Speaker 1: Tech and the crowds return to Las Vegas for CES
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. One major airline now giving its passengers
Speaker 1: free Wi Fi. Apple Fitness has some new ways to
Speaker 1: get you in shape for the new year. Plus your
Speaker 1: tech questions answered? What is going on? I'm Rich d'miro
Speaker 1: and this is rich on Tech, the show where I
Speaker 1: talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about,
Speaker 1: and it is the place where I answer your questions.
Speaker 1: Now you're probably wondering what happened to Leo. If not,
Speaker 1: thanks for knowing who I am, and please let's keep
Speaker 1: it that way. Leo Laporte has retired from this radio
Speaker 1: show and after nineteen years, he finally gets to enjoy
Speaker 1: his weekends. And now I'm the new guy. That's right,
Speaker 1: You've got me for your guide for all things technology.
Speaker 1: My naming once again is rich Demiro. I'm the tech
Speaker 1: reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, and now
Speaker 1: now I'll be hosting this very show every week. If
Speaker 1: you want to do some research on me, you can
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Speaker 1: for something special. I mean, every day, you know things happen,
Speaker 1: things change, But this is the first. This is the
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Speaker 1: more excited. This has been a lifelong dream of mine.
Speaker 1: Uh if you've listened to my podcast over the years,
Speaker 1: this show is going to be largely similar to that,
Speaker 1: except that didn't have you as a live caller, which
Speaker 1: has been the thing I've wanted to do for so
Speaker 1: many years. You get to connect with me. I'm going
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Speaker 1: This is the phone number you need to know if
Speaker 1: you need some tech help and guidance whenever, I'll be
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Speaker 1: some of your questions in today's show. We'll see if
Speaker 1: we can help you out, and just have fun. This
Speaker 1: is going to be a back and forth. This is
Speaker 1: not just me talking to you. This is you. You
Speaker 1: are part of this show, and you're a big part
Speaker 1: of it because without you, there is no show. You
Speaker 1: have questions, I have answers. We'll get the you know,
Speaker 1: we'll get this all figured out. It's going to be fun.
Speaker 1: My plan is to make this the most useful show
Speaker 1: you listen to each and every week. I'm gonna pack
Speaker 1: it with tech tips, reviews, cool new apps and websites,
Speaker 1: plus information to keep you safe from scams and other
Speaker 1: online issues. I mean, think about it every day. I'm
Speaker 1: covering this stuff for KTLA. I'm seeing a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff come through. I'm going to a lot of things,
Speaker 1: talking to a lot of people. I'm going to bring
Speaker 1: that information right here. I'm also excited to bring on
Speaker 1: interesting guests to talk about a wide range of topics.
Speaker 1: It's going to be different, it's going to be you know,
Speaker 1: I find tech to be a wide swath of things.
Speaker 1: It's not just one thing. Tech is all is gadgets,
Speaker 1: but it's also how do people do their jobs with technology?
Speaker 1: What apps do you use to stay organized and to
Speaker 1: stay focused and to stay productive. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: stuff that I want to explore in this show. All right,
Speaker 1: So a little bit about me. All Right, I'm just
Speaker 1: a regular person who loves tech. I've always loved tech.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been thinking about technology since I was
Speaker 1: a kid. I remember waiting to get on the internet,
Speaker 1: this thing called the Internet when AOL was a thing,
Speaker 1: and AOL was sort of this, you know, it was
Speaker 1: part of the Internet, but not really. And I waited
Speaker 1: every day as a kid for that little Internet link
Speaker 1: on AOL to light up. That's how nerdy I was.
Speaker 1: I'm originally from New Jersey, right outside New York City,
Speaker 1: and my typical job throughout the last couple decades has
Speaker 1: been a TV reporter. And I started out as a reporter,
Speaker 1: as you would in a small market Yakima, Washington. I
Speaker 1: moved my way up to Shreveport, Louisiana. Then I went
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, then I went to New York and
Speaker 1: then I came back to Los Angeles. And in that
Speaker 1: time where I really cut my teeth as a tech
Speaker 1: person was at cnet in New York City. And Wow,
Speaker 1: what a fun place to work. I mean, to go
Speaker 1: from looking at a website like ce neet to actually
Speaker 1: being on a website like cenet. I got to see
Speaker 1: it all, I got to do it all. I was
Speaker 1: there for the launch of the iPhone in New York
Speaker 1: City in two thousand and seven. It was such a
Speaker 1: phenomenal time. I could still remember being in the Apple
Speaker 1: Store in that launch day like it was yesterday. In fact,
Speaker 1: the song that you just heard, the lead singer of
Speaker 1: that song was inside the Apple Store and I got
Speaker 1: to talk to him for a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: just what an incredible experience. Now, I've been covering tech
Speaker 1: for more than a decade at KTLA TV in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and it has been so much fun. I wake up early.
Speaker 1: You know, I talked to people. I've traveled around the
Speaker 1: world doing my job, to countries including China, including Japan, Ireland, England, Spain, Portugal,
Speaker 1: I mean, you name it. I've seen tech in different places.
Speaker 1: And what I love about that is that, you know,
Speaker 1: we grow up here in America and we see how
Speaker 1: we do things, but when you go to other places,
Speaker 1: you see how other people do things and it could
Speaker 1: be a little bit different than the way we do stuff.
Speaker 1: So it gives you depth, it gives you perspective. But
Speaker 1: really my secret weapon is you. Your emails, your messages,
Speaker 1: your responses to my TV segments. Help me know what
Speaker 1: is important, What are you thinking about? What do you
Speaker 1: want to know about? I mean, I don't have all
Speaker 1: the answers. I don't wake up and just know everything
Speaker 1: there is to know about technology. I explore and I
Speaker 1: figure it out, and I also know the ways to
Speaker 1: figure this stuff out, and that really helps me out.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do my best to use my knowledge
Speaker 1: to help you out. I'm on a journey just like
Speaker 1: you with all of this stuff. You know, I get
Speaker 1: a gadget for Christmas and I got to figure it out,
Speaker 1: just like you. I've got a wife, i've got two kids,
Speaker 1: I've got a full time job. I've got a lot
Speaker 1: to juggle, and you know, reading the manuals has never
Speaker 1: been my forte. I kind of like to figure it
Speaker 1: out as I go along. And in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: I'll be figuring out how to get organized. Like digital
Speaker 1: photos and files, they've become a mess, just like yours have.
Speaker 1: I bet I've got Google Drive, I've got Apple Cloud Storage,
Speaker 1: I've got my phone. I've got all kinds of things
Speaker 1: in different places, and I want to figure out how
Speaker 1: am I going to dupe? How am I going to organize?
Speaker 1: That's my goal this year. Also, how to become more productive,
Speaker 1: how to keep tracking my notes. I've been journaling on
Speaker 1: a daily basis, which is really fun? What's the best
Speaker 1: to do list? App I've been trying to figure that out.
Speaker 1: My hope with this show is to inspire you. It's
Speaker 1: to make you smile, it's to make you think, it's
Speaker 1: to make you laugh, and overall, just make you enjoy
Speaker 1: our time together. That's really what it's all about. You're
Speaker 1: giving me your time. If that's not fun, then you
Speaker 1: probably got to go somewhere else. It's got to be
Speaker 1: fun for this to be interesting. Now. I just got
Speaker 1: back from CS twenty twenty three. This is the big
Speaker 1: tech show in Las Vegas. I've been going to this
Speaker 1: for over a decade and this year things were back
Speaker 1: in full swing. Last year, the year before, it's been
Speaker 1: a little rough for the show, obviously because of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: But this year it was. It was pretty incredible. There
Speaker 1: is so much to see. I did not get to
Speaker 1: see it all. But you know, people complain about ces.
Speaker 1: They say how big it is, they say how annoying
Speaker 1: it is, how they get sick, how they get tired,
Speaker 1: how they have to walk. I will embrace every bit
Speaker 1: of that because at the end of the day, this
Speaker 1: is where you see the stuff that I'm going to
Speaker 1: be talking about for the next year or two. This
Speaker 1: is where I get to see my friends. This is
Speaker 1: where I get to see pr folks that I connect
Speaker 1: with over email and I just know them by an
Speaker 1: email account. This is how business gets done in person.
Speaker 1: I get it. We've been remote, we've been hybrid. You
Speaker 1: could do your job from anywhere these days. But when
Speaker 1: you're in person, you actually get to connect with a
Speaker 1: human being, and that is still the most magical experience
Speaker 1: we have as humans. You're listening to me right now
Speaker 1: through some sort of speaker or headset, and we feel connected.
Speaker 1: But if you see me in person, it's a whole
Speaker 1: different world. You get to say, hey, rich you know,
Speaker 1: I like what you do. I see thanks for this,
Speaker 1: I like that post. It's just a different connection that
Speaker 1: you can't have any other way in this world. But
Speaker 1: I'll take this too, because this is really fun. At
Speaker 1: CS always the TVs. They're getting bigger, they're getting slimmer.
Speaker 1: Eight K still a buzzy thing. We also saw wireless TVs.
Speaker 1: I drove to CES because I like driving. I like
Speaker 1: my time. I like that time in the car to
Speaker 1: just kind of enjoy and you know, disconnect from the world.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a couple of hours where I can't
Speaker 1: check my social media while I'm driving, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of a glorious thing. Is CS a ton of work? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Is it all worth it? One hundred percent. I even
Speaker 1: got to go to a concert. While I was there,
Speaker 1: I saw Imagine Dragons, and you know, everything you do
Speaker 1: there is for a reason. Imagine Dragons was presented by Dolby.
Speaker 1: It was in their theater that they have at Park MGM,
Speaker 1: and it was presented and Dole me at most. So again,
Speaker 1: everything you do just adds to that perspective that you
Speaker 1: have as a journalist, as a tech person, and quite honestly,
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen Imagine Dragons, very inspiring concert. I
Speaker 1: had a fantastic time. I went with my photographer Luis.
Speaker 1: It was late, we were tired, it was after a
Speaker 1: full day of work, and we really really enjoyed ourselves
Speaker 1: and I can't say how inspiring that concert was. I
Speaker 1: never realized just what an impact someone like that can
Speaker 1: make on me. All right, coming up, we are going
Speaker 1: to take your very first call at one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. Again. The phone number to
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Speaker 1: one zero one. That is the direct line for me.
Speaker 1: If you don't call, I've got some questions that you've
Speaker 1: emailed me. Again. I'm at rich on Tech on social media,
Speaker 1: my website rich on tech dot tv. Coming up, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk ab the airline, the major airline that is
Speaker 1: now giving free Wi Fi not just to select passengers
Speaker 1: but to all passengers, and does that mean we're going
Speaker 1: to see more of that? Plus Apple Fitness, I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you about their latest workout, which I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever done before, but you know what, maybe
Speaker 1: I'll try it. My name is rich dmiro. You're listening
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. More of the show after this,
Speaker 1: plus you your calls coming up. Welcome back to the show,
Speaker 1: rich DeMuro here rich on Tech. It's a whole new
Speaker 1: show here on the radio, taking your calls, talking about
Speaker 1: technology and just breaking down the news of the week.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about CS some of the cool
Speaker 1: things I saw there. We're going to talk to Brian Tong,
Speaker 1: mister CS, one of my good friends who hosts the
Speaker 1: show every year. He was there with me in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about some of the cool stuff we saw
Speaker 1: and most importantly, we're taking your phone calls. The phone
Speaker 1: number is triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.
Speaker 1: If you're thanks joining once again. My name is Rich Demiro,
Speaker 1: new host of this radio show called Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do this. This is another little piece
Speaker 1: of history.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: See if I can reach the phone here, we're going
Speaker 1: to take our very first caller, and it is Mary
Speaker 1: in Downie. Mary in Downie, you are on with Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. How's it going?
Speaker 3: Good morning, Rich. First of all, I would like to
Speaker 3: say congratulations on your new show. I've been following you
Speaker 3: on KTLA for years.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you so much. I can you hear
Speaker 1: the excitement and the nervousness in my voice. I was
Speaker 1: surprised I didn't get a notification from my Apple Watch
Speaker 1: saying your heart rate is a little higher than typical.
Speaker 3: No, you sound really confident, just as you always do.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. What can I help you with today?
Speaker 1: What's going on in your life?
Speaker 3: So my question is, when I'm in my car, my
Speaker 3: cell phone, my android connects to my car and it
Speaker 3: says do I want to auto connect to the car's wife?
Speaker 3: I don't have it on auto connect. I'm a boomer.
Speaker 3: I would like for you to explain the difference between
Speaker 3: my celf, WiFi, my car and Wi Fi, or even
Speaker 3: at work I connect to a hotspot. Can you explain
Speaker 3: all those different terms for me?
Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely, This is a great question, and it's funny.
Speaker 1: I was just talking about this yesterday. I was in
Speaker 1: Vegas and I was saying how I rarely connect my
Speaker 1: phone to the Wi Fi network at the hotel because
Speaker 1: I'd rather if I have a good signal on my phone,
Speaker 1: I'm going to use my LTE or my cellular or
Speaker 1: my you know, five G signal. So you've got a
Speaker 1: couple things going on. I mean, you've got cellular, which
Speaker 1: is the connection between your phone and your carrier. So
Speaker 1: whether you have Verizon, T Mobile, at and T or
Speaker 1: one of the smaller carriers out there, that's a direct
Speaker 1: connection between your phone and the tower. You've seen them
Speaker 1: all over town, you know. Sometimes they look like trees.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they just look like a bunch of speakers on
Speaker 1: a pole. That's a direct connection. That's also the most
Speaker 1: secure connection you can have between your phone and the network.
Speaker 1: So if you're doing anything like banking, anything really private.
Speaker 1: I always recommend turning off Wi Fi and using just
Speaker 1: the direct cellular connection. Now, when you get into your car,
Speaker 1: your car could have two connections, So the Wi Fi
Speaker 1: connection in your car, your car may be equipped with
Speaker 1: a cellular connection. A lot of the new cars are
Speaker 1: equipped with that. And that cellular connection means that you
Speaker 1: pay a monthly fee or it's somehow included in the
Speaker 1: price of your car, and it is connecting to a network.
Speaker 1: And the benefit of that is that your car probably
Speaker 1: has a higher powered antenna than your phone, which means
Speaker 1: you're going to grab a signal in more places with
Speaker 1: the LTE or the five G connection in your car.
Speaker 1: And so your car is physically or I guess wirelessly connected.
