WEBVTT - iOS 26 features, smarter spam call blocking & cool new camera app (125, June 14, 2025) 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.560 Apple unveils the newest features for iPhone and a whole 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:09.200 new look called liquid Glass. Google brings one of my 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.400 favorite apps back from the dead, and Anchor recalls one 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.279 of its most popular products. I'll have details on what 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.560 to look for, plus your tech questions answered. What's going 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.239 on on rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.600 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.240 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.880 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:37.240 the tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.480 up those phone lines at triple eight rich one oh one. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.880 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.760 zero one eight eight eight rich one oh one. Give 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:50.600 me a call if you have a question about technology. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.960 Email is also open. Just go to richon Tech dot 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.880 tv and hit contact. We've got a couple of good 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.720 guests this week. Stephanie Whitesman joins me to talk about 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.600 Speech a Fly. If you're not familiar, this is the 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.959 popular text to speech app that helps people listen to. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.360 The information they want to learn or absorb. 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.760 I showed my wife that app last night and she 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.560 was like, Oh, that's really cool. John Mills and Dave Merritt. 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.160 You'll probably remember the name of this app, Watch Dudy. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.440 They're gonna explain how their app became a must have 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:32.000 download during the LA wildfires back in January. Well, this 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.320 week I drove up to Cooper Tino for Apple's Worldwide 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.400 Developers Conference twenty twenty five. You might be saying, Rich, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.760 why do you always drive? Are you afraid to fly? 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:41.240 No? 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:41.959 I am not. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.320 In fact, I love to fly, but I also love 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.160 driving even more now I get it. It might be 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.560 a couple of hours in the car, but this is 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.120 a time for me. It's me time, time to think, 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.720 time to reflect, and of course listen to audiobooks. I 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:00.880 finished two of them on the trip. I actually did 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.720 something I've never done before. I started reading the physical 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.800 book and then I finished it with the audio version. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.959 Like I got halfway through the print and I was like, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:10.480 wait a second, I can listen to the rest of 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.440 this thing, and of course flip around the dial. It's 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.680 just fun to be in the car the open road. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.400 Isn't that like the dream? Just be there and enjoy things. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.480 So I got up to Apple Park, and I've been 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.800 going to Apple events for years. The Bay Area feels 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.200 very familiar to me. The Apple campus, if you've never been, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.880 is a very interesting place. I mean it's very new. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.920 You know, they just built this giant, spaceship looking campus. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:37.800 What is it like? 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.359 It is just like the iPhone, It's polished, it's elegant. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:46.160 There's so much thought put into the design. Think glass stone, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.320 curved edges, free snacks for the journalists, which is pretty cool. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.160 And I'm not kidding. They've got the visitor center that 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.560 anyone can go to. You can't get on campus as 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.960 a lay person, but anyone can go to the visitor center, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.880 which includes sort of a cafe and then an Apple Store. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.600 And it's a nice big Apple store. And I'm not kidding. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.680 There are lines out the door to buy stuff at 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.080 this Apple store because they sell shirts and things that 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.399 you can only get at Apple Campus up in Coopertino. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.919 One sweatshirt in particular, they just launched It's only there 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:21.760 thing sells for like eighty dollars. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:22.360 I'm not kidding. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.840 There's a line all day to buy that. All day long. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.000 I was gonna get a couple for the kids. By 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:28.480 the time I got in there, I was like, na way, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.480 I'm not waiting this line. Sorry, kids, But the best 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.760 part about getting to these Apple events is not only 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.240 being their first person, but you know, seeing all the 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.760 other tech people mingling, but also talking with the Apple 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.800 folks who build this stuff. And I talk about this 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.040 with every event I go to, whether it's Samsung, whether 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.280 it's Google, whether it's Apple, any event, you get to 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.280 talk to the people who build this stuff, who know 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.480 it best, They know the features inside and out. Plus 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.440 you get to see it all before the public does, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.400 so that's really cool. An Apple, of course, runs these 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.200 events almost like a tech version of cirqu Da Sila. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:03.960 Right. It's all smooth. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.720 They've got everything figured out and nothing is left to chance. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.160 Although I will say, first time I've ever seen this 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:14.360 at an Apple event, there was a protester. Someone jumped 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.880 up in the audience, said he was an Apple employee 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.400 and he was protesting something. But you know, and it 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.480 was very interesting the way Apple handled it. They didn't 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.320 jump on the guy. They sort of let him say 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.360 what he wanted to say. No one skipped a beat 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.039 on stage, but they just let him out. And I 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.320 can guarantee you that guy's not an Apple employee anymore, 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.400 probably not, But Anyway, if you want to get a 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.240 similar experience to what it feels like going to the 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.600 Apple campus, just walk into any Apple stores the same thing. 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.039 It's like a little slice of tech utopia in a 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.440 world that's not always perfect. 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:46.080 So what did Apple do? 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.040 They previewed all their updates across the iPhone, the iPad, 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.800 the Mac, the watch, Apple TV, and much more. They 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.920 didn't really talk much about AI per se, and they 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.840 didn't admit that Siri is behind in a but they 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.160 did say that, you know, Siri is not where they 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.159 want it to be, where they promised it would be 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:06.840 last year. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:08.560 Apple has a way with words. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:13.320 I'm sure this was very thoughtfully scripted, but they basically 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:18.080 said the Smarter, the Smarter SII is coming next year 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.040 or sometime in the next year. They said, So for now, 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.200 what do we get? We get a lot of new stuff, 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.560 but mostly software updates. Apple's new design style is called 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:33.159 liquid Glass. Think smooth, rounded, translucent. Yes, kind of inspired 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.520 by the campus that I just mentioned. It's also going 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.520 to look bubbly and modern, and I think it's gonna 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.919 be very polarizing. I had a chance to play with this, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.719 and it's very, very different than what we're used to 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.440 on the iPhone. They also add a lot of depth 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.920 and motion to the screen, so they have like these 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.680 three D lock screens you can do like your pictures 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.719 pop out. Almost Apple never uses the term three D, 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.599 they use spatial. But yes, it's all very much inspired 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.520 by that headset they came out with a couple of 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.360 years ago called the Vision Pro and so all this 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.560 is sort of inspired by Vision OS. And the other 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.719 big announcement was that the version numbers will now match 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.800 the year, so it's not gonna be iOS nineteen, it's 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.760 gonna be iOS twenty six, kind of like the way 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.839 car car designers do it. The model year for the 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.120 car is like the next year, So now iOS twenty 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.760 six is what we're getting on the iPhone. That was 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.799 front and center. Lots of new features on the iPhone. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.560 Call screening is number one, so unknown callers will have 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.200 to say why they're calling, and that will show up 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.920 on your lock screen. So once they say hey, it's 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.400 Jan from the furniture company, that will show up on 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.839 the lock screen. You can decide if you want to 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.040 answer it, ignore it, or block, but your phone won't 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.520 even ring until this person says why they're calling, which 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.320 is pretty smart. So that'll help get rid of a 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.120 lot of the spam calls that just are nonsense. Then 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.200 in messages, same thing, you've got a new filter for 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.760 your unknown senders, because we get all these messages and say, hey, 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.880 we've got a great job opportunity. You don't have to 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:02.280 do anything, but we'll pay you up to three thousand 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.280 dollars a day to do nothing. It's remote, by the way, Yeah, 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.560 that's bogus, So that's gonna be filtered into its own thing. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.840 Then they've also got whold assist. So when the iPhone 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.920 hears hold music, like if you're calling an airline utility company, 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:18.760 your phone will say, hey, do you want us to 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:19.320 hold for you? 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:20.600 Now? It doesn't. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.480 It just basically listens to the music and it waits 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.840 for the person to pick up the customer service rep. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.160 And as soon as they pick up, they say, hey, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.080 hang on, hold on, I'm gonna go grab the person, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.160 and then your phone will make a sound. You run 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.000 to your phone and now you can talk to them. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:34.560 So basically you can just do what you need to 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.240 do while your phone is listening. What else, in messages, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.400 they've got these animated and colorful chat backgrounds, so now 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.680 you can customize your chats. They've also got polls in 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.440 your group chats, so if you want to ask everyone 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.240 what they want for dinner on a Friday night, Hey, 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.720 do you want pizza? Do you want tacos? You want Italian? Whatever, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.320 you can ask it in a poll. The Camera app 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.160 is getting simplified, so now at the bottom there's just 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.520 two big clear options, photo and video. If you want 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.600 all your other options, you can tap or swipe and 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.040 they're all there. It's just they're kind of hidden away 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.800 until you need them. In the Photos app, they are 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.560 bringing back the tabs that we miss so much, So 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.960 now at the bottom you will see two tabs, one 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.160 for your library, which is all of your pictures, and 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.720 one for collections, which is the way it used to be. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:27.200 Live translation is getting expanded. Now you can live translate 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.960 your calls, your messages FaceTime. Apple Maps is going to 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.640 save a searchable list of all the places you visit often, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.000 which not everyone's gonna like. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:37.280 Thankfully, you can turn that off. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.640 Visual Intelligence this is kind of Apple's version of Circle 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.760 to Search. Not as good, but it's a start and 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.960 it does work, so you can search photos you can 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.920 copy text, search that text whatever you want. Let's see 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:56.440 accessibility upgrades, Braille access, accessibility reader, and better live list 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.480 and support. This is where you can use your iPhone 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.280 mic to send audio to your air or your hearing aids. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.560 So your iPhone sort of acts as like a remote microphone. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.160 You can aim it towards the person you're trying to 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.000 listen to. The Apple Watch gets a new AI workout 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.280 Buddy Custom Motivation. It'll say, hey, you just ran you know, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.560 five miles. If you do zero point twenty five more, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.480 it'll be past your best mileage. Ever then they've got 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.960 a new risk gesture on the Apple Watch. So now 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.520 you can flick your risks, sort of rotate your wrist 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.719 up and that will dismiss a notification or it will 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.000 bring you back to the home screen. So are these 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.840 updates revolutionary, No, but they're good little upgrades for the 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.840 billion plus iPhone users out there, and to iPhone users 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:40.480 they're new. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:41.000 Now. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.120 I know, if you're using an Android you're saying, rich, 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.359 come on, give me a break. We've had these features forever. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.040 Yes you have, but you have to come from the 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.360 aspect of the iPhone user. They're not interested in switching. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.720 They're not interested in changing things up to them. This 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.400 is new on Android, you can download an app and 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.400 customize anything you want on your phone. On Apple, it's 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.720 just not that way. So they have to wait until 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.600 Apple gives them these features, and for them, it's new. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.400 So what do you need to get these new features? 