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Speaker 1: favorite apps back from the dead, and Anchor recalls one

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Speaker 1: tv and hit contact. We've got a couple of good

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Speaker 1: guests this week. Stephanie Whitesman joins me to talk about

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Speaker 1: Speech a Fly. If you're not familiar, this is the

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Speaker 1: popular text to speech app that helps people listen to.

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Speaker 2: The information they want to learn or absorb.

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Speaker 1: I showed my wife that app last night and she

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Speaker 1: was like, Oh, that's really cool. John Mills and Dave Merritt.

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Speaker 1: You'll probably remember the name of this app, Watch Dudy.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna explain how their app became a must have

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Speaker 1: download during the LA wildfires back in January. Well, this

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Speaker 1: week I drove up to Cooper Tino for Apple's Worldwide

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Speaker 1: Developers Conference twenty twenty five. You might be saying, Rich,

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Speaker 1: why do you always drive? Are you afraid to fly?

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Speaker 1: In fact, I love to fly, but I also love

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Speaker 1: driving even more now I get it. It might be

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Speaker 1: something I've never done before. I started reading the physical

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Speaker 1: Like I got halfway through the print and I was like,

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Speaker 1: Isn't that like the dream? Just be there and enjoy things.

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Speaker 1: So I got up to Apple Park, and I've been

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Speaker 1: going to Apple events for years. The Bay Area feels

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Speaker 1: is a very interesting place. I mean it's very new.

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Speaker 1: You know, they just built this giant, spaceship looking campus.

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Speaker 1: It is just like the iPhone, It's polished, it's elegant.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not kidding. They've got the visitor center that

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Speaker 2: And it's a nice big Apple store. And I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 1: There are lines out the door to buy stuff at

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Speaker 1: One sweatshirt in particular, they just launched It's only there

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Speaker 1: There's a line all day to buy that. All day long.

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Speaker 1: part about getting to these Apple events is not only

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Speaker 1: other tech people mingling, but also talking with the Apple

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Speaker 1: with every event I go to, whether it's Samsung, whether

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Speaker 1: so that's really cool. An Apple, of course, runs these

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Speaker 2: So what did Apple do?

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Speaker 1: They previewed all their updates across the iPhone, the iPad,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure this was very thoughtfully scripted, but they basically

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Speaker 1: said the Smarter, the Smarter SII is coming next year

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Speaker 1: but mostly software updates. Apple's new design style is called

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Speaker 1: liquid Glass. Think smooth, rounded, translucent. Yes, kind of inspired

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Speaker 1: Call screening is number one, so unknown callers will have

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Speaker 1: even ring until this person says why they're calling, which

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Speaker 1: Then they've also got whold assist. So when the iPhone

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Speaker 1: It just basically listens to the music and it waits

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Speaker 1: So basically you can just do what you need to

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Speaker 1: you can customize your chats. They've also got polls in

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Speaker 1: Live translation is getting expanded. Now you can live translate

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Speaker 1: Visual Intelligence this is kind of Apple's version of Circle

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Speaker 1: Buddy Custom Motivation. It'll say, hey, you just ran you know,

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Speaker 1: I know, if you're using an Android you're saying, rich,

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Speaker 1: come on, give me a break. We've had these features forever.

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Speaker 1: Apple gives them these features, and for them, it's new.

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Speaker 1: So what do you need to get these new features?

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Speaker 1: I iPhone eleven or newer to get iOS twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: It's been eight years since they had a new switch console.

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Speaker 1: Nintendo very smart and the way they marketed this, and

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Speaker 1: there were some tariff concerns. People want to buy early

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Speaker 1: because they're not sure if the price is going to

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Speaker 1: go up. We haven't seen that happen with this, but

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Speaker 1: we did on the accessories. They did raise some prices there,

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Speaker 1: but not on the switch itself. Nintendo wants to sell

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Speaker 1: fifteen million of these by March twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Seems like they will.

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Speaker 1: The original Switch sold one hundred and fifty million, but

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Speaker 1: that's been out for eight years. The question is can

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Speaker 1: Nintendo keep this momentum going. They need some really good

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Speaker 1: titles to get this thing going, that's for sure. Right now,

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Speaker 1: they've got the Mario Kart World, which is different but

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Speaker 1: it's familiar. And then they've got Donkey Kong Bonanza coming

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Speaker 1: out and that. You know, those are two good games,

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Speaker 1: but they are not console selling games. That's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If you have one of the old consoles, what's the

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Speaker 1: reason to upgrade? You got to be a diehard Nintendo fan.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like they found those three point five million

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Speaker 1: diehards in the first four days. Now they've got to

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Speaker 1: find many more, and of course we've got a bunch

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Speaker 1: of months until the holidays. This thing is not as

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Speaker 1: easy to get as walking into a stor right now,

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Speaker 1: but if you put your mind to.

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Speaker 2: It, you'll be able to get it again. That's a

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Speaker 2: Nintendo switch too.

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Speaker 1: If you want to see my thoughts on that, you

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Speaker 1: can go to my website rich on Tech dot tv

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Speaker 1: look at last week's newsletter. All right, coming up, I've

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Speaker 1: been playing with this downloaded the Developer beta iPad os

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Speaker 1: twenty six.

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Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 1: It turns your iPad into more like a Windows machine.

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Speaker 1: I'll explain coming up right here on rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, to rich on Tech rich Demiro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at triple eight Rich one

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Speaker 1: O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. The website for the show rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech dot TV. I know a lot of you

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Speaker 1: are looking for the show notes on the Anchor recall

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Speaker 1: that is in the show Notes episode one twenty five.

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Speaker 1: You can find the link there to check your serial

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Speaker 1: number see if you can get a replacement for your

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Speaker 1: Anchor PowerCore one thousand, model number twelve sixty three. It's unfortunate,

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Speaker 1: you know, Anchor I think has had a pretty good

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Speaker 1: track record up until now. But you know, these things happen.

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Speaker 1: They're manufacturing these things at scale. We never want to

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Speaker 1: see a recall, especially on such a popular product, but

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Speaker 1: it does happen. Did they say how many they had

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Speaker 1: out there? Let's see, they didn't. Trying to see if

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Speaker 1: they have a number. Sometimes they'll include like a number

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Speaker 1: of how many they've had. Now they didn't say that.

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Speaker 1: So earlier I was talking about the WWDC announcements. One

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Speaker 1: of those, one of the biggest changes I would argue

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Speaker 1: bigger than the iPhone is iPad OS twenty six and

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Speaker 1: Apple made a huge change here to the way that

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Speaker 1: the iPad works. The software is getting a complete overhaul

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Speaker 1: and it is now more like a desktop computer. This

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Speaker 1: is something that people have been wondering when Apple would

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Speaker 1: do for a long time. The problem is it's very

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Speaker 1: confusing for Apple because they've got this iPad and then

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Speaker 1: they've got the Mac laptops. What's the difference at this point.

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Speaker 1: They both can have a keyboard, they both can have

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Speaker 1: a lot of different apps. So one is touchscreen, one

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Speaker 1: is not. Now with this software, you could probably install

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Speaker 1: this software on a MacBook. I mean you can't, but

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying if they wanted to, and it's the

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Speaker 1: same thing. It's it's basically Windows. I mean a windowing

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Speaker 1: It's not Windows like Microsoft, but a windoing system. So

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Speaker 1: each app now can be in its own window. And

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Speaker 1: I was playing with it this morning and yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's not polished just yet, like I think it's

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Speaker 1: a little quirky, but it's there and it's what people wanted.

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Speaker 1: You could just open up a whole bunch of apps,

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Speaker 1: arrange them, resize, put them all over your screen. It's

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Speaker 1: not like the old days of the iPad operating system

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Speaker 1: where you had to snap everything into grids. No, now

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Speaker 1: everything is free floating. Now, don't forget. This does not

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Speaker 1: come out until September, so you can't get this right now.

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Speaker 1: But the developers have access. So I have the developers beta,

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Speaker 1: which means I can play with this. And I also

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Speaker 1: got the hands on up at Apple's campus in Coopertino,

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Speaker 1: so I've gotten to play with this extensively from the

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Speaker 1: experts that showed me how to use it.

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Speaker 2: So you've got your windows where you can put them

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Speaker 2: anywhere you want.

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Speaker 1: You can also tile them if you've got an expose

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Speaker 1: a view, which means you can move your there's like

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Speaker 1: a swipe up or I'll show you all of your

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Speaker 1: windows at once. And this brings that new liquid glass design.

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Speaker 1: So again the liquid glass thing. I think some people

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Speaker 1: are gonna love it. Some people are not gonna like it.

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Speaker 1: It's very polarizing if you ask me, because it's such

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Speaker 1: a departure from what we've had. Oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: you can now have background tasks on the iPad. That's

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Speaker 1: something that's never been done before. Why well, if you

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Speaker 1: want to edit a video and final cut on the iPad,

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Speaker 1: you can export it and do other things while that's

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Speaker 1: exporting in the background. Yeah, this is a whole new

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Speaker 1: way to think about the iPad. What else here folders.

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Speaker 1: The folders now were in the dock, so you can

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Speaker 1: put folders in your dock, which means you can access

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Speaker 1: files much easier.

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Speaker 2: Again just like a Mac computer.

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Speaker 1: The files app is all new, so you've got all

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Speaker 1: kinds of customizations you can have in the files app.

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Speaker 1: You can have it you view the files in different ways,

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Speaker 1: you can list them, sort them whatever you want. You

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Speaker 1: can also make them color like you can make all

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Speaker 1: the files different colors to file folders, and you can

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Speaker 1: add emojis to them as well. So again big departure.

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Speaker 1: And then you've got the new Preview app which is

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Speaker 1: coming to the iPad. So before you could look at

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Speaker 1: PDFs on the iPad, no problem. Now this is like

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Speaker 1: the entire Preview app is on the iPad. So if

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Speaker 1: you want to view a PDF, market up fill in things,

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Speaker 1: Apple pencil is on there, autofill is on there, again,

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Speaker 1: more like a computer. The Journal app is also coming

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Speaker 1: to the iPad. If you use that, they've got three

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Speaker 1: D graphing and the math notes they've got a calligraphy

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Speaker 1: pen in the notes app, which is interesting. I used

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Speaker 1: to love cligraphy pens when I was a kid. I know,

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Speaker 1: I was a Weirdoh I still am.

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Speaker 2: Whatever.

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Speaker 1: Cligraphy is cool, Like I used to have the clicker,

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Speaker 1: like I used to have to get the cligraphy pen

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Speaker 1: and then the ink cartridge. You would snap into it

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Speaker 1: and that thing nine out of ten times would leak

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Speaker 1: all over you and you would just have ink everywhere.

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Speaker 2: But it was super cool.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So the public beta coming next month, that is

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Speaker 1: in July, and the full release will be in this fall.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna support iPads with the A sixteen chip

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Speaker 1: or later or the M one chip or later, So

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Speaker 1: a sixteen chip, M one chip. If you want to

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Speaker 1: see what you've got in your iPad, you can go

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Speaker 1: into the settings about type that into Google and see

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Speaker 1: what you've got inside. Sometimes it says it on the

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Speaker 1: iPad the chip. I think, all right, I've done a

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Speaker 1: lot about Apple. Let's give you a Samsung users something fun.

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Speaker 1: If you have a Samsung Galaxy, you can get a

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Speaker 1: year of Perplexity Pro for free right now, no strings attached.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the top AI assistants. If you're

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Speaker 1: not familiar with Perplexity check it out Perplexity dot ai

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Speaker 1: what perplexity. What's unique about Perplexity is the way that

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Speaker 1: it gives you a full answer to your question. And yes,

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Speaker 1: these are things that Google can do, these are things

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Speaker 1: that chatcybt can do, things that copilot can do, but

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Speaker 1: Perplexity kind of they kind of came out with this first.

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Speaker 1: So if you say something like give me a full

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Speaker 1: biography on actually say, that's not even a good idea.

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Speaker 1: You can just type in something like someone's name, like

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Speaker 1: a famous actor, Adam, give me a famous actor's name.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Tom Cruise.

