WEBVTT - Social Media Issues, AR Glasses & Helpful Money Apps 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:05.360 Samsung has a new premium phone at a more accessible price, 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:10.320 Plus it has AI On day one, Adobe predicts record 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:14.319 breaking holiday e commerce sales. I'll tell you the best 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.280 days for discounts and the top items to watch. And 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.840 a popular smart TV has a new way to put 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.560 ads in front of your face. I'll tell you which 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.400 one and how to turn them off so you can 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:32.040 watch your TV shows in peace. Plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.000 What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.440 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.319 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.680 also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.240 I believe that tech should be interesting, useful and fun. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.640 Let's open up those phone lines at triple eight Rich 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.879 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.800 two four one zero one. Give me a call if 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.160 you have a question about technology. Email also an option. 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.640 Just go to Rich on tech dot TV up at 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.199 the top, hit contact, send me a message. It will 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:11.080 make its way to my inbox. We've got some great 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:16.040 guests this week. C Nets Scott Stein will compare Meta's 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.200 Quest three, their new ray band, smart glasses upgrades, and 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.040 their new AR prototype glasses. They call them O'Ryan. Remember 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.960 last week I told you about Snap Spectacles. Well, I 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.640 can't remember if I actually told you about him or not, 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.680 but I know I saw him and he's going to 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.360 compare in contrast because he's actually warned both of them. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:35.520 And how does this. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.200 Sound to take an air taxi high above traffic. We're 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.920 going to talk to Jobe Aviation's Eric Allison about their 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.560 new all electric air taxi. I saw this this week 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.360 and I have high hopes no pun intended. And later 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.680 we're going to talk to Parent Collective founder Samuel Chapman. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.920 He's going to talk about social media safety and the 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.680 recent impact of all the those school phone bands on 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.840 student well being. Well, before we start, I do want 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:09.040 to say a warm happy birthday to my mom. Mom, 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.400 Happy birthday. It is her birthday today. I did call 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.160 her and she had a great night last night with 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.080 the family. I am not there in New Jersey to 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.120 celebrate with you this year, but I will be out 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.840 there soon. So thanks as always for listening to this show, 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.160 and have a great birthday today. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.080 My mom has taught me so much. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.400 She had five kids, by the way, that is that 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.040 is no easy feat and she's still smiling, so that's 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:34.519 a good thing. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:36.400 Anyway. Happy birthday, Mom. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.120 Let me tell you about how I got in trouble 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.480 for trying to help you out. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.400 This is just wild and it. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.040 Really just goes to show why I started a newsletter, 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:51.760 why that I am on this show and trying to 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.040 do things to you know. Like I say in the beginning, 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:55.800 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.840 know about. So let me tell you about my recent 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.519 experience on Instagram. My Instagram is ruined at this point, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:02.400 and I'll tell you why. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:03.080 So. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:04.160 I don't know if you saw this. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.440 I'm sure you did for a while, but there was 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.440 this thing going around on Instagram that said goodbye Meta 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:13.239 AI and attorney has advised us to put this on. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.359 Failure to do so may result in legal consequences. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.000 You have to post this statement. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.600 If you don't post, you're okay with them using your 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.200 information and photos. I don't give Meta or anyone else's 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.600 permission to use any of my personal data, profile information, 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.160 or photos. This went around for a couple of days 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.120 and it spread like wildfire. Now give me a break. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.200 This is not real. It's a fake legal warning, like 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.440 you can't just post something on your Instagram stories or 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.840 your Facebook and expect to change the relationship the legal 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.880 terms and conditions between you and Facebook. It doesn't work 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.800 that way. No attorney told people to do this. Now, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.600 I don't know why people do this. They like to 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.520 spread this stuff and it's just funny. It's like a 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.040 chain letter back in the day. This has been going 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.200 on since the beginning of the internet, right, these fake 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.160 warnings and things that people say. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.440 Copy and paste, post and tell your friends. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:03.720 So I saw this, and I saw a bunch of 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.120 people emailing me about it, asking me if it was real. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.000 I said, all right, I got a post about this. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.080 So I take the post, I screenshot it, and I 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.320 put like a big bogus over it, and then I 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.120 posted it with an explanation of why it's not real 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.560 and all this stuff. Well, I could tell that Instagram 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.800 was not showing it to a lot of people because 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.680 you can see kind of like the likes and the comments, 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.440 and they really weren't coming in. I was like, ah, 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:32.080 that's interesting. They probably think I'm spreading this, as you know, misinformation. Well, 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.039 sure enough, I wake up the next morning and I 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.080 get a couple stern warnings from Instagram saying we. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.880 Have marked your post as false. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:45.480 You should not be spreading false information and misinformation, and 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.679 we had to take your post down. And they showed 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.480 me like a picture of the post where it was like, 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.919 this is false, it's been debunked, it's fake. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.000 And I was like, you've got to be kidding me, 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:56.320 like this is it's scanned. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.279 You know, AI is always scanning the stuff that you 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.640 upload to these social media networks and trying to figure. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.640 Out what you're uploading, if it's real or if it's fake. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.760 And of course they've heightened all of this stuff in 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.880 recent years with the advent of all this fake news 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.560 and things like that. And so my post that clearly 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:17.160 any human being in the world could understand was factual 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.800 and helpful and true, but their AI didn't. And so 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:23.839 then not only that, not only did they take my 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.279 post down and send me all these warnings, they said, oh, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.680 by the way, we've we've flagged your account now because 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:34.080 you're spreading misinformation. So now your account quality has been lowered, 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.000 So your stuff that you post will now be shown lower. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:38.679 In people's feeds. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.039 So if I post something important in the future, you 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.240 probably won't see it because face face, Instagram says, now 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.360 this guy's spreading false information. Also, you know, if I 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.359 monetized my account in a big way, you no longer 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.320 eligible for monetization. Instagram used to these things where like 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.960 they get influencers to post and they give them like bonuses. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:58.720 They don't really. 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.359 So it's funny because when reels first started, Instagram was 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.720 paying people to post reels because they wanted to take 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.640 over TikTok, and so they give you like a bonus 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.360 if you reached like twenty thousand views on reels. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:12.040 And what happened. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.240 All the influencers went to post those things, and yes, 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.359 I got a little money myself, and I tried it 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.080 out and okay, sure, But then all of a sudden, 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.280 as soon as reel's got popular, I guess what they did. Oh, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.120 they pulled back the reins on that, and nobody gets 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.359 it now. Now they're doing the same thing with threads. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.600 I'm not eligible for that. But yes, if you're noticing 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.679 people posting on threads, that's why, because they're getting a kickback. Anyway, 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.760 I tell you all that because my Instagram is ruined 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.000 now because not only is my stuff not being shown 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.960 to people as much, but also when I go on Instagram, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.000 I don't know how this happened, but now it's not 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.520 showing me posts from people. So when I go on 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.960 to Instagram, now it shows me one post from someone 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.720 I follow and it says you've seen all of your 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.320 new posts from the past three days, move on, and 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.640 then it goes into like suggestions. My point is, look, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.240 you got I was trying to do the right thing. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.080 It did not work, and I think that anyone Now 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.200 I don't have a huge following on these platforms. So 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.800 some people make like an actual living on Instagram, on Facebook, 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.800 on Twitter, on YouTube, and can you imagine losing that 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.160 overnight your entire platform? And so you got to be 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.760 careful with this stuff and think about it. Facebook is 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:24.000 really controlling a lot of things out there. Instagram, Facebook, 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.920 and now threads. And people are all about threads because 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.800 we know what happened with Twitter, and people are kind of, 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.880 you know, moving away from that in certain circles, and 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.280 so they're moving to threads because it's seen as a 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.120 better alternative. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:36.520 But guess what, Now you've. 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:41.640 Got three major information platforms all controlled by one company. 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.120 You do something wrong, your loggin gets hacked and boom. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.280 It affects all three of these things. So that brings 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.960 me my second part of this, which is the most 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.440 common thing that people email me. They say, hey, my 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.760 social media account was hacked, whether it's Facebook or Instagram, 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.120 and they say, rich, can you help me get it back? 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.080 And I really can There's not much I can do. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.400 I mean, yes, I did a story once where we 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.119 reached out to Facebook and they did help a woman 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.600 get her account back, but they don't do that on 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.800 a regular basis for me, especially not with the amount 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.559 of emails I'm getting. So let me just explain really 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.520 quickly how this happens, okay, and what you can do 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.560 about it. Number one, What typically happens is you get 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.760 an email or a notification that says there's been a 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.760 problem with your account and you need to log in 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.720 here and fix it. And you go, oh, no, I 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.320 don't want to lose all my pictures from that I 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.120 posted over the past ten years. You log in and 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.920 all of a sudden you realize that was totally bogus. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:35.280 And so what you just. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.880 Did was hand over your username and your password to hackers. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.640 And what do they do. They immediately go and take 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.480 over your account. They change your email address, they change 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.319 your password, they might even change other information on your account. 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.800 They start sending out scams messages to all of your 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.679 followers trying to get them into crypto scams, whatever, and 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.520 you can't get back in. So the official way to 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.320 get back in if this ever happens to you is 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:04.120 Instagram slash hacked and Facebook dot com slash hacked. That 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.080 doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna work. It's a frustrating process. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.080 I've talked to many people who go through it, and 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:10.160 it takes a long time. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.160 I'm not kidding. It's almost like you are. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:17.120 A one of those you know, if you're hijacked or whatever, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.320 Like if you're yes, like you're a hostage. You have 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.920 to literally hold up like a newspaper with like your 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.400 ID and the date today's date, to like have them 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.280 prove that it's you to get your account back. It's 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.040 pretty wild. So I'm telling you all of this because 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.200 I need you to set up two factor authentication two 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.080 day for both your Instagram and your Facebook accounts that 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.079 will protect you because let's say you mistakenly clicked one 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.760 of these links and you hand over your username and password, 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.800 they will get this thing that says, oh, now give 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.680 us that two factor code, and you're gonna get a 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.960 message that says, hey, did you just log in from Russia? 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.320 And you're gonna go no, and then you'll be like, oh, okay, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.960 I just totally got taken. And the thing is it 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.839 will save you in that moment. Now you need to 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:01.920 go and change your password and all that stuff, but 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.360 at least you'll be saved from your account getting hacked. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.480 So do that today. And do not use the same 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.000 password on different accounts. 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:09.400 Please. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.600 I've said this over and over, and the reason I'm 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.480 telling you this is because what they're gonna do is 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.240 they're going to take that password and use their name. 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.240 You just hand it over, and they're going to try 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.480 on all the other popular accounts out there. So now 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.800 you're gonna get hacked across other accounts because you reuse 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.160 that password. Please use a password manager, set up two 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.520 factor authentication. If you take nothing else away from me today. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:28.880 On this show. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.360 Those are the two most important things, because all of 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.240 this frustration can be solved so easily. And I'm not 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.960 saying these situations are perfect. These protections, but in ninety 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.199 nine percent of the circumstances. They will protect you. So 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.520 try it out. Please set it up, and please do 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.280 not reuse the same passwords. Apple has a new passwords 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.559 app and iosaighteen Bitwarden is free, and I also like 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.280 dash Lane as well. Use one of those to set 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.040 up your passwords and your two factors, and you will 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.640 be a much happier person and you don't have to 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:58.640 deal with all this stuff now. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:10:59.760 I don't know. For me, I don't know what I'm 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:00.200 gonna do. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.760 Hopefully one day my account will come back to one 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.760 hundred percent, but right now it's kind of sad. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:06.480 All right. 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.920 Coming up on today's show, I'm gonna tell you about 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.800 Samsung's new affordable smartphone. I'll tell you about that, and 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.160 we're gonna take your calls. You're up next at eighty 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.240 eight rich one O one that's eight eight eight seven 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.040 four to two four one zero one. Give me a 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.079 call if you have a question about technology. My name 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.360 is rich d'muro and you are listening to rich on Tech. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.839 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.439 out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:39.120 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.920 one zero one. Producer Adam came up with the term 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.360 for those things that people share online, the bogus uh 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.559 you know, disclaimers, misclaimers. It's like a combination of misinformation 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.400 and disclaimer smart uh. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:55.480 Rich on tech dot. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.880 Tv is the website to go to if you haven't 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:59.800 signed up for my newsletter, do that so you can 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.160 get all the stuff that Facebook and Instagram. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:07.559 Won't show you. Let's go to Arnold in Rancho Kukumonga 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:08.600 Arnold drawn. 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.360 With Rich good One. Hey, I recently added about six 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.959 or seven apps to my phone, and all of a 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.480 suddenly I'm getting this. When I try to take a 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.200 picture or do I just log in, I get this, 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.960 A game pops up or an AD pops up, and 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.720 I can't stop it, killing me, driving me crazy. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.559 That is that is really annoying. Okay, so a couple 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:33.520 of things. What did you want to install the apps? 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.560 I've tried to uninstall a few of them, but I 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.920 haven't done them all yet. And I saw some instruction 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.800 on the internet about going into safe mode and uninstalling 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.120 them first or something. But you know what, yeah, and 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.400 you know, you know, you know, I tried Google setting settings. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:48.520 I just have had no success. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:48.880 Okay. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.160 Now the other thing is are these coming up from 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.800 apps or are they coming up as Chrome notifications, because 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.840 that's that could be a difference. Like if they're popping 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.760 up if it's a Chrome kind of browser, that could 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.600 be a an app that you said, yes, i'll take 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.160 notifications when you're browsing the web, and next thing you know, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.520 it's sending you all these notifications that look like, so 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:08.680 what does the screen look like? 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.240 That's that's popping up. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.160 The game will come up like you know, the last 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:13.840 you want to install it, or just will be an 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:20.480 advertisement for what you know, just just advertising whatever, financial hotels, travel, whatever. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.719 So frustrating when I. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.720 First check in, you know that I'm trying to take 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:26.320 a quick quota. 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.760 They said, yeah, okay, well, first thing you do, I'll 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.000 tell you. I'll tell you all the steps that I 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.400 would do. Okay, So first things first, you got to 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.320 go through and uninstall all these apps that you install 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.280 to get rid of them. And you don't need to 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.000 do it in safe mode. You should be fine with 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.320 just uninstalling them. So go into Google Play or just 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.040 find the apps in your in your drawer and just uninstalled. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:47.559 Or actually I would just you know, just go into 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.800 Google Play and look at a list of all of 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.400 your apps and then uninstall them from there, or or 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.120 go into your app drawer, whatever you want to do. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.959 Once you do that, restart your phone see if it 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:01.120 happens again. If it's still happening, then something else got installed. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:02.920 So make sure you're looking for all the apps on 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.920 your phone that maybe it's side installed another app. And 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.440 then you probably want to go into Chrome and if 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.040 it's served up from Chrome, I would clear all of 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.080 your browsing data. So go into Chrome, go into your settings. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.200 It says delete browsing data, and I would do you know, 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:20.960 all time, and I would. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:21.640 Just get rid of all that. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.600 So that will get rid of it'll reset all the cookies, 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.600 the cash, everything, the history, any of those pop ups 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.000 that are happening, and that should that should fix it. 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.440 But if it doesn't again. Once you're done with all 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.000 these steps, restart your phone after each step. Then the 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.160 next thing I would do is go into your settings. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.200 On the Samsung, they've actually have a malware scanner built in, 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.680 so go into the settings and then under Device care, 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.200 scroll all the way down. It says, let's see whereas 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.040 I say app protection and then it says turn on 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.280 app protection to stay safe from malware and other suspicious activity. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.840 Turn that you can turn that on and it's going 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:06.440 to scan for any issues, and if it doesn't find anything, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.080 the next thing I would like you to do is 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.560 to download an app called malware Bytes. Malware Bytes does 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.920 have a malware scanner in it as well, and you 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.680 can do that. But I think between those steps you 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.280 don't need to do all of those steps. I would 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.760 just do them in the order I mentioned them, and 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.200 once you do them in that order, one of those 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:25.240 things should take care of it. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.040 I have a feeling this is. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.160 Being served up by a rogue website that you visited 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:34.080 on Chrome and it is now delivering Chrome notification pop 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.080 ups at that look like ads, and I think that's 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:41.080 what's happening. So thanks for the call today, Arnold. Very 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.640 very frustrating trying to take a picture and it's just 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:48.280 not really cooperating. Speaking of Samsung, they've got a new phone. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:52.120 It's called the S twenty four FE. This used to 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.240 be short for Fan Edition, so basically this is kind 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:59.160 of a full featured Samsung Galaxy, but at a cheaper price, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.440 so more expensive this year it's six hundred and fifty dollars, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:04.520 but don't buy it at that price. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:05.800 Do not buy it at that price. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.880 It will go on sale, So do not pay six 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.680 hundred and fifty dollars to this phone. But it's got 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.840 great feature It's got a six point seven inch screen, 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.960 it's got a bigger battery than last year. It's got 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.119 a fifty megapixel wide angle lens, got an eight megapixel 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.480 telephoto with three times optical. It's got an ultra wide 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.720 and a ten megapixel selfie. The big thing that Samsung 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.400 is promoting on this phone is that it's got AI 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.560 built in from day one. We all know that the 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.120 AI features on the newest iPhones are delayed, so Samsung 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.680 is using that to their advantage, saying, hey, we've. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:37.480 Got AI right now. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.720 And I did take this phone out last night take 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.120 some pictures at the pumpkin patch, and I am impressed 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.080 with the pictures. I thought the pictures were actually pretty good. 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:49.880 So if you're looking for a relatively inexpensive phone compared 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.800 to some of the ultras out there, the Samsung Galaxy 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.080 fe not a bad deal. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.040 Check it out brand new. I'm not even sure what 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:57.760 day it's shipping. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:02.280 Let's see beginning of over third eighty eight rich one 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.280 on one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.200 one zero one. Coming up, we're gonna talk to Scott 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:11.560 Stein of c neet about augmented reality glasses. 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:12.800 This is rich on Tech. 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.120 Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:23.920 out with you, talking technology. So this week, U meta man, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.520 we're talking a lot about Facebook. This week they had 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.560 their event called Meta Connect. This is when they show 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.280 off all of their new products and features and things 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.480 like that. And uh, the big headline was that they 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.879 came out with these augmented reality glasses they call Oriyan. 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:40.560 You can't buy them. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.720 They cost anywhere from like a thousand to ten thousand dollars. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.760 They are prototype, but they showed a whole bunch of 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.040 people put them on and it's almost like a holographic 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.720 display when you look through them. So I think what's 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.119 interesting here is that Snapchat came out with augmented reality 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:00.399 glasses last week and now Meta this week. And when 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.960 we see two major companies doing stuff like this, we 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.880 realize that this is happening. Here to talk about it 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.359 is Scott Stein from CNET. He covers this stuff for 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.480 a living there. So tell me first about these Orion glasses, like, 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:15.560 was it the future or what? 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.080 Well, it's the future where. 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.359 I think things need to go. You know, it's basically 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:25.600 like the convergence point. So yes, but it reminded me 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.200 a bit of vision pro in the sense that you 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.960 see a lot of pieces coming together from the landscape, 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.040 but not necessarily in the form that it needs to be. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.240 Vision Pro, I think is in terms of size and 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.880 the bulkiness, but Orion is in terms of just even 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.440 producing it. You know, that's the right size, but the 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.320 cost and the software and even the resolution aren't there yet. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.000 And what were you able to do? Like what was 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:50.960 the demo that you saw? 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.919 Yeah, so I got through about forty five minutes of stuff, 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:56.879 and a lot of it kind of felt some of 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.359 us felt like vision pro in the sense that you've 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.080 never used that before, where there's a grid of apps 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.240 and I used eye tracking to locate the app. But 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.920 what was interesting is to do pinch gestures to open 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.679 the apps. I didn't use any cameras in front of me. 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.800 I used a wristband that I wore that used EMG, 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.680 which is a type of neural input sensor that can 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.760 check electrical impulses and turn them into gesture awareness. So 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.800 I would tap it to open the app. Then I 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.720 would look, you know, look at a simulated incoming call 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.280 that I would answer that they set up in the 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.320 room where somebody was actually talking to me, but it 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.600 wasn't you know, like live and out there in the world. 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:37.000 And watch some videos. I got to play some games 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.400 that were kind of like VR games where I tilted 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.840 my head and use my eyes to control where the 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.359 ship was shooting and use my fingers to shoot. And 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.480 played the three D ping pong where we were standing 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.119 across the table and I was, you know, playing with 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.159 someone else, one of the other team members, using my 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.320 hand to hit the paddle. And you know, those are 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.960 kind of like VR, kind of like AR mixed reality 0:19:58.000 --> 0:19:59.800 things that have been out there, but the fact that 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.959 they're happening on wireless glasses that are that small, uh, 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.199 with a with a really good viewing area and that 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:07.920 type of wristband that's really new. 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:13.000 So and just a quick refresher explain what augmented reality 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:14.880 is versus virtual reality. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.399 Yeah, so virtual reality is something where the whole world 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.919 is blocked off and you're inside a three D you 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.640 know landscape like a like an Oculus quest Meta quest 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.200 that's out there, and augmented reality is the idea of 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.479 putting that into the real world and seeing things that 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.680 exist in overlaid or you know, three D or hovering 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.240 into the real world. And some of that's already available now. 