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Speaker 1: Guests coming up on this week's show include Drew Binski.
Speaker 1: He is a travel YouTuber who has visited every country
Speaker 1: in the world. He's got a new book out he's
Speaker 1: going to talk about that, plus his favorite tech tools,
Speaker 1: and we've got the co creators of the Kinny. This
Speaker 1: is a really interesting little gadget. It's a wireless motion sensor.
Speaker 1: And before you think, okay, I've got that from my
Speaker 1: smart home, this is a little bit different and it's
Speaker 1: very unique and there are some really interesting use cases.
Speaker 1: So we will have the creators of the Kinnion a
Speaker 1: little bit later in the show. So many things happening.
Speaker 1: This week's theme is summertime. I know my kids are
Speaker 1: out for the summer. Lots of kids getting out for
Speaker 1: the summer, so it is in full motion. Summer is
Speaker 1: in full swing here. Lots of things happening. Apple's WWDC
Speaker 1: Worldwide Developers Conference will happen this week, so it kicks
Speaker 1: off on Monday with a keynote. And the big rumor
Speaker 1: right now is that Apple is linking up with Open Ai,
Speaker 1: the makers of Chat GPT, to somehow make Siri smarter.
Speaker 1: Now we are not sure how that's gonna happen exactly,
Speaker 1: but that is the big rumor. Whether it's going to
Speaker 1: be just Chat GBT built into the iPhone or the
Speaker 1: AI smarts. But I think people are ready for this.
Speaker 1: This is what Steve Jobs imagined when he came up
Speaker 1: with Siri, a smart assistant that can help you do
Speaker 1: anything on your phone. And over the years we've seen
Speaker 1: many of them. We've seen Quartana from Microsoft, we have
Speaker 1: seen Bixby from Samsung, we have seen the Google Assistant,
Speaker 1: which has now evolved into Gemini and Siri can do
Speaker 1: a lot of things and it's gotten smarter over the years,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't really reached that sort of personal assistant level.
Speaker 1: So we will see if Apple really makes a big
Speaker 1: change with the iPhone. Spoiler alert, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say that this stuff isn't gonna happen soon, but even
Speaker 1: if they announce something next week, we're not going to
Speaker 1: see any changes until at least September, and potentially some
Speaker 1: of the rumors are saying twenty twenty five. So we
Speaker 1: will see. I know the iPhone nothing changes quickly with that,
Speaker 1: but I'm excited to see what's going to happen there.
Speaker 1: Just sent out the newsletter on the website rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot tv. Two travel sites I mentioned in the
Speaker 1: newsletter this week. I'll mention them here because if you
Speaker 1: haven't signed up for the newsletter, go to rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot tv, hit the sign up button and it
Speaker 1: will arrive in your inbox. But two sites I mentioned
Speaker 1: this week. The first one is called Points. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: there is a website if you've got points, you know
Speaker 1: from your credit card or your frequent flyer programs or
Speaker 1: your hotel programs. You may be figuring out how to
Speaker 1: use those and how to make the most of them.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of times where let's say you
Speaker 1: have points on Delta, they may transfer to another program
Speaker 1: and that program may have a cheaper redemption rate than
Speaker 1: what Delta has. So real frequent flyers know that they
Speaker 1: don't just check the airline or the program that they
Speaker 1: have points with. They check all the different programs so
Speaker 1: that they can see which ones might be the cheapest
Speaker 1: use of their points or the maximum value of their points.
Speaker 1: And so I've told you this before. I don't play
Speaker 1: the points game in a big way, but yes I
Speaker 1: do have points, and of course I want to use them.
Speaker 1: I end up not using them because I'm always worried
Speaker 1: about not getting the best value out of them, and
Speaker 1: so when I do use them, I try to make
Speaker 1: the most out of them. And so this website points Yeah,
Speaker 1: is completely free and it lets you search through all
Speaker 1: these different programs. They have a whole bunch of them
Speaker 1: on there, all of the credit card programs, all of
Speaker 1: the airline programs, or a lot of the majority of
Speaker 1: the big airline programs, a lot of the hotel programs,
Speaker 1: and what's different about this site than some of the
Speaker 1: other ones is that the results are quick, so they'll
Speaker 1: be delivered to your screen at about twenty seconds. The
Speaker 1: other one I like is called point me. The search
Speaker 1: can take a couple of minutes to complete, so that's
Speaker 1: what's really neat about this one. You can search across
Speaker 1: four days. So let's say you wanted to travel on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: You can search a couple of days on either side
Speaker 1: of that for free to see if maybe you left
Speaker 1: on Thursday. It's half the points. And if you upgrade
Speaker 1: to a paid membership, which you don't have to, but
Speaker 1: if you do, you can search I think for eight
Speaker 1: days on either side, so total of like sixteen days going.
Speaker 1: And you know by the time anyway, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of search on this website. It's very cool. It's just
Speaker 1: something to bookmark when you're looking for your hotels or
Speaker 1: flights this summer points Yeah Dot And you know, if
Speaker 1: you listen to the show that everything I mentioned on
Speaker 1: the show I link up on the website rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV. Hit the light bulb icon on the
Speaker 1: website at the top, and that will bring you to
Speaker 1: real time links to everything I mentioned. All right now.
Speaker 1: The next one is if you don't like, if you're
Speaker 1: not the best flyer right, if you're kind of a
Speaker 1: person who's a little scared of the turbulence, and we've
Speaker 1: seen a lot more. I don't know, it seems like
Speaker 1: we've seen a lot more turbulence, at least in the news.
Speaker 1: But this is a website called turbly t r bli
Speaker 1: dot com got this through the Point Sky and they
Speaker 1: mentioned this website that lets you check the turbulence forecast
Speaker 1: for your flight. So if you type in a flight,
Speaker 1: so let's say I type in from LAX to EWR,
Speaker 1: which is a common flight that I take, gives you
Speaker 1: a listing of all the different flights United Jet Blue Alaska.
Speaker 1: You tap on your flight and then it will tell
Speaker 1: you what the turbulence forecast is. And not just the
Speaker 1: turbulence forecast, but there's all kinds of other stuff. Tells
Speaker 1: you the route, tells you if it's going to be bumpy,
Speaker 1: tells you if the tailwind is going to be strong
Speaker 1: so that means you might arrive earlier. Tells you if
Speaker 1: there's thunderstorms along the way, and if the takeoff and
Speaker 1: landing is going to be smooth because it tells you
Speaker 1: how much wind is on the landing. I was in
Speaker 1: a landing I think it was in either Japan or China,
Speaker 1: and it was so windy. I mean, we were just
Speaker 1: bouncing all around on the landing like I was like,
Speaker 1: are we gonna land this thing or what? But I
Speaker 1: do put a lot of faith in these amazing pilots
Speaker 1: that fly these planes. They know what they're doing. We
Speaker 1: do not. And I know that whenever there's turbulence, what
Speaker 1: do you do? The best is when you're sitting next
Speaker 1: to like a pilot that is off. You know, they're
Speaker 1: just like in the seat next to you or something,
Speaker 1: and when you see that turbulence, you just kind of
Speaker 1: look over at them and they're just like it doesn't
Speaker 1: even phase them. You're like, all right, everything's good. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you look at the flight attendants to see
Speaker 1: like if they're having a reaction. That's always kind of
Speaker 1: like the main thing. Bobo's getting his mic ready? Do
Speaker 1: you have you have thoughts on this? Do you do?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: Are you the kind that looks at the flight attendant?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say those sound like first class problems
Speaker 1: because I've never sit next to another pilot. No, that
Speaker 1: that's the thing. They don't get to sit in first class.
Speaker 1: Oh no, they get if you watch the pilots, like
Speaker 1: the the off duty pilots and flight attendants. They literally
Speaker 1: get the last seat on the plane, so they're on standby.
Speaker 1: Literally they have to board last. After every single revenue
Speaker 1: seat gets on. They get on. So it doesn't happen often,
Speaker 1: but I've seen it, and they're never I mean they're
Speaker 1: never in first. You would think they would give that first,
Speaker 1: you know, Row one C A and uh yeah. By
Speaker 1: the way, it is my dream to fly first. I
Speaker 1: don't fly first most of the time. You don't know
Speaker 1: I fly. I am. I am like Rick Steve. I'm
Speaker 1: Rick Steve's I'm just fine with an aisle seat. Yes,
Speaker 1: I like the economy plus if I can get it
Speaker 1: with the little extra leg room that part. But I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I'm totally I can go anywhere. I can go anywhere
Speaker 1: and first obviously live flat is amazing. But no, I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm a you know, I'm an easy flyer. I
Speaker 1: really like. My thing is like save the money so
Speaker 1: that you can spend it when you get there, because
Speaker 1: if you're spending all that money on, you know, an
Speaker 1: upgraded seat. Then you know it's just less money to
Speaker 1: spend when you get they're only in the plane for
Speaker 1: a couple hours. I mean, it's funny. You're the second
Speaker 1: person to ask me that in two days. So I
Speaker 1: guess I give off that first class flying vibe. But
Speaker 1: you're rich, Demiro, why wouldn't you be first class? It's expensive.
Speaker 1: It's too expensive even I don't care. It's just unless
Speaker 1: your company is paying for it. Yes, the only times
Speaker 1: i've I've flown it is when I'm either taking some
Speaker 1: sort of upgrade or I have like a corporate, you
Speaker 1: know company that's paying for it. But otherwise you'll just
Speaker 1: see me and coach. All right, let me give you
Speaker 1: a review of some earbuds that I really like. These
Speaker 1: are the nothing earbuds. So I test a lot of
Speaker 1: ear buds, especially on the plane. That's that's my main
Speaker 1: place to test these things, to see how the noise
Speaker 1: cancelation works. And ninety nine percent of the time I
Speaker 1: put the earbuds in my ears and I take them
Speaker 1: out after twenty minutes. Don't even like them. They go
Speaker 1: on the shelf and they're done. I'm not gonna recommend them,
Speaker 1: but the nothing earbuds are excellent. They make two versions,
Speaker 1: the nothing Ear and the nothing Ear A. The EARA
Speaker 1: are the budget models. They start at ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 1: The nothing Ear is one hundred and fifty dollars. Both
Speaker 1: of these models have a great fit, they're comfortable, the
Speaker 1: audio is excellent. They have a unique design. They've got
Speaker 1: active noise cancelation and transparency mode, and even a fun
Speaker 1: little audio I don't know chime when you switch between
Speaker 1: the different modes, whether it's transparency or noise cancelation. They've
Speaker 1: got fast charging. Ten minutes of plugging in will give
Speaker 1: you ten hours of playback. If you've got the case,
Speaker 1: you get almost forty hours of playback because the case
Speaker 1: also charges them. It's got all of the premium stuff,
Speaker 1: so the pinch controls on the stems, the sensors that
Speaker 1: pause and play music when you insert them or remove
Speaker 1: them from your ears. They've got good water and dust resistance.
Speaker 1: They're just really great earbuds. So if you're looking for
Speaker 1: a pair of earbuds for an Android phone, I highly
Speaker 1: recommend these earbuds. Now, why do you go with the
Speaker 1: premium ones? They offer a wireless charging case and a
Speaker 1: customized sound profile. So if you want the absolute best
Speaker 1: sound from Nothing, pay the extra fifty bucks go with
Speaker 1: the Nothing ear But otherwise the Nothing ear a are excellent,
Speaker 1: and they've got this great yellow color that they come in.
Speaker 1: They also come in black and white if you're not
Speaker 1: that adventurous, but I love the yellow color. It looks
Speaker 1: like something that would float if you threw it in
Speaker 1: the water. It's a great, great set of earbuds. If
Speaker 1: you've got a Nothing phone, which I don't think you have,
Speaker 1: but if you did, you'd be able to set chat
Speaker 1: GPT as your default voice assistant when you use these earbuds,
Speaker 1: which is also really cool. Now you might be saying, Rich,
Speaker 1: what about iPhones? Should I buy these if I have
Speaker 1: an iPhone? Yes, you can buy them and they will
Speaker 1: will absolutely work if you have an iPhone. But here
Speaker 1: is the thing, why would you not get what works
Speaker 1: with Apple's ecosystem, which are their own AirPods. That way
Speaker 1: you get access to Siri. That's why I like the
Speaker 1: Nothing buds for the Android phones the most. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up, I also have my review of the Google
Speaker 1: Pixel eight, a budget smartphone eight A eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple
Speaker 1: eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one website for the
Speaker 1: show richon Tech dot TV. If you want a link
Speaker 1: to something I mentioned, hit the lightbulb icon. I just
Speaker 1: mentioned some handy travel sites. If you want to email me,
Speaker 1: just hit the contact link up at the top. Like
Speaker 1: I said, we're playing all summer songs today. It is
Speaker 1: a summer travel season. I've got no less than two
Speaker 1: people today, friends that texted or emailed me asking for
Speaker 1: recommendations on a good portable battery charger for their phone, right,
Speaker 1: like a portable battery that you can bring along with
Speaker 1: you on your trip. So I've got these linked up
Speaker 1: on my website rich on Tech dot tv. There is
Speaker 1: a link on the side if you scroll down, it
Speaker 1: says shop and that'll bring you to my Amazon page.
Speaker 1: And the ones that I recommend the most are Anchor
Speaker 1: a n K er. They make them in a couple
Speaker 1: of different ways. You can get like a mag safe
Speaker 1: one that will actually just magnetically attached to the back
Speaker 1: of your phone. That's great, but it's going to charge
Speaker 1: your phone slower than one that you plug in, and
Speaker 1: it's also going to be a little bit more expensive.