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.760 I iPhone eleven or newer to get iOS twenty twenty 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.439 six or iOS twenty six, or an iPhone se two 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.600 or later, that's the twenty twenty model, of course. To 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.160 get the AI features, you'll need an iPhone fifteen Pro 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.160 or later. Now, there will be a public beta in July, 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.480 but that could be filled with bugs, so I don't 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.280 recommend that you put it on your phone or your 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.120 phone that's your daily driver, but if you're curious, you 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.319 can test it out in July. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.160 The final software will land in September. So there you 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:39.400 have it. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.440 All the updates from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. I'll have 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.920 more about what they announced throughout the show, but first 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.040 let's get some of your calls eight a' eight rich 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.000 one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.800 four one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you about 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.680 the anchor recall they are recalling one of their power banks. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.520 I'll tell you which one and how to identify it 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.040 and what you can do. This is rich on Tech. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.440 I don't know if this happened to you, but this 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.640 happened to me this week. I was trying to do 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.000 a whole bunch of things on my phone. None of 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:16.840 them were working. This was Thursday, and I'm sitting there, Okay, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:22.280 first service doesn't work, second service doesn't work, third service 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.160 doesn't work. And that I'm like, Okay, something is a 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.160 little bit odd here. Well, turn out there was a 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:32.120 major Google cloud outage that caused all kinds of disruptions 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:38.360 across the Internet. And affected services were cloud Flare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.120 and even some AI coding tools. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.480 So what happened? Let's see do we know what happened? 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.480 Doesn't really say why it happened, but they're still assessing 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:50.079 to see what. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:52.679 I guess just went out. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.840 But here's the takeaway from this is number one, you know, 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.480 when these things happen, they seem to be to a 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.840 cloud provider, and we often wonder, like what is going 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.840 on here? So when in doubt, you got to go 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.800 online and see. So I ended up posting to my 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.079 Instagram saying here's what's happening, and of course the comments 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.960 started flooding in from people saying, yeah, it's happening to 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.640 me too. But the other thing is this just under 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.840 this shows how much we are reliant on these cloud providers. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.680 Like you think you're using a service, but a lot 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.960 of these services are relying on one of the big 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:33.520 back end providers, which is Google, Amazon with AWS, and 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.800 Microsoft with Azure. So these are the providers that are 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.200 sort of the back end for a lot of these 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.760 products that we use. So none of them are safe 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:48.240 from this stuff. So again, major Google Cloud outage happened 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.640 last week. That's what explains all of the issues that 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.760 you might have experienced with some of your cloud services. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.240 Dario writes in on the website, I was recently shown 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.439 a black and white photo of mine that was colorized, sharpened, 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:05.160 and even animated. I'm curious what app would you recommend 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.360 that can do this at a decent price. Well, there's 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.400 a couple that I've tested, and I will tell you 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.960 my favorites. Number one, if you want something that's just 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:18.400 on the website, you can try my Heritage. They have 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.800 a feature called in color and this is just a 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.480 website where you can go to You do have to 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.720 log in, but you can drop in a black and 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.920 white photo and it will basically turn it into a 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.840 color photo. The images will have a watermark, but it's 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.199 free to use and it works. Then you've got remedy 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.800 r e m I NI. This is an app that 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.200 can restore old photos. Again, a lot of these apps 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.800 are sort of freemium where they want you to subscribe 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.440 or pay, but they'll do stuff even for free. And 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.920 then the other one is photomine PHO t O m 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.280 y N and this allows you to even scan your 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:58.200 photos if you have them, old pictures, even slides and 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.040 it will do all the stuff that you said. And 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:01.719 of course they do have a free version, but if 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.200 you want unlimited, you're gonna have to pay. But those 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.560 are the three. I think the animated one is my heritage. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.360 I think they have the one's that animates your pictures. 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.560 But that's that's an interesting effect. It kind of brings 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.480 your old pictures to life. And it's a little little creepy, 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.720 I'll be honest. I tested it out. So one of 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.720 the more interesting things out there. Okay, we've got coming up, 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.440 I'm gonna tell you about the Anchor recall. Anchor is 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.560 a company that makes portable chargers very popular. This is 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.920 a product that has been recommended by many tech folks 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.800 over the years. It's one of those portable battery banks. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.320 And yeah, they are recalling it because of a potential fire. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.720 So I will tell you what to look for on 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.360 that device, and I will tell you how to identify 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.240 it and also what you can get replacement or some cash. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.520 And the website rich on tech dot tv I for 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:59.080 we want more information. This is episode number one, twenty five. 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.080 So if you go to the websit I search episode one, 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.800 you can get show notes to every single thing that 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.480 I talk about. And while you're there, please don't forget 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.720 to sign up for my free newsletter. It's all online 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.280 at richontech dot tv. My name is rich Demiro. More 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:20.720 show coming up right after this. Welcome back to rich 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.160 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.320 technology at triple eight rich one O one. That's eight 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.200 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.440 The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.920 Easy way to submit your emails there, just hit contact 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.240 and you can get your question on the air. That way, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.800 it seems like sometimes it's interesting. Sometimes people prefer the website, 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.800 sometimes people prefer the phone line. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.080 Just sort of depends on. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:47.400 Uh. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.360 I guess where the moon is that weekend. 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.680 I told you about this Anchor recall, So if you 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.600 bought a portable charger from Anchor in the last few years, 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.520 it could pose a fire hazard. This is a recall 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.680 between Anchor and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. They're 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.600 recalling their powercre ten thousand power bank. This is a 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.880 very popular model of their power bank, model number A 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:15.640 twelve sixty three. Again A twelve sixty three. These were 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.520 sold in the US between June twenty sixteen and December 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.200 twenty twenty two. They could overheat and catch fire. It's 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:27.040 a very popular device. Many many folks tech folks have 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.160 recommended Anchor products over the years, so there's probably a 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.760 lot of these out there. The issue is obviously the battery. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.680 It could melt, smoke, or ignite. So check your unit. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.520 Look on the bottom from model A twelve sixty three, 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.400 or you can go online to Anchor's online serial number 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:48.120 checker to see that yours to confirm that yours is affected. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.480 If it qualifies, you can get a replacement or a 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:51.600 thirty dollars gift card. 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:53.240 My tip is, the. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.840 Numbers are so tiny on this thing that you're not 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.320 gonna be able to see them with your naked eye 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:01.680 unless you are Superman. So you My advice is to 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.560 take a picture of the little area with the model 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.760 number and the serial number, and then zoom in on 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.639 that picture once you take it, so you can actually 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:13.399 read the numbers. You'll thank me later for that one. Again, 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:15.560 if you have one of these, don't use it. Do 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.360 not throw it in the trash. You have to dispose 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.240 of it at a certified hazardous waste site, not your 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:26.080 curb side recycling container. So go on my website. Rich 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.560 on tech dot tv. I've got all the information on 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.920 that anchor recall. That's a big one. A lot of 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.080 people do have that. Let's see here. We got a 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:43.040 question from Let's see. Christina from Los Angeles writes in 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:44.520 Hey there, I was hoping you can help me with 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:45.200 a few things. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.280 Recently, I got a new iPhone. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.359 My iCloud space is very limited because the things, mostly 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.000 photos from my last phone, were carried onto the new one. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.600 I would really like to upload my photos onto one 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.840 of those SD card readers. However, I would like to 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.399 get one where an app isn't necessary. Do you know 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.800 anything like that. Well, number one the caveat is I 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:10.879 do not recommend that you only have these things on 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:16.040 an SD card because if that card gets lost, stolen, ruined, 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:16.840 that's it. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:17.880 There goes your photos. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.720 So I do recommend that you expand your iCloud space 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.080 if possible, keep these things in the cloud. That is 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.600 the best way to keep them backed up, in addition 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.679 to on your phone. Right, the ideal backup is in 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.960 three places. Place number one is the original That would 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.320 be your phone, Place number two would be iCloud, and 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.520 place number three would be the SD card. So that 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.280 is the ideal situation. Is everyone going to do that? 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.680 Probably not. It's a lot of work to do that. 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:44.560 So at the very least I would like them on 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.800 your phone and an iCloud. iCloud is not very expensive. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:49.919 I understand the long term of this, but if you 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:51.840 lose your pictures, like I get so many emails from 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.320 people that do, it's a real bummer. People do not 0:18:54.560 --> 0:19:00.880 like losing their pictures, understandably. So with that said, I mean, yes, 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.439 you can drag these onto a flash drive that you 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.760 plug into the bottom of your phone. But that's going 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:08.959 to take a really long time. I'm not sure why 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.920 you don't want an app. So there's a great one 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:19.080 from sand Disc. It's called the Phone Drive for iPhone. Mean, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.080 let me look this thing up sand Disc Phone Drive 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:22.720 for iPhone. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.960 Okay, very very simple. It's forty dollars. 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.000 You plug this into the bottom of your phone and 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.919 it comes with an app that will back up the 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:37.439 photos from your phone onto this little drive. It's a 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.080 flash drive, same thing you've been using for years that 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.000 you plug into your computer, but it plugs into the 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.680 bottom of your phone. Did you mention the model number 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:46.320 your phone, Well, you said you got a new iPhone, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.560 so I'm guessing it's USBC. So you plug this in 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.960 forty dollars, gives you sixty four gigabytes. One hundred and 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.800 twenty eight gigs is fifty dollars, and two hundred and 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.679 fifty six gigs is seventy dollars. 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.119 Plug it into the bottom your phone and. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.200 It's it's got the nice fast speed and it's going 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.800 to back up the photos from your phone. 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:08.320 That's what I would do. 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.480 This also by the word by the let's see, yeah, 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:16.040 iPhone iPad a sand disc mobile app, So I don't 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.119 see why you wouldn't want to use this with the 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.639 app now, I think when you set app, maybe you 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.919 meant you didn't want to use like an Amazon Photos 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:24.440 or something like that. And by the way, that's another 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:26.399 great way to back up your pictures. If you're an 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.840 Amazon Prime Member, you can download the Amazon Photos app 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.600 and back up your photos for free, unlimited amounts of them. 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.119 As long as you are a Prime member, you'll be 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:41.280 able to keep that. If you're not a Prime member, 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:43.040 you'll want to download those. But the good news is 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.199 you got to get these things into a couple of 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.360 different places. So again, this is called the sand disc 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.280 phone drive for iPhone. It's a little flask drive. You 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.000 can plug it right into the bottom of your phone, 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.879 back up those pictures and it's gonna be super easy. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:57.800 Let's see. Is it even cheaper on Amazon? 