000 reset that didn't work. I've been trying to, you know, 0:28:17.240 --> 0:28:21.520 find where it is, and it does come. Something comes 0:28:21.600 --> 0:28:23.720 up on my control panel and I'm able to delete 0:28:23.800 --> 0:28:25.960 drivers related to it. But then as soon as I 0:28:26.040 --> 0:28:27.920 turn it back on, you know, turn it off, turn on, 0:28:28.000 --> 0:28:33.240 it reinstalled. There definitely seems to be something embedded and uh, 0:28:33.440 --> 0:28:41.320 you know, even the the of the Yeah, So I 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:43.840 was wondering if you had any good resources for someone 0:28:43.880 --> 0:28:48.240 I'm thinking I need to clean reinstall of the Windows 0:28:48.280 --> 0:28:51.800 program and then just to you know, somebody to find 0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:54.640 where this is, this root kit is and and get 0:28:54.760 --> 0:29:00.840 rid of it. But my local uh best I doesn't 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:05.840 have the same resources they used to do. Everybody's pearing 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:08.840 down their resources, and I need I'm in need of 0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:13.280 a good resource to do a reinstall and then just 0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:15.479 to wipe it clean. I mean, just what do they 0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:17.120 call that new cupa. 0:29:16.920 --> 0:29:19.920 A clean install? What? What version of Windows are you using? 0:29:21.080 --> 0:29:21.320 Ten? 0:29:21.720 --> 0:29:24.120 Okay, you can do a clean install yourself. Have you 0:29:24.160 --> 0:29:24.600 tried it? 0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:28.320 No? I have not. That's probably why I'm a little 0:29:28.600 --> 0:29:31.960 nervous at doing it myself, but also getting rid of 0:29:32.000 --> 0:29:35.440 the malware that seems to be embedded that was That's 0:29:35.440 --> 0:29:38.320 probably the biggest concern of mine is you know, even 0:29:38.320 --> 0:29:40.120 if I do the reinstall, if I don't get rid 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:43.680 of the malware, then I'm still back at square one again. 0:29:43.960 --> 0:29:47.920 So, well, did you did you try to remove this 0:29:48.000 --> 0:29:50.880 with a program like malware bytes or Windows Defender? 0:29:53.720 --> 0:29:57.440 You know, I'm in the process of doing that. I 0:29:57.480 --> 0:29:59.840 was trying to think of a way without connecting to 0:30:00.080 --> 0:30:02.360 my network of you know, because this is obviously an 0:30:02.400 --> 0:30:04.440 affected laptop. So I don't want to connect to my 0:30:04.560 --> 0:30:10.160 network and I need and load it there without any type. 0:30:09.920 --> 0:30:12.280 Of uh yeah, the internet. 0:30:13.240 --> 0:30:15.400 Yeah, well it's kind of like you catch twenty two 0:30:15.440 --> 0:30:15.880 and that's. 0:30:16.120 --> 0:30:17.080 I hear you, I hear you. 0:30:17.440 --> 0:30:17.680 Yeah. 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:19.240 Well, look, I mean, if you want to get a 0:30:19.240 --> 0:30:21.840 professional to do this, it's it's a quite simple job. 0:30:21.920 --> 0:30:25.520 So my kid actually got a virus on his laptop 0:30:25.800 --> 0:30:27.800 a couple of months ago, and you're right. I did 0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:30.280 disconnect it from the network and I I did a 0:30:30.280 --> 0:30:32.320 clean install of Windows and it did remove it and 0:30:32.360 --> 0:30:36.280 it's fine. But it wasn't the toughest process. And this 0:30:36.360 --> 0:30:38.560 is why a backup is so important because when these 0:30:38.560 --> 0:30:41.520 things happen, if you have a backup, you just clean install, 0:30:41.600 --> 0:30:43.600 wipe the system, and you're you're up and running again. 0:30:43.840 --> 0:30:45.880 But if you want a professional to do it, there's 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:47.600 a place called you Break I Fix. 0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:48.280 Have you heard of that? 0:30:49.960 --> 0:30:52.080 Oh yeah, yeah, I mean there's quite a few of 0:30:52.080 --> 0:30:52.320 them there. 0:30:52.400 --> 0:30:56.160 Yeah, they're they're a little chain, so they will do it. Obviously, 0:30:56.200 --> 0:30:58.760 the best buys. I'm surprised they don't have the ability 0:30:58.800 --> 0:31:01.560 to do that. But you can also just look on 0:31:01.680 --> 0:31:05.000 Yelp for a you know local like you know computer 0:31:05.280 --> 0:31:08.120 repair clinic or repair shop and they will be able 0:31:08.200 --> 0:31:09.680 to do it. Like if you want to go more local, 0:31:09.840 --> 0:31:12.800 right like a locally owned place, you can just search 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:16.280 some computer repair and Yelp and find. What I typically 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:20.200 recommend is just call the first two locations that are 0:31:20.200 --> 0:31:22.560 near you that are highly rated and just see which 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:24.400 one you get a better feel for. You know, because 0:31:24.440 --> 0:31:27.560 some people are really nice and some people are very short, 0:31:27.720 --> 0:31:29.360 and so you probably don't want to go with the 0:31:29.360 --> 0:31:32.160 person that's short because if they're short with you when 0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:34.880 you haven't paid them yet, imagine once you've paid them. 0:31:35.200 --> 0:31:39.000 So that's why I always call the local business to 0:31:39.080 --> 0:31:41.040 kind of see what they're what their deal is. 0:31:42.600 --> 0:31:45.640 And this is not my line of work, so I'm 0:31:45.720 --> 0:31:49.360 kind of wondering. So when you get your reinstall of Windows, 0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:52.320 how did you get rid of the virus without using 0:31:52.360 --> 0:31:56.440 your network to load something into get rid of the virus? 0:31:56.800 --> 0:32:00.800 Well, I just went into the Windows cleaning. Windows has 0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:05.040 a way to clean install from Windows. So if you 0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:09.440 go into your Windows settings, there is a way to 0:32:09.600 --> 0:32:12.440 reset if you search, like I think they used to 0:32:12.480 --> 0:32:15.320 call it refresh, but now they call it reset. So 0:32:15.400 --> 0:32:17.160 if you do that or just type in you know, 0:32:17.960 --> 0:32:21.920 into their search functionality reset Windows. There's like a bunch 0:32:21.920 --> 0:32:25.040 of different options, but it has them all kind of 0:32:25.040 --> 0:32:27.640 built into the system, or it should be. And as 0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:29.640 long as now, if this thing has gotten into like 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:32.480 the bios of your computer, that might be different. But 0:32:32.520 --> 0:32:36.440 I would say typically ninety percent of issues with viruses 0:32:36.800 --> 0:32:38.880 or you know, at the software level, and so I 0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:40.600 think you're probably going to get rid of it upon 0:32:40.640 --> 0:32:43.720 the first clean install, but I would try that first, 0:32:43.920 --> 0:32:45.360 Just open it up and do that. 0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:49.160 I did the reset a couple of times and it 0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:53.080 just was right back to where I started, and I 0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:58.120 need it the whole thing twice, and so it seems 0:32:58.120 --> 0:33:02.320 to be really embedded, you know, deep in like maybe 0:33:02.400 --> 0:33:05.160 the firmware or something. I'm not really sure, but it's 0:33:05.200 --> 0:33:08.560 not white being clean with just a reset alone. 0:33:08.680 --> 0:33:11.560 If it is a root kit kind of thing, then yeah, 0:33:11.600 --> 0:33:14.000 you definitely you should probably get someone that helps. But 0:33:14.080 --> 0:33:15.680 I would go to you Break I Fixed. They definitely 0:33:15.720 --> 0:33:18.160 handle this kind of stuff. Again, if you want the 0:33:18.200 --> 0:33:20.760 local person, you know, go with the local. But most 0:33:20.760 --> 0:33:24.080 people I hear back from with the U Break experience, 0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:26.480 they kind of like it. And it's a national chain, 0:33:26.600 --> 0:33:28.640 so there's always that backing of like a big company. 0:33:28.680 --> 0:33:30.440 If you want, you know, if you need help or something. 0:33:30.880 --> 0:33:33.800 But good luck, Angie, and keep me posted. Email me 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:35.880 on the website let me know an update so that 0:33:35.920 --> 0:33:39.400 I can share. Okay, thank you, all right, thanks a lot, 0:33:39.520 --> 0:33:41.320 thanks for the call. Eighty to eight rich one on 0:33:41.440 --> 0:33:44.520 one eight eight eight seven four to two four. 0:33:44.480 --> 0:33:45.560 One zero one. 0:33:46.800 --> 0:33:50.840 Global smartphone market is actually growing again. So we've been 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:53.960 talking about how smartphone sales were down for a while. 0:33:54.200 --> 0:33:57.200 Now they're back up seven point eight percent growth. In 0:33:57.240 --> 0:34:02.320 the first quarter of twenty twenty four, Samsung also overtook 0:34:02.360 --> 0:34:05.840 Apple once again as the top smartphone maker. Now, before 0:34:05.880 --> 0:34:08.840 you get too excited, let me explain what happened. So 0:34:09.000 --> 0:34:12.279 last year, at the end of the year, Apple overtook Samsung. 0:34:12.760 --> 0:34:15.560 Now the first quarter this year, Samsung overtook Apple. But 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:19.520 here's the thing. Apple releases their new phones in the 0:34:19.520 --> 0:34:22.640 fourth quarter of the year and Samsung releases their new 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:25.160 phones in the first quarter of the year. So is 0:34:25.200 --> 0:34:28.360 this really just people buying new phones from these makers 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:30.600 and some people like Apple, some people like Samsung. 0:34:31.000 --> 0:34:31.600 Probably. 0:34:32.080 --> 0:34:35.960 This is all according to IDC, And in the first 0:34:36.040 --> 0:34:40.439 quarter of twenty twenty four, Samsung shipped sixty million smartphones. 0:34:40.680 --> 0:34:44.480 Sixty million smartphones, that's a twenty percent market share. We're 0:34:44.480 --> 0:34:48.880 talking worldwide here. Apple experienced a nine point six percent 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:53.200 year over year decline shipping fifty million smartphones and that 0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:57.279 is a seventeen percent market share. The other brands that 0:34:57.320 --> 0:35:02.240 are in here is Shaomi. They are big in China, 0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:05.440 they're coming back very strong. And then there's this company 0:35:05.480 --> 0:35:10.160 called Transient. This is a company in South Africa and 0:35:10.200 --> 0:35:14.280 they are very popular in that market. The main takeaway 0:35:14.320 --> 0:35:18.600 from this is that consumers want more expensive devices these days. 0:35:18.640 --> 0:35:21.600 They want that premium device, but they know that they're 0:35:21.640 --> 0:35:23.520 going to hold on to it for a longer amount 0:35:23.520 --> 0:35:25.759 of time. So we've talked about the fact that people 0:35:25.800 --> 0:35:29.440 are keeping their phones for three plus years. That seems 0:35:29.440 --> 0:35:32.040 to be the big trend, and it makes sense. If 0:35:32.040 --> 0:35:33.560 you're spending a lot of money on a phone and 0:35:33.600 --> 0:35:35.880 you're dividing up those payments by three years, which a 0:35:35.920 --> 0:35:38.719 lot of people are doing, then why would you not 0:35:38.760 --> 0:35:39.840 want to keep that phone. 0:35:39.640 --> 0:35:41.080 For as long as humanly possible? 0:35:43.320 --> 0:35:46.360 And air Chat this is an app that is taking 0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:49.960 not so much the world by storm, but so far 0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:53.800 the tech folks Silicon Valley folks really like this app 0:35:53.840 --> 0:35:56.920 called air Chat. It's kind of like Twitter, but with 0:35:57.160 --> 0:35:59.759 audio posts. So I did download it. I did test 0:35:59.800 --> 0:36:03.399 it at you record your voice, it posts your voice as 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:05.719 a little sort of I guess a tweet for not 0:36:05.800 --> 0:36:09.080 a better word. But it also transcribes what you say, 0:36:09.160 --> 0:36:12.359 so people can scroll through read what you said, but 0:36:12.400 --> 0:36:15.280 also listen to your voice. I liken it to leaving 0:36:15.320 --> 0:36:18.680 a voicemail for the world, So it uses AI to 0:36:18.760 --> 0:36:23.000 generate those transcriptions and it's kind of fun. It's different. 0:36:23.120 --> 0:36:24.600 I don't know if it's going to catch on, but 0:36:24.760 --> 0:36:27.920 it's it's certainly a new take on social media. Like 0:36:27.960 --> 0:36:29.879 I said, if you want to check me out rich 0:36:29.920 --> 0:36:31.240 on Tech on air Chat. 0:36:32.239 --> 0:36:33.840 That is the new app. 0:36:34.560 --> 0:36:36.360 By the way, the guy who started this app, I 0:36:36.520 --> 0:36:38.440 lunched with him. I looked at my email like almost 0:36:38.440 --> 0:36:39.520 like fifteen years ago. 0:36:39.560 --> 0:36:41.960 I think he was doing stuff back then. 0:36:42.080 --> 0:36:44.600 Hey, it only takes one hit, right, and now apparently 0:36:44.640 --> 0:36:47.200 he's got a hit. Ay to eight Rich one one 0:36:47.320 --> 0:36:50.560 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:53.480 You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:36:53.800 --> 0:36:57.040 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology with you 0:36:57.239 --> 0:37:01.520 at Triple A. Rich one oh one eight seven four 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:05.680 to two four one zero one the website for the 0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:09.799 show rich on tech dot TV. Once you're there, you 0:37:09.840 --> 0:37:12.640 can see all of the stories that I do for television. 0:37:13.160 --> 0:37:15.600 You can read the newsletter, you can sign up for 0:37:15.640 --> 0:37:16.280 the newsletter. 0:37:17.239 --> 0:37:18.960 What else. Oh, you can also see show notes. 