Speaker 1: So if you want something that you plug in which
Speaker 1: anyone can use, they've got a great one. It's about
Speaker 1: thirty dollars for that. The thing to look for, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of different things. There's also one that plugs
Speaker 1: into the bottom of your phone that's cheaper, but it's
Speaker 1: going to have less of a charge. And then they've
Speaker 1: got one that is it's got like a little display
Speaker 1: on it so it can tell you how much of
Speaker 1: a charge it has, because most of these just typically
Speaker 1: have a couple of lights on them that lets you
Speaker 1: know how much of a charge you get, roughly like
Speaker 1: twenty five, fifty, seventy five or one hundred percent when
Speaker 1: that thing's charge. The main things to look for the
Speaker 1: millionamp hours, So the higher the number, the more charges
Speaker 1: you're going to get. So let's say a typical smartphone
Speaker 1: has about a battery that's almost let's say four to
Speaker 1: five thousand millionp hours, So if you get one of
Speaker 1: these chargers, that's ten thousand MILLIONMP hours that's going to
Speaker 1: recharge your phone twice. If you get one that's twenty
Speaker 1: thousand million AMP hours, that's probably going to charge your
Speaker 1: phone about four times. So again, let's just say five
Speaker 1: thousand millionp hours one charge on your phone, So every
Speaker 1: five thousand you're going to get an extra charge. Most people,
Speaker 1: you probably don't need the twenty thousand. I'd say for
Speaker 1: an average day, you might want the ten thousand. Five
Speaker 1: thousand's going to give you, you know, maybe one and
Speaker 1: a half charges. The other thing to look for is
Speaker 1: USBC in and out. So a lot of these the
Speaker 1: cheaper ones have sort of the older style USB A
Speaker 1: that lets you plug in your cable that's going to
Speaker 1: charge your phone a lot slower, and when you're on
Speaker 1: the go and you're out and about, you want to
Speaker 1: charge your phone as fast as possible because you want
Speaker 1: to take this thing off your phone and use your
Speaker 1: phone again. So I would look for one that has
Speaker 1: USBC in and out. So read the descriptions very closely.
Speaker 1: If you're buying one of these things on any website,
Speaker 1: make sure that you can charge it with USBC and
Speaker 1: you can charge your phone with USBC from it. Those
Speaker 1: are the main things to look for. But yeah, get
Speaker 1: a portable charger for your summer vacations. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Keith in andover Kansas. Keith, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Very much. It's very nice to visit with you. I
Speaker 3: just wanted to say you have a real nice rapport
Speaker 3: with people, and I really appreciate all the help that
Speaker 3: you have provided.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: I worked in the healthcare feel for forty years and
Speaker 3: it's nice to speak to people that are genuine and humble,
Speaker 3: So thank you.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. What can I help you with?
Speaker 3: I've used the free versions of the chat GPTs and
Speaker 3: claud and so forth, Gemini one point five. And the
Speaker 3: two questions I have is is it we're spending twenty
Speaker 3: dollars a month for one of these? And since I
Speaker 3: don't want to pay twenty dollars a month for each,
Speaker 3: which one of these would you recommend?
Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to come up to the break here,
Speaker 1: so I want to know from you what are you
Speaker 1: using these for? What's your main goal with these ais?
Speaker 3: Okay, research, Bible study, medical questions, and general information about history.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so you got a couple of good
Speaker 1: use cases there. The main thing is that you don't
Speaker 1: really need to pay for these, because at least for
Speaker 1: Chat GPT, they are giving away their latest model, which
Speaker 1: is Chat GPT four to oh for free. But what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen is you are gonna run up against a limit,
Speaker 1: and that is the biggest thing you're up against. So
Speaker 1: when you're paying that twenty dollars a month, you will
Speaker 1: get much more use out of these on a daily
Speaker 1: basis than you would if you were not paying that
Speaker 1: twenty dollars a month. We're gonna come back. I'll talk
Speaker 1: more about these AI systems, So hang on the line there,
Speaker 1: Keith eighty to eight rich one oh one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you my picks for the best AI coming up
Speaker 1: after the break. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two, four one zero one. If you have
Speaker 1: a question or comment for the show, you can go
Speaker 1: to the website rich on Tech dot tv hit the
Speaker 1: link that says contact. If you want to link to
Speaker 1: something I mentioned, just go to the website and hit
Speaker 1: the light bulb icon before the break we had Keith
Speaker 1: and Kansas ask about the best use of these AI systems.
Speaker 1: He wants to do research, he wants to look up
Speaker 1: medical questions, I believe he said, Bible study, and a
Speaker 1: couple of other things. So he was wondering should he
Speaker 1: pay the twenty dollars a month and which one is
Speaker 1: best for him. So you've got a couple of different
Speaker 1: choices out there. You've got Gemini, which is Google's AI.
Speaker 1: Then you've got chat GPT, which obviously has become like
Speaker 1: Kleenex that's like a brand name for AI at this point.
Speaker 1: Then you've got Claude, which is another AI that's really good.
Speaker 1: And you've got Mistroll, which is out of Europe, which
Speaker 1: is actually surprisingly great, Like I thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be much more like European Focus, but it's actually
Speaker 1: really good. And you've got one called Perplexity, and you've
Speaker 1: got Copilot, which is from Microsoft. So you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of choices out there. Let me break them down
Speaker 1: for you. So number one, Gemini from Google, I think
Speaker 1: is a great AI because it is loaded with the
Speaker 1: information that Google has, and that's real time information. So
Speaker 1: if you're doing research, if you're looking for historical information,
Speaker 1: something that is factual. Gemini is really good because not
Speaker 1: only does Google have in place very strict standards for
Speaker 1: what they write into this chatbot, they have all the information,
Speaker 1: They've got the Knowledge Panel, they have all the stuff
Speaker 1: that they've been doing for many years, just now they
Speaker 1: kind of translated that into a chatbot. So Gemini, I think,
Speaker 1: is a great, great choice if you're looking for real
Speaker 1: time information and factual information. Chat GBT is great kind
Speaker 1: of all around. So if you are just looking to
Speaker 1: chat with someone or something, or you just want to
Speaker 1: talk back and forth, or you just want some general information,
Speaker 1: chatchbt is great. The problem is it is not completely
Speaker 1: up to date in many aspects, so unless you're paying
Speaker 1: it may not surf the web and find those answers.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it will, but chatchbt is kind of a generalist, right,
Speaker 1: It's going to have just a lot of general knowledge,
Speaker 1: and if you want to kind of use that, it's
Speaker 1: a great It's very polished, it's very smart, it's witty,
Speaker 1: it's silly. I mean, there's so many uses of it
Speaker 1: because that's probably the one that people are using the most,
Speaker 1: so it is evolving the fastest. Then you've got Claude,
Speaker 1: Claude dot ai. This is one of my favorites, but
Speaker 1: Claude is. Oh and by the way, I should mention
Speaker 1: that chatchibt can also do a lot of things with
Speaker 1: images as well. If you're paying for it, it can
Speaker 1: create images. Now actually, I think even if you're not
Speaker 1: paying for it, you can create images for that as well,
Speaker 1: So it can be used to generate images. Oh, I
Speaker 1: forgot Meta has got theirs now too. Meta Ai. Claude
Speaker 1: is great if you're working with any sort of text,
Speaker 1: so you can throw a PDF in there, you can
Speaker 1: throw a long document into there, and Claude is really
Speaker 1: good at handling those long documents. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: to summarize something, or you have a bunch of information
Speaker 1: you want to organize it, Claude dot ai is really
Speaker 1: good for that. You know, it doesn't have access to
Speaker 1: the Internet, so you can't really ask it to look
Speaker 1: up things. Of course, it has a basic amount of
Speaker 1: knowledge just like all these other ones, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: have that live access to the Internet. But Claude is.
Speaker 1: I find it to be really really good if you're
Speaker 1: doing anything with writing, if you're doing anything with your resume,
Speaker 1: if you're doing anything that requires rewriting or summarizing. It
Speaker 1: is really great at that. Let's see perplexity AI. I
Speaker 1: one hundred percent love this app, and I love it
Speaker 1: for one reason. It's got this great feature that kind
Speaker 1: of gives you a book report on anything you ask
Speaker 1: it about. So if you ask a sample question like
Speaker 1: how do earthquakes occur, it shows you the sources that
Speaker 1: it uses to actually come up with its answer, and
Speaker 1: it comes up with a very nice, what I call
Speaker 1: book report answer. So if you want quote unquote a
Speaker 1: book report answer on a topic or anything, perplexity ai
Speaker 1: is excellent. I've got it on my home screen on
Speaker 1: my phone, and I specifically love what they do called discover,
Speaker 1: So every day they have the hottest topics kind of
Speaker 1: trending out there in the world, and it gives you
Speaker 1: a little book report about those topics. And if you're
Speaker 1: looking to learn something, let's say you want to learn
Speaker 1: about a team or the history of something. It's such
Speaker 1: a great way to learn the history of something because
Speaker 1: it gives you these great little reports. And again, all
Speaker 1: of these services that I'm talking about, they all offer
Speaker 1: a free level of service, but then you can pay
Speaker 1: that usually is about twenty bucks a month for that
Speaker 1: elevated service which is going to give you unlimited answers,
Speaker 1: unlimited access, and maybe some extras. And so I do
Speaker 1: pay for Chat GBT. I have paid for Claude in
Speaker 1: the past. I kind of bop back and forth between
Speaker 1: those two for paying because claud is really great for
Speaker 1: all the research and work that I need to do
Speaker 1: with with documents. But Chat GBT I just got it
Speaker 1: because of the new voice system that they are going
Speaker 1: to be implementing soon, which lets you talk back and
Speaker 1: forth almost like a real human. Now, when it comes
Speaker 1: to a good overall system, Microsoft's Copilot is really good.
Speaker 1: When it comes to surfing the web. The thing that
Speaker 1: you need to know is that they're using BING search results,
Speaker 1: which you know may be good, maybe bad, it depends.
Speaker 1: Bing is still out there, it's still a contender. Just
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't necessarily use it. But that's
Speaker 1: where Copilot from Microsoft gets a lot of their information,
Speaker 1: and it does have access to that real time information
Speaker 1: from being So that's an option, and it's built into
Speaker 1: a lot of the Windows. A lot of the new
Speaker 1: ones have or all of the new ones have the
Speaker 1: Copilot key on there, so you can just tap that
Speaker 1: on your keyboard. It's right next to the space bar
Speaker 1: and that will bring up copilot. And that's really good.
Speaker 1: And then the new one on the block that I
Speaker 1: get a lot of angry emails about is meta AI.
Speaker 1: So Meta AI is built into Instagram, it's built into WhatsApp,
Speaker 1: it's built into Facebook. A lot of people are asking
Speaker 1: me if you can turn that off, and the answer
Speaker 1: is no. It is at the top of your screen.
Speaker 1: And again this it's actually not that bad. Like I
Speaker 1: know people are hating on it, but let's think about it.
Speaker 1: Facebook has used all of the posts that we have
Speaker 1: made on Facebook and Instagram for the past I don't know,
Speaker 1: twenty years or so to program their AI. So they
Speaker 1: know how people talk, they know how people comment, they
Speaker 1: know how people discuss topics, they know what's interesting to people,
Speaker 1: and so their AI is actually quite good. And it
Speaker 1: does give you sources and it uses Google for a
Speaker 1: lot of its search. So I just did a search
Speaker 1: for or a recent search I did was I was
Speaker 1: looking for a great burger place in Redmond where I
Speaker 1: was staying up for the Microsoft event, and it gave
Speaker 1: me one, two, three, four, five places that was good
Speaker 1: for a burger, and it tells me where it got
Speaker 1: that information. Now, some of this information is, you know,
Speaker 1: a trip Advisor, an apartment complex up there, and then
Speaker 1: Uber eats. So I don't know if that that's that great,
Speaker 1: but it also helps you search Google for that information
Speaker 1: as well. So those are my kind of main kind
Speaker 1: of talking points about each one of them. The Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal also did sort of an independent review of
Speaker 1: each one of these. They came up with best Overall.
Speaker 1: Chat gibt Oh they sorry, they said, did not lead
Speaker 1: an overall performance despite its update. Oh that's the other
Speaker 1: thing I like about chat GBT remembers your preferences. I
Speaker 1: was just telling my wife this, you can teach it things.
Speaker 1: So what I do is with chat GBT, I teach
Speaker 1: it and it remembers that. So if you say, hey,
Speaker 1: remember when I say this that I want you to
Speaker 1: do that, it will remember. So that's also a plus
Speaker 1: of chat GBT. Claude there, Yeah, Claude. They say strength
Speaker 1: designed to be inoffensive, which, yes, Claude is supposed to
Speaker 1: be a little bit friendlier than a lot of these.
Speaker 1: Copilot good at creative writing. Let's see Gemini from Google
Speaker 1: Access to real time data. That's what I just said, perplexity,
Speaker 1: research Focus cites it sources. Wow. Wall Street Journal just
Speaker 1: said exactly pretty much what I said. Okay, so they
Speaker 1: say summary, health advice, best chat, GBT, that's scary, finance, Gemini,
Speaker 1: cooking chat GBT, work, perplexity, creative writing, copilot, summarization, perplexity,
Speaker 1: current events, perplexity, coding perplexity, that's interesting, speed CHATCHYBT. So again,
Speaker 1: I think the main thing to know about paying for
Speaker 1: these is try them out, see what you like, see
Speaker 1: what the limitations are, because if you're not using it
Speaker 1: in a big way, you don't necessarily need to pay
Speaker 1: for these things, because now the name of the game
Speaker 1: is they're giving a lot of this away for free
Speaker 1: in hopes of getting that user base, and then eventually
Speaker 1: they figure more paid features will come. Well, Keith, I
Speaker 1: think you get the award for the longest answer ever
Speaker 1: to a question on this show. So thanks for that question.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you've got some some clarity now on what to
Speaker 1: use there eight eight eight rich one oh one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: My name is rich Dedmuro. You are listening to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech Welcome back to Rich on tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Let's go to Rockston in Ventura, Roxton.