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.480 Probably is, No, it's not same price on Amazon thirty 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:04.000 nine to ninety five, thirty nine ninety nine. That's a 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.240 great gift for dad too, Father's Day weekend. Why not 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.200 get him that, get his pictures backed up? 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:11.800 Thank you. 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.879 Nintendo switched to We talked about this on the show. 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:20.040 Officially the fastest selling game system of all time, Nintendo 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:24.080 says it sold three point five million switch to consoles 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:28.679 in just four days. That makes it the fastest selling 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.880 home video game console ever. Yes, ahead of the PS 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.480 five and PS four for comparison. 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:35.680 This is from the Verge. 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:38.600 They said the PS five took seven weeks to reach 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:41.240 four point four million units, the PS four took two 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.840 point one sold two point one million in sixteen days. 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.479 So people were excited. Why well, pent up demand this thing. 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:51.720 It's been eight years since they had a new switch console. 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.760 Nintendo very smart and the way they marketed this, and 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:58.480 there were some tariff concerns. People want to buy early 0:21:58.480 --> 0:21:59.800 because they're not sure if the price is going to 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.479 go up. We haven't seen that happen with this, but 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.200 we did on the accessories. They did raise some prices there, 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.880 but not on the switch itself. Nintendo wants to sell 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.680 fifteen million of these by March twenty twenty six. 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:13.240 Seems like they will. 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.479 The original Switch sold one hundred and fifty million, but 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.440 that's been out for eight years. The question is can 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:23.679 Nintendo keep this momentum going. They need some really good 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:27.720 titles to get this thing going, that's for sure. Right now, 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:31.320 they've got the Mario Kart World, which is different but 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:35.119 it's familiar. And then they've got Donkey Kong Bonanza coming 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:37.800 out and that. You know, those are two good games, 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:42.160 but they are not console selling games. That's the thing. 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.879 If you have one of the old consoles, what's the 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:47.840 reason to upgrade? You got to be a diehard Nintendo fan. 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:50.080 It sounds like they found those three point five million 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:52.480 diehards in the first four days. Now they've got to 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.960 find many more, and of course we've got a bunch 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:58.520 of months until the holidays. This thing is not as 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:00.520 easy to get as walking into a stor right now, 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:01.680 but if you put your mind to. 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:03.560 It, you'll be able to get it again. That's a 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:04.640 Nintendo switch too. 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:07.439 If you want to see my thoughts on that, you 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:09.400 can go to my website rich on Tech dot tv 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:12.600 look at last week's newsletter. All right, coming up, I've 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:16.639 been playing with this downloaded the Developer beta iPad os 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:17.440 twenty six. 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:18.879 I'm not kidding. 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:22.200 It turns your iPad into more like a Windows machine. 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:24.840 I'll explain coming up right here on rich on Tech 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:31.400 Welcome back, to rich on Tech rich Demiro here hanging 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:34.760 out with you talking technology at triple eight Rich one 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:37.120 O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:41.280 four one zero one. The website for the show rich 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:44.919 on Tech dot TV. I know a lot of you 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.040 are looking for the show notes on the Anchor recall 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:51.000 that is in the show Notes episode one twenty five. 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:54.119 You can find the link there to check your serial 0:23:54.200 --> 0:23:56.720 number see if you can get a replacement for your 0:23:56.840 --> 0:24:02.439 Anchor PowerCore one thousand, model number twelve sixty three. It's unfortunate, 0:24:02.880 --> 0:24:05.240 you know, Anchor I think has had a pretty good 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.200 track record up until now. But you know, these things happen. 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:11.359 They're manufacturing these things at scale. We never want to 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:14.639 see a recall, especially on such a popular product, but 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:16.880 it does happen. Did they say how many they had 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:21.879 out there? Let's see, they didn't. Trying to see if 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:24.679 they have a number. Sometimes they'll include like a number 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:26.600 of how many they've had. Now they didn't say that. 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:31.480 So earlier I was talking about the WWDC announcements. One 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:34.080 of those, one of the biggest changes I would argue 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:38.520 bigger than the iPhone is iPad OS twenty six and 0:24:38.640 --> 0:24:42.199 Apple made a huge change here to the way that 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:46.000 the iPad works. The software is getting a complete overhaul 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:51.080 and it is now more like a desktop computer. This 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:53.880 is something that people have been wondering when Apple would 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:57.400 do for a long time. The problem is it's very 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:00.479 confusing for Apple because they've got this iPad and then 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:04.720 they've got the Mac laptops. What's the difference at this point. 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.159 They both can have a keyboard, they both can have 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:10.280 a lot of different apps. So one is touchscreen, one 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:14.159 is not. Now with this software, you could probably install 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:16.439 this software on a MacBook. I mean you can't, but 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:19.199 I'm just saying if they wanted to, and it's the 0:25:19.240 --> 0:25:22.560 same thing. It's it's basically Windows. I mean a windowing 0:25:22.680 --> 0:25:25.879 It's not Windows like Microsoft, but a windoing system. So 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:30.119 each app now can be in its own window. And 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:32.560 I was playing with it this morning and yeah, I 0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:34.560 mean it's not polished just yet, like I think it's 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:38.480 a little quirky, but it's there and it's what people wanted. 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:40.160 You could just open up a whole bunch of apps, 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:42.840 arrange them, resize, put them all over your screen. It's 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:45.600 not like the old days of the iPad operating system 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:49.040 where you had to snap everything into grids. No, now 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:52.040 everything is free floating. Now, don't forget. This does not 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:55.960 come out until September, so you can't get this right now. 0:25:56.400 --> 0:25:59.280 But the developers have access. So I have the developers beta, 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:00.880 which means I can play with this. And I also 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:04.920 got the hands on up at Apple's campus in Coopertino, 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:07.560 so I've gotten to play with this extensively from the 0:26:07.600 --> 0:26:09.199 experts that showed me how to use it. 0:26:10.119 --> 0:26:12.000 So you've got your windows where you can put them 0:26:12.040 --> 0:26:12.600 anywhere you want. 0:26:12.600 --> 0:26:15.000 You can also tile them if you've got an expose 0:26:15.040 --> 0:26:17.720 a view, which means you can move your there's like 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:19.520 a swipe up or I'll show you all of your 0:26:19.520 --> 0:26:23.920 windows at once. And this brings that new liquid glass design. 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:28.440 So again the liquid glass thing. I think some people 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:32.639 are gonna love it. Some people are not gonna like it. 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:35.080 It's very polarizing if you ask me, because it's such 0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:38.280 a departure from what we've had. Oh, by the way, 0:26:38.359 --> 0:26:41.560 you can now have background tasks on the iPad. That's 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:45.560 something that's never been done before. Why well, if you 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:48.040 want to edit a video and final cut on the iPad, 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:50.560 you can export it and do other things while that's 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:53.479 exporting in the background. Yeah, this is a whole new 0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:58.280 way to think about the iPad. What else here folders. 0:26:58.960 --> 0:27:01.160 The folders now were in the dock, so you can 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:03.760 put folders in your dock, which means you can access 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:04.760 files much easier. 0:27:05.359 --> 0:27:07.200 Again just like a Mac computer. 0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:12.200 The files app is all new, so you've got all 0:27:12.280 --> 0:27:16.159 kinds of customizations you can have in the files app. 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:19.879 You can have it you view the files in different ways, 0:27:19.960 --> 0:27:22.480 you can list them, sort them whatever you want. You 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:24.840 can also make them color like you can make all 0:27:24.880 --> 0:27:27.879 the files different colors to file folders, and you can 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:31.960 add emojis to them as well. So again big departure. 0:27:32.119 --> 0:27:34.520 And then you've got the new Preview app which is 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:37.199 coming to the iPad. So before you could look at 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:39.600 PDFs on the iPad, no problem. Now this is like 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:42.840 the entire Preview app is on the iPad. So if 0:27:42.880 --> 0:27:46.640 you want to view a PDF, market up fill in things, 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:51.440 Apple pencil is on there, autofill is on there, again, 0:27:51.560 --> 0:27:55.640 more like a computer. The Journal app is also coming 0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:58.920 to the iPad. If you use that, they've got three 0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:03.680 D graphing and the math notes they've got a calligraphy 0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:07.760 pen in the notes app, which is interesting. I used 0:28:07.760 --> 0:28:09.960 to love cligraphy pens when I was a kid. I know, 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:11.480 I was a Weirdoh I still am. 0:28:11.720 --> 0:28:12.120 Whatever. 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:15.119 Cligraphy is cool, Like I used to have the clicker, 0:28:15.240 --> 0:28:17.160 like I used to have to get the cligraphy pen 0:28:17.680 --> 0:28:19.880 and then the ink cartridge. You would snap into it 0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:21.880 and that thing nine out of ten times would leak 0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:24.280 all over you and you would just have ink everywhere. 0:28:24.520 --> 0:28:25.520 But it was super cool. 0:28:26.560 --> 0:28:30.399 Yes, So the public beta coming next month, that is 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:34.119 in July, and the full release will be in this fall. 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:38.000 This is gonna support iPads with the A sixteen chip 0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:41.800 or later or the M one chip or later, So 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:44.000 a sixteen chip, M one chip. If you want to 0:28:44.040 --> 0:28:45.560 see what you've got in your iPad, you can go 0:28:45.600 --> 0:28:48.560 into the settings about type that into Google and see 0:28:48.560 --> 0:28:50.560 what you've got inside. Sometimes it says it on the 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:54.120 iPad the chip. I think, all right, I've done a 0:28:54.120 --> 0:28:58.000 lot about Apple. Let's give you a Samsung users something fun. 0:28:58.520 --> 0:29:01.440 If you have a Samsung Galaxy, you can get a 0:29:01.600 --> 0:29:06.680 year of Perplexity Pro for free right now, no strings attached. 0:29:08.160 --> 0:29:10.680 This is one of the top AI assistants. If you're 0:29:10.680 --> 0:29:14.680 not familiar with Perplexity check it out Perplexity dot ai 0:29:15.280 --> 0:29:20.200 what perplexity. What's unique about Perplexity is the way that 0:29:20.240 --> 0:29:23.040 it gives you a full answer to your question. And yes, 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:26.280 these are things that Google can do, these are things 0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:29.600 that chatcybt can do, things that copilot can do, but 0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:33.320 Perplexity kind of they kind of came out with this first. 0:29:33.800 --> 0:29:37.280 So if you say something like give me a full 0:29:37.920 --> 0:29:41.640 biography on actually say, that's not even a good idea. 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:44.920 You can just type in something like someone's name, like 0:29:44.960 --> 0:29:47.640 a famous actor, Adam, give me a famous actor's name. 0:29:48.720 --> 0:29:49.920 Okay, Tom Cruise. 0:29:50.360 --> 0:29:55.160 So when you type in Tom Cruise, immediately says Tom Cruise, movies, age, 0:29:55.240 --> 0:29:58.520 net worth, height, mission impossible. Maybe I just want to 0:29:58.520 --> 0:30:02.760 Tom Cruise bio boom. Type that in and now it 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:06.560 gives me a full response of everything you need to 0:30:06.560 --> 0:30:09.720 know about Tom Cruise, stuff that previously you might have 0:30:09.800 --> 0:30:12.600 had to look up on Google click a million links 0:30:12.720 --> 0:30:15.160 and find this stuff. No, now it's got everything, and 0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:17.280 by the way, it's all recent and in real time, 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:19.320 and then at the end it gives you a whole 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:23.600 bunch of related questions. So it's really really a nice 0:30:23.640 --> 0:30:26.480 way of learning. And I love their feature which is 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:30.560 Current Events, so you can search all their current events 0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:33.560 are sorry. Discover is their main kind of like almost 0:30:33.560 --> 0:30:36.040 like their news, so you can go through and look 0:30:36.120 --> 0:30:38.959 up just all the current events, all the stuff that's happening, 0:30:38.960 --> 0:30:41.280 and it's all in real time. It's really really well done. 0:30:42.680 --> 0:30:44.520 So how do you get this for free? What do 0:30:44.560 --> 0:30:47.480 you get with the pro Well, you get unlimited pro searches, 0:30:47.640 --> 0:30:51.080 access to all the different models, they have image generation 0:30:51.360 --> 0:30:54.000 file uploads, AI summaries. 0:30:53.840 --> 0:30:54.560 All kinds of stuff. 0:30:54.560 --> 0:30:56.400 It's basically just the best that they have to offer 0:30:56.440 --> 0:30:58.320 for twenty dollars a month, but you're getting it for free. 0:30:58.360 --> 0:31:01.320 If you have a Galaxy phone, how do you do this? 0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:04.000 If you have Perplexity on your Samsung phone, go ahead 0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:06.520 and delete it and then you have to re download 0:31:06.560 --> 0:31:09.680 it from the Samsung Galaxy Store. Did you even know 0:31:09.680 --> 0:31:12.840 that Samsung had their own store? Probably not, but now 0:31:12.880 --> 0:31:14.560 you do. And that's why they're doing deals like this, 0:31:14.600 --> 0:31:16.080 because they want you to go in that store and 0:31:16.080 --> 0:31:19.000 see what there is to offer. Download Perplexity from the 0:31:19.040 --> 0:31:22.040 Samsung Galaxy Store, sign up or log in, do not 0:31:22.080 --> 0:31:25.560 give any credit card, no information about payment, and then 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:28.200 all of a sudden it will upgrade you magically to 0:31:28.320 --> 0:31:31.280 Perplexity Pro for a year, and you should get an 0:31:31.280 --> 0:31:34.000 email that says you've been upgraded and now you have 0:31:34.040 --> 0:31:36.080 access to all this great stuff. I went ahead once 0:31:36.120 --> 0:31:38.160 I did this and installed this now in all my phones, 0:31:39.080 --> 0:31:40.880 and that's what they want you to do. They want 0:31:40.920 --> 0:31:44.200 you to use Perplexity Pro because there's a lot of 0:31:44.200 --> 0:31:45.640 competition in the AI world. 0:31:45.680 --> 0:31:47.360 You've got Perplexity Now. 0:31:47.600 --> 0:31:49.840 I think that Google's AI mode is excellent, and I 0:31:49.840 --> 0:31:52.520 would say it's the closest to Perplexity. I would say 0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:55.880 it's a direct response to Perplexity. That's why they had 0:31:55.920 --> 0:31:56.360 to make. 0:31:56.240 --> 0:31:59.520 This in Google. So but again, Perplexity's been doing it longer. 0:31:59.520 --> 0:32:00.360 They do a great job. 0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:03.040 I'll put the information on how to claim the free 0:32:03.120 --> 0:32:05.520 year Perplexity Pro on my website. 0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:08.880 Rich on Tech dot TV. All right, coming up, I'll 0:32:08.880 --> 0:32:09.760 tell you which. 0:32:09.520 --> 0:32:12.760 App is back with a surprise redesign on the iPhone. 0:32:12.800 --> 0:32:18.000 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:32:18.120 --> 0:32:21.680 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at 0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:24.239 triple eight Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight 0:32:24.520 --> 0:32:28.640 seven four to two four one zero one. The website 0:32:28.680 --> 0:32:33.280 for the show rich on Tech dot TV. There you 0:32:33.320 --> 0:32:35.360 can go to get show notes. You can also sign 0:32:35.440 --> 0:32:37.560 up for my newsletter and uh see what we're talking 0:32:37.600 --> 0:32:41.080 about here on the rich On Tech Radio show. Coming 0:32:41.160 --> 0:32:44.720 up this hour, we've got some guests. Well, we've got 0:32:44.760 --> 0:32:48.400 Stephanie Weitzman to talk about speech a FI. If you 0:32:48.400 --> 0:32:51.120 haven't tried this app, it is really it's really interesting. 