Speaker 1: If it was physically connected to the cellular tower, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't go very far. But your car is wirelessly connected
Speaker 1: to the cellular tower, and that is giving a cellular
Speaker 1: connection to your car. And this can power things like
Speaker 1: streaming music. It can power things like streaming radio, and
Speaker 1: also the maps in your car and anything else that
Speaker 1: your car may use, you know, software updates, all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Many cars today, I mean this is
Speaker 1: going back many years have those sort of connections. Now,
Speaker 1: why would you want your phone to connect to the
Speaker 1: Wi Fi that your car is emitting. Well, you might
Speaker 1: want a stronger connection in more places. You also might
Speaker 1: have a limited data plan on your phone, and maybe
Speaker 1: you want to use the data plan that's on your car,
Speaker 1: So those are some of the reasons why you might
Speaker 1: want to do that. The other reason is, you know
Speaker 1: you can use features like Android Auto wirelessly, so if
Speaker 1: you're not connecting to your car, Android Auto would not
Speaker 1: be able to connect wirelessly to take over the screen
Speaker 1: in the center console. So that's definitely another reason why
Speaker 1: you'd want to connect to the Wi Fi in your car,
Speaker 1: even if you're not using a Wi Fi connection per se,
Speaker 1: But that's the way your phone is is communicating with
Speaker 1: that center screen to take it over. Now, at work,
Speaker 1: this is a tricky topic because I'm also not a
Speaker 1: big fan of connecting my phone to the in work
Speaker 1: Wi Fi. Not that I'm doing anything wrong at work,
Speaker 1: but quite honestly, companies do have tracking software that they
Speaker 1: can potentially use on the Wi Fi networks at work,
Speaker 1: and depending on how your Wi Fi at work is
Speaker 1: set up, it could be very secure and you may
Speaker 1: have to accept some sort of what's called a trust
Speaker 1: certificate to actually use that Wi Fi, or you may
Speaker 1: have to use a network that is very insecure and
Speaker 1: open network. And the reality is these days Wi Fi
Speaker 1: is pretty secure for the most part. Unless someone's using
Speaker 1: a sophisticated device to sort of sniff out what's happening
Speaker 1: on the network, you're probably going to be okay. But
Speaker 1: I just rather there are so many implications of when
Speaker 1: you join a Wi Fi network, how you can be
Speaker 1: tracked and followed and monitored and notified, and I just
Speaker 1: would rather stay out of all of that. So typically,
Speaker 1: unless I'm doing something that requires a big download or
Speaker 1: a big upload, I'm just staying off the Wi Fi
Speaker 1: connection at work. If you have an unlimited cellular pro
Speaker 1: A plan on your phone, why do you need to
Speaker 1: be on the Wi Fi. It's something to think about.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that you have to, you know,
Speaker 1: disconnect from your company's Wi Fi today, but it's just
Speaker 1: one of those things. Maybe ask some questions like, hey,
Speaker 1: how is the Wi Fi set up, or what's the
Speaker 1: limitations or what are you monitoring for? Because you know,
Speaker 1: we do a lot of personal stuff on our phones,
Speaker 1: and most of it's encrypted so you should be okay.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, you know, they could potentially see
Speaker 1: when you come and go to work. They could see
Speaker 1: where you hang out at work. They can see when
Speaker 1: you connect, they can see when you disconnect, they can
Speaker 1: see websites that you go to. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of implications of any network that you connect to, and
Speaker 1: Bluetooth is very similar. So I think that knowing about
Speaker 1: this stuff and being away of it is the smart thing.
Speaker 1: And Mary, I think that you know, just asking these
Speaker 1: questions like this is a smart thing because you're curious
Speaker 1: and that's always the first step to just being on
Speaker 1: top of things. So thank you Mary in Downy, California
Speaker 1: for having the very first question on the Rich on
Speaker 1: Tech radio show. We've got a lot more in store
Speaker 1: coming up. We're going to talk to Brian Tong. He
Speaker 1: has a podcast, he has a YouTube channel. He used
Speaker 1: to be at Cena and he is the host of
Speaker 1: CS for the past couple of years. So we are
Speaker 1: going to talk about CEES twenty twenty three and all
Speaker 1: the fun stuff we saw with guest Brian Tong. Coming up.
Speaker 1: My name is Rich Demiro. You are listening to Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to Rich on Tech. My name
Speaker 1: is Rich dmiro and this is the show where we
Speaker 1: talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about.
Speaker 1: It's also the place where I answer the questions that
Speaker 1: you call in with. Joining me now is Brian Tong.
Speaker 1: He's a content creator for technology. He's this year's host
Speaker 1: of CS twenty twenty three and an all around nice guy. Brian.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show and history once again. You're the
Speaker 1: first guest on this brand new radio show. How you
Speaker 1: doing on this day?
Speaker 4: Rich, I am honored to be part of such a
Speaker 4: exclusive group of individual and I thank you so much.
Speaker 4: We go way back in This is awesome, so I'm
Speaker 4: happy to be here. Bro.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, thank you. Congratulations to Brian. Brian and I used
Speaker 1: to both work at c net technology website, and Brian
Speaker 1: is on his own He does all kinds of cool
Speaker 1: tech stuff on YouTube and also your podcast where you
Speaker 1: talk about all things Apple. How has it been you
Speaker 1: are still at CTS right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, I'm hosting the show, but I'm going to
Speaker 4: take a break to talk to one of my good friends.
Speaker 4: And we saw each other here, but see us. I
Speaker 4: think this year right, last year was a pandemic kind
Speaker 4: of recovery year or a transitional year where people really
Speaker 4: weren't sure whether they were coming or not. To me,
Speaker 4: when I see the boost, this feels like a fool
Speaker 4: on CEF. Even the amount of people here the show
Speaker 4: feels like maybe around eighty five to ninety percent of
Speaker 4: what we normally get, and I think that's actually a
Speaker 4: good thing. There's a point where CS was getting too crowded,
Speaker 4: and now that things have kind of changed, there's people
Speaker 4: that aren't going to come back to conventions as much.
Speaker 4: But I think the energy and also more than I think,
Speaker 4: we've seen a lot of companies who during this roughly
Speaker 4: two and a half year period have done things that
Speaker 4: I don't think they might have done if things were
Speaker 4: kind of going year after year iner you know, and
Speaker 4: just kind of be more iterative. I think it for
Speaker 4: the companies to really be a lot more innovative.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and also the breadth of companies, like the
Speaker 1: stuff that we've seen, I mean stuff like john Gear, Caterpillar,
Speaker 1: I mean a car tech. It's there's so many things
Speaker 1: that have expanded now. So Brian is the host for CS,
Speaker 1: so you do videos for CS. You kind of get
Speaker 1: the inside scoop on everything that's happening there. So you've
Speaker 1: really seen it all, and you've seen like the biggest stuff,
Speaker 1: you see the small stuff. So one of the trends
Speaker 1: we saw this year is I guess we're going to
Speaker 1: have wireless TVs because LG had THEIRS on display and
Speaker 1: then there was a startup the name is evading me
Speaker 1: right now, maybe you remember it, but they also had
Speaker 1: a wireless TV. LG still had a plug the startup
Speaker 1: they did not have a plug at all, Like it's
Speaker 1: a phone a TV that you reach arge, did you
Speaker 1: see either of these?
Speaker 4: I saw, I got my I got definitely time with
Speaker 4: the LG wireless TV. I don't know about the startup
Speaker 4: because there's so many products that we're only two men.
Speaker 6: It's like we can't cover everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, with wireless transmission to a TV,
Speaker 4: whether or even wireless transmission to a home theater system,
Speaker 4: this is honestly been the holy grail for a while
Speaker 4: for home entertainment. I remember I've been at CS for
Speaker 4: fifteen years now, and I remember some of my early
Speaker 4: years there were demos that are done private suite that
Speaker 4: were showing off like hey, we have a wireless audio
Speaker 4: system and we have wireless, and they never came to fruition, like.
Speaker 1: Hey, they had wireless HDMI as well, remember that. I
Speaker 1: mean I remember seeing this, and of course it was
Speaker 1: like it was like a little adapter that you put
Speaker 1: on the back of your TV and it had to
Speaker 1: be I think it's like a line of sight or something.
Speaker 1: By the way, the TV that's the startup is called
Speaker 1: Displace TV.
Speaker 4: Oh that's good.
Speaker 1: Displace, you said, yeah, Displace. And by the way, the
Speaker 1: TV apparently has suction cups on the back so you
Speaker 1: can just literally stick it anywhere. Now I would not.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever used a command strip
Speaker 1: on your wall, but mine fall off like once a year.
Speaker 1: Stuff that I put up like the year before just
Speaker 1: falls off in succession, like all the pictures. So I'm
Speaker 1: not ready to use I'm not ready to stick a
Speaker 1: TV on my wall.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you you might not be ready now,
Speaker 4: but when you see what LG is doing, you know
Speaker 4: they have their own proprietary I guess ecosystem and connection.
Speaker 4: The fact that you're sending not just a video signal
Speaker 4: and audio signal, but a four K refress rate, which is,
Speaker 4: you know, more than enough for gaming. I mean, if
Speaker 4: you want hire, sure, most people are gonna actually be
Speaker 4: playing gaming on monitors, but now more TVs are getting
Speaker 4: higher refresh rates. The big thing here is, though, people
Speaker 4: that are really into this whole minimalist design, one of
Speaker 4: the biggest things that you always have to struggle with
Speaker 4: is wires. These are first world problems, rich, but no
Speaker 4: wire a table clutter of TVs right, and can you
Speaker 4: imagine just literally mounting a TV now truly no wires.
Speaker 4: It would look so clean, so beautiful and get all
Speaker 4: the benefits of Dolby autmost Audio, Adobe Vision Video four
Speaker 4: K one hundred and twenty herd Like, this is a
Speaker 4: big this to me for the home get or junkie
Speaker 4: who's been waiting for this for arguably ten years and
Speaker 4: has been told it's coming. The fact that LG now
Speaker 4: has it nailed down tells me that it's actually here.
Speaker 4: I mean, LG is a brand y. I own an LGTV,
Speaker 4: and it.
Speaker 1: Will happen because here's the thing. LG showed off the
Speaker 1: rollable TV. I think it was like four years ago.
Speaker 1: It was like a it went from early prototype to like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's really expensive, and then it's like okay, now it's here.
Speaker 1: Now it's still expensive, but that's the beauty of technology
Speaker 1: is that it does come down in price over time,
Speaker 1: no problem. So we will see wireless TVs. It'll give
Speaker 1: you this the flexibility to I remember every time I
Speaker 1: got a new apartment back in the day, your TV
Speaker 1: was determined by where that little cable came up in
Speaker 1: the floor, like from the last personally is it? And
Speaker 1: now it's like to go from that to just putting
Speaker 1: your your entertainment stuff where you want it in your room,
Speaker 1: and then your TV where you want it is a
Speaker 1: whole bay thing. All right, let's talk about this this
Speaker 1: BMW color changing car. Did you get to see that?
Speaker 4: Yes, got to see that up close. On The good
Speaker 4: thing is that last year they also I also got
Speaker 4: to see it up close. This is a concept design.
Speaker 4: It's called the I BMW I Vision D as spelled D.
Speaker 4: And last year, yeah, last year they they showed it
Speaker 4: off as a black and white concept and it was
Speaker 4: a wrap on one of their current existing cars. It
Speaker 4: was very geometric, but what it was is like, hey,
Speaker 4: we've got a color changing car. It showed off cool
Speaker 4: black and white patterns. But this year they wrapped it
Speaker 4: on a streamlined car design to really actually take advantage
Speaker 4: of these e ink panels. So for people that aren't
Speaker 4: familiar e ink, which is like on an Amazon kindle,
Speaker 4: you're familiar it being in black and white. There are
Speaker 4: companies that make e ink that actually is in color,
Speaker 4: and so what BMW has done is essentially partnered with
Speaker 4: one of those companies and wrapped a car, but wrapped
Speaker 4: it specifically with this car is designed with Queen lines
Speaker 4: to allow this ink raped to be just really tight.
Speaker 4: It just looks like it's it's been dipped in this
Speaker 4: stuff and it's yeah, it's incredible in amazing to see.
Speaker 4: I have some video footage that that that'll be going
Speaker 4: up about it, but it's captured everyone's imagination. There's not
Speaker 4: a single person who hasn't seen it that said they
Speaker 4: loved it. I talked to BMW and the person who's
Speaker 4: responds her name is a doctor Stella. I can't remember
Speaker 4: her last name, but she's been a part of this
Speaker 4: project from the beginning. It's been really a true passion
Speaker 4: project for her. And she talks about the advances of
Speaker 4: even the rap that they put on. If you when
Speaker 4: there's cut lines, you know, a car has grooves and whatnot.
Speaker 4: You actually cannot cut this ink material too many times
Speaker 4: otherwise it pretty much breaks down the electrical signal that
Speaker 4: goes through a panel and then would prevent it from
Speaker 4: sending a single that allows it to change color.
Speaker 7: So they have to be very strategic.
Speaker 4: In how they wrap this car and where the cut
Speaker 4: lines are. It's the most it's the most incredible thing.
Speaker 4: But this is not coming out any times things right,
Speaker 4: They're still developing more things with it, but she says
Speaker 4: she even sees me like, oh, we have more ideas
Speaker 4: for next year, don't worry. I was like wow.
Speaker 1: But again, the reality is when we see these things,
Speaker 1: we know that they will be coming out in the future.
Speaker 1: Sony and Honda working together on their new car called
Speaker 1: a FeelA. What do you think of that name? Are
Speaker 1: you a feeling it?
Speaker 6: Rich?
Speaker 8: I got a feeler that's a nice gonna.
Speaker 7: Be good night, Okay, I'll stop.
Speaker 4: Your listeners are just I don't want them to see now.
Speaker 4: But I think it's an incredible, fascinating idea where we've
Speaker 4: seen the electric vehicle space, you know, for a while,
Speaker 4: ben Argue quite honestly dominate at least here in the
Speaker 4: US by Tesla. You now have actual car manufacturers who
Speaker 4: really have a better fit and finish when we talk
Speaker 4: about some of the aspects of a car that are
Speaker 4: that are better than a Tesla, but Tesla has that.
Speaker 4: It's like a it's like a technology exhibition, and they
Speaker 4: have a better charging network right now, but as time
Speaker 4: has gone on, charging networks will continue to grow. These
Speaker 4: other companies that are behind, they're actually garnering more interest
Speaker 4: because of think about this, right, Honda and Sony partnering
Speaker 4: together and then also using a Qualcom ship inside it.
