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Speaker 2: New issue went out this weekend, so be sure to
Speaker 2: read that. Coming up this hour, we've got Brandon Butch,
Speaker 2: tech YouTuber and writer at the Apple Den. He's going
Speaker 2: to talk about all things Apple this week, all the
Speaker 2: little announcements that they had, So we'll get on the
Speaker 2: line with him and talk big breakthrough from Microsoft. Now
Speaker 2: this goes way over my head. It's quantum computing, but
Speaker 2: it seems like a big deal. This is a new chip,
Speaker 2: the Mayorana one. This is a groundbreaking quantum chip powered
Speaker 2: by a new material who invents a new material, all
Speaker 2: topo conductor. They say it's the biggest breakthrough in computing
Speaker 2: materials since silicon. The topo conductor topological semi superconductor is
Speaker 2: not a solid liquid or gas. It's a new state
Speaker 2: of matter that scientists have theorized for about one hundred years,
Speaker 2: but hadn't achieved it until now. My friend I Justine,
Speaker 2: did a great video. She went up to Microsoft and
Speaker 2: did a video on this thing. And apparently this this
Speaker 2: new chip they made to work has to be in
Speaker 2: like a space that is colder than outer space, like
Speaker 2: in this kind of they put it in this chamber
Speaker 2: just to work.
Speaker 1: That's how wild this stuff is.
Speaker 2: So the main thing about this material is that a
Speaker 2: could drastically speed up quantum computing development, so cutting timelines
Speaker 2: from decades to just a few years. And that means
Speaker 2: that these chips are so incredibly powerful they can solve
Speaker 2: complex problems faster, so things like energy, healthcare, environmental cleanup,
Speaker 2: so things like self healing materials, sustainable agriculture, advanced chemical discoveries.
Speaker 2: Because they can compute this stuff so much faster, the
Speaker 2: timeline for figuring out these solutions is quicker. Now, this
Speaker 2: is all theoretical at this point. I mean, they came
Speaker 2: up with this chip and the material, but now they
Speaker 2: actually have to somehow use it, and so I think
Speaker 2: that's the next step here.
Speaker 1: But pretty wild.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The topoconductor based cubits cubits are with quantum bits. They
Speaker 2: are so small, one to one hundredth of a millimeter.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't get It's like, how do you
Speaker 2: even think about this stuff? We're talking about things you
Speaker 2: can't even see. Now, here's the whole thing with quantum computing.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of errors apparently in the quantum computing
Speaker 2: realm because of the way that these chips are designed.
Speaker 2: So when they're coming up with the calculation, apparently they
Speaker 2: have a lot of mistakes. And so the big thing
Speaker 2: that they've been trying to figure out is how to
Speaker 2: make less mistakes. And I guess Microsoft's breakthrough has much
Speaker 2: more error resistance and digital control for better performance. So
Speaker 2: it just sounds wild. I'm excited just because anything with
Speaker 2: these breakthroughs we had Google. I talked about a breakthrough
Speaker 2: in quantum computing with Google a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 2: or a couple of months ago, and now we've got Microsoft.
Speaker 2: So again, the timeline for all of this stuff just
Speaker 2: continues to accelerate, and I'm here for it. Very very exciting.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Mark in Los Angeles. Mark, you're on
Speaker 2: with Rich.
Speaker 1: Rich you excited about quantum computing.
Speaker 4: Mark, I'm very excited about it. Maybe it'll solve my problems.
Speaker 4: I have two R low camera systems. I've had them
Speaker 4: for years and with the old app they've been great.
Speaker 4: I had to upgrade to the new app and the
Speaker 4: new app is just terrible and difficult and very complicated.
Speaker 4: I can't set the same schedules and alerts. I do
Speaker 4: have paid subscription. However, the real problem is I called
Speaker 4: Arlow customer Service in India. I've spent hours on the
Speaker 4: phone with different people and they can't figure it out either. Well,
Speaker 4: that's a problem, don't know, you know, it's just too complicated.
Speaker 4: When I ask a question, they put me on a
Speaker 4: long hold and they come back with an answer that
Speaker 4: I know that they don't really understand. My question is
Speaker 4: is there a way to get back to the old app?
Speaker 4: They said no? Or is there a way to contact
Speaker 4: Arlow someone in the US to get like real answers,
Speaker 4: like how do I make this all work?
Speaker 2: Well, the second question is a good one. I will
Speaker 2: reach out to Arlow and see what they say. But
Speaker 2: I think that have you asked for like an elevated
Speaker 2: customer service supervisor?
Speaker 1: Have you done that?
Speaker 4: Yes? And and someone is supposed to call me. They
Speaker 4: haven't yet, but I mean, you know, I think they
Speaker 4: probably will, but everybody, I mean, this is really it's
Speaker 4: kind of like the Saunos app. They come up with
Speaker 4: a new app ap.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, Mark, don't get me started on it. I
Speaker 1: oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: I've had Sonos for since almost since day one, and
Speaker 2: my system I I can't. I used to not be
Speaker 2: able to speak high enough about Sonos. Now I don't
Speaker 2: think I could ever recommend it to someone because it's
Speaker 2: so terrible. Yeah, the app. I still cannot adjust the
Speaker 2: volume on all of my speakers at the same time.
Speaker 2: That is that is insane to me. This is something
Speaker 2: that is like, this is.
Speaker 4: Almost like the same thing. Now. They have told me
Speaker 4: I do have two different locations, which was never a problem.
Speaker 4: One of the people said, well, maybe you have to
Speaker 4: get it by a second subscription, and I said, well
Speaker 4: I never had to before. And if that's the the
Speaker 4: the the goal of the new app is just to
Speaker 4: make more money, you know. One that's not very It
Speaker 4: doesn't make me happy, but it should have been disclosed
Speaker 4: that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So okay, so the main system, so your system doesn't
Speaker 2: do what it used to do anymore, correct Okay, Now
Speaker 2: when it comes to the app, now, I don't know
Speaker 2: how much.
Speaker 1: When did they update this.
Speaker 4: Apps, Like a couple of weeks ago, I think it's
Speaker 4: pretty recent.
Speaker 1: Do you have an Android or an iPhone?
Speaker 4: iPhone?
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's a problem.
Speaker 2: So so on Android, you you can go to websites
Speaker 2: called APK websites that will give you the actual old
Speaker 2: versions of apps. So in this case, if you wanted
Speaker 2: to go download the r LO secure from you know,
Speaker 2: a couple months ago, you might be able to find
Speaker 2: it on this like an APK website. There's one example
Speaker 2: is called APK Mirror. Now, you got to be careful,
Speaker 2: and I'm talking to Android folks right now, because if
Speaker 2: you're downloading APKs, that is there could be room for viruses, malware, spyware,
Speaker 2: so you do have to be careful. But a lot
Speaker 2: of times Google will scan them, you know, in this
Speaker 2: the website that you're getting it from, as long as
Speaker 2: it's reputable as well. So I'm just saying proceed at
Speaker 2: your own risk. With iPhone, that is not possible. Once
Speaker 2: iPhone upgrades, there's really no way to go back. There's
Speaker 2: not a system to do that. So for you mark
Speaker 2: the problem is how do you get these things to
Speaker 2: do what you need them to do, and what do
Speaker 2: you need them to do that they're not doing.
Speaker 4: It's just the to have two different systems, both easily accessible,
Speaker 4: and to go ahead and set different schedules and alerts
Speaker 4: for both for either system.
Speaker 1: But they're in different locations.
Speaker 4: They are, But that was never ever a problem with
Speaker 4: the old app.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I mean so that I don't know because
Speaker 2: I don't use our low so I don't really know
Speaker 2: why that changed. But I can understand that if you're
Speaker 2: looking trying to think like with my standard camera. So
Speaker 2: if they're on two different Wi Fi networks, is that
Speaker 2: what I'm hearing here?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think that is. They probably said, like, look,
Speaker 2: if something's on one Wi Fi network, you can't manage
Speaker 2: it from the same place because you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: do you have to log in separately for each network.
Speaker 2: Now or do they all show up on the same app?
Speaker 2: They just you just can't control them.
Speaker 4: They all show up on the same app. But but
Speaker 4: you just now one of them no longer records and
Speaker 4: one of them can't be set and in general before
Speaker 4: actually that, the the app itself is just terrible in
Speaker 4: just in terms of how you you know, have to
Speaker 4: now do a very complicated setup for what used to
Speaker 4: be a very easy thing. I just hate to have
Speaker 4: to buy another subscription when before I didn't have to.
Speaker 4: But but but I'm not sure that that's actually going
Speaker 4: to solve the problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, so what do you what do
Speaker 2: you need the subscription for for? What do you use
Speaker 2: that for?
Speaker 4: Uh, it's it's to record and uh, you know, to
Speaker 4: record any kind of camera alert camera video, and it
Speaker 4: gives you your really good alerts, and you know, I
Speaker 4: don't mind paying for It's always functioned really well.
Speaker 2: Have you searched online for the r low app update?
Speaker 2: Are there people complaining about this?
Speaker 4: I went on the community. Yes, they are complaining.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm looking at Reddit right now. There's a do
Speaker 2: you know about the website Reddit Answers No, yeah, so
Speaker 2: I just searched. Reddit Answers is sort of like they're
Speaker 2: you know Reddit, right, Yeah? Okay, so Reddit Answers is
Speaker 2: sort of like their AI and so it searches through
Speaker 2: all of the reddit forms without you having to do
Speaker 2: it and summarizes it and so yeah, people are definitely
Speaker 2: having issues with motion detection, GEO fencing, and scheduling the
Speaker 2: user interface. People are threatening to switch to different brands.
Speaker 2: Some people have found partial solutions by tweaking settings like
Speaker 2: motion sensitivity and redefining activity zones and third party solutions interesting.
Speaker 2: Seymour By prompt Ai, I can't I don't know if
Speaker 2: I would recommend that, but yeah, it sounds like Mark,
Speaker 2: the issues you're having are not unique to you. The
Speaker 2: best I can say is I will reach out to
Speaker 2: r Low and see what they kind of say. If
Speaker 2: this is a more recent update, which it sounds like
Speaker 2: it is. Maybe they're still polishing things, But I would
Speaker 2: say my instinct is telling me that if you're saying
Speaker 2: it's tougher to manage the two different locations because of
Speaker 2: the subscription situation, it's probably because they want to push
Speaker 2: you to subscribe in more ways. And that's really and
Speaker 2: this is the sad part about all of the tech
Speaker 2: companies at this point, is it used to be technology
Speaker 2: was unifying and empowering for the consumer, and now we
Speaker 2: are seeing a shift towards benefiting the company first, and
Speaker 2: that's always an issue and all these and it's all
Speaker 2: because of subscriptions. Once these companies got an idea that,
Speaker 2: by the way, we're not going to sell you a
Speaker 2: box of software once, we are now going to have
Speaker 2: you subscribe every month for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: Why would you not want that?
Speaker 2: And so it seems like every improvement quote unquote improvement
Speaker 2: we've seen with tech has always been pushing consumers towards
Speaker 2: that subscription for the stuff they really want. I think
Speaker 2: that might be what's going on here. Hopefully the app
Speaker 2: will get better over time. Eighty eight rich one oh
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Speaker 2: zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you about Google's new
Speaker 2: AI tool that helps you discover your next career, and
Speaker 2: Google's bringing one of their best Android features to iOS
Speaker 2: kind of sorta. I'll explain you are listening to rich
Speaker 2: on tech. Jace writes in on X Hey, rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: I'm a visually impaired person and the home button on
Speaker 2: the iPhone is something I strongly value. With the sixteen E,
Speaker 2: it will take a lot of getting used to for me,
Speaker 2: and I would prefer still having my home button. I
Speaker 2: used an SE three at the moment. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: that is an interesting point, So it will take some
Speaker 2: getting used to. I think that you'll be able to Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's going to be interesting, but it's it's good to
Speaker 2: have different persons effectives and jas.
Speaker 1: Thanks for that. Appreciate you writing in on that. Google.
Speaker 1: A couple notable items.
Speaker 2: First off, Google is bringing one of their best features
Speaker 2: from Android to iPhone, but kindness sort is not going
Speaker 2: to work in the same way. If you've listened to
Speaker 2: me at all, you've heard me extol the praises of
Speaker 2: Circle to Search on Android. I think this is the
Speaker 2: differentiator right now between Android and iPhone because anything on
Speaker 2: your screen on Android you can search, you can reverse search,
Speaker 2: you can circle whatever you need, you can search it.
Speaker 1: On iPhone you can't really do that.
Speaker 2: So there's times when someone posts a restaurant or a
Speaker 2: link or a phone number, whatever, and if it's not
Speaker 2: like something that is clickable, you can't do anything with it.
Speaker 1: But on Android you can.
Speaker 2: You just bring up Circle to Search and it will
Speaker 2: find the links, it will find the phone numbers, it
Speaker 2: will search the images, it will search the whatever you want,
Speaker 2: text translate things. I mean, it's quite miraculous. So anyway,
Speaker 2: in iPhone, there now bringing similar functions calling it Circle
Speaker 2: to Search, but they're calling it Search Screen with Google Lens.
Speaker 2: And so if you want to try this out, this
Speaker 2: is on Chrome or the Google App. You don't have
Speaker 2: to screenshot anything. So when Chrome, tap the three dot
Speaker 2: menu and then selects Search screen with Google Lens. And
Speaker 2: in the Google App, you can tap the three dot
Speaker 2: menu and choose search this screen.
Speaker 1: So it's not perfect, but it's a little bit better.
Speaker 2: And it's basically being billed as Google Lens but in
Speaker 2: a different way. But it's only going to work inside Chrome,
Speaker 2: which is fine if you're using Chrome as your browser
Speaker 2: and Google App, which is fine. It's a start, but
Speaker 2: the fact that this works across anything on Android is
Speaker 2: pretty incredible. And then Google launched a new tool called
Speaker 2: Career Dreamer. This is an AI powered tool from Grow
Speaker 2: with Google that basically lets you explore potential career paths
Speaker 2: based on your skills and also your background and your interests.