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Speaker 1: So when you type in Tom Cruise, immediately says Tom Cruise, movies, age,

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Speaker 1: net worth, height, mission impossible. Maybe I just want to

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Speaker 1: Tom Cruise bio boom. Type that in and now it

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Speaker 1: gives me a full response of everything you need to

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Speaker 1: had to look up on Google click a million links

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Speaker 1: and find this stuff. No, now it's got everything, and

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Speaker 1: by the way, it's all recent and in real time,

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Speaker 1: and then at the end it gives you a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of related questions. So it's really really a nice

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Speaker 1: way of learning. And I love their feature which is

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Speaker 1: Current Events, so you can search all their current events

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Speaker 1: are sorry. Discover is their main kind of like almost

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Speaker 1: like their news, so you can go through and look

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Speaker 1: up just all the current events, all the stuff that's happening,

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Speaker 1: and it's all in real time. It's really really well done.

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Speaker 1: So how do you get this for free? What do

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Speaker 1: you get with the pro Well, you get unlimited pro searches,

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Speaker 1: access to all the different models, they have image generation

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Speaker 1: file uploads, AI summaries.

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Speaker 2: All kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's basically just the best that they have to offer

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Speaker 1: for twenty dollars a month, but you're getting it for free.

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Speaker 2: If you have a Galaxy phone, how do you do this?

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Speaker 1: If you have Perplexity on your Samsung phone, go ahead

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Speaker 1: and delete it and then you have to re download

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Speaker 1: it from the Samsung Galaxy Store. Did you even know

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Speaker 1: that Samsung had their own store? Probably not, but now

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Speaker 1: you do. And that's why they're doing deals like this,

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Speaker 1: because they want you to go in that store and

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Speaker 1: see what there is to offer. Download Perplexity from the

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Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy Store, sign up or log in, do not

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Speaker 1: give any credit card, no information about payment, and then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden it will upgrade you magically to

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Speaker 1: Perplexity Pro for a year, and you should get an

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Speaker 1: email that says you've been upgraded and now you have

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Speaker 1: access to all this great stuff. I went ahead once

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Speaker 1: I did this and installed this now in all my phones,

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Speaker 1: and that's what they want you to do. They want

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Speaker 1: you to use Perplexity Pro because there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: competition in the AI world.

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Speaker 2: You've got Perplexity Now.

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Speaker 1: I think that Google's AI mode is excellent, and I

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Speaker 1: would say it's the closest to Perplexity. I would say

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Speaker 1: it's a direct response to Perplexity. That's why they had

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Speaker 1: to make.

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Speaker 2: This in Google. So but again, Perplexity's been doing it longer.

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Speaker 2: They do a great job.

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Speaker 1: I'll put the information on how to claim the free

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Speaker 1: year Perplexity Pro on my website.

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Speaker 2: Rich on Tech dot TV. All right, coming up, I'll

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Speaker 1: App is back with a surprise redesign on the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Stephanie Weitzman to talk about speech a FI. If you

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Speaker 1: haven't tried this app, it is really it's really interesting.

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Speaker 1: It basically takes any article pretty much anything you want

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Speaker 1: to read, uh, but it makes it so you can

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Speaker 1: listen to it. So it's a text to speech app.

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Speaker 1: Works on your phone, works on your computer. And I

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Speaker 1: even did my own voice, Like I recorded my own

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Speaker 1: voice into this app last night. You can create an

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Speaker 1: AI clone so you can listen to yourself talking. Should

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Speaker 1: I see if I can play that? Let's see here,

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Speaker 1: Uh so you it doesn't take very long to do

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Speaker 1: it at all. So let's see this is uh oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: this is Steve Job's speech that he gave many years

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Speaker 1: ago at a commencement. Of course, it's got to process

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Speaker 1: the file, so maybe that's not going to work so

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Speaker 1: well right now, I might have to come back to that.

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Speaker 1: Let's see if I have a something that's already processed.

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Speaker 1: There we go, okay, right now Gwyneth Paltrow is my voice.

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Speaker 1: But here's here's my own voice rich on tech. Let's

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Speaker 1: see if this sounds like me.

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Speaker 2: Tell me if you.

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Speaker 1: In a more theoretical discussion about the simulation.

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Speaker 2: Theory, like I don't know if that sounds like living

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Speaker 2: in a digital facsimile.

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Speaker 1: Of I don't think so. Okay, So here's what I did.

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Speaker 1: I think I re courted it. I was in like

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Speaker 1: a very echoe room, and I did it kind of

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Speaker 1: very in passing. So I'm gonna do it in the

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Speaker 1: studio here. I'll, you know, I'll do it during the break.

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Speaker 1: I'll record it. Only takes like twenty seconds, so I'll

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Speaker 1: pretend that never happened. But we do have Stephanie Weisman

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Speaker 1: to talk about Speech of five, really really interesting app

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Speaker 1: that reads anything to you out loud.

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Speaker 2: And then we've got more.

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Speaker 1: Of your questions, emails, calls, all that good stuff, plus

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Speaker 1: the tech news of the week. This was really interesting.

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Speaker 1: Sam Altman, I don't know if you're reading his blog posts,

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Speaker 1: but the guy has a lot of thoughts. He's the uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, the guy behind open ai chat EBT. He's

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Speaker 1: got a lot of thoughts on things. He says that

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Speaker 1: the gentle singularity is underway. So he says, AI superintelligence

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Speaker 1: is already in motion, and we're already in the early stages.

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Speaker 1: It's very gradual, right. Systems like CHATCHYBT says, are he

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Speaker 1: being used by hundreds of millions already every day, and

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Speaker 1: they're more capable than any individual human in some areas.

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Speaker 1: Think about that, they've already created kind of like the

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Speaker 1: smartest being in the world.

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Speaker 2: And it's not like Google.

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Speaker 1: Right, Google's very smart, has all the answers, but it's

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Speaker 1: not the same as a chat GPT where it synthesizes

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Speaker 1: things from a lot of different places. So here's his

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Speaker 1: timeline of AI growth twenty twenty five, AI agents doing

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Speaker 1: meaningful cognitive work that's sort of happening right now, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. Next year, he believes that AI systems will

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Speaker 1: make original scientific discoveries. They will see things that humans

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Speaker 1: have missed or never we're able to do. They will

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Speaker 1: figure them out, and then in twenty twenty seven robots

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Speaker 1: capable of real world tasks.

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Speaker 2: Think about that.

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Speaker 1: Right now, AI lives in a little chatbot, little chat

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Speaker 1: screen on your computer, on your phone, But imagine when

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Speaker 1: this this smarts, these smarts are built into a humanoid robot,

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Speaker 1: which many companies are working on right now, and you

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Speaker 1: can teach them to do things like right now, if

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Speaker 1: you go into chat GBT and you need to do something,

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Speaker 1: you can teach it how to do that. So that

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Speaker 1: is the main thing that you need to know about that.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you want to teach chat GBT, it will figure

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Speaker 1: it out. You say, here's how I do this, Now

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Speaker 1: do it, and yes, it will do it. But imagine

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Speaker 1: when you can put that into a robot. That's when

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Speaker 1: it's going to get really interesting. So he believes that

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Speaker 1: intelligence and energy will become abundant, removing long standing barriers

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Speaker 1: to progress. And if you're wondering, by the way, about

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Speaker 1: this whole have you heard this thing like, oh, just

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Speaker 1: one question on chat GBT uses a gallon of water

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Speaker 1: or you know, enough electricity to power up a whole city.

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Speaker 1: So he addresses that a single question on chat GBT,

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Speaker 1: a single query uses about point three four wat hours

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Speaker 1: of electricity. Now what does that mean? Nobody knows, but

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Speaker 1: he says it it's about what an oven uses in

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Speaker 1: one second. And then how about the water point zero

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Speaker 1: zero zero zero eight five.

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Speaker 2: Gallons of water?

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Speaker 1: Per query that's around one fifteenth of a teaspoon of water,

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Speaker 1: so probably had to use chat GBT for those conversions.

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Speaker 1: He compares what we're going through is a slow motion singularity,

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Speaker 1: massive changes that feels gradual because we're living through it.

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Speaker 1: Two years ago. If you would have thought about the

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Speaker 1: stuff that chatchbt could do, you wouldn't believe it. Now

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Speaker 1: people are doing it every day, synthesizing things, summarizing things,

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Speaker 1: coming up with business plans, proofreading things, writing essays, writing stories.

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Speaker 1: I was using Google's vo today VO three, which is

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Speaker 1: their AI video generator. Oh, I haven't even talked about

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Speaker 1: this on the show. It is so incredible. It is unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: It creates high quality eight second videos with AI. You

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Speaker 1: type what you want it to do and it makes

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Speaker 1: that and you can do anything. It is unbelievable. By

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Speaker 1: the way, it also has speech and audio, so if

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Speaker 1: you want a bird pecking at a tree in a

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Speaker 1: sci fi world, it can do that. It generates stuff

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Speaker 1: that is just so realistic. I'm my mind is boggled

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: You do have to, I think, to use this you

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Speaker 1: have to have a membership to Google's AI, which I do,

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Speaker 1: but unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: The ultra plan.

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Speaker 1: If you want the real like right now, I only

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Speaker 1: have access to Vo three Fast, which is just their

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Speaker 1: fast generation. That's like twenty dollars a month. If you

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Speaker 1: want VO three, which is their ultra like high quality,

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Speaker 1: you gotta pay for the Google's ultraplan, which is two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars a month. And some people will

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Speaker 1: do that, Like there will be someone who uses this

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Speaker 1: to create an entire music video, an entire movie. But

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Speaker 1: again it's got to be eight second clips. But again,

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Speaker 1: it's got native audio generation as well, which is the

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Speaker 1: new thing. So it's called they call it flow, that's

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Speaker 1: their video generator. I mean all these things like we're

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Speaker 1: gonna need like a class just in the names of

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Speaker 1: all these AI products. But is he what does Altman

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Speaker 1: continue to say? Here's a great examp. I thought he

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Speaker 1: gave the greatest example in this blog post about how

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Speaker 1: AI is being used versus how social media algorithms were

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Speaker 1: being used. He warned about the risks of misaligned AI,

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Speaker 1: and the best example he gave was social media algorithms

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Speaker 1: who do they favor?

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Speaker 2: Not us? They don't benefit us in any way, shape

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Speaker 2: or form.

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Speaker 1: They only benefit the platform, But his argument is that

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Speaker 1: AI actually benefits the people using it if it's used properly.

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Speaker 1: He also believes that wealth creation will outpace job loss,

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Speaker 1: So all these things about you know, people worried about jobs,

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Speaker 1: he will. He says that there will be new opportunities.

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Speaker 1: So again he says, we are living it, this gentle singularity.

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Speaker 1: If you want to, I'll put a link to his

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Speaker 1: blog post on my website. Rich on tech dot TV

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Speaker 1: just I mean, these people are thinking.

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Speaker 2: About so much stuff real quick before we go to break.

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Speaker 1: Mattle in from La Crescenta writes in I recently deleted

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Speaker 1: my account on How's Houzz. I think that's one of

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Speaker 1: those home apps. I was advised by them to please

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Speaker 1: delete our cookies from your browser. Is that necessary? I

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Speaker 1: don't think so, Madeline. I don't think you need to

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Speaker 1: delete those cookies after you closed an account, unless you're

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Speaker 1: worried about staying logged in or them tracking you. If

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Speaker 1: you want to clear them out, it's a pretty simple process.

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Speaker 1: It all depends on your browser. But if you have Chrome,

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Speaker 1: just tap the three dots in the upper right hand corner.

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Speaker 1: It'll say history or sorry, says delete browsing.

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Speaker 3: Data.

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Speaker 1: You tap that and you can do time range, last hour,

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Speaker 1: last twenty four, all four weeks, all time. The thing

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Speaker 1: you have to know about that if you delete your

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Speaker 1: browsing data, it's not only a delete House, but it

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Speaker 1: might delete a lot of other logins from other websites.

