WEBVTT - LA Wildfires, CES 2025 Highlights & Top Landline Alternatives 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.480 A personal update on the wildfires in Los Angeles. Meta 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.680 makes a one eighty when it comes to moderating posts. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:12.160 Coverage from CS twenty twenty five in Las Vegas, plus 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:13.480 your tech questions. 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:14.680 What's going on? 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.680 My name is Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:19.960 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:21.959 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.239 place where I answer your questions about technology. Now. I 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.400 believe that tech should be interesting, useful and fun. This week, 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.760 of course, in Los Angeles, tech took on an entirely 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.120 new meeting with the wildfires. 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:35.360 Here. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.800 Not only did it help people stay connected and it 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:42.320 continues to do so, but there were vital apps and 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.640 services people relied on to not only keep tabs on 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.959 the fires, but also their homes and their lives. We're 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.000 going to open up the phone lines at triple eight 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.760 Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.280 two four one zero one because this is such a 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.960 special show today. I will pretty much take or entertain 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.000 any call. So if you want to give me an 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.480 update on your situation in Los Angeles, you have a 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:10.280 tech question, Kim will take your calls and we'll get 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.520 you on the air here, give me a call eight 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.400 eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.160 four to two four one zero one. Email also open. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.399 Just go to Rich on tech dot tv hit contact 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.440 you can contact me that way. Very excited for one 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.560 of my guests coming up this hour, Nick Russell. He 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.760 is the VP of operations at watch Duty. This is 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.440 the app that has been helping people stay informed during 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.400 the fires here in the LA area. This app has 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.760 seen a surge in downloads and so many people. This 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.200 is probably I think it became like the top app 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.280 in the app store because of this, and it just 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.840 it really has some incredibly helpful information. We'll have Nick 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.880 Russell join us here and talk about that app. Later 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.480 on in the show, a couple of folks from CS 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:04.360 twenty twenty five. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.160 Matt Swider of the shortcut dot com. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:08.640 Will join me to talk about some of the stuff 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.200 he saw there, and lance Yulanoff, editor at large for 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:17.000 tech Radar, He will talk CS twenty twenty five as well. Now, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.280 as you know, I am based in Los Angeles. This 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.480 was a really interesting week for me because I'm here 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.679 in Los Angeles now, but I had to come back 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.600 early from Las Vegas. So CS twenty twenty five happened 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.079 in Las Vegas this week. It's pretty much the largest 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.440 tech event of the year, with the exception of the 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.840 iPhone launch in September. This is where over one hundred 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.880 thousand people descend upon Las Vegas to see the latest 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.320 and greatest from all the tech companies. Well, let me 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.280 give you a timeline of exactly what happened, because, as 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:53.200 you know, I'm also a reporter at KTLA Television here 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.000 in Los Angeles, which has been wall to wall with 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:00.320 these fires that broke out here since basically two Tuesday, 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.519 I believe. So let me explain the timeline. So I'm 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.560 in CS in Las Vegas. You get out there early, 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.200 so last Sunday I was on my way there and 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.800 Monday morning, so Sunday already the CS stuff starts. Monday, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.800 it all goes on, and around eleven am on Monday, 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.359 I'm just scrolling through first thing in the morning on my. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.160 X and what do I see. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.359 I see a post from the National Weather Service Los 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.440 Angeles and this post is like I'm rubbing my eyes 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.960 because I'm like, wait, what life threatening and destructive windstorm 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.520 coming to the LA area. And I said, there's no way, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.240 this must be a mistake, you know, And when you're 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.960 scrolling through X sometimes things are parody accounts or fake 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.920 or you know, nonsense, and so I'm just double checking. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.960 I'm like, where what I mean? This is National Weather Service? 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.800 Like this can't be fake. And I texted to my wife. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.880 She's like, I haven't heard anything about this. I look 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.960 around online, no mention whatsoever. So I repost it on 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.160 my Instagram and just say, hey, you know, be aware 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.640 of this, but I'm in CS and we continue our coverage. Well, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.320 then all of a sudden, the fire start the next 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.520 day around ten thirty am, and we're already about by 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.840 this time, this is Tuesday, We're already three days into 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.600 our CS coverage. So we had one story that aired 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.520 on KTLA, we had a lot of coverage already going 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.040 on that we've edited, and next thing you know, it's like, no, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:19.719 we're going. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:20.920 Wall to wall. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.479 So my photographer and I, who you know, we both 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.800 live in Los Angeles, made the decision to stay in 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:27.560 Las Vegas. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:28.960 It was safer there at that point. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.479 Checked on our families, they were both okay, not in 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.840 harm's way, and we just continue to do our work 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.920 while we kind of monitor the situation, and I'm not kidding. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.320 Words spread through CS very quickly about what was happening 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.680 because all the TVs and things were tuned to what 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.400 was happening in LA. And every single person that came 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.320 up to me if they saw KTLA am my badge, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.080 or saw Los Angeles rich, how you doing, how's your 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:52.720 family doing? 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:53.880 How is you know? 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.719 How's everyone in Los Angeles? And the answer was I 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.840 don't really know. So my wife happens to be from 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.400 the West side of Los Angeles, went to school in 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:09.040 the Pacific Palisades, and so many people. I mean our wedding, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.400 one of our wedding showers, was held at a home 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.120 in the Pacific Palisades. I mean this is an area 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:18.680 that from before this happened, nobody even heard of the Palisades. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.200 I mean, you've heard of Beverly Hills. That is a 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.040 really upscale neighborhood that the entire world has heard of. Well, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.920 Pacific Palisades is very similar, except nobody's heard of it 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.839 until now, and of course for the wrong reasons. But 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.839 this is an enclave, a very wealthy area of Los Angeles, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.080 you know, on the side of a mountain, and it 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.120 is you know, ocean views from many of the homes. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.360 There a lot of generational wealth, a lot of people 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.080 that have made been very successful in their lives, and 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:49.600 this is where they chose to live. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.080 And it was an amazing place. 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.600 And to see the stories and to hear the stories 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.880 of destruction there was just heartbreaking. And it still is 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.520 and we're still learning now. Some friends we have, their 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.800 homes are fine. Some people we know their homes are 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.960 completely lost. And imagine, by the way, a lot of 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.560 these people had almost no no time to get out 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.440 of there, like we're talking. They just left with the 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.960 clothes on their back, and that's it. Imagine being in 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:19.560 that situation. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:20.159 What do you do? 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.520 What do you take out of your house in that time? 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.160 You're not even thinking clearly, You're literally going to pick 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.520 up your kids at school and getting out of dodge 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.880 and you come back a week later, three days later, 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.040 to even if you can see your home, if you're 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:35.960 able to get back to. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.720 It just gone. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.800 Or your neighborhood completely gone, or every house around you 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.120 is gone and your house is standing. Now, how do 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.480 you feel with that? So these are the stories that 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.799 I'm getting now. My wife also works at a school 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.599 where a lot of the students live in the Palisades, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.640 and so she just all day. She was crying for 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.920 three days straight, getting the emails from her students about 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.720 their homes and their situation. And you know, think about this. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.000 These are people who go from the absolute upper echelon 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.080 of life, right they have everything they need, they have 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.840 everything they want, They've got a beautiful family and home 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.880 and place to live, to absolutely the worst possible situation. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:19.160 You can imagine. Imagine that just for a second. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:26.000 Now for me, I continue to cover CS and we 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.040 went on and this this goes to the dichotomy of 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.800 Los Angeles as well. So in La, you know, the 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:34.880 tech started coming in for me, you know, like, hey, 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.400 rich are you okay? Is your family okay? How are 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.000 things going? And La is a big place and at 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:41.840 the beginning we were fine. You know, our home was 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.200 not in any danger. Where we live was very safe. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.600 That did change yesterday. But you know, we're getting texts 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.920 and emails from friends everywhere, you know, just asking. And 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.720 here's the interesting thing about La. La is a very 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.560 big place. And I was I was worried about, you know, 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.520 driving back to LA from Las Vegas because I wasn't sure, 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.240 you know, Or the freeway is going to be shut down? 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.320 Are the roads going to be impacted? Am I gonna 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.360 be stuck in my electric car for hours on end 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.760 on a freeway that I can't move on and my 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.240 battery goes dead? I mean, these are considerations. We got 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.640 a lot of electric cars here in La too, or California, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.160 and so this is the the idea of Los Angeles. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.840 There's so many places, right, so you may live in 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.000 Los Angeles and not be affected by this at all. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.960 I mean emotionally, of course, physically with smoke. Visually, I 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.160 mean you could see the smoke from these fires from 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.840 our home and from many homes across Los Angeles. 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:38.800 That's how big they are. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.200 But you know, you may still go to work, you 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.480 may still My wife, you know, when she finally left 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.560 the house, she drove past the CPK, So I can't 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.839 believe I was just seen all these people eating dinner 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.680 in there. You know, life is normal. I mean, it's 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.120 it's weird to think about that, but life goes on 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:58.200 in different places, in different pockets. My mom watching at home, 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.160 you know, twenty four to seven, said she watched the 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.440 news from five pm to one am couldn't take her 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:03.560 eyes off the TV screen. 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:04.920 I understand it. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:10.000 These are images that we you see in movies, and 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.720 here they are happening in real life to real people 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.400 and really affecting their lives in a way that nobody 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:22.480 ever wants to experience. Driving into the studio today, you know, 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.400 last night we were uncertain if we were even going 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.120 to be able to do this show from the studio. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.520 Originally I planned on doing the show from Las Vegas, 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.880 and you know that was of course derailed and came 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.480 back here, and then all of a sudden it was 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.120 a question of are we doing the show from here 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.440 because can we get into the studio. And then my producer, 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.360 you know, Bobo, you know, he was not able to 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:46.920 get here in an easy way. He had to go 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.040 around in circles because he couldn't get through all the roadblocks. 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.199 And driving to work, I mean it looked like one 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.720 of those apocalyptic movies with the National Guard and the 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.440 police blocking almost every road to the mountain. I mean big, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:06.079 big equipment. We're talking army equipment, military equipment. This is 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.200 the kind of stuff that you know, people with large guns. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.200 You're just sitting there going, wait, what world. Is this 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.240 what is happening right now? And by the way, in 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.800 these moments, you realize how much control the government has 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.960 over you because here's your home in your neighborhood and 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.560 you are not allowed to go there. Think about that 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.640 for a second. There's your home, you have no idea 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.000 if it's standing or not, and you are not allowed 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.920 to go in. And I understand it's for the safety 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.600 of everyone, it's for the looters that we've seen, it's 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.280 for a million and one reasons. But think about that, 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.600 your home you cannot check on. Imagine what that feels 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:45.920 like for a second. So it's been interesting in Los Angeles, 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:50.079 let's put it that way. On this show, we're obviously 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.400 going to do a mix of things, right so this 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.480 is a show about technology. I'm going to give you 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.199 as many tech updates as I can. We're going to 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.400 talk about the wildfires because that is what people are 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.560 talking about right now. This is what people This is 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.280 top of mind and there's a lot to go through. 