WEBVTT - Quantum breakthroughs, Apple talk with Brandon Butch & the best photo apps (150, Nov 29, 2025) 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:02.120 Welcome to rich on Tech. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.440 Rich Tmiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.639 triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.920 seven four two four one zero one. The website for 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:17.200 the show rich on Tech dot tv. If you want 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.080 to send me an email, you can do it right there. 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.400 If you want to submit your question that way. While 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:23.759 you're there, be sure to sign up for my free newsletter. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.240 New issue went out this weekend, so be sure to 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.720 read that. Coming up this hour, we've got Brandon Butch, 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.360 tech YouTuber and writer at the Apple Den. He's going 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.839 to talk about all things Apple this week, all the 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.960 little announcements that they had, So we'll get on the 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.839 line with him and talk big breakthrough from Microsoft. Now 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.080 this goes way over my head. It's quantum computing, but 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.000 it seems like a big deal. This is a new chip, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:57.440 the Mayorana one. This is a groundbreaking quantum chip powered 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.200 by a new material who invents a new material, all 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.800 topo conductor. They say it's the biggest breakthrough in computing 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:12.000 materials since silicon. The topo conductor topological semi superconductor is 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.440 not a solid liquid or gas. It's a new state 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.800 of matter that scientists have theorized for about one hundred years, 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:23.080 but hadn't achieved it until now. My friend I Justine, 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.440 did a great video. She went up to Microsoft and 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.119 did a video on this thing. And apparently this this 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.960 new chip they made to work has to be in 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.720 like a space that is colder than outer space, like 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.800 in this kind of they put it in this chamber 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:39.280 just to work. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.440 That's how wild this stuff is. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.080 So the main thing about this material is that a 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:50.840 could drastically speed up quantum computing development, so cutting timelines 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.320 from decades to just a few years. And that means 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.640 that these chips are so incredibly powerful they can solve 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:04.440 complex problems faster, so things like energy, healthcare, environmental cleanup, 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:10.520 so things like self healing materials, sustainable agriculture, advanced chemical discoveries. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.799 Because they can compute this stuff so much faster, the 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:19.200 timeline for figuring out these solutions is quicker. Now, this 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.560 is all theoretical at this point. I mean, they came 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.280 up with this chip and the material, but now they 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.959 actually have to somehow use it, and so I think 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:28.040 that's the next step here. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.440 But pretty wild. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:30.000 Uh. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:36.639 The topoconductor based cubits cubits are with quantum bits. They 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.560 are so small, one to one hundredth of a millimeter. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.239 I mean, I don't get It's like, how do you 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.560 even think about this stuff? We're talking about things you 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.760 can't even see. Now, here's the whole thing with quantum computing. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.800 There's a lot of errors apparently in the quantum computing 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.440 realm because of the way that these chips are designed. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.880 So when they're coming up with the calculation, apparently they 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.560 have a lot of mistakes. And so the big thing 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.160 that they've been trying to figure out is how to 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:10.160 make less mistakes. And I guess Microsoft's breakthrough has much 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:14.520 more error resistance and digital control for better performance. So 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.200 it just sounds wild. I'm excited just because anything with 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.880 these breakthroughs we had Google. I talked about a breakthrough 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.200 in quantum computing with Google a couple of weeks ago 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.600 or a couple of months ago, and now we've got Microsoft. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.160 So again, the timeline for all of this stuff just 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.320 continues to accelerate, and I'm here for it. Very very exciting. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.640 Let's go to Mark in Los Angeles. Mark, you're on 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:35.119 with Rich. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.640 Rich you excited about quantum computing. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.160 Mark, I'm very excited about it. Maybe it'll solve my problems. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.000 I have two R low camera systems. I've had them 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.320 for years and with the old app they've been great. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.920 I had to upgrade to the new app and the 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.120 new app is just terrible and difficult and very complicated. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.640 I can't set the same schedules and alerts. I do 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.240 have paid subscription. However, the real problem is I called 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.000 Arlow customer Service in India. I've spent hours on the 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:12.240 phone with different people and they can't figure it out either. Well, 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.520 that's a problem, don't know, you know, it's just too complicated. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.800 When I ask a question, they put me on a 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.680 long hold and they come back with an answer that 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.080 I know that they don't really understand. My question is 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.880 is there a way to get back to the old app? 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.200 They said no? Or is there a way to contact 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.160 Arlow someone in the US to get like real answers, 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.760 like how do I make this all work? 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.000 Well, the second question is a good one. I will 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.359 reach out to Arlow and see what they say. But 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:47.440 I think that have you asked for like an elevated 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.840 customer service supervisor? 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:50.440 Have you done that? 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.719 Yes? And and someone is supposed to call me. They 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.800 haven't yet, but I mean, you know, I think they 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.760 probably will, but everybody, I mean, this is really it's 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.200 kind of like the Saunos app. They come up with 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:05.200 a new app ap. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.680 Oh oh, Mark, don't get me started on it. I 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:09.600 oh my gosh. 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.600 I've had Sonos for since almost since day one, and 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.479 my system I I can't. I used to not be 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.920 able to speak high enough about Sonos. Now I don't 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.000 think I could ever recommend it to someone because it's 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:28.000 so terrible. Yeah, the app. I still cannot adjust the 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.480 volume on all of my speakers at the same time. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.440 That is that is insane to me. This is something 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:34.560 that is like, this is. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.000 Almost like the same thing. Now. They have told me 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.680 I do have two different locations, which was never a problem. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.560 One of the people said, well, maybe you have to 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.000 get it by a second subscription, and I said, well 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.120 I never had to before. And if that's the the 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.479 the the goal of the new app is just to 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.040 make more money, you know. One that's not very It 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.640 doesn't make me happy, but it should have been disclosed 0:05:58.680 --> 0:05:59.800 that way. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:01.400 Yeah. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.559 So okay, so the main system, so your system doesn't 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.880 do what it used to do anymore, correct Okay, Now 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.080 when it comes to the app, now, I don't know 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:13.479 how much. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:14.600 When did they update this. 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.920 Apps, Like a couple of weeks ago, I think it's 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:18.520 pretty recent. 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:20.080 Do you have an Android or an iPhone? 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:20.800 iPhone? 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:21.960 Okay, well that's a problem. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.480 So so on Android, you you can go to websites 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.720 called APK websites that will give you the actual old 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.359 versions of apps. So in this case, if you wanted 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.160 to go download the r LO secure from you know, 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.520 a couple months ago, you might be able to find 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.919 it on this like an APK website. There's one example 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.520 is called APK Mirror. Now, you got to be careful, 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.400 and I'm talking to Android folks right now, because if 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:53.120 you're downloading APKs, that is there could be room for viruses, malware, spyware, 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:54.560 so you do have to be careful. But a lot 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.160 of times Google will scan them, you know, in this 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.240 the website that you're getting it from, as long as 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.800 it's reputable as well. So I'm just saying proceed at 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.880 your own risk. With iPhone, that is not possible. Once 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.360 iPhone upgrades, there's really no way to go back. There's 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.840 not a system to do that. So for you mark 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.520 the problem is how do you get these things to 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.400 do what you need them to do, and what do 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:17.840 you need them to do that they're not doing. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:24.360 It's just the to have two different systems, both easily accessible, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.240 and to go ahead and set different schedules and alerts 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:29.920 for both for either system. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.760 But they're in different locations. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.440 They are, But that was never ever a problem with 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:35.239 the old app. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:41.040 Okay, yeah, I mean so that I don't know because 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:42.760 I don't use our low so I don't really know 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.240 why that changed. But I can understand that if you're 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.000 looking trying to think like with my standard camera. So 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.480 if they're on two different Wi Fi networks, is that 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:52.400 what I'm hearing here? 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:52.960 Yeah? 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.440 Yeah, so I think that is. They probably said, like, look, 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.880 if something's on one Wi Fi network, you can't manage 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.280 it from the same place because you're gonna have to 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.000 do you have to log in separately for each network. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.440 Now or do they all show up on the same app? 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:07.840 They just you just can't control them. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.040 They all show up on the same app. But but 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.240 you just now one of them no longer records and 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.920 one of them can't be set and in general before 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:21.240 actually that, the the app itself is just terrible in 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.200 just in terms of how you you know, have to 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.720 now do a very complicated setup for what used to 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.640 be a very easy thing. I just hate to have 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.160 to buy another subscription when before I didn't have to. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.920 But but but I'm not sure that that's actually going 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:36.200 to solve the problem. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.760 Yeah, well, I mean, so what do you what do 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.280 you need the subscription for for? What do you use 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:41.640 that for? 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.319 Uh, it's it's to record and uh, you know, to 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:49.800 record any kind of camera alert camera video, and it 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.439 gives you your really good alerts, and you know, I 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.959 don't mind paying for It's always functioned really well. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.640 Have you searched online for the r low app update? 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.120 Are there people complaining about this? 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.079 I went on the community. Yes, they are complaining. 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.600 Okay, I'm looking at Reddit right now. There's a do 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.160 you know about the website Reddit Answers No, yeah, so 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.600 I just searched. Reddit Answers is sort of like they're 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.280 you know Reddit, right, Yeah? Okay, so Reddit Answers is 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.040 sort of like their AI and so it searches through 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.320 all of the reddit forms without you having to do 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.280 it and summarizes it and so yeah, people are definitely 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:29.920 having issues with motion detection, GEO fencing, and scheduling the 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:34.480 user interface. People are threatening to switch to different brands. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.240 Some people have found partial solutions by tweaking settings like 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:46.199 motion sensitivity and redefining activity zones and third party solutions interesting. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.640 Seymour By prompt Ai, I can't I don't know if 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.200 I would recommend that, but yeah, it sounds like Mark, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.440 the issues you're having are not unique to you. The 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.600 best I can say is I will reach out to 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.280 r Low and see what they kind of say. If 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.360 this is a more recent update, which it sounds like 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.200 it is. Maybe they're still polishing things, But I would 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.920 say my instinct is telling me that if you're saying 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.760 it's tougher to manage the two different locations because of 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.920 the subscription situation, it's probably because they want to push 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.960 you to subscribe in more ways. And that's really and 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.640 this is the sad part about all of the tech 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.680 companies at this point, is it used to be technology 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:29.040 was unifying and empowering for the consumer, and now we 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:34.560 are seeing a shift towards benefiting the company first, and 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.680 that's always an issue and all these and it's all 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:42.840 because of subscriptions. Once these companies got an idea that, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.200 by the way, we're not going to sell you a 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.520 box of software once, we are now going to have 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.920 you subscribe every month for the rest of your life. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.120 Why would you not want that? 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.960 And so it seems like every improvement quote unquote improvement 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:58.280 we've seen with tech has always been pushing consumers towards 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.120 that subscription for the stuff they really want. I think 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.520 that might be what's going on here. Hopefully the app 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.080 will get better over time. Eighty eight rich one oh 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.080 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.360 zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you about Google's new 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.520 AI tool that helps you discover your next career, and 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.480 Google's bringing one of their best Android features to iOS 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.400 kind of sorta. I'll explain you are listening to rich 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:33.720 on tech. Jace writes in on X Hey, rich on Tech. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.160 I'm a visually impaired person and the home button on 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:40.280 the iPhone is something I strongly value. With the sixteen E, 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.400 it will take a lot of getting used to for me, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.920 and I would prefer still having my home button. I 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:50.000 used an SE three at the moment. Yeah, you know, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.800 that is an interesting point, So it will take some 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:57.080 getting used to. I think that you'll be able to Yeah, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.360 that's going to be interesting, but it's it's good to 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.080 have different persons effectives and jas. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.720 Thanks for that. Appreciate you writing in on that. Google. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.400 A couple notable items. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.280 First off, Google is bringing one of their best features 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.040 from Android to iPhone, but kindness sort is not going 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.240 to work in the same way. If you've listened to 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.079 me at all, you've heard me extol the praises of 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.400 Circle to Search on Android. I think this is the 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:25.680 differentiator right now between Android and iPhone because anything on 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.160 your screen on Android you can search, you can reverse search, 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.440 you can circle whatever you need, you can search it. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:33.600 On iPhone you can't really do that. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.440 So there's times when someone posts a restaurant or a 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.200 link or a phone number, whatever, and if it's not 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.920 like something that is clickable, you can't do anything with it. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:45.439 But on Android you can. 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.280 You just bring up Circle to Search and it will 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.120 find the links, it will find the phone numbers, it 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.520 will search the images, it will search the whatever you want, 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.720 text translate things. I mean, it's quite miraculous. So anyway, 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.480 in iPhone, there now bringing similar functions calling it Circle 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:05.800 to Search, but they're calling it Search Screen with Google Lens. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.080 And so if you want to try this out, this 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.520 is on Chrome or the Google App. You don't have 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.560 to screenshot anything. So when Chrome, tap the three dot 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.200 menu and then selects Search screen with Google Lens. And 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.160 in the Google App, you can tap the three dot 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.640 menu and choose search this screen. 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.839 So it's not perfect, but it's a little bit better. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.920 And it's basically being billed as Google Lens but in 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.120 a different way. But it's only going to work inside Chrome, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.120 which is fine if you're using Chrome as your browser 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.560 and Google App, which is fine. It's a start, but 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.719 the fact that this works across anything on Android is 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.480 pretty incredible. And then Google launched a new tool called 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:50.440 Career Dreamer. This is an AI powered tool from Grow 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.880 with Google that basically lets you explore potential career paths 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.480 based on your skills and also your background and your interests. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.040 So if you're sitting there thinking, gosh, I really kind 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.760 of want a new job. Whatever I'm doing is not 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.800 really working, but I've been a professor for twenty years 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.520 and I want to try something new, well, this tool 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.320 basically has you go through a series of prompts saying Okay, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.520 what are your skills, what's your current classification, what are 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.120 your skills, what do you like to do, what's your background? 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.840 And then it will come up with things, thanks to AI, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.400 that you may be good for. And it taps into 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.520 job market data, so it's like basically finding stuff that 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.720 is not a dead end, stuff that's growing based on 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.240 the Bureau of Labor Statistics and also job market data 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.600 from light Cast. It can also help you make a 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.360 resume a cover letter, but kind of cool if you 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:46.240 want to try it out, grow dot Google slash Career Dreamer, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:51.360 Grow dot Google slash career Dreamer and pop in your skills. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.400 See where you can go. I should have done this. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.040 I should have done this to see what it comes 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.360 up with for me. That'd be fun. Let's see here. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.320 Let's go to Patrick in reading. Patrick, you're on with Rich. 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:13.600 Hello, Rich, Hey, I have ways Wise Security systems okay, and. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.920 I I bought two one. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.040 I've got a heart out here, so I need a 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.280 question real quick here, Sorry. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:30.080 I have I want to know how to connect two 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:35.360 new cameras, but none necessarily Wise cameras. They can pan okay, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.600 because the Wise three PAN doesn't have night vision. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:41.880 They can't fix it. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.320 So you want to connect them to what the wise app? 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:51.000 Or no, actually a separate app. Is there an app 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:55.600 that I can connect wise cameras to end it can 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:56.800 be the cheap camera. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.360 No, you gotta you gotta use the separate apps. 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.800 The only thing you could do possibly is bring them 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.240 into something like Google Home app. You might be able 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.840 to monitor several of them from there. But as far 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.720 as I know, I've got a couple different cameras in 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.440 my house and they're all on different apps. So if 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.280 I want to look at I can look at the 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.280 cameras from let's see here, I can look at all 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.920 of my let's see here. Yeah, I can look at them. 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.480 Let's see those are all Nest cams. Yeah, so it 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.720 looks like you have to Yeah, you may be able 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.360 to link them up through the the Google Home app 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.160 to view them, but your best bet, Patrick is just 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.240 going to be to use the separate apps because you're 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.520 going to get the the full uh you know, the 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.600 full features of all these different cameras through their own apps, 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.440 their own respective apps. So as far as I know, 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.000 you can't just mix and match into one place. But uh, 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.560 you know, it's it's these these companies are building silos, right. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.840 They want you to use their app, they want you 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.560 to have a subscription, they want you to have all 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.840 the same thing. And I think that yes, you'll be 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.159 able to do some of the functionality through the Google 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.840 Home app if you have that per se, or maybe 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.680 through the you know, the Home Kit, the Home on iOS, 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:14.720 but I think for the most part you're gonna. 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:15.840 Have to be stuck with the separate apps. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.639 Coming up, we're going to talk to Brandon Butch of 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.280 the Apple Den about all announcements from Apple this week. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:23.760 Right here on rich On Tip. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.000 We've got Brandon Butch here, tech YouTuber and writer at 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.600 the Apple Den. Welcome to the show, Brandon, thanks for 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:42.520 having me, Thanks for being here. So I'm here, I'm 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:44.879 I'm hearing a little echo here for some reason. 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.159 So let's talk. First off, explain what you do. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.240 I met you at this Samsung event up in San 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.520 Francisco and we hit it off. We were chatting and 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.800 you know, learned about what you do. But tell me 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:57.760 what you do exactly. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.440 Yeah, pretty ironic that we met at a same Tunging 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.800 event because I mostly do Apple content, so I've been 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.159 doing that since two thousand and eight on YouTube. And 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.160 I have a newsletter as well called the Apple Den 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.320 where I write about Apple news every week, and that's 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.520 just been my thing for a long time, covered the iPhones, 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.840 the software, pretty much anything to do with Apple products. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:21.439 So Apple big announcement this week obviously the new iPhone 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:22.440 sixteen E. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:23.920 Uh what do you make of that? 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:26.600 Yeah, So that was kind of a surprise because I 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.760 think everybody went in expecting an SE four you know, 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.280 kind of a continuation of the cheap budget model. So 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.520 when Apple announced the price at five ninety nine, it 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.240 was a little bit more than people are expecting. But 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.760 I think we also got more than people are expecting 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:39.720 with the sixteen E. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.440 So it's the first ever you know, E model from Apple. 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.880 And I personally view this more like an iPhone ten 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.879 R from twenty eighteen compared to like an iPhone SE, 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.360 So I don't really view it as an SE equivalent. 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:52.840 It kind of is, but I view it more like 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.719 the ten R because it has a lot of the 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.239 you know iPhone fourteen design language, but with a lot 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:01.520 of the more modern iPhone sixteen, like you know, Apple intelligence, 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.240 which I think is a big deal. The action button, 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.600 the O lead display is a big one because the 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:08.760 iPhone ten R back in the day, the big you 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.960 know drawback with that was the LCD display. So yeah, 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:13.959 I think the sixteen E. It's priced at five ninety nine, 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.600 it's two hundred dollars cheaper than the regular sixteen. It 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.760 is missing some of the more advanced features, but I 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.840 think this is targeted to people who just want to 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.040 go into the Apple store. You know, hey, what's the 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.640 cheapest iPhone you have. It's going to last me all day, 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.119 battery life boom. They say five to ninety nine. It's 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.280 two hundred dollars cheaper than you know, the sixteen, but 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.120 it still has the sixteen name in it. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.359 It's an easy sale. I think, yeah, that's that. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.600 That was my kind of thesis at the top of 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.960 the show is that I think Apple's going to sell 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:39.680 a ton of these. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:41.320 I think so too. 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.000 I mean, if you look back at the iPhone ten R, 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.639 that was you know, everybody made fun of the iPhone 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.400 ten R when that phone came out, you know, back 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.200 in the day, and that sold extremely well for Apple. 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.239 So I kind of view this as going down a 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.399 more similar path to the as the iPhone ten R 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.520 compared to like maybe the previous SE models. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.760 What about this whole modem. I mean, they've got like 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.680 a Apple built modem. I know, it was a big 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.000 deal when Apple shifted away from the Intel chips and 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.640 their computers to their own, and that's just been fantastic. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.520 Their computers have been so good ever since they did that. 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.480 Is this bad for Qualcom? 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:16.639 I think it is bad for Qualcom if you're you know, 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.600 maybe an investor, But I think it's great news for 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:23.080 Apple iPhones, especially moving forward. Maybe it'll show up in 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.280 other things as well, but iPhones especially. I mean, we 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.439 saw the big difference that makes just in battery efficiency 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.080 for the first generation of this C one chip. So 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.520 it's the C one modem, that's what it's called inside, 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.080 and you know, eventually it's so it doesn't have millimeter wave, 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.400 it doesn't have the super fast five G speeds just yet. 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.240 But you know, most people, especially buying a base model iPhone, 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.040 are not going to care or even know what that means. 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:47.520 Oh wait, hold on, So so explain that again, because 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:51.199 I I've seen that Apple keeps saying this is a 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:54.800 five G modem. So first off, the phone will support 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:56.480 four G, right, correct? 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:56.920 Okay? 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.600 But it's not going to have that ultra wideband, so 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.760 like like on Verizon, let's say, when you get into 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.000 those like really fast speeds when you get into a 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.040 UW section or on T Mobile, I think they call 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.200 it like UC so will it not support those? 