Speaker 4: Those are three tech giants basically saying, hey, we need
Speaker 4: to work together as a you know, a triple threat. Yeah,
Speaker 4: to make something that is special. Like they've seen the
Speaker 4: landscape and they're not trying to do this alone.
Speaker 7: They're like, let's work together.
Speaker 1: And that's a big electronic experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a huge deal and it's fascinating and I.
Speaker 1: Love the idea that we're seeing more competition in this
Speaker 1: electric car space. I think Sony, look, we've got Apple
Speaker 1: jumping into the mix. At some point, You've got Sony,
Speaker 1: You've got Honda. I mean, we are just at the
Speaker 1: beginning of what we're seeing with all this stuff all right,
Speaker 1: Brian Tong, thanks so much for joining me. Where can
Speaker 1: folks find you online? Real quick?
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you want to go follow my YouTube channel.
Speaker 4: It's just YouTube dot com slash Briantong br I a
Speaker 4: Mtong Twitter. I'm really active there. Brian Tong on Instagram. No,
Speaker 4: Stra Tong is You're just gonna have to type it
Speaker 4: in and find it.
Speaker 1: Thanks Brian rich thanks for joining me from CS twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. Brian Tong. My name is Rich Damiro. You
Speaker 1: are listening to Rich on Tech. More of your calls
Speaker 1: coming up next. Welcome back, Rich Demiro Here, Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: This is the radio show where we talk about tech stuff,
Speaker 1: basically the stuff I think you should know about. Plus
Speaker 1: it's the place where I answer your questions. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Carlos in Van Eyes. Carlos and Van Eyes, you
Speaker 1: are on with Rich. Did I get the right I don't.
Speaker 1: Did I get the right one?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I didn't know. This is Rick and Lamesa. See. You know,
Speaker 1: it's my first day. It's a new job. You know
Speaker 1: I've been you know, I've been in my TV career
Speaker 1: for a long time, and I still don't know how
Speaker 1: to press a button on a phone. But anyway, Rick
Speaker 1: and La Mesa, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: There must be something to do with us. Both happened
Speaker 5: the greatest name on Earth Rich.
Speaker 1: Now, you know what's funny about having the name rich
Speaker 1: is that I get called Rick all the time, even
Speaker 1: though I've never introduced myself as Rick. But it's like
Speaker 1: one of those interchangeable things, right, I guess, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: hear you, So is your real is your actual name Richard? Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. So my family calls me Richard, which
Speaker 1: means I'm in trouble if I'm hearing that name. So, uh, Rick,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: I was wondering about this five G thing. You know,
Speaker 5: I supposedly I'll see my phone then the five G,
Speaker 5: but I don't know if it's really using five G.
Speaker 5: How on the heck do you see what your phone
Speaker 5: is actually using for service?
Speaker 1: Good question? Which carrier do you have? Okay? So with
Speaker 1: Verizon there's a couple things. So this is a great
Speaker 1: question because you know, we've heard so much hype about
Speaker 1: five G and what does it mean? So number one,
Speaker 1: you know, four G networks are still pretty good. They were,
Speaker 1: It's they're well built out. If you see an LTE
Speaker 1: on your phone, that means you're still on four G.
Speaker 1: If you see five G, that means you're on the latest,
Speaker 1: greatest five G network, which is sort of an upgrade.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit better than four G. Now what
Speaker 1: you really want to look for is this new thing.
Speaker 1: This is five G plus five GUW and five GUC.
Speaker 1: So you're on Verizon. When you see five GUW, that
Speaker 1: means ultra wideband. That means you're getting Verizon's best, absolute,
Speaker 1: most cutting edge network, and it's going to be really fast,
Speaker 1: Like I'm talking faster than almost all the Wi Fi
Speaker 1: networks that you're using. And I've seen speeds that are
Speaker 1: just incredible on these UW networks. For T Mobile, it's
Speaker 1: five G u C And I was in Vegas over
Speaker 1: the last week and T Mobile had a lot of
Speaker 1: UC there. Ultracapacity, that's what that means. And it just
Speaker 1: means that that's the real, real, you know, the spectrum
Speaker 1: that these carriers have been wanting for so many years
Speaker 1: that enables them to do so many more things like
Speaker 1: home internet, like really basically ditch Wi Fi altogether at
Speaker 1: some point in our lives because these networks are going
Speaker 1: to be so ubiquitous and so fast and just so
Speaker 1: capable that we won't really need that. So how do
Speaker 1: you know which icon or which service you're on? On
Speaker 1: the iPhone? You swipe down from the upper right hand
Speaker 1: corner and then it'll show you in your control center,
Speaker 1: you know, Verizon five G, five GUW. There's also a
Speaker 1: couple of settings you can look at on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: If you go into your settings and Cellular, you can
Speaker 1: actually choose which network you want to be on. You
Speaker 1: can say, you know, I only want five G or
Speaker 1: I only want LTE. And the reason why you might
Speaker 1: want to switch networks is because, let's say you're in
Speaker 1: a really congested place, like a stadium, and maybe that
Speaker 1: stadium is not fully upgraded to you know, these new
Speaker 1: five G networks, and so you're having trouble getting a
Speaker 1: tweet through or a picture through to Instagram. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: might be helpful to drop back to an LTE network
Speaker 1: because guess what, less are on it now, because everyone
Speaker 1: wants to be on the fancy new five G network.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the bottom line with these networks. I
Speaker 1: think that the thing to know is that number one,
Speaker 1: they're not everywhere. So these carriers are very much still
Speaker 1: working on their five G networks, and that means sometimes
Speaker 1: you may see a five G signal, sometimes you may not.
Speaker 1: You may see a five G in one place, you
Speaker 1: may see lt E in another. You may see the
Speaker 1: UW or the PLUS or the UC in various places.
Speaker 1: Usually at this point, the PLUS, the UW, and the
Speaker 1: UC are in you know, city centers, freeways, stadiums, downtowns,
Speaker 1: anywhere there's a large amount of people. They've sort of
Speaker 1: built out the ultra capacity in those areas first, and
Speaker 1: then eventually it will make its way to more neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: I know Verizon, I was just talking with them about
Speaker 1: this and they were telling me that they're getting there.
Speaker 1: You know, they've covered a bunch of the population in
Speaker 1: the US, but there's still work to do. You also
Speaker 1: may see fluctuations in some of these networks. Sometimes they
Speaker 1: work really well. Sometimes you may have some trouble. And
Speaker 1: I know that some of the carriers are actually proactively
Speaker 1: texting users in certain areas saying, hey, look, we're working
Speaker 1: on the towers in your neighborhood. You may have some
Speaker 1: you know, some spotty connections, or you may be using
Speaker 1: a connection that's from a network that's or a tower
Speaker 1: that's further away. So just be aware. I know where
Speaker 1: I you know, work on a daily basis in Hollywood. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Rick, would you want to add.
Speaker 5: Oh, real quick, you know I had the big hope
Speaker 5: to cut the wire by starting to use five G
Speaker 5: for my home internet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so did I.
Speaker 5: It's just like you're talking about the signal that isn't
Speaker 5: available real strong in my neighborhood yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me either. I've got I still have LTE where
Speaker 1: I live. And it's kind of wild because if you
Speaker 1: go down the street, it's got five G and it's
Speaker 1: got UW.
Speaker 5: That's exactly what I see, same thing.
Speaker 1: And I'd love to switch to one of those, you know,
Speaker 1: either the T Mobile Home Internet or the Verizon. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're very competitive right now. I think it's like
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a month or something. That seems pretty incredible. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you have that signal and people are wondering, like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, how can I replace this like wire
Speaker 1: that comes into my house with a cellular signal and
Speaker 1: power all my stuff. But that's what this spectrum allows
Speaker 1: them to do because UW and you see is so
Speaker 1: broad and it's got so much power it enables you
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 5: So Rick gret question the hotspot.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's like setting up a hot spot, except
Speaker 1: you know, you've got a better antenna. It's it's more
Speaker 1: high powered and so it's just gonna work a whole
Speaker 1: lot better. Thanks for the question. And yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of mystery around all this stuff, you know, that's that's
Speaker 1: just how it is with with anything that changes in tech.
Speaker 1: All right, now let's go to Carlos in van Ey's Carlos,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich on Tech? What's up?
Speaker 6: Rich?
Speaker 8: Congratulations a niche show. Uh, you know, it's better to
Speaker 8: free meeting to listen to you on a Sunday, and
Speaker 8: it is try to get you on a Friday when
Speaker 8: you can do your podcast. But so congratulations on that.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, I know the podcast was you know,
Speaker 1: I typically did it on Fridays, but you know sometimes
Speaker 1: it was all over the place, just depended on my
Speaker 1: broadcast schedule. So the fact that this is a shift
Speaker 1: that is a scheduled thing will be a lot better
Speaker 1: for many many people. So what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 8: So I'm looking at getting a wireless doorbell. So have
Speaker 8: you tested any of them that you feel that are
Speaker 8: better than others.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you've got a couple of players in
Speaker 1: this area. You've got Google with the Nest, You've got Why's,
Speaker 1: and you've got Ring, and so I think what it
Speaker 1: really comes down to personally, I use Ring. In fact,
Speaker 1: I just talked to Jamie yesterday, the guy who started Ring,
Speaker 1: and I said to him, I said, Jamie, you did
Speaker 1: pretty well, you know, because I remember meeting with him
Speaker 1: when he first had his first doorbell, was called the
Speaker 1: Doorbough and we tested it at Katla. This must have
Speaker 1: been ten years ago, and you know, it was kind
Speaker 1: of wonky. It was the first of its kind. And
Speaker 1: I said, you know, you did pretty well. You know,
Speaker 1: selling too Amazon for a billion dollars. And so I
Speaker 1: think Ring, you know, they invented the genre. I think
Speaker 1: that they have the most products that sort of work
Speaker 1: around it. I think Whys is really good too, But
Speaker 1: it just it kind of depends on what other smart
Speaker 1: home stuff you have. Do you have any other products
Speaker 1: from different companies? Do you have Alexa, do you have Amazon?
Speaker 8: Do you have oh yeah, everything in the house. So
Speaker 8: we have a Google Hub you know, we have Alexa
Speaker 8: devices all over the place. So you know, my other
Speaker 8: question I guess was on top of that is I
Speaker 8: guess the monthly fee, you know, because that was my
Speaker 8: biggest concern is that you know, you pay for the device,
Speaker 8: but then you have a monthly fee that you have
Speaker 8: to worry about, right, And.
Speaker 1: I think that's why it comes down to the ecosystem
Speaker 1: that you want to be in, because if you're on Ring,
Speaker 1: you're going to pay you know, the ten dollars or
Speaker 1: twenty dollars a month, depending on whether you have their
Speaker 1: alarm system, and that will include all of your various
Speaker 1: door bells and things like that. Wise obviously has their
Speaker 1: own conventions for how they do it, and Nest I
Speaker 1: think I pay like twelve bucks a month for that stuff.
Speaker 1: So I think you have to kind of pick an
Speaker 1: ecosystem and then go from there because once you start
Speaker 1: mixing and matching, it's very complicated. Things will change later on,
Speaker 1: but that's where we're at right now. Carlos, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for your question. You are listening to Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: My name is rich Demiro. We'll have more of your
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Speaker 1: just joining, you might be wondering what happened to Leo?
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Speaker 1: After nineteen years, Leo Laporte has retired from this radio show.
Speaker 1: And now you've got me. I am your guide through
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Speaker 1: is the beginning of something new, of something fun, something different.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you can tell, but I'm
Speaker 1: a pretty positive guy. I've got a pretty positive outlook
Speaker 1: on things. And that's just the way I roll, you know.
Speaker 1: I feel like we are all given this opportunity here
Speaker 1: to just enjoy, right. And if you go through and
Speaker 1: you're sitting there and you're seeing everything in a negative
Speaker 1: light and a critical light, I think critical is good.
Speaker 1: I think negative is not good. There's a difference between
Speaker 1: the two. It could be subtle sometimes, but it's there.
Speaker 1: And yes, I am very critical of a lot of things.
Speaker 1: And believe me, you should see me try to make
Speaker 1: a decision about something. It doesn't come fast. You know,
Speaker 1: my wife at the you know, anytime we have to
Speaker 1: do something, whether it's book a plane ticket or you know,
Speaker 1: just anything at a store, there's a lot of thought
Speaker 1: that goes into it. And there's a reason for that,
Speaker 1: because I am critical of the decisions I make and
Speaker 1: the things that I do and the stuff that I
Speaker 1: put in my life. And that's all for a reason, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, we get one chance to be here,
Speaker 1: and I want to make it as good as possible.
Speaker 1: And I hope that you joining me here today is
Speaker 1: part of that journey, part of that excitement, and part
Speaker 1: of that positivity. We're going to talk about tech. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what this show is all about.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: But you're not gonna hear me, you know, complain about
Speaker 1: a lot of things. I mean, now you'll probably hear
Speaker 1: me go off some sometimes about stuff. Believe me, if
Speaker 1: you've listened to my podcast, you know I get on
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Speaker 1: Channel five in Los Angeles. So if you see me
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Speaker 1: getting up early during the week and then here on
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Speaker 1: of fun to do it all because during the week
Speaker 1: I see so much stuff, you know, come through my desk,
Speaker 1: and it's like, now I get some time to really
Speaker 1: talk to you about it in depth. And TV is great,
Speaker 1: but it's quick. You know, you say that what did
Speaker 1: he just say? What was that? Hold on? That looks
Speaker 1: really cool? And now you've got think of this as
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Speaker 1: Rich can I ask you more about that?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: A couple of things happening this week that are interesting.
Speaker 1: Apple Fitness Plus this is a great way. If you
Speaker 1: haven't tested this or tried it out, give it a chance.
Speaker 1: It's the new year. I know everyone's joining a gym
Speaker 1: right now. But you know, this is something that you
Speaker 1: can do with your phone. With it, it used to
Speaker 1: require an Apple Watch, so if you haven't looked at
Speaker 1: it in a while, it no longer requires an Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: It used to that was like your your ticket in.