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.800 We were packing our go bags last night. Where do 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.160 you start? Is everything scanned? Where's our wedding album? Where's 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.040 our driver's license, where's our passport? What do we need 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.920 to bring if we can never come back here eight 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.959 eight eight rich one oh one eight eight seven four 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.959 to two four one zero one. My name is rich Dumuro. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.880 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:32.960 Rich DeMuro here talking technology of course, uh talking wildfires 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:38.120 as well. City of Los Angeles in an interesting place 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.760 right now. But what I will tell you is people 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.480 come together in situations like this, and it really gives 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.160 me a lot of hope for humanity because not only 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.120 do the big companies you know, try to do what 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.000 they can, but I think just individual people. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:55.719 I mean my. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.800 Wife, you know, her school started, you know, donation center, 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.160 and I saw this over and over on Instagram. Various 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.559 places started donation drives, and just the amount of things 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:10.400 that people brought to donate is just incredible. People want 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:15.720 to help. My friend Jefferson Graham he mentioned today in 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.000 his newsletter. You know, he talks about all the stuff 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.920 with taking pictures and backing up your photos. You talked 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.600 about all that, but at the end of his newsletter 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.680 he mentioned, you know, a quick note about the supposed 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.800 death of traditional TV right because everyone's streaming. But think 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.880 about this, what did you tune into to learn about 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.440 the fires. Did you go to Netflix, did you go 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.680 to Amazon Prime? No, you probably went to KTLA, or 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.720 you probably went to your local radio station, or you 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.120 probably went to one of the other broadcast stations. So 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.640 I've been working in TV now for twenty years. Yeah, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.840 it's a long time, and I'm not kidding. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:52.240 I remember. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.400 I remember this like it was yesterday, my first day 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.760 up in Yakima, Washington, and TVO was just sort of 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.079 coming on the horizon and everyone said, that's it. TV 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.560 is over, TVO done, And they said, now you know what, 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.880 local news probably be okay because people like to watch 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:08.320 it live. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:09.480 And that's true. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.080 How many times have you recorded the news to watch 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.840 it later? Probably not very much. Let's go to Raoul 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.400 in Arcadia. Raoul, you're on with Rich. 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.000 Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:22.520 Absolutely, what's happening. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.400 We're in the middle of it there in Arcadia, and 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.880 a lot of our workmates all live in the fire 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.240 area and have no power. What I noticed as an 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.640 amateur prepper, I carry lots of portable power banks, solar 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:40.120 powered nonsolar powered. I have some in my car and 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.600 many at home. But I noticed surgeons that couldn't go 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.960 to their homes sitting at the hospital because they're on 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.800 ten percent power and they have to charge before they 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.679 go home because they have nowhere no way of charging 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.120 their phones at home, and they're woefully unprepared for having 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.960 no power at home. Nobody seems to have poor power banks. 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.760 So now everybody's scrambling asking me for information or advice 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:07.760 what to get and all that. And I was wondering, 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.760 if you have any suggestions. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:10.920 Yeah, great, great question. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.800 This was something that in our house we were I 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.400 was like told my wife isid, Hey, you got to 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:19.000 charge up the uh the portable backup you know device 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.000 to weve got like one of those big ones. So 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.600 just being at CS this, you gotta be prepared. I mean, 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.720 I'm not kidding. When I go out to a trade 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.360 show or a football game, I make sure that my 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.840 phone is at one hundred percent no matter what, and 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.680 I put it on low power immediately. So if you're 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.040 in a situation like this, like anything that could happen, 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.920 you need to be prepared. You have to have a 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.600 backup battery. Now there are many of them, there's mint, 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.840 there's whole house backups. Now at this point, the company 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:54.320 that really made these popular Jackerie. They were all over 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.920 cs and these things are giant, giant battery So imagine 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.600 the batter the portable battery pack you have for your smartphone, 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.240 but just a lot bigger. It's got every plug imaginable. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.920 And the new ones come with solar panels, so you 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.800 can set up those solar panels and have this thing recharged. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.400 And I will tell you solar does not charge things 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.240 very quickly, so this is not something that you're gonna 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.000 just like say, oh, it's gonna be at zero percent, 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.200 let me put those panels out. No, you want to 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.680 have this thing charged up first off. So Jackerie, they 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.520 were telling me, you know, one of their best sellers, 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:31.480 they've got portable power stations and those start at let's 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.240 see what price. I think they were telling me that 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.920 some of their most populars are like five, six, seven, 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.080 eight hundred dollars. So yeah, I mean they go up 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.800 to thirty five hundred dollars for the giant rolling ones. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.000 They've got the portable ones that are two thousand dollars. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.760 Then they've got smaller just keeps going down. The cheapest 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.560 one they've got is one hundred and twenty nine dollars, 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.360 so again, get one of these things and talk to 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.600 your power company. Look on their website. They may have 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.400 a rebate that lets you purchase these for free, depending 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:01.440 on where you live. So Jackerie is a big goal 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.160 zero goalzero dot com. They make a lot of the 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.080 portable power stations with solar. They were an early early 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:13.480 adopter of solar power and solar generators and power banks. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.640 A lot of people that can't know about this company, 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.160 but Goal zero is another big one. Eco Flow. I 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:24.720 actually have this hat right here. Let me grab this hat. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.320 So I've got this hat right here from Ecoflow and 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.920 this hat I picked up at CES. It's a solar 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:35.040 powered hat. So I'm putting it on and you see 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.840 this thing. Bobo's laughing, but it's it's I mean, I'm 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:38.480 not kidding you. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:39.080 Put this thing on. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:40.920 It looks like a you know, kind of a big 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.920 floppy hat. It's got solar panels all around it. You 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.760 plug your phone in, you walk around, two hours, will 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:47.560 charge up your phone. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.440 I look like a witch, like a witch. That is 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:51.120 a witch hat. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.480 But hey, you should post that on social media. So 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:55.720 I will post it on social media. So look at 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.440 rich on Tech. I'll post it I'll take a picture 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.480 during the break. But I'm not kidding. You have this 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.280 thing and you don't have to worry about charging your phone. 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.720 I mean it's a solar powered hat. This thing is 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.600 about one hundred bucks. That's from Ecoflow. So check out 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.159 those brands and please anchors another one. Just get a 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.200 portable battery for your smartphone. Make sure it has USBC 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.320 charge them up. Make sure they are fully charged. These 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.679 things lose about five percent a year in charge, so 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:22.560 charge it up. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.280 It should stay charged up. Coming up, we're going to talk. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.880 To uh the watch duty app, which has been a 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.160 lifeline in this situation. Welcome back to rich on tech 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:39.879 rich Demiro here talking technology. Eight e' eight rich one 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.720 oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:43.320 One zero one. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.840 I know the lines are jammed today. I can see 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.520 that a lot of folks calling in. So if you 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.800 want to send an email, just go to the website 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.600 rich on tech dot TV. Hit contact. You can send 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.760 an email there. I will read it, and you can 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.639 also go to the website for show notes. So I 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.160 just meant a bunch of the portable battery and chargers. 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:03.880 You can go there. 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.880 Rich on tech dot TV hit the light bulb icon 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.040 to get more information about that. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:10.920 Let's see. 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.080 My next guest is someone I'm really excited to bring on. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.960 Nick Russell is VP of operations at watch Duty. This 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:22.359 is an app that has just been just invaluable for 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.760 people keeping up with the fires and learning about them. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:30.280 And this app really really has just had so many 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.920 downloads in the past week or so. Now, I don't 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:34.720 want to toot my own horn, but I did go 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.400 back in my notes and I looked at the first 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:41.040 time I mentioned this app to my followers, and that 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:45.080 was on December twentieth, So thankfully you had the heads up, 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:46.959 but I know a lot of people are just discovering it. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:47.280 Now. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.400 Let's bring on Nick Russell, VP of Operations at watch Duty. Nick, 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:52.639 thanks so much for joining me today. 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.000 Yeah, thanks for having me rich and appreciate your ongoing 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:56.880 support as well. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.560 Yeah, I mean, it's just incredible what this app has done. First, 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.479 just explain what watch Duty is. 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.320 Yeah, So, watch Duty is a free emergency learning service 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.080 that's available through the app Store for free, as well 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.760 as online at app dot watch duty dot org, and 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.560 our primary goal is to give you actionable information on 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.840 disasters occurring around you when seconds count, and right now 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.480 that's specifically wildfire, but in the future we want to 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:24.960 expand that. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.880 So tell me about the last week. What's been going 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.520 on with the Los Angeles downloads. I mean, obviously, you 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.240 know you probably saw hundreds of thousands of new downloads. 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:37.600 What have you been holding up? 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:38.760 Yeah? 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.400 No, I mean it's like where do I start. This 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:46.320 week has been just monumental, but it's so hard to 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.560 focus on how well Watch Duty has been doing and 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.760 serving when I think about the devastation in southern California. 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.720 But since the beginning of the Palisades fire, we have 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:01.359 had just short of two million new downloads of the app, 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:05.240 bringing our total downloads to five million, and our active 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.240 user as well over ten million. 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.800 And so this. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.560 Week we're probably say that we've successfully sent out two 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:18.040 hundred and twenty million push notifications to the southern California area. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.240 Just trying to keep everybody informed as this is a 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:22.920 very dynamic and fluid. 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:26.080 Situation that is wild Oh my gosh. Okay, So, and 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.040 I'm looking at the app store right now on the iPhone. 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.879 At least you guys are featured right on the homepage. 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:35.560 And I don't know if I can see the top 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.119 downloads at this point, but I'm assuming you are probably 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:39.520 up there in the top downloads. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.639 Yeah, actually it's it's unimaginable. But we spent most of 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.520 the week ahead of CHATVPT as the number one free 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.640 app in the app store, which is just mind boggling 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:53.440 to think of being ahead of chat GPT. 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:56.000 That is wild. That is really well. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.360 It goes to show that when people need, you know, trusted, 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.680 actionable information, you know, this is where they turn. Okay, 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.800 so explain how the app is updated, because this is 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:09.560 like a volunteer effort, or explain that whole situation, like 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:11.120 how is this app getting its information? 