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Speaker 1: So for that reason I probably would not do it. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you want to delete it for just how you

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Speaker 1: can go to their website. Is it house dot com? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then tap the two little looks like a setting

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Speaker 1: icon next to the website and it says cookies and

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Speaker 1: site data, and there you can delete all that just

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Speaker 1: for House. Okay, I just deleted that, so now the

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Speaker 1: log in everything will be reset.

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Speaker 2: Great question eight.

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Speaker 1: To eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. You got a

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Speaker 1: question about technology, Give me a call website for the

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Speaker 1: show richon Tech dot.

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Speaker 2: Tv coming up.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you about two really cool apps for taking

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Speaker 1: pictures and editing them.

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Speaker 2: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at

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Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one on one. That's eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: earlier I was talking about speech of five and cloning

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Speaker 1: my voice. We're gonna have the guests on very soon.

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Speaker 1: But uh, I just recloned my voice. So tell me

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Speaker 1: if you think it took about fifteen seconds. Tell me

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Speaker 1: if you think this sounds like me.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 3: I'm Rich Tomiro and this is is Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 3: This iss the show where I talk about the tech

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Speaker 3: stuff I think you should know about and answer your

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Speaker 3: questions about technology. I believe that tech should be interesting,

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Speaker 3: useful and fun. Phone lines are open a te triple

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Speaker 3: eight Rich one hundred and one. That's eight eight eight

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Speaker 3: seven four two four.

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Speaker 2: One zero one. Give me a call if you have

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Speaker 2: a question about technology. I mean there's a resemblance there.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's much more robotic than my voice,

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Speaker 1: but you know, in a pinch, yeah, it's a it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a little high.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, but hey, you know what, it's a start. I

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Speaker 1: mean this and that, by the way, that took about

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Speaker 1: took about ten seconds to do. You record fifteen seconds

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Speaker 1: of your audio and that's it. So we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: the uh Stephanie Weitzman speech of SPEECHIFI on the show

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Speaker 1: in this hour and she gonna explain what that app

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Speaker 1: is all about, what it's useful for.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, there's a lot of other voices.

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Speaker 2: That's just me. They also have Snoop Dogg.

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Speaker 4: Here Snoop Dogg, Big, Snoop deal Wg and I'm an

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Speaker 4: English voice from the United States.

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Speaker 2: They also have Gwyneth Paltrow.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to Speechify. Speechify can read to you in the

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Speaker 4: highest quality digital voice.

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Speaker 2: They also have mister Beast.

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Speaker 5: Basically, I hate reading, so I just upload every document

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Speaker 5: I get to speech I find.

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Speaker 2: My kids know who that is.

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Speaker 1: And then they have all these other, you know, just

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Speaker 1: regular voices. So I mean, it's it's really if you

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Speaker 1: like to listen to stuff, it's a great way to

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Speaker 1: listen to articles. Anyway, I will we'll have more about

869
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: that interview in just a little bit. Samsung is back

870
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: at it. I cannot believe that it's almost been a

871
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: year since their foldables came out, but now they're teasing

872
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: new foldables coming out soon, a thinner, lighter generation of

873
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: Galaxy Z foldables. They say they are the thinnest, lightest,

874
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:59,879
Speaker 1: and most durable foldables yet. If you remember Samsung Star

875
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: this journey in twenty nineteen with the original Galaxy Fold.

876
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: I still remember being invited to the Samsung store and

877
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: they said, hey, we have a new phone for you

878
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 1: to check out, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen

879
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: a folding screen in my life before like that. And

880
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: sure enough they had to recall it from the reviewers

881
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: because they had some growing pains there.

882
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 2: But you got to give Samsung credit.

883
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: They do try a lot of stuff, and they've definitely

884
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: polished it since then, and I do see a fair

885
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: amount of these things out in the wild now. They're

886
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: very popular over in Asia and in Europe. They have

887
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: not been as popular here in the US, but they

888
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 1: are definitely growing in popularity. The whole idea is that,

889
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, merging a smartphone, the portability of a smartphone

890
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: with the productivity of a tablet.

891
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 2: It's all in one. But the problem is that I've

892
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 2: seen is that the screens on the outside were just too.

893
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: Small to be truly useful. So now theoretically we'll see

894
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: a bigger screen on the outside. Samsung says this year's

895
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: models were engineered to be even easy. You're to use

896
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: one handed and fit more comfortably in your pocket. They

897
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: promise an ultra experience, so more performance.

898
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 3: You know.

899
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: The thing on these was that the cameras were not

900
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: as good as the standard you know as twenty five ultra.

901
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: Now if they can get that ultra camera on the foldable,

902
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: there's nothing stopping it.

903
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 2: Theoretically.

904
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: They also say there's gonna be new hinge designs and

905
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: materials to make them tough enough for daily use. And

906
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: they have not given an official launch date just yet,

907
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 1: but let's be honest, these things typically happen in July

908
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: or August, So that's what I'm guessing, is a July

909
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: or August launch date for the Samsung Unpacked event, which

910
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: they would have sometime this summer. Don't know where it is,

911
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 1: where it's going to be, what the dates are. But

912
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: if you're looking for a new foldable hold off, maybe

913
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: this whole twenty three and ME thing. Remember this all

914
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: this they went to bankruptcy, they got purchased by this

915
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: other company. While tech Crunch reports that fifteen percent of

916
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: twenty three and MES users about two million people asked

917
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 1: the company to delete their genetic data. This was after

918
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: the biotech company Regenerate Regeneron won a court approved auction

919
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: to buy twenty three and meters for two hundred and

920
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: fifty six million dollars. By the way, when I was

921
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: up in the Bay Area, I drove past the twenty

922
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: three and ME headquarters. I didn't know I was going

923
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: to drive past it, but I happened to, and not thing.

924
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a big headquarters. I just thought about it.

925
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: I was like, Ah, all those people in there that

926
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: are wondering, like what their fate is. It's probably such

927
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: a high you know, high flying company for so long

928
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: and now you know, purchased for mere pennies on the dollar.

929
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: This thing used to be worth like six billion dollars.

930
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: Twenty four states, twenty twenty three and plus one states,

931
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: including New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania, are suing to block

932
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: the sale of private DNA data without user consent. Twenty

933
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: three and Me's data privacy trust was shaken after a

934
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three breach exposed data from six point nine

935
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 1: million users. The company blame their customers for not enabling

936
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: multi factor authentication, but come on, you don't let you

937
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: don't let all that data get out anyway. People are

938
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: getting rid of their data from twenty three and meters quickly.

939
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: All right, I told you about this app that got

940
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:25,959
Speaker 1: a surprise redesign. Google just dropped a new version of Snapseed,

941
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,919
Speaker 1: version three point oh. This was one of my most

942
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: recommended apps for so many years because it was so

943
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: simple to use and all the features were free as

944
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: opposed to like the photoshops and all these other photo

945
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,800
Speaker 1: editing apps that would charge, Snapseed kept it free. So

946
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: Snapseed three point zero is brand new. If you don't

947
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: have it on your iPhone, I highly recommend you ad

948
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: it or if you have it.

949
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 2: Update it.

950
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 1: It's the first big update in years. Many people thought

951
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: that Google abandoned the app, but it's all gotten a redesign.

952
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: It's got a nice new clean interface, new floating button

953
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: to add your pictures to it, and they've got a

954
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:05,760
Speaker 1: new just all kinds of stuff, a new film style filter,

955
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: and it's just really easy to use. So my favorite

956
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: feature that I've recommended it for is called healing, so

957
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: you can easily if you have a little blemish on

958
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: your picture you want to get something out of there,

959
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 1: you just tap healing and just rub over like the

960
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: area that needs to go and goodbye. It's kind of

961
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: like the simplest possible way to remove like a little

962
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:27,919
Speaker 1: blemish or anything you don't want in your photo.

963
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 2: Now I get it. We have AI for all this stuff.

964
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 1: You can erase things, change pictures, but this was kind

965
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,919
Speaker 1: of the OG way of doing it, and so that's

966
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: still available, still free. And then of course the tools.

967
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: The new film style is really cool because if you

968
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: go to these apps on the iPhone or Samsung, a

969
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: lot of them costs money to change the film styles.

970
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: This one has like I don't know, it looks like

971
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: two dozen of them, all for free. Polaroids six hundred,

972
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: Fuji Pro four hundred. H If you're a film person,

973
00:48:58,200 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: you know how to do this. Technicolor. Oh, that one

974
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: looks really good. I took a picture of me outside

975
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: of the Arawan. If you've never been to La, if

976
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: you visit La, you gotta go to an arawon. It

977
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: is it's its own world. You've never seen prices like

978
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: this at a grocery store. It's wild. I mean it

979
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: really is. And all this stuff is happening in the world.

980
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: You go into Arawan, You're like, Wow, this is just

981
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: a whole different world of that I'm not really privy

982
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: to on a daily basis. But it's fun. I have

983
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,959
Speaker 1: one thing that I go to. Yeah, Kim just chimed

984
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: in said, I'm not paying twenty five dollars for a smoothie. Yes,

985
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,959
Speaker 1: they're known for smoothies that are literally twenty five dollars

986
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: that's before the ad ins. But I guess it makes

987
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: your skin glow. I cannot bring myself to buy one

988
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 1: of those. All right, coming up, we're gonna talk to

989
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: Stephanie Witzman about speech a fi right here on rich

990
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: On Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro

991
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at triple eight

992
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,919
Speaker 1: Rich one oh one. That's eight seven four two four

993
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: one zero one. Give me a call if you have

994
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 1: a question about technology. We'll get back to those phone

995
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: lines in just a moment. But first we are here

996
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: at WWDC at the Apple Podcast Studios, and we are

997
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: talking to some winners of the Apple Design Awards. One

998
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: of those apps is called Speechify. It is very cool,

999
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: and here to talk to me about it is Stephanie Weitzman.

1000
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me.

1001
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 6: Thank you Rich for having me.

1002
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 2: Now you're actually the mom of the creators of this app,

1003
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 2: Cliff and Tyler. Yes, but you also work there I do.

1004
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 6: I work as a recruiting manager at Speechify and a

1005
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 6: recruit engineers from all over the world.

1006
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing. So, first off, explain what Speechify is

1007
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: all about.

1008
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 6: Yes, of course, so Speechify is a text to speech app,

1009
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 6: but a whole lot more than that. And our goal

1010
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 6: is that learning should not be a barrier because of reading.

1011
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 6: And our goal is that every human being in the

1012
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 6: world should have the best possible reading experience and we

1013
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 6: really focus on that.

1014
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: And what's interesting about this app it won the Apple

1015
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: Design Award for Inclusivity correct, And so this app supports

1016
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 1: fifty plus languages, and it's also really helpful for users

1017
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 1: with dyslexia, ADHD and vision impairments because it allows you

1018
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:25,320
Speaker 1: to consume content in the way that's best.

1019
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 6: For you exactly exactly. So Specify is great for everyone,

1020
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 6: but it's life changing when it comes to people with disabilities.

1021
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 6: And this is something that I have experienced being Cliff's

1022
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 6: mom who has he's severely dyslexic, and this is how

1023
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,720
Speaker 6: he came up with the idea for the app because

1024
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 6: there was no software out there when he was seventeen

1025
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 6: eighteen going into college. The only software available, was very

1026
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 6: clunky and it worked at a one x speed and

1027
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 6: cliff because all of his reading was consumed through his

1028
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 6: ear at three x speed. It was very boring for

1029
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,879
Speaker 6: him because he also has add so people have dyslexia

1030
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 6: add low vision. The funny story is that our co founder,

1031
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 6: my other son, Tyler, is blind in one eye and

1032
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 6: he was born blind in one eye, so he also

1033
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 6: had He has myopia, so he gets eyestrained. But he's

1034
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 6: also a phenomenal coder and so he started coding when

1035
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 6: he was ten. When the app store opened, he had

1036
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 6: apps on the app Store in two thousand and eight.

1037
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 6: He came to us when he was eleven years old

1038
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 6: and said, Mom, can I have ninety nine dollars please?

1039
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 6: And I said why and he said, there's this think

1040
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 6: of the app Store and I want to be on it.