Speaker 1: You don't need that anymore. You just need an iPhone
Speaker 1: or I think an iPad as well. But Apple Fitness
Speaker 1: Plus is sort of Apple's online fitness clos and it
Speaker 1: of course has a high tech twist. It gives your
Speaker 1: you know, data from the Apple Watch if you have
Speaker 1: one of those. But it's really well done and I
Speaker 1: think this this got me through the pandemic. They launched
Speaker 1: it during the pandemic when you know, nobody could go
Speaker 1: to the gym. They didn't do that on purpose, It
Speaker 1: just timed out that way, and so I started doing
Speaker 1: it during the pandemic and it was fantastic. And you know,
Speaker 1: I did also the Peloton stuff. But I go back
Speaker 1: and forth between Apple Fitness. I think they're really good
Speaker 1: for their classes and I really like Peloton for the
Speaker 1: actual bike workouts and the running workouts. So you kind
Speaker 1: of can choose what you want. But anyway, Beginning January ninth,
Speaker 1: that's in a couple of days here, Apple Fitness Plus
Speaker 1: will introduce a new workout, kickboxing. I've never done that before,
Speaker 1: so you can try kickboxing now. You know, it can
Speaker 1: be intimidating to do one of these classes at a
Speaker 1: big gym, right. I remember the first time I went
Speaker 1: to like a spin class at the gym. It was
Speaker 1: so intimidating. I don't think I ever went again, because
Speaker 1: you know, how do you clip those shoes on? How
Speaker 1: do you do the bike? How do you adjust this stuff?
Speaker 1: Like you feel like, oh, everyone knows what they're doing
Speaker 1: and I don't, And so it could be really alienating
Speaker 1: at a gym to try new things and to even
Speaker 1: use a piece of equipment that you've never used before,
Speaker 1: because there's always someone else that's like, hey, can I
Speaker 1: get on there? I know what I'm doing, and you're
Speaker 1: looking around like, am I the only person that doesn't
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing in here? So this could be
Speaker 1: a good way to try kickboxing. So, starting January ninth,
Speaker 1: Fitness Plus is adding kickboxing as a new total body
Speaker 1: cardio workout type. You don't need any equipment. Workouts are ten,
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty minutes and that's What I love about
Speaker 1: Apple Fitness Plus is that you basically it's almost like
Speaker 1: a search engine for workouts, so you can narrow down
Speaker 1: and say, oh, I've got a pair of dumbells, I'll
Speaker 1: use those, or I want to do upper body, or
Speaker 1: I want to do lower body, or I want to
Speaker 1: do ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes. It's really fantastic,
Speaker 1: So check that out. My favorite are the strength training
Speaker 1: workouts on there, because you know, they teach you how
Speaker 1: to do the stuff that you're doing and it doesn't
Speaker 1: really require much equipment at all, maybe a couple of,
Speaker 1: you know, dumbbells. They also have this new sleep meditation,
Speaker 1: so I know, sleep is becoming like a thing, right.
Speaker 1: I mean it's always been a thing, but we're seeing
Speaker 1: more of an emphasis on the health benefits of good sleep.
Speaker 1: And I think some of that's partly due to the
Speaker 1: wearables that we're seeing, like the Aura ring and of
Speaker 1: course the Apple Watch and all the other wearables that
Speaker 1: measure your sleep, and so people are interested in how
Speaker 1: am I sleeping. Oh, I got a bad night's sleep
Speaker 1: last night because I went out all night and I
Speaker 1: went bed late, or I got a good night's sleep
Speaker 1: because I took care of myself before I went to
Speaker 1: bed and it was kind of nice to, you know,
Speaker 1: relax without my screen for an hour. So we're learning
Speaker 1: that sleep could be good for us. And so with
Speaker 1: that in mind, now there is a brand new sleep
Speaker 1: meditation theme, and so they've got nine other themes for meditation,
Speaker 1: including calm, gratitude, resilience, and creativity. But they're going to
Speaker 1: do new sleep meditations every week. So that's a good
Speaker 1: way I might try that. I, because I wake up
Speaker 1: so early on a daily basis, don't really have trouble
Speaker 1: sleeping when you're so exhausted at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: He just kind of collapse into bed. But you know,
Speaker 1: there there are days when you're like I could use
Speaker 1: like a disconnection from the world for a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes before I turned down. And finally, Apple Fitness Plus
Speaker 1: will have new episodes of Time to Walk. I really
Speaker 1: discounted Time to Walk when it came out. It came
Speaker 1: out during the pandemic, and I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: need to walk to someone talking to me, and it
Speaker 1: took me a while. I actually started trying it when
Speaker 1: they did Time to Run, and I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: running's kind of more my thing. I'm a big runner.
Speaker 1: I love running. Let me try running with one of
Speaker 1: these audio guided experiences, and I fell in love with it.
Speaker 1: It's such a great thing. If you haven't tried it,
Speaker 1: give it a chance. But walk is basically very similar.
Speaker 1: It's you know, you any you know, you go outside,
Speaker 1: you walk. You pop one of these things on and
Speaker 1: they're adding you know different. They're not always celebrities, but
Speaker 1: they're important people, notable people. And Jamie Lee Curtis is
Speaker 1: going to be new She's gonna kick off the fifth
Speaker 1: season of This Time to Walk And basically every week
Speaker 1: there's a different person that you can walk with and
Speaker 1: you kind of learn from them. They play music, they talk.
Speaker 1: It's really cool. I mean, if you like the person,
Speaker 1: it's like bonus points. Otherwise you learn. Jason Siegel made
Speaker 1: famous on How I Met Your Mother, He'll also be
Speaker 1: on there. Jose Andres, the Spanish Chef, he'll also be
Speaker 1: on there. Cheryl Lee Ralph, she stars in Abbott Elementary,
Speaker 1: a very popular show. She will be on there as well.
Speaker 1: So again, check it out. Apple Fitness Plus is not free,
Speaker 1: but you can often get a free trial if you
Speaker 1: have the Target app. They're like almost a Target and
Speaker 1: Best Buy are always offering like free trials for this,
Speaker 1: so check that out. Otherwise, it's ten bucks a month
Speaker 1: or eighty dollars a year for Apple Fitness Plus. All right,
Speaker 1: speaking of free tea, Mobile and Delta Airlines teaming up
Speaker 1: to give all passengers free in flight Wi Fi. Now
Speaker 1: I love this. I've watched Wi fi go from non
Speaker 1: existent on flights to very expensive on flights, too cheaper,
Speaker 1: like on my last United flight it was like eight
Speaker 1: bucks to now free. So Delta sky Miles members will
Speaker 1: get free WiFi. Oh there's the catch, you got to
Speaker 1: be a sky Miles member. Well, it's free to sign
Speaker 1: up and you could actually do it on the plane.
Speaker 1: So beginning February first, you will get free Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: There's no really no strings here. You'll get to connect
Speaker 1: your tablet, your phone, your laptop, whatever you need. And
Speaker 1: the best part is if you forget to sign up
Speaker 1: for sky Miles on the ground, you can actually sign
Speaker 1: up for free while you're on the plane. Now, this
Speaker 1: is sponsored by T Mobile. So do we know if
Speaker 1: this is something that's permanent or if it's something that's
Speaker 1: you know, you know, something that may expire after T
Speaker 1: Mobile says all right, we're done. But the reality is
Speaker 1: this is amazing. I used to think that the plane
Speaker 1: was like the last kind of quiet time where you
Speaker 1: can disconnect from the world because you didn't have Internet.
Speaker 1: But you know, as I get older and more war
Speaker 1: and it's just it's a time where maybe you just
Speaker 1: want to be connected and check your messages and do things.
Speaker 1: It's kind of nice to have that Wi Fi connection.
Speaker 1: So next time you're on a Delta flight, starting February,
Speaker 1: first free Wi Fi thanks to T Mobile, you don't
Speaker 1: have to be a T Mobile customer. And I think
Speaker 1: what's great about this is hopefully, hopefully it'll push more
Speaker 1: airlines to offer free Wi Fi. I know Jet Blue does,
Speaker 1: but among the major carriers now, Delta is the first
Speaker 1: to do that. All right, once again, my name is
Speaker 1: rich Dmiro. You are listening to rich on Tech. Coming up,
Speaker 1: we're going to take more of your calls at eight
Speaker 1: eight eight rich one oh one. Plus, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about LG's color changing refrigerator. Yes, a refrigerator door, four
Speaker 1: of them that change color. You're listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. I'm Rich Demiro and
Speaker 1: Angie is in Huntington Beach. Angie, You're on with Rich.
Speaker 1: Oh we lost Angie. Sorry, Angie, try to back you know,
Speaker 1: still learn how to use a phone. Here. Laala is
Speaker 1: in Orange Laala, You're on with Rich.
Speaker 9: I'm Rich.
Speaker 10: Good to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for having thanks for listening. I mean thanks
Speaker 1: for having me on. Usually I'm saying that to the
Speaker 1: other person having me on their radio show. Now now
Speaker 1: I'm the one having you on the radio show. So
Speaker 1: how's it going today?
Speaker 10: Hey, you have helped me so much through Instagram. I
Speaker 10: just wanted to thank you for always answering my stupid questions.
Speaker 1: There are no stupid questions there there. Let's just make
Speaker 1: that clear. There are no stupid questions. I believe me. Now,
Speaker 1: I may give stupid answers, but there are no stupid questions.
Speaker 1: In fact, like I said earlier in the show, I
Speaker 1: get some of my best story ideas and feedback from
Speaker 1: Instagram because I've got so many folks on there that
Speaker 1: are like texting me. I call it texting. I know
Speaker 1: it's DM, but yeah, it tells me like what you're
Speaker 1: thinking about, you know what I mean? Like I may
Speaker 1: that may not be something in my life, but you
Speaker 1: may have something in life and I'm like, oh, that's interesting,
Speaker 1: and I get some of my best tips my reels.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm at rich on tech. If you're
Speaker 1: not following me, I think it's kind of fun. Like
Speaker 1: I really put a lot of myself on Instagram, So
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of what you're talking about is just
Speaker 1: you know, it's a It's a wide range of stuff
Speaker 1: from junk food that I eat to you know, tech stuff.
Speaker 1: So what's on your mind today.
Speaker 10: One of the reasons why I always follow you is
Speaker 10: because you really keep it real.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you.
Speaker 10: Well that's I mean, so congratulations on this show. I
Speaker 10: can't think of a better person to try and fill
Speaker 10: Leo's shoes, so put you the best in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I'm excited for twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a new start. I mean I've been
Speaker 1: doing TV for I don't want to say how many years,
Speaker 1: but a lot. I mean, when do you get to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, midway through your career, start something completely new
Speaker 1: and different And TV's not going away. By the way,
Speaker 1: people have been asking me, like, wait, are you are
Speaker 1: you getting off of you know, KT light?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, like that's the plan is to do both,
Speaker 1: like I'm not trying to, you know, do one or
Speaker 1: the other. Like it's I think the beauty is to
Speaker 1: do both because it's so fun to have both things happening.
Speaker 10: So well, good for you, Good for you, congratulations cool.
Speaker 1: Is there something I can help you with today or
Speaker 1: do you just want to get there?
Speaker 9: Okay, there is there is.
Speaker 10: I like to keep my personal living address as private
Speaker 10: as possible.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so.
Speaker 10: For example, the company I work for, I give them
Speaker 10: a PO box.
Speaker 1: Yep, Okay, they're like, now, what what's Lala doing that
Speaker 1: she needs to give us a PO box?
Speaker 9: Yeah exactly, exactly.
Speaker 10: Well, you know everyone has a good human resources company
Speaker 10: that keeps everything confidential, right, yeah hopefully, so you know
Speaker 10: how that goes. And there is a situation I was
Speaker 10: in several years ago that someone got my home address
Speaker 10: and it was not fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I get it, I believe me. I privacy
Speaker 1: is a huge important tenant of life, and it's it's
Speaker 1: eroding with the internet. So so correct, what do you
Speaker 1: want to do? You want the PO box?
Speaker 10: And what I understand that if someone really wanted to
Speaker 10: find out my mailing address. They really could because everything.
Speaker 9: Is out there.
Speaker 10: I understand that. But the USPS is now raising once
Speaker 10: again for the second year in a row, the price.
Speaker 9: Of PO boxes.
Speaker 10: The very very smallest PO box, I pay them forty
Speaker 10: two dollars for a month.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 10: So I'm wondering what you know about I postal one
Speaker 10: which is a virtual PO box, okay, or anything that
Speaker 10: I can do well?
Speaker 1: And how much are they charging.
Speaker 10: Nine a month for thirty pieces of items or less?
Speaker 10: And you could they scan them in for you?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 10: You could go down to the address and actually pick
Speaker 10: them up.
Speaker 1: Yep if you need to, yep. And okay. So looking
Speaker 1: this one up, it says over twenty five hundred locations worldwide.
Speaker 1: Is there a location near you that you can pick
Speaker 1: up your physical stuff from?
Speaker 9: There is actually in a staple?
Speaker 1: Oh oh interesting. Oh that's smart that they kind of
Speaker 1: partnered with them. I think it's a great idea. I
Speaker 1: think that it's smart. And I actually watched an entire
Speaker 1: there's a series about a startup that was doing this,
Speaker 1: and you know, this was a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: But you know, the big thing is it's tricky, and
Speaker 1: you want to make sure that that address lasts for
Speaker 1: a while because it's kind of a pain to switch
Speaker 1: your address very often and you don't want to have
Speaker 1: to do that. So the way that these work typically
Speaker 1: is that you know, you sign up for one of
Speaker 1: these virtual mailbox services, They get your mail, they scan
Speaker 1: your mail in so you can see if it's important
Speaker 1: and if their system is good, you know, you can
Speaker 1: just trash mail virtually, like right from your app or
Speaker 1: your desktop and say, okay, you can throw that out.
Speaker 1: You can throw that out. Oh, that one I actually
Speaker 1: need to go grab from the box, and then of
Speaker 1: course you may be able to get packages there depending
Speaker 1: on your plan. I think it's great. I think it's
Speaker 1: something that you should do if you trust the company.
Speaker 1: The fact that this ipostal one has twenty five hundred
Speaker 1: locations is a good sign because the main thing is
Speaker 1: that you just want this to be around for a while,
Speaker 1: and they're saying that the according to their website, the
Speaker 1: number one digital mailbox service worldwide. Now, the downside is
Speaker 1: you just need to know what this plan includes, so
Speaker 1: it may not include certain things, you know, and that's
Speaker 1: that's what kind of you have to look at for
Speaker 1: that nine to ninety nine a month, like, what do
Speaker 1: they give you? You know, do you get packages there? Can
Speaker 1: you get mail there? I'm looking at this maximum names
Speaker 1: per address one personal name. You know, receive first class
Speaker 1: mail in packages, So it looks like you can get
Speaker 1: all this stuff. Now I'm looking here. It says free
Speaker 1: storage is thirty days and that's for mail, and then
Speaker 1: free storage for boxes ten days and that depends on
Speaker 1: the side to the box, and then five days for
Speaker 1: really big boxes. And of course you can probably pay
Speaker 1: more for them to forward you this mail if you
Speaker 1: don't want to go in, So this is probably good
Speaker 1: of also for someone who has like an RV or
Speaker 1: travels a lot. I've had a Peo box pretty much
Speaker 1: my entire life because I find it to be very
Speaker 1: convenient and it's simple and you can give out that
Speaker 1: address without worrying. When I publish my book there, you know,
Speaker 1: people could come and they could pick up the book
Speaker 1: if I signed it, they could just go there and
Speaker 1: grab it. So there's many, many benefits to having a
Speaker 1: Peo box. I think virtual is a next logical step,
Speaker 1: and what you're really paying for is that service that
Speaker 1: allows them to scan your documents, and let's be honest,
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the mail we get physical mail
Speaker 1: you don't really need, you know, it goes right into
Speaker 1: the trash. And so they're banking on the fact that
Speaker 1: most of the mail they don't have to store. They
Speaker 1: just scan it. It goes in and you can look
Speaker 1: it out on your app and sort of flick it
Speaker 1: left or right, kind of like a Tinder for mail.