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.480 Yeah, this is a bit long winded, but it's certainly 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.719 worth it. So the way that we operate is we 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:22.439 have a team of active retired firefighters, dispatchers, first responders, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.639 and radio enthusiasts that are operating twenty four to seven 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:29.919 behind the scenes in Slack. That's our internal communications system, 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:33.359 and so within Slack, we have signals coming from a 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:37.560 plethora of sources of potential new wildfire ignitions. Once we 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:41.119 identify that there is in fact a wildfire that has begun, 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.800 either through radio traffic or our other partnerships that we have. 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.840 We begin posting that in the Watch Duty app and 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.800 we start telling a story from the start of ignition 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.359 until the threat passes or the last engine leaves. And 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.720 we do this much like sports reporting, so that people 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:00.479 get those granular details like the fires five eight, and 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.080 it has a rapid rate of spread. Structures are immediately 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:07.440 threatened on Corona Drive, for instance, and so then people 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:11.680 can take that information and start acting on their own emergency. 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:14.399 And then we continue that story as the fire evolves 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:19.000 and escalates, and usually de escalation comes sooner rather than later. 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:21.800 But fortunately with these wind events, that's not something that 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:23.600 we've seen happen a lot. 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:23.960 Yet. 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.560 How many states are you operating in currently? 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:29.480 We operate in twenty two states. 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:31.280 And so that's just and that's all just people that 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.600 are kind of what you just said, monitoring things and 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:35.560 updating this stuff. 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:39.960 Yeah, so the way the process generally happens is folks 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:42.600 right into us, maybe they're retiring from the fire service, 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:44.920 or they have some time in their off days. Same 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:48.240 rings true with dispatchers as well as a radio enthusiast. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:50.640 And then what we do is we do a panel interview, 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.800 a full background check, and then we bring them onto 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:55.439 the team. And these are all a bunch of like 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.920 minded people, people helping people. They just want to get 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.520 this information out. Many of us, including myself, live in 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.440 the wildland, so we know what it's like to be evacuated, 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.320 and we know the information we're looking for and we've 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:11.200 identified those challenges and so that's the stuff that we're 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:15.520 looking to get to communities is just basic information that's 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:18.480 clear and easy to understand, accurate and timely. 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:22.880 Now, speaking of that, what do you guys qualify as 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:24.119 sort of the critical alert? 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:24.320 You know? 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:26.880 How on the iPhone there's like a feature where alerts 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:29.159 can break through if they are deemed like from a 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:30.080 critical nature? 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:31.320 Are you is? 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:35.040 Are your notifications classified as that? Like if I went 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:37.200 to sleep? You know, here, here's the big question we 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:38.920 had last night. You know, we were in the area 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:41.479 where you might have to evacuate, and so we're like, well, 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:43.520 wait a second, how do you go to sleep? Like, 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:45.159 what do you when do you wake up? What do 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:46.680 you how do you know when it's time to go? 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:51.000 Yeah, no, that's a great question and it's certainly a challenge. 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:55.119 And so we are approved to deliver critical alerts that 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:58.960 being said that it's not something that we have yet done, 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:02.439 not because we don't want to. We just want to 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:05.680 find an explainable balance of when we send a critical 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:09.360 alert versus when we don't. So that's something I anticipate 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:12.800 coming out this I want to say this upcoming fire season, 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:16.040 but this one hasn't ended yet, but we anticipate this 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:18.560 into Q two of twenty twenty five, hopefully at the 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:20.639 start of the next fire season. 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:24.359 What inspired the creation of this app? 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:29.080 So, our co founder and CEO, John Clark Mills, had 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:32.960 a rich history in tech. He's developed many software companies 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:35.720 and sold those and so he moved to a rural 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:38.760 area in northern Sonoma County here in the North Bay, 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:42.760 and about six months after he moved in, he experienced 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:47.000 several events where helicopters are flying over dropping water, he's 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:49.560 seeing smoke, and he's going all over the place trying 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:52.520 to find information, and at times he finds bits and pieces, 0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:56.240 but it's really difficult. And then finally, really the genesis 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.639 of WATCHD came when he was evacuated to the Wallbridge 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:02.800 fire and when he left, he started looking back trying 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:04.840 to find out where the fire had started, where it 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:09.560 was going evacuation resources, and after the fourth website and 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:12.520 social media platform that he visited and finally got a 0:25:12.520 --> 0:25:15.440 piece of the story together, he said to himself, man, 0:25:15.480 --> 0:25:17.240 there's kind of be a better way to do this, 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:20.639 And so he learned more about wild land suppression and 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:23.680 response and then set out to build Watch Duty, and 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:26.720 just one year later it was born with the original 0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:29.879 three counties. And so this has really become a labor 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:32.040 of love for all of us. We all started as 0:25:32.119 --> 0:25:36.480 volunteers in the wildland, experiencing these things and then taking 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:38.080 our experiences and building. 0:25:37.720 --> 0:25:39.520 Off of them to help other people. 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:43.960 And you know that's obviously grown tremendously since August and 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:48.399 twenty one to today, but it's always been a passion 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:50.040 of all of ours to help folks. 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:53.240 Are you seeing a lot of donations or new memberships 0:25:53.280 --> 0:25:56.240 because you know this is all free for the most part. 0:25:56.560 --> 0:25:59.640 Are people stepping up to sort of support your mission here? 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:00.600 Yeah? 0:26:00.640 --> 0:26:04.200 I know people have stepped up fantastically. The memberships are 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:07.600 always the baseline, easiest way to support ensuring the app 0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:10.359 stays free forever and it will never have ads in 0:26:10.400 --> 0:26:13.800 it regardless, but those membership levels help with that. 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:16.119 And then you know, if folks can visit. 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:20.960 Watch duty dot org forward slash donate, those donations are tremendous. 0:26:21.080 --> 0:26:23.720 You know, we're one hundred percent nonprofit and we rely 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:26.879 on that stuff to remain in operation. We're certainly not 0:26:26.960 --> 0:26:30.520 going anywhere anytime soon, but donations are certainly welcome to 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:31.000 the suburb. 0:26:31.760 --> 0:26:33.880 Any advice you want to give to users that are 0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:37.600 using this app during these emergency situations. 0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:39.800 I want to take it a little bit broader. Watch 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:43.560 Studio is a great resource and I highly encourage everyone 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:46.840 to utilize it, download it, live by it, share it 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:49.240 with your friends. We will we will be here twenty 0:26:49.280 --> 0:26:51.879 four to seven to help you. But this fire is 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:56.720 a wake up call because stopping devastating wind driven wildfires 0:26:56.840 --> 0:26:59.640 is no easy task and it's not something that we're 0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:03.479 going to overnight. And so having a plan and making 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:07.520 preparations and advance of these events well in advanced seasons 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:11.320 and advance is extremely important. And developing plans with your 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:14.000 family for how you will act when these fires begin, 0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:16.359 whether it's in the middle of the day, the middle 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:19.280 of the night, having a meeting location so that you're 0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:22.160 not searching for loved ones. I think that's super important 0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:26.080 and everybody taking this as a learning point and taking 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:28.359 those steps I think is a really good idea. 0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:29.679 Yeah, great advice. 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:32.359 As last night we were scrambling to find you know, 0:27:32.440 --> 0:27:35.280 the locks to our safes and kind of like the 0:27:35.320 --> 0:27:38.719 passports and where everything was and where our wedding album was. 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:41.080 I mean, you don't want to be doing that at 0:27:41.080 --> 0:27:44.280 the last minute. So I know, growing up in my family, 0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:47.280 my dad is a roofer. He always had a plan 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:49.439 for us to escape the house if there's ever a fire, 0:27:50.400 --> 0:27:52.240 and so we had this like ladder that would like 0:27:52.400 --> 0:27:54.640 roll down the side of the house. And of course 0:27:54.680 --> 0:27:57.840 we were scared, very scared. When he rolled that thing 0:27:57.840 --> 0:27:59.200 out and said this is how you get out of 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:01.399 the house, We're like, yeah, for you to say, mister ruffer, 0:28:01.480 --> 0:28:03.639 but for us, you know, we're not walking down this 0:28:03.720 --> 0:28:07.760 ladder that was gonna you know, all right. The website 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:10.920 is once again, tell me the website watchduty dot org. 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:12.760 Yep, Watchdudy dot org. 0:28:12.920 --> 0:28:17.480 It's available on iOS and Android. Uh. It's also available 0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:19.919 through the web browser, so download the app, turn on 0:28:19.960 --> 0:28:23.920 those updates. Nick Russell, VP of operations at Watch Judy, 0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:25.119 thanks so much for. 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:25.639 Joining me today. 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:27.200 Thank you Rich take care. 0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:29.600 Thanks for everything you guys have done eight eight eight 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:32.320 rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:35.040 two four one zero one. More of your calls rich 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:40.760 on tech dot TV. Welcome back to rich on Tech 0:28:40.840 --> 0:28:45.280 Rich DeMuro here talking technology at eighty eight rich one 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:47.800 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:28:47.840 --> 0:28:50.600 one zero one. The website for the show rich on 0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:55.680 Tech dot TV. We've been talking a lot about the wildfires, 0:28:55.680 --> 0:28:59.400 a lot about technology and its role in all of this. 0:29:00.240 --> 0:29:05.160 Nothing will replace your home, nothing will replace the memories lost. 0:29:05.800 --> 0:29:09.400 And I am thinking of everyone that has been impacted 0:29:09.440 --> 0:29:14.160 by this. I mean really really just everyone knows someone 0:29:14.480 --> 0:29:17.480 right that is impacted by this. And so no matter what, 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:19.719 even if your home is still safe and sound, you're 0:29:19.760 --> 0:29:22.360 thinking about how you can donate, how you can support 0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:26.920 your friends, their families, anyone. And I do love that 0:29:27.000 --> 0:29:30.320 aspect of our world that people do come together during 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:32.640 these times. Now, don't get me wrong, there's a lot 0:29:32.640 --> 0:29:35.560 of finger pointing, there's a lot of complaining, there's a 0:29:35.560 --> 0:29:38.320 lot of blaming, and that's always going to be there. 0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:41.400 But at the end of the day, what I see 0:29:41.600 --> 0:29:44.000 is the good in all of this, and people really 0:29:44.040 --> 0:29:47.840 do want to help each other. Let's go to Susan 0:29:48.000 --> 0:29:49.920 in Santa Monica. Susan, you're on with Rich. 0:29:50.200 --> 0:29:52.200 Hey, Rich, thank you so much for a great show, 0:29:52.240 --> 0:29:54.960 and thank you for the question the gentleman posed about 0:29:55.000 --> 0:29:57.360 backup power and your great answer. 0:29:57.640 --> 0:29:58.000 Thank you. 0:29:58.320 --> 0:30:02.440 So I'm in Santa Monica. I've never felt the need 0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:05.880 until now to get a smartphone. It was not a 0:30:05.880 --> 0:30:07.880 good feeling the other night when I thought I may 0:30:07.960 --> 0:30:11.120 have to get out of here, and knowing I do 0:30:11.200 --> 0:30:16.640 not have connection to the internet. What is the simplest, easiest, 0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:20.400 basic phone that I might get. It could be a 0:30:20.440 --> 0:30:24.000 flip could I don't what do you think the basic, simplest, 0:30:24.080 --> 0:30:27.240 easiest phone. So if I had to go, and it'll 0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:29.640 be for emergencies only, I do not need to use it. 0:30:29.600 --> 0:30:30.080 All the time. 0:30:30.160 --> 0:30:33.160 Do you want a smartphone or a flip phone? I don't. 0:30:33.280 --> 0:30:35.840 You know what, just as long as I can get 0:30:35.880 --> 0:30:38.640 to the Internet when I leave, okay. 0:30:38.320 --> 0:30:40.560 Then you want a smartphone. Flip phone is going to 0:30:40.560 --> 0:30:42.840 be really tricky with the internet. So I would say 0:30:42.920 --> 0:30:46.160 a smartphone, okay, and I'd go with the simple smartphone. 0:30:46.160 --> 0:30:48.400 And what I do is I would go something like 0:30:48.800 --> 0:30:50.520 I mean, you could go you can go with an iPhone. 0:30:50.560 --> 0:30:53.800 Obviously that's going to be, you know, the gold standard 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:56.120 of phones. But those are also going to be expensive. 0:30:56.280 --> 0:30:58.440 So if you're talking you're only going to use this 0:30:58.480 --> 0:31:01.400 thing once in a while, you may not need to 0:31:01.440 --> 0:31:03.960 do that. But if I was going to recommend an iPhone, 0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:07.840 I'd probably say just get a refurbished iPhone, something that's inexpensive. 0:31:07.880 --> 0:31:11.520 You can go on Amazon renewed and look up the 0:31:11.560 --> 0:31:15.000 iPhones that they sell there. They sell refurbished iPhones and 0:31:15.000 --> 0:31:16.800 they're a little bit older, so they're a little bit 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:20.480 less expensive. And so that's that's one aspect. Let me 0:31:20.480 --> 0:31:23.320 just see what they're apple, what their iPhones are going for. 0:31:24.120 --> 0:31:27.080 So you can get an iPhone twelve for two hundred 0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:29.960 and fifty bucks, you get an iPhone eleven. I may 0:31:29.960 --> 0:31:31.640 not go iPhone eleven. That might be a little bit 0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:33.840 too old. I go, you know, they've got an iPhone 0:31:33.920 --> 0:31:37.800 fourteen for four hundred dollars. So they've got an se 0:31:38.040 --> 0:31:40.959 second generation for one hundred and thirty eight dollars, So 0:31:41.160 --> 0:31:44.200 you can get a cheap iPhone. Contrary to popular belief, 0:31:44.280 --> 0:31:46.520 Yes you can buy a cheap iPhone. We're talking under 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:49.959 four hundred dollars under three hundred, under two hundred. 0:31:50.360 --> 0:31:51.960 So that's if you want an iPhone. 0:31:52.240 --> 0:31:56.120 The reason I'd say iPhone is just because it's you 0:31:56.240 --> 0:31:59.240 got the accessories, it's gonna work, it's going to be simple. 0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:01.400 People know how to use it if you need to 0:32:01.440 --> 0:32:03.880 ask for help. So that's number one. And then what 0:32:03.920 --> 0:32:06.520 I would do is just buy a prepaid plan, so 0:32:06.640 --> 0:32:09.120 I would just pay for the year in advance, So 0:32:09.200 --> 0:32:12.320 something like a Mint Mobile, you want to pay for 0:32:12.360 --> 0:32:15.160 the entire year all at once, and that way you 0:32:15.200 --> 0:32:19.320 don't have to think about paying for the plan, you know, 0:32:19.960 --> 0:32:22.120 month to month, just pay for the whole year at once. 0:32:22.640 --> 0:32:26.680 And they've got plans that start at let's see, five 0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:31.840 gigabytes fifteen dollars a month. So if you buy twelve 0:32:31.880 --> 0:32:34.720 months twelve times fifteen, one hundred and eighty dollars up front, 0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:38.200 so you can do that. Wow, Okay, you can get 0:32:38.280 --> 0:32:40.520 unlimited right now if you pay for the Wow. That's 0:32:40.560 --> 0:32:43.960 an incredible deal. Unlimited right now on Mint mobiles fifteen 0:32:44.000 --> 0:32:45.880 dollars a month for twelve months. If you pay for 0:32:45.920 --> 0:32:48.320 that one hundred and eighty dollars, you have unlimited data 0:32:48.400 --> 0:32:51.400 for twelve months. That's a great deal. That's just a 0:32:51.520 --> 0:32:54.200 limited time offer. Right now, I'm just looking at their website. 