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:40.399 When you see mixed reality headsets like the vision pro 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:44.560 requests three, they use cameras that show you the real 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.600 world and then layer it. What these glasses do and 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.000 AR headsets do is they actually have transparent lenses, so 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.399 you are seeing the real world, but it's giving this 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:57.600 ghostly layer of what you know when Bark Zuckerberg called holograms, 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.920 but they're basically that you know, three D display tech, 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:02.680 but without blocking out the real world. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.919 Okay, so that's interesting because you know Zuckerberg used this 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:11.560 holographic description Snapchat. I don't believe said the word holographic. 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:13.600 I was at that event and I tried those on 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.080 and you did as well. What did you think the 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:17.760 difference was? 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:17.879 Like? 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:19.800 Was the you know who did this better? 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.720 Totally similar concept. The difference is in a lot of 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:29.000 the nuances, you know, Snapchat viewing area is much narrower. 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.480 You probably know it is like you can see areas 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:35.600 of your viewing area where the three D effects you know, 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:36.560 kind of cut off. 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.000 Yeah, it's like a postage stamp in the middle of 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.280 the screen. Like it's like postage stamp in the middle 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:46.000 of the screen. Imagine that's where the overlay area is. Yeah, 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:49.600 it's like tall but very narrow. Med is is much better. 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.600 You did not see those edges, although also Metta had 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.639 demos that you know, cleverly show things that are you know, 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.159 in your area and not trying to overlap, almost like 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:01.240 the original Apple watchspases. You know that we're designed well, 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:05.199 you don't see the border as much, but you know 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.040 still it's wide seventy degrees, which. 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:09.000 Is what it is. 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:11.520 Is actually less wide than what you have on a 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.200 VR headset, which already feels a bit like a scuba mask. 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.600 So it's not that it's your entire area, but it's 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:21.000 close enough that you don't see that cutoff point. And 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.840 the resolution was actually a little bit lower than stuff 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.679 I've been used to, and Meta admitted that, you know, 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:30.280 it was totally fine for icons and videos and stuff, 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.560 but nowhere near where you'd want to watch a movie 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:34.320 in it, you know, like something like Apple Vision pro 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.960 is like a cinema quality experience. This is not that 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.480 it's not even aiming to be. Well, it is aiming 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.399 to be, but it's not there yet. They're talking about 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.480 having to improve the resolution, but it. 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:45.000 Will get there. 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:47.720 And I think at this point, and you can you 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:50.440 can tell me what you think, but I think we've 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:52.480 reached the tipping point now where, like I said, we 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.919 have two major companies working on this and getting it 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:59.879 to a really great demo in a small kind of 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.320 form factor. The technology is just going to continue to evolve. 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:05.680 So I do believe that we will be walking down 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.879 the street with sunglasses or glasses that do have the 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:11.040 heads up display that tell us you know, who's calling 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:13.240 in the corner, the music that you're playing, what you're 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:16.240 listening to, identify that plant that you're looking at. 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:17.640 Do you think that's going to be a reality. 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:20.240 Yeah, I think so. I think it's only a matter 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:22.480 of whether you choose to have it personally, kind of 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:24.800 like when smart watches came out, some people wanted them, 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:28.320 some people didn't. Or the battery life, you know, the 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:30.879 battery life and the power and how you connect to 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:34.399 it met is using this processor puck kind of like 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.800 a little computer. It's kind of like a stand in 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:40.720 for a phone, you know, but phones, to me, that's 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:44.119 what it is. Phones right now, you know, already have 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.120 lower battery life than many would like. And you want 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:50.440 to think about connecting something like glasses, but there's no protocol, 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:53.919 there's no system for that yet from either Google or Apple. 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:57.000 And I feel like we're seeing these glasses trying to 0:23:57.040 --> 0:23:59.600 figure it out before maybe in the future we have 0:23:59.720 --> 0:24:02.639 phones that are more powerful that are able to handle that. 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:05.960 And yeah, but I think it's I've seen it for years, 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:08.080 so I kind of I've always believed that it's possible. 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:10.600 But you're right, we're seeing now that it is happening, 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:12.880 and I think that's that's a real turning point where 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:17.840 they're putting it together. They're showing all the pieces and yeah, 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:20.439 we didn't think we'd wear wireless eyebuds, all of us, 0:24:20.480 --> 0:24:22.399 and we didn't think we'd wear smart watches and that 0:24:22.480 --> 0:24:22.960 happened too. 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:27.200 Yeah, and it is interesting because you mentioned the protocol, like, yeah, 0:24:27.240 --> 0:24:30.400 of course Google, Android, Apple, they would love to have 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:32.760 a way for these glasses to interact so they can 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:35.720 run all the processing on the phone and the glasses 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:38.080 are just sort of a display. But of course these 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:42.760 tech companies like Meta especially would love to have this takeover, 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:47.560 you know, independent of something like iOS or Android, because 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:49.359 that would be a win for them. 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:52.679 Yeah, and I see a similarity there between Snap Spectacles 0:24:52.720 --> 0:24:55.840 and Meta Orion and that they're both companies will you 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:58.639 know that have phone apps that have that don't have 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:02.520 their own over the OS ecosystem, but are trying to 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:05.679 find ways to drive stuff. Met is a lot bigger 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:08.600 and has a lot more pieces to that puzzle. But yeah, 0:25:08.640 --> 0:25:11.240 that's exactly it. And I feel like that still needs 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:13.960 to be solved, like you know, use vision pro or 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:17.639 questadsets and things at home because they can't be phones. 0:25:17.680 --> 0:25:20.640 They can't go around outside for a variety of reasons. 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:24.720 And Orian the demo was indoors. It was all on 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:27.000 a self contained network. But in the future, when you 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:29.680 wear it around, it will have to be like a phone, 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:32.359 or it'll have to learn how to navigate that same 0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:36.400 you know landscape. Qualcomm's been trying to solve those things too, 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:39.119 you know, in the weeds lurking around through all of 0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:42.159 these products, and that's been a sign of you know 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:43.520 those aspirations. 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:45.440 All right, Scott, we're gonna leave it there. 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:48.680 Thanks so much for joining me today, Scott Stein at cnet. 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:52.400 He's been covering VR and AR for a while now, 0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:53.960 so if you want to read up on all that stuff, 0:25:54.040 --> 0:25:57.159 jets Scott on social media. Scott, thanks so much for 0:25:57.280 --> 0:26:00.560 joining me today. Hey, thank you, rich all right, great day. 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:03.119 And by the way, little little trivia, me and Scott. 0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:05.760 I think we went to the same magic store growing up, right, 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:06.679 the mecha magic? 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:09.800 Did you I know about the one I did go? 0:26:09.920 --> 0:26:10.879 Where was mecha magic? 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:13.240 Mecha Magic? I think it was like in like somewhere 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:15.439 in New Jersey. I feel like that's for anyway it was. 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:17.840 It was a while ago, amazing. I went to Ron 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:20.120 Joe's and I went to Tannin's. But now I'm gonna 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:21.399 have to look out for look up, to look up 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:23.119 for yours, look up Mecha Magic. I think it was 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:26.000 in Bloomfield, New Jersey. I think anyway here and oh 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:26.400 my god. 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:28.720 Wish it was still open. Oh no, I never went there. 0:26:28.800 --> 0:26:29.720 Okay, that's a shame. 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:30.480 I wish I had. 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:32.040 Thanks, Scott, appreciate it all right. 0:26:32.280 --> 0:26:35.160 Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:37.600 four to two four one zero one. I knew Scott 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:39.919 was into magic. I had a feeling because he's in 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:41.240 New Jersey that we went to the same but I 0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:44.040 guess not eighty eight rich one on one eight eight 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:46.160 eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:26:46.160 --> 0:26:51.760 More of your calls right up next, Let's go to 0:26:52.440 --> 0:26:55.280 Diana in Torrance. What can I help you with? 0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:58.760 Thank you so much for taking my call. And I 0:26:58.800 --> 0:27:01.480 had called in a while back to your show with 0:27:01.560 --> 0:27:06.280 a question about how to log in remotely and screenshare 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:09.480 from my Max to other computers, and you helped me 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:12.040 with a great suggestion, which was team viewer. 0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:12.400 Great. 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:15.480 We'll leave the call right there. Thank you, No says kidding. 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:18.160 Now you're having a problem with it. 0:27:18.520 --> 0:27:23.800 Well, it worked, you know. I figured it out without 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:25.840 too much trouble, and I got it working, and it 0:27:25.920 --> 0:27:28.880 was working great for a while, like maybe a month 0:27:28.960 --> 0:27:31.480 or two, and then all of a sudden, one day 0:27:31.680 --> 0:27:34.919 it started just logging me out after five minutes with 0:27:35.480 --> 0:27:39.040 seemingly no explanation, and so I couldn't see I thought 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:42.960 it just became like glitchy or flaky. And then I 0:27:43.000 --> 0:27:47.240 have different devices, different computers and iPhones, and iPads that 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:50.240 I used to do this, and then I caught, like 0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:54.120 on one of the devices a message that said something like, oh, 0:27:54.160 --> 0:27:59.400 you're using too much, which I'm not. I'm just using 0:27:59.400 --> 0:28:03.040 it either sometimes they do some streaming or else I'm 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:09.520 helping my parents troubleshoot their computers. And so since I'm 0:28:09.720 --> 0:28:13.439 trying to use the free license, I don't even begin 0:28:13.760 --> 0:28:16.119 to know how to get help for this, or how 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:19.680 to how or why my account got flagged like this. 0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:22.480 Yeah. 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:25.800 So, so the way that Team Viewer works is it is, 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:27.720 you know, it's kind of a freemium thing, so they 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:31.199 do have you know, their main business is obviously selling 0:28:31.240 --> 0:28:33.439 this to people who pay them, right, and that's how 0:28:33.440 --> 0:28:36.479 they make it and survive and all that good stuff. 0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:40.480 But then they give away a free version for personal use. 0:28:40.560 --> 0:28:44.280 Now I think, you know what happens is there must 0:28:44.280 --> 0:28:48.040 be a limit on the free use because they don't 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:51.680 want people that run companies using this for their company, 0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:54.600 because then why pay for it. Ever, so I think 0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:57.120 that they must have some sort of algorithm in place 0:28:57.800 --> 0:29:00.200 that tells them, Okay, we see this person logged in 0:29:00.280 --> 0:29:02.720 every day or every you know whatever, and we're using 0:29:02.760 --> 0:29:05.560 it this much and so we will flag those accounts. 0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:08.680 It's probably an automatic thing that happens just to kind 0:29:08.720 --> 0:29:12.480 of protect the business model. So you could try to 0:29:12.640 --> 0:29:14.680 I don't know what the service is like through them, 0:29:14.800 --> 0:29:17.080 to get in touch with them and say, hey, you know, 0:29:17.080 --> 0:29:18.200 I'm using this personally. 0:29:18.560 --> 0:29:20.920 How many hours a day are you using this? You think. 0:29:22.560 --> 0:29:30.040 It was well, not not a regular not consistently in 0:29:30.240 --> 0:29:32.800 a long period of time every day, but some on 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:35.520 some days I might use it for quite a while, 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:39.760 and then it might be you know, days in between 0:29:39.800 --> 0:29:41.800 when I use it, So it's not it was not 0:29:41.840 --> 0:29:43.960 on a consistent basis or anything. 0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:45.840 Okay, but I but I did have. 0:29:45.800 --> 0:29:49.280 Like various different devices I would try to connect to. 0:29:49.640 --> 0:29:51.400 Yeah, and you know, so I think I think what's 0:29:51.440 --> 0:29:54.040 happening is you're just flagging their systems. So you can 0:29:54.080 --> 0:29:56.240 try to get in touch with them and appeal and say, hey, look, 0:29:56.280 --> 0:29:58.440 you know, i'm personal I'm just using this to do 0:29:58.520 --> 0:30:01.000 this and whatever. The other thing you can do is 0:30:01.120 --> 0:30:04.680 try a different program, which is uh, it's see. The 0:30:04.720 --> 0:30:07.600 problem is, I think it's a little bit more complicated 0:30:07.640 --> 0:30:13.080 to set this up. There's one called rust Desk, and 0:30:13.520 --> 0:30:15.959 it is completely free, but I think that this is 0:30:16.480 --> 0:30:18.600 a little bit more complicated because it looks like you 0:30:18.680 --> 0:30:22.440 have to self host with like your own server, which 0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:25.280 I think is is way too complicated for you know, 0:30:25.320 --> 0:30:28.160 the average person set up. I think that's what you know, 0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:30.280 that's that's the problem with all of these systems is 0:30:30.320 --> 0:30:32.920 that there needs to be like a conduit for it 0:30:33.000 --> 0:30:34.560 to go through. And I think that that, you know, 0:30:34.600 --> 0:30:36.960 there is a cost involved for this company anytime you're 0:30:37.000 --> 0:30:39.560 on it. So the other thing you can do is, 0:30:39.600 --> 0:30:42.280 depending on what you're trying to do, there is Chrome 0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:45.719 Remote Desktop, and so that one is a lot easier. 0:30:45.720 --> 0:30:49.040 It's basically a very quick, easy installation, So I think 0:30:49.080 --> 0:30:51.200 that might be a good place to just check and 0:30:51.240 --> 0:30:54.960 see if that works for you. Because this is free 0:30:55.520 --> 0:30:59.680 and it basically lets you access your computer, you know, 0:30:59.800 --> 0:31:02.880 through a phone, a tablet or another computer. So that 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:05.480 is another thing that I would look at. And it's 0:31:05.520 --> 0:31:09.240 pretty simple. It works on iOS or Android, and it's 0:31:09.320 --> 0:31:13.080 like very very simple. That's called Google Chrome Remote Desktop 0:31:13.120 --> 0:31:15.000 and there are no I don't even think they have 0:31:15.040 --> 0:31:16.760 a paid plan for that one. I think it's just 0:31:16.800 --> 0:31:20.920 completely free. So I would check those Diana and otherwise, 0:31:21.200 --> 0:31:24.480 So again start with appealing like go on the customer 0:31:24.520 --> 0:31:27.760 service with Team Viewer. See what they say, like, hey, okay, 0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:29.680 your account got flag. Explain to them if you can 0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:31.760 do it might be like a ticket like an email system. 0:31:31.800 --> 0:31:34.760 That's what I'm guessing. And then if that doesn't work, 0:31:34.800 --> 0:31:37.200 you can't really get that to work again. 0:31:37.280 --> 0:31:39.040 The alternative is rust desk. 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:42.120 You might also want to pay, like there's so many 0:31:42.120 --> 0:31:43.960 companies like go to my PC and all these other 0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:47.600 companies that you know, you can pay for any desk. 0:31:47.640 --> 0:31:50.800 I mean, there's many many paid services here. You might 0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:52.760 even pay for Team Viewer if you feel like it's 0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:55.560 worth it. But those are some of the big ones. 0:31:55.600 --> 0:31:58.400 But Chrome Remote Desktop is another alternative that you may 0:31:58.440 --> 0:32:01.239 want to look into. Thanks for call Diana, appreciate it. 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:08.640 In torrents today, let's see oh lgtvs ads on the screen. 