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Speaker 1: Twitter adds a useful bookmarking feature. Amrich jamiro This is

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech Daily. Twitter is adding a useful new

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Speaker 1: feature that lets you bookmark tweets to come back to later.

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Speaker 1: This is different than harding a tweet because that action

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Speaker 1: is public. Everyone can see it, but only you can

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Speaker 1: see your bookmarks, which are kept private. The feature is

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Speaker 1: available now. You can access it by pressing this share

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Speaker 1: icon under a tweet, then look for the ad tweet

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Speaker 1: to bookmarks. Option twenty eighteen is bringing some big tax

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Speaker 1: law changes. The IRS has a new tool to help

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Speaker 1: you figure out how they're going to affect you. The

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Speaker 1: government agency launched a new income tax withholding calculator so

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Speaker 1: you can see how much you should take out of

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Speaker 1: your paycheck under the new law. If you withhold too much,

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Speaker 1: you'll get a refund. If you don't take out enough,

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Speaker 1: you're going to owe at the end of the year

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Speaker 1: and possibly pay penalties. The new calculator walks you through

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Speaker 1: a series of questions so you can adjust your paycheck appropriately.

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Speaker 1: You can find the link at Richontech dot tv. To

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Speaker 1: say big congrats to a company called Ring. We first

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Speaker 1: told you about them three years ago when they were

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Speaker 1: building a y fi video doorbell out of their Santa

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Speaker 1: Monica offices. And of course we now know Amazon is

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Speaker 1: buying them for more than a billion dollars. Now, back

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Speaker 1: then they had just a handful of employees. At last count,

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Speaker 1: they had over two thousand offices around the world. And

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Speaker 1: I remember when I first visited with them, they had

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Speaker 1: just a small office in Santa Monica. The next time

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Speaker 1: I visited them, they had expanded to buy almost the

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Speaker 1: entire block. It was pretty crazy. Now. The company started

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Speaker 1: because its founder wanted to work out of the garage,

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Speaker 1: but see who was at the front door. And he

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Speaker 1: looked and looked and looked for a product that was

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Speaker 1: basically like a caller ID for his door, a little

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Speaker 1: video camera that would let him see who's there on

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Speaker 1: his phone. He couldn't find it, so he set out

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Speaker 1: to build it. And when we first interviewed founder Jamie Simonoff,

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Speaker 1: he said they had tens of thousands of these doorbells installed,

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Speaker 1: and recently when I interviewed him, he said they had

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Speaker 1: more than a million devices out there. Now Amazon is

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Speaker 1: going to put rings technology outside many, many more homes.

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Speaker 1: But there's a lot they can do here. First off,

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Speaker 1: They just recently bought another company called Blink. They're probably

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Speaker 1: going to combine some of their technology with Ring because

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Speaker 1: Blink they also make a video doorbell. But really, I

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Speaker 1: think Amazon's interested in their chip technology. And when I

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Speaker 1: interviewed them, they explain to me how amazing it is.

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Speaker 1: It's all this low power stuff that allows a video

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Speaker 1: camera to run no joke, two years on a set

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Speaker 1: of double A batteries. So imagine the implications for Ring.

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Speaker 1: They can put that in their popular doorbells and now

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Speaker 1: you can install them anywhere and not really have to

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Speaker 1: think about them for a while. They could also use

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Speaker 1: Ring to verify package deliveries. So right now Amazon takes

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Speaker 1: pictures of packages being delivered. Maybe they'll use Ring to

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Speaker 1: do that. And Amazon needs to cut down on theft

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Speaker 1: costs because it's a big part of their business right now.

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Speaker 1: They also can integrate it with Amazon Key. This is

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Speaker 1: Amazon's program that basically you install a smart door lock

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Speaker 1: on your door and a camera and this allows the

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Speaker 1: delivery person to open your door electronically, put the package inside,

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Speaker 1: It snaps a picture, and it sends it to you

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Speaker 1: and the person closes the door. They can't get back

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Speaker 1: in after that. Now, another thing that's really interesting here

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Speaker 1: is that Amazon has their own cloud connected camera and

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Speaker 1: they give you a day's worth of clips, so twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours worth of video clips from that camera for free.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to pay a dime, and for most

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Speaker 1: people that's gonna be enough. If something happens to your home,

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Speaker 1: you hopefully know about it within a day, so you

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Speaker 1: can go back and look at the clip. Now, Ring

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Speaker 1: only gives you live view of their camera, so you

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Speaker 1: can see who's at your door. But once that kind

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Speaker 1: of window closes a video, you can't go back and

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Speaker 1: access it unless you pay three dollars a month for

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Speaker 1: a service plan, and then you can go back and

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Speaker 1: access many more days worth of archive videos. So it

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Speaker 1: to be very interesting to see if Amazon changes the

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Speaker 1: way that's done on Ring, which would potentially save people

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Speaker 1: a lot of money if they give them some of

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Speaker 1: their video clips for free for like twenty four hours.

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