0:32:54.200 --> 0:32:57.680 That's news to me, so I would do that. You 0:32:57.680 --> 0:33:00.440 can also, if you want, you can go to a 0:33:00.600 --> 0:33:03.840 retailer like a Walmart and buy like a SIM there. 0:33:03.840 --> 0:33:06.320 But the thing is most of these phones have eSIMs 0:33:06.720 --> 0:33:09.040 and you can just activate them right there. The other 0:33:09.080 --> 0:33:12.760 one that might work is Mobile X because they have 0:33:12.800 --> 0:33:15.480 a plan that's really cheap. They've got a plan that 0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:18.080 starts at like four dollars a month, and so you 0:33:18.120 --> 0:33:21.440 can get that plan and you only pay for the 0:33:21.520 --> 0:33:24.480 data that you use, and so that may be a 0:33:24.600 --> 0:33:27.880 cheap way to sort of just have this phone running 0:33:27.920 --> 0:33:31.400 without paying a lot. But I personally like the idea 0:33:31.440 --> 0:33:33.520 of just paying in advance for the whole year. So 0:33:33.560 --> 0:33:36.560 that's what I would do. And again, if you want 0:33:36.600 --> 0:33:40.920 to look at an Android side of things, I would 0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:43.840 say the Pixel. So I know I talk about Pixel 0:33:43.880 --> 0:33:45.440 all the time, but I just think it's a very 0:33:45.480 --> 0:33:49.280 simple phone. It works, and they've got a couple different models. 0:33:49.280 --> 0:33:55.160 And actually Google just started selling Pixel renewed so refurbished, 0:33:55.800 --> 0:33:57.600 so let me look at what their prices are. So 0:33:57.600 --> 0:34:00.800 they just opened up a certified refurbished Pixel store on 0:34:00.880 --> 0:34:05.120 the Google Store. So you've got the Pixel seven Pro, 0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:08.640 which is pretty new. That's that's starting at six twenty nine. 0:34:08.640 --> 0:34:10.920 So that's too expensive for what you're talking about. But 0:34:11.000 --> 0:34:13.920 you can go with the refurbished Pixel six A for 0:34:13.960 --> 0:34:18.440 two hundred and fifty dollars and that's again that is outright. 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:19.480 You don't have to pay monthly. 0:34:19.520 --> 0:34:21.160 You don't have to think about, you know, how much 0:34:21.200 --> 0:34:23.400 you're paying for this phone every month, because the idea 0:34:23.440 --> 0:34:25.080 for you, Susan, is that you want to have this 0:34:25.239 --> 0:34:28.360 phone and service ready to go. So all you have 0:34:28.400 --> 0:34:30.480 to do is charge this thing up, keep it charged up, 0:34:30.520 --> 0:34:33.480 and that's that's what you need. And you mentioned the battery. 0:34:33.520 --> 0:34:36.000 Get a portable battery pack. Make sure that you have 0:34:36.080 --> 0:34:38.720 that charged up as well, so that way you always 0:34:38.719 --> 0:34:41.280 have this phone at the ready. And I will say 0:34:41.320 --> 0:34:45.120 throughout this time, the service providers have been doing a 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:50.360 pretty good job of the connectivity in the areas. I mean, obviously, 0:34:50.400 --> 0:34:53.000 if you're in the real burn areas, that area has 0:34:53.040 --> 0:34:57.120 been trickier than others. But you know, surrounding La, the 0:34:57.160 --> 0:34:59.920 networks have withstood a lot and they've these companies are 0:35:00.000 --> 0:35:03.840 brought in a lot of additional kind of what do 0:35:03.920 --> 0:35:06.400 they call them, cows sells on wheels, and now that 0:35:06.400 --> 0:35:10.080 you even have satellite connectivity as well, that is one 0:35:10.120 --> 0:35:13.200 aspect I will talk about after the break, is the 0:35:13.360 --> 0:35:16.960 satellite connectivity that we are now getting into and it's 0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:20.560 making staying connected a whole lot easier in situations like this. 0:35:21.520 --> 0:35:25.239 T Mobile has it, Apple has it, Pixel has it, 0:35:26.440 --> 0:35:28.960 Amazon starting it. I'll tell you all about that coming 0:35:29.040 --> 0:35:32.239 up right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to 0:35:32.320 --> 0:35:37.240 rich On Tech. Richdmuro here hanging out with you, talking technology, 0:35:37.640 --> 0:35:41.880 obviously giving you lots of updates on tech's role in 0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:47.480 helping folks out with these wildfires, getting them information, getting 0:35:47.520 --> 0:35:51.439 them updates, getting them to safety, keeping them connected. There's 0:35:51.520 --> 0:35:54.120 just a whole lot to talk about here today on 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:56.880 the show. But I was at and I am going 0:35:56.920 --> 0:35:59.160 to get to the satellite connectivity and how Ate and 0:35:59.160 --> 0:36:02.960 T Verizon Mobile, Uber Lift, all these different companies have 0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:06.680 responded in the wake of these wildfires here in Los Angeles. 0:36:07.040 --> 0:36:09.319 But I do want to talk about CS for a 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:12.800 bit because that's where I was this week and everyone 0:36:12.800 --> 0:36:16.319 there very very well aware of what was happening in 0:36:16.400 --> 0:36:17.160 Los Angeles. 0:36:17.200 --> 0:36:18.440 But there was a lot to see. 0:36:18.719 --> 0:36:20.640 You know, this is the one of the largest tech 0:36:20.640 --> 0:36:22.799 events of the year, certainly one of the largest tech 0:36:22.840 --> 0:36:25.000 trade shows. I think the only one that may be 0:36:25.080 --> 0:36:29.240 bigger by people is IFA in Berlin. But that show 0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:32.120 you're allowed to bring friends and family. This show in 0:36:32.160 --> 0:36:34.520 Las Vegas is not open to the public. So they 0:36:34.520 --> 0:36:38.040 get over one hundred and thirty thousand people to Las 0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:40.560 Vegas that are all in the industry. They're all tech 0:36:40.600 --> 0:36:47.040 folks either working as media in you know, salespeople, marketing people, startups, 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:48.680 just everyone that's buyers. 0:36:48.719 --> 0:36:49.520 I mean, there's so many. 0:36:50.000 --> 0:36:52.400 And every single person that came up to me was 0:36:52.440 --> 0:36:56.160 asking about how Los Angeles was faring, how I personally 0:36:56.239 --> 0:37:00.759 was faring, and so, like I said, my post La 0:37:00.960 --> 0:37:02.840 has always been ready for its close up. We just 0:37:02.880 --> 0:37:05.680 really never expected it to look like this. I mean, 0:37:05.680 --> 0:37:07.839 what a way to put a city on the map, right. 0:37:08.920 --> 0:37:10.560 But here are some of the things I saw at 0:37:10.640 --> 0:37:14.440 CS twenty twenty five that I thought were interesting. First up, 0:37:14.760 --> 0:37:18.360 AI powered robots. So Samsung they have this thing called Bali. 0:37:18.719 --> 0:37:21.080 It looks like a ball, It's a robot. It rolls 0:37:21.120 --> 0:37:24.640 around your house. Set for release in twenty twenty five, 0:37:25.239 --> 0:37:28.560 it can interact with your smart home devices, it can 0:37:28.600 --> 0:37:32.719 perform household tasks. It can even project video and images 0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:37.000 onto surfaces. So it's all controlled via voice. And we 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:38.719 didn't know if this was actually gonna come out or not, 0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:41.400 but it is now. This was really interesting. If you 0:37:41.400 --> 0:37:43.880 have a robot vacuum in your house, you know how 0:37:43.920 --> 0:37:46.319 it gets stuck on like a sock or something that's 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:48.880 just like standing in front of it or sitting on 0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:52.680 the ground. So this robo Rock vacuum, the Z seventy, 0:37:52.719 --> 0:37:56.520 has a robot arm. So this arm pops out of 0:37:56.560 --> 0:37:58.960 the top of the vacuum and picks up the item 0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:02.040 and deposits it somewhere else. I mean, it looks like 0:38:02.080 --> 0:38:05.440 something out of a sci fi movie. But this apparently 0:38:05.520 --> 0:38:09.480 is coming out and robo Rock is a popular brand 0:38:09.640 --> 0:38:13.239 of vacuums other than Rumba, and so I saw this 0:38:13.280 --> 0:38:15.560 thing in action and it was wild. They just kept 0:38:15.560 --> 0:38:17.640 going up and down and up and down, and. 0:38:17.600 --> 0:38:18.200 It turns around. 0:38:18.200 --> 0:38:21.080 I mean, it really has a whole articulating little robot arm. 0:38:21.120 --> 0:38:25.160 There AI companion robots. I think these are kind of silly, 0:38:26.320 --> 0:38:28.839 at least at the offset, because they it's just like, okay, 0:38:28.840 --> 0:38:31.920 it's like a Teddy Rockspin but with AI. So this 0:38:31.960 --> 0:38:36.000 one Maroumi. This one was a there's no point to 0:38:36.040 --> 0:38:39.480 this robot except to spark conversation. So it looks like 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:43.520 a little sloth that grips onto your purse and it 0:38:43.640 --> 0:38:46.040 just sits there and it's not really it doesn't do 0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:48.560 anything except just move its head left and right, up 0:38:48.600 --> 0:38:53.040 and down. It looks very like lifelike, like it's very emotional, 0:38:53.480 --> 0:38:56.759 but it's just there to spark conversation. So they say that, 0:38:56.800 --> 0:38:58.480 you know, people are in their own world nowadays, and 0:38:58.520 --> 0:39:00.640 someone sees this on your purse, what is that? And 0:39:00.680 --> 0:39:03.239 then you might talk with that person. Then another one 0:39:03.280 --> 0:39:06.479 is called roe Pet, and this one had led eyes, 0:39:06.560 --> 0:39:10.800 like little screens for eyes led displays, and you know, 0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:13.640 this has CHATCHYBT built in so you can pet it 0:39:13.680 --> 0:39:17.080 and it'll make little noises and react to your warmth 0:39:17.320 --> 0:39:19.239 and just kind of be a companion robot for you. 0:39:19.760 --> 0:39:22.600 Cold Snap is an instant ice cream machine, so think 0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:25.600 ca cup machine, but for frozen desserts. So you can 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:27.680 make smoothies, you can make ice cream, you can make 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:30.200 frozen yogurt, protein shakes, whatever you want. 0:39:30.239 --> 0:39:32.200 You put the pod in takes two minutes. 0:39:32.239 --> 0:39:35.319 It cools it down, instantly, freezes it spits out the 0:39:35.360 --> 0:39:38.320 tree under two minutes. Now, this is a very expensive 0:39:38.360 --> 0:39:40.600 system three thousand dollars, but they are working on a 0:39:40.640 --> 0:39:44.640 system for the home right now. To imagine this would 0:39:44.640 --> 0:39:46.200 be for like a car dealership. And I tried the 0:39:46.239 --> 0:39:49.640 vanilla ice cream. It was delicious, and the inventor told 0:39:49.680 --> 0:39:51.200 me he got the idea from a six year old 0:39:51.200 --> 0:39:53.279 when she or his daughter. I afrigat how she was, 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:55.239 but she's like, how come we can't do this for 0:39:55.280 --> 0:39:57.560 ice cream? I'm watching him make the cake cup. He said, 0:39:57.840 --> 0:40:02.000 let me try it a mini hologram box. So you 0:40:02.040 --> 0:40:04.279 stand in front of a screen and next thing you know, 0:40:04.320 --> 0:40:07.080 you're in this little box in three D as a hologram. 0:40:07.600 --> 0:40:10.799 This is from Hollow Connects and it's a mini hologram box. 0:40:10.840 --> 0:40:11.040 Again. 0:40:11.040 --> 0:40:13.160 I think it was about three thousand dollars. But the 0:40:13.200 --> 0:40:15.239 idea is that you would go somewhere and this would 0:40:15.239 --> 0:40:18.520 either be a conversation spark, you know, or a customer 0:40:18.560 --> 0:40:21.960 service person could be in there, and you know, it's 0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:24.040 just one more way to kind of communicate versus the 0:40:24.080 --> 0:40:27.360 flat FaceTime view. This is now three D so you 0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:30.640 don't need special glasses or anything. A sus showed off 0:40:30.840 --> 0:40:34.120 the zen Book A fourteen. This was a super lightweight laptop, 0:40:34.200 --> 0:40:35.880 less than two and a half pounds. I picked this 0:40:35.880 --> 0:40:38.040 thing up. I thought it was one of those fake 0:40:38.160 --> 0:40:40.960 laptops you would see at like an open house, like 0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:42.279 that they have on the desk, and it's like one 0:40:42.280 --> 0:40:44.520 of those props. That's how light it fell, and that 0:40:44.560 --> 0:40:46.800 has all the new AI features. So that's really cool. 0:40:47.680 --> 0:40:51.000 This I absolutely want. It's called the Plantiform. It's a 0:40:51.120 --> 0:40:53.560 high tech planter. So this thing looks like an alien 0:40:54.120 --> 0:40:57.960 space capsule crashed down into your home and is growing plants. 0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:01.400 So it uses fog ponics, not water. It uses a 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:05.080 mist of fog to grow the plants. And it just 0:41:05.239 --> 0:41:08.279 looks really cool. So you put again everyone's running with 0:41:08.320 --> 0:41:10.640 this idea of the cakeup pod. So you put a 0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:14.720 little pod in the machine that has plants and soil 0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:16.520 and nutrients, or maybe not soil because I think it's 0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:19.200 all hydroponics. But you put it in there and it 0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:22.560 grows the plant, and it's supposed to be easier than 0:41:22.600 --> 0:41:25.399 any of the other hydroponic plant growers out there. 0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:26.759 And I want this thing. 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:28.640 I think it was a little expensive though, maybe six 0:41:28.719 --> 0:41:31.719 hundred dollars, but definitely a conversation starter because you see 0:41:31.719 --> 0:41:33.400 all this fog coming out of it and it just 0:41:33.440 --> 0:41:35.920 looks cool. If you love your pet, you got to 0:41:35.960 --> 0:41:40.359 get them the pet Cube UV filtration water fountain. So 0:41:40.440 --> 0:41:42.600 they've had water fountains for pets for a long time. 0:41:42.800 --> 0:41:46.240 This one has a UV filter, so it actually cleans 0:41:46.239 --> 0:41:49.640 the water, kills all the bacteria inside, letting your cat 0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:53.960 or dog drink super pure water. I mean, when I 0:41:54.040 --> 0:41:56.040 was a kid, I used to drink out of the hose, 0:41:56.120 --> 0:41:57.840 but you know, we can't do that anymore, even with 0:41:57.880 --> 0:42:02.400 our pets pawport. This is a smart pet door. So 0:42:02.440 --> 0:42:04.080 I didn't realize, but if you live in somewhere like 0:42:04.120 --> 0:42:07.759 Arizona or something, you might have little unwanted critters that 0:42:07.800 --> 0:42:09.480 come into your house through the pet door. 0:42:09.920 --> 0:42:11.399 So this is a smart pet door. 0:42:11.440 --> 0:42:15.960 You put a little bluetooth beacon on your pets collar 0:42:16.520 --> 0:42:18.680 and only they can come in or out, and you 0:42:18.680 --> 0:42:20.719 can also set curfews. You can say you can only 0:42:20.719 --> 0:42:23.480 go in or out during these times, and only that 0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:25.880 animal can open up the pet door. And it's all 0:42:26.000 --> 0:42:28.800 high tech and smart and you get the reports and things. 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:32.120 That's the Pawport smart pet door, and it fits over 0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:34.960 your standard pet door, so it's like a retrofit kind 0:42:35.000 --> 0:42:38.399 of thing. Now, these were really cool. The x Real 0:42:38.520 --> 0:42:41.279 augmented reality glasses. I've heard about these for years. I've 0:42:41.280 --> 0:42:43.400 never really tried them. They have a new version, but 0:42:43.719 --> 0:42:47.560 think it's like the easiest augmented reality glasses I've ever tried. 0:42:48.080 --> 0:42:51.080 You put the glasses on, They've got little screens inside. 0:42:51.400 --> 0:42:53.919 You plug them into your smartphone or your computer using 0:42:53.960 --> 0:42:57.040 a standard USBC connection, and next thing you know, your 0:42:57.080 --> 0:42:59.720 phone screen is projected in front of you. It's hovering 0:43:00.160 --> 0:43:02.839 in a giant screen. I want these, I want these. 0:43:02.920 --> 0:43:06.040 I want these. These I will use on the plane, 0:43:06.160 --> 0:43:08.040 I will use these on the couch. I will just 0:43:08.080 --> 0:43:10.799 sit there. It's like having your phone with all of 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:13.279 your apps and everything you already know, just on a 0:43:13.320 --> 0:43:15.560 bigger screen, so you can actually control your phone and 0:43:15.640 --> 0:43:19.000 see what's happening on this big giant screen projected. Really 0:43:19.040 --> 0:43:21.360 really cool. I think they start around maybe three to 0:43:21.400 --> 0:43:25.160 five hundred dollars, but just the technology, the price is 0:43:25.200 --> 0:43:27.680 just going to continue to come down. But really really cool. 0:43:27.880 --> 0:43:31.600 X Reel Let's see Samsung was showing off their latest 0:43:31.600 --> 0:43:34.399 Frame TV, so is Amazon. They were showing off both 0:43:34.440 --> 0:43:37.400 of these smart TVs double as artwork when they're not 0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:39.640 in use. So that's kind of like the new thing 0:43:39.680 --> 0:43:41.480 about TVs. You never have to turn them off. They 0:43:41.520 --> 0:43:43.360 will just show like a screen saver when you're not 0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:47.000 using them. I'll be honest, Samsung has this technology down. 0:43:47.239 --> 0:43:49.360 When you look at this screen, it looks like a 0:43:49.440 --> 0:43:51.720 printed piece of art. The new ones are the pros. 0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:54.839 They look even better. I mean, this is really really 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:57.880 neat stuff. The Amazon Fire TV will do the same thing. 0:43:57.920 --> 0:43:59.960 It's a lot cheaper. It just doesn't look as good. 0:44:00.160 --> 0:44:02.360 Screens are a little bit more reflective the art. You 0:44:02.360 --> 0:44:05.279 can tell it's a screen. But with the Samsung Frame TV, 0:44:05.680 --> 0:44:07.160 it's really really convincing. 0:44:07.520 --> 0:44:08.560 Looks like a piece of art. 0:44:08.719 --> 0:44:11.160 The other thing Amazon showed off was their Project Kuyper. 0:44:12.080 --> 0:44:17.120 This is their answer to SpaceX's Starlink and so this 0:44:17.239 --> 0:44:20.239 is a constellation of satellites that Amazon is going to 0:44:20.280 --> 0:44:23.160 launch into outer space to provide broadband around the world. 0:44:23.480 --> 0:44:24.239 What does that mean? 0:44:24.680 --> 0:44:26.480 According to the rep I was talking to, it's going 0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:29.239 to be cheaper and it's going to be faster than 0:44:29.239 --> 0:44:32.319 what Starlink is doing. Competition is a good thing. So 0:44:32.360 --> 0:44:36.920 now we have two viable satellite broadband operators operating by 0:44:36.920 --> 0:44:39.040 the end of this year. And what is that going 0:44:39.080 --> 0:44:40.960 to do is going to drive down prices, hopefully for 0:44:41.080 --> 0:44:44.080 all internet because now you've got options. When you live 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:46.480 in your home, you may not want to get the 0:44:46.640 --> 0:44:49.880 traditional providers. You may want to just go satellite because 0:44:49.880 --> 0:44:54.960 it's so feasible and the prices they didn't talk price, 0:44:55.040 --> 0:44:58.319 but they said it'll be cheaper than starlink and the 0:44:58.360 --> 0:45:01.000 speeds will be faster. So the basic one was four 0:45:01.120 --> 0:45:03.560 hundred up and down. It's four hundred megabits per second 0:45:03.640 --> 0:45:06.000 up and down. They've got a smaller one for like 0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:08.480 camping that's one hundred up and down. And they've got 0:45:08.520 --> 0:45:11.719 a bigger antenna that's for companies and enterprise that's a 0:45:11.800 --> 0:45:15.200 thousand up and down. So Amazon's gonna start launching its 0:45:15.200 --> 0:45:19.239 satellites this year. They've got eighty three launches planned. Keep 0:45:19.239 --> 0:45:23.319 an eye on that one. Scout ev this is a 0:45:23.440 --> 0:45:26.240 rugged electric vehicle. It kind of looks like a Rivian. 0:45:26.600 --> 0:45:28.640 Can't wait for this one, and they were very hip 0:45:28.680 --> 0:45:31.040 on This is a brand that's old, that they're bringing back. 0:45:31.400 --> 0:45:33.880 It's got a hybrid system too, so they've got a 0:45:34.440 --> 0:45:36.480 gas engine. You can add on to this thing like 0:45:36.520 --> 0:45:39.080 a small gas engine, so you can have rain, no 0:45:39.239 --> 0:45:42.879 range anxiety. So that's really cool. This was a little controversial. 