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:15.600 Correct, Yes, it will not support those. That's called millimeter wave, 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.840 and that's you know, one of Qualcom's main benefits. So 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.119 that's gonna mostly be and like you're really populated cities 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:24.720 New York, California, like in the city, if you're in 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:26.960 a more rural area, it's not gonna you probably never 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:29.399 have seen that before on your phone. 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.400 So oh when I see that, Brandon, I'm like, I'm 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:34.720 literally like downloading all of Netflix. When I see that, 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:36.960 I'm like, all right, baby, let's down. Let's do whatever 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:40.320 we can to take advantage of this speed. Because something 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.800 I mean, I think I've gotten like really really fast, 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.239 like faster than home on some of those Okay, so 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:49.919 the sixteen E anything else that you think is notable 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:51.520 that we should talk about with this device. 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:54.240 Yeah, I think one of the main things that I, 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.040 you know, quickly picked up on and a lot of 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.360 people have mentioned this as well. So there's no mag 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.720 Safe support, so the magnets in the back. You know 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:02.520 a lot of people have the mag Safe wallets that 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:04.040 they just stick on to the back of their phone. 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.720 That's not in the iPhone sixteen e. So that's a 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.440 big drawback for a lot of people. Also for the 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.760 wireless charging, you can wirelessly charge the sixteen e, but 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:17.040 it does not support mag Safe, which enables faster wireless charging, 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:18.520 So that's not the big deal. I think a lot 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:20.159 of people are kind of upset that they can't use 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:23.120 maybe their accessories that they had. However, you can buy 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:25.600 cases with magnets in it, so it's not a complete 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.120 lost cause it's just not in the phone itself. 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:28.560 Right. 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.000 And the other thing is the face ID. You know, 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:34.440 of course on my Facebook page, you know where rumored 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:38.439 speculation runs rampant. People commented, Oh, well face ID is 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:41.879 you know your face biometrics are instantly sent to the cloud. 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:44.200 Now I know that not to be true because it's 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:47.320 stored on device, but just can you go over fact, 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.479 like what the difference is between face ID and the 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:51.040 touch ID. 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:52.320 Is it as secure? 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:53.720 Yeah? 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:57.040 I think it's more secure because touch ID, you know, 0:22:57.200 --> 0:22:59.639 you can take somebody's finger if somebody were to do 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:02.240 something crazy and you know, have your finger without you knowing, 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.720 they can unlock your phone, whereas face ID you there's 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:07.719 a setting where you have to be actually have your 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:10.240 eyes open and looking at the camera. So if you 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:12.520 were knocked out or something and somebody couldn't just put 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:14.119 the phone up to your face and unlock it. So 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:16.560 I think face ID is a lot more secure than 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:17.120 touch ID. 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:19.840 So the other headline that of course a lot of 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:23.919 people are sharing online is this whole cloud encryption change 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:27.160 in the UK. Right, so Apple has this setting where 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:30.080 they can you can super encrypt anything that you send 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.920 to the cloud that nobody can tap into and out. 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.520 Now they're getting rid of that in the UK, not 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:38.200 in the US, just in the UK. Does that mean 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:40.520 that Apple's looking at your stuff and the government's looking 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:41.000 at your stuff? 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:42.639 And how big of a deal do you think that is? 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:46.520 Yeah, So just a little backstory here real quick. So, 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:49.480 so the UK government basically demanded Apple to create a 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:53.280 backdoor to allow the government to in view to view 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:56.199 that encrypted user data globally. So they were trying to 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.000 pitch a back door that would allow the government to 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:02.000 view everybody state, including those in the US, so Apple 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.240 of course denied creating that backdoor, and instead they just 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.280 decided to pool the end to end encryption for iCloud 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:11.080 storage in the UK, which is called Advanced Data Protection. 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:15.200 So basically, now British user files like the iCloud backup 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:19.200 files will be accessible to Apple, so they'll be able 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:21.320 to be shared with law enforcement if they have a warrant, 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:23.679 things like that. Now, I do not see this happening 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:26.320 in the US whatsoever. The UK has been you know, 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:30.080 pushing back against end encryption for years now for some reason, 0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:32.320 so this is kind of bound to happen at some point. 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:35.880 But yeah, I don't see this happening in the US 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:36.240 at all. 0:24:36.359 --> 0:24:38.520 How long before Apple just says, you know what, UK, 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:40.280 We're now longer going to do business here. 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:41.879 I mean, they're changing. 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:44.680 Every aspect of how Apple wants to do business when 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:47.879 it comes to privacy and security by opening up the phone. 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:49.960 You know, they made them change to USBC, which I 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:50.359 do like. 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:53.200 But still, you know, they opened up the app store, 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:55.240 the payment method is like all this stuff that's just 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:58.520 like a thorn and Apple side. How much more can 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:00.440 they deal with before they just say, you know what? 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:02.440 Europeans you can't have the iPhone. 0:25:03.640 --> 0:25:05.840 Yeah, you know, it's such a big market for them 0:25:05.840 --> 0:25:08.639 that I don't see that happening. I think they'll continue to, like, 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:11.280 you know, maybe remove features and things like this to 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:14.480 kind of, you know, find a middle ground. But the 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:16.639 thing is a lot of these EU changes where a 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:18.480 lot of people are against it at first, but now 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:21.000 fast forward years later, most people are kind of happy, 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:23.159 you know, that they kind of forced Apple's hand and 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:26.080 doing things like USBC and some of the other ones. 0:25:26.119 --> 0:25:27.920 This is the first one that I think, just globally 0:25:28.040 --> 0:25:30.840 is just like a bad idea for them, like to 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:32.200 even pitch in the first place. 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:35.439 Okay, we've got about a minute left, so I'm going 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:36.960 to leave it to you. Is there any other I 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:38.880 sent you a whole bunch of topics that I wanted 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:40.840 to touch upon. Is there anything else that you want 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:43.359 to touch upon that you know we haven't yet? 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:47.439 Yeah, I mean Vision US two point four. I know 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:49.760 there's probably twelve people out there with an Apple Vision 0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:51.840 Pro right now, but you know, Vision of US two 0:25:51.840 --> 0:25:53.760 point four is a massive software update that's going to 0:25:53.840 --> 0:25:56.000 bring a lot of big features to the Vision Pro, 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:59.960 things like Apple Intelligence supports a companion app for the iPhone, 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:02.160 kind of like with the Apple Watch. So you're gonna 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:03.960 have an app on your phone where you can have 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:06.000 an improved guest mode. You can kind of see what 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:07.840 the person is seeing in the vision Pro from your 0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:11.159 iPhone via airplay, which is really cool. So I just 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:13.800 think it's gonna Apple's gonna continue working on the Vision Pro. 0:26:13.960 --> 0:26:17.280 Despite the you know, not very many sales of that, 0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:19.960 They're still continuing to build it out to be something great. 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:22.520 Will there be? I mean, is there a future for 0:26:22.600 --> 0:26:23.160 the vision Pro? 0:26:24.280 --> 0:26:26.600 I think theree is. I think we're still ways away. 0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:30.320 I think the weights and obviously just the infrastructure. It's 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:32.840 still in its infancy. We're only on the second version. Ever, 0:26:32.960 --> 0:26:34.840 it's like going back to iPhone when it was iPhone 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:38.200 OS two. We're now on eighteen, you know, sixteen years later, 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:40.840 so I kind of see it following a similar path 0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:42.240 where it's going to take quite some time. 0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:45.399 All right, Brandon Butch, thanks for joining me today. 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:46.639 Thank you appreciate it. 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:47.040 All right. 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:51.120 Follow him the appleden dot com, theappleden dot com. He's 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:53.840 got a newsletter, he's got information. He's also on YouTube, 0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:58.119 so find him. Brandon, Butch great source of Apple information. 0:26:58.880 --> 0:27:00.879 Appreciate you being on the show today. Link on my 0:27:00.960 --> 0:27:04.160 website rich on tech dot TV. Coming up, we'll take 0:27:04.160 --> 0:27:06.520 more of your calls at Triple eight rich one O 0:27:06.680 --> 0:27:09.600 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:27:09.680 --> 0:27:12.800 zero one. And I'm gonna tell you the app you 0:27:13.000 --> 0:27:15.440 have to get on your phone if you want your 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:18.560 pictures to look their best, especially if you post them. 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:19.159 To social media. 0:27:19.320 --> 0:27:29.399 This is rich on tech, the website for the show 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:34.440 rich on tech dot TV. And uh let's see here. 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:36.600 Oh my gosh, I got so many emails in the past. 0:27:37.000 --> 0:27:39.800 Couple of moments here, but I'll get through those and 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:41.520 maybe read a couple on air here. 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:43.840 Did a segment this week. 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:47.359 You know, I'm also on TV on KTLA five in 0:27:47.480 --> 0:27:49.719 Los Angeles, so I do TV segments, so you can 0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:53.000 watch those on YouTube, also on my website. But this 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:55.080 week I talked to Jefferson Graham. He's a friend of 0:27:55.080 --> 0:27:57.199 the show. He's been on a bunch. He was a 0:27:57.240 --> 0:27:59.760 tech journalist at USA Today for many years now. He 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:04.399 has show called Photo Walks TV, and he shared some 0:28:04.520 --> 0:28:08.240 of his top photography tips and number one start out. 0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:11.359 I know these sounds simple, but you'd be surprised. Charge 0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:14.359 your phone, clear out your storage. Two things I know 0:28:14.680 --> 0:28:17.760 seems like a given, but I've seen. I've been at 0:28:17.800 --> 0:28:20.879 the plays and the recitals for my kids, the holiday shows, 0:28:20.880 --> 0:28:23.000 and I've watched the phones in front of me with 0:28:23.040 --> 0:28:25.320 that dreaded screen that says boop, you're out of storage, 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:28.280 and people are sitting there scrambling to delete things out 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:29.719 of your phone. And by the way, if that happens 0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:31.760 to you, the easiest thing to delete a couple of 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:35.560 large videos. He also says, clean your lens. This is 0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:38.120 a big one. You have no idea how many people say, hey, 0:28:38.200 --> 0:28:39.800 rich or they just come up to me, hey, can 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:41.440 you take a picture? You know, you're at a restaurant 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:43.800 or something, and you know, you go to take a 0:28:43.800 --> 0:28:46.240 picture with their phone, and it's like the smudgiest looks 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:48.640 like there's vasoline on the lens. So the first thing 0:28:48.680 --> 0:28:51.760 you gotta do is clean your lens. 0:28:52.960 --> 0:28:54.240 He also likes the iPhone. 0:28:54.280 --> 0:28:57.520 After you know, trying shooting with the iPhone Samsung Pixel, 0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:01.040 he actually prefers the iPhone for its natural colors, and 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:03.080 then he mentioned a couple apps that he likes. Number one, 0:29:03.160 --> 0:29:05.280 Adobe Light Room Mobile, I said, well, doesn't that have 0:29:05.320 --> 0:29:07.240 a subscription. No, you can use a lot of the 0:29:07.240 --> 0:29:11.080 features without subscribing, So I downloaded that Adobe light Room mobile. 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:15.440 He likes this de haze tool, so it makes the 0:29:15.840 --> 0:29:18.520 skies look better. So you take a sky and it 0:29:18.640 --> 0:29:21.040 just you kind of use that de haze tool and 0:29:21.120 --> 0:29:22.800 it just kind of brings out the sky. 0:29:22.880 --> 0:29:24.160 It makes it look a lot better. 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:28.320 He also likes the black Magic camera app for taking 0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:31.680 time lapses. He says that the iPhone sort of doesn't 0:29:31.760 --> 0:29:34.080 let you change any of the settings with time lapses. 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:35.840 I think he says, they'd limit them to it like 0:29:35.920 --> 0:29:38.680 thirty seconds. But if you get one of these apps, 0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:41.720 a third party app like black Magic, you can do whatever. 0:29:41.440 --> 0:29:42.680 You want with your time lapses. 0:29:43.080 --> 0:29:45.600 And then he likes the Halied app, which has an 0:29:45.600 --> 0:29:49.320 anti AI mode, So if you want to take a 0:29:49.360 --> 0:29:52.520 photo without any AI, Halid will let you do it. 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:56.360 There's also another one called Zerocam, which I think you 0:29:56.400 --> 0:29:58.200 have to pay ten dollars. I think I paid for that, 0:29:58.600 --> 0:30:01.600 but you have to It takes pictures without any AI, 0:30:02.200 --> 0:30:04.640 so that's called zero cam. He didn't mention that. I'm 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:08.080 mentioning that, but the app that if you download one 0:30:08.200 --> 0:30:11.840 thing that I'm talking about. It's called Radiant Photo. R 0:30:12.000 --> 0:30:17.280 Adant Radiant Photo. Again, all these apps are like freemium. 0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:19.080 You download them, they want you to pay, but you 0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:20.480 don't really have to. You can get a lot of 0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:24.160 the functionality. But this Radiant Photo, I'm not kidding. I'm 0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:26.400 hesitant to even share it because I feel like it's 0:30:26.400 --> 0:30:27.280 my secret weapon. 0:30:27.960 --> 0:30:32.320 It literally perfects your photo with not even a tap. 0:30:32.320 --> 0:30:32.560 You don't. 0:30:32.800 --> 0:30:34.200 All you have to do is put the photo into 0:30:34.200 --> 0:30:36.800 it and it will just automatically look at the scene, 0:30:37.120 --> 0:30:39.080 sense what you're trying to show, and it will just 0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:42.520 perfect it. Like if it's someone's face, if it's a 0:30:42.560 --> 0:30:45.800 portrait photo, if it's a landscape, it just somehow does 0:30:45.840 --> 0:30:48.600 a really nice job of identifying what that picture is 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:53.160 and making it better. So Radiant Photo iOS Android. Yes, 0:30:53.200 --> 0:30:55.520 they may try to get you to subscribe or pay, 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:57.280 but you don't have to. I've I've been using it 0:30:57.320 --> 0:31:01.040 for six months, no payment, and it's worked every time. 0:31:01.240 --> 0:31:03.640 I Basically any picture that I uploaded social media, I'll 0:31:03.640 --> 0:31:05.960 just put in there and just kind of one tap 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:13.920 and it's perfect. Let's go to Mark in Oh, sorry, 0:31:14.120 --> 0:31:17.440 let's go to Randy. Randy you're on with Rich. 0:31:18.440 --> 0:31:20.000 Hi Rich, I enjoy your show. 0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:22.200 Oh thank you, well, I enjoyed doing it. 0:31:25.360 --> 0:31:28.480 I'm not super tech savvy, but I wanted to ask 0:31:28.560 --> 0:31:31.320 your opinion if you could just keep it as basic 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:36.320 language as possible. I have an iPhone eleven and I 0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:39.920 deleted a video about a year ago, and I regret 0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:44.040 doing that. And I've struggled and agonized over finding apps 0:31:44.080 --> 0:31:47.640 that will recover deleted and lost photos and videos, and 0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:50.800 I'm just totally dumbfounded by them. I did look in 0:31:50.920 --> 0:31:52.120 my iPhone backup. 