Speaker 1: You're on with Wretch.
Speaker 5: Thanks for taking my call, Rich. That's calling about it
Speaker 5: a Motorola phone that's been acting up. It's a new
Speaker 5: phone that I got from Pure Talk Mobile and it
Speaker 5: took him three months to pour it over from the
Speaker 5: AT and T landline. The landlines are going away, is
Speaker 5: why I got the phone. I was also told that
Speaker 5: it had a mobile hotspot and I could use it
Speaker 5: to hook up the iPad and do my video conferences
Speaker 5: with my doctors at the West la VA. And the
Speaker 5: problem with the phone, the first problem is it doesn't
Speaker 5: let me answer incoming calls. You know, I'm supposed to
Speaker 5: sweep up to answer and sweep down to decline, and
Speaker 5: it won't do that, and also won't take a fingerprint
Speaker 5: for ID for lockedout. And it shuts off the sound
Speaker 5: occasionally and right in the middle of talking, in the
Speaker 5: middle of a conversation.
Speaker 1: What type of phone is this?
Speaker 5: This is a Motorola, a Moto G.
Speaker 1: It's a G five okay, Motorola G five, and so
Speaker 1: did this start when you got it?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: Yes, I got it, and it has never worked right
Speaker 5: since I got it, and I have been having difficulty
Speaker 5: getting any helpful information from the Pure Talk mobile people.
Speaker 5: They had a two week policy on returns, and I
Speaker 5: had it for three months. It wasn't ported over for
Speaker 5: three months from AT and T and I don't know why.
Speaker 5: I guess somebody on one end or the other dropped
Speaker 5: the ball there.
Speaker 1: Has it worked properly ever?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, so from day one it has not worked properly.
Speaker 1: It's right, okay. Well, the only thing I could say
Speaker 1: to do is, well two things. I think the main
Speaker 1: thing you need to do is to factory reset this
Speaker 1: phone and try again. So it sounds like, you know,
Speaker 1: the swiping and all that like, none of this stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't think any of it is a unless it's
Speaker 1: a hardware defect, which you're mentioning too many things that
Speaker 1: seem like they're all kind of unrelated. I mean, the screen.
Speaker 1: There could be a problem with the screen if it's
Speaker 1: not swiping and the fingerprint readers not working, but that
Speaker 1: wouldn't really explain the sound not going on sometimes so
Speaker 1: you know, and it could be that the sound is
Speaker 1: being manipulated by the volume rocker. You know, sometimes you're
Speaker 1: adjusting volume. It could be adjusting the volume of the sound.
Speaker 1: But what I would do is personally, I know this
Speaker 1: a little complicated, but I would go into the settings
Speaker 1: and I would format this phone, like so there's a
Speaker 1: setting that says factory reset, and so that's what I
Speaker 1: would do. And you would have to set this thing
Speaker 1: up from the beginning. And so that means signing into
Speaker 1: your Google account, your phone number and everything will still
Speaker 1: stay there, but it would mean signing into your Google
Speaker 1: account and then starting over signing in and then setting
Speaker 1: up this phone fresh. Now, if you still have problems
Speaker 1: after you are able to do that, and you may
Speaker 1: need to enlist the help of someone that knows what
Speaker 1: they're doing to help you along with this. But once
Speaker 1: you do that, if the phone is still having the
Speaker 1: same exact issues, then you got to push on Motorola
Speaker 1: to get a replacement or Pure Talk to get a replacement,
Speaker 1: to just you know, tell them, hey, look, this hasn't
Speaker 1: worked since day one, and just what can you do?
Speaker 1: You know, I know they're gonna have to make an
Speaker 1: exception to the rule of two weeks. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you spent on this phone,
Speaker 1: but it might just be the easiest thing to do
Speaker 1: is just to convince them to give you a new one.
Speaker 1: You're staying as a customer. They're really just swapping out
Speaker 1: a device. They're going to see what's wrong with it
Speaker 1: and just give you another one. It's not that big
Speaker 1: of a deal. I don't know how expensive this phone
Speaker 1: is because I can't get a price on it on
Speaker 1: the website, but I think that that will probably be
Speaker 1: just fine. But that's what I would do. Format it
Speaker 1: and start over and see if it still gives you
Speaker 1: those issues. And if it does, then you got to
Speaker 1: convince someone to get you new one oh one time payment.
Speaker 1: So it's about a two hundred and fifty dollars phone.
Speaker 1: This is not that expensive of a phone. So someone
Speaker 1: whether it's Motorola, they've probably got a one year warranty
Speaker 1: on this. You could probably at least get a refurbished
Speaker 1: model from them if you swap it out. UH, keep
Speaker 1: me posted, go on the website, give me an update.
Speaker 1: Roxton appreciate the call today eight eight eight Rich one
Speaker 1: oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Well, if you're using Instagram, you might
Speaker 1: see something new as you're scrolling, something that might be
Speaker 1: a little frustrating, something that actually stops you from using
Speaker 1: the app. It's an AD break. Yes, Instagram is testing
Speaker 1: what's called an AD break. This will actually stop you
Speaker 1: from scrolling until you view an AD. A lot of
Speaker 1: people on x have been posting screenshots of this, also
Speaker 1: on Reddit, and Instagram spokesperson did confirm that they are
Speaker 1: testing this and uh, they don't know if they're gonna
Speaker 1: use this going far, but they probably will. So if
Speaker 1: you see this. The AD break includes a countdown timer
Speaker 1: indicating how long you have to sit there and wait
Speaker 1: before you can continue browsing. And apparently this is not
Speaker 1: just on the reels you know a video. This is
Speaker 1: on when you're just scrolling through your your feed. And
Speaker 1: so you're just scrolling your feed and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: your thumb goes up. But then the nothing on the
Speaker 1: on the screen moves because it is frozen in time,
Speaker 1: and you'll see that little countdown it says five four
Speaker 1: three two one. Un skippable ads are a part of
Speaker 1: the landscape now when it comes to a lot of
Speaker 1: other services, whether it is TikTok, whether it is YouTube.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you can skip them, sometimes you can't, or
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to watch a little portion of it
Speaker 1: before you can actually skip it. So we were watching
Speaker 1: a movie last night. I think it was on Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime or no, it was on Peacock. And even though
Speaker 1: I pay for Peacock, you still have to watch some ads. Now,
Speaker 1: this ad was a long time. It was like one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seconds, but after that the movie was
Speaker 1: free of ads. So it was like one big ad
Speaker 1: and then you get to watch the movie. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no skipping through that ad. And this is why
Speaker 1: these streaming services like on demand versus the DVR, which
Speaker 1: I've mentioned before, the DVR was all the rage. Why
Speaker 1: did all the streaming services and everyone move away from
Speaker 1: the dvr because that includes you recording something and then
Speaker 1: skipping through the ads. When you're watching on demand, there's
Speaker 1: no skipping through those ads because they control the experience.
Speaker 1: And in fact, on Peacock, when you pause, there's also
Speaker 1: an ad. So when you sit and pause, you know,
Speaker 1: and your wife asks you something, you pause the screen.
Speaker 1: Next thing you know, on the on the TV. There's
Speaker 1: an ad and there's a big QR code and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, make the most of your break or something.
Speaker 1: They you know, they're actually quite fun the ads that
Speaker 1: they have. But yeah, so Instagram be prepared those unskippable ads.
Speaker 1: And if you have an older Apple TV, speaking of
Speaker 1: streaming services, that you're running Netflix on, Netflix is ending
Speaker 1: support for second and third generation Apple TVs. This is
Speaker 1: gonna happen on July thirty first, twenty twenty four. Don't
Speaker 1: don't get all out of shape here, because it's these
Speaker 1: are very old Apple TVs. These were released in twenty
Speaker 1: ten and twenty twelve, so you're talking over a decade old.
Speaker 1: So if you have one of these and you're still
Speaker 1: running Netflix on it, you will not be able to
Speaker 1: run Netflix on it after July thirty first, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: The latest Apple TV was released in November twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: It's the seventh generation Apple TV. Again, these are the
Speaker 1: second and third generation Apple TV, so you're going back
Speaker 1: a long time.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Why do I think Netflix is ending support? Well, I
Speaker 1: think because the ads supported Netflix. I don't think runs
Speaker 1: on these, so I think that that's probably why they
Speaker 1: want to get rid of these, because that's where all
Speaker 1: the growth is is at supporting. Plus it's been a
Speaker 1: long time and they're like, all right, enough is enough.
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Speaker 1: wrote in on the website, I have a Samsung S ten.
Speaker 1: I want to put an air tag equivalent in my car.
Speaker 1: Please advise which one I should use? Thanks? Great question, Jay,
Speaker 1: And you're just in time because Android just activated what's
Speaker 1: called the Find My Device Network. This is brand new
Speaker 1: from Google. So in fact, on your Android phone you
Speaker 1: may get a message that says, hey, do you want
Speaker 1: to be a part of this find my Device network?
Speaker 1: And it uses all of the Android devices out there
Speaker 1: to help you find your stuff. Yes, this is what
Speaker 1: Apple did with the iPhone and all the Apple devices
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago with the Find My network.
Speaker 1: But those air tags are just going to work with
Speaker 1: the iPhone. Now, if you have an Android, you can
Speaker 1: finally get devices that will work with Googles Find my
Speaker 1: Device network. So which one do I recommend for you?
Speaker 1: There are two that are very popular, pebbleb and Chipolo
Speaker 1: c Hipolo and pebble b. Now there's going to be
Speaker 1: many more where this came from, but these are two
Speaker 1: of the kind of out of the gate, right and
Speaker 1: so Chapolo makes one called the Chipolo one Point. It's
Speaker 1: twenty eight dollars for a one pack and it's basically
Speaker 1: identical to an air tag. The main thing you need
Speaker 1: to know is that the battery lasts about a year
Speaker 1: and the battery is a replaceable battery, so it's kind
Speaker 1: of like the battery. Let's see what kind of battery
Speaker 1: it is. I'm guessing it's that that standard like two
Speaker 1: oh yep, there it is the CR two oh three
Speaker 1: to two, so that is the standard battery that it uses.
Speaker 1: It's twenty eight dollars. A four pack is seventy nine dollars,
Speaker 1: and that is basically the equivalent of an air tag.
Speaker 1: So that's uh. I actually have one of these at home.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. I've had it for a week and
Speaker 1: I have not activated to test it yet, so I
Speaker 1: wish I would have done it anticipating your question. But
Speaker 1: that is that's probably the one that you want to
Speaker 1: go with. Chippolo is great. They are a company that's
Speaker 1: been making these for a long time and now they've
Speaker 1: got these new ones. Now again, the only issue is
Speaker 1: these are not They're tough to get. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: All these companies are offering them, but they're not really
Speaker 1: shipping them just yet. So reviewers like myself have gotten
Speaker 1: some of them, and some of the early early pre
Speaker 1: orders have gotten them, but right now this says this
Speaker 1: is shipping in mid July.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Looking at pebbleb they make a tracker either called the tag,
Speaker 1: the card, or the clip. I would think for the
Speaker 1: I would think for the car, you'd probably just want
Speaker 1: the clip, and the clip is going to last for
Speaker 1: twelve months on a charge. So this has a rechargeable battery,
Speaker 1: which is kind of nice, so if you don't want
Speaker 1: to be replacing that battery, or you might just leave
Speaker 1: this plugged in in your car. If it's USBC, just
Speaker 1: plug it in and it'll just be charging all the time.
Speaker 1: So again the main thing to know about these find
Speaker 1: my tags and trackers, whether it's from Android or whether
Speaker 1: it's from iOS. These do not give real time location.
Speaker 1: They are based on the last known location, which is
Speaker 1: at the mercy of a device that has seen this.
Speaker 1: So these do not have GPS on them. They do
Speaker 1: not have a cellular connection on them, so they're only
Speaker 1: as good as the device is around them. So if
Speaker 1: you park your car in the middle of a field
Speaker 1: and you walk away and your phone will that that
Speaker 1: tag will not be updated unless someone else kind of
Speaker 1: walks by that car. That is part of the network,
Speaker 1: So you have to keep that in mind. So it's
Speaker 1: only as good as you know the network that it's
Speaker 1: on and the amount of phones and things that it
Speaker 1: can pain. So if you're in a very dense location
Speaker 1: with a lot of smartphones nearby, then these things are
Speaker 1: going to be getting a location a lot and a
Speaker 1: very accurate location. But if you're kind of in the
Speaker 1: in a rural area or in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 1: these things don't get updated by themselves. They rely on
Speaker 1: another device sort of seeing that and relaying that location
Speaker 1: information back up to the server and then when you
Speaker 1: look for it, you can see where that is, so
Speaker 1: that you know. That's the main thing is just keeping
Speaker 1: that in mind. With a car, it's a good thing
Speaker 1: to have in there. Why not, It's better than not
Speaker 1: having it, I would say so. Again, Chippolo and Pebbleby
Speaker 1: go on the website. Pebbleby is shipping expected in two
Speaker 1: to four weeks, so again a lot of these are
Speaker 1: not shipping just yet, but we're going to see a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of them come on the market very soon.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Let's go to Sean in La Costa, California. Sean,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich Yay.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I foolishly accepted a gift of a iPhone fifteen promac.
Speaker 1: What were you thinking?