0:32:51.200 --> 0:32:53.920 It basically takes any article pretty much anything you want 0:32:53.920 --> 0:32:56.400 to read, uh, but it makes it so you can 0:32:56.480 --> 0:32:59.680 listen to it. So it's a text to speech app. 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:02.800 Works on your phone, works on your computer. And I 0:33:02.840 --> 0:33:05.960 even did my own voice, Like I recorded my own 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:08.239 voice into this app last night. You can create an 0:33:08.280 --> 0:33:12.040 AI clone so you can listen to yourself talking. Should 0:33:12.040 --> 0:33:14.680 I see if I can play that? Let's see here, 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:17.719 Uh so you it doesn't take very long to do 0:33:17.760 --> 0:33:21.440 it at all. So let's see this is uh oh gosh, 0:33:21.480 --> 0:33:26.080 this is Steve Job's speech that he gave many years 0:33:26.080 --> 0:33:29.360 ago at a commencement. Of course, it's got to process 0:33:29.440 --> 0:33:32.440 the file, so maybe that's not going to work so 0:33:32.480 --> 0:33:34.360 well right now, I might have to come back to that. 0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:37.280 Let's see if I have a something that's already processed. 0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:40.280 There we go, okay, right now Gwyneth Paltrow is my voice. 0:33:40.320 --> 0:33:43.280 But here's here's my own voice rich on tech. Let's 0:33:43.280 --> 0:33:44.160 see if this sounds like me. 0:33:44.240 --> 0:33:44.680 Tell me if you. 0:33:47.040 --> 0:33:51.000 In a more theoretical discussion about the simulation. 0:33:50.680 --> 0:33:56.040 Theory, like I don't know if that sounds like living 0:33:56.200 --> 0:33:58.000 in a digital facsimile. 0:33:57.440 --> 0:33:59.280 Of I don't think so. Okay, So here's what I did. 0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:01.320 I think I re courted it. I was in like 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:03.680 a very echoe room, and I did it kind of 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:06.680 very in passing. So I'm gonna do it in the 0:34:06.720 --> 0:34:09.439 studio here. I'll, you know, I'll do it during the break. 0:34:09.480 --> 0:34:11.719 I'll record it. Only takes like twenty seconds, so I'll 0:34:12.400 --> 0:34:15.680 pretend that never happened. But we do have Stephanie Weisman 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:18.080 to talk about Speech of five, really really interesting app 0:34:18.080 --> 0:34:19.880 that reads anything to you out loud. 0:34:20.480 --> 0:34:21.720 And then we've got more. 0:34:21.560 --> 0:34:24.240 Of your questions, emails, calls, all that good stuff, plus 0:34:24.280 --> 0:34:27.360 the tech news of the week. This was really interesting. 0:34:27.520 --> 0:34:30.560 Sam Altman, I don't know if you're reading his blog posts, 0:34:30.560 --> 0:34:32.480 but the guy has a lot of thoughts. He's the uh, 0:34:33.000 --> 0:34:36.279 you know, the guy behind open ai chat EBT. He's 0:34:36.320 --> 0:34:38.880 got a lot of thoughts on things. He says that 0:34:38.960 --> 0:34:44.560 the gentle singularity is underway. So he says, AI superintelligence 0:34:44.640 --> 0:34:47.800 is already in motion, and we're already in the early stages. 0:34:47.840 --> 0:34:51.640 It's very gradual, right. Systems like CHATCHYBT says, are he 0:34:51.719 --> 0:34:54.759 being used by hundreds of millions already every day, and 0:34:54.800 --> 0:34:58.480 they're more capable than any individual human in some areas. 0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:01.359 Think about that, they've already created kind of like the 0:35:01.480 --> 0:35:03.680 smartest being in the world. 0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:04.520 And it's not like Google. 0:35:04.560 --> 0:35:07.600 Right, Google's very smart, has all the answers, but it's 0:35:07.640 --> 0:35:11.480 not the same as a chat GPT where it synthesizes 0:35:11.520 --> 0:35:14.440 things from a lot of different places. So here's his 0:35:14.560 --> 0:35:19.759 timeline of AI growth twenty twenty five, AI agents doing 0:35:19.840 --> 0:35:23.360 meaningful cognitive work that's sort of happening right now, twenty 0:35:23.400 --> 0:35:26.319 twenty six. Next year, he believes that AI systems will 0:35:26.360 --> 0:35:30.400 make original scientific discoveries. They will see things that humans 0:35:30.440 --> 0:35:33.960 have missed or never we're able to do. They will 0:35:33.960 --> 0:35:37.080 figure them out, and then in twenty twenty seven robots 0:35:37.160 --> 0:35:39.480 capable of real world tasks. 0:35:40.760 --> 0:35:41.480 Think about that. 0:35:41.920 --> 0:35:44.600 Right now, AI lives in a little chatbot, little chat 0:35:44.600 --> 0:35:47.600 screen on your computer, on your phone, But imagine when 0:35:47.640 --> 0:35:52.200 this this smarts, these smarts are built into a humanoid robot, 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:55.120 which many companies are working on right now, and you 0:35:55.160 --> 0:35:57.680 can teach them to do things like right now, if 0:35:57.719 --> 0:35:59.759 you go into chat GBT and you need to do something, 0:35:59.800 --> 0:36:03.040 you can teach it how to do that. So that 0:36:03.200 --> 0:36:04.920 is the main thing that you need to know about that. 0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:07.080 Whatever you want to teach chat GBT, it will figure 0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:09.480 it out. You say, here's how I do this, Now 0:36:09.520 --> 0:36:12.840 do it, and yes, it will do it. But imagine 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:15.200 when you can put that into a robot. That's when 0:36:15.239 --> 0:36:18.359 it's going to get really interesting. So he believes that 0:36:18.440 --> 0:36:23.160 intelligence and energy will become abundant, removing long standing barriers 0:36:23.160 --> 0:36:25.680 to progress. And if you're wondering, by the way, about 0:36:25.680 --> 0:36:27.719 this whole have you heard this thing like, oh, just 0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:30.200 one question on chat GBT uses a gallon of water 0:36:30.280 --> 0:36:34.240 or you know, enough electricity to power up a whole city. 0:36:34.360 --> 0:36:38.600 So he addresses that a single question on chat GBT, 0:36:39.320 --> 0:36:42.360 a single query uses about point three four wat hours 0:36:42.360 --> 0:36:45.319 of electricity. Now what does that mean? Nobody knows, but 0:36:45.440 --> 0:36:48.160 he says it it's about what an oven uses in 0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:52.880 one second. And then how about the water point zero 0:36:53.080 --> 0:36:55.200 zero zero zero eight five. 0:36:55.080 --> 0:36:55.920 Gallons of water? 0:36:56.000 --> 0:37:00.359 Per query that's around one fifteenth of a teaspoon of water, 0:37:01.960 --> 0:37:05.319 so probably had to use chat GBT for those conversions. 0:37:06.320 --> 0:37:09.920 He compares what we're going through is a slow motion singularity, 0:37:11.280 --> 0:37:15.279 massive changes that feels gradual because we're living through it. 0:37:15.400 --> 0:37:17.600 Two years ago. If you would have thought about the 0:37:17.640 --> 0:37:20.560 stuff that chatchbt could do, you wouldn't believe it. Now 0:37:20.600 --> 0:37:24.759 people are doing it every day, synthesizing things, summarizing things, 0:37:24.800 --> 0:37:29.280 coming up with business plans, proofreading things, writing essays, writing stories. 0:37:30.000 --> 0:37:34.560 I was using Google's vo today VO three, which is 0:37:34.560 --> 0:37:38.600 their AI video generator. Oh, I haven't even talked about 0:37:38.600 --> 0:37:43.240 this on the show. It is so incredible. It is unbelievable. 0:37:43.280 --> 0:37:47.160 It creates high quality eight second videos with AI. You 0:37:47.280 --> 0:37:50.000 type what you want it to do and it makes 0:37:50.040 --> 0:37:53.880 that and you can do anything. It is unbelievable. By 0:37:53.880 --> 0:37:58.600 the way, it also has speech and audio, so if 0:37:58.600 --> 0:38:03.200 you want a bird pecking at a tree in a 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:07.920 sci fi world, it can do that. It generates stuff 0:38:07.960 --> 0:38:12.320 that is just so realistic. I'm my mind is boggled 0:38:12.400 --> 0:38:12.799 right now. 0:38:13.760 --> 0:38:13.920 Now. 0:38:13.960 --> 0:38:15.880 You do have to, I think, to use this you 0:38:15.960 --> 0:38:19.200 have to have a membership to Google's AI, which I do, 0:38:20.040 --> 0:38:21.640 but unbelievable. 0:38:21.640 --> 0:38:22.680 The ultra plan. 0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:24.839 If you want the real like right now, I only 0:38:24.840 --> 0:38:27.120 have access to Vo three Fast, which is just their 0:38:27.160 --> 0:38:30.880 fast generation. That's like twenty dollars a month. If you 0:38:30.960 --> 0:38:35.719 want VO three, which is their ultra like high quality, 0:38:35.840 --> 0:38:37.960 you gotta pay for the Google's ultraplan, which is two 0:38:38.000 --> 0:38:40.359 hundred and fifty dollars a month. And some people will 0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:43.040 do that, Like there will be someone who uses this 0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:46.520 to create an entire music video, an entire movie. But 0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:49.759 again it's got to be eight second clips. But again, 0:38:49.800 --> 0:38:52.560 it's got native audio generation as well, which is the 0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:56.319 new thing. So it's called they call it flow, that's 0:38:56.360 --> 0:38:59.120 their video generator. I mean all these things like we're 0:38:59.120 --> 0:39:01.000 gonna need like a class just in the names of 0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:05.560 all these AI products. But is he what does Altman 0:39:05.640 --> 0:39:08.000 continue to say? Here's a great examp. I thought he 0:39:08.000 --> 0:39:12.759 gave the greatest example in this blog post about how 0:39:12.840 --> 0:39:16.400 AI is being used versus how social media algorithms were 0:39:16.440 --> 0:39:20.560 being used. He warned about the risks of misaligned AI, 0:39:20.840 --> 0:39:25.520 and the best example he gave was social media algorithms 0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:26.720 who do they favor? 0:39:26.840 --> 0:39:29.919 Not us? They don't benefit us in any way, shape 0:39:30.000 --> 0:39:30.239 or form. 0:39:30.360 --> 0:39:33.839 They only benefit the platform, But his argument is that 0:39:33.880 --> 0:39:38.000 AI actually benefits the people using it if it's used properly. 0:39:38.760 --> 0:39:41.760 He also believes that wealth creation will outpace job loss, 0:39:42.239 --> 0:39:45.680 So all these things about you know, people worried about jobs, 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:48.200 he will. He says that there will be new opportunities. 0:39:49.719 --> 0:39:54.640 So again he says, we are living it, this gentle singularity. 0:39:54.640 --> 0:39:55.880 If you want to, I'll put a link to his 0:39:56.160 --> 0:39:59.200 blog post on my website. Rich on tech dot TV 0:39:59.800 --> 0:40:01.959 just I mean, these people are thinking. 0:40:02.080 --> 0:40:06.000 About so much stuff real quick before we go to break. 0:40:06.080 --> 0:40:09.720 Mattle in from La Crescenta writes in I recently deleted 0:40:09.719 --> 0:40:12.759 my account on How's Houzz. I think that's one of 0:40:12.800 --> 0:40:15.640 those home apps. I was advised by them to please 0:40:15.640 --> 0:40:19.759 delete our cookies from your browser. Is that necessary? I 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:22.000 don't think so, Madeline. I don't think you need to 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:25.120 delete those cookies after you closed an account, unless you're 0:40:25.120 --> 0:40:27.920 worried about staying logged in or them tracking you. If 0:40:27.920 --> 0:40:30.240 you want to clear them out, it's a pretty simple process. 0:40:30.280 --> 0:40:33.120 It all depends on your browser. But if you have Chrome, 0:40:33.680 --> 0:40:36.720 just tap the three dots in the upper right hand corner. 0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:39.800 It'll say history or sorry, says delete browsing. 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:40.160 Data. 0:40:40.680 --> 0:40:44.200 You tap that and you can do time range, last hour, 0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:47.040 last twenty four, all four weeks, all time. The thing 0:40:47.080 --> 0:40:49.080 you have to know about that if you delete your 0:40:49.120 --> 0:40:52.680 browsing data, it's not only a delete House, but it 0:40:52.719 --> 0:40:55.400 might delete a lot of other logins from other websites. 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:58.680 So for that reason I probably would not do it. Now, 0:40:58.719 --> 0:41:00.400 if you want to delete it for just how you 0:41:00.400 --> 0:41:05.080 can go to their website. Is it house dot com? Yeah, 0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:08.360 and then tap the two little looks like a setting 0:41:08.640 --> 0:41:11.480 icon next to the website and it says cookies and 0:41:11.560 --> 0:41:15.080 site data, and there you can delete all that just 0:41:15.160 --> 0:41:17.680 for House. Okay, I just deleted that, so now the 0:41:17.719 --> 0:41:19.399 log in everything will be reset. 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:20.760 Great question eight. 0:41:20.600 --> 0:41:23.240 To eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 0:41:23.360 --> 0:41:25.160 four to two four one zero one. You got a 0:41:25.239 --> 0:41:27.880 question about technology, Give me a call website for the 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:30.320 show richon Tech dot. 0:41:30.120 --> 0:41:31.000 Tv coming up. 0:41:31.280 --> 0:41:34.360 I'll tell you about two really cool apps for taking 0:41:34.360 --> 0:41:35.600 pictures and editing them. 0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:43.160 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:41:43.239 --> 0:41:46.440 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at 0:41:46.480 --> 0:41:48.799 Triple eight rich one on one. That's eight eight eight 0:41:49.000 --> 0:41:53.399 seven four to two four one zero one. So, uh, 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:55.560 earlier I was talking about speech of five and cloning 0:41:55.600 --> 0:41:57.799 my voice. We're gonna have the guests on very soon. 0:41:57.960 --> 0:42:00.840 But uh, I just recloned my voice. So tell me 0:42:01.080 --> 0:42:03.440 if you think it took about fifteen seconds. Tell me 0:42:03.440 --> 0:42:04.480 if you think this sounds like me. 0:42:06.840 --> 0:42:07.480 What's going on? 0:42:07.520 --> 0:42:09.959 I'm Rich Tomiro and this is is Rich on Tech. 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:12.759 This iss the show where I talk about the tech 0:42:12.800 --> 0:42:15.279 stuff I think you should know about and answer your 0:42:15.320 --> 0:42:19.160 questions about technology. I believe that tech should be interesting, 0:42:19.400 --> 0:42:22.800 useful and fun. Phone lines are open a te triple 0:42:22.840 --> 0:42:25.319 eight Rich one hundred and one. That's eight eight eight 0:42:25.480 --> 0:42:26.680 seven four two four. 0:42:26.600 --> 0:42:28.680 One zero one. Give me a call if you have 0:42:28.719 --> 0:42:31.279 a question about technology. I mean there's a resemblance there. 0:42:31.840 --> 0:42:34.360 It's you know, it's much more robotic than my voice, 0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:38.080 but you know, in a pinch, yeah, it's a it's like, yeah, 0:42:38.160 --> 0:42:39.799 it's it's a little high. 0:42:39.960 --> 0:42:40.240 Huh. 0:42:40.280 --> 0:42:43.680 Interesting, but hey, you know what, it's a start. I 0:42:43.719 --> 0:42:46.040 mean this and that, by the way, that took about 0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:50.520 took about ten seconds to do. You record fifteen seconds 0:42:50.520 --> 0:42:53.480 of your audio and that's it. So we're gonna have 0:42:53.480 --> 0:42:57.280 the uh Stephanie Weitzman speech of SPEECHIFI on the show 0:42:58.320 --> 0:43:01.080 in this hour and she gonna explain what that app 0:43:01.160 --> 0:43:02.680 is all about, what it's useful for. 0:43:02.840 --> 0:43:04.440 And by the way, there's a lot of other voices. 0:43:04.480 --> 0:43:06.600 That's just me. They also have Snoop Dogg. 0:43:06.840 --> 0:43:10.520 Here Snoop Dogg, Big, Snoop deal Wg and I'm an 0:43:10.520 --> 0:43:12.440 English voice from the United States. 0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:14.040 They also have Gwyneth Paltrow. 0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:16.840 Welcome to Speechify. Speechify can read to you in the 0:43:16.920 --> 0:43:18.279 highest quality digital voice. 0:43:18.280 --> 0:43:19.320 They also have mister Beast. 0:43:20.840 --> 0:43:23.280 Basically, I hate reading, so I just upload every document 0:43:23.320 --> 0:43:24.360 I get to speech I find. 0:43:25.239 --> 0:43:26.200 My kids know who that is. 0:43:26.680 --> 0:43:28.160 And then they have all these other, you know, just 0:43:28.360 --> 0:43:31.680 regular voices. So I mean, it's it's really if you 0:43:31.880 --> 0:43:33.960 like to listen to stuff, it's a great way to 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:36.279 listen to articles. Anyway, I will we'll have more about 0:43:36.280 --> 0:43:39.359 that interview in just a little bit. Samsung is back 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:42.520 at it. I cannot believe that it's almost been a 0:43:42.640 --> 0:43:45.400 year since their foldables came out, but now they're teasing 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:50.719 new foldables coming out soon, a thinner, lighter generation of 0:43:50.880 --> 0:43:54.400 Galaxy Z foldables. They say they are the thinnest, lightest, 0:43:54.520 --> 0:43:59.879 and most durable foldables yet. If you remember Samsung Star 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:04.000 this journey in twenty nineteen with the original Galaxy Fold. 0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:07.600 I still remember being invited to the Samsung store and 0:44:07.840 --> 0:44:09.480 they said, hey, we have a new phone for you 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:11.879 to check out, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:15.239 a folding screen in my life before like that. And 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:18.840 sure enough they had to recall it from the reviewers 0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:21.120 because they had some growing pains there. 0:44:21.760 --> 0:44:23.080 But you got to give Samsung credit. 0:44:23.120 --> 0:44:25.360 They do try a lot of stuff, and they've definitely 0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:28.120 polished it since then, and I do see a fair 0:44:28.160 --> 0:44:30.359 amount of these things out in the wild now. They're 0:44:30.480 --> 0:44:33.960 very popular over in Asia and in Europe. They have 0:44:34.080 --> 0:44:36.480 not been as popular here in the US, but they 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:39.920 are definitely growing in popularity. The whole idea is that, 0:44:40.400 --> 0:44:43.920 you know, merging a smartphone, the portability of a smartphone 0:44:44.239 --> 0:44:45.920 with the productivity of a tablet. 0:44:46.239 --> 0:44:48.440 It's all in one. But the problem is that I've 0:44:48.520 --> 0:44:50.680 seen is that the screens on the outside were just too. 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:55.000 Small to be truly useful. So now theoretically we'll see 0:44:55.000 --> 0:44:58.480 a bigger screen on the outside. Samsung says this year's 0:44:58.480 --> 0:45:00.520 models were engineered to be even easy. You're to use 0:45:00.560 --> 0:45:03.920 one handed and fit more comfortably in your pocket. They 0:45:04.040 --> 0:45:08.360 promise an ultra experience, so more performance. 0:45:08.400 --> 0:45:08.520 You know. 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:10.400 The thing on these was that the cameras were not 0:45:10.520 --> 0:45:13.560 as good as the standard you know as twenty five ultra. 0:45:14.360 --> 0:45:17.600 Now if they can get that ultra camera on the foldable, 0:45:18.040 --> 0:45:19.040 there's nothing stopping it. 0:45:19.200 --> 0:45:19.759 Theoretically. 0:45:20.440 --> 0:45:22.440 They also say there's gonna be new hinge designs and 0:45:22.520 --> 0:45:25.759 materials to make them tough enough for daily use. And 0:45:26.360 --> 0:45:29.000 they have not given an official launch date just yet, 0:45:29.600 --> 0:45:33.399 but let's be honest, these things typically happen in July 0:45:33.640 --> 0:45:37.200 or August, So that's what I'm guessing, is a July 0:45:37.360 --> 0:45:41.319 or August launch date for the Samsung Unpacked event, which 0:45:41.400 --> 0:45:44.200 they would have sometime this summer. Don't know where it is, 0:45:44.280 --> 0:45:45.840 where it's going to be, what the dates are. But 0:45:46.400 --> 0:45:49.319 if you're looking for a new foldable hold off, maybe 0:45:51.040 --> 0:45:54.000 this whole twenty three and ME thing. Remember this all 0:45:54.080 --> 0:45:56.880 this they went to bankruptcy, they got purchased by this 0:45:57.000 --> 0:46:01.080 other company. While tech Crunch reports that fifteen percent of 0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:03.759 twenty three and MES users about two million people asked 0:46:03.800 --> 0:46:07.319 the company to delete their genetic data. This was after 0:46:07.480 --> 0:46:13.000 the biotech company Regenerate Regeneron won a court approved auction 0:46:13.160 --> 0:46:14.840 to buy twenty three and meters for two hundred and 0:46:14.880 --> 0:46:17.080 fifty six million dollars. By the way, when I was 0:46:17.160 --> 0:46:19.480 up in the Bay Area, I drove past the twenty 0:46:19.520 --> 0:46:22.120 three and ME headquarters. I didn't know I was going 0:46:22.160 --> 0:46:24.880 to drive past it, but I happened to, and not thing. 