0:31:52.400 --> 0:31:53.040 It's gone. 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:58.240 There is there any specific app that you would recommend 0:31:58.240 --> 0:32:02.640 that would do the job? Or is it permanently gone? 0:32:04.000 --> 0:32:06.440 A video on the iPhone that you deleted a year ago? 0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:07.560 It is gone. 0:32:07.880 --> 0:32:11.280 So I hate to say that, but there are there's 0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:13.400 not an app that can bring it back on the iPhone, 0:32:13.440 --> 0:32:15.520 let's put it that way. But are there some avenues 0:32:15.560 --> 0:32:16.400 that you can explore? 0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:16.720 So? 0:32:16.880 --> 0:32:19.720 Number one, did you have this backed up in any way, 0:32:19.760 --> 0:32:21.000 shape or form to any app? 0:32:22.360 --> 0:32:25.040 No other than the iCloud. I'm not even sure if 0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:26.440 it was back. Well, it wasn't back. 0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:27.520 It was not. 0:32:27.600 --> 0:32:30.920 Okay, what about a backup of your phone? Did you 0:32:30.920 --> 0:32:32.200 ever have a backup of your phone. 0:32:33.080 --> 0:32:34.400 No, no, no. 0:32:35.560 --> 0:32:38.480 So with those two things, so there's a couple of 0:32:38.520 --> 0:32:41.360 ways that you know a photo could be still around. 0:32:41.440 --> 0:32:43.680 Number one, when you delete a picture on your iPhone, 0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:48.960 it does linger for about thirty days in a special folder. 0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:53.000 And I'm sure you've checked this, but it's called recently deleted. 0:32:53.000 --> 0:32:53.840 Have you seen that one? 0:32:54.400 --> 0:32:54.600 Yes? 0:32:54.800 --> 0:32:56.720 Yes, okay, So with the. 0:32:56.760 --> 0:32:59.920 Latest iOS, they did add a feature where you have 0:33:00.080 --> 0:33:02.280 to authorize your phone before you can look at it. 0:33:02.560 --> 0:33:04.920 But on my phone, it's showing me, yeah, twenty nine 0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:07.200 days until it deletes the last photo, and it gives 0:33:07.240 --> 0:33:08.720 you a little countdown for each picture. 0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:10.160 So that's the first place to look. 0:33:10.440 --> 0:33:13.000 And Randy, even though you may not be able to 0:33:13.000 --> 0:33:14.760 get this back sadly, I am just going to go 0:33:14.800 --> 0:33:18.160 through these these suggestions so that if someone is dealing 0:33:18.160 --> 0:33:20.440 with something similar, maybe they deleted a photo by accident, 0:33:20.440 --> 0:33:24.360 these are the places they could potentially look. So that's 0:33:24.440 --> 0:33:27.520 number one, they recently deleted, and both iPhone and Android 0:33:27.640 --> 0:33:30.240 have a version of that, So that's the first place 0:33:30.280 --> 0:33:33.440 to check. The second place is an online backup. So 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:36.200 I always recommend that you back up your photos. I 0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:39.200 understand for privacy concerns or other reasons. You may not 0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:42.000 want to do that, but I always recommend doing that. 0:33:42.880 --> 0:33:45.760 That could be through iCloud, that could be through Google Photos, 0:33:45.880 --> 0:33:49.000 that could be through one Drive, it could be through iedrive. 0:33:49.040 --> 0:33:51.520 I mean, there's so many different ways of backing up. 0:33:51.760 --> 0:33:55.040 If you're an Amazon Photo, if you're an Amazon Prime member, 0:33:55.600 --> 0:34:00.400 they offer free unlimited photo backup at full resolution for 0:34:00.440 --> 0:34:02.760 their Prime members. Now as long as you're paying for Prime, 0:34:02.880 --> 0:34:05.160 right even if you stop paying, they'll give you a 0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:06.480 certain amount of time to download it. 0:34:06.480 --> 0:34:07.320 So those are little. 0:34:07.200 --> 0:34:10.359 Avenues to backup photos if you don't want to pay 0:34:10.400 --> 0:34:13.799 a lot. The other place to look is a full 0:34:13.880 --> 0:34:17.920 phone backup. So when you back up your phone, it 0:34:18.800 --> 0:34:20.719 you know, if you have an iPhone, it's backing up 0:34:20.760 --> 0:34:23.799 to iCloud like the entire phone. Even if you have 0:34:24.040 --> 0:34:27.560 iCloud photos turned off, it's still backing up a copy 0:34:27.640 --> 0:34:30.200 of your entire phone to the cloud. So you may 0:34:30.239 --> 0:34:32.600 be able to go in there use a program like 0:34:32.680 --> 0:34:36.960 I Amazing to extract that photo out of that backup, 0:34:37.040 --> 0:34:39.360 or you can restore that backup to another iPhone or 0:34:39.400 --> 0:34:41.960 your or your current iPhone and get that photo back 0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:45.399 the other place to look, of course, is iCloud. And 0:34:45.440 --> 0:34:47.520 if you're wondering, like, okay, this on my phone? Is 0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:48.799 it not on my phone? You can always go to 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:51.680 iCloud dot com and check to see if the picture 0:34:51.760 --> 0:34:52.040 is there. 0:34:52.640 --> 0:34:54.080 But those are the avenues, Randy. 0:34:54.120 --> 0:34:57.160 There is not a way to find that video that 0:34:57.280 --> 0:35:01.200 I know of, unless someone emails me something different that's 0:35:01.239 --> 0:35:03.960 been deleted a year ago. Because after a year, you know, 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:07.319 no matter what, that thing is pretty much gone. The 0:35:07.360 --> 0:35:10.680 only thing I can think of is if it's something 0:35:10.680 --> 0:35:12.840 important in the future, you can upload it to YouTube 0:35:12.840 --> 0:35:15.200 as a private video for free. 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:19.000 Dropbox gives you two gigs of storage. I believe for free. 0:35:19.560 --> 0:35:21.800 Most of the main service writers will give you a 0:35:21.880 --> 0:35:23.719 couple of gigs of storage completely free. 0:35:23.719 --> 0:35:25.640 I'm sorry this happened to you. 0:35:25.719 --> 0:35:28.440 Please back up your photos or put something that you 0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:29.840 need to keep in a safe place. 0:35:30.560 --> 0:35:31.560 Eighty eight rich. 0:35:31.440 --> 0:35:34.239 One O one eight eight seven four two four one 0:35:34.320 --> 0:35:36.479 zero one more rich on tech coming your. 0:35:36.360 --> 0:35:37.520 Way after this. 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:48.279 Eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:35:48.920 --> 0:35:52.719 We got the question about earlier about the best Android 0:35:52.800 --> 0:35:56.480 music app for an Android phone for local files and 0:35:56.719 --> 0:36:01.840 uh CALLI Cardinal fan writes in on a Pulsar is 0:36:01.920 --> 0:36:04.960 a reasonably good music player for Android. It is compatible 0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:07.560 with Android Auto two. Oh, I like that. That's a 0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:11.279 good point. Make sure it's compatible with Android Auto. So 0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:14.160 I looked it up, Pulsar Music Player. It's got five 0:36:14.200 --> 0:36:19.040 million downloads, four point six in the ratings. And most importantly, 0:36:19.080 --> 0:36:20.759 and this is always how you want to judge an app, 0:36:20.760 --> 0:36:24.439 by the way, always look at the updated on date, 0:36:25.040 --> 0:36:27.520 because if an app is out of update, it's not 0:36:27.640 --> 0:36:29.640 going to be you know, they're not it's not actively 0:36:29.680 --> 0:36:32.800 getting any improvements or updates. So this was last update 0:36:32.840 --> 0:36:36.000 on December eleventh, twenty twenty four, which is just fine. 0:36:36.400 --> 0:36:40.640 So again, if you're looking iOS or or Android, always 0:36:40.680 --> 0:36:44.000 look at that updated on date, the last update, because 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:45.680 that will give you an idea if an app is 0:36:45.760 --> 0:36:48.959 actively being maintained, or if it's something that's just still 0:36:49.040 --> 0:36:52.880 lingering in the store and not really getting any active updates. 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:55.680 So again, we got a lot of a lot of 0:36:55.719 --> 0:36:59.680 suggestions on the best Android music app. So we've got 0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:02.560 YouTube Music Cloud, which I think that's the easiest. Just 0:37:02.640 --> 0:37:05.839 upload your music to YouTube Music. They have a free 0:37:05.840 --> 0:37:07.640 service where you can just upload your MP threes and 0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:10.640 they'll show up on your phone, Samsung Music if you 0:37:10.640 --> 0:37:13.960 have a Samsung phone, and then listeners recommended Double Twist 0:37:14.000 --> 0:37:16.880 and Pulsar. And by the way, if you want anything 0:37:16.880 --> 0:37:19.600 that I talk about, I take very good show notes. 0:37:19.600 --> 0:37:23.440 It's all on the website. Rich on Tech dot tv. Definitely. 0:37:23.480 --> 0:37:25.520 While you're there, sign up for a newsletter. Follow me on. 0:37:25.480 --> 0:37:29.799 Instagram at rich on Tech. Let's see here. Let's go 0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:34.520 to Ron in Norco. Ron, you're on with Rich. 0:37:36.480 --> 0:37:38.480 Good afternoon, Rich. How are you folks doing today? 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:41.600 I am doing fantastic great. 0:37:41.640 --> 0:37:46.560 I'm sitting here watching the Eagles, Eagles and Big Bear 0:37:46.600 --> 0:37:50.480 on my camera. I'm a third monitor here and it's fantastic. 0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:54.000 The father's going down and getting the fishing and bringing 0:37:54.000 --> 0:37:56.600 the fishing up, and then mom fixed the fish apart 0:37:56.640 --> 0:37:58.000 and feeds the three babies. 0:37:58.320 --> 0:38:00.919 People are obsessed with this stuff. It's like a big 0:38:00.960 --> 0:38:03.359 on YouTube. I think it's one big ad for Big Bear. 0:38:03.400 --> 0:38:05.719 That's what I think. Because it is it makes you 0:38:05.760 --> 0:38:06.520 want to go there. 0:38:07.840 --> 0:38:10.279 Yeah for sure, yeah, not too far away. But I 0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:14.200 don't go very often. My question is I do consulting, 0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:17.080 and I go to site do site visits from time 0:38:17.160 --> 0:38:21.120 to time. And I used to use a Live Scribe 0:38:21.800 --> 0:38:26.960 with the ten and the special paper in the audio system, 0:38:27.000 --> 0:38:29.320 which has been good. But what can I use now? 0:38:29.560 --> 0:38:34.400 With AI emerging? It helped me do interviews that haven't 0:38:34.400 --> 0:38:37.480 transcribed instantly or virtually. 0:38:38.000 --> 0:38:42.640 Oh my, how long are you recording? Typically not more 0:38:42.640 --> 0:38:43.120 than an hour? 0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:45.759 Half an hour? I mean I get to break it 0:38:45.840 --> 0:38:47.800 up and segments if necessary. 0:38:48.040 --> 0:38:52.360 Okay, well, my favorite favorite favorite app is called Whisper 0:38:52.920 --> 0:38:59.840 Memos w h I spe er Whisper Memos. Are you 0:38:59.840 --> 0:39:02.520 on an iPhone or Android? 0:39:02.640 --> 0:39:02.839 Oh? 0:39:02.960 --> 0:39:05.520 Okay, hold on, that's different. Okay, so if you're on Android, 0:39:05.840 --> 0:39:07.920 that's a little bit different. So you're on Samsung or 0:39:07.960 --> 0:39:08.640 you on Pixel. 0:39:09.560 --> 0:39:11.880 I'm on Samsung, but I also have an iPad. I 0:39:11.960 --> 0:39:13.160 usually take an iPad with me. 0:39:13.440 --> 0:39:17.080 Okay, well, well, I think I think the best app 0:39:17.160 --> 0:39:19.799 right now is the Whisper Memos app. And what I 0:39:19.840 --> 0:39:24.239 love about it is that you record and basically it 0:39:24.360 --> 0:39:30.000 will transcribe using the latest open AI Whisper model, which 0:39:30.040 --> 0:39:30.720 is really good. 0:39:32.160 --> 0:39:33.520 There's there's a couple of ways to do it. Do 0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:35.560 you need to What kind of computer do you have? 0:39:37.360 --> 0:39:43.359 I have a basic desktop, okay, Windows desk up. 0:39:43.640 --> 0:39:45.880 I mean, there's so many there's so many apps that 0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:48.600 do this. There's another one called letterly l e t 0:39:48.600 --> 0:39:52.720 t e r l Y. Now, for what you're doing, 0:39:52.920 --> 0:39:58.080 I think the service from otter might be the best one. 0:39:58.360 --> 0:40:01.240 That's for what you're doing. Have you heard of otter 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:01.880 dot ai? 0:40:03.200 --> 0:40:03.399 Yeah? 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:08.239 Okay, so I think for your your purposes that might 0:40:08.280 --> 0:40:11.040 be the best solution. It all depends on do you 0:40:11.080 --> 0:40:13.239 want this to be free? Do you want this to 0:40:13.239 --> 0:40:14.920 be free or do you or do you mind paying? 0:40:16.280 --> 0:40:19.480 I don't mind paying, but I like free all the 0:40:19.520 --> 0:40:19.960 time too. 0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:23.040 Yeah exactly, So I mean I love free too. So 0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:26.560 what I do and I transcribe every interview I do 0:40:26.680 --> 0:40:30.040 for TV. So when I interview someone, we record it 0:40:30.120 --> 0:40:32.319 and then I transcribe it. And so what I do 0:40:32.440 --> 0:40:35.360 is I take that audio and drop it into an 0:40:35.360 --> 0:40:38.560 app called mac whisper m A c w h I 0:40:38.760 --> 0:40:43.239 s p e er now the equivalent for other. There's 0:40:43.239 --> 0:40:46.160 another app called Descript, which I used to use and 0:40:46.160 --> 0:40:50.320 that you can use as well. Anytime you're doing something 0:40:50.360 --> 0:40:53.120 for business. It's tough to get the free because you're 0:40:53.200 --> 0:40:56.719 using it more than what the free allotment is. Right, 0:40:56.840 --> 0:41:00.080 So with something like descript, you can use it for free, 0:41:00.200 --> 0:41:02.160 but as soon as you go over a certain amount, 0:41:02.280 --> 0:41:04.960 you're gonna have to start paying. So it all depends 0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:09.440 on how much you're using this with built into the 0:41:09.480 --> 0:41:13.480 phones nowadays, they've got so many different options for transcribing. 0:41:13.840 --> 0:41:18.160 So you mentioned you have a Samsung, Yes I do. 0:41:18.160 --> 0:41:20.799 Do you have the latest one UI on it or no? Like, 0:41:20.840 --> 0:41:22.320 do you have the AI features or no? 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:25.680 I don't think so. I have the S twenty two 0:41:25.760 --> 0:41:28.000 Anthrom that I hadn't upgrading to AI. 0:41:28.280 --> 0:41:30.200 Okay, so yeah, if you have the S twenty two Ultra, 0:41:30.280 --> 0:41:33.000 that's not gonna have the AI because basically at this point, 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:36.480 the iPhone, the Pixel, and the Samsung they all have 0:41:37.320 --> 0:41:41.000 audio recording on them that also transcribes for free. So 0:41:41.040 --> 0:41:43.200 that's another way of doing it. But if you've got 0:41:43.200 --> 0:41:46.840 the S twenty two, they just I think they just 0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:53.560 announced the one UI beta. Let's see one UI seven 0:41:53.640 --> 0:41:55.400 beta rolls out to more phones. 0:41:55.480 --> 0:41:56.439 Let's see. 0:41:57.920 --> 0:42:02.000 Yeh see it's going to the S twenty three. Yeah, 0:42:02.040 --> 0:42:04.560 so it's it's not to your phone just yet, but 0:42:04.600 --> 0:42:05.799 that would be a good way to do it. But 0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:07.920 I mean, look, there's a lot of options out there. 0:42:08.800 --> 0:42:11.920 I think that one of these AI kind of it 0:42:11.960 --> 0:42:13.719 depends if you want your phone to do it one 0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:15.400 hundred percent, if you want your phone to do it 0:42:15.440 --> 0:42:18.239 from start to finish, I'd probably recommend something like otter 0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:22.239 dot AI. If you don't mind taking the file and 0:42:22.800 --> 0:42:26.040 transcribing it later, then I would use something like a 0:42:26.120 --> 0:42:30.840 descript That would probably be the best option there. And 0:42:30.880 --> 0:42:32.880 then you know, there's just there's so many ways of 0:42:32.920 --> 0:42:34.680 doing this, but I think those are probably some good 0:42:34.680 --> 0:42:37.560 ways to start doing it. But again, I so what 0:42:37.600 --> 0:42:40.080 I do is I get my file, I throw it 0:42:40.120 --> 0:42:44.600 into mac Whisper, and then I will use that transcription 0:42:44.719 --> 0:42:47.640 and then toss that into something like a chat GBT 0:42:47.880 --> 0:42:49.880 just to get some key takeaways things like that to 0:42:49.880 --> 0:42:54.239 help me think about crafting my story around that. There 0:42:54.360 --> 0:42:58.320 is a I'm trying to find there is a transcription. 0:42:59.520 --> 0:43:04.160 Let's see where it is. There is a transcription website 0:43:04.160 --> 0:43:08.600 that I will look up the url, but I shared it. 0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:12.719 It's a free transcription on like basically any computer, so 0:43:12.800 --> 0:43:15.759 it's hosted on hugging face. I gotta find the website though, 0:43:16.160 --> 0:43:18.279 but that one's pretty cool and I will put that 0:43:18.320 --> 0:43:21.279 in the show notes. Rich on tech dot tv is 0:43:21.320 --> 0:43:24.600 where you can find that. Thanks for the call ron 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:27.279 appreciate it. There are so many it's so funny. I 0:43:27.560 --> 0:43:32.239 went from never ever transcribing my interviews to now I 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:35.040 transcribe everything. In fact, I have a folder inside my 0:43:35.120 --> 0:43:39.120 notes of transcriptions, so anything someone says, I can go 0:43:39.200 --> 0:43:41.880 back and just and I record everything. All my meetings 0:43:41.920 --> 0:43:44.560 I take now, like if I go to like a briefing, 0:43:45.040 --> 0:43:46.000 I will record that. 0:43:46.000 --> 0:43:46.640 On my phone. 0:43:47.200 --> 0:43:50.879 And it's just gotten so incredibly easy to do this 0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:55.680 process of transcribing that it's like, why not just have everything? 0:43:56.200 --> 0:43:58.120 And I think that you know, with the later phones, 0:43:58.160 --> 0:44:00.439 the newer phones that handle the AI stuff, it really 0:44:00.440 --> 0:44:02.759 makes it a lot easier because it's built in for free, 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:06.800 like I said, on the Pixel phones, the latest Samsung phones, 0:44:07.120 --> 0:44:10.760 and of course the iPhones if they support the iOS eighteen. 0:44:10.840 --> 0:44:12.080 It's all right there for free. 0:44:12.280 --> 0:44:14.560 But if you don't have access to the free services, 0:44:14.920 --> 0:44:16.560 you can always do some of the paid stuff that 0:44:16.600 --> 0:44:19.600 will work just as well. And I'll put everything I mentioned, 0:44:19.640 --> 0:44:21.279 by the way in the show notes Rich on tech 0:44:21.320 --> 0:44:23.680 dot TV. I know I mentioned a lot of different services, 0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:25.920 but it sort of depends on what you want out 0:44:25.960 --> 0:44:28.919 of them, which one is the best for you. Eighty 0:44:29.000 --> 0:44:31.279 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:44:31.280 --> 0:44:34.600 to two four one zero one visited the new Google 0:44:34.680 --> 0:44:39.239 store in Santa Monica, California. It's at the Third Street Promenade. 0:44:39.320 --> 0:44:42.240 If you're familiar with LA one of my favorite places. 0:44:43.160 --> 0:44:45.120 I joke, it's one of the first places I ever 0:44:45.280 --> 0:44:47.960 visited when I came to California, and I thought this 0:44:48.160 --> 0:44:51.200 was like heaven on Earth. I have never seen anything 0:44:51.400 --> 0:44:53.760 like this in my life. Growing up in New Jersey, 0:44:53.800 --> 0:44:56.759 it was an outdoor mall on a street and I'm 0:44:56.760 --> 0:45:00.719 talking vibrant. Adam, you remember this In the day, Third 0:45:00.760 --> 0:45:05.480 Street Promenade was like the place to go for everything, 0:45:05.520 --> 0:45:08.360 and you just stroll down the street. You'd get a 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:11.920 Wetzel's Pretzels, You'd go into Barnes and Noble browse the books. 0:45:12.440 --> 0:45:14.920 You'd go into all these stores, never buying anything, or 0:45:14.960 --> 0:45:17.319 maybe you did, you know something little, but you could 0:45:17.320 --> 0:45:20.080 just spend a whole night there and you know, you'd run. 0:45:19.960 --> 0:45:22.520 Into people, you'd see people. It was just so great. 