Speaker 6: Oh boy, Well, I I'm just like to have a
Speaker 6: good vocabulary and I use scientific symbols on occasion. And
Speaker 6: I've just been really frustrated with the iPhone language interface,
Speaker 6: the voice recognition, it's all. It's kind of like the
Speaker 6: vapid but beautiful little sister to Android. And I'm just
Speaker 6: I'm going back to Android.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you. You're talking. Look you've seen. Look,
Speaker 1: the iPhone is the popular device. It's amazing, it's incredible,
Speaker 1: but it's very basic and it's very simple, and so
Speaker 1: it sounds like you want something that's a bit more
Speaker 1: your speed, which you know, you want something that's a
Speaker 1: little bit better than that.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, And Apple is great for consuming media. You can
Speaker 6: watch a movie with great sound, but if you make
Speaker 6: stop a little different, so well.
Speaker 1: I would argue that I actually think the iPhone is
Speaker 1: incredible for making media as well. But you know, and
Speaker 1: I think actually the Samsung Galaxy S twenty four I
Speaker 1: think is the Ultra is the absolute best phone for
Speaker 1: consuming a movie because that HDR screen is just incredible.
Speaker 6: But I would would agree. I actually had an S
Speaker 6: twenty four or Ultra for a couple of weeks. I
Speaker 6: didn't like the interface language interface because it's not pure Android.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that kills me. That really kills me.
Speaker 6: But anyway, I am limiting myself though, I am going
Speaker 6: to go pure Android to be Pixel or Motorola.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd go Pixel, and yeah, I'm looking at it.
Speaker 6: Some prices have dropped recently. But my problem is this.
Speaker 6: When I moved over to the iPhone, I had to
Speaker 6: keep my old Android because there were a ton of
Speaker 6: things that I had subscribed to, things that wouldn't transfer over.
Speaker 6: So I have the old Android and then I have
Speaker 6: the iPhone. I want to transfer both memories over to
Speaker 6: this new probably Pixel, and I'm concerned that I'm going
Speaker 6: to overwrite stuff. I want to keep texts. I have
Speaker 6: lots of dead friends whose final texts are still on
Speaker 6: my old Android. And then I've got stuff about important
Speaker 6: things on the iPhone. So is there something a concise
Speaker 6: way to do this? Is there software that you could recommend?
Speaker 1: Ooh, so okay, so number one both the iPhone and Android.
Speaker 1: So when you get that pixel, there will be a
Speaker 1: screen says are you switching from another phone? And you
Speaker 1: can select the phone. And these systems have gotten so
Speaker 1: good at transferring everything over. They will transfer over pretty
Speaker 1: much anything that you need. And in my experience, I
Speaker 1: like to set up my phones clean and so I
Speaker 1: don't like to transfer things over, but in my testing
Speaker 1: I have tried and it does a pretty good job.
Speaker 1: I think the text messages are the trickiest when it
Speaker 1: comes to the iPhone because everything's locked up in that
Speaker 1: I message. So there is a program that you can
Speaker 1: download that will help you extract all that information off
Speaker 1: of your off of the iPhone, and it's called i'mazing
Speaker 1: I M A Z I G. And then there's also
Speaker 1: another program that is from soft a Reno called alt
Speaker 1: tunes A L T T U N E S And
Speaker 1: both of those will help you get the stuff off
Speaker 1: of your iPhone and onto your computer. And then if
Speaker 1: you want to transfer it to the to the Android later,
Speaker 1: you can do that. But the Android is much more
Speaker 1: forgiving because everything is sort of open and whereas the
Speaker 1: iPhone everything is closed, so it's not the easiest to
Speaker 1: sort of get that stuff out of there unless you're
Speaker 1: using that flow screen. Now, the reason I mentioned that
Speaker 1: screen set up on the pixel is because you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a choice to make. You have to decide do
Speaker 1: you want to bring that information from the old Android
Speaker 1: over or do you want to bring the information from
Speaker 1: the iPhone. My advice is to bring the information from
Speaker 1: the Android from the iPhone over to the Android using
Speaker 1: the pixel switch screen, and then when it comes to Android,
Speaker 1: everything is easily moveable. With the text messages, there is
Speaker 1: a great program called SMS Backup and Restore. You can
Speaker 1: just load that onto the old Android phone. You can
Speaker 1: upload all of your messages into this app. It is free,
Speaker 1: and then install that on the new pixel and say
Speaker 1: restore and it will bring those messages to that new pixel,
Speaker 1: or you'll just have them backed up in the loud
Speaker 1: on your Google Drive. So again I think you go
Speaker 1: with the iPhone as the restore point to the new Android.
Speaker 1: If you could avoid that all together, personally, I would
Speaker 1: just set the phone up fresh and then just bring
Speaker 1: over things one at a time as you need them
Speaker 1: and download all the apps that you want and stuff,
Speaker 1: because I feel like when these things do it on
Speaker 1: their own, yeah, they do a good job, but you know,
Speaker 1: you get a lot of junk and stuff that maybe
Speaker 1: you tried out and downloaded that you don't necessarily need.
Speaker 1: So that's my advice. Yeah, Sean, I like that you're
Speaker 1: going back. Nothing against iPhone, but it's just you know,
Speaker 1: you tried it and it wasn't for you. I think
Speaker 1: the Pixel is an incredible device. I'll give you my
Speaker 1: review of the Pixel eight a coming up after the break.
Speaker 1: Eight to eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. This is
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you at Triple eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to
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Speaker 1: at Richontech dot tv. That's the website and social media
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. Apple has revealed its minimum software
Speaker 1: support time frame for the iPhone, which apparently falls a
Speaker 1: little short compared to Samsung and Google. So Apple says
Speaker 1: they will provide security updates for a minimum of five
Speaker 1: years for iPhones. This starts with the iPhone fifteen series,
Speaker 1: and this is the first time that Apple has actually
Speaker 1: committed to a minimum length of software support for its iPhones. Typically,
Speaker 1: they've been really good about this, they just haven't really
Speaker 1: published a timeframe. Now, if you look at the current
Speaker 1: phone that is supported by iOS seventeen, you're talking you're
Speaker 1: going back all the way to like I had it
Speaker 1: up on my computer here, Oh, the iPhone ten R,
Speaker 1: which was that launched in twenty eighteen, so you're talking
Speaker 1: six years. So Apple has been really good, good about
Speaker 1: keeping its phones up to date for a very long time.
Speaker 1: But because the UK has this rule that you have
Speaker 1: to publish how long you're going to provide security and
Speaker 1: software updates, they had to come out with a number.
Speaker 1: And so that's why they came out with that five
Speaker 1: year minimum because it kind of covers their bases where
Speaker 1: you know, five years, even though they know they're going
Speaker 1: to do a little bit more, but five years is
Speaker 1: a safe bet. So that means if you have the
Speaker 1: iPhone fifteen Pro Max that came out in September twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, you'll get guaranteed updates until September twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Now Samsung and app and Google have been on this
Speaker 1: March towards seven years, and so you know that's typically
Speaker 1: a little bit longer than what Apple has been doing.
Speaker 1: But this is a new thing. This just started in
Speaker 1: October with Google, and then Samsung got on board and
Speaker 1: they said they're going to do the same thing. So
Speaker 1: with all that said, let me give you my review
Speaker 1: of the Pixel eight to A. This is Google's budget smartphone.
Speaker 1: It sells for five hundred dollars. I have it in
Speaker 1: my hand and I'm telling you it is the perfect
Speaker 1: size phone. It is also the perfect price. So if
Speaker 1: you're looking for a phone that does what you need,
Speaker 1: has an excellent camera, has clean software, look no further
Speaker 1: than this device. It is so good. Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say it's my absolute favorite Android phone for
Speaker 1: this year. That is definitely the Samsung Galaxy S twenty
Speaker 1: four Ultra, but that is also twice the size of
Speaker 1: this phone and also almost three times the price of
Speaker 1: this phone. So if you want something that is simple
Speaker 1: and just works, but also has all the AI features
Speaker 1: and by the way, is going to be supported for
Speaker 1: seven years, this is the phone to get. So let
Speaker 1: me talk about the camera. That's the main thing that
Speaker 1: people like on these pixel phones. The camera is great.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take really nice pictures. It also has all
Speaker 1: the AI features that Google gives you, including Best Take,
Speaker 1: which means if you take like five pictures of a
Speaker 1: group of you and your friends, it's gonna literally chop
Speaker 1: the heads off of you and paste them on with
Speaker 1: the smiles. So it's such a funny little feature. I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't use it as much as I
Speaker 1: thought I would, but it's there if you need it.
Speaker 1: Probably during the holidays when you're trying to get that
Speaker 1: perfect holiday picture or birthday parties with your kids, whatever,
Speaker 1: the Best Take will be pretty nice. It's got the
Speaker 1: Magic Editor, so it will do all kinds of AI
Speaker 1: powered photo editing things on your photos. It's got the
Speaker 1: Magic Eraser, which can erase things out of your pictures,
Speaker 1: people and also unwanted objects. It's got the photo Unblur,
Speaker 1: which I talked about a couple of weeks ago on
Speaker 1: the show, which is just incredible. It takes an old
Speaker 1: picture and just makes it if it's blurry. I did
Speaker 1: a couple of pictures that way and it just was
Speaker 1: incredible the results. It's got a six point one inch screen,
Speaker 1: so not the biggest screen in the world. But it's
Speaker 1: a nice size and it fits in your hands so well.
Speaker 1: Like I love this phone, I want to carry it
Speaker 1: just because it's such a perfect size. The Samsung Ultra,
Speaker 1: as much as I love it, it is huge, and
Speaker 1: you put a case on that thing, it's even bigger.
Speaker 1: It also has one hundred and twenty Hurts display. And
Speaker 1: the main thing to know about that if you get
Speaker 1: this phone, because it was really bugging me because the
Speaker 1: phone was looking pretty choppy, you have to go into
Speaker 1: display and turn on what's called smooth display, or else
Speaker 1: your phone is going to look like something out of
Speaker 1: the eighties. People give it a problem because it's got
Speaker 1: a big bezel that means there's like a big border
Speaker 1: around the edge of the screen. It's fine. It's not
Speaker 1: the best, but it's fine. It's powered by Google's latest
Speaker 1: and greatest chip called Google Tensor G three. Again, not
Speaker 1: the best chip out there compared to the Snap Dragons
Speaker 1: of the world for mobile phones, but it's still really good.
Speaker 1: Memory eight gigabytes a RAM one hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 1: or two hundred and fifty six gigabyte options that charging
Speaker 1: on this phone is not that fast. Whether it's wired
Speaker 1: or wireless, not that fast. But again, great little device.
Speaker 1: It is pocket sized, it's five hundred dollars, and it
Speaker 1: might be cheaper. So I would say, do not buy
Speaker 1: this phone for five hundred dollars. Wait for it to
Speaker 1: go on sale. My price that I'm aiming for is
Speaker 1: for three hundred and fifty to four hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: I do believe this phone will be sold for those prices,
Speaker 1: So watch the price, keep track of it, and get
Speaker 1: it when it is on sale. Because the Pixel eight,
Speaker 1: which is a little bit of a step above right now,
Speaker 1: is selling for five hundred and fifty dollars, that would
Speaker 1: be the better phone to get, but I think this
Speaker 1: phone will sell for even less on the other end,
Speaker 1: So three fifty to four hundred that's the Pixel eight.
Speaker 1: A more on the website Richontech dot TV. Coming up
Speaker 1: Drew Binski, a travel YouTuber who has gone to every
Speaker 1: country in the world. This is rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you talking technology. Cool story. So I first met
Speaker 1: our next guest in twenty six He had been to
Speaker 1: seventy four countries. His name is Drew Binski. He was
Speaker 1: making a living basically sharing his travels on Snapchat and
Speaker 1: his goal was to visit every country in the world.
Speaker 1: So I did a segment with him, interviewed him, and
Speaker 1: he eventually switched to YouTube as his main platform. But
Speaker 1: now he has reached his goal of visiting every country
Speaker 1: in the world. He's a young guy, probably in his
Speaker 1: either late twenties or early thirties, and now he's written
Speaker 1: a book about it. It's called Just Go. So here's
Speaker 1: my conversation with Drew Binski. So what inspired you to
Speaker 1: visit every country in the world.
Speaker 7: I traveled a lot as a kid growing up domestically,
Speaker 7: and I always had a dream to go to Maine,
Speaker 7: which is the farthest stayed away. And once I went
Speaker 7: to May and I was like, I want to go
Speaker 7: to more countries. So I studied a brought in Prague
Speaker 7: Todd English in Korea and just kept going from there.
Speaker 1: You visited one hundred and ninety seven countries. One hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety seven every country in the world. Yes, So
Speaker 1: my kids were watching YouTube video. By the way, unbknownst
Speaker 1: to me like they didn't know that I knew who
Speaker 1: you were. Yeah, well, but so what did you learn
Speaker 1: in your one hundred and ninety seven country visit.
Speaker 7: I learned that all people are the same, you know,
Speaker 7: and the world is safer than you think. Everyone's scared
Speaker 7: to visit places because of what they hear, but when
Speaker 7: you go and meet people face to face, you realize
Speaker 7: that they're just super friendly and kind, and that's that's
Speaker 7: the biggest takeaway.
Speaker 1: This is all about technology. You've traveled a lot of
Speaker 1: different places. You probably have to travel light. What tech
Speaker 1: tools or tips can you offer?
Speaker 7: I basically just travel with my MacBook because I edit
Speaker 7: and I work on my computer, and then my iPhone,
Speaker 7: so there's a couple apps that I use. One really
Speaker 7: good tip is Google Maps works offline, so even if
Speaker 7: your phone is on airplane mode, you can pre download
Speaker 7: the destination you're going to. So if you're going to Lisbon,
Speaker 7: you could download everything in Lisbon and it'll work offline
Speaker 7: and the little blue tracker will follow you around the city.