0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:27.759 I mean, it's a big headquarters. I just thought about it. 0:46:27.760 --> 0:46:29.120 I was like, Ah, all those people in there that 0:46:29.320 --> 0:46:31.960 are wondering, like what their fate is. It's probably such 0:46:32.120 --> 0:46:34.640 a high you know, high flying company for so long 0:46:35.360 --> 0:46:38.799 and now you know, purchased for mere pennies on the dollar. 0:46:39.280 --> 0:46:41.480 This thing used to be worth like six billion dollars. 0:46:44.400 --> 0:46:48.000 Twenty four states, twenty twenty three and plus one states, 0:46:48.280 --> 0:46:51.640 including New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania, are suing to block 0:46:51.719 --> 0:46:56.360 the sale of private DNA data without user consent. Twenty 0:46:56.400 --> 0:46:59.200 three and Me's data privacy trust was shaken after a 0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:02.239 twenty twenty three breach exposed data from six point nine 0:47:02.320 --> 0:47:05.800 million users. The company blame their customers for not enabling 0:47:05.880 --> 0:47:10.239 multi factor authentication, but come on, you don't let you 0:47:10.239 --> 0:47:13.400 don't let all that data get out anyway. People are 0:47:13.480 --> 0:47:16.200 getting rid of their data from twenty three and meters quickly. 0:47:17.000 --> 0:47:20.560 All right, I told you about this app that got 0:47:20.600 --> 0:47:25.959 a surprise redesign. Google just dropped a new version of Snapseed, 0:47:26.160 --> 0:47:28.919 version three point oh. This was one of my most 0:47:29.080 --> 0:47:31.440 recommended apps for so many years because it was so 0:47:31.719 --> 0:47:35.200 simple to use and all the features were free as 0:47:35.239 --> 0:47:37.319 opposed to like the photoshops and all these other photo 0:47:37.440 --> 0:47:40.800 editing apps that would charge, Snapseed kept it free. So 0:47:41.000 --> 0:47:44.080 Snapseed three point zero is brand new. If you don't 0:47:44.120 --> 0:47:46.120 have it on your iPhone, I highly recommend you ad 0:47:46.280 --> 0:47:48.120 it or if you have it. 0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:48.680 Update it. 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:51.719 It's the first big update in years. Many people thought 0:47:51.719 --> 0:47:54.560 that Google abandoned the app, but it's all gotten a redesign. 0:47:55.000 --> 0:47:58.800 It's got a nice new clean interface, new floating button 0:47:58.920 --> 0:48:02.000 to add your pictures to it, and they've got a 0:48:02.080 --> 0:48:05.760 new just all kinds of stuff, a new film style filter, 0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:09.840 and it's just really easy to use. So my favorite 0:48:09.880 --> 0:48:13.560 feature that I've recommended it for is called healing, so 0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:15.400 you can easily if you have a little blemish on 0:48:15.480 --> 0:48:17.120 your picture you want to get something out of there, 0:48:17.560 --> 0:48:20.400 you just tap healing and just rub over like the 0:48:20.520 --> 0:48:23.600 area that needs to go and goodbye. It's kind of 0:48:23.640 --> 0:48:26.200 like the simplest possible way to remove like a little 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:27.919 blemish or anything you don't want in your photo. 0:48:28.000 --> 0:48:29.680 Now I get it. We have AI for all this stuff. 0:48:29.719 --> 0:48:32.319 You can erase things, change pictures, but this was kind 0:48:32.320 --> 0:48:34.919 of the OG way of doing it, and so that's 0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:38.440 still available, still free. And then of course the tools. 0:48:38.719 --> 0:48:41.560 The new film style is really cool because if you 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:44.200 go to these apps on the iPhone or Samsung, a 0:48:44.280 --> 0:48:47.440 lot of them costs money to change the film styles. 0:48:47.960 --> 0:48:49.600 This one has like I don't know, it looks like 0:48:49.719 --> 0:48:54.120 two dozen of them, all for free. Polaroids six hundred, 0:48:55.000 --> 0:48:58.120 Fuji Pro four hundred. H If you're a film person, 0:48:58.200 --> 0:48:59.640 you know how to do this. Technicolor. Oh, that one 0:48:59.680 --> 0:49:03.480 looks really good. I took a picture of me outside 0:49:03.520 --> 0:49:07.239 of the Arawan. If you've never been to La, if 0:49:07.280 --> 0:49:10.040 you visit La, you gotta go to an arawon. It 0:49:10.160 --> 0:49:14.360 is it's its own world. You've never seen prices like 0:49:14.440 --> 0:49:18.040 this at a grocery store. It's wild. I mean it 0:49:18.200 --> 0:49:20.680 really is. And all this stuff is happening in the world. 0:49:20.719 --> 0:49:23.040 You go into Arawan, You're like, Wow, this is just 0:49:23.160 --> 0:49:26.400 a whole different world of that I'm not really privy 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:28.880 to on a daily basis. But it's fun. I have 0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:31.959 one thing that I go to. Yeah, Kim just chimed 0:49:31.960 --> 0:49:34.520 in said, I'm not paying twenty five dollars for a smoothie. Yes, 0:49:34.560 --> 0:49:36.959 they're known for smoothies that are literally twenty five dollars 0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:40.160 that's before the ad ins. But I guess it makes 0:49:40.160 --> 0:49:42.200 your skin glow. I cannot bring myself to buy one 0:49:42.239 --> 0:49:44.040 of those. All right, coming up, we're gonna talk to 0:49:44.080 --> 0:49:47.000 Stephanie Witzman about speech a fi right here on rich 0:49:47.080 --> 0:49:54.640 On Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro 0:49:54.760 --> 0:49:57.799 here hanging out with you talking technology at triple eight 0:49:58.000 --> 0:50:01.919 Rich one oh one. That's eight seven four two four 0:50:02.160 --> 0:50:03.759 one zero one. Give me a call if you have 0:50:03.800 --> 0:50:06.359 a question about technology. We'll get back to those phone 0:50:06.440 --> 0:50:09.080 lines in just a moment. But first we are here 0:50:09.239 --> 0:50:13.920 at WWDC at the Apple Podcast Studios, and we are 0:50:14.040 --> 0:50:18.400 talking to some winners of the Apple Design Awards. One 0:50:18.480 --> 0:50:21.520 of those apps is called Speechify. It is very cool, 0:50:21.680 --> 0:50:23.960 and here to talk to me about it is Stephanie Weitzman. 0:50:24.520 --> 0:50:25.680 Thanks so much for joining me. 0:50:26.160 --> 0:50:27.279 Thank you Rich for having me. 0:50:27.640 --> 0:50:32.080 Now you're actually the mom of the creators of this app, 0:50:32.160 --> 0:50:35.320 Cliff and Tyler. Yes, but you also work there I do. 0:50:35.480 --> 0:50:37.680 I work as a recruiting manager at Speechify and a 0:50:37.760 --> 0:50:39.640 recruit engineers from all over the world. 0:50:39.920 --> 0:50:43.560 Wow, that's amazing. So, first off, explain what Speechify is 0:50:43.640 --> 0:50:44.120 all about. 0:50:44.440 --> 0:50:47.560 Yes, of course, so Speechify is a text to speech app, 0:50:48.000 --> 0:50:51.160 but a whole lot more than that. And our goal 0:50:51.600 --> 0:50:55.880 is that learning should not be a barrier because of reading. 0:50:56.600 --> 0:50:59.640 And our goal is that every human being in the 0:50:59.719 --> 0:51:02.200 world should have the best possible reading experience and we 0:51:02.320 --> 0:51:03.200 really focus on that. 0:51:04.560 --> 0:51:07.080 And what's interesting about this app it won the Apple 0:51:07.160 --> 0:51:12.440 Design Award for Inclusivity correct, And so this app supports 0:51:12.560 --> 0:51:17.280 fifty plus languages, and it's also really helpful for users 0:51:17.320 --> 0:51:21.800 with dyslexia, ADHD and vision impairments because it allows you 0:51:21.880 --> 0:51:25.320 to consume content in the way that's best. 0:51:25.200 --> 0:51:30.600 For you exactly exactly. So Specify is great for everyone, 0:51:30.920 --> 0:51:34.600 but it's life changing when it comes to people with disabilities. 0:51:34.680 --> 0:51:39.560 And this is something that I have experienced being Cliff's 0:51:39.640 --> 0:51:43.319 mom who has he's severely dyslexic, and this is how 0:51:43.400 --> 0:51:45.720 he came up with the idea for the app because 0:51:45.760 --> 0:51:49.040 there was no software out there when he was seventeen 0:51:49.200 --> 0:51:53.160 eighteen going into college. The only software available, was very 0:51:53.239 --> 0:51:56.480 clunky and it worked at a one x speed and 0:51:56.840 --> 0:51:59.520 cliff because all of his reading was consumed through his 0:51:59.719 --> 0:52:03.600 ear at three x speed. It was very boring for 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:06.879 him because he also has add so people have dyslexia 0:52:07.400 --> 0:52:12.040 add low vision. The funny story is that our co founder, 0:52:12.120 --> 0:52:14.600 my other son, Tyler, is blind in one eye and 0:52:14.719 --> 0:52:17.839 he was born blind in one eye, so he also 0:52:17.960 --> 0:52:22.200 had He has myopia, so he gets eyestrained. But he's 0:52:22.239 --> 0:52:26.359 also a phenomenal coder and so he started coding when 0:52:26.480 --> 0:52:28.920 he was ten. When the app store opened, he had 0:52:28.960 --> 0:52:31.200 apps on the app Store in two thousand and eight. 0:52:31.320 --> 0:52:33.799 He came to us when he was eleven years old 0:52:33.840 --> 0:52:36.040 and said, Mom, can I have ninety nine dollars please? 0:52:36.080 --> 0:52:37.600 And I said why and he said, there's this think 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:39.480 of the app Store and I want to be on it. 0:52:39.640 --> 0:52:42.720 So he taught himself to code, but still with the eyes, 0:52:42.800 --> 0:52:45.120 it was a lot of strain. So he uses speechify 0:52:45.560 --> 0:52:48.359 because of his vision. And then there are people other 0:52:48.400 --> 0:52:53.560 situations such as people who've had concussions, or people who 0:52:53.719 --> 0:53:00.680 have encephalitis who cannot talk, autism, have speech apraxia. We've 0:53:00.719 --> 0:53:02.880 had people who are mute who said You've changed our 0:53:02.960 --> 0:53:05.600 lives because the app is being read. We can use 0:53:05.640 --> 0:53:10.480 the app to talk, it's our mouth. So we constantly 0:53:10.480 --> 0:53:13.120 get stories of people who have disabilities saying I'm crying, 0:53:13.320 --> 0:53:15.799 I've found your app. This has changed my life. 0:53:16.840 --> 0:53:17.960 How long has this journey been? 0:53:18.760 --> 0:53:21.719 So the company was founded eight years ago and we've 0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:24.560 been partnership with Apple for the last eight years on 0:53:24.719 --> 0:53:28.680 the iOS app twenty seventeen, and we really started before 0:53:28.760 --> 0:53:32.280 the AI boom, So we started with the speed variability. 0:53:33.560 --> 0:53:35.800 I think the core part of the product is the 0:53:35.880 --> 0:53:38.120 fact that you can see the words and listen at 0:53:38.160 --> 0:53:41.279 the same time and have the words highlighted out to 0:53:41.360 --> 0:53:45.200 you at any speed that you choose. And then with 0:53:45.680 --> 0:53:50.920 the AI boom, Tyler went to Stanford. He has a 0:53:51.000 --> 0:53:53.719 master's degree. He specialized in and AI. It was the 0:53:53.840 --> 0:53:56.680 right timing. He already had many apps under his belt 0:53:57.080 --> 0:54:00.320 and he just built a phenomenal AI model, which is 0:54:00.360 --> 0:54:05.759 probably the most sophisticated AI audio model that exists. And 0:54:05.920 --> 0:54:09.960 that was the started to train the voices. So now 0:54:10.040 --> 0:54:13.200 we have over two hundred voices in all languages, and 0:54:13.280 --> 0:54:16.800 by the way, people who want to learn the language, 0:54:16.880 --> 0:54:20.160 people who don't have English mother tongue, for instance, really 0:54:20.320 --> 0:54:23.960 enjoy using the app because maybe their visual reading is 0:54:24.040 --> 0:54:29.920 weaker than their ability to understand, so they can use 0:54:30.000 --> 0:54:33.120 the app to help with their English, and they can 0:54:33.160 --> 0:54:35.440 also listen in their own language if they want. They 0:54:35.520 --> 0:54:37.520 can slow down the speed if they want, They can 0:54:37.600 --> 0:54:40.520 go faster if they want. For people with add sometimes 0:54:40.560 --> 0:54:42.880 they actually want to speed up so they won't be bored. 0:54:43.480 --> 0:54:46.480 And we have all these amazing voices in different languages 0:54:46.520 --> 0:54:47.840 and even different accents. 0:54:48.000 --> 0:54:50.120 So the way I understand the app, and I've used 0:54:50.120 --> 0:54:52.680 it before, I've actually so for my radio show, I 0:54:52.760 --> 0:54:56.000 listened to a lot of articles, right, and so sometimes 0:54:56.120 --> 0:54:59.200 reading those articles can get be time consuming. 0:54:58.840 --> 0:55:01.400 And it's just a handsome time. It's easier to consume 0:55:01.480 --> 0:55:02.560 them via audio. 0:55:03.080 --> 0:55:05.640 Can you explain kind of like how that works, that 0:55:05.800 --> 0:55:08.480 process of what people are feeding into this app to 0:55:08.600 --> 0:55:09.080 learn from. 0:55:09.400 --> 0:55:13.319 Yes, so it's extremely streamlined, streamlined, and you can really 0:55:14.000 --> 0:55:17.400 do it from the most basic level of selecting texts, 0:55:17.960 --> 0:55:21.239 copying it and then pasting it physically into the app. 0:55:21.360 --> 0:55:24.759 That's one way. Another is just to copy a link 0:55:25.320 --> 0:55:28.239 paste it into the app. Another way would be to 0:55:28.480 --> 0:55:31.000 take a PDF and share it like you would share 0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:34.239 you know, to I Message or to any other application. 0:55:34.920 --> 0:55:37.960 Specify has that ability that you just share that in. 0:55:38.920 --> 0:55:43.360 You might not know this, but we're fully integrated with Gmail, 0:55:43.600 --> 0:55:47.000 so you can connect your Gmail and your Google Drive 0:55:47.600 --> 0:55:50.239 inside the app and then have your emails read out 0:55:50.239 --> 0:55:52.799 to you automatically from within the app. 0:55:54.400 --> 0:55:54.839 That's cool. 0:55:55.120 --> 0:55:56.920 And so once you share into the app, it will 0:55:57.000 --> 0:55:59.759 read to you whatever you put in there. Yes, but 0:56:00.040 --> 0:56:02.520 also you've got these celebrity I mean, there's so many 0:56:02.600 --> 0:56:05.480 voices to choose from their very realistic sounding. Yes, and 0:56:05.560 --> 0:56:07.640 then you've got celebrity voices. How did you get people 0:56:07.760 --> 0:56:10.120 like Snoop Dogg and Gwene Paltrow on board? 0:56:10.680 --> 0:56:14.080 Yes, so I think Gwinnos was the first. So Cliff 0:56:14.120 --> 0:56:17.640 and Gwinnos were friends and she said, yeah, I'm in. 0:56:17.920 --> 0:56:22.560 So she has beautiful intonation. A lot of people really 0:56:23.320 --> 0:56:26.920 enjoy listening to her voice, and I think it started 0:56:26.960 --> 0:56:29.000 to work from there. We also have mister Beast. 0:56:29.280 --> 0:56:30.960 Is there one voice that's the most popular? 0:56:31.040 --> 0:56:34.880 One's voice? It's probably the most popular. 0:56:35.080 --> 0:56:37.919 Yes, son, Yes, so he has a voice on the app. 0:56:38.000 --> 0:56:40.200 Oh, of course he's had a voice. Yeah. I think 0:56:40.239 --> 0:56:43.239 he had the first AI voice on the app that 0:56:43.320 --> 0:56:43.880 we used. 0:56:44.040 --> 0:56:45.040 Yeah, oh, that's so wild. 0:56:45.120 --> 0:56:48.640 And his AI voice is pretty much indistinguishable from his 0:56:48.800 --> 0:56:51.719 real voice, and I'm his mom. Wow, and the intonation 0:56:52.040 --> 0:56:55.640 is perfect and sometimes I get goosebumps because it really 0:56:55.760 --> 0:56:56.839 is hard to differentiate. 0:56:57.200 --> 0:56:57.800 That's wild. 0:56:57.920 --> 0:57:01.040 Now, speaking of AI, you have some AI features in 0:57:01.120 --> 0:57:02.680 the app, like AI summaries. 0:57:02.719 --> 0:57:03.520 Can you explain that? 0:57:03.840 --> 0:57:08.920 Yes, So say, for example, Rich, you're prepping for a 0:57:09.000 --> 0:57:11.600 podcast and you have an article that you want to, 0:57:12.080 --> 0:57:15.120 you know, learn very quickly, so you can upload that 0:57:15.239 --> 0:57:18.080 to the app, listen to it, but then say, okay, 0:57:18.240 --> 0:57:20.600 actually I would like you know, a summary to go 0:57:20.920 --> 0:57:22.760 just before that I can glance at. So then you 0:57:22.880 --> 0:57:25.760 can choose a short version, a medium version, or a 0:57:25.840 --> 0:57:29.600 long version. And you can even generate an AI quiz 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:32.600 and say I want to have ten questions about what 0:57:32.760 --> 0:57:34.640 I just read, and it will ask you the questions 0:57:34.680 --> 0:57:38.560 and give you a multiple choice option. So if anyone 0:57:38.680 --> 0:57:42.720 is studying, they can like take the material they want 0:57:42.720 --> 0:57:44.400 to prep for the exam and then make a little 0:57:44.440 --> 0:57:45.000 quiz out of it. 0:57:45.240 --> 0:57:47.800 Wow, that's great for learners. That's really incredible. 0:57:47.960 --> 0:57:48.040 Ye. 0:57:48.320 --> 0:57:52.840 Now you mentioned the accessibility and the inclusivity. Yes, but 0:57:53.000 --> 0:57:54.400 really anyone can. 0:57:54.480 --> 0:57:58.720 Use this app absolutely, I, for instance, don't I probably 0:57:58.800 --> 0:58:00.640 you as well. I don't have a lot of time, 0:58:00.760 --> 0:58:02.920 and if I have time, I want to go out 0:58:03.000 --> 0:58:05.760 hiking and walking and that's when I do my reading. 0:58:05.960 --> 0:58:09.000 So Ever since I started my radio show, I've realized 0:58:09.400 --> 0:58:12.120 how much information when you consume a lot of information 0:58:12.760 --> 0:58:17.040 it is. It's strenuous when you're reading, yes, but when 0:58:17.080 --> 0:58:19.720 you're listening it is, like you said, very natural. And 0:58:19.760 --> 0:58:22.080 I never I kind of like thought about that. The 0:58:22.160 --> 0:58:25.680 way our brain processes things. It just seems much easier 0:58:25.840 --> 0:58:29.240 to process the audio version of things versus like sitting 0:58:29.280 --> 0:58:31.160 there reading and you have to be comfortable, and you 0:58:31.280 --> 0:58:33.320 have to have a good lighting and this and that. 0:58:33.440 --> 0:58:35.800 There's like a lot that goes into reading that just 0:58:35.960 --> 0:58:37.080 audio is so much easier. 0:58:37.240 --> 0:58:40.280 Yes, because we evolved to storytelling. That's how we evolved. 0:58:40.400 --> 0:58:43.520 And so if you know, you have kids at home, 0:58:43.600 --> 0:58:46.360 and for anyone listening out there, if they have kids 0:58:46.400 --> 0:58:48.280 at home and they want them to be ahead of 0:58:48.360 --> 0:58:52.400 the game, they need to practice their listening more than anything. 0:58:52.560 --> 0:58:54.160 Well, we say that as parents all the time and 0:58:54.720 --> 0:58:56.920 in various ways. All Right, we're talking with Stephanie Weisman 0:58:57.040 --> 0:59:00.160 of Speechify. They want a twenty twenty five I have 0:59:00.240 --> 0:59:02.920 Apple Design Award for Inclusivity. 0:59:03.320 --> 0:59:05.560 I think one of the things that's special with our 0:59:05.600 --> 0:59:10.480 company is it draws people who really have a passion 0:59:10.640 --> 0:59:14.440 for helping people with disabilities. One of our key principles 0:59:14.560 --> 0:59:17.200 is leading with love, and you really feel that throughout 0:59:17.240 --> 0:59:17.760 the company. 0:59:18.680 --> 0:59:20.560 Thank you so much for joining me today, Stephanie. The 0:59:20.640 --> 0:59:22.840 website speechified dot com. 0:59:23.080 --> 0:59:23.480 Check it out. 0:59:23.480 --> 0:59:26.360 It's the number one speech to text reading app and 0:59:26.440 --> 0:59:28.080 it does have some incredible features. 0:59:28.160 --> 0:59:29.440 I'll put a link on my website. 0:59:29.600 --> 0:59:33.479 Rich on tech dot tv thanks to Apple for lending 0:59:33.560 --> 0:59:36.800 us their podcast studios today eighty eight rich one O 0:59:36.880 --> 0:59:39.600 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:59:39.720 --> 0:59:40.160 zero one. 0:59:40.560 --> 0:59:46.520 Back after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:59:46.640 --> 0:59:50.640 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, Talking technology eighty 0:59:50.680 --> 0:59:53.160 eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to 0:59:53.200 --> 0:59:56.080 two four one zero one. The website for the show 0:59:56.560 --> 1:00:01.160 rich on Tech dot tv. You can send an email 1:00:01.280 --> 1:00:04.640 just by hitting contact. That's what John did. He says, 1:00:04.720 --> 1:00:07.360 I love all your tech information. I watch you on KTLA, 1:00:07.520 --> 1:00:10.040 follow you on Instagram, listen to your podcast, and get 1:00:10.080 --> 1:00:14.560 your weekly newsletter. Oh my gosh, that's one, two, three, 1:00:15.040 --> 1:00:17.440 four things. Okay, well, I don't think you missed a 1:00:17.480 --> 1:00:21.840 thing there, John. Here's my question. If someone steals your iPhone, 1:00:21.920 --> 1:00:25.200 can you require a passcode or face ID to power 1:00:25.280 --> 1:00:28.800 it off? That's the first thing thieves do to prevent tracking. 1:00:29.000 --> 1:00:32.480 If Apple doesn't do this, maybe they should. 1:00:34.040 --> 1:00:34.520 Interesting. 