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:20.880 So if you want to see in real time what 0:37:21.000 --> 0:37:23.680 I mentioned on the show, just hit the light bulb 0:37:23.920 --> 0:37:26.239 up the top of the website. And if you want 0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:28.640 to listen to this show as a podcast later on, 0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:31.759 you can also do that through the website. Just subscribe 0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:35.160 on your favorite audio app. Thanks for being here, Thanks 0:37:35.239 --> 0:37:38.080 for listening. Do appreciate it. We got a lot on 0:37:38.120 --> 0:37:40.160 the show. This hour, I'm going to talk about a 0:37:40.239 --> 0:37:44.960 new wearable pendant that will record pretty much all of 0:37:45.000 --> 0:37:47.880 your life in audio, and then you can search it 0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:53.360 sort of chat gp GPT style. Netflix as growing members 0:37:53.400 --> 0:37:55.440 once again, Well they're not growing them. It's not like 0:37:55.480 --> 0:37:57.200 they have a lab with or growing people. But you 0:37:57.239 --> 0:37:59.520 know what I mean, They're growing memberships, like more people 0:37:59.560 --> 0:38:03.000 are signed up. Sounds like a Netflix show to grow 0:38:03.040 --> 0:38:06.759 members But I will tell you, I will tell you 0:38:06.840 --> 0:38:10.000 what they are doing to sort of make more people 0:38:10.120 --> 0:38:14.120 pay and then coming up. Later this hour, we have 0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:17.680 a guest, Dan O'Dowd of the Dawn Project. He will 0:38:17.719 --> 0:38:21.640 explain why Tesla's full self driving software is not ready 0:38:21.719 --> 0:38:25.040 for the streets. Eighty eight Rich one one eight eight 0:38:25.120 --> 0:38:29.439 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Let's 0:38:29.480 --> 0:38:33.359 go to Adam in Orlando, Florida. Adam, you're on with Rich. 0:38:34.360 --> 0:38:34.520 Hi. 0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:34.839 Rich. 0:38:35.360 --> 0:38:40.160 I'm calling because I was checking my Gmail and I 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:44.000 decided to play around with the settings, and I looked 0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:47.919 in the privacy section and I noticed something I'd never 0:38:48.000 --> 0:38:51.920 noticed before having my Gmail email address for a long time, 0:38:52.000 --> 0:38:55.640 which is that it gives you the option to search 0:38:56.040 --> 0:38:59.239 your I think email address in the dark web to 0:38:59.360 --> 0:39:02.800 find anywhere results, and then it tells you if there 0:39:02.840 --> 0:39:08.279 are results, it can charge you to find out what 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:14.360 those results are and maybe clean it up. I think so. 0:39:14.360 --> 0:39:17.520 So I'm calling to find out if if you know 0:39:17.600 --> 0:39:21.240 about that, or if there is a maybe another system 0:39:21.520 --> 0:39:26.680 or another service that provides something like that, because I 0:39:26.680 --> 0:39:29.960 do have a DOTU email address. So I'm just wondering 0:39:29.960 --> 0:39:35.280 if you know what's a good efficient way to help 0:39:36.880 --> 0:39:41.440 clear your clear anything you may have hackers may have 0:39:41.600 --> 0:39:42.319 on you on. 0:39:42.239 --> 0:39:42.879 The dark web. 0:39:43.080 --> 0:39:46.440 Okay, well, great, question, And yes, I use the Google 0:39:47.200 --> 0:39:49.719 Dark Web monitoring for sure. I get alerts when my 0:39:49.760 --> 0:39:53.279 stuff shows up, which it often does. But here's the 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:55.880 number one thing. You cannot get this information off the 0:39:55.960 --> 0:39:58.520 dark web. No matter who promises that to you, they 0:39:58.560 --> 0:40:02.600 can't do that. The dark web is not a database 0:40:02.640 --> 0:40:04.960 that someone maintains that you can say, hey, can you 0:40:04.960 --> 0:40:09.040 pull my information off of here, and some hacker somewhere says, oh, sure, 0:40:09.160 --> 0:40:10.920 let me kindly do that. No, that's not the way 0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:14.319 it works. So number one, once your information is out there, 0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:16.879 it is out there forever. There is no getting it back. 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:19.839 So that's very important to know because people will spend 0:40:19.840 --> 0:40:22.000 a lot of money trying to clear up these results. 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:24.680 Now what Google does. There's two things. 0:40:24.760 --> 0:40:29.160 Number one, Adam, do you pay for Google storage or no? 0:40:29.160 --> 0:40:29.440 No? 0:40:29.440 --> 0:40:31.360 No, I just have the regular basic account. 0:40:31.480 --> 0:40:33.839 Okay, so I pay for the Google storage, So I 0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:37.840 actually can so Google any Google member. Like, if you 0:40:37.840 --> 0:40:41.880 have a Google account, you can search for your information 0:40:42.160 --> 0:40:44.560 one time, which is what you stumbled upon, right, So 0:40:44.600 --> 0:40:46.480 that if you want to find that, you can go 0:40:46.520 --> 0:40:50.160 to one dot Google dot com and there's a section 0:40:50.239 --> 0:40:53.439 that says dark Web report and you click try now 0:40:53.520 --> 0:40:56.000 and then run scan and it will show you the 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:58.760 information that's out there now. For me, I have thirty 0:40:58.800 --> 0:41:01.840 seven data breachesked to my info on the dark web 0:41:02.239 --> 0:41:05.920 that includes my name, data, birth phone number, email, passwords, 0:41:06.000 --> 0:41:09.960 user names, gender, Let's see is there anymore? Yeah, that's 0:41:10.000 --> 0:41:12.880 pretty much it. So that information is out there, and 0:41:12.920 --> 0:41:16.760 this will give you if you click into these pretty 0:41:16.760 --> 0:41:20.359 specific information like I can see my twenty twenty one 0:41:20.440 --> 0:41:23.719 AT and T subscriber data breach. It's got my name data, 0:41:23.760 --> 0:41:26.880 birth phone number, email, and address now floating around on 0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:28.160 the web for anyone to see. 0:41:28.200 --> 0:41:33.239 Thank you, AT and T. So what's the point of 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:33.600 all of this. 0:41:33.800 --> 0:41:36.400 So the point of all of this is really to 0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:40.080 be understanding of the fact that this is out there. Google, 0:41:40.760 --> 0:41:42.560 they will do one thing for you. They will pull 0:41:42.600 --> 0:41:45.680 your information off of their search results if you ask 0:41:45.760 --> 0:41:48.560 for that. So there's a difference between your information being 0:41:48.640 --> 0:41:50.640 out there on the dark web, which is in some 0:41:50.719 --> 0:41:52.920 sort of database that people are changing hands all the 0:41:52.960 --> 0:41:57.120 time they're selling this information, and information being in search results. 0:41:57.440 --> 0:42:00.799 So Google, if you use their their monitoring program, which 0:42:00.840 --> 0:42:03.960 you can get for free if you're anyone, can get 0:42:04.000 --> 0:42:06.759 that for free. It's called Results About You that will 0:42:06.760 --> 0:42:10.080 allow you to pull information off of Google search results. 0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:12.120 So if there's a Google search result that has your name, 0:42:12.160 --> 0:42:14.680 your address, or phone number on one of these websites 0:42:14.719 --> 0:42:18.160 like spoke Yo or checkmate or whatever they're called, and 0:42:18.200 --> 0:42:20.239 you say, hey, I don't like that information being there. 0:42:20.280 --> 0:42:22.839 Google will assess that and say, okay, should we take 0:42:22.880 --> 0:42:24.600 that down, and they will make a decision. It's not 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:28.520 always guaranteed, but the bigger thing about all of these 0:42:28.600 --> 0:42:33.080 dark web situations is understanding what information is out there, 0:42:33.120 --> 0:42:38.279 and more importantly, not reusing your information and also not 0:42:38.480 --> 0:42:42.160 giving out your information in the first place. So, for instance, 0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:44.120 phone number, I mean, I'm looking at my phone number 0:42:44.160 --> 0:42:46.400 right here. It's telling me, I mean this at and 0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:49.120 T breach was really bad. I'm looking at my data birth, 0:42:49.520 --> 0:42:52.960 my real phone number, and my real email address that 0:42:53.239 --> 0:42:56.880 is just now out there for anyone, which is really scary. 0:42:57.880 --> 0:43:00.440 So again, the more you can do to keep your 0:43:00.480 --> 0:43:03.640 information private going forward, I think is going to be 0:43:03.680 --> 0:43:05.840 a better way of going about this. With that said, 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:08.239 there are a couple of tools that I will link 0:43:08.320 --> 0:43:10.920 up on the website rich on tech dot tv that 0:43:10.960 --> 0:43:14.640 can reveal where some of this information is. The First 0:43:14.719 --> 0:43:18.200 one keeper Security dot com. They do a free data 0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:20.600 breach you can scan and it will give you some 0:43:21.000 --> 0:43:25.320 information about your data breach information out there. Keep in 0:43:25.400 --> 0:43:27.600 mind a lot of these things want to sell you 0:43:27.680 --> 0:43:30.319 on something else, so they're showing you this information in 0:43:30.360 --> 0:43:33.799 hopes of converting you to a paid customer. The other 0:43:33.800 --> 0:43:35.520 one that I think is actually pretty good with the 0:43:35.520 --> 0:43:39.760 information they give is scan dot aura dot com. Scan 0:43:39.960 --> 0:43:43.280 dot au r a dot com. And this one actually 0:43:43.280 --> 0:43:46.240 shows my passwords that are flying around the Internet. 0:43:46.280 --> 0:43:47.160 Now they have them. 0:43:47.040 --> 0:43:49.319 Redacted a little bit, but I can tell a couple 0:43:49.320 --> 0:43:52.280 of those passwords I recognize, and that's really scary. 0:43:52.680 --> 0:43:53.960 So I can see. 0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:56.200 That I do not want to reuse that password ever 0:43:56.320 --> 0:43:58.959 again because it is out there on the open web. 0:43:59.040 --> 0:44:01.400 And then it gives all of my account names that 0:44:01.440 --> 0:44:02.880 are out there on the web. Most of them are 0:44:02.960 --> 0:44:05.200 rich DeMuro, which I get. I mean, that's my name, 0:44:05.239 --> 0:44:08.080 that's what I use, so that's gonna be pretty standard. 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:12.040 The other one that this one is pretty a pretty 0:44:12.040 --> 0:44:15.839 big website. It's called haveiben pned dot com and they 0:44:15.880 --> 0:44:20.080 spell pned pwned dot com. You can put your email 0:44:20.120 --> 0:44:22.560 address in there and they will notify you for free 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:26.200 anytime your email address shows up on one of these 0:44:26.320 --> 0:44:29.400 dark web breaches. Now, we're actually gonna have an interview 0:44:29.480 --> 0:44:32.480 with the guy who runs this website, Troy Hunt. We 0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:34.400 will have an interview with him next week and he 0:44:34.480 --> 0:44:38.920 explains I actually ask him about these dark web, these 0:44:39.000 --> 0:44:42.080 dark web monitoring services because I was curious about them. 0:44:42.120 --> 0:44:46.360 So he will explain what his take is on paying 0:44:46.400 --> 0:44:49.120 for these services. And let me just tell you spoiler alert, 0:44:49.840 --> 0:44:52.000 probably not worth paying for these services. 0:44:52.080 --> 0:44:54.160 So where does that leave us? 0:44:54.880 --> 0:44:58.680 Go to the Google Results about you service. Definitely take 0:44:58.719 --> 0:45:01.480 advantage of that. You tell Google your information. I know 0:45:01.520 --> 0:45:04.560 it sounds counterintuitive, but you'd say, here's my phone number, 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:07.480 here's my email address, here's my address. If you find 0:45:07.520 --> 0:45:11.000 this on the web in results, let me know, send 0:45:11.000 --> 0:45:13.360 me an email. And then I have the ability to 0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:16.000 say Google, can you take that off the internet, And 0:45:16.040 --> 0:45:18.000 in nine times out of ten in my experience, they 0:45:18.000 --> 0:45:20.400 will take that search result down. They don't go to 0:45:20.400 --> 0:45:23.440 the website and delete your information. But ninety nine percent 0:45:23.480 --> 0:45:26.360 of people are just searching on the web for your address, 0:45:26.400 --> 0:45:28.440 for your phone number. I mean, most people aren't searching 0:45:28.440 --> 0:45:30.720 for you. Let's be honest. Unless you owe someone something 0:45:30.800 --> 0:45:35.120 or whatever, but that they will take down that search result. 0:45:35.960 --> 0:45:38.360 With the dark web, there are ways again, like I said, 0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:41.479 to check out your information that's out there, but there's 0:45:41.480 --> 0:45:44.080 not much you can do about that information being out there. 0:45:44.120 --> 0:45:46.080 I will link all of the things I talked about 0:45:46.120 --> 0:45:49.839 on the website rich on tech dot TV. My main takeaway, 0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:52.560 my number one takeaway. If you get nothing else out 0:45:52.560 --> 0:45:56.359 of this conversation, limit the amount of information you give 0:45:56.360 --> 0:45:58.920 out to people. If a random website you're signing up 0:45:58.960 --> 0:46:01.360 for asks for your data, why do you need to 0:46:01.360 --> 0:46:04.000 give them your actual date of birth? Unless it is 0:46:04.040 --> 0:46:06.480 something like a credit card or your bank or whatever, 0:46:06.920 --> 0:46:10.719 why do they need to know that? They probably don't 0:46:10.920 --> 0:46:14.839 email addresses. Use a cloaked email address when possible when 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:16.799 you're signing up for random websites. You can do that 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:18.920 through iCloud. There's a bunch of services that will let 0:46:18.920 --> 0:46:21.080 you do it. Try not to give away your real 0:46:21.120 --> 0:46:24.760 email address. Duck duck go has a nice free email 0:46:24.800 --> 0:46:27.239 address that is you can use if you want to 0:46:27.239 --> 0:46:32.280 throw away email address, So search duc duc go cloaked 0:46:32.320 --> 0:46:35.520 email I think it's called and they have that. And 0:46:35.560 --> 0:46:38.440 then when it comes to your information, like your password. 0:46:38.640 --> 0:46:42.200 Do not use the same password over and over. The 0:46:42.280 --> 0:46:45.040 problem is when you use that password, even if you 0:46:45.080 --> 0:46:48.040 think you're so good at creating a strong password, if 0:46:48.040 --> 0:46:50.920 that password is out on the web. What these hackers 0:46:50.960 --> 0:46:54.080 do is they take that password, they see the email 0:46:54.080 --> 0:46:56.400 address associated with it, and they say, okay, let's hit 0:46:56.480 --> 0:46:59.880 up the top fifty major websites and see if this 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:03.799 little combination of email address and password unlocks this website. 