Speaker 7: So if you want to make sure you're not getting
Speaker 7: in the wrong taxi or something, you can check where
Speaker 7: you're going. And then for an eSIM card, I use
Speaker 7: air Low, which is basically a company that lets you
Speaker 7: have phone access in two hundred countries and territories and
Speaker 7: so you just arrived and you just press you know,
Speaker 7: I'm in Ethiopia and the phone works. So it's really helpful.
Speaker 7: You don't have to get those SIM cards to put
Speaker 7: in your phone anymore.
Speaker 1: Do you think technology has made travel easier?
Speaker 7: Absolutely? Yeah, I wouldn't. It would be a lot more
Speaker 7: difficult to do what I do without having all these tools.
Speaker 7: And also it's nice that I can just like FaceTime,
Speaker 7: you know, my friends and family and my parents, and
Speaker 7: it's just easier to communicate with them. And like three
Speaker 7: G and four G is like pretty worldwide now, whereas
Speaker 7: when we met last time in twenty sixteen, it was
Speaker 7: a lot harder to communicate with people.
Speaker 1: So and Wi Fi is everywhere now. Yeah, what about AI?
Speaker 1: In the past year, we've seen an explosion of AI.
Speaker 1: Is that impacting your travel in any way?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: It helped me in my work profession because I like
Speaker 7: to get some scripts written and I like to check things.
Speaker 7: And sometimes even if I like am in a pinch,
Speaker 7: it's like, hey, give me ten things to do in
Speaker 7: Uganda and it'll just like, you know, tell you what
Speaker 7: to do. So it's a good reference point. But I
Speaker 7: think everyone should be utilizing AI in whatever field they do,
Speaker 7: because if they if you don't use it, you're just
Speaker 7: going to fall behind the people that are using it,
Speaker 7: and of people I reluctant to AI, but I still
Speaker 7: think it's you just have to accept it because it's
Speaker 7: everywhere and it's going to continue helping our lives if
Speaker 7: you use it the right way.
Speaker 1: I think this is interesting. You've built a pretty big
Speaker 1: following online. Tell me how many followers you had the
Speaker 1: last time we talked, and how many.
Speaker 3: You have now.
Speaker 7: Last time we talked, I had maybe one or two million,
Speaker 7: and now it's like fourteen millions across platforms.
Speaker 1: Fourteen million people following your travels. Yeah, is that nerve racking?
Speaker 1: Because you want to be authentic, but also you want
Speaker 1: to show them a good time.
Speaker 7: There's a little pressure that I have to like deliver
Speaker 7: a certain standard of content and I do. I have
Speaker 7: a team now. Last time I saw you didn't have
Speaker 7: a team. Now I have a team. So yeah, we're
Speaker 7: constantly putting out long form documentaries and it's a lot
Speaker 7: of fun. I like interacting with people. I really like
Speaker 7: to connect with people one on one when I hear
Speaker 7: fourteen million. That's like so obscure to me, you know,
Speaker 7: like I can't imagine that. But like even just meeting
Speaker 7: face to face with people, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: You've got a new book. Tell me about the book.
Speaker 1: What made you write it and what did you hope
Speaker 1: to instill into the readers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the book is called Just Go. It's basically another
Speaker 7: way that I can tell stories that's not through videos,
Speaker 7: and some people prefer reading books. And it's also a
Speaker 7: tangible thing that you can take on an airplane or
Speaker 7: you can read it in your bed, And that was
Speaker 7: kind of my main motive. I wanted to have like
Speaker 7: a book that people could read. And so basically it's
Speaker 7: untold stories from visiting every country, a lot of focus
Speaker 7: on the Middle East, Yemen, Afghanistan, Siria, Somalia, some of
Speaker 7: those countries where people might be too scared to visit.
Speaker 7: I tell really positive and uplifting stories in them, and
Speaker 7: then a lot of practical travel tips and advice and
Speaker 7: secrets that I've learned along the way. So it's an
Speaker 7: easy read, three hundred pages. Can read it in a
Speaker 7: few hours, and there's some photos in there too. It's fun.
Speaker 1: Speaking of forbidding countries, did you go to North Korea?
Speaker 7: I did go to North Korea. Yeah, in twenty seventeen
Speaker 7: after we met, I spent three days in Pyeongang, and
Speaker 7: it was I'm one of the last Americans to go
Speaker 7: there because as soon as I got back, Americans were banned.
Speaker 7: Until now Americans cannot visit North Korea. So I did visit, yes,
Speaker 7: and I think it's interesting. I can speak a bit
Speaker 7: of Korean from living in South Korea, and I just
Speaker 7: I'm obsessed with like the culture and the isolation of
Speaker 7: that country specifically, and you know, the situation there, So
Speaker 7: I'm fascinated by North Korea.
Speaker 1: How do you think you've changed as a person since
Speaker 1: we last talked.
Speaker 7: I think I've become wiser just learning about different cultures,
Speaker 7: being forced into different communities, learning about religion, culture and
Speaker 7: how the world works. I'm still the same person. I
Speaker 7: like to play golf a lot and hang out with
Speaker 7: my dog, but it's rewarding to have a big knowledge
Speaker 7: about the world. And when I watch movies and when
Speaker 7: I listen to songs that there's a lot of references
Speaker 7: that I pick up now because I've been to those countries.
Speaker 1: That is so true. That is so true. The perspective
Speaker 1: it gives you is really what I think is the
Speaker 1: biggest takeaway. You achieved your goal of visiting every country.
Speaker 1: What's next?
Speaker 6: The moon.
Speaker 7: Space of the moon would be a really cool trip.
Speaker 7: I just got back from the South Pole, the actual
Speaker 7: geographic South Pole, which only three thousand people have visited
Speaker 7: in history. That was like a pinnacle moment for me.
Speaker 7: So I'm looking for like those next level trips. But
Speaker 7: i also want to revisit countries that I didn't get
Speaker 7: to see enough of, For example, China. I'm heading back
Speaker 7: in two weeks and I'll be visiting central and western China.
Speaker 7: So there's many regions within countries that I still, you know,
Speaker 7: would love to visit. And the world is a big place,
Speaker 7: so there's a lot of even within California, Like I
Speaker 7: haven't been to northeastern California, central California. There's a lot
Speaker 7: of stories to be told there.
Speaker 1: And when people are traveling kind of what should they
Speaker 1: keep in mind, Like I mean, not everyone's as adventurous
Speaker 1: as you, especially when it comes to what you eat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I certainly am not. So how do you think people
Speaker 1: make the most of their Most of the time people
Speaker 1: are vacationing.
Speaker 7: Sure, it's helpful to make a local friend anywhere because
Speaker 7: they know their country just like you know your country
Speaker 7: or city, and they can introduce you to the culture.
Speaker 7: If there's a language barrier, they can help with that.
Speaker 7: They can help keep you safe. So you could hire
Speaker 7: a local tour guide. Get your Guide dot com has
Speaker 7: tour guides. There's also tours by Locals dot com, so
Speaker 7: you can just hire, like pay eighty bucks and you'll
Speaker 7: have someone, or just use social media Instagram connect with people,
Speaker 7: friends of friends. You should always try to find a
Speaker 7: local person because they know like the hidden gems of
Speaker 7: the place and you'll just have fun. It's a cultural
Speaker 7: exchange if you hang out with a local person. So
Speaker 7: that's what I recommend.
Speaker 1: And speaking of social media, everyone sees what you do.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look easy, but people feel like they can
Speaker 1: do something similar. Do you feel like the travel social
Speaker 1: media globetrotter is something that is already established or do
Speaker 1: you think people can still do that.
Speaker 7: I think it's a wide open playground, but you need
Speaker 7: to be really focused from the beginning. It's not a
Speaker 7: job that you can just put in an hour a day.
Speaker 7: You have to really focus and if you be yourself
Speaker 7: and you're authentic, I think anybody could do it. But
Speaker 7: it does take a lot of hard work. I mean
Speaker 7: I've been doing this for eight years now, like NonStop,
Speaker 7: and my team is now about fifteen people and we're
Speaker 7: still like have a long way to go. So it
Speaker 7: just you got to post consistently often and just make
Speaker 7: content that you feel proud of, that you want to
Speaker 7: post about, and then you'll grow following. So the answer
Speaker 7: is yes. You also have to be willing to be
Speaker 7: on camera all the time like you are, like I am,
Speaker 7: but it's not for everyone. Some people might not want
Speaker 7: to be showing their face a lot, so yes, but
Speaker 7: it's definitely possible. And did you pick a favorite country
Speaker 7: or place? I have a few face rich The Philippines
Speaker 7: is one of them. I really like Iran and Afghanistan
Speaker 7: and just the culture is so rich there, and in Africa,
Speaker 7: I like Ethiopia the best. I always like connecting with people,
Speaker 7: so if they just reach out to me at Drew
Speaker 7: Binski on any social I'm happy to respond. And yeah,
Speaker 7: I recommend people to visit places that they might not
Speaker 7: think about visiting. The first time. You know, Mexico is great.
Speaker 7: It's actually one of my favorite countries in the world.
Speaker 7: But if you go a little farther south, you're in Guatemala,
Speaker 7: El Salvador, Honduras, and those countries are also really cool.
Speaker 7: So just stepping out of your comfort zone a little
Speaker 7: bit more is something I think is really rewarding.
Speaker 1: Once again, that is Drew Binski, travel YouTuber who has
Speaker 1: visited every country in the world. He mentioned a couple
Speaker 1: of tech tools. Have got them all linked up on
Speaker 1: the website rich on tech dot TV. His book is
Speaker 1: called Just Go eighty eight rich one O one eight
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Speaker 8: Oh hey, Rich With all these data breaches going on,
Speaker 8: do you recommend you know how each of those companies
Speaker 8: that you've been breached on they offer free credit reporting services, yes,
Speaker 8: but before I sign it with them, would you recommend
Speaker 8: getting individual reports for like Equifax, Transnient or experience or
Speaker 8: someone suggested like a main report with Lexus Naxus, and
Speaker 8: then after you get those reports, then I guess use
Speaker 8: uh like the data breach companies reporting free reporting.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean my problem with these these companies
Speaker 1: that do the monitoring is that you have to give
Speaker 1: them all of your information. And so that's every time
Speaker 1: when I go to sign up, I stop because I'm like,
Speaker 1: welllit a second, do I really want to give all
Speaker 1: this information to this third party company? So exactly that's
Speaker 1: what keeps me from doing it. With that said, I
Speaker 1: do have a couple of ways that I keep tabs
Speaker 1: on things. I use something called uh, oh, gosh, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember what is called wallet gosh nerd wallet. No,
Speaker 1: it's not nerd wallet. I'm trying to remember. I'll think
Speaker 1: of it in a second, but uh it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: So I've got a couple of things like Google has
Speaker 1: a dark web monitoring. Right with the credit report stuff,
Speaker 1: I would probably download the annual creditreport dot com. That's
Speaker 1: where you can get your free credit reports. So you
Speaker 1: can get those from you know, from the government. They
Speaker 1: basically give you like one once a year, right, like
Speaker 1: you can get those I think it's once a year,
Speaker 1: but have you done that?
Speaker 8: No, That's why I wanted to ask you because I
Speaker 8: had the same thing. I don't want to use these
Speaker 8: third parties from like say, if I was att because
Speaker 8: I don't know who they are, you know, I've never
Speaker 8: heard of them. So I was actually on with another
Speaker 8: major company explaining about these data breaches because they needed INPLO.
Speaker 8: And she goes, why are you applying for ECOFAX Transunior
Speaker 8: Experience or the free credit report. She goes, you should
Speaker 8: go to Lexus and Nexus because they have information for everything.
Speaker 3: Well, I know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have not used like I know Lexus Nexus is
Speaker 1: like a clearinghouse for everything, Like I know a lot
Speaker 1: of uh you know, legal and journalists. They use it.
Speaker 1: Like it's just they have a lot of information. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they have something for consumers. Have you
Speaker 1: checked their website for consumers?
Speaker 8: They actually do, because we went on it at the
Speaker 8: same time and it looks like you get one report
Speaker 8: and then has everything. Yeah, but one lady said it.
Speaker 8: She she downloaded it and it was like four hundred pages.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so this is right, Okay, So this is
Speaker 1: what's called the consumer disclosure report. Okay, so this this
Speaker 1: is basically every all the information they have on you.
Speaker 1: You can request that. I think that'd be fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's free, why not. I mean it's you know, uh,
Speaker 1: let's see what do you have to give them to
Speaker 1: do this? Name address request a description procedure? Okay, so
Speaker 1: that's it, it's just your name and address. I would
Speaker 1: do that. Why not just to see what they have
Speaker 1: on you?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Depending oh, depending on the type of request, you may
Speaker 1: be required to put in your social Security number or
Speaker 1: your driver's license number. In state, this will only be used.
Speaker 1: So I think if they can't verify you like in
Speaker 1: their systems, they like, if let's say you put in
Speaker 1: an address that they don't have in their system, they
Speaker 1: may say, oh, well, we need to verify you with
Speaker 1: a social or your driver's license with driver's license. I'm
Speaker 1: fine with social Security number, you know. I would be
Speaker 1: a little bit hesitant for that one, but that's I
Speaker 1: would do that. The other thing people do is they
Speaker 1: freeze their credit reports. I have not done that, but
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like a lot of people. I
Speaker 1: was just talking to someone who had their credit hacked
Speaker 1: and they said, absolute, you got to freeze your credit reports,
Speaker 1: like immediately, because if it happens to you, it is
Speaker 1: a pain to get all that stuff right.
Speaker 8: But I was told before you freeze it that you
Speaker 8: should probably get the free credit report from each of them.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would, yeah for sure.
Speaker 8: But so my question is is there free credit report
Speaker 8: for all three or should I apply individually and call
Speaker 8: each one of them up this one?
