WEBVTT - AI Wars, NFL on Netflix & Tech Accessibility 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:05.600 It's an all out AI war between Chat, GPT and Google. 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:11.080 I'll explain what both companies announced this week. New accessibility 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:16.200 features coming to Apple, Google and Samsung. The website with 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:21.599 promo codes that actually work. Plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.120 What's going on on rich Dedmiro And this is rich 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.600 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.040 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.040 also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.200 I believe that tech should be interesting, useful and fun. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.720 Phone lines are open at triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:46.600 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.320 zero one. Give me a call if you have a 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:53.360 question about technology. Email is also open. Just go to 0:00:53.600 --> 0:01:00.600 rich on Tech dot tv and hit contact. Guests on 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.960 the show this week, C Scott Brown, Senior editor at 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.320 Android Authority, is going to discuss all things Google Io 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:14.959 twenty twenty four. Then we've got Jenny Blackburn, VP of 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:20.160 User Design for Gemini Experiences and Google Assistant. She's gonna 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:26.320 explain how to use Google Gemini AI Assistant. Yes, this 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.959 week was all about Google Io and it was a 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.600 good one. So as I said, it is an all 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:40.240 out war between Chat GPT and Google. Google's AI is 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:45.160 called Gemini, so this week was pretty unique. Google had 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.280 a long standing event scheduled for Tuesday called Google Io. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.280 It's a big event where they show off all the 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.800 things that they've been working on for the year and 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.840 they show off new features that are coming soon, especially 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:02.280 of course with AI. But not to be outdone, just 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.720 about a week before the event was supposed to happen, 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.440 what does open AI do? They say, Hey, we're having 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:14.360 an event on Monday, the day before Google's event. Perfect timing. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.320 So the Open Ai event was not It didn't seem 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.200 to be open to journalists. I think they had people 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:21.880 in the audience, but I'm not sure who they were. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.920 It was just mostly the people on stage showing off stuff. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:30.639 Small event, but they unveiled GPT four to oh, so 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.679 this is a new flavor of their chat GPT that's 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.760 even smarter. And the new term across all the ais 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.360 is multi modal. What does that mean. It means that 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.840 instead of just typing your questions, you can now do text, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.040 you can do voice, you can do vision. So it's 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:55.400 a combination of things. It understands various inputs. Now we've 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.040 had text, voice, and vision before, but now it continues 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.560 to get better, and video is pretty much the new 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:06.560 thing that these AI are very good at understanding. So 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.480 they showed off a whole bunch of demos of all 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.680 kinds of cool stuff. The entire event was about twenty 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.040 six minutes. You can watch the video on YouTube. It 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.360 just gives you a really good understanding of what's to 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.840 come with Open AI and chat GBT, and you understand 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.720 why chat GBT has become a household name. It's smooth, 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:32.120 it's fluid, and in the future, very near future, it's 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:36.160 going to become even more natural. The real time conversation 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.520 aspect is getting amazing, So they demoed where you can 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.640 talk to this chat GPT as you would a human, 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.600 and you could even interrupt them mid sentence while the 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.520 thing's talking back to you. You could just interrupt and change 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.000 gears whatever you want, just like you would a real human. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.840 And the real time video interaction is particularly interesting because 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.840 you can now just point your phone at things and say, hey, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.000 what's this or how can I use this? What's this four? 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.800 And it's just another way of kind of absorbing the 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.320 world's knowledge. So the new voice mode is coming in 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.160 the next couple of weeks. Now, one of the neat 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.400 things they did was they are making this new level 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:22.000 of chat GBT four oh available to everyone. So once 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.240 you go on to chat GBT, it may say, hey, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.160 you've been upgraded to chat GBT four. Oh that's what 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.760 mine said yesterday, and it's free. Now. I will tell you. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.520 You're like, well, why should I pay twenty bucks to 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.760 get all these features? What's chatchibt plus that generally gave 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:41.520 you the access to this higher level of you know, smarts. Well, 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.039 there are limits to how much you can use it. 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.440 So I started using it with the added features, and 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.880 after just a couple of chats back and forth, it 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.159 was like, oh, now if you want to keep going, 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:52.600 you got to pay or we're going to drop you 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:57.279 down to the three point five. So again, lots of 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.560 cool things coming from chat gbt open a kind of 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.400 staying ahead of the game. There's also a desktop app 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.000 which I did download for the Mac Windows is coming 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:11.200 later and that brings chatchybt right into your desktop system 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.039 with a quick shortcut keyboard shortcut. It is. It is 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.000 pretty wild. So what did Google do the next day? 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.080 These stakes were high for Google because Google is the 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:26.880 search leader. Google started their presentation by saying, look, we've 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:32.039 been working on AI for a long time, fifteen years, okay, 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.200 So they made it very clear that they know their 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.080 stuff when it comes to AI. Now their AI model 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:43.200 is called Gemini, and again Gemini is getting smarter. It's 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.279 now multi modal, which means it can handle text, it 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.000 can handle images, it can handle video, it can handle code, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.800 and it's becoming just smarter and more fluid. So a 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:59.279 couple of things that they announced AI agents. So these 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.360 aiag they have an idea where you may just say 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.359 to your AI, hey, can you return these shoes for me? 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.120 And you take a picture of the shoes that you 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.200 just bought. It will go into your Gmail, find that 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.880 order number, It will find the information and fill out 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.440 the form on how to return them. It will even 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.760 contact the pickup company like UPS or FedEx and get 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.719 you a return pickup date. Now that's a pie in 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.240 the sky idea. That's where they think this can go. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.719 They didn't say when that's coming out, but that's kind 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.400 of like where they think things are going, where things 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.520 are actually going, and where things are happening in the 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.039 next couple of months. Is here number one Google Search 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.320 getting AI overviews. Now, if you say, rich, I already 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.880 have this in my Google Search. Yes, if you opted 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.600 into the AI experiments on Google, you might have been 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.680 seeing this already. When you type in something on Google 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.240 up at the top, it gives you kind of an 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.640 AI generated overview of that topic. I call it a 0:06:55.680 --> 0:07:01.120 book report, but it provides quick, detailed answers to complex questions. Now, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:06.120 the big question here is Google Search going to be 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.640 impacted by this, especially the advertising aspect. Google makes a 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.040 lot of money by showing US ads at the top 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.800 of our search results. You click a couple of those ads. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.680 That's how they make a bulk of their money. By 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.280 having an AI overview where you just get the answer 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.240 without having to really click anything, that's a problem for 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.040 their advertisers. Now, of course, Google says it will not 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.040 be a problem, but that remains to be seen how 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.400 they're going to walk that fine line of still making 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.720 gobs of money but providing answers very quickly with AI. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:43.240 Another new feature in Google Photos ask Photos. This allows you, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.960 instead of just putting in one keyword for your Google 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.360 Photo collection, like beach, you can now say show me 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.080 where I went to the beach last year and my 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.000 best pictures from that trip, and it will find those 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.920 pictures and unearth them. You can say what's my license 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.720 plate number, and it will figure out which car you 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.720 continually drive on a recent basis, find the picture that 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.360 you took of your license plate, and tell you that 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:11.000 license plate number. Another example they gave, Hey, when did 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:12.880 my kid learn how to swim? It will look through 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.760 all the pictures of your kid and figure out when 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.600 they learn to swim. This is wild stuff, but again 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.160 kind of pie in the sky. They're gonna this is 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.720 gonna roll out soon, but they will have this and 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.120 I can't wait to try this. First question, I'm gonna ask, Hey, 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.800 show me all my duplicates of my library because I 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.480 need to clear those out. Then they're putting Gemini, which 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.160 is again their AI, into all of their apps. So 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:43.280 we're talking Gmail, we're talking Docs. Any app that Google 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.000 makes AI is going to be built in. So for Gmail, 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:50.000 for instance, you can say, Hey, summarize all the recent 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.040 emails I got from my kids' school, and what are 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.000 my action steps, like what do I need to respond 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.000 to And it will be smart enough to go into 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.320 your Gmail and figure that out. When you're working on 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.480 a document, you can say, hey, help me brainstorm this, 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.600 or you know, help me write this, or look at 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.920 my last presentation in Drive and help me make a 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.280 better one this time around, and it will go into 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.440 Google Drive and find out all that stuff. Now, Google 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.360 says this is all done very privately, So even though 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.760 it can access your documents, and it can access your 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.520 Gmail and it can access your photos, it's not using 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.199 any of your data to train its large language models, 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.480 so it is keeping that information private. And then finally 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.640 they mentioned that they're going to start flagging any of 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.000 their AI generated content with a special watermark so that 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.360 it can be identified. And the other demo I got 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.920 in person, which was really really cool, was called Project Astra. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.959 This is again what I mentioned with open AI and 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.840 chat GBT. It's a very new way of interacting with 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.319 AI using the video camera on your phone. So you 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.600 would just point your phone at something like they gave 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.400 the example of a record player that's not working, or 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.439 actually that was a different example, but you could just 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.040 point your phone pretty much anything and say hey, where 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:03.679 am I what does it look like? And they'd say, oh, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.680 it looks like you're in London. Right now based on 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.600 you know, what we're seeing around you, or hey, show 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.960 me stop when I when I get to a speaker, 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.440 and you know, you can just pan your camera around 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.160 the room and when you get to a speaker, it'll say, oh, 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.440 I see a speaker. I mean, it's just really really 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.400 new and interesting ways of interacting with all of the 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.880 world's information, and access to information is just going to 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.680 continue to get better. The flip side of all of 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.720 this is that these AI models need to be trained, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.959 and the big question in the future is how are 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.240 we going to train these things? Where are they getting 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.920 the training data? If everything you've searched on the web 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.000 is a summary for the next five years, that's going 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.240 to be great. But when people stop writing articles because 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.760 everything's summarized now, where does the new information come from? 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:56.000 When everyone's generating images using AI, Where are we getting 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.040 original art from? Where are we getting original music from? 