Speaker 2: So if you're sitting there thinking, gosh, I really kind
Speaker 2: of want a new job. Whatever I'm doing is not
Speaker 2: really working, but I've been a professor for twenty years
Speaker 2: and I want to try something new, well, this tool
Speaker 2: basically has you go through a series of prompts saying Okay,
Speaker 2: what are your skills, what's your current classification, what are
Speaker 2: your skills, what do you like to do, what's your background?
Speaker 2: And then it will come up with things, thanks to AI,
Speaker 2: that you may be good for. And it taps into
Speaker 2: job market data, so it's like basically finding stuff that
Speaker 2: is not a dead end, stuff that's growing based on
Speaker 2: the Bureau of Labor Statistics and also job market data
Speaker 2: from light Cast. It can also help you make a
Speaker 2: resume a cover letter, but kind of cool if you
Speaker 2: want to try it out, grow dot Google slash Career Dreamer,
Speaker 2: Grow dot Google slash career Dreamer and pop in your skills.
Speaker 2: See where you can go. I should have done this.
Speaker 2: I should have done this to see what it comes
Speaker 2: up with for me. That'd be fun. Let's see here.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Patrick in reading. Patrick, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 6: Hello, Rich, Hey, I have ways Wise Security systems okay, and.
Speaker 7: I I bought two one.
Speaker 2: I've got a heart out here, so I need a
Speaker 2: question real quick here, Sorry.
Speaker 7: I have I want to know how to connect two
Speaker 7: new cameras, but none necessarily Wise cameras. They can pan okay,
Speaker 7: because the Wise three PAN doesn't have night vision.
Speaker 8: They can't fix it.
Speaker 1: So you want to connect them to what the wise app?
Speaker 7: Or no, actually a separate app. Is there an app
Speaker 7: that I can connect wise cameras to end it can
Speaker 7: be the cheap camera.
Speaker 1: No, you gotta you gotta use the separate apps.
Speaker 2: The only thing you could do possibly is bring them
Speaker 2: into something like Google Home app. You might be able
Speaker 2: to monitor several of them from there. But as far
Speaker 2: as I know, I've got a couple different cameras in
Speaker 2: my house and they're all on different apps. So if
Speaker 2: I want to look at I can look at the
Speaker 2: cameras from let's see here, I can look at all
Speaker 2: of my let's see here. Yeah, I can look at them.
Speaker 2: Let's see those are all Nest cams. Yeah, so it
Speaker 2: looks like you have to Yeah, you may be able
Speaker 2: to link them up through the the Google Home app
Speaker 2: to view them, but your best bet, Patrick is just
Speaker 2: going to be to use the separate apps because you're
Speaker 2: going to get the the full uh you know, the
Speaker 2: full features of all these different cameras through their own apps,
Speaker 2: their own respective apps. So as far as I know,
Speaker 2: you can't just mix and match into one place. But uh,
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's these these companies are building silos, right.
Speaker 2: They want you to use their app, they want you
Speaker 2: to have a subscription, they want you to have all
Speaker 2: the same thing. And I think that yes, you'll be
Speaker 2: able to do some of the functionality through the Google
Speaker 2: Home app if you have that per se, or maybe
Speaker 2: through the you know, the Home Kit, the Home on iOS,
Speaker 2: but I think for the most part you're gonna.
Speaker 1: Have to be stuck with the separate apps.
Speaker 2: Coming up, we're going to talk to Brandon Butch of
Speaker 2: the Apple Den about all announcements from Apple this week.
Speaker 1: Right here on rich On Tip.
Speaker 2: We've got Brandon Butch here, tech YouTuber and writer at
Speaker 2: the Apple Den. Welcome to the show, Brandon, thanks for
Speaker 2: having me, Thanks for being here. So I'm here, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm hearing a little echo here for some reason.
Speaker 1: So let's talk. First off, explain what you do.
Speaker 2: I met you at this Samsung event up in San
Speaker 2: Francisco and we hit it off. We were chatting and
Speaker 2: you know, learned about what you do. But tell me
Speaker 2: what you do exactly.
Speaker 9: Yeah, pretty ironic that we met at a same Tunging
Speaker 9: event because I mostly do Apple content, so I've been
Speaker 9: doing that since two thousand and eight on YouTube. And
Speaker 9: I have a newsletter as well called the Apple Den
Speaker 9: where I write about Apple news every week, and that's
Speaker 9: just been my thing for a long time, covered the iPhones,
Speaker 9: the software, pretty much anything to do with Apple products.
Speaker 2: So Apple big announcement this week obviously the new iPhone
Speaker 2: sixteen E.
Speaker 1: Uh what do you make of that?
Speaker 9: Yeah, So that was kind of a surprise because I
Speaker 9: think everybody went in expecting an SE four you know,
Speaker 9: kind of a continuation of the cheap budget model. So
Speaker 9: when Apple announced the price at five ninety nine, it
Speaker 9: was a little bit more than people are expecting. But
Speaker 9: I think we also got more than people are expecting
Speaker 9: with the sixteen E.
Speaker 1: So it's the first ever you know, E model from Apple.
Speaker 9: And I personally view this more like an iPhone ten
Speaker 9: R from twenty eighteen compared to like an iPhone SE,
Speaker 9: So I don't really view it as an SE equivalent.
Speaker 9: It kind of is, but I view it more like
Speaker 9: the ten R because it has a lot of the
Speaker 9: you know iPhone fourteen design language, but with a lot
Speaker 9: of the more modern iPhone sixteen, like you know, Apple intelligence,
Speaker 9: which I think is a big deal. The action button,
Speaker 9: the O lead display is a big one because the
Speaker 9: iPhone ten R back in the day, the big you
Speaker 9: know drawback with that was the LCD display. So yeah,
Speaker 9: I think the sixteen E. It's priced at five ninety nine,
Speaker 9: it's two hundred dollars cheaper than the regular sixteen. It
Speaker 9: is missing some of the more advanced features, but I
Speaker 9: think this is targeted to people who just want to
Speaker 9: go into the Apple store. You know, hey, what's the
Speaker 9: cheapest iPhone you have. It's going to last me all day,
Speaker 9: battery life boom. They say five to ninety nine. It's
Speaker 9: two hundred dollars cheaper than you know, the sixteen, but
Speaker 9: it still has the sixteen name in it.
Speaker 1: It's an easy sale. I think, yeah, that's that.
Speaker 2: That was my kind of thesis at the top of
Speaker 2: the show is that I think Apple's going to sell
Speaker 2: a ton of these.
Speaker 1: I think so too.
Speaker 9: I mean, if you look back at the iPhone ten R,
Speaker 9: that was you know, everybody made fun of the iPhone
Speaker 9: ten R when that phone came out, you know, back
Speaker 9: in the day, and that sold extremely well for Apple.
Speaker 9: So I kind of view this as going down a
Speaker 9: more similar path to the as the iPhone ten R
Speaker 9: compared to like maybe the previous SE models.
Speaker 2: What about this whole modem. I mean, they've got like
Speaker 2: a Apple built modem. I know, it was a big
Speaker 2: deal when Apple shifted away from the Intel chips and
Speaker 2: their computers to their own, and that's just been fantastic.
Speaker 2: Their computers have been so good ever since they did that.
Speaker 2: Is this bad for Qualcom?
Speaker 9: I think it is bad for Qualcom if you're you know,
Speaker 9: maybe an investor, But I think it's great news for
Speaker 9: Apple iPhones, especially moving forward. Maybe it'll show up in
Speaker 9: other things as well, but iPhones especially. I mean, we
Speaker 9: saw the big difference that makes just in battery efficiency
Speaker 9: for the first generation of this C one chip. So
Speaker 9: it's the C one modem, that's what it's called inside,
Speaker 9: and you know, eventually it's so it doesn't have millimeter wave,
Speaker 9: it doesn't have the super fast five G speeds just yet.
Speaker 9: But you know, most people, especially buying a base model iPhone,
Speaker 9: are not going to care or even know what that means.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, hold on, So so explain that again, because
Speaker 2: I I've seen that Apple keeps saying this is a
Speaker 2: five G modem. So first off, the phone will support
Speaker 2: four G, right, correct?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: But it's not going to have that ultra wideband, so
Speaker 2: like like on Verizon, let's say, when you get into
Speaker 2: those like really fast speeds when you get into a
Speaker 2: UW section or on T Mobile, I think they call
Speaker 2: it like UC so will it not support those?
Speaker 9: Correct, Yes, it will not support those. That's called millimeter wave,
Speaker 9: and that's you know, one of Qualcom's main benefits. So
Speaker 9: that's gonna mostly be and like you're really populated cities
Speaker 9: New York, California, like in the city, if you're in
Speaker 9: a more rural area, it's not gonna you probably never
Speaker 9: have seen that before on your phone.
Speaker 2: So oh when I see that, Brandon, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 2: literally like downloading all of Netflix. When I see that,
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, baby, let's down. Let's do whatever
Speaker 2: we can to take advantage of this speed. Because something
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I've gotten like really really fast,
Speaker 2: like faster than home on some of those Okay, so
Speaker 2: the sixteen E anything else that you think is notable
Speaker 2: that we should talk about with this device.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think one of the main things that I,
Speaker 9: you know, quickly picked up on and a lot of
Speaker 9: people have mentioned this as well. So there's no mag
Speaker 9: Safe support, so the magnets in the back. You know
Speaker 9: a lot of people have the mag Safe wallets that
Speaker 9: they just stick on to the back of their phone.
Speaker 9: That's not in the iPhone sixteen e. So that's a
Speaker 9: big drawback for a lot of people. Also for the
Speaker 9: wireless charging, you can wirelessly charge the sixteen e, but
Speaker 9: it does not support mag Safe, which enables faster wireless charging,
Speaker 9: So that's not the big deal. I think a lot
Speaker 9: of people are kind of upset that they can't use
Speaker 9: maybe their accessories that they had. However, you can buy
Speaker 9: cases with magnets in it, so it's not a complete
Speaker 9: lost cause it's just not in the phone itself.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: And the other thing is the face ID. You know,
Speaker 2: of course on my Facebook page, you know where rumored
Speaker 2: speculation runs rampant. People commented, Oh, well face ID is
Speaker 2: you know your face biometrics are instantly sent to the cloud.
Speaker 2: Now I know that not to be true because it's
Speaker 2: stored on device, but just can you go over fact,
Speaker 2: like what the difference is between face ID and the
Speaker 2: touch ID.
Speaker 1: Is it as secure?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I think it's more secure because touch ID, you know,
Speaker 9: you can take somebody's finger if somebody were to do
Speaker 9: something crazy and you know, have your finger without you knowing,
Speaker 9: they can unlock your phone, whereas face ID you there's
Speaker 9: a setting where you have to be actually have your
Speaker 9: eyes open and looking at the camera. So if you
Speaker 9: were knocked out or something and somebody couldn't just put
Speaker 9: the phone up to your face and unlock it. So
Speaker 9: I think face ID is a lot more secure than
Speaker 9: touch ID.
Speaker 2: So the other headline that of course a lot of
Speaker 2: people are sharing online is this whole cloud encryption change
Speaker 2: in the UK. Right, so Apple has this setting where
Speaker 2: they can you can super encrypt anything that you send
Speaker 2: to the cloud that nobody can tap into and out.
Speaker 2: Now they're getting rid of that in the UK, not
Speaker 2: in the US, just in the UK. Does that mean
Speaker 2: that Apple's looking at your stuff and the government's looking
Speaker 2: at your stuff?
Speaker 1: And how big of a deal do you think that is?
Speaker 9: Yeah, So just a little backstory here real quick. So,
Speaker 9: so the UK government basically demanded Apple to create a
Speaker 9: backdoor to allow the government to in view to view
Speaker 9: that encrypted user data globally. So they were trying to
Speaker 9: pitch a back door that would allow the government to
Speaker 9: view everybody state, including those in the US, so Apple
Speaker 9: of course denied creating that backdoor, and instead they just
Speaker 9: decided to pool the end to end encryption for iCloud
Speaker 9: storage in the UK, which is called Advanced Data Protection.
Speaker 9: So basically, now British user files like the iCloud backup
Speaker 9: files will be accessible to Apple, so they'll be able
Speaker 9: to be shared with law enforcement if they have a warrant,
Speaker 9: things like that. Now, I do not see this happening
Speaker 9: in the US whatsoever. The UK has been you know,
Speaker 9: pushing back against end encryption for years now for some reason,
Speaker 9: so this is kind of bound to happen at some point.
Speaker 9: But yeah, I don't see this happening in the US
Speaker 9: at all.
Speaker 2: How long before Apple just says, you know what, UK,
Speaker 2: We're now longer going to do business here.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're changing.
Speaker 2: Every aspect of how Apple wants to do business when
Speaker 2: it comes to privacy and security by opening up the phone.
Speaker 1: You know, they made them change to USBC, which I
Speaker 1: do like.
Speaker 2: But still, you know, they opened up the app store,
Speaker 2: the payment method is like all this stuff that's just
Speaker 2: like a thorn and Apple side. How much more can
Speaker 2: they deal with before they just say, you know what?
Speaker 2: Europeans you can't have the iPhone.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, it's such a big market for them
Speaker 9: that I don't see that happening. I think they'll continue to, like,
Speaker 9: you know, maybe remove features and things like this to
Speaker 9: kind of, you know, find a middle ground. But the
Speaker 9: thing is a lot of these EU changes where a
Speaker 9: lot of people are against it at first, but now
Speaker 9: fast forward years later, most people are kind of happy,
Speaker 9: you know, that they kind of forced Apple's hand and
Speaker 9: doing things like USBC and some of the other ones.