Speaker 1: If you go to that annual credit report dot com.
Speaker 1: You can get one from Equifax, Experience and TransUnion. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: you can get one from each of them. The service
Speaker 1: that I use to monitor my any alerts that I get,
Speaker 1: like if there's any changes to my credit report, it
Speaker 1: will it will send me an alert, and that's wallet
Speaker 1: hub dot com. And I don't pay anything for that,
Speaker 1: but I do. I've I've had that forever, and now
Speaker 1: I will tell you some of the alerts are a
Speaker 1: little bogus. It'll tell you it'll say, oh, there's been
Speaker 1: a change to your credit report, and you go on
Speaker 1: it says your credit card was paid off for that month.
Speaker 1: So it's not like you know, they want to get
Speaker 1: you on the website. But again, it's a free service.
Speaker 8: So that's what they're going to do, so okay, so
Speaker 8: you would use them than like LifeLock, which is kind
Speaker 8: of ironic since I'm getting all these fan email saying, oh,
Speaker 8: you need to renew your LifeLock account, and I was like,
Speaker 8: I don't have one too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Lifelock's a brand name, so any brand name
Speaker 1: these phishing attempts are going to be are going to
Speaker 1: be triggered. Look, I think it really depends on your situation.
Speaker 1: You know that a lot of people they like to
Speaker 1: have the security of a LifeLock or a Norton whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, they offer similar So I can't fault people
Speaker 1: for that. And having identity theft insurance like that makes
Speaker 1: people feel better because it does take a lot of
Speaker 1: time to get your your identity back if something were
Speaker 1: to ever happen to you, and it's happening a lot
Speaker 1: like this is happening in large numbers on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to fault anyone for taking the
Speaker 1: measures that they want to take to protect their name
Speaker 1: and their credit report and their information and their identity.
Speaker 1: But I really feel like it comes down to you know,
Speaker 1: what you feel is responsible for yourself. So if you're
Speaker 1: if you think your social Security numbers out there and
Speaker 1: your personal information hasn't been involved in too many hacks
Speaker 1: and breaches, then go ahead and sign up for one
Speaker 1: of these things. If you feel like you can kind
Speaker 1: of get your credit report once in a while, take
Speaker 1: a look, make sure everything's okay and nothing seems fishy.
Speaker 1: Then you know, go with something like a wallet hub
Speaker 1: or just you know, dark web monitoring.
Speaker 8: Would you also recommend going like on Social Security Administration
Speaker 8: and setting up your own account because I heard you
Speaker 8: could lock your account on that too.
Speaker 1: I have not done that, but you might.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it is a good idea because I remember
Speaker 1: they used to send out paperwork, you know, with like
Speaker 1: estimates of your social security and they don't do that
Speaker 1: anymore as far as I know, So they do they still.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because actually that was kind of one of the
Speaker 8: other issues that had an issue where a wage wasn't
Speaker 8: reported correctly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I had to wait till after the pandemic and go
Speaker 8: in the office to get it corrected. And then I go,
Speaker 8: what happens next to go, Well, they'll send you a
Speaker 8: letter in the mail to look at your case history
Speaker 8: and as all the information you provided as correct will
Speaker 8: reports the correct wages, Like for example, it was supposed
Speaker 8: to be fifty thousand, they followed a W two and
Speaker 8: then they were changing some other information for everybody else
Speaker 8: in the company, and then they re reported it as
Speaker 8: zero on the corrected wages. So how to go through
Speaker 8: this whole rigamoro? The ironic thing is I did get
Speaker 8: a response from them, like in two months later saying
Speaker 8: they had six everything, and they sent a letter with
Speaker 8: my social security full social security number. Yeah, and it
Speaker 8: came in an envelope. Nobody opened it. I guess it
Speaker 8: went through an automated system, you know, storting system. It
Speaker 8: was never stealed, so oh yeah, I've gotten that before.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh my god, I know.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. There was a great article I
Speaker 1: was just reading about how the social Security number has
Speaker 1: become the de facto identity for Americans and it was
Speaker 1: never intended to be this thing which it has become.
Speaker 1: Like there's pretty much that is it, Like that's the
Speaker 1: only that is the only thing between you and someone,
Speaker 1: you know, taking out a credit line or a credit
Speaker 1: card or opening up something in your name. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: not much to identify us because so much of this
Speaker 1: stuff has been leaked. So now these companies are getting
Speaker 1: a little smarter. When you open up a credit card,
Speaker 1: it may it may ask you questions about people you
Speaker 1: know or places you lived, and it's been doing that
Speaker 1: for years, but now they're getting a little bit smarter
Speaker 1: about how they do it. So, uh, my advice don't
Speaker 1: give out your number as much as possible, protect your
Speaker 1: information and keep an eye on your credit keep an
Speaker 1: eye on the information that's out there on the dark
Speaker 1: web especially, and just do the best you can to
Speaker 1: protect that stuff. Eighty' eight rich one oh one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: More rich on Tech right after this, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you
Speaker 1: talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one. That's
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Speaker 1: You can follow me on social media. I am at
Speaker 1: rich on Tech on Instagram, Facebook, and x And we
Speaker 1: got a little feedback here on the credit report conversation.
Speaker 1: H Jen in Los Angeles wrote in to say, I
Speaker 1: think you can get your credit reports every week and
Speaker 1: you don't need to call them. You can do it
Speaker 1: all online and you can freeze and on freeze for
Speaker 1: an unlimited time for free right now. So I looked
Speaker 1: at the websites again. The Annualcreditreport dot com it does
Speaker 1: say free weekly online credit reports are available from all
Speaker 1: three of these providers, so I guess they change from
Speaker 1: annual to weekly. Maybe that was during the penn I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. And then if you look at USA dot
Speaker 1: gov slash credit freeze, it says you can place or
Speaker 1: lift a credit freeze by contacting each of the three
Speaker 1: major credit reporting agencies. You can submit your request online,
Speaker 1: by phone or mail. How long does it take online
Speaker 1: or by phone? They must freeze within one business day,
Speaker 1: and then unfreeze requests they must lift the freeze within
Speaker 1: one hour. So it looks like if you're not sort
Speaker 1: of applying for anything that requires your credit report, it
Speaker 1: might be a good idea just to freeze it in
Speaker 1: the meantime. I don't know what the ramifications are of
Speaker 1: that in in the bigger scheme of things, but if
Speaker 1: you can unfreeze it in an hour, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a pretty quick timeframe there to uh to get that unfrozen.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up this hour, we're going to talk
Speaker 1: to the creators of a device called Kinney. This is
Speaker 1: a wireless motion sensor. I've been testing it out. It's
Speaker 1: really cool, it's very it's really different. It's got privacy
Speaker 1: in mind. And I will tell you the fact or
Speaker 1: the founders will explain why they came up with this
Speaker 1: device and what it could be used for. Again, that's
Speaker 1: coming up later in the show. Let's go to Mark
Speaker 1: Mark Mark, You're on with rich Oh.
Speaker 4: I have the preface by saying, I'm so jealous. I've
Speaker 4: only been the fifty three of the countries, and I
Speaker 4: wish Americans could go overseas and see how America is
Speaker 4: Disneyland and compared to the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It is nice. It gives you some perspective to travel,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. What does What can I help you?
Speaker 4: I have a couple of quickies here. I'm going crazy
Speaker 4: with YouTube. They keep telling me I have AD blocker
Speaker 4: on Firefox.
Speaker 6: Et cetera.
Speaker 4: I don't, and they just, you know, keep recycling ad
Speaker 4: nauseum so you can't watch the videos. I wish it
Speaker 4: was a fix for that, but I just I don't
Speaker 4: even have ad blocker, but I would like to say something.
Speaker 4: I wish I could find an American made phone with
Speaker 4: no back doors, because my favorite phone ever was the
Speaker 4: Yoda phone Yoda three with the dual screens. It had
Speaker 4: the black and white e inc.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Some phones out now that have color e ink. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they use almost no power whatsoever. And I'm a long
Speaker 4: distance cyclist, so I go five to three to five
Speaker 4: hours a day and it just sucks my joe dry
Speaker 4: using you know the speedometer odometer thingy Well, you have
Speaker 4: any questions on either, sir, uh?
Speaker 1: Well with so, yeah, anytime you're using any sort of
Speaker 1: like GPS on your phone, it's going to use the
Speaker 1: battery up a lot. And that's just kind of like
Speaker 1: the reality of it. I don't know of a phone
Speaker 1: that has that that e ink display that's that's in
Speaker 1: large scale production. I mean there is one called the
Speaker 1: uh the light phone, but they don't have any sort
Speaker 1: of tracking capabilities on there that you're talking about for
Speaker 1: like bike cycling. Best I can say is what'sapp?
Speaker 4: That's just a biking app. You know, you you click
Speaker 4: it and it tells you how fast you're going, you know,
Speaker 4: the GPS, yes, but when you flip it over to
Speaker 4: the e inc. It uses substantially lift oh yeah, because
Speaker 4: it's not refreshing the screen.
Speaker 1: But if if it's still using the GPS it's going
Speaker 1: to have it's gonna be drawing the battery. But I
Speaker 1: don't know of a you know, I think that phones
Speaker 1: have gotten really good with the battery. But anytime you're
Speaker 1: actively using any sort of service on a phone, like
Speaker 1: whether the screen is on, whether the GPS is running,
Speaker 1: it's going to use a substantial amount of that battery.
Speaker 1: And that's just the kind of the way these things are,
Speaker 1: you know. The only thing I could suggest is maybe
Speaker 1: getting a battery pack that kind of attaches to the
Speaker 1: back of your phone. They used to have these battery
Speaker 1: cases for Mophi that you can actually snap your phone
Speaker 1: in and it would give you more battery, but I
Speaker 1: don't even see those anymore.
Speaker 4: Well, the problem is that they also don't want removable
Speaker 4: batteries anymore, because they want to be able to tap
Speaker 4: into you even if your phone is off, you know,
Speaker 4: and now you can't take your battery out and just
Speaker 4: really turn off the phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and in fact, I mean, I know that gets
Speaker 1: into a little bit of you know, conspiracy stuff, but
Speaker 1: but it is interesting that you say that, because both
Speaker 1: the iPhone and the Pixel phones at this point, even
Speaker 1: when they are actively turned off, like when they're off,
Speaker 1: they are still able to be found using both the
Speaker 1: find my network and the Android Find my Device network.
Speaker 1: So when you turn off the Pixel after a recent
Speaker 1: software update, there's a little message on it that says
Speaker 1: this is still findable and that's what the phone powered off.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think many people would be surprised that
Speaker 1: that is happening. And on the iPhone it's the same thing. Now, look,
Speaker 1: if you need to find your phone, that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: But on the flip side, these phones are still sort
Speaker 1: of alive even when they're not. Now, to answer your
Speaker 1: first question mark about the ad blocker, there are some
Speaker 1: web browsers that do have built in AD blocking capabilities,
Speaker 1: like the Brave web browser. I know Firefox Focus has
Speaker 1: a built in AD blocker, and that could be what's
Speaker 1: messing with it. There's a couple other things that could
Speaker 1: be messing with it on the back end. If your
Speaker 1: router has an AD blocking system or service on the
Speaker 1: entire network, that could be doing it. I know on
Speaker 1: Eero on Mine I do have that system wide AD blocking,
Speaker 1: and so it does mess with some websites. Sometimes even
Speaker 1: though I'm not actively running an ad blocker, it will
Speaker 1: say sorry, you're running an ad blocker. And that's on
Speaker 1: the network level, so I really can't get around that.
Speaker 1: The other thing is maybe you have an extension that
Speaker 1: you install that's also maybe it's a privacy extension that's
Speaker 1: also an AD blocker. Sometimes it can misinterpret a VPN
Speaker 1: that's also filtering things out. That could be it JavaScript
Speaker 1: could be disabled by your web browser by to fault,
Speaker 1: and that could be causing it. Those are the main things.
Speaker 1: The other thing is that a lot of times on
Speaker 1: the Apple side of things, or on the Pixel side
Speaker 1: of things, they have what's called IP address privacy, and
Speaker 1: so Apple calls it what do they call it private relay.
Speaker 1: So sometimes if private relay is enabled, that will also
Speaker 1: mess with these websites. So it's kind of gotten interesting
Speaker 1: when something when a website gives me an issue, I
Speaker 1: have come to the conclusion that it is not the
Speaker 1: website that is having trouble. It's something that I have
Speaker 1: running on my computer that is messing with that website,
Speaker 1: whether it is grammarly, whether it is an AD blocker,
Speaker 1: whether it is a JavaScript blocker, so you have to
Speaker 1: go through. And what I do is I will go
Speaker 1: into a web browser that I don't use typically and
Speaker 1: test the website there. So if you're having trouble, maybe
Speaker 1: open up a browser that you don't use, like a Safari.
Speaker 1: On my computer, I don't have anything installed on there,
Speaker 1: so when I open up Safari, I can go in
Speaker 1: there and it's basically what's called. You know, it's clean
Speaker 1: and so the website acts as intended. And so that's
Speaker 1: the best indication of whether something is wrong with a
Speaker 1: website or it's just something on my computer that's messing
Speaker 1: with that website. And that happens a lot, a lot
Speaker 1: a lot. Thanks for the call mark in Weinetka appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Two kind of issues this week that where we saw
Speaker 1: big companies respond to the the buzz online. Microsoft remember
Speaker 1: this recall feature that they're enabling on their aipcs. This
Speaker 1: is the feature that remembers everything you do on your computer.