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.680 This is the new question that is going to be 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.480 a rising with the rise of AI. All right, coming 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.880 up on today's show, we're going to talk about new 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.920 accessibility features coming soon. But first it's your term. Give 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.760 me a call triple eight rich one oh one eight 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.960 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.320 If you have a question about technology, phone lines are open. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.440 Let's go to Manny in Covina, California. Manny, you're on 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:29.880 with Rich. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:37.520 Hey, mister Rich, good show. Listen. I have a different inquiry. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.719 It's the beginning of technology. I have a textbook and 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.600 I was wondering if your opinion on the value of 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.160 the Learning to Use Work Perfect five point zero, Slash 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.360 five point one, Lotus one two three and Database three plus. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.320 The authors are Gary B. Shelley and Thomas J. Casmin. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.840 What do you think? Should I donate it? Do you 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.480 want it? I mean, but I'd like to get some 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.880 money for it. I looked online and I didn't really 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.000 find too much on whether I can buy one. I 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.800 wanted to see what the query would say. It did 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.319 say that there are like maybe two available, so I 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:13.920 think it's rare. So your opinion. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:15.679 What's the book called again. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.120 Learning to Use Work Perfect five point zero, Flash five 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.240 point one, Lotus one two three and Database three plus 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:24.560 dBase three plus. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.920 And who's the author? I'm sorry, who's the author? 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:33.400 Shelley Cashman? I'm sorry, Gary B. Shelley, Thomas J. Cashman. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.560 And then there are three more Okay, so I'm just looking. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.120 I mean, obviously eBay is the place to look for this. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:46.160 So I'm looking on eBay and I see a couple 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:51.000 of a couple of different books. Here. This looks like interesting, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.280 This looks like someone is selling like a copy of 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.920 it maybe. But here's the thing. The bottom line is 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.280 nobody needs this anymore. There is no need for this book. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.960 So that kind of limits its value because the only 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.520 person that would want this is someone that's interested in 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:11.160 the nostalgia factor or a collection factor. So a couple 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:12.720 of things you can do with this number. One, go 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.880 on eBay and type in the name exactly as you 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.800 see it, and kind of get an idea of if 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.160 people are selling this if they're not. If you want 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.360 to sell it on there, go ahead, name a price 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.200 or just let people bit it up. Start at ninety 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.120 nine cents to what happens. But it's one of these 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:33.640 things where it's it's this is a very small group 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.240 of people that may want something like this. Now that 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.360 doesn't mean that it doesn't have value, but you'll find 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.120 out on eBay if it does have value. Second thing 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.200 is you can donate it to someone, maybe like a 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.600 computer museum, or something like that if they want it. 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.160 But really, Manny, I think that this main thing is 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.600 that just go on eBay. eBay's your friend with this, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.520 and you know, a Google search, and just see if 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.600 anyone else is selling this, see if there is any 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.880 value in this. That's the best way of figuring it out. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.480 You know, I've got too much stuff already. I don't 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.559 need any I want less stuff because I do keep 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.280 a small amount of tech that I think in the 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.840 future might be interesting. But at the same time, it's 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.440 you know, this kind of stuff like a book, a 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.680 book on how to use word perfect is just really 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.440 probably I can't imagine many people would still want something 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.560 like that. Sadly, now if it was like an old 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.000 Blockbuster card maybe, like those are the kind of things 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.640 that you know, people may find interesting. But good question. 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:37.080 Thanks for the question today, Manny and Covina eBay, Oh 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.600 my gosh. When eBay first came out, they call it 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.080 the perfect Store, and it really is because if someone 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.920 wants what you are selling, I mean, really, two people 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.800 have to want what you're selling for it to be valuable. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.120 If only one person wants it, it's not really valuable. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.760 But if two people want it and they bit it up. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.640 It can become very valuable. So eBay is are really 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.400 really to me such an amazing site. When it first 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.080 came out, it just kind of blew my mind because 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.240 I said, this is incredible. Like you put something on 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.400 on a groad sale, you know, at a groad sale 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.200 in front of your house. The only people that can 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.920 possibly want that is someone who drives by and sees 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.720 that product. But eBay is worldwide, everyone has the opportunity 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.880 to buy it. Thanks for the question. Eight eight eight 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.240 rich one one eight eight eight seven four two four 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:29.000 one zero one. Netflix getting into live sports with an 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.320 NFL deal. So NFL is partnering with the NFL for 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.280 uh or sorry. Netflix is partnering with the NFL for 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:40.800 a three season deal, getting into sports streaming live two 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:45.960 Christmas Day games this year, so this is a big deal. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.560 They haven't announced what games these are going to be, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:53.520 but as we know, the NFL is really making a 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.960 lot of money off of selling their games to these 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.480 different streaming services. Peacock had won last year. We know 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.000 that Amazon got Thursday Night Football and this is just 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.000 going to continue. I was looking up to see what 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.160 we need to watch NFL this season and it's just 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:13.320 all over the place. What NFL has not done is 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.360 their own streaming service, which would just be bananas. If 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.400 you could just pay a one time fee and get 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.160 every game no matter what, that would be incredible. But 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.800 we are going to see uh two games, two games 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.720 on Christmas Day on Netflix. I'm here for it, and 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.680 I think we're just going to continue to see more 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.480 on Netflix when it comes to live events and live sports, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.240 something they really shied away from when Netflix first started. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:39.960 They said, why would we ever need to be like 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.840 traditional TV? Why would we ever need to be like 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.880 a traditional broadcaster? And the answer is those games when 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:51.200 they are played live, are very valuable to advertisers. Netflix 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.640 will make a lot of money on this deal. Eighty 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.120 to eight Rich one on one eight eight seven four 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.240 to two four one zero one coming up, I'll tell 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.920 you why Twitter is no more. You're listening to Rich 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:10.040 on tap. Let's go to Mark in San Diego. Mark, 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:10.760 You're on with Rich. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.960 Thanks so much. I'm learning a lot with your show 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.560 and I appreciate what you do. Thank you A quick question. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.000 My current situation is I have at and T DFL 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.080 internet and that's that's okay. If I mentioned names. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:25.560 Oh sure. 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.240 And then I also have an old school landline. We've 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.960 had the number in our family forever endeavor. So I'm 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.919 paying on both of those and they just keep moving 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.320 my internet rate up and up and up. So they're now. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.480 Pushing the Hey, a major company continues to raise prices 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.119 on you. Yeah, no way, I can't believe that. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.320 Yeah, it's gonna go. I get eighteen megabytes per second 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.200 and I'm going to be paying ninety dollars a month 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:48.560 just for. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.920 The Internet for eighteen eighteen down. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:54.320 Yeah, that's it. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:55.480 Got to dump that. Okay. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.440 Yeah, so they offered me, you know, they're like, hey, 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.720 we've got this new Internet Air thing in your area. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.440 So one, what are your thoughts on Internet Air? 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:07.160 Two? 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:12.320 I currently have a cell phone that's AT and T 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.520 and then I'm thinking about converting my landline from a 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.800 landline and going to a different carrier like maybe Mint 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.080 Mobile or T Mobile someone else and just let it 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:23.560 take over my landline number. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:25.520 And what do you need to land on? 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:27.680 How do you like AT and T Internet Air? 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:28.160 Two? 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.840 Is it smart going to two different carriers for cell phones? 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:35.200 Okay, well, so the first question is, uh, so you 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:38.800 have AT and T on your smartphone already, right, yes, okay, 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.840 so the question is how is the speed on your smartphone? 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.000 Have you done a speed test? 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.080 Well, I'm not, I don't. Do you mean like using 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:50.320 it as a hotspot? 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.480 Well, just going to like if you go to a 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.920 website like fast dot com on your phone, see how 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:58.840 fast that is, because that's going to be a pretty 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.480 good indication of how how fast this Internet air is 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.840 going to be. Yeah, because you already have AT and T. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.320 Now I will tell you that the antenna inside the 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.440 Internet air box is obviously going to be a little 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.040 bit more powerful than what's on your phone, but it 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.200 gives you an idea. If you're getting five down, you're 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.160 not going to get much more on the Internet air 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.520 If you're getting one hundred down, then that's pretty good. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.400 Interesting now, so that's my number one suggestion. I would 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.440 also look in the upper right hand corner of your 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.040 phone and see what kind of signal you have? What 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:30.440 what type of phone do you have? Is it newer 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:32.280 or do you have like five G Yeah, well. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.719 It's a couple of year old Pixel four A, yeah, 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.280 Google Pixel four A. But it's been a great little phone. 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.520 Yeah, Oh no, I love. I've been testing the Pixel 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.919 eight a actually, and for five hundred bucks it's a 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:43.600 great little phone, even though I know it'll be sold 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.600 for cheaper, so don't buy it for five hundred Okay, 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.920 So that's number one. So here's what what what AT 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.159 and T is doing with Internet air. They're making that 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.919 available in places where they don't have fiber internet. So 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.480 in places like where you are, where DSL, they want 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:00.840 to get people off the DSL because it's expensive and 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.040 you know, to maintain and all that stuff. They would 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.560 rather have people using their cellular network that's already in 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.760 the area. So that's where they're activating AT and T air. 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.360 So it's not in many places right now, but where 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.760 it is, and they're they're probably offering a decent price 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:18.320 as well. I have no problem with switching to it. 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.520 Have you checked the other internet service providers in your area, 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:25.119 like a Spectrum or cocks or whoever else services your area. 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.679 Have you checked to c because if you're switching, you know, 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:29.160 you might get a pretty good deal for the first 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:30.840 two years or so on them as well. 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.359 And I'm glad you brought that up because I just 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.960 started looking into that obviously when I went to AT 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.520 and T to try to negotiate a deal. They're like, oh, no, 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.080 you know, we'll offer you this, you know, for fifty 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:42.639 five bucks a month, you get the Internet air and 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:44.680 that's it. They weren't willing to negotiating. 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:46.720 No, they don't. They don't negotiate on the home Internet. 