Speaker 9: This is the first one that I think, just globally
Speaker 9: is just like a bad idea for them, like to
Speaker 9: even pitch in the first place.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've got about a minute left, so I'm going
Speaker 2: to leave it to you. Is there any other I
Speaker 2: sent you a whole bunch of topics that I wanted
Speaker 2: to touch upon. Is there anything else that you want
Speaker 2: to touch upon that you know we haven't yet?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean Vision US two point four. I know
Speaker 9: there's probably twelve people out there with an Apple Vision
Speaker 9: Pro right now, but you know, Vision of US two
Speaker 9: point four is a massive software update that's going to
Speaker 9: bring a lot of big features to the Vision Pro,
Speaker 9: things like Apple Intelligence supports a companion app for the iPhone,
Speaker 9: kind of like with the Apple Watch. So you're gonna
Speaker 9: have an app on your phone where you can have
Speaker 9: an improved guest mode. You can kind of see what
Speaker 9: the person is seeing in the vision Pro from your
Speaker 9: iPhone via airplay, which is really cool. So I just
Speaker 9: think it's gonna Apple's gonna continue working on the Vision Pro.
Speaker 9: Despite the you know, not very many sales of that,
Speaker 9: They're still continuing to build it out to be something great.
Speaker 1: Will there be? I mean, is there a future for
Speaker 1: the vision Pro?
Speaker 9: I think theree is. I think we're still ways away.
Speaker 9: I think the weights and obviously just the infrastructure. It's
Speaker 9: still in its infancy. We're only on the second version. Ever,
Speaker 9: it's like going back to iPhone when it was iPhone
Speaker 9: OS two. We're now on eighteen, you know, sixteen years later,
Speaker 9: so I kind of see it following a similar path
Speaker 9: where it's going to take quite some time.
Speaker 1: All right, Brandon Butch, thanks for joining me today.
Speaker 9: Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Follow him the appleden dot com, theappleden dot com. He's
Speaker 2: got a newsletter, he's got information. He's also on YouTube,
Speaker 2: so find him. Brandon, Butch great source of Apple information.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you being on the show today. Link on my
Speaker 2: website rich on tech dot TV. Coming up, we'll take
Speaker 2: more of your calls at Triple eight rich one O
Speaker 2: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 2: zero one. And I'm gonna tell you the app you
Speaker 2: have to get on your phone if you want your
Speaker 2: pictures to look their best, especially if you post them.
Speaker 1: To social media.
Speaker 2: This is rich on tech, the website for the show
Speaker 2: rich on tech dot TV. And uh let's see here.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I got so many emails in the past.
Speaker 2: Couple of moments here, but I'll get through those and
Speaker 2: maybe read a couple on air here.
Speaker 1: Did a segment this week.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm also on TV on KTLA five in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, so I do TV segments, so you can
Speaker 2: watch those on YouTube, also on my website. But this
Speaker 2: week I talked to Jefferson Graham. He's a friend of
Speaker 2: the show. He's been on a bunch. He was a
Speaker 2: tech journalist at USA Today for many years now. He
Speaker 2: has show called Photo Walks TV, and he shared some
Speaker 2: of his top photography tips and number one start out.
Speaker 2: I know these sounds simple, but you'd be surprised. Charge
Speaker 2: your phone, clear out your storage. Two things I know
Speaker 2: seems like a given, but I've seen. I've been at
Speaker 2: the plays and the recitals for my kids, the holiday shows,
Speaker 2: and I've watched the phones in front of me with
Speaker 2: that dreaded screen that says boop, you're out of storage,
Speaker 2: and people are sitting there scrambling to delete things out
Speaker 2: of your phone. And by the way, if that happens
Speaker 2: to you, the easiest thing to delete a couple of
Speaker 2: large videos. He also says, clean your lens. This is
Speaker 2: a big one. You have no idea how many people say, hey,
Speaker 2: rich or they just come up to me, hey, can
Speaker 2: you take a picture? You know, you're at a restaurant
Speaker 2: or something, and you know, you go to take a
Speaker 2: picture with their phone, and it's like the smudgiest looks
Speaker 2: like there's vasoline on the lens. So the first thing
Speaker 2: you gotta do is clean your lens.
Speaker 1: He also likes the iPhone.
Speaker 2: After you know, trying shooting with the iPhone Samsung Pixel,
Speaker 2: he actually prefers the iPhone for its natural colors, and
Speaker 2: then he mentioned a couple apps that he likes. Number one,
Speaker 2: Adobe Light Room Mobile, I said, well, doesn't that have
Speaker 2: a subscription. No, you can use a lot of the
Speaker 2: features without subscribing, So I downloaded that Adobe light Room mobile.
Speaker 2: He likes this de haze tool, so it makes the
Speaker 2: skies look better. So you take a sky and it
Speaker 2: just you kind of use that de haze tool and
Speaker 2: it just kind of brings out the sky.
Speaker 1: It makes it look a lot better.
Speaker 2: He also likes the black Magic camera app for taking
Speaker 2: time lapses. He says that the iPhone sort of doesn't
Speaker 2: let you change any of the settings with time lapses.
Speaker 2: I think he says, they'd limit them to it like
Speaker 2: thirty seconds. But if you get one of these apps,
Speaker 2: a third party app like black Magic, you can do whatever.
Speaker 1: You want with your time lapses.
Speaker 2: And then he likes the Halied app, which has an
Speaker 2: anti AI mode, So if you want to take a
Speaker 2: photo without any AI, Halid will let you do it.
Speaker 2: There's also another one called Zerocam, which I think you
Speaker 2: have to pay ten dollars. I think I paid for that,
Speaker 2: but you have to It takes pictures without any AI,
Speaker 2: so that's called zero cam. He didn't mention that. I'm
Speaker 2: mentioning that, but the app that if you download one
Speaker 2: thing that I'm talking about. It's called Radiant Photo. R
Speaker 2: Adant Radiant Photo. Again, all these apps are like freemium.
Speaker 2: You download them, they want you to pay, but you
Speaker 2: don't really have to. You can get a lot of
Speaker 2: the functionality. But this Radiant Photo, I'm not kidding. I'm
Speaker 2: hesitant to even share it because I feel like it's
Speaker 2: my secret weapon.
Speaker 1: It literally perfects your photo with not even a tap.
Speaker 3: You don't.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is put the photo into
Speaker 2: it and it will just automatically look at the scene,
Speaker 2: sense what you're trying to show, and it will just
Speaker 2: perfect it. Like if it's someone's face, if it's a
Speaker 2: portrait photo, if it's a landscape, it just somehow does
Speaker 2: a really nice job of identifying what that picture is
Speaker 2: and making it better. So Radiant Photo iOS Android. Yes,
Speaker 2: they may try to get you to subscribe or pay,
Speaker 2: but you don't have to. I've I've been using it
Speaker 2: for six months, no payment, and it's worked every time.
Speaker 2: I Basically any picture that I uploaded social media, I'll
Speaker 2: just put in there and just kind of one tap
Speaker 2: and it's perfect. Let's go to Mark in Oh, sorry,
Speaker 2: let's go to Randy. Randy you're on with Rich.
Speaker 10: Hi Rich, I enjoy your show.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you, well, I enjoyed doing it.
Speaker 10: I'm not super tech savvy, but I wanted to ask
Speaker 10: your opinion if you could just keep it as basic
Speaker 10: language as possible. I have an iPhone eleven and I
Speaker 10: deleted a video about a year ago, and I regret
Speaker 10: doing that. And I've struggled and agonized over finding apps
Speaker 10: that will recover deleted and lost photos and videos, and
Speaker 10: I'm just totally dumbfounded by them. I did look in
Speaker 10: my iPhone backup.
Speaker 4: It's gone.
Speaker 10: There is there any specific app that you would recommend
Speaker 10: that would do the job? Or is it permanently gone?
Speaker 1: A video on the iPhone that you deleted a year ago?
Speaker 1: It is gone.
Speaker 2: So I hate to say that, but there are there's
Speaker 2: not an app that can bring it back on the iPhone,
Speaker 2: let's put it that way. But are there some avenues
Speaker 2: that you can explore?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 2: Number one, did you have this backed up in any way,
Speaker 2: shape or form to any app?
Speaker 10: No other than the iCloud. I'm not even sure if
Speaker 10: it was back. Well, it wasn't back.
Speaker 1: It was not.
Speaker 2: Okay, what about a backup of your phone? Did you
Speaker 2: ever have a backup of your phone.
Speaker 1: No, no, no.
Speaker 2: So with those two things, so there's a couple of
Speaker 2: ways that you know a photo could be still around.
Speaker 2: Number one, when you delete a picture on your iPhone,
Speaker 2: it does linger for about thirty days in a special folder.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you've checked this, but it's called recently deleted.
Speaker 2: Have you seen that one?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So with the.
Speaker 2: Latest iOS, they did add a feature where you have
Speaker 2: to authorize your phone before you can look at it.
Speaker 2: But on my phone, it's showing me, yeah, twenty nine
Speaker 2: days until it deletes the last photo, and it gives
Speaker 2: you a little countdown for each picture.
Speaker 1: So that's the first place to look.
Speaker 2: And Randy, even though you may not be able to
Speaker 2: get this back sadly, I am just going to go
Speaker 2: through these these suggestions so that if someone is dealing
Speaker 2: with something similar, maybe they deleted a photo by accident,
Speaker 2: these are the places they could potentially look. So that's
Speaker 2: number one, they recently deleted, and both iPhone and Android
Speaker 2: have a version of that, So that's the first place
Speaker 2: to check. The second place is an online backup. So
Speaker 2: I always recommend that you back up your photos. I
Speaker 2: understand for privacy concerns or other reasons. You may not
Speaker 2: want to do that, but I always recommend doing that.
Speaker 2: That could be through iCloud, that could be through Google Photos,
Speaker 2: that could be through one Drive, it could be through iedrive.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many different ways of backing up.
Speaker 2: If you're an Amazon Photo, if you're an Amazon Prime member,
Speaker 2: they offer free unlimited photo backup at full resolution for
Speaker 2: their Prime members. Now as long as you're paying for Prime,
Speaker 2: right even if you stop paying, they'll give you a
Speaker 2: certain amount of time to download it.
Speaker 1: So those are little.
Speaker 2: Avenues to backup photos if you don't want to pay
Speaker 2: a lot. The other place to look is a full
Speaker 2: phone backup. So when you back up your phone, it
Speaker 2: you know, if you have an iPhone, it's backing up
Speaker 2: to iCloud like the entire phone. Even if you have
Speaker 2: iCloud photos turned off, it's still backing up a copy
Speaker 2: of your entire phone to the cloud. So you may
Speaker 2: be able to go in there use a program like
Speaker 2: I Amazing to extract that photo out of that backup,
Speaker 2: or you can restore that backup to another iPhone or
Speaker 2: your or your current iPhone and get that photo back
Speaker 2: the other place to look, of course, is iCloud. And
Speaker 2: if you're wondering, like, okay, this on my phone? Is
Speaker 2: it not on my phone? You can always go to
Speaker 2: iCloud dot com and check to see if the picture
Speaker 2: is there.
Speaker 1: But those are the avenues, Randy.
Speaker 2: There is not a way to find that video that
Speaker 2: I know of, unless someone emails me something different that's
Speaker 2: been deleted a year ago. Because after a year, you know,
Speaker 2: no matter what, that thing is pretty much gone. The
Speaker 2: only thing I can think of is if it's something
Speaker 2: important in the future, you can upload it to YouTube
Speaker 2: as a private video for free.
Speaker 1: Dropbox gives you two gigs of storage. I believe for free.
Speaker 2: Most of the main service writers will give you a
Speaker 2: couple of gigs of storage completely free.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry this happened to you.
Speaker 2: Please back up your photos or put something that you
Speaker 2: need to keep in a safe place.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich.
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Speaker 2: Eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 2: We got the question about earlier about the best Android
Speaker 2: music app for an Android phone for local files and
Speaker 2: uh CALLI Cardinal fan writes in on a Pulsar is
Speaker 2: a reasonably good music player for Android. It is compatible
Speaker 2: with Android Auto two. Oh, I like that. That's a
Speaker 2: good point. Make sure it's compatible with Android Auto. So
Speaker 2: I looked it up, Pulsar Music Player. It's got five
Speaker 2: million downloads, four point six in the ratings. And most importantly,
Speaker 2: and this is always how you want to judge an app,
Speaker 2: by the way, always look at the updated on date,
Speaker 2: because if an app is out of update, it's not
Speaker 2: going to be you know, they're not it's not actively
Speaker 2: getting any improvements or updates. So this was last update
Speaker 2: on December eleventh, twenty twenty four, which is just fine.
Speaker 2: So again, if you're looking iOS or or Android, always
Speaker 2: look at that updated on date, the last update, because
Speaker 2: that will give you an idea if an app is
Speaker 2: actively being maintained, or if it's something that's just still
Speaker 2: lingering in the store and not really getting any active updates.
Speaker 2: So again, we got a lot of a lot of
Speaker 2: suggestions on the best Android music app. So we've got
Speaker 2: YouTube Music Cloud, which I think that's the easiest. Just
Speaker 2: upload your music to YouTube Music. They have a free
Speaker 2: service where you can just upload your MP threes and
Speaker 2: they'll show up on your phone, Samsung Music if you
Speaker 2: have a Samsung phone, and then listeners recommended Double Twist
Speaker 2: and Pulsar. And by the way, if you want anything
Speaker 2: that I talk about, I take very good show notes.
Speaker 1: It's all on the website. Rich on Tech dot tv. Definitely.
Speaker 1: While you're there, sign up for a newsletter. Follow me on.
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Speaker 2: to Ron in Norco. Ron, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 6: Good afternoon, Rich. How are you folks doing today?