0:45:22.920 --> 0:45:24.840 Now it's gone through some ups and downs. 0:45:25.120 --> 0:45:27.160 Hopefully it's back on its way up after you know, 0:45:27.239 --> 0:45:32.080 pandemic really was tough on the outdoor malls. But anyway, 0:45:32.160 --> 0:45:34.160 so now they've got a new Google Store there where 0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:37.279 you can check out the pixel phones, they're watches, Nest devices. 0:45:37.680 --> 0:45:39.319 You can get a help desk, so if you need 0:45:39.360 --> 0:45:41.120 a screen repair, you can do that, or you need 0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:43.600 your device swapped, if you have a warranty on it, 0:45:43.640 --> 0:45:44.319 they can do that. 0:45:44.920 --> 0:45:46.600 This is their sixth store. 0:45:46.960 --> 0:45:50.680 They've got them in New York, Chicago, Mountain View they're headquarters, 0:45:51.320 --> 0:45:54.600 and Boston, La, of course is a big market. Austin 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:57.560 is up next and everything is on display. So if 0:45:57.560 --> 0:46:00.920 you're looking for an accessory for your pick watch or 0:46:00.920 --> 0:46:04.080 your pixel phone, they've got it there. And that's what's 0:46:04.120 --> 0:46:06.359 so great about this is because I get it. There's 0:46:06.400 --> 0:46:09.960 five hundred Apple stores worldwide, but there's only six Google 0:46:10.000 --> 0:46:12.080 stores where you can see all of this stuff in 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:16.040 person and of course free Wi Fi. Just a great 0:46:16.080 --> 0:46:18.440 place to visit. Definitely check it out. Oh and by 0:46:18.480 --> 0:46:20.640 the way, if you look at the artwork, if you 0:46:20.680 --> 0:46:23.480 make it to La and see this place, the artwork 0:46:23.520 --> 0:46:25.839 has a secret. It's pretty cool. If you look from 0:46:25.840 --> 0:46:28.799 the side, it completely changes color. I talk to the 0:46:28.880 --> 0:46:32.080 artist about that. It's made of like thousands of little 0:46:32.160 --> 0:46:36.000 strands of thread. Anyway, Google Store Santa Monica now open 0:46:36.120 --> 0:46:38.640 check it out eighty eight rich one O one eight 0:46:38.719 --> 0:46:41.640 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one 0:46:42.400 --> 0:46:44.960 more rich On Tech Weekly Weekly. 0:46:45.160 --> 0:46:46.360 That's my show on TV. 0:46:47.560 --> 0:46:50.440 Mort rich on Tech coming your way right after this 0:46:58.840 --> 0:47:02.560 the website rich on tech dot tv. During the breaks, 0:47:02.640 --> 0:47:06.759 I am furiously taking notes about everything I mentioned, and 0:47:06.840 --> 0:47:10.280 so we just have a question about the U transcriptions 0:47:10.320 --> 0:47:12.920 of recorded meetings. So I put all of the services 0:47:12.920 --> 0:47:16.000 that I mentioned on the website, and you kind of 0:47:16.000 --> 0:47:17.399 have to pick the one that works for you. They're 0:47:17.440 --> 0:47:21.200 all kind of different, but I like aspects of each 0:47:21.239 --> 0:47:23.400 one of them. But the website that I was looking 0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:25.719 for that does it on the web. If you have 0:47:25.840 --> 0:47:29.839 a file, like an audio file that you want to 0:47:29.920 --> 0:47:35.279 transcribe quickly and easily and free, there's a website. It's 0:47:35.360 --> 0:47:39.840 a whisper Web. So it's actually hosted on hugging Face. 0:47:40.440 --> 0:47:43.960 So I have to it's too long of a URL 0:47:44.000 --> 0:47:46.400 to give you over the radio. But if you go 0:47:46.440 --> 0:47:49.120 to the website rich on Tech dot tv or just 0:47:49.160 --> 0:47:52.640 search hugging Face whisper Web, that should bring you. Let 0:47:52.640 --> 0:47:56.839 me just make sure hugging Face whisper web. Yeah, that'll 0:47:56.880 --> 0:48:00.160 bring it. That'll bring you right there, and that's completely free, 0:48:00.560 --> 0:48:04.400 and it does speech recognition transcription right in your browser, 0:48:04.400 --> 0:48:06.960 so it's nice in private, and that's a freeway of 0:48:06.960 --> 0:48:10.279 transcribing stuff. If you have a Windows computer or a 0:48:11.200 --> 0:48:13.719 Chromebook or a Mac whatever, it'll work on all those. 0:48:13.760 --> 0:48:14.600 So there you go. 0:48:15.160 --> 0:48:17.600 Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:48:17.680 --> 0:48:20.000 four two four one zero one. Coming up this hour, 0:48:20.840 --> 0:48:24.600 we're going to talk to doctor Gita, doctor g Uh, 0:48:24.640 --> 0:48:29.280 doctor Gita Nayir. She's going to talk about healthcare misinformation 0:48:29.600 --> 0:48:32.359 on social media. Yeah, there's a lot of it, so 0:48:32.360 --> 0:48:36.160 she'll talk about that. We had a question from Reggie 0:48:36.160 --> 0:48:39.799 in South Carolina that apparently I guess Reggie didn't want 0:48:39.800 --> 0:48:42.840 to be on the air, but was asking about tax 0:48:42.920 --> 0:48:46.920 time and software that you like, and so I will 0:48:46.960 --> 0:48:50.239 tell you what I use this year, which was absolutely incredible. 0:48:50.280 --> 0:48:52.360 I love it and it is so good. 0:48:54.120 --> 0:48:59.720 It's called flyfinn flyfinn dot I guess their websites flyfinn 0:48:59.719 --> 0:49:03.439 dot com tax but it's called fly finn Ai. And 0:49:03.520 --> 0:49:05.160 this was one of the first guests I ever had 0:49:05.200 --> 0:49:08.239 on this show, and basically I found this app and 0:49:08.280 --> 0:49:10.920 it is incredible if you are even if you're not 0:49:11.000 --> 0:49:15.239 a freelancer, Like, it's just so easy because the way 0:49:15.280 --> 0:49:18.320 this app works, you download the app to your phone, 0:49:18.400 --> 0:49:20.600 right and if you're a freelancer, this is like or 0:49:21.200 --> 0:49:24.600 whatever you are, it's still incredible. But basically what they 0:49:24.640 --> 0:49:27.720 do is that you connect your bank accounts to this app, 0:49:28.280 --> 0:49:31.920 and then as you get transactions in those accounts, AI 0:49:32.040 --> 0:49:34.719 will go through and suggest if that's a write off 0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:38.040 or not, and basically put it into the categories as 0:49:38.040 --> 0:49:41.560 you go along during the year, and so when it 0:49:41.600 --> 0:49:44.919 comes to tax time, your taxes are like ninety nine 0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:47.960 point nine percent done, and then you can either do 0:49:48.000 --> 0:49:50.360 them yourself and just use all the categories and everything 0:49:50.400 --> 0:49:53.320 that you've already categorized, or you can use one of 0:49:53.360 --> 0:49:56.560 their CPAs to do it. And I will tell you 0:49:56.920 --> 0:49:59.960 with the caveat that the CPA seemed to be overseas 0:50:00.120 --> 0:50:02.600 because I got like a little warning that my tax 0:50:02.640 --> 0:50:05.840 return was being handled overseas. I think, so, you know, 0:50:05.840 --> 0:50:08.920 if you're comfortable with that, But I'm telling you, this 0:50:09.080 --> 0:50:11.040 is the easiest thing I've ever used in my life, 0:50:11.640 --> 0:50:16.440 and it's so easy. They handle everything, and so you 0:50:16.560 --> 0:50:18.880 go through, you have all this stuff on the app, 0:50:19.120 --> 0:50:22.200 and then the CPA asks you questions, so you'll get 0:50:22.200 --> 0:50:23.000 all these questions. 0:50:23.040 --> 0:50:24.600 You just respond with your answers. 0:50:24.680 --> 0:50:26.480 You send them all your documents if they need it 0:50:26.520 --> 0:50:28.799 at the end of the year and they complete it all. 0:50:29.160 --> 0:50:30.399 And I was looking at it today. 0:50:30.400 --> 0:50:32.839 It was like ninety eight pages, you know, and you 0:50:32.880 --> 0:50:36.320 sign it all electronically, and it's it's really really slick. 0:50:36.840 --> 0:50:40.719 So I think it's incredible. And it's not that expensive. 0:50:41.120 --> 0:50:44.240 It's way cheaper than you know. I had a CPA 0:50:44.360 --> 0:50:48.400 do my taxes last year, and I'm not kidding. It 0:50:48.440 --> 0:50:51.160 was not a very good experience. I was not very 0:50:51.160 --> 0:50:55.759 happy and it was very expensive. And that's why I 0:50:55.800 --> 0:50:57.279 went back to the app. Because I did the app 0:50:57.320 --> 0:50:59.000 the year before. It was almost too easy. I was like, 0:50:59.000 --> 0:51:01.120 all right, this is too easy, too cheap, like what's 0:51:01.160 --> 0:51:03.520 the catch? And then I use the CPA and I 0:51:03.560 --> 0:51:06.000 was like this is too expensive and way too complicated. 0:51:06.360 --> 0:51:07.959 And now this year I went back to the app 0:51:08.040 --> 0:51:09.279 and I was just like, all right, this is the 0:51:09.280 --> 0:51:12.160 way it is. It's so easy, it's so great, and 0:51:12.480 --> 0:51:15.279 I love it, Like I can't speak highly enough of this. 0:51:16.600 --> 0:51:21.640 The pricing, you know, it depends. Okay, they've got three plans. Yeah, 0:51:21.680 --> 0:51:23.400 so they have a standard plan where if you're just 0:51:23.520 --> 0:51:26.120 individual then they've got the premium. 0:51:25.760 --> 0:51:26.400 And the ultimate. 0:51:26.920 --> 0:51:29.439 But I'm telling you, oh, the other thing is, let's 0:51:29.440 --> 0:51:31.920 say you have during the year. Let's say you have 0:51:32.000 --> 0:51:34.600 an expense and you're like, I'm not sure if this 0:51:34.640 --> 0:51:36.399 is even a write off. I'm not even sure if 0:51:36.400 --> 0:51:41.120 this is deductible. You can flag it and your CPA, 0:51:41.320 --> 0:51:42.920 the person they assigned they have like all you know, 0:51:42.960 --> 0:51:44.480 even if you don't have your own CPA, like if 0:51:44.480 --> 0:51:45.880 you don't pay for that level, they still have a 0:51:45.880 --> 0:51:48.719 whole bunch of CPAs they employ that just look at 0:51:48.719 --> 0:51:51.400 these questions all day long and then respond to you. 0:51:52.480 --> 0:51:54.040 So if you went out to lunch with someone in 0:51:54.080 --> 0:51:55.840 discuss business and you're like, I don't know, is this 0:51:55.880 --> 0:51:56.760 a business expense? 0:51:57.239 --> 0:51:59.680 You flag that expense. It sends it to them. They 0:51:59.680 --> 0:52:02.799 take a look at it and say, oh, yeah, that's categorized. 0:52:02.320 --> 0:52:06.120 Under this boom done. I mean, it's really really incredible. 0:52:06.120 --> 0:52:10.080 It's called flyfinn aiflyfin dot tax is the website. 0:52:10.560 --> 0:52:11.319 I really like it. 0:52:11.360 --> 0:52:14.480 I tried doing the turbo tax thing, and I think 0:52:14.520 --> 0:52:18.040 that that's probably my second favorite. And the reason I 0:52:18.120 --> 0:52:20.080 like it, I know it's complicated. I know they, you know, 0:52:20.200 --> 0:52:22.560 do all the stuff where they fight to make taxes 0:52:22.640 --> 0:52:24.839 complicated and all that stuff, or people say they do. 0:52:25.280 --> 0:52:27.040 But I like it because they do a lot of 0:52:27.120 --> 0:52:30.759 returns and so it's like there's strength in numbers where 0:52:30.760 --> 0:52:33.640 they've seen a lot of data. And so anytime someone's 0:52:33.640 --> 0:52:35.360 seen a lot of data, I always like kind of 0:52:35.400 --> 0:52:37.799 like that. But you know, at the end of the day, look, 0:52:37.840 --> 0:52:39.880 going to like a person in your neighborhood is probably 0:52:39.880 --> 0:52:42.920 the easiest and nicest. But for me, you know, I 0:52:42.960 --> 0:52:45.440 like to do everything online. So to me, this worked 0:52:45.800 --> 0:52:47.879 eight and eight Rich one on one eight eight eight 0:52:48.000 --> 0:52:50.839 seven four two four one zero one coming up, we'll 0:52:50.880 --> 0:52:54.520 talk misinformation when it comes to help on the internet. 0:53:02.320 --> 0:53:03.520 Surely you're on with Rich. 0:53:04.320 --> 0:53:08.160 Hi. Rich. I'm super excited. I'm starting my retirement degree 0:53:08.320 --> 0:53:12.480 and I have a computer I haven't used in three years. 0:53:12.160 --> 0:53:15.480 It is probably six years old. So I turn it 0:53:15.520 --> 0:53:20.799 on and it said battery half uh, like depleted. So 0:53:21.080 --> 0:53:23.640 I just need it for like word and typing in 0:53:23.960 --> 0:53:25.840 a class or typing notes at a meeting. 0:53:26.040 --> 0:53:26.480 That's it. 0:53:27.000 --> 0:53:29.319 But of course I want to save it and then 0:53:29.400 --> 0:53:32.160 send it, you know, send it somewhere as a PDAF size, 0:53:32.360 --> 0:53:35.920 just wondering what does that mean to me? With this 0:53:36.040 --> 0:53:39.839 battery half depleted? It's an HP, it's I think it's 0:53:39.840 --> 0:53:43.720 a seventeen inch laptop. Like it's super nice, hardly used, 0:53:44.239 --> 0:53:46.480 but I want to use, you know, make use of 0:53:46.520 --> 0:53:48.680 something instead of just going out and getting another one. 0:53:49.680 --> 0:53:50.320 What do you think? 0:53:50.480 --> 0:53:50.760 Well? 0:53:51.120 --> 0:53:51.760 Is it working? 0:53:53.280 --> 0:53:55.960 It turns on and then it goes right off. And 0:53:56.920 --> 0:54:00.000 it just said battery half So I'm like, can't you 0:54:00.080 --> 0:54:02.120 like to me? It's like, well, what's with the half battery? 0:54:02.120 --> 0:54:04.000 I can't. If it took me a half battery for 0:54:04.040 --> 0:54:06.520 the first few years, can I use the other half 0:54:06.719 --> 0:54:10.120 for the next like five months a year? 0:54:10.520 --> 0:54:13.839 Okay? So you turn Okay, So this is an HP. 0:54:14.160 --> 0:54:15.360 What do you know the model? 0:54:16.160 --> 0:54:17.239 No, off hand. 0:54:17.360 --> 0:54:18.359 So it's an HP. 0:54:18.520 --> 0:54:21.359 You've had it for six years. So does it work 0:54:21.400 --> 0:54:22.319 when you plug it in? 0:54:23.160 --> 0:54:28.160 Yes, it turns on. It turns on and then tell 0:54:28.239 --> 0:54:30.040 me about the battery and then it goes off. 0:54:30.320 --> 0:54:31.520 Can you remove the battery? 0:54:33.400 --> 0:54:36.879 I haven't touched anything, but I don't know, but go ahead, 0:54:36.920 --> 0:54:40.560 and I'm listening you remove it. What do you mean. 0:54:42.000 --> 0:54:45.360 Does the battery pull out of the does the battery 0:54:45.440 --> 0:54:45.919 pull out. 0:54:47.280 --> 0:54:51.319 Oh, probably because it's fairly new. I mean, it's not 0:54:51.360 --> 0:54:53.279 that old to me, it's not that old. 0:54:53.280 --> 0:54:54.120 I'm sure it will. 0:54:54.160 --> 0:54:55.040 But what about it. 0:54:56.800 --> 0:54:58.520 Well, if you could pull out the battery, then you 0:54:58.560 --> 0:55:00.920 could just replace the battery and get a new one. 0:55:01.000 --> 0:55:04.239 So I would, Yeah, so I would. I would bring 0:55:04.280 --> 0:55:07.200 this somewhere you can look up on Yelp, like a 0:55:07.239 --> 0:55:11.080 local repair shop, computer repair shop. If if the computer 0:55:11.200 --> 0:55:13.319 is doing what you need it to do when it 0:55:13.360 --> 0:55:15.360 turns on, you know, if it's if it's going to 0:55:15.600 --> 0:55:18.120 accomplish the tasks you need, then I would just spend 0:55:18.160 --> 0:55:20.440 a couple, you know, a couple bucks on a new battery. 0:55:20.480 --> 0:55:24.960 It's probably HP replacement battery. Let's see how much that 0:55:24.960 --> 0:55:27.360 would be. I'm guessing like one hundred, one hundred and 0:55:27.400 --> 0:55:30.520 fifty three up to maybe three hundred bucks. But it 0:55:30.560 --> 0:55:31.560 all depends, you know. 0:55:31.680 --> 0:55:32.160 But I would. 0:55:32.320 --> 0:55:35.239 Yeah, I can't find a price on here right now, 0:55:36.320 --> 0:55:38.680 but that's what I would do. So HP has a 0:55:38.960 --> 0:55:40.680 so you can't get this thing to turn on at all. 0:55:42.040 --> 0:55:44.919 It goes on with that like a pretty screen saver, 0:55:45.200 --> 0:55:48.560 and then it says batteries half like done, have you? 0:55:49.320 --> 0:55:50.600 And that's when it's plugged in. 0:55:51.160 --> 0:55:53.520 When it's been plugged in overnight. I can't set plugged 0:55:53.560 --> 0:55:54.800 in now just to see what happened. 0:55:54.880 --> 0:55:55.960 Okay, so you've left it. 0:55:56.000 --> 0:55:57.759 I was gonna say, like, leave it plugged in for 0:55:57.800 --> 0:56:00.719 a long like longer than you think and see what 0:56:00.800 --> 0:56:03.520 happens there. But if it's okay, So if it's if 0:56:03.560 --> 0:56:06.160 it's been plugged in overnight, which gives it plenty of 0:56:06.200 --> 0:56:08.400 time to charge that battery, and it's still not turning on, 0:56:09.800 --> 0:56:13.480 there's something going on there. And typically even with like 0:56:13.520 --> 0:56:16.920 a laptop that the battery is depleted, it would still 0:56:17.680 --> 0:56:21.760 turn on with the yeah, with the battery out. But okay, 0:56:22.040 --> 0:56:23.200 so I think what you need to do is I 0:56:23.239 --> 0:56:25.800 would bring this to a shop get an estimate. 0:56:27.040 --> 0:56:30.200 Where do you live? You said, Long Beach, Long Beach? 0:56:30.280 --> 0:56:34.560 Okay, so there are let's see here, there are places 0:56:34.600 --> 0:56:36.280 called you break I Fix. 0:56:36.800 --> 0:56:37.440 Have you heard of that? 0:56:38.200 --> 0:56:38.399 Yes? 0:56:38.560 --> 0:56:40.319 Okay, So I would bring it there. They will give 0:56:40.320 --> 0:56:42.799 you a free estimate and see what that estimate is. 0:56:43.560 --> 0:56:47.359 And if it's I would say for a six year 0:56:47.400 --> 0:56:50.960 old computer to replace the battery, I would not spend 0:56:51.000 --> 0:56:53.760 more than one hundred and fifty bucks on that because 0:56:54.239 --> 0:56:57.200 six years for a Windows laptop. It's probably not going 0:56:57.280 --> 0:56:59.359 to be the best, and you can get a new 0:56:59.440 --> 0:57:03.680 laptop for five hundred, six hundred dollars, so I would 0:57:03.719 --> 0:57:06.840 probably put my money more towards that than this repair. 0:57:06.920 --> 0:57:11.799 If it's more than that money. That makes sense, yes, sir, Okay. 0:57:11.800 --> 0:57:14.480 So check that out and if you if you need 0:57:14.520 --> 0:57:16.320 a recommendation on a new laptop after you do this, 0:57:16.360 --> 0:57:19.080 but call me back next time after you get this estimate, 0:57:19.080 --> 0:57:20.280 call me back and let me know what they say. 0:57:20.280 --> 0:57:21.760 Okay, off the. 0:57:21.560 --> 0:57:24.640 Top of your head, what would be a good college laptop, 0:57:25.200 --> 0:57:28.880 like an extensive like Lenovo or something like just something 0:57:28.880 --> 0:57:29.640 to get by. 0:57:29.560 --> 0:57:32.600 To the next like, well, I think I think the 0:57:32.840 --> 0:57:35.640 I think the MacBook Air at eight ninety nine for 0:57:35.680 --> 0:57:38.720 a brand new M four chip is going to be 0:57:38.880 --> 0:57:42.520 your absolute best choice because you're gonna get ten years 0:57:42.560 --> 0:57:46.120 out of that thing and it's going to be incredible. 0:57:46.320 --> 0:57:47.920 The battery life is going to be incredible. 0:57:48.560 --> 0:57:52.960 Ariis four mac Book MacBook Air M four and it 0:57:53.120 --> 0:57:55.720 just came out comes out actually on March twelfth. 0:57:56.120 --> 0:57:57.240 But I would go with that. 0:57:57.240 --> 0:57:59.440 That's going to get you through whatever you need for 0:57:59.480 --> 0:58:02.560 your study and longer and when you're done with it, 0:58:02.600 --> 0:58:04.520 you can pass it down to someone that that also 0:58:04.600 --> 0:58:06.160 needs a laptop while you get a new one. 0:58:06.360 --> 0:58:06.959 So that's how. 0:58:06.840 --> 0:58:10.080 Good got awesome. Thank you, sir, Thank you very much. 0:58:10.080 --> 0:58:12.440 All right, Shirley, thanks for the call. Triple eight Rich 0:58:12.480 --> 0:58:14.640 one on one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:58:14.720 --> 0:58:18.960 four one zero one. Let's go to Tom and Woodland Hills. Tom, 0:58:18.960 --> 0:58:19.640 you're on with Rich. 0:58:20.760 --> 0:58:21.800 Hey, Rich, good show. 0:58:22.000 --> 0:58:22.440 Thank you. 0:58:24.440 --> 0:58:27.520 I've got a weird one for you. I've got Sonos 0:58:27.560 --> 0:58:33.400 one speakers with the Sonos app which has Alexa enabled, 0:58:33.560 --> 0:58:38.960 and I can play other iHeart radio stations like KOs 0:58:39.080 --> 0:58:41.200 and things like that, but I can't play Kfi. 0:58:42.600 --> 0:58:47.240 Can't play Kfi. No hm, that's so why not? 0:58:48.960 --> 0:58:55.360 It says, hold on here, Alexa play Kfi. 0:58:59.360 --> 0:59:05.920 Okay here, I hear it working right now. Okay, so 0:59:06.080 --> 0:59:08.160 I hear I heard it said. I'm having trouble playing that. Okay, 0:59:08.160 --> 0:59:12.280 So you're trying to do the voice assistant there. The 0:59:12.280 --> 0:59:14.400 The short answer is, I'm not sure. I don't know 0:59:14.400 --> 0:59:17.200 if anything changed. I don't know if anything uh is 0:59:17.240 --> 0:59:19.320 going on in the background. I do know that things 0:59:19.360 --> 0:59:22.880 sort of happen sometimes that may impact that, but in general, 0:59:23.880 --> 0:59:26.000 can you bring it up through the app. 0:59:27.240 --> 0:59:30.520 Like if okay, so I will let's see. So it's 0:59:30.600 --> 0:59:32.560 just a voice in. 0:59:32.520 --> 0:59:33.720 The Sona's app itself. 