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:48.439 None of them do. They're not. That's like kind of 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.320 the new thing. In fact, AT and T is not 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:54.439 really negotiating at all anymore on their home Internet. The 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.359 thing that's non negotiable is the price increases like clockwork 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.800 every year or so, my no mind does. But the 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.320 website that I'd recommend to see what else is in 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:07.480 your area speed test dot net. They have what's called 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.800 a speed test performance site, and so you type in 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.600 your zip code and it will tell you the different 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:17.120 providers in your area and also the speeds that people 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.280 are getting with those providers. So, for instance, if I 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.160 type in a zip code in Los Angeles near where 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.800 I am, you can see the different providers and what 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.600 they're getting. Now. AT and T Internet Air is not there, 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.200 but they do have kind of the T Mobile Internet. 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:35.239 They've got a couple other providers that they do have 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:38.040 speed tests for so I'd recommend looking at that as well. 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.040 And I think that was your first question. The second 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.879 question was the switching to the Mint mobile or whatever. 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:46.800 I mean, that's kind of why I kept my landline 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:48.679 all this time. If one network went down, I was 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:50.639 had the other one as a backup. But like if 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.240 I go with maybe a T Mobile and stay with 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:53.640 AT and T or a Mint. 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:56.240 Yeah, the other The only issue with that, if you 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:59.160 are going to switch to internet air, they probably give 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.400 you the best price if you're also on their cell 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:04.399 phone network as well? Is that not the case? 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:05.560 Gotcha? 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.120 So that would be my only consideration. But I will 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:10.399 tell you I recently switched my wife to one of 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.119 the mv and o's because my bill for her just 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:15.240 kept going up and she doesn't use a lot of data, 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:17.800 and it just it was like ninety bucks a month, 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:19.440 and I switched to one that was like forty five 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:23.399 a month unlimited. And it's you know, I've been asking 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:25.000 her like every day, like, hey, do you notice any 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:27.399 difference in your service? And she's like, no, not really. 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:30.199 So you know, I have no problem with switching to 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:32.520 save money, especially if you don't use that much data, 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.280 but maybe maybe do one thing at a time, you know, 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:39.680 like maybe you know, jump off onto the internet air first, 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:42.080 you know, wait a couple of months, and then if 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:44.200 you want to switch your your cell phone provider, you 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:45.000 can do that as well. 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:48.480 Gotcha, gotcha? Okay, yeah, that's a great tip. Fast dot 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:49.920 com and speed test dot net. 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:51.280 Okay, yeah, check it out. 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:52.880 Perfect, Thank you so much. 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.800 All right, Mark, appreciate the call. Thank you all right. 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:58.560 Uh eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:03.880 seven four to two zero one. I mentioned that Twitter 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:07.600 is going bye bye, and yeah, that's true. It's a 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:10.800 little bit of a tease, but yes, Twitter has completed 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:15.080 their rebranding to x dot com. If you use Twitter 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:17.359 on a daily basis, you notice that half the time 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:19.000 you would go to the website, it would be a 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:21.879 Twitter address in the URL, and so you'd be like, well, 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:24.080 wait a second, I thought this switch to X dot com. 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:29.679 But this week Twitter has finally transitioned fully to x 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:32.800 dot com. All core systems and all the URLs have 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:35.600 now been moved to x dot com. And that means 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:39.160 that the Twitter handle and the bluebird logo are gone. 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:43.439 They are now just a memory, a memory for all 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:45.600 of us that remember the failwal Do you remember the 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:49.879 fail well, no, Adam's in for Bobo today doesn't remember 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:52.119 the fail Well. That was when Twitter first started. It 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:54.840 would always just it would always crash, and it would 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:57.640 because too many people were using it, and it would 0:23:57.640 --> 0:23:59.240 go to this failwale that was like a I think 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:01.600 it was like an upside down whale and it was just, 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:03.480 you know, it was like kind of cute. It just 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.760 you know, that meant Twitter was down. But this is 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:10.000 now fully done and uh, yes, there's no So let 0:24:10.040 --> 0:24:12.520 me see if I go to Twitter dot com slash 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:15.879 rich on tech and uh wait, yep, there it is 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:18.680 x dot com. Oh it did change x dot com 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:20.800 slash rich on tech. There you go. Anyway, you can 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:23.280 follow me there and join the fun. 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:24.080 And uh. 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:28.840 Microsoft's free PC optimizer got a new version this week, 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:31.679 so PC manager. If you want to free upspace on 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:34.879 your Windows machine if you have Windows ten or Windows eleven, 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:38.960 Microsoft has launched a new version of its free Windows 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:42.919 tuning tool called PC Manager. The main thing you can 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:46.320 do with this is the files cleanup toool. This can 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:49.120 help you free up storage on your hard drive by 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:52.119 cleaning up any downloaded files, and it can also search 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:55.800 for large files and remove duplicates. Now, before you say, oh, 0:24:55.800 --> 0:24:57.960 I've been looking for a duplicates manager, I'm not sure 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:01.520 this is one hundred percent for finding all those duplicate photos, 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:03.679 but it will help you in the process of finding 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:07.240 those duplicate files. You can say if you want to 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:10.120 do the downloaded files, the large files, or the duplicate files. 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:13.320 This is kind of an alternative to the mainstay, which 0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:16.399 is C Cleaner. I know that I feel like that 0:25:16.440 --> 0:25:19.200 has mixed reviews online. Some people love it, some people 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:21.560 don't like it. But a lot of people when they're 0:25:21.560 --> 0:25:23.959 trying to speed up their system clear out stuff, they 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:26.680 download anything they find on the internet to help them. 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:30.120 Be careful when you do that. Not all programs are 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:33.040 treated equally. But this is a program that is put 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:37.359 out by Microsoft. You can find it in the Microsoft Store. Again, 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:40.760 it is called PC Manager. I'll put a link on 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:43.080 the show notes as well. But this is only for 0:25:43.160 --> 0:25:46.840 Windows ten or Windows eleven, but new version this week. 0:25:46.840 --> 0:25:48.560 If you want to clean up your hard drive remove 0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:52.359 some of the stuff that's in there. It also removes 0:25:52.359 --> 0:25:56.159 temporary files and clears out the Windows Update cash. So 0:25:56.640 --> 0:26:00.720 there it is PC Manager eighty eight. 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So Rich on tech dot 0:27:18.920 --> 0:27:22.360 TV and just go sign up. It is free. Let's 0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:25.760 go to Kathy in Orange County, California. Kathy, you're on 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:26.200 with Rich. 0:27:26.720 --> 0:27:30.080 Hi, thanks for taking my call. I have a Sansung 0:27:30.440 --> 0:27:34.160 Galaxy twenty three and I just downloaded like the one 0:27:34.480 --> 0:27:38.320 I U six point one or something. Ye, yes, yeah, 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:42.320 that one. So now when I text, it's the voice 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:45.960 texting is gone, the microphone to voice text is gone. 0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:50.200 All there is is the ability to record a text 0:27:50.200 --> 0:27:51.200 message and send it. 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:55.720 Okay, what what app are you using for your for 0:27:55.760 --> 0:27:57.119 your keyboard? Do you know? 0:27:59.119 --> 0:27:59.719 I don't know. 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:01.720 So do you have your phone with you? 0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:02.600 I do? 0:28:02.680 --> 0:28:05.520 Okay, you got to go into settings, okay, and we're 0:28:05.520 --> 0:28:08.480 going to go into keyboard so you can just search 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:13.639 for keyboard. Let's see keyboard so general management. So if 0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:16.240 you go into general management, okay. 0:28:17.160 --> 0:28:19.440 I think it's Samsung. 0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:21.600 Okay, So if it's a Samsung keyboard, you probably just 0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:23.879 have to re enable it. So if you go in 0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:28.959 there where it says keyboard list and default does it 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:32.240 so it says Samsung keyboard. And then if you go 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:35.920 in there let's see here, I'm looking for the uh yeah, 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:38.560 so voice typing? Do you have voice typing? Is it 0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:39.520 toggled on or off? 0:28:43.520 --> 0:28:45.200 I don't see voice typing? 0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:50.120 Okay, So if you go into your Samsung keyboard under 0:28:50.200 --> 0:28:52.640 keyboard list in de fall right, I mean I'm looking 0:28:52.680 --> 0:28:55.120 at mine right now, says Samsung Keyboard, and then it 0:28:55.160 --> 0:28:58.600 says for me, I haven't selected as Google voice typing 0:28:58.640 --> 0:29:02.200 because I like Google to be on there, so it 0:29:02.240 --> 0:29:05.360 doesn't show you that on there. Huh. Now okay, so 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:07.600 what if we let's see, let me try a different ways. 0:29:07.680 --> 0:29:10.680 Let's say we go into the keyboard and okay, so 0:29:10.840 --> 0:29:12.760 in the lower when you go to your app, when 0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:15.080 the lower left hand corner, there's no little voice, there's 0:29:15.080 --> 0:29:20.880 no little keyboard microphone icon, no interesting okay, gone. Now, 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:23.560 so now when you go into your keyboard, so go 0:29:23.600 --> 0:29:26.680 into like a text message. Okay, okay. Now now up 0:29:26.720 --> 0:29:28.160 at the top, do you see the first thing on 0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:30.360 the left hand side is like a little AI kind 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:32.200 of like toggle like two little stars. 0:29:33.280 --> 0:29:37.640 Uh Like, there's like a little camera. There's a phone, 0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:38.480 and then three. 0:29:38.280 --> 0:29:42.680 Dots a camera and a phone and three dots. Hmmm, 0:29:43.280 --> 0:29:45.800 what so you're looking at the keyboard and you see 0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:47.320 do you see a number row at the top? 0:29:50.720 --> 0:29:51.160 Yeah? 0:29:51.240 --> 0:29:53.440 Okay, So above the number road, do you see like 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:57.120 a little gear icon, a little what like a little 0:29:57.120 --> 0:30:01.160 looks like a little gear Oh yeah, okay, so tap 0:30:01.200 --> 0:30:06.080 that okay, okay, Now that should bring you into Samsung keyboard. 0:30:06.160 --> 0:30:07.720 Right, okay, okay. 0:30:07.760 --> 0:30:10.760 Now scroll all the way down, okay, to where it 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:15.880 says voice input. Oh yeah, okay. Now do you have yours? 0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:18.520 Probably says none, Select Samsung or Google. 0:30:19.800 --> 0:30:24.000 It's it's Samsung voice Inputright select Google voice tyking. 0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:26.520 You can if you want, but you can just do 0:30:26.640 --> 0:30:28.680 I mean, Samsung works as well. But you can try 0:30:28.760 --> 0:30:32.760 toggling it to Google and maybe that'll bring it up. Okay, okay, 0:30:32.920 --> 0:30:33.520 now you did that. 0:30:35.360 --> 0:30:36.240 Oh it won't let me. 0:30:36.840 --> 0:30:40.120 Oh it's like great and it won't allow me to interesting. 0:30:40.160 --> 0:30:42.240 Okay, So if you go back to the one before, 0:30:43.080 --> 0:30:45.840 do you have your your voice? Okay? The bottom line 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:47.920 is you got to you gotta turn on voice typing again. 0:30:48.120 --> 0:30:50.480 So the only thing I can think of is perhaps 0:30:50.520 --> 0:30:54.440 you have taken away some sort of permission for your 0:30:54.560 --> 0:30:58.000 keyboard that does not allow it to use the voice 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:00.560 the microphone anymore so the other thing you can do 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:03.480 is go into your settings if this doesn't work, and 0:31:03.520 --> 0:31:06.040 go into your permissions. And so if you go into 0:31:06.080 --> 0:31:10.120 your permissions, you can see your keyboard and it will 0:31:10.200 --> 0:31:14.400 show you if it has permission to use the the microphone, 0:31:14.760 --> 0:31:18.000 and if it somehow toggled that permission off, that may 0:31:18.040 --> 0:31:21.200 be why you can no longer access the microphone. But 0:31:21.360 --> 0:31:23.160 the two things you need to know is just go. 0:31:23.480 --> 0:31:27.360 You gotta you gotta really look through those settings and 0:31:27.440 --> 0:31:30.440 look for that that keyboard or the voice setting and 0:31:30.480 --> 0:31:32.400 make sure you can turn that on. If you can't, 0:31:33.160 --> 0:31:35.040 then I would say you have to go into your 0:31:35.040 --> 0:31:38.600 permissions and see if you can set that on. The 0:31:38.600 --> 0:31:40.600 only other thing I would I would say you can 0:31:40.640 --> 0:31:45.000 do is when you're in your Samsung keyboard settings, you 0:31:45.040 --> 0:31:49.360 can click reset to default settings, and that might that 0:31:49.440 --> 0:31:51.640 might switch everything back on. Like the first time you 0:31:51.640 --> 0:31:54.720 open up your keyboard, it may then show you the 0:31:54.960 --> 0:31:57.840 I'm gonna do reset keyboard settings. And then the first 0:31:57.880 --> 0:32:00.120 time that you open up that Samsung keyboard again and 0:32:00.520 --> 0:32:02.480 it may ask you if you want to use the 0:32:02.560 --> 0:32:04.760 voice input, but I'm tapping it and I've got the 0:32:05.960 --> 0:32:08.200 I've got the one UI six point one right on 0:32:08.280 --> 0:32:10.600 there and I am seeing it, so it's not it 0:32:10.640 --> 0:32:14.160 has not gone away. It is just somehow deactivated on 0:32:14.200 --> 0:32:16.720 your device. But you do have to just kind of 0:32:16.720 --> 0:32:19.480 look through those settings and anything you see that has voice, 0:32:19.800 --> 0:32:21.720 make sure it's toggled on and make sure that you 0:32:21.800 --> 0:32:26.360 are allowing that permissions to access the microphone because that 0:32:26.440 --> 0:32:30.120 might have been toggled off in the process. Email me, Kathy, 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:32.120 please with the update, because I don't want to go 0:32:32.160 --> 0:32:34.480 through the whole system right now, because you know, obviously 0:32:34.560 --> 0:32:36.720 we have limited time. But that is where you'll find it. 0:32:37.160 --> 0:32:40.600 Thanks for the question. Today we got an email question. 0:32:40.840 --> 0:32:44.360 Let's see here. Kate says he's traveling to the UK 0:32:44.880 --> 0:32:46.760 and I would like to know the best apps for 0:32:47.400 --> 0:32:50.719 getting ride shares and taxis, finding a self guided walking 0:32:50.760 --> 0:32:53.600 tour of a city and its major sites, and the 0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:58.480 best Beatles tour in Liverpool. And thanks already for wiki voyage. 