Speaker 1: I am doing fantastic great.
Speaker 6: I'm sitting here watching the Eagles, Eagles and Big Bear
Speaker 6: on my camera. I'm a third monitor here and it's fantastic.
Speaker 6: The father's going down and getting the fishing and bringing
Speaker 6: the fishing up, and then mom fixed the fish apart
Speaker 6: and feeds the three babies.
Speaker 2: People are obsessed with this stuff. It's like a big
Speaker 2: on YouTube. I think it's one big ad for Big Bear.
Speaker 2: That's what I think. Because it is it makes you
Speaker 2: want to go there.
Speaker 6: Yeah for sure, yeah, not too far away. But I
Speaker 6: don't go very often. My question is I do consulting,
Speaker 6: and I go to site do site visits from time
Speaker 6: to time. And I used to use a Live Scribe
Speaker 6: with the ten and the special paper in the audio system,
Speaker 6: which has been good. But what can I use now?
Speaker 6: With AI emerging? It helped me do interviews that haven't
Speaker 6: transcribed instantly or virtually.
Speaker 1: Oh my, how long are you recording? Typically not more
Speaker 1: than an hour?
Speaker 6: Half an hour? I mean I get to break it
Speaker 6: up and segments if necessary.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, my favorite favorite favorite app is called Whisper
Speaker 2: Memos w h I spe er Whisper Memos. Are you
Speaker 2: on an iPhone or Android?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on, that's different. Okay, so if you're on Android,
Speaker 2: that's a little bit different. So you're on Samsung or
Speaker 2: you on Pixel.
Speaker 6: I'm on Samsung, but I also have an iPad. I
Speaker 6: usually take an iPad with me.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, well, I think I think the best app
Speaker 2: right now is the Whisper Memos app. And what I
Speaker 2: love about it is that you record and basically it
Speaker 2: will transcribe using the latest open AI Whisper model, which
Speaker 2: is really good.
Speaker 1: There's there's a couple of ways to do it. Do
Speaker 1: you need to What kind of computer do you have?
Speaker 6: I have a basic desktop, okay, Windows desk up.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many there's so many apps that
Speaker 2: do this. There's another one called letterly l e t
Speaker 2: t e r l Y. Now, for what you're doing,
Speaker 2: I think the service from otter might be the best one.
Speaker 1: That's for what you're doing. Have you heard of otter
Speaker 1: dot ai?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, so I think for your your purposes that might
Speaker 2: be the best solution. It all depends on do you
Speaker 2: want this to be free? Do you want this to
Speaker 2: be free or do you or do you mind paying?
Speaker 6: I don't mind paying, but I like free all the
Speaker 6: time too.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, So I mean I love free too. So
Speaker 2: what I do and I transcribe every interview I do
Speaker 2: for TV. So when I interview someone, we record it
Speaker 2: and then I transcribe it. And so what I do
Speaker 2: is I take that audio and drop it into an
Speaker 2: app called mac whisper m A c w h I
Speaker 2: s p e er now the equivalent for other. There's
Speaker 2: another app called Descript, which I used to use and
Speaker 2: that you can use as well. Anytime you're doing something
Speaker 2: for business. It's tough to get the free because you're
Speaker 2: using it more than what the free allotment is. Right,
Speaker 2: So with something like descript, you can use it for free,
Speaker 2: but as soon as you go over a certain amount,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to start paying. So it all depends
Speaker 2: on how much you're using this with built into the
Speaker 2: phones nowadays, they've got so many different options for transcribing.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned you have a Samsung, Yes I do.
Speaker 2: Do you have the latest one UI on it or no? Like,
Speaker 2: do you have the AI features or no?
Speaker 6: I don't think so. I have the S twenty two
Speaker 6: Anthrom that I hadn't upgrading to AI.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, if you have the S twenty two Ultra,
Speaker 2: that's not gonna have the AI because basically at this point,
Speaker 2: the iPhone, the Pixel, and the Samsung they all have
Speaker 2: audio recording on them that also transcribes for free. So
Speaker 2: that's another way of doing it. But if you've got
Speaker 2: the S twenty two, they just I think they just
Speaker 2: announced the one UI beta. Let's see one UI seven
Speaker 2: beta rolls out to more phones.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: Yeh see it's going to the S twenty three. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's it's not to your phone just yet, but
Speaker 2: that would be a good way to do it. But
Speaker 2: I mean, look, there's a lot of options out there.
Speaker 2: I think that one of these AI kind of it
Speaker 2: depends if you want your phone to do it one
Speaker 2: hundred percent, if you want your phone to do it
Speaker 2: from start to finish, I'd probably recommend something like otter
Speaker 2: dot AI. If you don't mind taking the file and
Speaker 2: transcribing it later, then I would use something like a
Speaker 2: descript That would probably be the best option there. And
Speaker 2: then you know, there's just there's so many ways of
Speaker 2: doing this, but I think those are probably some good
Speaker 2: ways to start doing it. But again, I so what
Speaker 2: I do is I get my file, I throw it
Speaker 2: into mac Whisper, and then I will use that transcription
Speaker 2: and then toss that into something like a chat GBT
Speaker 2: just to get some key takeaways things like that to
Speaker 2: help me think about crafting my story around that. There
Speaker 2: is a I'm trying to find there is a transcription.
Speaker 2: Let's see where it is. There is a transcription website
Speaker 2: that I will look up the url, but I shared it.
Speaker 2: It's a free transcription on like basically any computer, so
Speaker 2: it's hosted on hugging face. I gotta find the website though,
Speaker 2: but that one's pretty cool and I will put that
Speaker 2: in the show notes. Rich on tech dot tv is
Speaker 2: where you can find that. Thanks for the call ron
Speaker 2: appreciate it. There are so many it's so funny. I
Speaker 2: went from never ever transcribing my interviews to now I
Speaker 2: transcribe everything. In fact, I have a folder inside my
Speaker 2: notes of transcriptions, so anything someone says, I can go
Speaker 2: back and just and I record everything. All my meetings
Speaker 2: I take now, like if I go to like a briefing,
Speaker 2: I will record that.
Speaker 1: On my phone.
Speaker 2: And it's just gotten so incredibly easy to do this
Speaker 2: process of transcribing that it's like, why not just have everything?
Speaker 2: And I think that you know, with the later phones,
Speaker 2: the newer phones that handle the AI stuff, it really
Speaker 2: makes it a lot easier because it's built in for free,
Speaker 2: like I said, on the Pixel phones, the latest Samsung phones,
Speaker 2: and of course the iPhones if they support the iOS eighteen.
Speaker 1: It's all right there for free.
Speaker 2: But if you don't have access to the free services,
Speaker 2: you can always do some of the paid stuff that
Speaker 2: will work just as well. And I'll put everything I mentioned,
Speaker 2: by the way in the show notes Rich on tech
Speaker 2: dot TV. I know I mentioned a lot of different services,
Speaker 2: but it sort of depends on what you want out
Speaker 2: of them, which one is the best for you. Eighty
Speaker 2: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 2: to two four one zero one visited the new Google
Speaker 2: store in Santa Monica, California. It's at the Third Street Promenade.
Speaker 2: If you're familiar with LA one of my favorite places.
Speaker 2: I joke, it's one of the first places I ever
Speaker 2: visited when I came to California, and I thought this
Speaker 2: was like heaven on Earth. I have never seen anything
Speaker 2: like this in my life. Growing up in New Jersey,
Speaker 2: it was an outdoor mall on a street and I'm
Speaker 2: talking vibrant. Adam, you remember this In the day, Third
Speaker 2: Street Promenade was like the place to go for everything,
Speaker 2: and you just stroll down the street. You'd get a
Speaker 2: Wetzel's Pretzels, You'd go into Barnes and Noble browse the books.
Speaker 2: You'd go into all these stores, never buying anything, or
Speaker 2: maybe you did, you know something little, but you could
Speaker 2: just spend a whole night there and you know, you'd run.
Speaker 1: Into people, you'd see people. It was just so great.
Speaker 1: Now it's gone through some ups and downs.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's back on its way up after you know,
Speaker 2: pandemic really was tough on the outdoor malls. But anyway,
Speaker 2: so now they've got a new Google Store there where
Speaker 2: you can check out the pixel phones, they're watches, Nest devices.
Speaker 2: You can get a help desk, so if you need
Speaker 2: a screen repair, you can do that, or you need
Speaker 2: your device swapped, if you have a warranty on it,
Speaker 2: they can do that.
Speaker 1: This is their sixth store.
Speaker 2: They've got them in New York, Chicago, Mountain View they're headquarters,
Speaker 2: and Boston, La, of course is a big market. Austin
Speaker 2: is up next and everything is on display. So if
Speaker 2: you're looking for an accessory for your pick watch or
Speaker 2: your pixel phone, they've got it there. And that's what's
Speaker 2: so great about this is because I get it. There's
Speaker 2: five hundred Apple stores worldwide, but there's only six Google
Speaker 2: stores where you can see all of this stuff in
Speaker 2: person and of course free Wi Fi. Just a great
Speaker 2: place to visit. Definitely check it out. Oh and by
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Speaker 2: we're going to talk to doctor Gita, doctor g Uh,
Speaker 2: doctor Gita Nayir. She's going to talk about healthcare misinformation
Speaker 2: on social media. Yeah, there's a lot of it, so
Speaker 2: she'll talk about that. We had a question from Reggie
Speaker 2: in South Carolina that apparently I guess Reggie didn't want
Speaker 2: to be on the air, but was asking about tax
Speaker 2: time and software that you like, and so I will
Speaker 2: tell you what I use this year, which was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: I love it and it is so good.
Speaker 2: It's called flyfinn flyfinn dot I guess their websites flyfinn
Speaker 2: dot com tax but it's called fly finn Ai. And
Speaker 2: this was one of the first guests I ever had
Speaker 2: on this show, and basically I found this app and
Speaker 2: it is incredible if you are even if you're not
Speaker 2: a freelancer, Like, it's just so easy because the way
Speaker 2: this app works, you download the app to your phone,
Speaker 2: right and if you're a freelancer, this is like or
Speaker 2: whatever you are, it's still incredible. But basically what they
Speaker 2: do is that you connect your bank accounts to this app,
Speaker 2: and then as you get transactions in those accounts, AI
Speaker 2: will go through and suggest if that's a write off
Speaker 2: or not, and basically put it into the categories as
Speaker 2: you go along during the year, and so when it
Speaker 2: comes to tax time, your taxes are like ninety nine
Speaker 2: point nine percent done, and then you can either do
Speaker 2: them yourself and just use all the categories and everything
Speaker 2: that you've already categorized, or you can use one of
Speaker 2: their CPAs to do it. And I will tell you
Speaker 2: with the caveat that the CPA seemed to be overseas
Speaker 2: because I got like a little warning that my tax
Speaker 2: return was being handled overseas. I think, so, you know,
Speaker 2: if you're comfortable with that, But I'm telling you, this
Speaker 2: is the easiest thing I've ever used in my life,
Speaker 2: and it's so easy. They handle everything, and so you
Speaker 2: go through, you have all this stuff on the app,
Speaker 2: and then the CPA asks you questions, so you'll get
Speaker 2: all these questions.
Speaker 1: You just respond with your answers.
Speaker 2: You send them all your documents if they need it
Speaker 2: at the end of the year and they complete it all.
Speaker 1: And I was looking at it today.
Speaker 2: It was like ninety eight pages, you know, and you
Speaker 2: sign it all electronically, and it's it's really really slick.
Speaker 2: So I think it's incredible. And it's not that expensive.
Speaker 2: It's way cheaper than you know. I had a CPA
Speaker 2: do my taxes last year, and I'm not kidding. It
Speaker 2: was not a very good experience. I was not very
Speaker 2: happy and it was very expensive. And that's why I
Speaker 2: went back to the app. Because I did the app
Speaker 2: the year before. It was almost too easy. I was like,
Speaker 2: all right, this is too easy, too cheap, like what's
Speaker 2: the catch? And then I use the CPA and I
Speaker 2: was like this is too expensive and way too complicated.
Speaker 2: And now this year I went back to the app
Speaker 2: and I was just like, all right, this is the
Speaker 2: way it is. It's so easy, it's so great, and
Speaker 2: I love it, Like I can't speak highly enough of this.
Speaker 2: The pricing, you know, it depends. Okay, they've got three plans. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so they have a standard plan where if you're just
Speaker 2: individual then they've got the premium.
Speaker 1: And the ultimate.
Speaker 2: But I'm telling you, oh, the other thing is, let's
Speaker 2: say you have during the year. Let's say you have
Speaker 2: an expense and you're like, I'm not sure if this
Speaker 2: is even a write off. I'm not even sure if
Speaker 2: this is deductible. You can flag it and your CPA,
Speaker 2: the person they assigned they have like all you know,
Speaker 2: even if you don't have your own CPA, like if
Speaker 2: you don't pay for that level, they still have a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of CPAs they employ that just look at
Speaker 2: these questions all day long and then respond to you.
Speaker 2: So if you went out to lunch with someone in
Speaker 2: discuss business and you're like, I don't know, is this
Speaker 2: a business expense?
Speaker 1: You flag that expense. It sends it to them. They
Speaker 1: take a look at it and say, oh, yeah, that's categorized.
Speaker 2: Under this boom done. I mean, it's really really incredible.
Speaker 2: It's called flyfinn aiflyfin dot tax is the website.
Speaker 1: I really like it.
Speaker 2: I tried doing the turbo tax thing, and I think
Speaker 2: that that's probably my second favorite. And the reason I
Speaker 2: like it, I know it's complicated. I know they, you know,
Speaker 2: do all the stuff where they fight to make taxes
Speaker 2: complicated and all that stuff, or people say they do.