0:59:33.760 --> 0:59:40.160 I can't but you know I could use wait. 0:59:40.040 --> 0:59:41.480 Why can't you through the soap? 0:59:43.280 --> 0:59:45.480 I don't know, it just wouldn't do it. 0:59:45.560 --> 0:59:47.520 Okay, well if you so, if you go into your 0:59:47.560 --> 0:59:50.920 services on the Sono SAP, there is an iHeartRadio service 0:59:51.600 --> 0:59:54.560 and that's kind of like a fool proof way of 0:59:54.560 --> 0:59:57.880 of getting it to play. So I would try that. 0:59:59.800 --> 1:00:03.400 And sometimes these radio stations are also on that tune in, 1:00:03.880 --> 1:00:07.960 which also is on iHeart or sorry on so NOS, 1:00:08.240 --> 1:00:09.880 so I would check for it there as well, but 1:00:09.920 --> 1:00:12.360 bring those two services in if something you know and this, 1:00:12.600 --> 1:00:16.800 if this continues not working, you might try to disconnect 1:00:16.800 --> 1:00:20.800 your Alexa from Sonos and bring it back, or do 1:00:21.160 --> 1:00:24.240 a restart of your sons system on the app, like 1:00:24.360 --> 1:00:26.680 just say restart your system. But you know, I'm angry 1:00:26.720 --> 1:00:30.000 at Sonos right now in general because they have really 1:00:30.280 --> 1:00:33.800 failed me in the past year of their speakers, because 1:00:33.840 --> 1:00:37.760 I have them in every room and they I still 1:00:37.760 --> 1:00:40.400 can't adjust the volume across all my speakers with this 1:00:40.440 --> 1:00:40.920 new app. 1:00:41.240 --> 1:00:42.600 It's just like it's slow. 1:00:43.720 --> 1:00:46.240 One of my speakers skips every song like it just 1:00:46.280 --> 1:00:49.280 it plays half the song and then skips it. So 1:00:49.280 --> 1:00:52.880 sons and you know, the CEO recently either left the 1:00:52.920 --> 1:00:55.600 company or was pushed out, so they've been going through 1:00:55.600 --> 1:00:58.680 some issues with their quality control there, so maybe that's 1:00:58.720 --> 1:00:59.160 part of it. 1:00:59.240 --> 1:01:01.680 But you should be able to play it. So I 1:01:01.680 --> 1:01:02.720 would do those two steps. 1:01:02.760 --> 1:01:06.320 I would disconnect the uh maybe first restart your system, 1:01:06.560 --> 1:01:09.200 see if that helps them. Maybe disconnect the Alexa service, 1:01:09.280 --> 1:01:11.960 bring it back on board and see if that helps. 1:01:12.040 --> 1:01:14.920 But I do think all of this is going to 1:01:14.960 --> 1:01:19.000 get better when Alexa is infused with AI, because I 1:01:19.000 --> 1:01:21.160 think she's gonna be able to understand what we're trying 1:01:21.200 --> 1:01:23.320 to do a lot better. And even though you just 1:01:23.320 --> 1:01:25.960 said play KFI, I think you're gonna be able to 1:01:26.040 --> 1:01:27.880 do a lot more with Alexa when it comes to 1:01:28.000 --> 1:01:30.600 music and streaming and all that stuff once she understands 1:01:30.960 --> 1:01:35.560 sort of natural language commands. But Tom, I you know 1:01:35.880 --> 1:01:40.200 source subject for me this so no stuff because they 1:01:40.280 --> 1:01:43.720 just had the best speakers and service in the world 1:01:44.520 --> 1:01:46.920 until they decided to redo the app, and then just 1:01:47.000 --> 1:01:50.880 everything started going wrong after that, and I ended up 1:01:50.920 --> 1:01:53.560 getting rid of my speakers and replacing them with Amazon 1:01:53.560 --> 1:01:55.800 Echoes and then that was fine. But I kind of 1:01:55.840 --> 1:01:57.959 like the grouping of the speakers, and I like having 1:01:58.000 --> 1:02:01.320 them everywhere, and I like the app. And they're slowly 1:02:01.320 --> 1:02:05.080 but surely clawing their way back to a working system again. 1:02:05.120 --> 1:02:06.720 But it's been really, really tricky. 1:02:07.560 --> 1:02:09.720 Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 1:02:09.840 --> 1:02:12.440 four two four one zero one. We're going to try 1:02:12.480 --> 1:02:16.600 to get our guests coming up to talk about medical misinformation. 1:02:16.920 --> 1:02:18.360 Uh, we'll see if we can get them on the line. 1:02:18.440 --> 1:02:20.400 Coming up right here on rich on Tech. 1:02:27.480 --> 1:02:30.280 My next guest is going to break down the growing 1:02:30.360 --> 1:02:35.800 crisis of healthcare misinformation. Uh, doctor Gita Nayer, Doctor g 1:02:36.120 --> 1:02:37.000 welcome to the show. 1:02:37.720 --> 1:02:39.560 Thank you so much for having me, Rich. 1:02:40.240 --> 1:02:43.040 So tell me. Let's let's just start with tell me 1:02:43.040 --> 1:02:43.440 what you do. 1:02:43.560 --> 1:02:45.800 First off, you've got you know, you're you've been on 1:02:46.080 --> 1:02:49.720 all kinds of places talking about healthcare, your doctor. So 1:02:51.000 --> 1:02:53.880 why are you interested in this idea of healthcare misinformation? 1:02:55.120 --> 1:02:58.680 Well, you know, Rich, I'm a doctor, a technologist as 1:02:58.720 --> 1:03:01.720 well as a best selling author on exactly this topic 1:03:02.160 --> 1:03:06.000 and disinformation in the era of health tech, AI, social media, 1:03:06.040 --> 1:03:09.480 all the things we your viewers know and love and 1:03:09.520 --> 1:03:12.720 really because as a physician, I've just run into this 1:03:12.960 --> 1:03:16.480 so many times, and having come from a tech background, 1:03:16.600 --> 1:03:19.720 was previously chief medical officer of salesforce at and T. 1:03:20.440 --> 1:03:22.680 I understand the power of tech, and I believe in 1:03:22.720 --> 1:03:25.800 the power of tech, but you still got to understand 1:03:26.520 --> 1:03:29.480 what you're looking at and what and how it affects 1:03:29.520 --> 1:03:31.760 your body. And so this has really become a passion 1:03:31.800 --> 1:03:32.440 project for me. 1:03:32.800 --> 1:03:36.560 So I imagine that are we talking Like basically people 1:03:36.560 --> 1:03:39.760 see this crazy stuff on TikTok and then they start 1:03:39.800 --> 1:03:42.840 doing it, or you know, it used to be you 1:03:42.840 --> 1:03:45.000 would just google like what your symptoms were, and you 1:03:45.040 --> 1:03:47.400 would just follow like what was it WebMD or something. 1:03:47.680 --> 1:03:48.720 And of course at the end of the day, I 1:03:48.720 --> 1:03:50.600 always made the joke like, no matter what you have, 1:03:51.240 --> 1:03:53.480 you're gonna die, because it's like if you just go 1:03:53.560 --> 1:03:56.080 down this rabbit hole of like the worst possible thing 1:03:56.120 --> 1:03:58.080 and then you go to the actual doctor and like, 1:03:58.080 --> 1:03:59.600 oh no, here, all you need is this little creamy 1:03:59.600 --> 1:04:00.120 to be fine. 1:04:01.120 --> 1:04:04.600 Exactly, you got it. Look in today's post pandemic world, 1:04:04.640 --> 1:04:08.480 the everyday consumer out there is really hungry and thirsty 1:04:09.040 --> 1:04:12.800 for healthcare information, and you're right, they're going to doctor Google. 1:04:12.880 --> 1:04:15.880 But more often than not, they're going to doctor TikTok. Right. 1:04:15.920 --> 1:04:18.680 We know that fifty nine million Americans turn to social 1:04:18.720 --> 1:04:21.800 media for questions about their health. And I think social 1:04:21.840 --> 1:04:24.760 media is a great asset and tool, but you have 1:04:24.880 --> 1:04:28.160 to be mindful of what you're actually looking at, who 1:04:28.280 --> 1:04:31.400 is it that you're following, and that you understand and 1:04:31.480 --> 1:04:33.520 know when to take some of that information with a 1:04:33.560 --> 1:04:34.240 grain of salt. 1:04:34.600 --> 1:04:36.040 So how do you know? I mean, like, let's give 1:04:36.080 --> 1:04:36.680 an example. 1:04:36.960 --> 1:04:38.800 Now, this may not be medical, but you know there's 1:04:38.800 --> 1:04:41.200 a big trend right now of like eating your weight 1:04:41.320 --> 1:04:44.040 in protein every day or something ridiculous like that. So 1:04:44.680 --> 1:04:46.680 I mean that kind of stuff I feel like started 1:04:46.720 --> 1:04:50.000 on social media and we've seen a million of these trends. 1:04:50.360 --> 1:04:51.600 How do you know what's real what's not? 1:04:52.920 --> 1:04:54.880 You know, there's a couple of things you can do 1:04:55.040 --> 1:04:57.480 if you're out there and interested in your health. Number One, 1:04:57.680 --> 1:05:00.560 checking the source, Right is this something coming from if 1:05:00.560 --> 1:05:03.640 you're looking for something for your kids? The American Academy Pediatrics, 1:05:03.920 --> 1:05:08.160 the American Medical Association, the American Whatever Association. Right, So 1:05:08.200 --> 1:05:11.680 one looking for who is the source? Keeping in mind 1:05:11.720 --> 1:05:14.640 there are actually associations out there that are for patients, 1:05:14.640 --> 1:05:17.360 four people with diabetes, four patients with heart disease. They're 1:05:17.360 --> 1:05:21.440 always going to be propagating information that is good for 1:05:21.520 --> 1:05:25.400 the consumer. So that's one two. Looking for inflammatory language, 1:05:25.440 --> 1:05:28.480 right the always or never, You know, the human body 1:05:28.480 --> 1:05:32.320 doesn't tend to work in extremes and complex scientific things 1:05:32.360 --> 1:05:35.480 can rarely have a simple solution or a hack like 1:05:35.560 --> 1:05:39.320 eating your weight in protein. Third, you have to understand 1:05:39.360 --> 1:05:41.480 your body is not the same as everyone's body. Right, 1:05:41.520 --> 1:05:43.560 If you've got kidney issues, I can tell you that's 1:05:43.600 --> 1:05:46.400 a bad plan. So you've got to know your own body. 1:05:46.440 --> 1:05:48.919 You have to know your own health. And lastly, rich 1:05:48.920 --> 1:05:51.240 you've got to have your own doctor right when and 1:05:51.280 --> 1:05:55.120 where you can double check things and actually get personalized 1:05:55.160 --> 1:05:58.360 information that is for you, relates to your family history 1:05:58.640 --> 1:06:00.600 and look, I know access is an issue, depends if 1:06:00.640 --> 1:06:02.440 you have health insurance, depends where you are. It can 1:06:02.480 --> 1:06:04.240 take a while to get an appointment. But there are 1:06:04.240 --> 1:06:07.560 a lot of online virtual telemedicine services out there now. 1:06:07.640 --> 1:06:10.080 And so if you are feeling like you are reading 1:06:10.120 --> 1:06:12.440 a lot of stuff but you're quite unsure of what 1:06:12.560 --> 1:06:15.400 to do, make that doctor's appointment. It's going to help 1:06:15.440 --> 1:06:18.400 you make the final decision and also get you information 1:06:18.480 --> 1:06:21.800 that's just tailored to you, not just to the general population. 1:06:22.120 --> 1:06:24.120 It's so wild, and I'll admit this for myself, but 1:06:24.240 --> 1:06:26.040 you know, when you have any sort of issue, you're 1:06:26.040 --> 1:06:27.880 always scared to go to the doctor because you don't 1:06:27.880 --> 1:06:29.760 want to find out what it actually is. But the 1:06:29.800 --> 1:06:32.720 reality is it's probably better to know what it is 1:06:32.760 --> 1:06:33.280 than to not. 1:06:34.320 --> 1:06:37.280 Absolutely prevention is always going to be the key in medicine. 1:06:37.280 --> 1:06:39.840 We want you to get the mammogram, the colonoscophy before 1:06:39.840 --> 1:06:41.920 you get breast cancer of colon cancer, so it is 1:06:42.000 --> 1:06:45.240 always wise to know. It can be scary. I agree 1:06:45.280 --> 1:06:48.080 with that, and I understand that emotion, but you know, 1:06:48.080 --> 1:06:51.320 knowledge is power, and I love that patients want to read. 1:06:51.800 --> 1:06:54.560 I often exactly what we said. I often direct my 1:06:54.600 --> 1:06:58.200 patients when we make a new diagnosis like glupus, matoriitter earthritis. 1:06:58.200 --> 1:07:00.160 I'll say, look, I want you to read everything and 1:07:00.240 --> 1:07:02.680 come back and ask me your questions. But here's the 1:07:02.680 --> 1:07:06.400 top three sites, here's the top three influencers that I follow, 1:07:06.520 --> 1:07:08.600 And so don't be afraid to have that conversation too 1:07:08.640 --> 1:07:10.520 with your doc, which is where should I be reading, 1:07:10.920 --> 1:07:13.600 what should I be aware of? And one more tipperach 1:07:13.640 --> 1:07:16.520 if they're selling something, if they're selling you a supplement, 1:07:16.560 --> 1:07:19.000 if they're selling you something for just nine ninety nine 1:07:19.120 --> 1:07:22.480 or click here for this subscription, that's often a really 1:07:22.520 --> 1:07:24.720 big red flag because docs are never going to ask 1:07:24.720 --> 1:07:25.240 you to do that. 1:07:25.960 --> 1:07:28.680 Interesting, what do you think about chat GBT? And like, 1:07:28.680 --> 1:07:32.160 you know, AI is now kind of replacing the Google search. 1:07:32.960 --> 1:07:35.800 I know that I've uploaded some of my medical records 1:07:35.800 --> 1:07:37.800 when you can tell me if I'm wrong for doing that. 1:07:38.160 --> 1:07:40.400 But it's like kind of fascinating you think you're getting 1:07:40.400 --> 1:07:43.000 like this analysis, this expert analysis. 1:07:44.040 --> 1:07:46.280 Well, look again, I think knowledge is power. I love 1:07:46.320 --> 1:07:49.360 that people are more and more curious about the human body, 1:07:49.440 --> 1:07:52.680 and I think that's terrific. But again, chat GBT is 1:07:52.720 --> 1:07:55.320 a great source, like ninety percent of the time, the 1:07:55.320 --> 1:07:58.880 truth is we still don't know. And again remember it's 1:07:58.920 --> 1:08:01.520 only as good as the you give it, right, So 1:08:01.600 --> 1:08:03.800 I don't know if you uploaded your whole medical record. 1:08:03.840 --> 1:08:07.360 I don't know if you uploaded what has most recently changed. 1:08:07.720 --> 1:08:10.440 So being mindful that so much of AI is dependent 1:08:10.480 --> 1:08:13.880 on the data, and that we in healthcare have lots 1:08:13.880 --> 1:08:17.280 of gaps and data. Doctors don't share information. Hospitals don't 1:08:17.280 --> 1:08:20.240 share information, so you have to be mindful that it's 1:08:20.360 --> 1:08:23.400 not a silver bullet. Right Again, there is no real quick, 1:08:23.479 --> 1:08:26.639 easy button solution. I think it's great to be curious. 1:08:27.000 --> 1:08:31.000 I encourage anyone to read scientific sites, to follow actual 1:08:31.040 --> 1:08:34.160 doctors with licenses. Because here's the other thing rich, right, 1:08:34.400 --> 1:08:37.240 there's entertainment. There are entertainers out there that are making 1:08:37.240 --> 1:08:41.479 millions of dollars off of propagating this and disinformation, but 1:08:41.520 --> 1:08:45.400 they're not accountable the way that physicians nurses are accountable. 1:08:45.439 --> 1:08:47.919 If I give you bad advice, I can lose my license. 1:08:48.000 --> 1:08:51.320 So there is an incentive to be on the side 1:08:51.320 --> 1:08:53.960 of the consumer, which is very different from entertainment. 1:08:54.720 --> 1:08:57.559 That is such a good point, and I do back 1:08:57.600 --> 1:09:00.960 to your point about the medical history not being shared. 1:09:01.320 --> 1:09:03.479 That has got to be the most frustrating thing as 1:09:03.520 --> 1:09:06.439 a patient. That for me, like I would just imagine 1:09:06.439 --> 1:09:09.439 that somehow in AI and this will happen in the future, 1:09:09.720 --> 1:09:12.960 would have everything from my birth up until now in 1:09:13.040 --> 1:09:15.640 a file, and that way you can see patterns, you 1:09:15.680 --> 1:09:18.280 can see things emerging, and I'm waiting for that day 1:09:18.280 --> 1:09:19.840 and I know we're working on it, but is a 1:09:19.960 --> 1:09:22.840 very slow process. All right, doctor G. What's the best 1:09:22.840 --> 1:09:24.840 way for folks to find you online? 1:09:25.479 --> 1:09:28.240 Oh? Thanks, rich I'm I'm everywhere. I'm on Instagram, I'm 1:09:28.320 --> 1:09:30.840 on LinkedIn, I'm on x and easy to find me 1:09:31.439 --> 1:09:34.960 Genayor and I look forward to continue the conversation with 1:09:35.000 --> 1:09:35.759 you and your viewers. 1:09:35.960 --> 1:09:37.599 Thank you so much, and I'll link you up on 1:09:37.640 --> 1:09:41.360 my website rich On Tech dot TV. Doctor G, thanks 1:09:41.400 --> 1:09:43.720 for joining me, coming up more of your calls right 1:09:43.760 --> 1:09:53.120 here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 1:09:53.280 --> 1:09:56.479 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 1:09:56.520 --> 1:09:59.120 Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 1:09:59.280 --> 1:10:03.760 four to two four one zero one. Phone lines are open. Website, 1:10:03.880 --> 1:10:07.679 rich on Tech dot TV, on social media. You guessed 1:10:07.720 --> 1:10:09.960 it at rich On Tech is in New York this 1:10:10.040 --> 1:10:13.400 week went to dinner and the restaurant we went to. 1:10:14.000 --> 1:10:16.880 I've got this little system for picking restaurants, by the way, 1:10:17.360 --> 1:10:20.679 so I look for my hotel is any anytime going out, 1:10:21.160 --> 1:10:23.000 I just go to you gotta go. You gotta do 1:10:23.040 --> 1:10:25.559 this on a desktop. It doesn't work on your phone 1:10:25.600 --> 1:10:28.679 for some reason. But if you go to Google Maps 1:10:29.240 --> 1:10:32.000 and then you search for where you're staying, right, so 1:10:32.280 --> 1:10:34.640 no matter where you are. Let's just say you're at 1:10:34.720 --> 1:10:39.559 a hotel. I'll just pick one down downtown and then 1:10:39.600 --> 1:10:41.880 you'll see once you search for that place, you'll see 1:10:42.000 --> 1:10:45.880 at the top of Google Maps it says nearby hotels, restaurants, 1:10:45.920 --> 1:10:48.640 things to do, bars, coffee. Now they've got some of 1:10:48.640 --> 1:10:50.840 these options on the phone, but they just don't work 1:10:50.840 --> 1:10:53.400 the same. So what I do is tap restaurants, and 1:10:53.439 --> 1:10:55.920 I typically want a place I can walk to, and 1:10:56.000 --> 1:10:58.400 so I will look. As soon as you tap restaurants, 1:10:58.720 --> 1:11:00.920 then you've got this thirty minute down at the bottom, 1:11:01.200 --> 1:11:04.799 you've got walking or driving. So I will choose fifteen 1:11:04.840 --> 1:11:08.360 minutes as my maximum walking time, and then you go 1:11:08.400 --> 1:11:11.320 to your filters. And so if you really want something 1:11:11.320 --> 1:11:15.080 that's like highly rated four point five, that's not like 1:11:15.120 --> 1:11:17.799 those are the ratings, like a generalized rating that people 1:11:17.840 --> 1:11:21.759 give it, not like there's no traditional like zagit or whatever. 1:11:21.800 --> 1:11:25.360 This is just like an aggregated score. So four point 1:11:25.400 --> 1:11:27.760 five is pretty good, Like not many restaurants get that. 1:11:28.200 --> 1:11:30.200 So if you want to find the places that people 1:11:30.240 --> 1:11:32.400 go to, you can tap that, and then you can 1:11:32.439 --> 1:11:35.320 go to all filters and you can say, you know 1:11:35.320 --> 1:11:37.920 how many dollars signs you want the cuisine you want. 1:11:38.320 --> 1:11:41.599 But typically once you have that list of restaurants, now 1:11:41.600 --> 1:11:44.400 you've got restaurants that are within fifteen minutes walking distance, 1:11:44.920 --> 1:11:47.799 and then you can look at the number of ratings 1:11:47.800 --> 1:11:50.680 they have, So anything that's got like in the thousands, 1:11:50.880 --> 1:11:53.920 people are going to that place a lot, and then 1:11:54.000 --> 1:11:56.360 you could just kind of narrow down from there. It's 1:11:56.600 --> 1:11:58.960 it's just a very easy way to sort of narrow 1:11:59.040 --> 1:12:02.160 down some of the pop their places near you instead 1:12:02.200 --> 1:12:04.880 of trying to search through all these different things and 1:12:05.200 --> 1:12:07.320 find the place or look through reviews and that. 1:12:07.640 --> 1:12:08.559 But this is just my. 1:12:08.600 --> 1:12:11.960 Easy go to way and it usually works every single time. 1:12:12.000 --> 1:12:14.599 It works. The other way to do it is on Yelp. 1:12:15.200 --> 1:12:17.320 If you just want somewhere that's really popular, you could 1:12:17.320 --> 1:12:20.160 just open up the Yelp app and then just sort 1:12:20.479 --> 1:12:23.919 You can tap restaurants and then sort by most reviewed, 1:12:24.400 --> 1:12:27.240 and that basically gives you, like the they may not 1:12:27.320 --> 1:12:29.400 be the best restaurants. You'll still have to use your 1:12:29.840 --> 1:12:31.680 your judgment to figure out which one you want to 1:12:31.720 --> 1:12:33.400 go to, but those are like the places that are 1:12:33.400 --> 1:12:36.720 most visited, most reviewed, most talked about, and that's just 1:12:36.920 --> 1:12:39.000 you know, again, if you're in town. If you've got 1:12:39.000 --> 1:12:40.720 friends and all that stuff, like, sure, ask them for 1:12:40.760 --> 1:12:43.200 a recommendation. But if you're just in town for one night, 1:12:43.240 --> 1:12:45.360 you want to find a decent place. Those two systems 1:12:45.400 --> 1:12:48.559 that I use pretty much work every time. Anyway, that 1:12:48.680 --> 1:12:52.240 led us to our restaurant that we went to. It 1:12:52.320 --> 1:12:56.840 was called Piccora Bianca and nice place. It was packed 1:12:56.840 --> 1:12:58.439 the whole time. But they had this thing on the 1:12:58.479 --> 1:13:01.240 table that I loved. Yes, there's a tech angle to this. 1:13:01.520 --> 1:13:03.880 They had a QR code on the table that you 1:13:03.920 --> 1:13:06.599 could scan at the end of dinner and pay your 1:13:06.600 --> 1:13:10.320 bill from your phone. And I've seen this before at restaurants, 1:13:10.320 --> 1:13:13.880 but this was the best implementation I've seen. Because you 1:13:13.960 --> 1:13:16.679 scan it, it was clear, it was easy. It says 1:13:16.680 --> 1:13:18.479 do you want to pay the full bill or do 1:13:18.479 --> 1:13:20.560 you want to pay for just your items or do 1:13:20.600 --> 1:13:22.920 you want to split the bill. And so if you're 1:13:22.960 --> 1:13:25.080 in one of those groups where everyone's like, you know, saying, 1:13:25.120 --> 1:13:27.479 oh I got the I had one less French fry, 1:13:27.560 --> 1:13:30.000 so I paid five dollars less, like you can say, okay, fine, 1:13:30.160 --> 1:13:32.519 everyone go to your app, choose the things you ordered, 1:13:32.600 --> 1:13:35.599 pay for it. Now, for our group, we had split 1:13:35.600 --> 1:13:38.120 a bunch of appetizers, and so it was tricky to 1:13:38.200 --> 1:13:40.320 do the whole like, oh, I'll pay for just what 1:13:40.360 --> 1:13:42.320 I had. So then we just said, okay, well I'll 1:13:42.320 --> 1:13:44.880 just split the bill. And you know, there's five of us, 1:13:45.320 --> 1:13:46.640 and it said, how many people do you want to 1:13:46.640 --> 1:13:48.320 pay for? I said too, I was paying for me 1:13:48.360 --> 1:13:50.639 and my mom, and so divided the whole thing up. 1:13:51.000 --> 1:13:53.600 I paid for us and I used Apple Pay and 1:13:53.640 --> 1:13:55.960 you could use Google Pay whatever you want, and the 1:13:56.000 --> 1:13:58.879 bill was done. So I looked up, of course this company, 1:13:58.920 --> 1:14:03.880 it's called Sunday sun Day Sunday app dot com. So 1:14:03.960 --> 1:14:06.280 if you have a restaurant, I guess my thesis here is, 1:14:06.360 --> 1:14:08.200 please adopt this technology. 