Speaker 1: Do I need this? Yes? Do I not need that?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 1: So great question, la la. I say, go for it
Speaker 1: and let me know how it goes, and maybe I'm
Speaker 1: going to look into this. This is kind of a
Speaker 1: good idea. So cool. Thanks so much for listening. This
Speaker 1: is rich on Tech coming up more of your calls
Speaker 1: at triple eight rich one oh one. Plus we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about LG's color changing refrigerator. LG's color changing
Speaker 1: refrigerator coming up on rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here,
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. You're listening to the show where we
Speaker 1: talk about tech stuff and answer your tech questions. Phone
Speaker 1: lines are open triple eight rich one oh one, eight
Speaker 1: eight eight rich one oh one. My name is Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro and uh just got back from CS twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three in Las Vegas, and so much to see there.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just no way one human being can
Speaker 1: see it all. And I was there for a week
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, and uh, you know, I try my best,
Speaker 1: but there is just I mean, I think over three
Speaker 1: thousand exhibitors this year, not to mention the crowds. Not
Speaker 1: to mention, it's spread all of cross Las Vegas. It's
Speaker 1: not just in one place. You know, it's in the
Speaker 1: convention Center. There's also the new part of the convention
Speaker 1: Center that is like a ten minute walk from the
Speaker 1: old convention center. And then you've got the hotels and
Speaker 1: the hotel rooms and the suites, and then you've got
Speaker 1: the ballrooms. I mean there's a lot. I think one
Speaker 1: day I did what I do, twenty thousand steps in
Speaker 1: one day. That's I think that's a lot. Anyway, don't
Speaker 1: worry about me. I thought it was fun to walk
Speaker 1: all these things. But one thing I saw that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. LG new refrigerator called the mood Up and
Speaker 1: this is just you know, it's look, I don't expect
Speaker 1: you to buy this refrigerator tomorrow. But what I love
Speaker 1: about stuff like this is it just shows that this
Speaker 1: is what's going to happen in the future, Like why
Speaker 1: choose the color of your refrigerator when you don't have
Speaker 1: to when you can change it? And so the mood
Speaker 1: up has four panels on it, and each one of
Speaker 1: these panels is an LED screen, so it's not like
Speaker 1: a computer screen per se, but it's an LED panel
Speaker 1: that lets you change the color. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a matte finish on the panel. If you don't
Speaker 1: want it to be a wild and wacky color, then
Speaker 1: it can just kind of blend in as a standard
Speaker 1: refrigerator color, whatever that may be for you and your kitchen.
Speaker 1: But if you want to have some fun, you can
Speaker 1: choose from twenty two colors for the upper refrigerator and
Speaker 1: nineteen for the lower. I don't know why the differential there,
Speaker 1: Like why can you only do twenty two on the
Speaker 1: top and nineteen on the bottom. I'm not sure, but
Speaker 1: the top is the refrigerator and the lower is the freezer.
Speaker 1: You can also have themes season Place healing and pop Healing.
Speaker 1: Elicits a feeling of well being through the use of
Speaker 1: soft soothing colors, creating a calming mindfulness space mindfulness that's
Speaker 1: a word we've heard a lot about. I thought this
Speaker 1: was pretty neat. It's just neat to be able to
Speaker 1: change the color. You can have some fun. Obviously, it
Speaker 1: can do different things. There's also built in Bluetooth, so
Speaker 1: you can connect this to a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop,
Speaker 1: or a PC and listen to music from your favorite
Speaker 1: streaming apps, so if you want to, you know, if
Speaker 1: you don't have like a dedicated speaker in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: You know, people gather in the kitchen when you have
Speaker 1: a get together. No matter where you put the your doors,
Speaker 1: people always seem to come back to the kitchen and
Speaker 1: stay there. I don't know why. It's just the way
Speaker 1: it is. It's just the place. It's the one place
Speaker 1: in the house that was never intended for people to
Speaker 1: hang out in. And yet every single time you have
Speaker 1: people over, where do you hang out in the kitchen?
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's just the way it is. I
Speaker 1: don't mind it. You can stream music. Let's see what
Speaker 1: else can you do? You can have notifications from your door,
Speaker 1: so if you leave the door open. You know, you've
Speaker 1: ever like left your refrigerator door open just slightly, and
Speaker 1: it's you know, emitting all that cold air into your house. Well,
Speaker 1: now the refrigerator door can blink to let you know, hey,
Speaker 1: this is not fully closed. My mom always said that
Speaker 1: it costs a nickel every time you open the refrigerator door.
Speaker 1: And so I do not keep the refrigerator door open
Speaker 1: for very long. You know, I'm not one of those
Speaker 1: people that just linger and looks like no, no, I
Speaker 1: go into the fridge. I open that door with purpose.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what I'm getting, I know where to
Speaker 1: look for it, and it's closed within seconds. Because you know,
Speaker 1: that's the way I grew up. He didn't leave the
Speaker 1: refrigerator door opened very long. It also has motion sensor,
Speaker 1: so it knows when someone walks into the kitchen, so
Speaker 1: it can blink kind of like a little welcoming blinking
Speaker 1: light when you walk into the kitchen, saying like oh, hey, fridge,
Speaker 1: I know you're here. I see you. From midnight snackers,
Speaker 1: the freezer door can illuminate brighter at night time to
Speaker 1: help you guide your way to the fridge. Does anyone
Speaker 1: really midnight snack? This is like something that's just sort
Speaker 1: of overplayed in like you know, stories and TV shows.
Speaker 1: No one actually midnight snacks do they. I can think
Speaker 1: of like zero times in my life when I got
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night and got a
Speaker 1: midnight snack. If you challenge me on that, gimme a call.
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one. I've gotten up in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night and I've watched like an
Speaker 1: episode of a TV show, like if I can't sleep,
Speaker 1: and I told you, most of the time this doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: but if it does, I will get up. And I'm
Speaker 1: the kind of person that will just sit in front
Speaker 1: of the TV and watch an episode of Seinfeld or
Speaker 1: something like. I'm like, I'm using my time, and then
Speaker 1: you know, I'll fall asleep after that. But I'm not
Speaker 1: going to just sit there and like toss and turn
Speaker 1: forever and again. Once the refrigerator is you know, if
Speaker 1: you don't want the color, you can just do Lux
Speaker 1: gray or Lucks white, pricing all that stuff. Not really
Speaker 1: sure on this new mood up TV from LG, but
Speaker 1: kind of cool. I'm digging it. I think that some
Speaker 1: of the stuff we see coming out is it seems
Speaker 1: like it could be hokey, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: why not. I think that it'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 1: To be able to color change my fridge, especially if
Speaker 1: you have people over them. We all have those color
Speaker 1: changing lights, or a lot of us do. So why
Speaker 1: not Mark is in Houston. Mark, you're on with Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. What's up? Mark? You're on?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Hey, Rich congratulations on your new show.
Speaker 1: Hey, thanks, I appreciate it. What's going on?
Speaker 3: Missed?
Speaker 11: But I think it's pick the right guy for the
Speaker 11: to take over.
Speaker 1: Oh, I appreciate those words.
Speaker 11: Yes, considering a new phone, and I might even switch plans.
Speaker 11: And I know T Mobile. I know I'm jumping the
Speaker 11: gun a little early in the game. It may not
Speaker 11: happen for about a year, but I know T Mobile's
Speaker 11: teaming up with Starlink, and I'm just curious what that's
Speaker 11: going to do for their service. Are you going to
Speaker 11: get much better service than other network?
Speaker 1: Good question? So, yeah, the idea is that T Mobile
Speaker 1: announced this with Starlink, I don't know, a couple months ago.
Speaker 1: And you know, the idea is that Starlink has this
Speaker 1: nice network that's built out with satellites, actually an Elon
Speaker 1: Musk venture, and you know you're gonna get better. I
Speaker 1: think they said it was just messaging on the phone
Speaker 1: at this point, and here's the deal. Like, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put much stock into this right now because there's not
Speaker 1: much that they announced that you can do with it.
Speaker 1: You know, you may have extra signal in certain places,
Speaker 1: you know, and obviously this starlink covers like everything, but
Speaker 1: the reality is, you know, I think with the iPhone
Speaker 1: adding satellite capability to their phone, for most people in
Speaker 1: most situations, that's probably going to be enough. I think
Speaker 1: that starlink with T Mobile once they get this up
Speaker 1: and running, which by the way, is going to take
Speaker 1: a while. And also we may not see support from
Speaker 1: every phone. Did they announce that they're going to have
Speaker 1: every phone compatible with this, because it probably will require
Speaker 1: a different antenna, I don't know. With this technology, T
Speaker 1: Mobile planning to give customers text coverage practically everywhere in
Speaker 1: the continental US, Hawaii and parts of Alaska, Puerto Rico,
Speaker 1: and waters even outside of T Mobile signal. So you know, again,
Speaker 1: it would be just messaging which is already available through
Speaker 1: the iPhone on the iPhone fourteen with satellite right now,
Speaker 1: to anyone has an iPhone fourteen, this is not even
Speaker 1: available yet, and it's planned and it's text messaging, which
Speaker 1: is great, which Apple is just giving you emergency messaging,
Speaker 1: so that's another differentiator here. But eventually T Mobile and
Speaker 1: Starlink will give voice and data coverage. But that's eventually,
Speaker 1: that's like beyond beyond, So this is early thing. I
Speaker 1: think that they wanted to build some buzz for this
Speaker 1: new feature, and I think it's cool, and I think
Speaker 1: it just again goes to show what's coming, but it's
Speaker 1: not here. And I don't think that you choose your
Speaker 1: carrier based on this. I think that if you want
Speaker 1: the satellite technology for peace of mind right now, I
Speaker 1: think the iPhone is the only game in town, and
Speaker 1: the iPhone fourteen models specifically with the satellite over SOS,
Speaker 1: and it's slow, and that's probably the way this one's
Speaker 1: going to be. It's a slow process to connect, it's
Speaker 1: a slow process to send messages. But the idea and
Speaker 1: the reality is that it's already saved lives, it will
Speaker 1: continue to save lives, and we will have connectivity at
Speaker 1: this point. If you have an iPhone fourteen, you're pretty
Speaker 1: much never disconnected from help anywhere you are in the US,
Speaker 1: and that's the idea here with T Mobile as well
Speaker 1: in the US and other places that you'll be able
Speaker 1: to not only get help but also text people as well.
Speaker 1: But it's a long ways off, and I think it's
Speaker 1: a little confusing because people might think they have this
Speaker 1: already or we're on the cusp of it. But with
Speaker 1: Team Mobile, they didn't really say what the timeline is
Speaker 1: on this, so it's going to be a bit and
Speaker 1: I think that you choose the carrier. I always give
Speaker 1: people the advice choose the carrier that works best where
Speaker 1: you live and where you work. Talk to some folks
Speaker 1: and see where those two things are, and that's the
Speaker 1: best carrier for you right now. If you're upgrading your phone,
Speaker 1: good question. Thanks for calling in, Mark from Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1: Rich tamiro here with you on a rich on Tech Saturday.
Speaker 1: We'll have more of your calls. Plus we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the gadget that helps you talk to your pet. Coming up.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech Omrich damiro answering your
Speaker 1: tech questions and talking about important topics happening in the
Speaker 1: tech world. Let's go to Angie in Huntington Beach. Angie,
Speaker 1: I think we got disconnected your back.
Speaker 9: Hey, Rick, thank you so much. I think I timed
Speaker 9: out on my weight. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Anyway it happens.
Speaker 9: I'm really happy to be talking to you, and I
Speaker 9: listen to you every morning on KTLA or I try
Speaker 9: to anyway every time you're there.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 9: I appreciate everything you've been doing. I'm so happy you've
Speaker 9: got this program going. Me too. So I am at
Speaker 9: the age where I had to get my very first
Speaker 9: hearing made okay, and it's it's really miniaturized, and I'm
Speaker 9: fased with a situation where I have to it goes
Speaker 9: over my ear, and then I have glasses to go
Speaker 9: over my ear, and then sometimes I have to wear
Speaker 9: masks that go over my ear. And guess what happens
Speaker 9: to the hearing.
Speaker 1: Yep, I can already predict. The mask of course messes
Speaker 1: with the hearing aid. It falls off, You lose.
Speaker 9: It exactly, and it's very expensive. And guess what. They
Speaker 9: don't have any kind of a tracking mechanism. And I
Speaker 9: was just wondering if that's just one of most companies.
Speaker 9: Hearing aid companies don't have a tracking mechanism.
Speaker 1: Are these over the counter hearing aids?
Speaker 9: No? No, this is from a doctor.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, these.
Speaker 9: Are the real expensive one.
Speaker 1: Mm interesting and are they Bluetooth or they just standard
Speaker 1: like they're not they don't have that, are they? What
Speaker 1: do they work with your iPhone?
Speaker 9: Yeah? I have an app that connects with it. I
Speaker 9: have an Android.
Speaker 1: Okay. Interesting. So I mean some you know, some of
Speaker 1: the newer hearing aids they have, you know, connections to
Speaker 1: the iPhone or Android. You may investigate in there for
Speaker 1: a way to you know, and did you look in
Speaker 1: there and it didn't didn't say anything.
Speaker 9: I did, and there wasn't any way for it to find
Speaker 9: my hearing aid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's frustrating. So it just may be that you
Speaker 1: don't have that capability in this hearing aid. It could
Speaker 1: be something they add with software. I mean, if it's
Speaker 1: connecting to your iPhone, that means there is some technology
Speaker 1: that could potentially allow it to be you know, for
Speaker 1: the phone to know like, oh wait, we lost the
Speaker 1: connection to this device, it's gone missing and alert you.