Speaker 2: But I like it because they do a lot of
Speaker 2: returns and so it's like there's strength in numbers where
Speaker 2: they've seen a lot of data. And so anytime someone's
Speaker 2: seen a lot of data, I always like kind of
Speaker 2: like that. But you know, at the end of the day, look,
Speaker 2: going to like a person in your neighborhood is probably
Speaker 2: the easiest and nicest. But for me, you know, I
Speaker 2: like to do everything online. So to me, this worked
Speaker 2: eight and eight Rich one on one eight eight eight
Speaker 2: seven four two four one zero one coming up, we'll
Speaker 2: talk misinformation when it comes to help on the internet.
Speaker 1: Surely you're on with Rich.
Speaker 11: Hi. Rich. I'm super excited. I'm starting my retirement degree
Speaker 11: and I have a computer I haven't used in three years.
Speaker 11: It is probably six years old. So I turn it
Speaker 11: on and it said battery half uh, like depleted. So
Speaker 11: I just need it for like word and typing in
Speaker 11: a class or typing notes at a meeting.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 11: But of course I want to save it and then
Speaker 11: send it, you know, send it somewhere as a PDAF size,
Speaker 11: just wondering what does that mean to me? With this
Speaker 11: battery half depleted? It's an HP, it's I think it's
Speaker 11: a seventeen inch laptop. Like it's super nice, hardly used,
Speaker 11: but I want to use, you know, make use of
Speaker 11: something instead of just going out and getting another one.
Speaker 11: What do you think?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: Is it working?
Speaker 11: It turns on and then it goes right off. And
Speaker 11: it just said battery half So I'm like, can't you
Speaker 11: like to me? It's like, well, what's with the half battery?
Speaker 11: I can't. If it took me a half battery for
Speaker 11: the first few years, can I use the other half
Speaker 11: for the next like five months a year?
Speaker 1: Okay? So you turn Okay, So this is an HP.
Speaker 1: What do you know the model?
Speaker 11: No, off hand.
Speaker 1: So it's an HP.
Speaker 2: You've had it for six years. So does it work
Speaker 2: when you plug it in?
Speaker 11: Yes, it turns on. It turns on and then tell
Speaker 11: me about the battery and then it goes off.
Speaker 1: Can you remove the battery?
Speaker 11: I haven't touched anything, but I don't know, but go ahead,
Speaker 11: and I'm listening you remove it. What do you mean.
Speaker 1: Does the battery pull out of the does the battery
Speaker 1: pull out.
Speaker 11: Oh, probably because it's fairly new. I mean, it's not
Speaker 11: that old to me, it's not that old.
Speaker 8: I'm sure it will.
Speaker 11: But what about it.
Speaker 2: Well, if you could pull out the battery, then you
Speaker 2: could just replace the battery and get a new one.
Speaker 2: So I would, Yeah, so I would. I would bring
Speaker 2: this somewhere you can look up on Yelp, like a
Speaker 2: local repair shop, computer repair shop. If if the computer
Speaker 2: is doing what you need it to do when it
Speaker 2: turns on, you know, if it's if it's going to
Speaker 2: accomplish the tasks you need, then I would just spend
Speaker 2: a couple, you know, a couple bucks on a new battery.
Speaker 2: It's probably HP replacement battery. Let's see how much that
Speaker 2: would be. I'm guessing like one hundred, one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty three up to maybe three hundred bucks. But it
Speaker 2: all depends, you know.
Speaker 1: But I would.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't find a price on here right now,
Speaker 2: but that's what I would do. So HP has a
Speaker 2: so you can't get this thing to turn on at all.
Speaker 11: It goes on with that like a pretty screen saver,
Speaker 11: and then it says batteries half like done, have you?
Speaker 1: And that's when it's plugged in.
Speaker 11: When it's been plugged in overnight. I can't set plugged
Speaker 11: in now just to see what happened.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've left it.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like, leave it plugged in for
Speaker 2: a long like longer than you think and see what
Speaker 2: happens there. But if it's okay, So if it's if
Speaker 2: it's been plugged in overnight, which gives it plenty of
Speaker 2: time to charge that battery, and it's still not turning on,
Speaker 2: there's something going on there. And typically even with like
Speaker 2: a laptop that the battery is depleted, it would still
Speaker 2: turn on with the yeah, with the battery out. But okay,
Speaker 2: so I think what you need to do is I
Speaker 2: would bring this to a shop get an estimate.
Speaker 1: Where do you live? You said, Long Beach, Long Beach?
Speaker 2: Okay, so there are let's see here, there are places
Speaker 2: called you break I Fix.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of that?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, So I would bring it there. They will give
Speaker 2: you a free estimate and see what that estimate is.
Speaker 2: And if it's I would say for a six year
Speaker 2: old computer to replace the battery, I would not spend
Speaker 2: more than one hundred and fifty bucks on that because
Speaker 2: six years for a Windows laptop. It's probably not going
Speaker 2: to be the best, and you can get a new
Speaker 2: laptop for five hundred, six hundred dollars, so I would
Speaker 2: probably put my money more towards that than this repair.
Speaker 1: If it's more than that money. That makes sense, yes, sir, Okay.
Speaker 2: So check that out and if you if you need
Speaker 2: a recommendation on a new laptop after you do this,
Speaker 2: but call me back next time after you get this estimate,
Speaker 2: call me back and let me know what they say.
Speaker 8: Okay, off the.
Speaker 11: Top of your head, what would be a good college laptop,
Speaker 11: like an extensive like Lenovo or something like just something
Speaker 11: to get by.
Speaker 2: To the next like, well, I think I think the
Speaker 2: I think the MacBook Air at eight ninety nine for
Speaker 2: a brand new M four chip is going to be
Speaker 2: your absolute best choice because you're gonna get ten years
Speaker 2: out of that thing and it's going to be incredible.
Speaker 1: The battery life is going to be incredible.
Speaker 2: Ariis four mac Book MacBook Air M four and it
Speaker 2: just came out comes out actually on March twelfth.
Speaker 1: But I would go with that.
Speaker 2: That's going to get you through whatever you need for
Speaker 2: your study and longer and when you're done with it,
Speaker 2: you can pass it down to someone that that also
Speaker 2: needs a laptop while you get a new one.
Speaker 1: So that's how.
Speaker 11: Good got awesome. Thank you, sir, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All right, Shirley, thanks for the call. Triple eight Rich
Speaker 2: one on one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 2: four one zero one. Let's go to Tom and Woodland Hills. Tom,
Speaker 2: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 8: Hey, Rich, good show.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 8: I've got a weird one for you. I've got Sonos
Speaker 8: one speakers with the Sonos app which has Alexa enabled,
Speaker 8: and I can play other iHeart radio stations like KOs
Speaker 8: and things like that, but I can't play Kfi.
Speaker 1: Can't play Kfi. No hm, that's so why not?
Speaker 3: It says, hold on here, Alexa play Kfi.
Speaker 2: Okay here, I hear it working right now. Okay, so
Speaker 2: I hear I heard it said. I'm having trouble playing that. Okay,
Speaker 2: So you're trying to do the voice assistant there. The
Speaker 2: The short answer is, I'm not sure. I don't know
Speaker 2: if anything changed. I don't know if anything uh is
Speaker 2: going on in the background. I do know that things
Speaker 2: sort of happen sometimes that may impact that, but in general,
Speaker 2: can you bring it up through the app.
Speaker 1: Like if okay, so I will let's see. So it's
Speaker 1: just a voice in.
Speaker 6: The Sona's app itself.
Speaker 8: I can't but you know I could use wait.
Speaker 1: Why can't you through the soap?
Speaker 8: I don't know, it just wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, well if you so, if you go into your
Speaker 2: services on the Sono SAP, there is an iHeartRadio service
Speaker 2: and that's kind of like a fool proof way of
Speaker 2: of getting it to play. So I would try that.
Speaker 2: And sometimes these radio stations are also on that tune in,
Speaker 2: which also is on iHeart or sorry on so NOS,
Speaker 2: so I would check for it there as well, but
Speaker 2: bring those two services in if something you know and this,
Speaker 2: if this continues not working, you might try to disconnect
Speaker 2: your Alexa from Sonos and bring it back, or do
Speaker 2: a restart of your sons system on the app, like
Speaker 2: just say restart your system. But you know, I'm angry
Speaker 2: at Sonos right now in general because they have really
Speaker 2: failed me in the past year of their speakers, because
Speaker 2: I have them in every room and they I still
Speaker 2: can't adjust the volume across all my speakers with this
Speaker 2: new app.
Speaker 1: It's just like it's slow.
Speaker 2: One of my speakers skips every song like it just
Speaker 2: it plays half the song and then skips it. So
Speaker 2: sons and you know, the CEO recently either left the
Speaker 2: company or was pushed out, so they've been going through
Speaker 2: some issues with their quality control there, so maybe that's
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 1: But you should be able to play it. So I
Speaker 1: would do those two steps.
Speaker 2: I would disconnect the uh maybe first restart your system,
Speaker 2: see if that helps them. Maybe disconnect the Alexa service,
Speaker 2: bring it back on board and see if that helps.
Speaker 2: But I do think all of this is going to
Speaker 2: get better when Alexa is infused with AI, because I
Speaker 2: think she's gonna be able to understand what we're trying
Speaker 2: to do a lot better. And even though you just
Speaker 2: said play KFI, I think you're gonna be able to
Speaker 2: do a lot more with Alexa when it comes to
Speaker 2: music and streaming and all that stuff once she understands
Speaker 2: sort of natural language commands. But Tom, I you know
Speaker 2: source subject for me this so no stuff because they
Speaker 2: just had the best speakers and service in the world
Speaker 2: until they decided to redo the app, and then just
Speaker 2: everything started going wrong after that, and I ended up
Speaker 2: getting rid of my speakers and replacing them with Amazon
Speaker 2: Echoes and then that was fine. But I kind of
Speaker 2: like the grouping of the speakers, and I like having
Speaker 2: them everywhere, and I like the app. And they're slowly
Speaker 2: but surely clawing their way back to a working system again.
Speaker 1: But it's been really, really tricky.
Speaker 2: Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 2: four two four one zero one. We're going to try
Speaker 2: to get our guests coming up to talk about medical misinformation.
Speaker 1: Uh, we'll see if we can get them on the line.
Speaker 1: Coming up right here on rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: My next guest is going to break down the growing
Speaker 2: crisis of healthcare misinformation. Uh, doctor Gita Nayer, Doctor g
Speaker 2: welcome to the show.
Speaker 12: Thank you so much for having me, Rich.
Speaker 1: So tell me. Let's let's just start with tell me
Speaker 1: what you do.
Speaker 2: First off, you've got you know, you're you've been on
Speaker 2: all kinds of places talking about healthcare, your doctor. So
Speaker 2: why are you interested in this idea of healthcare misinformation?
Speaker 12: Well, you know, Rich, I'm a doctor, a technologist as
Speaker 12: well as a best selling author on exactly this topic
Speaker 12: and disinformation in the era of health tech, AI, social media,
Speaker 12: all the things we your viewers know and love and
Speaker 12: really because as a physician, I've just run into this
Speaker 12: so many times, and having come from a tech background,
Speaker 12: was previously chief medical officer of salesforce at and T.
Speaker 12: I understand the power of tech, and I believe in
Speaker 12: the power of tech, but you still got to understand
Speaker 12: what you're looking at and what and how it affects
Speaker 12: your body. And so this has really become a passion
Speaker 12: project for me.
Speaker 2: So I imagine that are we talking Like basically people
Speaker 2: see this crazy stuff on TikTok and then they start
Speaker 2: doing it, or you know, it used to be you
Speaker 2: would just google like what your symptoms were, and you
Speaker 2: would just follow like what was it WebMD or something.
Speaker 2: And of course at the end of the day, I
Speaker 2: always made the joke like, no matter what you have,
Speaker 2: you're gonna die, because it's like if you just go
Speaker 2: down this rabbit hole of like the worst possible thing
Speaker 2: and then you go to the actual doctor and like,
Speaker 2: oh no, here, all you need is this little creamy
Speaker 2: to be fine.
Speaker 12: Exactly, you got it. Look in today's post pandemic world,
Speaker 12: the everyday consumer out there is really hungry and thirsty
Speaker 12: for healthcare information, and you're right, they're going to doctor Google.
Speaker 12: But more often than not, they're going to doctor TikTok. Right.
Speaker 12: We know that fifty nine million Americans turn to social
Speaker 12: media for questions about their health. And I think social
Speaker 12: media is a great asset and tool, but you have
Speaker 12: to be mindful of what you're actually looking at, who
Speaker 12: is it that you're following, and that you understand and
Speaker 12: know when to take some of that information with a
Speaker 12: grain of salt.
Speaker 1: So how do you know? I mean, like, let's give
Speaker 1: an example.
Speaker 2: Now, this may not be medical, but you know there's
Speaker 2: a big trend right now of like eating your weight
Speaker 2: in protein every day or something ridiculous like that. So
Speaker 2: I mean that kind of stuff I feel like started
Speaker 2: on social media and we've seen a million of these trends.
Speaker 1: How do you know what's real what's not?
Speaker 12: You know, there's a couple of things you can do
Speaker 12: if you're out there and interested in your health. Number One,
Speaker 12: checking the source, Right is this something coming from if
Speaker 12: you're looking for something for your kids? The American Academy Pediatrics,
Speaker 12: the American Medical Association, the American Whatever Association. Right, So
Speaker 12: one looking for who is the source? Keeping in mind
Speaker 12: there are actually associations out there that are for patients,
Speaker 12: four people with diabetes, four patients with heart disease. They're
Speaker 12: always going to be propagating information that is good for
Speaker 12: the consumer. So that's one two. Looking for inflammatory language,
Speaker 12: right the always or never, You know, the human body
Speaker 12: doesn't tend to work in extremes and complex scientific things
Speaker 12: can rarely have a simple solution or a hack like
Speaker 12: eating your weight in protein. Third, you have to understand
Speaker 12: your body is not the same as everyone's body. Right,
Speaker 12: If you've got kidney issues, I can tell you that's
Speaker 12: a bad plan. So you've got to know your own body.