0:32:08.800 --> 0:32:12.280 Oh my gosh, we cannot escape advertising. It's everywhere on 0:32:12.320 --> 0:32:17.320 our smart devices. So now LG Premium O led TVs 0:32:17.440 --> 0:32:21.280 are showing people ads screen full screen screensaver ads on 0:32:21.280 --> 0:32:25.360 their smart TVs. The ad appears before the typical screen 0:32:25.360 --> 0:32:28.920 saver starts. The ads are for various things, could be 0:32:29.080 --> 0:32:32.960 LG zoned services, other partners You could disable this by 0:32:33.000 --> 0:32:35.360 going into the TV settings. There's a little switch that 0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:38.040 says don't show screensaver ads, but we are seeing these 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:43.200 everywhere Amazon, Google, Roku, Apple TV is really the last 0:32:43.240 --> 0:32:45.560 place where there's not a lot of home screen ads. 0:32:46.480 --> 0:32:48.680 Worst comes to worst. You can also just pull your TV. 0:32:48.560 --> 0:32:50.560 Out from the internet if you don't need that smart 0:32:50.600 --> 0:32:53.400 TV functionality, you know, turn off that Wi Fi or 0:32:53.520 --> 0:32:56.600 take it out of the internet. Eighty eight rich one 0:32:56.640 --> 0:32:59.400 o one eight eight eight seven four two four one 0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:04.560 zero one. We're Rich on Tech right after this. Welcome 0:33:04.600 --> 0:33:07.280 back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out 0:33:07.280 --> 0:33:09.680 with you, talking technology. 0:33:10.080 --> 0:33:11.280 Welcome back to the show. 0:33:11.360 --> 0:33:14.400 Phone lines are open at eight eight eight rich one 0:33:14.440 --> 0:33:16.840 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:33:17.240 --> 0:33:20.560 four one zero one. Coming up in the show, We've 0:33:20.560 --> 0:33:22.840 still got some great guests. We're gonna talk about flying 0:33:22.880 --> 0:33:25.760 air taxis. I don't know if you watched The Jetsons 0:33:25.800 --> 0:33:27.760 like I did when I was a kid, but I've 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:31.400 dreamed of a flying car of course, back to the future. 0:33:31.520 --> 0:33:34.000 I mean, who doesn't want this, Well, probably a lot 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:37.080 of people, but I do. I mean, how many times 0:33:37.120 --> 0:33:38.800 have I been stuck in traffic and I'm just like 0:33:38.840 --> 0:33:42.280 I would love to fly over this. Uh, that reality 0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:44.680 is actually getting closer than you might think. We're going 0:33:44.760 --> 0:33:48.720 to talk to a guest about that. Uh, and later 0:33:48.760 --> 0:33:51.560 in the show, we're gonna talk about social media and 0:33:51.720 --> 0:33:54.360 kids and all the issues that they have with that. 0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:58.080 You know, I'm always testing something, by the way, this 0:33:58.120 --> 0:34:00.920 week a couple of new products. It's honey, I you know, 0:34:00.920 --> 0:34:03.080 I do my job at KTLA, so I'm a tech 0:34:03.120 --> 0:34:05.520 reporter here in Los Angeles on the rate on the 0:34:05.560 --> 0:34:07.640 TV station, and then when I go home, it's like 0:34:07.640 --> 0:34:09.759 all these boxes to open and like, you know, test 0:34:09.800 --> 0:34:12.040 out these products, set them up this and that. So 0:34:12.160 --> 0:34:14.560 this week a couple of products I was testing. First off, 0:34:14.600 --> 0:34:17.799 the new Google TV streaming box. So you know you've 0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:21.600 got streaming boxes from Roku, You've got Apple TV, You've 0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:25.759 got Fire TV is that it Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, 0:34:26.520 --> 0:34:28.200 and then you've got all the smart TVs. But then 0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:30.759 Google used to have like a Chrome cast and the 0:34:30.800 --> 0:34:33.880 streaming boxes or streaming dongles. Now they've got like a 0:34:33.880 --> 0:34:37.640 streaming box. It's a hundred bucks and it's pretty cool. 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:39.920 It looks just like Google TV. If you've been using that, 0:34:40.200 --> 0:34:42.400 I know, my TV has Google TV built in, but 0:34:42.480 --> 0:34:44.160 this is like in a box that's supposed to be 0:34:44.320 --> 0:34:46.719 a little bit more powerful, a little bit better. But 0:34:46.840 --> 0:34:48.920 I thought was so funny when I set this thing up. Well, 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:51.560 number one, there's no HDMI cable. First thing I noticed, 0:34:51.760 --> 0:34:53.920 I'm like, where's the HMI cable. I can't connect this 0:34:53.960 --> 0:34:55.840 thing to the TV. So I had to pull the 0:34:56.000 --> 0:34:59.640 HDMI cable for my Apple TV, which is black, and 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:03.200 the the little Google TV is like a cream color, 0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:06.239 so it just completely does not match. Like Google, you 0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:09.520 should have included if you're gonna make a device that's 0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:12.320 not like a standard color like, you should include the 0:35:12.440 --> 0:35:14.520 HDMI cable. So people like me, I could see this 0:35:14.600 --> 0:35:16.600 box and it like really bugs me that one of 0:35:16.600 --> 0:35:18.360 the cables coming out of the back is black and 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:20.640 one is white, and so it's just like this weird 0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:23.319 kind of like it needs to you know, it needs 0:35:23.360 --> 0:35:26.359 to blend in anyway. But I'm not the only person 0:35:26.360 --> 0:35:28.200 that noticed it didn't come with an HDMI cable. A 0:35:28.239 --> 0:35:31.000 lot of people are commenting about that online. But the 0:35:31.040 --> 0:35:33.560 thing that I thought was really interesting is that you 0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:36.320 go through all this hassle of getting like a streamer, 0:35:36.440 --> 0:35:38.680 like a streaming box, and then what do I find 0:35:38.719 --> 0:35:40.800 on it? They've got this new thing called Google TV 0:35:41.000 --> 0:35:43.880 free Play, and it's like one hundred and fifty channels 0:35:43.920 --> 0:35:46.359 of like free stuff you can watch. But the best 0:35:46.400 --> 0:35:48.600 part is that's nothing new. The best part is they've 0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:50.759 made it so you can flip through the channels, just 0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:54.759 like an old school TV. So we've come completely full 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:56.880 circle of you know how you sit in front of 0:35:56.920 --> 0:36:00.239 your TV and you can't find anything to watch. You 0:36:00.280 --> 0:36:02.920 go through all this hassle of getting like a streamer, 0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:05.319 like a streaming box, and then what do I find 0:36:05.320 --> 0:36:05.520 on it? 0:36:05.560 --> 0:36:07.680 They've got this new thing called Google TV. 0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:10.480 Free Play, and it's like one hundred and fifty channels 0:36:10.520 --> 0:36:13.000 of like free stuff you can watch. But the best 0:36:13.040 --> 0:36:15.160 part is that's nothing new. The best part is they've 0:36:15.200 --> 0:36:17.359 made it so you can flip through the channels, just 0:36:17.480 --> 0:36:21.359 like an old school TV. So we've come completely full 0:36:21.400 --> 0:36:23.520 circle of you know how you sit in front of 0:36:23.520 --> 0:36:26.799 your TV and you can't find anything to watch, and 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:28.799 you don't want to start stuff on Netflix because then 0:36:28.800 --> 0:36:30.560 it goes into that little bar of like, oh you 0:36:30.800 --> 0:36:33.239 just watch this, like continue watching You're like, no, I didn't, 0:36:33.280 --> 0:36:35.920 I just just chose like to watch a trailer for that. 0:36:37.239 --> 0:36:39.760 So sometimes you just want stuff playing in the background. 0:36:39.920 --> 0:36:42.439 Just like old school TV, right when you got home, 0:36:42.680 --> 0:36:44.840 used to just turn on the TV. It played stuff. 0:36:45.080 --> 0:36:47.920 It just played forever, whether it was a news or 0:36:48.080 --> 0:36:52.280 you know, yeah see Adam knows. But with this streaming stuff, 0:36:52.480 --> 0:36:54.359 you can't just come home and like turn on the TV. 0:36:54.480 --> 0:36:57.080 You have to like use that brain power to like 0:36:57.160 --> 0:36:59.239 select what do I want to watch? And you're not 0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:01.719 gonna put like your Netflix show that you're binging on 0:37:01.800 --> 0:37:04.960 in the background. You want something like news or sports 0:37:05.080 --> 0:37:08.799 or whatever just like playing. And now anyway, so now 0:37:08.840 --> 0:37:10.600 you can do that. So it's got all these channels 0:37:10.640 --> 0:37:12.640 and I was flipping through and it was just so 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:14.200 cool because I was like, you can press up and 0:37:14.200 --> 0:37:15.879 down on the remote and just flip through all these 0:37:15.920 --> 0:37:18.280 they're streaming, they're not coming in through an antenna or cable. 0:37:18.560 --> 0:37:20.960 They're just free. And so what did I land on? 0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:25.440 Supermarket Sweep? I was watching a Supermarket Sweep from like 0:37:25.800 --> 0:37:27.719 I don't know how many twenty years ago when was 0:37:27.760 --> 0:37:28.319 that show on? 0:37:28.920 --> 0:37:30.600 But as a kid, that show was so fun. 0:37:30.640 --> 0:37:32.839 You know, they're running through that grocery store, pulling all 0:37:32.840 --> 0:37:34.919 these I always wondered there must have been a rule 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:36.920 in that show where you couldn't just like sweep the 0:37:36.960 --> 0:37:39.279 stuff off the shelf into your cart, like with a 0:37:39.320 --> 0:37:42.200 big scoop of a hand, because people didn't do that. 0:37:42.440 --> 0:37:44.279 They like pick stuff off the shelves and like put 0:37:44.280 --> 0:37:45.920 it in the basket, So there must have been a 0:37:46.000 --> 0:37:48.520 rule for that. But the thing is that these old 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:51.160 shows have like a new life because people just want 0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:53.200 stuff on in the background, and so they've got like 0:37:53.280 --> 0:37:56.880 channels that show like, you know, all the old you know, 0:37:56.960 --> 0:38:00.840 late night TV shows, Johnny Carson. They have shows channels 0:38:00.840 --> 0:38:03.440 that just show like crime dramas the whole time. So 0:38:03.520 --> 0:38:04.240 it's pretty interesting. 0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:04.560 Anyway. 0:38:04.600 --> 0:38:07.319 That's called Google TV free Play. It's really I mean, 0:38:07.320 --> 0:38:09.400 this box is fine. I think that the Google stuff 0:38:09.440 --> 0:38:12.280 is really cool. Apparently two hundred and seventy million people 0:38:12.360 --> 0:38:15.400 use Google TV every month. So if you're looking for 0:38:15.440 --> 0:38:17.719 a new kind of like streaming streaming box that's a 0:38:17.760 --> 0:38:21.520 little different from the Apple TV, the Roku, the fire TV, 0:38:21.719 --> 0:38:23.160 this is a nice alternative. 0:38:23.480 --> 0:38:23.800 Also. 0:38:24.000 --> 0:38:25.680 The other thing I liked is it has a find 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:28.480 my Remote button on the back, so you lose the 0:38:28.520 --> 0:38:30.800 remote and the seat cushions, you go up to the 0:38:30.840 --> 0:38:31.759 actual streaming box. 0:38:31.760 --> 0:38:32.839 Theer's a button on the back of it. 0:38:32.880 --> 0:38:35.240 You press it and the remote makes a sound, which 0:38:35.320 --> 0:38:37.160 you know, some of the other things do that as well, 0:38:38.080 --> 0:38:41.319 but that's that's the other cool feature. I thought you 0:38:41.360 --> 0:38:43.680 could also make screen art with AI. It's really good 0:38:43.719 --> 0:38:46.480 at like finding movies and stuff with AI. So if 0:38:46.480 --> 0:38:48.480 you want like a really cutting edge kind of like 0:38:48.920 --> 0:38:51.360 I don't know, streaming system, I think Google's doing a 0:38:51.360 --> 0:38:54.520 good job. The other thing I'm testing, we often will 0:38:54.560 --> 0:38:58.040 get a cat as a foster, and so I said, look, 0:38:58.320 --> 0:39:00.480 we usually get kittens that if like nor and they're 0:39:00.640 --> 0:39:02.560 messy and they take over your whole house, and there's 0:39:02.600 --> 0:39:05.080 usually like a couple of them, like two three kittens 0:39:05.080 --> 0:39:08.920 that you're getting at a time. Well, this company, Nakasa 0:39:09.520 --> 0:39:12.839 Nia Casa. I've always been fascinated with this idea because 0:39:12.840 --> 0:39:14.839 I don't really want a cat, but I like the 0:39:14.840 --> 0:39:16.920 idea of cats, and my kids love cats. But the 0:39:16.960 --> 0:39:19.640 litter box is always like such an issue, right you 0:39:19.680 --> 0:39:21.560 got because who's end up who ends up cleaning the 0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:22.040 litter box? 0:39:22.120 --> 0:39:22.360 Like me? 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:25.440 Whenever we have these you're really on with this uh 0:39:26.480 --> 0:39:31.840 things today? Yes, Okay, Adam doesn't talk to me. He 0:39:31.880 --> 0:39:34.239 only talks me through the ringing of that bell. 0:39:35.480 --> 0:39:35.840 Anyway. 0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:38.160 So I've been I've had this thing to set up 0:39:38.200 --> 0:39:39.759 for like a couple of months now, and I've been 0:39:39.760 --> 0:39:41.920 waiting for the right opportunity to test out this self 0:39:41.960 --> 0:39:42.960 cleaning litter box. 0:39:43.440 --> 0:39:44.440 And maybe you've seen them. 0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:45.960 They have some that like you put the litter in 0:39:46.000 --> 0:39:48.400 and they rotate around to scoop out, you know, whatever 0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:51.880 the cat does in there. This one actually kind of 0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:54.840 sits flat, like an open which they say the cats 0:39:54.920 --> 0:39:56.799 like better because they can see around the box when 0:39:56.800 --> 0:39:59.319 they're going to the bathroom. And then as soon as 0:39:59.320 --> 0:40:01.560 they're done, you know, it kind of feels the weight 0:40:01.600 --> 0:40:03.320 of the cat jump in there, and a couple of 0:40:03.360 --> 0:40:07.759 minutes later, it kind of turns upwards, almost like those 0:40:07.800 --> 0:40:10.719 like rides at the carnival, like those boats, you know, 0:40:10.800 --> 0:40:12.440 like go back and forth. It does that, and it 0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:16.400 gets all the droppings like into this little catch area 0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:18.480 like a little tray, and so you can go like 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:20.680 two weeks without cleaning the kitty. 0:40:20.760 --> 0:40:21.000 Letter. 0:40:21.040 --> 0:40:23.200 I mean, we'll see, I'm testing it, we'll see, But 0:40:23.280 --> 0:40:25.200 already the cat used it once today and as soon 0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:27.520 as the cat jumped out, the litter cleaned itself. You 0:40:27.520 --> 0:40:29.720 could hear a little stuff like falling into the bottom. 0:40:29.760 --> 0:40:34.239 I thought that was pretty cool. Not cheap this one is. 0:40:34.280 --> 0:40:36.080 It looks like it's currently on sale for about five 0:40:36.120 --> 0:40:39.719 hundred bucks. So that's probably what keeps most people from saying, oh, 0:40:39.719 --> 0:40:41.440 this would be a great thing to have in my house. 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:44.399 But when you do that math over time, I mean, 0:40:44.400 --> 0:40:47.720 this is like a this is like again the stuff 0:40:47.719 --> 0:40:50.200 that we imagined right that would be in the future, 0:40:50.360 --> 0:40:53.600 like your litter box would clean itself. We actually have 0:40:53.760 --> 0:40:55.799 that now. But a lot of this stuff is just 0:40:55.880 --> 0:40:58.680 you know, it's so prohibitively expensive for most people that 0:40:58.719 --> 0:41:01.480 they don't get it. But I do know people that have, 0:41:01.600 --> 0:41:03.239 like I think the whisker is the other one, the 0:41:03.239 --> 0:41:05.040 one that rotates, and people who have. 0:41:05.040 --> 0:41:06.680 These things absolutely love them. 0:41:07.080 --> 0:41:09.000 So anyway, the cat we got, by the way, is 0:41:09.040 --> 0:41:11.920 an adult cat, and it was like a stray that 0:41:11.960 --> 0:41:14.239 they found, and they're like, be very gentle with it. 0:41:14.239 --> 0:41:16.360 It's gonna be you know, skittish and this and that. 0:41:16.400 --> 0:41:19.120 This cat is like it's like a dog. It follows 0:41:19.160 --> 0:41:21.480 you around the house and it just literally is just 0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:24.040 like the happiest little cat I've ever seen. And by 0:41:24.040 --> 0:41:26.920 the way, it's like small, it's like fully grown, but 0:41:26.960 --> 0:41:30.680 it's small. So my entire family are cat people. They 0:41:30.920 --> 0:41:33.440 we literally we have a Telegram family group chat, and 0:41:33.840 --> 0:41:36.640 ninety nine percent of the telegram messages are just my 0:41:36.760 --> 0:41:39.520 family taking pictures of their cats doing stuff. And I'm like, 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:42.799 really anyway, and it's cute, but you know, you have 0:41:42.840 --> 0:41:45.640 to be into that stuff. If you woke up and 0:41:45.680 --> 0:41:49.400 you found that your Kespersky anti virus on your computer 0:41:49.600 --> 0:41:52.719 was replaced with a new program called ultra AV, well 0:41:52.760 --> 0:41:53.480 you're not alone. 0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:55.200 All of a sudden. 0:41:55.719 --> 0:41:59.800 Earlier this month, people found that this program just changed names. 0:42:00.160 --> 0:42:04.080 The Kespersky uninstalled itself and installed this new program called 0:42:04.160 --> 0:42:08.040 ultra AV, and people were like what they were concerned. 0:42:08.080 --> 0:42:12.160 They were confused, as many people are in general, wondering 0:42:12.200 --> 0:42:17.080 if this was malware. And sure enough, Ultra av purchased 0:42:17.560 --> 0:42:20.120 the business from Kespersky. Because I don't if you remember, 0:42:20.120 --> 0:42:21.959 we talked about this on the show a while back, 0:42:22.320 --> 0:42:27.719 the US banned Kespersky because of its Russian origins. I 0:42:27.719 --> 0:42:29.440 guess it's based over in Russia, and they said, no, 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:30.560 they can't have that on us. 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:31.319 Computers. 0:42:31.680 --> 0:42:33.600 I mean, we saw what happened with CrowdStrike, you know 0:42:33.640 --> 0:42:36.360 where that was a mistake, and look how many computers 0:42:36.400 --> 0:42:38.399 it took down. Imagine if a company wanted to take 0:42:38.440 --> 0:42:41.960 down computers in the US. And you know, I'm not 0:42:42.000 --> 0:42:44.840 saying that Kespersky is nefarious in any way, shape or form, 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:46.919 but if they wanted to be, they could because they're 0:42:46.960 --> 0:42:47.840 on a lot of computers. 0:42:48.160 --> 0:42:49.520 A lot of programs could do that. 0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:53.439 So anyway, so this was purchased by a company called 0:42:53.480 --> 0:42:58.600 Pango Group. They have VPN brands as well, and people 0:42:58.600 --> 0:42:59.880 were like, well, you never told us you were going 0:42:59.920 --> 0:43:01.480 to do this, and Pango. 0:43:01.160 --> 0:43:01.879 Said, yeah, we did. 0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:06.200 We notified you like September fifth, starting via email, in 0:43:06.280 --> 0:43:09.799 app alerts, website notices, and of course what do you do. 0:43:09.800 --> 0:43:12.480 You ignore all that stuff until you know this happens. 0:43:12.480 --> 0:43:14.840 And they're like, wait a second. What So if you 0:43:14.840 --> 0:43:16.960 have ultra av I can't vouch for it. I can't 0:43:16.960 --> 0:43:19.440 tell you if it's good or bad. But if you 0:43:19.480 --> 0:43:22.520 had a subscription with Kesperski, that's what happened, and your 0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:25.040 subscription will follow over, so you will get charged by 0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:28.000 this new company when your subscription is up. 0:43:28.480 --> 0:43:31.000 What I personally would do is ditch it all together. 0:43:31.760 --> 0:43:32.399 You know, let your. 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:34.960 Subscription go, like just cancel it and then you know, 0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:38.400 let the let the subscription run out, and then you know, 0:43:38.440 --> 0:43:41.520 most people say you can pretty much use the Windows 0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:45.239 Defender built into Windows Microsoft Defender and that should be 0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:46.600 just fine. As long as you keep that up to 0:43:46.680 --> 0:43:49.600 date inactive, you should be okay. The bigger issue these 0:43:49.680 --> 0:43:53.320 days is really phishing. I mean viruses in malware and ransomware. 0:43:53.360 --> 0:43:55.759 Of course, have a backup of your computer, but the 0:43:56.040 --> 0:43:59.000 main way people are tricked these days is really through 0:43:59.000 --> 0:44:01.880 phishing emails, text messages. So that's what you need to 0:44:01.920 --> 0:44:04.920 be on the lookout for to not get tricked. Eighty 0:44:04.960 --> 0:44:07.719 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:11.839 to two four one zero one. When we come back, 0:44:11.840 --> 0:44:14.040 I'll take some more of your calls, some of your emails, 0:44:14.120 --> 0:44:17.279 and I'll tell you why Disney the Free Ride is over, 0:44:17.440 --> 0:44:20.880 Disney Plus cracking down on password sharing. I'll explain how 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:24.239 they're doing it and if your college student will be 0:44:24.280 --> 0:44:26.000 able to watch outside your household. 0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:34.120 This is rich On Tech. Let's go to Robert in Alhambra. Robert, 0:44:34.200 --> 0:44:34.680 you're on with. 0:44:34.719 --> 0:44:38.680 Rich Hey, thanks you kicking to that call, Rich, I'm 0:44:38.719 --> 0:44:42.680 looking for a new phone. I'd like something that can 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:46.479 open and close apps with the voice commands and make 0:44:46.560 --> 0:44:48.520 phone calls. 0:44:48.920 --> 0:44:50.800 Okay, so you're you're interested in all the in the 0:44:50.880 --> 0:44:51.960 voice command aspect. 