1041
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,720
Speaker 6: So he taught himself to code, but still with the eyes,

1042
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 6: it was a lot of strain. So he uses speechify

1043
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 6: because of his vision. And then there are people other

1044
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 6: situations such as people who've had concussions, or people who

1045
00:52:53,719 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 6: have encephalitis who cannot talk, autism, have speech apraxia. We've

1046
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 6: had people who are mute who said You've changed our

1047
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 6: lives because the app is being read. We can use

1048
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 6: the app to talk, it's our mouth. So we constantly

1049
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 6: get stories of people who have disabilities saying I'm crying,

1050
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 6: I've found your app. This has changed my life.

1051
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 2: How long has this journey been?

1052
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 6: So the company was founded eight years ago and we've

1053
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 6: been partnership with Apple for the last eight years on

1054
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 6: the iOS app twenty seventeen, and we really started before

1055
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,280
Speaker 6: the AI boom, So we started with the speed variability.

1056
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,800
Speaker 6: I think the core part of the product is the

1057
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 6: fact that you can see the words and listen at

1058
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 6: the same time and have the words highlighted out to

1059
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 6: you at any speed that you choose. And then with

1060
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 6: the AI boom, Tyler went to Stanford. He has a

1061
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 6: master's degree. He specialized in and AI. It was the

1062
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 6: right timing. He already had many apps under his belt

1063
00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,320
Speaker 6: and he just built a phenomenal AI model, which is

1064
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 6: probably the most sophisticated AI audio model that exists. And

1065
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 6: that was the started to train the voices. So now

1066
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 6: we have over two hundred voices in all languages, and

1067
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 6: by the way, people who want to learn the language,

1068
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 6: people who don't have English mother tongue, for instance, really

1069
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 6: enjoy using the app because maybe their visual reading is

1070
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 6: weaker than their ability to understand, so they can use

1071
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 6: the app to help with their English, and they can

1072
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 6: also listen in their own language if they want. They

1073
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 6: can slow down the speed if they want, They can

1074
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 6: go faster if they want. For people with add sometimes

1075
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 6: they actually want to speed up so they won't be bored.

1076
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 6: And we have all these amazing voices in different languages

1077
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Speaker 6: and even different accents.

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Speaker 1: So the way I understand the app, and I've used

1079
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: it before, I've actually so for my radio show, I

1080
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 1: listened to a lot of articles, right, and so sometimes

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Speaker 1: reading those articles can get be time consuming.

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Speaker 2: And it's just a handsome time. It's easier to consume

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Speaker 2: them via audio.

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Speaker 1: Can you explain kind of like how that works, that

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Speaker 1: process of what people are feeding into this app to

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Speaker 1: learn from.

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Speaker 6: Yes, so it's extremely streamlined, streamlined, and you can really

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Speaker 6: do it from the most basic level of selecting texts,

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Speaker 6: copying it and then pasting it physically into the app.

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Speaker 6: That's one way. Another is just to copy a link

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Speaker 6: paste it into the app. Another way would be to

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Speaker 6: take a PDF and share it like you would share

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Speaker 6: you know, to I Message or to any other application.

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Speaker 6: Specify has that ability that you just share that in.

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Speaker 6: You might not know this, but we're fully integrated with Gmail,

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Speaker 6: so you can connect your Gmail and your Google Drive

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Speaker 6: inside the app and then have your emails read out

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Speaker 6: to you automatically from within the app.

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Speaker 2: That's cool.

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Speaker 1: And so once you share into the app, it will

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Speaker 1: read to you whatever you put in there. Yes, but

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Speaker 1: also you've got these celebrity I mean, there's so many

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Speaker 1: voices to choose from their very realistic sounding. Yes, and

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Speaker 1: then you've got celebrity voices. How did you get people

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Speaker 1: like Snoop Dogg and Gwene Paltrow on board?

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Speaker 6: Yes, so I think Gwinnos was the first. So Cliff

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Speaker 6: and Gwinnos were friends and she said, yeah, I'm in.

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Speaker 6: So she has beautiful intonation. A lot of people really

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Speaker 6: enjoy listening to her voice, and I think it started

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Speaker 6: to work from there. We also have mister Beast.

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Speaker 2: Is there one voice that's the most popular?

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Speaker 6: One's voice? It's probably the most popular.

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Speaker 2: Yes, son, Yes, so he has a voice on the app.

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Speaker 6: Oh, of course he's had a voice. Yeah. I think

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Speaker 6: he had the first AI voice on the app that

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Speaker 6: we used.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, that's so wild.

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Speaker 6: And his AI voice is pretty much indistinguishable from his

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Speaker 6: real voice, and I'm his mom. Wow, and the intonation

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Speaker 6: is perfect and sometimes I get goosebumps because it really

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Speaker 6: is hard to differentiate.

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Speaker 2: That's wild.

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Speaker 1: Now, speaking of AI, you have some AI features in

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Speaker 1: the app, like AI summaries.

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Speaker 2: Can you explain that?

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Speaker 6: Yes, So say, for example, Rich, you're prepping for a

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Speaker 6: podcast and you have an article that you want to,

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Speaker 6: you know, learn very quickly, so you can upload that

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Speaker 6: to the app, listen to it, but then say, okay,

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Speaker 6: actually I would like you know, a summary to go

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Speaker 6: just before that I can glance at. So then you

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Speaker 6: can choose a short version, a medium version, or a

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Speaker 6: long version. And you can even generate an AI quiz

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Speaker 6: and say I want to have ten questions about what

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Speaker 6: I just read, and it will ask you the questions

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Speaker 6: and give you a multiple choice option. So if anyone

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Speaker 6: is studying, they can like take the material they want

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Speaker 6: to prep for the exam and then make a little

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Speaker 6: quiz out of it.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's great for learners. That's really incredible.

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Speaker 3: Ye.

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Speaker 1: Now you mentioned the accessibility and the inclusivity. Yes, but

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Speaker 1: really anyone can.

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Speaker 6: Use this app absolutely, I, for instance, don't I probably

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Speaker 6: you as well. I don't have a lot of time,

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Speaker 6: and if I have time, I want to go out

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Speaker 6: hiking and walking and that's when I do my reading.

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Speaker 1: So Ever since I started my radio show, I've realized

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Speaker 1: how much information when you consume a lot of information

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Speaker 1: it is. It's strenuous when you're reading, yes, but when

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Speaker 1: you're listening it is, like you said, very natural. And

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Speaker 1: I never I kind of like thought about that. The

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Speaker 1: way our brain processes things. It just seems much easier

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Speaker 1: to process the audio version of things versus like sitting

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Speaker 1: there reading and you have to be comfortable, and you

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Speaker 1: have to have a good lighting and this and that.

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Speaker 1: There's like a lot that goes into reading that just

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Speaker 1: audio is so much easier.

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Speaker 6: Yes, because we evolved to storytelling. That's how we evolved.

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Speaker 6: And so if you know, you have kids at home,

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Speaker 6: and for anyone listening out there, if they have kids

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Speaker 6: at home and they want them to be ahead of

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Speaker 6: the game, they need to practice their listening more than anything.

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Speaker 1: Well, we say that as parents all the time and

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Speaker 1: in various ways. All Right, we're talking with Stephanie Weisman

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Speaker 1: of Speechify. They want a twenty twenty five I have

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Speaker 1: Apple Design Award for Inclusivity.

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Speaker 6: I think one of the things that's special with our

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Speaker 6: company is it draws people who really have a passion

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Speaker 6: for helping people with disabilities. One of our key principles

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Speaker 6: is leading with love, and you really feel that throughout

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Speaker 6: the company.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me today, Stephanie. The

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Speaker 1: website speechified dot com.

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Speaker 2: Check it out.

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Speaker 1: It's the number one speech to text reading app and

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Speaker 1: it does have some incredible features.

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Speaker 2: I'll put a link on my website.

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv thanks to Apple for lending

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Speaker 1: us their podcast studios today eighty eight rich one O

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Speaker 2: Back after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, Talking technology eighty

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Speaker 1: eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. The website for the show

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot tv. You can send an email

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Speaker 1: just by hitting contact. That's what John did. He says,

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Speaker 1: I love all your tech information. I watch you on KTLA,

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Speaker 1: follow you on Instagram, listen to your podcast, and get

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Speaker 1: your weekly newsletter. Oh my gosh, that's one, two, three,

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Speaker 1: four things. Okay, well, I don't think you missed a

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Speaker 1: thing there, John. Here's my question. If someone steals your iPhone,

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Speaker 1: can you require a passcode or face ID to power

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Speaker 1: it off? That's the first thing thieves do to prevent tracking.

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Speaker 1: If Apple doesn't do this, maybe they should.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can require a passcode to turn

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Speaker 1: off the iPhone, but it does make sense that that

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Speaker 1: would be something that's smart. But here's the thing. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I think if they have the iPhone off, they can

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Speaker 1: do less with it than on. So if it's on,

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Speaker 1: at least it's secured and it's locked, and they can't

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Speaker 1: really do anything.

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Speaker 2: But it is a good question.

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Speaker 1: There is something that Apple introduced called Stolen Device Protector.

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Speaker 1: I's two things about this. Number one, if you ever

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Speaker 1: turned off your iPhone, you notice that there is a.

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Speaker 2: Where's my iPhone here? It is.

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Speaker 1: It basically says this iPhone is still trackable even when

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Speaker 1: it's off. So even with the power off. A lot

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Speaker 1: of these devices are still trackable even with the power off.

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Speaker 1: So that's a recent feature that they've added to these things.

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Speaker 1: So they keep a little power reserve that even when

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Speaker 1: it's off it's still going to be trackable as far

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Speaker 1: as I know. And then the other thing is the

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Speaker 1: stolen Device protection. This is something that is optional that

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Speaker 1: Apple added that you can turn on and basically, when

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Speaker 1: your phone is away from familiar places like your house

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Speaker 1: or your work, it will require face ID or touch

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Speaker 1: ID only, which means even if they figured out your passcode,

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Speaker 1: which is a problem. There is this big thing where

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Speaker 1: where thieves would watch people in a bar put in

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Speaker 1: their passcode on their phone and then swipe the phone

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Speaker 1: out of their hand and then go run away and

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Speaker 1: type in the passcode, and now they have access to

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Speaker 1: the whole phone, and then they would immediately do things

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Speaker 1: like change your Apple password, they would go into your

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Speaker 1: bank account, all that stuff, They would open up every

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Speaker 1: app and they would just keep your phone unlocked, and

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Speaker 1: of course they'd probably change the timeout on the phone

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Speaker 1: as well. So Apple did this thing called stolen Device protection.

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Speaker 1: So now when your phone is away from a familiar place,

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Speaker 1: so let's say you are not at home, you're not

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Speaker 1: at work, someone swipes your phone, they can't do anything

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Speaker 1: to that phone unless they have face ID or touch ID.

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Speaker 1: They cannot try the passcode to access things like saved

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Speaker 1: passwords or your payment information or anything else. There's also

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Speaker 1: a one hour delay to do anything like changing your

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Speaker 1: Apple ID password, and this gives you time to mark

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Speaker 1: your iPhone as lost and protect your account. And you

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Speaker 1: can turn this on permanently, so it works anywhere that

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Speaker 1: is in settings. Let's see if I can find this

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Speaker 1: stolen device protection. So if you just okay, it's under

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Speaker 1: passcode stolen device protection, you got to type in your

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Speaker 1: passcode to get that access. And if you turn that on,

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Speaker 1: let's see where is it down stolen device protection. So

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Speaker 1: this adds another layer of security to your iPhone. And

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Speaker 1: the event that is stolen and someone knows your passcode

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Speaker 1: seems like something that would be a small number of people,

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Speaker 1: but no, this was a major problem. Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 1: was very instrumental in reporting about this, and they basically

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Speaker 1: got Apple to change this because if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: if someone knows your passcode, they could get anything on

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Speaker 1: your phone. So anyway, if you're worried about that, turn

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Speaker 1: on stolen device protection. But yes, Apple and these other

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Speaker 1: software companies continue to figure out ways of getting you know,

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Speaker 1: of protecting us from the bad guys. Let's see another

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Speaker 1: question here, Robert writes in good afternoon. I'm a recent

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Speaker 1: finder of your show and I've been loving every minute

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Robert.