0:45:42.920 --> 0:45:46.920 The pink Cam paintball security camera. So imagine a security 0:45:46.920 --> 0:45:50.080 camera that recognizes an intruder on your property and spits 0:45:50.080 --> 0:45:51.120 out a paintball at them. 0:45:51.480 --> 0:45:52.880 And that paintball can have like a. 0:45:54.400 --> 0:45:57.160 Special I don't know, a substance in it that you know, 0:45:57.200 --> 0:45:58.919 they can only see under a black light or something, 0:45:58.960 --> 0:46:02.200 so you kind of mark the person. It also works 0:46:02.239 --> 0:46:07.640 with unwanted animals as well. This was interesting. The Rome 0:46:08.560 --> 0:46:12.000 Rome functionality. This is a portable device that combines a 0:46:12.040 --> 0:46:15.239 soda stream and a hydroflask. So imagine you put your 0:46:15.280 --> 0:46:18.840 water into this, you know, just a water bottle. You 0:46:18.960 --> 0:46:21.359 put the cap on and you press the button and 0:46:21.400 --> 0:46:26.520 it turns it into sparkling water. Fifty bucks. It's called Rome. 0:46:26.960 --> 0:46:29.399 And then finally, optic Wash. My kids saw this one 0:46:29.440 --> 0:46:32.319 on my photo album on my phone. He said, I 0:46:32.320 --> 0:46:34.280 want that, and I said, well, it's three thousand dollars. 0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:37.600 This is a mini car wash for your glasses. You 0:46:37.880 --> 0:46:40.360 might have seen these things in the airport. The optic 0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:43.239 washing machines. They're big. Now they made a small version 0:46:43.320 --> 0:46:47.000 for your home and it just uses water. Sprays of water. 0:46:47.120 --> 0:46:49.319 You put the glasses in, it sprays them, cleans them 0:46:49.800 --> 0:46:53.000 UV Santa's sanitizing, and then it blows them off with 0:46:53.080 --> 0:46:55.600 a little bit of air and your glasses come out 0:46:55.600 --> 0:46:57.680 really clean, as opposed to sort of rubbing them with 0:46:57.719 --> 0:47:00.600 a cloth. That's the optic wash. When I ask the price, 0:47:01.400 --> 0:47:03.839 take a deep breath. Three thousand bucks. I said, who 0:47:03.840 --> 0:47:07.520 can afford a three thousand dollars glasses cleaning machine? And 0:47:07.560 --> 0:47:10.440 the representative said, well, I should have a yacht. It 0:47:10.520 --> 0:47:13.480 worked pretty nicely there. I said, yeah, that sounds about right. 0:47:14.239 --> 0:47:16.399 All these linked up on the website rich On Tech 0:47:16.480 --> 0:47:19.359 dot TV eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:47:19.400 --> 0:47:22.080 one zero one eight eight eight rich one oh one 0:47:22.520 --> 0:47:25.200 Back after this, I'll tell you how the big tech 0:47:25.239 --> 0:47:30.000 companies are responding to the wildfire relief. Welcome back to 0:47:30.080 --> 0:47:34.520 rich On Tech. Let's go right to Jerry in thousand Oaks. 0:47:34.520 --> 0:47:35.680 I know he's been holding for a while. 0:47:35.800 --> 0:47:36.399 Jerry, you're on. 0:47:36.360 --> 0:47:40.279 With rich Okay, thank you. I'm glad you're get in 0:47:40.280 --> 0:47:41.000 touch with you. 0:47:41.320 --> 0:47:42.799 Yeah, absolutely, I watched your question. 0:47:42.920 --> 0:47:48.960 Install a landline that doesn't use uh not Wi Fi, 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:53.800 but it doesn't use the Internet but uses the modem instead. 0:47:54.560 --> 0:47:56.640 Okay, yeah, so you want it. 0:47:56.680 --> 0:47:59.360 Well, what do you mean by modem because uh, you 0:47:59.400 --> 0:48:01.000 know most of the land lines now. 0:48:01.760 --> 0:48:05.839 It is uh it's a move box you plug into 0:48:05.880 --> 0:48:09.080 your wall outlet. Yes, then you plug your phone directly 0:48:09.160 --> 0:48:12.640 into that. Yes, in the one company I did find, 0:48:12.960 --> 0:48:14.720 what's forty dollars per month? 0:48:14.920 --> 0:48:17.319 Okay, well the company, I'll tell you the ones that 0:48:17.360 --> 0:48:18.439 I recommend. Uma. 0:48:18.600 --> 0:48:22.279 Oom ah, that's the one I recommend because you can 0:48:22.320 --> 0:48:27.600 get started very inexpensively. And this is now this will 0:48:27.640 --> 0:48:33.320 accommodate a classic landline phone, but it's not actually a landline. 0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:37.000 So what you're talking about the landline traditional traditionally refers 0:48:37.040 --> 0:48:42.200 to pots pots, which is plane old television or plane 0:48:42.200 --> 0:48:47.000 old television plane old telephone service. Now almost no company 0:48:47.120 --> 0:48:49.839 is really doing that unless they have to in an 0:48:49.840 --> 0:48:53.080 area where they offer what's you know, a copper phone line. Right, 0:48:53.600 --> 0:48:56.479 So most of the companies have switched to offering what's 0:48:56.520 --> 0:49:00.640 called vope service voiceover IP that is your voice going 0:49:00.680 --> 0:49:03.400 over the internet. But you can get these little boxes 0:49:03.400 --> 0:49:07.840 that pretty much function as a conduit for your traditional phone. 0:49:07.880 --> 0:49:09.920 So if you want to buy a cordless phone, a 0:49:10.040 --> 0:49:12.440 corded phone, you know the old school phones that used 0:49:12.440 --> 0:49:14.120 to have you plug them into this box, and this 0:49:14.239 --> 0:49:15.920 box plugs into your Internet. 0:49:16.840 --> 0:49:19.040 So the one I like is Uma. 0:49:19.320 --> 0:49:22.239 You can get the UMA box for looks like one 0:49:22.280 --> 0:49:25.080 hundred dollars on the website. 0:49:25.160 --> 0:49:25.440 I know. 0:49:26.239 --> 0:49:29.719 Walmart also has an UMA deal as well, so you 0:49:29.719 --> 0:49:31.800 can go there and check it out. But UMA service 0:49:32.600 --> 0:49:35.040 is zero dollars a month, so all you have to 0:49:35.040 --> 0:49:37.600 do is pay for the taxes and fees each month. 0:49:38.000 --> 0:49:40.440 And so I'm looking up my zip code here for 0:49:40.560 --> 0:49:43.040 my zip code, that's about eight dollars a month. So 0:49:43.239 --> 0:49:45.680 that's what I would do. There are some other companies 0:49:45.680 --> 0:49:49.680 that offer similar service. There's Vontage. I don't know if 0:49:49.719 --> 0:49:52.480 Vantage is doing. I don't know if they're doing the 0:49:52.600 --> 0:49:55.719 residential Oh they still are, Okay, So residential Vantage is 0:49:56.000 --> 0:49:59.960 ten dollars a month, and I think you have to 0:50:00.160 --> 0:50:03.239 get yeah, okay, So Vantage is another one, and then 0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:05.600 the other one is magic Jack. Now I covered magic 0:50:05.680 --> 0:50:08.919 Jack back in the day. It was actually just so 0:50:09.040 --> 0:50:11.360 mysterious to people that you could get a phone jack. 0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:13.120 It looked like your regular. 0:50:12.800 --> 0:50:16.480 Phone jack, but it's transferred to your calls over the internet, 0:50:17.080 --> 0:50:19.840 and that is uh let's see how much that is. 0:50:20.320 --> 0:50:23.160 That is fifty dollars. It plugs into your computer, So 0:50:23.200 --> 0:50:25.040 that one. I think that one's a little bit different 0:50:25.080 --> 0:50:26.880 because you do need a computer for that one. So 0:50:27.160 --> 0:50:29.560 I would I would recommend going with the UMA because 0:50:29.560 --> 0:50:32.200 you don't need anything special and it just kind of works. 0:50:32.239 --> 0:50:35.920 It just sits there and works forever. So Jerry, that's 0:50:35.960 --> 0:50:39.520 what I would recommend, and I think that's gonna be 0:50:39.600 --> 0:50:40.600 probably your best bet. 0:50:41.520 --> 0:50:42.160 Thanks for the call. 0:50:42.239 --> 0:50:44.640 Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:50:44.760 --> 0:50:48.840 seven four to two four one zero one. So speaking 0:50:48.920 --> 0:50:51.799 of these phone companies, let me just go through what 0:50:52.200 --> 0:50:55.600 the various phone providers are doing to, uh, you know, 0:50:55.640 --> 0:50:59.520 help relieve folks in California with their either service or 0:50:59.560 --> 0:51:02.640 Wi Fi charging their phone. So AT and T let's 0:51:02.640 --> 0:51:06.920 start with them. So they're waiving overage charges to provide 0:51:07.040 --> 0:51:10.920 unlimited talk, text and data for customers through February fifteenth, 0:51:11.000 --> 0:51:14.000 twenty twenty five. Now that may change depending on, you know, 0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:17.040 the extent of the loss. They also contribute one hundred 0:51:17.080 --> 0:51:20.480 thousand dollars to Red Cross. They set their system. Their 0:51:20.480 --> 0:51:24.160 network in southern California is holding strong. They're restoring service 0:51:24.200 --> 0:51:28.960 and areas experienced disruptions. And they have two public charging stations, 0:51:29.760 --> 0:51:33.480 Westwood Recreation Center and the Pasadena Convention Center, and then 0:51:33.480 --> 0:51:36.600 they've got public Wi Fi access at Arcadia Community Center. 0:51:36.920 --> 0:51:39.080 They also operate First Net, so this is kind of 0:51:39.080 --> 0:51:42.480 like a separate band on their spectrum that is for 0:51:42.640 --> 0:51:45.600 public safety people, and so a lot of people subscribe 0:51:45.640 --> 0:51:48.239 to that as well. If you're on a post paid 0:51:48.280 --> 0:51:51.200 or prepaid you are also getting unlimited talk, texts, and 0:51:51.280 --> 0:51:55.040 data through February fifteenth. And if you have an iPhone 0:51:55.120 --> 0:51:58.440 with the satellite communications, so that's iPhone fourteen or newer, 0:51:58.760 --> 0:52:01.240 this doesn't matter. You know, any of the service providers 0:52:01.239 --> 0:52:04.120 that you have. You've got satellite connectivity. And I got 0:52:04.160 --> 0:52:08.600 my first satellite message today from someone with the fires 0:52:09.080 --> 0:52:10.799 and it was pretty cool. It said this message was 0:52:10.840 --> 0:52:14.799 sent over satellite. Google Pixel nine also has that. Let's 0:52:14.800 --> 0:52:20.279 see Verizon. Let's see Verizon's waving domestic call text data 0:52:20.600 --> 0:52:24.880 usage through January nineteenth through January eighteenth in Los Angeles, 0:52:24.960 --> 0:52:28.240 Orange Riverside, San Bernard. You know San Diego and Ventura 0:52:28.280 --> 0:52:31.239 also for the same. They're doing the same for Straight Talk, 0:52:31.280 --> 0:52:34.600 Track Phone, Total Wireless, Simple Mobile, Walmart, Family Mobile, Net, 0:52:34.600 --> 0:52:36.920 ten Go Smart, and Page Plus. 0:52:37.360 --> 0:52:38.320 So you realize how. 0:52:38.160 --> 0:52:43.520 Many companies these major companies own or operate. Let's see 0:52:43.560 --> 0:52:46.839 what is T Mobile doing unlimited talk, text and data 0:52:46.880 --> 0:52:49.720 to T Mobile, Metro by T Mobile and Assurance wireless 0:52:49.719 --> 0:52:53.640 customers in impacted areas. They've also increased data for Mint 0:52:53.640 --> 0:52:57.600 and Ultramobile. They also activated starlink so you get direct 0:52:57.600 --> 0:52:59.920 to Cellular. If you don't have an iPhone and you 0:53:00.200 --> 0:53:02.560 have a T Mobile phone, you can dial nine one 0:53:02.600 --> 0:53:06.080 one if you see the starlink icon in your phone. 0:53:06.360 --> 0:53:09.200 So they've activated that. It's not been approved fully, but 0:53:09.239 --> 0:53:12.719 they got conditional approval. Eighty eight Rich one O one 0:53:12.880 --> 0:53:15.560 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:53:17.800 --> 0:53:20.560 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:53:20.600 --> 0:53:24.480 out with you talking technology. Eighty eight Rich one O 0:53:24.600 --> 0:53:27.239 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:53:27.320 --> 0:53:32.040 zero one. Uh. Phone lines are open pretty much kind 0:53:32.080 --> 0:53:33.920 of taking a lot of different calls today. So if 0:53:33.920 --> 0:53:35.719 you have something about the fires, you want to share 0:53:35.760 --> 0:53:40.280 your story, I'm opening to that. Or tech questions, whatever 0:53:40.320 --> 0:53:42.040 you want, maybe just want to say HI, maybe just 0:53:42.040 --> 0:53:44.360 need someone to talk to throughout this whole thing. I'm 0:53:44.400 --> 0:53:46.879 here for you. Eight A eight rich one O one 0:53:47.040 --> 0:53:49.720 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:53:50.120 --> 0:53:52.200 Before the break, I was talking about how all the 0:53:52.239 --> 0:53:55.800 different tech companies are sort of providing and helping with relief. 0:53:55.880 --> 0:53:58.480 During this time, I thought this was interesting that t 0:53:58.680 --> 0:54:02.960 mobiles network uses is AI. So it's something called cognitive 0:54:03.120 --> 0:54:07.279 self organizing network. And so I guess the new antennas 0:54:07.480 --> 0:54:10.759 on their cell towers they move and I've seen this 0:54:10.800 --> 0:54:13.200 technology before with Wi Fi, but I didn't realize they 0:54:13.239 --> 0:54:16.400 were doing it with cell phone towers. But the antennas 0:54:16.400 --> 0:54:20.840 automatically tilt to give the best signal strength where it's needed, 0:54:20.880 --> 0:54:23.840 so they kind of move around a little bit. That 0:54:23.960 --> 0:54:27.520 helps them expand coverage and prevent congestion. So I was 0:54:27.560 --> 0:54:29.920 not aware of that, but that is a very smart 0:54:29.960 --> 0:54:32.400 idea and it makes a lot of sense. So again 0:54:32.520 --> 0:54:37.840 AI even helping keep us connected. And then Spectrum, this 0:54:37.960 --> 0:54:41.359 is a large provider in the Los Angeles area. They 0:54:41.360 --> 0:54:44.759 have over two hundred and fifty thousand Spectrum Wi Fi 0:54:44.840 --> 0:54:49.080 access points nationwide, but they've opened up thirty five thousand 0:54:49.160 --> 0:54:51.360 of them in the LA area to everyone. And I 0:54:51.440 --> 0:54:56.319 tested this out yesterday. It works flawlessly. Just open up 0:54:56.320 --> 0:55:00.799 your phone and look for the Spectrum free trial Wi 0:55:00.840 --> 0:55:03.919 Fi access point and just connect to it and it's 0:55:03.960 --> 0:55:05.319 just one click. You don't have to give him your 0:55:05.320 --> 0:55:07.040 phone number, you don't have to have an account. It's 0:55:07.080 --> 0:55:10.440 all free and I got great speeds, So this is 0:55:10.480 --> 0:55:12.719 a really nice help. If you need to, you can 0:55:12.760 --> 0:55:14.360 locate one of these. Usually you can go to like 0:55:14.400 --> 0:55:16.759 a local park or some it's outside. It's not in 0:55:16.800 --> 0:55:19.960 your house. You're not accessing your neighbors internet, it is. 0:55:20.040 --> 0:55:23.080 These are hotspots that they've set up around the city 0:55:23.160 --> 0:55:26.319 on like telephone poles, so be sure to look for that. 0:55:26.640 --> 0:55:31.040 And then Uber and lyft. Lyft is doing discounted rides. 0:55:31.120 --> 0:55:35.000 CalFire Relief twenty five will get you two free rides 0:55:35.040 --> 0:55:37.759 if you're going to a shelter getting a resource, and 0:55:37.800 --> 0:55:40.399 then you can also round up and donate, and then 0:55:40.560 --> 0:55:43.319 Uber has a forty dollars ride credit if you use 0:55:43.520 --> 0:55:47.840 Wildfire twenty five to take a trip to an evacuation shelter. 0:55:48.440 --> 0:55:51.920 All right, with all that said, one of my favorites, 0:55:52.040 --> 0:55:54.960 Lance Ulanov one of the hardest working guys in technology. 0:55:55.000 --> 0:55:55.560 I'm not kidding. 0:55:55.600 --> 0:55:57.839 You can't catch this guy at CES because he's doing 0:55:57.880 --> 0:56:00.960 so much. He's the editor at large for tech Radar. 0:56:01.520 --> 0:56:05.360 He is back home the Lance did you did you 0:56:05.400 --> 0:56:06.920 catch the CS bug? 0:56:08.000 --> 0:56:08.200 Yeah? 0:56:08.239 --> 0:56:10.280 I may if. 0:56:09.840 --> 0:56:12.720 I apologize for the sound of my voice, but yep, 0:56:13.000 --> 0:56:13.800 every year. 0:56:14.000 --> 0:56:17.400 Like clockwork, Yeah, it happens. I take these pills. I 0:56:17.440 --> 0:56:19.520 call them horse pills because that's how big they are. 0:56:19.560 --> 0:56:22.920 They are literally like good luck trying to swallow these things, 0:56:23.080 --> 0:56:25.880 and they taste horrible. It tastes like garlic and all 0:56:26.040 --> 0:56:27.600 kinds of nastiness. 0:56:29.719 --> 0:56:31.359 That boy, that really sounds great. 0:56:31.560 --> 0:56:34.600 Love Hey, but it kept me healthy. I'm not kidding. 0:56:34.640 --> 0:56:37.759 I swear by these things. I mean it's so gross, 0:56:37.920 --> 0:56:39.480 but I took one in the morning, one at night, 0:56:39.520 --> 0:56:42.480 and I you know, a lot of hydration. But CS 0:56:42.560 --> 0:56:45.200 is not easy to stay healthy at because it's so 0:56:45.400 --> 0:56:49.640 dry there. There's so many people, everyone's coughing, everyone's touching 0:56:49.719 --> 0:56:54.359 gadgets and anyway. So hopefully feel better. But Lance, first off, 0:56:54.600 --> 0:56:57.560 as someone who is not in California, what is your 0:56:57.680 --> 0:57:00.640 sort of perspective on these wildfires? Like, are people following 0:57:00.680 --> 0:57:02.640 them where you are, or people glued to their teas. 0:57:03.600 --> 0:57:05.560 Yeah, I mean, I think we're all following it. We're 0:57:05.600 --> 0:57:09.360 all seeing on our social media feeds. The really weird 0:57:09.520 --> 0:57:14.120 thing about this tragedy is, I guess because of where 0:57:14.160 --> 0:57:16.680 it's located, there. 0:57:16.600 --> 0:57:18.960 Are people I know, you know, people from the. 0:57:18.960 --> 0:57:24.120 Industry whose houses have been affected, their childhood homes. Like 0:57:24.160 --> 0:57:26.600 it's weird the number of people I actually know that 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:28.240 have been impacted, which is, you know a lot of 0:57:28.320 --> 0:57:30.600 times when things happen in the country or in the world, 0:57:30.960 --> 0:57:35.120 you're involved and engaged, but you're not touched directly. So 0:57:35.520 --> 0:57:37.920 I'm a little bit surprised about that. I've been somewhat 0:57:37.960 --> 0:57:40.360 obsessively going through it, and I think a lot of 0:57:40.400 --> 0:57:43.960 people have so many questions about it. It's so scary, 0:57:44.600 --> 0:57:47.280 and you know, clearly obviously my heart goes out to 0:57:47.320 --> 0:57:50.200 everyone there, you know, and I know that there's been 0:57:50.280 --> 0:57:52.200 all sorts of stuff shared about how people can help, 0:57:52.200 --> 0:57:53.600 and hopefully everyone's looking at that. 0:57:54.080 --> 0:57:56.520 Yeah, And I think that the reason for the connection 0:57:56.680 --> 0:57:59.600 is that, like I said earlier in the show, this 0:57:59.680 --> 0:58:01.960 is a part of la that you never hear about. 0:58:02.000 --> 0:58:05.800 It's a beautiful place that very successful people live, but 0:58:05.880 --> 0:58:07.920 it's not in the news because there's nothing that happens 0:58:08.000 --> 0:58:10.440 there except people just raise families and they're you know, 0:58:10.480 --> 0:58:12.360 it's people that have made it most of the time, 0:58:12.920 --> 0:58:16.919 and to have this happen to them is just such uh, 0:58:17.000 --> 0:58:19.360 you know, it's just it's really like the worst possible 0:58:19.440 --> 0:58:22.200 nightmare for someone who thinks they live in a community 0:58:22.240 --> 0:58:25.200 that's just so beautiful and amazing and overlooks the ocean. 0:58:25.600 --> 0:58:29.960 And it honestly just reminds you of our common humanity. Right. 0:58:30.120 --> 0:58:32.640 You may look at somebody and say they're extremely successful, 0:58:32.680 --> 0:58:36.080 their celebrity, they're wealthy, they're hot, high level at their 0:58:36.120 --> 0:58:39.720 their industry, and you see this and you see the 0:58:39.800 --> 0:58:42.960 loss of you know, their everything they've ever had, you know, 0:58:43.040 --> 0:58:45.720 every memory, all of their important stuff, and you and 0:58:45.760 --> 0:58:50.840 you can it's incredibly relatable to anyone. And so that's 0:58:50.880 --> 0:58:53.000 you know, obviously, that's just what's been going through my mind. 0:58:53.200 --> 0:58:57.280 Yeah, absolutely, thanks for that. Okay, So let's talk ces 0:58:57.560 --> 0:59:00.520 you're there, What what stands out this year? What do 0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:03.880 you think about the first off, the attendance. I know 0:59:03.920 --> 0:59:06.200 it was impacted by people with la like some people 0:59:06.200 --> 0:59:07.000 had to go back early. 0:59:07.040 --> 0:59:08.760 Some people didn't come at all. What do you think 0:59:08.800 --> 0:59:09.720 about the attendants? 0:59:10.280 --> 0:59:13.040 I generally so, at least the first couple of days, 0:59:13.080 --> 0:59:15.880 I was like, this is more crowded, there's more people here. 0:59:16.760 --> 0:59:20.360 By day day three it seemed to calm down a bit, 0:59:20.400 --> 0:59:22.480 but I still think the tend's pretty high. Here's the thing, 0:59:22.520 --> 0:59:24.560 It's a little hard to tell because if you're you know, 0:59:24.600 --> 0:59:26.160 if you haven't gone there, and you haven't been going 0:59:26.200 --> 0:59:27.840 for years, you won't know that. 0:59:27.880 --> 0:59:30.280 This year they were going through a big change with construction. 0:59:30.640 --> 0:59:33.680 Servery's funneled in different ways, which actually changed the flow 0:59:33.720 --> 0:59:35.960 and changed the perspective on how many people were there. 0:59:35.960 --> 0:59:38.680 But you know, I went to what's called Eureka Park 0:59:38.760 --> 0:59:40.800 or all the startups are. I was in Central Halls 0:59:40.800 --> 0:59:44.000 and North Hollows and West Hall, and sometimes I was 0:59:44.040 --> 0:59:45.040 pushing through crowds. 0:59:45.600 --> 0:59:48.720 Yeah, and and talk about the you know, like I 0:59:48.840 --> 0:59:51.520 really kind of it was so clear to me why 0:59:51.600 --> 0:59:54.040 we go to these things, And it really is partly 0:59:54.160 --> 0:59:57.000 to see people as well, Like you really do, see 0:59:57.040 --> 0:59:59.160 all the people that you email with throughout the year, 0:59:59.280 --> 1:00:00.880 all the people you know, like you and I we 1:00:00.920 --> 1:00:03.240 live on separate coasts. We didn't actually get to say 1:00:03.280 --> 1:00:05.400 hi this time around, which is and we saw each other, 1:00:05.480 --> 1:00:09.560 but you know so quick, you're you're always working. But 1:00:09.920 --> 1:00:12.480 you know that's another aspect of this, that in person 1:00:12.560 --> 1:00:13.320 sort of connection. 1:00:14.200 --> 1:00:14.439 Yeah. 1:00:14.520 --> 1:00:16.200 Yeah, And you know, so there was a company called 1:00:16.280 --> 1:00:19.280 ro Kid that had been trying to reach me apparently 1:00:19.400 --> 1:00:23.320 since November, and I finally kind of the last day 1:00:23.440 --> 1:00:25.760 that I was there, I wandered over and the woman 1:00:26.920 --> 1:00:28.880 to see me face to face. She got much more 1:00:28.880 --> 1:00:30.960 excited than she should have because she's like, I've been 1:00:31.000 --> 1:00:32.560 emailing you for demons here. 1:00:33.120 --> 1:00:36.640 Yeah, And so it's that, you know, that personal connection. 