1:14:08.560 --> 1:14:10.919 It is so easy. It's so much. 1:14:10.840 --> 1:14:13.880 Better than asking the waiter, hey, can you split the 1:14:13.920 --> 1:14:16.759 bill or this or that, because it gives people options 1:14:16.840 --> 1:14:19.240 on how they want to pay. Now, the only thing 1:14:19.280 --> 1:14:21.640 that's a little bit weird about this, I took a 1:14:21.680 --> 1:14:24.080 picture of the QR code on the table to like 1:14:24.120 --> 1:14:27.240 put in my newsletter, and you can scan that QR 1:14:27.320 --> 1:14:30.760 code at any time and kind of spy on what 1:14:30.800 --> 1:14:33.760 people are ordering at that table because that QR code 1:14:33.800 --> 1:14:36.000 is specific for that table and it's linked to their 1:14:36.040 --> 1:14:39.799 POS system, their point of sale system, their hospitality system. 1:14:40.040 --> 1:14:43.080 And so last night I scanned it as just a test, 1:14:43.120 --> 1:14:44.599 and I could see all the things that people are 1:14:44.680 --> 1:14:47.760 ordering at that table. So I guess they're not too concerned, 1:14:47.760 --> 1:14:50.840 because who's going to sit there after they left a restaurant, 1:14:50.880 --> 1:14:53.679 scan this QR code again and then pay for someone 1:14:53.680 --> 1:14:55.719 else's dinner. It's probably not going to happen. There's nothing 1:14:55.800 --> 1:14:59.080 like nefarious you can do with that QR code. 1:14:59.080 --> 1:15:01.439 But anyway, I thought that was really cool. 1:15:01.520 --> 1:15:05.519 I love when restaurants make life easy, and I'm all 1:15:05.560 --> 1:15:07.479 about that. Like these restaurants they go in there and 1:15:07.479 --> 1:15:09.800 they're like, oh, you can't split the bill, or you 1:15:09.840 --> 1:15:11.200 can't do this, or you can't do that. 1:15:11.240 --> 1:15:12.439 It's or I'm adding all this. 1:15:12.760 --> 1:15:12.920 You know. 1:15:12.960 --> 1:15:14.519 The new thing is all these fees they add to 1:15:14.600 --> 1:15:17.559 the bill. This was just a nice breath of fresh air. 1:15:17.600 --> 1:15:18.960 It was just like the way you want to check 1:15:18.960 --> 1:15:20.200 out simple easy. 1:15:20.640 --> 1:15:21.200 I liked it. 1:15:21.800 --> 1:15:26.600 All right, let's go to let's see here Michael in 1:15:26.840 --> 1:15:28.559 uh Capistrano Beach. 1:15:28.760 --> 1:15:29.479 You're on with Rich. 1:15:30.439 --> 1:15:34.439 My question was for you when you hear about the 1:15:34.600 --> 1:15:38.040 w EF members, how he gets up and he talks 1:15:38.080 --> 1:15:41.560 about how the humans are going to be hackable animals. 1:15:42.080 --> 1:15:42.960 What do you think about that? 1:15:44.240 --> 1:15:45.000 Who said this? 1:15:46.880 --> 1:15:52.040 Yuri the World's Economic Forum. They say that humans are 1:15:52.040 --> 1:15:53.040 hackable animals. 1:15:53.040 --> 1:15:53.680 Oh, is this the. 1:15:53.680 --> 1:15:58.280 Guy that wrote the Sapiens book. I think it might 1:15:58.320 --> 1:16:01.160 be because he's it looks like that might be the hymn. 1:16:01.400 --> 1:16:04.800 I've read a lot of that book, and so I 1:16:04.840 --> 1:16:06.760 did not hear this. I did not hear about what 1:16:06.920 --> 1:16:12.080 he said. But you know, there already are you know, 1:16:12.200 --> 1:16:14.920 body hackers out there, people that are trying to hack 1:16:14.960 --> 1:16:18.760 their own body in different ways from a biological standpoint. 1:16:19.120 --> 1:16:21.559 But then there's the idea of all these things like 1:16:21.600 --> 1:16:24.479 neurolink and these companies that are working on sort of 1:16:24.520 --> 1:16:28.679 add ons to our brain. So what do I think 1:16:29.400 --> 1:16:32.439 I think it's gonna happen. I think that we are 1:16:32.720 --> 1:16:35.080 just at the beginning of this now. I think there's 1:16:35.080 --> 1:16:39.400 gonna be a lot of pros for people like quadriprilegics, 1:16:39.520 --> 1:16:43.280 people that have some sort of brain damage, and people 1:16:43.320 --> 1:16:45.960 that you know, of different abilities that you know might 1:16:46.000 --> 1:16:48.640 be confined to a wheelchair, like there may be breakthroughs 1:16:48.680 --> 1:16:52.519 that will allow these people to get around like regular, 1:16:53.400 --> 1:16:56.120 you know, like average human beings. And so I think 1:16:56.160 --> 1:16:58.200 that there is good in this stuff. And I was 1:16:58.240 --> 1:17:00.679 reading a whole article I think was on the plane 1:17:00.720 --> 1:17:06.160 about the original guy who got the brain implant from Neurlink, 1:17:06.720 --> 1:17:08.439 and you know, he was just talking about how it 1:17:08.560 --> 1:17:12.000 changed his life. Like the guy was just a you know, 1:17:12.040 --> 1:17:14.320 he had a regular body, and all of a sudden 1:17:14.320 --> 1:17:16.000 he got into I think it was a was it 1:17:16.040 --> 1:17:18.960 a car accident, And next thing you know, you know, 1:17:19.040 --> 1:17:21.639 he's confined to a wheelchair and barely can move at all. 1:17:22.240 --> 1:17:23.960 And he said, when they put this thing in his brain, 1:17:24.200 --> 1:17:27.160 they approached him, he said, it was amazing. He can 1:17:27.280 --> 1:17:29.719 move a cursor on a computer. Like he said, everything 1:17:29.760 --> 1:17:32.960 that he had to do with the assistance of a person, 1:17:33.080 --> 1:17:35.280 he can now do a lot of this stuff by himself. 1:17:36.280 --> 1:17:39.879 Maybe not moving around per se, but like just being online. 1:17:40.200 --> 1:17:43.400 Like imagine that you can't move, you can't control a 1:17:43.439 --> 1:17:46.880 mouse computer things that you were accustomed to doing, and 1:17:46.920 --> 1:17:49.000 all of a sudden, you can't do that anymore. 1:17:49.280 --> 1:17:50.479 How frustrating it is. 1:17:51.040 --> 1:17:52.800 And so he said, things that would take him, you know, 1:17:52.840 --> 1:17:54.680 an hour to kind of move or do something on 1:17:54.720 --> 1:17:57.360 the computer screen, he can now do in seconds just 1:17:57.360 --> 1:18:00.160 by looking at it. Just by thinking about moving the 1:18:00.200 --> 1:18:02.920 cursor to the left or the right, or selecting something, 1:18:03.200 --> 1:18:07.479 it happens on screen. So I think, you know, but 1:18:07.720 --> 1:18:10.880 on the flip side, once we start embedding people with 1:18:10.960 --> 1:18:16.200 this technology, of course that technology is hackable, it is programmable. 1:18:16.600 --> 1:18:19.439 There will be, you know, people that try to abuse 1:18:19.479 --> 1:18:22.960 this stuff. So I think that no matter what, we 1:18:23.040 --> 1:18:25.680 are in for it. And I was reading something too 1:18:25.720 --> 1:18:28.479 about cars, you know how you know, we think about 1:18:28.479 --> 1:18:31.080 all these cars that can do things, they can drive themselves, 1:18:32.160 --> 1:18:35.440 you know, security cameras on cars, like all this technology 1:18:35.439 --> 1:18:38.160 that's built into cars. You know, there are people working 1:18:38.200 --> 1:18:39.960 twenty four to seven to try to figure out how 1:18:39.960 --> 1:18:42.720 to hack that stuff and use it to their advantage 1:18:43.200 --> 1:18:46.120 in various ways. Now, stealing a car is one thing, 1:18:46.520 --> 1:18:48.120 but you know, can you imagine if all the self 1:18:48.160 --> 1:18:51.400 driving cars slam themselves into walls? I mean, you know 1:18:51.439 --> 1:18:53.160 there's someone out there working on trying to make that 1:18:53.200 --> 1:18:58.040 happen because they're evil. I hope that doesn't happen. But again, 1:18:58.160 --> 1:19:00.280 people do have to look into this stuff to try 1:19:00.320 --> 1:19:04.600 to patch the exploits that other people may find, and 1:19:04.640 --> 1:19:06.880 so there's always someone that's looking for the holes in 1:19:06.960 --> 1:19:10.760 this software in the programming in the hardware, no matter what, 1:19:10.960 --> 1:19:14.320 whether they're going to use it for good or for bad. 1:19:14.800 --> 1:19:17.360 But yeah, I mean, we are just at the beginning 1:19:17.400 --> 1:19:19.080 of all this stuff. And I talk about this a 1:19:19.080 --> 1:19:22.439 lot too, the idea that AI right now, we've got it. 1:19:22.439 --> 1:19:24.360 It's been you know what two years that we've had it, 1:19:24.760 --> 1:19:26.880 and we've been playing with this stuff and everyone loves, 1:19:27.120 --> 1:19:29.400 you know, some of the things that CHATCHYBT and Gemini 1:19:29.479 --> 1:19:34.000 and Perplexity can do. But right now it is so basic. 1:19:34.760 --> 1:19:39.839 Just imagine when they start building this AI technology into robots, 1:19:40.439 --> 1:19:43.599 like I'm talking humanoid robots that many many companies are 1:19:43.640 --> 1:19:47.439 working on, Like these robots that can walk around and 1:19:47.520 --> 1:19:50.800 sort of think for themselves, do for themselves, act for themselves. 1:19:51.439 --> 1:19:54.960 So this stuff is happening. It's going to happen, and 1:19:55.000 --> 1:19:57.280 we need to be ready for all aspects of this 1:19:57.840 --> 1:20:00.680 no matter what. A good movie to watch. It's a 1:20:00.680 --> 1:20:03.200 little a little silly, and I hope I'm not giving 1:20:03.240 --> 1:20:04.719 too much away, but it's been out for a while. 1:20:04.720 --> 1:20:07.200 But Companion we sat down to watch kind of a 1:20:07.200 --> 1:20:09.400 horror movie. I don't want to give away the premise, 1:20:09.479 --> 1:20:14.719 but just it's interesting. So again that's kind of along 1:20:14.760 --> 1:20:17.719 the lines of what we're looking forward to in the future. 1:20:18.479 --> 1:20:21.200 Good question. Thanks for the call, Michael, appreciate it. Eighty 1:20:21.280 --> 1:20:23.800 eight Rich one O one eight eight seven four to 1:20:23.840 --> 1:20:26.599 two four one zero one. Coming up this hour, we're 1:20:26.600 --> 1:20:28.880 going to talk to a software engineer who wrote a 1:20:28.920 --> 1:20:33.479 book about how social platforms really work. You are listening 1:20:33.479 --> 1:20:44.519 to Rich on tech. Let's go to George in Los Angeles. 1:20:44.600 --> 1:20:45.240 You're on with Rich. 1:20:46.200 --> 1:20:46.360 Hi. 1:20:46.479 --> 1:20:50.439 Rich, Okay, I got a question here. I'm having a 1:20:50.520 --> 1:20:53.800 lot of trouble, a lot of headed I'm trying to 1:20:53.840 --> 1:20:59.680 connect the wireless microphones to my phone. Is a Galaxy 1:21:00.760 --> 1:21:06.080 A fifteen, and somehow it's not working. I cannot connect 1:21:06.080 --> 1:21:09.519 the external microphone to my phone. When I try to 1:21:09.560 --> 1:21:14.280 record a video with my camera, my phone camera, it 1:21:14.320 --> 1:21:18.439 doesn't give me the audio. And I try with another 1:21:18.520 --> 1:21:22.559 old phone that I have, is a Galaxy S twenty, 1:21:23.360 --> 1:21:26.559 Samsung Galaxy X twenty, and it works. But I don't 1:21:26.560 --> 1:21:30.960 know why with the Samsung Galaxy A fifteen doesn't work. 1:21:30.960 --> 1:21:33.320 And I try with out of different phones and a 1:21:33.400 --> 1:21:38.400 tablet and somehow the microphone don't work. The audio doesn't 1:21:38.479 --> 1:21:41.160 you know, doesn't connect. I mean the external microphone doesn't 1:21:41.160 --> 1:21:43.639 connect with the tablet. I don't know if I need 1:21:43.640 --> 1:21:48.439 a NAP or I did a comparable wireless microphone. I 1:21:48.479 --> 1:21:51.439 tried with two different microphones and it's not working. 1:21:51.560 --> 1:21:53.800 Okay, Well, a couple of things going on here. Number one, 1:21:54.120 --> 1:21:57.760 have you confirmed that this what brand is the wireless microphone? 1:21:58.160 --> 1:22:02.439 It's a label level ler K thirty nine. 1:22:02.640 --> 1:22:05.640 Okay, so is it wired or wireless? 1:22:06.200 --> 1:22:10.920 It's uh, well, it's I got the wire from Risk 1:22:11.160 --> 1:22:14.360 for the receiver. I connected to the phone with a 1:22:14.400 --> 1:22:17.520 wire and then I had the microphone. 1:22:17.520 --> 1:22:18.960 There are wireless okay. 1:22:19.439 --> 1:22:25.320 Well, number one, not every smartphone supports a external microphone. 1:22:25.960 --> 1:22:30.040 Now the Samsung's for sure, do the the Pro models, 1:22:30.080 --> 1:22:33.120 the S models they do. Now the A models that's 1:22:33.120 --> 1:22:36.080 sort of their budget line, they may not support. And 1:22:36.120 --> 1:22:39.360 I'm trying to confirm if they actually have support for 1:22:39.479 --> 1:22:43.840 an external mic, and I can't confirm right here, like 1:22:43.880 --> 1:22:47.200 over the air, let's see, Yeah, I can't confirm like 1:22:47.320 --> 1:22:50.320 if that spec is available. So that could be the 1:22:50.320 --> 1:22:53.360 first problem. Do you know that this phone is compatible 1:22:53.360 --> 1:22:54.280 with an external mic? 1:22:55.680 --> 1:22:56.840 I had no idea. 1:22:56.960 --> 1:23:00.280 Okay, So typically on a Samsung phone, when you plug 1:23:00.360 --> 1:23:03.840 in an external mic, it will recognize it and say 1:23:04.040 --> 1:23:08.679 right on the screen on your camera viewfinder, external mic connected. 1:23:09.360 --> 1:23:12.040 So if it is not giving you that message as 1:23:12.120 --> 1:23:14.960 soon as you connect that external mic, this phone may 1:23:14.960 --> 1:23:18.320 not be compatible. So over the years, since I do 1:23:18.360 --> 1:23:21.240 a lot of content creation for my TV job, I 1:23:21.360 --> 1:23:23.880 you know, and I test a lot of smartphones over 1:23:23.920 --> 1:23:26.479 the years, I found it's very hit or miss whether 1:23:26.520 --> 1:23:30.879 these phones support the external mic. I know, the Pixel does, obviously, 1:23:30.920 --> 1:23:34.680 the iPhone does, the Samsung, the high end models do. 1:23:35.160 --> 1:23:37.880 The OnePlus can still be hit or miss, but nowadays 1:23:37.960 --> 1:23:41.439 usually it typically does. But this is an A fifteen model, 1:23:41.479 --> 1:23:43.160 which you know, if you're looking at a phone that's 1:23:43.200 --> 1:23:46.160 a more of a budget minded device, they may not 1:23:46.320 --> 1:23:47.679 build in all of those things. 1:23:47.720 --> 1:23:50.960 So what I would do is go online, find the 1:23:51.040 --> 1:23:51.640 specs for this. 1:23:51.800 --> 1:23:53.960 Make sure you can find maybe a YouTube video or 1:23:53.960 --> 1:23:57.840 someone that actually says, hey, this does support an external microphone. 1:23:58.160 --> 1:23:59.600 That's number one. That's going to save you a lot 1:23:59.640 --> 1:24:00.000 of headache. 1:24:00.520 --> 1:24:02.880 The second thing to do, George, is to make sure 1:24:02.880 --> 1:24:06.000 that this is compatible with or this microphone that you have. 1:24:06.080 --> 1:24:08.280 This setup is going to work. So a lot of 1:24:08.280 --> 1:24:11.080 these microphones that you find on Amazon sometimes are very 1:24:11.120 --> 1:24:14.400 hit or miss I use the Dji, which is the 1:24:14.640 --> 1:24:18.000 kind of the gold standard for wireless microphones. It's expensive, 1:24:18.360 --> 1:24:20.920 but it works. It does exactly what you need, and 1:24:20.960 --> 1:24:23.400 it's really good. There are other brands out there that 1:24:23.400 --> 1:24:26.599 are cheaper that will also do it, but just make 1:24:26.640 --> 1:24:28.360 sure they have a lot of reviews and people saying 1:24:28.360 --> 1:24:30.599 that they actually work. If you want to get one 1:24:30.640 --> 1:24:34.120 of those cheaper brands on Amazon, Like if you search Dji, 1:24:34.160 --> 1:24:37.880 Mike or Road Wireless Mic for iPhone and those come up, 1:24:38.040 --> 1:24:40.120 just make sure that a lot of people have verified yes, 1:24:40.200 --> 1:24:42.280 they do actually work. But the other one is the 1:24:42.360 --> 1:24:45.080 Road Mics. People like those. But there's a whole bunch 1:24:45.080 --> 1:24:47.519 of these microphones on Amazon that you can get. 1:24:47.680 --> 1:24:50.519 Some of them are as small as a button, you know. 1:24:50.560 --> 1:24:54.000 They're just they've changed the game when it comes to 1:24:54.080 --> 1:24:56.559 creating content on the go, because it used to be 1:24:56.680 --> 1:25:00.240 had to have either something wired or not something very good. 1:25:00.240 --> 1:25:02.320 And now the fact that you can use these wireless 1:25:02.320 --> 1:25:05.880 mics is just so great. But it's all dependent on 1:25:05.920 --> 1:25:08.360 whether your phone actually supports it. The other thing you 1:25:08.360 --> 1:25:10.760 could do if your phone doesn't support it, you don't 1:25:10.800 --> 1:25:12.240 want to invest in a new mic. You don't want 1:25:12.240 --> 1:25:14.880 to invest in a new phone. A lot of these 1:25:14.920 --> 1:25:17.960 microphones will record into themselves, so they will actually have 1:25:18.479 --> 1:25:21.080 built in memory on the microphone. 1:25:21.120 --> 1:25:22.120 You can press record. 1:25:22.520 --> 1:25:25.640 You can record the audio separate from the video and 1:25:25.680 --> 1:25:28.760 then use an app like Final Cut to sync those up. 1:25:29.200 --> 1:25:30.200 So that's what we'll do. 1:25:30.360 --> 1:25:32.320 If we have a problem with the audio or it's 1:25:32.360 --> 1:25:35.000 not embedded on the video, we'll just sync it up later. 1:25:35.040 --> 1:25:37.320 So that's another option where you can just record the 1:25:37.360 --> 1:25:40.479 audio separate from the video, bring it into an editing 1:25:40.560 --> 1:25:44.200 program like Final Cut or Premiere, and then synchronize the 1:25:44.280 --> 1:25:45.240 audio to the video. 1:25:46.080 --> 1:25:47.559 I mean, that's what they used to do in Hollywood 1:25:47.560 --> 1:25:48.280 with that clapboard. 1:25:48.320 --> 1:25:51.559 You know, they always recorded audio separate, so they use 1:25:51.600 --> 1:25:52.920 that clapboard to sync it up. 1:25:53.320 --> 1:25:54.880 All right, good question, George. 1:25:54.880 --> 1:25:57.200 Something to look out for on your smartphones if you 1:25:57.280 --> 1:26:01.080 are going to be creating content because those wireless mics, 1:26:01.320 --> 1:26:03.519 I call it the best invention of the last decade 1:26:03.560 --> 1:26:05.240 for me, they're just so handy. 1:26:05.920 --> 1:26:08.160 Coming up, we are going to talk to Tim O'Hearn. 1:26:08.280 --> 1:26:11.240 He is a author of Framed. He's got a new 1:26:11.280 --> 1:26:13.320 take on how social platforms really work. 1:26:13.479 --> 1:26:14.200 That's up next. 1:26:25.400 --> 1:26:29.280 Joining me now is Tim O'Hearn, a software engineer and 1:26:29.400 --> 1:26:35.120 author of Framed, A Villain's Perspective on Social Media. Thanks 1:26:35.160 --> 1:26:35.720 for joining me. 1:26:35.680 --> 1:26:38.720 Tim, Thanks Rich thanks for having me on. 1:26:39.000 --> 1:26:42.240 So what's your background and what made you write this book. 1:26:44.479 --> 1:26:47.160 I'm a software engineer and I spent most of my twenties, 1:26:47.240 --> 1:26:50.719 so the last ten years I spent working in quantitative trading. 1:26:51.840 --> 1:26:53.960 During my first year, second year on the job, I 1:26:54.000 --> 1:26:56.439 was approached by some people involved in the New York 1:26:56.479 --> 1:26:59.519 City nightlife industry who told me that they had a 1:26:59.560 --> 1:27:02.160 business that they were using to make money by getting 1:27:02.200 --> 1:27:05.439 people more followers on Instagram. They needed someone to help 1:27:05.439 --> 1:27:07.760 build up the business and help scale it up, and 1:27:07.800 --> 1:27:10.240 that's when my involvement began in twenty seventeen. 1:27:10.640 --> 1:27:15.040 And so you got involved with basically selling what bots 1:27:15.040 --> 1:27:17.600 and things like trying to get like people on Instagram 1:27:17.600 --> 1:27:19.639 and social media. They want a lot of followers because 1:27:19.640 --> 1:27:21.559 it looks like they have a lot of influence, so 1:27:21.880 --> 1:27:23.360 a lot of times you will buy those. 1:27:24.800 --> 1:27:27.599 Yeah. So really our service was in the second wave. 1:27:28.200 --> 1:27:31.720 I call this the organic growth phase, so it was 1:27:31.800 --> 1:27:35.880 one step removed from people just paying twenty dollars for 1:27:35.960 --> 1:27:39.800 five thousand followers. The bots I created would actually log 1:27:39.920 --> 1:27:42.840 into a customer's account and then act as if they 1:27:42.840 --> 1:27:45.880 were the customer. So this allowed things to grow more 1:27:46.000 --> 1:27:48.320 organically and for it to seem less like a bot 1:27:49.000 --> 1:27:51.200 and more like a human actually taking the actions. 1:27:51.439 --> 1:27:54.360 Ah, So they would sort of like maybe like things, 1:27:54.479 --> 1:27:56.920 comment on things, reply to stuff. 1:27:58.439 --> 1:28:03.840 Exactly, and what did you learn in this experience and 1:28:03.880 --> 1:28:05.240 why are you telling the story now? 1:28:07.920 --> 1:28:10.800 During this time, there was a lot of i would say, 1:28:11.040 --> 1:28:14.160 unspoken facts and unspoken truths about the dark side of 1:28:14.160 --> 1:28:16.880 social media. So some things that have come to light 1:28:17.040 --> 1:28:21.920 is regarding how social networks actually enforce their policies and 1:28:21.960 --> 1:28:25.360 what it means to commit terms of service violation on 1:28:25.479 --> 1:28:26.880 a social media site. 1:28:27.200 --> 1:28:28.479 So in the early days, which I. 1:28:28.479 --> 1:28:32.360 Would say twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, we found that we 1:28:32.360 --> 1:28:35.760 were learning so much about the underside, about all the 1:28:35.880 --> 1:28:39.840 rule breakers and this spectrum of enforcement, realizing that of 1:28:39.880 --> 1:28:43.920 course these social media platforms don't want people spamming and 1:28:44.000 --> 1:28:47.880 don't want people being disrupted, but we actually found that 1:28:47.960 --> 1:28:50.559 we were less of a priority compared to the people 1:28:50.680 --> 1:28:53.880 actually doing really bad, really illegal stuff. 1:28:54.120 --> 1:28:55.320 So for a while we had this. 1:28:55.320 --> 1:28:58.400 Reprieve where we just weren't the biggest priority, and during 1:28:58.439 --> 1:28:59.560 that time we proliferated. 