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Speaker 1: Is there any update on the Apple Watch having a

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Speaker 1: built in continuous glucose monitor CGM, thanks Robert.

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Speaker 2: Not yet.

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Speaker 1: We know that Apple has been working on this non

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Speaker 1: invasive glucose monitoring tech for years, but it is still

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Speaker 1: in development and they have not mentioned a word about it.

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Speaker 2: But it is Apple.

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Speaker 1: They've got lots of smart people and they are not

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Speaker 1: the only company that is working on this so right now,

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Speaker 1: and if you look at the FDA, they put out

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Speaker 1: a big blog post that says there is no product

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Speaker 1: that does continuous glucose monitoring from a smartphone non invasive

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Speaker 1: right now. You still need a separate sensor like those

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Speaker 1: from Dexcom or Abbot, and a lot of those can

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Speaker 1: actually sync through your iPhone or Apple Watch through apps.

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Speaker 1: But right now, there is not a dedicated wearable that

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Speaker 1: does this like an Apple watch or smart watch.

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Speaker 2: So if you see those advertised, it's just not possible

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Speaker 2: right now. There will be.

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Speaker 1: I did actually test a couple of years ago at CS,

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Speaker 1: the big electronics show in Vegas. I tested a watch

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Speaker 1: that did the CGM, but it was more of like

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Speaker 1: an algorithm, so it was and it wasn't perfect. But

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Speaker 1: you know, and I've never heard anything more about this watch,

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Speaker 1: but I think there's a lot of companies working on this,

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Speaker 1: and I think we will have a breakthrough at some point,

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Speaker 1: maybe with Apple even and maybe twenty twenty seven or

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Speaker 1: something like that.

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Speaker 2: Who knows.

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Speaker 1: But this is the holy grail of technology when it

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Speaker 1: comes to health because so many people need these monitors

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Speaker 1: right now. You have to have one of those little

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Speaker 1: things you kind of stamp onto your skin, usually last

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Speaker 1: like maybe one to two weeks. I've actually got one

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Speaker 1: at home that I picked up at cs'. They're marketing

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Speaker 1: it as a way to monitor this stuff for anyone

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Speaker 1: if you're just interested in your glucose. I've yet, I'm

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Speaker 1: a little scared to put it on my skin. They

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Speaker 1: say you don't feel anything because there's a little part

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Speaker 1: that goes in you almost I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: a little needle or what, but it does go in

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Speaker 1: your skin. But yeah, that's so Robert. Nothing to update

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Speaker 1: just yet there, Jeffrey writes in from Beaverton, Oregon, listening

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Speaker 1: on FM one on one point one in Portland. I

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Speaker 1: recently upgraded from a sixty five inch to a seventy

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Speaker 1: five inch high Sense TV. After watching for an hour

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Speaker 1: or two, the audio gradually goes out of sync with

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Speaker 1: the video. I've tried adjusting sound settings. Nothing seems to

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Speaker 1: fix the problem. Am I doomed to have Costco replace it?

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Speaker 1: What are my options? Thank you great show by the way,

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Speaker 1: Well thanks for tuning in, Jeffrey. That is definitely frustrating.

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Speaker 1: I'd say it's a deal breaker for this TV. So

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Speaker 1: get it back to Costco and replace it and see

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Speaker 1: if you have the same problem. Sounds like you've already

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Speaker 1: done the whole adjustments. If you go into your settings,

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Speaker 1: they usually have some sort of like lip sync adjustment.

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Speaker 1: I would try all those if they're not working. If

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Speaker 1: it says you've already adjusted sound settings, so but look

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Speaker 1: for this specifically the lip sync adjustment. Now, if you're

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Speaker 1: using an external sound bar, they usually have their own

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Speaker 1: lip sync adjustments as well, so you might want to

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Speaker 1: try that. You could try a factory reset on both

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Speaker 1: the TV and your soundbar. If none of that works,

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Speaker 1: get it back to Costco. This is one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons why people like buying electronics at Costco. They will

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Speaker 1: take it back and they will they will make good

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Speaker 1: on that. Sounds like you just got it. So I

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Speaker 1: have a High Sense personally. I've had no problems with it.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: My neighbor came over the other day, she was looking

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Speaker 1: And people are a little they're a little concerned. They're like, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about the High Sense brand. I haven't

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Speaker 1: It's really good for the price, and I've i've we

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Speaker 1: love it. It took a little bit of getting used to,

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Speaker 1: but it works great. And yeah, you know, the Lgs

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Speaker 1: and the Sonys of the world, they're probably better picture wise,

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Speaker 1: but you're going to pay a whole lot. More eighty

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Speaker 1: If you want links to anything I mentioned, or send

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Speaker 1: Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you.

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Speaker 1: The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: You know, uh, I'm my I don't know where my

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Speaker 1: manners are. I told you that I finished two books

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Speaker 1: earlier today, and I did not tell you which books

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Speaker 1: they were, did I? I don't think I did. Uh

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Speaker 1: So let me tell you about the two books that

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Speaker 1: I did read. Uh So, there's this whole thing about

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Speaker 1: listening versus reading the books or reading books, like I

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Speaker 1: is there a difference, I don't know. I mean I

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Speaker 1: like to do both. I like to read physical books.

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Speaker 1: I also like to listen to them as well. I

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Speaker 1: think they both work. And typically I'm listening to a

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Speaker 1: nonfiction book in the car, and then I'm reading a

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Speaker 1: fiction book at home. That's kind of like my delineation.

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Speaker 1: But I did read two nonfiction books. First was Retail Gangster,

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Speaker 1: So if you grew up on the East Coast, you

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Speaker 1: might remember Crazy Eddie. This was the iconic New York

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Speaker 1: City area electronics chain from the eighties and the nineties.

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Speaker 1: They had ads everywhere. They were known for undercutting competitor prices.

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Speaker 1: But if you read this book behind the scenes, oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, the entire thing was built on fraud, and

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Speaker 1: the book dives into how it all unraveled. You know

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Speaker 1: it's going to end bad, but the build up is

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Speaker 1: just so well done. This was actually a listener Jeffrey

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Speaker 1: that recommended this book to me. Retail Gangster, The inside,

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Speaker 1: real life story of Crazy Eddie. And the interesting part

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Speaker 1: that I didn't realize as a kid is that the

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Speaker 1: guy in the commercials was not it was not the

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Speaker 1: owner of the store. Now maybe that was clear when

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Speaker 1: I was, you know, back in the day, but it

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Speaker 1: wasn't clear to me until I read this book. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: Retail Gangster, if you grew up in the New York

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Speaker 1: City area and you're curious about Crazy Eddy, it's a

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Speaker 1: deep dive. I mean, you're you're gonna get the full story. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: nobody beats The Whiz was another. That was another. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there were electronics chains back in the day. There was

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Speaker 1: a lot of competition. It's not like today, we're Best

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Speaker 1: Buys the only game in town. Back in the day,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of regional chains in just the New

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Speaker 1: York City area. I mean there was the regional chains

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Speaker 1: like the Whiz, PC, Richard and Son, Crazy Eddy, and

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Speaker 1: then you had all the tiny, small, kind of like

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Speaker 1: mom and pop places, but they would all have these

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Speaker 1: advertisements in the back of like the newspapers with how

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Speaker 1: much their prices were, and you would basically bring that

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Speaker 1: newspaper into one of the other stores and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: can you beat this price and they would buy like

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Speaker 1: a dollar or two, but you felt like you were

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Speaker 1: getting a good deal. But anyway, Retail Gangster was excellent.

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Speaker 1: Listen to the audiobook if you like, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you like audiobooks, or you can read the book. The

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Speaker 1: other one I read, which I finished. We had the

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Speaker 1: guests on the show Patrick McGee Apple in China and

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Speaker 1: this book. I started reading the physical book and then

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Speaker 1: I finished with the audiobook. Now, this is all about

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Speaker 1: Apple's manufacturing ties with China and how every decision that

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Speaker 1: Apple and China made kind of affected China's tech economy.

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01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 1: And I would say that the book argues that that

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Speaker 1: China learned how to build the most complex consumer tech

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Speaker 1: products from Apple, and now they're taking that knowledge and

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Speaker 1: using it to power their own rise of electronics brands

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Speaker 1: like the Huaweis of the world, the Shaomis of the world.

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Speaker 1: This is a really now talk about crazy eddy anyone

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01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 1: can understand and like that story. Apple in China is

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Speaker 1: a much more inside baseball story.

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Speaker 2: So if you were not.

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Speaker 1: If you're not into supply chain logistics, if you're not

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01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 1: really into the whole geopolitics of Apple and China and

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01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 1: contract manufacturing, global supply Chaine, you're probably not gonna like

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01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: this one because it's a lot.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot.

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Speaker 1: But Patrick does an amazing job of weaving this story,

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Speaker 1: and I think the thesis. I don't want to give

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Speaker 1: away the story, but like all this stuff about building

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Speaker 1: an iPhone in America or the tariffs and all these things,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Apple is in a really precarious position with

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Speaker 1: their relationship with China because it is so intricate. It

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01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: is not something they can easily just ditch and still

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Speaker 1: be the company they are.

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Speaker 2: They're trying.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to build some stuff in Vietnam, build some

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Speaker 1: stuff in India, but it's not like what they're doing

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Speaker 1: in China, And so Apple and China is a really

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01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:49,680
Speaker 1: a great deep dive if you're into this. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I was at a little cocktail party with Apple. They

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Speaker 1: invited some folks that went up to the event for

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Speaker 1: a party the night before, like a little get can't

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Speaker 1: even tell this. I'm Apples are so secretive with everything,

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01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:04,680
Speaker 1: like just by telling you this, I might I may

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Speaker 1: be extra Apple forever, hopefully not. I don't think it's

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01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 1: a it was a you know, secret that there was

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01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:13,560
Speaker 1: a little party. But anyway, so they this was like

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Speaker 1: I think the first time they did this, but they

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Speaker 1: had a lot of the journalists just kind of mingling. Anyway,

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01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:20,639
Speaker 1: the PR person comes up to me and they're like, oh,

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01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:23,080
Speaker 1: you listen to an audiobook on the way up? Would

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01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:24,800
Speaker 1: you listen to the I'm like, probably don't want to

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01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 1: hear this. But Apple and China, it's not the book

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01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 1: that the company really not necessarily something the company would

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01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:32,880
Speaker 1: promote or have it an Apple store. Let's put it

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Speaker 1: that way, all right. Uh, let's see here Yahoo Mail.

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Speaker 1: If you're using Yahoo Mail the app, they've got a

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Speaker 2: This happens this.

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Speaker 1: I do this all day long on my phone I

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Speaker 1: use Gmail, but I swipe left and right swipe to

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Speaker 1: get rid of the emails out of my inbox. I

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily check the whole thing. But this is great

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Speaker 1: because it gives you a little AI preview of what

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Speaker 1: the email is all about, so you say, okay, I

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Speaker 1: need to keep this, or no, I can get rid

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Speaker 1: of it. So it's built like a game with a

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Speaker 1: celebration screen when you finish. Yahoo says almost half of

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Speaker 1: its younger users have missed events because of inbox chaos.

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Speaker 1: This is only available on the Yahoo Mail app for

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Speaker 1: iOS and Android, and so my other advice to you

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Speaker 1: is unsubscribe liberally. Unsubscribe to the emails that you do

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Speaker 1: to unsubscribing, So do it. When you get an email,

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Speaker 1: like let's say it's from the company that you just

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Speaker 1: ordered food from.

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Speaker 2: The other day.

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Speaker 1: Now they're sending you, oh, hey, we have a new

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Speaker 1: uh you know, a new type of beef for the

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Speaker 1: new flavoring.

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Speaker 2: No, you do not need to know that.