0:32:58.520 --> 0:33:01.080 It is a fantastic overview site, although the info is 0:33:01.160 --> 0:33:02.840 kind of twenty twenty one is so I hope they 0:33:02.920 --> 0:33:06.560 keep it current. Thank you, Kate. Kate, it's funny you 0:33:06.560 --> 0:33:10.240 say this. They're actually adding in this travel itinerary like 0:33:10.240 --> 0:33:13.040 this exact question. You'll be able to ask Google very soon, 0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:16.280 and so just in time for summer planning, they're going 0:33:16.320 --> 0:33:19.200 to do this new AI trip itinerary thing which is 0:33:19.240 --> 0:33:22.800 going to be game changing. But until then, two things 0:33:22.840 --> 0:33:25.760 that I would recommend. Number one, brand new website called 0:33:26.000 --> 0:33:31.640 mind trip dot Ai. Mind trip dot Ai, I pasted 0:33:31.640 --> 0:33:34.600 your question in there and it tells me that for 0:33:34.720 --> 0:33:37.120 ride shares and taxis, you want to use Uber or 0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:40.280 free Now, and I will tell you my experience. Free 0:33:40.320 --> 0:33:42.440 Now was what I use when I went to Europe, 0:33:42.520 --> 0:33:44.960 and it's what I recommend to everyone. It's a little 0:33:44.960 --> 0:33:48.160 bit more popular, but it's much more taxi oriented, whereas 0:33:48.280 --> 0:33:50.840 Uber is you know obviously Uber. And then it tells 0:33:51.080 --> 0:33:55.040 for self guiding walking tours Rick Steves pocket Guide and 0:33:55.080 --> 0:33:58.680 then regarding the best Beatles tour in Liverpool, it also 0:33:58.760 --> 0:34:02.000 has that information as well. Uh. The other thing I 0:34:02.040 --> 0:34:07.120 would recommend is guide geek dot Ai. Guide geek dot Ai. 0:34:07.360 --> 0:34:09.360 Paste your question into there and it should give you 0:34:09.400 --> 0:34:11.799 those answers. But this is the sort of thing that 0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:15.960 AI is just built for. And these two new products, 0:34:16.280 --> 0:34:20.280 both mind trip dot ai and guide geek dot ai, 0:34:20.440 --> 0:34:23.359 are excellent at coming up with these complex answers. Check 0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:25.560 them out. I'll put links in the show note show 0:34:25.600 --> 0:34:28.160 notes rich on Tech dot TV. But this is the 0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:30.960 kind of stuff that AI can really really help you for. 0:34:31.040 --> 0:34:33.560 Of course, you always want to cross reference and make 0:34:33.600 --> 0:34:36.480 sure that the stuff they recommend is still the best recommendations. 0:34:37.200 --> 0:34:39.000 More rich on Tech come your way. Coming up, i'll 0:34:39.040 --> 0:34:42.239 talk about the new accessibility features coming soon. This is 0:34:42.400 --> 0:34:48.600 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 0:34:48.680 --> 0:34:52.040 Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple 0:34:52.080 --> 0:34:55.799 eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four 0:34:55.880 --> 0:34:59.600 two four one zero one, the website for the show 0:35:00.400 --> 0:35:05.560 rich on Tech dot TV. Before the break, we had 0:35:05.680 --> 0:35:09.680 Kathy call in and she was perplexed because she could 0:35:09.760 --> 0:35:14.280 not find the voice typing input on her Samsung phone. 0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:16.800 Get a lot of emails, a lot of phone calls, 0:35:17.040 --> 0:35:18.680 Scott and Anaheim, you have the answer. 0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:19.840 Yes. 0:35:20.120 --> 0:35:23.520 When the UI update came on to the Samsung twenty three, 0:35:23.640 --> 0:35:27.319 originally the speak to text microphone was in the bar 0:35:27.440 --> 0:35:31.680 across the top of the keyboard. They moved the microphone 0:35:31.960 --> 0:35:34.319 icon and made it a lot smaller and put it 0:35:34.360 --> 0:35:37.960 in the bottom left corner of the screen. And I 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:40.960 think that's that's the problem. A lot of my coworkers 0:35:41.000 --> 0:35:42.640 have had as well. They just couldn't find it. 0:35:42.880 --> 0:35:47.319 Yeah, and I just I got about a dozen responses 0:35:47.360 --> 0:35:50.520 on Twitter and email people all saying the same thing. 0:35:50.560 --> 0:35:52.640 They moved it to the lower left hand corner. Now 0:35:52.800 --> 0:35:55.640 here's the funny thing, Scott. You know, like I don't 0:35:55.760 --> 0:35:58.560 use the Samsung keyboard, I use g board, so I 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:00.640 you know, my microphone is up in the upper right 0:36:00.640 --> 0:36:03.800 hand corner. But it's funny. When I first opened the keyboard, 0:36:03.880 --> 0:36:06.000 I said, well, there it is right there at the bottom. 0:36:06.200 --> 0:36:09.160 Like I found it in about two seconds. But maybe 0:36:09.160 --> 0:36:11.640 I understand if you're looking in the same place over 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:14.560 and over and they change it, you're not good at 0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:16.840 Maybe you're just not looking in the lower left hand corner. 0:36:16.920 --> 0:36:17.160 So that. 0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:19.640 But she also said that something was great out which 0:36:19.680 --> 0:36:23.680 made it seem like maybe something else changed. But hopefully 0:36:24.280 --> 0:36:28.000 that's the deal. But thanks for the call, Scott, appreciate it. 0:36:28.360 --> 0:36:31.160 But yes, if you're looking for the you know, if 0:36:31.160 --> 0:36:33.080 you're looking on the update, you just got the new 0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:36.200 update on the Samsung phone. The voice to text is 0:36:36.200 --> 0:36:40.479 now in the lower left hand corner. Coming up this hour, 0:36:40.880 --> 0:36:42.920 C Scott Brown is going to join us. He is 0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:46.759 senior editor at Android Authority. He's going to discuss all 0:36:46.800 --> 0:36:51.400 of the changes coming to Android. Yes, one thing is 0:36:52.120 --> 0:36:54.680 inevitable in the tech world. There will be lots of changes. 0:36:54.840 --> 0:36:58.040 That's kind of how it goes, all right. So this 0:36:58.080 --> 0:37:02.120 week was Global Accessibility the Awareness Day, and so all 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:05.640 of the major companies, Apple, Google, Samsung, they all came 0:37:05.680 --> 0:37:09.200 out with updates about what they're doing to make their 0:37:09.239 --> 0:37:13.120 phones more accessible to more people. And so Google has 0:37:13.120 --> 0:37:15.120 a whole bunch of stuff that they are doing, and 0:37:15.200 --> 0:37:17.320 let me go through theirs first, and I'll do Apple, 0:37:17.400 --> 0:37:22.280 then I'll do Samsung. So Google is improving Lookout. Lookout 0:37:22.360 --> 0:37:25.000 helps people with blindness and low vision use their phone's 0:37:25.000 --> 0:37:27.320 camera to get more information about the world around them. 0:37:27.719 --> 0:37:30.880 Now they're providing a way to find specific objects, so 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:34.600 you can select from categories like seating, tables, bathrooms, and 0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:37.759 when you move your camera around, Lookout will notify you 0:37:37.800 --> 0:37:41.319 in the direction and the distance to the item. Then 0:37:41.360 --> 0:37:44.719 they're also doing a text free mode to communicate using 0:37:44.800 --> 0:37:48.520 look to Speak, so you can select pre written customizable 0:37:48.520 --> 0:37:53.080 phrases with your eyes and have them spoken aloud. So 0:37:53.320 --> 0:37:56.120 starting today you've got a text free mode. You can 0:37:56.120 --> 0:38:00.160 also select and personalized emoji symbols and photos to activate speech. 0:38:00.640 --> 0:38:04.160 So this new feature, they say, is to make communicating 0:38:04.200 --> 0:38:09.160 more accessible to people with cognitive differences, literacy challenges, and 0:38:09.239 --> 0:38:11.880 language barriers. So you can literally look at an emoji 0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:15.920 and it will speak that. Let's see what else. Then 0:38:15.920 --> 0:38:20.040 they've got a hands free cursor for Android developers. So 0:38:20.200 --> 0:38:24.799 starting this week, developers can access Project Game Phase, which 0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:27.480 is going to mean that they can move a cursor 0:38:27.520 --> 0:38:32.520 around on the screen. Let's see open face. Oh wow, 0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:35.080 that's interesting, a hands free cursor. Okay, So yeah, Google, 0:38:35.719 --> 0:38:39.239 Apple's doing something very similar in Google Maps. You can 0:38:39.280 --> 0:38:43.880 get more detailed voice guidance for blind or low vision users. 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:48.200 That's available globally on Android and iOS. And then let's 0:38:48.239 --> 0:38:52.000 see what else. Accessibility information. More than fifty million places 0:38:52.040 --> 0:38:55.680 are marked with accessibility details. That is expanding to desktop. 0:38:55.800 --> 0:38:58.920 So that was on mobile, now you can get that 0:38:58.960 --> 0:39:00.319 on desktop and I always do that. 0:39:00.800 --> 0:39:01.000 I know. 0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:03.000 They made a big push a couple of years ago 0:39:03.520 --> 0:39:06.840 to have people like myself that fill in information on 0:39:06.920 --> 0:39:11.640 Google Maps to tell if there is accessibility entrances at places, 0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:14.439 like wheelchair accessible entrances, and I try to always help 0:39:14.440 --> 0:39:20.160 with that. Okay, so what else Apple, They've got a 0:39:20.200 --> 0:39:23.320 whole bunch of things. Their most notable is IE tracking, 0:39:23.800 --> 0:39:27.439 so they are introducing hands free I tracking on the 0:39:27.480 --> 0:39:31.720 iPad and the iPhone, so people can only use their eyes. 0:39:32.000 --> 0:39:35.160 So this is for people obviously with physical disabilities. They 0:39:35.160 --> 0:39:37.920 will be able to control their iPad or iPhone using 0:39:38.040 --> 0:39:40.720 just their eyes just by looking at stuff on the screen. 0:39:41.239 --> 0:39:44.560 So the front facing camera notices where their eyes are looking, 0:39:45.040 --> 0:39:48.480 and it uses AI to kind of figure out when 0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:51.680 they stop on something and hover that will select or 0:39:51.680 --> 0:39:55.400 they can swipe things. So this is a pretty pretty 0:39:55.440 --> 0:39:58.040 amazing paradigm shift for the use of the iPad or 0:39:58.080 --> 0:40:02.240 the iPhone for someone with a disability, because that means 0:40:02.280 --> 0:40:05.560 that they can now control this device without any additional 0:40:05.600 --> 0:40:09.040 hardware or software. It's all built into the operating system 0:40:09.080 --> 0:40:12.920 that's coming later this year. Music Haptics they're also introducing 0:40:12.960 --> 0:40:15.560 allows deaf or heart of hearing users to experience music 0:40:15.560 --> 0:40:20.000 through iPhones Tactic Engine that will integrate with Apple Music 0:40:20.040 --> 0:40:22.839 and then third party apps with They can also tap 0:40:22.840 --> 0:40:26.920 into that as well. Vocal Shortcuts users can create customs 0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:31.280 sounds to perform tasks, and then they also have vehicle 0:40:31.320 --> 0:40:33.360 motion cues. So if you're the type of person that 0:40:33.400 --> 0:40:36.520 gets car sick when you're looking at your smartphone, they 0:40:36.600 --> 0:40:40.040 now have this new system that uses animated dots to 0:40:40.080 --> 0:40:43.400 help your brain kind of like understand that the cars 0:40:43.440 --> 0:40:46.800 in motion, and I guess that helps you with motion sickness. 0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:52.080 Let's see. There's also car Play updates, Vision OS enhancements. 0:40:52.160 --> 0:40:57.239 That's you know with the with the their VR headset. 0:40:57.360 --> 0:41:00.279 Not many people have that. Let's see now when it 0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:03.560 comes to Samsung, this is something you can already access 0:41:03.640 --> 0:41:06.200 now it is live. I checked forward on my phone. 0:41:06.520 --> 0:41:11.880 It's called re relumina. How do you say this Relumineo mode. 0:41:12.520 --> 0:41:16.120 And this was initially introduced on TVs to help people 0:41:16.200 --> 0:41:20.439 with vision impairments. Now it's coming to Samsung's smartphones they say, 0:41:20.480 --> 0:41:25.440 select Samsung Galaxy smartphones. So this was a feature for 0:41:25.520 --> 0:41:30.440 smart TVs. It enhances the visuals for low vision. So 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:36.000 this improves visibility by outlining objects, enhancing contrast, adjusting brightness, 0:41:36.040 --> 0:41:40.759 and sharpening images, making content clearer for people with vision impairments. 0:41:41.280 --> 0:41:44.040 So this was originally shown off. I remember this at 0:41:44.080 --> 0:41:46.919 CS twenty twenty three, and they showed it off again 0:41:46.960 --> 0:41:50.760 at Samsung CS twenty twenty four, but now it's available 0:41:50.760 --> 0:41:54.600 on your Samsung phone. So my recommendation if you have 0:41:54.920 --> 0:42:01.799 any sort of accessibility issues, go into the settings on 0:42:01.840 --> 0:42:06.719 your phone and go into the accessibility because there are 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:10.080 so many features available to you these days compared to 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:13.600 just a couple of years ago on the iPhone, on Samsung, 0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:17.840 on Google, on Android, and there's just so many little 0:42:17.880 --> 0:42:20.800 features that you can tap into and activate. So I 0:42:20.800 --> 0:42:23.760 would definitely recommend doing that because they continue to update 0:42:23.800 --> 0:42:27.040 these things. Again the website, rich on tech dot TV, 0:42:27.120 --> 0:42:30.840 I'll link up everything that I just mentioned. Let's go 0:42:30.880 --> 0:42:34.799 to Angie in Los Angeles. Angie, how are you doing today? 0:42:34.880 --> 0:42:35.640 Welcome to the show. 0:42:36.760 --> 0:42:39.440 Hi, thank you for taking my call. I love your show. 0:42:39.600 --> 0:42:39.960 Thanks. 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:44.320 I'm looking for just give you a little bit of background. 0:42:44.360 --> 0:42:48.000 This is for a person who's in their early eighties 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:51.680 picking out a phone. They had that keyboard flip phone 0:42:51.719 --> 0:42:54.359 for a while, loved it. They stopped making it. They 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:57.319 told them told her that she needed to upgrade to 0:42:57.400 --> 0:43:00.279 a smartphone. So now she's using a motor role up 0:43:00.920 --> 0:43:04.920 motorall was seven to be specific, and now wants to 0:43:05.040 --> 0:43:10.000 replace this phone. But looking for something and hearing your 0:43:10.000 --> 0:43:14.640 intro about the all the you know, adaptive uh features 0:43:14.680 --> 0:43:17.640 on a lot of new phones. Sounds great. She does 0:43:17.719 --> 0:43:23.080 have hearing issues, but no real vision problems other than readers, 0:43:23.120 --> 0:43:27.840 and wants something very simple, doesn't use the internet. Loved 0:43:27.920 --> 0:43:32.920 the keyboard that was on the previous older phone. 0:43:32.800 --> 0:43:36.360 But you mean had a physical keyboard or keypad. 0:43:37.280 --> 0:43:39.759 No, it had a physical It was like a keep 0:43:39.760 --> 0:43:42.000 had the flip phone with the little keypad and you 0:43:42.200 --> 0:43:43.680 just punched the you know. 0:43:43.840 --> 0:43:44.359 It was like. 0:43:46.040 --> 0:43:48.279 Looked similar to one of the ones you profiled on 0:43:48.600 --> 0:43:53.120 qtl A one time where they had an actual physical keypad. 0:43:53.520 --> 0:43:55.960 And I forgot the brand the name of that phone. 0:43:56.200 --> 0:43:58.800 I know that you profiled at a one of your 0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:03.520 segment's song a TLA. But she's just kind of looking. 0:44:03.280 --> 0:44:07.160 For something simple, something really simple. 0:44:08.040 --> 0:44:10.759 Yeah, and the Motorolas. I'm looking at some of the 0:44:10.800 --> 0:44:14.520 newer Motorolas and they really don't get good reviews. But 0:44:15.120 --> 0:44:17.799 the phone is really hard to I mean for an 0:44:17.880 --> 0:44:21.479 iPhone user myself, who previously had a Samsum and came 0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:25.080 from an android's family, I find her phone very cumbersome 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:28.440 to use for real person, Yeah, I mean the steps 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:30.799 she has to go through to delete a phone number is, 0:44:31.200 --> 0:44:32.960 you know, kind of ridiculous. 0:44:33.360 --> 0:44:36.520 Okay, well, a couple a couple of resources. Number one, 0:44:36.840 --> 0:44:39.920 there's a website called dumb Wireless. I talked about them 0:44:39.960 --> 0:44:41.960 on KTLA and we showed a couple of phones. So 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:44.960 that may give you some ideas for phones. Like I'm 0:44:44.960 --> 0:44:47.759 looking at this punk phone p U n k T. 0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:50.800 I don't know how they say it, but that looks 0:44:50.800 --> 0:44:53.360 like it'd be really simple. It has the physical buttons. 0:44:53.680 --> 0:44:55.480 It doesn't have a full keyboard, but it's got the 0:44:55.520 --> 0:44:57.920 you know, main number dial keys and all that stuff. 0:44:58.640 --> 0:45:00.400 So that may be a place to kind of just 0:45:00.440 --> 0:45:03.479 get some ideas for things. That's the first place i'd look. 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:07.600 At the c SUN conference, I also showed off this 0:45:07.920 --> 0:45:13.520 phone company called blind Shell blind Shell, and that is 0:45:13.520 --> 0:45:17.000 a phone that's very very simple. It speaks everything. It's 0:45:17.320 --> 0:45:21.200 primarily made for low vision users. But I asked the 0:45:21.239 --> 0:45:23.560 people and I said, can't anyone that kind of like 0:45:23.640 --> 0:45:27.000 just wants a really simple smartphone use this? And they said, yeah, absolutely. 0:45:27.840 --> 0:45:30.400 But the problem with that phone is it's a little expensive, 0:45:30.480 --> 0:45:32.400 so it may be more expensive than you want to 0:45:32.440 --> 0:45:36.280 spend on a smartphone. The other thing is that Samsung 0:45:36.400 --> 0:45:39.919 actually has what's called easy Mode on all of their smartphones. 0:45:40.520 --> 0:45:43.760 And when you activate easy Mode, it's like really simple. 0:45:43.800 --> 0:45:46.799 All the buttons, all the icons, everything becomes bigger. It 0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:49.480 gets rid of all the nonsense and all the extra 0:45:49.640 --> 0:45:52.120 functions and stuff. It kind of puts them like a 0:45:52.200 --> 0:45:54.120 step back, so you don't need to worry about all 0:45:54.160 --> 0:45:57.640 those But that is a great way to just make 0:45:57.680 --> 0:46:01.360 any Samsung phone very simple. And it's called easy Mode. 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:04.719 So if you go to settings display and just hit 0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:09.080 easy Mode, it really does a lot of things. So 0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:12.480 what it does is it makes bigger on screen items, 0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:15.560 a longer touch and whold delay to prevent accidental actions. 0:46:15.600 --> 0:46:19.000 That's a huge issue with especially some folks that are 0:46:19.040 --> 0:46:23.040 using their phones high contrast keyboard for better readability. And 0:46:23.800 --> 0:46:26.120 it's just a much easier way to use your smartphone. 