1:00:35.280 --> 1:00:38.160 I don't think you can require a passcode to turn 1:00:38.240 --> 1:00:41.760 off the iPhone, but it does make sense that that 1:00:41.880 --> 1:00:45.160 would be something that's smart. But here's the thing. Actually, 1:00:45.880 --> 1:00:47.960 I think if they have the iPhone off, they can 1:00:48.040 --> 1:00:50.480 do less with it than on. So if it's on, 1:00:50.640 --> 1:00:52.800 at least it's secured and it's locked, and they can't 1:00:52.840 --> 1:00:53.640 really do anything. 1:00:54.400 --> 1:00:56.000 But it is a good question. 1:00:56.520 --> 1:00:59.760 There is something that Apple introduced called Stolen Device Protector. 1:00:59.760 --> 1:01:03.320 I's two things about this. Number one, if you ever 1:01:03.400 --> 1:01:06.680 turned off your iPhone, you notice that there is a. 1:01:08.760 --> 1:01:09.960 Where's my iPhone here? It is. 1:01:10.640 --> 1:01:13.880 It basically says this iPhone is still trackable even when 1:01:13.920 --> 1:01:16.400 it's off. So even with the power off. A lot 1:01:16.480 --> 1:01:19.439 of these devices are still trackable even with the power off. 1:01:19.560 --> 1:01:22.480 So that's a recent feature that they've added to these things. 1:01:22.520 --> 1:01:25.040 So they keep a little power reserve that even when 1:01:25.040 --> 1:01:26.720 it's off it's still going to be trackable as far 1:01:26.800 --> 1:01:30.320 as I know. And then the other thing is the 1:01:30.520 --> 1:01:34.320 stolen Device protection. This is something that is optional that 1:01:34.440 --> 1:01:38.040 Apple added that you can turn on and basically, when 1:01:38.080 --> 1:01:41.400 your phone is away from familiar places like your house 1:01:41.680 --> 1:01:45.200 or your work, it will require face ID or touch 1:01:45.280 --> 1:01:49.040 ID only, which means even if they figured out your passcode, 1:01:49.080 --> 1:01:51.600 which is a problem. There is this big thing where 1:01:51.840 --> 1:01:55.600 where thieves would watch people in a bar put in 1:01:55.720 --> 1:01:59.040 their passcode on their phone and then swipe the phone 1:01:59.040 --> 1:02:02.720 out of their hand and then go run away and 1:02:02.880 --> 1:02:04.600 type in the passcode, and now they have access to 1:02:04.640 --> 1:02:07.200 the whole phone, and then they would immediately do things 1:02:07.680 --> 1:02:10.800 like change your Apple password, they would go into your 1:02:10.840 --> 1:02:12.840 bank account, all that stuff, They would open up every 1:02:12.880 --> 1:02:17.000 app and they would just keep your phone unlocked, and 1:02:17.120 --> 1:02:19.240 of course they'd probably change the timeout on the phone 1:02:19.280 --> 1:02:22.640 as well. So Apple did this thing called stolen Device protection. 1:02:23.600 --> 1:02:25.919 So now when your phone is away from a familiar place, 1:02:25.960 --> 1:02:27.480 so let's say you are not at home, you're not 1:02:27.560 --> 1:02:30.760 at work, someone swipes your phone, they can't do anything 1:02:30.840 --> 1:02:34.360 to that phone unless they have face ID or touch ID. 1:02:34.720 --> 1:02:39.080 They cannot try the passcode to access things like saved 1:02:39.160 --> 1:02:42.840 passwords or your payment information or anything else. There's also 1:02:43.000 --> 1:02:47.520 a one hour delay to do anything like changing your 1:02:47.520 --> 1:02:51.439 Apple ID password, and this gives you time to mark 1:02:51.520 --> 1:02:55.040 your iPhone as lost and protect your account. And you 1:02:55.120 --> 1:02:58.520 can turn this on permanently, so it works anywhere that 1:02:58.800 --> 1:03:01.520 is in settings. Let's see if I can find this 1:03:02.400 --> 1:03:06.680 stolen device protection. So if you just okay, it's under 1:03:06.760 --> 1:03:10.800 passcode stolen device protection, you got to type in your 1:03:10.800 --> 1:03:15.080 passcode to get that access. And if you turn that on, 1:03:16.120 --> 1:03:19.760 let's see where is it down stolen device protection. So 1:03:20.360 --> 1:03:22.840 this adds another layer of security to your iPhone. And 1:03:22.880 --> 1:03:25.560 the event that is stolen and someone knows your passcode 1:03:26.040 --> 1:03:29.680 seems like something that would be a small number of people, 1:03:29.800 --> 1:03:32.360 but no, this was a major problem. Wall Street Journal 1:03:32.520 --> 1:03:37.040 was very instrumental in reporting about this, and they basically 1:03:37.080 --> 1:03:40.040 got Apple to change this because if you think about it, 1:03:40.080 --> 1:03:42.120 if someone knows your passcode, they could get anything on 1:03:42.200 --> 1:03:45.000 your phone. So anyway, if you're worried about that, turn 1:03:45.080 --> 1:03:48.640 on stolen device protection. But yes, Apple and these other 1:03:48.800 --> 1:03:53.760 software companies continue to figure out ways of getting you know, 1:03:54.120 --> 1:03:59.400 of protecting us from the bad guys. Let's see another 1:03:59.480 --> 1:04:02.960 question here, Robert writes in good afternoon. I'm a recent 1:04:03.080 --> 1:04:05.440 finder of your show and I've been loving every minute 1:04:05.480 --> 1:04:05.640 of it. 1:04:05.760 --> 1:04:06.480 Thank you, Robert. 1:04:06.960 --> 1:04:09.200 Is there any update on the Apple Watch having a 1:04:09.360 --> 1:04:13.240 built in continuous glucose monitor CGM, thanks Robert. 1:04:14.280 --> 1:04:14.760 Not yet. 1:04:15.440 --> 1:04:18.240 We know that Apple has been working on this non 1:04:18.360 --> 1:04:22.680 invasive glucose monitoring tech for years, but it is still 1:04:22.720 --> 1:04:25.240 in development and they have not mentioned a word about it. 1:04:26.080 --> 1:04:27.000 But it is Apple. 1:04:27.240 --> 1:04:29.280 They've got lots of smart people and they are not 1:04:29.400 --> 1:04:32.720 the only company that is working on this so right now, 1:04:33.200 --> 1:04:35.680 and if you look at the FDA, they put out 1:04:35.680 --> 1:04:38.360 a big blog post that says there is no product 1:04:39.120 --> 1:04:42.760 that does continuous glucose monitoring from a smartphone non invasive 1:04:42.800 --> 1:04:47.800 right now. You still need a separate sensor like those 1:04:47.840 --> 1:04:51.040 from Dexcom or Abbot, and a lot of those can 1:04:51.120 --> 1:04:54.120 actually sync through your iPhone or Apple Watch through apps. 1:04:54.200 --> 1:04:57.200 But right now, there is not a dedicated wearable that 1:04:57.360 --> 1:05:00.560 does this like an Apple watch or smart watch. 1:05:00.560 --> 1:05:03.400 So if you see those advertised, it's just not possible 1:05:03.480 --> 1:05:04.960 right now. There will be. 1:05:05.080 --> 1:05:07.800 I did actually test a couple of years ago at CS, 1:05:07.960 --> 1:05:11.400 the big electronics show in Vegas. I tested a watch 1:05:11.480 --> 1:05:15.240 that did the CGM, but it was more of like 1:05:15.280 --> 1:05:19.160 an algorithm, so it was and it wasn't perfect. But 1:05:19.360 --> 1:05:21.640 you know, and I've never heard anything more about this watch, 1:05:22.480 --> 1:05:24.360 but I think there's a lot of companies working on this, 1:05:24.520 --> 1:05:26.720 and I think we will have a breakthrough at some point, 1:05:27.560 --> 1:05:30.360 maybe with Apple even and maybe twenty twenty seven or 1:05:30.360 --> 1:05:30.800 something like that. 1:05:30.840 --> 1:05:31.280 Who knows. 1:05:32.040 --> 1:05:37.080 But this is the holy grail of technology when it 1:05:37.120 --> 1:05:40.760 comes to health because so many people need these monitors 1:05:41.360 --> 1:05:42.880 right now. You have to have one of those little 1:05:42.960 --> 1:05:45.400 things you kind of stamp onto your skin, usually last 1:05:45.480 --> 1:05:48.600 like maybe one to two weeks. I've actually got one 1:05:48.640 --> 1:05:53.440 at home that I picked up at cs'. They're marketing 1:05:53.520 --> 1:05:55.800 it as a way to monitor this stuff for anyone 1:05:56.200 --> 1:05:59.720 if you're just interested in your glucose. I've yet, I'm 1:05:59.720 --> 1:06:01.960 a little scared to put it on my skin. They 1:06:02.000 --> 1:06:04.040 say you don't feel anything because there's a little part 1:06:04.080 --> 1:06:05.960 that goes in you almost I don't know if it's 1:06:05.960 --> 1:06:07.760 a little needle or what, but it does go in 1:06:07.840 --> 1:06:13.360 your skin. But yeah, that's so Robert. Nothing to update 1:06:13.480 --> 1:06:18.640 just yet there, Jeffrey writes in from Beaverton, Oregon, listening 1:06:18.720 --> 1:06:21.280 on FM one on one point one in Portland. I 1:06:21.400 --> 1:06:23.720 recently upgraded from a sixty five inch to a seventy 1:06:23.760 --> 1:06:27.120 five inch high Sense TV. After watching for an hour 1:06:27.240 --> 1:06:29.400 or two, the audio gradually goes out of sync with 1:06:29.480 --> 1:06:32.440 the video. I've tried adjusting sound settings. Nothing seems to 1:06:32.480 --> 1:06:35.720 fix the problem. Am I doomed to have Costco replace it? 1:06:35.800 --> 1:06:38.000 What are my options? Thank you great show by the way, 1:06:38.680 --> 1:06:42.200 Well thanks for tuning in, Jeffrey. That is definitely frustrating. 1:06:43.440 --> 1:06:45.880 I'd say it's a deal breaker for this TV. So 1:06:46.040 --> 1:06:47.960 get it back to Costco and replace it and see 1:06:48.000 --> 1:06:51.280 if you have the same problem. Sounds like you've already 1:06:51.360 --> 1:06:55.400 done the whole adjustments. If you go into your settings, 1:06:55.520 --> 1:06:57.960 they usually have some sort of like lip sync adjustment. 1:06:59.160 --> 1:07:01.400 I would try all those if they're not working. If 1:07:01.560 --> 1:07:05.000 it says you've already adjusted sound settings, so but look 1:07:05.080 --> 1:07:07.240 for this specifically the lip sync adjustment. Now, if you're 1:07:07.280 --> 1:07:11.440 using an external sound bar, they usually have their own 1:07:12.680 --> 1:07:14.840 lip sync adjustments as well, so you might want to 1:07:14.840 --> 1:07:16.919 try that. You could try a factory reset on both 1:07:16.960 --> 1:07:19.840 the TV and your soundbar. If none of that works, 1:07:20.720 --> 1:07:22.160 get it back to Costco. This is one of the 1:07:22.200 --> 1:07:25.680 reasons why people like buying electronics at Costco. They will 1:07:25.720 --> 1:07:27.720 take it back and they will they will make good 1:07:27.800 --> 1:07:31.360 on that. Sounds like you just got it. So I 1:07:31.440 --> 1:07:33.560 have a High Sense personally. I've had no problems with it. 1:07:33.680 --> 1:07:34.120 I love it. 1:07:35.440 --> 1:07:37.680 My neighbor came over the other day, she was looking 1:07:37.720 --> 1:07:39.880 for a new TV and I said, I love this thing. 1:07:40.320 --> 1:07:42.240 And people are a little they're a little concerned. They're like, well, 1:07:42.360 --> 1:07:44.040 I don't know about the High Sense brand. I haven't 1:07:44.040 --> 1:07:46.760 really heard about it. I'm like, believe me, gets recommended. 1:07:46.800 --> 1:07:50.160 It's really good for the price, and I've i've we 1:07:50.320 --> 1:07:52.880 love it. It took a little bit of getting used to, 1:07:53.560 --> 1:07:56.960 but it works great. And yeah, you know, the Lgs 1:07:57.000 --> 1:08:00.600 and the Sonys of the world, they're probably better picture wise, 1:08:00.720 --> 1:08:04.240 but you're going to pay a whole lot. More eighty 1:08:04.320 --> 1:08:06.720 eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four two 1:08:06.840 --> 1:08:10.600 four one zero one website rich on tech dot Tv. 1:08:10.640 --> 1:08:12.280 If you want links to anything I mentioned, or send 1:08:12.320 --> 1:08:14.800 me an email, it's all right there. More rich on 1:08:14.880 --> 1:08:20.240 Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome back to 1:08:20.400 --> 1:08:24.240 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you. 1:08:25.280 --> 1:08:29.280 The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. 1:08:30.000 --> 1:08:32.960 You know, uh, I'm my I don't know where my 1:08:33.080 --> 1:08:35.759 manners are. I told you that I finished two books 1:08:35.800 --> 1:08:37.960 earlier today, and I did not tell you which books 1:08:38.000 --> 1:08:40.640 they were, did I? I don't think I did. Uh 1:08:40.760 --> 1:08:42.080 So let me tell you about the two books that 1:08:42.120 --> 1:08:45.639 I did read. Uh So, there's this whole thing about 1:08:45.720 --> 1:08:48.640 listening versus reading the books or reading books, like I 1:08:49.360 --> 1:08:51.040 is there a difference, I don't know. I mean I 1:08:51.200 --> 1:08:53.360 like to do both. I like to read physical books. 1:08:53.400 --> 1:08:56.160 I also like to listen to them as well. I 1:08:56.200 --> 1:08:59.920 think they both work. And typically I'm listening to a 1:09:00.640 --> 1:09:04.320 nonfiction book in the car, and then I'm reading a 1:09:04.439 --> 1:09:07.640 fiction book at home. That's kind of like my delineation. 1:09:07.760 --> 1:09:13.320 But I did read two nonfiction books. First was Retail Gangster, 1:09:14.240 --> 1:09:16.080 So if you grew up on the East Coast, you 1:09:16.160 --> 1:09:21.160 might remember Crazy Eddie. This was the iconic New York 1:09:21.320 --> 1:09:24.719 City area electronics chain from the eighties and the nineties. 1:09:24.760 --> 1:09:29.280 They had ads everywhere. They were known for undercutting competitor prices. 1:09:30.240 --> 1:09:32.679 But if you read this book behind the scenes, oh 1:09:32.800 --> 1:09:36.680 my gosh, the entire thing was built on fraud, and 1:09:36.840 --> 1:09:39.640 the book dives into how it all unraveled. You know 1:09:39.800 --> 1:09:42.720 it's going to end bad, but the build up is 1:09:42.880 --> 1:09:46.839 just so well done. This was actually a listener Jeffrey 1:09:46.920 --> 1:09:50.520 that recommended this book to me. Retail Gangster, The inside, 1:09:50.640 --> 1:09:54.360 real life story of Crazy Eddie. And the interesting part 1:09:55.320 --> 1:09:58.200 that I didn't realize as a kid is that the 1:09:58.240 --> 1:10:01.080 guy in the commercials was not it was not the 1:10:01.160 --> 1:10:03.599 owner of the store. Now maybe that was clear when 1:10:03.640 --> 1:10:05.200 I was, you know, back in the day, but it 1:10:05.280 --> 1:10:07.920 wasn't clear to me until I read this book. But anyway, 1:10:08.000 --> 1:10:10.120 Retail Gangster, if you grew up in the New York 1:10:10.160 --> 1:10:13.720 City area and you're curious about Crazy Eddy, it's a 1:10:13.760 --> 1:10:17.120 deep dive. I mean, you're you're gonna get the full story. Yeah, 1:10:17.200 --> 1:10:20.360 nobody beats The Whiz was another. That was another. I mean, 1:10:20.400 --> 1:10:23.680 there were electronics chains back in the day. There was 1:10:23.720 --> 1:10:25.720 a lot of competition. It's not like today, we're Best 1:10:25.760 --> 1:10:28.040 Buys the only game in town. Back in the day, 1:10:28.040 --> 1:10:31.080 there's a lot of regional chains in just the New 1:10:31.160 --> 1:10:33.599 York City area. I mean there was the regional chains 1:10:33.680 --> 1:10:39.000 like the Whiz, PC, Richard and Son, Crazy Eddy, and 1:10:39.080 --> 1:10:41.040 then you had all the tiny, small, kind of like 1:10:41.120 --> 1:10:43.720 mom and pop places, but they would all have these 1:10:43.800 --> 1:10:47.559 advertisements in the back of like the newspapers with how 1:10:47.640 --> 1:10:50.280 much their prices were, and you would basically bring that 1:10:50.400 --> 1:10:52.680 newspaper into one of the other stores and say, hey, 1:10:52.720 --> 1:10:54.960 can you beat this price and they would buy like 1:10:55.040 --> 1:10:56.559 a dollar or two, but you felt like you were 1:10:56.560 --> 1:10:59.839 getting a good deal. But anyway, Retail Gangster was excellent. 1:11:01.240 --> 1:11:02.920 Listen to the audiobook if you like, you know, if 1:11:02.920 --> 1:11:05.400 you like audiobooks, or you can read the book. The 1:11:05.479 --> 1:11:08.240 other one I read, which I finished. We had the 1:11:08.280 --> 1:11:13.200 guests on the show Patrick McGee Apple in China and 1:11:13.920 --> 1:11:16.240 this book. I started reading the physical book and then 1:11:16.240 --> 1:11:19.639 I finished with the audiobook. Now, this is all about 1:11:19.760 --> 1:11:25.400 Apple's manufacturing ties with China and how every decision that 1:11:25.520 --> 1:11:29.479 Apple and China made kind of affected China's tech economy. 1:11:30.880 --> 1:11:33.120 And I would say that the book argues that that 1:11:33.439 --> 1:11:37.040 China learned how to build the most complex consumer tech 1:11:37.080 --> 1:11:41.120 products from Apple, and now they're taking that knowledge and 1:11:41.400 --> 1:11:45.679 using it to power their own rise of electronics brands 1:11:45.720 --> 1:11:48.160 like the Huaweis of the world, the Shaomis of the world. 1:11:49.040 --> 1:11:51.719 This is a really now talk about crazy eddy anyone 1:11:51.760 --> 1:11:55.000 can understand and like that story. Apple in China is 1:11:55.080 --> 1:11:57.000 a much more inside baseball story. 1:11:57.080 --> 1:11:57.640 So if you were not. 1:11:57.960 --> 1:12:01.200 If you're not into supply chain logistics, if you're not 1:12:01.320 --> 1:12:04.400 really into the whole geopolitics of Apple and China and 1:12:05.320 --> 1:12:09.280 contract manufacturing, global supply Chaine, you're probably not gonna like 1:12:09.360 --> 1:12:10.320 this one because it's a lot. 1:12:10.439 --> 1:12:11.120 It's a lot. 1:12:11.200 --> 1:12:15.080 But Patrick does an amazing job of weaving this story, 1:12:16.000 --> 1:12:18.040 and I think the thesis. I don't want to give 1:12:18.040 --> 1:12:20.800 away the story, but like all this stuff about building 1:12:20.800 --> 1:12:24.760 an iPhone in America or the tariffs and all these things, 1:12:24.800 --> 1:12:29.479 I mean, Apple is in a really precarious position with 1:12:29.600 --> 1:12:33.200 their relationship with China because it is so intricate. It 1:12:33.360 --> 1:12:36.479 is not something they can easily just ditch and still 1:12:36.520 --> 1:12:37.400 be the company they are. 1:12:37.560 --> 1:12:38.120 They're trying. 1:12:38.880 --> 1:12:41.080 They're trying to build some stuff in Vietnam, build some 1:12:41.120 --> 1:12:43.599 stuff in India, but it's not like what they're doing 1:12:43.680 --> 1:12:46.840 in China, And so Apple and China is a really 1:12:47.280 --> 1:12:49.680 a great deep dive if you're into this. By the way, 1:12:49.720 --> 1:12:53.960 I was at a little cocktail party with Apple. They 1:12:54.000 --> 1:12:56.600 invited some folks that went up to the event for 1:12:56.720 --> 1:12:59.240 a party the night before, like a little get can't 1:12:59.240 --> 1:13:02.200 even tell this. I'm Apples are so secretive with everything, 1:13:02.280 --> 1:13:04.680 like just by telling you this, I might I may 1:13:04.760 --> 1:13:07.840 be extra Apple forever, hopefully not. I don't think it's 1:13:07.840 --> 1:13:09.800 a it was a you know, secret that there was 1:13:09.800 --> 1:13:13.560 a little party. But anyway, so they this was like 1:13:13.640 --> 1:13:15.120 I think the first time they did this, but they 1:13:15.120 --> 1:13:18.080 had a lot of the journalists just kind of mingling. Anyway, 1:13:18.120 --> 1:13:20.639 the PR person comes up to me and they're like, oh, 1:13:21.400 --> 1:13:23.080 you listen to an audiobook on the way up? Would 1:13:23.080 --> 1:13:24.800 you listen to the I'm like, probably don't want to 1:13:24.840 --> 1:13:26.760 hear this. But Apple and China, it's not the book 1:13:26.800 --> 1:13:31.080 that the company really not necessarily something the company would 1:13:31.120 --> 1:13:32.880 promote or have it an Apple store. Let's put it 1:13:32.920 --> 1:13:37.120 that way, all right. Uh, let's see here Yahoo Mail. 1:13:38.280 --> 1:13:40.560 If you're using Yahoo Mail the app, they've got a 1:13:40.680 --> 1:13:44.200 new feature called Ketchup, not catch up like the condiment 1:13:44.360 --> 1:13:48.120 catch up, c atch catch up, to catch up feature 1:13:48.280 --> 1:13:54.000 to fight inbox overload. It's AI powered design for people 1:13:54.040 --> 1:13:58.160 who check email often but feel overwhelmed. It gives you little, 1:13:58.240 --> 1:14:03.240 scannable previews of unread messages with two simple options, delete 1:14:03.280 --> 1:14:06.240 it or keep it in your inbox so you can 1:14:06.320 --> 1:14:06.840 tap and go. 1:14:07.439 --> 1:14:08.000 This happens this. 1:14:08.120 --> 1:14:10.320 I do this all day long on my phone I 1:14:10.479 --> 1:14:13.720 use Gmail, but I swipe left and right swipe to 1:14:13.800 --> 1:14:15.519 get rid of the emails out of my inbox. I 1:14:15.560 --> 1:14:18.519 don't necessarily check the whole thing. But this is great 1:14:18.560 --> 1:14:20.560 because it gives you a little AI preview of what 1:14:20.640 --> 1:14:22.200 the email is all about, so you say, okay, I 1:14:22.280 --> 1:14:23.720 need to keep this, or no, I can get rid 1:14:23.760 --> 1:14:25.880 of it. So it's built like a game with a 1:14:25.960 --> 1:14:30.080 celebration screen when you finish. Yahoo says almost half of 1:14:30.160 --> 1:14:33.320 its younger users have missed events because of inbox chaos. 1:14:34.360 --> 1:14:36.760 This is only available on the Yahoo Mail app for 1:14:37.160 --> 1:14:41.560 iOS and Android, and so my other advice to you 1:14:43.040 --> 1:14:48.519 is unsubscribe liberally. Unsubscribe to the emails that you do 1:14:48.720 --> 1:14:53.200 not need to get. I am brutal when it comes 1:14:53.240 --> 1:14:58.599 to unsubscribing, So do it. When you get an email, 1:14:59.360 --> 1:15:01.360 like let's say it's from the company that you just 1:15:01.560 --> 1:15:02.400 ordered food from. 1:15:02.320 --> 1:15:02.800 The other day. 1:15:02.880 --> 1:15:05.439 Now they're sending you, oh, hey, we have a new 1:15:06.080 --> 1:15:07.920 uh you know, a new type of beef for the 1:15:08.000 --> 1:15:08.679 new flavoring. 1:15:09.280 --> 1:15:10.640 No, you do not need to know that. 1:15:10.880 --> 1:15:13.760 When you feel like that bowl again, you will order 1:15:13.800 --> 1:15:15.479 from that company again. You don't need to get their 1:15:15.520 --> 1:15:18.840 emails every day because these companies are relentless. You order 1:15:19.000 --> 1:15:21.720 one thing from a department store, now you're getting an 1:15:21.760 --> 1:15:26.080 email every single day. Delete them. You're not gonna miss out. 1:15:26.160 --> 1:15:27.720 You're not gonna get You're not gonna miss out in 1:15:27.760 --> 1:15:29.920 the promo codes, who cares unless it's a company that 1:15:30.000 --> 1:15:32.680 you really need to order from. Often get rid of 1:15:32.720 --> 1:15:35.360 the emails. You can always go to simplycodes dot com 1:15:36.040 --> 1:15:38.599 and find a promo code there, or you can sign 1:15:38.640 --> 1:15:40.439 up for the newsletter again and they will send you 1:15:40.520 --> 1:15:43.599 a new promo code. But my wife, uh, I want 1:15:43.600 --> 1:15:44.200 to name names. 