0:47:03.880 --> 0:47:05.880 So they go to Bank of America, they go to Chase, 0:47:05.920 --> 0:47:08.600 they go to American Express, they go to all those 0:47:08.640 --> 0:47:11.640 banks out there, and they try your email address and password, 0:47:11.880 --> 0:47:15.359 and sometimes that might unlock the website and get them in. 0:47:15.400 --> 0:47:18.480 That's called credential stuffing. That's what happened with Roku. So 0:47:18.640 --> 0:47:22.480 do not reuse the same passwords across websites. Those are 0:47:22.480 --> 0:47:24.440 some of the best ways to protect yourself. That is 0:47:24.480 --> 0:47:28.120 my recommendation. Okay, let me get off the soapbox and 0:47:28.160 --> 0:47:30.200 tell you real quick about Netflix before we go to 0:47:30.239 --> 0:47:33.120 break eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:47:33.239 --> 0:47:35.960 seven four to two four one zero one. Not much 0:47:36.000 --> 0:47:39.320 to report about Netflix except their memberships grew sixteen percent. 0:47:39.360 --> 0:47:42.920 They now have almost two hundred and seventy million people 0:47:43.840 --> 0:47:47.040 paying every month to watch Netflix. But here's the concerning issue. 0:47:47.120 --> 0:47:50.120 They have five hundred million people interacting with the service. 0:47:50.160 --> 0:47:52.560 What does that mean. There's a lot of freeloaders that 0:47:52.600 --> 0:47:55.360 are still using other people's Netflix accounts. 0:47:55.360 --> 0:47:56.600 So two things. 0:47:56.680 --> 0:47:59.520 Number one, Netflix says, starting next year, we're not going 0:47:59.600 --> 0:48:02.919 to provide any updates on our membership numbers quarterly. Why 0:48:03.120 --> 0:48:05.799 because they understand the market is slowing. They're not going 0:48:05.880 --> 0:48:09.560 to have these big numbers, these big membership numbers going 0:48:09.600 --> 0:48:12.200 forward the growth. But what they are going to do 0:48:12.520 --> 0:48:15.760 potentially price hikes. They're going to crack down on password sharing, 0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:17.640 They're going to put more of an emphasis on that 0:48:17.719 --> 0:48:22.839 ad supported membership, tire and more live programming. You are 0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:25.239 listening to rich on Tech. We'll have more of your 0:48:25.320 --> 0:48:28.799 questions right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:48:28.920 --> 0:48:32.400 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at 0:48:32.560 --> 0:48:36.040 triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 0:48:36.200 --> 0:48:39.160 four to two four one zero one. The website for 0:48:39.320 --> 0:48:43.440 the show rich on Tech dot tv just gave out 0:48:43.480 --> 0:48:46.840 a lot of great resources for searching for information on 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:49.800 the dark web. So if you want to get links 0:48:49.800 --> 0:48:52.560 to those, you can get those in real time just 0:48:52.840 --> 0:48:56.040 go to Rich on tech dot TV. Hit the light 0:48:56.120 --> 0:48:59.640 bulb right at the top of the website, and that 0:48:59.719 --> 0:49:03.640 will bring you to the radio show wiki. That is 0:49:03.640 --> 0:49:06.239 a list of all of the shows and all of 0:49:06.280 --> 0:49:09.280 the show notes. So just tap into the show notes 0:49:09.320 --> 0:49:12.879 for number sixty eight and that should give you all 0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:15.319 of this stuff that I just mentioned. Let me make 0:49:15.320 --> 0:49:17.680 sure it's there. Yep, there it is Google one Google 0:49:17.719 --> 0:49:19.840 Results about you, keeper, Aura. 0:49:20.080 --> 0:49:21.040 And have I been pooned? 0:49:21.800 --> 0:49:26.640 Let's go to Gus in Morino Valley, California. Gus, you're 0:49:26.680 --> 0:49:27.239 on with Rich. 0:49:28.400 --> 0:49:28.600 Yeah. 0:49:28.800 --> 0:49:33.120 Rich, this morning my laptop, I turned it on and 0:49:33.160 --> 0:49:36.880 it was kind of slow, so I restarted it and 0:49:37.000 --> 0:49:40.360 when I when he came back, Google Boom was gone, 0:49:40.880 --> 0:49:42.640 what that will file? 0:49:42.800 --> 0:49:43.280 Yeah? 0:49:43.480 --> 0:49:44.040 What? 0:49:44.040 --> 0:49:44.719 What are you on? 0:49:44.719 --> 0:49:45.520 A Mac or a PC? 0:49:47.120 --> 0:49:51.040 It's a it's a it's a deal. 0:49:51.320 --> 0:49:54.479 Okay, So that's Windows. 0:49:54.600 --> 0:49:57.440 So maybe okay, So I actually got an email about this. 0:49:57.520 --> 0:50:00.640 It's it's there must it's interesting there. I know that 0:50:00.680 --> 0:50:03.600 Windows really tries to push the Edge browser. 0:50:03.920 --> 0:50:05.160 I don't know if you've heard of that one. Is 0:50:05.160 --> 0:50:06.120 that on your desktop? 0:50:08.120 --> 0:50:08.839 The Edge? No? 0:50:09.080 --> 0:50:09.239 No? 0:50:09.320 --> 0:50:12.560 Okay, well you know what it is? It is? Yeah, 0:50:12.600 --> 0:50:13.160 it is. Yeah. 0:50:13.200 --> 0:50:16.320 So that's Microsoft's version of Chrome, and they really pushed 0:50:16.360 --> 0:50:18.759 that hard, especially when you try to download Chrome or 0:50:19.239 --> 0:50:21.319 do anything with Chrome for the first couple of times. 0:50:21.360 --> 0:50:23.799 So he's like, hey, we're right here, We've got our 0:50:23.840 --> 0:50:26.359 own version. Why don't you try this out. It's kind 0:50:26.360 --> 0:50:27.080 of the same thing. 0:50:28.239 --> 0:50:32.080 Yeah, I have gotten done with Google Chrome, asking me 0:50:32.160 --> 0:50:34.160 if I wanted to turn it into my default. 0:50:34.920 --> 0:50:36.280 Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. 0:50:36.320 --> 0:50:39.200 Microsoft has been I guess after that whole uh you know, 0:50:39.239 --> 0:50:41.440 that whole anti trust thing back in the nineties. Everyone's 0:50:41.480 --> 0:50:44.360 forgotten about that, but I it's we're past that anyway. 0:50:44.880 --> 0:50:45.520 But here's the thing. 0:50:45.560 --> 0:50:48.200 So, can you tap the Windows key on your computer 0:50:48.320 --> 0:50:49.840 and can you search Chrome? 0:50:49.920 --> 0:50:52.440 And does that not come up? Because it made me. 0:50:54.400 --> 0:50:57.360 I searched it done and it is like he deleted 0:50:57.360 --> 0:50:59.640 all the files somehow, really. 0:50:59.520 --> 0:51:01.840 Had a lot of information and Google Chrome and portals 0:51:01.880 --> 0:51:04.160 that I use and everything you've gone. 0:51:05.560 --> 0:51:09.040 You know, Google Chrome remembers something password, so way to go. 0:51:09.320 --> 0:51:12.560 You know, my friend, here is what he did is 0:51:12.640 --> 0:51:14.160 he reads. 0:51:16.400 --> 0:51:19.960 Restore to the system restore. 0:51:20.080 --> 0:51:22.920 Oh yeah, sure, sure, he brought did a restore point. 0:51:23.760 --> 0:51:26.640 Yeah, so he's doing it. But it's like it's been 0:51:26.680 --> 0:51:28.920 almost an hour and it's still. 0:51:30.040 --> 0:51:32.200 You know, it says please wait, well your windows, well, 0:51:32.239 --> 0:51:34.480 then setting are being restored. 0:51:34.560 --> 0:51:36.879 Well before I would have done that, I probably would 0:51:36.880 --> 0:51:39.640 have recommended just re downloading Chrome because if you were 0:51:39.719 --> 0:51:42.200 signed in on Chrome, all of your stuff will come 0:51:42.239 --> 0:51:46.160 back magically. So okay, yeah, so I would have done 0:51:46.160 --> 0:51:48.560 that before you Yeah, I would have done that before 0:51:48.600 --> 0:51:51.160 the restore point, because the restore point is kind of like, 0:51:52.200 --> 0:51:55.200 if it works, it'll be great, you know, hopefully it will, 0:51:55.320 --> 0:51:57.279 but it may not bring it back and it may 0:51:57.280 --> 0:51:59.320 not do everything properly, so. 0:51:59.800 --> 0:52:01.239 Uh would be able to stop it. 0:52:01.360 --> 0:52:04.200 I would not stop it at this point, no, because 0:52:04.239 --> 0:52:06.560 if you stop it in halfway, you could have an 0:52:06.600 --> 0:52:09.319 issue with corrupt files. So I would not do that. 0:52:10.760 --> 0:52:13.359 But gus, here's my advice. So I would wait, wait 0:52:13.400 --> 0:52:17.560 till the restore h wait till the restore completes, and 0:52:17.680 --> 0:52:19.640 see if Chrome is back on there and your computer 0:52:19.840 --> 0:52:22.200 is back to the way it was. A restore point 0:52:22.280 --> 0:52:24.760 is kind of like a time machine for your computer, 0:52:24.920 --> 0:52:27.640 so you're going back to a moment in time before 0:52:28.200 --> 0:52:31.680 a specific problem happened with your computer, and hopefully, by 0:52:31.680 --> 0:52:33.640 going back to that point in time, everything's back the 0:52:33.680 --> 0:52:37.240 way it was, but in the future, Chrome will keep 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:40.680 Chrome is one hundred percent web based, so all the 0:52:40.719 --> 0:52:43.640 settings and things that are happening on Chrome are are 0:52:43.800 --> 0:52:47.040 copied to the cloud as long as you are signed 0:52:47.040 --> 0:52:50.200 into your Google account. So when you first open up Chrome, 0:52:50.200 --> 0:52:52.440 it will say do you want to sync this, and 0:52:52.480 --> 0:52:54.640 you can tell by the upper right hand corner. If 0:52:54.640 --> 0:52:57.000 you open up Chrome, you should have a little picture 0:52:57.040 --> 0:52:59.120 of yourself in the upper right hand corner. You can 0:52:59.120 --> 0:53:02.200 tap that, maybe your initials, but you can tap that 0:53:02.239 --> 0:53:06.040 and it will tell you Sync is on. So make 0:53:06.080 --> 0:53:08.640 sure that your sink is on on Chrome if you 0:53:08.680 --> 0:53:13.640 don't want to lose your bookmarks, your settings, your extensions, 0:53:13.719 --> 0:53:16.719 anything that you've installed on Chrome will carry over from 0:53:16.719 --> 0:53:19.400 computer to computer as long as you have sync on. 0:53:19.960 --> 0:53:21.799 If you want a little bit more privacy and you 0:53:21.840 --> 0:53:23.960 don't want anything to sync, then you can turn that 0:53:24.080 --> 0:53:26.839 sync off. You can still use Chrome without it being 0:53:26.880 --> 0:53:30.040 sync to the Google servers. So that would be my 0:53:30.080 --> 0:53:33.960 advice Gus in the future is just if somehow Chrome 0:53:34.040 --> 0:53:37.319 goes away, just go ahead and redownload it, sign in 0:53:37.400 --> 0:53:38.440 and you should be fine. 0:53:40.360 --> 0:53:40.719 All right. 0:53:40.760 --> 0:53:43.839 Coming up on the show, We've got Dan O'Dowd now 0:53:44.160 --> 0:53:51.640 Brace Yourself. Dan has some pretty pretty thorough thoughts about 0:53:51.680 --> 0:53:54.120 Tesla's self driving and i'll just tell you he does 0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:58.480 not like it. So it's an interesting interview. Dan O'Dowd 0:53:58.680 --> 0:54:02.239 is with the Dawn Project and he basically thinks that 0:54:02.560 --> 0:54:05.840 Tesla's full self driving software is not ready for the street. 0:54:06.000 --> 0:54:09.400 So he's coming up soon. Before we go to that, 0:54:09.560 --> 0:54:12.000 let me just tell you about this real quick. This 0:54:12.040 --> 0:54:14.600 is an interesting idea. It's a pendant that you wear 0:54:15.160 --> 0:54:18.440 that records pretty much everything in your life. Ninety nine 0:54:18.520 --> 0:54:21.640 dollars for this pendant. It's called the Limitless and it 0:54:21.719 --> 0:54:25.960 records your meetings and anything else you want in life. 0:54:26.040 --> 0:54:27.680 You wear it around your neck if you want, or 0:54:27.680 --> 0:54:30.440 you can clip it to your shirt. It will record 0:54:30.480 --> 0:54:32.719 the audio and then put it all into sort of 0:54:32.760 --> 0:54:36.520 your personal chat GPT. Ninety nine dollars for the device 0:54:36.880 --> 0:54:39.400 and nineteen dollars a month if you want all the features. 0:54:39.440 --> 0:54:42.640 But it has unlimited cloud storage, one hundred hours of 0:54:42.640 --> 0:54:45.560 battery life. Is this the future? We are coming into 0:54:46.160 --> 0:54:50.000 our entire lives recorded. You can search anything that you said, 0:54:50.080 --> 0:54:51.720 anything you've interacted with people. 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:54.360 Oh my gosh, I kind of want it. You're listening 0:54:54.400 --> 0:54:55.560 to rich On Tech. 0:54:56.080 --> 0:54:57.480 Welcome back to rich On Tech. 0:54:57.600 --> 0:54:59.920 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking tech now 0:55:00.520 --> 0:55:03.040 at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight 0:55:03.200 --> 0:55:06.239 eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:55:06.600 --> 0:55:07.480 Joining me now is. 0:55:07.520 --> 0:55:11.000 Dan O'Dowd, green Hill Software CEO and founder of the 0:55:11.160 --> 0:55:15.600 Dawn Project, trying to make computers safer for humanity and 0:55:16.120 --> 0:55:20.360 a specific interest on banning Tesla full self driving. 0:55:20.480 --> 0:55:22.000 Dan, thanks so much for joining me today. 0:55:22.719 --> 0:55:23.359 Good to be here. 0:55:23.920 --> 0:55:25.920 So first off, give me a little background. Tell me 0:55:25.960 --> 0:55:30.360 what Greenhill Software does and why you started this Dawn project. 0:55:31.520 --> 0:55:36.680 Green Hills Software developed software for safety critical systems such 0:55:36.680 --> 0:55:41.240 as airplanes and cars are two biggest areas. 0:55:41.560 --> 0:55:43.480 And what about the Dawn Project? What is that? What 0:55:43.560 --> 0:55:45.200 made you start that? And what is it? 0:55:45.760 --> 0:55:48.120 So the Dawn Project is a realization that I had 0:55:48.160 --> 0:55:51.600 some years ago that we are putting computers in charge 0:55:51.800 --> 0:55:55.239 of systems that people's lives depend on. And it's in 0:55:55.360 --> 0:55:57.640 small way, but now it's become very large. We're putting 0:55:57.680 --> 0:55:59.839 them in our cars, We're putting them in the power 0:56:00.360 --> 0:56:05.000 which we can't live without, and water treatment plants, all 0:56:05.040 --> 0:56:09.600 these things a large infrastructure people's lives literally depend on. 0:56:09.680 --> 0:56:09.839 It. 0:56:09.920 --> 0:56:13.120 If they go out, people will die. And yet we're 0:56:13.160 --> 0:56:16.280 putting software to control those devices. That's the same stuff 0:56:16.280 --> 0:56:19.600 that we use on our desktops, which fail quite regularly. 0:56:20.239 --> 0:56:25.600 And the Dawn Project is advocacy group basically get people 0:56:25.640 --> 0:56:27.960 to realize this and also to say we need to 0:56:28.000 --> 0:56:30.719 set better standards. We need to test that software and 0:56:30.719 --> 0:56:35.120 make sure it's reliable. And one of our first examples 0:56:35.280 --> 0:56:40.120 is the full self driving product from Tesla, where it's 0:56:40.239 --> 0:56:42.479 driving your car, it's controlling your car, your hands aren't 0:56:42.480 --> 0:56:45.480 even on the steering wheel, and it's driving, it's turning, 0:56:45.520 --> 0:56:49.480 it's stopping at stop lights. But it's very, very unreliable. 