Speaker 1: I talked about it at length on this show and
Speaker 1: talked about the privacy implications. If someone gets access to
Speaker 1: your computer, they can go through and search anything that
Speaker 1: you've seen on your screen. There were some limitations like
Speaker 1: private browsing and things like that, and you can exclude
Speaker 1: certain apps. But clearly consumers were not happy with this,
Speaker 1: and Microsoft listened and early or at the end of
Speaker 1: the week, Microsoft put out a blog post and said,
Speaker 1: you know what, we are going to change the way
Speaker 1: that we launch recall on Windows computers. So number one,
Speaker 1: you are going to have to opt in. So no
Speaker 1: longer is this going to be turned on by default.
Speaker 1: When you set up that new computer, they're gonna say, hey,
Speaker 1: here's the recall feature. Do you want to turn it on?
Speaker 1: And you have to say yes if you want to
Speaker 1: turn it on. It also requires Windows Hello enrollment, and
Speaker 1: that means you have to scan your face to enter
Speaker 1: your computer. And that means that theoretically it should only
Speaker 1: be you getting into your computer, because if you have
Speaker 1: a pin or a password, anyone can know that or
Speaker 1: someone that someone could figure that out. But with Windows Hello,
Speaker 1: it has to be you. And they're going to require
Speaker 1: proof of presence, which means if you're recalled data is
Speaker 1: being accessed, they have to see you sitting at your
Speaker 1: computer to access it, which means remote access would be denied.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else they're also implementing just in time decryption,
Speaker 1: which means that they're going to only decrypt a database
Speaker 1: right at the moment you're accessing something, which should make
Speaker 1: it safer and more private. Now, this was a good
Speaker 1: move by Microsoft. I think it shows that they are
Speaker 1: listening to their customers. They are listening to people and
Speaker 1: is this is a new feature. It's a brave new
Speaker 1: world we are entering by having everything on your screen
Speaker 1: screenshotted moment by moments that you can access it later.
Speaker 1: But I think Microsoft has put in some pretty good
Speaker 1: controls here to help at least give people a sense
Speaker 1: of control and a little bit more security for Windows
Speaker 1: recall eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. We
Speaker 1: still got a lot more coming up on the show,
Speaker 1: including some of your emails that you have asked me
Speaker 1: questions via the website. I will answer some of those.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what Adobe did. They had some controversial
Speaker 1: terms going around online. They said, hey, we're going to
Speaker 1: clear this up. This is a little confusing. It's all
Speaker 1: right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking
Speaker 1: technology at triple eight Rich one O one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. We
Speaker 1: got Bobo Danton to this song happy. If you're listening
Speaker 1: on the podcast, you don't get to hear it. I
Speaker 1: did something kind of different yesterday. I bought my first
Speaker 1: hardcover book in a long time. So I was debating
Speaker 1: whether I wanted to purchase a hardcover book or just
Speaker 1: download this book to my kindle. The book is called Eruption.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard of it, but it
Speaker 1: is by It is by Michael Crichton. Now you might
Speaker 1: be saying, wait a second, Rich, Michael Crichton has passed away.
Speaker 1: Yes he did. I passed away in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: and this book is coming out in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: How well, his wife found pieces of this novel on
Speaker 1: his computer and she said, I want to get this written,
Speaker 1: and so she somehow linked up with James Patterson, you know,
Speaker 1: the guy who has written so many great books. He
Speaker 1: took a look at what Michael Crichton had done and
Speaker 1: he finished the book. And so if you look at
Speaker 1: this book Eruption on the cover, it's Michael Crichton and
Speaker 1: James Patterson. Who would have ever thought you'd see those
Speaker 1: two names together. And I've read pretty much, I think,
Speaker 1: every single book that Michael Crichton has written, and I
Speaker 1: love them all. Obviously, he is the author of Jurassic
Speaker 1: Park and so he did a lot of great sci
Speaker 1: fi books. I think, Yeah, I think I've read almost
Speaker 1: every single one of them. There's a couple that were
Speaker 1: just like okay, but yeah, he's written a lot. So actually,
Speaker 1: now that I look at this, I didn't read all
Speaker 1: of them. I read a lot, but not all of them. Wow,
Speaker 1: there's a lot anyway, So I was debating whether I
Speaker 1: should get this as a paper as a hardcover or
Speaker 1: wait for the paperback. My favorite format is obviously the
Speaker 1: little paperback when it's a if it's a physical book,
Speaker 1: but I just love the kindle because it's so easy
Speaker 1: and you can adjust the size of the text. You
Speaker 1: can you know, you have that backlighting so you can
Speaker 1: read it in any light. But I was at Costco
Speaker 1: and I heard that Costco is doing away with books.
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't know if you heard this,
Speaker 1: but Costco is getting rid of physical books by the
Speaker 1: by Christmas, I guess they're gonna that's it. That's that's
Speaker 1: the end of the line for those. Just like best Buy,
Speaker 1: I got rid of physical media, the DVDs and the CDs.
Speaker 1: If you go into best Buy one of these remodeled stores,
Speaker 1: it looks you're like, wait, what's missing. Oh, it's all
Speaker 1: of the physical media. It's all gone. And so that's
Speaker 1: what's happening with Costco, I guess and books. But I
Speaker 1: don't know about you. Every as much as a tech
Speaker 1: guy as I am, I still have this nostalgia for
Speaker 1: like old school things like a book. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm telling you all this, except for
Speaker 1: the fact that I am embarking on a new experience
Speaker 1: of reading a physical hardcover book, and I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out last night what to do with the cover.
Speaker 1: You know this cover I dount if you've read a
Speaker 1: physical book lately, but you've got this like slippery cover
Speaker 1: on it, Like, do you take it off and put
Speaker 1: it on your bookshelf until you're done? Some people were
Speaker 1: saying that you use the inside of the book cover
Speaker 1: to hold your pages, almost like a bookmark, but or
Speaker 1: do you throw it out? Like sometimes I'll just throw
Speaker 1: them out, And I'm like, well, that seems wasteful, But
Speaker 1: that's where I'm at. So I am reading this book Eruption,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to to devouring it like the
Speaker 1: dinos devoured people in Jurassic Park. That's me with this book.
Speaker 1: Adobe this week also came under fire. If you were
Speaker 1: online at all, you saw all of these people getting
Speaker 1: up in arms over Adobe's updated terms of service. It
Speaker 1: caused confusion and anger among creative cloud users who were
Speaker 1: worried that Adobe claimed rights over all of their work.
Speaker 1: That's what it looked like, it said. According to all
Speaker 1: of the screenshots that I saw, users had to agree
Speaker 1: to these new terms to continue using their apps. People
Speaker 1: are all worried about forced consent without really understanding what
Speaker 1: Adobe meant by the terms of service. And Adobe initially
Speaker 1: kind of defended themselves. Their first response was very dismissive, stating, hey,
Speaker 1: we've had these terms forever. We only recently clarified them,
Speaker 1: so come on. And then Adobe kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: they took a step back, and they realized, Okay, hold on,
Speaker 1: we're at a moment here where a lot of our
Speaker 1: users are unhappy. What should we do. They looked at
Speaker 1: the situation and they said, look, and then they issued
Speaker 1: a blog post that said, we are trying to be
Speaker 1: transparent about how we check this AI content to moderate it.
Speaker 1: And most of this involves moderation of AI content because
Speaker 1: people are starting to use all of these AI tools
Speaker 1: to generate stuff, and we've heard stories about how they're
Speaker 1: generating things like deep fakes and all kinds of stuff
Speaker 1: that is not good. And so Adobe wants to be
Speaker 1: able to check and make sure that people are using
Speaker 1: these in a responsible manner, and so they want to
Speaker 1: make sure that they can knock people off of these
Speaker 1: systems if they're violating any terms of use. So Adobe
Speaker 1: has confirmed that they do not train their generative AI
Speaker 1: models on your customer content and they do not claim
Speaker 1: ownership of customers work. So if you generate something on Adobe,
Speaker 1: as a lot of people are screenshotting saying Adobe owns
Speaker 1: everything I do, that is not true. Adobe made that
Speaker 1: clear that they do not say that they own everything
Speaker 1: that you do, So there you go. Also this week,
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch now pairs directly with the dex Comm
Speaker 1: G seven. This is a first, so if you have
Speaker 1: a dex Comm G seven glucose monitoring device, it can
Speaker 1: now pair directly with the Apple Watch. Eliminating the need
Speaker 1: for users to keep their iPhone nearby for glucose readings.
Speaker 1: This is a first. These cgms provide glucose readings every
Speaker 1: five minutes, and it uses Bluetooth to connect directly to
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch. This is a huge win if you
Speaker 1: are a person with diabetes because this means that you
Speaker 1: can now go out with just your Apple Watch and
Speaker 1: this reader on your arm or wherever you keep it,
Speaker 1: and you can still get those real time readings without
Speaker 1: going through the iPhone and Dexcom says that they are
Speaker 1: looking into doing similar functionality with both the Samsung watches
Speaker 1: and also the Android watches, but it takes a lot
Speaker 1: to do this, and so they started with the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: But that's a huge win. I know these things are expensive,
Speaker 1: but if if you want those real time readings, like
Speaker 1: if you're working out or doing something without your phone,
Speaker 1: this is a huge, huge benefit. All right, coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to the creators of the Kinney wireless
Speaker 1: motion sensor and how you can use it in your
Speaker 1: everyday life. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology. The website for the show Rich on tech
Speaker 1: Dot TV. Well, I do test out a lot of gadgets,
Speaker 1: and it takes it takes something really unique for me
Speaker 1: to be interested in featuring it or talking about it,
Speaker 1: or you know, really recommending it. But I found one
Speaker 1: that's that it's kind of tough to explain, but it's
Speaker 1: really cool and it's very different. Joining me now, Maboud
Speaker 1: and Nikki Zabettian. They are the creators of a device
Speaker 1: called the Kinny. It's a wireless motion sensor and they're
Speaker 1: going to explain why they came up with this and
Speaker 1: what it could be used for. Welcome to the show,
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you to be here. Yeah, so, so
Speaker 1: tell me what the Kinni is like. What is this
Speaker 1: device exactly?
Speaker 9: Well, I can tell you that they it was inspired
Speaker 9: by a family time during COVID. We had a lot
Speaker 9: of together time with our three kids who are now
Speaker 9: young adults, and we wrapped dinner. We were discussing the
Speaker 9: news there had been another story of a young child
Speaker 9: bringing a gun to school, and our youngest daughter told
Speaker 9: us a story that happened years ago at a party.
Speaker 9: She was there and the kid who was hosting the
Speaker 9: party had shown everyone their dad's done, and she said
Speaker 9: that many of the kids had held it, and we
Speaker 9: were pretty shocked.
Speaker 10: And that got us just.
Speaker 9: Wondering if the parent, who even knew as child's had
Speaker 9: access to the gun and permission to handle it. You know,
Speaker 9: responsible gun owners know how important it is to store
Speaker 9: their firearms safely on but their faced with this challenge.
Speaker 9: How do they actually know that someone has attempted or
Speaker 9: gained access to it?
Speaker 11: Like even biometric stapes have been known to fail, allowing.
Speaker 9: Any fingerprint to open them. There was a big recall
Speaker 9: on Amazon recently. And all gun STAPs come with backup
Speaker 9: keys or combinations to the locks. They have to be
Speaker 9: stored somewhere, So how do you know if your child
Speaker 9: has discovered those?
Speaker 11: And that's where our innovative device.
Speaker 10: Kini comes in. So yeah, and we thought about it,
Speaker 10: and we decided that we could draw from our experience
Speaker 10: in the tech industry and developed device that could address
Speaker 10: these vuln their abilities and help parents keep their family safe.
Speaker 1: So it's a small it's a small device that basically
Speaker 1: you can you can and put, you can place somewhere.
Speaker 1: So it's got some sort of motion sensor inside and
Speaker 1: when you place it wherever you place it, if it moves,
Speaker 1: it will send you a text or an email that
Speaker 1: movement has been detected. And this is a little bit
Speaker 1: different than you know, you might get a motion sensor
Speaker 1: motion detector as part of your smart home system, or
Speaker 1: maybe even you know, something that tells you if a
Speaker 1: drawer was opened. But this is really unique because it's
Speaker 1: movement based.
Speaker 9: And so.
Speaker 1: Explain why you went with the movement based.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we didn't want anything that required you
Speaker 2: to wire your house or wire your drawers or.
Speaker 10: You know, like get a large company involved. We wanted
Speaker 10: to need to just toss into a.
Speaker 2: Drawer or put it right on top of something, and
Speaker 2: you know, have it detect the slightest movement, and you
Speaker 2: know that would start.
Speaker 12: The whole whole process of you know, sending a message
Speaker 12: to our cloud servers and then our cloud service will
Speaker 12: send you a message and.
Speaker 2: It all takes under about I had ten seconds typically,
Speaker 2: and it's it really is just a great standalone thing.
Speaker 2: You don't have to have a fugere alarm system, you
Speaker 2: don't have to have a contract with some alarm company.
Speaker 10: And it's it's the messages between you and the device.
Speaker 13: You know, you don't have an alarm company showing up
Speaker 13: at your door to say, you know, you had an
Speaker 13: alarm when we have to see what's going on.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 9: Our goal was to really make a device that was
Speaker 9: like effective, affordable and accessible. So all you need is
Speaker 9: an SMS enabled device, which is smartphone, flip phone, even
Speaker 9: a burner phone would work, and your existing Wi Fi.
Speaker 9: And since there is no we didn't want a subscription
Speaker 9: or an app required. You wanted to make it like
Speaker 9: really simple, so you pay once and you're done.
Speaker 1: There are no hidden and how much is it? And
Speaker 1: by the way, I know there's two of you, so
Speaker 1: you're trying to split the microphone. If you can be
Speaker 1: as close to your mic as possible, I want I
Speaker 1: want to be able to hear you as best as possible.
Speaker 1: How much is the kidney device.