Speaker 1: So that's a possibility, but it sounds like it's not
Speaker 1: there right now. When it comes to like adding a
Speaker 1: third party sort of like tracking device to this, I
Speaker 1: don't see that being a possibility. The tracking devices are small,
Speaker 1: but they're not that small, and there's no way that
Speaker 1: you would be able to put something like an air
Speaker 1: tag on this or any sort of you know, even tile.
Speaker 1: They're just not small enough to work with this. Now
Speaker 1: on the flip side, the trend we're seeing is that
Speaker 1: more and more companies are building what's called fine My,
Speaker 1: which is Apple's branded location you know, tracking into devices.
Speaker 1: And so it could be that, you know, it could
Speaker 1: be as simple as a software update, or it could
Speaker 1: be simple, or it could be you know, a future
Speaker 1: pair that you get. But you said, these are very expensive,
Speaker 1: so I don't imagine you're wanting to get a different
Speaker 1: style or pair anytime soon, right, you know, it might.
Speaker 9: Be possible for me to get a new phone that
Speaker 9: might have.
Speaker 1: Have you talked to your provider about whether these may
Speaker 1: work better? Because there is something there is something specific
Speaker 1: to iPhone that's called like made for for iPhone hearing
Speaker 1: aids and that may have more of what you want
Speaker 1: in there. So have you talked to your provider about
Speaker 1: this functionality and whether they have it?
Speaker 9: I think I no, I haven't, and I'm going to
Speaker 9: do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I would do, and just seeing they
Speaker 1: may say oh, well, we just assumed you had an
Speaker 1: iPhone and you were using that feature. Because if you said,
Speaker 1: you know, if these things are expensive and they you know,
Speaker 1: they're new and modern, they may very well have this
Speaker 1: feature built in that you're just not able to tap into.
Speaker 1: Sometimes Android and iPhone, the apps and the functionality with
Speaker 1: different devices could be very different depending on how that
Speaker 1: company codes what you're able to do there. So I
Speaker 1: would check there, what are you going to do in
Speaker 1: the meantime, I mean, how have you actually like lost
Speaker 1: these where you've gone like, oh no, where is this?
Speaker 1: Or has it just been like you've noticed that they've
Speaker 1: fallen off?
Speaker 9: Well, one time I found them. One time another person
Speaker 9: found them.
Speaker 1: Oh no, so it was lucky.
Speaker 9: Out and I have insurance to replace them one time.
Speaker 1: Right, But and I'm going.
Speaker 9: To talk to my audiologists, because my audiologists really should
Speaker 9: know about these things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. I think you start there and talk
Speaker 1: with them and if they say, hey, look, you know
Speaker 1: this is something that may we've seen it, you know,
Speaker 1: on only one model, or it's you know, definitely a
Speaker 1: trend we're seeing with more and more models. But see
Speaker 1: what they say, and they may have a solution. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to anything that you can do differently,
Speaker 1: there's not really much. I mean, it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure if you just got these for the
Speaker 1: first time, you're probably getting used to them, and that's
Speaker 1: probably contributing to, you know, whether you feel them on
Speaker 1: your ears or not. And so I think that that's
Speaker 1: all probably part of why you've lost them a couple
Speaker 1: of times. It's like anything else, you know, you're still
Speaker 1: getting into the into it, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And so it may be a while before you say, oh,
Speaker 1: I just hold on, I took off my mask and
Speaker 1: these things. Where did they go?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: Are they helping?
Speaker 10: Though?
Speaker 1: That's the important part, is it? Are they helping?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it makes a difference.
Speaker 1: Good. That's good to hear. Well, Angie, thanks for calling
Speaker 1: on this very first show.
Speaker 9: I appreciate it well and thank you for letting me
Speaker 9: call back.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks a lot. I don't know what happened,
Speaker 1: but it might have been me, it might have been you,
Speaker 1: but we'll just say it was me, okay, But.
Speaker 9: We talked and I'm happy about it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll see on TV. Thanks a lot, See bye,
Speaker 1: all right. Interesting question. Yeah, I mean that's that's the
Speaker 1: beauty of this show is that we can get questions
Speaker 1: in a wide range of topics, and I find it fascinating.
Speaker 1: The hearing aids, especially the over the counter is really
Speaker 1: I mean, the FDA just approved over the counter hearing aids,
Speaker 1: and so we're going to see a lot more tech
Speaker 1: involved in hearing aids and a lot more innovation when
Speaker 1: it comes to hearing aids because of that. You know,
Speaker 1: this is this is an industry that used to be
Speaker 1: controlled by just a few players, and now that pretty
Speaker 1: much they've opened it up to many, many different companies
Speaker 1: able to offer these things immediately over the counter without
Speaker 1: a prescription. You know it's going to change things.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you go out tomorrow and buy these
Speaker 1: over the counter. I think there are some things you
Speaker 1: should talk to an audiologist about before you put something
Speaker 1: in your ears full time or use these, because you
Speaker 1: know it's still your ears and it's still a part
Speaker 1: of your body. That's very important, and so I would
Speaker 1: still consult with a pro before I did something like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: something fun I saw at CES this. If you're a
Speaker 1: pet lover, you're gonna like this story. This is a
Speaker 1: device called Fluent Pets. Okay, and I saw this in person,
Speaker 1: and you know, look, we all want our pets to
Speaker 1: talk with us. We talked to pets, do they always
Speaker 1: talk back? Not necessarily. I mean, we can communicate with
Speaker 1: them in our own way. But this Fluent pet, it's
Speaker 1: called fluent Pet connect, allows you to let your pet
Speaker 1: talk to you. And here's how it works. So it's
Speaker 1: a bunch of these recordable sound buttons and you place
Speaker 1: them on sort of this board of interlocking tiles. They
Speaker 1: look like a rubber matt almost, and you program this
Speaker 1: button to say something in your voice, so you can
Speaker 1: say something like water or bone. And then guess what
Speaker 1: you see where this is going. When your pet wants
Speaker 1: water or a bone, what do they do? They press
Speaker 1: this button. So you teach them to press this button
Speaker 1: that then sounds your voice when they want something. And
Speaker 1: I watched this dog do this when the trainer showed
Speaker 1: the dog two different toys. One was a ball, one
Speaker 1: was one of those like sort of you know, cloth bones.
Speaker 1: The dog pressed the right button and it took a
Speaker 1: little bit for the dog to do it, but it
Speaker 1: did it. Now that's a visual thing, but eventually, I
Speaker 1: think you know, if your dog already goes like to
Speaker 1: the door when they want to go to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: it's not a big leap to think that you can
Speaker 1: do this. The system is one hundred and sixty dollars,
Speaker 1: the tiles are seventy. It's going to be available in
Speaker 1: February twenty twenty three. Again, it's called Fluent Pet Connect.
Speaker 1: If you want your pet to talk to you, well,
Speaker 1: look at it. That's going to do it. For this
Speaker 1: hour of the show, Hour number two of the brand
Speaker 1: new rich On Tech Show is in the books. Next hour,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to an expert about what you
Speaker 1: need to do now that last pass has been hacked.
Speaker 1: More of your calls and more tech coming up. Welcome back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to rich on Tech. I'm Rich Demiro, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun on my Instagram, especially, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not always tech. You know, like yesterday I posted
Speaker 1: birthday cake kitkats. Have you ever seen those? I never did,
Speaker 1: and I was tempted. I didn't buy them, but I
Speaker 1: was very tempted. I'm a sucker sometimes for all these
Speaker 1: like you know, anything like funfetti flavor. Let's be honest,
Speaker 1: you know, I think Funfetti is a you know, they're
Speaker 1: wondering how pumpkin spice became so big, right, They're like, Ah,
Speaker 1: we have this flavor that's really good, but why did
Speaker 1: pumpkin spice become so popular? I think Funfetti has the
Speaker 1: ability to do that same thing.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: I just got back from CEES and this is like,
Speaker 1: you know, the biggest tech show in the world. You've
Speaker 1: got techy people there, and so I figured, you know,
Speaker 1: historically it's a place where you exchange a lot of
Speaker 1: business cards, right, And I'm a tech guy, So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't have a physical business card, Like come on,
Speaker 1: I do, and I've had the same ones for many years,
Speaker 1: and I'm always like hesitant to give them out because
Speaker 1: I'm like, shouldn't we be doing something smarter, better and
Speaker 1: more efficient than a piece of paper that we cut
Speaker 1: and print with stuff? And so before CES, the night before,
Speaker 1: I tested three different digital business card apps, cause I
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I'm going to try to
Speaker 1: use a digital business card and I'll just cut to
Speaker 1: the chase here. I'll just tell you no one likes
Speaker 1: digital business cards. It's just a fact of life. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why this is what I realized in
Speaker 1: trying to share my digital business cards so many times,
Speaker 1: is that when you're sharing a card with someone, it
Speaker 1: is a quick thing where basically you say, oh, and
Speaker 1: here's my card, give me a call, get in touch,
Speaker 1: let's hang out, let's do business whatever, and they take
Speaker 1: it and they put it in pocket and they forget
Speaker 1: about it until they get home they empty their pocket
Speaker 1: and say, oh, yeah, I need to call Rich. Let
Speaker 1: me put his number in my phone, or let me
Speaker 1: email him, or let me look him up. Whatever it is.
Speaker 1: With a digital business card, people need to take action immediately,
Speaker 1: and that is what breaks this whole business business card
Speaker 1: continuum because nobody wants to do something in that moment
Speaker 1: because the next person is walking up to them, or they're,
Speaker 1: you know, doing something next on their calendar, or they're
Speaker 1: going to their next meeting. They don't have time to
Speaker 1: deal with your contact information at that very moment. So
Speaker 1: I tested three of these things. The first is called
Speaker 1: Popple popl and the way that a lot of these
Speaker 1: does keep messing up on that digital business cards work
Speaker 1: is that you can scan a QR code and then
Speaker 1: I'll bring up your information. You can text someone your
Speaker 1: digital information. Usually it's a link to your digital business card.
Speaker 1: You can email them your business card. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of ways to share, and most of these apps support
Speaker 1: all the different ways. So, for instance, Popple actually the
Speaker 1: way that they started and it's popl This was a
Speaker 1: physical device like a little sticker that you could put
Speaker 1: on the back of your iPhone. You could tap that
Speaker 1: to another iPhone or any NFC enabled phone and it
Speaker 1: would trigger your information to pop up on their phone.
Speaker 1: And so it was pretty cool. But now people have
Speaker 1: gotten very used to QR codes. We don't really need
Speaker 1: to tap anymore. You can just you know, scan someone
Speaker 1: else's QR code, and so that's the primary method of
Speaker 1: sharing is a QR code. So you can put it
Speaker 1: in your Apple wallet, you can put it in your
Speaker 1: Google wallet, and then someone you know, you just pull
Speaker 1: up your QR code, someone scans it and now they
Speaker 1: have your information on their phone. But here's a thing.
Speaker 1: It typically just brings up a website, and on that
Speaker 1: website they have to do something, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: download your information or follow you on Twitter or Instagram.
Speaker 1: So unless they're ready to do that at that very
Speaker 1: exact moment, it could be tricky, so Popolite says, probably
Speaker 1: the slickest out of all of these. It's probably the
Speaker 1: most like, you know, kind of the youngest, freshest looking
Speaker 1: app out of all of them. And many of these apps,
Speaker 1: by the way, have a customizable web page that's kind
Speaker 1: of your business card. But also it has like lead capture,
Speaker 1: so if you're like a salesperson that's constantly meeting new people,
Speaker 1: or anyone that's meeting new people and you want to
Speaker 1: remember how you met them, you can also capture their
Speaker 1: information so when they add their your card to their phone,
Speaker 1: you know, the card will prompt them and say, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to send back your information a rich
Speaker 1: So poppol looks pretty slick, it works really well. It's
Speaker 1: probably one of my top picks for sure. And they
Speaker 1: just added this feature where you can have a QR
Speaker 1: code that works without Internet, so when the person scans that,
Speaker 1: they don't need Internet on their phone, or you don't
Speaker 1: need internet on your phone to make that work, which
Speaker 1: is kind of cool. That's a brand new feature. I
Speaker 1: haven't tested it, but that came into play because a
Speaker 1: lot of the people I was talking to and trying
Speaker 1: to give my card to were international, and so they
Speaker 1: have either their you know, cellular data turned off, or
Speaker 1: they hadn't connected to the Wi Fi or whatever. It
Speaker 1: was just a little bit complicated. So that's another consideration,
Speaker 1: all right. The next app that I tested is called
Speaker 1: Hi Hello, and this app what I like is that
Speaker 1: the card, like the digital business card that it gives you,
Speaker 1: is really slick looking. It looks really nice, and so
Speaker 1: it's got this cool format. You can, you know, change
Speaker 1: how it looks. It's got all your information right on
Speaker 1: one page. So what someone could do when they see
Speaker 1: this is they could screenshot your information if they pull
Speaker 1: that up. So some of them, like poppol will just
Speaker 1: show like a Twitter icon or an Instagram icon, and
Speaker 1: so you can't really like screenshot that. If you just
Speaker 1: want to do this in a hurry, but with high Hello,
Speaker 1: you could just screenshot the whatever the business card that
Speaker 1: pops up and boom, Now you can add it to
Speaker 1: your phone later on when you have time. And again
Speaker 1: it all comes back to what I noticed. Every single
Speaker 1: person I was trying to share this with, none of
Speaker 1: them wanted to deal with my contact info at that
Speaker 1: very moment because they had better things to do with
Speaker 1: their lives. And so that's that. My big takeaway is like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, that's interesting. But like Poppel, this allows you
Speaker 1: to share via QR code, email text. This actually can
Speaker 1: write to an NFC device. If you have an NFC
Speaker 1: device that you want to write it to, you can
Speaker 1: add it to Apple Wallet and I like the look
Speaker 1: of it. And again it keeps track of the people
Speaker 1: that you send your stuff to so that you can
Speaker 1: follow up with them as well. Okay, the final one
Speaker 1: that I tested is called link l n Q, and
Speaker 1: this I would say is probably like the most business
Speaker 1: y out of all of these different apps, and so
Speaker 1: link li in q I actually like it the best
Speaker 1: for a certain reason. And the reason and this is
Speaker 1: what I've decided. The reason is that you can send
Speaker 1: your information as a text to someone. And what it
Speaker 1: does is it will send that text with a link
Speaker 1: to your business card, but also your business card embedded
Speaker 1: in that text, so your VCF card if you've ever
Speaker 1: gotten a text where it's like, you know, basically a
Speaker 1: contact card, and you can download that right to your phone.