1:15:44.240 --> 1:15:44.639 Whoops. 1:15:45.520 --> 1:15:47.200 I look at a lot of people while they're checking 1:15:47.240 --> 1:15:51.960 their email over their shoulder, and I cannot believe the 1:15:52.160 --> 1:15:55.800 nonsense and garbage and trash that is in there, just 1:15:56.000 --> 1:15:59.120 clogging up their inbox. I get emails from all over 1:15:59.200 --> 1:16:01.519 the world every day, from all of you, and my 1:16:01.680 --> 1:16:05.360 inbox is pristine. Right now, I have thirty two messages 1:16:05.400 --> 1:16:08.439 in there. You know why, because I barely get any 1:16:08.520 --> 1:16:11.800 junk stuff. I've got my I've got my inbox down 1:16:11.880 --> 1:16:15.200 to a science. I even have a filter that when 1:16:15.200 --> 1:16:18.680 the word unsubscribe is in an email anywhere in there, 1:16:19.640 --> 1:16:21.720 if there's a non subscribe link, I get my it 1:16:21.800 --> 1:16:25.799 gets flagged the big red message that says unsubscribe eligible. 1:16:27.280 --> 1:16:30.800 I've set up a filter in Gmail to search for 1:16:30.920 --> 1:16:34.360 that word unsubscribe in a message, and then it flags 1:16:34.439 --> 1:16:38.120 it with that big giant label that says unsubscribe eligible 1:16:38.200 --> 1:16:41.840 and big red text, and that reminds me immediately that 1:16:42.000 --> 1:16:44.599 this is not a personal email. This is not something 1:16:44.640 --> 1:16:46.519 I need to have in my inbox. I can get 1:16:46.640 --> 1:16:48.280 rid of this and be off that list at any 1:16:48.360 --> 1:16:51.760 given time, and I do it often. I mean I'm 1:16:51.800 --> 1:16:55.040 talking often. I mean it's sad. I feel bad for 1:16:55.160 --> 1:16:59.519 these companies that I just I unsubscribe, Like sorry, yes, 1:16:59.600 --> 1:17:01.720 I bought a candle from your shop ten years ago. 1:17:01.800 --> 1:17:05.000 I don't need your email. Eighty eight rich one O 1:17:05.120 --> 1:17:07.320 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:17:07.400 --> 1:17:10.120 zero one. The website for the show rich on Tech 1:17:10.360 --> 1:17:13.400 dot TV. If you want those two book recommendations, I'll 1:17:13.400 --> 1:17:15.679 put him in the show notes. This is episode one 1:17:16.000 --> 1:17:19.519 twenty five. My name is rich Demiro. You are listening 1:17:19.600 --> 1:17:26.040 to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:17:26.160 --> 1:17:30.000 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at 1:17:30.080 --> 1:17:31.720 triple eight rich one oh one. 1:17:32.520 --> 1:17:33.559 That's eight eight eight. 1:17:33.680 --> 1:17:36.599 Seven four to two four one zero one. The website 1:17:36.720 --> 1:17:42.519 for the show Rich on tech dot TV. We got 1:17:42.560 --> 1:17:47.719 an email from Let's see here, Betsy from Gainesville, Georgia. 1:17:49.040 --> 1:17:53.120 My husband uses an Android volt strictly for phone calls. 1:17:53.200 --> 1:17:57.040 No apps, no web, no photos. Despite being on the 1:17:57.120 --> 1:18:00.639 Donut call registry, he still gets fifteen to twenty five 1:18:01.000 --> 1:18:05.719 spam calls a day. Burn that phone, Betsy, I'm wondering 1:18:05.760 --> 1:18:06.720 if he should get a new phone. 1:18:06.720 --> 1:18:07.680 Oh, she didn't say that. I did. 1:18:09.000 --> 1:18:10.880 He's wondering if he should get a new number. Is 1:18:10.920 --> 1:18:12.639 there a better way to stop these calls? 1:18:13.400 --> 1:18:13.559 Well? 1:18:13.680 --> 1:18:16.080 Number one, I am not familiar with the Android vault. 1:18:16.200 --> 1:18:17.599 What is the Android vault? 1:18:18.160 --> 1:18:18.839 Let's see. 1:18:20.200 --> 1:18:20.240 That. 1:18:21.400 --> 1:18:24.559 I don't think that's a phone. There is no Android 1:18:24.640 --> 1:18:28.040 vault that I know of. But anyway, he's got an 1:18:28.080 --> 1:18:32.559 Android phone. Fifteen to twenty five spam calls a day 1:18:32.680 --> 1:18:35.479 is a lot, So there's a couple of things he 1:18:35.520 --> 1:18:39.160 could do. Number one, I would go into the phone 1:18:39.200 --> 1:18:43.200 app on this device and look for any call blocking 1:18:43.400 --> 1:18:46.880 or spam protection features, because a lot of Androids have 1:18:47.479 --> 1:18:51.800 these tools to silence suspected spam. Now, the other thing 1:18:51.880 --> 1:18:53.960 you can do, let me see, I thought at some 1:18:54.080 --> 1:18:57.280 point you could download the Google phone app. Let me 1:18:57.400 --> 1:19:00.439 see if that's still a possibility because they have built 1:19:00.479 --> 1:19:04.960 in spam protection. Okay, I'm on my Samsung Phone by Google. 1:19:06.120 --> 1:19:08.280 We're learning as we go along here on the show today, 1:19:08.840 --> 1:19:12.000 So I opened up this Okay, set as default phone. 1:19:12.080 --> 1:19:14.920 Can only start and receive calls if it's your default 1:19:14.960 --> 1:19:15.360 phone app. 1:19:15.400 --> 1:19:15.599 Okay. 1:19:15.640 --> 1:19:17.720 Now, this is the magic of Android that you can 1:19:17.800 --> 1:19:20.840 literally change your phone app. Who would have thought, yeah, 1:19:20.840 --> 1:19:21.360 I just change it. 1:19:21.400 --> 1:19:21.479 Now. 1:19:21.560 --> 1:19:24.559 Let's see if it's got the spam protection settings. Yes 1:19:24.680 --> 1:19:26.000 it does. Oh my gosh. 1:19:26.120 --> 1:19:30.200 Okay, Betsy, we just solved your problem. Go into the 1:19:30.320 --> 1:19:32.639 Google Play. Tell your husband to go into Google Play 1:19:33.920 --> 1:19:39.600 and you can download search for Google Phone. Okay, let 1:19:39.680 --> 1:19:44.400 me just make sure that comes upright Google Phone, and 1:19:44.840 --> 1:19:48.400 make sure it says phone by Google from Google LLC. 1:19:49.360 --> 1:19:49.760 Tap that. 1:19:50.120 --> 1:19:53.760 Install it. And then when you install it, you want 1:19:53.880 --> 1:19:55.320 to go into the settings. 1:19:55.920 --> 1:19:57.080 So let me find it. Here it is. 1:19:57.640 --> 1:20:00.120 Go tap the the three dots in the upper right 1:20:00.200 --> 1:20:04.320 hand corner. It says settings, caller ID and spam. Turn 1:20:04.439 --> 1:20:10.000 that on, identify businesses and spam numbers and there you go, 1:20:10.760 --> 1:20:13.240 and then you can even block numbers. Block. There you 1:20:13.320 --> 1:20:18.439 go block calls from unknown numbers, it'll automatically block high 1:20:18.479 --> 1:20:20.439 risk scam calls. Oh my gosh, this is like I 1:20:20.479 --> 1:20:23.920 didn't even realize they had this. I remember reading about 1:20:23.920 --> 1:20:26.800 I mean I did because clearly I said something, but 1:20:27.760 --> 1:20:30.080 it's been a while since I realized that you can 1:20:30.080 --> 1:20:32.679 actually download a new caller app. So if you're struggling 1:20:32.760 --> 1:20:37.800 with spam calls on your Android phone, try the phone 1:20:37.920 --> 1:20:41.439 app from Google. So that's number one. I would do that, Betsy, 1:20:41.479 --> 1:20:43.040 That'll probably help you out. The other thing you can 1:20:43.120 --> 1:20:47.120 do depending on the phone brand that you have, the 1:20:47.200 --> 1:20:50.960 cellular brand, or the cellular carrier you have, they all 1:20:51.040 --> 1:20:54.000 have their own call filter app. So T Mobile has 1:20:54.040 --> 1:20:57.200 scam shield at and T has something called Active Armor. 1:20:57.880 --> 1:21:01.080 Verizon has something called call Filter. So you can download 1:21:01.120 --> 1:21:04.600 those whatever whatever carrier you have, download that turn that on, 1:21:06.040 --> 1:21:09.639 and then they also have free apps that you can download. 1:21:09.720 --> 1:21:12.559 But sometimes people report with the free apps they actually 1:21:12.680 --> 1:21:15.880 get more spam calls. But I mean that who knows. 1:21:16.520 --> 1:21:19.519 But there's a couple brands here. I'm trying to see 1:21:19.520 --> 1:21:20.400 if they still have it. 1:21:20.560 --> 1:21:25.400 Yeah, so hia h I y a. 1:21:26.360 --> 1:21:31.479 They've got some apps you can get Hya's spam Blocker 1:21:31.600 --> 1:21:35.400 Block spam and spam calls displays caller ID that may 1:21:35.520 --> 1:21:38.080 cost something, It may may have a cost involved in it, 1:21:38.280 --> 1:21:40.960 but that's another way to do it. And then True 1:21:41.040 --> 1:21:44.320 Caller is another app that some people like that can 1:21:44.400 --> 1:21:46.400 help you cut down on spam calls. 1:21:47.520 --> 1:21:50.200 So you got a lot of options there, Betsy. 1:21:50.320 --> 1:21:51.599 I don't think you need to get a new phone 1:21:51.640 --> 1:21:53.400 number if you try some of those, but that's what 1:21:53.439 --> 1:21:56.440 I'd recommend. I'll put it all linked up on my website. 1:21:56.600 --> 1:22:01.559 Rich on tech dot tv Susan, I love the radio show, 1:22:01.640 --> 1:22:04.000 but I'm too scared to call in. I have an 1:22:04.040 --> 1:22:06.640 iPhone fourteen plus and I keep getting an email that 1:22:06.720 --> 1:22:12.680 says your cloud storage iCloud space is full, and then 1:22:12.680 --> 1:22:15.960 there's a bunch of weird numbers and letters. I get 1:22:16.080 --> 1:22:19.200 a I get one of these every day. Oh gosh, 1:22:21.560 --> 1:22:24.080 should I open it? And if so, what should I do? No, 1:22:25.000 --> 1:22:33.559 this is totally bogus. Yeah, that is totally bogus, Susan. 1:22:33.800 --> 1:22:35.880 You do not need to open that up. You do 1:22:36.000 --> 1:22:39.600 not need to worry about this. These scammers, what they 1:22:39.680 --> 1:22:43.160 do is they are trying to trick you into clicking 1:22:43.320 --> 1:22:48.160 a fake link that will will basically make you give 1:22:48.240 --> 1:22:50.800 up your personal information. You may log into iCloud, you 1:22:50.880 --> 1:22:54.280 may whatever it is. They're trying to trick you, and 1:22:54.400 --> 1:22:57.599 that's really what's happening here. So if you are truly 1:22:57.640 --> 1:23:00.080 concerned about your iCloud storage, number one, you'll know, oh, 1:23:00.120 --> 1:23:01.840 because your phone will tell you. You'll get a little 1:23:01.880 --> 1:23:05.519 pop up notification that says iCloud is full. They don't 1:23:05.560 --> 1:23:07.240 send a text to tell you that, as far as 1:23:07.280 --> 1:23:10.200 I know. But if you're worried about your iCloud storage 1:23:10.200 --> 1:23:12.360 and you want to check, you can go directly to 1:23:12.479 --> 1:23:15.760 the settings on your phone. Go to settings, tap your 1:23:15.880 --> 1:23:19.479 name at the top and you'll see it says iCloud. 1:23:20.160 --> 1:23:22.280 You tap that and it will say storage. Mine says 1:23:22.360 --> 1:23:25.479 one point four used of two terabytes. Oh, how am 1:23:25.479 --> 1:23:30.720 I using two terabytes of storage on iCloud. That's that's 1:23:30.800 --> 1:23:34.880 a lot. It's all because of my kids. A lot 1:23:35.000 --> 1:23:37.680 of that, let's see a lot of that is my 1:23:38.240 --> 1:23:39.040 family usage. 1:23:39.080 --> 1:23:40.760 No, it's all me. It's my iCloud drive. 1:23:41.360 --> 1:23:44.160 I've got eight hundred gigabytes in there and then four 1:23:44.240 --> 1:23:47.400 hundred gigs of backups. By the way, pro tip, if 1:23:47.400 --> 1:23:50.120 you're trying to free up space on your iCloud, look 1:23:50.160 --> 1:23:53.120 at your backups. Sometimes when you get a new phone, 1:23:53.320 --> 1:23:56.560 you actually have a couple of backups you do not 1:23:56.760 --> 1:23:59.000 need in there. So for instance, I'm looking at this, 1:23:59.160 --> 1:24:01.800 it's got my iPhone in here, but then it has 1:24:01.880 --> 1:24:04.840 my old iPhone that I do not need backed up. 1:24:06.560 --> 1:24:08.439 So keep in mind you can get rid of some 1:24:08.479 --> 1:24:11.000 of those sometimes and clear out space. Just be careful 1:24:11.000 --> 1:24:13.439 if you're deleting anything that you know what you're doing. 1:24:14.000 --> 1:24:17.120 But Susan, yeah, you can safely ignore those. It's unfortunate 1:24:17.200 --> 1:24:20.120 that these people do this, but yes they are. They're 1:24:20.200 --> 1:24:22.160 really trying to trick you. And by the way, on 1:24:22.240 --> 1:24:24.639 my Instagram at rich on Tech, I'm always posting people 1:24:24.640 --> 1:24:28.280 are forwarding me the latest greatest scam messages they're getting 1:24:28.920 --> 1:24:32.599 and I will break them down and kind of explain 1:24:32.760 --> 1:24:34.880 why they're a scam on my Instagram. So if you're 1:24:34.880 --> 1:24:38.200 not following me there at rich on Tech, follow me 1:24:38.280 --> 1:24:40.960 there for sure. All right, I've got a minute. I 1:24:40.960 --> 1:24:42.439 don't know if I can get through another question, but 1:24:42.520 --> 1:24:43.920 I can. Oh, I can tell you about this app 1:24:43.920 --> 1:24:46.599 real quick in a minute. If you're looking for I'm 1:24:46.640 --> 1:24:48.360 a sucker for some of these apps that make your 1:24:48.360 --> 1:24:50.519 photos look really cool. I'm always jealous of people when 1:24:50.520 --> 1:24:54.040 they post like super cool looking photos to Instagram because 1:24:54.040 --> 1:24:57.200 I never really edit mine. But there's an app called 1:24:57.360 --> 1:25:01.360 west w e st. It's a photo app. It's like 1:25:01.400 --> 1:25:03.960 a camera app that makes your pictures look like old 1:25:04.040 --> 1:25:08.280 school film. And it's made by an independent developer college student. 1:25:08.880 --> 1:25:12.240 And it's only on iOS. But take pictures and it 1:25:12.320 --> 1:25:15.559 looks like film. It's so cool. It's got grain, light leaks, 1:25:15.600 --> 1:25:20.519 bloom glitches. It's totally free. If you want to upgrade 1:25:20.560 --> 1:25:22.559 for the pro features, it's eight dollars, but you don't 1:25:22.560 --> 1:25:23.040 need to do that. 1:25:23.200 --> 1:25:26.120 It's one time fee. But I took a picture in 1:25:26.240 --> 1:25:28.000 a bar the other night with this app. 1:25:28.080 --> 1:25:31.200 It looks so cool. I mean, it's just really really cool. 1:25:31.280 --> 1:25:35.040 So again, the app is called west w e st 1:25:35.560 --> 1:25:38.920 Camera App. Try it out. You are listening to Rich 1:25:39.000 --> 1:25:49.080 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro 1:25:49.160 --> 1:25:51.760 here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight 1:25:51.960 --> 1:25:54.680 rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 1:25:54.720 --> 1:25:58.439 two four one zero one. We are here at Apple's 1:25:58.720 --> 1:26:03.800 WWDC in the Apple Podcast Studios, and my guests are 1:26:04.400 --> 1:26:07.800 founders of a app that was used very much through 1:26:07.840 --> 1:26:10.599 the LA wildfires, and of course continues to be used 1:26:11.000 --> 1:26:14.920 to update folks on any sort of wildfires. John Mills 1:26:15.040 --> 1:26:18.240 and Dave Merritt are co founders of Watch Duty. 1:26:18.479 --> 1:26:20.880 Welcome to the show, Thanks for having us. Thank you 1:26:21.280 --> 1:26:23.280 so this app. 1:26:23.320 --> 1:26:24.800 The reason we're talking to you is you got an 1:26:24.840 --> 1:26:28.200 Apple Design Award for Social Impact and that is an 1:26:28.320 --> 1:26:33.320 understatement for this app. During the LA wildfires, pretty much 1:26:33.360 --> 1:26:35.800 every person in La I know downloaded this app. 1:26:35.840 --> 1:26:37.719 Can you explain what watch Duty is all about? 1:26:38.640 --> 1:26:41.040 Well, Watch Judy started out of the problem that folks 1:26:41.080 --> 1:26:44.280 in LA first encountered. There's not a lot of information 1:26:44.400 --> 1:26:46.840 when these disasters are striking. We've been doing this for 1:26:46.880 --> 1:26:49.160 about four years and so I live out in the 1:26:49.200 --> 1:26:52.439 woods and really experienced this problem firsthand, and it's been 1:26:52.479 --> 1:26:55.880 a growing issue. And then unfortunately La found out just 1:26:56.000 --> 1:26:58.160 why we exist in early January. 1:26:59.800 --> 1:27:03.320 How long had the app been around before these wildfires 1:27:03.520 --> 1:27:05.000 sort of thrust it to the forefront. 1:27:06.040 --> 1:27:08.519 Well, we started, David and I started writing software in 1:27:08.640 --> 1:27:12.200 May of twenty twenty one. We launched in August of 1:27:12.280 --> 1:27:14.600 twenty twenty one, and it's been growing ever since. And 1:27:14.680 --> 1:27:17.320 there's been plenty of fires that we've been covering and 1:27:17.320 --> 1:27:20.200 they're just not affecting massive communities, right, the effect our 1:27:20.240 --> 1:27:22.000 community is where we live out in the woods. But 1:27:22.160 --> 1:27:26.280 unfortunately La again found out just why we exist now and. 1:27:26.360 --> 1:27:28.559 What was the reason for creating the app. I mean 1:27:28.600 --> 1:27:30.759 you said it was just bringing the information to folks 1:27:30.800 --> 1:27:31.240 that need it. 1:27:31.680 --> 1:27:33.320 Well, I mean I've been through a bunch of fires 1:27:33.360 --> 1:27:34.400 where there's no information. 1:27:34.760 --> 1:27:34.920 Right. 1:27:35.000 --> 1:27:37.400 If a helicopter is over my head, flying in circles 1:27:37.439 --> 1:27:39.800 dropping water on a neighboring ranch with no alert and 1:27:39.880 --> 1:27:41.840 no warning, and you're just sitting there trying to figure 1:27:41.840 --> 1:27:44.360 out is this real? Is this happening? Why is this 1:27:44.520 --> 1:27:47.360 not being told to us? And so it turns out 1:27:47.360 --> 1:27:52.240 that is just the underlying problem that continues to happen honestly, And. 1:27:52.320 --> 1:27:54.639 Dave, how did you get the people to actually update 1:27:54.680 --> 1:27:57.160 this app? Like where's it getting this information from? Because 1:27:57.160 --> 1:28:00.840 the app presents on a map all the fires and 1:28:00.920 --> 1:28:04.160 then live updates about what's happening with those fires. 1:28:04.600 --> 1:28:04.760 Yeah. 1:28:04.800 --> 1:28:07.400 I think something that's not always readily apparent is that 1:28:07.439 --> 1:28:10.840 there's a huge team of expert volunteers and paid staff 1:28:10.920 --> 1:28:14.200 that are doing this reporting, that are verifying and vetting 1:28:14.320 --> 1:28:17.320 with a code of conduct all of the potential new 1:28:17.360 --> 1:28:20.439 fire starts all of the updates about the fires. So 1:28:21.080 --> 1:28:23.439 you know, what you see in reports, what you see 1:28:23.640 --> 1:28:27.200 in push certifications around a new fire is really just 1:28:27.320 --> 1:28:30.040 the tip of what's happening behind the scenes with a 1:28:30.080 --> 1:28:33.400 big community of really concerned community members and paid staff 1:28:33.479 --> 1:28:37.120 that are trying to bring relevant and timely information to people. 1:28:37.439 --> 1:28:39.320 Well, who are these people that are doing this? And 1:28:39.320 --> 1:28:42.439 I know you have like volunteers and people, So. 1:28:42.439 --> 1:28:44.320 It all started as volunteers. You know, a lot of 1:28:44.360 --> 1:28:47.760 these people started out on Facebook and Twitter in their 1:28:47.800 --> 1:28:52.200 own communities kind of doing this dissemination of information, listening 1:28:52.240 --> 1:28:55.120 to radios, and a lot of what we did was 1:28:55.120 --> 1:28:57.600 build a platform for them to just do this in 1:28:57.640 --> 1:28:58.280 a better place. 1:28:58.800 --> 1:28:58.960 You know. 1:28:59.680 --> 1:29:02.360 We we believe that these push notifications, these life like, 1:29:02.439 --> 1:29:06.000 potentially life altering notifications, shouldn't be kind of filtered in 1:29:06.080 --> 1:29:09.680 between your niece's birthday and the next ad you might 1:29:09.720 --> 1:29:10.920 get on another social media. 1:29:11.840 --> 1:29:14.520 So by giving them a platform. 1:29:14.160 --> 1:29:16.680 To do this, you know, we've allowed you know, X 1:29:16.840 --> 1:29:21.560 first like X firefighters, retired first responders kind of you know, 1:29:21.720 --> 1:29:24.280 radio enthusiasts, people that have been tracking fires for a 1:29:24.360 --> 1:29:28.120 long time to work together and collaborate as opposed to 1:29:28.120 --> 1:29:31.000 doing it independently and a place to share that in 1:29:31.080 --> 1:29:32.959 a really cohesive way in the application. 1:29:33.600 --> 1:29:36.280 How do you think the app did during the LA wildfires. 1:29:37.280 --> 1:29:39.920 Well, and we were number one app in the abstor nationwide. 1:29:40.360 --> 1:29:43.960 Unfortunately Dave and the team and I was I used 1:29:43.960 --> 1:29:46.160 to be an engineer, so I pretend to be useful 1:29:46.360 --> 1:29:48.679 when that stuff happens. But you know, Dave and the engineers, 1:29:48.680 --> 1:29:50.400 we're sleeping in shifts. You know, we're doing one hundred 1:29:50.400 --> 1:29:53.000 thousand requests a second, which is twice what Wikipedia does 1:29:53.080 --> 1:29:54.840 with a team of four engineers at the time. And 1:29:54.960 --> 1:29:57.640 so you know, I'm making phone calls to you know, 1:29:57.760 --> 1:30:01.080 our donors and vendors, whether at Schoogle, Apple Book, a 1:30:01.160 --> 1:30:04.479 HEROICU salesforce and others who are giving us infrastructure to 1:30:04.600 --> 1:30:07.640 keep this thing up. And then they you know, the 1:30:07.720 --> 1:30:10.439 reporters themselves listening to radios day and night. Right we're 1:30:10.439 --> 1:30:12.240 door toashing them food, We're trying to get them to 1:30:12.280 --> 1:30:14.640 go to sleep, and others are stepping in for them. 1:30:14.720 --> 1:30:16.320 I mean, it was an all hands on deck, you 1:30:16.439 --> 1:30:20.040 know event for probably two weeks, I'd say, to not 1:30:20.160 --> 1:30:22.080 sleep right for probably about a month after that. 1:30:22.600 --> 1:30:23.639 I mean, it was very humbling. 