0:46:26.160 --> 0:46:28.960 And that you could just get the basic Samsung S 0:46:29.000 --> 0:46:31.279 twenty four, even the S twenty three from last year, 0:46:31.400 --> 0:46:34.440 the standard one and put it into easy Mode, and 0:46:34.480 --> 0:46:36.799 then that will be a lot easier for her to use. 0:46:37.200 --> 0:46:39.520 So I think that those are some good resources to 0:46:39.600 --> 0:46:43.480 look for, and you know, one of those should probably 0:46:43.520 --> 0:46:47.240 help maybe replace the phone that she's got. Now. Thanks 0:46:47.239 --> 0:46:50.239 for the call appreciate it, Angie rich On Tech Rich 0:46:50.320 --> 0:46:53.000 DeMuro here eight eight eight rich one oh one eight 0:46:53.120 --> 0:46:56.000 eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero 0:46:56.040 --> 0:46:59.920 one coming up. I'll tell you what's new in Iowa 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:02.480 U seventeen point five. Wow, A lot of new stuff 0:47:02.520 --> 0:47:08.239 this week. You are listening to rich on Tech. I 0:47:08.239 --> 0:47:11.040 know I mentioned a lot of resources on this show. 0:47:11.120 --> 0:47:13.400 I know it's a lot, but it's all on the 0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:16.680 website rich on tech dot tv. When you get there. 0:47:16.719 --> 0:47:20.439 If you're listening live, you can hit the lightbulb icon. 0:47:21.000 --> 0:47:24.040 If you're listening later, you can just scroll down to 0:47:24.120 --> 0:47:27.400 the section where it says podcasts and you can find 0:47:28.160 --> 0:47:30.719 show notes for every one of the shows that we 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:34.880 do here. It actually just says podcast It is no 0:47:35.120 --> 0:47:37.440 s on the end there, so you'll see all of 0:47:37.440 --> 0:47:40.000 the shows. You can listen to them. You can search 0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:43.200 the transcript, which is my absolute favorite feature. It is 0:47:43.239 --> 0:47:48.120 so cool. If you hit transcript and you search for something, 0:47:48.160 --> 0:47:50.960 you're like, I know Rich said something about a dumb phone. 0:47:51.040 --> 0:47:54.439 You type in dumb and it will bring you right 0:47:54.520 --> 0:47:56.440 to the section of the show where I mentioned the 0:47:56.440 --> 0:47:59.760 word dumb, and then it will also play that exact audio. 0:47:59.840 --> 0:48:02.319 So it's all synced up. It is such a cool feature. Again, 0:48:02.760 --> 0:48:06.799 Rich on tech dot TV when in your Belinda rode 0:48:06.840 --> 0:48:13.239 In says, iPad, iPad Air, iPad ten or MacBook Air 0:48:13.440 --> 0:48:17.640 M one which one to go for general browsing. Hmmm. 0:48:17.960 --> 0:48:19.879 We just went to the Apple Store yesterday to check 0:48:19.880 --> 0:48:23.279 out the iPad air and the iPad ten. iPad ten 0:48:23.400 --> 0:48:26.000 is getting a little old, but it's a good price. 0:48:26.040 --> 0:48:27.920 Three point fifty. I'd wait for that price to come 0:48:27.960 --> 0:48:30.600 down to about three hundred before I bought it. MacBook 0:48:30.640 --> 0:48:34.440 Air is about six ninety nine. That's a little bit 0:48:34.480 --> 0:48:37.760 older the M one model, and then the iPad air five. 0:48:38.680 --> 0:48:40.480 I think they're up to the six that might be 0:48:40.520 --> 0:48:43.760 the last model. iPad air is gonna be the most expensive, 0:48:43.800 --> 0:48:47.080 But it kind of depends you're saying general browsing. Any 0:48:47.120 --> 0:48:49.399 of these are gonna work. They're all gonna work good 0:48:49.400 --> 0:48:52.880 for Netflix for you know, if you're traveling, I'd go 0:48:52.920 --> 0:48:57.680 with the iPad and if you're staying stationary, I go like, 0:48:57.719 --> 0:48:59.359 if you're trying to do work as well, then I'd 0:48:59.360 --> 0:49:03.080 go with the mac book care Hm, which one would 0:49:03.080 --> 0:49:06.279 I pick? I'd probably go with the the iPad Air 0:49:06.360 --> 0:49:08.560 because it's the newest out of these, and I think 0:49:08.560 --> 0:49:10.799 that you're gonna get the most use out of that. 0:49:11.040 --> 0:49:13.319 It's gonna be a little bit more expensive, but I 0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:15.319 think that it'll be a little bit faster, a little 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:17.560 bit better than these other options because it has the 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:23.600 new M two chip. So that's probably what i'd go for. Yeah, 0:49:23.640 --> 0:49:26.680 that's what I do. My kid, by the way, was 0:49:26.719 --> 0:49:29.839 like I couldn't believe how expensive the iPad was last night. 0:49:30.120 --> 0:49:32.560 He was like, wait, what this thing is like six 0:49:32.640 --> 0:49:34.880 hundred and ninety nine dollars for the iPad. He was 0:49:34.920 --> 0:49:38.720 really rethinking then that the new one is much more expensive. 0:49:38.800 --> 0:49:41.799 Let's see trying to see what version the iPad is 0:49:41.840 --> 0:49:44.680 at this point. It doesn't Yeah, Apple is not good 0:49:44.680 --> 0:49:48.960 about that. Let's go to Rick in Torrents. Rick, Rick, 0:49:49.000 --> 0:49:49.920 you're on with Rich. 0:49:51.719 --> 0:49:53.320 Rich. Let me get you off speaker. 0:49:53.719 --> 0:49:55.320 Okay, Okay, got you. 0:49:56.719 --> 0:49:59.920 I'm sixty nine years old and I've started to have 0:50:00.120 --> 0:50:03.160 a little bit of heart issues, and I decided I 0:50:03.280 --> 0:50:07.640 want a smart watch. But it seems like ninety percent 0:50:07.680 --> 0:50:10.000 of the smart watch is focus more on people that 0:50:10.040 --> 0:50:13.399 are doing sports than your health. I was wondering if 0:50:13.400 --> 0:50:16.680 you know which smart watch has the most as far 0:50:16.719 --> 0:50:18.080 as monitoring your health. 0:50:18.600 --> 0:50:22.360 What brand phone do you have because that makes a difference. 0:50:23.120 --> 0:50:28.320 Well, I've got a Google Pixel eight and I actually 0:50:28.440 --> 0:50:31.240 just got the pixel Watch too last week. Oh okay, 0:50:31.280 --> 0:50:33.719 and I'm wondering if there's one that's going to give 0:50:33.760 --> 0:50:38.040 me more medical information than this one does. 0:50:39.120 --> 0:50:42.319 I think the pixel Watch is. The pixel Watch two specifically, 0:50:42.520 --> 0:50:46.880 is pretty good. They've got the heart rate notifications and 0:50:46.920 --> 0:50:51.200 they're also taking your heart rate at a much shorter interval, 0:50:51.760 --> 0:50:53.759 so they're taking it much more often than some of 0:50:53.800 --> 0:50:56.880 the other smart watches out there, which is you know, 0:50:56.920 --> 0:50:59.200 that's actually very handy if you are trying to monitor 0:50:59.239 --> 0:51:03.280 your heart So. Plus you've got fitbit, They've got Ai 0:51:03.480 --> 0:51:05.440 coming soon, so you're gonna be able to ask it 0:51:05.520 --> 0:51:08.680 all kinds of questions about your health. I think you've 0:51:08.680 --> 0:51:10.440 got a good watch there. I think that that's probably 0:51:10.480 --> 0:51:12.520 gonna be the best bet. Make sure you go through 0:51:12.560 --> 0:51:15.239 the app and set up the uh all of the 0:51:15.280 --> 0:51:20.160 heart rate notifications, so for high, for low, the fall, 0:51:20.320 --> 0:51:22.400 all that stuff. Just make sure you go through every 0:51:22.440 --> 0:51:25.399 single setting in the app and make sure all those 0:51:25.400 --> 0:51:27.319 things are toggled on, because they may not have been 0:51:27.360 --> 0:51:29.920 toggled on the first time you set them up. But Rick, 0:51:29.960 --> 0:51:31.880 I think you got a good watch there. Pixel Watch 0:51:32.000 --> 0:51:35.759 two has exactly what you need there. Eighty eight rich 0:51:35.800 --> 0:51:38.279 one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:51:38.400 --> 0:51:41.359 four one zero one. Coming up, we're gonna talk new 0:51:41.560 --> 0:51:49.120 Android features. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back 0:51:49.160 --> 0:51:51.560 to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with 0:51:51.600 --> 0:51:55.239 you talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one 0:51:56.000 --> 0:51:59.919 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:52:00.360 --> 0:52:04.440 The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. 0:52:05.480 --> 0:52:09.520 Joining me now, C Scott Brown, Senior editor at Android Authority. 0:52:10.000 --> 0:52:13.880 He was at Google Io along with myself, So we 0:52:13.920 --> 0:52:18.759 are going to discuss all of the Android developments at 0:52:18.800 --> 0:52:21.520 the conference this year. Scott, thanks so much for joining me. 0:52:22.200 --> 0:52:23.919 Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here. 0:52:24.440 --> 0:52:27.120 So the last caller was asking about the pixel Watch. 0:52:27.160 --> 0:52:29.080 I know that you wear a pixel Watch. I was saying, 0:52:29.120 --> 0:52:30.640 you know, do you like it? Do you think it's 0:52:30.640 --> 0:52:33.000 good for the heart rate stuff? And your answer was 0:52:33.600 --> 0:52:34.200 you like it? 0:52:34.960 --> 0:52:38.840 Yeah, I love it. I came from the Fitbit Sense, 0:52:39.400 --> 0:52:41.359 which came out I think like three or four years 0:52:41.400 --> 0:52:44.760 ago now, and I kept holding on to the Sense 0:52:44.800 --> 0:52:47.440 because there was nothing that had all the features of 0:52:47.480 --> 0:52:50.880 the Sense and you know that was available, Like the 0:52:50.920 --> 0:52:53.520 Sense did everything, and so the pixel Watch too is 0:52:53.560 --> 0:52:56.120 now the only thing that actually does everything the original 0:52:56.160 --> 0:52:59.960 Sense did, with the downside being battery life. The battery 0:53:00.120 --> 0:53:02.480 life is not as good on the pixel watch Too 0:53:02.480 --> 0:53:04.560 as it is on the Sense, but it has a 0:53:04.600 --> 0:53:06.839 lot more features and it looks better. It looks more 0:53:06.840 --> 0:53:09.239 like a regular watch and stuff. So yeah, so I 0:53:09.280 --> 0:53:09.640 love it. 0:53:10.000 --> 0:53:12.480 And apparently with one of the announcements was that they're 0:53:13.480 --> 0:53:18.040 making war os, I guess better battery efficiency, so maybe 0:53:18.040 --> 0:53:19.600 the battery life will get better on that. 0:53:20.200 --> 0:53:20.839 Yeah, I'm hoping. 0:53:21.239 --> 0:53:23.160 Let's talk about some of the things. First off, you 0:53:23.280 --> 0:53:26.399 just your general impression of Google Io twenty twenty four 0:53:26.840 --> 0:53:28.280 in general, what was your takeaway? 0:53:29.200 --> 0:53:32.040 It was a very different Io for a few reasons. 0:53:32.719 --> 0:53:35.520 The biggest one that I noticed was there was no hardware. 0:53:35.680 --> 0:53:38.920 Not one piece of hardware was announced, and that's not 0:53:39.080 --> 0:53:42.840 like Io. Usually they announced at least something. In the past, 0:53:42.880 --> 0:53:45.720 it's been the you know, the new A series Pixel, 0:53:45.800 --> 0:53:48.439 but they launched that a week before Io this year, 0:53:49.040 --> 0:53:53.280 and they've also teased hardware. They teased the Pixel tablet 0:53:53.320 --> 0:53:56.040 one year. They've done a lot of things like that 0:53:56.200 --> 0:54:00.560 and this just isn't just not this time. So I 0:54:00.600 --> 0:54:03.759 would noticed that first off. And then number two, it 0:54:03.840 --> 0:54:08.919 really felt like Google was trying to speak to its 0:54:08.960 --> 0:54:13.560 shareholders more than speaking to the general public. I feel 0:54:13.560 --> 0:54:17.040 like Google was trying to say to its shareholders, Hey, 0:54:17.200 --> 0:54:19.560 we know we're under threat right now from a bunch 0:54:19.560 --> 0:54:21.520 of different companies, but don't worry. 0:54:21.880 --> 0:54:24.120 We got this. That's what I felt like the whole 0:54:24.160 --> 0:54:24.719 show was like. 0:54:25.160 --> 0:54:28.080 And it didn't feel that reassuring because you know, they 0:54:28.120 --> 0:54:31.839 had the open AI thing right before Google I owe, 0:54:31.880 --> 0:54:34.360 and it's like Google, give us some like like I 0:54:34.400 --> 0:54:36.520 feel like with every show you have to have something 0:54:36.560 --> 0:54:39.200 like tangible that people can do like that day, Like 0:54:39.280 --> 0:54:41.239 the takeaway is like, Okay, you can go to your 0:54:41.400 --> 0:54:43.200 you know, Google dot com and do this and it's 0:54:43.239 --> 0:54:45.440 really cool. But we did see a lot of neat things. 0:54:45.760 --> 0:54:48.000 Let's talk about Android. So first off, one of the 0:54:48.000 --> 0:54:51.480 new features is private Space. Now, if you have a Samsung, 0:54:51.560 --> 0:54:54.120 you may be familiar with this concept of like what 0:54:54.160 --> 0:54:56.719 do they call like secure folder or something, but this 0:54:57.000 --> 0:54:58.640 explained this feature private space. 0:54:59.480 --> 0:55:01.880 So it it's a space where you can put apps 0:55:01.960 --> 0:55:05.520 that need an extra layer of security. So let's just 0:55:05.560 --> 0:55:10.000 say that you know someone who's shoulder surfed you. Shoulder 0:55:10.000 --> 0:55:12.080 surfing is when someone looks over your shoulder and is 0:55:12.120 --> 0:55:14.800 able to figure out your passcode because they've watched you 0:55:14.960 --> 0:55:17.800 enter it a number of times. So somebody grabs your phone, 0:55:17.840 --> 0:55:20.480 they know your passcode, they enter your passcode, and then 0:55:20.520 --> 0:55:21.839 they have full access. 0:55:21.520 --> 0:55:23.360 To your higher phone. They can do anything. 0:55:24.040 --> 0:55:28.360 And with private space in Android fifteen, what's going to 0:55:28.400 --> 0:55:30.480 happen is is that there will be some apps that 0:55:30.480 --> 0:55:33.879 will be behind this private space locker and they'll need 0:55:33.960 --> 0:55:37.480 a different pass code to get into there. So it 0:55:37.520 --> 0:55:40.120 adds this extra layer protection to prevent somebody from being 0:55:40.120 --> 0:55:43.720 able to access, for example, your banking app, or maybe 0:55:43.800 --> 0:55:47.520 a app that has private health information or your photos, 0:55:47.760 --> 0:55:49.719 whatever the case may be. It's a way to make 0:55:49.760 --> 0:55:51.799 it so that they can't get into it, even if 0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:52.440 they get. 0:55:52.280 --> 0:55:53.560 Into your main phone. 0:55:53.880 --> 0:55:56.080 And what's really cool about this feature is that there's 0:55:56.120 --> 0:55:59.680 going to be what I'm calling a nuke button where 0:55:59.800 --> 0:56:01.920 you can hit a button in settings and it will 0:56:02.080 --> 0:56:04.720 immediately erase your entire private space. 0:56:05.239 --> 0:56:08.440 So all the apps in there are just gone, oh wow. 0:56:08.400 --> 0:56:11.719 That's an extra cool layer of protection that they'll put 0:56:11.760 --> 0:56:14.319 in there, so you know, if somebody rushes into your 0:56:14.360 --> 0:56:17.440 home or breaking into you or whatever whatever's happening, you 0:56:17.440 --> 0:56:19.880 can immediately hit this button delete all your important stuff 0:56:19.880 --> 0:56:21.400 and then don't have to worry about that getting with 0:56:21.400 --> 0:56:22.000 the wrong hands. 0:56:22.080 --> 0:56:24.400 And I imagine that also maybe for like if you're 0:56:24.440 --> 0:56:26.640 at the border and they want to, you know, confiscate 0:56:26.680 --> 0:56:28.799 your phone if you're let's say you're a journalist or something. 0:56:28.880 --> 0:56:30.720 I don't know. I mean, there's so many like different 0:56:30.760 --> 0:56:32.960 ways of looking at this. Some people may just want 0:56:32.960 --> 0:56:35.759 to hide some like you know, some apps if they 0:56:35.840 --> 0:56:37.399 hand their phone to their kids that they don't want 0:56:37.400 --> 0:56:38.280 their kids to have access. 0:56:38.320 --> 0:56:38.480 I mean. 0:56:38.520 --> 0:56:41.040 There's the nice thing is that this is available and 0:56:41.040 --> 0:56:44.120 it will be an Android feature, So that's really cool. Now, 0:56:44.160 --> 0:56:47.799 this theft detection lock is a really interesting feature because 0:56:47.840 --> 0:56:50.960 we've heard so much about how people snatch phones out 0:56:50.960 --> 0:56:55.279 of people's hands on like busy city streets and they 0:56:55.320 --> 0:56:57.440 catch them kind of like with the phone unlocked. And 0:56:57.480 --> 0:57:00.000 so again, explain how this feature is going to work. 0:57:00.680 --> 0:57:02.720 So this one is really cool. This was really exciting. 0:57:03.440 --> 0:57:05.560 Yeah, So if you're walking down a city street, you're 0:57:05.600 --> 0:57:08.640 on your phone, you're texting whatever. Somebody who rushes up 0:57:08.640 --> 0:57:10.839 behind you, grabs your phone in your hands and runs off. 0:57:11.280 --> 0:57:12.680 Your phone is probably unlocked. 0:57:12.680 --> 0:57:14.880 It is probably open to something, you know, whether it 0:57:14.960 --> 0:57:17.720 be a messaging app or maybe your photos or camera 0:57:17.800 --> 0:57:20.680 or whatever. And now for the next you know, let's 0:57:20.720 --> 0:57:24.240 just say be to be to be fair, let's make 0:57:24.480 --> 0:57:27.600 thirty minutes. The next thirty minutes this person has access 0:57:27.640 --> 0:57:29.440 to your phone because by the time you get to 0:57:29.680 --> 0:57:33.560 a place where you can remotely lock your phone, they 0:57:33.560 --> 0:57:36.360 have thirty minutes to do whatever they want. And so 0:57:36.760 --> 0:57:40.040 what this step protection lock will do is that it'll 0:57:40.080 --> 0:57:42.760 sense that your phone has been grabbed and run off 0:57:42.800 --> 0:57:45.680 with It'll use the sensors inside the phone to determine 0:57:45.680 --> 0:57:49.400 that the phone has been nabbed and then quickly sped 0:57:49.520 --> 0:57:53.240 somewhere else away from you, and then it'll just automatically 0:57:53.320 --> 0:57:55.960 lock down, making it so you have that time to 0:57:56.040 --> 0:57:58.800 go to your computer or your tablet and remotely wipe 0:57:58.840 --> 0:58:01.880 and lock your phone to do anything with it. Honestly, 0:58:02.040 --> 0:58:04.000 they'll still have your phone. You know, you can't get 0:58:04.000 --> 0:58:05.680 your phone back that way. But at the same time, 0:58:05.680 --> 0:58:08.280 you don't have to worry about them, you know, for example, 0:58:08.400 --> 0:58:12.240 messaging your mom and saying, hey, Mom, I'm in real mind, 0:58:12.320 --> 0:58:14.360 I need you to wire ten thousand dollars to this 0:58:14.400 --> 0:58:17.480 bitcoin address. You know, like that's something that could potentially 0:58:17.480 --> 0:58:19.680 happen if somebody had access to your phone for once 0:58:19.680 --> 0:58:22.240 again just that thirty minute window. So this is a 0:58:22.280 --> 0:58:24.240 really cool protection that I think is going to be 0:58:24.640 --> 0:58:26.840 something that people are really going to appreciate, especially if 0:58:26.840 --> 0:58:27.600 they travel a lot. 0:58:28.000 --> 0:58:30.840 Yeah, and kind of building upon that, you're also going 0:58:30.920 --> 0:58:33.800 to be able to lock your phone now from a 0:58:33.880 --> 0:58:36.439 third like any device, by going to like Android dot 0:58:36.440 --> 0:58:39.640 com sash slash lock. That's not live just yet, but 0:58:39.720 --> 0:58:41.160 you will be able to do that, cause like the 0:58:41.240 --> 0:58:44.320 idea is that you're with a friend maybe and you go, oh, shoot, 0:58:44.320 --> 0:58:46.080 my phone just got taken, like hurry up, give me 0:58:46.120 --> 0:58:48.360 your phone, let me lock my phone, And so you 0:58:48.360 --> 0:58:50.120 can also do that. And then the other thing they're 0:58:50.120 --> 0:58:52.640 doing is what what iPhone has had for many many 0:58:52.720 --> 0:58:55.760 years is this idea of an activation lock where even 0:58:55.760 --> 0:58:58.400 if they wipe your phone clean, they will not be 0:58:58.440 --> 0:59:00.840 able to activate that phone on or a new account 0:59:01.000 --> 0:59:05.240 if it's still linked your Google account. Is that my understanding, Yeah, Yeah. 0:59:05.000 --> 0:59:09.880 That's basically just borrowed from from iOS. Yeah, and that's 0:59:09.920 --> 0:59:11.600 a bit of a double edged sword because it does 0:59:11.880 --> 0:59:14.440 it makes selling your phone a little more difficult, Like 0:59:14.520 --> 0:59:16.120 you have to go through a lot more steps to 0:59:16.160 --> 0:59:18.080 make sure that you know the person that you sold 0:59:18.120 --> 0:59:20.400 your phone to will actually be able to access it 0:59:20.480 --> 0:59:23.760 adetic password. So that's a bit of an inconvenience that 0:59:23.880 --> 0:59:26.080 people who sell their phones a lot are going to face. 0:59:26.200 --> 0:59:29.120 But in the broad scheme of things, I feel like 0:59:29.160 --> 0:59:30.840 it'll do more benefit than anything else. 0:59:31.200 --> 0:59:34.480 So anything else that they announced that really was interesting 0:59:34.520 --> 0:59:36.240 to you, anything else you want to talk about that 0:59:36.360 --> 0:59:38.640 was you know, made public. 