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Speaker 1: When you feel like that bowl again, you will order

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Speaker 1: emails every day because these companies are relentless. You order

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Speaker 1: one thing from a department store, now you're getting an

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Speaker 2: Whoops.

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Speaker 1: I look at a lot of people while they're checking

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Speaker 1: their email over their shoulder, and I cannot believe the

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Speaker 1: nonsense and garbage and trash that is in there, just

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Speaker 1: clogging up their inbox. I get emails from all over

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Speaker 1: the world every day, from all of you, and my

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Speaker 1: inbox is pristine. Right now, I have thirty two messages

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Speaker 1: in there. You know why, because I barely get any

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Speaker 1: junk stuff. I've got my I've got my inbox down

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Speaker 1: to a science. I even have a filter that when

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Speaker 1: the word unsubscribe is in an email anywhere in there,

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Speaker 1: if there's a non subscribe link, I get my it

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Speaker 1: I've set up a filter in Gmail to search for

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Speaker 1: that word unsubscribe in a message, and then it flags

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Speaker 1: it with that big giant label that says unsubscribe eligible

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Speaker 1: and big red text, and that reminds me immediately that

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Speaker 1: this is not a personal email. This is not something

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Speaker 1: I need to have in my inbox. I can get

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Speaker 1: rid of this and be off that list at any

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Speaker 1: given time, and I do it often. I mean I'm

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Speaker 1: talking often. I mean it's sad. I feel bad for

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Speaker 1: I bought a candle from your shop ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: I don't need your email. Eighty eight rich one O

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Speaker 1: dot TV. If you want those two book recommendations, I'll

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Speaker 1: put him in the show notes. This is episode one

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Speaker 1: twenty five. My name is rich Demiro. You are listening

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at

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Speaker 1: triple eight rich one oh one.

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Speaker 2: That's eight eight eight.

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Speaker 1: Seven four to two four one zero one. The website

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Speaker 1: for the show Rich on tech dot TV. We got

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Speaker 1: an email from Let's see here, Betsy from Gainesville, Georgia.

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01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 1: My husband uses an Android volt strictly for phone calls.

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01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:57,040
Speaker 1: No apps, no web, no photos. Despite being on the

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01:17:57,120 --> 01:18:00,639
Speaker 1: Donut call registry, he still gets fifteen to twenty five

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01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:05,719
Speaker 1: spam calls a day. Burn that phone, Betsy, I'm wondering

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01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 1: if he should get a new phone.

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01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:07,680
Speaker 2: Oh, she didn't say that. I did.

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01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:10,880
Speaker 1: He's wondering if he should get a new number. Is

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01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:12,639
Speaker 1: there a better way to stop these calls?

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01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: Number one, I am not familiar with the Android vault.

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01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:17,599
Speaker 1: What is the Android vault?

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01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:18,839
Speaker 2: Let's see.

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Speaker 6: That.

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01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a phone. There is no Android

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01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 1: vault that I know of. But anyway, he's got an

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01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:32,559
Speaker 1: Android phone. Fifteen to twenty five spam calls a day

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01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 1: is a lot, So there's a couple of things he

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01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:39,160
Speaker 1: could do. Number one, I would go into the phone

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01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 1: app on this device and look for any call blocking

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01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:46,880
Speaker 1: or spam protection features, because a lot of Androids have

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01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 1: these tools to silence suspected spam. Now, the other thing

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01:18:51,880 --> 01:18:53,960
Speaker 1: you can do, let me see, I thought at some

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01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 1: point you could download the Google phone app. Let me

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01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:00,439
Speaker 1: see if that's still a possibility because they have built

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01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 1: in spam protection. Okay, I'm on my Samsung Phone by Google.

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01:19:06,120 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: We're learning as we go along here on the show today,

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01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:12,000
Speaker 1: So I opened up this Okay, set as default phone.

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01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:14,920
Speaker 1: Can only start and receive calls if it's your default

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01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 1: phone app.

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01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:15,599
Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Now, this is the magic of Android that you can

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01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:20,840
Speaker 1: literally change your phone app. Who would have thought, yeah,

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01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 1: I just change it.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: Let's see if it's got the spam protection settings. Yes

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01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 2: it does. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Betsy, we just solved your problem. Go into the

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Speaker 1: Google Play. Tell your husband to go into Google Play

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01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:39,600
Speaker 1: and you can download search for Google Phone. Okay, let

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01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 1: me just make sure that comes upright Google Phone, and

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Speaker 1: make sure it says phone by Google from Google LLC.

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Speaker 2: Tap that.

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Speaker 1: Install it. And then when you install it, you want

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01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:55,320
Speaker 1: to go into the settings.

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Speaker 2: So let me find it. Here it is.

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Speaker 1: Go tap the the three dots in the upper right

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Speaker 1: hand corner. It says settings, caller ID and spam. Turn

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01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:10,000
Speaker 1: that on, identify businesses and spam numbers and there you go,

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01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:13,240
Speaker 1: and then you can even block numbers. Block. There you

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01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:18,439
Speaker 1: go block calls from unknown numbers, it'll automatically block high

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01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:20,439
Speaker 1: risk scam calls. Oh my gosh, this is like I

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01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:23,920
Speaker 1: didn't even realize they had this. I remember reading about

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01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:26,800
Speaker 1: I mean I did because clearly I said something, but

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01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:30,080
Speaker 1: it's been a while since I realized that you can

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Speaker 1: actually download a new caller app. So if you're struggling

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Speaker 1: with spam calls on your Android phone, try the phone

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01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:41,439
Speaker 1: app from Google. So that's number one. I would do that, Betsy,

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Speaker 1: That'll probably help you out. The other thing you can

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Speaker 1: do depending on the phone brand that you have, the

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Speaker 1: cellular brand, or the cellular carrier you have, they all

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01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 1: have their own call filter app. So T Mobile has

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01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:57,200
Speaker 1: scam shield at and T has something called Active Armor.

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01:20:57,880 --> 01:21:01,080
Speaker 1: Verizon has something called call Filter. So you can download

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01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:04,600
Speaker 1: those whatever whatever carrier you have, download that turn that on,

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01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:09,639
Speaker 1: and then they also have free apps that you can download.

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01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:12,559
Speaker 1: But sometimes people report with the free apps they actually

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01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:15,880
Speaker 1: get more spam calls. But I mean that who knows.

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01:21:16,520 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 1: But there's a couple brands here. I'm trying to see

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Speaker 1: if they still have it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so hia h I y a.

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Speaker 1: They've got some apps you can get Hya's spam Blocker

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01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 1: Block spam and spam calls displays caller ID that may

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01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:38,080
Speaker 1: cost something, It may may have a cost involved in it,

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01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:40,960
Speaker 1: but that's another way to do it. And then True

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01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: Caller is another app that some people like that can

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Speaker 1: help you cut down on spam calls.

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Speaker 2: So you got a lot of options there, Betsy.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you need to get a new phone

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01:21:51,640 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 1: number if you try some of those, but that's what

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Speaker 1: I'd recommend. I'll put it all linked up on my website.

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv Susan, I love the radio show,

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01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 1: but I'm too scared to call in. I have an

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01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,640
Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen plus and I keep getting an email that

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01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:12,680
Speaker 1: says your cloud storage iCloud space is full, and then

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01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:15,960
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of weird numbers and letters. I get

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01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:19,200
Speaker 1: a I get one of these every day. Oh gosh,

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01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 1: should I open it? And if so, what should I do? No,

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Speaker 1: this is totally bogus. Yeah, that is totally bogus, Susan.

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01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:35,880
Speaker 1: You do not need to open that up. You do

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01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:39,600
Speaker 1: not need to worry about this. These scammers, what they

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01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 1: do is they are trying to trick you into clicking

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01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:48,160
Speaker 1: a fake link that will will basically make you give

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Speaker 1: up your personal information. You may log into iCloud, you

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01:22:50,880 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 1: may whatever it is. They're trying to trick you, and

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01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,599
Speaker 1: that's really what's happening here. So if you are truly

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Speaker 1: concerned about your iCloud storage, number one, you'll know, oh,

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01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:01,840
Speaker 1: because your phone will tell you. You'll get a little

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Speaker 1: pop up notification that says iCloud is full. They don't

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01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: send a text to tell you that, as far as

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01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:10,200
Speaker 1: I know. But if you're worried about your iCloud storage

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01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:12,360
Speaker 1: and you want to check, you can go directly to

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01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 1: the settings on your phone. Go to settings, tap your

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Speaker 1: name at the top and you'll see it says iCloud.

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Speaker 1: You tap that and it will say storage. Mine says

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01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:25,479
Speaker 1: one point four used of two terabytes. Oh, how am

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01:23:25,479 --> 01:23:30,720
Speaker 1: I using two terabytes of storage on iCloud. That's that's

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Speaker 1: a lot. It's all because of my kids. A lot

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01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:37,680
Speaker 1: of that, let's see a lot of that is my

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Speaker 1: family usage.

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01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:40,760
Speaker 2: No, it's all me. It's my iCloud drive.

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01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:44,160
Speaker 1: I've got eight hundred gigabytes in there and then four

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01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 1: hundred gigs of backups. By the way, pro tip, if

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Speaker 1: you're trying to free up space on your iCloud, look

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01:23:50,160 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: at your backups. Sometimes when you get a new phone,

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01:23:53,320 --> 01:23:56,560
Speaker 1: you actually have a couple of backups you do not

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01:23:56,760 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 1: need in there. So for instance, I'm looking at this,

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01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:01,800
Speaker 1: it's got my iPhone in here, but then it has

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01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 1: my old iPhone that I do not need backed up.

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01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:08,439
Speaker 1: So keep in mind you can get rid of some

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01:24:08,479 --> 01:24:11,000
Speaker 1: of those sometimes and clear out space. Just be careful

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01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:13,439
Speaker 1: if you're deleting anything that you know what you're doing.

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01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 1: But Susan, yeah, you can safely ignore those. It's unfortunate

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01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: that these people do this, but yes they are. They're

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01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:22,160
Speaker 1: really trying to trick you. And by the way, on

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01:24:22,240 --> 01:24:24,639
Speaker 1: my Instagram at rich on Tech, I'm always posting people

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01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 1: are forwarding me the latest greatest scam messages they're getting

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01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:32,599
Speaker 1: and I will break them down and kind of explain

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01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:34,880
Speaker 1: why they're a scam on my Instagram. So if you're

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01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:38,200
Speaker 1: not following me there at rich on Tech, follow me

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01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: there for sure. All right, I've got a minute. I

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01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 1: don't know if I can get through another question, but

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01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:43,920
Speaker 1: I can. Oh, I can tell you about this app

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01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:46,599
Speaker 1: real quick in a minute. If you're looking for I'm

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01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:48,360
Speaker 1: a sucker for some of these apps that make your

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01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:50,519
Speaker 1: photos look really cool. I'm always jealous of people when

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01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 1: they post like super cool looking photos to Instagram because

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Speaker 1: I never really edit mine. But there's an app called

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Speaker 1: west w e st. It's a photo app. It's like

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01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 1: a camera app that makes your pictures look like old

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01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:08,280
Speaker 1: school film. And it's made by an independent developer college student.

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01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:12,240
Speaker 1: And it's only on iOS. But take pictures and it

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01:25:12,320 --> 01:25:15,559
Speaker 1: looks like film. It's so cool. It's got grain, light leaks,

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01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:20,519
Speaker 1: bloom glitches. It's totally free. If you want to upgrade

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01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: for the pro features, it's eight dollars, but you don't

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01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 1: need to do that.

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01:25:23,200 --> 01:25:26,120
Speaker 2: It's one time fee. But I took a picture in

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01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:28,000
Speaker 2: a bar the other night with this app.

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Speaker 1: It looks so cool. I mean, it's just really really cool.

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01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:35,040
Speaker 1: So again, the app is called west w e st

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01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:38,920
Speaker 1: Camera App. Try it out. You are listening to Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro

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01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:51,760
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight

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01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:54,680
Speaker 1: rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. We are here at Apple's

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Speaker 1: WWDC in the Apple Podcast Studios, and my guests are

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Speaker 1: founders of a app that was used very much through

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01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:10,599
Speaker 1: the LA wildfires, and of course continues to be used

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01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: to update folks on any sort of wildfires. John Mills

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01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 1: and Dave Merritt are co founders of Watch Duty.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show, Thanks for having us. Thank you

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01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 2: so this app.