1:30:23.800 --> 1:30:26.559 You know, it's like you build these things for potential 1:30:26.600 --> 1:30:29.439 scenarios like this, you see it in action and it's 1:30:29.720 --> 1:30:33.000 staggering to see the impact. I never imagined when John 1:30:33.040 --> 1:30:34.760 and I were developing this thing as a group of 1:30:34.840 --> 1:30:37.519 volunteers that ten million people would be using it in 1:30:37.640 --> 1:30:40.840 a week and a lot of life altering kind of 1:30:40.920 --> 1:30:44.920 decision making points. Just seeing the numbers roll by. Honestly, 1:30:44.960 --> 1:30:47.080 during the actual thing, it was like John said, all 1:30:47.160 --> 1:30:47.720 hands on deck. 1:30:47.760 --> 1:30:48.120 I wasn't. 1:30:48.240 --> 1:30:50.519 I didn't really have enough time for the daydreaming about impact. 1:30:50.640 --> 1:30:54.720 But afterwards it was very humbling and very rewarding to 1:30:54.840 --> 1:30:56.960 see kind of that we were able to help people 1:30:57.000 --> 1:31:01.320 in those moments of you know, real real stress and panic. 1:31:02.920 --> 1:31:05.600 Now this is sort of set up as a nonprofit, 1:31:05.840 --> 1:31:09.280 but the app, can you explain that relationship between you 1:31:09.320 --> 1:31:12.120 asked for donations and I'm sure people came through during 1:31:12.160 --> 1:31:14.760 the fires, but can you explain that side of the 1:31:14.800 --> 1:31:16.880 app because it's a little unique compared to most apps. 1:31:16.960 --> 1:31:19.719 I mean, it's actually very simple. We're just a nonprofit organization, 1:31:19.920 --> 1:31:22.439 so there's no you know, there's no other strange things 1:31:22.560 --> 1:31:25.080 going on. A parent company and a for profit nonprofit 1:31:25.280 --> 1:31:30.120 is just a nonprofit organization, similar to like AARP and 1:31:30.200 --> 1:31:32.640 Triple A and other nonprofits are just a nonprofit that 1:31:32.720 --> 1:31:36.240 provide a service. And so it's actually much more straightforward 1:31:36.240 --> 1:31:38.240 than one would think. I just think that with a 1:31:38.280 --> 1:31:40.400 world of open AI, people like, what's the catch here, 1:31:40.439 --> 1:31:43.479 I'm like, well, there isn't a catch, which is kind 1:31:43.479 --> 1:31:45.720 of hard for people to believe, right, But like, we 1:31:45.880 --> 1:31:48.040 live in this community, it is important to us that 1:31:48.160 --> 1:31:51.360 this stays the same, it stays independent and doesn't change. 1:31:51.400 --> 1:31:53.559 And frankly, all of us through work at Watch Duty, 1:31:53.840 --> 1:31:56.080 use the thing every day just like everyone else does. 1:31:56.560 --> 1:31:58.200 Can you give me an idea of where it's available. 1:31:58.360 --> 1:32:01.040 Yeah, we're currently in twenty two states. When we first started, 1:32:01.120 --> 1:32:03.960 it was just in three counties in California. The next 1:32:04.040 --> 1:32:06.160 year was all of California. That I was I think 1:32:06.200 --> 1:32:08.920 six or seven states, then ten, now twenty two, and 1:32:09.000 --> 1:32:10.519 we're trying to make it all the way across the 1:32:10.560 --> 1:32:12.800 East coast. And then we're going to be launching our 1:32:13.520 --> 1:32:16.440 flood monitoring and other programs for other natural disasters. 1:32:16.800 --> 1:32:20.400 Okay, so you're going to do that's next? Is flood monitoring. 1:32:20.520 --> 1:32:23.919 Any natural disaster? Really is our purview, right, So if 1:32:23.920 --> 1:32:27.360 there's unseen danger that you can't see or get information about, 1:32:27.840 --> 1:32:28.960 we want to be there to help. 1:32:29.479 --> 1:32:31.559 Like John mentioned, I think what we're really looking at 1:32:31.600 --> 1:32:35.400 now is deepening our product around fire and continue to 1:32:35.479 --> 1:32:38.280 be the best that there is there, but also realizing 1:32:38.360 --> 1:32:40.720 that you know, a lot of disasters people have that 1:32:40.800 --> 1:32:43.360 same problem of what I do? Where do I go 1:32:43.439 --> 1:32:46.439 to get good information to help me make decisions during 1:32:47.200 --> 1:32:49.479 these moments unpacking the car and these figure like do 1:32:49.640 --> 1:32:51.120 I leave the house, do I stay? Do I go 1:32:51.240 --> 1:32:54.519 get my grandmother? So that problem exists everywhere. So we're 1:32:54.520 --> 1:32:57.240 seeing where we fit into the rest of the ecosystem 1:32:57.560 --> 1:32:59.439 around natural disasters to help people out. 1:33:00.080 --> 1:33:02.759 Now, you guys got the Apple Design Award for Social 1:33:02.880 --> 1:33:06.800 Impact for It's especially the help during the twenty twenty 1:33:06.880 --> 1:33:10.320 five California wildfires. What does this mean to you to 1:33:10.400 --> 1:33:11.679 get this award for this app? 1:33:12.120 --> 1:33:15.800 It's a big honor, you know, it's it's really you know, 1:33:15.880 --> 1:33:18.240 I think more about the community of people that did 1:33:18.320 --> 1:33:21.000 this reporting than the app itself. You know, the app 1:33:21.120 --> 1:33:24.680 is again this like the visible aspect, But you know, 1:33:25.240 --> 1:33:27.400 we wouldn't be here accepting this reward if it wasn't 1:33:27.439 --> 1:33:29.519 for what the reporters did and all the time and 1:33:29.560 --> 1:33:31.800 effort that that's really a whole nonprofit put into it. 1:33:32.280 --> 1:33:33.960 What about people that want to get involved? Can people 1:33:34.000 --> 1:33:35.519 get involved in if they want to be a reporter 1:33:35.640 --> 1:33:36.320 for their area? 1:33:37.160 --> 1:33:38.960 They do, And we find a lot of volunteers. I 1:33:39.000 --> 1:33:42.120 mean watchdidty dot org, slash volunteers where people show up 1:33:42.160 --> 1:33:45.760 and and bring the skills whether it's you know your 1:33:45.800 --> 1:33:48.960 engineer or you're a radio operator x firefighter. So we 1:33:49.040 --> 1:33:50.560 have lots of people who show up for us and 1:33:51.120 --> 1:33:53.479 join the band and make this thing bigger and bigger 1:33:53.520 --> 1:33:56.360 and more powerful. What's on the horizon for Watch Judy, Well, 1:33:56.360 --> 1:33:59.200 I think what's interesting is, like, you know, we it's 1:33:59.240 --> 1:34:02.479 a shame that we're so popular, right, And so what 1:34:02.600 --> 1:34:05.839 we've come to realize is that first responders and governments, 1:34:06.280 --> 1:34:10.280 telecommunication companies, power companies are also relying on watch duty. 1:34:10.360 --> 1:34:12.600 So we have a business to business and business to 1:34:12.640 --> 1:34:16.280 government arm where we're able to sell them more features 1:34:16.560 --> 1:34:19.040 which allow them to get better situational awareness, and then 1:34:19.120 --> 1:34:22.280 all that money goes to support the nonprofit operations. So 1:34:22.360 --> 1:34:25.240 we're trying to do is actually build a healthy nonprofit 1:34:25.360 --> 1:34:26.920 that can stand on it zone two feet and really 1:34:27.000 --> 1:34:29.479 be a help to those who serve us. 1:34:29.840 --> 1:34:31.559 And so anything you learn from this that you can 1:34:31.600 --> 1:34:33.679 share with people that might have an idea for an app. 1:34:34.400 --> 1:34:36.599 Yeah, I think for you know, young developers or people 1:34:36.760 --> 1:34:40.120 building apps, like, focusing on value creation is all that matters. Right, 1:34:40.320 --> 1:34:43.400 Like people look at us and they say nonprofit for profit, 1:34:43.479 --> 1:34:45.160 what's this? What's that? I'm like, you're missing the point. 1:34:45.479 --> 1:34:47.439 The point is how do you create an immense amount 1:34:47.479 --> 1:34:50.240 of value for people that really need it? Right, So, 1:34:50.760 --> 1:34:52.960 there's a lot of apps that are copycats, there's very 1:34:53.000 --> 1:34:55.200 few that are original and focusing on original ideas and 1:34:55.240 --> 1:34:57.840 focusing on your customer humanity for in our case, right 1:34:58.360 --> 1:35:00.840 like all humans on earth, and so we didn't really 1:35:00.920 --> 1:35:03.080 worry about money. We worried about impact and how do 1:35:03.120 --> 1:35:03.839 we make a difference. 1:35:03.960 --> 1:35:06.800 John Mills and Dave Merrick, co founders of the app 1:35:07.000 --> 1:35:10.200 watch Duty. It is available in the app Store and 1:35:10.640 --> 1:35:12.840 the website watchduty dot org. 1:35:13.439 --> 1:35:15.040 Thanks so much for joining me today, Thank you for 1:35:15.120 --> 1:35:15.920 having us. Thank you. 1:35:16.360 --> 1:35:18.400 More rich on Tech coming your way right after this. 1:35:24.680 --> 1:35:27.679 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:35:27.720 --> 1:35:30.719 out with you talking technology. The website for the show 1:35:31.120 --> 1:35:36.160 Rich on tech dot TV. Before we get to the feedback, 1:35:36.439 --> 1:35:39.679 just a couple of two more items of note number one. 1:35:40.040 --> 1:35:43.880 There's a great app called Voice Notes Voice Nototes dot Com. 1:35:44.000 --> 1:35:46.400 I've been using this since day one. It continues to 1:35:46.439 --> 1:35:51.000 get better and better. Think of this as a notepad 1:35:51.320 --> 1:35:57.400 but AI powered, and it's also dictation based, or you 1:35:57.479 --> 1:35:59.600 can write in notes as well. So now they have 1:35:59.720 --> 1:36:03.559 their first they have their first app for the Mac computer, 1:36:03.720 --> 1:36:06.600 Windows coming soon, but they've got them for Android, they 1:36:06.640 --> 1:36:08.519 got them for iPhone, they've got a web app. 1:36:08.640 --> 1:36:09.439 It's really great. 1:36:09.479 --> 1:36:11.840 And what I use this as is sort of a 1:36:11.960 --> 1:36:15.840 voice memo app, transcription tool, memory bank, like all in one. 1:36:16.520 --> 1:36:18.160 So what I really use it for is when people 1:36:18.240 --> 1:36:20.240 tell me stuff about themselves, I put it in here 1:36:20.360 --> 1:36:22.600 so I remember. And then the best part is you 1:36:22.680 --> 1:36:27.000 can use AI to ask later about your notes. So 1:36:27.160 --> 1:36:30.040 you can say, tell me everything I know about John, right, 1:36:30.160 --> 1:36:32.800 if you know you work with John, or he's a salesperson, 1:36:32.920 --> 1:36:36.519 whatever you do business with them, mentions he got a 1:36:36.560 --> 1:36:38.600 couple of kids going off to college. You can, you know, 1:36:38.760 --> 1:36:41.840 just dictate all this information in here or whatever. Just 1:36:41.880 --> 1:36:43.840 you can apply it to any aspect of your life. 1:36:43.880 --> 1:36:47.960 But really really cool. They've got voice notes, meeting recorder, 1:36:48.040 --> 1:36:53.679 AI summarizer ask AI and it's really really cool. Definitely 1:36:53.800 --> 1:36:56.720 check it out. It's called Voicenotes dot com. They just 1:36:56.800 --> 1:37:01.360 came out with their MacApp. I'm a big believer, and yeah, 1:37:01.640 --> 1:37:04.960 it's pretty cool. The other thing to do is there's 1:37:05.000 --> 1:37:08.720 an article from the Intelligence dot com about how to 1:37:08.880 --> 1:37:13.360 upgrade unsupported Windows ten PCs to Windows eleven. They basically 1:37:13.439 --> 1:37:16.200 talk about using a tool called rufus that can help 1:37:16.240 --> 1:37:19.040 you bypass the official requirements we've talked about, like the 1:37:19.280 --> 1:37:23.640 TPM Secure Boot four g four gigabytes a RAM. Now 1:37:23.760 --> 1:37:26.920 this a little techier than this show gets. But if 1:37:26.960 --> 1:37:31.679 you're trying to upgrade an unsupported Windows PC to Windows eleven, 1:37:33.120 --> 1:37:35.080 try it out. I mean, it's a great step by 1:37:35.120 --> 1:37:38.439 step guide. I'll put on the website at Richontech dot tv. 1:37:40.240 --> 1:37:41.120 Now for the feedback. 1:37:41.240 --> 1:37:44.000 Bill from Kingston, Pennsylvania writes in, Hey, rich just a 1:37:44.040 --> 1:37:45.680 heads up. The little light bulb at the top of 1:37:45.680 --> 1:37:48.840 your rich On Tech website isn't working. I try to 1:37:48.880 --> 1:37:51.120 on chromin Edge cleared cookies, it still leads to a 1:37:51.160 --> 1:37:53.640 blank page. Is there another way to see past episodes. 1:37:53.680 --> 1:37:58.559 I really enjoy the weekly podcasts bill. The light bulb 1:37:58.640 --> 1:38:02.320 has been removed and now it is replaced with episodes. 1:38:02.360 --> 1:38:04.120 I thought that was a little bit clearer for people. 1:38:04.640 --> 1:38:06.400 So if you want to listen to a past episode 1:38:06.479 --> 1:38:09.680 or get links to anything I mentioned, just tap episodes 1:38:09.840 --> 1:38:11.479 up at the top of the list. 1:38:12.280 --> 1:38:14.360 Let's go to uh, let's see here. 1:38:15.439 --> 1:38:17.800 Mike from California writes in thanks for your tip in 1:38:17.880 --> 1:38:20.880 your email about the AT and T Senior Plan. I 1:38:21.000 --> 1:38:23.040 chatted with an AT and T rep and in order 1:38:23.120 --> 1:38:25.040 to get that discount, you can only have up to 1:38:25.120 --> 1:38:28.000 two lines on your account. It's actually forty five dollars 1:38:28.080 --> 1:38:30.280 per line. If you have three, like I do. That 1:38:30.479 --> 1:38:33.799 is correct, Mike. The forty dollars monthly rate only applies 1:38:33.880 --> 1:38:38.080 to two lines max. It's still a pretty good discount. 1:38:38.160 --> 1:38:40.559 This is the new AT and T fifty five plus 1:38:40.680 --> 1:38:43.360 Senior Plan. If you have two lines, it's actually thirty 1:38:43.400 --> 1:38:45.880 five dollars a month. Forty dollars is for the one line. 1:38:46.360 --> 1:38:48.920 So if you've got that, if you're on any other 1:38:48.960 --> 1:38:50.799 plan with AT and T and you're a senior citizen, 1:38:51.000 --> 1:38:54.840 definitely Why does senior citizens sound so old? Fifty five 1:38:54.920 --> 1:38:57.880 plus is not that old, but senior plan a fifty 1:38:57.920 --> 1:39:00.160 five plus plan, let's call it. But anyway, a lot 1:39:00.160 --> 1:39:02.599 of people wrote to me saying they requested that plan 1:39:02.680 --> 1:39:06.800 from AT and T. It's brand new, so I would 1:39:06.880 --> 1:39:08.360 jump on it if you can. It'll save you a 1:39:08.400 --> 1:39:13.960 lot of money. Steve from Scranton, Pennsylvania, listening on WTRWFM 1:39:14.080 --> 1:39:17.280 rights in that call you had about hacking Windows eleven 1:39:17.360 --> 1:39:20.400 onto an old computer, way too technical and too long 1:39:20.479 --> 1:39:23.120 for your audience. In my opinion, I keep it shorter 1:39:23.240 --> 1:39:25.559 and just point people to search online for those kinds 1:39:25.560 --> 1:39:28.799 of instructions. Steve, great point. Yes it got a little Techye. 1:39:28.920 --> 1:39:33.040 I allowed it to go because I was impressed at 1:39:33.080 --> 1:39:36.320 the caller's knowledge and getting this out there. But yeah, 1:39:36.360 --> 1:39:40.640 I told you about the the intelligence dot com unsupported 1:39:40.720 --> 1:39:42.160 Windows upgrade and that's. 1:39:42.560 --> 1:39:45.160 Just as easy. So I'll put that on the website. 1:39:46.160 --> 1:39:50.200 Jay writes in let's see. A wonderful website for searching 1:39:50.320 --> 1:39:54.240 family history is FamilySearch dot org. It's completely free and 1:39:54.320 --> 1:39:57.920 it's the largest family history database in the world. Also 1:39:58.000 --> 1:40:01.840 connected to the site are hundreds of family family search 1:40:01.920 --> 1:40:04.280 centers around the globe with volunteers who can help people 1:40:04.320 --> 1:40:08.519 build out their family tree FamilySearch dot org. 1:40:10.160 --> 1:40:10.920 Okay, there you go. 1:40:11.000 --> 1:40:17.839 Another website suggested by Jay moving right along Neil from Ohio, 1:40:18.040 --> 1:40:20.719 oh I should have grouped this in with the earlier person. 1:40:21.360 --> 1:40:24.320 I just heard your amazing caller talk about MBR to 1:40:24.439 --> 1:40:25.679 GBT GPT. 1:40:25.920 --> 1:40:26.439 Great tip. 1:40:27.960 --> 1:40:30.680 I recently got a refurbished laptop with Windows ten and 1:40:30.800 --> 1:40:33.280 noticed a couple of things during the upgrade process. First, 1:40:33.760 --> 1:40:36.439 Windows Update offered me an older version of Windows eleven. 1:40:36.520 --> 1:40:39.200 I skipped that and check the optional update section, and 1:40:39.280 --> 1:40:41.400 sure enough I had the most recent official version, which 1:40:41.439 --> 1:40:42.000 I installed. 1:40:42.880 --> 1:40:44.040 Also, while my system was. 1:40:44.000 --> 1:40:47.880 Already using GPT, secure boot wasn't enabled, Windows warned me 1:40:48.000 --> 1:40:50.439 that some security features wouldn't work unless I turned it on, 1:40:50.560 --> 1:40:53.439 so I did. Feels like Windows eleven is evolving in 1:40:53.560 --> 1:40:54.679 some strange ways. 1:40:54.720 --> 1:40:56.559 I love your show. I look forward to it every week. 1:40:57.080 --> 1:40:57.800 Thank you, Neil. 1:40:58.360 --> 1:41:00.200 See you know it just goes to show we've got 1:41:00.200 --> 1:41:03.200 a wide range of folks on this show. Tom from 1:41:03.240 --> 1:41:05.400 more Park writes in hey, Rich, I saw your newsletter 1:41:05.479 --> 1:41:09.040 mention of just watch. Great recommendation. I use that site, 1:41:09.120 --> 1:41:12.080 along with Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb to find where movies 1:41:12.120 --> 1:41:14.720 and shows are streaming, whether free or paid. But I've 1:41:14.760 --> 1:41:17.840 also got a new site to share Next dash episode 1:41:17.880 --> 1:41:22.080 dot net. It's been super helpful for tracking when new 1:41:22.200 --> 1:41:26.000 episodes drop. You can build a custom calendar with only 1:41:26.080 --> 1:41:28.479 the shows you're watching, and it will show you exactly 1:41:28.560 --> 1:41:31.920 what airs and when. For anyone juggling multiple streaming shows, 1:41:32.000 --> 1:41:35.240 this is a game changer. Wow, Tom, that is That's 1:41:35.240 --> 1:41:39.080 a good one. Next dash Episode dot Net. Unfortunately, with 1:41:39.240 --> 1:41:43.479 my timeframes of watching shows, I basically can binge them 1:41:43.520 --> 1:41:46.080 when the entire season's done, after like four seasons of 1:41:46.120 --> 1:41:47.760 the show, because I just don't have that much time 1:41:47.800 --> 1:41:48.320 to watch TV. 1:41:48.439 --> 1:41:50.800 But if you do, that sounds like a great thing 1:41:50.880 --> 1:41:56.120 to do. Let's see here, Okay. 1:41:56.760 --> 1:41:59.160 Guy from mar Vista writes in thanks for your piece 1:41:59.200 --> 1:42:03.439 about the wise old camera with the lens oh telescopic lens. 1:42:03.479 --> 1:42:05.599 It was exactly what I needed for my outdoor camera 1:42:05.720 --> 1:42:08.479 fixture and it works great. I love your segment on 1:42:08.640 --> 1:42:11.920 KTLA and KFI. Keep up the great work keeping us 1:42:12.040 --> 1:42:13.280 consumers informed. 1:42:13.360 --> 1:42:13.920 Thank you guy. 1:42:15.520 --> 1:42:17.760 And then we've got let's see here a couple of 1:42:19.000 --> 1:42:21.680 Carol from San Fernando. Thanks for your tech tips. I 1:42:21.720 --> 1:42:24.759 wanted to share feedback on my experience using whisper Flow. Sadly, 1:42:24.840 --> 1:42:27.160 it's no better than the built in Apple Mic. I 1:42:27.280 --> 1:42:31.600 was hoping for something more accurate. I just wanted to 1:42:31.640 --> 1:42:34.519 report my unsatisfactory experience with the flow app and hope 1:42:34.560 --> 1:42:35.559 better solutions are coming. 1:42:35.920 --> 1:42:37.280 Carol, I think you have the wrong app. 1:42:37.560 --> 1:42:43.080 It's whisper wispr Flow, and it is the best voice 1:42:43.120 --> 1:42:45.559 to text dictation I've ever seen on the iPhone. 1:42:45.600 --> 1:42:46.920 I think you downloaded the wrong app. 1:42:46.920 --> 1:42:49.720 I'll be honest, because it is definitely better than the 1:42:49.760 --> 1:42:51.880 built in Apple Mic and you will experience that in 1:42:52.160 --> 1:42:56.000 just one try. Rain from California says hey, Rich, thanks 1:42:56.040 --> 1:42:58.400 for the tip on whisper Flow. I'm using my Microsoft 1:42:58.439 --> 1:43:01.680 Surface tablet and just like you said, it works seamlessly. 1:43:01.880 --> 1:43:02.240 Thank you. 1:43:02.479 --> 1:43:06.160 There you go see and uh, Steve writes in I 1:43:06.240 --> 1:43:08.959 have a form of als and my speech is affected. 1:43:09.479 --> 1:43:12.040 Siri has done an okay job, but whisper flow is 1:43:12.080 --> 1:43:15.160 almost one hundred percent accurate. It is by far the 1:43:15.280 --> 1:43:17.920 best dictation software I've ever tried, and I am so 1:43:18.040 --> 1:43:20.679 grateful to have found it. Thank you one hundred times 1:43:20.720 --> 1:43:22.240 over for telling me about it. 1:43:22.320 --> 1:43:22.519 Again. 1:43:22.560 --> 1:43:26.840 It's whisper flow wispr flow on the iPhone. It'll change 1:43:26.840 --> 1:43:27.240 your life. 1:43:27.840 --> 1:43:28.400 That's going to do it. 1:43:28.439 --> 1:43:30.280 For this episode links to everything I mentioned on my 1:43:30.360 --> 1:43:33.080 website rich on Tech dot TV, follow me on social 1:43:33.200 --> 1:43:35.720 at rich on Tech. Next week we're going to talk 1:43:35.800 --> 1:43:39.439 to Mollie Defrank about her two week tech reset for kids, 1:43:39.960 --> 1:43:42.000 and the CEO of Clicks is going to talk about 1:43:42.000 --> 1:43:44.840 their keyboard case. Thanks so much for listening. There are 1:43:44.960 --> 1:43:46.960 so many ways you can spend your time. I really 1:43:47.040 --> 1:43:50.479 do appreciate you spending it right here with me. One reminder, 1:43:50.840 --> 1:43:53.360 please do not text and drive. Whatever it is, it 1:43:53.400 --> 1:43:55.720 can wait. It's not just for your safety, but for 1:43:55.800 --> 1:44:00.439 the safety of everyone around us, including our kids, which 1:44:00.439 --> 1:44:03.040 will soon be driving. Thanks to everyone who makes this 1:44:03.080 --> 1:44:06.599 show possible. Adam on the board today, Kim on the phones, 1:44:07.439 --> 1:44:09.559 I know we had some issues with the phone lines today. 1:44:09.560 --> 1:44:11.479 In case that wasn't clear, I can tell you at 1:44:11.479 --> 1:44:11.720 the end. 1:44:11.800 --> 1:44:12.479 Now it's over. 1:44:13.840 --> 1:44:15.760 Thanks for hanging with me Kim today. My name is 1:44:15.800 --> 1:44:18.320 rich Demiro. I will talk to you real soon.