0:56:50.360 --> 0:56:53.560 In fact, it's like it's unlikely to go one hour 0:56:53.960 --> 0:56:58.200 without trying to crash, without making a serious mistake, crashing 0:56:58.239 --> 0:57:02.880 into some other car on the road, in a parking lot, anywhere. 0:57:02.920 --> 0:57:06.360 It's it's really clumsy. It's amazingly bad. You never know 0:57:06.400 --> 0:57:08.040 what it's going to do. It you're driving along and 0:57:08.200 --> 0:57:12.399 it'll just suddenly jerk the wheel into another lane, into 0:57:12.480 --> 0:57:16.240 a parked car, and it's frightening. You think you're going 0:57:16.280 --> 0:57:19.200 to die. I don't want that in my car. There's 0:57:19.200 --> 0:57:21.600 no reason to have something that is that effective that 0:57:22.240 --> 0:57:24.880 in an hour, two hours, three hours, it's going to 0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:26.760 literally try to kill you. 0:57:27.080 --> 0:57:30.720 Now, Tesla just recently lowered the price of their self 0:57:30.800 --> 0:57:33.120 driving software. So it used to be two hundred dollars 0:57:33.160 --> 0:57:35.320 a month. Now it's one hundred dollars a month. They 0:57:35.400 --> 0:57:38.840 call it full self driving Supervised. But the reality is 0:57:39.160 --> 0:57:42.040 many more people are going to subscribe to this and 0:57:42.200 --> 0:57:45.760 use it because of this lower price. What does that 0:57:45.960 --> 0:57:47.760 tell you? What are you worried about that? 0:57:49.040 --> 0:57:52.040 Yes, that that people will try it? Now, what we 0:57:52.640 --> 0:57:55.440 good There is a piece of good news here the product. 0:57:55.480 --> 0:57:57.680 You can buy it outright for twelve thousand dollars, or 0:57:57.720 --> 0:57:59.640 you can pay ninety nine dollars a month. It used 0:57:59.640 --> 0:58:01.880 to be two hundred dollars a month, one ninety nine 0:58:01.920 --> 0:58:04.640 just until a few days ago. But what we discovered 0:58:04.720 --> 0:58:06.920 is people who fought this product and put it in 0:58:06.960 --> 0:58:10.040 their car, they're not using it. Eighty five percent of 0:58:10.080 --> 0:58:12.480 the time. They were very excited. They heard a hout 0:58:12.560 --> 0:58:14.960 how great it is. Right now, Elon Musk is around 0:58:15.000 --> 0:58:18.400 touting that this is weird on the verge of full autonomy. 0:58:18.440 --> 0:58:20.720 This thing is this, I can see it. It's gonna 0:58:20.760 --> 0:58:22.840 be It's going to be really soon. By the end 0:58:22.880 --> 0:58:24.760 of the year, it's going to be full autonomy. It's 0:58:24.800 --> 0:58:26.439 going to be great. Of course, he said that every 0:58:26.520 --> 0:58:29.440 year for the last decade they say, Okay, this is 0:58:29.480 --> 0:58:31.720 not I'm not going to use this, and they just 0:58:32.280 --> 0:58:33.680 they put it on the shelf and they don't turn 0:58:33.720 --> 0:58:35.800 it on. Every now and then they hear about the 0:58:35.840 --> 0:58:38.200 great new release that solved all the problems, they try 0:58:38.200 --> 0:58:41.640 it again, same problems occur, they stop using it. We're 0:58:41.680 --> 0:58:45.320 actually recommending that people try this, but be very careful. 0:58:46.040 --> 0:58:50.160 As Tesla actually says, it's it's highly unreliable. It can 0:58:50.280 --> 0:58:53.920 swerve for no reason into the other lane, so be 0:58:54.040 --> 0:58:57.880 super careful, be watching it like a hawk. But it 0:58:57.920 --> 0:59:01.040 will do something terrible, and then stop using it. It's 0:59:01.080 --> 0:59:02.880 the only way for people to understand it. I can 0:59:02.960 --> 0:59:07.000 explain it till you've been there and experience the terror yourself. 0:59:08.080 --> 0:59:10.560 I can't tell you how bad it feels. 0:59:10.960 --> 0:59:13.360 How is this allowed to control cars? 0:59:13.400 --> 0:59:13.560 Then? 0:59:13.800 --> 0:59:17.080 Are there no regulations against you know? Don't aren't there 0:59:17.160 --> 0:59:18.920 rules for driving? Like I had to go to a 0:59:19.520 --> 0:59:21.320 driver's z and I had to take a test to 0:59:21.400 --> 0:59:22.040 drive a car. 0:59:22.560 --> 0:59:25.400 How come software is allowed to do whatever? It wants. 0:59:25.680 --> 0:59:27.840 Yeah, well, we decided to try that, so we took 0:59:27.840 --> 0:59:29.360 it out for a d MD test. You got a 0:59:29.400 --> 0:59:32.040 great video on it showing what happened. It's actually four 0:59:32.080 --> 0:59:35.840 times it did something that the instructor said, you don't 0:59:35.880 --> 0:59:38.800 get your license if you if you do that it, yeah, 0:59:38.800 --> 0:59:41.280 it can't. It can't pass a driver's test. Doesn't know 0:59:41.280 --> 0:59:44.440 what a do not enter sign is, simply simply doesn't 0:59:44.520 --> 0:59:47.320 understand it. If you have a school bus, it stops, 0:59:47.360 --> 0:59:49.360 the rights are flashing, the stop sign is out, the 0:59:49.400 --> 0:59:51.920 kids are getting off the bus. It'll go right by 0:59:51.920 --> 0:59:54.600 it at forty miles an hour. It's amazing. You get 0:59:54.640 --> 0:59:57.280 to a school zone it says forty miles an hour 0:59:57.320 --> 0:59:59.800 twenty five when children present, it'll drive forty miles an 0:59:59.840 --> 1:00:02.240 hour through that zone with kids all over the place. 1:00:02.280 --> 1:00:05.880 We've got videos of this. If there's a kid in 1:00:05.920 --> 1:00:09.120 a school crosswalk walking across the road, that has to 1:00:09.160 --> 1:00:11.240 be kind of a small child. Big ones it you 1:00:11.280 --> 1:00:14.040 can see, but a small child, it will run them down. 1:00:14.080 --> 1:00:17.720 We have videos to show that as well. It's really 1:00:17.920 --> 1:00:22.400 quite amazing. We have been to Nitza with the federal government, 1:00:22.440 --> 1:00:24.600 to the state government of the DMB We've shown them 1:00:24.640 --> 1:00:27.800 the videos a year ago and they still haven't fixed 1:00:27.840 --> 1:00:30.480 the problems. They claim it's not a self driving car 1:00:30.880 --> 1:00:33.400 and therefore they're not subject to the self driving car regulation, 1:00:33.600 --> 1:00:35.959 so they can pretty much do what they want, which 1:00:36.000 --> 1:00:39.200 I think is completely wrong. But that's where we stand today. 1:00:39.800 --> 1:00:42.360 Do you see any benefit to this full self driving 1:00:42.400 --> 1:00:45.880 technology or do you think it should be banned entirely? 1:00:46.280 --> 1:00:48.120 What they need to do is take it off the market. 1:00:48.160 --> 1:00:50.320 It needs to be recalled. It needs to be off 1:00:50.360 --> 1:00:53.200 the market. They need to fix all of these problems 1:00:53.640 --> 1:00:54.720 before they put it back on. 1:00:54.920 --> 1:00:56.640 What Tesla is doing is one thing. 1:00:56.720 --> 1:00:59.080 How does it compare to what other automakers are doing 1:00:59.240 --> 1:01:00.960 in the driving area? 1:01:01.560 --> 1:01:04.840 Tesla is the worst by far. They claim to be 1:01:05.040 --> 1:01:09.400 the leader in automobile, in autonomous vehicles, The truth is 1:01:09.560 --> 1:01:12.160 there in last place, it is absolutely terrible. You can 1:01:12.200 --> 1:01:14.960 go right now, you're you're in La. They've got weaymos. 1:01:14.960 --> 1:01:17.200 You can call up a Weimo in Los Angeles and 1:01:17.280 --> 1:01:20.320 it will come to you. No driver, pick you up 1:01:20.360 --> 1:01:23.200 in Los almost everywhere in Los Angeles to almost everywhere 1:01:23.240 --> 1:01:24.840 else in Los Angeles and drive you there. 1:01:24.960 --> 1:01:28.320 So you're not against this idea of cars driving us 1:01:28.600 --> 1:01:31.120 and you actually think that Weimo does a good job, 1:01:31.160 --> 1:01:32.080 a better job than. 1:01:32.000 --> 1:01:36.760 Tesla a hundred times. It's not even comparable. It's working 1:01:36.880 --> 1:01:37.520 quite well. 1:01:37.720 --> 1:01:39.520 What do you think the difference is? Tesla has a 1:01:39.560 --> 1:01:42.160 lot of money, They've got a lot of engineers. Weimo 1:01:42.360 --> 1:01:45.600 is part of Google. They have more sensors on their cars. 1:01:45.800 --> 1:01:46.520 Is that what it is? 1:01:46.560 --> 1:01:48.840 What do you think Tesla needs to do to fix this? 1:01:49.520 --> 1:01:52.640 Well, definitely the sensor is an issue, right, They've got 1:01:52.720 --> 1:01:55.520 they've got the light r and they've got radar and 1:01:56.520 --> 1:02:01.360 ultrasonic sensors as well that Tesla does not have. That 1:02:01.440 --> 1:02:03.760 has to contribute. They do say that. I mean, if 1:02:03.760 --> 1:02:06.200 you ask the people the way of people Google people, 1:02:06.200 --> 1:02:08.840 they'll say it's essential. You can't think you can that 1:02:08.920 --> 1:02:11.600 you can build a self driving car without without those 1:02:11.840 --> 1:02:16.600 without lighter. But Elon Musk personally says that's not true. 1:02:16.640 --> 1:02:19.400 It's ridiculous. He says I can drive. He says, I 1:02:19.440 --> 1:02:21.360 can drive my own car. I don't need light ar, 1:02:21.720 --> 1:02:23.720 I just have two eyes. I can do it. Why 1:02:23.760 --> 1:02:26.160 can't we do it with cameras well? One reason is 1:02:26.200 --> 1:02:29.360 your cameras your eyes are about five hundred times more 1:02:29.400 --> 1:02:33.560 resolution than those cameras they have, they have one megapixel cameras. 1:02:33.920 --> 1:02:36.720 So what is your advice to consumers Tesla owners who 1:02:36.800 --> 1:02:40.000 see this at you know, the free trial or the 1:02:40.080 --> 1:02:42.400 ninety nine dollars a month, what's your advice to them? 1:02:42.760 --> 1:02:43.120 Try it? 1:02:43.480 --> 1:02:47.280 But and I'm just quoting what Tesla says, be like 1:02:47.320 --> 1:02:49.120 a hawk. You know it's going to try to kill 1:02:49.160 --> 1:02:50.920 you. You know it's going to try to crash into a 1:02:50.960 --> 1:02:54.040 parked car or across the yellow line or whatever. You 1:02:54.080 --> 1:02:57.480 sit there and you have to be watching continuously everywhere. 1:02:57.520 --> 1:02:59.360 You have to look at the lanes beside you to 1:02:59.360 --> 1:03:01.960 make sure that they're nobody there because it will do 1:03:02.080 --> 1:03:04.800 something crazy. You just have to be sitting there waiting 1:03:04.800 --> 1:03:07.600 for it. This is no fun. You are supervising. You 1:03:07.640 --> 1:03:10.280 are in charge of making sure when it does something 1:03:10.360 --> 1:03:12.680 dumb and it will, that you save the car. You 1:03:12.800 --> 1:03:14.360 save the car and then your life. 1:03:15.040 --> 1:03:17.360 So I'm curious with your Green Hills software. 1:03:17.520 --> 1:03:20.840 You said you you super specialize in safety software for 1:03:20.920 --> 1:03:24.800 different planes and cars. Are you trying to build a 1:03:24.840 --> 1:03:27.400 world where your software is in the Tesla or they 1:03:27.640 --> 1:03:30.200 purchased something like some people might say like, hey, don't 1:03:30.200 --> 1:03:32.040 you have a conflict of interest here because you make 1:03:32.080 --> 1:03:33.760 this software that can make cars safer. 1:03:34.280 --> 1:03:36.760 Well, I mean, you know if you had you know, 1:03:36.800 --> 1:03:39.040 if you had a vaccine for medicine, would you not 1:03:39.120 --> 1:03:43.600 tell people that you know that you can solve their problem? 1:03:43.400 --> 1:03:47.360 I'm not. I actually I was. I've been advertising on 1:03:47.440 --> 1:03:50.120 Twitter for people to take the free trial. So there's 1:03:50.200 --> 1:03:52.200 right now a free trial two million. Everybody who has 1:03:52.200 --> 1:03:55.120 a Tesla can download the full self driving for free 1:03:55.160 --> 1:03:57.400 for one month and drive it all they want. I'm 1:03:57.400 --> 1:04:01.080 actually advertising on Twitter that people to do that, just 1:04:01.200 --> 1:04:03.200 so they can understand how bad it is. 1:04:03.520 --> 1:04:05.720 Can you say anything nice about the Tesla that's not 1:04:05.800 --> 1:04:07.640 related to the self driving? Do you think it's a 1:04:07.640 --> 1:04:10.680 good automobile and the whole ev movement or no? 1:04:11.000 --> 1:04:14.440 Well, I own to eight Tesla's. My roadsters are my 1:04:14.480 --> 1:04:18.120 favorite things. Driving to work is my favorite activity of 1:04:18.120 --> 1:04:21.240 the day, and driving home because in the road story, 1:04:21.240 --> 1:04:23.600 it's the best car ever made in my opinion. My 1:04:23.680 --> 1:04:26.960 wife's been driving a Model S since twenty twelve. It's 1:04:26.960 --> 1:04:29.960 the same one. It's over eleven years old. It's the 1:04:30.000 --> 1:04:32.960 family car, and it works great and we've always been 1:04:33.000 --> 1:04:33.560 happy with it. 1:04:33.800 --> 1:04:36.439 All right, Dan O'Dowd, how can folks learn more about 1:04:36.880 --> 1:04:37.440 the Dawn. 1:04:37.280 --> 1:04:39.600 Project Dawnproject dot com. 1:04:39.880 --> 1:04:43.640 Dan O'Dowd Greenhill Software, CEO and founder of the Dawn Project, 1:04:43.640 --> 1:04:44.320 thanks so much. 1:04:44.160 --> 1:04:44.960 For joining me today. 1:04:45.160 --> 1:04:46.120 Thank you for having me. 1:04:46.600 --> 1:04:49.000 More rich on Tech coming your way right after this. 1:04:49.440 --> 1:04:52.640 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:04:52.640 --> 1:04:56.120 out with you talking technology at triple eight Rich one 1:04:56.160 --> 1:04:59.840 oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four 1:05:00.160 --> 1:05:03.880 one zero one, the website for the show rich on 1:05:04.360 --> 1:05:07.160 Tech dot tv. 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You're on with Rich. 1:05:54.040 --> 1:05:55.480 Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call. 1:05:55.680 --> 1:05:56.880 Yeah, what can I help with? 1:05:57.800 --> 1:06:01.400 Well, occasionally we are I'm unable to go to church, 1:06:01.560 --> 1:06:04.280 maybe due to sickness or whatever, so we live stream 1:06:04.280 --> 1:06:08.000 it on the TV and we go through a PS four. 1:06:09.200 --> 1:06:11.800 And what I'm finding is that when we do that, 1:06:13.240 --> 1:06:16.200 but in an hour's amount of time, sometimes two, three, 1:06:16.320 --> 1:06:19.760 or even four times, the live stream gets cut off 1:06:19.800 --> 1:06:21.960 and we have to I have to back up and 1:06:22.400 --> 1:06:26.000 click on it again, get back into it. And I'm wondering, 1:06:26.440 --> 1:06:30.160 is it the PS four or could it be my TV? 1:06:31.720 --> 1:06:33.959 I'm certain it's not white by because I can watch 1:06:34.040 --> 1:06:36.000 Netflix or YouTube and no problems. 1:06:36.080 --> 1:06:36.200 All. 1:06:37.520 --> 1:06:39.880 Yes, But here's the thing. Number one, how are you 1:06:39.920 --> 1:06:41.800 streaming this? Does this on like a website? 1:06:43.680 --> 1:06:46.200 Yeah, we go, I go onto the PS four, I 1:06:46.280 --> 1:06:49.440 go into the WWW, and then I click on their 1:06:49.480 --> 1:06:52.400 website and then click on the online button. 1:06:52.880 --> 1:06:55.760 So so number one. 1:06:55.920 --> 1:07:01.280 So YouTube and Netflix are companies one hundred built around streaming. 