Speaker 12: You have to know your own health. And lastly, rich
Speaker 12: you've got to have your own doctor right when and
Speaker 12: where you can double check things and actually get personalized
Speaker 12: information that is for you, relates to your family history
Speaker 12: and look, I know access is an issue, depends if
Speaker 12: you have health insurance, depends where you are. It can
Speaker 12: take a while to get an appointment. But there are
Speaker 12: a lot of online virtual telemedicine services out there now.
Speaker 12: And so if you are feeling like you are reading
Speaker 12: a lot of stuff but you're quite unsure of what
Speaker 12: to do, make that doctor's appointment. It's going to help
Speaker 12: you make the final decision and also get you information
Speaker 12: that's just tailored to you, not just to the general population.
Speaker 2: It's so wild, and I'll admit this for myself, but
Speaker 2: you know, when you have any sort of issue, you're
Speaker 2: always scared to go to the doctor because you don't
Speaker 2: want to find out what it actually is. But the
Speaker 2: reality is it's probably better to know what it is
Speaker 2: than to not.
Speaker 12: Absolutely prevention is always going to be the key in medicine.
Speaker 12: We want you to get the mammogram, the colonoscophy before
Speaker 12: you get breast cancer of colon cancer, so it is
Speaker 12: always wise to know. It can be scary. I agree
Speaker 12: with that, and I understand that emotion, but you know,
Speaker 12: knowledge is power, and I love that patients want to read.
Speaker 12: I often exactly what we said. I often direct my
Speaker 12: patients when we make a new diagnosis like glupus, matoriitter earthritis.
Speaker 12: I'll say, look, I want you to read everything and
Speaker 12: come back and ask me your questions. But here's the
Speaker 12: top three sites, here's the top three influencers that I follow,
Speaker 12: And so don't be afraid to have that conversation too
Speaker 12: with your doc, which is where should I be reading,
Speaker 12: what should I be aware of? And one more tipperach
Speaker 12: if they're selling something, if they're selling you a supplement,
Speaker 12: if they're selling you something for just nine ninety nine
Speaker 12: or click here for this subscription, that's often a really
Speaker 12: big red flag because docs are never going to ask
Speaker 12: you to do that.
Speaker 2: Interesting, what do you think about chat GBT? And like,
Speaker 2: you know, AI is now kind of replacing the Google search.
Speaker 2: I know that I've uploaded some of my medical records
Speaker 2: when you can tell me if I'm wrong for doing that.
Speaker 2: But it's like kind of fascinating you think you're getting
Speaker 2: like this analysis, this expert analysis.
Speaker 12: Well, look again, I think knowledge is power. I love
Speaker 12: that people are more and more curious about the human body,
Speaker 12: and I think that's terrific. But again, chat GBT is
Speaker 12: a great source, like ninety percent of the time, the
Speaker 12: truth is we still don't know. And again remember it's
Speaker 12: only as good as the you give it, right, So
Speaker 12: I don't know if you uploaded your whole medical record.
Speaker 12: I don't know if you uploaded what has most recently changed.
Speaker 12: So being mindful that so much of AI is dependent
Speaker 12: on the data, and that we in healthcare have lots
Speaker 12: of gaps and data. Doctors don't share information. Hospitals don't
Speaker 12: share information, so you have to be mindful that it's
Speaker 12: not a silver bullet. Right Again, there is no real quick,
Speaker 12: easy button solution. I think it's great to be curious.
Speaker 12: I encourage anyone to read scientific sites, to follow actual
Speaker 12: doctors with licenses. Because here's the other thing rich, right,
Speaker 12: there's entertainment. There are entertainers out there that are making
Speaker 12: millions of dollars off of propagating this and disinformation, but
Speaker 12: they're not accountable the way that physicians nurses are accountable.
Speaker 12: If I give you bad advice, I can lose my license.
Speaker 12: So there is an incentive to be on the side
Speaker 12: of the consumer, which is very different from entertainment.
Speaker 2: That is such a good point, and I do back
Speaker 2: to your point about the medical history not being shared.
Speaker 2: That has got to be the most frustrating thing as
Speaker 2: a patient. That for me, like I would just imagine
Speaker 2: that somehow in AI and this will happen in the future,
Speaker 2: would have everything from my birth up until now in
Speaker 2: a file, and that way you can see patterns, you
Speaker 2: can see things emerging, and I'm waiting for that day
Speaker 2: and I know we're working on it, but is a
Speaker 2: very slow process. All right, doctor G. What's the best
Speaker 2: way for folks to find you online?
Speaker 12: Oh? Thanks, rich I'm I'm everywhere. I'm on Instagram, I'm
Speaker 12: on LinkedIn, I'm on x and easy to find me
Speaker 12: Genayor and I look forward to continue the conversation with
Speaker 12: you and your viewers.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, and I'll link you up on
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Speaker 2: week went to dinner and the restaurant we went to.
Speaker 2: I've got this little system for picking restaurants, by the way,
Speaker 2: so I look for my hotel is any anytime going out,
Speaker 2: I just go to you gotta go. You gotta do
Speaker 2: this on a desktop. It doesn't work on your phone
Speaker 2: for some reason. But if you go to Google Maps
Speaker 2: and then you search for where you're staying, right, so
Speaker 2: no matter where you are. Let's just say you're at
Speaker 2: a hotel. I'll just pick one down downtown and then
Speaker 2: you'll see once you search for that place, you'll see
Speaker 2: at the top of Google Maps it says nearby hotels, restaurants,
Speaker 2: things to do, bars, coffee. Now they've got some of
Speaker 2: these options on the phone, but they just don't work
Speaker 2: the same. So what I do is tap restaurants, and
Speaker 2: I typically want a place I can walk to, and
Speaker 2: so I will look. As soon as you tap restaurants,
Speaker 2: then you've got this thirty minute down at the bottom,
Speaker 2: you've got walking or driving. So I will choose fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes as my maximum walking time, and then you go
Speaker 2: to your filters. And so if you really want something
Speaker 2: that's like highly rated four point five, that's not like
Speaker 2: those are the ratings, like a generalized rating that people
Speaker 2: give it, not like there's no traditional like zagit or whatever.
Speaker 2: This is just like an aggregated score. So four point
Speaker 2: five is pretty good, Like not many restaurants get that.
Speaker 2: So if you want to find the places that people
Speaker 2: go to, you can tap that, and then you can
Speaker 2: go to all filters and you can say, you know
Speaker 2: how many dollars signs you want the cuisine you want.
Speaker 2: But typically once you have that list of restaurants, now
Speaker 2: you've got restaurants that are within fifteen minutes walking distance,
Speaker 2: and then you can look at the number of ratings
Speaker 2: they have, So anything that's got like in the thousands,
Speaker 2: people are going to that place a lot, and then
Speaker 2: you could just kind of narrow down from there. It's
Speaker 2: it's just a very easy way to sort of narrow
Speaker 2: down some of the pop their places near you instead
Speaker 2: of trying to search through all these different things and
Speaker 2: find the place or look through reviews and that.
Speaker 1: But this is just my.
Speaker 2: Easy go to way and it usually works every single time.
Speaker 1: It works. The other way to do it is on Yelp.
Speaker 2: If you just want somewhere that's really popular, you could
Speaker 2: just open up the Yelp app and then just sort
Speaker 2: You can tap restaurants and then sort by most reviewed,
Speaker 2: and that basically gives you, like the they may not
Speaker 2: be the best restaurants. You'll still have to use your
Speaker 2: your judgment to figure out which one you want to
Speaker 2: go to, but those are like the places that are
Speaker 2: most visited, most reviewed, most talked about, and that's just
Speaker 2: you know, again, if you're in town. If you've got
Speaker 2: friends and all that stuff, like, sure, ask them for
Speaker 2: a recommendation. But if you're just in town for one night,
Speaker 2: you want to find a decent place. Those two systems
Speaker 2: that I use pretty much work every time. Anyway, that
Speaker 2: led us to our restaurant that we went to. It
Speaker 2: was called Piccora Bianca and nice place. It was packed
Speaker 2: the whole time. But they had this thing on the
Speaker 2: table that I loved. Yes, there's a tech angle to this.
Speaker 2: They had a QR code on the table that you
Speaker 2: could scan at the end of dinner and pay your
Speaker 2: bill from your phone. And I've seen this before at restaurants,
Speaker 2: but this was the best implementation I've seen. Because you
Speaker 2: scan it, it was clear, it was easy. It says
Speaker 2: do you want to pay the full bill or do
Speaker 2: you want to pay for just your items or do
Speaker 2: you want to split the bill. And so if you're
Speaker 2: in one of those groups where everyone's like, you know, saying,
Speaker 2: oh I got the I had one less French fry,
Speaker 2: so I paid five dollars less, like you can say, okay, fine,
Speaker 2: everyone go to your app, choose the things you ordered,
Speaker 2: pay for it. Now, for our group, we had split
Speaker 2: a bunch of appetizers, and so it was tricky to
Speaker 2: do the whole like, oh, I'll pay for just what
Speaker 2: I had. So then we just said, okay, well I'll
Speaker 2: just split the bill. And you know, there's five of us,
Speaker 2: and it said, how many people do you want to
Speaker 2: pay for? I said too, I was paying for me
Speaker 2: and my mom, and so divided the whole thing up.
Speaker 2: I paid for us and I used Apple Pay and
Speaker 2: you could use Google Pay whatever you want, and the
Speaker 2: bill was done. So I looked up, of course this company,
Speaker 2: it's called Sunday sun Day Sunday app dot com. So
Speaker 2: if you have a restaurant, I guess my thesis here is,
Speaker 2: please adopt this technology.
Speaker 1: It is so easy. It's so much.
Speaker 2: Better than asking the waiter, hey, can you split the
Speaker 2: bill or this or that, because it gives people options
Speaker 2: on how they want to pay. Now, the only thing
Speaker 2: that's a little bit weird about this, I took a
Speaker 2: picture of the QR code on the table to like
Speaker 2: put in my newsletter, and you can scan that QR
Speaker 2: code at any time and kind of spy on what
Speaker 2: people are ordering at that table because that QR code
Speaker 2: is specific for that table and it's linked to their
Speaker 2: POS system, their point of sale system, their hospitality system.
Speaker 2: And so last night I scanned it as just a test,
Speaker 2: and I could see all the things that people are
Speaker 2: ordering at that table. So I guess they're not too concerned,
Speaker 2: because who's going to sit there after they left a restaurant,
Speaker 2: scan this QR code again and then pay for someone
Speaker 2: else's dinner. It's probably not going to happen. There's nothing
Speaker 2: like nefarious you can do with that QR code.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 2: I love when restaurants make life easy, and I'm all
Speaker 2: about that. Like these restaurants they go in there and
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, you can't split the bill, or you
Speaker 2: can't do this, or you can't do that.
Speaker 1: It's or I'm adding all this.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: The new thing is all these fees they add to
Speaker 2: the bill. This was just a nice breath of fresh air.
Speaker 2: It was just like the way you want to check
Speaker 2: out simple easy.
Speaker 1: I liked it.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to let's see here Michael in
Speaker 2: uh Capistrano Beach.
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: My question was for you when you hear about the
Speaker 3: w EF members, how he gets up and he talks
Speaker 3: about how the humans are going to be hackable animals.
Speaker 3: What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: Who said this?
Speaker 3: Yuri the World's Economic Forum. They say that humans are
Speaker 3: hackable animals.
Speaker 1: Oh, is this the.
Speaker 2: Guy that wrote the Sapiens book. I think it might
Speaker 2: be because he's it looks like that might be the hymn.
Speaker 2: I've read a lot of that book, and so I
Speaker 2: did not hear this. I did not hear about what
Speaker 2: he said. But you know, there already are you know,
Speaker 2: body hackers out there, people that are trying to hack
Speaker 2: their own body in different ways from a biological standpoint.
Speaker 2: But then there's the idea of all these things like
Speaker 2: neurolink and these companies that are working on sort of
Speaker 2: add ons to our brain. So what do I think
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna happen. I think that we are
Speaker 2: just at the beginning of this now. I think there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of pros for people like quadriprilegics,
Speaker 2: people that have some sort of brain damage, and people
Speaker 2: that you know, of different abilities that you know might
Speaker 2: be confined to a wheelchair, like there may be breakthroughs
Speaker 2: that will allow these people to get around like regular,
Speaker 2: you know, like average human beings. And so I think
Speaker 2: that there is good in this stuff. And I was
Speaker 2: reading a whole article I think was on the plane
Speaker 2: about the original guy who got the brain implant from Neurlink,
Speaker 2: and you know, he was just talking about how it
Speaker 2: changed his life. Like the guy was just a you know,
Speaker 2: he had a regular body, and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: he got into I think it was a was it
Speaker 2: a car accident, And next thing you know, you know,
Speaker 2: he's confined to a wheelchair and barely can move at all.
Speaker 2: And he said, when they put this thing in his brain,
Speaker 2: they approached him, he said, it was amazing. He can
Speaker 2: move a cursor on a computer. Like he said, everything
Speaker 2: that he had to do with the assistance of a person,
Speaker 2: he can now do a lot of this stuff by himself.
Speaker 2: Maybe not moving around per se, but like just being online.
Speaker 2: Like imagine that you can't move, you can't control a
Speaker 2: mouse computer things that you were accustomed to doing, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you can't do that anymore.
Speaker 1: How frustrating it is.
Speaker 2: And so he said, things that would take him, you know,
Speaker 2: an hour to kind of move or do something on
Speaker 2: the computer screen, he can now do in seconds just
Speaker 2: by looking at it. Just by thinking about moving the
Speaker 2: cursor to the left or the right, or selecting something,
Speaker 2: it happens on screen. So I think, you know, but
Speaker 2: on the flip side, once we start embedding people with
Speaker 2: this technology, of course that technology is hackable, it is programmable.