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01:26:23,320 --> 01:26:24,800
Speaker 1: The reason we're talking to you is you got an

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01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:28,200
Speaker 1: Apple Design Award for Social Impact and that is an

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01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:33,320
Speaker 1: understatement for this app. During the LA wildfires, pretty much

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01:26:33,360 --> 01:26:35,800
Speaker 1: every person in La I know downloaded this app.

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01:26:35,840 --> 01:26:37,719
Speaker 2: Can you explain what watch Duty is all about?

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01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:41,040
Speaker 4: Well, Watch Judy started out of the problem that folks

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01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 4: in LA first encountered. There's not a lot of information

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01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:46,840
Speaker 4: when these disasters are striking. We've been doing this for

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01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 4: about four years and so I live out in the

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01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:52,439
Speaker 4: woods and really experienced this problem firsthand, and it's been

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01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:55,880
Speaker 4: a growing issue. And then unfortunately La found out just

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01:26:56,000 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 4: why we exist in early January.

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Speaker 1: How long had the app been around before these wildfires

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01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:05,000
Speaker 1: sort of thrust it to the forefront.

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01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:08,519
Speaker 4: Well, we started, David and I started writing software in

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01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 4: May of twenty twenty one. We launched in August of

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01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:14,600
Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, and it's been growing ever since. And

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01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 4: there's been plenty of fires that we've been covering and

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01:27:17,320 --> 01:27:20,200
Speaker 4: they're just not affecting massive communities, right, the effect our

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01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:22,000
Speaker 4: community is where we live out in the woods. But

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01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 4: unfortunately La again found out just why we exist now and.

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Speaker 1: What was the reason for creating the app. I mean

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01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:30,759
Speaker 1: you said it was just bringing the information to folks

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Speaker 1: that need it.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean I've been through a bunch of fires

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01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:34,400
Speaker 4: where there's no information.

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01:27:34,760 --> 01:27:34,920
Speaker 3: Right.

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01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:37,400
Speaker 4: If a helicopter is over my head, flying in circles

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01:27:37,439 --> 01:27:39,800
Speaker 4: dropping water on a neighboring ranch with no alert and

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Speaker 4: no warning, and you're just sitting there trying to figure

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Speaker 4: out is this real? Is this happening? Why is this

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Speaker 4: not being told to us? And so it turns out

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Speaker 4: that is just the underlying problem that continues to happen honestly, And.

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Speaker 1: Dave, how did you get the people to actually update

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Speaker 1: this app? Like where's it getting this information from? Because

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Speaker 1: the app presents on a map all the fires and

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Speaker 1: then live updates about what's happening with those fires.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think something that's not always readily apparent is that

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Speaker 5: there's a huge team of expert volunteers and paid staff

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Speaker 5: that are doing this reporting, that are verifying and vetting

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Speaker 5: with a code of conduct all of the potential new

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Speaker 5: fire starts all of the updates about the fires. So

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Speaker 5: you know, what you see in reports, what you see

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Speaker 5: in push certifications around a new fire is really just

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Speaker 5: the tip of what's happening behind the scenes with a

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Speaker 5: big community of really concerned community members and paid staff

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Speaker 5: that are trying to bring relevant and timely information to people.

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Speaker 2: Well, who are these people that are doing this? And

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Speaker 2: I know you have like volunteers and people, So.

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Speaker 5: It all started as volunteers. You know, a lot of

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01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:47,760
Speaker 5: these people started out on Facebook and Twitter in their

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Speaker 5: own communities kind of doing this dissemination of information, listening

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Speaker 5: to radios, and a lot of what we did was

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Speaker 5: build a platform for them to just do this in

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Speaker 5: a better place.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:02,360
Speaker 5: We we believe that these push notifications, these life like,

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01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:06,000
Speaker 5: potentially life altering notifications, shouldn't be kind of filtered in

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01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:09,680
Speaker 5: between your niece's birthday and the next ad you might

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01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:10,920
Speaker 5: get on another social media.

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01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:14,520
Speaker 2: So by giving them a platform.

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01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:16,680
Speaker 5: To do this, you know, we've allowed you know, X

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Speaker 5: first like X firefighters, retired first responders kind of you know,

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Speaker 5: radio enthusiasts, people that have been tracking fires for a

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01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:28,120
Speaker 5: long time to work together and collaborate as opposed to

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01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:31,000
Speaker 5: doing it independently and a place to share that in

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01:29:31,080 --> 01:29:32,959
Speaker 5: a really cohesive way in the application.

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Speaker 2: How do you think the app did during the LA wildfires.

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Speaker 4: Well, and we were number one app in the abstor nationwide.

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Speaker 4: Unfortunately Dave and the team and I was I used

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Speaker 4: to be an engineer, so I pretend to be useful

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01:29:46,360 --> 01:29:48,679
Speaker 4: when that stuff happens. But you know, Dave and the engineers,

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Speaker 4: we're sleeping in shifts. You know, we're doing one hundred

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Speaker 4: thousand requests a second, which is twice what Wikipedia does

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Speaker 4: with a team of four engineers at the time. And

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Speaker 4: so you know, I'm making phone calls to you know,

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Speaker 4: our donors and vendors, whether at Schoogle, Apple Book, a

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Speaker 4: HEROICU salesforce and others who are giving us infrastructure to

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Speaker 4: keep this thing up. And then they you know, the

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Speaker 4: reporters themselves listening to radios day and night. Right we're

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Speaker 4: door toashing them food, We're trying to get them to

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Speaker 4: go to sleep, and others are stepping in for them.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it was an all hands on deck, you

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Speaker 4: know event for probably two weeks, I'd say, to not

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Speaker 4: sleep right for probably about a month after that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was very humbling.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's like you build these things for potential

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01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 5: scenarios like this, you see it in action and it's

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Speaker 5: staggering to see the impact. I never imagined when John

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Speaker 5: and I were developing this thing as a group of

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Speaker 5: volunteers that ten million people would be using it in

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Speaker 5: a week and a lot of life altering kind of

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01:30:40,920 --> 01:30:44,920
Speaker 5: decision making points. Just seeing the numbers roll by. Honestly,

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Speaker 5: during the actual thing, it was like John said, all

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Speaker 5: hands on deck.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't.

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Speaker 5: I didn't really have enough time for the daydreaming about impact.

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Speaker 5: But afterwards it was very humbling and very rewarding to

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Speaker 5: see kind of that we were able to help people

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Speaker 5: in those moments of you know, real real stress and panic.

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Speaker 1: Now this is sort of set up as a nonprofit,

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Speaker 1: but the app, can you explain that relationship between you

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Speaker 1: asked for donations and I'm sure people came through during

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Speaker 1: the fires, but can you explain that side of the

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Speaker 1: app because it's a little unique compared to most apps.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's actually very simple. We're just a nonprofit organization,

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Speaker 4: so there's no you know, there's no other strange things

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Speaker 4: going on. A parent company and a for profit nonprofit

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Speaker 4: is just a nonprofit organization, similar to like AARP and

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Speaker 4: Triple A and other nonprofits are just a nonprofit that

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Speaker 4: provide a service. And so it's actually much more straightforward

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Speaker 4: than one would think. I just think that with a

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Speaker 4: world of open AI, people like, what's the catch here,

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01:31:40,439 --> 01:31:43,479
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, there isn't a catch, which is kind

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01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:45,720
Speaker 4: of hard for people to believe, right, But like, we

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01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:48,040
Speaker 4: live in this community, it is important to us that

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Speaker 4: this stays the same, it stays independent and doesn't change.

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Speaker 4: And frankly, all of us through work at Watch Duty,

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01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:56,080
Speaker 4: use the thing every day just like everyone else does.

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Speaker 2: Can you give me an idea of where it's available.

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01:31:58,360 --> 01:32:01,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're currently in twenty two states. When we first started,

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01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:03,960
Speaker 4: it was just in three counties in California. The next

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Speaker 4: year was all of California. That I was I think

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Speaker 4: six or seven states, then ten, now twenty two, and

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01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:10,519
Speaker 4: we're trying to make it all the way across the

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Speaker 4: East coast. And then we're going to be launching our

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Speaker 4: flood monitoring and other programs for other natural disasters.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you're going to do that's next? Is flood monitoring.

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Speaker 4: Any natural disaster? Really is our purview, right, So if

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01:32:23,920 --> 01:32:27,360
Speaker 4: there's unseen danger that you can't see or get information about,

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Speaker 4: we want to be there to help.

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Speaker 5: Like John mentioned, I think what we're really looking at

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01:32:31,600 --> 01:32:35,400
Speaker 5: now is deepening our product around fire and continue to

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01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:38,280
Speaker 5: be the best that there is there, but also realizing

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01:32:38,360 --> 01:32:40,720
Speaker 5: that you know, a lot of disasters people have that

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01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:43,360
Speaker 5: same problem of what I do? Where do I go

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01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:46,439
Speaker 5: to get good information to help me make decisions during

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01:32:47,200 --> 01:32:49,479
Speaker 5: these moments unpacking the car and these figure like do

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01:32:49,640 --> 01:32:51,120
Speaker 5: I leave the house, do I stay? Do I go

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01:32:51,240 --> 01:32:54,519
Speaker 5: get my grandmother? So that problem exists everywhere. So we're

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01:32:54,520 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 5: seeing where we fit into the rest of the ecosystem

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01:32:57,560 --> 01:32:59,439
Speaker 5: around natural disasters to help people out.

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Speaker 1: Now, you guys got the Apple Design Award for Social

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01:33:02,880 --> 01:33:06,800
Speaker 1: Impact for It's especially the help during the twenty twenty

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01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:10,320
Speaker 1: five California wildfires. What does this mean to you to

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01:33:10,400 --> 01:33:11,679
Speaker 1: get this award for this app?

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01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:15,800
Speaker 5: It's a big honor, you know, it's it's really you know,

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01:33:15,880 --> 01:33:18,240
Speaker 5: I think more about the community of people that did

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01:33:18,320 --> 01:33:21,000
Speaker 5: this reporting than the app itself. You know, the app

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01:33:21,120 --> 01:33:24,680
Speaker 5: is again this like the visible aspect, But you know,

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01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:27,400
Speaker 5: we wouldn't be here accepting this reward if it wasn't

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01:33:27,439 --> 01:33:29,519
Speaker 5: for what the reporters did and all the time and

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01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:31,800
Speaker 5: effort that that's really a whole nonprofit put into it.

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01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 2: What about people that want to get involved? Can people

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01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:35,519
Speaker 2: get involved in if they want to be a reporter

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01:33:35,640 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 2: for their area?

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01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 4: They do, And we find a lot of volunteers. I

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01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:42,120
Speaker 4: mean watchdidty dot org, slash volunteers where people show up

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01:33:42,160 --> 01:33:45,760
Speaker 4: and and bring the skills whether it's you know your

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01:33:45,800 --> 01:33:48,960
Speaker 4: engineer or you're a radio operator x firefighter. So we

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01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:50,560
Speaker 4: have lots of people who show up for us and

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01:33:51,120 --> 01:33:53,479
Speaker 4: join the band and make this thing bigger and bigger

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01:33:53,520 --> 01:33:56,360
Speaker 4: and more powerful. What's on the horizon for Watch Judy, Well,

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01:33:56,360 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 4: I think what's interesting is, like, you know, we it's

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01:33:59,240 --> 01:34:02,479
Speaker 4: a shame that we're so popular, right, And so what

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01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:05,839
Speaker 4: we've come to realize is that first responders and governments,

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01:34:06,280 --> 01:34:10,280
Speaker 4: telecommunication companies, power companies are also relying on watch duty.