1:07:01.360 --> 1:07:06.880 So they are the best technology for the best technology 1:07:06.880 --> 1:07:12.080 for streaming known to mankind. So their entire technology is 1:07:12.120 --> 1:07:16.360 getting a stream to start on almost any speed connection 1:07:16.960 --> 1:07:19.560 and still be super high quality. So they have built 1:07:20.040 --> 1:07:23.880 the best technology, and those two companies, specifically YouTube and Netflix, 1:07:24.000 --> 1:07:27.080 probably have the best streaming technology in the entire world. 1:07:27.160 --> 1:07:30.640 So that is why they always work and you never 1:07:30.840 --> 1:07:34.040 see an issue with the streaming on those two services. 1:07:34.360 --> 1:07:36.600 Now when it comes to your local church, they are 1:07:36.680 --> 1:07:39.280 using a third party streaming service, and there are so 1:07:39.400 --> 1:07:43.680 many points of failure between the church and your house 1:07:44.040 --> 1:07:47.320 that could be contributing to an issue with that live stream. 1:07:47.760 --> 1:07:50.040 So the first thing I would do is just ask 1:07:50.200 --> 1:07:53.040 everyone else that's watching the live stream, like are you 1:07:53.200 --> 1:07:56.439 having issues? Like is this buffering for you? Like talk 1:07:56.480 --> 1:07:59.320 to the congregation and see what the folks there are 1:07:59.360 --> 1:08:02.520 saying about this. So if everyone's having an issue, it 1:08:02.560 --> 1:08:05.120 could be the way the signal is being sent out 1:08:05.160 --> 1:08:08.439 from the church. It could be the system that they're 1:08:08.480 --> 1:08:11.920 using to live stream this. Maybe one day if they 1:08:12.000 --> 1:08:15.120 use like Facebook or something or even YouTube to live stream, 1:08:15.200 --> 1:08:18.960 it comes through perfectly and it could be your PS 1:08:19.120 --> 1:08:22.360 four receiving that signal. But you're saying that the Netflix 1:08:22.360 --> 1:08:25.439 and all the YouTube stuff works properly. So the reality 1:08:25.520 --> 1:08:29.320 is there's there's so many variables with a live stream 1:08:29.320 --> 1:08:33.640 that's originating from a local church versus a stream that 1:08:33.760 --> 1:08:37.800 is coming from Netflix or YouTube. So my advice kind 1:08:37.840 --> 1:08:41.559 of investigate, talk to the church, have them maybe send 1:08:41.560 --> 1:08:44.559 out a survey is this happening to other people? And 1:08:44.720 --> 1:08:48.200 maybe they can, you know, investigate the service that they're 1:08:48.280 --> 1:08:50.240 using to send out this live stream. It could be 1:08:50.280 --> 1:08:52.479 that maybe they need to upgrade the plan, could be 1:08:52.520 --> 1:08:54.559 that they need to upgrade the connection that they're using. 1:08:54.800 --> 1:08:56.960 Are they using Wi Fi to send out the signal 1:08:57.000 --> 1:08:59.640 or are they using an Ethernet connection? So all of 1:08:59.680 --> 1:09:03.320 these things could make a very big difference in what 1:09:03.400 --> 1:09:05.519 the live stream looks like and how it arrives to 1:09:05.520 --> 1:09:08.559 your house, and also how it looks when it gets 1:09:08.560 --> 1:09:12.880 to your house. So good question, William. Thanks for the 1:09:12.920 --> 1:09:17.519 call today from Chino, California. Let's go to Bill in 1:09:17.560 --> 1:09:19.480 Santa Monica, Bill your Own with Rich. 1:09:19.760 --> 1:09:23.400 Yeah, I want to relay an exasperating experience that I 1:09:23.479 --> 1:09:28.200 had over at Walmart involving Mobile X, which was featured 1:09:28.280 --> 1:09:33.600 last week on your show. Essentially, the departments are abandoned 1:09:33.640 --> 1:09:40.240 of store personnel. Everything is behind plexiglass fee through but can't. 1:09:40.000 --> 1:09:41.200 Touch Yep, that's happening. 1:09:41.560 --> 1:09:45.480 There is no indication that Mobile X is being promoted. 1:09:45.920 --> 1:09:49.960 And I had to track down a staff personnel to 1:09:51.320 --> 1:09:56.599 basically find out about Mobile X. And apparently the only 1:09:56.640 --> 1:09:59.240 thing that they have, and it's locked behind the counter, 1:10:00.320 --> 1:10:03.639 a full box of SIM cards for Mobile X. They 1:10:03.640 --> 1:10:07.960 don't carry Mobile X phones. They don't carry unlocked phones 1:10:08.000 --> 1:10:11.679 that would be appropriate for the SIM card. I asked 1:10:11.680 --> 1:10:15.439 the person, I have a locked phone from another carrier. 1:10:15.720 --> 1:10:19.320 Would it be possible to install the SIM card in 1:10:19.400 --> 1:10:22.599 a locked phone? Is there any feasibility for doing that? 1:10:22.640 --> 1:10:25.600 He doesn't know. Is there a manager in the department? 1:10:25.960 --> 1:10:30.439 No manager today. Would the manager know anymore than the 1:10:30.520 --> 1:10:35.880 staff person I'm talking to? He doesn't know. There is 1:10:35.960 --> 1:10:39.799 no literature on Mobile X over there. And my second 1:10:40.400 --> 1:10:43.839 question would be, because I've always been told to avoid 1:10:43.880 --> 1:10:48.360 the Moto unlocked phones that best Buy cells, are there 1:10:48.439 --> 1:10:52.680 any unlocked phones that you recommend that are in a 1:10:52.760 --> 1:10:54.440 reasonable price range? 1:10:54.960 --> 1:10:56.040 Oh? Absolutely so. 1:10:56.880 --> 1:10:59.519 The first one I'd probably recommend is Now, are you 1:10:59.560 --> 1:11:02.160 buying this in a store or are you buying it online? 1:11:02.200 --> 1:11:03.360 Do you want to go to a store. 1:11:04.000 --> 1:11:07.800 Well, basically, I am an old time shopper and I 1:11:07.880 --> 1:11:09.440 prefer to look at the merchandise. 1:11:09.720 --> 1:11:13.440 Okay, so I understand that, so I think the best 1:11:13.720 --> 1:11:17.519 I think the best like unlocked phone out there is 1:11:17.560 --> 1:11:22.360 probably going to be something like the Google Pixel seven A. 1:11:22.520 --> 1:11:24.639 But the problem is Google is coming out their new 1:11:24.680 --> 1:11:28.479 phone very soon, the AA that's going to be announced 1:11:28.520 --> 1:11:29.840 probably May fifteenth. 1:11:29.840 --> 1:11:30.840 So I would I would hold off. 1:11:30.920 --> 1:11:32.880 You're going to buy a Pixel, but I would say 1:11:32.920 --> 1:11:34.720 a phone like that is going to give you the 1:11:34.840 --> 1:11:39.120 least amount of issues with the software and the hardware, 1:11:39.160 --> 1:11:40.720 like if you want a nice phone that's going to 1:11:40.840 --> 1:11:42.840 last for a very long time and not give you 1:11:42.840 --> 1:11:45.600 a lot of And by the way, the software on 1:11:45.640 --> 1:11:48.280 these phones are updated for like almost I think Google 1:11:48.320 --> 1:11:51.280 announced seven years last time, really, but we have to 1:11:51.320 --> 1:11:53.120 wait for the for the eight A, not the seven A. 1:11:53.240 --> 1:11:55.800 That one is still last year's model. I mean, it's 1:11:55.800 --> 1:11:58.000 still great, but my point is the new one's coming out. 1:11:58.560 --> 1:12:00.160 The other phone I would take a look at is 1:12:00.200 --> 1:12:03.480 the one plus Nord that is a really good, unlocked, 1:12:03.640 --> 1:12:08.320 inexpensive phone. The other one is the Nothing. But these 1:12:08.320 --> 1:12:12.400 are all phones that you have to go yeah, and 1:12:12.400 --> 1:12:15.320 that's the Nothing to A and that is like probably 1:12:16.360 --> 1:12:19.080 every single person that I didn't review it because you 1:12:19.160 --> 1:12:23.479 have to sign up for a developers account, which you know, Bill, 1:12:23.560 --> 1:12:25.519 I don't know if you probably want to go through that. 1:12:25.920 --> 1:12:29.120 But to answer your question about these Motorola phones, I 1:12:29.120 --> 1:12:32.040 think they're fine because they don't have too much bloatwear 1:12:32.080 --> 1:12:33.439 on them. I don't think the camera is going to 1:12:33.479 --> 1:12:36.240 be as good and the software, you know, it's pretty good, 1:12:36.240 --> 1:12:37.960 it's pretty clean and well. 1:12:37.920 --> 1:12:39.960 I was told about the Motive phones is that they 1:12:40.000 --> 1:12:44.760 simply don't operate there or they don't update they're operating. 1:12:44.400 --> 1:12:46.920 And that's very often. Yeah, that was my issue. 1:12:46.960 --> 1:12:48.559 So I think if you want that, I think the 1:12:48.600 --> 1:12:51.360 Google Pixel like this, the a lineup for the Google 1:12:51.360 --> 1:12:53.599 Pixel is going to be your best bet. Or you 1:12:53.600 --> 1:12:56.360 can even get the Pixel eight on sale at a 1:12:56.400 --> 1:12:59.559 decent price. And again you can keep that for seven years, 1:12:59.600 --> 1:13:02.839 so that's a long time, and they update the software 1:13:02.880 --> 1:13:04.440 on a regular basis. 1:13:04.200 --> 1:13:05.040 Now real quick. 1:13:05.120 --> 1:13:08.080 With respect to the whole Walmart and Mobile X, this 1:13:08.120 --> 1:13:11.000 is the issue with saving money on your phone line 1:13:11.040 --> 1:13:13.240 like this. With these mv and os, there are many 1:13:13.280 --> 1:13:15.800 of them that are a lot cheaper. The problem is 1:13:15.880 --> 1:13:20.200 it is mostly deiy which means you're doing everything yourself. 1:13:20.439 --> 1:13:24.600 There's not a huge customer service component unless you're interacting 1:13:24.640 --> 1:13:27.599 with these companies online. Eighty eight rich one O one 1:13:27.680 --> 1:13:30.679 eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:13:30.920 --> 1:13:34.519 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:13:34.640 --> 1:13:38.680 Rich Tomuro here with you for another hour at eight 1:13:38.720 --> 1:13:41.479 eight eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 1:13:41.640 --> 1:13:44.840 seven four two four one zero one. The website for 1:13:44.960 --> 1:13:49.799 the show Richontech dot TV. If you're not already following 1:13:49.840 --> 1:13:52.840 me on social media, I am at rich on Tech. 1:13:53.320 --> 1:13:55.519 You can find me on X you can find me 1:13:55.600 --> 1:14:00.840 on Instagram, you can find me on Facebook, and I 1:14:00.840 --> 1:14:05.400 don't know where else can you find me? Just depends Threads. No, 1:14:05.600 --> 1:14:08.479 I'm you know, I don't. I'm not really doing the Threads. 1:14:08.720 --> 1:14:11.240 I just I can't get into it. It's two, uh 1:14:12.160 --> 1:14:14.679 you know, between the other three. It's already enough. And 1:14:14.920 --> 1:14:17.040 I know some people cross posts and things like that, 1:14:17.200 --> 1:14:20.400 but Threads is just not doing it. Also the problem 1:14:20.479 --> 1:14:25.240 is if I was on Instagram, Facebook and Threads, one 1:14:25.280 --> 1:14:28.920 company would control all of my social media meta and 1:14:29.560 --> 1:14:31.840 you know, you know I always recommend third party kind 1:14:31.840 --> 1:14:34.120 of software and stuff like that. I don't want to 1:14:34.120 --> 1:14:37.120 be beholden to just one company, so I do try 1:14:37.120 --> 1:14:39.240 to put my stuff in different places. 1:14:39.800 --> 1:14:41.719 Very excited for our interview this hour. 1:14:41.920 --> 1:14:47.640 Rosi Okamura, also known better known as Rosie Irl. 1:14:48.200 --> 1:14:49.880 She is a voice. 1:14:49.600 --> 1:14:54.000 Actor and content creator. She does something really fun. She 1:14:54.720 --> 1:14:59.280 does these videos where she prank calls scam callers, and 1:14:59.320 --> 1:15:03.439 since she's a voice actor, she does some really fun things. 1:15:03.439 --> 1:15:06.680 These videos get pretty wild and she just messes with 1:15:06.720 --> 1:15:09.960 these people to waste their time, and she also offers 1:15:10.000 --> 1:15:12.080 people tips on how to stay safe. So we will 1:15:12.080 --> 1:15:14.960 talk to her later this hour. Very excited for that. 1:15:15.160 --> 1:15:19.280 Let's go to Edward in Tampa, Florida. Edward, you're on 1:15:19.360 --> 1:15:19.760 with Rich. 1:15:20.840 --> 1:15:21.040 Yeah. 1:15:21.160 --> 1:15:22.160 Rich, it's great to hear. 1:15:22.200 --> 1:15:25.200 I always listened to your show every Saturday. And excuse 1:15:25.240 --> 1:15:28.679 me if I mentioned this, but since I'm wasn't working, 1:15:28.760 --> 1:15:32.120 I had to. I did the cheap, cheap way of 1:15:33.280 --> 1:15:36.360 get in the new battery at Battery Plus. But I 1:15:36.400 --> 1:15:39.080 have a iPhone, etc. And your producer will tell me 1:15:39.080 --> 1:15:43.560 obviously there's upgrade SCS. What is your recommendation if I 1:15:43.560 --> 1:15:44.200 want to stick. 1:15:44.000 --> 1:15:44.439 With se. 1:15:46.120 --> 1:15:46.479 Okay? 1:15:46.520 --> 1:15:48.880 So the first thing I do is I go to 1:15:48.960 --> 1:15:52.240 the mac Rumors Buyer's guide. 1:15:52.479 --> 1:15:55.000 So this is a have you heard of this website? 1:15:55.960 --> 1:15:56.200 No? 1:15:56.200 --> 1:15:56.400 No? 1:15:56.439 --> 1:15:58.960 Okay, So this is a great site, which what they 1:15:59.000 --> 1:16:02.919 do is they log all of the different Apple products, 1:16:02.920 --> 1:16:07.320 so every iPhone, every maccomputer, every iPad, because pretty much 1:16:07.360 --> 1:16:10.599 every product that Apple makes is on a certain cycle 1:16:10.960 --> 1:16:12.920 until they come out with the new product. So I'm 1:16:12.920 --> 1:16:17.160 gonna go to that macro's Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com. 1:16:17.479 --> 1:16:19.960 Before you buy any Apple product, you should always consult 1:16:19.960 --> 1:16:21.880 this because you don't want to buy a product and 1:16:21.920 --> 1:16:23.800 then three weeks later or four weeks later, they come 1:16:23.840 --> 1:16:26.600 out with a new one. So I click iPhone S 1:16:27.600 --> 1:16:31.799 and the latest one was put out in March twenty 1:16:31.880 --> 1:16:34.120 twenty two. Now do you have the one that was 1:16:34.200 --> 1:16:34.680 before that? 1:16:37.040 --> 1:16:37.280 Yeah? 1:16:37.360 --> 1:16:38.800 If I had a guess, I'm gonna say it was 1:16:38.840 --> 1:16:40.040 twenty twenty. 1:16:39.880 --> 1:16:42.760 Okay, So you have the original se So this is 1:16:42.800 --> 1:16:45.160 the this is the second version of it, and it's 1:16:45.200 --> 1:16:47.719 a great little phone. It's it's still got the fingerprint reader. 1:16:48.360 --> 1:16:50.240 It's it was about I think it was four hundred 1:16:50.240 --> 1:16:52.960 and twenty nine dollars. It's got the latest chip in it, 1:16:53.040 --> 1:16:55.960 or the latest chip at that time, five G. But 1:16:56.080 --> 1:16:59.559 here's the thing, it's been seven hundred and seventy four 1:16:59.680 --> 1:17:03.560 days since they came out with that phone. The average 1:17:04.200 --> 1:17:08.200 release time between iPhone ses is seven hundred and twenty 1:17:08.240 --> 1:17:12.040 five days. Now, there's two things going on here. Number One, 1:17:12.680 --> 1:17:14.920 I'm not sure that Apple will come out with a 1:17:15.000 --> 1:17:20.439 new iPhone se just because they're you know, they have 1:17:20.560 --> 1:17:24.760 moved away from this touch ID, so there's not a guarantee. 1:17:24.760 --> 1:17:27.160 But on the on the flip side, it's an inexpensive 1:17:27.160 --> 1:17:29.840 phone and a lot of people still like that fingerprint sensor. 