Speaker 2: There will be, you know, people that try to abuse
Speaker 2: this stuff. So I think that no matter what, we
Speaker 2: are in for it. And I was reading something too
Speaker 2: about cars, you know how you know, we think about
Speaker 2: all these cars that can do things, they can drive themselves,
Speaker 2: you know, security cameras on cars, like all this technology
Speaker 2: that's built into cars. You know, there are people working
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven to try to figure out how
Speaker 2: to hack that stuff and use it to their advantage
Speaker 2: in various ways. Now, stealing a car is one thing,
Speaker 2: but you know, can you imagine if all the self
Speaker 2: driving cars slam themselves into walls? I mean, you know
Speaker 2: there's someone out there working on trying to make that
Speaker 2: happen because they're evil. I hope that doesn't happen. But again,
Speaker 2: people do have to look into this stuff to try
Speaker 2: to patch the exploits that other people may find, and
Speaker 2: so there's always someone that's looking for the holes in
Speaker 2: this software in the programming in the hardware, no matter what,
Speaker 2: whether they're going to use it for good or for bad.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, we are just at the beginning
Speaker 2: of all this stuff. And I talk about this a
Speaker 2: lot too, the idea that AI right now, we've got it.
Speaker 2: It's been you know what two years that we've had it,
Speaker 2: and we've been playing with this stuff and everyone loves,
Speaker 2: you know, some of the things that CHATCHYBT and Gemini
Speaker 2: and Perplexity can do. But right now it is so basic.
Speaker 2: Just imagine when they start building this AI technology into robots,
Speaker 2: like I'm talking humanoid robots that many many companies are
Speaker 2: working on, Like these robots that can walk around and
Speaker 2: sort of think for themselves, do for themselves, act for themselves.
Speaker 2: So this stuff is happening. It's going to happen, and
Speaker 2: we need to be ready for all aspects of this
Speaker 2: no matter what. A good movie to watch. It's a
Speaker 2: little a little silly, and I hope I'm not giving
Speaker 2: too much away, but it's been out for a while.
Speaker 2: But Companion we sat down to watch kind of a
Speaker 2: horror movie. I don't want to give away the premise,
Speaker 2: but just it's interesting. So again that's kind of along
Speaker 2: the lines of what we're looking forward to in the future.
Speaker 2: Good question. Thanks for the call, Michael, appreciate it. Eighty
Speaker 2: eight Rich one O one eight eight seven four to
Speaker 2: two four one zero one. Coming up this hour, we're
Speaker 2: going to talk to a software engineer who wrote a
Speaker 2: book about how social platforms really work. You are listening
Speaker 2: to Rich on tech. Let's go to George in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 11: Hi.
Speaker 13: Rich, Okay, I got a question here. I'm having a
Speaker 13: lot of trouble, a lot of headed I'm trying to
Speaker 13: connect the wireless microphones to my phone. Is a Galaxy
Speaker 13: A fifteen, and somehow it's not working. I cannot connect
Speaker 13: the external microphone to my phone. When I try to
Speaker 13: record a video with my camera, my phone camera, it
Speaker 13: doesn't give me the audio. And I try with another
Speaker 13: old phone that I have, is a Galaxy S twenty,
Speaker 13: Samsung Galaxy X twenty, and it works. But I don't
Speaker 13: know why with the Samsung Galaxy A fifteen doesn't work.
Speaker 13: And I try with out of different phones and a
Speaker 13: tablet and somehow the microphone don't work. The audio doesn't
Speaker 13: you know, doesn't connect. I mean the external microphone doesn't
Speaker 13: connect with the tablet. I don't know if I need
Speaker 13: a NAP or I did a comparable wireless microphone. I
Speaker 13: tried with two different microphones and it's not working.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, a couple of things going on here. Number one,
Speaker 2: have you confirmed that this what brand is the wireless microphone?
Speaker 13: It's a label level ler K thirty nine.
Speaker 1: Okay, so is it wired or wireless?
Speaker 13: It's uh, well, it's I got the wire from Risk
Speaker 13: for the receiver. I connected to the phone with a
Speaker 13: wire and then I had the microphone.
Speaker 4: There are wireless okay.
Speaker 2: Well, number one, not every smartphone supports a external microphone.
Speaker 2: Now the Samsung's for sure, do the the Pro models,
Speaker 2: the S models they do. Now the A models that's
Speaker 2: sort of their budget line, they may not support. And
Speaker 2: I'm trying to confirm if they actually have support for
Speaker 2: an external mic, and I can't confirm right here, like
Speaker 2: over the air, let's see, Yeah, I can't confirm like
Speaker 2: if that spec is available. So that could be the
Speaker 2: first problem. Do you know that this phone is compatible
Speaker 2: with an external mic?
Speaker 13: I had no idea.
Speaker 2: Okay, So typically on a Samsung phone, when you plug
Speaker 2: in an external mic, it will recognize it and say
Speaker 2: right on the screen on your camera viewfinder, external mic connected.
Speaker 2: So if it is not giving you that message as
Speaker 2: soon as you connect that external mic, this phone may
Speaker 2: not be compatible. So over the years, since I do
Speaker 2: a lot of content creation for my TV job, I
Speaker 2: you know, and I test a lot of smartphones over
Speaker 2: the years, I found it's very hit or miss whether
Speaker 2: these phones support the external mic. I know, the Pixel does, obviously,
Speaker 2: the iPhone does, the Samsung, the high end models do.
Speaker 2: The OnePlus can still be hit or miss, but nowadays
Speaker 2: usually it typically does. But this is an A fifteen model,
Speaker 2: which you know, if you're looking at a phone that's
Speaker 2: a more of a budget minded device, they may not
Speaker 2: build in all of those things.
Speaker 1: So what I would do is go online, find the
Speaker 1: specs for this.
Speaker 2: Make sure you can find maybe a YouTube video or
Speaker 2: someone that actually says, hey, this does support an external microphone.
Speaker 1: That's number one. That's going to save you a lot
Speaker 1: of headache.
Speaker 2: The second thing to do, George, is to make sure
Speaker 2: that this is compatible with or this microphone that you have.
Speaker 2: This setup is going to work. So a lot of
Speaker 2: these microphones that you find on Amazon sometimes are very
Speaker 2: hit or miss I use the Dji, which is the
Speaker 2: kind of the gold standard for wireless microphones. It's expensive,
Speaker 2: but it works. It does exactly what you need, and
Speaker 2: it's really good. There are other brands out there that
Speaker 2: are cheaper that will also do it, but just make
Speaker 2: sure they have a lot of reviews and people saying
Speaker 2: that they actually work. If you want to get one
Speaker 2: of those cheaper brands on Amazon, Like if you search Dji,
Speaker 2: Mike or Road Wireless Mic for iPhone and those come up,
Speaker 2: just make sure that a lot of people have verified yes,
Speaker 2: they do actually work. But the other one is the
Speaker 2: Road Mics. People like those. But there's a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of these microphones on Amazon that you can get.
Speaker 1: Some of them are as small as a button, you know.
Speaker 2: They're just they've changed the game when it comes to
Speaker 2: creating content on the go, because it used to be
Speaker 2: had to have either something wired or not something very good.
Speaker 2: And now the fact that you can use these wireless
Speaker 2: mics is just so great. But it's all dependent on
Speaker 2: whether your phone actually supports it. The other thing you
Speaker 2: could do if your phone doesn't support it, you don't
Speaker 2: want to invest in a new mic. You don't want
Speaker 2: to invest in a new phone. A lot of these
Speaker 2: microphones will record into themselves, so they will actually have
Speaker 2: built in memory on the microphone.
Speaker 1: You can press record.
Speaker 2: You can record the audio separate from the video and
Speaker 2: then use an app like Final Cut to sync those up.
Speaker 1: So that's what we'll do.
Speaker 2: If we have a problem with the audio or it's
Speaker 2: not embedded on the video, we'll just sync it up later.
Speaker 2: So that's another option where you can just record the
Speaker 2: audio separate from the video, bring it into an editing
Speaker 2: program like Final Cut or Premiere, and then synchronize the
Speaker 2: audio to the video.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what they used to do in Hollywood
Speaker 1: with that clapboard.
Speaker 2: You know, they always recorded audio separate, so they use
Speaker 2: that clapboard to sync it up.
Speaker 1: All right, good question, George.
Speaker 2: Something to look out for on your smartphones if you
Speaker 2: are going to be creating content because those wireless mics,
Speaker 2: I call it the best invention of the last decade
Speaker 2: for me, they're just so handy.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to talk to Tim O'Hearn.
Speaker 2: He is a author of Framed. He's got a new
Speaker 2: take on how social platforms really work.
Speaker 1: That's up next.
Speaker 2: Joining me now is Tim O'Hearn, a software engineer and
Speaker 2: author of Framed, A Villain's Perspective on Social Media. Thanks
Speaker 2: for joining me.
Speaker 14: Tim, Thanks Rich thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: So what's your background and what made you write this book.
Speaker 5: I'm a software engineer and I spent most of my twenties,
Speaker 5: so the last ten years I spent working in quantitative trading.
Speaker 5: During my first year, second year on the job, I
Speaker 5: was approached by some people involved in the New York
Speaker 5: City nightlife industry who told me that they had a
Speaker 5: business that they were using to make money by getting
Speaker 5: people more followers on Instagram. They needed someone to help
Speaker 5: build up the business and help scale it up, and
Speaker 5: that's when my involvement began in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: And so you got involved with basically selling what bots
Speaker 2: and things like trying to get like people on Instagram
Speaker 2: and social media. They want a lot of followers because
Speaker 2: it looks like they have a lot of influence, so
Speaker 2: a lot of times you will buy those.
Speaker 14: Yeah. So really our service was in the second wave.
Speaker 5: I call this the organic growth phase, so it was
Speaker 5: one step removed from people just paying twenty dollars for
Speaker 5: five thousand followers. The bots I created would actually log
Speaker 5: into a customer's account and then act as if they
Speaker 5: were the customer. So this allowed things to grow more
Speaker 5: organically and for it to seem less like a bot
Speaker 5: and more like a human actually taking the actions.
Speaker 2: Ah, So they would sort of like maybe like things,
Speaker 2: comment on things, reply to stuff.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and what did you learn in this experience and
Speaker 1: why are you telling the story now?
Speaker 5: During this time, there was a lot of i would say,
Speaker 5: unspoken facts and unspoken truths about the dark side of
Speaker 5: social media. So some things that have come to light
Speaker 5: is regarding how social networks actually enforce their policies and
Speaker 5: what it means to commit terms of service violation on
Speaker 5: a social media site.
Speaker 14: So in the early days, which I.
Speaker 5: Would say twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, we found that we
Speaker 5: were learning so much about the underside, about all the
Speaker 5: rule breakers and this spectrum of enforcement, realizing that of
Speaker 5: course these social media platforms don't want people spamming and
Speaker 5: don't want people being disrupted, but we actually found that
Speaker 5: we were less of a priority compared to the people
Speaker 5: actually doing really bad, really illegal stuff.
Speaker 14: So for a while we had this.
Speaker 5: Reprieve where we just weren't the biggest priority, and during
Speaker 5: that time we proliferated.
Speaker 1: Why because these social media platforms want to grow.
Speaker 5: Definitely, they want to grow, and they're just worried about
Speaker 5: ultimately reactive you know, reactive moves here. They're worried about
Speaker 5: having to speak in front of Congress. You know, they're
Speaker 5: worried about these bombshell articles coming from the New York Times.
Speaker 5: And until twenty late twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, nobody
Speaker 5: was talking about followers in that same way, you know,
Speaker 5: they were talking about other types of illicted activities going
Speaker 5: on on social media.
Speaker 1: So what do you think the average consumer needs to
Speaker 1: know about all this stuff at this point?
Speaker 5: At this point, I think what the book communicates is
Speaker 5: that there's a very awkward relationship between users platforms and
Speaker 5: then platform stakeholders. People don't realize that, you know, using
Speaker 5: a platform for free, you are the product. So you
Speaker 5: are the person who is you know, helping out this
Speaker 5: advertising vehicle, or you are the person who investors are
Speaker 5: looking to en mass to actually increase the value of
Speaker 5: a platform.
Speaker 14: So there are all these awkward, like weird.
Speaker 5: Symbiotic relationships between each one of these groups that aren't
Speaker 5: obvious to someone who's being beckoned to sign up for
Speaker 5: a social media service to begin.
Speaker 1: With, So, what a consumers do I mean?
Speaker 2: What I mean, does it change the way that we
Speaker 2: use these services or should we be on guard when
Speaker 2: we use them?
Speaker 5: Or what? As more things have developed on social media,
Speaker 5: I think that there are concerns not just in our
Speaker 5: own usage habits, but the effects that the platforms are
Speaker 5: having on our emotional state and how we receive and
Speaker 5: process information. When I started using my Space in two
Speaker 5: thousand and six or two thousand and seven, as as
Speaker 5: ridiculous as the experience was, it was actually quite pure.
Speaker 14: And pure is probably.
Speaker 5: The last word we would use to describe Reddit or
Speaker 5: Facebook or x or any of these platforms today. So
Speaker 5: one of the solutions might simply be to spend less
Speaker 5: time on it and be more aware of the consequences
Speaker 5: of heavy usage.