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01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:12,600
Speaker 4: So we have a business to business and business to

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01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:16,280
Speaker 4: government arm where we're able to sell them more features

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01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:19,040
Speaker 4: which allow them to get better situational awareness, and then

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01:34:19,120 --> 01:34:22,280
Speaker 4: all that money goes to support the nonprofit operations. So

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01:34:22,360 --> 01:34:25,240
Speaker 4: we're trying to do is actually build a healthy nonprofit

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01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:26,920
Speaker 4: that can stand on it zone two feet and really

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01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:29,479
Speaker 4: be a help to those who serve us.

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Speaker 2: And so anything you learn from this that you can

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01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:33,679
Speaker 2: share with people that might have an idea for an app.

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01:34:34,400 --> 01:34:36,599
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think for you know, young developers or people

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01:34:36,760 --> 01:34:40,120
Speaker 4: building apps, like, focusing on value creation is all that matters. Right,

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01:34:40,320 --> 01:34:43,400
Speaker 4: Like people look at us and they say nonprofit for profit,

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01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:45,160
Speaker 4: what's this? What's that? I'm like, you're missing the point.

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01:34:45,479 --> 01:34:47,439
Speaker 4: The point is how do you create an immense amount

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01:34:47,479 --> 01:34:50,240
Speaker 4: of value for people that really need it? Right, So,

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01:34:50,760 --> 01:34:52,960
Speaker 4: there's a lot of apps that are copycats, there's very

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01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:55,200
Speaker 4: few that are original and focusing on original ideas and

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01:34:55,240 --> 01:34:57,840
Speaker 4: focusing on your customer humanity for in our case, right

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01:34:58,360 --> 01:35:00,840
Speaker 4: like all humans on earth, and so we didn't really

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01:35:00,920 --> 01:35:03,080
Speaker 4: worry about money. We worried about impact and how do

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Speaker 4: we make a difference.

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Speaker 1: John Mills and Dave Merrick, co founders of the app

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Speaker 1: watch Duty. It is available in the app Store and

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Speaker 1: the website watchduty dot org.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining me today, Thank you for

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Speaker 2: having us. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: More rich on Tech coming your way right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. The website for the show

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV. Before we get to the feedback,

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Speaker 1: just a couple of two more items of note number one.

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Speaker 1: There's a great app called Voice Notes Voice Nototes dot Com.

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01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:46,400
Speaker 1: I've been using this since day one. It continues to

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Speaker 1: get better and better. Think of this as a notepad

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Speaker 1: but AI powered, and it's also dictation based, or you

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01:35:57,479 --> 01:35:59,600
Speaker 1: can write in notes as well. So now they have

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Speaker 1: their first they have their first app for the Mac computer,

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Speaker 1: Windows coming soon, but they've got them for Android, they

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Speaker 1: got them for iPhone, they've got a web app.

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Speaker 2: It's really great.

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Speaker 1: And what I use this as is sort of a

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Speaker 1: voice memo app, transcription tool, memory bank, like all in one.

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Speaker 1: So what I really use it for is when people

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Speaker 1: tell me stuff about themselves, I put it in here

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Speaker 1: so I remember. And then the best part is you

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01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 1: can use AI to ask later about your notes. So

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Speaker 1: you can say, tell me everything I know about John, right,

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01:36:30,160 --> 01:36:32,800
Speaker 1: if you know you work with John, or he's a salesperson,

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01:36:32,920 --> 01:36:36,519
Speaker 1: whatever you do business with them, mentions he got a

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Speaker 1: couple of kids going off to college. You can, you know,

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Speaker 1: just dictate all this information in here or whatever. Just

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Speaker 1: you can apply it to any aspect of your life.

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Speaker 1: But really really cool. They've got voice notes, meeting recorder,

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Speaker 1: AI summarizer ask AI and it's really really cool. Definitely

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Speaker 1: check it out. It's called Voicenotes dot com. They just

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Speaker 1: came out with their MacApp. I'm a big believer, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. The other thing to do is there's

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Speaker 1: an article from the Intelligence dot com about how to

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Speaker 1: upgrade unsupported Windows ten PCs to Windows eleven. They basically

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Speaker 1: talk about using a tool called rufus that can help

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Speaker 1: you bypass the official requirements we've talked about, like the

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Speaker 1: TPM Secure Boot four g four gigabytes a RAM. Now

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Speaker 1: this a little techier than this show gets. But if

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Speaker 1: you're trying to upgrade an unsupported Windows PC to Windows eleven,

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Speaker 1: try it out. I mean, it's a great step by

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Speaker 1: step guide. I'll put on the website at Richontech dot tv.

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Speaker 2: Now for the feedback.

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Speaker 1: Bill from Kingston, Pennsylvania writes in, Hey, rich just a

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Speaker 1: heads up. The little light bulb at the top of

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Speaker 1: your rich On Tech website isn't working. I try to

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Speaker 1: on chromin Edge cleared cookies, it still leads to a

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Speaker 1: blank page. Is there another way to see past episodes.

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Speaker 1: I really enjoy the weekly podcasts bill. The light bulb

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Speaker 1: has been removed and now it is replaced with episodes.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a little bit clearer for people.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to listen to a past episode

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Speaker 1: or get links to anything I mentioned, just tap episodes

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Speaker 1: up at the top of the list.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to uh, let's see here.

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Speaker 1: Mike from California writes in thanks for your tip in

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Speaker 1: your email about the AT and T Senior Plan. I

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Speaker 1: chatted with an AT and T rep and in order

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Speaker 1: to get that discount, you can only have up to

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Speaker 1: two lines on your account. It's actually forty five dollars

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Speaker 1: per line. If you have three, like I do. That

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Speaker 1: is correct, Mike. The forty dollars monthly rate only applies

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Speaker 1: to two lines max. It's still a pretty good discount.

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Speaker 1: This is the new AT and T fifty five plus

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Speaker 1: Senior Plan. If you have two lines, it's actually thirty

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Speaker 1: five dollars a month. Forty dollars is for the one line.

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Speaker 1: So if you've got that, if you're on any other

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Speaker 1: definitely Why does senior citizens sound so old? Fifty five

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Speaker 1: plus is not that old, but senior plan a fifty

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Speaker 1: five plus plan, let's call it. But anyway, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people wrote to me saying they requested that plan

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Speaker 1: from AT and T. It's brand new, so I would

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Speaker 1: jump on it if you can. It'll save you a

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Speaker 1: lot of money. Steve from Scranton, Pennsylvania, listening on WTRWFM

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Speaker 1: rights in that call you had about hacking Windows eleven

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Speaker 1: onto an old computer, way too technical and too long

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Speaker 1: for your audience. In my opinion, I keep it shorter

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Speaker 1: and just point people to search online for those kinds

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Speaker 1: of instructions. Steve, great point. Yes it got a little Techye.

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Speaker 1: I allowed it to go because I was impressed at

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Speaker 1: the caller's knowledge and getting this out there. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I told you about the the intelligence dot com unsupported

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Speaker 1: Windows upgrade and that's.

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Speaker 2: Just as easy. So I'll put that on the website.

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Speaker 1: Jay writes in let's see. A wonderful website for searching

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Speaker 1: family history is FamilySearch dot org. It's completely free and

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Speaker 1: it's the largest family history database in the world. Also

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Speaker 1: connected to the site are hundreds of family family search

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Speaker 1: build out their family tree FamilySearch dot org.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.

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Speaker 1: Another website suggested by Jay moving right along Neil from Ohio,

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Speaker 1: oh I should have grouped this in with the earlier person.

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Speaker 1: I just heard your amazing caller talk about MBR to

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Speaker 1: GBT GPT.

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Speaker 2: Great tip.

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Speaker 1: I recently got a refurbished laptop with Windows ten and

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Speaker 1: noticed a couple of things during the upgrade process. First,

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Speaker 1: Windows Update offered me an older version of Windows eleven.

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Speaker 1: I skipped that and check the optional update section, and

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Speaker 1: sure enough I had the most recent official version, which

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Speaker 1: I installed.

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Speaker 2: Also, while my system was.

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Speaker 1: Already using GPT, secure boot wasn't enabled, Windows warned me

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Speaker 1: that some security features wouldn't work unless I turned it on,

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Speaker 1: so I did. Feels like Windows eleven is evolving in

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Speaker 1: some strange ways.

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Speaker 2: I love your show. I look forward to it every week.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Neil.

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Speaker 1: See you know it just goes to show we've got

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Speaker 1: a wide range of folks on this show. Tom from

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Speaker 1: more Park writes in hey, Rich, I saw your newsletter

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Speaker 1: mention of just watch. Great recommendation. I use that site,

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Speaker 1: along with Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb to find where movies

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Speaker 1: and shows are streaming, whether free or paid. But I've

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Speaker 1: also got a new site to share Next dash episode

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Speaker 1: dot net. It's been super helpful for tracking when new

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Speaker 1: episodes drop. You can build a custom calendar with only

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Speaker 1: the shows you're watching, and it will show you exactly

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Speaker 1: what airs and when. For anyone juggling multiple streaming shows,

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Speaker 1: this is a game changer. Wow, Tom, that is That's

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Speaker 1: a good one. Next dash Episode dot Net. Unfortunately, with

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Speaker 1: my timeframes of watching shows, I basically can binge them

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Speaker 1: when the entire season's done, after like four seasons of

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Speaker 1: the show, because I just don't have that much time

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Speaker 1: to watch TV.

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Speaker 2: But if you do, that sounds like a great thing

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Speaker 2: to do. Let's see here, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Guy from mar Vista writes in thanks for your piece

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Speaker 1: about the wise old camera with the lens oh telescopic lens.

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Speaker 1: It was exactly what I needed for my outdoor camera

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Speaker 1: fixture and it works great. I love your segment on

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Speaker 1: KTLA and KFI. Keep up the great work keeping us

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Speaker 1: consumers informed.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guy.

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Speaker 1: And then we've got let's see here a couple of

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Speaker 1: Carol from San Fernando. Thanks for your tech tips. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to share feedback on my experience using whisper Flow. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: it's no better than the built in Apple Mic. I

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Speaker 1: was hoping for something more accurate. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: report my unsatisfactory experience with the flow app and hope

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Speaker 1: better solutions are coming.

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Speaker 2: Carol, I think you have the wrong app.

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Speaker 1: It's whisper wispr Flow, and it is the best voice

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Speaker 1: to text dictation I've ever seen on the iPhone.

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Speaker 2: I think you downloaded the wrong app.

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, because it is definitely better than the

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Speaker 1: built in Apple Mic and you will experience that in

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Speaker 1: just one try. Rain from California says hey, Rich, thanks

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Speaker 1: for the tip on whisper Flow. I'm using my Microsoft

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Speaker 1: Surface tablet and just like you said, it works seamlessly.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: There you go see and uh, Steve writes in I

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Speaker 1: have a form of als and my speech is affected.

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Speaker 1: Siri has done an okay job, but whisper flow is

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Speaker 1: almost one hundred percent accurate. It is by far the

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Speaker 1: best dictation software I've ever tried, and I am so

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Speaker 1: grateful to have found it. Thank you one hundred times

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Speaker 1: over for telling me about it.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: It's whisper flow wispr flow on the iPhone. It'll change

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 2: That's going to do it.

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Speaker 1: For this episode links to everything I mentioned on my

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Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot TV, follow me on social

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Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. Next week we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: to Mollie Defrank about her two week tech reset for kids,

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Speaker 1: and the CEO of Clicks is going to talk about

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Speaker 1: their keyboard case. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend your time. I really

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Speaker 1: do appreciate you spending it right here with me. One reminder,

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Speaker 1: please do not text and drive. Whatever it is, it

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Speaker 1: can wait. It's not just for your safety, but for

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Speaker 1: the safety of everyone around us, including our kids, which

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Speaker 1: will soon be driving. Thanks to everyone who makes this

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Speaker 1: show possible. Adam on the board today, Kim on the phones,

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Speaker 1: I know we had some issues with the phone lines today.

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Speaker 1: In case that wasn't clear, I can tell you at

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Speaker 1: the end.

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Speaker 2: Now it's over.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging with me Kim today. My name is

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Speaker 1: rich Demiro. I will talk to you real soon.