1:17:30.280 --> 1:17:32.320 And I'm looking at the now. The other thing this art, 1:17:32.400 --> 1:17:35.360 this website does really well is it puts all the 1:17:35.520 --> 1:17:39.360 articles about these devices on the right hand side, so 1:17:39.400 --> 1:17:42.719 I can see April second, they just had an article 1:17:43.439 --> 1:17:46.760 and uh March twenty seventh, and it looks like they 1:17:46.800 --> 1:17:49.640 are gonna come out with a new iPhone s so 1:17:50.400 --> 1:17:53.320 SC four and it looks like it's gonna have a 1:17:53.720 --> 1:17:56.679 six point one inch screen. It looks like it's gonna 1:17:56.680 --> 1:18:01.000 have an iPhone fourteen like design. So my advice to 1:18:01.080 --> 1:18:03.280 you is to probably wait. If you want to stick 1:18:03.280 --> 1:18:07.280 with the fingerprint sensor, just wait. Wait for any day 1:18:08.080 --> 1:18:10.160 Apple might say, hey, we have a new iPhone se. 1:18:10.320 --> 1:18:13.120 I don't expect them to announce this in June at 1:18:13.120 --> 1:18:16.639 their next event, So we're talking anytime between now and June. 1:18:17.320 --> 1:18:19.519 They could probably put out a press release and say, oh, 1:18:19.720 --> 1:18:20.639 here's the new iPhone. 1:18:20.760 --> 1:18:25.360 Se run that WebCAT again for me, because I want 1:18:25.360 --> 1:18:26.680 to write this. I got something to write on. 1:18:26.840 --> 1:18:36.800 Sure, it's Buyer's Guide dot dot mac rumors, MacRumors dot com, 1:18:36.840 --> 1:18:39.040 and of course I'll link that up on my website, 1:18:39.320 --> 1:18:42.280 rich on tip dot tv. But that is a you know, 1:18:43.080 --> 1:18:45.240 are you not wanting to go with the face ID 1:18:45.439 --> 1:18:47.080 with the standard iPhone or what? 1:18:49.640 --> 1:18:55.120 No, I don't need all the fancy stuff. So I'm 1:18:55.120 --> 1:18:58.960 pretty satisfied. Which is the basic gadgets in it? 1:18:59.520 --> 1:19:02.080 Yeah, okay, because they are, you know, if you want 1:19:02.120 --> 1:19:03.960 to get if you do decide that you want to go, 1:19:04.200 --> 1:19:06.120 get a little bit of an upgrade with a face ID, 1:19:06.280 --> 1:19:10.559 which I actually do really think is handy. The iPhone thirteen. 1:19:10.640 --> 1:19:13.280 Apple is still officially selling that. It starts at five 1:19:13.400 --> 1:19:17.000 ninety nine, and so the main thing is that you 1:19:17.040 --> 1:19:19.320 know that phone is also a couple of years old. 1:19:19.360 --> 1:19:22.200 I'm trying to see the processor inside that phone. 1:19:23.360 --> 1:19:27.120 Let's see here. I can't. I don't see it. Off 1:19:27.160 --> 1:19:29.519 the top of this website right here. Oh, here we go. 1:19:30.240 --> 1:19:34.760 iPhone fourteen let's see here. Okay, so there's still a 1:19:34.760 --> 1:19:36.839 lot of them are still using that A fifteen Bionic 1:19:36.920 --> 1:19:39.200 and they're up to the A seventeen. I think that 1:19:39.320 --> 1:19:43.320 if you don't mind the you know, slightly older iPhone, 1:19:43.880 --> 1:19:45.559 you know you're going to be just fine. These things 1:19:45.560 --> 1:19:48.320 are still that the processors that Apple has put out 1:19:48.320 --> 1:19:50.000 in the last couple of years have been incredible. 1:19:50.120 --> 1:19:53.160 So yeah, the good needs to be a sure thing 1:19:53.200 --> 1:19:55.200 is thought. That would be working at a hospital job, 1:19:55.280 --> 1:19:57.479 so obviously with that's going to be helpful, I'll have 1:19:57.520 --> 1:19:59.880 an option to do the older then, so that's going 1:19:59.920 --> 1:20:02.280 to great. Could be patient's all. 1:20:02.479 --> 1:20:04.360 Yeah, I would say be patient if you still want 1:20:04.360 --> 1:20:06.439 to go with that. Se I would not buy the 1:20:06.479 --> 1:20:10.120 one that's currently available, just because it seems like any 1:20:10.200 --> 1:20:11.960 day now there will be a new one, so I 1:20:12.000 --> 1:20:16.120 would just wait. Yeah, yeah, okay you patients is key Edward, 1:20:16.120 --> 1:20:19.479 Thank you so much for the call today. Appreciate it. Uh. 1:20:19.560 --> 1:20:23.160 If you've opened up your Instagram this weekend, maybe you've 1:20:23.200 --> 1:20:26.280 noticed something new on the search bar when you go 1:20:26.320 --> 1:20:29.760 to your message area. It now says in the search bar, 1:20:29.960 --> 1:20:35.120 ask Meta AI anything. This is a huge push by 1:20:35.360 --> 1:20:42.320 Meta which obviously owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger. They are 1:20:42.360 --> 1:20:46.200 pushing their new Meta AI. It's just like chat GPT, 1:20:46.520 --> 1:20:50.680 except it is trained on all kinds of stuff, including 1:20:51.120 --> 1:20:53.360 all the social media posts and pictures that we've been 1:20:53.400 --> 1:20:56.120 uploading for the past I don't know, ten years or 1:20:56.160 --> 1:21:00.360 so onto Facebook. So Meta AI, if if you want 1:21:00.400 --> 1:21:03.000 to access it, you can do it right through Instagram, 1:21:03.080 --> 1:21:06.479 right through Facebook, right through WhatsApp, right through Messenger. Just 1:21:06.680 --> 1:21:08.679 tap in that little search bar and it says, ask 1:21:08.800 --> 1:21:09.960 Meta AI anything. 1:21:10.000 --> 1:21:10.800 What can you ask it? 1:21:10.920 --> 1:21:14.080 Well, pretty much anything that you would ask chat ebt 1:21:14.240 --> 1:21:17.320 you can ask. It's given me suggestions here tips for 1:21:17.360 --> 1:21:22.400 home renovation, five cross country road trip tips. Screenwriting advice 1:21:22.439 --> 1:21:24.600 that must be local for the LA folks. 1:21:25.520 --> 1:21:26.120 I kid you not. 1:21:26.240 --> 1:21:29.439 I was in a coffee place the other day, one 1:21:29.479 --> 1:21:31.360 of the fanciest coffee places I've ever been, and I 1:21:31.439 --> 1:21:33.680 was doing a story, and I kid you not, I 1:21:33.720 --> 1:21:37.800 saw the stereotypical person writing the screenplay in Hollywood at 1:21:37.800 --> 1:21:39.600 the coffee shop, and I just had to laugh to 1:21:39.640 --> 1:21:43.320 myself because here we are in La and everyone, you know, 1:21:43.360 --> 1:21:45.640 everyone's a creator here. Everyone's a writer here, and I 1:21:45.680 --> 1:21:47.519 was just laughing. I was like, I'm not sure I've 1:21:47.560 --> 1:21:50.040 ever actually seen that in real life, but hey, these 1:21:50.080 --> 1:21:52.160 things have to be written somewhere, and why not do 1:21:52.200 --> 1:21:55.120 it at a very lux coffee shop. Like I didn't 1:21:55.120 --> 1:21:57.000 even look at the prices of the lattes here, but 1:21:57.000 --> 1:22:00.800 I'm guessing probably ten dollars because even Starbucks now is 1:22:00.840 --> 1:22:02.320 like up to like six I bought I got a 1:22:02.360 --> 1:22:05.120 cold brew the other day and it was like six bucks. 1:22:05.120 --> 1:22:06.800 This is why I don't buy my coffee out because 1:22:06.840 --> 1:22:09.719 I cannot justify six dollars on a cup of coffee 1:22:09.760 --> 1:22:11.760 at least here in La If I do get it, 1:22:11.800 --> 1:22:15.200 I always get the standard just black coffee for like 1:22:15.240 --> 1:22:17.200 I think it's up to three dollars now for a cup. 1:22:17.600 --> 1:22:20.639 But I'm also so cheap I won't even get their creamer. 1:22:20.720 --> 1:22:23.040 I will bring my own creamer and I will put 1:22:23.080 --> 1:22:24.599 it in when I get to work because I don't 1:22:24.600 --> 1:22:26.320 want to pay the extra fifty cents to a dollar 1:22:26.360 --> 1:22:34.400 for that. Believe me, That's how I am. Yeah, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger. 1:22:34.720 --> 1:22:35.800 You can try it. 1:22:36.520 --> 1:22:39.160 You can also try this on the website Meta dot Ai, 1:22:39.280 --> 1:22:41.000 but here's the cool thing that I think you should 1:22:41.040 --> 1:22:44.080 try before you do anything else. Go to the website 1:22:44.200 --> 1:22:47.400 Meta dot ai. This is very different from any the 1:22:47.520 --> 1:22:52.519 other AI out there. They have an image generator image 1:22:52.560 --> 1:22:56.240 generator called Imagine, and what's so cool about it is 1:22:56.280 --> 1:22:58.559 that all the other image generators you have to type 1:22:58.600 --> 1:23:01.680 something in and wait for it to generate that image. 1:23:02.000 --> 1:23:06.479 But on Meta AI, it regenerates the image as you type. 1:23:06.840 --> 1:23:10.040 So you can start by typing alien and it will 1:23:10.040 --> 1:23:12.640 generate that image on the fly you'll see it. But 1:23:12.680 --> 1:23:16.160 then you can say alien, that's blue, and it will 1:23:16.200 --> 1:23:19.720 regenerate a blue alien as you're typing. And you can 1:23:19.760 --> 1:23:24.120 say that's silly, and it will regenerate a silly alien 1:23:24.200 --> 1:23:27.720 that's blue. I mean, it's really really quite incredible what 1:23:27.840 --> 1:23:31.360 they're doing with this Imagine image generation. But if you 1:23:31.400 --> 1:23:35.360 try nothing else, go to meta dot ai and click 1:23:35.400 --> 1:23:38.479 the Imagine image generator on the left hand side of 1:23:38.520 --> 1:23:40.120 the page and try it out. You do have to 1:23:40.120 --> 1:23:44.200 be logged in to your meta account, Facebook, Instagram, whatever 1:23:44.320 --> 1:23:47.400 to try the image generator, but you can use meta 1:23:47.439 --> 1:23:50.200 AI on the website without being logged in, So try 1:23:50.200 --> 1:23:54.680 that out. And one more item of note here if 1:23:54.720 --> 1:23:58.600 you have an older Samsung phone now we're talking the 1:23:58.880 --> 1:24:03.439 S twenty two, the Galaxy Z Fold four, the z 1:24:03.600 --> 1:24:07.400 Flip four, and the Galaxy tab S eight, you are 1:24:07.479 --> 1:24:10.519 getting You're getting a car. You're getting a car. You're 1:24:10.560 --> 1:24:14.720 getting a car. You are getting Galaxy AI features. So 1:24:15.120 --> 1:24:19.080 in May, early May. If you have one of these 1:24:19.120 --> 1:24:22.080 older Galaxy S twenty two, so now we're talking a 1:24:22.080 --> 1:24:24.559 phone that's a couple of years old, you are getting 1:24:24.640 --> 1:24:27.879 the Galaxy AI features. Circle to Search, which is awesome, 1:24:28.800 --> 1:24:34.439 Chat Assist interpreter, live Translate, noticeist, transcript Assist, browsing Assist, 1:24:34.600 --> 1:24:37.519 Generative Edit. All of these features that came out with 1:24:37.560 --> 1:24:40.519 the Galaxy S twenty four are now coming to phones 1:24:40.520 --> 1:24:44.559 that are two years old. That is incredible. I love it. 1:24:44.640 --> 1:24:47.880 Samsung is on a tear right now with not only 1:24:47.920 --> 1:24:50.360 the quality of their phones, but also the updates on 1:24:50.400 --> 1:24:52.799 their software. So if you stuck with that older phone, 1:24:53.320 --> 1:24:55.680 you are getting the new AI features. Look at that, 1:24:55.720 --> 1:24:57.960 you're saving money and you're still getting to try some 1:24:58.000 --> 1:25:01.360 of these awesome new features. Triple eight rich one O 1:25:01.479 --> 1:25:04.320 one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:25:04.479 --> 1:25:08.720 Very excited for my guests this hour Rosie Okamora. She 1:25:08.840 --> 1:25:11.599 is going to talk about how she prank calls scam 1:25:11.640 --> 1:25:14.599 callers and gets them at their own game. 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Go to the website and 1:25:45.040 --> 1:25:48.200 hit the light bulb icon up at the top. 1:25:49.360 --> 1:25:52.840 Rick on Thousand Oaks, what's up, Hi? 1:25:54.280 --> 1:25:57.920 My mother recently moved and her shelf service is really 1:25:58.000 --> 1:26:01.160 really body and bad, and I was wondering, is there 1:26:01.240 --> 1:26:04.720 a website where you could enter her address and it 1:26:04.760 --> 1:26:07.479 would tell you the cell sites closest to your house 1:26:07.520 --> 1:26:09.600 and the carriers on it, so you can kind of 1:26:09.600 --> 1:26:14.479 make a intelligent decision on which carrier you choose. 1:26:14.880 --> 1:26:16.559 There's a couple websites that do this. 1:26:18.080 --> 1:26:21.800 I can't say that they all work perfectly, but I 1:26:21.840 --> 1:26:25.360 think that it can give you an idea. Now, number one, 1:26:25.439 --> 1:26:29.880 there's only three cell carriers in the US three major carriers. Okay, 1:26:29.920 --> 1:26:32.920 you've got T Mobile, You've got Verizon, You've got AT 1:26:33.040 --> 1:26:35.640 and T. All of the other carriers or most of 1:26:35.680 --> 1:26:39.240 the other carriers run on those three networks. Now I'm 1:26:39.320 --> 1:26:42.639 just generalizing here. Yes, there are some smaller carriers out there, 1:26:42.680 --> 1:26:46.280 but those are the main ones. So my advice always 1:26:46.439 --> 1:26:49.120 is to just get a friend and nine times out 1:26:49.120 --> 1:26:51.480 of ten, you've got a friend on one of these networks, 1:26:51.760 --> 1:26:54.760 have them come into the house and try to make 1:26:54.800 --> 1:26:57.120 a call, try to use the internet, do a speed test, 1:26:57.200 --> 1:27:00.280 look at the signal from their phone, and that'll give 1:27:00.280 --> 1:27:02.240 you a really good idea. Because the problem with all 1:27:02.280 --> 1:27:05.759 of these website coverage maps. Number one, you can't trust 1:27:05.760 --> 1:27:08.320 the ones that are on the carrier websites because they 1:27:08.400 --> 1:27:10.559 just show you that there is a signal. It doesn't 1:27:10.560 --> 1:27:12.960 show you how good that signal is, and even if 1:27:13.000 --> 1:27:15.720 it does, you can't really know because there are so 1:27:15.800 --> 1:27:19.240 many variables with the home or the interior that you're 1:27:19.280 --> 1:27:24.720 going into. With that said, the website, the websites I 1:27:24.760 --> 1:27:28.080 think you can look at to kind of consult Here 1:27:28.320 --> 1:27:33.439 is number one, CoverageMap dot com. So CoverageMap dot com 1:27:33.520 --> 1:27:37.200 will give you an idea, and these are mostly crowdsourced 1:27:37.240 --> 1:27:40.519 from people, so they these are people that download an app, 1:27:40.840 --> 1:27:43.439 they do a speed test or some sort of signal test, 1:27:43.520 --> 1:27:46.720 and then that information gets fed into these websites, so 1:27:47.120 --> 1:27:50.360 CoverageMap dot com. The thing I like about this one 1:27:50.560 --> 1:27:53.439 is that it's very easy to understand. It's got a 1:27:53.479 --> 1:27:56.559 lot of nice filters to go through, and so you 1:27:56.560 --> 1:27:58.599 can put in your address and you can see kind 1:27:58.640 --> 1:28:01.920 of like what is in your area, and it's it's 1:28:01.960 --> 1:28:05.160 color coded. It's very very simple to understand. So that's 1:28:05.200 --> 1:28:10.400 the first stop. The other one, there's a website called 1:28:10.479 --> 1:28:14.240 open Signal and this you want to download the open 1:28:14.360 --> 1:28:17.280 Signal app. So you can go to iPhone or Android 1:28:17.400 --> 1:28:20.080 download the open Signal app and that will give you 1:28:20.640 --> 1:28:25.479 very similar results for the coverage in your area. And 1:28:25.560 --> 1:28:28.920 so you can check that out. There is one. This 1:28:29.000 --> 1:28:31.759 one's a little complicated and I've not used it before, 1:28:31.800 --> 1:28:34.080 but I just found it in searching, and it's called 1:28:34.160 --> 1:28:37.680 cell mapper dot net. And this is like this kind 1:28:37.680 --> 1:28:40.519 of looks a little nerdier than the rest, but if 1:28:40.560 --> 1:28:44.000 you really want some like nerdy signal stats and things 1:28:44.040 --> 1:28:45.760 like that, this one looks like it'll give you it 1:28:46.280 --> 1:28:50.920 Cell Mapper, dot net and the other one is root Metrics, 1:28:51.120 --> 1:28:54.879 So root Metrics now this one. A lot of times 1:28:55.000 --> 1:28:58.000 these are not super local, but they will give you 1:28:58.360 --> 1:29:01.960 information for the or the area. So if you just 1:29:02.000 --> 1:29:03.759 move to a new city and you want to see 1:29:04.240 --> 1:29:08.760 which carrier is strongest in that city overall, that can 1:29:08.800 --> 1:29:12.240 help you. So I'm trying to see if they have Yes, 1:29:12.680 --> 1:29:15.160 it's more like metro area, so it's not like if 1:29:15.160 --> 1:29:17.760 I want to look for Los Angeles, it will tell 1:29:17.800 --> 1:29:22.320 me what the top winner is in that area, and 1:29:22.400 --> 1:29:22.840 it will. 1:29:22.720 --> 1:29:24.400 Tell you kind of like wow. 1:29:24.640 --> 1:29:26.439 It goes all the way back to twenty eleven, so 1:29:26.479 --> 1:29:29.000 you can see who's been on top, and they go 1:29:29.080 --> 1:29:35.000 through overall performance, network reliability, network accessibility, network speed, data performance, 1:29:35.040 --> 1:29:39.799 call performance, and text performance. So again, couple good places 1:29:39.840 --> 1:29:41.600 to look there. I will link those all up on 1:29:41.640 --> 1:29:43.720 the website rich on tech dot tv, But I think 1:29:43.720 --> 1:29:46.080 the best way to do it is to just have 1:29:46.120 --> 1:29:48.800 a friend come over and say, hey, I need someone 1:29:48.800 --> 1:29:50.840 on T mobile to come over to my house, or 1:29:50.880 --> 1:29:53.000 I need someone on AT and T. And if you're 1:29:53.080 --> 1:29:55.920 using an mv and O like one of these Crickets 1:29:56.080 --> 1:29:58.840 or mint Mobile, figure out, go to Wikipedia. 