Speaker 1: So what I like about this is that when I
Speaker 1: text someone my information, they have the option to not
Speaker 1: have to deal with it at that moment because my
Speaker 1: contact card is in their text now. So later on
Speaker 1: when they're you know, at the end of the night
Speaker 1: or whatever, when they're going through all their different texts,
Speaker 1: they can say, oh, yeah, Rich DeMuro shared his information.
Speaker 1: Here it is and I can download that. They can
Speaker 1: download that card right to their phone when they have
Speaker 1: the time to do it, as opposed to having to
Speaker 1: deal with it right then and there. The downside to
Speaker 1: that setup is that this link comes from a link
Speaker 1: phone number. So the implication for most people or you know,
Speaker 1: what most people might do is just reply back to
Speaker 1: that text it does say this came from rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: like it'll it kind of like nudges them to make
Speaker 1: them realize that it's not my text number. But that's
Speaker 1: the only downside is you have to pay extra if
Speaker 1: you want it to come from your text number, so
Speaker 1: which I'm not ready to pay for any of these
Speaker 1: apps just now, but that's that's kind of where it is.
Speaker 1: So anyway, poppol high Hello and Link l A n Q.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is I'm probably going back to
Speaker 1: a regular business card because it just seems to be
Speaker 1: the easiest. That's what I prefer, and it seems like
Speaker 1: a lot of people prefer that as well. All right,
Speaker 1: let me just do one quick story before we get
Speaker 1: to calls in a moment here after the break But Ring,
Speaker 1: you know Ring, the video doorbell company, they came out
Speaker 1: with a Ring car cam. So one of the most
Speaker 1: popular questions I get is when or which you know,
Speaker 1: which one of these car cams should I get these?
Speaker 1: You know, everyone wants one of these little cams for
Speaker 1: their car, and now Ring has one. And it's really
Speaker 1: cool because it looks nice, it's easy to set up,
Speaker 1: it works with Ring. It can record whenever there's a
Speaker 1: you know, an event detected like a break in. But
Speaker 1: there's also sensors to kind of detect when something's happening
Speaker 1: around your vehicle. If you get stopped for a traffic stop,
Speaker 1: you can say ALEXA record and your camera will start
Speaker 1: recording even if your car's parked. This is a two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars camera. Again, it works with Ring.
Speaker 1: It's called the Ring Carcam. It's coming out soon. It
Speaker 1: looks really cool. It's one hundred ninety nine dollars if
Speaker 1: you pre order it. So if you know you want
Speaker 1: this thing, probably now's the time to get it if
Speaker 1: you have Ring on your house and you've got the
Speaker 1: whole subscription. Now this also has LTE built in, so
Speaker 1: you will have to pay an extra six dollars a
Speaker 1: month if you want that LTD LTE capability, which is cellular.
Speaker 1: But I think this is gonna be something I'm gonna recommend,
Speaker 1: especially if you like the Ring video doorbell. It'll integrate
Speaker 1: with all your other cameras and it looks slick. I
Speaker 1: haven't tested it, but it's got cameras that look out
Speaker 1: and also into your car. So Ring carcam brand new
Speaker 1: unveiled at CES twenty twenty three. You are listening to
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech. Give me a call triple eight Rich
Speaker 1: one oh one with your tech question, and coming up,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to an expert about what you
Speaker 1: need to do if you were involved in that last
Speaker 1: pass hack. You're listening to Rich on Tech. Rich tamiro
Speaker 1: here which on Tech radio show. We are talking technology
Speaker 1: and taking your questions. Dale is in Minster, Ohio. Dale,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: How you doing, young man? Welcome to be the new
Speaker 6: guy on the block.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I don't know if I've ever
Speaker 1: been to new kid on the block.
Speaker 6: Drive a truck. I don't want to take up too
Speaker 6: much of your time, but I used to pick you
Speaker 6: up on the radio stations out there when I was
Speaker 6: in LA over the years. But here's my question. I'm
Speaker 6: on a fixed income. I got an old operating system,
Speaker 6: Windows eight point one, Sammy Ewlett Packard, good machine working
Speaker 6: that ninety problems with it. The only thing I ever
Speaker 6: do was crack the screen and turned off the touch
Speaker 6: screen on the human interface. If you know what I'm
Speaker 6: talking about. Sure, And here's my predicament. I can't afford
Speaker 6: to buy a new computer, can't upgrade to Windows ten.
Speaker 6: And I don't want to put you on the spot
Speaker 6: to recommend anything over the air. But if you were
Speaker 6: in my say, if it was you in my situation,
Speaker 6: what would you do?
Speaker 1: Well, Okay, so first off, you're you're already on Windows
Speaker 1: eight point one. Yeah, okay, So that means that you know,
Speaker 1: so I know you're talking about this end of life
Speaker 1: support or end of support on end of life end
Speaker 1: of support on January tenth, that's coming up in a
Speaker 1: couple of days here. So what that means is that
Speaker 1: you're not going to get any updates for that computer
Speaker 1: when it comes to Windows. Now, that doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: individual apps can't be updated. So have you had any trouble?
Speaker 1: What what like browser are you using? Using like Chrome
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 6: I've got Microsoft Edge in there and also Firefox. I
Speaker 6: use two different ones. I'm on a Wi Fi system, Okay, So.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, Microsoft Edge, you know they may stop
Speaker 1: updates for that, but I don't know if they're doing
Speaker 1: that just yet Firefox. Same thing. Basically, what's happening here
Speaker 1: is that you may lose updates for these computer you know,
Speaker 1: for these software programs on the computer. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: your computer stops working on the tenth it will still work.
Speaker 1: The main thing is that you need to be aware
Speaker 1: of the security implications of no longer receiving security updates.
Speaker 1: So that means that you could be at risk for
Speaker 1: certain things. Now, if you're doing most of your stuff online,
Speaker 1: most of your stuff on websites, many of your programs
Speaker 1: are running in the browser, you probably should be Okay.
Speaker 1: I might recommend running Chrome if you can. If you
Speaker 1: can download that and run it, it's got a lot
Speaker 1: of protections built in. I mean Edge does too, and
Speaker 1: so does Firefox to an extent. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think that that's the main thing, is knowing what you're
Speaker 1: up against. Other than that, I mean, I would plan
Speaker 1: for a new computer at some time, maybe over the
Speaker 1: next year, and you know, you can go. If you're
Speaker 1: not doing anything that's truly intensive on this computer, you
Speaker 1: could probably get away with a Chromebook. And I look
Speaker 1: into Asher on the Chromebooks. I've been testing one and
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of great models and a lot
Speaker 1: of different price ranges. But you want to get one
Speaker 1: that definitely has the best specs that you can afford
Speaker 1: on your budget. You say you're on a fixed income,
Speaker 1: So I would just put away a little every month
Speaker 1: for the next couple of months and until you get
Speaker 1: enough that you can upgrade this system. But it's not
Speaker 1: going to stop working anytime soon. And yes it's an
Speaker 1: older system. Windows eight point one is not ideal, but
Speaker 1: it just got to end of support in three days,
Speaker 1: so it's not like it's going away anytime soon.
Speaker 6: Does that make sense, Yeah, it does.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 6: I was more or less concerned was the security aspect
Speaker 6: of it. I think the Windows Defender will no longer
Speaker 6: be upgraded, right, And I was wondering about a possible
Speaker 6: other I've looked at everything. I add best Norton all
Speaker 6: those half dozen or two dozen security softwares out there,
Speaker 6: and cut the side on which one might be the best.
Speaker 6: And like I said, I don't want you to stick
Speaker 6: your neck out on the air recommending somebody software.
Speaker 1: But well, I don't mind. I mean that's yeah, I mean, look.
Speaker 6: Yes, you're right, that was my concern area. I don't game,
Speaker 6: I don't create anything. I just do a lot of reading. Okay,
Speaker 6: watch videos and maybe the Netflix. That's about the extent
Speaker 6: of my modern technology.
Speaker 1: I think I think you're gonna be okay, Dale, as
Speaker 1: long as you just be careful about any links that
Speaker 1: people send you through your email. I don't think you're
Speaker 1: getting text on this computer, but you know, you just
Speaker 1: have to be careful about anything that could you know, uh,
Speaker 1: that could be a security exploit of this computer, because
Speaker 1: that's what that's what happens when when when software is
Speaker 1: no longer updated with security updates. Hackers know that, and
Speaker 1: they look for exploits and they exploit them. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of the main thing that you're up against. So again,
Speaker 1: it's probably not going to be a huge thing you
Speaker 1: need to worry about in the next day or two.
Speaker 1: But again, plan for a new computer, do some research,
Speaker 1: figure out if a Chromebook's going to be good. And
Speaker 1: it sounds like it would be fine for what you need.
Speaker 1: I'd go with that. And I think you're going to
Speaker 1: be just great. So Dale, thanks for the question in Ohio.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Let's go to Ed in Huntington Beach, Ed,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hi, Rich, I'm one of the ones to congratulate
Speaker 2: you on getting this new job.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I bought your book one hundred and one Jeffson of
Speaker 2: the iPhone and everything I have is Apple. But anyway,
Speaker 2: my question to get down to it is, since the
Speaker 2: major hack back in August of Last Pass, I'm really
Speaker 2: losing faith in Last Pass and I've changed my master password.
Speaker 2: It's up to twenty characters, and and I guess it's
Speaker 2: a two part question. My question is should I just
Speaker 2: back out of out of last path? But I don't
Speaker 2: really know how. I've got so many passwords on there,
Speaker 2: I don't really know how to get to back out
Speaker 2: of that last path. And and.
Speaker 1: You're you're feeling, you're you're frustrated, You're you're you're kind
Speaker 1: of I feel it. I feel it in your voice
Speaker 1: that you are upset that you put so much time
Speaker 1: and effort into this program and now it's kind of, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not worked out the way that you
Speaker 1: would have liked it. Is that what I'm feeling?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm you know, I'm losing my trust, losing my
Speaker 2: trust and last path and you know they've they've somehow
Speaker 2: somebody in their company has opened up there that somebody
Speaker 2: stole all the source code back in August, and it's
Speaker 2: just it's just getting worse and worse. So I did
Speaker 2: change my master password right now, but I have some
Speaker 2: banking on there and I have Amazon on.
Speaker 1: Here's what I want to do, ed hang on. My
Speaker 1: next guest is going to answer all these questions and more.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to an expert about this whole
Speaker 1: last Pass hack. I think you're going to enjoy the
Speaker 1: conversation coming up. Last Pass hack. What you need to know.
Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on tech. On Richdimiro talking about technology and something
Speaker 1: pretty big in the tech world. Actually huge is this
Speaker 1: last last pass breach. Last Pass is a very popular
Speaker 1: password manager and if you hear me talk at all.
Speaker 1: On any of my segments, I'm always talking about the
Speaker 1: importance of strong passwords, two factor authentication, and also having
Speaker 1: a password manager. So then when you see in the
Speaker 1: news that last pass is hacked, not just once, but twice,
Speaker 1: you're like, rich, where are you leading me here? Because
Speaker 1: maybe it was safer for me to write my stuff
Speaker 1: down on a piece of paper. I still think it's
Speaker 1: better to use a password manager. Lots of things, though,
Speaker 1: we were taken in this breach. Website URLs for stored
Speaker 1: passwords and user names, billing addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers,
Speaker 1: company names, all kinds of information. Now Here to break
Speaker 1: it down is Roger Grimes. He is a data defense
Speaker 1: data driven defense evangelist at NOBI four and one of
Speaker 1: the most interesting people I interviewed at KTLA in the
Speaker 1: past year. We talked about security. Roger, thanks for joining me,
Speaker 1: glad to talk. So let's break this down. First off,
Speaker 1: can you give me a summary of what happened with
Speaker 1: last past. I believe they were hacked in eight in
Speaker 1: August and they said no, no, everything's fine, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it comes out, oh no, no, actually
Speaker 1: things aren't so fine. So what's the deal.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, they didn't necessarily get hacked. They did,
Speaker 7: but it was really one of their providers, their cloud
Speaker 7: storage providers where they stored their users users information, so
Speaker 7: including passwords, but the passwords were encrypted with AES, but
Speaker 7: they were you know, what they revealed is that a
Speaker 7: lot of the information related to their customers and the
Speaker 7: different websites were stored and last pass were not encrypted.
Speaker 7: So the passwords themselves were thankfully encrypted by AES with
Speaker 7: two hundred and fifty six bits of encryption. That's really good,
Speaker 7: but a lot of other information wasn't. So, you know,
Speaker 7: even at the very least, if they're not getting your passwords,
Speaker 7: they could at least know what websites you belong to
Speaker 7: and probably do some spear phishing attacks right and saying hey,
Speaker 7: we're from this website, we need you to change your
Speaker 7: password or something like that and then get your real
Speaker 7: password and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, let's break that down. So first off, if
Speaker 1: I'm a last past customer, do I ditch them right now?
Speaker 1: Do I give them another chance? And is my data
Speaker 1: at risk? Do they have like my logins for every
Speaker 1: website or no, you're saying they don't kind of.
Speaker 7: They certainly don't have your passwords, but they could have
Speaker 7: your login names. And let me say, overall, I like
Speaker 7: what advice you've been telling people. Everybody should use. My opinion,
Speaker 7: and I've been doing computer security for thirty four years,
Speaker 7: written thirteen books on the subject, I think everybody should
Speaker 7: be using a password manager, and last Pass is certainly
Speaker 7: one of the more popular ones. It's had some issues.