0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:53.759 Yes, I'm visually impairied. 0:44:54.280 --> 0:44:55.600 Okay, what do you have right now? 0:44:56.840 --> 0:44:57.520 Sam sum? 0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:00.200 Okay? And what don't you like about? It doesn't and 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:02.120 not have the features and. 0:45:02.640 --> 0:45:05.120 The opening closing the apps is not very good. 0:45:05.280 --> 0:45:05.640 Okay. 0:45:06.760 --> 0:45:09.560 I mean, I know you know the answer that I 0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:11.719 have is going to be pretty stereotypical. But I think 0:45:11.719 --> 0:45:14.280 the iPhone does a great job with the with the 0:45:14.360 --> 0:45:15.480 accessibility features. 0:45:15.520 --> 0:45:18.480 I really do. Have you looked into that? 0:45:20.000 --> 0:45:20.080 No? 0:45:20.480 --> 0:45:20.800 Really? 0:45:21.280 --> 0:45:23.520 Yeah, I mean I I think that the They've got 0:45:23.520 --> 0:45:26.719 a feature called like voiceover, which can read pretty much 0:45:26.719 --> 0:45:30.399 anything on your screen. They've got Siri and you can 0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:34.160 you can basically program this thing to do whatever you 0:45:34.239 --> 0:45:37.000 need it to do. When it comes to accessibility, Like 0:45:37.000 --> 0:45:39.800 if you go into the accessibility section of the iPhone, 0:45:40.200 --> 0:45:41.840 there are just so many features. 0:45:41.880 --> 0:45:42.080 Now. 0:45:42.480 --> 0:45:44.120 I think the pixel is pretty good too. I think 0:45:44.120 --> 0:45:46.080 Google is doing a good job. But I really think 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:48.160 that Apple is kind of like a leader in this area. 0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:50.480 I mean, I'm looking okay. So for vision, you said, 0:45:50.560 --> 0:45:56.800 visually impaired vision's got. They've got voiceover, which will pretty 0:45:56.840 --> 0:46:00.200 much read anything on your screen. They've also got live recognition, 0:46:00.840 --> 0:46:05.520 so it will literally detect what you're pointing your phone at, 0:46:05.560 --> 0:46:08.040 so it'll tell you like what you're you know, if 0:46:08.040 --> 0:46:10.800 that's a door, if that's a you know, walkway, whatever 0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:15.279 it is. I mean, just there's so many options just 0:46:15.320 --> 0:46:21.120 in this one voiceover area, speech, Braille recognition, audio commands, 0:46:21.200 --> 0:46:26.560 rotor activities, typing, navigation style, navigate images, large cursor. I mean, 0:46:26.600 --> 0:46:28.000 there's so many that's just voiceover. 0:46:28.040 --> 0:46:28.520 Then you've got. 0:46:28.520 --> 0:46:31.440 Zoom to make the screen a lot bigger display in 0:46:31.520 --> 0:46:35.239 text size, and it's got I mean, Robert, I'm telling 0:46:35.239 --> 0:46:38.280 you the the options you have in here, I really 0:46:38.320 --> 0:46:41.520 think are gonna help you out motion. You can reduce 0:46:41.600 --> 0:46:44.879 motion spoken content, you can speak pretty much anything that's 0:46:44.920 --> 0:46:47.840 on the screen. Then you've got eye tracking that's a 0:46:47.880 --> 0:46:50.760 brand new feature in iOS eighteen, so you can actually, 0:46:50.880 --> 0:46:53.920 if your mobility impaired, you can actually use your eyes 0:46:54.640 --> 0:46:58.120 to control the screen without touching the screen. That is 0:46:58.120 --> 0:47:01.200 a feature that you know, people accessibility worlds have been 0:47:01.200 --> 0:47:04.319 talking about and working on for years and it's just 0:47:04.360 --> 0:47:10.040 now built into the iPhone. That's pretty amazing. There's hearing, 0:47:10.080 --> 0:47:12.279 there's all kinds of sound recognition. So if you want 0:47:12.280 --> 0:47:14.719 your phone to tell you when you know there is 0:47:14.800 --> 0:47:18.080 a smoke alarm going off or some sort of other 0:47:18.200 --> 0:47:20.480 sound that it can recognize, it will tell you that 0:47:20.960 --> 0:47:25.560 with a visual notification on there. So I think that 0:47:25.640 --> 0:47:27.600 the iPhone is probably going to be the best way 0:47:27.600 --> 0:47:30.920 to go now the model number. If you're just using 0:47:30.920 --> 0:47:32.799 this for kind of day to day stuff, I don't 0:47:32.800 --> 0:47:36.799 think you necessarily need the iPhone sixteen. They do sell 0:47:36.840 --> 0:47:39.840 other versions of this phone right now, officially from Apple. 0:47:40.280 --> 0:47:43.160 You can get the iPhone SE, the iPhone fourteen, fifteen, 0:47:43.160 --> 0:47:43.800 and sixteen. 0:47:44.360 --> 0:47:46.680 So I would say, if you're just needing like a 0:47:46.719 --> 0:47:49.399 basic phone, the iPhone fourteen is going to be fine. 0:47:49.400 --> 0:47:51.799 It's a couple of years old, and it's going to be, 0:47:52.000 --> 0:47:55.279 you know, just a little bit cheaper than the current phone. 0:47:55.600 --> 0:47:58.600 Let's see how much are they selling that for. Uh, 0:47:58.719 --> 0:48:01.600 it's going to be six hundred dollars for the iPhone fourteen. 0:48:01.880 --> 0:48:03.640 So if you want to, I wouldn't go with the 0:48:03.640 --> 0:48:05.759 iPhone SE right now. That's kind of the one that 0:48:05.800 --> 0:48:07.480 still has the home button on it. The problem with 0:48:07.520 --> 0:48:10.759 the iPhone se is that it's kind of aging out 0:48:10.800 --> 0:48:13.279 of the software updates, so it's not going to get 0:48:13.280 --> 0:48:16.240 a software update after probably not after this year, I'm guessing. 0:48:16.680 --> 0:48:19.719 So it's not going to last you very long. So 0:48:19.760 --> 0:48:21.600 I would go with the fourteen six hundred dollars. I 0:48:21.640 --> 0:48:24.600 think Robert set up those features. If you need someone 0:48:24.600 --> 0:48:27.080 to kind of help you set up those features, I 0:48:27.160 --> 0:48:30.600 really think it's going to be a way better situation 0:48:30.680 --> 0:48:31.880 than what you've got right now. 0:48:31.960 --> 0:48:35.000 So and I think Samsung does a good job. 0:48:35.040 --> 0:48:37.480 I just I think that from what I see and 0:48:37.600 --> 0:48:40.120 hear from Apple, Like when I go to Apple events, 0:48:40.600 --> 0:48:44.720 they actually make a point of talking about the accessibility features. 0:48:44.760 --> 0:48:46.560 Like they make a point of saying, here's what we 0:48:46.600 --> 0:48:50.920 are actively doing to make these devices easier for people 0:48:51.760 --> 0:48:55.120 of all abilities to use. And they're always thinking about 0:48:55.120 --> 0:48:57.920 this stuff. I mean the the not just the iPhone, 0:48:57.920 --> 0:49:00.920 but the Apple Watch and the I mean they just 0:49:00.960 --> 0:49:04.000 added the ability to use air pods as hearing aids, 0:49:04.520 --> 0:49:05.879 the air pods pros two. 0:49:06.520 --> 0:49:08.440 So I mean, imagine all the people. 0:49:08.320 --> 0:49:10.680 That already have AirPods out there that can now just 0:49:10.719 --> 0:49:13.279 turn them into hearing aids when this software update hits. 0:49:13.280 --> 0:49:14.479 It has not hit just yet. 0:49:15.880 --> 0:49:19.160 I mean, these are really incredible things that're they're pushing forward. 0:49:19.680 --> 0:49:21.719 And I think that Google, I think, does a lot 0:49:21.760 --> 0:49:22.799 of stuff for accessibility. 0:49:22.840 --> 0:49:24.920 I don't hear about it as much through Google, but. 0:49:24.920 --> 0:49:26.480 I think that when I go to their events, it's 0:49:26.520 --> 0:49:30.280 definitely a topic that they are. You know, it's prevalent 0:49:30.320 --> 0:49:32.200 at the events as well, Like they've had people on 0:49:32.280 --> 0:49:34.880 stage that talk about it. They've had special guests, and 0:49:34.920 --> 0:49:39.600 they do show how they're helping along people, you know, varying. 0:49:39.280 --> 0:49:41.359 Abilities use their devices as well. But I think the. 0:49:41.320 --> 0:49:44.799 iPhone is going to have the widest ranging features and 0:49:44.880 --> 0:49:47.200 also if you need help, you can go to an 0:49:47.200 --> 0:49:49.040 Apple store and they will be happy to help you 0:49:49.480 --> 0:49:51.840 walk you through some of these features. Thanks for the 0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:54.960 call today, Robert eighty to eight rich one oh one 0:49:55.160 --> 0:49:58.400 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:49:58.640 --> 0:50:01.600 Coming up, we're going to talk to some from Joby Aviation. 0:50:01.800 --> 0:50:05.719 They are creating an electric air taxi. Hear all about 0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:11.000 how you can soar over traffic coming soon right here. Next, 0:50:12.480 --> 0:50:15.279 here's a topic I've been thinking about ever since I 0:50:15.320 --> 0:50:19.000 watched The Jetsons as a kid flying cars. Now, we're 0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:21.960 not there just yet, but a new flying air taxi 0:50:22.320 --> 0:50:25.200 might be the next best thing. A startup named Jobi 0:50:25.400 --> 0:50:28.240 is working on a four seater vertical takeoff and landing 0:50:28.280 --> 0:50:32.400 aircraft that source above traffic. Recently, it was on display 0:50:32.440 --> 0:50:34.920 in LA and I talked to their chief product officer, 0:50:35.160 --> 0:50:36.480 Eric Allison about it. 0:50:36.880 --> 0:50:40.480 So Joby is a company that's developing a vertical takeoff 0:50:40.480 --> 0:50:44.160 and landing all electric air taxi and also developing a 0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:46.440 service that will be able to deliver that air taxi 0:50:46.560 --> 0:50:47.399 to you anywhere you. 0:50:47.360 --> 0:50:50.960 Want to an app on your iPhone. Okay, well let's 0:50:50.960 --> 0:50:52.880 break it down. So first off, yeah, give me the 0:50:52.920 --> 0:50:56.000 idea of this kind of aircraft versus a typical plane 0:50:56.040 --> 0:50:56.640 or helicopter. 0:50:56.920 --> 0:51:01.200 So our aircraft is uses new technology, the technology of batteries, 0:51:01.239 --> 0:51:04.399 electric motors, high performance electronics to be able to take 0:51:04.480 --> 0:51:07.680 up and land vertically like a helicopter, but then transition 0:51:07.760 --> 0:51:10.480 to forward flight like a regular airplane. So but that 0:51:10.600 --> 0:51:13.680 gets us the flexibility of a helicopter with the efficiency 0:51:13.719 --> 0:51:15.759 of an airplane. Then what it lets you do as 0:51:15.760 --> 0:51:18.960 well is do all that with low noise. So we 0:51:19.040 --> 0:51:21.920 bring all that together basically to have high efficiency, have 0:51:22.040 --> 0:51:25.759 low noise, great operating costs. To make air taxis something 0:51:25.760 --> 0:51:27.839 that people have wanted to do for a really long 0:51:27.880 --> 0:51:31.160 time actually possible in the very near term. 0:51:31.719 --> 0:51:34.000 So what is the benefit of an air taxi? 0:51:34.520 --> 0:51:38.359 So our air taxi lets you wherever you are. You 0:51:38.360 --> 0:51:40.520 can open up your phone in with one of our 0:51:40.560 --> 0:51:44.279 partners like Uber or Delta, select where you are, and 0:51:44.320 --> 0:51:46.839 then basically get a ride to where you want to go. 0:51:46.960 --> 0:51:49.000 But instead of being stuck in traffic, which I know 0:51:49.160 --> 0:51:52.440 that consumers in LA get stuck on average to what 0:51:52.560 --> 0:51:54.879 like one hundred hours I think of traffic per year 0:51:55.400 --> 0:51:58.080 you're sitting in you can just fly through the air 0:51:58.120 --> 0:51:59.440 at up to two hundred. 0:51:59.160 --> 0:51:59.759 Miles an hour. 0:52:00.120 --> 0:52:03.360 So a trip that might take an hour and a 0:52:03.400 --> 0:52:07.000 half to go from someplace like downtown LA to lax 0:52:07.440 --> 0:52:10.080 could take seven or eight minutes and set so freeze 0:52:10.160 --> 0:52:12.000 you from the traffic in a way that you just 0:52:12.080 --> 0:52:13.799 can't right now with any other technology. 0:52:14.160 --> 0:52:14.359 Yeah. 0:52:14.400 --> 0:52:17.520 So there will be landing designated takeoff and landing areas, 0:52:17.600 --> 0:52:21.360 so we call them skyports or verteports, basically places where 0:52:21.400 --> 0:52:24.239 the aircraft can take off and land just kind of 0:52:24.239 --> 0:52:27.800 like a heliport would be with the old technology of helicopters, 0:52:28.280 --> 0:52:31.160 And what we'll do is use rideshare to connect you 0:52:31.200 --> 0:52:34.600 with wherever you are to those verteports, and then from 0:52:34.719 --> 0:52:36.800 wherever the kind of remote vertiport is to where you 0:52:36.840 --> 0:52:38.320 want to be. So it's an end to end journey, 0:52:38.600 --> 0:52:40.120 but it's going to be through a couple of different 0:52:40.160 --> 0:52:42.040 vehicles depending on how close you are. If you can 0:52:42.120 --> 0:52:44.600 walk or bike or something to that verteport. 0:52:44.760 --> 0:52:46.920 And so tell them about the aircraft itself. I mean, 0:52:46.960 --> 0:52:50.239 you said it's electric, you said it's quiet. What else 0:52:50.280 --> 0:52:51.680 do we need to know? It looks pretty simple. 0:52:51.840 --> 0:52:55.600 Yeah, So it's four seats, so four passenger seats and 0:52:55.640 --> 0:52:58.440 one pilot, so it's operated by a commercially rated pilot. 0:52:58.840 --> 0:53:01.200 It can take off and land vert just like a helicopter. 0:53:01.280 --> 0:53:03.719 Right here in this configuration, the propellers are pointed up, 0:53:03.960 --> 0:53:06.600 but once it takes off, it transitions forward and those 0:53:06.840 --> 0:53:10.920 propellers come down and point forward just like a regular aircraft. 0:53:11.400 --> 0:53:12.800 It can fly really quietly. 0:53:12.840 --> 0:53:14.680 So if it was flying over here at about one 0:53:14.719 --> 0:53:18.279 thousand feet, which is like low even for a helicopter, 0:53:18.560 --> 0:53:20.319 it basical would be silent. You wouldn't hear it as 0:53:20.360 --> 0:53:22.600 it flies over and in takeoff and landing, we could 0:53:22.640 --> 0:53:25.279 have this conversation if the aircraft was three hundred feet 0:53:25.280 --> 0:53:27.480 away and we wouldn't have to raise our voices. 0:53:27.640 --> 0:53:30.879 We did a demonstration flight last year in New York City. 0:53:30.920 --> 0:53:34.239 Actually we flew off of the Lower Manhattan Heliport within 0:53:34.280 --> 0:53:36.759 a mayor press conference with the mayor there and just 0:53:36.800 --> 0:53:38.880 kind of did a little circuit around over the river. 0:53:39.800 --> 0:53:41.600 And it was amazing that to. 0:53:41.600 --> 0:53:45.120 See people's response because helicopter noises a real problem, and 0:53:45.160 --> 0:53:47.920 when places that actually have an option to use helicopters 0:53:47.960 --> 0:53:49.880 in a regular basis, people don't like. 0:53:49.880 --> 0:53:50.759 The racket all right. 0:53:50.800 --> 0:53:52.600 So I know the question that is on a lot 0:53:52.600 --> 0:53:54.400 of people's minds is safety. 0:53:54.760 --> 0:53:56.319 How safe is something like this? 0:53:56.640 --> 0:53:59.480 So that's what's really incredible about this new technology. So 0:53:59.640 --> 0:54:02.600 that what we've done is taken a new approach to 0:54:03.200 --> 0:54:06.880 how we design and build aircraft that actually lets us 0:54:06.920 --> 0:54:11.719 add in kind of unprecedented levels of redundancy and kind 0:54:11.719 --> 0:54:15.960 of architecture that really makes this kind of a remarkable machine. 0:54:15.960 --> 0:54:17.080 So I'll give you an example of this. 0:54:17.160 --> 0:54:19.319 So in our aircraft, there's not just one battery, there's 0:54:19.360 --> 0:54:22.640 four batteries, and each of those four batteries are completely independent, 0:54:22.640 --> 0:54:25.000 and they're hooked up to different motors in such a 0:54:25.000 --> 0:54:26.520 way that if you had a failure of one of 0:54:26.520 --> 0:54:30.239 those batteries during flight, you could still operate safely. And 0:54:30.280 --> 0:54:33.560 then in the motors themselves, each motor is actually two 0:54:33.640 --> 0:54:37.480 motors that are combined together, and each of those two 0:54:37.520 --> 0:54:40.640 motors are driven by two different sets of electronics, and 0:54:40.680 --> 0:54:43.279 those electronics are driven by different battery. 0:54:43.120 --> 0:54:45.000 When are we going to see something like this in 0:54:45.040 --> 0:54:46.560 a city like Los Angeles? 0:54:46.719 --> 0:54:48.000 So we are hard at work. 0:54:48.040 --> 0:54:50.640 We've got almost two thousand people at JOBI, the vast 0:54:50.640 --> 0:54:51.440 majority of which are. 0:54:51.400 --> 0:54:52.920 Working on FA certifications. 0:54:52.920 --> 0:54:55.360 So in order to launch commercially in the US, we 0:54:55.440 --> 0:54:57.600 have to be certified with the FAA, just. 0:54:57.560 --> 0:55:00.920 Like any other commercially operated aircraft. We're working hard at that. 0:55:01.520 --> 0:55:04.719 We publish a quarterly update basically on how we're doing 0:55:04.840 --> 0:55:06.799 relative to all the steps and certification. 0:55:07.000 --> 0:55:08.600 It's a very long process. 0:55:08.280 --> 0:55:10.840 That has a really high bar and so you know, 0:55:10.880 --> 0:55:12.440 we're we're happy to be going through it, but it's 0:55:12.440 --> 0:55:13.040 a lot of work. 0:55:13.560 --> 0:55:16.960 Cost Obviously, you're not selling this to the general public, 0:55:17.040 --> 0:55:17.840 you're operating it. 0:55:17.920 --> 0:55:20.399 But what can someone expect to pay for a ride in. 0:55:20.360 --> 0:55:23.680 This so we think that we can launch at something 0:55:23.760 --> 0:55:25.600 like Uber black pricing per seat. 0:55:25.960 --> 0:55:28.160 So that's our goal is to launch kind of in 0:55:28.200 --> 0:55:28.680 that range. 0:55:28.719 --> 0:55:30.839 So kind of it's a you know, like a premium ride, 0:55:31.800 --> 0:55:34.040 so kind of for a depending on the trip, right, 0:55:34.120 --> 0:55:36.640 so kind of on a per mile basis, kind of 0:55:36.719 --> 0:55:38.319 Uber black like pricing per seat. 0:55:38.600 --> 0:55:41.040 We think that as we are able to develop. 0:55:40.760 --> 0:55:43.920 That network, get more verteports installed, kind of have more 0:55:43.960 --> 0:55:47.640 efficiency overall, and how we get filled more seats on demand, 0:55:47.920 --> 0:55:50.360 we'll be able to drive that price down more towards 0:55:50.440 --> 0:55:53.239 Uber x like pricing on a per seat basis as 0:55:53.280 --> 0:55:55.239 we get more and more volume of people using these 0:55:55.239 --> 0:55:58.120 types of aircraft for air taxis on a regular basis. 0:55:58.440 --> 0:56:00.840 What's the range on this aircraft often? How long does 0:56:00.880 --> 0:56:02.080 it take to recharge? 0:56:02.480 --> 0:56:05.400 So we are able to service flights for up to 0:56:05.400 --> 0:56:08.320 one hundred miles, so that's kind of the target max 0:56:08.600 --> 0:56:10.920 distance that will serve in terms of our flights. And 0:56:10.960 --> 0:56:15.000 then we actually have designed it to be rechargeable during 0:56:15.000 --> 0:56:18.319 the loading and off loading period of when we have 0:56:18.520 --> 0:56:20.960 this air taxi service operating, so you know, when it 0:56:21.040 --> 0:56:24.480 lands at the vertiport, whoever is in it will get out, 0:56:24.520 --> 0:56:26.200 and then more people will get in the pilot will 0:56:26.200 --> 0:56:28.839 do their checks before they take off again. And we've 0:56:28.880 --> 0:56:32.520 designed an open specification actually that we call GEEKS, which 0:56:32.560 --> 0:56:37.480 is the Global Electric Aircraft System, that charging system actually 0:56:37.760 --> 0:56:43.920 that is actually a charging system designed explicitly for electric aircraft. 0:56:43.920 --> 0:56:45.520 They're in an air taxi operation. 0:56:46.000 --> 0:56:48.440 And if these were everywhere, what do you think the 0:56:48.520 --> 0:56:50.759 impact is on transportation? 0:56:51.560 --> 0:56:54.320 So I think that's one of the most exciting things 0:56:54.360 --> 0:56:57.239 that if we think about just even taking starting to 0:56:57.280 --> 0:56:59.040 take a small dent out of the amount of traffic. 0:56:59.080 --> 0:57:00.799 You know, studies have shown that you just take a 0:57:00.800 --> 0:57:04.600 few percent of cars off the road, particularly during peak times, 0:57:05.239 --> 0:57:07.319 you actually start to see an overall benefit to the 0:57:07.360 --> 0:57:08.080 overall system. 0:57:08.120 --> 0:57:09.480 I'm over and over and over again. 0:57:09.880 --> 0:57:11.879 I think that for me, like the idea of being 0:57:11.880 --> 0:57:14.880 able to go to work, you know, go out for 0:57:15.000 --> 0:57:18.200 dinner and not be stuck in traffic. I mean, even 0:57:18.280 --> 0:57:20.560 in the best case scenario, if you matter how much 0:57:20.560 --> 0:57:23.320 you want to pay for ground transportation, if you're you know, 0:57:23.480 --> 0:57:27.080 going from here to Dodger Stadium or something on a 0:57:27.120 --> 0:57:29.240 Thursday evening, it's just going to take a really long time. 0:57:29.480 --> 0:57:32.040 And to have an option that I can do that 0:57:32.120 --> 0:57:34.720 in seven minutes or eight minutes instead of an hour 0:57:34.760 --> 0:57:35.240 and a half. 0:57:35.320 --> 0:57:36.440 That's that's amazing. 0:57:36.480 --> 0:57:38.920 And I think that it starts to change our relationship 0:57:38.920 --> 0:57:41.439 with mobility. It starts to change about how we think 0:57:41.440 --> 0:57:44.120 about moving around our cities, and I think it makes 0:57:44.120 --> 0:57:44.880 a world a better place. 0:57:45.080 --> 0:57:46.840 So I'm really excited to see us launch. 0:57:47.040 --> 0:57:48.600 You've taken test flights, I imagine. 0:57:48.680 --> 0:57:51.200 Yeah, so we actually have flown I think it's over 0:57:51.240 --> 0:57:54.400 ten thousand miles of test flying so far on our prototype. 0:57:54.440 --> 0:57:56.800 So we have several prototypes that our facility up up 0:57:56.840 --> 0:58:00.040 in near Monterey, California. Marina is the airport that we 0:58:00.080 --> 0:58:01.680 fly out of for our test flights. We actually have 0:58:01.800 --> 0:58:04.160 one of our airplanes up at Edwards Air Force Base 0:58:04.200 --> 0:58:06.120 just north of Palmdale, right here in the LA Region, 0:58:06.160 --> 0:58:09.640 where we're working with the Air Force on under an 0:58:09.680 --> 0:58:12.800 innovative program doing some test flying of one of our 0:58:12.840 --> 0:58:16.160 aircraft up there to show some of the utility for 0:58:16.200 --> 0:58:20.080 this new type of technology and a logistics context for 0:58:20.400 --> 0:58:22.200 the Air Force on a military base as well. 0:58:22.320 --> 0:58:23.840 Have you flown in it? I have not. 0:58:24.040 --> 0:58:26.320 All of our flights so far either remote a test 0:58:26.360 --> 0:58:28.680 pilot so far and I'm not a test pilot. 0:58:28.720 --> 0:58:30.760 How would you describe How would they describe what it 0:58:30.760 --> 0:58:32.680 feels like? Does it feel like a helicopters? It feel 0:58:32.680 --> 0:58:36.720 like floating, It feels different than a helicopter. 