0:59:40.040 --> 0:59:45.600 As it pertains to Android, I was excited to see 0:59:46.160 --> 0:59:52.960 that Android fifteen is getting more beta's released to other devices, 0:59:53.000 --> 0:59:57.680 other manufacturers, you know. For the past since February, basically 0:59:58.000 --> 1:00:00.919 anyone with a pixel phone, a recent thing phone has 1:00:00.920 --> 1:00:03.440 been able to try out Android fifteen at its various 1:00:03.440 --> 1:00:06.840 stages of development and all that. But up until I own, 1:00:07.000 --> 1:00:09.840 anyone with a non pixel phone didn't have that option. 1:00:10.240 --> 1:00:12.400 And now there's a lot more manufacturers with their own 1:00:12.440 --> 1:00:15.760 betas out. So if you have a phone from one plus, 1:00:16.080 --> 1:00:20.120 show me nothing. Bunch of other Android manufacturers, you can 1:00:20.120 --> 1:00:22.880 now give Android fifteen a shot, assuming that you have 1:00:23.360 --> 1:00:24.280 a recent phone. 1:00:24.280 --> 1:00:26.960 It's only available for the recent flagships. 1:00:27.360 --> 1:00:29.680 Yeah, and then I would expect maybe in the next 1:00:29.680 --> 1:00:32.720 month or two we'll start seeing Samsung having its own beta, 1:00:32.800 --> 1:00:34.000 so that'll be really exciting too. 1:00:34.200 --> 1:00:36.640 I was going to say, with the notable exception being Samsung, 1:00:36.680 --> 1:00:39.760 because they have such a different system on their phones 1:00:39.920 --> 1:00:43.080 that it's not easily like half the stuff that comes out, 1:00:43.080 --> 1:00:46.280 and Android has already been on Samsung before it makes 1:00:46.320 --> 1:00:49.400 its way to Android, which is kind of ironic. All right, 1:00:49.440 --> 1:00:51.560 We're going to leave it there. See Scott Brown, how 1:00:51.560 --> 1:00:53.320 can folks find you online? 1:00:54.440 --> 1:00:59.000 So my preferred method is Instagram, which is c dot 1:00:59.040 --> 1:01:02.640 Scott Brown Instagram. And then also I'm also on threads, 1:01:02.640 --> 1:01:04.480 so if you find my Instagram, you can just connect 1:01:04.480 --> 1:01:07.320 to my threads. I'm not on Twitter anymore or x 1:01:07.440 --> 1:01:10.919 or whatever it is nowadays. I love there, but yeah, 1:01:10.920 --> 1:01:12.760 Instagram and threads are are the best place to get 1:01:12.760 --> 1:01:13.080 old me. 1:01:13.240 --> 1:01:15.600 All right, there you go, see Scott Brown, Senior editor 1:01:15.640 --> 1:01:18.360 at Android Authority. Thanks so much for joining me today. 1:01:18.760 --> 1:01:22.080 Appreciate that eight eight eight rich one O one eight 1:01:22.160 --> 1:01:25.200 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:01:25.200 --> 1:01:30.040 The website for the show Richontech dot tv. Switching Gears 1:01:30.080 --> 1:01:32.360 coming up. We just talked to Android. Now we'll talk 1:01:32.400 --> 1:01:35.360 about iOS seventeen point five. I'll tell you some of 1:01:35.360 --> 1:01:38.200 the new things available, including a new game you can 1:01:38.200 --> 1:01:40.959 play on your phone. You're listening to rich on Tech. 1:01:45.320 --> 1:01:48.560 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 1:01:48.600 --> 1:01:52.040 out with you, talking technology at triple eight Rich one 1:01:52.040 --> 1:01:55.720 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 1:01:55.840 --> 1:01:58.320 one zero one. If you have a question about technology, 1:01:58.440 --> 1:02:02.240 give me a call. The The website is rich on 1:02:02.680 --> 1:02:08.880 Tech dot tv. Just got an email from Hugo. We've 1:02:08.880 --> 1:02:13.320 been going back and forth about the Sonos app. Soos 1:02:13.400 --> 1:02:16.760 recently updated their app, and I'm telling you, I've never 1:02:17.040 --> 1:02:20.640 seen something ruin a piece of technology like this in 1:02:20.680 --> 1:02:23.280 my entire life. I've got Sons speakers in every room. 1:02:23.960 --> 1:02:27.320 Took me ten years to kind of build that collection up, 1:02:28.000 --> 1:02:31.440 and I love it because I always have something on 1:02:32.160 --> 1:02:34.160 and I love how you can group them and you know, 1:02:34.360 --> 1:02:37.240 listen to all the different services whatever you want. And 1:02:37.320 --> 1:02:39.240 this new app update, I think it came out in 1:02:39.240 --> 1:02:43.680 like May seventh. I can't even use my system anymore. 1:02:43.680 --> 1:02:48.000 It's horrible. I mean, really really bad. What do I 1:02:48.000 --> 1:02:49.600 say at the beginning of the show? I think that 1:02:49.640 --> 1:02:54.120 tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. It's certainly interesting. 1:02:54.680 --> 1:02:58.480 The changes that they've made for the worst useful, they 1:02:58.480 --> 1:03:01.200 get a big zero fun. It took all the fun 1:03:01.200 --> 1:03:04.520 out of listening to any music in my home. So 1:03:06.000 --> 1:03:08.400 let's see the email that they sent to him. He 1:03:08.560 --> 1:03:12.080 forwarded me this email that son No says they've received 1:03:12.080 --> 1:03:15.240 a great deal of feedback thus far on both the 1:03:15.280 --> 1:03:19.760 improvements made as well as where we fell short. They're 1:03:19.800 --> 1:03:21.920 working on going through it all in the coming weeks. 1:03:21.960 --> 1:03:24.240 There's more work that needs to be done on the sonosapp, 1:03:24.280 --> 1:03:27.560 and we want to provide an update. They already introduced 1:03:27.600 --> 1:03:30.360 a software update on the fourteenth. But I'm telling you, 1:03:31.120 --> 1:03:33.760 I'm ready to toss my system out. I can't even 1:03:33.800 --> 1:03:36.360 change a volume on this thing, it's that bad. So 1:03:36.520 --> 1:03:39.360 hopefully they will continue to refine and make my system 1:03:39.480 --> 1:03:41.479 useful again. I know if you have a son Nos 1:03:41.960 --> 1:03:45.320 you are probably feeling the same thing. The systems are there, 1:03:45.480 --> 1:03:47.720 it's just everything has been changed. I kind of feel 1:03:47.720 --> 1:03:51.040 like the woman who called in Kathy about the volume 1:03:52.120 --> 1:03:54.720 button being moved that's the way I feel at my sons. 1:03:55.840 --> 1:03:58.560 Let's go to Linda in Burbank. Linda, you're on with rich. 1:04:00.200 --> 1:04:04.040 Oh yeah, I remember hearing U two three weeks ago 1:04:04.080 --> 1:04:08.200 a man calling in saying how they want to, you know, 1:04:09.080 --> 1:04:14.000 do away with the landlines. Yes, and you know in 1:04:14.040 --> 1:04:19.600 my situation about a couple that shoots a weeks ago? Yeah, no, 1:04:19.760 --> 1:04:23.520 months ago, my cell phone went out on me. It 1:04:23.600 --> 1:04:26.360 wasn't working and. 1:04:25.880 --> 1:04:28.480 I had to have my use by landline. 1:04:28.320 --> 1:04:31.600 To call my cell phone company. Now, if I didn't 1:04:31.640 --> 1:04:34.200 hear my landline, i'd be at the crank. 1:04:35.920 --> 1:04:39.960 Yeah, that's definitely an issue. So you you have a 1:04:40.040 --> 1:04:43.400 landline in Bourbank Conley? Is still interesting? Okay? You know, 1:04:43.560 --> 1:04:45.680 so AT and T, who's the who's the company that 1:04:45.760 --> 1:04:46.880 provides the landline? 1:04:48.200 --> 1:04:48.840 AH and T? 1:04:49.120 --> 1:04:50.960 And how much do they charge you a month for that? 1:04:52.200 --> 1:04:52.400 Oh? 1:04:52.440 --> 1:04:55.320 I don't recall right now, well I really don't. 1:04:55.640 --> 1:04:58.400 So the big issue here is that AT and T. 1:04:58.920 --> 1:05:01.760 Thanks for the call, Linda, pre siate it. The big 1:05:01.800 --> 1:05:05.960 issue is that AT and T in California wants to 1:05:06.400 --> 1:05:11.080 end its designation as what's called a cooler col R 1:05:11.360 --> 1:05:14.840 Carrier of Last Resort. What they're saying is that right 1:05:14.880 --> 1:05:18.360 now in these places that don't have an alternative to landlines, 1:05:18.520 --> 1:05:23.200 AT and T is the specified carrier of last resort 1:05:23.240 --> 1:05:27.240 and they have to maintain those lines until there is 1:05:27.280 --> 1:05:31.600 an alternative. And so they have petitioned the California Public 1:05:31.680 --> 1:05:34.880 Utilities Commission to say, look, can we just drop this 1:05:34.920 --> 1:05:39.680 whole carrier of last resort thing? We'd rather not keep 1:05:39.720 --> 1:05:42.440 these lines up and running because they're too expensive and 1:05:42.480 --> 1:05:45.840 we just don't feel like it. And actually, this week 1:05:46.680 --> 1:05:50.680 a judge at the California Public Utilities Commission is actually 1:05:50.880 --> 1:05:55.440 saying they recommend rejecting this AT and T request. The 1:05:55.600 --> 1:05:58.880 reason they said, there's no other carrier to replace AT 1:05:58.960 --> 1:06:03.160 and T there in its wireline territory. And they also 1:06:03.200 --> 1:06:05.240 went as far as saying that AT and T is 1:06:05.280 --> 1:06:07.560 going around saying that they have to maintain these outdated 1:06:07.560 --> 1:06:10.960 copper lines because of this ruling. California says, no, we 1:06:11.000 --> 1:06:12.800 don't have a rule that says you have to maintain 1:06:12.840 --> 1:06:15.640 these copper lines. What we do have a rule that 1:06:15.760 --> 1:06:18.040 says that you need to have some sort of way 1:06:18.080 --> 1:06:20.920 for these people to get in touch with other folks. 1:06:22.000 --> 1:06:24.960 You can replace these lines with fiber. You can replace 1:06:25.000 --> 1:06:28.520 them with something else. And so there's a little bit 1:06:28.520 --> 1:06:31.160 of a back and forth here with what the exact 1:06:31.440 --> 1:06:37.320 rules are. And so the reality is that, you know, 1:06:37.960 --> 1:06:41.200 and I understand Linda's you know, she's saying that if 1:06:41.240 --> 1:06:43.720 she didn't have her cell phone, she or her land lines, 1:06:43.720 --> 1:06:46.840 she wouldn't be able to call her carrier. The number 1:06:46.880 --> 1:06:49.280 one thing to know that if your phone is not working, 1:06:49.840 --> 1:06:52.280 no matter what in the US, you can use a 1:06:52.360 --> 1:06:55.000 cell phone to dial nine one one as long as 1:06:55.000 --> 1:06:58.760 that cell phone is operable, and even if it doesn't 1:06:58.760 --> 1:07:01.040 have a plan on it, if it can catch a signal, 1:07:01.080 --> 1:07:03.440 it will work on any of the major wireless carrier 1:07:03.520 --> 1:07:07.320 signals to dial nine one one. So in a true emergency, yes, 1:07:07.360 --> 1:07:09.040 you would be able to dial nine one one, even 1:07:09.080 --> 1:07:12.480 if your phone signal is you know, if your phone 1:07:12.480 --> 1:07:15.600 isn't connected whatever you know is having some sort of issue. Now, 1:07:15.640 --> 1:07:18.560 if if the signals are down, yes that'd be a problem. 1:07:18.880 --> 1:07:21.480 But if even if you don't have a phone like activated, 1:07:21.480 --> 1:07:23.920 it will still call nine one one. That's number one. 1:07:24.080 --> 1:07:29.640 Other countries don't have that rule. Number two. I understand 1:07:29.680 --> 1:07:32.800 the idea of these wirelines and people like them, and 1:07:32.840 --> 1:07:36.640 people like them for emergencies, but the idea that the 1:07:36.800 --> 1:07:39.800 cell phone is not as reliable maybe in certain places 1:07:39.840 --> 1:07:42.240 if you don't have a signal, Like sure, I understand that, 1:07:43.760 --> 1:07:45.600 and I'm not trying to say that there should be 1:07:45.720 --> 1:07:48.440 no requirement that you have to have some sort of carrier. 1:07:48.480 --> 1:07:51.280 That's why they're called a carrier of last resort because 1:07:51.320 --> 1:07:55.280 people living these areas don't have an alternative. What California 1:07:55.360 --> 1:07:56.840 is saying is that we don't really care what the 1:07:56.840 --> 1:08:00.040 alternative is, whether that's a voipe line, whether it's a 1:08:00.080 --> 1:08:03.520 cell phone line, whether it's an Internet line, like, but 1:08:03.640 --> 1:08:06.760 you need an alternative. You can't just have these people 1:08:06.840 --> 1:08:09.760 left high and dry without any way to dial their 1:08:09.800 --> 1:08:14.600 friends or family or emergencies. And so I understand, Linda's 1:08:14.600 --> 1:08:17.920 in a populated area in Burbank, So I understand that, 1:08:17.960 --> 1:08:19.280 you know, if you needed to, you can walk to 1:08:19.280 --> 1:08:22.559 your neighbor and get some help that way. But some 1:08:22.600 --> 1:08:25.840 people live in very rural areas that really don't have 1:08:26.040 --> 1:08:29.000 any alternative. The good news is we are seeing a 1:08:29.040 --> 1:08:33.000 lot of other options open up, something like a starlink, 1:08:33.040 --> 1:08:37.160 which is satellite based, which is really really good, and 1:08:37.200 --> 1:08:40.320 so we're just seeing more options. But again this idea 1:08:40.320 --> 1:08:43.880 of the landline is going away. It will go away eventually, 1:08:44.240 --> 1:08:46.360 and we are seeing more and more of these companies 1:08:46.400 --> 1:08:50.200 that provide landlines charge higher fees and also just try 1:08:50.200 --> 1:08:51.960 to get rid of them for all of those reasons. 1:08:53.960 --> 1:08:57.280 Ah okay, what else? Eighty to a bridge one O 1:08:57.400 --> 1:09:00.439 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:09:00.640 --> 1:09:03.920 zero one is the website. If you like what I 1:09:03.960 --> 1:09:06.519 do on the radio show here, I suggest that you 1:09:06.600 --> 1:09:08.679 check out the website because I do have more information 1:09:08.760 --> 1:09:12.000 on there about what I mentioned here. I've got my newsletter. 1:09:12.400 --> 1:09:14.360 Let's see what I mentioned in the newsletter this week. 1:09:14.880 --> 1:09:17.200 A couple things that I think are interesting. I talk 1:09:17.240 --> 1:09:20.120 about the AI wars. Obviously, I have all the stories 1:09:20.120 --> 1:09:22.880 that I did for TV, so you can watch my 1:09:23.000 --> 1:09:28.280 video from Google Open AI. I talk about how to 1:09:28.280 --> 1:09:31.640 handle data breaches. I look at some the one my 1:09:31.720 --> 1:09:33.960 wife watched this morning. I have the whole newsletter. The 1:09:34.000 --> 1:09:37.320 one she watches is the high Tech cat Accessories. She 1:09:37.439 --> 1:09:41.080 got a kick out of seeing that I've got the 1:09:41.120 --> 1:09:45.040 tech tidbits. So I talk about the best way to 1:09:45.040 --> 1:09:46.479 send a fact. I know you don't have to send 1:09:46.479 --> 1:09:50.120 a fact very often, but my favorite service dropbox facts 1:09:50.160 --> 1:09:53.519 did win Wirecutters test of the best fact services, and 1:09:53.600 --> 1:09:55.559 it is free if you're only sending a few a month. 1:09:57.240 --> 1:09:59.320 Answer a question about how to scan your photos. I 1:09:59.320 --> 1:10:01.880 talk about the best photo scanners if you want to 1:10:01.920 --> 1:10:03.720 do it yourself or send it out. So it's all 1:10:03.760 --> 1:10:06.840 the website. Rich on Tech dot TV more rich on 1:10:06.880 --> 1:10:12.360 Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome back to 1:10:12.840 --> 1:10:15.920 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro coming your way for another 1:10:16.040 --> 1:10:20.679 hour at eight eight eight rich one oh one. That's 1:10:20.760 --> 1:10:24.439 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero 1:10:24.479 --> 1:10:29.040 one coming up this hour. We're talking to Jenny Blackburn. 1:10:29.479 --> 1:10:34.519 She is with Google in charge of Gemini and uh, 1:10:34.680 --> 1:10:38.840 she's gonna explain basically how to use Google Gemini's AI assistant. 1:10:38.880 --> 1:10:42.559 You've heard of chat GPT. This is Google's answer to 1:10:42.680 --> 1:10:46.000 chat GBT. It is quite helpful. It has one key 1:10:46.040 --> 1:10:51.080 advantage and that is, of course the depth and breadth breadth. 1:10:51.120 --> 1:10:55.599 How do you say that word breadth bread You got 1:10:55.600 --> 1:10:57.879 to put the D in there. I guess of Google 1:10:58.560 --> 1:11:02.800 knowledge and so it does have like real time information 1:11:03.040 --> 1:11:06.120 and it's it's pretty good. It's just very different than 1:11:06.160 --> 1:11:09.599 Open AI. She's gonna explain about that. I was talking 1:11:09.600 --> 1:11:12.479 about the pixel eight a earlier. If you want to 1:11:12.520 --> 1:11:14.760 see some of the pictures I captured on it. This 1:11:14.920 --> 1:11:18.760 is Google's brand new four hundred and ninety nine dollars smartphone. 1:11:18.760 --> 1:11:22.720 I've got it right here. It is a great size. 1:11:23.240 --> 1:11:25.760 It's really small and like compact, so if you like 1:11:25.760 --> 1:11:29.680 a smaller phone, it's really nice for that. It is. 1:11:30.160 --> 1:11:32.839 It's you know, it's just very googly. So the software 1:11:32.920 --> 1:11:37.680 is really clean, it's very simple. And the cameras I 1:11:37.680 --> 1:11:40.360 would say the camera is good. I wouldn't say it's excellent. 1:11:40.439 --> 1:11:43.320 I think for point and shoot, like everyday pictures, they're 1:11:43.360 --> 1:11:45.040 gonna look really good. But if you want to see 1:11:45.040 --> 1:11:47.760 some of the pictures that I took on them, you 1:11:47.800 --> 1:11:50.960 can go to my Instagram at rich on Tech. Check 1:11:50.960 --> 1:11:54.000 out the Instagram stories. That's where I posted. Last night. 1:11:54.000 --> 1:11:55.840 We went to the movies. We saw that movie If 1:11:56.600 --> 1:12:00.920 and No, that's the whole movie name If, and we 1:12:01.040 --> 1:12:03.120 took some pictures and so you can kind of see, 1:12:03.160 --> 1:12:06.240 like what the camera looks like. 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I also wanted to 1:15:00.800 --> 1:15:05.280 mention this. So I love to listen to articles because 1:15:05.320 --> 1:15:07.960 I read a lot, but sometimes my eyes are just 1:15:08.040 --> 1:15:09.800 tired and I'm like, you know what, can you read 1:15:09.840 --> 1:15:12.479 this to me? And so there's a couple ways, and 1:15:12.520 --> 1:15:14.280 I mentioned this in my newsletter this week, a couple 1:15:14.280 --> 1:15:17.639 of ways to listen to articles. So there's a brand 1:15:17.680 --> 1:15:20.040 new app this week. I know it's iOS only, so 1:15:20.080 --> 1:15:22.240 if you have Android, please do not come after me. 1:15:22.800 --> 1:15:25.400 But hopefully they'll come out with an Android version soon. 1:15:25.560 --> 1:15:27.720 But I will go through some options that you can 1:15:27.760 --> 1:15:30.719 get on Android. But this is a new app called 1:15:30.840 --> 1:15:36.280 eleven Labs Reader. So if you go to the app 1:15:36.280 --> 1:15:39.800 store on iOS and I'll tell you exactly what to 1:15:39.880 --> 1:15:42.080 type in to search for this. Okay, it's coming up, 1:15:42.120 --> 1:15:46.800 eleven labs Reader AI Audio. Type that in. It only 1:15:46.800 --> 1:15:49.320 has fifteen ratings. That's how new this app is. It 1:15:49.439 --> 1:15:52.600 just came out this week. It's like secret basically. But 1:15:52.720 --> 1:15:57.360 eleven Labs is an incredible AI company and they do 1:15:57.439 --> 1:16:01.519 AI voices, so beach to text. That's what their whole 1:16:01.560 --> 1:16:05.320 game is. And this app is basically a proof of 1:16:05.400 --> 1:16:08.760 concept for their AI voices. So you can paste in 1:16:08.840 --> 1:16:11.320 any text you want. You can paste in a link 1:16:11.360 --> 1:16:14.120 to an article, you can upload an entire PDF and 1:16:14.160 --> 1:16:17.880 it will read the entire thing to you. Again, it's 1:16:17.920 --> 1:16:22.600 called eleven Labs Reader AI Audio and it's excellent. I 1:16:22.640 --> 1:16:25.200 use it yesterday at the gym to just listen to 1:16:25.200 --> 1:16:27.040 a whole bunch of articles that were on my list. 1:16:27.680 --> 1:16:30.640 And I will tell you, because it's new there, it 1:16:30.680 --> 1:16:32.320 was down for a little bit. I think so many 1:16:32.320 --> 1:16:35.479 people are like discovering this that it's kind of of course, 1:16:35.520 --> 1:16:37.400 now that I mention it, it'll probably be even worse, 1:16:37.479 --> 1:16:39.400 but at least you'll have it on your phone. It 1:16:39.800 --> 1:16:42.120 was like an hour yesterday where it didn't work properly, 1:16:42.160 --> 1:16:45.559 but then it worked again now if you want to. 1:16:46.080 --> 1:16:48.120 By the way, the voices are so high quality. You 1:16:48.120 --> 1:16:49.880 can pick from like a whole bunch of different voices 1:16:49.920 --> 1:16:52.240 on there. You can pick one that you like and 1:16:52.280 --> 1:16:54.840 it just reads the text to you. It's really really good. 1:16:55.360 --> 1:16:58.479 So the other options if you want a speech to text, 1:16:58.520 --> 1:17:03.360 these are all Pocket, poc k et Pocket. What they 1:17:03.360 --> 1:17:05.320 can do is really cool is you put you put 1:17:05.360 --> 1:17:07.719 your articles in there and then it will read them 1:17:07.760 --> 1:17:09.960 in succession. So it can just go through your reading 1:17:10.000 --> 1:17:11.120 list and just read them. 1:17:12.080 --> 1:17:12.240 Now. 1:17:12.240 --> 1:17:15.120 The audio is not as high quality as something like 1:17:15.120 --> 1:17:18.559 eleven Labs, but it's still it's totally free. It works, 1:17:18.640 --> 1:17:20.639 and it's really good. And Pocket is just a great 1:17:20.680 --> 1:17:25.080 way to save articles to read later in general. So 1:17:25.120 --> 1:17:26.920 if you're like me, where you're coming across a bunch 1:17:26.960 --> 1:17:29.360 of stuff throughout the day, some things are really short, 1:17:29.439 --> 1:17:32.439 you can tackle them right away. Some things are much longer. 