1:29:00.000 --> 1:29:02.640 Why because these social media platforms want to grow. 1:29:04.200 --> 1:29:07.120 Definitely, they want to grow, and they're just worried about 1:29:07.800 --> 1:29:11.599 ultimately reactive you know, reactive moves here. They're worried about 1:29:12.640 --> 1:29:14.960 having to speak in front of Congress. You know, they're 1:29:15.000 --> 1:29:18.400 worried about these bombshell articles coming from the New York Times. 1:29:18.880 --> 1:29:23.320 And until twenty late twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, nobody 1:29:23.400 --> 1:29:26.400 was talking about followers in that same way, you know, 1:29:26.439 --> 1:29:29.639 they were talking about other types of illicted activities going 1:29:29.640 --> 1:29:30.559 on on social media. 1:29:31.040 --> 1:29:33.120 So what do you think the average consumer needs to 1:29:33.160 --> 1:29:35.919 know about all this stuff at this point? 1:29:37.000 --> 1:29:39.840 At this point, I think what the book communicates is 1:29:39.840 --> 1:29:44.280 that there's a very awkward relationship between users platforms and 1:29:44.320 --> 1:29:48.280 then platform stakeholders. People don't realize that, you know, using 1:29:48.320 --> 1:29:51.800 a platform for free, you are the product. So you 1:29:51.920 --> 1:29:54.040 are the person who is you know, helping out this 1:29:54.120 --> 1:29:57.040 advertising vehicle, or you are the person who investors are 1:29:57.040 --> 1:30:01.040 looking to en mass to actually increase the value of 1:30:01.400 --> 1:30:02.160 a platform. 1:30:02.400 --> 1:30:06.400 So there are all these awkward, like weird. 1:30:06.080 --> 1:30:10.000 Symbiotic relationships between each one of these groups that aren't 1:30:10.000 --> 1:30:12.640 obvious to someone who's being beckoned to sign up for 1:30:12.640 --> 1:30:14.320 a social media service to begin. 1:30:14.160 --> 1:30:16.840 With, So, what a consumers do I mean? 1:30:16.840 --> 1:30:18.960 What I mean, does it change the way that we 1:30:19.080 --> 1:30:21.559 use these services or should we be on guard when 1:30:21.600 --> 1:30:22.160 we use them? 1:30:22.240 --> 1:30:27.320 Or what? As more things have developed on social media, 1:30:27.400 --> 1:30:30.160 I think that there are concerns not just in our 1:30:30.240 --> 1:30:33.679 own usage habits, but the effects that the platforms are 1:30:33.720 --> 1:30:37.240 having on our emotional state and how we receive and 1:30:37.360 --> 1:30:41.160 process information. When I started using my Space in two 1:30:41.160 --> 1:30:43.880 thousand and six or two thousand and seven, as as 1:30:44.000 --> 1:30:47.160 ridiculous as the experience was, it was actually quite pure. 1:30:47.720 --> 1:30:50.440 And pure is probably. 1:30:49.680 --> 1:30:52.960 The last word we would use to describe Reddit or 1:30:53.000 --> 1:30:55.840 Facebook or x or any of these platforms today. So 1:30:56.000 --> 1:30:58.400 one of the solutions might simply be to spend less 1:30:58.400 --> 1:31:01.080 time on it and be more aware of the consequences 1:31:01.120 --> 1:31:02.519 of heavy usage. 1:31:02.640 --> 1:31:05.599 Why do you think these algorithms are engineered to addict us? 1:31:07.680 --> 1:31:08.040 I do. 1:31:08.240 --> 1:31:11.080 And one interesting thing for me was after I worked 1:31:11.120 --> 1:31:15.040 at Shark Social, which was the Instagram growth company, I 1:31:15.120 --> 1:31:18.160 later worked at a small social media startup where I 1:31:18.200 --> 1:31:22.479 built these persuasive technology systems. So I built systems that 1:31:22.840 --> 1:31:25.760 tried to get users to click on certain push notifications, 1:31:25.880 --> 1:31:28.280 or tried to get users to spend more time looking 1:31:28.320 --> 1:31:31.360 at the news speed of this app My entire job 1:31:31.439 --> 1:31:35.600 as the Special Projects lead was essentially to enforce and 1:31:35.720 --> 1:31:39.640 encourage addictive behaviors. So you think at scale, there are 1:31:39.800 --> 1:31:43.320 entire teams within big Tech who are just trying to 1:31:43.400 --> 1:31:45.720 ratchet up those metrics a little bit more, and that 1:31:45.800 --> 1:31:48.560 means getting people to spend more time online. 1:31:48.640 --> 1:31:51.240 I mean, look, we already know when you open up Instagram, 1:31:51.320 --> 1:31:54.640 it's the equivalent of a slot machine, even down to 1:31:54.720 --> 1:31:57.559 the way the little notifications appear in the upper right 1:31:57.560 --> 1:32:01.640 hand corner with the numbers says the likes, the comments, 1:32:01.720 --> 1:32:06.240 the hearts. It appears exactly like a Las Vegas slot machine. 1:32:06.600 --> 1:32:09.479 So what do we need to know for parents and kids? 1:32:09.520 --> 1:32:12.639 Because you know, I'm an adult, I sort of understand 1:32:12.680 --> 1:32:13.080 this stuff. 1:32:13.120 --> 1:32:14.000 I get what I'm up. 1:32:13.880 --> 1:32:16.600 Against, right, Like Instagram's goal is to get me to 1:32:16.760 --> 1:32:19.759 never close Instagram in my entire life. Like that's their goal, 1:32:20.920 --> 1:32:24.400 and you can do that. The swipe, the reels, the stuff, 1:32:24.439 --> 1:32:27.439 it's it's never ending. But kids, you know, they're not 1:32:27.520 --> 1:32:30.479 as evolved because they're still they're still growing. 1:32:30.840 --> 1:32:32.360 So what do you think parents need to know about 1:32:32.360 --> 1:32:32.559 all this. 1:32:34.880 --> 1:32:37.680 I support the general guidelines which are coming out from 1:32:37.720 --> 1:32:41.200 countries such as Australia, which is that a child under 1:32:41.320 --> 1:32:43.960 thirteen years of age has no place on social media 1:32:44.360 --> 1:32:48.559 or any type of scrolling type of content feed because 1:32:49.280 --> 1:32:52.400 the belief is that it is harmful for the developing mind, 1:32:53.120 --> 1:32:55.160 and it may be harmful in ways that we don't 1:32:55.160 --> 1:32:58.080 fully understand yet. So one example I give in my 1:32:58.120 --> 1:33:01.560 book is, hey, you wouldn't get a baby a cigarette, 1:33:02.479 --> 1:33:06.880 like that's a comedy skit, But we do give babies iPads, 1:33:07.080 --> 1:33:08.800 and I see it all over New York City here 1:33:08.840 --> 1:33:11.719 where tons of kids are mindlessly looking at these things 1:33:11.760 --> 1:33:14.840 because it keeps the kid entertained. But what you don't 1:33:14.840 --> 1:33:17.720 realize is that when they're looking at apps that are 1:33:17.720 --> 1:33:20.439 designed like slot machines and stuff, when it comes time 1:33:20.479 --> 1:33:24.360 to function in society or learn in the classroom sometimes, 1:33:24.640 --> 1:33:27.599 you know, schoolroom learning is not as exciting or enthralling 1:33:27.840 --> 1:33:30.680 as these experiences, so it can have some some absolutely 1:33:30.760 --> 1:33:31.840 terrible consequences. 1:33:32.200 --> 1:33:35.160 Yeah, it's much much more boring compared to TikTok, which 1:33:35.200 --> 1:33:37.360 is like even the format. I mean, I come from 1:33:37.360 --> 1:33:41.120 a classic news background where you know, we do news segments, 1:33:41.160 --> 1:33:43.519 and I get it. The news is not perfect, but 1:33:43.680 --> 1:33:46.040 you know my segments are and so I you know, 1:33:46.080 --> 1:33:49.800 I do things that are it's informational. You know, Yeah, 1:33:49.880 --> 1:33:51.760 it could be fast paced, but I mean if you 1:33:51.760 --> 1:33:54.000 look at something like TikTok, it's like there's a cut 1:33:54.040 --> 1:33:57.639 every second because people's you know, they're going to look away. 1:33:57.960 --> 1:33:59.880 And I've talked to TikTokers that say that they have 1:33:59.920 --> 1:34:02.800 to follow that format or else people scroll away if 1:34:02.840 --> 1:34:06.400 it's not changing fast enough. So some of this stuff 1:34:06.439 --> 1:34:08.519 seems to be changing the fabric of sort of our 1:34:08.560 --> 1:34:11.800 brains in the way that we perceive information as well. 1:34:13.720 --> 1:34:17.920 Sure, short form video is very addictive, and I think 1:34:17.960 --> 1:34:20.439 it is harmful in the way that it kind of 1:34:20.520 --> 1:34:24.840 melds and changes our expectations for what is entertaining and 1:34:24.880 --> 1:34:28.719 how things like plot lines develop. Like how many people 1:34:28.760 --> 1:34:32.120 can really sit through a movie now without thinking about, Okay, 1:34:32.160 --> 1:34:34.200 I need to go check my phone right, Like the 1:34:34.360 --> 1:34:37.679 attention span. The effect on the attention span is crazy. 1:34:37.760 --> 1:34:40.280 And this is something we saw in the early twenty 1:34:40.320 --> 1:34:43.200 tens where like it started to come out on YouTube 1:34:43.320 --> 1:34:45.760 where you had quick cuts, quick cuts quick cuts the 1:34:45.800 --> 1:34:48.320 first time I really saw it. I thought this is ridiculous, 1:34:48.560 --> 1:34:51.960 But now, as you said, it's standard almost everywhere. 1:34:51.760 --> 1:34:52.760 It really is. All right. 1:34:52.800 --> 1:34:57.080 The book is Framed a Villain's Perspective on Social Media. 1:34:57.520 --> 1:35:01.760 The author is Tim O'Hearn. It's availed now on Amazon. 1:35:01.920 --> 1:35:03.479 Did you have fun writing a book? Because I wrote 1:35:03.479 --> 1:35:05.120 a book a couple of years ago. It was one 1:35:05.160 --> 1:35:07.040 of the best things I've ever done. 1:35:07.160 --> 1:35:09.040 It was a very fulfilling experience for me. 1:35:09.200 --> 1:35:12.559 And seeing the reaction to it, both from people in 1:35:12.600 --> 1:35:16.360 the press, from users, from experienced engineers, and especially from 1:35:16.400 --> 1:35:19.439 academics and researchers, it's been very meaningful for me. 1:35:19.800 --> 1:35:21.880 All right, Well, thanks for joining me today on the show. 1:35:21.920 --> 1:35:26.080 Tim O'Hearn once again. The book Framed a Villain's Perspective 1:35:26.120 --> 1:35:29.040 on Social Media available on Amazon. I'll put a link 1:35:29.080 --> 1:35:32.640 on the website. Rich on tech dot TV. All right, 1:35:32.680 --> 1:35:35.120 coming up, we got a couple of items of notes. 1:35:35.240 --> 1:35:38.719 I've got a new way to chat with AI using 1:35:39.000 --> 1:35:41.599 text messaging. If you have a Pixel seven you got 1:35:41.600 --> 1:35:43.600 a problem with your battery, I will explain what you 1:35:43.640 --> 1:35:46.599 can do with that. And Netflix has a new option 1:35:46.720 --> 1:35:51.200 for subtitles. Plus the feedback we are going to open 1:35:51.280 --> 1:35:51.879 up the feedback. 1:35:52.000 --> 1:35:53.280 Coming up next on rich. 1:35:53.200 --> 1:36:07.200 On Tech, Apple Watch celebrates ten years. I know I've 1:36:07.240 --> 1:36:10.840 worn worn one on my wrist almost that entire time, 1:36:11.760 --> 1:36:14.200 and I think it's game changing. I tell people a 1:36:14.240 --> 1:36:16.400 lot of times that I like the Apple Watch better 1:36:16.439 --> 1:36:20.080 than the iPhone just because it's always there. It's simple, 1:36:20.200 --> 1:36:22.880 it does what I need, tracks my workouts. 1:36:22.960 --> 1:36:23.080 You know. 1:36:23.160 --> 1:36:27.960 Of course you've got the rings, all these things. April 1:36:27.960 --> 1:36:30.960 twenty fourth, twenty fifteen, that's when the first Apple watches 1:36:31.960 --> 1:36:32.479 came out. 1:36:32.880 --> 1:36:34.680 I was there at the launch day. They sold them 1:36:34.680 --> 1:36:35.799 at high end stores. 1:36:36.280 --> 1:36:38.920 In addition, well I don't trying to remember why was 1:36:38.920 --> 1:36:40.559 at like such a high end store for it. It 1:36:40.600 --> 1:36:44.320 was like a little boutique. Now, of course, the Apple 1:36:44.360 --> 1:36:47.640 Watch very popular now. The original Apple Watch was more 1:36:47.680 --> 1:36:50.320 about like fashion. It did not start out as this 1:36:50.439 --> 1:36:53.720 like really health and fitness focused device. But now, of 1:36:53.720 --> 1:36:56.639 course it's health, it's fitness. It tracks you know, all 1:36:56.760 --> 1:37:02.639 kinds of stuff except blood oxygen because they took that away. Yeah, 1:37:02.800 --> 1:37:05.120 one of the features I thought was interesting back. 1:37:04.920 --> 1:37:05.240 In the day. 1:37:05.280 --> 1:37:07.920 I wrote about this in my newsletter today Digital touch. 1:37:08.000 --> 1:37:09.600 Did you know, I thought they took it away, but 1:37:09.640 --> 1:37:12.559 you can still do it. If you go to a 1:37:12.680 --> 1:37:16.559 text message, press the plus sign next to the message 1:37:16.560 --> 1:37:20.320 field and select digital touch and then you tap two 1:37:20.400 --> 1:37:24.080 fingers on your screen, it'll send your heartbeat to the 1:37:24.120 --> 1:37:27.920 other person. Yeah, it's called digital touch. It's really weird. 1:37:27.920 --> 1:37:29.320 I thought that they got rid of that, and last 1:37:29.400 --> 1:37:30.840 night when I was doing some testing, I was like. 1:37:30.840 --> 1:37:31.760 Wait, that's still there. 1:37:32.120 --> 1:37:36.559 What news service called text ai lets you text ai? 1:37:37.600 --> 1:37:41.000 Text dot Ai is the website, but basically you just 1:37:41.040 --> 1:37:43.599 go to the phone number and you text it and 1:37:43.640 --> 1:37:46.720 it works with your traditional SMS. So just text it 1:37:47.040 --> 1:37:49.640 and ask a question. It will text you back. No 1:37:49.760 --> 1:37:54.719 download required. It can help with plans, recommendations, answers, anything else. 1:37:54.720 --> 1:37:59.360 Built by former Tesla and Walmart Labs employees. Again, the 1:37:59.360 --> 1:38:02.120 website tech do Ai. It's free to use. They do 1:38:02.160 --> 1:38:03.920 not sell your phone number as far as they say. 1:38:04.360 --> 1:38:08.120 Text dot Ai. If you have a Google Pixel seven A, 1:38:08.720 --> 1:38:11.120 you got some problems to do battery maybe it's swelling 1:38:11.200 --> 1:38:15.519 or popping. You can get a free battery replacement. So 1:38:15.880 --> 1:38:20.160 you got that bulging back cover your phone looks thick, man? 1:38:20.200 --> 1:38:24.080 What am I talking about here? Rapid battery drain? You 1:38:24.120 --> 1:38:27.439 got to check eligibility online. But yes, this is the 1:38:27.520 --> 1:38:31.720 Pixel seven A. If you have some battery swelling, check out. 1:38:31.720 --> 1:38:34.759 It's called the Pixel seven A Extended Repair Program. 1:38:34.840 --> 1:38:36.280 I'll put the link on the website. 1:38:37.120 --> 1:38:40.200 AT and T is adding cruise ship coverage to its 1:38:40.200 --> 1:38:44.160 International Day Pass, So the International Day Pass now works 1:38:44.200 --> 1:38:46.839 on cruise ships twenty dollars per day. So it's pricey, 1:38:47.560 --> 1:38:49.880 but you know, if you're on a cruise, you know 1:38:49.960 --> 1:38:52.680 it's like one free drink. I guess twenty bucks you 1:38:52.720 --> 1:38:56.439 saved paid paid for this five hundred megabytes of data 1:38:56.439 --> 1:38:59.559 plus unlimited talk and text, and it works on land 1:38:59.680 --> 1:39:03.720 and see surf and turf, so no extra charge when 1:39:03.720 --> 1:39:06.519 you step off. The ship covers more than four hundred 1:39:06.560 --> 1:39:08.880 cruise ships. Obviously they have to be in this AT 1:39:08.960 --> 1:39:12.639 and T coverage zone to work, and there's no data overages. 1:39:12.720 --> 1:39:14.720 So if you hit that five hundred megabytes, which by 1:39:14.720 --> 1:39:17.320 the way is not very tough to hit, your speeds 1:39:17.320 --> 1:39:19.719 will slow down, but you will stay connected. 1:39:19.840 --> 1:39:20.920 But most of the time. 1:39:20.800 --> 1:39:23.040 When you hit those data speed bumps, you're just gonna 1:39:23.040 --> 1:39:27.040 be able to like check your email, let's see what else. Yeah, 1:39:27.280 --> 1:39:32.000 so AT and T International Day Pass it's called Man, 1:39:32.040 --> 1:39:34.400 we're just going through a lot of notes here Max, 1:39:35.200 --> 1:39:38.639 the free ride is over seven dollars and ninety nine cents. 1:39:38.680 --> 1:39:41.799 If you have someone clinging onto your account, the extra 1:39:41.920 --> 1:39:45.200 member add on is now available. So if you have 1:39:45.280 --> 1:39:49.160 someone that's using your MAX log in. Yeah, remember this 1:39:49.200 --> 1:39:51.919 is to be called HBO Max and Max and they change. 1:39:51.680 --> 1:39:52.599 The color of the logo. 1:39:53.080 --> 1:39:54.680 They're all over the place, But you know what I'm 1:39:54.680 --> 1:39:56.880 talking about. It it's the service that lets you watch 1:39:57.040 --> 1:40:01.519 HBO shows and other stuff. So the primary account holder 1:40:01.520 --> 1:40:04.160 can now invite one friend or family member outside their 1:40:04.160 --> 1:40:06.360 household for eight bucks a month. If you want to 1:40:06.400 --> 1:40:09.120 pay for them. Extra members get their own log in. 1:40:09.640 --> 1:40:11.600 They can stream on one device at a time and 1:40:11.640 --> 1:40:15.840 access everything. Or if you don't want to pay for them, 1:40:16.240 --> 1:40:21.120 they can transfer their profile to move all of their history, recommendations, 1:40:21.160 --> 1:40:24.360 and settings. This is only available if you subscribe to 1:40:24.439 --> 1:40:27.799 MAX directly, not if you're a bundle user. But basically, 1:40:27.880 --> 1:40:30.400 the bottom line is the free ride is over. If 1:40:30.400 --> 1:40:33.360 you got people sharing your password, they're going to get 1:40:33.360 --> 1:40:34.960 that screen that says, hey, you should sign up for 1:40:35.000 --> 1:40:37.000 your own account. As far as I can tell, you 1:40:37.000 --> 1:40:39.679 don't have to just yet, but they're going to continue 1:40:39.720 --> 1:40:43.800 to ratchet this up until they get all the memberships 1:40:43.800 --> 1:40:48.280 they want out of the freeloaders. And Netflix they have 1:40:48.320 --> 1:40:51.200 a new subtitle option. I don't know about you, but 1:40:51.280 --> 1:40:53.960 in my house, we watch a lot of shows with 1:40:54.000 --> 1:40:56.640 the subtitles on, even though we don't need to. But 1:40:56.720 --> 1:40:58.920 with all the commotion in the background, the kids playing, 1:40:58.920 --> 1:41:01.080 you know, they got their iPad, all those things going on, 1:41:01.520 --> 1:41:05.040 talking to their friends, this is just an easy way to, 1:41:05.160 --> 1:41:07.120 you know, instead of saying what they just say, you 1:41:07.200 --> 1:41:10.800 just got the subtitles on. But Netflix knows this, so 1:41:10.840 --> 1:41:14.400 now they've introduced a new type of subtitle that just 1:41:14.520 --> 1:41:19.600 includes the words themselves and not the audio cues. So 1:41:19.640 --> 1:41:22.920 your typical you know, subtitles have things like music swells 1:41:23.000 --> 1:41:26.200 or phone buzzes. They don't have that anymore. Now it's 1:41:26.320 --> 1:41:29.160 just the words that people are saying. So you can 1:41:29.160 --> 1:41:32.160 see two choices, now English for dialogue only, and then 1:41:32.240 --> 1:41:35.519 English CC if you want the full close captions. And 1:41:35.640 --> 1:41:39.040 this will be on every This will be on more 1:41:39.040 --> 1:41:42.160 shows moving forward, but right now, it's starting with the 1:41:42.280 --> 1:41:45.320 season five of the show You, which I've not watched, 1:41:45.720 --> 1:41:49.639 but I guess that's a popular show. Netflix says half 1:41:50.040 --> 1:41:53.000 of viewing hours in the US already happened with subtitles 1:41:53.040 --> 1:41:56.200 on and don't forget you can customize the subtitles by 1:41:56.240 --> 1:41:56.960 size and font. 1:41:57.040 --> 1:41:57.920 Some people forget that. 1:42:00.000 --> 1:42:02.439 Fed back now, Michelle writes in after hearing us talk 1:42:02.479 --> 1:42:07.240 about the recent settlement payout for Facebook and Zell, I 1:42:07.320 --> 1:42:09.800 thought the email I got with spam. It said I 1:42:09.880 --> 1:42:11.920 had a forty dollars payment pending, and it gave me 1:42:11.960 --> 1:42:14.240 a deadline to click a link. I looked up the 1:42:14.280 --> 1:42:17.920 case and even called both the settlement administrator and Zel. 1:42:18.320 --> 1:42:20.840 Turns out it was legit. I'd signed up for it 1:42:20.920 --> 1:42:25.040 years ago and totally forgot. After some hesitation, I followed through. 1:42:25.080 --> 1:42:28.840 I'm now forty dollars and sixty seven cents richer. So 1:42:28.920 --> 1:42:32.200 if you see that Facebook settlement through Zell, yeah, I 1:42:32.240 --> 1:42:34.479 guess you can claim it. Just be careful because, like 1:42:34.520 --> 1:42:37.000 we know, the scam artists will play prey upon something 1:42:37.040 --> 1:42:40.320 that's real and turn it into something that's fake. Gail 1:42:40.360 --> 1:42:43.080 from Oakland says, is there an easy way to turn 1:42:43.160 --> 1:42:46.719 a handwritten page of my well formed cursive into text 1:42:47.320 --> 1:42:48.559 using my iPad pro? 1:42:49.280 --> 1:42:49.519 Yes? 1:42:50.000 --> 1:42:50.679 Chat GBT. 1:42:51.280 --> 1:42:54.120 Take a picture of whatever you're writing and upload it 1:42:54.120 --> 1:42:54.839 to chat GBT. 1:42:55.120 --> 1:42:57.679 It will read it and convert it into text. 1:42:58.200 --> 1:43:00.840 It's fast and it's accurate, and if you're saying you 1:43:00.880 --> 1:43:03.160 have good cursive, it'll be easy to do that. 1:43:04.560 --> 1:43:05.160 Good question. 1:43:06.120 --> 1:43:08.920 Christopher from Justice Illinois writes in, is there a way 1:43:08.920 --> 1:43:11.040 to see what devices are connected to my WiFi? 1:43:11.200 --> 1:43:11.400 Yes? 1:43:11.920 --> 1:43:16.120 There's an app called fing fing iOS and Android give 1:43:16.120 --> 1:43:18.599 you a list of all the connected devices. Good if 1:43:18.600 --> 1:43:22.760 you think someone's freeloading on your network fing dot com 1:43:22.800 --> 1:43:26.559 slash app. Liz writes in, We're all big fans of 1:43:26.600 --> 1:43:29.000 you here at work. You make the tech talks interesting 1:43:29.080 --> 1:43:31.800 and we all learn so much. Thank you, Liz, I 1:43:31.840 --> 1:43:34.720 appreciate the kind words. Really do that's going to do 1:43:34.760 --> 1:43:36.840 it for this episode of the show. You can find 1:43:36.840 --> 1:43:38.880 links to everything I mentioned on my website. Just go 1:43:38.960 --> 1:43:41.720 to rich on tech dot tv. If you want to 1:43:41.720 --> 1:43:44.880 get in on the feedbag, click contact and send me 1:43:44.920 --> 1:43:45.439 a message. 1:43:45.760 --> 1:43:47.680 You can find me on social media. 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