1:29:59.200 --> 1:29:59.960 It's just or go. 1:30:00.479 --> 1:30:03.160 What network does cricket run on? For Cricket, it's AT 1:30:03.280 --> 1:30:06.400 and T. For min it's T Mobile, And then that 1:30:06.479 --> 1:30:08.920 will give you the network that you should be investigating 1:30:09.000 --> 1:30:13.720 at your house. So, rick, there's a couple of suggestions 1:30:13.760 --> 1:30:17.120 for you. Hopefully one of those will work. I thought 1:30:17.120 --> 1:30:21.080 this was interesting. Logitech is launching a mouse with a 1:30:21.200 --> 1:30:26.919 dedicated chat GPT button, so AI is taking over everything. 1:30:27.120 --> 1:30:30.800 Their new M seven to fifty wireless mouse is the 1:30:30.840 --> 1:30:35.280 first signature AI edition mouse with a dedicated chat GPT button, 1:30:36.600 --> 1:30:39.439 and you can just use the chat GBT button to 1:30:39.479 --> 1:30:42.759 fire up chat GBT. This is a fifty dollars mouse. 1:30:42.840 --> 1:30:45.479 It is available for pre order. It will work with 1:30:46.400 --> 1:30:49.040 it looks like it'll work with Mac and Windows computers, 1:30:49.560 --> 1:30:50.360 but why not. 1:30:50.840 --> 1:30:52.880 I just actually switched to a new mouse. And I'm 1:30:52.880 --> 1:30:53.280 not kidding. 1:30:53.320 --> 1:30:55.080 If you have problems with your arm, Like if you're 1:30:55.120 --> 1:30:56.800 on the computer as much as I am and your 1:30:57.120 --> 1:30:59.800 your elbow is hurting, or your wrist is hurting, or 1:30:59.840 --> 1:31:02.800 your her shoulder is hurting, I just switched to the 1:31:02.880 --> 1:31:07.840 Logitech Lift. Oh my gosh, game changing my hand in 1:31:07.960 --> 1:31:10.960 shoulder and arm hurts less than ever before. It's kind 1:31:10.960 --> 1:31:13.280 of like a mouse that's on its side, so check 1:31:13.320 --> 1:31:16.400 it out. Logitech Lift doesn't have the chat GBT button. 1:31:16.439 --> 1:31:16.599 Help. 1:31:17.040 --> 1:31:20.240 Coming up next, we're going to talk to Irl Rosie. 1:31:21.160 --> 1:31:24.320 You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1:31:24.640 --> 1:31:27.640 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology with you 1:31:28.479 --> 1:31:32.360 website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. Very 1:31:32.360 --> 1:31:36.640 excited for my next guest. Perhaps you've seen her videos online. 1:31:37.240 --> 1:31:38.800 I R L Rosie. 1:31:38.920 --> 1:31:44.439 Rosie Okamura does videos where she calls scam artists and 1:31:44.479 --> 1:31:47.320 gets them at their own game. She is a voice actress, 1:31:47.400 --> 1:31:49.800 so she's really good at coming up with interesting and 1:31:49.840 --> 1:31:50.559 fun voices. 1:31:51.080 --> 1:31:52.240 Rosie, Welcome to the show. 1:31:53.080 --> 1:31:54.080 Hi, thanks for having me. 1:31:54.640 --> 1:31:56.439 By the way, I mentioned to my kid that you're 1:31:56.479 --> 1:31:58.679 gonna be on my show and he's like, oh my gosh. 1:31:58.720 --> 1:32:02.639 I've seen her videos on social media and it's so exciting. 1:32:03.120 --> 1:32:04.880 And he was like, there's no way. I didn't think 1:32:04.920 --> 1:32:07.040 that was real, and I said, yeah, I think it is. 1:32:07.160 --> 1:32:10.240 So explain to me what you do. 1:32:10.320 --> 1:32:14.559 First off, So I do what's called scam bating, and 1:32:14.640 --> 1:32:18.719 it's where I call the scammers in order to waste 1:32:18.840 --> 1:32:21.720 their time for as long as possible. And sort of 1:32:22.320 --> 1:32:25.439 educate the public on what to look out for if 1:32:25.479 --> 1:32:27.400 and when those videos go viral. 1:32:28.080 --> 1:32:29.960 Let's play a little clip. I've got a little clip 1:32:30.040 --> 1:32:33.080 from your YouTube channel. Let's hear a couple of seconds 1:32:33.080 --> 1:32:34.040 of how you do this? 1:32:34.720 --> 1:32:37.599 Oh babe, the babe put your finger on your teeth 1:32:37.680 --> 1:32:39.600 and say, how I'm on? I'm charlel. Thank you for 1:32:39.640 --> 1:32:41.080 holding it, don't make no sense. 1:32:48.960 --> 1:32:52.879 Congratulations, you've been directed for a one hundred dollars Walmart 1:32:52.880 --> 1:32:53.439 gift card. 1:32:53.800 --> 1:32:56.200 In order to contact your Walmart gift we will need 1:32:56.200 --> 1:32:58.439 to transfer you to a live representative. Thank you for 1:32:58.520 --> 1:33:01.479 holding the trials, hoping you claim the reward today. 1:33:01.479 --> 1:33:01.920 Can I get you? 1:33:03.400 --> 1:33:03.599 Yeah? 1:33:03.680 --> 1:33:10.080 It's Diria d I. 1:33:11.960 --> 1:33:14.360 PA MTZ. 1:33:15.960 --> 1:33:21.519 All right, So, oh, I gosh, that's funny. 1:33:21.600 --> 1:33:24.880 So what inspired you to start prank calling scammers and 1:33:24.920 --> 1:33:27.200 turning it into this sort of educational content. 1:33:27.840 --> 1:33:30.920 I got into pranking scammers a few years ago after 1:33:31.000 --> 1:33:33.800 my mom fell victim to one of those tech pop 1:33:33.920 --> 1:33:37.479 up scams. So, for example, excuse me, For example, you 1:33:37.479 --> 1:33:40.160 know you're browsing on the computer and you get a 1:33:40.200 --> 1:33:43.120 pop up from Windows or Apple saying that you have 1:33:43.160 --> 1:33:45.759 a virus and to call this number and it looks 1:33:45.840 --> 1:33:49.200 legit because they use the same logos and they will 1:33:49.280 --> 1:33:52.120 usually use some sort of eight hundred number, and so 1:33:52.200 --> 1:33:53.880 my mom thought that it was real. 1:33:54.040 --> 1:33:55.240 She called them. 1:33:55.520 --> 1:34:00.519 They offered her a lifetime subscription of their services anti 1:34:00.600 --> 1:34:03.960 virus software, and it was about four ninety nine, four 1:34:04.120 --> 1:34:07.599 hundred and ninety nine dollars that is. And in order 1:34:07.640 --> 1:34:11.160 to help remove the viruses from her computer, they gained 1:34:11.240 --> 1:34:15.479 access remote access to her computer, which you know has 1:34:15.520 --> 1:34:19.639 all of her auto saved passwords, bank logins, you know, 1:34:19.800 --> 1:34:22.799 notes and stuff in her computer, with her social Security number, 1:34:23.760 --> 1:34:25.200 the whole nine yards, And. 1:34:25.240 --> 1:34:27.160 So she gave them access. 1:34:27.200 --> 1:34:30.280 They stole her information and they got her out of 1:34:30.439 --> 1:34:33.200 five hundred dollars. Luckily, I was able to call the 1:34:33.200 --> 1:34:34.759 bank in time and get that reversed. 1:34:35.160 --> 1:34:36.240 But I wasn't done. 1:34:36.320 --> 1:34:39.559 I asked my mom for that phone number that she called, 1:34:39.640 --> 1:34:42.280 and I called them back that same day, and I 1:34:42.320 --> 1:34:44.840 went on a Facebook live stream so that my mom 1:34:44.880 --> 1:34:46.720 could watch it. This is before there were a lot 1:34:46.760 --> 1:34:49.880 of live stream options on different platforms. 1:34:50.640 --> 1:34:51.400 So I went on. 1:34:51.320 --> 1:34:54.240 There and prank called this guy with like a Kin 1:34:54.360 --> 1:34:59.720 Kardashian type impression voice, and I had this guy on 1:34:59.760 --> 1:35:02.880 the phone for an hour and forty five minutes. 1:35:02.760 --> 1:35:05.400 Oh my gosh, which was wild. 1:35:05.520 --> 1:35:07.240 It went by really fast somehow. 1:35:07.760 --> 1:35:10.360 And after that, you know, my inbox blew up with 1:35:10.400 --> 1:35:12.719 a bunch of friends and people that were watching, Hey, 1:35:12.760 --> 1:35:15.320 can you call this number? Oh my mom falled it 1:35:15.600 --> 1:35:17.599 for the same kind of scam? Can you call them? 1:35:18.120 --> 1:35:21.559 And I just yeah, tossed a couple of videos up 1:35:21.600 --> 1:35:25.559 on YouTube and some random person posted it on Reddit 1:35:25.640 --> 1:35:28.360 and it blew up, and so did my YouTube channel, 1:35:28.400 --> 1:35:29.479 and I was like, I. 1:35:29.400 --> 1:35:30.719 Guess I'm doing this now. 1:35:30.960 --> 1:35:34.599 So you know, during that, I learned a lot about scams, 1:35:34.640 --> 1:35:37.599 and there's new scams every day, and I've just yeah, 1:35:37.680 --> 1:35:39.439 kind of been riding that way ever since. 1:35:39.720 --> 1:35:44.479 Well, your irl Rosie channel on YouTube has one point 1:35:44.479 --> 1:35:48.559 four million plus subscribers, so clearly you're doing something fun 1:35:48.640 --> 1:35:53.320 and interesting. Tell me about, like a memorable or outrageous 1:35:53.360 --> 1:35:56.040 scam call that you know you were involved with. 1:35:56.680 --> 1:35:59.200 Oh boy, one of the first videos I did that 1:35:59.280 --> 1:36:03.040 went viral. I did a Britney Spears impression and it 1:36:03.320 --> 1:36:07.439 was a scam that revolves around they call you and 1:36:07.479 --> 1:36:09.599 tell you you've won a gift card, one hundred dollars 1:36:09.600 --> 1:36:13.040 gift card to Walmart or Target, and in order to 1:36:13.080 --> 1:36:15.400 receive it, you just have to pay you know, three 1:36:15.439 --> 1:36:18.240 dollars in shipping. And then they asked for your debit 1:36:18.280 --> 1:36:21.120 card information, so then you give that to a complete 1:36:21.120 --> 1:36:25.639 stranger over the phone. So I called them saying, oh, 1:36:25.680 --> 1:36:28.040 I had a lost or I had a missed call 1:36:28.439 --> 1:36:30.519 a voicemail that I won some sort of gift card. 1:36:30.560 --> 1:36:35.080 What's going on? And I used a Britney Spears voice. 1:36:35.120 --> 1:36:38.040 They asked me for like my last name, and they 1:36:38.040 --> 1:36:40.280 were like, we don't believe you, Like you're gonna have 1:36:40.320 --> 1:36:42.640 to like sing if you're really Britney Spears, and so 1:36:42.800 --> 1:36:43.960 I did. 1:36:44.400 --> 1:36:47.040 And I told them that they were on a prank. 1:36:46.800 --> 1:36:51.400 Show with celebrities, similar to like crank Ankers on MTV, 1:36:51.960 --> 1:36:55.599 and they believed me. The guy was breaking out and 1:36:55.640 --> 1:36:58.840 totally starstruck, and I wasted about an hour of his 1:36:58.960 --> 1:37:02.639 time and got to teach people about gift card scams. 1:37:02.800 --> 1:37:05.000 So your idea is that the more time you waste 1:37:05.000 --> 1:37:08.160 of these people, the less they are able to scam 1:37:08.200 --> 1:37:08.759 other people. 1:37:09.560 --> 1:37:11.880 Exactly, the longer they're on the phone with me, the 1:37:11.960 --> 1:37:14.679 less time they have to call someone who doesn't know better. 1:37:15.280 --> 1:37:17.519 And then it's very entertaining in the meantime. 1:37:17.840 --> 1:37:20.680 Now you're a voice actor and uh you know by 1:37:20.720 --> 1:37:24.280 trade here in Los Angeles, content creator as well improv 1:37:24.400 --> 1:37:28.120 comedy skills, all that good stuff. So can you do 1:37:28.200 --> 1:37:30.120 a voice like what like, let's let's I'll be the 1:37:30.120 --> 1:37:32.639 person that's calling. I'll be like, yeah, I'll be like, hey, 1:37:32.720 --> 1:37:35.760 I need your you've won a gift card. I need 1:37:35.800 --> 1:37:39.040 your personal bank information so we can deposit this to 1:37:39.080 --> 1:37:40.600 your bank account. 1:37:41.040 --> 1:37:41.280 Yeah. 1:37:41.439 --> 1:37:45.479 Usually I will use an elderly lady voice and her 1:37:45.560 --> 1:37:48.880 name is last name Gersh. Her name Ierma, so the 1:37:49.000 --> 1:37:52.080 scammer is forced to say iermash, which just makes me laugh. 1:37:52.760 --> 1:37:55.880 So she talks a little like this. Her voice is 1:37:56.000 --> 1:37:59.559 lower and shaky and a little bit of a certain 1:37:59.680 --> 1:38:02.280 next there and make your say I'm a little bit 1:38:02.320 --> 1:38:06.479 sweeter when she's talken. And then sometimes she asks Siri 1:38:06.600 --> 1:38:10.080 for a little bit of whop and we will go booda. 1:38:09.920 --> 1:38:11.320 I'm sorry, I didn't get that. 1:38:12.360 --> 1:38:15.320 Sometimes they get an argument and she can't figure out 1:38:15.320 --> 1:38:18.759 her Siri and then yeah, it's like a hole silly 1:38:19.320 --> 1:38:22.680 back and forth between Urma and Siri, or sometimes you 1:38:22.720 --> 1:38:25.839 know Alexa, which is a little bit more human sounding, 1:38:25.880 --> 1:38:27.719 but still you know robotic. 1:38:28.760 --> 1:38:30.840 Do these people hang up on you or do they 1:38:31.200 --> 1:38:32.040 are they laughing? 1:38:32.240 --> 1:38:32.320 Like? 1:38:32.360 --> 1:38:34.320 What and where these people located a lot like do 1:38:34.320 --> 1:38:36.559 you get the sense of like are they out of 1:38:36.600 --> 1:38:37.880 the US or in the US. 1:38:38.000 --> 1:38:39.599 These scammers, I've. 1:38:39.400 --> 1:38:43.360 Had scammers from all over. The gift card scammer was US. 1:38:43.960 --> 1:38:44.920 It was US based. 1:38:45.120 --> 1:38:48.160 Uh you know, a lot of them come from India, Nigeria. 1:38:48.240 --> 1:38:54.040 But you know there's scammers everywhere. Unfortunately. Uh So it 1:38:54.960 --> 1:38:58.400 gets pretty pretty crazy. And they have hung up bopping before, 1:38:58.600 --> 1:39:01.519 just because after a while they realize I'm wasting their time. 1:39:02.160 --> 1:39:04.960 Sometimes they catch on to the joke and they're bored 1:39:04.960 --> 1:39:05.680 at work. 1:39:05.600 --> 1:39:08.879 Work work, they're board you know over. 1:39:08.680 --> 1:39:11.439 There in the scam call center, and they sometimes will 1:39:11.439 --> 1:39:13.960 have a little bit of fun with me. They will 1:39:14.160 --> 1:39:15.799 sometimes push the limit and get. 1:39:15.600 --> 1:39:18.599 A little you know, weird, which you know, I. 1:39:18.600 --> 1:39:21.120 Have to hang up the phone sometimes and I could 1:39:21.160 --> 1:39:23.920 just call someone else back instead. But yeah, they do 1:39:24.080 --> 1:39:27.200 hang up. They have laughed, they do go along with 1:39:27.240 --> 1:39:29.679 it once in a while. So it's all different kinds. 