1:00:36.720 --> 1:00:39.600 And then of course, you know, touching and experiencing the 1:00:39.640 --> 1:00:42.000 products because you know, I'll get a ton of press releases, 1:00:42.240 --> 1:00:45.160 I'll sit on zoom calls, people show me something. But 1:00:45.400 --> 1:00:48.120 being there and I experienced a lot of technology. I 1:00:48.160 --> 1:00:51.840 tried so many different things. I met so many different robots, 1:00:51.880 --> 1:00:54.200 you know, I wore so many different pairs of glasses. 1:00:54.240 --> 1:00:57.640 You know, I touched laptops and you know, all the 1:00:57.640 --> 1:01:01.680 stuff that's right there. Making a tangible like that makes it, 1:01:01.760 --> 1:01:04.040 you know, much more reliable into it's a direct connection 1:01:04.120 --> 1:01:07.320 to people and how these technologies might impact their. 1:01:07.120 --> 1:01:09.720 Lives anything that stands out to you, anything that you 1:01:09.800 --> 1:01:11.880 really were wowed by. 1:01:11.880 --> 1:01:13.720 You know, I felt like the show got off to 1:01:13.760 --> 1:01:15.280 a really good start for me because one of the 1:01:15.280 --> 1:01:18.760 first things I saw was that Lenovo desktop, a laptop, 1:01:18.760 --> 1:01:21.120 I should say, I think it's the Think Gen six, 1:01:21.640 --> 1:01:24.160 and it's a laptop that literally starts as a fourteen 1:01:24.200 --> 1:01:26.560 inch clamshell style, you know, you open it up, the 1:01:26.600 --> 1:01:31.280 screen extends vertically, it rolls. It's an old screen that 1:01:31.440 --> 1:01:34.520 rolls out of a very you know, small hinge, you know, 1:01:34.560 --> 1:01:37.080 the regular sized hinge, and just goes up to sixteen 1:01:37.080 --> 1:01:41.920 point seven inches. I've seen rollable screen technology before, but 1:01:42.280 --> 1:01:44.800 I was impressed because this is a real product. 1:01:45.160 --> 1:01:47.400 Business people in particular, I think are really going to 1:01:47.480 --> 1:01:47.720 like it. 1:01:47.800 --> 1:01:50.000 So, you know, I thought that was great and I 1:01:50.160 --> 1:01:53.720 liked it, and obviously we gave it an award. There's 1:01:53.800 --> 1:01:56.160 a lot of television technology, but I think the thing 1:01:56.160 --> 1:01:58.440 that stood out for me is what High Sense is 1:01:58.480 --> 1:02:03.920 doing with their just where they're taking Mini LED RGB technology. 1:02:03.960 --> 1:02:07.800 So typically in a Mini LED you get just one 1:02:07.920 --> 1:02:10.520 the blue light, but now they're giving the three colors. 1:02:10.520 --> 1:02:13.280 And if you give the three colors, you transform the image, 1:02:13.280 --> 1:02:15.040 you make it that much better, and you make the 1:02:15.360 --> 1:02:17.760 colors better, but you also make the blacks better because 1:02:17.800 --> 1:02:20.120 you can you don't have to just turn on the light. 1:02:20.160 --> 1:02:22.640 You can dim it down for when you're trying to 1:02:22.640 --> 1:02:23.680 make a specific color. 1:02:23.720 --> 1:02:24.960 So that to me was impressive. 1:02:25.000 --> 1:02:27.160 And what's funny is that that came in one hundred 1:02:27.200 --> 1:02:30.240 and sixteen inch size. But everybody's talking about, oh my gosh, 1:02:30.280 --> 1:02:33.680 High Sense made one hundred and thirty six inch. I 1:02:33.720 --> 1:02:36.000 think it was not mini LED but the other kind 1:02:36.040 --> 1:02:38.320 of LED. But basically, oh I got a really big TV. 1:02:38.400 --> 1:02:41.480 But it was not new technology. So for me, I'm 1:02:41.480 --> 1:02:45.160 always focused on what is the innovation? What have they 1:02:45.200 --> 1:02:46.360 done that's brand new? 1:02:46.760 --> 1:02:48.200 I think High Sense is killing it. 1:02:48.280 --> 1:02:50.960 I really do like I think that there it's interesting 1:02:51.000 --> 1:02:54.040 to watch the rise of some booths. Someone needs to 1:02:54.080 --> 1:02:57.240 do a visualization of CS, like some booths get really 1:02:57.280 --> 1:02:59.280 big while others get smaller. 1:03:00.080 --> 1:03:01.400 Some people aren't there. 1:03:01.200 --> 1:03:03.640 Yeah or disappear. I mean, what who do we like? 1:03:03.720 --> 1:03:07.919 Google this year had no major presence that I saw Microsoft. 1:03:08.200 --> 1:03:13.760 Microsoft Intel used to own this corner Central Hall. Microsoft 1:03:13.840 --> 1:03:17.480 used to own a similar space. Google has Google used 1:03:17.520 --> 1:03:19.479 to be really big in the parking lot. 1:03:20.080 --> 1:03:22.120 I know that sounds silly, but the parking lot is 1:03:22.120 --> 1:03:23.000 a viable area. 1:03:23.160 --> 1:03:25.760 It's like a it's called I'm sorry, it's called the 1:03:25.800 --> 1:03:28.920 silver lot, and just you know, it's a very important space. 1:03:29.000 --> 1:03:33.320 BMW did the big rollout of their i think it's called. 1:03:33.160 --> 1:03:35.680 The Panoramic Eye Drive, which. 1:03:35.480 --> 1:03:39.240 Is really their introduction of AI to the dashboard, and 1:03:39.320 --> 1:03:42.680 they did not spare expense here. They brought in, you know, 1:03:42.920 --> 1:03:46.720 a couple of Ken Young and I'm forgetting the other. 1:03:46.960 --> 1:03:48.000 Couple of celebrities. 1:03:48.000 --> 1:03:50.640 Basically they brought in to announce it and it was 1:03:50.720 --> 1:03:54.000 very splashy, and they made gigantic dashboards and the steering 1:03:54.040 --> 1:03:57.160 wheel and it was just it was it was wild 1:03:57.240 --> 1:04:00.120 and for me, you know, it was a youth. It 1:04:00.160 --> 1:04:02.160 was a really big theme of the entire show that 1:04:02.200 --> 1:04:06.080 AI was everywhere. Oh yeah, and more so than just 1:04:06.720 --> 1:04:09.520 you know, last year, AI was kind of like the 1:04:09.560 --> 1:04:12.920 coming out party. Everybody's got a everybody's product had it, 1:04:13.240 --> 1:04:15.640 but we didn't really understand how we were going to 1:04:15.760 --> 1:04:18.720 use it. This year, people were showing us how it's 1:04:18.720 --> 1:04:21.080 going to impact our lives, like and they weren't saying 1:04:21.320 --> 1:04:24.360 in the distant future. They were saying this year, you know, 1:04:24.360 --> 1:04:27.520 it's coming this year. Delta their one hundredth anniversary at 1:04:27.520 --> 1:04:31.440 the Sphere, which was another big keynote, and you know 1:04:31.520 --> 1:04:35.280 they're doing they're doing your concierge AI that's going to 1:04:35.280 --> 1:04:38.560 be introduced throughout the year. They're updating all of the 1:04:38.640 --> 1:04:42.040 in flight entertainment. They're working with Tom Brady who was there. 1:04:42.240 --> 1:04:45.600 But you know, again, you felt like, these are real 1:04:45.640 --> 1:04:48.640 things that we're going to be doing with AI in 1:04:48.680 --> 1:04:50.040 the very short term. 1:04:50.360 --> 1:04:50.560 Yeah. 1:04:50.560 --> 1:04:52.360 It used to be at CS you would talk to 1:04:52.400 --> 1:04:54.400 someone for like twenty minutes about a product and all 1:04:54.400 --> 1:04:55.960 of a sudden they'd be like and you know, we'll 1:04:56.000 --> 1:04:57.880 think about doing something with this, and you're like, no, 1:04:58.520 --> 1:05:00.400 like what. This year, I did feel like there was 1:05:00.520 --> 1:05:02.160 much more of like, no, this is come. Like even 1:05:02.200 --> 1:05:04.640 with the BMW with the panoramic eye drive stuff, I 1:05:04.640 --> 1:05:06.640 was like, when's this happening? They said new models like 1:05:06.680 --> 1:05:08.520 at the end of twenty twenty five or whatever, like what. 1:05:08.680 --> 1:05:11.640 Yeah, that was a big surprise, and it was exciting 1:05:11.640 --> 1:05:13.040 because it looked really cool and fun. 1:05:13.080 --> 1:05:15.280 I mean, obviously it'll be normal sized, not giant size. 1:05:15.280 --> 1:05:18.120 If you see the pictures, she'll be like, oh, oh, come. 1:05:17.960 --> 1:05:19.120 On, everyone's gonna hate it. 1:05:19.160 --> 1:05:22.200 You know, no, no car maker can make any meaningful 1:05:22.280 --> 1:05:24.919 change without people hating on it, right, Like, no matter what, 1:05:25.000 --> 1:05:27.560 there will be haters. I thought it looked pretty clean 1:05:27.600 --> 1:05:29.720 and slick inside. I thought it was pretty cool. 1:05:29.800 --> 1:05:32.640 Yeah, yeah, I think so. You know, it's not just 1:05:32.720 --> 1:05:35.000 one giant screen. It's a series of screens, and it's 1:05:35.000 --> 1:05:37.680 integrated into steering wheel and I'm i'm one of my 1:05:37.680 --> 1:05:39.760 favorite things on these newer cars are the three D 1:05:39.840 --> 1:05:42.800 heads up displays because for a driver, they don't really 1:05:42.800 --> 1:05:44.640 want to be glancing at screens left and right. What 1:05:44.680 --> 1:05:47.000 they want to be doing is seeing the information right 1:05:47.120 --> 1:05:49.000 in their field of view, but not in a way 1:05:49.000 --> 1:05:51.400 that obscures it. And that's what these heads up displays do. 1:05:51.480 --> 1:05:54.240 And so that's part of the whole experience here. So 1:05:54.640 --> 1:05:58.920 I thought, you know, I remember when BMW first introduced 1:05:58.920 --> 1:06:01.120 the eye drive, and it was primarily. 1:06:01.040 --> 1:06:03.720 A knob yeah that people like that. 1:06:03.520 --> 1:06:05.520 That you would move and hold into, and that was 1:06:05.560 --> 1:06:08.440 really it, and we thought that was exciting. This is 1:06:09.440 --> 1:06:12.000 so many generations. This is the full sort of the 1:06:12.360 --> 1:06:14.960 full realization of the concept. 1:06:15.080 --> 1:06:18.520 All right, Lance we're speaking with lance Yulanoff and he's 1:06:18.600 --> 1:06:19.400 with Tech Radar. 1:06:19.440 --> 1:06:21.120 Where can we go for your coverage? 1:06:22.080 --> 1:06:24.080 Oh yeah, tech radar dot com. 1:06:24.160 --> 1:06:27.360 And also please do check out our TikTok with we've 1:06:27.440 --> 1:06:31.440 shot I think well, I shot over forty videos, but 1:06:31.960 --> 1:06:33.080 in total we must. 1:06:32.840 --> 1:06:35.680 Have shot about sixty sixty five and we're touching. 1:06:35.800 --> 1:06:37.800 If you want to see what it's like to play 1:06:37.840 --> 1:06:41.800 with and touch any of these devices and these new technologies, 1:06:41.960 --> 1:06:42.479 check it out. 1:06:45.560 --> 1:06:48.280 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:06:48.320 --> 1:06:52.520 out with you talking technology. 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It 1:08:54.479 --> 1:08:58.040 seems like when I listen to the cable news people 1:08:58.600 --> 1:09:02.360 when they have a pal of people talking and they talk, 1:09:02.600 --> 1:09:06.080 and the women's voices they shot up for being clipped 1:09:06.160 --> 1:09:10.320 and very hard. Not a problem with the men, only 1:09:10.360 --> 1:09:12.439 the women. And I don't have a problem with the 1:09:13.840 --> 1:09:17.439 YouTube on the computer or anything on myself. On this 1:09:17.680 --> 1:09:23.720 only through the the satellite and the news programs. And 1:09:23.760 --> 1:09:25.840 I was wondering, have you heard anything about this? 1:09:27.280 --> 1:09:30.240 No? But what so it's only happening when you watch. 1:09:30.080 --> 1:09:35.280 TV that that's that's correct. Yeah. And on the TV 1:09:35.560 --> 1:09:39.080 I have the druggy equalizers and I just as all 1:09:39.120 --> 1:09:41.160 I can. That's it still come through. 1:09:41.640 --> 1:09:43.080 That's that's what I was going to say. 1:09:43.080 --> 1:09:45.800 It has something to do I'm assuming with your equalizer 1:09:45.880 --> 1:09:49.920 settings changed them and you've changed okay, And so so 1:09:50.040 --> 1:09:52.400 I'm guessing now you said you watch YouTube and it 1:09:52.400 --> 1:09:53.040 doesn't happen. 1:09:53.240 --> 1:09:56.240 Is this YouTube on the same sound system? 1:09:56.880 --> 1:10:01.080 No, I don't watch YouTube on a laptop. I listened 1:10:01.080 --> 1:10:07.000 to KFI on my cell phone. Yeah, so I got 1:10:07.040 --> 1:10:10.479 several TVs, so that happens. All So it's gonna be 1:10:10.479 --> 1:10:16.280 either the Dish network or the cable programming or or 1:10:16.360 --> 1:10:17.839 somehow they're clipping the audio. 1:10:18.200 --> 1:10:20.960 Yeah, it definitely sounds like it's something related to either 1:10:21.000 --> 1:10:26.040 the box, a setting on the box, or the programming itself. 1:10:26.080 --> 1:10:27.400 I mean this, I don't I don't know if there's 1:10:27.400 --> 1:10:29.559 a widespread issue. Now that we brought it up on 1:10:29.600 --> 1:10:33.120 this show, perhaps other people will, you know, email me 1:10:33.160 --> 1:10:34.920 and say, hey, Rich, I have the same problem. But 1:10:35.000 --> 1:10:37.800 having worked in TV news for many years, it's not 1:10:37.920 --> 1:10:42.160 something that we're doing. It's not something that we're actively modifying. 1:10:43.200 --> 1:10:45.920 But with that said, there's a lot of audio settings, 1:10:46.000 --> 1:10:48.760 and I think if you're playing with the equalizer that 1:10:48.840 --> 1:10:53.680 could be part of the issue. So the you know, 1:10:54.720 --> 1:10:56.920 if it's a high pitched voice thing, maybe it's the 1:10:57.240 --> 1:11:01.400 high frequency that's you know, messing with that. So maybe 1:11:01.439 --> 1:11:05.000 just adjust the settings to balance the high frequency. I 1:11:05.040 --> 1:11:06.680 don't know, it's weird that it's happening on all three 1:11:06.720 --> 1:11:09.080 of your TVs. I would also try to see if 1:11:09.120 --> 1:11:11.960 you have some sort of like dialogue enhancer. I know 1:11:12.000 --> 1:11:15.160 a lot of these systems now have a clear audio 1:11:15.479 --> 1:11:19.439 kind of enhancement product, and so that might be something 1:11:19.640 --> 1:11:22.519 to look into. That's a tricky one, Jerry, I'm not sure. 1:11:23.320 --> 1:11:25.520 All I know is that we watch with the subtitles 1:11:25.520 --> 1:11:28.080 on in our house because it's much easier to follow along, 1:11:28.720 --> 1:11:29.800 even though it live news. 1:11:29.800 --> 1:11:31.720 Sometimes those could be challenging as well, because they're not 1:11:31.760 --> 1:11:32.840 always one hundred percent right. 1:11:33.960 --> 1:11:36.439 Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 1:11:36.560 --> 1:11:39.800 four to two four one zero one. This is rich 1:11:39.840 --> 1:11:44.920 on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro 1:11:45.080 --> 1:11:49.519 here talking technology with you at eight eight eight rich 1:11:49.560 --> 1:11:51.680 one o one eight eight eight seven four to two, 1:11:51.920 --> 1:11:54.800 four to one zero one. How did you find the 1:11:54.840 --> 1:11:57.880 saddest Taylor Swift song? I mean, some of them are 1:11:57.920 --> 1:12:01.760 really sad. This one don't know. She well, she's kind 1:12:01.760 --> 1:12:04.880 of angry in the latest stuff getting back at folks. 1:12:05.040 --> 1:12:06.439 It is it bad that I haven't listened to her 1:12:06.479 --> 1:12:07.080 latest album? 1:12:07.560 --> 1:12:09.800 No, I mean I don't. I'm not a big of 1:12:09.840 --> 1:12:12.720 a swifty as I know. You call me a swifty. 1:12:12.520 --> 1:12:15.000 Every single time will play a song I like Taylor Swift. 1:12:15.080 --> 1:12:16.720 You know why, I'll tell you why. I've told you 1:12:16.760 --> 1:12:19.599 this before. It's a connection to my wife. I get 1:12:19.600 --> 1:12:22.479 it because she likes Taylor Swift and I never really cared, 1:12:22.520 --> 1:12:25.000 you know, too much about her. And then the fact 1:12:25.000 --> 1:12:26.960 that she likes her so much. It's just I don't 1:12:27.000 --> 1:12:29.160 know it brings me joy. Yeah, it's weird, that's. 1:12:29.000 --> 1:12:31.679 Not I get it. I just always figured like she'd 1:12:31.840 --> 1:12:35.599 get into relationship break up and have a number one album. 1:12:35.680 --> 1:12:38.360 Yeah and rinse and repeat. 1:12:38.520 --> 1:12:38.760 Yep. 1:12:39.320 --> 1:12:41.559 All right, before we get to Howard and Palm Desert, 1:12:41.560 --> 1:12:43.920 We're gonna get to you in a second. Biff writes 1:12:43.960 --> 1:12:48.240 in with a bone to pick. He says, Rich vonage 1:12:48.280 --> 1:12:51.880 for home is not ten dollars, it's eleven ninety nine 1:12:51.880 --> 1:12:54.960 plus twelve dollars in taxes twenty two to eighteen total. 1:12:55.000 --> 1:12:58.720 Come on, dude, you are way off well. 1:12:58.479 --> 1:13:01.480 Biff, double check my sources. 1:13:02.120 --> 1:13:04.840 And so I went to the Vantage website. I put 1:13:04.880 --> 1:13:07.479 in my entire shipping address and information because they do 1:13:07.640 --> 1:13:14.559 hide the taxes and fees a little bit. And indeed, uh, 1:13:14.680 --> 1:13:19.240 let's see, yeah, indeed, nine ninety nine a month. 1:13:19.520 --> 1:13:20.760 It is nine ninety nine a month. 1:13:21.320 --> 1:13:25.799 Taxes and fees add up to let's see two dollars 1:13:25.800 --> 1:13:30.160 federal tax, two dollars emergency, two dollars state tax, and 1:13:30.479 --> 1:13:34.320 like under two dollars county tax. Total seventeen oh six 1:13:34.479 --> 1:13:38.240 do today recurring charges sixteen dollars thirty seven cents, so 1:13:38.280 --> 1:13:44.080 bif I'm not way off, I wasn't even off, said 1:13:44.120 --> 1:13:46.600 ten dollars a month. That's how much it is. So 1:13:47.920 --> 1:13:52.719 unless I'm proven otherwise, that seems to be right anyway, 1:13:52.720 --> 1:13:55.640 Thanks for the email. Eighty eight rich one oh one 1:13:55.800 --> 1:13:57.679 eight eight eight seven four to two four. 1:13:57.600 --> 1:14:00.439 One zero one. Howard impalmdsert what's up. 1:14:01.520 --> 1:14:04.639 Well, I'm finding a trip to trance in the very 1:14:04.680 --> 1:14:08.080 near future and I want more information about the translation 1:14:08.280 --> 1:14:09.920 real time earphones. 1:14:10.040 --> 1:14:11.040 What your take is on. 1:14:11.880 --> 1:14:15.599 So I had a lot of conversations about these at ces. 1:14:16.120 --> 1:14:19.680 There's a startup named Time Kettle t I M E 1:14:19.800 --> 1:14:22.960 K E T T l E dot co. They are 1:14:23.040 --> 1:14:27.280 sort of the leader in these earbuds that translate in 1:14:27.320 --> 1:14:30.360 real time, and they have them for as cheap as 1:14:30.680 --> 1:14:33.559 it looks like one hundred and fifty dollars. So the 1:14:33.640 --> 1:14:36.599 main thing about the earbuds this is the difference with 1:14:36.680 --> 1:14:40.320 the pricing. So the more expensive they are, the more 1:14:40.400 --> 1:14:42.880 they can do at the same time. So if you 1:14:42.960 --> 1:14:45.960 think about the cheap version or the I guess the 1:14:46.160 --> 1:14:50.120 inexpensive entry level, it's more like a walkie talkie. Someone 1:14:50.200 --> 1:14:53.920 speaks in their language, it waits it processes and then 1:14:53.960 --> 1:14:57.799 it comes through in their language in your ears. Now 1:14:57.840 --> 1:15:02.000 with the more expensive translate earbuds, this is more of 1:15:02.040 --> 1:15:04.840 a real time experience, so they can be interrupted. It's 1:15:04.880 --> 1:15:08.519 back and forth. But pretty much everyone I talked to, 1:15:09.000 --> 1:15:13.120 Time Kettle is the best of the interpreter earbuds. But Howard, 1:15:13.960 --> 1:15:17.920 having been to Paris this year, I would say it 1:15:18.000 --> 1:15:21.400 depends if I would rethink if you actually need these, 1:15:21.560 --> 1:15:25.320 it may be unnecessarily complicated. You can download on your 1:15:25.360 --> 1:15:30.040 iPhone the Google Translate app. You can download the or 1:15:30.120 --> 1:15:33.920 it's already built into the iPhone the Apple Translate app. 1:15:34.360 --> 1:15:37.960 Both are pretty good, and I think that that might 1:15:38.040 --> 1:15:41.080 be all you need to get through a trip, as 1:15:41.080 --> 1:15:44.200 long as it's just a you know, tourist trip to 1:15:44.400 --> 1:15:48.280 the uh, you know, to that area. So that's what 1:15:48.320 --> 1:15:50.120 I would recommend. I mean, I think that there's so 1:15:50.200 --> 1:15:53.439 many ways to keep in touch nowadays with headphones, h 1:15:53.640 --> 1:15:57.559 or with just in general these translating Sorry, my phone's 1:15:57.600 --> 1:16:00.840 responding to me now because I said Google. But if 1:16:00.880 --> 1:16:02.160 you want to look at the time Kettle, do that. 1:16:02.240 --> 1:16:04.000 I think that this is also getting built into a 1:16:04.040 --> 1:16:07.080 lot of other products. So the Meta ray band, Smart 1:16:07.080 --> 1:16:09.880 glasses have this technology built in where they can translate 1:16:09.960 --> 1:16:13.720 the audio in a couple different languages right now. I 1:16:13.760 --> 1:16:16.479 think French is one of them. I have not tested 1:16:16.479 --> 1:16:18.519 that on my headphones. I do need to try that out. 1:16:19.040 --> 1:16:22.160 But that's what I would say is try to get 1:16:22.160 --> 1:16:27.080 around without spending more money on these earbuds. But a 1:16:27.080 --> 1:16:29.240 lot of them are doing this, I mean, especially with CHATCHYBT. 1:16:29.400 --> 1:16:32.559 I mean, it's just gotten so much easier to get 1:16:32.600 --> 1:16:37.559 around these cities without knowing the language. And by the way, 1:16:37.640 --> 1:16:40.280 I'm it's interesting. You know they've got this the big 1:16:40.640 --> 1:16:45.120 the big program that does the translation is Babel b 1:16:45.280 --> 1:16:48.640 A B B E L and that Well, okay, so 1:16:48.760 --> 1:16:52.479 you say Babel, you say Babel. I say Babel because 1:16:53.880 --> 1:16:55.880 they do, all right? Why do they have ads on 1:16:55.920 --> 1:16:57.320 the yeah, okay, all right. 1:16:57.720 --> 1:16:59.360 Well I'm wondering if it's related. 1:16:59.479 --> 1:17:03.519 I'm reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and they have 1:17:03.600 --> 1:17:07.759 what's a translating fish called the Babelfish, and I'm wondering 1:17:07.800 --> 1:17:15.240 if Babbel got their inspiration from babel fish in this book. 1:17:15.920 --> 1:17:18.280 So many things that we have in our society, like 1:17:18.320 --> 1:17:20.559 these names and things like you don't realize they're all 1:17:20.560 --> 1:17:23.080 inspired by something. Now you're reading the book or you 1:17:23.080 --> 1:17:26.400 have it on a tablet, I'm actually listening. 1:17:26.439 --> 1:17:28.800 So you're not reading. Well, I don't know. Is that 1:17:28.880 --> 1:17:29.920 not reading? 