0:58:36.840 --> 0:58:38.680 It's just like a different type of a machine. 0:58:39.080 --> 0:58:41.520 And so they love it, they want They are very 0:58:41.520 --> 0:58:43.840 excited to do lots more flying and we're really excited 0:58:43.880 --> 0:58:47.680 to have more people experience this as our system matures 0:58:47.720 --> 0:58:49.880 and as we move through that testing with the FAA 0:58:50.200 --> 0:58:51.800 to get to our full commercial launch. 0:58:52.120 --> 0:58:54.920 Once again, that was Eric Allison of Joby giving us 0:58:54.920 --> 0:58:58.280 a glimpse into the future of urban transportation. The company 0:58:58.360 --> 0:59:00.840 is targeting a launch next year. And a bit of 0:59:00.880 --> 0:59:04.080 trivia for you. Joby Aviation was started by the same 0:59:04.120 --> 0:59:08.560 guy who created Joby Gorilla pods, those flexible mobile tripods 0:59:08.680 --> 0:59:11.720 for smartphones. I'm Rich Deimiro more Rich on Tech coming 0:59:11.760 --> 0:59:18.840 your way right after this, Jeff, you're on with Rich. 0:59:20.120 --> 0:59:23.120 Yeah, thanks for taking the call. The reason I'm calling 0:59:23.360 --> 0:59:27.920 is we have a couple of us with several Apple 0:59:28.080 --> 0:59:32.560 iOS devices in our household. One set of them on 0:59:32.720 --> 0:59:37.640 my account actually doesn't have any problems like the other 0:59:37.680 --> 0:59:43.280 one does, but my wife's account on both of iPhone 0:59:43.280 --> 0:59:47.560 and the iPad constantly need We've tried a lot of 0:59:47.600 --> 0:59:51.080 different things, but ultimately the only fix for our problem 0:59:51.240 --> 0:59:56.200 is to get the email to sync from Yahoo gmails okay, 0:59:56.520 --> 1:00:04.080 Icloud's okay, but constantly and battling why the the emails 1:00:04.360 --> 1:00:10.760 on the Yahoo emails on her iOS and Apple iPad 1:00:10.920 --> 1:00:14.880 and iPhone not always together, but at least one of 1:00:14.920 --> 1:00:16.880 them will just not sink. 1:00:16.840 --> 1:00:21.040 So delete, So delete an email from one of those 1:00:21.080 --> 1:00:23.160 devices and that's not deleted on the other one, or 1:00:23.200 --> 1:00:24.560 what's the problem. 1:00:24.920 --> 1:00:27.440 Yeah, that as well as we just don't have the 1:00:27.480 --> 1:00:30.600 current you know, emails come through. It might be a 1:00:30.680 --> 1:00:32.560 day or two with the last one showing when we 1:00:32.640 --> 1:00:34.240 know that there's been other emails. 1:00:34.280 --> 1:00:34.680 That's weird. 1:00:34.800 --> 1:00:37.720 OK. The only thing for that is we've found so 1:00:37.840 --> 1:00:40.600 far as we go in to the settings for mail, 1:00:40.840 --> 1:00:44.920 delete the Yahoo account at it back in and then 1:00:44.960 --> 1:00:47.760 it's okay for a period of time, maybe a day 1:00:47.840 --> 1:00:51.000 or two, maybe a week or two. But we constantly 1:00:51.040 --> 1:00:54.000 have to do that, and I never have the problem 1:00:54.160 --> 1:00:59.480 she does. She has more read emails than I that 1:00:59.560 --> 1:01:02.160 are in I don't know if that's the reason, you know, 1:01:02.240 --> 1:01:04.880 I tend to delete them you know, read them to 1:01:04.920 --> 1:01:06.880 do something with them and delete them. But that's the 1:01:06.920 --> 1:01:10.640 only real difference. We both had the same model iPads, 1:01:10.760 --> 1:01:15.640 iPhones and kind of you know, subscription or is this 1:01:15.720 --> 1:01:17.600 a whatever service we have with Yahoo? 1:01:17.720 --> 1:01:20.960 Is this a Yahoo email address through Yahoo? Or is 1:01:21.000 --> 1:01:22.720 it through like cops or something like that. 1:01:23.360 --> 1:01:24.920 No, through through Yeah? 1:01:24.960 --> 1:01:27.880 Yeah, okay, Well look, I mean, you know, I was 1:01:27.880 --> 1:01:32.040 going to suggest deleting the emails and uh and readding them. 1:01:32.280 --> 1:01:34.600 That's usually the way that's going to work because sometimes 1:01:34.640 --> 1:01:37.400 these accounts, if they're they've been added a long time ago, 1:01:37.560 --> 1:01:38.880 you know, the protocol was different. 1:01:38.960 --> 1:01:41.160 But it sounds like she's done that. When was the 1:01:41.200 --> 1:01:41.640 last time you. 1:01:41.640 --> 1:01:43.800 Did that across Have you deleted them across all the 1:01:43.920 --> 1:01:47.920 different devices and then readded them? 1:01:48.040 --> 1:01:51.000 Well, yeah, I just did last night, went through and 1:01:51.440 --> 1:01:56.280 deleted the Yahoo account from the iOS mail on the phone, 1:01:56.320 --> 1:01:58.080 and then about a half hour later did it to 1:01:58.240 --> 1:02:01.680 the iPad. So they're all thinking now right and then 1:02:01.720 --> 1:02:05.240 I stop, you know, okay, well look it will it'll 1:02:05.240 --> 1:02:08.960 eventually stop. It hasn't stopped thinking yet, but it seems 1:02:09.000 --> 1:02:09.479 like it will. 1:02:09.640 --> 1:02:11.400 If I had a dollar for every time someone had 1:02:11.400 --> 1:02:13.120 a problem with Yahoo email, I don't know what the 1:02:13.160 --> 1:02:15.400 deal is, and they just revamped it and it's supposed 1:02:15.400 --> 1:02:17.680 to be better. I mean, I remember when Yahoo email 1:02:17.760 --> 1:02:20.000 is like, you know, it's really good, and now people 1:02:20.120 --> 1:02:21.600 just complain about it for some reason. 1:02:21.680 --> 1:02:22.440 I don't know why. 1:02:23.480 --> 1:02:25.880 But look, I think the easiest thing to do here 1:02:25.920 --> 1:02:28.880 in this situation, if you're not if it's not sinking properly, 1:02:29.480 --> 1:02:32.440 is to use the Yahoo app to to check the email. 1:02:32.480 --> 1:02:34.160 Is there a reason that she doesn't want to do that, 1:02:34.240 --> 1:02:36.040 because that would make it work for sure. 1:02:36.920 --> 1:02:40.960 Well, we can except that the r that she uses 1:02:41.040 --> 1:02:44.680 both Gmail and the Yahoo as well as I do, 1:02:44.800 --> 1:02:47.480 and it's in one list that it's something with your calendar, 1:02:47.920 --> 1:02:49.720 and it's all in one list. And if you want 1:02:49.760 --> 1:02:52.480 to just say creative, you know, invite someone sends you 1:02:52.520 --> 1:02:56.320 an invite into Yahoo, it's a little more. I don't 1:02:56.320 --> 1:02:58.480 know if it's easier, but it's least consistent the way 1:02:58.520 --> 1:03:01.120 you do it, you know. Yeah, and it is the Gmail. 1:03:01.200 --> 1:03:04.040 But yeah, that's we realize that's the possibility too, because 1:03:04.120 --> 1:03:06.040 going into the app, it's it's all we think. 1:03:06.160 --> 1:03:08.720 So yeah, so the only other thing you could do 1:03:09.040 --> 1:03:12.640 is perhaps, I mean, I'm really trying to I don't. 1:03:12.680 --> 1:03:14.320 There's no reason why this should not work. 1:03:14.360 --> 1:03:16.480 I mean, if she's using the only other thing I 1:03:16.480 --> 1:03:18.720 can think of is that the way that her her 1:03:18.800 --> 1:03:21.680 mail is set up on the device. Are these recent devices? 1:03:21.680 --> 1:03:22.800 Are they older devices? 1:03:23.680 --> 1:03:25.840 No, We've had them both for year or two. 1:03:25.680 --> 1:03:27.920 Okay, so it's a recent yeah. 1:03:27.960 --> 1:03:29.640 And the only thing I can think of is the 1:03:29.680 --> 1:03:32.920 background sinking is not working, like when she deletes an email, 1:03:33.000 --> 1:03:36.040 like the the mail app is just not like updating somehow, 1:03:36.080 --> 1:03:37.600 and that's you know, it's not sending the signal to 1:03:37.680 --> 1:03:39.160 Yahoo to say, hey, you know. 1:03:39.200 --> 1:03:40.800 Get rid of this email or put this in this 1:03:40.880 --> 1:03:42.280 fold or whatever. Uh. 1:03:42.280 --> 1:03:44.760 That's the only thing I can think of the other 1:03:44.960 --> 1:03:48.080 The only other thing I might say is if you 1:03:48.120 --> 1:03:52.000 can go into your Yahoo account and check to see 1:03:52.040 --> 1:03:56.080 if if there's like signed in devices or anything like 1:03:56.080 --> 1:03:58.880 that and get rid of any of those devices. And 1:03:58.920 --> 1:04:00.919 I'm trying to sign into my Yahoo account, I can't 1:04:00.920 --> 1:04:04.440 seem to get the code that I need. But I 1:04:04.480 --> 1:04:07.040 would go into the like your Yahoo account and see 1:04:07.080 --> 1:04:12.600 if there's anything under like authorized devices, authorized applications, whatever 1:04:12.640 --> 1:04:15.840 it is you sometimes they call it permissions, third you know, 1:04:16.280 --> 1:04:19.479 third party permissions whatever, and just get rid of those 1:04:19.920 --> 1:04:23.160 devices and see if that's messing it up. So there 1:04:23.240 --> 1:04:25.080 might be a section just go through all like kind 1:04:25.080 --> 1:04:27.880 of the settings on the Yahoo account and see if 1:04:27.880 --> 1:04:29.840 there's anything where you can get rid of old phones, 1:04:30.280 --> 1:04:33.040 get rid of old connected devices, and just see if 1:04:33.080 --> 1:04:35.720 that helps if you remove those, because one of those 1:04:35.800 --> 1:04:39.240 might be messing it up as well. So otherwise, I mean, 1:04:39.800 --> 1:04:42.520 I would just suggest using the Yahoo mail account or 1:04:42.560 --> 1:04:45.880 the email app and seeing if that works, because there's 1:04:45.880 --> 1:04:50.280 no reason why this shouldn't sync to the email app 1:04:50.480 --> 1:04:53.600 on the iPhone or iOS devices. I mean, it's pretty 1:04:53.600 --> 1:04:56.960 straightforward imapp connection. The only other thing I would do 1:04:57.040 --> 1:04:59.640 is once you delete it off of all of the devices, 1:04:59.680 --> 1:05:02.200 like you said that, you have to delete it and reauthorize, 1:05:03.360 --> 1:05:07.720 maybe restart the device and then at it again. That's 1:05:07.720 --> 1:05:10.280 the only other thing I can think of, But that's 1:05:10.320 --> 1:05:14.080 a that's an interesting one. And the good thing about 1:05:14.080 --> 1:05:16.200 the show, if someone else is happening that issue, they 1:05:16.200 --> 1:05:18.200 can email me and let me know Rich on tech 1:05:18.240 --> 1:05:20.880 dot tv hit contact Jeff. 1:05:20.960 --> 1:05:21.920 Hopefully you figure that out. 1:05:21.960 --> 1:05:26.560 But again, the backup is to use the Yahoo email app, 1:05:26.600 --> 1:05:28.960 and you know that's gonna work for sure, So that 1:05:29.080 --> 1:05:30.800 might be I know it's not ideal because it's nice 1:05:30.840 --> 1:05:32.400 to have all the emails in one list and all 1:05:32.400 --> 1:05:36.120 that stuff, but that's a surefire away around this issue. 1:05:36.880 --> 1:05:39.920 Let's go to Paully in uh Michigan. Polly, you're on 1:05:40.000 --> 1:05:40.400 with Rich. 1:05:41.280 --> 1:05:44.520 Hey, Rich, you made me laugh about old school TV, 1:05:44.600 --> 1:05:47.280 and I was thinking, you don't have an old school 1:05:47.440 --> 1:05:51.440 television channel changer until you need vice scripts. 1:05:51.000 --> 1:05:54.400 Oh my gosh, that's what like the the old like 1:05:54.520 --> 1:05:57.080 rotary knob. Are you talking like that used to pop 1:05:57.120 --> 1:05:57.760 off the TV? 1:05:58.960 --> 1:06:00.360 Yeah, because the that's always frolks. 1:06:01.640 --> 1:06:04.040 Oh my gosh, that's like that's really bringing it back. 1:06:04.160 --> 1:06:06.280 That's like, uh, you have to get up to change 1:06:06.320 --> 1:06:07.840 the channel, right you did? 1:06:08.080 --> 1:06:08.240 Yeah? 1:06:08.280 --> 1:06:10.440 Oh my gosh, that's that's like that's not like almost 1:06:10.440 --> 1:06:11.880 probably the beginning of my time. 1:06:11.920 --> 1:06:12.439 I'm not sure. 1:06:12.480 --> 1:06:15.560 Like I think my first memory was like the cable 1:06:15.600 --> 1:06:18.040 box like changer like that slid left and right. I 1:06:18.040 --> 1:06:21.920 don't remember that. No, anyway, that was really old school 1:06:22.000 --> 1:06:24.280 back in New Jersey. Maybe it was a Jersey thing. Anyway, 1:06:24.320 --> 1:06:25.400 what can I help you with, Polly. 1:06:27.440 --> 1:06:31.560 I have a business and had a YouTube channel, and 1:06:31.640 --> 1:06:35.440 the YouTube removed it permanently. I'm just hoping you had 1:06:35.480 --> 1:06:38.800 some advice. They said it was dude to spam and 1:06:38.880 --> 1:06:41.680 hate speech or something like that, which they would give 1:06:41.680 --> 1:06:44.160 me no examples, and I appealed it. They denied it. 1:06:44.920 --> 1:06:47.960 I wonder if you had any advice, and they said, 1:06:48.000 --> 1:06:49.320 I can't have another channel again. 1:06:49.440 --> 1:06:51.600 Oh my gosh, what did you do, Polly? What was 1:06:51.600 --> 1:06:53.600 your channel about. 1:06:54.040 --> 1:06:57.920 Humming Bird theaters? What so devices? 1:06:57.960 --> 1:06:58.160 Oh? 1:06:58.240 --> 1:07:03.840 Come on, really, really, Polly, that is wild and nobody 1:07:03.840 --> 1:07:07.600 at YouTube would would they read your appeal? 1:07:07.640 --> 1:07:08.560 And they still said no. 1:07:09.560 --> 1:07:12.520 It sounded pretty automated when they denied the appeal too. 1:07:13.120 --> 1:07:14.120 Hmm. Interesting. 1:07:14.240 --> 1:07:16.560 Well, the only thing I can think of, so you 1:07:16.960 --> 1:07:19.400 log into YouTube and you've got nothing. You can't get in, 1:07:19.560 --> 1:07:23.000 got nothing, Okay. The only thing I can think of 1:07:23.120 --> 1:07:25.680 is you have to write a letter. Use AI write 1:07:25.680 --> 1:07:27.920 a letter, and you've got to send another appeal and 1:07:27.960 --> 1:07:30.560 tell them this is your channel, this is the content. 1:07:30.640 --> 1:07:32.480 The only thing I can think of is that you 1:07:32.560 --> 1:07:35.640 got hacked on this channel somehow and someone else did 1:07:35.680 --> 1:07:37.880 something on your behalf that you did not know about. 1:07:38.240 --> 1:07:39.520 That's the only thing I can think of. But if 1:07:39.560 --> 1:07:42.800 you're running a Hummingbird YouTube channel and we're talking about 1:07:42.840 --> 1:07:46.080 hummingbird like feeders. You should be okay. You got to 1:07:46.080 --> 1:07:49.560 get that channel back, Polly. This is rich on Tech. 1:07:52.560 --> 1:07:55.360 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:07:55.360 --> 1:07:58.320 out with you for another hour right here on rich 1:07:58.400 --> 1:08:03.280 on Tech. 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I mean, 1:08:24.280 --> 1:08:27.160 I guess it's a good problem to have, but I 1:08:27.200 --> 1:08:29.280 can never make it through everything that I want to 1:08:29.520 --> 1:08:32.160 in a given week on this show because I try 1:08:32.160 --> 1:08:35.719 to prioritize you live callers like Rick in Thousand Oaks. 1:08:35.800 --> 1:08:40.679 You're on with Rich Hi, I'm what I'm looking for 1:08:40.880 --> 1:08:44.439 is a program or an app that would sync with 1:08:44.600 --> 1:08:47.759 my bank so I can see sort of real time 1:08:48.439 --> 1:08:50.799 what my bank bounces. I know I could go online 1:08:50.800 --> 1:08:54.719 and look, but you know, we do still write checks 1:08:54.720 --> 1:08:56.360 and I hope that that, but have some way to 1:08:56.400 --> 1:09:01.080 manually enter a check in that I write and you know, 1:09:01.360 --> 1:09:03.840 the bank doesn't know about it till it hits them. 1:09:04.080 --> 1:09:06.320 Oh yeah, like a budgeting Okay, so you're talking like 1:09:06.400 --> 1:09:07.679 more like a budgeting program. 1:09:07.720 --> 1:09:08.040 Okay. 1:09:09.640 --> 1:09:11.320 Well, I mean I'll tell you what I do. I 1:09:11.400 --> 1:09:13.840 just use a spreadsheet. I mean, that's the easiest way 1:09:13.880 --> 1:09:16.280 to do it. That's free and simple. 1:09:17.000 --> 1:09:18.720 I mean it's like, you know, I tried that with 1:09:18.840 --> 1:09:22.479 Excel all But the problem I'm having is, you know, 1:09:22.520 --> 1:09:26.160 between my wife and I, we're making multiple ATM purchases 1:09:26.200 --> 1:09:28.559 a day. We just don't seem to use cash. And 1:09:29.240 --> 1:09:31.280 you know, you buy gas, you go out to lunch, 1:09:31.520 --> 1:09:34.439 you know, go to the doctor, there's cocaine. It's just 1:09:35.439 --> 1:09:38.120 and you know, it's just hundreds of dollars over a 1:09:38.160 --> 1:09:38.879 few days. 1:09:39.080 --> 1:09:40.880 Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what I do. 1:09:40.960 --> 1:09:42.640 So there's two ways you could do this, and I 1:09:43.000 --> 1:09:45.600 do something kind of different that because I I'm not 1:09:45.640 --> 1:09:47.880 a fan of using my credit card, so I want 1:09:47.880 --> 1:09:51.240 to spend cash when possible because that way I can 1:09:51.280 --> 1:09:52.200 stay within budget. 1:09:52.800 --> 1:09:54.639 And it sounds like that's what you're doing as well. 1:09:54.760 --> 1:09:57.680 So what I do is I actually set up a 1:09:57.840 --> 1:10:01.120 separate debit card just for all those days to day expenditures. 1:10:01.680 --> 1:10:04.080 So I'm sure there's like an average of what you're 1:10:04.120 --> 1:10:06.600 spending on this stuff. You can put that into that 1:10:06.640 --> 1:10:08.560 debit card every week and then you don't have to 1:10:08.640 --> 1:10:11.360 track it as much. And what I do is my 1:10:11.400 --> 1:10:13.639 wife and I both we just know the balance every day. 1:10:13.720 --> 1:10:16.880 So let's say that I want to buy a new shirt, 1:10:17.200 --> 1:10:20.160 and I look in this balance on this account, the 1:10:20.200 --> 1:10:22.479 special account that we have we call fun money personally, 1:10:23.640 --> 1:10:26.840 and if there's only you know, a ten dollars left 1:10:26.840 --> 1:10:29.000 in that account and the shirt that I want is thirty, well, 1:10:29.000 --> 1:10:30.320 guess what, I can't buy the shirt. 1:10:31.040 --> 1:10:31.280 Now. 1:10:31.400 --> 1:10:34.200 That's just a very simple example. Hopefully we keep enough 1:10:34.200 --> 1:10:36.040 in there where it's like you can do the things 1:10:36.040 --> 1:10:38.200 that you need to do. But that's what we're doing, 1:10:38.240 --> 1:10:40.919 is we're every single transaction. I don't have to monitor 1:10:41.439 --> 1:10:45.000 the day to day transactions of the cope at the 1:10:45.040 --> 1:10:48.200 doctor's office, the Jersey mics I get for lunch, whatever 1:10:48.240 --> 1:10:50.559 it is, because it's all coming out of that account 1:10:50.560 --> 1:10:53.200 that we've kind of figured out. You know, I reassess 1:10:53.280 --> 1:10:55.599 every six months or so, how much do we spend 1:10:55.640 --> 1:10:58.000 on you know, eating out, how much do we spend 1:10:58.040 --> 1:11:00.200 on clothes, how much do we spend on this? And 1:11:00.200 --> 1:11:02.200 then you kind of put that amount in each week 1:11:02.200 --> 1:11:04.040 to this account. Now that kind of takes a whole 1:11:04.080 --> 1:11:07.439 nother method, but it would definitely solve this problem. And 1:11:07.760 --> 1:11:10.280 because you're writing checks and doing all this stuff, that 1:11:10.320 --> 1:11:12.000 would be something when you write a check you can 1:11:12.040 --> 1:11:14.599 easily use the spreadsheet to take that out of your 1:11:14.600 --> 1:11:17.840 standard checking. Now that's just one simple way of doing 1:11:17.880 --> 1:11:20.760 it that I've come up with because again, none of 1:11:20.760 --> 1:11:23.439 the other methods for me would work, which is, I 1:11:23.479 --> 1:11:25.960 don't want to come to a giant credit card bill 1:11:26.040 --> 1:11:28.720 every month and sit down and be like, okay, now 1:11:28.720 --> 1:11:31.960 how do I pay this? So that's what I've done. Now, 1:11:32.000 --> 1:11:34.800 there are budgeting apps out there. There are many many 1:11:34.800 --> 1:11:36.960 budgeting apps out there. I mean that, you know, there's 1:11:37.040 --> 1:11:41.600 Every Dollar by Dave Ramsey. There's a winnab which is 1:11:41.640 --> 1:11:45.519 you need a budget Rocket Money has I don't think 1:11:45.520 --> 1:11:47.400 they can. I don't think Rocket money lets you put 1:11:47.439 --> 1:11:50.240 in a check though, but really you need like a 1:11:50.280 --> 1:11:54.600 budgeting software. So I would say Every Dollar's probably going 1:11:54.680 --> 1:11:56.920 to be something that works for you. But it's like 1:11:57.000 --> 1:11:59.800 kind of a paid it's like a freemium thing. I've 1:11:59.800 --> 1:12:02.080 tried that you need a budget. I don't really, it's 1:12:02.160 --> 1:12:05.600 way too complicated for me. And I'll be honest, I 1:12:05.720 --> 1:12:08.240 just every time this happens, I just keep going back 1:12:08.280 --> 1:12:10.920 to the spreadsheet and that's what I use over and 1:12:10.960 --> 1:12:14.040 over the spreadsheet with that the method I just told 1:12:14.080 --> 1:12:16.280 you about. I call it a reverse credit card because 1:12:16.280 --> 1:12:18.360 basically you're putting money in before you spend it. 1:12:20.160 --> 1:12:22.080 But have you heard of any of those programs I mentioned? 1:12:22.800 --> 1:12:26.000 I have not, But it's just something I've been frustrated 1:12:26.080 --> 1:12:28.639 with and trying to figure out a way. And I thought, 1:12:29.200 --> 1:12:32.000 and it hurts me, like you know, if it's sinkd 1:12:32.280 --> 1:12:35.720 Very often I would see a really pretty accurate thing, 1:12:36.240 --> 1:12:38.479 you know, it's on my phone or something. But then 1:12:38.479 --> 1:12:39.920 I'm kind of worried about you know what if I'm 1:12:39.920 --> 1:12:43.759 walking into a Starbucks when it starts thinking or something. Yeah, 1:12:43.840 --> 1:12:48.120 you know that it might be you know a security. 1:12:47.680 --> 1:12:51.000 Issue, right, Well, yeah, it's if it's. 1:12:50.840 --> 1:12:53.040 On three times a day with my bank, that's a 1:12:53.080 --> 1:12:53.879 lot of activity. 1:12:54.200 --> 1:12:56.400 Yeah, and it is. And most of these things, don't 1:12:56.479 --> 1:12:58.920 you know, they they sink sort of like on demand. 1:12:59.160 --> 1:13:01.240 You know, like if I if I go into like 1:13:01.320 --> 1:13:03.840 let's say Rocket Money or something like that, it's not 1:13:03.920 --> 1:13:06.160 SYNCD in the background. It's like sinking when you open 1:13:06.200 --> 1:13:08.240 the app. I think for that reason also, I think 1:13:08.280 --> 1:13:10.920 they have to pay. There's like a third party company 1:13:10.960 --> 1:13:13.639 like plaid is typically the company that connects your bank 1:13:13.720 --> 1:13:16.679 to these apps. And I think that, of course that's 1:13:16.680 --> 1:13:18.720 not a free service. These these apps have to pay 1:13:18.760 --> 1:13:22.519 every time they ping that service. So now, what would 1:13:22.520 --> 1:13:24.559 be nice if your bank lets you do this, You know, 1:13:24.600 --> 1:13:26.760 if your bank, because that's what most people are doing, 1:13:26.840 --> 1:13:29.080 is they're checking their balance on their debit card and 1:13:29.160 --> 1:13:31.040 then they spend, right, So it'd be nice if you 1:13:31.080 --> 1:13:35.200 can add that check into the the app itself from 1:13:35.240 --> 1:13:37.240 your bank and say, hey, look, I spent twenty five 1:13:37.240 --> 1:13:40.000 dollars on this check, you know, reflect that on my account. 