1:39:29.680 --> 1:39:31.160 It's different every time I call. 1:39:31.439 --> 1:39:35.240 Has anyone ever seen their video go viral and kind 1:39:35.240 --> 1:39:39.160 of contacted you? Like these scam artists to say anything. 1:39:40.040 --> 1:39:44.360 So sometimes they can tell that I am at least 1:39:44.400 --> 1:39:47.960 a YouTuber just based on you know, we we sort 1:39:48.000 --> 1:39:49.519 of we're all friends with each other, right, and we 1:39:49.560 --> 1:39:52.479 all share the numbers together and we call them all 1:39:52.520 --> 1:39:53.360 at the same time. 1:39:53.840 --> 1:39:56.000 And the scammers are like, what's your YouTube channel? 1:39:56.040 --> 1:39:58.080 Like, I know that you're just live streaming me and 1:39:58.560 --> 1:40:00.240 you're wasting my time and I. 1:40:00.280 --> 1:40:02.080 Hope you get a lot of views on your YouTube. 1:40:02.320 --> 1:40:03.519 Being all mad about it. 1:40:03.760 --> 1:40:04.920 Sometimes they get excited. 1:40:04.960 --> 1:40:07.280 They're like, oh, you're the Alexa girl, Like you're the theory, 1:40:07.800 --> 1:40:08.559 You're the Seeria girl. 1:40:08.680 --> 1:40:10.519 I'm a fan of your videos. 1:40:10.479 --> 1:40:15.120 Like then why do you still work there? But sometimes 1:40:15.160 --> 1:40:18.960 they will recognize me or or know what's going on. 1:40:19.040 --> 1:40:20.879 But it's always very entertaining. 1:40:21.160 --> 1:40:23.759 Okay, what's what's the advice you would give to someone 1:40:23.760 --> 1:40:26.840 who suspects they're being targeted by a scammer? And how 1:40:26.880 --> 1:40:29.400 do you even tell? Sometimes like what's your what do 1:40:29.439 --> 1:40:31.280 you what's your big takeaway from all this? 1:40:31.360 --> 1:40:33.599 And what do you want to impart on people? 1:40:34.320 --> 1:40:37.439 My big takeaway and the biggest thing I say is 1:40:38.400 --> 1:40:40.639 you don't first of all, don't answer the phone. 1:40:40.640 --> 1:40:41.879 Who answers their phone anymore. 1:40:42.720 --> 1:40:46.240 If you have a bank or a service calling, you 1:40:46.360 --> 1:40:48.720 just hang up and call the number back that's the 1:40:48.720 --> 1:40:51.960 official number from the website, because sometimes these scammers can 1:40:52.080 --> 1:40:55.360 spoof the actual phone number. So even if it does 1:40:55.400 --> 1:40:57.559 show up as well as Fargo or US Bank, or 1:40:57.600 --> 1:40:59.679 even if you type it in while they're on the phone, 1:40:59.720 --> 1:41:02.840 it don't check, that could still be a scammer. So 1:41:03.720 --> 1:41:06.240 I always tell people just hang up and call back 1:41:06.280 --> 1:41:08.840 and just deal with the whole times. Even when it's 1:41:09.040 --> 1:41:12.120 loved ones calling and there's an emergency. There's a big 1:41:12.160 --> 1:41:15.720 scam going on of people faking car accidents or being 1:41:15.800 --> 1:41:19.760 arrested and needing bail money or needing money for some 1:41:19.840 --> 1:41:24.519 kind of emergency procedure, and a lot of AI is 1:41:24.560 --> 1:41:25.919 copying people's voices. 1:41:26.479 --> 1:41:29.120 So my big thing is hang up, even if. 1:41:29.040 --> 1:41:31.760 It's like an emergency and it sounds like someone you know, 1:41:32.040 --> 1:41:34.439 hang up and just call them back right away with 1:41:34.600 --> 1:41:37.320 the number that you have on your end, just because 1:41:37.360 --> 1:41:40.880 spoofing is so scary. AI is like out of control. 1:41:41.680 --> 1:41:43.960 And then you know, when it comes to things on 1:41:44.040 --> 1:41:47.639 your computer or weird text messages from a fake shipping company, 1:41:48.040 --> 1:41:49.439 just don't click on anything. 1:41:49.600 --> 1:41:50.200 Don't click on. 1:41:50.160 --> 1:41:53.360 Anything, dot into the phone, you know, always hang up 1:41:53.400 --> 1:41:54.000 and call back. 1:41:54.560 --> 1:42:00.120 All right, Rosie Okamura, voice actress and content creator, thank 1:42:00.160 --> 1:42:01.519 you so much for joining me. I'm gonna let you 1:42:01.600 --> 1:42:04.160 take us to break So can you just let people 1:42:04.240 --> 1:42:07.240 know where they can find you and you know, online, 1:42:07.320 --> 1:42:09.040 and then say you're listening to rich on Tech, but 1:42:09.080 --> 1:42:11.080 do it in one of your fun voices and take us. 1:42:10.960 --> 1:42:11.519 To break here. 1:42:11.960 --> 1:42:14.559 Sure, thanks for listening to rich on Tech. 1:42:14.840 --> 1:42:17.439 Next we have a nice commercial break, and don't forget 1:42:17.439 --> 1:42:20.040 to follow me on all platforms at IRL. 1:42:20.240 --> 1:42:25.280 Rosie, great, welcome back to rich on Tech. What a 1:42:25.320 --> 1:42:30.599 great interview. Oh my gosh, that was fun. Welcome back 1:42:30.640 --> 1:42:31.200 to the show. 1:42:32.040 --> 1:42:34.280 I'm going to get to the feedback segment in just 1:42:34.360 --> 1:42:36.960 a second, but first let me just get through a 1:42:37.000 --> 1:42:40.000 couple things in a lightning round here. First off, Amazon, 1:42:41.280 --> 1:42:44.240 apparently we're removing it's just walk out technology from their 1:42:44.240 --> 1:42:46.920 Amazon Fresh stores in the US, So if you use 1:42:46.960 --> 1:42:49.680 this at the grocery store a couple locations in the 1:42:49.800 --> 1:42:52.519 LA area and other cities in America, apparently they're getting 1:42:52.560 --> 1:42:55.280 rid of that, but they're not giving up on the technology. 1:42:55.479 --> 1:42:59.560 They are going to license it to other third party businesses, 1:42:59.680 --> 1:43:02.120 so I know a lot of stadiums have this and 1:43:02.160 --> 1:43:04.360 things like that. The one thing I wanted to mention 1:43:04.800 --> 1:43:09.160 Amazon denies that they're just walk out technology was powered 1:43:09.200 --> 1:43:12.280 by contractors in India who would kind of watch what 1:43:12.320 --> 1:43:14.120 you were shopping for and add everything up. 1:43:14.120 --> 1:43:15.280 I knew that wasn't the case. 1:43:16.000 --> 1:43:19.840 Google is getting rid of their Google one VPN for 1:43:20.000 --> 1:43:25.639 their Google one subscribers, but the Pixel VPN will remain, 1:43:26.360 --> 1:43:30.559 so I guess nobody's using the Google one VPN, but 1:43:30.640 --> 1:43:33.360 if you have a Pixel you'll still have that. Charter 1:43:33.600 --> 1:43:36.200 is trying to fight back against the Fubos of the 1:43:36.200 --> 1:43:39.120 world and the YouTube TVs. They are now introducing their 1:43:39.160 --> 1:43:43.839 own streaming TV package. It's got up to ninety channels 1:43:43.920 --> 1:43:47.559 or ninety plus live popular channels. I don't think there's 1:43:47.560 --> 1:43:49.519 a lot of sports involved here, and that's how they 1:43:49.640 --> 1:43:51.800 keep this price down forty dollars a month, but you 1:43:51.920 --> 1:43:54.720 have to have Spectrum Internet. So they've got two new 1:43:54.760 --> 1:43:59.840 streaming TV packages, Spectrum TV Stream and Spectrum Stream. Latino 1:44:00.760 --> 1:44:03.720 Stream is forty Latino twenty five dollars a month. You 1:44:03.840 --> 1:44:07.720 have to have Internet through Spectrum to get those. Wirecutter 1:44:07.800 --> 1:44:11.800 has some new reviews on document scanners, and I was 1:44:12.880 --> 1:44:17.200 impressed to see that Brother swept the review. So all 1:44:17.280 --> 1:44:21.200 these little brother ads scanners are the apparently the best 1:44:21.240 --> 1:44:24.600 scanners out there. So if you're in the market for 1:44:24.640 --> 1:44:27.640 a scanner, check out Brother. They've got three models that 1:44:27.680 --> 1:44:32.040 were tops for the Wirecutter reviews. And if you're looking 1:44:32.040 --> 1:44:34.519 for a new pair of earbuds, I haven't fully tested them, 1:44:34.520 --> 1:44:36.320 but I did take my first run in them today. 1:44:36.360 --> 1:44:43.080 The Nothing ear and ear A wireless earbuds. 1:44:41.240 --> 1:44:42.320 Really really good. 1:44:42.360 --> 1:44:44.840 Like I'm very, very impressed, and the price is pretty good, 1:44:44.840 --> 1:44:47.800 one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars Nothing. I 1:44:47.840 --> 1:44:51.400 love this company. It's a funny name, but they do 1:44:51.439 --> 1:44:53.840 some really great stuff. I love their phone that they 1:44:53.840 --> 1:44:57.040 came out with, the Nothing phone this year. Nothing too. 1:44:57.479 --> 1:45:00.600 Now they've got earbuds. And when I put earbuds in 1:45:00.640 --> 1:45:02.519 my ears and they just sort of lock into my 1:45:02.560 --> 1:45:04.160 ears and they don't feel like they're gonna fall out, 1:45:04.200 --> 1:45:07.120 and they sound good. That is a winner in my book. 1:45:07.680 --> 1:45:11.840 Let's get to feedback here. Thomas and Redwing says, I 1:45:11.880 --> 1:45:15.479 was listening to your radio show regarding driverless vehicles. They 1:45:15.520 --> 1:45:19.360 will replace mass transit Without the cost of drivers and 1:45:19.400 --> 1:45:21.360 lifts and ubers, the cost of a ride will be 1:45:21.400 --> 1:45:25.320 considerably less than the cost of mass transit. Also, the 1:45:25.360 --> 1:45:28.880 convenience of door to door service ad ride sharing with 1:45:28.960 --> 1:45:31.839 your ride, the cost will be even lower. Mass transit 1:45:31.880 --> 1:45:35.519 will be finished within the next thirty years. Interesting thought. 1:45:36.439 --> 1:45:38.760 Tom says, I'm not sure, but I think wearing one 1:45:38.800 --> 1:45:42.160 of those limitless AI recorders in California will get you 1:45:42.200 --> 1:45:45.479 into trouble if you don't get consent from whoever else 1:45:45.560 --> 1:45:48.280 is being recorded. That's that pendant that you carry around 1:45:48.280 --> 1:45:50.960 your neck. It records everything and then becomes your own 1:45:51.040 --> 1:45:55.160 personal chat GBT. Tom says, do they pay the monthly 1:45:55.200 --> 1:45:56.400 fee for attorney's fees? 1:45:56.439 --> 1:45:56.719 Haha? 1:45:57.200 --> 1:46:00.640 Sort of kidding, Not really, there is I looked it up. 1:46:00.680 --> 1:46:04.360 There's a consent mode on the AI recorder, and I 1:46:04.400 --> 1:46:06.840 guess the first time it hears a new person's voice, 1:46:06.920 --> 1:46:09.200 it will say I need to hear their consent before 1:46:09.240 --> 1:46:10.000 I'll record them. 1:46:10.040 --> 1:46:10.439 I don't know. 1:46:10.600 --> 1:46:13.559 That sounds pretty wild. John says, I heard you talk 1:46:13.600 --> 1:46:15.680 about a clean install I don't need it now, but 1:46:15.720 --> 1:46:17.559 I'd like to be knowledgeable for the future. I have 1:46:17.560 --> 1:46:20.920 three laptops with Windows. Can I clean install without being 1:46:20.920 --> 1:46:24.200 connected to the Internet, and do I have to reinstall applications? 1:46:24.240 --> 1:46:24.559 Thanks? 1:46:24.640 --> 1:46:28.800 John, I listen every Saturday on KFI. Yes, a clean 1:46:28.840 --> 1:46:32.080 install you will have to reinstall your applications. That's the 1:46:32.120 --> 1:46:34.639 whole point of the clean install that it doesn't keep 1:46:34.680 --> 1:46:38.080 anything on there. Can you do it without the Internet? 1:46:38.240 --> 1:46:39.439 Yes? I believe you can. 1:46:39.560 --> 1:46:41.960 I know that Windows really tries to push the Internet 1:46:42.000 --> 1:46:46.040 connection when you're connecting and setting up, but you should 1:46:46.040 --> 1:46:48.800 be able to do it without the Internet. Michelle says, Hey, Rich, 1:46:48.800 --> 1:46:52.040 I'm embarrassed to ask this question. I have several Gmail addresses. 1:46:52.439 --> 1:46:54.639 Do I need to purchase and own the domain name 1:46:54.680 --> 1:46:57.040 from the registrar company for the Gmail address? 1:46:57.400 --> 1:46:57.879 Example? 1:46:57.960 --> 1:47:00.280 Do you need to purchase an annually pay to new 1:47:00.360 --> 1:47:04.360 richdemuro dot com from a registrar company for Richdemuro at 1:47:04.400 --> 1:47:09.000 gmail dot com. Well, you're asking two different things that 1:47:09.040 --> 1:47:12.479 don't really go together. So an email address at gmail 1:47:12.520 --> 1:47:14.880 dot com you do not need to purchase any sort 1:47:14.880 --> 1:47:17.479 of anything. You can just you know, use that. But 1:47:17.520 --> 1:47:19.760 if you want your email address to be Rich at 1:47:19.800 --> 1:47:23.080 richdemuro dot com, which I do have, you would need 1:47:23.120 --> 1:47:27.080 to purchase the registration for that domain. Now to get email. 1:47:27.200 --> 1:47:29.639 You could use a service like cloud flare. They can 1:47:29.680 --> 1:47:33.000 forward that email from any email address to your other 1:47:33.080 --> 1:47:36.600 email or you can purchase an email address for that 1:47:36.720 --> 1:47:40.280 domain from your registrar company and use that as your 1:47:40.360 --> 1:47:45.320 email address. Jay from Temecula says, you've probably mentioned this 1:47:45.360 --> 1:47:47.840 a few times. What kind of Wi Fi extender would 1:47:47.840 --> 1:47:51.599 you recommend for home use? Very frustrating have to run 1:47:51.640 --> 1:47:53.479 through the house to get near the router to make 1:47:53.560 --> 1:47:57.160 or answer a call. The only extender I recommend is 1:47:57.200 --> 1:48:02.880 one from Tplink tp R twenty. It's like twenty bucks. 1:48:02.920 --> 1:48:05.200 I would try that first see if it works. Otherwise 1:48:05.280 --> 1:48:08.400 I would say get a Mesh Wi Fi network. Ero 1:48:08.720 --> 1:48:11.880 and Orby are the two companies I recommend. I like 1:48:11.960 --> 1:48:14.840 them a lot, They work pretty well. People seem to 1:48:14.920 --> 1:48:17.720 like them. The Mesh network's going to be a lot 1:48:17.760 --> 1:48:20.439 better than an extender. Extender just takes a bad Internet 1:48:20.479 --> 1:48:23.800 signal and just puts it even further. All Right, that's 1:48:23.800 --> 1:48:25.559 going to do it for this episode of the show. 1:48:25.600 --> 1:48:27.839 You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website. 1:48:27.920 --> 1:48:30.920 Rich on Tech dot TV can find me on social media. 1:48:31.040 --> 1:48:34.400 I am at rich on Tech next week. Oh I'm 1:48:34.439 --> 1:48:36.839 doing something fun. We are going to test the Internet 1:48:37.600 --> 1:48:41.280 on a major airline and it's really really fast. I 1:48:41.320 --> 1:48:45.000 can't wait to bring you that finally fast Internet that's 1:48:45.120 --> 1:48:48.960 useful on an airline. Thanks so much for listening. There 1:48:49.000 --> 1:48:51.080 are so many ways you can spend your time. I 1:48:51.120 --> 1:48:54.120 do appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks 1:48:54.160 --> 1:48:58.800 to everyone who makes this show possible. Bobo, Kim Bill, 1:49:00.160 --> 1:49:05.040 who else? My kids, my wife, I don't know. Jason, Yeah, 1:49:05.160 --> 1:49:07.200 Jason gets the signal out there. We've got a lot 1:49:07.200 --> 1:49:10.640 of people. My name is Richdimiro. I will talk to 1:49:10.680 --> 1:49:11.719 you real soon.