Speaker 10: Hiding is sixty five MSRP.
Speaker 12: You can probably find yourself a discount on Amazon or
Speaker 12: on our website if you're first time on buyer, but
Speaker 12: the price blows down if you buy our multipacks, you know,
Speaker 12: or we have three packs that we have flight packs
Speaker 12: for people who have a lot of things that they
Speaker 12: want to monitor.
Speaker 1: So I've been testing this at home. You know, I
Speaker 1: placed it in like basically a drawer that you know,
Speaker 1: every time you open the drawer, I get a message.
Speaker 1: And so it's interesting because you think about the power
Speaker 1: of this. So you can monitor all kinds of things,
Speaker 1: and so you would know, let's say someone's snooping in
Speaker 1: your home, right he would Let's say you have a babysitter.
Speaker 1: I don't know you would know traditionally unless you had
Speaker 1: a camera fixed on that or some sort of alarm
Speaker 1: sensor on that, which is probably quite visible. What are
Speaker 1: the implications of this, like, how are people using this?
Speaker 9: Well, you know, obviously the parents are our target audience
Speaker 9: because there are main responsibilities to keep or children their
Speaker 9: families safe, you know, putting it on a liquor cabinet,
Speaker 9: a medicine cabinet. But even more so, like I know
Speaker 9: of parents that have kids who are at that age
Speaker 9: where they're addicted to their phones or video games. So
Speaker 9: you could put a Kenny on top of the game controller,
Speaker 9: or you can stash those phones in a drawer overnight,
Speaker 9: and you can put Kenny in that drawer and you're
Speaker 9: just telling your kids about it, and that's going to
Speaker 9: deter them from even attempting to use either of those.
Speaker 9: But really, aside from parents, you know, Kenny can be
Speaker 9: used by anyone who has something they want to keep private.
Speaker 9: I mean, people can use it to monitor their work
Speaker 9: related documents. I know, people use it for their confidential
Speaker 9: paperwork and their passports. Teachers have used it on their
Speaker 9: supply closets and their desks. On Airbnb, owners use it
Speaker 9: on the closet and their rental property that has their
Speaker 9: personal belongings in it.
Speaker 11: And you can use it when you have saying large
Speaker 11: events at your home or house guests.
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, you never know if the housekeeper
Speaker 9: or a contractor is just going in a place that
Speaker 9: they don't really need to be and you can't supervise
Speaker 9: them every minute. You know, you're allowing them in your house,
Speaker 9: but you're not following them around, so's there's just I mean.
Speaker 11: Really, the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 1: And how long's the battery last? I know it's rechargeable.
Speaker 1: How longs the battery last?
Speaker 10: This is something we're really proud of.
Speaker 14: The battery actually lasts over a year, close to do
Speaker 14: two years with normal use. Normal use being you know,
Speaker 14: half a dozen alerts today and once every.
Speaker 10: Two hours of checking.
Speaker 14: What the check in is is to tell the cloud
Speaker 14: servers that the pikinna is still alive, the Wi Fi
Speaker 14: network's still working, and you know the kid or whoever
Speaker 14: you're monitoring hasn't like taken the thing and flushed it
Speaker 14: down the toilet.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, isn't there like a new
Speaker 1: mode that you're introducing to like let you know that
Speaker 1: it's still working even if it hasn't seen movement in
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 13: Well, so the thing that make sure it's still working
Speaker 13: is built in through all the modes, and the two
Speaker 13: modes that we have. A new mode is called stasis mode,
Speaker 13: and it actually alerts you if it doesn't detect motion.
Speaker 13: It isn't alerting you that the O pinny is unresponsible.
Speaker 13: It's alerting me that the Kini is responsive and it
Speaker 13: hasn't detected motions. So there's a little bit of nuance there.
Speaker 1: Okay, we already tell you that, you know, if something.
Speaker 10: Goes wrong and we haven't heard from the Kinnie, we
Speaker 10: already notify you. But the statis mode is.
Speaker 2: Mostly for people who care about things that are supposed
Speaker 2: to happen that aren't happening.
Speaker 11: Yeah, like, for example, on what if you have an
Speaker 11: elderly parent that is maybe living with you or living alone, and.
Speaker 9: You want to make sure that they're taking their medicines,
Speaker 9: that are opening their medicine cabinet every day, or maybe
Speaker 9: you want to ensure that you're paid exitter it's actually
Speaker 9: coming into by a day to feed and.
Speaker 10: Walk your dog.
Speaker 9: Or you can even use it to motivate you to exercise,
Speaker 9: Like you could put it on your peloton or your
Speaker 9: treadmill and it will alert you if you haven't touched
Speaker 9: that thing.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what if you use it to store
Speaker 1: your clothes to hang them dry? Then I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's a whole other use case. Okay, we've got to run.
Speaker 1: But has this been fun? This experience of creating a
Speaker 1: product and getting it out there. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a unique product that you know, you have to
Speaker 1: really kind of think about the use case scenario for
Speaker 1: this thing. But it is very interesting and useful. Has
Speaker 1: been a fun experience.
Speaker 10: Absolutely.
Speaker 12: We love waking up every day and and you know, handling,
Speaker 12: you know, whether whether it's creating new features or talking
Speaker 12: with our customers or doing marketing.
Speaker 10: You know, it's it's all a fun, fun little uh yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean the fact that it's like brand new and
Speaker 9: people don't know, you know, they're not googling and looking
Speaker 9: on Amazon for a wireless most in sensor. To do
Speaker 9: the things that we're doing, we really rely on, like
Speaker 9: you know, educating the public and getting the word out,
Speaker 9: and so we really appreciate you having us on so
Speaker 9: we can, you know, educate people and let them know
Speaker 9: that Kinny is.
Speaker 10: Something that they need.
Speaker 1: Nikki and Maboud Zabedian, creators of the Kinni wireless motion Sensor,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming on the show today. Appreciate it.
Speaker 11: Thank you so much much.
Speaker 1: All Right, the website, I will link it up online.
Speaker 1: Go to rich on Tech dot tv. Hit the light
Speaker 1: bulb you can get a link to the Kinny wireless
Speaker 1: motion sensor. Coming up, we're going to open up the feedback.
Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Closing out the show, Let's let's get
Speaker 1: through a couple of quick items before we get to
Speaker 1: the feedbag. First off, eBay will stop accepting American Express
Speaker 1: starting on August seventeenth. The decision was driven by the
Speaker 1: high fees charged by American Express y US for processing
Speaker 1: credit card transaction. Sounds like a little spat between these
Speaker 1: two companies, but if you rely on American Express to
Speaker 1: pay for your eBay stuff, you will no longer be
Speaker 1: able to do that. As of August seventeenth, Max is
Speaker 1: raising their prices. Max's ad free monthly subscription is now
Speaker 1: seventeen dollars, the ultimate ad free is now twenty one dollars.
Speaker 1: The annual plans are also going up. A lot of
Speaker 1: people are now picking and choosing which service that they
Speaker 1: subscribe to and dropping them based on the shows they're watching.
Speaker 1: These prices just keep going up. Spotify also raising prices.
Speaker 1: US subscribers will receive an email over the next month
Speaker 1: explaining the changes. Individual plan basically is going up a
Speaker 1: dollar now it is eleven twelve dollars up from eleven.
Speaker 1: The duo plan is going to seventeen, up from fifteen,
Speaker 1: the Family plan twenty dollars a month, up from seventeen,
Speaker 1: and the student plan still remains the best deal in
Speaker 1: town six dollars a month unchanged. This is the second
Speaker 1: price increase within a year for Spotify, and the Better
Speaker 1: Business Bureau says they have recorded a significant increase in
Speaker 1: phishing reports, with over twenty three thousand reports since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, in more than nine thousand last year alone.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind these are just people reporting these phishing methods,
Speaker 1: which include emails, texts, calls, voicemails, and even legitimate search
Speaker 1: engine tricks. This is when you search something on a
Speaker 1: webs on the on Google or any search engine, and
Speaker 1: it tricks you into calling a phone number that's actually
Speaker 1: leading to a scammer, or going to a website that
Speaker 1: leads to a scammer. How to avoid phishing scams. Be
Speaker 1: very cautious of unsolicited communications claiming suspicious activity on your
Speaker 1: accounts or account problems. Look at the sender's email address,
Speaker 1: check for any typos, generic language, or if it seems
Speaker 1: like an odd website that could be strained that could
Speaker 1: be a telltale sign. Avoid clicking on links or providing
Speaker 1: financial information and response to unsolicited messages, and you can
Speaker 1: report suspected fraud to the relevant authorities. Let's get to
Speaker 1: the feedbag. I saved a message I actually got from
Speaker 1: my credit card when I did a transaction on it.
Speaker 1: It said, is this fraud? And I'm telling you the
Speaker 1: email I got from my credit card looked very similar
Speaker 1: to a fraud email you might get from an actual
Speaker 1: scam artist and the text message they sent me. So
Speaker 1: this is the thing that the fraud stirs do. They
Speaker 1: send you an alert that looks very similar to what
Speaker 1: you actually might get. All they do is take the
Speaker 1: alert from Bank of America or Chase or any of
Speaker 1: these other banks or American Express and they just engineer
Speaker 1: it to look exactly the same. But it's leading to
Speaker 1: their website. So to be very very careful anytime you
Speaker 1: click a link on a text message or a website, anytime,
Speaker 1: you just have to really really take very close look.
Speaker 1: Now time for the feedbag segment. Feedback plus the mail
Speaker 1: bag equals feedbag. These are the emails, the comments, and
Speaker 1: the questions I've gotten from you. If you want to
Speaker 1: submit yours, just go to Rich on tech dot tv
Speaker 1: and hit contact. Haas from San Clemente writes in I
Speaker 1: have a Google Voice number, but when I use it
Speaker 1: on some sites, for example offer Up, they don't accept
Speaker 1: the number and they will not send the verification code.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your program educating us. Yes, a lot
Speaker 1: of the services will not accept a Google Voice number
Speaker 1: because it's voipe voiceover IP and these could be generated
Speaker 1: in seconds and they could be used for fraud, especially banks.
Speaker 1: They will not My bank will not text my Google
Speaker 1: voice number. It will not do that. So the solution
Speaker 1: is to use your real cell phone number, and that's
Speaker 1: what they're trying to do on offer up. They're trying
Speaker 1: to make sure you are an actual human and not
Speaker 1: just someone trying to scam other people, so they want
Speaker 1: to use a real phone number. You can also sign
Speaker 1: up for a specific phone number, like from an app
Speaker 1: called Burner, which can give you a phone number that
Speaker 1: could accept these one time codes. Yeah, they're doing it
Speaker 1: on purpose because they don't want you to be a
Speaker 1: fraud star. Eleanor from Los Angeles writes in I have
Speaker 1: a bunch of random old devices cell phones, tablets, Android
Speaker 1: and Apple. What's the easiest way to dispose of them?
Speaker 1: Do I need to wipe them clean?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: You should wipe them clean, although a lot of these
Speaker 1: services will promise to wipe them safely for you, but
Speaker 1: I would feel better doing it myself. Go into the
Speaker 1: settings and do a factory reset, factory restore, factory reset.
Speaker 1: Just google the name of the device plus factory reset
Speaker 1: and you should get the instructions. You can take them
Speaker 1: to best Buy. They do have limits on how many
Speaker 1: you can take. Staples is a great place to take them.
Speaker 1: Those are two very easy places to drop them off
Speaker 1: and they will accept them. Gizmo Go is another website
Speaker 1: you can go to and check and see if there's
Speaker 1: any value to these devices. Gizmogo dot com. Best Way
Speaker 1: also has a used electronics box. You buy the box
Speaker 1: for like twenty twenty five or thirty dollars. I think
Speaker 1: something like that. They ship this box to your house.
Speaker 1: You dump all the old cables and cell phones and
Speaker 1: tablets and stuff into this box. You ship it off.
Speaker 1: Postage is paid and they will properly recycle that tech
Speaker 1: Marian Tapanga rights in Hey Rich. Many times during Google searches,
Speaker 1: I want to go back and look at previous information
Speaker 1: I've found. How do you go back on a Google
Speaker 1: Pixel phone? I find that you have to initiate the
Speaker 1: search all over again. Go into Chrome on your phone,
Speaker 1: hit the three dots in the upper right hand corner,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna tap history. Once you tap history, you
Speaker 1: can search through your history if you remember a keyword
Speaker 1: on that website. You can also go to myactivity dot
Speaker 1: Google dot com and search through your web history.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: Let's see Franklin from Butler, Pennsylvania rites in, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for all the great info. Rich Well, thanks
Speaker 1: for listening in Pennsylvania. And Pete writes in ghost Rees amazing,
Speaker 1: Rich thank you for mentioning it. Pete. Yes, we mentioned
Speaker 1: ghost Ree on the last We had an interview on
Speaker 1: the last show. I actually downloaded it after the interview.
Speaker 1: I've been using it ever since. It's great. It blocks ads,
Speaker 1: it blocks trackers, does a lot of great stuff all
Speaker 1: at once, and I haven't noticed many issues with it
Speaker 1: on my computer. But again, if you're using any sort
Speaker 1: of blocker or tracker blocker on your computer, if you
Speaker 1: have a problem with the website, there is an option
Speaker 1: to disable the blocker for that website so that you
Speaker 1: can use it properly. All right, if you can believe it,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. For this episode of the show.
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Speaker 1: new features coming to the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: the maccomputers, the Apple Vision Pro, all of the Apple products.
Speaker 1: You will find out what is coming soon to those
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Speaker 1: for listening. I know there are so many ways to
Speaker 1: spend your time. I really do appreciate you spending it
Speaker 1: right here with me. I look forward to nothing more
Speaker 1: each week than well hanging out with my kids and
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