1:13:40.080 --> 1:13:43.960 That would make too much sense because banks, obviously, you know, 1:13:44.360 --> 1:13:46.880 just being a little bit real here, they probably want 1:13:46.920 --> 1:13:49.000 you to overdraft or they probably want you to spend 1:13:49.000 --> 1:13:50.800 too much, so they're not going to make it that 1:13:50.840 --> 1:13:52.479 easy for you. But that would be a nice feature 1:13:52.520 --> 1:13:53.240 for them to do that. 1:13:54.960 --> 1:13:56.640 You know. I like my method. I've used it for 1:13:56.680 --> 1:13:57.200 many years. 1:13:57.200 --> 1:13:59.639 It works very very well, and it's simple, and again 1:14:00.240 --> 1:14:02.760 I only have to worry about that account once a 1:14:02.800 --> 1:14:05.720 week or so. And again you get that side, that 1:14:05.920 --> 1:14:09.880 side benefit of you're not overspending and you can spend 1:14:10.040 --> 1:14:13.000 as you want because you just look at that balance. 1:14:13.000 --> 1:14:14.760 If you have five hundred dollars in there, you can 1:14:14.800 --> 1:14:16.479 spend up to five hundred dollars, you know, as long 1:14:16.520 --> 1:14:18.519 as you have your you know, make sure that you've 1:14:18.520 --> 1:14:20.840 got all your stuff covered. But I think the every 1:14:20.840 --> 1:14:23.559 Dollar app would probably be closest to what you're talking 1:14:23.560 --> 1:14:25.760 about because you could do it from your phone and 1:14:25.800 --> 1:14:28.880 you could put those transactions in as you go along, 1:14:29.080 --> 1:14:32.120 and you can also reconcile. So the paid part of 1:14:32.160 --> 1:14:35.360 that app is that it reconciles from your bank is says, okay, 1:14:35.360 --> 1:14:38.080 you just had three new transactions come through. Where do 1:14:38.120 --> 1:14:39.240 the you know, what are those four? 1:14:39.360 --> 1:14:39.439 Like? 1:14:39.520 --> 1:14:42.080 Is that for your I don't know, You're you're dining 1:14:42.120 --> 1:14:46.479 out fund or whatever it is. So that's that's probably 1:14:46.520 --> 1:14:49.160 the best way to do it. I think that budgeting 1:14:49.240 --> 1:14:51.880 is not easy. It's it's a very complicated process, even 1:14:51.920 --> 1:14:54.479 with all these apps, because if you think about it, 1:14:54.920 --> 1:14:56.400 you know, they all want to make money. They want 1:14:56.400 --> 1:14:59.000 to have some sort of freemium thing and they want 1:14:59.040 --> 1:15:00.880 to make your life easy, but also they have a 1:15:00.920 --> 1:15:04.559 business to do. So again, I've tried every single one 1:15:04.600 --> 1:15:07.120 of these apps, every single money app out there, and 1:15:07.280 --> 1:15:09.400 I come back to I've been using a spreadsheet for 1:15:09.439 --> 1:15:12.240 fifteen years and every Friday. 1:15:11.920 --> 1:15:14.040 Open up the spreadsheet, go through all the stuff. 1:15:14.080 --> 1:15:18.160 I literally have to input every single item into that spreadsheet, 1:15:18.280 --> 1:15:20.960 balance it out, and make sure that it's like a checkbook, 1:15:21.000 --> 1:15:22.519 you know, make sure that it's all balanced and the 1:15:22.560 --> 1:15:25.800 money's there. But with the exception of what I call 1:15:25.840 --> 1:15:28.320 that fun money account, I call it a reverse credit card. 1:15:28.520 --> 1:15:31.280 So that is money that already goes in there, and 1:15:31.320 --> 1:15:33.080 so when you know, let's say you put in you know, 1:15:33.520 --> 1:15:36.640 three hundred dollars a week, and that money you can 1:15:36.680 --> 1:15:39.200 do whatever you want with because you're actually doing your 1:15:39.240 --> 1:15:42.320 main bills from your standard checking account. So I know 1:15:42.400 --> 1:15:44.799 this gets a little nuanced, but it's a very simple 1:15:44.800 --> 1:15:47.320 way of kind of Okay, you know, your electricity bill 1:15:47.360 --> 1:15:49.439 is do every month on the eighteenth, you put that 1:15:49.479 --> 1:15:51.800 in the budget. That goes in the budget on the spreadsheet, 1:15:52.000 --> 1:15:53.599 But you don't know that you're going to go out 1:15:53.600 --> 1:15:55.559 to Starbucks after work with a friend and get a 1:15:55.560 --> 1:15:59.320 coffee for six dollars and you know, seventy five cents 1:15:59.360 --> 1:16:03.479 whatever charging nowadays for one of those lattes, And so 1:16:03.560 --> 1:16:05.080 that just comes out of the fun money and you 1:16:05.080 --> 1:16:06.040 don't have to think about it now. 1:16:06.040 --> 1:16:07.640 You just know that balance on fun money. 1:16:07.400 --> 1:16:11.240 Is four hundred and ninety three dollars and you've got 1:16:11.240 --> 1:16:13.360 that to spend until the next week rolls around, or 1:16:13.400 --> 1:16:16.439 payday or whatever you want to do. But that's a 1:16:16.439 --> 1:16:18.720 good Another good topic which a lot of people ask 1:16:18.760 --> 1:16:22.479 about too, Rick, thanks for the call, is how to 1:16:22.520 --> 1:16:25.680 see your net worth on one page? And so there 1:16:25.760 --> 1:16:27.719 used to be a great app for this called Mint, 1:16:28.160 --> 1:16:30.360 which I remember I was working at k CAL News 1:16:30.360 --> 1:16:33.599 here in Los Angeles, k CAL nine and Mint came 1:16:33.640 --> 1:16:36.240 out and it was like the first app that put 1:16:36.400 --> 1:16:38.519 all of your accounts in one place, Like you could 1:16:38.520 --> 1:16:41.920 now take your credit card, you know, your car if 1:16:41.920 --> 1:16:43.719 you had a car payment, you could put that in there, 1:16:44.520 --> 1:16:47.720 your savings account, your four to one K and you 1:16:47.760 --> 1:16:50.080 can put it all in one place and it would 1:16:50.160 --> 1:16:53.679 literally take every transaction, reconcile and show you your net 1:16:53.680 --> 1:16:57.080 worth on one page. And this was mind boggling yeah, 1:16:57.120 --> 1:17:00.080 this was probably fifteen years ago, and it was so 1:17:00.160 --> 1:17:03.040 cool to see everything in one place, all the transactions. 1:17:03.040 --> 1:17:05.200 You can make a budget, you could do this, you could. 1:17:05.280 --> 1:17:07.880 I mean, it was just so so cool. It was 1:17:07.920 --> 1:17:09.680 the first time that I think people saw like their 1:17:09.720 --> 1:17:12.120 net worth in one app, and that was great and 1:17:12.160 --> 1:17:14.120 they had a great run until you know, they got 1:17:14.120 --> 1:17:16.320 purchased and it just got run into the ground. And 1:17:16.360 --> 1:17:19.640 now it's called credit Karma, I think, which is just 1:17:20.040 --> 1:17:22.280 not very good. And I'd say like ninety nine percent 1:17:22.280 --> 1:17:24.479 of people who switched to that do not like it. 1:17:25.160 --> 1:17:26.720 Uh so they've been looking for a new app to 1:17:26.720 --> 1:17:28.360 see all of their net worth on one page. And 1:17:28.400 --> 1:17:30.280 I'll just go through these quick. The ones that I like. 1:17:31.080 --> 1:17:33.639 I do like Rocket Money, which I think is really 1:17:33.680 --> 1:17:36.360 really cool, Like I used that yesterday actually to budget 1:17:36.400 --> 1:17:39.080 because it shows you on a calendar every single one 1:17:39.120 --> 1:17:41.280 of your bills, so you can go through the month 1:17:41.360 --> 1:17:44.200 and literally on you know, September first, you have this 1:17:44.240 --> 1:17:47.040 bill due September second, and it figures that out by 1:17:47.080 --> 1:17:48.840 linking up to all of your accounts, so even if 1:17:48.880 --> 1:17:50.920 you forgot that you have a bill coming up, like 1:17:50.960 --> 1:17:53.559 a recurring bill like I pay for Dropbox on I 1:17:53.560 --> 1:17:56.640 think September thirtieth or something like that. It remembers that 1:17:56.680 --> 1:17:58.519 even though that's only once a year that I pay 1:17:58.600 --> 1:18:00.760 for that, it knows it's on that calend, and you're like, 1:18:00.760 --> 1:18:03.120 oh cool, let me put that in the budget. So 1:18:03.280 --> 1:18:07.400 Rocket Money's really good. Betterment b E T T E 1:18:07.560 --> 1:18:09.960 R M E n T. Betterment is really cool for 1:18:10.000 --> 1:18:13.240 seeing all your stuff on one page. The one that 1:18:13.280 --> 1:18:15.280 I think is the best and the easiest is called 1:18:15.360 --> 1:18:18.720 Empower E M P O W E R. If you 1:18:18.920 --> 1:18:20.960 just want to see your net worth on one page. 1:18:21.439 --> 1:18:25.280 Empower Personal Dashboard. They've got an app for iPhone and Android. 1:18:26.080 --> 1:18:28.479 That one's really good. It used to be called Personal Capital. 1:18:28.520 --> 1:18:30.880 They change the name, but it's such an easy way 1:18:30.920 --> 1:18:34.559 to see that and it's actually, you know what, rick 1:18:34.640 --> 1:18:36.559 to answer your question they do on this app, it 1:18:36.560 --> 1:18:39.120 does say you can budget, So maybe try that one 1:18:39.200 --> 1:18:40.960 and see if they let you put your checks in there. 1:18:41.360 --> 1:18:42.680 And then there's one from Fidelity. 1:18:42.720 --> 1:18:45.280 I've not tried this, but it's called Fidelity Full View, 1:18:45.800 --> 1:18:48.000 and same thing. You can see all of your accounts 1:18:48.040 --> 1:18:50.920 and uh, you know it's neat because you've got money 1:18:50.960 --> 1:18:53.559 in one account, but you know, you've got money in 1:18:53.560 --> 1:18:55.920 this account, that account. That account puts it all together 1:18:56.040 --> 1:18:58.360 and it does net worth, so it takes all the 1:18:58.400 --> 1:19:01.120 accounts and you can actually see what kind of your 1:19:01.160 --> 1:19:03.960 final balance is like the stuff you have, the money 1:19:04.000 --> 1:19:06.080 you have minus the money you owe. 1:19:06.479 --> 1:19:09.680 How much is that you know? Leftover? Great question, Rick, 1:19:09.720 --> 1:19:10.479 Thanks so much for the call. 1:19:10.520 --> 1:19:13.400 Toda eight thousand, oaks eighty eight, rich one o one 1:19:13.560 --> 1:19:16.439 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:19:16.479 --> 1:19:19.840 My two favorite things, two favorite topics, money and tech 1:19:20.520 --> 1:19:23.200 collide here on the rich on Tech Show. Coming up, 1:19:23.520 --> 1:19:26.720 speaking of money, Disney, the free ride is over. No 1:19:26.800 --> 1:19:29.479 more sharing your password. I'll explain how they're cracking down. 1:19:29.640 --> 1:19:30.080 Coming up. 1:19:34.360 --> 1:19:36.960 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:19:37.000 --> 1:19:41.360 out with you, talking technology. The website for the show 1:19:41.520 --> 1:19:45.479 rich on Tech dot TV. Hit contact to get in touch, 1:19:46.280 --> 1:19:50.479 or hit the light bulb icon to uh see anything 1:19:50.479 --> 1:19:53.479 I mentioned here. I've just talked about apps, second budget 1:19:53.560 --> 1:19:55.400 and apps I can help you see your net worth. 1:19:55.439 --> 1:19:58.240 That's all on the website. Rich on Tech dot TV 1:19:58.920 --> 1:20:00.960 Show number ninety one. Hit the light bulb to get 1:20:00.960 --> 1:20:03.880 the show notes. It's all there, very succinct, very clear, 1:20:04.720 --> 1:20:07.880 very very handy. Oh, while you're at the website, sign 1:20:07.920 --> 1:20:09.840 up for my newsletter. That's always the best way to 1:20:09.880 --> 1:20:11.680 hear from me. I put all these little tips and 1:20:11.680 --> 1:20:15.720 things in there. By the way, if you're scrolling through 1:20:15.720 --> 1:20:19.040 Facebook and you see your own picture in AI, like 1:20:19.080 --> 1:20:22.320 an AI generated image of you, do not be alarmed. 1:20:22.880 --> 1:20:24.040 Yes, you should be alarmed. 1:20:24.680 --> 1:20:27.439 So Meta had their Meta connect this week and they 1:20:27.520 --> 1:20:31.559 mentioned that they're really pushing AI down the throats of 1:20:31.600 --> 1:20:34.600 everyone that uses Facebook. Apparently a lot of people are 1:20:34.640 --> 1:20:37.360 actually using their Meta AI. Even though when it first 1:20:37.360 --> 1:20:39.240 started people were like, how do I turn this thing off? 1:20:39.840 --> 1:20:40.960 It's actually quite good. 1:20:41.000 --> 1:20:43.400 So if you want to use a completely free version 1:20:43.439 --> 1:20:47.519 of AI, metas ai is actually really good. And why 1:20:47.560 --> 1:20:49.800 is it good Because it's been training on your posts 1:20:50.040 --> 1:20:53.120 for the past twenty years or so, so that's why 1:20:53.160 --> 1:20:56.439 it's so good. Well, when did Facebook come out? Let's 1:20:56.479 --> 1:21:00.599 see Facebook launch date? Facebook February fourth, twenty two thousand 1:21:00.600 --> 1:21:02.720 and four. Oh, can I get a ding that's exactly 1:21:02.760 --> 1:21:08.920 twenty years? Come on, let's see anyway, Facebook twenty years? Yes, 1:21:08.960 --> 1:21:11.800 thank you? So yes, they've been training their AI on 1:21:11.880 --> 1:21:14.200 your posts, and so they're trying to get people to 1:21:14.280 --> 1:21:17.720 like use this like AI generator called Imagine Yourself. So 1:21:17.760 --> 1:21:21.559 they're just going to start generating pictures of you in 1:21:21.600 --> 1:21:24.280 like different situations. Like you might be scrolling through Facebook 1:21:24.280 --> 1:21:27.719 and see you like as like a medieval king or queen, 1:21:27.840 --> 1:21:31.200 and you're like, what is that my face? And it'll 1:21:31.200 --> 1:21:33.320 get your interest, so you'll click and you'll try using that. 1:21:33.360 --> 1:21:34.839 You'll be like, oh cool, I want to see myself 1:21:34.960 --> 1:21:38.640 as a surfer on a skateboard, you know, fighting dinosaurs, 1:21:38.680 --> 1:21:40.000 and then all of a sudden, next thing, you know, 1:21:40.120 --> 1:21:42.040 it boosts their numbers. You might come back and try 1:21:42.040 --> 1:21:45.639 it more. The images that you see will not have 1:21:45.840 --> 1:21:47.640 will not be shared with the public. They're just on 1:21:47.720 --> 1:21:49.960 your feed for you to see. So you're not going 1:21:50.040 --> 1:21:52.920 to see like your grandma's image on your feed in 1:21:52.960 --> 1:21:56.240 AI unless she posts it. But anyway, just beware. Just 1:21:56.240 --> 1:21:57.760 giving you the heads up. That's what I do here. 1:21:57.800 --> 1:22:00.280 I tell you what's happening. What's going to happen. Disney 1:22:00.280 --> 1:22:04.360 Plus cracking down on paid sharing, sorry, cracking down on 1:22:04.479 --> 1:22:10.240 password sharing. They call it a paid sharing program. So basically, 1:22:10.400 --> 1:22:12.840 like I say on this show, the free ride is over. 1:22:13.439 --> 1:22:16.120 Disney Plus used to be seven bucks a month all 1:22:16.160 --> 1:22:18.599 the Disney movies you could ever watch till your eyes 1:22:18.600 --> 1:22:22.920 would bleed out of your head. And it's now expanded 1:22:22.920 --> 1:22:24.360 to I think it's I don't know how much it's 1:22:24.439 --> 1:22:26.400 up to. It's a lot more than seven bucks a month. 1:22:26.439 --> 1:22:30.200 I know I'm paying more. And you can't share. You know, 1:22:30.200 --> 1:22:31.720 it used to be you could have your you could 1:22:31.720 --> 1:22:33.479 have your account with so many people. They't they didn't 1:22:33.479 --> 1:22:37.200 even care. But now you can't share it. So you've 1:22:37.240 --> 1:22:39.719 got options. If you want to share your account outside 1:22:39.760 --> 1:22:41.720 your house, you can add one extra person for seven 1:22:41.760 --> 1:22:44.680 to ten dollars a month, and non household members can 1:22:44.720 --> 1:22:47.040 also transfer their profile if. 1:22:46.920 --> 1:22:48.560 They already have one, to their own. 1:22:48.840 --> 1:22:51.000 And if you're away from your house, like if you're 1:22:51.000 --> 1:22:53.439 trying to watch your on vacation, you're probably gonna get 1:22:53.439 --> 1:22:57.040 a message that says, hey, hold up, we gotta verify 1:22:57.080 --> 1:22:58.840 this as you. So we're gonna send you a text 1:22:58.840 --> 1:23:01.519 message or an email with a code and you have 1:23:01.600 --> 1:23:03.879 to say, yeah, that's me and pop in that code. 1:23:04.240 --> 1:23:05.000 So that helps. 1:23:05.040 --> 1:23:07.880 Like someone that let's say you live in California, You've 1:23:07.920 --> 1:23:10.599 got your friend sharing your account in Minnesota. They try 1:23:10.600 --> 1:23:12.519 to log in, they're gonna have to text you and 1:23:12.560 --> 1:23:14.439 be like, hey, can I get that code? And even 1:23:14.439 --> 1:23:17.599 then Disney might not allow the log in to proceed 1:23:17.640 --> 1:23:20.439 because they might sniff out the fact that all of 1:23:20.439 --> 1:23:23.439 your connections are in California except for that one. And 1:23:23.520 --> 1:23:25.800 unless that's a college kid, you know that's in your 1:23:25.800 --> 1:23:27.720 family and your household, they're not going to allow it. 1:23:28.320 --> 1:23:31.479 So just be aware. Free ride is over. 1:23:31.600 --> 1:23:34.360 Let's go to Kevin in Malibu. Beautiful place. Kevin, you're 1:23:34.360 --> 1:23:36.040 on with Rich Rich. 1:23:36.080 --> 1:23:38.080 Good afternoon. Good to hear your voice. 1:23:38.160 --> 1:23:39.479 Thank you. What's up? 1:23:40.120 --> 1:23:40.320 Rich? 1:23:40.320 --> 1:23:44.200 I got a big problem here on our iMac in 1:23:44.360 --> 1:23:49.960 a contacts program. Yeah, my information is starting to miss 1:23:50.640 --> 1:23:54.719 going away. The contacts are missing and dressors are missing. 1:23:55.320 --> 1:23:59.200 Notes are missing as simple as well. I use my 1:23:59.280 --> 1:24:02.120 mother as an example. I had all her passwords lifted 1:24:02.680 --> 1:24:05.880 in the notes. I see you there now is her 1:24:06.200 --> 1:24:06.760 phone number? 1:24:07.000 --> 1:24:09.360 Well that's not good. Don't keep the passwords in the notes. 1:24:09.400 --> 1:24:12.000 You've talked about this on the show Highly Insecure. 1:24:12.040 --> 1:24:13.320 So well that's the next one. 1:24:13.439 --> 1:24:14.280 That's for another day. 1:24:14.360 --> 1:24:18.000 But yes, use a password manager iOS eighteen passwords built in. 1:24:18.280 --> 1:24:20.680 What are you using? Where are these kept normally? Are 1:24:20.680 --> 1:24:23.000 they kept in iCloud? Are they kept in Gmail? Where 1:24:23.000 --> 1:24:23.479 are these kept? 1:24:23.720 --> 1:24:27.519 Well, what I'm concerned with is the contact app on 1:24:27.680 --> 1:24:31.839 my iMac. I'm running high Sierra. I called the Apple 1:24:31.960 --> 1:24:35.160 and we looked into it and I told him this 1:24:35.280 --> 1:24:37.840 was missing. He looked at my screen and we put 1:24:37.880 --> 1:24:41.559 in the time machine and went back and in June 1:24:41.880 --> 1:24:45.719 I had all the information on time machine. But now 1:24:45.800 --> 1:24:49.759 in September on the actual app it's gone. 1:24:50.240 --> 1:24:52.920 Okay, And again, how are you sinking these? Are these 1:24:52.960 --> 1:24:53.800 stored in eye cloud? 1:24:55.479 --> 1:24:57.800 This is just on the iMac, but yes, it is 1:24:57.840 --> 1:24:59.000 connected to i cloud. 1:24:59.240 --> 1:24:59.639 Okay. 1:25:00.640 --> 1:25:05.439 So what I would recommend is going to icloudicloud dot 1:25:05.479 --> 1:25:09.240 com seeing if the contacts are in there, and that's 1:25:09.280 --> 1:25:10.800 the best way. But again you've got to go to 1:25:10.840 --> 1:25:13.680 that time machine backup and download them and then re 1:25:13.800 --> 1:25:18.719 upload them to this app, and you got to figure 1:25:18.720 --> 1:25:20.679 out why they're actually going away every time. 1:25:20.880 --> 1:25:21.840 This is rich on Tech. 1:25:25.120 --> 1:25:27.880 Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:25:27.880 --> 1:25:29.520 out with you, talking technology. 1:25:30.160 --> 1:25:30.360 Now. 1:25:30.360 --> 1:25:36.960 Typically on this show, I like to keep things light, fun, interesting, obviously, 1:25:37.080 --> 1:25:40.400 always and helpful. And we are seeing a movement here 1:25:40.479 --> 1:25:43.400 in the US where people are realizing and by the way, 1:25:43.439 --> 1:25:46.640 this is serious conversation. People are realizing that some of 1:25:46.640 --> 1:25:49.439 this tech is not always the best for us and 1:25:49.520 --> 1:25:53.320 for everyone, especially when it comes to teenagers and even adults. 1:25:53.360 --> 1:25:57.160 I mean, this stuff affects people in various ways. Joining 1:25:57.160 --> 1:26:02.240 me now is Sam Chapman is founder of Parent Collective, 1:26:03.000 --> 1:26:06.080 and this is an organization that is working to bring 1:26:06.120 --> 1:26:11.280 awareness to things like the dangers of social media. Sam, 1:26:11.320 --> 1:26:13.400 thanks so much for joining me today. Thank you for 1:26:13.439 --> 1:26:16.840 having me so give me the background. I know you 1:26:17.000 --> 1:26:20.559 had a tragedy in your family and I would like 1:26:20.600 --> 1:26:22.880 you to tell me about that, and this is why 1:26:22.960 --> 1:26:24.400 we came to this place to talk. 1:26:24.479 --> 1:26:24.639 Huh. 1:26:26.160 --> 1:26:30.680 Yes, Well, I'm sort of the cautionary tale. Three and 1:26:30.720 --> 1:26:34.960 a half years ago, we were on lockdown and we 1:26:35.000 --> 1:26:37.880 thought our children were in the safest place possible in 1:26:37.960 --> 1:26:40.599 our home. But it turns out one of the most 1:26:40.720 --> 1:26:45.080 dangerous items you can give your kids our cell phone 1:26:45.160 --> 1:26:51.200 or laptop, and a dealer on Snapchat, driven by their algorithms, 1:26:51.479 --> 1:26:57.000 found our son by networking through his school. Other schoolmates 1:26:57.080 --> 1:27:00.640 had the quick ad feature on and that as a 1:27:00.720 --> 1:27:04.040 drug dealer to network with everyone they're connected to. 1:27:04.760 --> 1:27:06.920 A colorful drug menu was. 1:27:06.960 --> 1:27:10.920 Offered something free to our son because what was being 1:27:10.960 --> 1:27:15.880 offered is addictive if it doesn't kill you, and addictive 1:27:16.040 --> 1:27:20.960 for life. So lethal dose of fentanyl was delivered to 1:27:21.080 --> 1:27:24.880 our home like a pizza after we were asleep, and 1:27:25.240 --> 1:27:28.840 we found our son dead on the floor, tried to 1:27:28.840 --> 1:27:33.799 resuscitate him and failed. The EMT showed up and tried, 1:27:33.880 --> 1:27:37.679 and then the coroners came and we told the police, 1:27:37.720 --> 1:27:40.559 let's contact Snapchat and find out about this dealer. 1:27:40.640 --> 1:27:42.080 See what the profile says. 1:27:42.160 --> 1:27:44.479 And we were in Santa Monica at the time, which 1:27:44.520 --> 1:27:48.120 is actually where snap Inc. Is located, and the police 1:27:48.120 --> 1:27:52.080 told us that they don't bother calling, that they don't help. 1:27:52.120 --> 1:27:54.799 Snap Inc. Doesn't help in these cases. 1:27:54.960 --> 1:27:58.559 In fact, we found out later through the DEEA that 1:27:59.600 --> 1:28:04.840 snapped chat users were being notified when law enforcement was 1:28:04.880 --> 1:28:08.200 looking into their profiles, so in a way, they were 1:28:08.240 --> 1:28:13.000 collaborating with these people. And to this day, Snapchat is 1:28:13.160 --> 1:28:17.000 an active drug market. My wife likes to say that 1:28:17.240 --> 1:28:20.400 if you put your kid on social media, it's like 1:28:20.520 --> 1:28:23.960 dropping him off in the most dangerous drug filled neighborhood 1:28:24.160 --> 1:28:26.240 and hoping they do well for themselves. 