1:17:32.479 --> 1:17:34.040 You want to read them maybe on a plane or 1:17:34.040 --> 1:17:35.599 when you have a minute to sit on your couch. 1:17:36.200 --> 1:17:39.400 Pocket is a great app for that. So that will 1:17:39.400 --> 1:17:42.880 also read your articles out now a premium version of 1:17:42.920 --> 1:17:45.200 this whole thing is called speech a FI, and I 1:17:45.280 --> 1:17:47.240 might have mentioned this on the radio show a couple 1:17:47.280 --> 1:17:51.120 weeks ago, but speech a PI is again they use 1:17:51.200 --> 1:17:55.080 AI voices. The thing is, you can use this app 1:17:55.080 --> 1:17:57.800 for free, but if you pay, you get the highest 1:17:57.880 --> 1:18:00.920 quality voices, and it's good. The only thing I've noticed 1:18:00.920 --> 1:18:03.960 about speech a fy the downside is that sometimes they 1:18:04.000 --> 1:18:06.960 don't completely skip all the nonsense in an article, Like 1:18:06.960 --> 1:18:09.280 if you put an article in there, it may still 1:18:09.360 --> 1:18:12.040 read like, I don't know, just different things that it 1:18:12.040 --> 1:18:14.920 should have cleared out. Like eleven Labs does a really 1:18:14.920 --> 1:18:17.599 good job of just isolating the article, and so does Pocket. 1:18:18.120 --> 1:18:20.280 Speech a FI needs to learn a little bit better 1:18:20.320 --> 1:18:23.120 about how to isolate just the article text. But that's 1:18:23.120 --> 1:18:25.439 a good one and you can. You've got to pay 1:18:25.479 --> 1:18:28.320 if you want like the best features. It's a freemium 1:18:28.400 --> 1:18:32.760 version of things completely free on Android. This is excellent. 1:18:33.439 --> 1:18:38.280 Is called Google Reading Mode, and this is an accessibility feature, 1:18:38.320 --> 1:18:40.920 but it's really really handy and it reads in a 1:18:40.960 --> 1:18:43.439 really nice way. You can set a shortcut so you 1:18:43.479 --> 1:18:45.160 can either have an icon on your screen all the 1:18:45.200 --> 1:18:47.599 time and anything you're listening you're looking at on your 1:18:47.640 --> 1:18:50.479 Android screen. You can just tap this reading mode and 1:18:50.560 --> 1:18:52.479 it will start reading whatever's on the screen to you. 1:18:53.080 --> 1:18:55.840 It also displays it in a nice easy to way, 1:18:56.320 --> 1:19:00.880 easy to read version. And again that's called good Reading Mode. 1:19:00.880 --> 1:19:04.759 That's for Android. It's completely free. It's an accessibility feature 1:19:04.880 --> 1:19:07.559 and it works really well. I have mindset on the 1:19:07.760 --> 1:19:10.880 Samsung where if I'm on an article on a page, 1:19:11.400 --> 1:19:13.280 all I have to do is swipe up with two 1:19:13.320 --> 1:19:16.320 fingers from the bottom of the screen and it immediately 1:19:16.320 --> 1:19:19.600 puts my phone into this Android reading mode. And so 1:19:19.880 --> 1:19:23.559 you can see that, you know, I've got this article up. Actually, 1:19:23.920 --> 1:19:25.519 let me bring up like a real article, because that 1:19:25.560 --> 1:19:28.160 was just a tweet that I brought up. Okay, so 1:19:28.280 --> 1:19:33.800 let's go to This is Stephen and Wired. So I 1:19:33.880 --> 1:19:35.720 bring up the two little swipes and now I can 1:19:35.760 --> 1:19:39.880 just press play and immediately it's going to start reading 1:19:39.920 --> 1:19:42.960 this article. Probably put my volume up here. So there 1:19:43.000 --> 1:19:43.160 you go. 1:19:43.240 --> 1:19:45.719 Close of demos from open Ai and Google that started 1:19:45.720 --> 1:19:47.920 the week's show. There's plenty more disruption to come. 1:19:48.000 --> 1:19:49.840 So there you can get a little idea of the voice. 1:19:49.880 --> 1:19:52.879 You can change the text, you can make it faster 1:19:53.080 --> 1:19:57.720 or slower. And then Safari has something called listen to page. 1:19:58.200 --> 1:20:02.880 So if you're on Safari on the iPhone and you 1:20:02.920 --> 1:20:06.320 tap reader mode, they have a little way that you 1:20:06.360 --> 1:20:08.920 can use just it'll just read the page to you. 1:20:09.880 --> 1:20:12.559 And so again you go into the reader mode and 1:20:12.560 --> 1:20:16.360 then it just says tap AA, then tap listen to 1:20:16.400 --> 1:20:20.400 page and it'll just read the page to you. And 1:20:20.439 --> 1:20:23.160 the other thing is if you're anywhere on your iPhone, 1:20:23.160 --> 1:20:25.639 you could just ask Siri to read this. So all 1:20:25.680 --> 1:20:28.519 you have to say is you know, hey, Siri, read this, 1:20:28.760 --> 1:20:30.519 or I want to listen to this page. And of 1:20:30.520 --> 1:20:32.519 course I just activated every iPhone in front of me. 1:20:33.760 --> 1:20:35.360 But again, these are the kind of things. I mentioned 1:20:35.439 --> 1:20:37.360 all this in my newsletter. So if you want links 1:20:37.400 --> 1:20:40.120 to everything I just mentioned, go to the website rich 1:20:40.160 --> 1:20:42.880 on tech dot TV. It's the first article on the top. 1:20:42.920 --> 1:20:46.800 It says AI wars Google versus Chat GBT. That's the 1:20:46.880 --> 1:20:48.640 kind of stuff that I go through my newsletter. I 1:20:48.680 --> 1:20:52.040 test a bunch of stuff and I explain how these 1:20:52.080 --> 1:20:54.120 things work and I give you options. So instead of 1:20:54.160 --> 1:20:56.240 just giving you the one new app the eleven labs, 1:20:56.439 --> 1:20:59.040 I say, well, here's the alternatives as well. So again 1:20:59.080 --> 1:21:01.080 the website rich on tech dot TV. If you like 1:21:01.200 --> 1:21:03.599 listening to stuff as much as you like reading stuff. 1:21:04.120 --> 1:21:07.760 These uh, these options are really really incredible, all right? 1:21:07.840 --> 1:21:11.120 Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 1:21:11.240 --> 1:21:14.080 four to two four one zero one more rich on 1:21:14.160 --> 1:21:21.439 Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome back to 1:21:21.960 --> 1:21:27.000 rich On Tech. Let's go to uh John in uh Utica? 1:21:27.720 --> 1:21:28.439 Is that? Am I saying that? 1:21:28.520 --> 1:21:28.680 Right? 1:21:28.760 --> 1:21:29.559 Utica? New York? 1:21:30.040 --> 1:21:30.320 Yes? 1:21:30.439 --> 1:21:32.160 Yes, okay, I feel like I should know that I 1:21:32.160 --> 1:21:34.559 grew up in New Jersey and I've been there and 1:21:34.760 --> 1:21:40.479 uh yeah, isn't it like a college there, university there? 1:21:40.560 --> 1:21:42.479 You go, I've been there, so I should know how 1:21:42.479 --> 1:21:44.400 to say that. Oh my gosh. But see, you know 1:21:45.160 --> 1:21:47.720 sometimes you just forget stuff when you get older. How 1:21:47.720 --> 1:21:48.200 can I help? 1:21:49.320 --> 1:21:52.840 I've got too hopefully short questions. The first one is 1:21:52.880 --> 1:21:57.640 when I upload a file to a backup cloud services, 1:21:57.680 --> 1:21:59.759 the date of the file changes. 1:22:01.240 --> 1:22:02.160 Why does it change? 1:22:03.760 --> 1:22:06.759 Because that's when it was received by the backup service. 1:22:07.200 --> 1:22:07.599 Okay. 1:22:09.200 --> 1:22:10.880 You know when you when you look at a file 1:22:10.960 --> 1:22:12.920 that shows its name and then to the right of 1:22:13.040 --> 1:22:14.320 it usually is a date. 1:22:14.680 --> 1:22:16.960 Right, okay, got it? 1:22:17.000 --> 1:22:20.880 When you upload that bit surprised you haven't run into 1:22:20.920 --> 1:22:25.160 that problem no matter who I call out anything. Uh, 1:22:25.200 --> 1:22:27.880 they it's dated at the time that they got it, 1:22:28.000 --> 1:22:29.240 not when it was created. 1:22:29.560 --> 1:22:31.800 Okay, creation date, Okay, got it. 1:22:34.280 --> 1:22:37.400 So so my question is, you know a lot of 1:22:37.479 --> 1:22:42.000 my files are important with that date, stand which disappears 1:22:42.120 --> 1:22:43.879 if it's sent tobacco. 1:22:44.720 --> 1:22:47.360 Well, I mean, so I use drop Box. I'm trying 1:22:47.360 --> 1:22:49.479 to think, let me look in there and see what 1:22:49.520 --> 1:22:52.240 happens when I upload a file. So if I put 1:22:52.240 --> 1:22:57.680 a file into Dropbox, it typically has a couple of 1:22:57.680 --> 1:23:00.679 different ways to look at those files. So I'm looking 1:23:00.680 --> 1:23:04.960 at the modified Okay, so there's modified, and then there's size, 1:23:05.320 --> 1:23:06.960 and then there's a let's see there. I thought there 1:23:07.000 --> 1:23:09.360 was a way to like look at different Okay, there 1:23:09.360 --> 1:23:14.320 you go. So you've got show modified type extension. Yeah, 1:23:14.520 --> 1:23:17.160 just mine just says modified, so that I guess would 1:23:17.160 --> 1:23:19.559 be the creation date. But doesn't the actual file have 1:23:19.640 --> 1:23:21.599 some metadata in it that would tell you when it 1:23:21.720 --> 1:23:23.640 was What are you trying to do? What are you 1:23:23.640 --> 1:23:25.439 trying to figure out which files to get rid of 1:23:25.600 --> 1:23:28.000 or what? You know? What are you trying to do 1:23:28.040 --> 1:23:30.240 with this with these files? 1:23:30.600 --> 1:23:35.360 Because they were taking a specific date and probably had 1:23:35.360 --> 1:23:39.160 a specific place, that's important for me to keep track 1:23:39.240 --> 1:23:39.479 of it. 1:23:40.640 --> 1:23:43.760 Okay, So when you look, when you drill down into 1:23:43.760 --> 1:23:46.120 the kind of the metadata of the file, it should 1:23:46.160 --> 1:23:49.880 have a created date and a modified date? Do they do? 1:23:49.920 --> 1:23:50.640 They not have that? 1:23:52.000 --> 1:23:55.080 How how do I easily get into that data info? 1:23:56.120 --> 1:23:57.519 So if you're looking at the file, are you on 1:23:57.640 --> 1:23:59.000 Windows or a Mac? 1:23:59.800 --> 1:24:02.520 I'm using the Total Commander? 1:24:03.280 --> 1:24:07.280 Okay, so I would I would just whatever you can 1:24:07.320 --> 1:24:09.320 do to write click, you know, to like get info 1:24:09.360 --> 1:24:11.599 for the file. That's what I would do and see 1:24:11.640 --> 1:24:13.320 if that has like a different date. 1:24:15.160 --> 1:24:19.400 But it's funny you're saying that the Windows built in 1:24:19.520 --> 1:24:22.080 file commander will show meta data. 1:24:22.920 --> 1:24:25.400 It should if you're looking at the data like the 1:24:25.439 --> 1:24:29.040 info and the file. Yeah, I don't have a I 1:24:29.040 --> 1:24:29.519 don't have that. 1:24:31.040 --> 1:24:32.240 So it's so I'll try that. 1:24:33.360 --> 1:24:36.280 Oh you know. 1:24:36.479 --> 1:24:38.760 One way I found to overcome that is is it 1:24:38.960 --> 1:24:42.200 a file first, and then when it goes into the 1:24:42.240 --> 1:24:46.040 backup service or in the correct data is there? You know, 1:24:46.280 --> 1:24:47.639 the original data is there? 1:24:47.840 --> 1:24:51.040 Oh right, Okay, that's now. What what are you doing 1:24:51.040 --> 1:24:52.679 with these files? Are they kind of like a backup 1:24:52.720 --> 1:24:54.240 of your system? Or is it a backup of like 1:24:54.240 --> 1:24:55.800 a photo or what? What are they. 1:24:57.560 --> 1:24:58.000 All of that? 1:24:58.080 --> 1:24:58.280 Deal. 1:24:58.400 --> 1:24:59.880 Okay u. 1:25:00.800 --> 1:25:05.120 Yeah, system data, I do not back up because maybe 1:25:05.120 --> 1:25:07.400 that needs to keep its original date. You never know 1:25:07.520 --> 1:25:11.439 what the most kind of files, but my personal data 1:25:11.439 --> 1:25:14.240 files photos of crips. You know, if you if they 1:25:14.280 --> 1:25:17.040 find a photo and they were saying, do you have 1:25:17.120 --> 1:25:18.799 no idea when that photo was taken? 1:25:19.479 --> 1:25:22.160 Well that should be in the metadata of the picture itself, 1:25:22.200 --> 1:25:24.600 like the file. So if you're looking at that picture, 1:25:25.320 --> 1:25:28.320 there should be metadata that's that's saying when that picture 1:25:28.439 --> 1:25:33.000 was taken. That's that's kind of embedded in the file 1:25:33.520 --> 1:25:36.080 and you can look at if you download an app, 1:25:36.080 --> 1:25:38.559 that's the EXIF data e x if. Have you heard 1:25:38.560 --> 1:25:41.640 of that term? Right, so that you should you know, 1:25:41.680 --> 1:25:43.400 you should be able to view the exif data for 1:25:43.479 --> 1:25:47.240 that photo. But again I would in Windows, you know, 1:25:47.240 --> 1:25:49.400 if you if you write click and you know, do 1:25:49.479 --> 1:25:51.320 the properties or whatever, you should be able to see 1:25:51.360 --> 1:25:54.599 the both the creation date and a modification date. And 1:25:54.680 --> 1:25:58.240 in general you can you can also add columns to 1:25:58.320 --> 1:26:03.519 your Windows Explorer that show you know when something was 1:26:03.560 --> 1:26:08.040 created versus modified. So that should help in some of 1:26:08.080 --> 1:26:12.360 these aspects. But with photos specifically, most of the modern 1:26:12.439 --> 1:26:15.960 programs like you know, the Google Photos and things you know, 1:26:16.000 --> 1:26:19.080 they will they will display pictures in order based on 1:26:19.720 --> 1:26:22.760 the metadata. So even if you upload a photo, like, 1:26:22.800 --> 1:26:25.360 for instance, if I upload a photo that I find 1:26:25.439 --> 1:26:30.080 on a drive somewhere that is, you know, an older photo, 1:26:30.520 --> 1:26:32.360 it will still put that in the right place in 1:26:32.439 --> 1:26:35.080 my collection based on the metadata. And by the way, 1:26:35.080 --> 1:26:37.040 there is one trick if you're using I know this 1:26:37.120 --> 1:26:41.160 applies to Google Photos, but in Google Photos, there is 1:26:41.200 --> 1:26:46.040 a way to arrange your stuff by recent So if 1:26:46.040 --> 1:26:49.360 you go into to explore on Google Photos and you 1:26:49.400 --> 1:26:52.720 scroll down, there's a section called recently added, and that 1:26:52.800 --> 1:26:54.599 will put all of your photos in the order they 1:26:54.600 --> 1:26:57.519 were uploaded, even if the dates are different. So that's 1:26:57.760 --> 1:26:59.799 a neat way to look at it. And it's similar 1:26:59.840 --> 1:27:02.439 to the iPhone. So if you think about the iPhone 1:27:02.479 --> 1:27:05.040 the way they organize pictures, if you go into your photos, 1:27:06.600 --> 1:27:09.200 there is a recence, and that's putting all your pictures 1:27:09.200 --> 1:27:11.320 in no matter what the date is, it's just putting 1:27:11.320 --> 1:27:12.720 them in the order you kind of put them on 1:27:12.760 --> 1:27:16.320 your phone, versus the library which puts them in date order. 1:27:16.960 --> 1:27:19.599 So this is good to know. Eighty eight rich one 1:27:19.600 --> 1:27:27.360 oh one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1:27:27.800 --> 1:27:32.599 Rich on tech Rich Demiro here talking technology with you 1:27:32.720 --> 1:27:36.599 joining me or actually I talked to Jenny Blackburn at 1:27:36.960 --> 1:27:40.800 Google all about Gemini. If you haven't tried Gemini, this 1:27:41.000 --> 1:27:44.839 is formerly barred. This is Google's answer to chat GPT, 1:27:45.000 --> 1:27:47.000 although of course they would never describe it that way, 1:27:47.000 --> 1:27:49.360 but this is their AI assistant. You can access it 1:27:49.439 --> 1:27:52.960 at Gemini dot Google dot com. There's also ways of 1:27:52.960 --> 1:27:57.479 getting it on your smartphone. But Jenny Blackburn explains at 1:27:57.479 --> 1:28:00.280 Google Io all the different ways that you can use 1:28:00.360 --> 1:28:05.519 Google's Gemini AI assistant. So, first off, explain what Gemini is. 1:28:06.080 --> 1:28:11.240 Yeah, So Gemini is a conversational AI assistant that you 1:28:11.280 --> 1:28:14.160 can access on the web on your phone and it 1:28:14.200 --> 1:28:16.160 can help you with all sorts of things. So it 1:28:16.160 --> 1:28:19.240 can help you brainstorm, it can help you plan, and 1:28:19.280 --> 1:28:22.240 it can even take action on your behalf with Google's 1:28:22.360 --> 1:28:25.599 apps and services integrated. One of the things that people 1:28:25.640 --> 1:28:27.920 tell me they love the most about Gemini is it 1:28:27.960 --> 1:28:30.040 can help you write and express yourself. 1:28:31.200 --> 1:28:32.840 What about the new features today? What do you think 1:28:32.840 --> 1:28:34.800 are some of the key features that you announced here 1:28:34.800 --> 1:28:36.880 for the average consumer to try. 1:28:37.520 --> 1:28:40.519 Yeah, such exciting announcements today, and I think like the 1:28:40.640 --> 1:28:45.080 overview for me, is it really is becoming this personal 1:28:45.120 --> 1:28:49.080 AI assistant you know a couple examples, is becoming way 1:28:49.120 --> 1:28:53.559 more capable of doing complex tasks, so you can upload 1:28:53.760 --> 1:28:56.559 lots and lots of files or really large files and 1:28:56.640 --> 1:29:00.920 Gemini can help process those. As one example. The other 1:29:00.960 --> 1:29:04.400 thing that I think is awesome for consumers is Gemini Live. 1:29:04.560 --> 1:29:07.680 So Gemini Live lets you have a conversation like you 1:29:07.720 --> 1:29:11.559 and I are having with Gemini in real time, and 1:29:11.600 --> 1:29:14.560 we use our speech technology to just make it supernatural 1:29:14.600 --> 1:29:17.680 and easy to do that. The third thing is we're 1:29:17.680 --> 1:29:21.160 adding more apps and services that you can access through Gemini, 1:29:21.360 --> 1:29:24.519 so you can use Gemini to add things to your calendar. 1:29:25.160 --> 1:29:27.080 For example, you could just take a picture. 1:29:26.920 --> 1:29:30.760 Of a event that maybe your kids got invited to 1:29:30.960 --> 1:29:33.559 and Gemini I'll just add it right to your Google calendar. 1:29:34.040 --> 1:29:37.160 When people are choosing AI to use, what do you 1:29:37.200 --> 1:29:39.040 think sets Gemini apart? 1:29:39.400 --> 1:29:42.320 Well, we're building AI that's great for everyone, and so 1:29:42.439 --> 1:29:45.160 I think what makes Gemini so awesome and what people 1:29:45.200 --> 1:29:48.800 tell us that they love is that integration into the 1:29:48.840 --> 1:29:51.880 apps and services from Google that they use all the time. 1:29:52.240 --> 1:29:54.960 We're also working hard to make Gemini just really easy 1:29:55.360 --> 1:29:57.439 for everybody to use, so you don't have to have 1:29:57.479 --> 1:30:00.400 any special skills. You just ask it or what you 1:30:00.439 --> 1:30:01.160 want and. 1:30:01.080 --> 1:30:03.880 It will help you out about that integration with like 1:30:03.920 --> 1:30:07.679 the different services. I saw they did a Google photos, 1:30:07.720 --> 1:30:09.960 like you can ask what's my license plate? Or when 1:30:09.960 --> 1:30:12.720 did my kid learn to swim? How do you kind 1:30:12.760 --> 1:30:15.640 of balance the privacy of your data and also the 1:30:15.680 --> 1:30:17.759 information that you want to get out of that data. 1:30:17.920 --> 1:30:21.600 Yeah, privacy is super important. We don't train our models 1:30:21.640 --> 1:30:25.720 on any personal information, and everything that you upload to 1:30:25.760 --> 1:30:29.040 Gemini that's personal stays private to your account. 1:30:29.760 --> 1:30:33.000 What kind of improvements are we seeing when it comes 1:30:33.080 --> 1:30:35.920 to interacting with these assistants, they almost feel like a person. 1:30:37.040 --> 1:30:41.200 Yeah, the natural is the goal, and with Live it 1:30:41.439 --> 1:30:45.080 just feels so natural and seamless and so an example, 1:30:45.400 --> 1:30:47.960 you know, I can interrupt Gemini like I would a person. 1:30:48.800 --> 1:30:51.000 You know, sometimes when you use your voice, you have 1:30:51.040 --> 1:30:52.719 to like push a button or you have to say 1:30:52.760 --> 1:30:55.400 things just the right way. But now with Gemini, you 1:30:55.520 --> 1:30:58.280 literally can just say what's on your mind, you can pause, 1:30:58.400 --> 1:31:01.759 you can say and and I just gets it naturally. 