1:17:29.960 --> 1:17:33.640 Yes, it still takes your brain power. So I typically, 1:17:34.160 --> 1:17:40.559 I typically don't challenge me on this. I typically listen 1:17:41.200 --> 1:17:45.160 to nonfiction and I read fiction. And I'll be quite honest, 1:17:45.200 --> 1:17:47.840 I'll tell you why, because nonfiction books are harder. 1:17:48.240 --> 1:17:48.519 They are. 1:17:48.640 --> 1:17:51.880 There's like, you know, a book like Hitchhiker's Guide to 1:17:51.920 --> 1:17:54.439 the Galaxy. There's so many terms in there that are 1:17:54.479 --> 1:17:57.280 not like typical English, right, like these weird names and 1:17:57.320 --> 1:17:57.840 things like that. 1:17:57.920 --> 1:18:00.800 It was it a movie? Yeah, it was a movie 1:18:00.800 --> 1:18:02.120 a while ago. Most define was in it. 1:18:02.320 --> 1:18:05.120 Oh there you go. Are we talking about the same thing? 1:18:06.040 --> 1:18:07.719 To the Galaxy? What happened in it? 1:18:07.720 --> 1:18:09.679 It's been so long since I've seen it. 1:18:09.760 --> 1:18:13.880 Uh, well, anyway, good good movie. 1:18:13.920 --> 1:18:16.439 You should read the movie, read the script and maybe 1:18:16.439 --> 1:18:18.760 I'll remember it. I'll read the script. I'll listen to 1:18:18.800 --> 1:18:23.360 the script anyway. It's so, it's so many things. 1:18:23.400 --> 1:18:25.640 When you read books and you like learn or you 1:18:25.760 --> 1:18:29.479 listen to them, whatever your preferences, you really you realize 1:18:29.520 --> 1:18:32.320 just how much is inspired by these classic things. Anyway, 1:18:32.360 --> 1:18:34.200 I do want to get to some news that happened 1:18:34.200 --> 1:18:37.880 this week, and of course now you know now I've 1:18:37.920 --> 1:18:43.759 got the no more time here on the segment. But Meta, big, big, 1:18:43.960 --> 1:18:47.080 big one to eighty out of Meta this week revamping 1:18:47.240 --> 1:18:51.120 all of their content policies for quote free expression, so 1:18:51.800 --> 1:18:56.960 major changes to basically their content moderation. Ending its third 1:18:56.960 --> 1:18:59.840 party fact checking program in the US. They're going to 1:18:59.880 --> 1:19:02.479 re place it with a community note system, which is 1:19:02.479 --> 1:19:07.000 inspired by X So basically, instead of having fact checkers 1:19:07.200 --> 1:19:09.559 look at posts, they're just gonna have random people or 1:19:09.600 --> 1:19:12.640 I guess people that are I don't know signed up 1:19:12.720 --> 1:19:14.559 to do this that can say, hey, this is not 1:19:14.600 --> 1:19:17.120 true or this is true. So they're going to have 1:19:18.080 --> 1:19:21.880 various contributors. They're going to scale back their automated content 1:19:21.960 --> 1:19:25.080 moderation systems. Some people will like this because I know 1:19:25.120 --> 1:19:26.760 a lot of people have been flagged for things that 1:19:26.760 --> 1:19:27.439 are kind of weird. 1:19:27.479 --> 1:19:28.120 But it's going to. 1:19:28.160 --> 1:19:30.599 Cause a lot of problems in the beginning. 1:19:30.640 --> 1:19:34.720 Of course, while people get used to these new lesser restrictions. 1:19:34.720 --> 1:19:37.839 I guess they're going to use those automated content moderation 1:19:37.960 --> 1:19:42.320 systems for high severity violations like terrorism and fraud less 1:19:42.360 --> 1:19:46.280 severe policy violations will need someone to report it before 1:19:46.320 --> 1:19:50.240 it's enforced. So basically, if you post something on Facebook, 1:19:50.720 --> 1:19:53.120 nobody sees it, but it's horrible. 1:19:53.080 --> 1:19:53.840 It'll stay there. 1:19:54.439 --> 1:19:57.240 Now if someone reports it, then maybe someone will take 1:19:57.280 --> 1:19:59.679 a look at it. So they're basically trying to open 1:19:59.760 --> 1:20:03.360 up the pathway for more expression and saying, look, if 1:20:03.400 --> 1:20:06.559 nobody's seeing this or nobody cares, then fine, leave it 1:20:06.600 --> 1:20:06.920 on there. 1:20:07.840 --> 1:20:08.040 Now. 1:20:08.080 --> 1:20:09.599 I'm not saying I agree with any of this. I'm 1:20:09.640 --> 1:20:12.519 just saying what is happening. There's two sides to all this. 1:20:13.400 --> 1:20:17.240 Political content will be back into feeds and if you 1:20:17.439 --> 1:20:19.160 engage with it, you're going to see more of it. 1:20:19.720 --> 1:20:22.960 So a lot of people love their political content on Facebook, 1:20:22.960 --> 1:20:24.720 and they've noticed that it changed when they said, ah, 1:20:24.720 --> 1:20:27.200 we're getting out of politics. In fact, they were starting 1:20:27.200 --> 1:20:31.920 to demote news in general on Facebook. And so that's 1:20:31.960 --> 1:20:36.160 all coming back. Account recovery process and appeals is going 1:20:36.240 --> 1:20:38.439 to be simpler. They're going to use more AI and 1:20:38.479 --> 1:20:40.320 more reviewers to make sure that you can get your 1:20:40.320 --> 1:20:43.120 account back if you are flagged or something like that. 1:20:44.880 --> 1:20:48.479 Restrictions on topics like immigration and gender identity will be eased. 1:20:48.920 --> 1:20:51.000 A lot of people talking about that because you know, 1:20:51.040 --> 1:20:54.760 these are hot topic, you know, powder keg topics on 1:20:55.120 --> 1:20:55.840 social media. 1:20:56.400 --> 1:20:58.720 People just love to say what they want and next thing, you. 1:20:58.720 --> 1:21:02.719 Know, it starts a whole sparks of conversation, not always 1:21:02.720 --> 1:21:06.000 the best conversation. And so they're gonna say, we'll see 1:21:06.040 --> 1:21:07.839 what happens with all this. And the trust and safety 1:21:07.840 --> 1:21:12.439 teams are relocating from California to Texas and that's where 1:21:12.439 --> 1:21:15.479 they're going. So again, Meta, it's going to be a 1:21:15.479 --> 1:21:18.400 free for all for a while at least and until 1:21:18.400 --> 1:21:22.400 these programs sort of they figure out what's working and 1:21:22.439 --> 1:21:25.839 what's not. But you know, some people are very excited 1:21:25.840 --> 1:21:27.880 about this. Gonna be more like X, you know X 1:21:27.920 --> 1:21:31.679 free speech, free speech, free speech. You know, some people 1:21:31.680 --> 1:21:34.840 are gonna leave Meta because of this. But at the 1:21:34.880 --> 1:21:37.799 end of the day, this is a major major shift. 1:21:37.920 --> 1:21:41.360 Mark Zuckerberg, you know the video he put out, My 1:21:41.520 --> 1:21:45.400 jaw just dropped. It's a total complete departure from what 1:21:45.600 --> 1:21:48.400 he has been saying for the past couple of years. 1:21:49.640 --> 1:21:52.360 And you know, this is the company, the social media 1:21:52.400 --> 1:21:56.400 platform that banned President Trump back in the day, and 1:21:56.439 --> 1:21:59.160 now not only are they welcoming him back, but they're 1:21:59.320 --> 1:22:02.680 embracing sort of what he stands for on these platforms 1:22:03.120 --> 1:22:06.360 with respect to free speech and what Elon Musk is 1:22:06.360 --> 1:22:11.840 saying over at X Complete Complete Change. Not everyone likes this, 1:22:12.160 --> 1:22:14.000 some people on one side, some people on the other. 1:22:14.120 --> 1:22:17.599 As always eighty eight rich one on one eight eight 1:22:17.720 --> 1:22:19.720 eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. 1:22:19.720 --> 1:22:21.719 Coming up, I'll tell you what Apple is saying about 1:22:21.800 --> 1:22:25.080 Siri and privacy. They came out with a post on 1:22:25.120 --> 1:22:28.920 that and the new AI app for iPhone. 1:22:29.479 --> 1:22:30.760 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:22:30.840 --> 1:22:36.240 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 1:22:36.320 --> 1:22:38.479 eight eight eight rich one O one eighty eight seven 1:22:38.600 --> 1:22:42.720 four to two, four to one zero one. We've been 1:22:42.760 --> 1:22:47.719 talking a lot about the fires in Los Angeles. Uh wow, 1:22:47.760 --> 1:22:50.960 I just got an alert from Google about the fires, 1:22:51.000 --> 1:22:53.240 which is interesting. I know they said they were going 1:22:53.320 --> 1:22:57.679 to send out information, but you know, technology has really 1:22:57.680 --> 1:23:00.600 been instrumental in helping people keep up with all of this, 1:23:01.080 --> 1:23:04.960 and it's quite been quite incredible. We had the rep 1:23:05.000 --> 1:23:09.280 from the app watch duty on, I mean the text messages. 1:23:09.280 --> 1:23:11.120 I don't know if you heard about this little issue 1:23:11.160 --> 1:23:13.479 they had in Los Angeles, but they were sending out 1:23:14.600 --> 1:23:16.840 these alert texts, and I guess I don't know if 1:23:16.880 --> 1:23:19.920 the machine went haywire or what, but all of a sudden, 1:23:20.400 --> 1:23:23.960 people were getting these evacuation texts and they were not 1:23:24.080 --> 1:23:27.040 in the area of evacuation. And I knew something was 1:23:27.040 --> 1:23:29.760 a little suspicious because I'm on the phone my wife 1:23:29.800 --> 1:23:31.800 and she said, we just got an evacuation and I said, 1:23:31.800 --> 1:23:34.599 no way, they were not in the evacuation area. And 1:23:34.640 --> 1:23:36.519 I said, send me the text. And I look at 1:23:36.520 --> 1:23:39.839 the text, and sure enough, it's just a generic text 1:23:39.880 --> 1:23:43.240 that just says evacuate now. And it came out a 1:23:43.280 --> 1:23:46.240 couple minutes later that it was a mistake. Now they 1:23:46.240 --> 1:23:48.040 didn't say it was a human mistake, or they didn't. 1:23:48.240 --> 1:23:48.559 I can't. 1:23:48.600 --> 1:23:51.160 I couldn't really understand what the mistake was, like how 1:23:51.200 --> 1:23:53.799 that happened. But then it happened a couple more times. 1:23:54.680 --> 1:23:57.680 So it does make you wonder, like you have to 1:23:57.720 --> 1:24:00.519 double check all of this stuff, you know, no matter what. 1:24:01.040 --> 1:24:03.880 But you know, for people already on on Edge, that 1:24:04.040 --> 1:24:07.160 was not a good not a good thing that happened 1:24:07.200 --> 1:24:11.640 here in la website. Rich on tech dot TV, if 1:24:11.680 --> 1:24:14.799 you want to email me, you can go there. Remember 1:24:14.880 --> 1:24:18.160 last week I talked about Apple. We heard this whole 1:24:18.200 --> 1:24:21.840 settlement with Siri, how it was spying on people, eavesdropping, 1:24:22.479 --> 1:24:27.360 selling your your what you talk about with Siri to advertisers. Well, 1:24:27.400 --> 1:24:30.960 Apple came out with a post saying none of that's true. 1:24:31.400 --> 1:24:34.880 We do not spy with Siri. And so here's what 1:24:34.960 --> 1:24:38.120 they kind of outlined in their post. Because you know, 1:24:38.200 --> 1:24:41.759 when these class action suits get settled, the company doesn't 1:24:41.800 --> 1:24:43.439 really have a say at the end of the day. 1:24:43.479 --> 1:24:45.840 They just can tell you what they want because there's 1:24:45.840 --> 1:24:48.280 nothing in court that's sort of sworn to. So it 1:24:48.400 --> 1:24:50.400 just becomes like, hey, let's just give our side of 1:24:50.400 --> 1:24:54.320 the story. So Apple said number one, Siri processes as 1:24:54.360 --> 1:24:59.520 much data as possible directly on serve on devices, reducing 1:24:59.680 --> 1:25:04.280 you know, server cloud servers, So that protects your privacy 1:25:04.280 --> 1:25:07.840 because the device is doing it. Requests that you make 1:25:07.880 --> 1:25:10.360 to Siri are not tied to your Apple account. Instead, 1:25:10.360 --> 1:25:15.200 you get a random identifier that ensures your anonymous nature. 1:25:16.080 --> 1:25:18.960 Audio recordings are not stored unless you opt in to 1:25:19.040 --> 1:25:21.920 improve Siri. You can opt out at any time. That 1:25:22.040 --> 1:25:23.720 used to be the opposite. I think they change that. 1:25:23.840 --> 1:25:25.799 The first time. There was a little issue with Siri, 1:25:26.400 --> 1:25:29.080 and then they have this idea of the private cloud compute. 1:25:29.560 --> 1:25:32.599 So this is what they're doing to tackle AI because 1:25:32.640 --> 1:25:36.519 AI questions are so personal in nature, and so what 1:25:36.560 --> 1:25:38.760 they're doing is they have these servers they've set up 1:25:39.200 --> 1:25:41.920 that when your iPhone is not powerful enough to handle 1:25:42.479 --> 1:25:46.200 the AI processing, they send it to these private cloud 1:25:46.240 --> 1:25:49.000 compute servers that they've set up that are literally I 1:25:49.040 --> 1:25:51.200 mean I went through a whole seminar with Apple on this. 1:25:51.280 --> 1:25:53.720 I mean, the way they set these things up, it's 1:25:53.800 --> 1:25:58.600 like so anonymous and so like it deletes the information 1:25:58.800 --> 1:26:01.200 immediately asked. If it comes up with the answer, it 1:26:01.240 --> 1:26:04.760 wipes all the data clear off of the system. So 1:26:04.800 --> 1:26:07.760 it's almost like a memory where it's it's not remembering 1:26:07.800 --> 1:26:11.439 that stuff, it's just processing it and then deleting it. 1:26:12.040 --> 1:26:14.599 So and Apple, by the way, said in this post 1:26:14.600 --> 1:26:18.839 as well, they do not use Siri data for advertising, marketing, 1:26:19.360 --> 1:26:20.400 or sales. 1:26:20.000 --> 1:26:22.439 To third parties. So all those. 1:26:22.280 --> 1:26:26.160 Sexy headlines you saw that said, oh Apple Siris spying 1:26:26.200 --> 1:26:28.920 on you. It's eavesdropping, it's listening to your conversation so 1:26:28.960 --> 1:26:31.160 it can sell you nikes. No I knew it wasn't 1:26:31.160 --> 1:26:38.240 doing that. Uh Grock this is the X has this feature. 1:26:38.240 --> 1:26:43.400 It's called grock AI. So this is elon Musk's AI. Basically, 1:26:44.080 --> 1:26:48.799 you've got chat GBT, you've got Claude, you've got Mistral, 1:26:49.520 --> 1:26:53.439 you've got bing AI, I guess they use I guess 1:26:53.479 --> 1:26:57.559 copilot without uses Chat GBT. A lot of different flavors 1:26:57.560 --> 1:27:01.599 of AI out there, but this one is from X 1:27:02.120 --> 1:27:05.880 and it's called XAI. So it is now a standalone 1:27:05.920 --> 1:27:08.400 app for the iPhone and iPad. So if you want 1:27:08.400 --> 1:27:10.759 to try something a little different, grock is a little 1:27:10.760 --> 1:27:15.800 bit how do we say, unhinged unhinged AI, A little 1:27:15.840 --> 1:27:21.439 less rules apply. It's got conversational and humorous tones to 1:27:21.560 --> 1:27:25.400 differentiate itself from CHATCHBT and Claude. It can make images, 1:27:25.479 --> 1:27:27.920 it can summarize texts, it's got real time data from 1:27:28.160 --> 1:27:31.960 X in the web. Now, I will tell you just going, 1:27:32.080 --> 1:27:34.880 you know, kind of not getting into the politics of 1:27:34.880 --> 1:27:38.479 all this stuff. They've actually built a pretty good AI 1:27:38.640 --> 1:27:42.240 tool that does have a lot of information And if 1:27:42.240 --> 1:27:44.800 you are still on X you can try it out 1:27:44.840 --> 1:27:50.040 on any post. There is a little XAI icon in 1:27:50.080 --> 1:27:52.080 the upper right hand corner. So if you're looking at 1:27:52.080 --> 1:27:54.240 a post on Twitter and I thought This was actually 1:27:54.240 --> 1:27:58.040 pretty smart. You can tap that XAI in the upper 1:27:58.200 --> 1:28:03.400 right hand corner and it will analyze the post and 1:28:03.439 --> 1:28:05.920 it will search all the information in that post and 1:28:05.920 --> 1:28:09.040 then give you perspective on that post an AI answer 1:28:09.080 --> 1:28:12.720 about that post. So, for instance, I tweeted the other day, 1:28:13.800 --> 1:28:19.679 day four and eighty seven of CES, and I tapped 1:28:19.680 --> 1:28:21.720 a little XAI to see if you can understand what 1:28:21.800 --> 1:28:24.519 I meant, like if it was understanding my humor, And 1:28:24.600 --> 1:28:27.840 sure enough it got it. It understood it said Rich 1:28:27.840 --> 1:28:30.920 as being humorous about CES because it's so long, and 1:28:30.960 --> 1:28:32.960 some people joke that it takes so long and it's 1:28:32.960 --> 1:28:35.880 a long week. And so anyway, you can download that 1:28:36.000 --> 1:28:40.240 right now. It's grock gr ok for the iPhone. Coming up, 1:28:40.240 --> 1:28:43.960 we're gonna talk more CS. Welcome back to Rich on Tech. 1:28:44.040 --> 1:28:48.559 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology, talking 1:28:48.560 --> 1:28:52.759 about the wildfires, very fluid situation here in Los Angeles 1:28:52.800 --> 1:28:56.800 where we broadcast the show. The images and videos coming 1:28:56.800 --> 1:28:59.720 out of this city over the past week have been 1:29:00.920 --> 1:29:05.160 really horrific and just impactful. I mean, so many people 1:29:05.280 --> 1:29:09.760 affected by what's going on in these natural disasters. And 1:29:09.840 --> 1:29:12.479 it's not over. That's it's still happening. It's still very 1:29:12.560 --> 1:29:17.200 very active. So thinking about everyone that is affected by this, 1:29:17.400 --> 1:29:21.160 and that ranges from people who have experienced the worst 1:29:21.200 --> 1:29:26.240 a loss of home, people have lost their lives and 1:29:26.280 --> 1:29:29.519 their livelihoods, and also all the people that just know 1:29:29.680 --> 1:29:33.920 people associated in that area. It is a wide swath 1:29:33.960 --> 1:29:37.080 of Los Angeles that is with breaking hearts right now. 1:29:38.280 --> 1:29:40.240 Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:29:40.320 --> 1:29:42.240 four to two four to one zero one the website 1:29:42.240 --> 1:29:45.639 for the show rich on tech dot tv U. Matt 1:29:45.680 --> 1:29:49.960 Swider is uh, he's with the shortcut dot com. He 1:29:50.120 --> 1:29:52.960 was at CS twenty twenty five with me. He's joining 1:29:52.960 --> 1:29:55.280 me now, Matt, I know you used to live in 1:29:55.320 --> 1:29:58.080 the LA area. What are your thoughts on this whole 1:29:58.120 --> 1:29:59.559 wild wildfire situation. 1:30:00.479 --> 1:30:04.240 It's certainly devastating, you know, It's it's like watching a 1:30:04.240 --> 1:30:07.680 horror movie. And you know, we all know people who 1:30:08.080 --> 1:30:10.360 live there and are you know, on the front lines 1:30:10.400 --> 1:30:14.280 of this. And so as we were at CEES, we 1:30:14.400 --> 1:30:17.920 kind of felt very helpless, uh, you know, playing with 1:30:17.960 --> 1:30:20.519 all the tech, but you know, watching our friends and 1:30:20.560 --> 1:30:22.799 loved ones kind of go through the worst. 1:30:23.360 --> 1:30:25.400 Yeah, I mean that that was tough. I mean I 1:30:25.439 --> 1:30:27.639 wrote about this in my newsletter today. It's like we 1:30:27.640 --> 1:30:31.320 were there, and it's it's it's a really tough position 1:30:31.360 --> 1:30:32.800 to be in because here it is you're at one 1:30:32.800 --> 1:30:36.320 of the biggest tech events of the world. Your family 1:30:36.400 --> 1:30:39.200 is safe, in my case, my photographer's family is safe, 1:30:39.680 --> 1:30:41.599 and it's like, what do you do? And by the way, 1:30:41.640 --> 1:30:44.040 coming back at some point, like you know, I was 1:30:44.080 --> 1:30:46.080 on my on the phone my wife every the whole day. 1:30:46.479 --> 1:30:48.679 It's like, well, is it safer to come back right now? 1:30:49.040 --> 1:30:51.479 I mean, we were really moving towards her and the 1:30:51.560 --> 1:30:54.800 kids coming out to Vegas for the week just to 1:30:54.800 --> 1:30:57.559 get out of the way. And so it was a 1:30:57.640 --> 1:31:01.000 really really interesting position to be in. I guess as 1:31:01.000 --> 1:31:04.719 a reporter you have some thoughts on on helping out 1:31:04.760 --> 1:31:07.120 with the wildfire release relief. 1:31:07.280 --> 1:31:08.519 Absolutely absolutely so. 1:31:09.080 --> 1:31:11.960 Uh, my friend Tommy and his wife lost their home 1:31:12.280 --> 1:31:14.920 and I have a techie angle for you, as I 1:31:14.960 --> 1:31:20.479 always do, in making a donation to them, I found 1:31:20.600 --> 1:31:25.400 out how to maximize that donation mostly through you know, 1:31:25.479 --> 1:31:28.720 go fund me, very popular payment platform. And if you 1:31:28.760 --> 1:31:30.880 have you know, if you want to donate to Tommy 1:31:31.000 --> 1:31:33.880 or a loved one on the shortcut dot com, I 1:31:34.200 --> 1:31:37.559 have a post out there for it. There's a way 1:31:37.600 --> 1:31:40.720 to do it that will maximize your donation. You can 1:31:40.840 --> 1:31:43.200 pay with a credit card, so don't pay with a 1:31:43.240 --> 1:31:45.680 debit card where you don't get any points back. But 1:31:45.760 --> 1:31:49.400 I found out Apple Pay. By paying with an Apple card. 1:31:49.400 --> 1:31:52.800 Through Apple Pay, you'll get two percent cash back or 1:31:52.800 --> 1:31:55.439 two percent back, right, and then you can donate or 1:31:55.479 --> 1:31:58.840 put that into a savings account or just deposit it 1:31:59.439 --> 1:32:00.400 into your. 1:32:00.800 --> 1:32:02.280 You know bank account eventually. 1:32:03.200 --> 1:32:07.080 So by I donated five thousand dollars my friend and 1:32:07.120 --> 1:32:09.719 I got one hundred dollars back. Normally, with a regular 1:32:09.720 --> 1:32:11.960 credit card, I would have gotten you know, you know, 1:32:12.040 --> 1:32:15.439 fifty bucks back, or with a you know, bank transaction, 1:32:15.560 --> 1:32:18.519 got zero dollars back. So I can reuse that money 1:32:18.760 --> 1:32:21.840 to go visit them, and you know, why not get double? 1:32:22.520 --> 1:32:23.559 Is my thinking. 1:32:23.960 --> 1:32:26.439 The other thing is, and this is something you could 1:32:26.439 --> 1:32:29.360 fall for and I I kind of almost f fell 1:32:29.400 --> 1:32:33.040 for it. Go fund me will send a set you 1:32:33.120 --> 1:32:35.400 up with a fourteen percent tip for themselves. 1:32:35.479 --> 1:32:38.000 Okay, I've wondered about this. I've wondered about this. I 1:32:38.040 --> 1:32:40.479 feel guilty when I see this, you know, I'm like, 1:32:40.520 --> 1:32:41.479 do I support them? 1:32:41.520 --> 1:32:41.960 Do I not? 1:32:42.760 --> 1:32:44.800 So tell me what your thoughts are so Basically, when 1:32:44.800 --> 1:32:47.479 you do a transaction on the GoFundMe platform and a 1:32:47.479 --> 1:32:50.479 lot of these platforms that take donations, they ask for 1:32:50.520 --> 1:32:52.880 a small cut to sort of quote help them run 1:32:52.960 --> 1:32:54.200 the platform. 