1:28:26.640 --> 1:28:26.920 Wow. 1:28:27.080 --> 1:28:30.200 Well, I'm sorry to hear that, and I'm glad you're 1:28:30.200 --> 1:28:34.519 here to share what you've learned in this situation and 1:28:34.560 --> 1:28:37.000 you've been working on Now I know you're working on 1:28:37.040 --> 1:28:38.519 something called Sammy's Law. 1:28:39.520 --> 1:28:41.280 What's the status of that. 1:28:42.479 --> 1:28:46.439 Well, Sammy's Law right now is in the House of Representatives. 1:28:46.560 --> 1:28:50.120 It's HR five seven seven eight, and we're hoping to 1:28:50.160 --> 1:28:53.280 get it passed in the lame duck session coming up. 1:28:54.360 --> 1:28:55.479 It's gone pretty far. 1:28:55.760 --> 1:28:59.040 It's gone to committee and we've got a bipartisan group 1:28:59.040 --> 1:29:04.479 of sponsors and sponsors. It would require third party safety 1:29:04.560 --> 1:29:08.919 software on any social media or a gaming platform with children. 1:29:09.600 --> 1:29:14.960 And this technology exists today. It stops seventeen school shootings, 1:29:16.000 --> 1:29:18.519 called the police over a thousand times when there was 1:29:18.560 --> 1:29:22.719 imminent harm, and given warnings to parents over a million 1:29:22.800 --> 1:29:28.440 times when something dangerous or illegal happened on their children's devices. Unfortunately, 1:29:28.560 --> 1:29:32.680 on most of the platforms where our children are frequenting, 1:29:33.560 --> 1:29:38.120 they don't allow it, like TikTok, Snapchat, Discord, the gaming 1:29:38.160 --> 1:29:44.360 platform and the instant messaging platforms of meta. So the 1:29:44.439 --> 1:29:48.960 reason is because those companies get rewarded by the stock 1:29:49.040 --> 1:29:51.599 market when they announce the number of users every quarter, 1:29:51.960 --> 1:29:54.800 and if they do something that would limit the number 1:29:54.800 --> 1:29:58.880 of users, including kicking drug dealers off, their stock price 1:29:58.960 --> 1:30:01.920 would take a hit. And for some of these companies, 1:30:01.960 --> 1:30:04.320 like Snap Inc. They've never made a nickel in their 1:30:04.439 --> 1:30:08.120 entire existence. The only income they've ever reported is from 1:30:08.400 --> 1:30:11.839 the money that Wall Street has given them, the interest 1:30:11.920 --> 1:30:16.120 on the money. So stock prices everything to them. User 1:30:16.200 --> 1:30:17.639 health is not. 1:30:19.439 --> 1:30:21.080 Now, you know. 1:30:21.439 --> 1:30:24.880 So let's talk for a minute about this idea of 1:30:25.000 --> 1:30:28.519 talking to your kids. How do you think parents should 1:30:28.560 --> 1:30:31.880 start a conversation? Were you blindsided by this? And you know, 1:30:31.920 --> 1:30:34.519 do you think that you can give parents some ideas 1:30:34.560 --> 1:30:36.880 on how to like make sure that something like this 1:30:36.960 --> 1:30:38.000 doesn't happen in their home. 1:30:39.680 --> 1:30:42.360 So until the law has changed, it's going to be 1:30:42.520 --> 1:30:47.479 very hard to stop it. Snapchat, for instance, exists because 1:30:47.520 --> 1:30:51.080 the snaps disappear, and so unless you're literally looking over 1:30:51.120 --> 1:30:54.759 your child's shoulder if they're on Snapchat, you can't monitor 1:30:54.800 --> 1:30:58.960 it without the third party safety software. After our Sun died, 1:30:59.000 --> 1:31:03.000 I asked their CEO to put that technology on his platform, 1:31:03.200 --> 1:31:09.080 and he refused because they keep their data private because 1:31:09.160 --> 1:31:13.519 they are selling it to advertisers to target advertising and 1:31:13.560 --> 1:31:15.479 get more money for it, and they didn't want it 1:31:15.520 --> 1:31:21.439 cycling through another company. Sammy's Law forbids the third party 1:31:21.479 --> 1:31:26.000 safety software provider from using the information for commercial purposes. 1:31:26.080 --> 1:31:29.559 It's only for safety purposes, and you're not allowed to 1:31:29.600 --> 1:31:31.559 do things under the bill. You're not allowed to do 1:31:31.640 --> 1:31:35.760 things like out LGBTQ plus kids. You're not allowed to 1:31:36.200 --> 1:31:41.160 out or give notices to parents about reproductive choices like 1:31:41.200 --> 1:31:44.880 abortion or birth control. It's really there to guard against 1:31:44.960 --> 1:31:49.280 drug dealing to your child, or firearms sales, or human 1:31:49.360 --> 1:31:54.120 trafficking which is going on a sexploitation, which is when 1:31:54.720 --> 1:31:59.320 someone gets your kids to send a nude pick to 1:31:59.439 --> 1:32:03.720 them by sending one to your child and then they 1:32:03.720 --> 1:32:07.160 blackmail the child with the picture, threatening to tell the parents. 1:32:06.880 --> 1:32:09.480 Or the teacher or their schoolmates. 1:32:09.960 --> 1:32:12.240 And believe it or not, this is happening more often 1:32:12.280 --> 1:32:15.200 to young boys than to young girls, which is a surprise. 1:32:16.439 --> 1:32:20.560 Sammy's law also would be active on the largest gaming platforms, 1:32:20.640 --> 1:32:25.200 and those are particularly dangerous because your children are playing 1:32:25.360 --> 1:32:28.160 with adults and they don't even know it, and they 1:32:28.160 --> 1:32:31.360 think it's one of their best friends. And the adult 1:32:31.439 --> 1:32:34.200 may be playing with your kid for months before they 1:32:34.240 --> 1:32:36.480 set the hook and try and do some harm. 1:32:36.720 --> 1:32:38.200 Yeah, I know my kids are. 1:32:37.960 --> 1:32:42.160 They're always asking me for something like Discord or you know, 1:32:42.200 --> 1:32:44.639 it's interesting because all these games, you know, they try 1:32:44.640 --> 1:32:47.919 to have some some precautions built in, right, like filters 1:32:47.960 --> 1:32:50.280 and things like that. But the smart people that are 1:32:50.280 --> 1:32:54.000 trying to take advantage, they're always telling your kids to Hey, 1:32:54.080 --> 1:32:56.840 let's start this conversation on Discord, or let's sign up 1:32:56.880 --> 1:32:58.960 on this server, let's use this chatting app. 1:32:59.240 --> 1:33:01.040 And that's the whole point is to get. 1:33:00.840 --> 1:33:04.760 Outside of that chat system that they have built into 1:33:04.800 --> 1:33:07.640 some of these gaming services like the Roadblocks of the 1:33:07.680 --> 1:33:10.400 World and things like that, because they know that it's 1:33:10.439 --> 1:33:12.400 limited in what they can get away with in there, 1:33:13.200 --> 1:33:14.080 and so rich. 1:33:14.240 --> 1:33:16.880 Yeah, so that's exactly it, and that's why we need 1:33:16.880 --> 1:33:19.759 a law. We need all of them to protect at once, 1:33:20.160 --> 1:33:22.680 so that they don't give up competitive advantage to the 1:33:22.720 --> 1:33:26.200 other platforms or allow the kids to just switch from 1:33:26.240 --> 1:33:29.080 one platform to the other. It's why the one off 1:33:29.160 --> 1:33:33.320 safety features that they announce aren't effective, number one, because 1:33:33.360 --> 1:33:37.120 they're mostly pr games, and when they are effective, they 1:33:37.160 --> 1:33:40.280 just drive the kids to another platform. There was a 1:33:40.400 --> 1:33:43.720 congressional hearing coming up, and you may have heard Instagram 1:33:43.800 --> 1:33:47.559 decided to change the way they function the day before 1:33:47.640 --> 1:33:51.360 that hearing. And that's happened at all the hearings that 1:33:51.439 --> 1:33:55.080 we parents have gone to. So they put the default 1:33:55.120 --> 1:34:00.559 settings on private for kids, but any kids how to 1:34:00.640 --> 1:34:03.960 change those default settings in a second, and it really 1:34:04.040 --> 1:34:06.160 wasn't a change at all. 1:34:06.400 --> 1:34:08.320 It was a PR stunt. 1:34:10.040 --> 1:34:12.559 So what do you think about any of the tools 1:34:12.640 --> 1:34:14.680 or apps that are available now? Is there anything that 1:34:14.720 --> 1:34:16.439 you think parents can do in the meantime? I mean, 1:34:16.439 --> 1:34:19.479 the law is obviously something that would you know, it's 1:34:19.520 --> 1:34:22.680 going to take a long time to happen, if it 1:34:22.680 --> 1:34:23.400 ever happens. 1:34:23.520 --> 1:34:25.559 But do you think there's anything parents can do in 1:34:25.600 --> 1:34:26.640 the meantime. 1:34:27.320 --> 1:34:28.400 Well, a couple of things. 1:34:28.400 --> 1:34:30.800 The first thing is I advise, as sort of a 1:34:30.880 --> 1:34:33.760 quid pro quo for giving them these devices, that you 1:34:34.360 --> 1:34:37.519 require all of the user names and passwords for the 1:34:37.560 --> 1:34:41.639 devices and the software that they're using. And that way, 1:34:41.800 --> 1:34:44.240 in an emergency you can check or if you have 1:34:44.760 --> 1:34:48.759 a problem kid, you can spot check. But like I said, 1:34:48.800 --> 1:34:52.880 on Snapchat, the snaps disappear, so there's nothing to check. 1:34:54.560 --> 1:34:58.120 Of all the platforms, I would say that Google has 1:34:58.160 --> 1:35:02.200 the safest ones. They have the most easy to operate 1:35:02.600 --> 1:35:05.600 parent device controls. 1:35:07.280 --> 1:35:09.960 They don't allow a lot. 1:35:09.720 --> 1:35:13.360 Of the curse words and the sexuality and the things 1:35:13.400 --> 1:35:17.080 that can be found on the other platforms. So I 1:35:17.120 --> 1:35:20.000 would just say that YouTube is the safest of them. 1:35:21.000 --> 1:35:22.200 You know, Google seems to. 1:35:22.160 --> 1:35:27.760 Take this very seriously. Nothing is perfect. The most important 1:35:27.760 --> 1:35:31.320 thing is the longer you can keep them off of 1:35:31.360 --> 1:35:35.400 the platforms, the better. The longer you can go without 1:35:35.439 --> 1:35:42.439 giving your kid social media, the better. Bark has got 1:35:42.520 --> 1:35:45.960 the third party software that I was talking about. Their 1:35:46.080 --> 1:35:50.240 site is Bark dot us. We have no commercial relationship 1:35:50.280 --> 1:35:54.320 with them. They also make a safe phone. So if 1:35:54.360 --> 1:35:57.880 your kid's bugging you for a phone, depending on what 1:35:58.000 --> 1:36:00.880 age you permit that if you buy one of these 1:36:00.920 --> 1:36:04.400 safe Bark phones, you'll be buying yourself an extra year 1:36:04.479 --> 1:36:04.800 or two. 1:36:05.280 --> 1:36:08.040 All Right, we're gonna leave it there, Sam, Thank you 1:36:08.080 --> 1:36:12.040 so much. Sam Chapman from the Parent Collective the Web. 1:36:12.040 --> 1:36:14.320 Do you have a website or how can people find 1:36:14.320 --> 1:36:14.919 more information? 1:36:15.840 --> 1:36:17.519 Yesparentcollective dot org. 1:36:17.720 --> 1:36:20.679 Okay, Sam Chapman, thanks so much for sharing your story 1:36:20.840 --> 1:36:22.719 and sharing those tips. 1:36:22.760 --> 1:36:25.160 I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for joining 1:36:25.160 --> 1:36:25.559 me today. 1:36:26.120 --> 1:36:29.120 Thank you rich All right, coming up, we're gonna have 1:36:29.120 --> 1:36:31.760 more rich on tech right here and get into some 1:36:31.800 --> 1:36:33.799 of your emails and things that you sent me throughout 1:36:33.800 --> 1:36:34.120 the week. 1:36:34.200 --> 1:36:34.920 We'll be right back. 1:36:38.360 --> 1:36:41.200 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:36:41.240 --> 1:36:44.840 out with you, talking technology. The website for the show 1:36:45.120 --> 1:36:50.400 rich on Tech dot TV. So Adobe already forecasting a 1:36:50.600 --> 1:36:54.519 record breaking twenty twenty four holiday shopping season. 1:36:55.040 --> 1:36:59.400 This is all online. Total shopping spending. 1:36:59.400 --> 1:37:02.040 Expected to reach two hundred and forty billion, up eight 1:37:02.080 --> 1:37:05.960 percent over last year. They're expecting major discounts up to 1:37:06.040 --> 1:37:11.000 thirty percent off across a lot of categories. Best days 1:37:11.000 --> 1:37:16.000 for discount Thanksgiving days. People shop on Thanksgiving Day. I 1:37:16.040 --> 1:37:21.680 guess so toys, appliances, furniture, and sporting goods. Best day 1:37:21.720 --> 1:37:26.840 to score those deals. Black Friday best day for TV deals. 1:37:26.880 --> 1:37:27.360 We know that. 1:37:29.040 --> 1:37:33.559 Computers Saturday after Black Friday best day for computer deals. 1:37:34.120 --> 1:37:37.120 And if you're looking for electronics and apparel, the best 1:37:37.200 --> 1:37:41.240 day is Cyber Monday. Some of the trends social media 1:37:41.320 --> 1:37:45.040 influencers driving sales. Yep, that makes a lot of sense. 1:37:45.680 --> 1:37:50.599 Some of the top sellers bluey toys, PlayStation, iPhone, and 1:37:50.680 --> 1:37:53.040 various video games. I think you could read that like 1:37:53.120 --> 1:37:56.800 any year. It's like always the same video games, iPhones 1:37:56.800 --> 1:38:01.799 and toys and This is interesting. This year, AI tools 1:38:02.640 --> 1:38:05.479 gaining traction, so people are using them for research and 1:38:05.520 --> 1:38:06.640 also recommendations. 1:38:06.640 --> 1:38:07.720 And I will agree to that. 1:38:07.760 --> 1:38:10.880 It's my kid's birthday coming up, and my wife and 1:38:10.920 --> 1:38:12.200 I were trying to figure out what to get them. 1:38:12.200 --> 1:38:14.960 I said, let's ask AI. And I'm not kidding. 1:38:15.000 --> 1:38:17.479 We got the most thorough list of ideas I've ever 1:38:17.479 --> 1:38:21.120 seen in my entire life. No website visit necessary, and 1:38:21.160 --> 1:38:23.479 that's what's worried to some of these websites that you 1:38:23.560 --> 1:38:26.200 know you do affiliate links and research and things like that. 1:38:26.960 --> 1:38:28.920 It's just go to AI and you find all the 1:38:28.920 --> 1:38:31.040 information you need succinctly and easily. 1:38:32.600 --> 1:38:33.960 All right, let's get to the feedback. 1:38:34.040 --> 1:38:36.760 These are your emails, comments, questions that you write in 1:38:36.800 --> 1:38:39.800 at the website. Rich on tech dot tv hit Contact. 1:38:40.120 --> 1:38:43.479 Christian from Cypress writes in, I have a mother in 1:38:43.560 --> 1:38:46.080 law who is in her late seventies and a widow. 1:38:46.160 --> 1:38:48.679 She has a partial grasp of modern tech, but luckily 1:38:48.720 --> 1:38:50.439 she checks in with me for most of the help. 1:38:50.840 --> 1:38:53.720 She was watching Amazon Prime via her Apple TV one day. 1:38:53.760 --> 1:38:56.160 The movie she was watching paused and a message came 1:38:56.240 --> 1:38:59.000 up on the screen that said her account was locked 1:38:59.080 --> 1:39:01.080 due to payment, and she needed to call the number 1:39:01.080 --> 1:39:04.120 on the screen to unlock and continue watching. She then 1:39:04.160 --> 1:39:06.559 proceeded to call and was supposedly speaking with Amazon to 1:39:06.560 --> 1:39:08.880 clear it up, but you guess what happened. After getting 1:39:08.880 --> 1:39:12.160 contacted by her bank Wells Fargo fraud department, over ten 1:39:12.200 --> 1:39:15.240 thousand dollars went missing. She realized that the whole exchange 1:39:15.280 --> 1:39:18.800 was a scam and she was swindled out of the money. Afterwards, 1:39:18.840 --> 1:39:21.000 she took steps to fix the problem, changing her account 1:39:21.040 --> 1:39:23.680 number and passwords. She even contacted Amazon, who never heard 1:39:23.680 --> 1:39:27.280 of this scam, were thankful for her telling them police 1:39:27.280 --> 1:39:30.920 report was filled out and we really want this message 1:39:30.920 --> 1:39:32.360 to go out to your audience. Rich I know you 1:39:32.360 --> 1:39:34.360 have a vast audience of citizens who need to know 1:39:34.400 --> 1:39:37.120 this new and elaborate scam. We hope you can speak 1:39:37.160 --> 1:39:40.759 to it and share this turmoil. So this is interesting. 1:39:40.960 --> 1:39:44.600 I'm really curious how this happened. Because Apple TV is 1:39:44.720 --> 1:39:49.000 very secure Amazon Prime, I can't imagine a message coming 1:39:49.040 --> 1:39:52.559 up during a movie. So I'm really curious how this happened. 1:39:52.600 --> 1:39:54.879 And it may be that things were a little confused. 1:39:54.960 --> 1:39:57.320 Maybe the message popped up somewhere else while she was 1:39:57.360 --> 1:39:59.599 watching the movie like on her phone. But I do 1:39:59.680 --> 1:40:02.599 know there is some scams that are similar, Like there's 1:40:02.640 --> 1:40:05.120 one going around on Roku where it would say your 1:40:05.120 --> 1:40:07.120 account was locked and you have to call this number 1:40:07.120 --> 1:40:09.559 to unlock or whatever, and a lot of people fell 1:40:09.600 --> 1:40:12.160 for that. So just be aware anytime you see a 1:40:12.160 --> 1:40:15.080 message like this and you're calling someone you're the outbound call, 1:40:15.360 --> 1:40:18.280 even if they're the inbound call, it's a scam. Ninety 1:40:18.360 --> 1:40:20.240 nine point nine percent of the time, Roku's not going 1:40:20.320 --> 1:40:22.560 to stop your system from working. They're just going to 1:40:22.640 --> 1:40:24.240 literally send you an email say hey, you need to 1:40:24.320 --> 1:40:25.160 update your credit card. 1:40:25.240 --> 1:40:26.840 That's it, not going to call you for your bank 1:40:26.880 --> 1:40:27.679 account information. 1:40:29.640 --> 1:40:31.959 David writes in I think you should stress the importance 1:40:31.960 --> 1:40:35.360 of safekeeping recovery codes for major accounts like Microsoft and 1:40:35.400 --> 1:40:39.519 your password authenticators. Sometimes people forget the backup of security 1:40:39.520 --> 1:40:42.919 apps doesn't include the underlying security recovery codes, and replacing 1:40:42.960 --> 1:40:46.000 them becomes a pain when something when one does something 1:40:46.000 --> 1:40:48.120 stupid like wiping an old iPhone when you trade it 1:40:48.120 --> 1:40:50.280 in for a new one. I am looking forward to 1:40:50.280 --> 1:40:53.760 passwordless security becoming the norm. Yes, if you get those 1:40:53.800 --> 1:40:56.160 recovery codes when you're setting up an account, especially an 1:40:56.200 --> 1:41:00.160 important account. Save those codes that will keep you from 1:41:00.160 --> 1:41:02.720 getting a major headache later trying to get access to 1:41:02.760 --> 1:41:06.800 that account later on in life. Save those codes, put 1:41:06.840 --> 1:41:10.080 them in somewhere very safe. Laurel writes in about the 1:41:10.080 --> 1:41:13.760 iPhone reports last or a couple in the past couple weeks. 1:41:13.760 --> 1:41:15.679 I wouldn't have an iPhone if someone gave me one 1:41:15.680 --> 1:41:17.800 for free. It would drive me nuts trying to see 1:41:18.000 --> 1:41:20.720 all that information on those tiny screens. I noticed you 1:41:20.720 --> 1:41:21.920 didn't mention how much they cost. 1:41:21.960 --> 1:41:23.639 Why not? Well, I think I did, But. 1:41:24.640 --> 1:41:26.960 You know people have gotten used to those tiny screens, Laurel, 1:41:27.000 --> 1:41:27.759 thanks for the comment. 1:41:28.880 --> 1:41:31.000 Let's see here, Lisa. 1:41:31.400 --> 1:41:33.920 When listening to you broadcasting from Las Vegas, I found 1:41:33.920 --> 1:41:36.120 myself wondering, how's that set up? It sure doesn't sound 1:41:36.120 --> 1:41:38.360 like you're in a hotel room. Maybe you are. How 1:41:38.360 --> 1:41:40.640 do you manage the phone calls, the music? I'd like 1:41:40.640 --> 1:41:43.439 a peek behind the curtain. Oh, great and powerful tech dude, 1:41:43.600 --> 1:41:47.320 Lisa on the road to SoCal from Surprise, Arizona, Lisa, 1:41:47.360 --> 1:41:48.680 you'd be surprised. 1:41:48.240 --> 1:41:51.839 How amazing it is. I mean, it's it's a system 1:41:51.880 --> 1:41:54.599 that the engineers that are much smarter than me. 1:41:54.600 --> 1:41:57.559 Set up, and I bring it around in a suitcase 1:41:57.600 --> 1:41:59.040 and somehow we connect in it. 1:41:59.160 --> 1:42:00.519 The microphone said, sounds good. 1:42:01.080 --> 1:42:05.479 The system connects to our systems here, and it's quite impressive. 1:42:05.479 --> 1:42:07.719 I could do that show from anywhere, and you wouldn't 1:42:07.720 --> 1:42:09.040 even know if I didn't mention that I was in 1:42:09.120 --> 1:42:13.679 Las Vegas. So it's it's incredible, a little more complicated 1:42:13.720 --> 1:42:16.519 than doing TV from other places, but TV have live shots, 1:42:16.520 --> 1:42:18.880 you know. Same thing. Jim writes in Hey, Rich, you 1:42:18.920 --> 1:42:21.320 need to become an honorary Jew so you can pronounce 1:42:21.360 --> 1:42:25.520 the Yiddish words correctly. Chutzpa is pronounced hutspa. 1:42:26.040 --> 1:42:28.960 Did I get that right? Hutspa. 1:42:29.400 --> 1:42:31.040 It means having a lot of nerve or a lot 1:42:31.040 --> 1:42:33.679 of confidence, or if you're pronouncing it with the Yiddish accent, 1:42:33.720 --> 1:42:35.720 you could do ch like a soft k, like the 1:42:35.760 --> 1:42:39.439 way some people pronounce hankkah, which, of course most people 1:42:39.520 --> 1:42:42.599 pronounce that hankah. Okay, I'm reading this all wrong anyway. 1:42:42.600 --> 1:42:45.320 That's the Yiddish lesson for today. I don't actually speak Yiddish, 1:42:45.320 --> 1:42:46.960 but my late mother did take care Jim. 1:42:47.200 --> 1:42:50.040 Thank you Jim for the Yiddish lesson. I will do. 1:42:50.080 --> 1:42:51.760 They have dual lingo for Yiddish. 1:42:52.160 --> 1:42:56.679 I don't think so, Shirley writes in, Hey, Rich, thanks 1:42:56.720 --> 1:42:59.360 for all of you, Thank you for all the tech 1:42:59.439 --> 1:43:02.520 info you TV viewers and radio listeners. 1:43:02.680 --> 1:43:05.599 Best to you, Shirley. Thank you, Shirley. 1:43:05.640 --> 1:43:08.519 That's a good way to end the show here, if 1:43:08.560 --> 1:43:10.400 you could believe it. And every week I say this, 1:43:10.479 --> 1:43:12.880 I can't believe how fast this show goes. If you 1:43:12.920 --> 1:43:14.960 want three hours of your life to go really fast, 1:43:15.040 --> 1:43:17.320 get a radio show, because I'm telling you, it just 1:43:17.360 --> 1:43:19.280 flies by. I have so much more to talk about, 1:43:19.360 --> 1:43:23.400 so many more things to go through, so many emails, comments, questions, 1:43:23.439 --> 1:43:25.040 and it's just not enough time in the day to 1:43:25.080 --> 1:43:27.240 do it. Thank you so much. You can follow me 1:43:27.280 --> 1:43:30.560 on social media. I'm at rich on tech on Instagram, Facebook, 1:43:30.960 --> 1:43:33.439 and x You can find everything I mentioned on my 1:43:33.479 --> 1:43:36.200 website rich on tech dot TV. Thank you so much 1:43:36.200 --> 1:43:38.240 for listening. There are so many ways you can spend 1:43:38.280 --> 1:43:41.080 your time. I really do appreciate you spending it right 1:43:41.200 --> 1:43:44.120 here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show 1:43:44.160 --> 1:43:48.120 possible today, Adam, thanks for filling in Kim over on phones, 1:43:48.880 --> 1:43:51.040 my family who puts up with me testing all this 1:43:51.120 --> 1:43:54.760 tech all day long, and most importantly you thank you 1:43:54.880 --> 1:43:55.320 for listening. 1:43:55.400 --> 1:43:57.719 My name is rich Demiro. I will talk to you 1:43:57.800 --> 1:43:58.320 real soon