Speaker 7: This is probably the seventh compromise that they've had since
Speaker 7: they've been in existence, but so it's they're starting to
Speaker 7: cause some trust issues. But I would still say for
Speaker 7: existing customers, I think the majority of your passwords are
Speaker 7: probably safe. If your master password that protected that your
Speaker 7: last password manager was twelve characters are longer. If it's not,
Speaker 7: If your password was something weaker than twelve characters long
Speaker 7: with a little bit of complexity, you know, uppercase lowercase numbers,
Speaker 7: then you probably need to not only change your last
Speaker 7: master password, but all the passwords that you stored in immediately.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So what if you had Okay, let's say
Speaker 1: you had a not so good main password to last
Speaker 1: pass and the way that these Just to explain the
Speaker 1: way that these password managers work, if you haven't used one,
Speaker 1: you choose, like you log into the password manager with
Speaker 1: a strong password, and you know your username or your email,
Speaker 1: and then you store all of your different you know,
Speaker 1: let's say you're loging for Amazon and Google. You store
Speaker 1: those inside the manager, so you log in once and
Speaker 1: then it sort of logins logs in for you using
Speaker 1: your data. So if I had a week password on
Speaker 1: my last Past account and didn't have two factor authentication enabled,
Speaker 1: am I worse off?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, I still you know, hackers really
Speaker 7: don't like hacking, and encryption, like encryption is usually even
Speaker 7: bad encryption. And when we say last pass heads didn't
Speaker 7: have the strongest encryption, it was all right encryption. There
Speaker 7: were some weaknesses, some issues. It is a rarity to
Speaker 7: almost zero that hackers will actually attack the encryption. But
Speaker 7: if you had a week password, meaning eleven characters or less,
Speaker 7: that's something they could start doing password guessing that and
Speaker 7: then get access to your encrypted passwords. So, you know,
Speaker 7: and let me say, I think Last Past that they've
Speaker 7: been requiring a twelve character password for at least a
Speaker 7: couple of years. So if you've gotten last pass in
Speaker 7: the last three or four years, you probably already have
Speaker 7: a twelve character password. If you didn't you joined before that. Again,
Speaker 7: if you if you have something weaker than a twelve
Speaker 7: character password, well you need to go ahead and change that.
Speaker 7: But I think the key thing is I think everybody
Speaker 7: should use a password manager because people that don't reuse
Speaker 7: the same passwords across multiple websites, and the risk of
Speaker 7: doing that is far greater than your password manager being compromised.
Speaker 1: And also if you're using the same if you're not
Speaker 1: using a password manager, you're doing what's easy for the
Speaker 1: human brain, which is making up passwords that are variations
Speaker 1: on your passwords, which you know means you're using similar
Speaker 1: passwords across a lot of different websites as well.
Speaker 7: Kay, you're exactly right. The average person has as three
Speaker 7: to seven passwords that they reuse across one hundred and
Speaker 7: seventy different websites, and even if they don't use the
Speaker 7: same password, there's a password pattern. And it's like I
Speaker 7: used to think I was a genius years ago. I
Speaker 7: would you have my root password. Let's say it was frog,
Speaker 7: it wasn't frog. Let's say it was frog. I'd say
Speaker 7: like frog tw for Twitter, frog s B for Facebook,
Speaker 7: frog I for Instagram, and I'm like, great, I'm using
Speaker 7: a different password for every website. But hackers on average
Speaker 7: will compromise one or two of your websites every year
Speaker 7: and you don't know that. You know, oftentimes you don't
Speaker 7: know that they did, and then your passwords are out there.
Speaker 7: So if you have a pattern, like some people are like,
Speaker 7: you know, go Bucks or go Cubs or something like that,
Speaker 7: and they add something different to the end. If you
Speaker 7: have a pattern, hackers will quickly, over a couple of years,
Speaker 7: see that pattern and go, oh, you know, let's go
Speaker 7: try you know, frog A for Amazon and see if
Speaker 7: that works. So you really need to let a password
Speaker 7: manager which will create truly long and complex, perfectly random
Speaker 7: passwords do it, and the password manager will create them
Speaker 7: and use them and you don't need to even know
Speaker 7: if they are, Like I can't be fished out of
Speaker 7: my password because I don't know what they are right now?
Speaker 1: How many characters? You know there's that little slider when
Speaker 1: you know, go to choose a password. How many characters
Speaker 1: should we be sliding up to? Should it be ten, twelve, sixteen?
Speaker 1: What do you recommend if.
Speaker 7: You're using perfectly random passwords like a password manager creates
Speaker 7: twelve characters. As far as we know, no known, even
Speaker 7: advanced technology today can break a twelve character perfectly random password.
Speaker 7: And we mean somebody that has the capability of guessing
Speaker 7: forty five trillion passwords a second cannot break a twelve
Speaker 7: character perfectly random password, even if given years. If you
Speaker 7: choose it out of your brain, you know, and you
Speaker 7: make up something because we tend to use, you know,
Speaker 7: words that we add a couple of things to. In
Speaker 7: order to be perfectly safe, it needs to be twenty
Speaker 7: characters or longer. I have friends who routinely break eighteen
Speaker 7: character passwords that people have made of every day, and
Speaker 7: they're not even the least you know, the elite advanced
Speaker 7: guessers I'm talking about. So let me say it again.
Speaker 7: If it's perfectly random, twelve characters or longer is fine
Speaker 7: if you make it up out of your head. If
Speaker 7: you want it to be truly unguessable, uncrackable, it needs
Speaker 7: to be twenty characters. Nobody wants to use a twenty
Speaker 7: character password, create or use the twenty So use the
Speaker 7: password manager. Let it do the hard work.
Speaker 1: Okay, explain before you go explain the idea of spearfishing.
Speaker 1: We've heard of phishing, you know, that's when an email
Speaker 1: tries to you know, or a link tries to get
Speaker 1: your information, gets you to log in whatever. What is spearfishing.
Speaker 7: That's where they've got some type of knowledge that may
Speaker 7: not be you know, public to everybody else, Like everybody
Speaker 7: gets the Facebook, Instagram, Twitter stuff. But let's suppose that
Speaker 7: you belong to some you know, cat website, you're really
Speaker 7: into Persian cats. Well, if the hackers got that information,
Speaker 7: let's say, from last pass, and they now know that
Speaker 7: Roger seems to really like these Persian cat website he
Speaker 7: apparently raises these things or something like that, Well, that
Speaker 7: can become this intimate email where person's like, oh, I've
Speaker 7: got this great Persian cat deal for you. And so
Speaker 7: you're not expecting it to be you know, a hacker
Speaker 7: in a traditional sense, because it's not anything you know,
Speaker 7: widely used. It's something specific. This person had to know
Speaker 7: some information about you in order to use it.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 7: It could be that you know, they find you're, you know,
Speaker 7: a Tampa Bucks fan, and so all of a sudden
Speaker 7: you get this email going, hey, we have you've won
Speaker 7: free Bucks tickets. You know, click here or you know,
Speaker 7: spend one hundred bucks to buy these, you know, Tampa
Speaker 7: Bay Bucks tickets. A spearfish is that they're using some
Speaker 7: intimate information that the general public doesn't know about in
Speaker 7: order for you to for some you know, to let
Speaker 7: your guard down and have a little bit more trust
Speaker 7: than you otherwise would if they just hit you with
Speaker 7: some generic phishing email.
Speaker 1: Well, said Roger Grimes of a note before and on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Roger A. Grimes, you are a wealth of
Speaker 1: information when it comes to computer security. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining me today and explaining the entire last past situation.
Speaker 1: Get those passwords strong, folks. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 7: Right, Yep, yep, you're right, and you're giving good advice.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Thanks Roger for joining me today on this very first
Speaker 1: episode of rich on Tech. You're listening to me Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro talk technology. Coming up. Have you heard of a
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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Jim
Speaker 1: writes in via email, Hey, Rich, what's the best way
Speaker 1: to exchange original high quality photos between iPhone and Android phones.
Speaker 1: Email has size limits and texting degrades the images. I
Speaker 1: usually use Facebook Messenger, but there's got to be a
Speaker 1: better way. Thanks Jim. At the end of his email says,
Speaker 1: a seminar on time travel will be held two years
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. That's my kind of guy. Great question,
Speaker 1: And this is the kind of stuff that you know,
Speaker 1: it always comes up when you're with a group of
Speaker 1: people and you need to share something with them. And
Speaker 1: I find that this happens at family gatherings or when
Speaker 1: you're with your friends at a table and you take
Speaker 1: a group picture and everyone's like, oh, airdrop, airdrop, air drop.
Speaker 1: Air drop is phenomenal. But the problem with air drop
Speaker 1: is that it's only iPhone to iPhone or iPhone to
Speaker 1: mac or iPhone to iPad or iPad you know. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's an Apple thing. And so
Speaker 1: if you are texting someone, people are like, oh, what
Speaker 1: do you texting me? This tiny video for well, it
Speaker 1: didn't start out tiny, but because it went through SMS
Speaker 1: into the iPhone, it's tiny. So a couple things here.
Speaker 1: Number one, if you're going iPhone to iPhone, it's always
Speaker 1: going to be Okay, so the message I message is
Speaker 1: going to be just fine. If you're going iPhone to Android,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be fine. If you're going Android
Speaker 1: to iPhone, not going to be fine. If you're going
Speaker 1: Android to Android and you are on a reasonably newer
Speaker 1: phone and you've activated what's called the chat feature and
Speaker 1: you're using the Google Messages app, it's going to be fine.
Speaker 1: The problem is, really what it comes down to is
Speaker 1: Android to iPhone, iPhone to Android, how do you exchange
Speaker 1: those files? Now, there are many many ways you can
Speaker 1: do this, and the reason why air drop is so cool.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Android has its own it's called
Speaker 1: Nearby Share. If you haven't looked into it, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: You can. You know, Android has air drop built in.
Speaker 1: It's called Nearby Share, and it's it's a feature that's
Speaker 1: on most modern or i think all Android phones at
Speaker 1: this point, and if you haven't checked it out, try it.
Speaker 1: But the problem is it only works from Android to Android.
Speaker 1: But if you haven't and you've got Android friends that's
Speaker 1: the way you share big stuff among your phones, try it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really really phenomenal. Obviously, use air drop
Speaker 1: if you're on iPhone to iPhone. I think the best
Speaker 1: way is really, yeah, one of these messenger apps. So
Speaker 1: what you have to do is ask your friend when
Speaker 1: you're transferring, Hey, which app do you use? Maybe they
Speaker 1: used Telegram, maybe they use Facebook Messenger, maybe they use
Speaker 1: a signal or WhatsApp. I mean, chances are there's one
Speaker 1: of these products that they're using that you're also using,
Speaker 1: and that's the best way to get that large, high
Speaker 1: quality file to them. Now what I like to do
Speaker 1: is just kind of skip all that. Now, the best
Speaker 1: thing I ever did was sign up my entire family
Speaker 1: for Telegram. So we are all on a group chat
Speaker 1: on Telegram and it makes life very very easy because
Speaker 1: we all have different phones. And also I don't want
Speaker 1: to really be limited by the phone that you know,
Speaker 1: I am using. If I'm using Android and they're using iPhone,
Speaker 1: and they're using Android and I'm using iPhone, why be
Speaker 1: limited to all these different things that you know, these
Speaker 1: limitations that some of these companies put on us. So
Speaker 1: when you find that common ground, it's really nice. And
Speaker 1: many people in the US have found common ground with
Speaker 1: I Message. And if you're not part of that blue
Speaker 1: bubble system, you know, people get bent out of shape
Speaker 1: because you mess up the group chat. I'm not a
Speaker 1: big fan of all that stuff. That's why I signed
Speaker 1: up everyone for Telegram and said, let's use this because
Speaker 1: we know it's going to work. And I use it
Speaker 1: for work. I use it for my family. I use
Speaker 1: it for my wife, and it just makes life so
Speaker 1: much easier. If I'm testing an Android phone, my wife
Speaker 1: could text me the exact same way she does if
Speaker 1: we're using iPhones together with I message. So that's number one.
Speaker 1: Get your friends on the same page with a cross
Speaker 1: platform solution. If that doesn't work, what I like to
Speaker 1: do is send them a link. Send them a link,
Speaker 1: upload the file or the video. I'm guessing we're talking
Speaker 1: about videos here, or photos, I guess upload it to
Speaker 1: something like Dropbox or Google Drive or if you're using
Speaker 1: Google Photos. You can send a link that way, and
Speaker 1: when you send a link, they're going to get the
Speaker 1: high quality picture because it's a link, it's in the cloud,
Speaker 1: and there's no storage limits. I mean, obviously up to
Speaker 1: your plan limits, but there's no sort of like sending
Speaker 1: limits where you know, I can't send a one gigabyte
Speaker 1: file because obviously that's not going to work through email,
Speaker 1: but if it's a link, the file is held in
Speaker 1: the cloud until the other person on the other end
Speaker 1: downloads it. Facebook Messenger, I really feel like Jim is
Speaker 1: kind of the sea way to do this. The other
Speaker 1: thing is it's probably not best for big files, but Instagram,
Speaker 1: if you use like the messenger functionality on there, that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good cross platform solution. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the pictures are sent truly high quality, but they're probably
Speaker 1: gonna look better pictures and videos than they would if
Speaker 1: you send them through you know, just standard SMS. And
Speaker 1: so that's another option. Personally, I'm my default is to
Speaker 1: use Google Photos. I will send you know, a link
Speaker 1: with a bunch of pictures or a couple of pictures,
Speaker 1: and then I'll use Dropbox if it's more business oriented.
Speaker 1: There's also a whole host of different companies out there,
Speaker 1: like we Transfer that can send stuff. But really the
Speaker 1: problem is, you know, all of this stuff, if you're
Speaker 1: sharing it through the cloud, has to go up to
Speaker 1: the cloud first, and that could present some issues, especially
Speaker 1: if you're in a place with spotty service. And that's
Speaker 1: why people like I message are sorry. They like air
Speaker 1: drop is because it can work at hoc, which means
Speaker 1: your phone is directly connecting to that other phone, and
Speaker 1: that's the big differentiator. Now, when I mentioned the nearby
Speaker 1: Share on Android, same thing. It is ad hoc so
Speaker 1: and nearby Share is actually even a little bit smarter
Speaker 1: than air drop because nearby Share will detect what situation
Speaker 1: you're in, so it can detect, you know, whether it
Speaker 1: might be best to share it over the Internet, whether
Speaker 1: if it's a small tiny file, whether it can share
Speaker 1: it over Bluetooth, whether if it's a small file, or
Speaker 1: whether it can share it over you know, direct Wi
Speaker 1: Fi and direct WiFi is probably going to be the
Speaker 1: fastest out of any of those, and Bluetooth is another
Speaker 1: way of doing it, but that's not really something that
Speaker 1: people want. The other app that I like that I've
Speaker 1: used over the years for myself that I've found to
Speaker 1: be pretty fast is called Send Anywhere, And you know,
Speaker 1: it does require if this is kind of if you're
Speaker 1: doing it yourself, you know, you would have to have
Speaker 1: that on both devices, But if you wanted to send
Speaker 1: a large file to yourself, that can work. But Telegram
Speaker 1: also has this feature where you can have you know,
Speaker 1: and even WhatsApp just out of this where you can
Speaker 1: send messages to yourself. So look into those and I
Speaker 1: think one of those solutions should be good. But until
Speaker 1: we have you know, everyone on the same page with
Speaker 1: like cross platform, we're going to continue running into these
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