Speaker 2: Why do you think these algorithms are engineered to addict us?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 5: And one interesting thing for me was after I worked
Speaker 5: at Shark Social, which was the Instagram growth company, I
Speaker 5: later worked at a small social media startup where I
Speaker 5: built these persuasive technology systems. So I built systems that
Speaker 5: tried to get users to click on certain push notifications,
Speaker 5: or tried to get users to spend more time looking
Speaker 5: at the news speed of this app My entire job
Speaker 5: as the Special Projects lead was essentially to enforce and
Speaker 5: encourage addictive behaviors. So you think at scale, there are
Speaker 5: entire teams within big Tech who are just trying to
Speaker 5: ratchet up those metrics a little bit more, and that
Speaker 5: means getting people to spend more time online.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, we already know when you open up Instagram,
Speaker 2: it's the equivalent of a slot machine, even down to
Speaker 2: the way the little notifications appear in the upper right
Speaker 2: hand corner with the numbers says the likes, the comments,
Speaker 2: the hearts. It appears exactly like a Las Vegas slot machine.
Speaker 2: So what do we need to know for parents and kids?
Speaker 2: Because you know, I'm an adult, I sort of understand
Speaker 2: this stuff.
Speaker 1: I get what I'm up.
Speaker 2: Against, right, Like Instagram's goal is to get me to
Speaker 2: never close Instagram in my entire life. Like that's their goal,
Speaker 2: and you can do that. The swipe, the reels, the stuff,
Speaker 2: it's it's never ending. But kids, you know, they're not
Speaker 2: as evolved because they're still they're still growing.
Speaker 1: So what do you think parents need to know about
Speaker 1: all this.
Speaker 5: I support the general guidelines which are coming out from
Speaker 5: countries such as Australia, which is that a child under
Speaker 5: thirteen years of age has no place on social media
Speaker 5: or any type of scrolling type of content feed because
Speaker 5: the belief is that it is harmful for the developing mind,
Speaker 5: and it may be harmful in ways that we don't
Speaker 5: fully understand yet. So one example I give in my
Speaker 5: book is, hey, you wouldn't get a baby a cigarette,
Speaker 5: like that's a comedy skit, But we do give babies iPads,
Speaker 5: and I see it all over New York City here
Speaker 5: where tons of kids are mindlessly looking at these things
Speaker 5: because it keeps the kid entertained. But what you don't
Speaker 5: realize is that when they're looking at apps that are
Speaker 5: designed like slot machines and stuff, when it comes time
Speaker 5: to function in society or learn in the classroom sometimes,
Speaker 5: you know, schoolroom learning is not as exciting or enthralling
Speaker 5: as these experiences, so it can have some some absolutely
Speaker 5: terrible consequences.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's much much more boring compared to TikTok, which
Speaker 2: is like even the format. I mean, I come from
Speaker 2: a classic news background where you know, we do news segments,
Speaker 2: and I get it. The news is not perfect, but
Speaker 2: you know my segments are and so I you know,
Speaker 2: I do things that are it's informational. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it could be fast paced, but I mean if you
Speaker 2: look at something like TikTok, it's like there's a cut
Speaker 2: every second because people's you know, they're going to look away.
Speaker 2: And I've talked to TikTokers that say that they have
Speaker 2: to follow that format or else people scroll away if
Speaker 2: it's not changing fast enough. So some of this stuff
Speaker 2: seems to be changing the fabric of sort of our
Speaker 2: brains in the way that we perceive information as well.
Speaker 5: Sure, short form video is very addictive, and I think
Speaker 5: it is harmful in the way that it kind of
Speaker 5: melds and changes our expectations for what is entertaining and
Speaker 5: how things like plot lines develop. Like how many people
Speaker 5: can really sit through a movie now without thinking about, Okay,
Speaker 5: I need to go check my phone right, Like the
Speaker 5: attention span. The effect on the attention span is crazy.
Speaker 5: And this is something we saw in the early twenty
Speaker 5: tens where like it started to come out on YouTube
Speaker 5: where you had quick cuts, quick cuts quick cuts the
Speaker 5: first time I really saw it. I thought this is ridiculous,
Speaker 5: But now, as you said, it's standard almost everywhere.
Speaker 1: It really is. All right.
Speaker 2: The book is Framed a Villain's Perspective on Social Media.
Speaker 2: The author is Tim O'Hearn. It's availed now on Amazon.
Speaker 2: Did you have fun writing a book? Because I wrote
Speaker 2: a book a couple of years ago. It was one
Speaker 2: of the best things I've ever done.
Speaker 14: It was a very fulfilling experience for me.
Speaker 5: And seeing the reaction to it, both from people in
Speaker 5: the press, from users, from experienced engineers, and especially from
Speaker 5: academics and researchers, it's been very meaningful for me.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, thanks for joining me today on the show.
Speaker 2: Tim O'Hearn once again. The book Framed a Villain's Perspective
Speaker 2: on Social Media available on Amazon. I'll put a link
Speaker 2: on the website. Rich on tech dot TV. All right,
Speaker 2: coming up, we got a couple of items of notes.
Speaker 2: I've got a new way to chat with AI using
Speaker 2: text messaging. If you have a Pixel seven you got
Speaker 2: a problem with your battery, I will explain what you
Speaker 2: can do with that. And Netflix has a new option
Speaker 2: for subtitles. Plus the feedback we are going to open
Speaker 2: up the feedback.
Speaker 1: Coming up next on rich.
Speaker 2: On Tech, Apple Watch celebrates ten years. I know I've
Speaker 2: worn worn one on my wrist almost that entire time,
Speaker 2: and I think it's game changing. I tell people a
Speaker 2: lot of times that I like the Apple Watch better
Speaker 2: than the iPhone just because it's always there. It's simple,
Speaker 2: it does what I need, tracks my workouts.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Of course you've got the rings, all these things. April
Speaker 2: twenty fourth, twenty fifteen, that's when the first Apple watches
Speaker 2: came out.
Speaker 1: I was there at the launch day. They sold them
Speaker 1: at high end stores.
Speaker 2: In addition, well I don't trying to remember why was
Speaker 2: at like such a high end store for it. It
Speaker 2: was like a little boutique. Now, of course, the Apple
Speaker 2: Watch very popular now. The original Apple Watch was more
Speaker 2: about like fashion. It did not start out as this
Speaker 2: like really health and fitness focused device. But now, of
Speaker 2: course it's health, it's fitness. It tracks you know, all
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff except blood oxygen because they took that away. Yeah,
Speaker 2: one of the features I thought was interesting back.
Speaker 1: In the day.
Speaker 2: I wrote about this in my newsletter today Digital touch.
Speaker 2: Did you know, I thought they took it away, but
Speaker 2: you can still do it. If you go to a
Speaker 2: text message, press the plus sign next to the message
Speaker 2: field and select digital touch and then you tap two
Speaker 2: fingers on your screen, it'll send your heartbeat to the
Speaker 2: other person. Yeah, it's called digital touch. It's really weird.
Speaker 2: I thought that they got rid of that, and last
Speaker 2: night when I was doing some testing, I was like.
Speaker 1: Wait, that's still there.
Speaker 2: What news service called text ai lets you text ai?
Speaker 2: Text dot Ai is the website, but basically you just
Speaker 2: go to the phone number and you text it and
Speaker 2: it works with your traditional SMS. So just text it
Speaker 2: and ask a question. It will text you back. No
Speaker 2: download required. It can help with plans, recommendations, answers, anything else.
Speaker 2: Built by former Tesla and Walmart Labs employees. Again, the
Speaker 2: website tech do Ai. It's free to use. They do
Speaker 2: not sell your phone number as far as they say.
Speaker 2: Text dot Ai. If you have a Google Pixel seven A,
Speaker 2: you got some problems to do battery maybe it's swelling
Speaker 2: or popping. You can get a free battery replacement. So
Speaker 2: you got that bulging back cover your phone looks thick, man?
Speaker 2: What am I talking about here? Rapid battery drain? You
Speaker 2: got to check eligibility online. But yes, this is the
Speaker 2: Pixel seven A. If you have some battery swelling, check out.
Speaker 2: It's called the Pixel seven A Extended Repair Program.
Speaker 1: I'll put the link on the website.
Speaker 2: AT and T is adding cruise ship coverage to its
Speaker 2: International Day Pass, So the International Day Pass now works
Speaker 2: on cruise ships twenty dollars per day. So it's pricey,
Speaker 2: but you know, if you're on a cruise, you know
Speaker 2: it's like one free drink. I guess twenty bucks you
Speaker 2: saved paid paid for this five hundred megabytes of data
Speaker 2: plus unlimited talk and text, and it works on land
Speaker 2: and see surf and turf, so no extra charge when
Speaker 2: you step off. The ship covers more than four hundred
Speaker 2: cruise ships. Obviously they have to be in this AT
Speaker 2: and T coverage zone to work, and there's no data overages.
Speaker 2: So if you hit that five hundred megabytes, which by
Speaker 2: the way is not very tough to hit, your speeds
Speaker 2: will slow down, but you will stay connected.
Speaker 1: But most of the time.
Speaker 2: When you hit those data speed bumps, you're just gonna
Speaker 2: be able to like check your email, let's see what else. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so AT and T International Day Pass it's called Man,
Speaker 2: we're just going through a lot of notes here Max,
Speaker 2: the free ride is over seven dollars and ninety nine cents.
Speaker 2: If you have someone clinging onto your account, the extra
Speaker 2: member add on is now available. So if you have
Speaker 2: someone that's using your MAX log in. Yeah, remember this
Speaker 2: is to be called HBO Max and Max and they change.
Speaker 1: The color of the logo.
Speaker 2: They're all over the place, But you know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. It it's the service that lets you watch
Speaker 2: HBO shows and other stuff. So the primary account holder
Speaker 2: can now invite one friend or family member outside their
Speaker 2: household for eight bucks a month. If you want to
Speaker 2: pay for them. Extra members get their own log in.
Speaker 2: They can stream on one device at a time and
Speaker 2: access everything. Or if you don't want to pay for them,
Speaker 2: they can transfer their profile to move all of their history, recommendations,
Speaker 2: and settings. This is only available if you subscribe to
Speaker 2: MAX directly, not if you're a bundle user. But basically,
Speaker 2: the bottom line is the free ride is over. If
Speaker 2: you got people sharing your password, they're going to get
Speaker 2: that screen that says, hey, you should sign up for
Speaker 2: your own account. As far as I can tell, you
Speaker 2: don't have to just yet, but they're going to continue
Speaker 2: to ratchet this up until they get all the memberships
Speaker 2: they want out of the freeloaders. And Netflix they have
Speaker 2: a new subtitle option. I don't know about you, but
Speaker 2: in my house, we watch a lot of shows with
Speaker 2: the subtitles on, even though we don't need to. But
Speaker 2: with all the commotion in the background, the kids playing,
Speaker 2: you know, they got their iPad, all those things going on,
Speaker 2: talking to their friends, this is just an easy way to,
Speaker 2: you know, instead of saying what they just say, you
Speaker 2: just got the subtitles on. But Netflix knows this, so
Speaker 2: now they've introduced a new type of subtitle that just
Speaker 2: includes the words themselves and not the audio cues. So
Speaker 2: your typical you know, subtitles have things like music swells
Speaker 2: or phone buzzes. They don't have that anymore. Now it's
Speaker 2: just the words that people are saying. So you can
Speaker 2: see two choices, now English for dialogue only, and then
Speaker 2: English CC if you want the full close captions. And
Speaker 2: this will be on every This will be on more
Speaker 2: shows moving forward, but right now, it's starting with the
Speaker 2: season five of the show You, which I've not watched,
Speaker 2: but I guess that's a popular show. Netflix says half
Speaker 2: of viewing hours in the US already happened with subtitles
Speaker 2: on and don't forget you can customize the subtitles by
Speaker 2: size and font.
Speaker 1: Some people forget that.
Speaker 2: Fed back now, Michelle writes in after hearing us talk
Speaker 2: about the recent settlement payout for Facebook and Zell, I
Speaker 2: thought the email I got with spam. It said I
Speaker 2: had a forty dollars payment pending, and it gave me
Speaker 2: a deadline to click a link. I looked up the
Speaker 2: case and even called both the settlement administrator and Zel.
Speaker 2: Turns out it was legit. I'd signed up for it
Speaker 2: years ago and totally forgot. After some hesitation, I followed through.
Speaker 2: I'm now forty dollars and sixty seven cents richer. So
Speaker 2: if you see that Facebook settlement through Zell, yeah, I
Speaker 2: guess you can claim it. Just be careful because, like
Speaker 2: we know, the scam artists will play prey upon something
Speaker 2: that's real and turn it into something that's fake. Gail
Speaker 2: from Oakland says, is there an easy way to turn
Speaker 2: a handwritten page of my well formed cursive into text
Speaker 2: using my iPad pro?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: Chat GBT.
Speaker 2: Take a picture of whatever you're writing and upload it
Speaker 2: to chat GBT.
Speaker 1: It will read it and convert it into text.
Speaker 2: It's fast and it's accurate, and if you're saying you
Speaker 2: have good cursive, it'll be easy to do that.
Speaker 1: Good question.
Speaker 2: Christopher from Justice Illinois writes in, is there a way
Speaker 2: to see what devices are connected to my WiFi?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: There's an app called fing fing iOS and Android give
Speaker 2: you a list of all the connected devices. Good if
Speaker 2: you think someone's freeloading on your network fing dot com
Speaker 2: slash app. Liz writes in, We're all big fans of
Speaker 2: you here at work. You make the tech talks interesting
Speaker 2: and we all learn so much. Thank you, Liz, I
Speaker 2: appreciate the kind words. Really do that's going to do
Speaker 2: it for this episode of the show. You can find
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Speaker 2: shareable for you. Went to Disney this week and found
Speaker 2: a actually Bobo gave me a hidden trick photospot in
Speaker 2: Disney California Adventure. So if you're headed the California Adventure,
Speaker 2: check that out. Pretty cool. Next week, Harry Campbell, the
Speaker 2: rideshare Guy, is going to share the latest in the
Speaker 2: gig economy, robo taxis and more. Thank you so much
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