1:32:54.760 --> 1:32:57.120 Absolutely, and you know what, don't feel bad. 1:32:57.160 --> 1:33:00.840 They're already profitable enough on their own through you know, 1:33:01.000 --> 1:33:04.360 transaction fees and so forth, so you know on the 1:33:04.400 --> 1:33:06.760 back end they'll they'll take a little bit of a 1:33:06.800 --> 1:33:09.920 cut already, but so they don't need this like self 1:33:09.960 --> 1:33:13.240 appointed fourteen percent tip that was seven hundred dollars. In 1:33:13.280 --> 1:33:16.840 my case, I put it down to one cent, which 1:33:17.000 --> 1:33:18.040 I did feel bad about. 1:33:18.360 --> 1:33:19.800 You can actually put it down to zero. 1:33:20.320 --> 1:33:23.400 I fell for the fact that even at when you 1:33:23.400 --> 1:33:27.240 put in exactly zero dollars, they will have a nagging 1:33:27.360 --> 1:33:30.280 message up there looking like it doesn't work. It can 1:33:30.360 --> 1:33:33.519 be zero dollars. You can proceed to just give the 1:33:33.560 --> 1:33:37.080 whole amount that you want to your friends, which is 1:33:37.120 --> 1:33:39.519 something I did. So I have that post on the 1:33:39.520 --> 1:33:42.240 shortcut dot com if you want to go over those directions. 1:33:42.240 --> 1:33:45.680 But those two tips get money back based on points. 1:33:45.880 --> 1:33:49.520 You know, double with Apple, pay with an Apple card, 1:33:49.640 --> 1:33:52.679 and don't leave that tip to a plant pin platform 1:33:52.680 --> 1:33:54.920 that's already you know, fully funded. 1:33:55.200 --> 1:33:58.360 Okay, so this is interesting because I actually this clarifies 1:33:58.400 --> 1:33:59.680 a lot and a lot of people are going to 1:33:59.720 --> 1:34:02.439 be using gofund me in the next couple weeks. I mean, 1:34:02.640 --> 1:34:06.320 it's very popular in general. But okay, So if let's 1:34:06.360 --> 1:34:08.680 say I set up a GoFundMe and I get I've 1:34:08.760 --> 1:34:12.759 raised one hundred dollars, I actually don't see one hundred dollars, right, Yeah, 1:34:12.880 --> 1:34:13.960 I see less than that. 1:34:14.800 --> 1:34:17.719 I've been looking into that, and it's it's two point 1:34:17.920 --> 1:34:24.439 nine percent plus thirty cents per donation from what I've read. 1:34:24.400 --> 1:34:27.320 Right, Yeah, So they're making money no matter what it's not, 1:34:27.360 --> 1:34:29.200 So you shouldn't feel bad. You're saying, when they ask 1:34:29.240 --> 1:34:32.240 for this extra tip, you're just giving them more money, 1:34:32.360 --> 1:34:33.720 which I get it. If you have the money and 1:34:33.760 --> 1:34:35.360 you feel like it and you want to just be generous, 1:34:35.360 --> 1:34:38.240 go ahead. But you're saying, don't feel guilty about not 1:34:38.320 --> 1:34:41.080 doing it because they're still out of that one hundred dollars. 1:34:41.160 --> 1:34:43.479 I'm only going to see ninety seven. As the person 1:34:43.479 --> 1:34:45.920 who's getting those donations. Let's say I was the recipient. 1:34:46.560 --> 1:34:50.040 Correct everything I've read, they're getting money regardless, So they 1:34:50.080 --> 1:34:54.040 don't need and an egregious amount of fourteen percent. That's 1:34:54.200 --> 1:34:58.040 that's a lot to take from the donator who could 1:34:58.120 --> 1:35:01.160 just donate even more money or you know, spend that 1:35:01.200 --> 1:35:04.719 money elsewhere, So no need to do that. The tiny 1:35:04.840 --> 1:35:08.120 text of enter custom tip is so easy to mess 1:35:08.160 --> 1:35:11.000 I know a lot of your listeners will probably not 1:35:11.040 --> 1:35:12.840 even say that. I didn't even see it at first 1:35:13.560 --> 1:35:16.320 until I saw seven hundred dollars extra on there in 1:35:16.400 --> 1:35:18.519 the final bill, and as I wait a minute, so 1:35:18.560 --> 1:35:21.200 I went back clicked on that tiny text and then 1:35:21.280 --> 1:35:23.759 changed that too. You can change it to the zero dollars. 1:35:23.880 --> 1:35:25.920 Yeah, and we're not We're not dunking on GoFundMe. I 1:35:25.920 --> 1:35:28.519 think that this has been an incredible way for anyone 1:35:28.680 --> 1:35:31.240 to raise money for any cause, but it is not 1:35:31.320 --> 1:35:35.160 a nonprofit. They have a nonprofit arm. And I will say, 1:35:35.240 --> 1:35:38.479 having used GoFundMe in the past for both my sister 1:35:38.560 --> 1:35:42.120 and my father, who both went through cancer, I got 1:35:42.160 --> 1:35:45.160 a donation. I don't know, maybe for my dad or 1:35:45.200 --> 1:35:48.559 my sister or both, but they actually donated to my cause, 1:35:48.680 --> 1:35:50.320 like I think at one point, I think they gave 1:35:50.360 --> 1:35:52.680 seven hundred and fifty dollars. They said, hey, we just 1:35:52.720 --> 1:35:55.000 want to be generous in your in your cause. 1:35:55.360 --> 1:35:55.519 Now? 1:35:55.560 --> 1:35:57.240 Is that because I'm rich to Miro and I tweeted 1:35:57.240 --> 1:35:58.800 about it. Maybe I don't know if they do that 1:35:58.840 --> 1:36:01.680 for everyone, you know, but I think they do that 1:36:01.800 --> 1:36:04.879 for people. But I think obviously since they could see anyway. 1:36:05.160 --> 1:36:08.000 My point is it's a nice company. They're doing good things. 1:36:08.040 --> 1:36:09.439 Just you know, you don't have to tip if you 1:36:09.439 --> 1:36:11.400 don't want to. All right, let's talk about ce s 1:36:11.520 --> 1:36:14.679 Matt what what what are your What's your main takeaway 1:36:14.680 --> 1:36:15.040 this year? 1:36:16.160 --> 1:36:19.679 Main takeaway is there's a lot of conceptual gadgets out 1:36:19.680 --> 1:36:23.719 there that are finally becoming products and look really cool. 1:36:23.840 --> 1:36:25.960 I don't know if you saw what we gave on 1:36:26.000 --> 1:36:28.680 the shortcut, the Best in Show award winner, but it's 1:36:28.680 --> 1:36:32.599 the robo rock with It's a vacuum that has an arm. 1:36:32.640 --> 1:36:37.200 It looks like it's from a like a movie, horror movie. 1:36:37.600 --> 1:36:39.200 It has an arm that comes out of the robot 1:36:39.320 --> 1:36:43.160 vacuum and picks up socks, trash, and other items underwear 1:36:43.479 --> 1:36:44.760 that kind of get in the way. 1:36:44.840 --> 1:36:46.200 You know, if you've got a lot of underwear on 1:36:46.240 --> 1:36:48.439 your floor, I don't know what's happening in that apartment. 1:36:49.560 --> 1:36:52.760 It's you get some lazy sometimes and like you know, 1:36:53.160 --> 1:36:55.240 clothes and laundry is strewn about. 1:36:55.320 --> 1:36:56.639 So I get it. I've been there. 1:36:57.560 --> 1:37:00.599 So this is kind of a they say it's coming out. 1:37:00.600 --> 1:37:03.439 It feels a little more conceptual, but anything under three 1:37:03.479 --> 1:37:05.880 hundred grams it'll be able to pick up with a 1:37:05.960 --> 1:37:09.080 robot arm. But it looks like a regular robot vacuum 1:37:09.439 --> 1:37:12.840 other than this really cool feature. So we gave that 1:37:12.920 --> 1:37:16.000 the Best and Show at CES award because it just 1:37:16.240 --> 1:37:21.639 really felt like almost the segue to a Jetson style robot. 1:37:21.720 --> 1:37:24.519 Remember Rosie the robot. We're getting there. 1:37:24.800 --> 1:37:26.240 Yeah, what else did you give awards to? 1:37:27.640 --> 1:37:31.200 We gave an award to the best Laptop issues zen 1:37:31.240 --> 1:37:34.680 Book A fourteen was really cool. The LGG four was 1:37:34.720 --> 1:37:38.479 our top TV. You know, the Samsung Frame Pro TV 1:37:38.640 --> 1:37:42.599 came really close. That was really cool. And we gave 1:37:42.680 --> 1:37:45.640 an award to two shares two gaming chairs. You know, 1:37:45.680 --> 1:37:48.120 that's very rare for us to choose too, but one 1:37:48.240 --> 1:37:51.040 was conceptual. They were both from a company, a gaming 1:37:51.080 --> 1:37:55.320 company called Razor. Razor makes excellent gaming chairs. I'm actually 1:37:55.600 --> 1:37:57.599 sitting in one of those right now. But they came 1:37:57.600 --> 1:37:59.439 out with a new one and The reason I like 1:37:59.520 --> 1:38:03.200 that is it's the Razor Iscor V two X, and 1:38:03.280 --> 1:38:05.599 it's more than half the price of the one I'm 1:38:05.640 --> 1:38:08.400 sitting in, and it has a lot of the core features. 1:38:08.600 --> 1:38:11.280 It's three hundred dollars, it has, you know, a lot 1:38:11.320 --> 1:38:14.880 of the erogronomics, and it's it backs off some of 1:38:14.920 --> 1:38:18.080 the over the top lumbar support that you know, not 1:38:18.200 --> 1:38:20.200 everybody needs, but it opens it up to a lot 1:38:20.240 --> 1:38:22.599 more gamers. The one piece of advice I give people 1:38:22.640 --> 1:38:25.200 when they buy gaming chairs, don't buy that one for 1:38:25.360 --> 1:38:28.720 ninety nine dollars. If you can help it. That's on Amazon. 1:38:29.240 --> 1:38:32.040 Those tend to, you know, fall apart very quickly and 1:38:32.080 --> 1:38:37.839 not be perfect. The Iscor Razor line of chairs is 1:38:38.040 --> 1:38:40.400 pretty amazing, So you get what you pay for. If 1:38:40.439 --> 1:38:43.519 you're you're springing, you know, and spending three hundred dollars 1:38:43.560 --> 1:38:45.960 for a gaming chair, that one. 1:38:45.880 --> 1:38:48.080 That the one I'm sitting is over six hundred dollars. 1:38:48.479 --> 1:38:50.880 I realized that when I read it for last year, 1:38:51.040 --> 1:38:53.559 it's not for everybody. This one, the price point is 1:38:53.640 --> 1:38:56.840 right the other gaming chair. This one's conceptual as well. 1:38:56.920 --> 1:39:01.519 I talked about c Yes being conceptual. It is a uh, 1:39:01.560 --> 1:39:05.240 it's it's a project r lysle right, and it is 1:39:05.280 --> 1:39:08.000 a hot and cold gaming chair. You can you know, 1:39:08.120 --> 1:39:11.160 it has this blateless fan system that either makes it 1:39:11.200 --> 1:39:13.960 cool or heats the chair up. 1:39:14.439 --> 1:39:17.519 W Yeah, why would you want to be heated up? 1:39:17.560 --> 1:39:20.080 I feel like you're you're getting sweaty playing games anyway, 1:39:20.160 --> 1:39:21.000 But I get the cool. 1:39:22.520 --> 1:39:26.000 New York City is a little bit frigid right now. Okay, 1:39:26.479 --> 1:39:29.719 I feel like a lot of times I spring for 1:39:30.280 --> 1:39:32.960 the you know, the heating system and I have to 1:39:32.960 --> 1:39:35.519 like pause my gaming session and get up and turn 1:39:35.520 --> 1:39:37.960 it on. If I had that in the chair, it's 1:39:38.040 --> 1:39:40.120 kind of like heated seats. Why is that limited to 1:39:40.120 --> 1:39:42.559 a luxury car? So I'm surprised no other tech company 1:39:42.560 --> 1:39:47.400 has done this before. But yeah, it seems like something 1:39:47.400 --> 1:39:51.519 they're actually gonna make. I'm I'm totally uh in love 1:39:51.600 --> 1:39:56.639 with this idea. It turns orange for hot, blue for cool, 1:39:56.920 --> 1:40:00.360 and also green because that's Razors color. 1:40:00.439 --> 1:40:03.240 So definitely one to look forward to if they come 1:40:03.240 --> 1:40:03.640 out with that. 1:40:03.880 --> 1:40:06.920 I've been playing with the Razor mechanical keyboard like they're 1:40:06.960 --> 1:40:10.000 a really nice one and it's you know, the people 1:40:10.040 --> 1:40:11.000 love Razor stuff. 1:40:11.040 --> 1:40:12.040 It's really slick. 1:40:12.080 --> 1:40:14.320 It's got all the lights, the RGB and you know, 1:40:14.360 --> 1:40:15.599 it's just got all the features you need. 1:40:15.680 --> 1:40:16.320 It's a little price. 1:40:16.400 --> 1:40:18.559 You know, this stuff could be expensive, but I think, 1:40:18.640 --> 1:40:21.160 like anything else, if you you know, and this is 1:40:21.160 --> 1:40:24.880 what always happens, you recommend something. I recommend something. You know, 1:40:24.960 --> 1:40:26.920 maybe it's a little bit more than people want to spend. 1:40:27.280 --> 1:40:29.360 They go to Amazon, they type it in and of 1:40:29.360 --> 1:40:32.519 course you know these other companies they hijack the search 1:40:32.560 --> 1:40:34.760 by putting in like something that's half the price. You're like, 1:40:34.760 --> 1:40:36.920 all right, I'll just go with that, and you do 1:40:37.040 --> 1:40:39.160 get what you pay for. And you have to remember 1:40:39.640 --> 1:40:41.559 big companies like a Razor, they have R and D, 1:40:41.720 --> 1:40:44.360 and they have quality control, and they use parts and 1:40:44.400 --> 1:40:46.640 they do things in a way that is like, you know, 1:40:46.960 --> 1:40:49.599 not gonna explode or not gonna like catch on fire 1:40:49.720 --> 1:40:51.719 or something. So you have to keep this in mind 1:40:51.720 --> 1:40:54.320 when you go with that really cheap thing on Amazon. 1:40:54.439 --> 1:40:56.520 Just remember that absolutely. 1:40:56.560 --> 1:40:59.320 I've done that with lights before they were on sale 1:40:59.360 --> 1:41:02.160 for Amazon, and I didn't know what the company was. 1:41:02.520 --> 1:41:05.240 I got them, and then I spent probably two months 1:41:05.280 --> 1:41:08.360 trying to track down a cricket in my kitchen, and 1:41:08.360 --> 1:41:10.120 every time I went into the kitchen. I couldn't find 1:41:10.280 --> 1:41:12.960 the cricket because it would just you know, they would 1:41:13.040 --> 1:41:16.599 go silent. I realized it was the very cheap lights 1:41:16.640 --> 1:41:18.000 I got and they were just humming. 1:41:18.920 --> 1:41:22.160 So I realized that was it. So you get what 1:41:22.200 --> 1:41:22.639 you pay. 1:41:22.560 --> 1:41:26.160 For, all right, Matt Swider of the shortcut dot Com, 1:41:26.360 --> 1:41:27.719 thanks so much for joining me today. 1:41:28.280 --> 1:41:28.840 Thanks Rich. 1:41:29.360 --> 1:41:31.200 All right, coming up, we are going to open up 1:41:31.240 --> 1:41:34.040 the feedbag. We're gonna see what you've been emailing me 1:41:34.080 --> 1:41:36.800 all week, and uh we'll do that right after this. 1:41:37.400 --> 1:41:40.439 Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 1:41:40.439 --> 1:41:44.040 out with you, talking technology. A couple of headlines to 1:41:44.080 --> 1:41:46.920 get through before we get to the feedbag. Tvo make 1:41:46.960 --> 1:41:50.839 it a comeback. They're going to debut a new TVO 1:41:51.080 --> 1:41:54.719 Sharp TV in February, taking on Roku and fire TV. 1:41:56.280 --> 1:41:56.879 We'll see. 1:41:57.400 --> 1:41:59.599 I love Tvo, I loved it in the past. We'll 1:41:59.600 --> 1:42:01.840 see if it can still hang with the big boys. 1:42:02.640 --> 1:42:07.320 Disney and Fubo are merging their live TV services. Disney 1:42:07.360 --> 1:42:10.000 is partnering with Fubo to combine Hulu Plus Live Tv, 1:42:10.120 --> 1:42:12.880 with Fubo creating a joint venture. They're gonna have six 1:42:12.920 --> 1:42:16.840 million subscribers. Let's see do they say the name of 1:42:16.960 --> 1:42:19.400 the new service. I don't know the name. I'm assuming 1:42:19.439 --> 1:42:22.280 it's gonna be Fubo. Maybe it's because of a lawsuit. 1:42:22.280 --> 1:42:22.840 And then Dell. 1:42:23.400 --> 1:42:26.760 They are copying the iPhone naming convention, So no more 1:42:27.320 --> 1:42:31.479 xps and INSPI on now. It's going to be the Dell, 1:42:31.640 --> 1:42:35.200 Dell Pro and Dell Promax, which I actually think is 1:42:35.200 --> 1:42:37.679 a smart idea, very very smart idea. I know people 1:42:37.680 --> 1:42:39.920 are giving them a lot of grief for that, but 1:42:39.960 --> 1:42:41.559 I think it's very smart because you know that the 1:42:41.560 --> 1:42:43.559 Pro Max is better than the Dell, and you know 1:42:43.600 --> 1:42:46.040 the Dell Pro is better than the Dell, and you 1:42:46.080 --> 1:42:47.920 know that the Pro Max is better than the del Pro. 1:42:48.720 --> 1:42:54.400 And the Sony Honda Aphila one electric car now has 1:42:54.439 --> 1:43:01.240 reservations open for eighty reservations opening California. With a two 1:43:01.360 --> 1:43:03.479 hundred dollars deposit, you can get this new car, which 1:43:03.520 --> 1:43:07.240 is sort of like a PlayStation on wheels. It's been 1:43:07.240 --> 1:43:09.320 on display at CS for the last couple of years. 1:43:09.800 --> 1:43:14.040 Sony and Honda joint developed it. I don't know why 1:43:14.080 --> 1:43:16.240 you'd pay ninety thousand dollars for it, but hey. 1:43:16.760 --> 1:43:21.200 You can have it. It's available. Let's get to the feedbag. 1:43:21.760 --> 1:43:23.880 Chuck writs in I use the Burner app as a 1:43:23.880 --> 1:43:27.439 second phone number for my customer contact in my job. Recently, 1:43:27.479 --> 1:43:30.400 they deactivated my account without warning, making my social media 1:43:30.439 --> 1:43:34.000 and marketing materials with that number useless. They won't explain why, 1:43:34.080 --> 1:43:35.720 only saying they have the right to do this. It 1:43:35.760 --> 1:43:37.479 was a great app for years, but I wanted to 1:43:37.520 --> 1:43:40.120 warn others if their work is tied to the app, 1:43:40.120 --> 1:43:42.880 it could vanish instantly. Be careful, yes, Chuck, that is 1:43:42.880 --> 1:43:45.799 always a consideration when you use one of those phone numbers, 1:43:46.600 --> 1:43:48.240 one of those apps. They can always just get rid 1:43:48.280 --> 1:43:50.559 of it at any time, and you may not have recourse. 1:43:51.479 --> 1:43:53.840 Laurel rights in I'm eighty three, I'm so glad. I 1:43:53.840 --> 1:43:56.120 grew up in the nineteen forties and fifties. We didn't 1:43:56.120 --> 1:43:59.920 have TVs, the internet, or smartphones for entertainment. We played outside, 1:44:00.080 --> 1:44:02.439 rode bikes, climb trees, jump rope, read books. 1:44:02.840 --> 1:44:04.599 My mom read me a story every night. 1:44:05.920 --> 1:44:08.679 I avoid social media and find those platforms for meeting 1:44:08.680 --> 1:44:11.760 people online dangerous. A friend of mine worries about his 1:44:11.800 --> 1:44:15.160 granddaughter meeting the wrong people online. But how can parents 1:44:15.200 --> 1:44:17.000 keep their kids away from devices when it seems like 1:44:17.040 --> 1:44:20.080 everyone has one. It's sad that parents don't spend Many 1:44:20.080 --> 1:44:22.960 parents don't spend quality time with their kids because they're 1:44:23.000 --> 1:44:24.640 glued to their own screens. 1:44:25.400 --> 1:44:26.280 Very true. 1:44:27.320 --> 1:44:29.240 Mark from Santa Barbara wrights in I listened to your 1:44:29.280 --> 1:44:33.080 program about surge suppressors. He recommended at least two thousand 1:44:33.200 --> 1:44:35.960 jewels and mentioned they don't last forever. I recently upgraded 1:44:35.960 --> 1:44:39.759 two older power strips near my TV, including my rebuilt 1:44:39.800 --> 1:44:44.360 nineteen seventy three duel turntable, and replaced three in my 1:44:44.439 --> 1:44:47.560 home office. I even added USB charging porch from my 1:44:47.600 --> 1:44:50.839 iPhone and iPad. Thanks for the tip. Appreciate the guidance. 1:44:52.000 --> 1:44:54.400 Gale from San Diego. Rights in Rich. Thanks for your 1:44:54.439 --> 1:44:57.120 advice on photo scanning. Last March, my sister and I 1:44:57.160 --> 1:45:01.120 started organizing over a thousand of our parents photos. Instead 1:45:01.120 --> 1:45:03.840 of paying for scanning, we found a youth scanner at 1:45:03.880 --> 1:45:06.680 an estate sale for twelve dollars and did it ourselves. 1:45:07.040 --> 1:45:10.439 Every Sunday we spent hours organizing and scanning old black 1:45:10.479 --> 1:45:13.000 and white photos, keepsakes, and letters from my dad's World 1:45:13.040 --> 1:45:15.679 War II service. It felt like a family reunion. 1:45:15.760 --> 1:45:16.280 Every week. 1:45:16.720 --> 1:45:19.160 We saved everything to flash drives and gifted them to 1:45:19.240 --> 1:45:21.360 family members for Christmas. It was one of the best 1:45:21.400 --> 1:45:24.519 experiences of our lives. All of this was inspired by 1:45:24.520 --> 1:45:26.840 your program. Thank you for what you do and Happy 1:45:26.840 --> 1:45:29.720 New Year, Gail. You get the silver star or the 1:45:29.760 --> 1:45:33.200 gold star for making my day. Randy from Florida writes 1:45:33.240 --> 1:45:35.479 in Rich. I was listening as you guided someone through 1:45:35.520 --> 1:45:38.000 finding a specific setting on their phone. May I suggest 1:45:38.080 --> 1:45:41.760 using the search function in the settings menu instead of scrolling. 1:45:42.120 --> 1:45:44.720 It's a faster way to locate the exact option and 1:45:44.760 --> 1:45:45.600 make the adjustment. 1:45:46.120 --> 1:45:46.360 Yeah. 1:45:46.439 --> 1:45:48.240 I do like to give people the basis of where 1:45:48.240 --> 1:45:50.000 things are, but I agree that could be a. 1:45:49.960 --> 1:45:53.000 Good way to do it as well. Let's see what else. 1:45:53.840 --> 1:45:55.320 Oh my gosh, so many emails. 1:45:57.680 --> 1:46:01.000 I was listening to your show on tape delay and 1:46:01.120 --> 1:46:04.439 discussion of the NordVPN guest about two factor authentication. It's 1:46:04.479 --> 1:46:06.640 a great security feature, but I've noticed a problem with 1:46:06.680 --> 1:46:09.799 how Amazon handles it. If you do it too many times, 1:46:09.880 --> 1:46:12.599 Amazon's inform me I can't get a link until later. 1:46:13.360 --> 1:46:15.200 Even when I waited until the next day. The delay 1:46:15.280 --> 1:46:17.880 was frustrated. Frustrating. I wanted to share this in case 1:46:17.960 --> 1:46:21.320 others have experienced similar issues, or you weren't aware. Thanks 1:46:21.360 --> 1:46:25.240 for discussing these important tech topics. Yes, they could lock 1:46:25.320 --> 1:46:27.920 you out if you try to access too many times, 1:46:28.360 --> 1:46:31.599 so be aware of that and remember those recovery codes. 1:46:31.600 --> 1:46:33.080 All right, that's going to do it for this episode 1:46:33.120 --> 1:46:35.120 of the show. Links to everything I mentioned on the 1:46:35.120 --> 1:46:37.840 website rich on tech dot tv. I'm on social media 1:46:37.880 --> 1:46:40.160 at rich on tech. Next week i'll give you my 1:46:40.200 --> 1:46:42.439 thoughts on the one plus thirteen plus we'll talk to 1:46:42.439 --> 1:46:46.120 the guy who's efforting the real life Jurassic Park. Yeah, 1:46:46.160 --> 1:46:48.519 that's going to be an interesting one. Thank you so 1:46:48.600 --> 1:46:50.240 much for listening. I know there are so many ways 1:46:50.240 --> 1:46:52.320 you can spend your time I really do appreciate you 1:46:52.360 --> 1:46:55.480 spending it right here with me. My thoughts to everyone 1:46:55.640 --> 1:46:59.559 impacted by the wildfires in Los Angeles. The world is 1:46:59.600 --> 1:47:01.840 with you right now. Thanks to everyone who makes this 1:47:01.880 --> 1:47:05.320 show possible, including Bobo, who had to break through barriers 1:47:05.320 --> 1:47:08.960 to get here. My name is not really My name 1:47:09.040 --> 1:47:11.320 is rich Dumuro. He didn't break any rules. I'll talk 1:47:11.320 --> 1:47:11.960 to you real soon.