1:31:01.960 --> 1:31:04.400 And also I saw the email feature where you can 1:31:04.439 --> 1:31:07.200 now summarize your emails and it can be like an 1:31:07.240 --> 1:31:11.280 assistant in that regard. Explain that feature a little bit, like, 1:31:11.320 --> 1:31:13.200 how are people going to be using that? 1:31:13.280 --> 1:31:16.880 You think users are already using that feature with our 1:31:16.920 --> 1:31:21.040 Gmail extension in Gemini, and now we're bringing Gemini actually 1:31:21.080 --> 1:31:24.080 into Gmail. So if you're in Gmail and you're looking 1:31:24.120 --> 1:31:25.799 at your in box, you have a ton of email, 1:31:26.080 --> 1:31:29.240 you can actually just ask Gemini to summarize that email 1:31:29.320 --> 1:31:31.840 for you and save yourself a whole. 1:31:31.720 --> 1:31:32.200 Bunch of time. 1:31:32.840 --> 1:31:37.559 They showed off a really neat travel itinerary generator. Explain 1:31:37.600 --> 1:31:38.919 what makes that so unique? 1:31:39.000 --> 1:31:42.400 I am so excited about this. So already users love 1:31:42.439 --> 1:31:46.160 to come to Gemini and brainstorm travel ideas. But what 1:31:46.400 --> 1:31:49.839 chatbots typically aren't very good at is understanding the physics 1:31:49.840 --> 1:31:52.040 of the real world, like the fact that you have 1:31:52.120 --> 1:31:55.639 to have time between events and there are opening hours 1:31:55.640 --> 1:31:58.960 and closing hours, and so with this new planning experience 1:31:58.960 --> 1:32:01.920 in Gemini, we've train the models on some of those 1:32:02.000 --> 1:32:06.200 space and time dynamics, and so Gemini can actually create 1:32:06.280 --> 1:32:09.920 a really realistic itinerary for you that takes into account 1:32:10.000 --> 1:32:12.240 how long you have to you know, plan to travel 1:32:12.280 --> 1:32:15.920 between places. And then because of the Gmail integration, it 1:32:15.960 --> 1:32:18.599 can pull in your itinerary to help you get started. 1:32:19.000 --> 1:32:21.479 So I can't wait to use it for my own travel. 1:32:21.520 --> 1:32:23.639 I think it's going to be a killer. The one 1:32:23.680 --> 1:32:26.360 other thing I'll just mention that we announced today that 1:32:26.400 --> 1:32:29.519 I think is super cool speaking of personalization, is something 1:32:29.520 --> 1:32:32.840 called gems, and so this lets users create their own 1:32:32.880 --> 1:32:37.160 tailored versions of Gemini that are four specific things. So 1:32:37.280 --> 1:32:39.719 I have a gem that I've created for travel planning 1:32:39.760 --> 1:32:41.920 for my family and knows what kind of hotels we 1:32:42.040 --> 1:32:44.880 like to stay at, It knows what our typical budget is. 1:32:44.920 --> 1:32:46.439 It knows where we live and how far are we 1:32:46.560 --> 1:32:49.000 like to go, and so you know, you can create 1:32:49.040 --> 1:32:50.800 as many of these as you want, and it just 1:32:50.880 --> 1:32:53.479 it's a great example of how Gemini is becoming so 1:32:53.560 --> 1:32:57.160 much more personal and tailored to your specific needs. 1:32:57.760 --> 1:32:59.880 And what's the goal of all this? What's the kind 1:32:59.880 --> 1:33:03.599 of of you know, end result. Is it really our information? 1:33:03.800 --> 1:33:06.400 Is it Google's information that we're kind of access quicker 1:33:06.520 --> 1:33:07.799 or is it a combination of both. 1:33:08.240 --> 1:33:11.080 I think that the end goal for me is really 1:33:11.160 --> 1:33:14.799 to make everyone have, you know, access to this personal 1:33:14.840 --> 1:33:17.439 AI assystem that helps them live their best life, that 1:33:17.520 --> 1:33:22.400 helps them express themselves better, be more organized save time. 1:33:23.000 --> 1:33:24.160 I think that's the end goal. 1:33:24.280 --> 1:33:26.280 Confused or I think some people may be confused on 1:33:26.280 --> 1:33:29.479 how to access Gemini because we hear this, but it's 1:33:29.479 --> 1:33:32.040 also an app, it's also a feature, it's also a thing. 1:33:32.520 --> 1:33:35.040 So how do people access this tool? 1:33:35.320 --> 1:33:38.840 Yes, we are working to make Gemini available everywhere, but 1:33:38.880 --> 1:33:40.960 if you want to go right to Gemini, you can 1:33:41.040 --> 1:33:44.080 go to Gemini dot Google dot com, and you can 1:33:44.120 --> 1:33:48.200 also download the Gemini app on Android and on iOS. 1:33:48.400 --> 1:33:50.719 You can go right into the Google app and Gemini 1:33:50.920 --> 1:33:52.960 is there. There's a star at the top of the. 1:33:52.960 --> 1:33:54.920 App that you just tap on, and can you give 1:33:54.960 --> 1:33:57.240 me some kind of like hidden tips or tricks that 1:33:57.280 --> 1:33:59.840 people may not you know, if you've never used Gemini, Like, 1:34:00.160 --> 1:34:02.040 where do I start? I know you got the commercial 1:34:02.040 --> 1:34:04.200 with just the prompt, but you know what do I 1:34:04.240 --> 1:34:04.760 say to it? 1:34:05.120 --> 1:34:07.640 Well, yeah, the commercial the cat playing guitar. You know, 1:34:07.800 --> 1:34:10.479 you can just describe an image that you want Gemini 1:34:10.520 --> 1:34:12.679 to make for you, and it will draw that image 1:34:12.760 --> 1:34:14.439 up for you. So that is a really fun place 1:34:14.479 --> 1:34:17.120 to start. The other one I encourage people to try 1:34:17.200 --> 1:34:19.040 is we all have things we have to write, whether 1:34:19.120 --> 1:34:22.400 it's a thank you card or like declining an event 1:34:22.520 --> 1:34:24.639 that you don't really want to go to, you can 1:34:24.680 --> 1:34:26.519 just go to Gemini and say, hey, I need to 1:34:26.520 --> 1:34:29.800 write this message. Here's what I wanted to say, and 1:34:29.920 --> 1:34:32.439 Gemini will write that for you. And so that's a 1:34:32.479 --> 1:34:34.200 great way to get started. 1:34:34.360 --> 1:34:37.360 Since it is so simple. There's no instructions. It's just 1:34:37.400 --> 1:34:40.479 a box that says, you know, prompt, type your prompt. 1:34:40.800 --> 1:34:43.880 I mean, how do you give people ideas on how 1:34:43.880 --> 1:34:45.679 to use this stuff because there's so many like hidden 1:34:45.880 --> 1:34:48.479 features inside. Yeah, we got a challenge. 1:34:48.760 --> 1:34:50.679 Yeah that I think it is super important to help 1:34:50.680 --> 1:34:52.600 people know how to get started. And so when you 1:34:52.640 --> 1:34:54.840 go to Gemini, one of the things that you'll see 1:34:55.040 --> 1:34:58.240 is above that input box, we have some suggestions for 1:34:58.439 --> 1:35:01.479 things that you can try, and if you tap or 1:35:01.520 --> 1:35:04.200 you click on those, it will put that into the 1:35:04.240 --> 1:35:06.080 prompt and you can run through that and kind of 1:35:06.120 --> 1:35:08.760 get an idea of what that response would be like. 1:35:09.200 --> 1:35:11.320 So that's one thing that we're doing to help people 1:35:11.400 --> 1:35:13.840 know how to interact with this. But our goal is 1:35:13.880 --> 1:35:16.800 really that people don't need special expertise. They should be 1:35:16.880 --> 1:35:20.200 able to just start chatting with Gemini the way they 1:35:20.200 --> 1:35:22.440 would chat with a actual assistant. 1:35:23.000 --> 1:35:25.960 And for people that maybe using another assistant like open Ai, 1:35:26.160 --> 1:35:30.519 Chat EBT, probably lesser so clawed, But like, what do 1:35:30.520 --> 1:35:33.080 you say to them, do you think they should try Gemini? 1:35:33.640 --> 1:35:36.920 I definitely think everybody should try Gemini. We're working to 1:35:36.960 --> 1:35:40.480 make it such an awesome, helpful and really fun assistant 1:35:40.680 --> 1:35:43.559 that just helps everybody with whatever they need to do. 1:35:44.560 --> 1:35:48.839 Once again, that was Jenny Blackburn of Google explaining Gemini. 1:35:48.880 --> 1:35:51.960 If you haven't tried it out, definitely do it. It's 1:35:52.000 --> 1:35:54.200 on your iPhone if you have the Google app, open 1:35:54.280 --> 1:35:56.240 up the Google App up at the top, you'll see 1:35:56.280 --> 1:35:59.160 it says search and then there's a little star. If 1:35:59.200 --> 1:36:01.920 you tap that star, it will convert the Google App 1:36:02.000 --> 1:36:05.880 into Gemini and just have some fun ask it some questions. 1:36:05.920 --> 1:36:08.840 It is very knowledgeable. On Android, you can just go 1:36:08.960 --> 1:36:12.759 in search on the play Store Gemini, you can download 1:36:12.800 --> 1:36:15.080 the app and use it that way, and then on 1:36:15.120 --> 1:36:19.519 the web Gemini dot Google dot com. Check it out. 1:36:19.560 --> 1:36:22.760 If you're looking for real time information, like stuff that's 1:36:23.600 --> 1:36:26.080 more so than just ideas and things like you want 1:36:26.160 --> 1:36:28.720 information about where you're traveling or something like that, like 1:36:29.040 --> 1:36:31.680 this is what Gemini is really good at all. Right, 1:36:31.720 --> 1:36:35.240 coming up, we are going to do the feedbag segment, 1:36:35.840 --> 1:36:39.600 that is your emails, your comments into the show. My 1:36:39.720 --> 1:36:42.880 name is rich Sarmiro. You are listening to Rich on tech. 1:36:46.840 --> 1:36:49.080 Before we get to the feedbag, let me just two 1:36:49.080 --> 1:36:52.479 things I wanted to note Google. You know how Google 1:36:52.680 --> 1:36:55.479 search results have gotten really cluttered with all kinds of 1:36:55.520 --> 1:37:00.920 pictures and videos and Twitter and articles and whatever. If 1:37:00.960 --> 1:37:03.400 you want to go back to the old style of 1:37:03.640 --> 1:37:07.880 just text based links, there is now a new filter 1:37:08.080 --> 1:37:11.880 on Google called Web. So the next time you do 1:37:11.920 --> 1:37:16.040 a search, it may pop up as a little button 1:37:16.120 --> 1:37:19.160 underneath the search bar. Like I search for my name 1:37:19.240 --> 1:37:22.559 rich to Mirowna says images, news, videos, Wikipedia, Web. So 1:37:22.600 --> 1:37:26.120 if I tap now web, it gets rid of everything 1:37:26.400 --> 1:37:29.479 except the links. So if you just want a pre 1:37:29.680 --> 1:37:32.720 two thousand and seven Google, you can tap web. It 1:37:32.720 --> 1:37:34.400 doesn't do it for every search, but it does it 1:37:34.439 --> 1:37:36.439 on a search by search basis. So if you're looking 1:37:36.479 --> 1:37:39.320 for just links, there is now a filter on Google 1:37:39.360 --> 1:37:42.360 for links. If it doesn't show the word web underneath 1:37:42.360 --> 1:37:45.960 your search, go to where it says all filters, and 1:37:46.320 --> 1:37:50.040 if you scroll down it'll say web right there. And 1:37:50.160 --> 1:37:53.400 iOS seventeen point five is available now if you haven't 1:37:53.400 --> 1:37:56.920 already updated your iPhone. This has a couple new things 1:37:56.920 --> 1:37:58.840 for the folks over in the EU, but here in 1:37:58.840 --> 1:38:02.240 the US. If you like to play word games, there 1:38:02.320 --> 1:38:06.920 is a new Quartiles game inside Apple News Plus. Unfortunately 1:38:06.960 --> 1:38:10.000 it's only for subscribers, but if you subscribe to Apple 1:38:10.040 --> 1:38:13.680 News Plus, you can access this new Quartiles game. You 1:38:13.720 --> 1:38:16.200 build words, and the longer you build the words the 1:38:16.240 --> 1:38:18.360 letters they give you, the more points you get. I 1:38:18.400 --> 1:38:22.120 tried it this morning. It's very tough. Apple News also 1:38:22.160 --> 1:38:25.519 has an offline mode, so if you fly a lot 1:38:25.600 --> 1:38:28.280 and you want something that's offline and you could download 1:38:28.400 --> 1:38:32.080 your phone. This allows offline access to magazines, newspapers, and 1:38:32.200 --> 1:38:37.479 narrated articles automatically downloads the content. There's from some Find 1:38:37.479 --> 1:38:40.920 My Network updates and a new repair state so if 1:38:40.920 --> 1:38:43.320 you send your phone in for repair, you can still 1:38:43.400 --> 1:38:46.960 leave find My on which is a nice addition. And 1:38:47.080 --> 1:38:50.640 there's fifteen notable security patches. And by the way, if 1:38:50.680 --> 1:38:53.080 you want to find that Quartiles game, open up the 1:38:53.080 --> 1:38:56.559 Apple News app and tap the following tab in the 1:38:56.600 --> 1:38:59.920 lower right hand corner and then tap Quartiles. You'll see 1:39:00.080 --> 1:39:03.200 under puzzles. All right, let's get to the feedbag. This 1:39:03.400 --> 1:39:07.280 is a feedback plus the mail bag equals feedbag. These 1:39:07.280 --> 1:39:09.160 are the emails the comments that I get from you. 1:39:09.680 --> 1:39:11.680 If you'd like to submit yours, just go to Rich 1:39:11.760 --> 1:39:18.519 on tech dot tv and hit contact. James from Tampa, 1:39:18.640 --> 1:39:21.760 Florida says you mentioned you are currently testing Tello. We 1:39:21.840 --> 1:39:25.160 have been using Tello and really enjoy their simple eSIM activation, 1:39:25.840 --> 1:39:30.240 concise invoicing plan prices, ease of changing plans, and their coverage. 1:39:30.280 --> 1:39:33.080 So good, so far, so good, better than my mint 1:39:33.120 --> 1:39:35.360 line in terms of data speeds and coverage even though 1:39:35.400 --> 1:39:38.439 they both use Tea mobile. If I need to call support, 1:39:38.479 --> 1:39:40.880 I get right through to my helpful customer service, even 1:39:40.880 --> 1:39:44.360 though it is offshore. I currently have six eSIMs on 1:39:44.400 --> 1:39:47.840 my iPhone fifteen promacs, only two are active at a time. 1:39:48.560 --> 1:39:51.360 Three of them are playing Tello one hundred minute lines 1:39:51.400 --> 1:39:54.400 with no data because they are special phone numbers vanity 1:39:54.479 --> 1:39:56.599 numbers that are easy to remember that I don't want 1:39:56.600 --> 1:39:58.160 to give up, so I just parked them with Tello 1:39:58.280 --> 1:40:01.040 until I decide what to do. Great show, as always, 1:40:01.280 --> 1:40:04.880 Chow Yes, Tello is a great option if you want 1:40:04.920 --> 1:40:08.160 something that is super simple and gives you a very 1:40:08.280 --> 1:40:12.760 customizable way of creating your phone plan. 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However, Samsung stopped updating that phone in April 1:40:49.600 --> 1:40:52.760 twenty twenty three, so unless he rooted his phone, he 1:40:52.800 --> 1:40:55.280 has gone over a year without an update. Given that 1:40:55.320 --> 1:40:58.800 he also mentioned doing nature photography having a quality camera 1:40:58.840 --> 1:41:00.840 with him all the time. Is I'm port will a 1:41:00.880 --> 1:41:03.719 new phone matches Laika or whatever system he uses. 1:41:04.040 --> 1:41:04.200 No. 1:41:04.600 --> 1:41:08.960 Heck, my Pentax under certain circumstances, especially telephoto, takes better 1:41:09.040 --> 1:41:12.200 pictures of my S twenty four Ultra, but the quality 1:41:12.280 --> 1:41:16.040 top of the line phone cameras is amazing. Anyone serious 1:41:16.040 --> 1:41:19.679 about photography should invest impossible, if possible, in a phone 1:41:19.720 --> 1:41:22.360 with a quality camera. I did think that. After the 1:41:22.439 --> 1:41:24.679 caller said that his S ten was still getting updates, 1:41:24.680 --> 1:41:27.080 I was like, I don't think it is. There is 1:41:27.080 --> 1:41:29.839 a website you can check. It's called end of life 1:41:31.280 --> 1:41:35.920 and it'll tell you when the software is updated. So 1:41:36.360 --> 1:41:38.360 I should come up with the if you just search 1:41:38.439 --> 1:41:40.640 end of life, that does not come. This does not 1:41:40.640 --> 1:41:43.200 come up. I gotta find the link for that website. 1:41:44.000 --> 1:41:48.040 Richard from Murrieta says, Hey, rich I'm a regular listener 1:41:48.080 --> 1:41:50.280 and I want to pass this along if you're inclined 1:41:50.280 --> 1:41:54.479 to inform your audience. Frontier Airlines promotes its go Wild Pass, 1:41:54.520 --> 1:41:57.400 which for one price, offers unlimited flights for the summer 1:41:57.720 --> 1:42:01.080 or the year. I purchased a yearly pass for five 1:42:01.160 --> 1:42:04.759 hundred and ninety nine dollars. However, when I tried booking flights, 1:42:05.000 --> 1:42:08.200 nothing was available. I contacted Frontier. They said I had 1:42:08.200 --> 1:42:10.320 twenty four hours to apply for a refund, but I 1:42:10.320 --> 1:42:12.920 was past the allotted time. I resolved this with my 1:42:13.000 --> 1:42:15.559 credit card company, which has given me a credit. Despite 1:42:15.600 --> 1:42:20.080 Frontier's deceptive policy. I have since found numerous negative reviews 1:42:20.080 --> 1:42:23.240 online from others in the same situation. Please inform your 1:42:23.280 --> 1:42:25.559 audience that this program is as close to a scam 1:42:25.600 --> 1:42:30.040 as it gets. Thank you, Rich. I've heard of this program. 1:42:30.080 --> 1:42:32.920 I have not familiar, but any unlimited flight program I 1:42:32.920 --> 1:42:36.640 would assume you have to be very, very, very flexible, 1:42:37.000 --> 1:42:39.360 because if they're giving away a lot of flights for 1:42:39.400 --> 1:42:43.200 that one price, it's basically whatever's left on the plane. 1:42:44.720 --> 1:42:48.080 Melissa from Recita, California rights Hi, Rich, I've been watching 1:42:48.160 --> 1:42:51.240 and enjoying your KTLA segments for many years, and I've 1:42:51.240 --> 1:42:54.360 always wondered why there's so little attention paid to Android 1:42:54.400 --> 1:42:58.000 by seemingly everyone in your field. As a decade's long 1:42:58.120 --> 1:43:01.439 user of all things Samsung cell phone, own TVVCR, DVD, 1:43:01.760 --> 1:43:04.879 and now smart TVs, I'm wondering why the overwhelming majority 1:43:04.880 --> 1:43:08.120 of information, tips, updates, and reviews of cell phones are 1:43:08.160 --> 1:43:11.040 focused on Apple, while it seems Samsung is more of 1:43:11.080 --> 1:43:14.320 an afterthought or a courtesy mentioned when it comes to security, 1:43:14.360 --> 1:43:18.040 convenience updates, and tips about using it more efficiently, everyone 1:43:18.120 --> 1:43:20.160 seems mostly to leave it up to the user to 1:43:20.200 --> 1:43:23.639 figure it all out. Thanks for your time, Melissa. Melissa, 1:43:24.080 --> 1:43:27.240 I do understand that the industry is very iOS and 1:43:27.320 --> 1:43:30.280 Apple centric. When I wrote my book, yes, it was 1:43:30.320 --> 1:43:33.160 for iOS and there was a very particular reason for that. 1:43:33.760 --> 1:43:37.799 It's because iPhone works the same for everyone around the world. 1:43:37.840 --> 1:43:40.519 And I think that's the biggest difference between iPhone and 1:43:40.560 --> 1:43:43.120 Samsung and what makes it tough to cover Samsung in 1:43:43.160 --> 1:43:46.240 the same way. There are many different versions of their software, 1:43:46.439 --> 1:43:50.120 There are many different devices, and they all work slightly differently, 1:43:50.160 --> 1:43:53.680 and then the accessories are all different as well. You 1:43:53.720 --> 1:43:56.960 may have a Samsung phone plus a one plus watch 1:43:57.120 --> 1:44:00.960 and nothing headphones, and it's a It's a combination of 1:44:01.000 --> 1:44:03.599 things and that's what makes the Android ecosystem so great, 1:44:03.880 --> 1:44:06.200 but it also makes it really tough to say one 1:44:06.280 --> 1:44:08.920 thing that works for everything. I would like to say 1:44:08.920 --> 1:44:11.040 personally that I hope you notice on this show, I 1:44:11.160 --> 1:44:14.280 do my best to try to be equal and to 1:44:14.520 --> 1:44:19.120 also talk about Apple and Samsung. Maybe not equally, but 1:44:19.200 --> 1:44:20.880 I do try to give it a go and make 1:44:20.920 --> 1:44:24.040 sure that I'm mentioning both of them. Well, that is 1:44:24.080 --> 1:44:26.080 going to do it for this episode of the show. 1:44:26.120 --> 1:44:29.120 You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website. 1:44:29.160 --> 1:44:32.559 Just go to rich on tech dot TV. 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Next week it's Microsoft's turn. 1:45:10.560 --> 1:45:13.120 They are talking about AI and there might even be 1:45:13.160 --> 1:45:16.040 some hardware surprises, so I will bring you the latest 1:45:16.080 --> 1:45:19.800 from up in Redman and Seattle, Washington. Thanks so much 1:45:19.840 --> 1:45:22.040 for listening. There are so many ways you can spend 1:45:22.080 --> 1:45:24.960 your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here 1:45:25.000 --> 1:45:27.639 with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. 1:45:27.760 --> 1:45:29.960 My name is rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon.