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Speaker 2: We do have some guests this week.

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Speaker 1: Three great guests in fact, tech journalists and podcaster Tom Merritt,

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Speaker 1: host of the Daily Tech News Show, is going to

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Speaker 1: journalists Sabrina Ortiz, senior editor at ZD Net. She's going

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Speaker 1: later in the show, we've got Josh Goren. He is

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Speaker 1: with Walt Disney Imagineering. I told you I recently had

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to take a tour meet up with those

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Speaker 1: Disney does with cutting edge technology to bring all these

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Speaker 2: So we're going to talk to Josh about that this week.

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Speaker 1: I just got back from Kawai, Hawaii. Always fun to

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Speaker 1: go to Hawaii. It's man. We celebrated My wife and

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Speaker 1: I celebrated our twenty year wedding anniversary, which is just

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Speaker 1: wild because I remember going to Hawaii for our anniversary.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Bobo, And it was great, really really nice.

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Speaker 1: It's one of these things where you got to take

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Speaker 1: you know, we felt bad leaving the kids. We felt

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Speaker 1: bad leaving work. We had to change everything around the

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Speaker 1: and so we had everything planned and we had actually

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Speaker 1: And it's these little things in life that you kind

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Speaker 1: and you do it. And we changed all the flights,

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Speaker 1: it was great. We had such a nice and if

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Speaker 1: I'm a big Jurassic Park fan, and so Kawai obviously

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Speaker 1: it is it is desolate. There's not a lot there

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Speaker 1: but there's not a lot. There's not like chain restaurants.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not really selling this place, but that's what

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Speaker 1: which was really cool. At night, went on a bunch

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Speaker 1: of hikes which were just amazing. I cannot speak highly

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Speaker 1: I do struggle with, I will tell you when I'm

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Speaker 1: I was looking at that. But you know, I want

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Speaker 1: But the problem is I end up getting more stressed

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Speaker 2: Emails pile up.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, people are saying rich like I

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Speaker 1: got someone that of your very nice thank you. They

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Speaker 1: this is my second request, this is my third request.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, excuse me, Like, okay, I get it, you're

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Speaker 1: have to understand that I am a human that is

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Speaker 1: on my trip and I'm like, I'm telling my wife.

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Speaker 1: And she said, yeah, that's what my dad always did

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Speaker 1: So it's something that I've always struggled with because I

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Speaker 1: Of course I'd reply to it. The other thing that

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Speaker 1: I did is I tried watching movies on my phone.

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Speaker 2: I watched Happy Gilmore Too, which it was funny.

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Speaker 1: Someone literally texted me I posted on my Instagram that

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Speaker 1: I posted my anniversary, posted that I watched Happy Gilmore.

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Speaker 1: I post all the time on my Instagram at richon

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Speaker 1: Tech if you want to check it out. But yes,

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Speaker 1: you open yourself up to people saying, oh, that movie

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Speaker 2: I thought it was funny. I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: And also the people shaming you for watching a silly

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Speaker 1: When I looked at the top Google searches. Every single

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Speaker 1: just how wild that, like thirty years later after the

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Speaker 1: just the age of people in that movie, the people

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Speaker 1: it was eight oh eight Hawaii area code. Let me say,

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Speaker 2: Why why is that number so prominent.

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Speaker 1: So how is the show going. You've been doing that

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Speaker 3: it to the new one. Although everyone says the new

437
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Speaker 3: one's a little more powerful. I like it, and I

438
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Speaker 3: just I really like using the pixel fold when I

439
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Speaker 3: travel because then I can do a little video without

440
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Speaker 3: having to pull out a tablet or a laptop, just

441
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Speaker 3: by unfolding it and increase I don't even see anymore.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of the foldable kind of You know,

443
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Speaker 1: we had the new fold hooles come out from Samsung,

444
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Speaker 1: and you know there really trying to make that happen.

445
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Speaker 2: It's been six years, I think, yeah.

446
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Speaker 1: And then of course Apple is going to come out

447
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Speaker 1: with the next year and everyone's gonna go, oh my gosh,

448
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:09,200
Speaker 1: what's a fold of ball?

449
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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, as always happens when Apple finally jumps on

450
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Speaker 3: the train. I think they're too expensive, that's my main

451
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Speaker 3: complaint with them. But I find the book style foldable

452
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Speaker 3: like I have to be really useful in replacing the

453
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Speaker 3: small tablet. I don't know if you remember the Next

454
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Speaker 3: to seven way back in the day, Wow, I loved

455
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Speaker 3: reading books on that and stuff, and this kind of

456
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Speaker 3: fills that spot that I haven't had a gadget to

457
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Speaker 3: fill in a long time. And I think even the flips,

458
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Speaker 3: like the Razor the Samsung Galaxy Flip are popular. My

459
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Speaker 3: wife has the Samsung Galaxy Flip and just loves it

460
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Speaker 3: because it's compact but then folds out into a regular

461
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Speaker 3: phone size not taking up as much room.

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Speaker 1: And the Flip. And I'm doing my reviews of those

463
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Speaker 1: phones soon, but I've realized the Fold for me is

464
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Speaker 1: like it's great and it's amazing, and I think Samsung

465
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Speaker 1: did a great It's just not for me personally, Like

466
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Speaker 1: I just don't need that. Yeah, But the Flip, I've noticed,

467
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Speaker 1: actually does have utility for content creation, and that is

468
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Speaker 1: the fact that it kind of stands on its own.

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Speaker 1: It can take pictures with the best cameras at all times.

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Speaker 1: Like I did a quick little video where I just

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Speaker 1: you know, set the phone up and was able to

472
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Speaker 1: see myself and record it. And that is actually a

473
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Speaker 1: physical like difference between that and like every other phone

474
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Speaker 1: I've ever tested.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the fact that you can do like selfies and

476
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Speaker 3: selfie videos and everything, and it's built in stand is

477
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Speaker 3: is pretty useful. Sometimes.

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Speaker 1: I didn't really want to use the word selfie because

479
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Speaker 1: I know Bobo will laugh at me for saying that,

480
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Speaker 1: but yes, it is good for all of that stuff.

481
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Speaker 2: It really. Yeah.

482
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Speaker 1: By the way, that the tablet that I've been testing

483
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Speaker 1: that I kind of like for travel is called this

484
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Speaker 1: TCL Tab ten and it's basically a smaller sized tablet

485
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Speaker 1: that's Android and so it's perfect for like just watching

486
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Speaker 1: movies and like it actually has this I don't know

487
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Speaker 1: if you've heard of this next paper from TC from TCL. Yeah,

488
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Speaker 1: we're like almost mimics like a Kindle screen on it.

489
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Speaker 1: So that's interesting too, is you can almost use it

490
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Speaker 1: as a Kindle not as good as like the standard

491
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Speaker 1: Kindle display like the e ink, but it and it's

492
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Speaker 1: not bad.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, if I remember right, because I think I

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Speaker 3: saw it at CES. I haven't been able to use

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Speaker 3: it myself. It looks kind of like e ink, but

496
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Speaker 3: it has the refresh rate of a regular screen where

497
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Speaker 3: e ink is so slow, so you kind of get

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Speaker 3: the best of both worlds.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and you can flip it into the different

500
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Speaker 1: modes like you can have it like where it's just

501
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Speaker 1: black and white or gray scale, and then you can

502
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Speaker 1: have it like as a full color tablet, but the

503
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Speaker 1: screen is not completely the same as like a standard

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Speaker 1: I would guess it's probably closer to like what they're

505
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Speaker 1: doing with the color soft Now, so tell me any

506
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Speaker 1: apps in the newsletter that you should clue us into

507
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Speaker 1: that are pretty handy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure how many of these will be surprises,

509
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Speaker 3: especially to you. But the one that I swear by,

510
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Speaker 3: and I was looking at my stats, you know, and

511
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Speaker 3: like below the messages up and the Safari app on

512
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Speaker 3: the iPhone, the one I use the most is called Feedley.

513
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Speaker 3: Are you familiar?

514
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Speaker 2: Is that like an RSS reader? Yeah?

515
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Speaker 9: It is.

516
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Speaker 3: It's an RSS reader. But they've done a great job

517
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Speaker 3: over the years because they launched when Google Reader went

518
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Speaker 3: away years and years ago, and they've done a great

519
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 3: job over the years of expanding what it can do. So, yes,

520
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 3: you can still plug in your own RSS feeds and

521
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 3: find RSS feeds, but they also can pull from blue

522
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Speaker 3: Sky or x or something and put a feed in

523
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 3: that way. And they've got a few other sources. So

524
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Speaker 3: even if an outlet's say Reuter's, doesn't offer its RSS

525
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Speaker 3: feeds anymore. You can get their stories in other ways.

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Speaker 3: And it's great because for me, I just select all

527
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Speaker 3: the stuff that I want to read and it becomes

528
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Speaker 3: my news reader. I use it for preparing daily tech

529
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Speaker 3: news show, of course, because I have a technology section,

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Speaker 3: but also have a sports section and a music section

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Speaker 3: and a personal blog section that I can pop in on.

532
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Speaker 3: And it solves that problem of being overwhelmed by too

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Speaker 3: many sources for me. Well, yeah, that that sure eats

534
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Speaker 3: my system, which is I have a folder here with

535
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Speaker 3: seventy one blogs I open all the same time. So

536
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Speaker 3: I just opened seventy one tabs and go through them

537
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Speaker 3: because I get a lot. So much better to have

538
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Speaker 3: seventy one blogs in one folder in an RSS reader.

539
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Speaker 1: To be overwhelmed, yes, no matter what, we will be overwhelmed.

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Speaker 1: And then my favorite part is when I when I

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Speaker 1: want to read something later because I may not it

542
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: may not be good for the show or whatever, but

543
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I want to read this article. It's

544
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Speaker 1: a long read, and I put it in my you know,

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Speaker 1: I used to I'm flipping through so many different like

546
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Speaker 1: insta paper pocket went away. Now I'm using one called folio.

547
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Speaker 1: But the problem is Once I put an article in there,

548
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Speaker 1: I'm guaranteed to never look at it again.

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Speaker 3: It just goes down the memory hole. I know, I

550
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Speaker 3: know what you're meaning.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so fee way, that's cool.

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Speaker 3: When Pocket went away, I was like, should I try

553
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Speaker 3: to recover? No, I'm just gonna there. I forgot what's

554
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 3: in there. I'll just leave it at that. Open Vibe

555
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 3: is another app and get this or Android and iOS

556
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 3: that can cross post to blue Sky, Threads, Mastodon and Noster,

557
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 3: which is a lesser known platform. It doesn't work on

558
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Speaker 3: X because X has closed its API, but I use

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Speaker 3: a lot to just cross post across all of those

560
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Speaker 3: blogs or all those microblogs when I have a thought that,

561
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Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, it's appropriate for all those outlets.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting, and that is that sort of like

563
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Speaker 1: open source. It's like free, you don't have to pay

564
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Speaker 1: for that.

565
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an open source project. App is free and

566
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Speaker 3: when I first got it worked ninety five percent of

567
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Speaker 3: the time. Every once in a while install out. But

568
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Speaker 3: I have to say in the last month or so,

569
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Speaker 3: they really tightened things up and it posts pretty fast

570
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Speaker 3: and reliably all the time. Okay, cool, do you want

571
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Speaker 3: to do another one, or you want to talk about

572
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Speaker 3: these x ral We've got a couple minutes left here. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: let's talk about the x Raal glasses. I was using

574
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Speaker 3: these this morning for something that is of questionable use,

575
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Speaker 3: which is watching an episode of Bob's Burger's while in

576
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 3: the backyard playing with my dog. But I really just

577
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Speaker 3: kind of wanted to see if I could do it.

578
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Speaker 3: The x Raal glasses kind of look like sunglasses when

579
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Speaker 3: you're wearing them, but they allow you to plug into

580
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Speaker 3: anything with the USB C port and see what is

581
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 3: on that device, so laptop, phone, whatever. I have been

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Speaker 3: using them to watch video though, because I can get

583
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Speaker 3: a big two hundred inch screen floating in space, I

584
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 3: can have it sit in one spot, or I can

585
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Speaker 3: have it follow me around like I did when I

586
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Speaker 3: was playing with the dog, and then I get a

587
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Speaker 3: really good video screen without having to find a big

588
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 3: video screen or sit down in one particular place. So

589
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Speaker 3: it's really allows for flexibility and the video is pretty good.

590
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Speaker 3: It's not the highest resolution you could possibly get, of course,

591
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 3: but it's decent for just watching TV.

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00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say so, I mean cause I have

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Speaker 1: the VR headsets and it's like The ideal would be

595
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Speaker 1: to watch like a movie in like an Apple Vision

596
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: Pro or something like that, but I never have gotten

597
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Speaker 1: to that level of feeling comfortable enough or like, what's

598
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: the advantage these I did get a chance to put

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Speaker 1: them on at ces. They're instant, they're quick. They mirror

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Speaker 1: what's on your phone, which I think is really nice

601
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Speaker 1: because I already know how to use that and it's

602
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Speaker 1: already set up and logged in. So have you watched

603
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Speaker 1: like anything substantially long on there or is it more

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00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: just for like just kind of zone out with some

605
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: videos on YouTube or something. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I watched like three or four episodes in a row

607
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 3: of Squid Game right when the latest season had come out,

608
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Speaker 3: and I did get a little tired towards like the

609
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 3: third hour. So I think they're good for a movie,

610
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 3: but if you're going to go for more, at least

611
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 3: for me, it started to get tire sim and I

612
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 3: used them for work. I put him on and plugged

613
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Speaker 3: him into my laptop and made it a second screen

614
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 3: instead of mirroring, so I could just pull things up

615
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 3: and it worked great for that because you can see down.

616
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 3: They're not an entire headset. That's covering right. They're just glasses,

617
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 3: so you can see down at your keyboard, you can

618
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 3: see down at your desktop, but then you've got this

619
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Speaker 3: huge monitor hanging in front of you. And it actually

620
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 3: helped my posture a little because I wasn't having to

621
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Speaker 3: figure out how to position the monitor. I could just

622
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Speaker 3: have it where I'm looking.

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Speaker 2: So it's almost like a solution for someone that wants

624
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Speaker 2: VR to watch video but like or do like a

625
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 2: little bit of light work with your computer instead of

626
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 2: the entire VR setup that like is much more complicated

627
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 2: to kind of get going with.

628
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, because these you just plug in the USBC cable,

629
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 3: put them on your face, and you're you're done. You

630
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 3: don't have to put a whole headset around you. You

631
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 3: look a little weird because they are a bit thick,

632
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 3: but you're gonna get fewer looks than you would with, like,

633
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 3: you know, a quest on your head or something. The

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Speaker 3: next thing for me is to try them on the airplane.

635
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 3: I have some friends who've said they're great for, like,

636
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 3: you know, watching movies on the airplane. They have their

637
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 3: own built in audio which works really well around the house.

638
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 3: I imagine on an airplane, I'm gonna have to use headphones,

639
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 3: but you can do it that way.

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Speaker 1: Too interesting, all right, I'm just looking up the prices

641
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: on these things.

642
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: What is it? What do they range from?

643
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Speaker 3: Do you know? I think the ones I have these

644
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 3: are the the x real Pro start at six ninety

645
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 3: nine right now?

646
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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, I'm trying to see what's the cheapest, do

647
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Speaker 1: we know? Let's see here, six two ninety nine looks

648
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: like the cheapest on their website.

649
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's the preview model. I think it's just

650
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 3: a little lower resolution, little smaller field of view, but

651
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 3: mostly the same tech.

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Speaker 2: All right, Tom Merat, it's been fun.

653
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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Where where can folks find you? Follow you all that

655
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Speaker 2: good stuff?

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Speaker 1: Got an email from Rick, he says, talking about the

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Speaker 1: valet with a change. He said, I had a twenty

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Speaker 1: dollars bill. I asked valet if he had fifteen dollars

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Speaker 1: to give back to me. He said no, thinking he'd

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Speaker 1: get my twenty. When it appeared he was getting nothing,

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Speaker 1: he suddenly quote found a forgotten lot of bills in

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Speaker 1: his left pocket.

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Speaker 2: That's so funny.

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Speaker 1: It's like, okay, I could you could either give me

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Speaker 1: change or nothing. It's like, oh hold on, let me

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Speaker 1: dig a little deeper into my pocket and find that change.

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If you are, you know, in this in this sort

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Speaker 1: of a service industry, have that change or have a

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Speaker 1: way Like I'm not kidding the amount of people that

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Speaker 1: grumble about accepting Venmo. I'm like, dude, like take it.

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Speaker 1: It's so much easier, Like you will get paid more

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Speaker 1: if you accept Venmo, and it's just amazing. Or any

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Speaker 1: of these systems that let you take the money. When

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Speaker 1: I was selling my book, I use Square and it

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Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it costs a little bit of money.

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Speaker 1: That's the other thing. All these companies, Like I noticed

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Speaker 1: a trend in Hawaii. These companies are like, oh, I

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Speaker 1: got to charge you, you know, four percent, three percent

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Speaker 1: extra because we take a credit card.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, hold on, that's called the cost of doing business.

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Speaker 1: Just raise your prices by thirty cents and don't charge me,

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Speaker 1: Like just it doesn't matter, Like we're already paying, Like

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Speaker 1: we get it. It costs money to do this stuff,

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Speaker 1: but it's always better.

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Speaker 2: Where was I.

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Speaker 1: They wanted cash and it's like, no, just pay with

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Speaker 1: with my card. It's much easier tap to pay. Linda

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Speaker 1: and Burbank, what's up?

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Speaker 8: I heard something worse than what you were talking about

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Speaker 8: earlier when you couldn't get fund and you can get.

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Speaker 6: Get cash from people.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, sometime it's.

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Speaker 9: In a laws.

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Speaker 8: On the other hand, Lenn Dix said, it's going through

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Speaker 8: the tocause Congress passed it. The digital dollar.

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Speaker 10: Oh well, and the digital dollar, you know, the government

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Speaker 10: will track on everything we buy it and it will

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Speaker 10: limit what we can buy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of people that don't want the

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Speaker 1: digital dollar.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the thing I'm I probably actually would not

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Speaker 1: advocate for that because when you have a digital dollar,

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Speaker 1: the government is really in control of everything you do

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Speaker 1: and all of this spending. And I'm not sure that's

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Speaker 1: something we want, right like number one cash, Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: that's the thing, like that would be well, here you

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Speaker 1: understand why they want to do a way of cash, right.

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Speaker 10: To track down everything we buy.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, and not just that, but also taxes because you know,

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Speaker 1: there's there's a there's an element of cash is not

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Speaker 2: I gues.

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Speaker 1: I get if you win ten thousand dollars at the casino,

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Speaker 1: they make you fill out a form. But you know,

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Speaker 1: cash in general, small amounts has just kind of moved

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Speaker 1: around freely, and with a digital dollar, that would not

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Speaker 1: happen anymore. And I'm not sure we want to live

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Speaker 1: in a world where the government knows where every single

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Speaker 1: dollar you have to your name, where it goes, and

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Speaker 1: you know where that was transferred to. There are governments

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Speaker 1: that are trying this. I believe China has a pilot

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Speaker 1: program with a digital currency, and I guess that makes

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Speaker 1: sense for them. So for me personally, I'm all good

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Speaker 1: with the Venmo tap to pay. I just want the options, right.

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Speaker 1: There are times when cash is king and it's amazing

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Speaker 1: to use, and it's great, and of course, you know

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Speaker 1: you want to leave a tip for somewhere you want

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Speaker 1: to pay in cash, great, but there's also times when

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Speaker 1: or whatever. But yeah, Linda, I don't think in the

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Speaker 1: US right now, I don't think we're even experimenting with

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Speaker 1: the digital dollar just yet. So hopefully it stays that

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Speaker 1: way for a while. John Let's see. Johnny writes in

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Speaker 1: from New York, New York. Hey, Rich, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: email a video file that's currently on my iPad. It's

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Speaker 1: about one hundred and eighty megabytes. I downloaded the Compressed

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Speaker 1: Video and re Size app and managed to compress the

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Speaker 1: video to six megabyte. When I try to attach it

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Speaker 1: to the Yahoo mail app, it thinks the attachment is

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Speaker 1: over twenty five and will not attach. Do you have

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Speaker 1: any suggestions on getting the video attached to email? I

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Speaker 1: enjoyed one of your shows where you mentioned Gateway two thousand.

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Speaker 1: They were great computers. Yes, what I would do, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: is go to this website wormhole dot App. I know

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Speaker 1: it sounds silly, wormhole dot app, but what you can

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Speaker 1: do is upload the file there. They will give you

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Speaker 1: a URL and you can just put that URL into

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Speaker 1: the email. And what I like about this wormhole is

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Speaker 1: that you don't have to sign up, you don't have to.

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Speaker 2: Do anything special.

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Speaker 1: It's super fast, it's super easy, and it's private, it's

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Speaker 1: end to end encrypted, and you can send up to

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Speaker 1: ten gigabytes of a file, So literally could not be easier.

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Speaker 1: Just go to wormhole dot app, upload the file there,

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Speaker 1: get the link and send it. You can even make

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Speaker 1: it where the link expires after one or two downloads.

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Speaker 1: Great question, rich On Tech dot TV. If you want

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Speaker 1: to submit your questions, we'll have more of them coming

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Speaker 1: up right after this. Welcome back to rich On Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, Talking Technology Triple

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Speaker 1: eight Rich one one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one Guests on the show today

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Speaker 1: include technology journalist Sabrina Ortiz, senior editor at ZD Net.

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Speaker 1: She's going to talk about all things AI. And then

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Speaker 1: later we've got Josh Goren. He is with Walt Disney Imagineering.

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Speaker 1: He's going to talk about how Disney uses technology to

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Speaker 1: bring all their experiences to life. What a cool place

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Speaker 1: to visit, the Walt Disney Imagineering, Very very fun.

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Speaker 2: You can find that stuff. By the way.

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Speaker 1: You can see some of the videos I shot there

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Speaker 1: on my Instagram at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: Just check it out.

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Speaker 1: I've got like the little robots that I saw there,

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Speaker 1: also tried a lightsaber which was really cool.

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Speaker 2: And then there's a floor.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I posted the floor yet, but there's

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Speaker 1: like a floor that lets you kind of walk infinitely

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Speaker 1: in any direction, which is pretty cool. They haven't figured

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Speaker 1: out how they're going to use that yet, but when

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Speaker 1: they do, that'll be neat website for the show rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech dot TV. There you can sign up for

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Speaker 1: my free newsletter. You can also email me and that

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Speaker 1: is what many of you do. You can also watch

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Speaker 1: my TV segments. I've got them all there as well.

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Speaker 1: So lots to do there. Let's take an email from

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Speaker 1: Lucia writes in from South Carolina, listening on fifteen to ten.

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Speaker 1: My ninety three year old mother who's in assisted living,

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Speaker 1: has an older Google phone with incoming and outgoing calls.

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Speaker 1: After they connect, she tries to press speaker, but frequently

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Speaker 1: hits a different button and inadvertently hangs up. Is there

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Speaker 1: an app that would automatically turn the volume all the

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Speaker 1: way up and put the phone on speaker with each call?

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Speaker 1: There is some assistance features built into smartphones, and I

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Speaker 1: think on the pixel this would be under the accessibility settings.

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Speaker 1: This is a feature called call routing, so basically, whenever

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Speaker 1: you get a call, it would route it to the speaker.

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Speaker 1: I think you can choose Bluetooth speaker or just standard

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Speaker 1: so this in this case, you'd want to choose speaker,

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Speaker 1: So go accessibility settings, accessibility touch, and then call audio routing.

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Speaker 1: If that doesn't work, just search for audio routing and

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Speaker 1: you should find speaker phone and that's probably the best

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Speaker 1: way to do it. The other thing is the volume.

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Speaker 1: I think you're just gonna have to leave that turned

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Speaker 1: up one time, and there is a way to On

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Speaker 1: most phones, there's a way to decouple the volume key

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Speaker 1: from changing the volume for everything all at once, So

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Speaker 1: look into the settings on that and just look at

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Speaker 1: volume and see if there's an option to sort of

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Speaker 1: say I don't want everything to be, you know, turned

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Speaker 1: up or down by the volume key. I know they

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Speaker 1: do it on the iPhone, and it's drives some people

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Speaker 1: nuts because that's not the way it used to be,

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Speaker 1: but that's the way it is now I think by default.

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Speaker 2: Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, on iPhone, the feature is also audio routing, so

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Speaker 1: just look under calling audio Routing speaker, and there's also

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Speaker 1: an auto answer it looks like on the iPhone as well,

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Speaker 1: so you can have it where the phone just automatically

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Speaker 1: answers as well.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, good.

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Speaker 1: Question, Thanks for that, Let's see. Larry writes in from

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Speaker 1: listening on KFI. Hey, Rich, I'll be starting a new

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Speaker 1: job with a claims company that requires lots of photos

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Speaker 1: of damaged property and contents. I currently have an Android,

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Speaker 1: but we'll be purchasing a new phone for business use.

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Speaker 1: What's your recommendation for best quality picks? Android or iPhone?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a model preference? Thanks and continue, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for continuing to enlighten us non tech listeners. Larry, I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: I think any modern smartphone is going to work for this.

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Speaker 1: I think if you want the absolute best camera out there,

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Speaker 1: probably the iPhone. I mean, if you want the absolute

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Speaker 1: best of the best, probably have to go to the

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Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen pro. But I think that the iPhone sixteen's

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Speaker 1: probably gonna be okay with this unless you need a

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Speaker 1: bunch of zoom. So those are probably my two choices.

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Speaker 1: I think the pixel would be fine. The thing is,

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Speaker 1: the reason I would go with an iPhone in this

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Speaker 1: case is because you're gonna want accessories and a case,

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Speaker 1: and I think that when it comes to these phones,

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Speaker 1: you're going to find that the iPhone has a lot

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Speaker 1: of options out there, and just when you're using a

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Speaker 1: job a phone for a job like this, it might

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Speaker 1: just be the best. And you might also be texting

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Speaker 1: or air dropping these photos to your computer. So I

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Speaker 1: think it's just gonna be easier. I don't want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, pooh pooh Android. I think it's great, But

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Speaker 1: I think if you're trying to do something that's simple, streamlined,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of your colleagues are probably gonna have

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Speaker 1: the same or similar phone, the iPhone sixteen might be

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Speaker 1: if you just need like a standard camera, but if

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00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: you need anything with Zoom, you probably got to go

874
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen Pro. So yeah, that's that's what i'd recommend.

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00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 1: Let's see, we just going through all these emails. Rosita

876
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: writes in from upland, Hey, Rich, I'm seeking your expertise.

877
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 1: I've an iPhone fifteen Pro that I need to free

878
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: up some storage. I don't want to purchase a monthly subscription.

879
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: I was looking for a device that I can transfer to.

880
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: There are so many options. I'd like your advice on

881
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: which one to purchase. So this email actually sparked an

882
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: entire segment and Instagram video and a blog post because

883
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: you would be surprised how many people email me about

884
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: wanting to bypass the cloud or not using the cloud

885
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,240
Speaker 1: or freeing up storage.

886
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 2: And I will say, number one, please use the cloud.

887
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: It is easy, it is simple, it is safe, it

888
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: is a good way to do this. And I understand

889
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: that it gets annoying to have to pay the monthly,

890
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: but I get so many emails from people on a

891
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: daily basis that say, Rich, I lost my phone, I

892
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: dropped my phone, I something happened. Everything got erased, and

893
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 1: I don't have a backup. What can I do? There's

894
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 1: nothing you can do. If you don't have your phone

895
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: backed up, you are not recovering those pictures. It's just

896
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,399
Speaker 1: not happening. People's phones fall in the bottom of a lake.

897
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: It's a summer, people are out, they're about, and you

898
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: never think this is going to happen, right Like, you

899
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: don't think this is going to happen to you, But

900
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: it does and it can so at the very least,

901
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: if you are truly against cloud storage, you can do

902
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: what I'm about to tell you, But I think the

903
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: cloud is the easiest way to do it. And there

904
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: are many, many options, right, I mean, even if you're

905
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: using Google, they have a feature on their Google Photos

906
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: that's called Storage Saver. So if you are, let's see,

907
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: there is a I'm gonna open up Google Photos. Here,

908
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: go into my settings and okay photos settings, backing up, okay,

909
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: so backup quality. You can do Storage Saver. And what

910
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: it does is it compresses your photos to sixteen megabits

911
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: megapixels sorry, and then your videos are high definition. So

912
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 1: if you take a giant four K video, that's gonna

913
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: gobble up a gig or two of your storage. When

914
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: it goes into Google Photos to be backed up, it's

915
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: just gonna.

916
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 2: Compress it to be HD. Same thing with your photos.

917
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: You take a giant two hundred megapixel photo, it's gonna

918
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: compress it to sixteen megapixels and it's gonna save much

919
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: more in the same space. So if you are looking

920
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: to free up storage, like if you're using if you're

921
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: using Google Photos, and you're just like you know, you

922
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: don't want to pay for more storage, look into that

923
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: storage saver setting. A lot of people say they can't

924
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: even tell the difference. So the other option obviously is

925
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: iCloud if you're on iPhone. But Amazon Photos offers a

926
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: completely freeway to back up your photos unlimited if you

927
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: are an Amazon Prime member, So yes, you do have

928
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,439
Speaker 1: to be a paying Amazon Prime member, but you can

929
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: store unlimited photos there. Now for video, you only get

930
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: five gigabytes. But the nice thing is that Amazon does

931
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 1: give you an option to not even back.

932
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 2: Up your videos.

933
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: So if you don't want to deal with like the

934
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: storage being full in about two seconds with your videos,

935
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: you can just say, back up my photos and at

936
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Speaker 1: the very.

937
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 2: Least if something goes wrong. At least you have your photos.

938
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Speaker 1: You won't have your videos if you drop your phone

939
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: in the ocean, but you'll have your photos. The other

940
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: thing is, I mean you still have flicker. Flicker is

941
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: still there, and I think they're unlimited for like, let's

942
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: see Flicker pro. Gosh, they even give you the come

943
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: on Flicker, where's the price?

944
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 2: I hate.

945
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: I hate when websites don't give you the pricing, like

946
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: right away, like it should always have Okay, here we go.

947
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: Flicker Pro unlimited, full resolution photos, sharing and backup on

948
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: all your devices. You can pay monthly ten dollars a month,

949
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 1: annual six dollars a month two years, prepaid five dollars

950
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: and fifty four cents a month, five dollars and fifty

951
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 1: four cents a month for two years. So that would

952
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: be six dollars times twenty four, one hundred and forty

953
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: five dollars for two years of not worrying about your

954
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 1: photos getting lost forever. Anyway, if you want to back

955
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: them up to a flash drive, you can do that.

956
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: I recommend the PNY Duo link. They've got a brand

957
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: new one V three and it's super fast. You plug

958
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: it into the bottom of your iPhone or your Android

959
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: and you can copy the pictures over. There's actually an

960
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: easy way to do this and I've linked it up

961
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: on my Instagram at rich on Tech you can see

962
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: how to do it, or you can just go to

963
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: the website rich on tech dot tv. Look under popular

964
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: and it says how to transfer photos from iPhone to

965
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 1: flash drive And I put that on there, and let's

966
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: see I put the Android one yet, No, but I'll

967
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: put the Android one there as well. But basically, if

968
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: you have a recent model phone with USBC, this is

969
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: super simple. It's a little bit easier on Android than

970
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: it is on iPhone. And the reason is Samsung gives

971
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: you a select doll, so it shows you images and

972
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: videos and it says select all, and you can select

973
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: every image on your phone in one tap. iPhone doesn't

974
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 1: give you that option. You got to select them manually.

975
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: But there are some easier ways of doing that. If

976
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: you have an older iPhone, you'll need what's called the

977
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: sand disc I expand, which uses a lightning connector. But

978
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: you can plug the flash drive into your phone, copy

979
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: the photos over, and now you have them on a

980
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: flash drive before you delete them from your phone. I

981
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: do recommend that you have them backed up in the

982
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: cloud or somewhere else. All right, I'll put that all

983
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: on the website. Rich on Tech dot TV. Good question.

984
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,839
Speaker 1: All right, Well, plenty more of your questions coming up

985
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: right here on this all feedback edition of Rich on Tech.

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

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

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four two for one zero one.

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Speaker 1: Also taking your emails at richon Tech dot TV. Hit contact.

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00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: Let's go to Kathy and Los Angeles. You're on with Rich.

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00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 8: Hey, Hi, Rich Hi, all right. I bought and returned

992
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 8: a water leaf detection system.

993
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 2: Called go v G o v e E okay, and.

994
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 8: I set it up and it just wasn't connecting to

995
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 8: the Wi Fi. And then I did a little bit

996
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 8: more homework. I have a five G network and the

997
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 8: GOVI only works on two point four.

998
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:35,399
Speaker 2: Ah.

999
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 8: Yes, I did talk to Jane Sharp last week weekend

1000
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 8: and he said this no system that works on five G.

1001
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 8: So I'm thinking if can I get another like router

1002
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 8: or modem that can can go between two point four

1003
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 8: and five point zero?

1004
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,240
Speaker 1: Well, okay, A couple things let's break this down. Number one,

1005
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm being punked right now because I

1006
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: didn't mention this because I don't want to be a

1007
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: Debbie Downer. But we came back from our vacation to

1008
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: a giant water leak in our home. So and I'm

1009
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: laughing because I'm crying inside because you know the expense

1010
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: of cleaning up that disaster, because we actually had this

1011
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 1: happen once before in a different area of our home,

1012
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: and I actually got a water detector for that area,

1013
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,919
Speaker 1: but not for the new area. So anyway, yes, I'm

1014
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,479
Speaker 1: glad you're getting the water detectors because they this would

1015
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: have prevented you know, someone was actually coming to look

1016
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: at our house to check on it, and of course

1017
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: we would have known that this was going on. But

1018
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: so you're doing the right thing. But here's the deal.

1019
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: How do you know that your router does not support

1020
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: two point four at all? Like who's your provider for

1021
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: your router? Like what type of router?

1022
00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 6: Do you?

1023
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 2: Okay? And have you called Spectrum and ask them about this?

1024
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 8: No?

1025
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: Okay, because typically on the router, if you go into

1026
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: the settings, there is a way to toggle on a

1027
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: two point four gigahertz network, even if it's just temporarily.

1028
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,919
Speaker 1: So the smarter kind of routers nowadays, we'll figure out

1029
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: if something will only connect to two point four and

1030
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: it will connect. But the some of the you know,

1031
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: non smarter, you know, the ones they provide you from

1032
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 1: the cable company are not typically the best out there.

1033
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: And so you know, there may be a setting that

1034
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: you can toggle on this router. So if you're feeling no,

1035
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: it's typically it's typically a log in like if you

1036
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: look at them, yeah, and that's what I'm saying. So

1037
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: this is, you know, it's something that you may not

1038
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: want to tackle on your own, which is why if

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00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: you call Spectrums customer service, they may be able to

1040
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: walk you through it. But typically on the bottom of

1041
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: your router there is a special address that lets you

1042
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: tap into the settings of that router, and inside those settings,

1043
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: it'll say two point four network, five gigahertz network, like

1044
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: do you want to activate those? And so that could

1045
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 1: be a possibility. The other thing is, yes, you're absolutely right.

1046
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: A lot of these smart home IoT devices, a lot

1047
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: of them only support that two point four because they're

1048
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: just they don't have the expensive antennas in them to

1049
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 1: support everything. So where are you at now with these censors?

1050
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: Do you have them anymore?

1051
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 2: You are no, I returned them.

1052
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 8: But here's the thing. I was on vacation also, and

1053
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 8: I have a house built in nineteen twenty nine, so

1054
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 8: I have a basement.

1055
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1056
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:39,399
Speaker 8: I happened to go down the basement on Mother's Day

1057
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 8: to look for a base and I saw water. I

1058
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 8: had to replace the two water heaters, and so when

1059
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,439
Speaker 8: the water heater guys came, they gave me these water

1060
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 8: detection sing them a jig okay, and it's very low tech.

1061
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 8: Place them on the floor, water hits it and this

1062
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 8: alarm goes off. Yeah, which is great. Yeah, if you're

1063
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 8: if you're I'm not home, Yeah, I'm screwed. Right, So

1064
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 8: right now I have nothing?

1065
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: Okay, Well there is Okay. So the one that I'm

1066
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 1: I use at my house is from zircon z I

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Speaker 1: R co O N and it is uh, it is

1068
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: wi Fi. But I'm looking at it. I'm looking at

1069
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: the details. And this one's super easy because, like you said,

1070
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: it does sound an alarm, but it also will text

1071
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: you if there's a problem and if there's no monthly

1072
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: fear or anything like that.

1073
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 2: But here's the deal.

1074
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it, and the specs say that it's

1075
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: only supporting two point four gigahertz as well, So I

1076
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: think you're probably going to find a lot of these

1077
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: water leak detectors do the same thing. And I don't

1078
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: have a good recommendation for another one, like another brand

1079
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: outside of it.

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00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,359
Speaker 8: Do you have a five gig or you have two

1081
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 8: points four in your house?

1082
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: I've got both my I use euro E E R

1083
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: O which supports both. So and I've only had one

1084
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: gadget that has not been able to connect to the

1085
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: to the dual network, which was an outdoor plug.

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Speaker 8: But anyway, but yeah, where did you get zero?

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Speaker 2: You can? You can get on Amazon. I wouldn't. You

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00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 2: might not want to go that far. I would.

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Speaker 1: What I would do is I would call Spectrum and

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00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: just ask them just I know it's a pain to

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00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: call them and wait on hold and all that stuff,

1092
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,359
Speaker 1: but like I would just call them and say, hey, look,

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00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: does my router support a two point four gigahertz network

1094
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: in anyway? Can I toggle that on through the settings

1095
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: and see if they will walk you through that, Because

1096
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 1: if you can just get these things to link up

1097
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 1: once that's all you need and then they will stay

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00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,280
Speaker 1: on that network, you know, forever.

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00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 2: So that's probably the easiest way.

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00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: And in the meantime, I'll see if I can get

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00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: another recommendation for a Wi Fi sensor that says it

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00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 1: supports the five gigaherts network. The problem is that maybe

1103
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 1: more expensive, so but let me let me look into that.

1104
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 1: Thank you, Kathy, and sorry that you had the same

1105
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: thing happen. It is a pain, it is. It is

1106
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: not fun to come home to any sort of water

1107
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: damage because you know that they're gonna have to tear

1108
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: so much up and replace things, and yeah, it's it's

1109
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: not fun.

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00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 2: Okay.

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00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: Coming up technology journalist Sabrina Ortiz from zd net. We'll

1112
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 1: talk to her next about all things AI. Welcome back

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00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

1114
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: talking technology triple eight rich one oh one eight eight

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00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. Before

1116
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:31,280
Speaker 1: the break, we had Kathy asking about connecting a smart

1117
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 1: device to her network and it was only on the

1118
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: two point four gigahertz frequency and she said her network

1119
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: didn't support that. Well, she has spectrum and I was

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00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: able to in the break look up the support for

1121
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: Spectrum and yes, their routers do support two point four

1122
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 1: and five gigahertz frequencies. And so what you want to

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00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 1: do is you can actually sign in to your Spectrum

1124
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 1: account on your services page, select Internet, navigate to the

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00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: setup smart device two point four gigaherts, select switch to

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00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: two point four gigaherts, and there you go.

1127
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 2: You can set it up.

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00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,919
Speaker 1: So they've thought of this before and they figured it out,

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00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: so it's a lot easier. You can also log into

1130
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 1: your router and do it manually, but it looks like

1131
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 1: they've kind of taken care of this in a nice

1132
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: way for their customers. So again, if you have Spectrum,

1133
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 1: you're trying to connect one of those smart home devices

1134
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: and it's only got that one network, you can go

1135
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: into your settings and change it. It looks like right from

1136
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 1: your Spectrum account, which is kind of cool. So that's

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00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:34,879
Speaker 1: a good thing. Okay, we've got our guests. We're trying

1138
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:38,919
Speaker 1: to work through some audio situation with that, but we've

1139
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: got Sabrina on hold. As soon as we get the

1140
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: audio up, we will bring her on. But we'll just

1141
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: give me the word when we've got that. In the meantime,

1142
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: let's go to jammy Hey rich a huge fan. Notice

1143
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: when I try to search for old emails in my Gmail,

1144
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: they are no longer there or they're not showing up.

1145
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: It will show emails from a few years ago, but

1146
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: not the one in the last six months. My husband

1147
00:54:59,920 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: is noticed this as well in his Gmail account. Any

1148
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: insight on this issue. Yes, this actually drove me nuts

1149
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 1: because I was looking for an email I sent to

1150
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: someone and it was literally not showing up, and I said,

1151
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: I know I sent an email to this person, and

1152
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: sure enough I realized what happened. Gmail recently made a

1153
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: change to how Gmail search works, so now it's using

1154
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 1: much more AI to prioritize emails that are the most

1155
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 1: relevant in your search results, not necessarily the results that

1156
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: are ordered by time. So if you are searching for

1157
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 1: an email that you know is in there, like I

1158
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,920
Speaker 1: will search for this email and up at the top

1159
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 1: there's a toggle and it says most recent or most relevant.

1160
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: So it looks like they changed the default to most relevant,

1161
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: and that means it's going to show emails out of

1162
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: chronological order. So if you're like me and your brain

1163
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: sort of works like, Okay, I know I sent this

1164
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 1: person in an email. I want to see them in the

1165
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: order I sent them. You might want to change that

1166
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:13,359
Speaker 1: toggle instead of most relevant to most recent. Now this

1167
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 1: is it's interesting because Gmail has always had sort of

1168
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: smart search. When you're up at the top and you're searching.

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00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: While you're searching, you'll notice you'll get a list of

1170
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 1: the most relevant emails, and so that's always been the case.

1171
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:30,439
Speaker 1: But now, but when you pressed actual search, it would

1172
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 1: then reorder those in the order that you were sent

1173
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: or received. Now it's actually putting that most relevant up

1174
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: at the top instead of putting them in the order

1175
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: of the receive. So Jammy, definitely you found something. You

1176
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: stumbled upon something that is a little tricky, and it

1177
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,240
Speaker 1: is a major change on the way Gmail does stuff.

1178
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: So good, good question, because that is something that's really

1179
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: important for people to know. Let's go to Ron in

1180
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. He says, Hey, Rich, I love your show.

1181
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: I listened on K and later on your podcast during

1182
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: my daily walks. I don't want to miss anything. I

1183
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: saw an ad for a smart watch called the ze

1184
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,439
Speaker 1: Fit two. It looks full featured and it only costs

1185
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: about one hundred dollars. It claims to include an always

1186
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 1: on display and even blood pressure monitoring. And let's see here,

1187
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,439
Speaker 1: what do you think of it? Well, here's the deal.

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00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: Number one, I don't think that. I well, Number one,

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00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 1: I've never heard of this brand, ze Fit. I've never

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00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: heard of.

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00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 2: Number two.

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00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: I have not heard of blood pressure monitoring on a

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00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: watch just yet. I know they're trying to do that,

1194
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: and I know there's some solutions for that that involve

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00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: a cuff, but I personally would just recommend what's called

1196
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: the amaze Fit. They don't have the blood pressure monitoring,

1197
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 1: but a maze Fit I would say makes the best

1198
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 1: inexpensive smart watches. And there is a band that's coming

1199
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: out soon next year that's already for sale in Europe

1200
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: that will become the first wearable that lets you monitor

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00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: blood pressure without a cuff. I think you use the

1202
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 1: cuff the first time and then later on and that's

1203
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: called high Low h I l O High Low band.

1204
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: All right, it looks like we have worked through some

1205
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 1: of our issues with audio and now welcome to the show.

1206
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 1: Show Sabrina, hold on, I gotta mute myself. Sabrina Ortiz

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00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: from zd net. Thanks for joining me, Hi, I'm.

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00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 6: So excited to be here. Let's talk all things AI.

1209
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: Yes, So first off, just tell me what you do

1210
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: at zd net Totally.

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00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 9: I leader AI coverage, which means I write about AI

1212
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 9: every day, I test the tools every day.

1213
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 6: I read about it, research it all the things.

1214
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 1: Okay, So I mean AI is a buzzword everywhere, and

1215
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: so I know there's a bunch of different brands of

1216
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: AI out there, from chat Gibt to Gemini Copilot Claude,

1217
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: you want to start with chat Gibt. What tell me

1218
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: about Chatchibt.

1219
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:54,919
Speaker 9: Yeah, As you know, Chatchabt has almost become synonymous with

1220
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 9: generative AI, with AI chatbots, because it's really the first

1221
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 9: one that popular rise of technology, right e Luanda, November

1222
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 9: twenty twenty two. And since then, the term AI has exploded.

1223
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 9: And it's because of chatchipt's incredible capabilities, right, Like, it

1224
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 9: could do.

1225
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 6: Anything from answering how.

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00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,160
Speaker 9: A simple question, the way you would use Google with

1227
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 9: a conversational prompt, which is really what makes it unique

1228
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 9: and what drew I guess people to AI chatbox to

1229
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 9: composing an entire song, essay, research peoper, you name it.

1230
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what's so wild is that it's become like

1231
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: everyone knows chatchibt. Here's the thing I've noticed though, when

1232
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: people download chatchibt to their phone or computer, they're not

1233
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: always getting like the actual, you know, official app. So

1234
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: people need to be aware that if you're not getting

1235
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: like go to chat Gibt's website and make sure you

1236
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: get the right app, because people pay money sometimes without

1237
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: even realizing like some third party for this.

1238
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 2: You can start for free.

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00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 6: Rich.

1240
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 9: That's such incredible advice because there's so many different knockoffs

1241
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 9: on the App Store or the Google Play Store of

1242
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 9: people trying to impersonate chatch GPT.

1243
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 6: And again, the apps are free to download.

1244
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 9: So if first of all, first food flag if you

1245
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 9: see price to download, not open AI tax GPT. And

1246
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 9: then also, like you mentioned, there's different tiers, but you

1247
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 9: could always get started for free.

1248
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 6: The minute that there's a money.

1249
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 9: Pop up and that's like a block or two using it,

1250
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 9: then you're probably using the wrong thing.

1251
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk Gemini. So this is Google's what do

1252
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: you think Gemini strength is?

1253
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 9: You know, Google's positioned so well in the AI space

1254
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 9: right now because they have a product that we have

1255
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 9: multiple products, but the product Google Search up people use

1256
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 9: every single day, So people are already familiar with Google,

1257
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 9: and now you can access Gemini without even having to

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01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 9: visit the individual chatbot. Right, Like, if you've ever Googled

1259
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 9: something and you see an AI summary on top or

1260
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:54,680
Speaker 9: those like AI overviews, those are Gemini generated. I think

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01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 9: that's a strength because you don't even have to go

1262
01:00:58,160 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 9: out of your way to access AI. Like we were

1263
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 9: just talking about downloading the chattypt app or going to

1264
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 9: the actual website in your browser.

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01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 6: With Google, you're already using it and now it just

1266
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 6: pops up.

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01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 9: But yeah, it's similar to chat ept in functionality, conversational responses,

1268
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 9: conversational prompts that you could enter, and yeah, it also

1269
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 9: uses Google Search, which is a really good advantage for

1270
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 9: people who trust, you know, search results and want their

1271
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 9: answer stuff link to.

1272
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 1: Google and also the stuff that you have in Google.

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01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: It's a pretty powerful way to slice and dice that.

1274
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: Like I noticed I was I opened a PDF and

1275
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 1: like Google Drive and it literally like Gemini showed up

1276
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: on the side and it like summarized all this stuff.

1277
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 2: I was like, wait a second, I don't even asked

1278
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 2: for that.

1279
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, did you like that?

1280
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 3: Though?

1281
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 9: Because I feel like that's also a two edged sword, right,

1282
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 9: Like I happen to also be a fan that in

1283
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 9: all of these workspace apps that I use every day

1284
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 9: for work, it's already there. But I also I think

1285
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 9: some people are kind of turned off, like, stop pushing

1286
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 9: throwing this on me. I didn't ask for this. I

1287
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 9: just wanted to use my Google doc in peace.

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01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:58,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I totally understand that.

1289
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 1: And I you know, I think it's cool, But I

1290
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: think I could see the side of someone saying, hey,

1291
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: I didn't ask to use this, but you know, here

1292
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: it is popping up in front of me. But at

1293
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 1: the same time, if you get used to it and

1294
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: see the power of it, I think that's what they're

1295
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: trying to do is show you, like, hey, this is

1296
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: the benefit of AI in like a way that you're

1297
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 1: already using it could be beneficial. Now Copilot, now talk

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Speaker 1: about you know, putting it everywhere. I mean, Microsoft is

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Speaker 1: really pushing Copilot in everything from Windows to you know,

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Speaker 1: Outlook to all of their services.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Copie it's a unique one.

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Speaker 9: When it first came on the scene, there was a

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Speaker 9: point in time where I would actually preach to the

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Speaker 9: everybody that would listen that co Pilot was a stronger

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Speaker 9: chatbot than chat GBT because it was actually using open

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Speaker 9: ayes most advanced AI models for free in Copilot, where

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Speaker 9: Chat Gypt you would have to pay for them, So

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Speaker 9: at one point it was really really competitive.

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Speaker 6: I think it's lost its edge a little bit.

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Speaker 9: Like you mentioned, the strongest I guess appeal of it

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Speaker 9: now is that if you are ready in an office

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Speaker 9: Microsoft Office three sixty five user, where you know Excel,

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Speaker 9: Microsoft Word PowerPoint, now it's embedded in there really seamlessly.

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Speaker 9: So again for ease of access, it's great. But if

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Speaker 9: you're going to access the standalone chatbot experience, I don't

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Speaker 9: really know if there's many reasons to use it over

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Speaker 9: Gemini or chat ept unless you're a diehard bing user,

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Speaker 9: because then in that case you get to experience it

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Speaker 9: the same way you would in Google.

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Speaker 6: But I don't know how many people how many.

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Speaker 1: Are AST's say, I don't think I've ever heard the

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Speaker 1: term diehard bing user because I've never met someone. Most

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Speaker 1: of the time, it's just kind of like, oh, I

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Speaker 1: landed on being somehow now here. It's funny you said

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Speaker 1: that about Copilot because I used to sing the praises

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Speaker 1: of Claude. Like when chatch Ebt first came out, I

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Speaker 1: was using Claude for everything, and I still think that

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Speaker 1: it excels in like writing. But tell me what Claude's

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Speaker 1: strengths are, you know, I.

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Speaker 9: Still think that Claude is positioned really really well in

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Speaker 9: this space.

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Speaker 6: And I'll tell you a couple of its advantages.

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Speaker 9: If you talk to anyone, I mean, like, not even

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Speaker 9: people who are like hardcore devs, I mean anybody who

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Speaker 9: has any interest in coding, even if just like for fun,

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Speaker 9: if you want a vibe code, you know, use kind

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Speaker 9: of natural language prompts to build your own app for stuff.

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Speaker 9: Claud's a really powerful tool for coding. And I've heard

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Speaker 9: this from again all the way, inspect from beginners to

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Speaker 9: like people who live, eat, and breathe programming developers all that.

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Speaker 6: So that's one unique aspect of it.

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Speaker 9: And the second thing that I think really draws users

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Speaker 9: is that security in privacy. They've never from the beginning,

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Speaker 9: they've taken pride and never training on your input data.

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Speaker 9: So for that, just you know, most of these models

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Speaker 9: generated iMOS, they get smarter by using what you give it,

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Speaker 9: and that's your personal information.

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Speaker 6: A lot of time, and a lot of people don't

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Speaker 6: want that.

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Speaker 9: So there's been a lot of you know, you hear

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Speaker 9: it all the time, people like I don't really want

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Speaker 9: to feel comfortable using these fool I don't want to

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Speaker 9: give my data From the beginning, Anthropic took that position.

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Speaker 9: It still holds true to it, and I think that's

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Speaker 9: really really it's draw and I think it's great that

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Speaker 9: they're doing that. We we need somebody who seeking a

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Speaker 9: slightly different approach.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a good differentiator. And I wasn't

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Speaker 1: aware of that as someone who has fed like pretty

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Speaker 1: much all of my information into chat GBT because I'm like, ah, whatever,

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Speaker 1: what are they gonna do with it?

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Speaker 2: This time?

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Speaker 1: I even't had someone needed like my like information for

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Speaker 1: like flights to like book flights. I just said, hey,

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Speaker 1: chat ebt, do you have all my information? Like can

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Speaker 1: you just write down like my you know tsa pre

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Speaker 1: check it. It didn't have it, but it didn't, like say,

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Speaker 1: it remembered it.

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Speaker 9: But anyway, that's a call out too because you could

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Speaker 9: always turn off the settings in chat GBT to train

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Speaker 9: it off so it doesn't train on your data like

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Speaker 9: I have that off because I love chat to BT.

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Speaker 6: I love its interface. It's probably what I go to

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Speaker 6: the most.

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Speaker 9: But if you still want privacy, you do have that option,

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Speaker 9: you can turn it off.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's a great, a great tip.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna so go to your settings and let's see

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Speaker 1: it says personalization, Let's see connectors, schedule security. All right,

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Speaker 1: we got to I'll find that. I'll find that setting

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01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:09,439
Speaker 1: so I can tell people how to do that, because

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01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,760
Speaker 1: that's a really interesting one that I think I turned

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01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: off at some point and it's probably a good pricy

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Speaker 1: all right. Sabrina Ortiz from zd net. How can folks

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Speaker 1: follow your work online?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? First again, all my coverage over at zd net.

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Speaker 9: Every single day you will get a new story from

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Speaker 9: me and even newsletters now too. But also on my

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Speaker 9: personal please follow me on Instagram. I'm constantly sharing all

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Speaker 9: my stories on there, Sabrina with an extra AFPN dot

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Speaker 9: orts on Instagram and then also on Twitter or x

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Speaker 9: so Sabrina actually at the end, underscore Ortiz there.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot more rich on Tech right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. The website for the show Rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV. If you want to email me there, you

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Speaker 1: can do that, just hit contact. If you want to

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Speaker 1: sign up for the free newsletter, you can do that.

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Speaker 2: Also.

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Speaker 1: You can look at the episode notes. This is episode

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Speaker 1: one thirty one, So everything that I mentioned here is

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Speaker 1: linked up there so you can easily go back and

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Speaker 1: reference it.

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Speaker 2: Later.

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Speaker 1: We got a note from Kim said, a plumber called

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Speaker 1: in and said about the water leaks, you can get

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Speaker 1: a mowing flow.

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Speaker 2: It works on spectrum and it should work.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, this is actually you know, it's funny because

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Speaker 1: covering technology for so long, pretty much every startup, every company,

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Speaker 1: they come to me and they say, hey, can we do this?

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Speaker 1: Can we install this at your house? Can we give

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Speaker 1: you this to test out? Can you try this? And

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Speaker 1: I can't do it all? And I remember these this

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Speaker 1: flow type technology. I think the other one was finn

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Speaker 1: pH y N And it's these systems that actually attach

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Speaker 1: to your main water.

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Speaker 2: Whatever you want to call it.

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Speaker 1: You're you're you're in right your water pipe, and they

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Speaker 1: basically monitor the water use on your system and if

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Speaker 1: they notice something going wrong, it can actually turn off

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Speaker 1: the water at the source.

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Speaker 2: And so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Finn p h y N is one of them,

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Speaker 1: he said, the Mowen flow flo And so this is

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Speaker 1: a smart device that monitors for leaks and immediately takes

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Speaker 1: action to help prevent them. So it'll actually it'll go

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Speaker 1: between your main you know, sort of water pipe and

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Speaker 1: it will and it will turn off. It monitors interesting,

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Speaker 1: it monitors a flow. So it uses like an algorithm

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Speaker 1: to notice like, hey, number one, are using a ton

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Speaker 1: of water this month more so than other months, and

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Speaker 1: it will tell you that. And number two it will

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Speaker 1: figure out if there's a leak and it will turn

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Speaker 1: off the water. And this has this does have a

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Speaker 1: monthly fee thirty dollars a month. Wow, that's that's a lot.

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Speaker 1: Ultimate protection. The standard protection, I guess enhanced is twenty

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Speaker 1: dollars a month. So it's not cheap. But when you're talking,

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Speaker 1: when you're talking any sort of water damage at your home,

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01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:19,559
Speaker 1: it is not cheap. And even if you have insurance,

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01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:21,479
Speaker 1: you're still gonna be paying your deductible. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's a nightmare in general. Like we had

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Speaker 1: this happen when our kid was born. We were at

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01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: the hospital, so we didn't notice the leak until we

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01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:31,320
Speaker 1: came home and my wife stepped on the floor and

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01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 1: it was soggy, and that that is a feeling you

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Speaker 1: don't want. Jim from Orange County rights in or no Orange, California.

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Speaker 1: First off, I enjoy enjoy your reports on KTLA, even

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01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 1: when the tech doesn't apply to me. I still love

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01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:47,880
Speaker 1: hearing about what's new. I've been having a terrible time

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01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:51,720
Speaker 1: with Nitro pro pdf. I think my subscription expired but

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01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,600
Speaker 1: never got to notice. Support's impossible to reach. I was

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01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 1: even shown a charge to a card that isn't mine.

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01:09:57,680 --> 01:09:59,599
Speaker 1: I've spent hours trying to sort it out, no luck.

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01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of just starting over as a new user.

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Speaker 1: Any advice, Jim, That does not sound good. But if

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Speaker 1: you need to edit PDFs, it depends like what your

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Speaker 1: level of need is. But if you're just casually trying

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Speaker 1: to edit and do things with PDFs, check out a

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Speaker 1: website called I lovepdf dot com. All the tools you

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Speaker 1: need and they're free to do whatever you need. Merge PDFs,

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Speaker 1: split PDFs, compress PDFs, convert PDFs, rotate, unlock, watermark, or

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Speaker 1: even edit so you've got everything you need if you

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Speaker 1: want a PDF to word, pdf to PowerPoint, create a pdf,

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Speaker 1: watermark a PDF, and then edit pdf. Of course, if

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Speaker 1: you want to add text, shapes, comments, and highlights, that'll

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Speaker 1: do it. So those are the That's probably the website

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Speaker 1: I'd recommend Nitro pdf. I'm not too familiar with, but

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Speaker 1: it looks like it's just standard, you know, competition for Adobe.

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Speaker 1: If you can get in touch with them, you like

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Speaker 1: what they're doing, then yeah, go ahead. But if you

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01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:03,760
Speaker 1: don't like what they're doing, then just check out that website.

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01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 1: I love pdfu dot com and you should be able

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Speaker 1: to do a lot of stuff there.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:12,040
Speaker 1: Adobe also has a level of free tools that you

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Speaker 1: can use with their with PDFs there.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget a lot of these companies are going to

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01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:20,679
Speaker 1: try to make you pay at some point. So dependsing

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Speaker 1: on depending on what you want to do. Like if

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Speaker 1: you want to edit the actual PDF, you may have

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Speaker 1: to pay for that functionality. Eighty eight rich one oh

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Speaker 1: one eighty eight seven four to two four to one

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Speaker 1: zero one more rich on Tech after this, Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

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Speaker 1: talking technology. Triple eight rich one o one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. So

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Speaker 1: far we've had quite the show, packed with a lot

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Speaker 1: of your calls and emails, lots of great interviews. We

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Speaker 1: have one more coming up this hour. Josh Goren from

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Speaker 1: Walt Disney Imagineering is going to talk about the tech

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Speaker 1: that Disney used to bring all their experiences to life.

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Speaker 2: Also, we talked to.

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Speaker 1: Sabrina over at zd net and she mentioned there was

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Speaker 1: a setting inside chat gbt that you can turn off

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Speaker 1: if you don't want chat gbt to train on your data.

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Speaker 1: So if you don't want that to happen, which I

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Speaker 1: did look and I did have that actually turned off already.

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Speaker 1: But the setting is under data controls. So if you

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Speaker 1: go to chatgbt dot com, tap your name in the

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Speaker 1: lower left hand corner, tap settings, and go to data Controls.

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Speaker 1: It says improve the model for everyone, and you can

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Speaker 1: toggle that off, and if you don't, it says allow

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Speaker 1: your content to be used to train our models, which

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Speaker 1: makes chat gbt better for you and everyone who uses it.

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Speaker 1: We take steps to protect your privacy. Learn more and

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Speaker 1: if you tap here, it talks all about how it

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01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 1: can use your data to basically improve their model, So

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01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: it's learning from what you're doing. And so if you

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01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 1: don't want to help open ai, and there are billions

1514
01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 1: and billions of dollars of whatever they're doing, I mean, look,

1515
01:13:14,880 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 1: I love what open ai is doing. But I understand

1516
01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 1: if if you're you know enough, people probably have this

1517
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 1: turned on where they're not going to hurt if I

1518
01:13:23,479 --> 01:13:26,160
Speaker 1: tell you that it's okay to turn this off. So

1519
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 1: if you turn off improve the model for everyone, they

1520
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: basically will not use your data to improve the model.

1521
01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:36,519
Speaker 1: And you know, you may not care, but some people might.

1522
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:38,839
Speaker 1: And by the way, there's a whole bunch of options

1523
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: in here that you can look at, and you may

1524
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:43,599
Speaker 1: not be familiar with a lot of these.

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01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 2: There's so many.

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01:13:44,360 --> 01:13:49,240
Speaker 1: You can change themes, the language, the voice notifications, how

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01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:52,160
Speaker 1: it's personalized. You can even look at the memories that

1528
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 1: it has of you. So I can look, I'm scrolling

1529
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:57,920
Speaker 1: through all the things that I've told chat GBT over

1530
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: the years, and it's or over the years. Yeah, I

1531
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:05,040
Speaker 1: guess this is so random. Yeah, it's got a bunch

1532
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:08,520
Speaker 1: of stuff in here. You can delete those. You've got connectors,

1533
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 1: so if you want to connect things like Gmail, Google Calendar, outlook.

1534
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 2: You can do that in there.

1535
01:14:13,720 --> 01:14:15,320
Speaker 1: You may have to be paid for some of those

1536
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 1: schedules data controls, so you can delete all the chats

1537
01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:25,720
Speaker 1: you've had with chat GBT security two fracture authentication. I

1538
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 1: would definitely, definitely, definitely turn that on. Just like any

1539
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,959
Speaker 1: other website. If you log in and it doesn't recognize

1540
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 1: the log in, it will say, hey, let's text you

1541
01:14:35,880 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: a code or email you a code. You can also

1542
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 1: log out of all of your devices. So if you're

1543
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 1: like me, you log in from a bunch of different places,

1544
01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:45,880
Speaker 1: you can log out of all those from the website.

1545
01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:49,439
Speaker 1: You can also look at your account. Oh little hack,

1546
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:52,360
Speaker 1: because I've got fifty percent off for the next three

1547
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:54,320
Speaker 1: months if you go to cancel. If you're a paid

1548
01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:58,600
Speaker 1: subscriber of chat ebt, if you go to cancel your subscription,

1549
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:01,320
Speaker 1: it may offer you fifty percent. Just it did it

1550
01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 1: to me, So I've got fifty percent off until October third,

1551
01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:06,479
Speaker 1: So that's kind of cool.

1552
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:07,720
Speaker 2: Now, someone emailed me.

1553
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned that on my Instagram and someone said, hey,

1554
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 1: just cancel my account.

1555
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:12,480
Speaker 2: Immediately said whoops.

1556
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:16,360
Speaker 1: So your mileage may vary, but typically it will tell

1557
01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 1: you what it's doing before it actually just cancels everything out.

1558
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:22,519
Speaker 1: But yeah, there is a lot of stuff in here

1559
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 1: that you can check out with chat ebt.

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01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 2: Yeah so much.

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01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:30,760
Speaker 1: I mean I do everything in there, So that's that's

1562
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:36,840
Speaker 1: that's a popular service at this point, Janine writes in says,

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01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 1: I received an email with a PDF attachment supposedly an

1564
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:43,719
Speaker 1: invoice with a thank you for ordering. I use AOL

1565
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 1: email and Norton three sixty with LifeLock neither flagged it

1566
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:49,320
Speaker 1: as spam. But I'm afraid to open the email or

1567
01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 1: the attachment. How can I tell if it's legit or

1568
01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 1: if someone's trying to scam me. The sender's address is

1569
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 1: just a Gmail account, Janine, I'm very proud of you

1570
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:03,040
Speaker 1: for being on top of this, because this is a

1571
01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 1: major problem. The invoice scam is a big one, and

1572
01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: it doesn't come for just it comes from all kinds

1573
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 1: of things. I've seen it for geek Squad, from best Buy,

1574
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:18,200
Speaker 1: confirmation that you've purchased an iPhone, confirmation of a some

1575
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 1: sort of anti virus order, and they send you an

1576
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:24,719
Speaker 1: attachment that's basically looks like a receipt or an invoice,

1577
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 1: and it's saying thank you for your order. It's got

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01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:30,040
Speaker 1: your information on there, and sometimes it has all of

1579
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:32,960
Speaker 1: your information like your address, your email, your phone number,

1580
01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 1: depending on how much data they've scraped from data hacks

1581
01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:39,880
Speaker 1: out there, data breaches, and then what it wants you

1582
01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:42,680
Speaker 1: to do. And what the trick here is that you

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01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:45,760
Speaker 1: see this invoice and you go, I didn't order an

1584
01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:47,720
Speaker 1: anti virus. Wait, what do you mean three hundred and

1585
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 1: sixty seven dollars? You're charging my card? And it has

1586
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: a phone number says if there's any problem, call this number.

1587
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:56,759
Speaker 1: And what people do is they call that phone number

1588
01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:59,160
Speaker 1: to say, hey, I didn't order this, Can you cancel this?

1589
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 1: What's happening? And that's when the scam starts. And that's

1590
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:04,720
Speaker 1: when they say, Okay, no problem, ma'am. Let me just

1591
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:07,400
Speaker 1: get some information from you. Give me your name, give

1592
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 1: me your email. Which credit card did you use? Is

1593
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:13,679
Speaker 1: it the one ending in three two seven nine?

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01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 2: Yes? Oh okay, can you confirm the rest of that? Yes?

1595
01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:18,960
Speaker 2: And by the time you go through.

1596
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:21,920
Speaker 1: This whole rigamarole, you have now just given all of

1597
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 1: your information to these people, these scam artists, and they

1598
01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 1: are now taking that information and running with it. So

1599
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:30,599
Speaker 1: that is the scam So how do you tell if

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01:17:30,600 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: this is a scam? Number one, use your Spidey sense.

1601
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: You seem to do that with the Gmail account. So

1602
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:38,439
Speaker 1: check the sender. That's the number one way. When you

1603
01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 1: see one of these emails that you get, check the

1604
01:17:41,400 --> 01:17:44,360
Speaker 1: sender and see who sent it to you. Now, sometimes

1605
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:46,679
Speaker 1: they will spoof the sender, but a lot of times

1606
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:50,000
Speaker 1: you can tell pretty quickly that it is a spamy sender.

1607
01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:52,599
Speaker 1: So let's see if I can find one on here.

1608
01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my spam emails. Let's see here to do. No,

1609
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:02,920
Speaker 1: that one's not it. So many, there's just so many,

1610
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:06,120
Speaker 1: like there's just too many to go through. But anyway,

1611
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:09,439
Speaker 1: what I would do is check the center number one.

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01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:12,960
Speaker 1: Number two, you can actually forward the email to a

1613
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: website called snitcher dot space. I think I mentioned this

1614
01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:20,719
Speaker 1: on the last show. Uh Snitcher dot space. You can

1615
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:24,679
Speaker 1: email the Yeah, just forward the email to scan at

1616
01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: snitcher dot space and they will analyze the email and

1617
01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 1: reply to you with if they think it's fake or not. Now,

1618
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:35,080
Speaker 1: there's also some other ones you can do out there.

1619
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 1: I think Norton actually has their own Norton Yeah, Norton

1620
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:45,360
Speaker 1: Ai Genie and so Norton ai Genie is another one

1621
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:49,599
Speaker 1: where you can just basically put the email in there

1622
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:52,600
Speaker 1: and it will You can just copy and paste the

1623
01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 1: entire email and it will take a look at that

1624
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 1: and tell you if it is bogus or not. And

1625
01:18:57,560 --> 01:18:59,000
Speaker 1: that's another way to do it. The other way you

1626
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:01,240
Speaker 1: can do it is literally just copy and paste into

1627
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: chatchubt or Gemini and it will tell you say, hey,

1628
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 1: I got this email. I'm a little suspicious of it,

1629
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 1: and it will look at all the different kind of

1630
01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:13,519
Speaker 1: indicators on that email of whether they think it's fake

1631
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 1: or not, and it will tell you, now, ninety nine

1632
01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 1: point nine percent of the time this stuff is fake.

1633
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 1: But I know because people forward me this stuff all

1634
01:19:21,479 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: the time. Sometimes it is legitimate. And that's what these

1635
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,639
Speaker 1: scam artists do is they try to make it look

1636
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:30,720
Speaker 1: like something we would receive and they imitate that, and

1637
01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 1: then they get it to a place where you don't

1638
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: really know, and so you click a link not thinking, actually,

1639
01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:39,000
Speaker 1: I can tell you I got an email from someone

1640
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:43,080
Speaker 1: a DM over the weekend or sorry, over the week

1641
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: when I was in Hawaii and they said, hey, let's

1642
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 1: see if I can find this. Okay, they said, rich,

1643
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 1: is this legitimate keeper. I guess Keeper is one of

1644
01:19:55,880 --> 01:20:00,760
Speaker 1: the brands of you know, the I'm trying to find

1645
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 1: this as Oh here it is. Okay, they said, hey,

1646
01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:06,800
Speaker 1: rich is keep her password manager a valid site. I

1647
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 1: got a message from them saying my Amazon account saying

1648
01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 1: I need to log in to verify my account. Now,

1649
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:15,360
Speaker 1: anytime you get an email like that, be very careful

1650
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:17,759
Speaker 1: because what they want you to do is they're tricking

1651
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:20,719
Speaker 1: you into logging into your Amazon account and then they're

1652
01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 1: capturing your username and password. Which is why I always

1653
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:26,000
Speaker 1: recommend that you have two factor turned on, because in

1654
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 1: that way, even if you logged in you would get

1655
01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 1: the two factor code. They would not have that right

1656
01:20:32,479 --> 01:20:34,800
Speaker 1: because when you log into Amazon with two factor turned on,

1657
01:20:34,840 --> 01:20:36,960
Speaker 1: they send you a code to your email or your text.

1658
01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:40,599
Speaker 1: So the scam artists, if they captured your password, they

1659
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,160
Speaker 1: would not get that two factor code, but they've gotten

1660
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:46,280
Speaker 1: tricky about getting that from you as well. Anyway, she

1661
01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:50,679
Speaker 1: tapped the link that this keeper sent. It says, Hey,

1662
01:20:51,479 --> 01:20:54,519
Speaker 1: we've temporarily placed your Amazon account on hold and canceled

1663
01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:57,120
Speaker 1: any pending orders. We took this action because we detected

1664
01:20:57,200 --> 01:21:02,160
Speaker 1: unusual activity. Please log into your Amazon account to verify

1665
01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:07,080
Speaker 1: the requested information, and so she logged in and that's

1666
01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:10,680
Speaker 1: when Amazon said, hey, this is a scam, and so

1667
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:13,479
Speaker 1: you have to be very careful with this stuff. And

1668
01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:16,240
Speaker 1: so I told her when she sent me the second screenshot,

1669
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:19,559
Speaker 1: I can look at it, and it's actually pretty good.

1670
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:25,599
Speaker 1: Her Google web browser, Google Chrome, actually jumped in and said, hey,

1671
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 1: you just entered your password on a deceptive website. So

1672
01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 1: that was pretty good. So if you're using Chrome, they

1673
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:36,080
Speaker 1: do scan for this stuff, but the problem is it's

1674
01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:39,439
Speaker 1: not always immediate and you may not get caught in time. So,

1675
01:21:39,479 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 1: by the way, when I saw the URL that she

1676
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:44,640
Speaker 1: was trying to log into completely fake. I mean you

1677
01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:46,799
Speaker 1: could tell from this url it is not the official

1678
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 1: Amazon website. But again they try to trick you, so

1679
01:21:50,080 --> 01:21:53,839
Speaker 1: be careful with this stuff. Definitely ask a friend, family member,

1680
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:57,759
Speaker 1: or use one of these websites I just mentioned, Norton, Genie, Snitcher,

1681
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 1: dot Space, or you can just copy the entire email

1682
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:04,720
Speaker 1: into something like chat, gubt or Gemini and see what

1683
01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:07,240
Speaker 1: they say. Don't take what they say as you know,

1684
01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:09,920
Speaker 1: that is gospel. It may not be right every time,

1685
01:22:10,280 --> 01:22:13,360
Speaker 1: but it can help you understand. And there's a great

1686
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:21,639
Speaker 1: website called scamspotter dot org scam scamspotter dot org, and

1687
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 1: that will help you understand these tactics that I just mentioned.

1688
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:28,280
Speaker 1: And this has brought to you by Fight Cybercrime dot

1689
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:31,120
Speaker 1: org and Google. They created this website to help you

1690
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:36,000
Speaker 1: understand the scams that target users. So familiarize yourself with

1691
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:38,880
Speaker 1: that and also send that to anyone in your family

1692
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:41,840
Speaker 1: or friends that may not understand this stuff so they

1693
01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:44,960
Speaker 1: can understand these scams. Eighty eight rich one O one

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Speaker 1: eighty eight seven four two four one zero one rich on.

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Speaker 2: Tech dot TV back after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on tech rich Demiro here hanging

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01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. The website for the show

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01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 1: is rich on tech dot TV. The email address, well,

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01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:09,320
Speaker 1: you know, I just go to the website rich on

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01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:11,360
Speaker 1: tech dot do you This is what happens when I

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01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:13,920
Speaker 1: get distracted. I'm trying to tell you something, I'm looking

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01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:15,960
Speaker 1: at my phone to try to look something up, and

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01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,160
Speaker 1: then I realize I'm like, wait a second, why am

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01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:20,120
Speaker 1: I giving this out again? But the website is rich

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01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:23,360
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. Can go there and you can

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01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:26,080
Speaker 1: hit contact that will send your message directly to me.

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01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:29,600
Speaker 1: That's exactly what Tim did. He said, I was just

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01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: listening to the show, and I have the flow smart

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01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:35,040
Speaker 1: shut off valve and I also have the optional flow

1710
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:38,400
Speaker 1: leak detectors. There is an option for no monthly fee.

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01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:41,800
Speaker 1: The difference is they don't pay your deductible if there

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01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 1: is a flood and the warranties only a year. The

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01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 1: leak detectors are amazing. They are hooked up to your

1714
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:49,759
Speaker 1: house Wi Fi. You place some new your water sources

1715
01:23:50,040 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 1: and if they get wet, they instantly shut the water

1716
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:54,240
Speaker 1: off to your house. I have tested them. It takes

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01:23:54,280 --> 01:23:57,599
Speaker 1: about three seconds. Amazing show, my friend. Thanks for everything

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01:23:57,600 --> 01:23:57,880
Speaker 1: you do.

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01:23:58,000 --> 01:23:58,320
Speaker 2: Tim.

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01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 1: Well, that's you know, but I think I'm going to

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01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 1: install that today. I think you've sold me, Tim, because

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01:24:05,680 --> 01:24:09,000
Speaker 1: I you know, two water leaks is enough. I And

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01:24:09,040 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 1: it's funny because you know some of you listening maybe

1724
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 1: saying rich when you had the first leak, why didn't

1725
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:16,080
Speaker 1: you install the stuff I did. I put a leak

1726
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 1: detector near the water heater. This time it wasn't the

1727
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:22,479
Speaker 1: water heater, it was the washing machine. So I should

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01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:24,920
Speaker 1: have done the leak detector near the washing machine as well.

1729
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: But again it's you know, you live in your learn

1730
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:31,000
Speaker 1: you know, these things are things that you hear about,

1731
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 1: you see on TV. You know, you got to protect

1732
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:35,600
Speaker 1: this and that. And even if you have insurance, like

1733
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:38,800
Speaker 1: I said, it's still expensive. They still want their deductible

1734
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:42,280
Speaker 1: and in many cases that's going to be pretty expensive. So,

1735
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 1: no matter what, you're looking at a mess. And it's

1736
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:48,639
Speaker 1: not just the money, it's also the time and energy

1737
01:24:48,760 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: and effort and everything that you have to go through

1738
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:54,719
Speaker 1: to recover. And I call this kind of thing getting

1739
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:57,320
Speaker 1: back to where you started. So it's like when you

1740
01:24:57,439 --> 01:25:00,639
Speaker 1: place the tires on your car, right, your car doesn't

1741
01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:02,720
Speaker 1: drive any better. I mean, yeah, maybe if you know

1742
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:04,839
Speaker 1: you know, but like you know, I replaced the tires

1743
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:07,040
Speaker 1: on my car a couple months ago, and it's like,

1744
01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:09,560
Speaker 1: you're spending all this money just to get back to

1745
01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 1: where you started. I call that, you know, the repair

1746
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:14,920
Speaker 1: that just literally it's like, Okay, let's say your alternator

1747
01:25:14,960 --> 01:25:17,120
Speaker 1: goes on your car. Your car is not driving any

1748
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 1: better with a new alternator, but you just spent fifteen hundred,

1749
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 1: two thousand bucks. I call it getting back to where

1750
01:25:22,520 --> 01:25:24,800
Speaker 1: you started, but just spent a whole bunch of money

1751
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 1: to do it. Also, by the way, if you want

1752
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:31,080
Speaker 1: to follow me on Instagram at rich On Tech. John

1753
01:25:31,160 --> 01:25:32,920
Speaker 1: is in Newport Beach. What's up, John?

1754
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:37,679
Speaker 4: Hi? I want to transfer an MP four file from

1755
01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:42,080
Speaker 4: a hard drive to a flash drive. Easy enough. Now,

1756
01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:45,040
Speaker 4: the MP four file is on my flash drive and

1757
01:25:45,080 --> 01:25:48,240
Speaker 4: I want to copy protected so that it cannot be

1758
01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:52,759
Speaker 4: duplicated from the flash drive. I'm using Windows eleven Home.

1759
01:25:53,520 --> 01:25:58,040
Speaker 1: Ah, okay, can you can you just make it read only?

1760
01:25:58,160 --> 01:26:02,640
Speaker 4: Perhaps you can make it read only on your on

1761
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:06,639
Speaker 4: the security tab under properties if it's on your hard drive, right,

1762
01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:09,679
Speaker 4: But then you can't transfer to your flask drive. Once

1763
01:26:09,720 --> 01:26:12,680
Speaker 4: you transfer to your flask drive and you go to properties,

1764
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:16,440
Speaker 4: there is no security tab to give it those attributes.

1765
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:17,240
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:26:17,400 --> 01:26:21,559
Speaker 1: See, I'm thinking this is this is almost like a

1767
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:24,600
Speaker 1: copy protection thing. Like it's almost like, uh, you know,

1768
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:28,680
Speaker 1: like these companies go through like really you know, they

1769
01:26:28,680 --> 01:26:32,120
Speaker 1: have their own DRM basically you know, if you're if

1770
01:26:32,120 --> 01:26:34,920
Speaker 1: you're a you know, Amazon or an MP three file

1771
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 1: whatever it is that they have where they make it

1772
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 1: where you can't really copy your transfer. But that's those

1773
01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:43,240
Speaker 1: are like really big systems. Have you found I don't

1774
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:44,679
Speaker 1: know of an app off the top of my head

1775
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:47,200
Speaker 1: that'll do this easily? I mean, I'm just doing a

1776
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:51,960
Speaker 1: search and it. You know, there's there's one called Cockasoft.

1777
01:26:53,280 --> 01:26:53,960
Speaker 2: Did I see that?

1778
01:26:55,280 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 1: I try.

1779
01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 4: I tried a free trial on that and I just

1780
01:26:59,120 --> 01:27:00,320
Speaker 4: didn't get anywhere with that.

1781
01:27:00,640 --> 01:27:04,719
Speaker 1: Interesting because this says USB copy protection for PDFs, office

1782
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: audio image files, EXSE.

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01:27:09,040 --> 01:27:12,000
Speaker 2: That comes up. It's that's how much was let's see.

1784
01:27:12,439 --> 01:27:14,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this one gives you like full access

1785
01:27:14,880 --> 01:27:16,439
Speaker 1: to everything per habit printing.

1786
01:27:16,479 --> 01:27:17,080
Speaker 2: This didn't work.

1787
01:27:17,200 --> 01:27:21,920
Speaker 4: Huh, Well, I think I was having trouble trying to

1788
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:24,320
Speaker 4: use it. It might have been my fault. So maybe

1789
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:27,680
Speaker 4: I'll just try that one again. But it appears not

1790
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:30,639
Speaker 4: to be just a simple no setting or security setting

1791
01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:33,200
Speaker 4: that you can make. You've got to use some outside software.

1792
01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:36,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely not. It's not a simple setting.

1793
01:27:36,400 --> 01:27:38,800
Speaker 1: And now there are ways to you know, there are

1794
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:41,160
Speaker 1: there are many ways like encrypt the drive make it

1795
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:43,400
Speaker 1: so that it's like tough to access if someone just

1796
01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:46,720
Speaker 1: found it. But for actual copying of that file, if

1797
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:50,280
Speaker 1: you don't have access to that functionality, it's really like

1798
01:27:50,320 --> 01:27:51,640
Speaker 1: I don't know off the top of my head how

1799
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:56,160
Speaker 1: to do that. So that program seems to be I'm

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01:27:56,200 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 1: trying to see if there's like a free freeware version

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01:27:58,920 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 1: of that, and there may be. And that's the beauty

1802
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:03,320
Speaker 1: of this show is that hopefully someone that's listening knows

1803
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 1: how to do this, and we'll say like, hey, you

1804
01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:07,519
Speaker 1: got to use this app, but I don't know off

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01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:10,479
Speaker 1: the top of my head, John. I will experiment a

1806
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:12,280
Speaker 1: little bit with this and see if I can come

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01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:15,240
Speaker 1: up with something. But I'm not seeing something quick and

1808
01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:19,240
Speaker 1: easy that's sort of built into Windows. That's that's the

1809
01:28:19,280 --> 01:28:22,840
Speaker 1: main thing that, Yeah, that I'm coming up against. USB

1810
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:26,240
Speaker 1: copy Yeah, Like even if I go I typically go

1811
01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:29,360
Speaker 1: into this website alternative to dot net to see if

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01:28:29,400 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 1: there's like a USB tool that we can use to

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01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: do this, and I'm not finding something there. How about

1814
01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:39,680
Speaker 1: copy protect? Yeah, nothing interesting. None of this stuff's coming up.

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01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:41,639
Speaker 1: So this is definitely a tricky problem. But I will

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01:28:42,320 --> 01:28:44,639
Speaker 1: write this down in my notes. Now I've got homework

1817
01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:47,360
Speaker 1: to do, so I will figure out how we can

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01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:52,719
Speaker 1: make this video where you can't transfer it. Coming up next,

1819
01:28:52,760 --> 01:28:55,960
Speaker 1: we are going to talk to Josh Goren at Walt

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01:28:55,960 --> 01:28:57,160
Speaker 1: Disney Imagineering.

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01:28:57,520 --> 01:28:58,880
Speaker 2: This is rich On Tech.

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01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:03,679
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

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01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. Well, if you've been around

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01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:11,560
Speaker 1: this world for a while, you've probably heard the term imagineering.

1825
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:16,760
Speaker 1: It sounds magical, mysterious, and of course very Disney. But

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01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:19,120
Speaker 1: what does it mean and who are the people behind

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01:29:19,160 --> 01:29:21,759
Speaker 1: the magic? Well, recently I had the chance to visit

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01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:25,560
Speaker 1: Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, California to see some of

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01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:27,800
Speaker 1: the cool stuff they're working on, and there I talked

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01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:31,720
Speaker 1: to Josh Goren, an executive R and D imagineer at

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01:29:31,720 --> 01:29:35,960
Speaker 1: Walt Disney Imagineering. He's one of these creative minds blending art,

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01:29:36,080 --> 01:29:40,639
Speaker 1: technology and engineering to bring Disney stories to life across

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01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:43,439
Speaker 1: all their properties, not just theme parks. Here's some of

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01:29:43,479 --> 01:29:47,840
Speaker 1: our conversation herm imagineering over the years. Imagineer sounds like

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01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:49,720
Speaker 1: this very magical, mysterious thing.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean exactly?

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Speaker 11: So, Imagineers are the people who conceive, design, and build

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01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:58,160
Speaker 11: Disney physical experiences all around the world. The rides, the lands,

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01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:00,840
Speaker 11: the theme parks, the hotels, the cruise ship those are

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01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:04,280
Speaker 11: made by imagineers, and imagineers are all over the world.

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01:30:04,320 --> 01:30:09,640
Speaker 11: We come from over one hundred different disciplines. So it's artists, designers, engineers, fabricators,

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01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:13,439
Speaker 11: all coming together to create these impossible worlds that you

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01:30:13,479 --> 01:30:14,479
Speaker 11: know from Disney Parks.

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01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:17,759
Speaker 1: A lot of this does involve technology and in different ways,

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01:30:18,040 --> 01:30:20,439
Speaker 1: but I also read that you can come up with

1846
01:30:20,520 --> 01:30:22,599
Speaker 1: any concepts, Like the way you come up with these

1847
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 1: rides and things is, hey, if we can do anything,

1848
01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:26,880
Speaker 1: this is how we do it.

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01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:29,840
Speaker 2: And then it goes into the process of how do

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01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:31,880
Speaker 2: we make this? Can you explain that a little bit?

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01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:36,839
Speaker 11: At Imagineering, everything starts with story. We are storytellers. Walt

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01:30:36,840 --> 01:30:41,240
Speaker 11: created Imagineering by pulling his favorite talent from the studios, artists, engineers,

1853
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:44,519
Speaker 11: fabricators to create these imagined worlds and to bring them

1854
01:30:44,520 --> 01:30:47,760
Speaker 11: to life. At Imagineering we continue that today. So we

1855
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:49,960
Speaker 11: don't start with how do we make this type of

1856
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:52,400
Speaker 11: ride or use this type of robot? You start with

1857
01:30:52,439 --> 01:30:55,240
Speaker 11: what's the story? How do we want guests to feel?

1858
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:58,400
Speaker 11: And even when you're adapting a Disney film for the parks,

1859
01:30:58,400 --> 01:31:01,439
Speaker 11: it's not just copy paste. Where would you want to

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01:31:01,479 --> 01:31:03,280
Speaker 11: be in this world? Who would you want to meet,

1861
01:31:03,320 --> 01:31:04,640
Speaker 11: who would you want to be, and what would you

1862
01:31:04,720 --> 01:31:08,000
Speaker 11: want to do? And so it starts there, what's the

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01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:09,680
Speaker 11: story we want to tell and how do we want

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01:31:09,720 --> 01:31:12,960
Speaker 11: to tell it and then the technology serves the story

1865
01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:15,639
Speaker 11: and hopefully, when we do our jobs correctly, the guests

1866
01:31:15,680 --> 01:31:18,920
Speaker 11: I'm going in saying wow, what amazing technology. Hopefully that

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01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:22,960
Speaker 11: technology stating to the background and they're just experiencing a story,

1868
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:26,519
Speaker 11: a character, a world, interacting with their family, having a

1869
01:31:26,560 --> 01:31:31,440
Speaker 11: great time. That's what we ultimately create is emotions. Emotions

1870
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:34,240
Speaker 11: are our product. Technology is just one more tool in

1871
01:31:34,280 --> 01:31:35,839
Speaker 11: our toolkit to make that happen.

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01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:39,519
Speaker 1: So interesting note on the technology side of things. During

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01:31:39,560 --> 01:31:43,000
Speaker 1: my tour here, we saw the Spider Man that is

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01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:44,960
Speaker 1: a robot that kind of does a flip at one

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01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:48,000
Speaker 1: of the theme Parks's California Adventure and I've seen that

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01:31:48,040 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 1: several times, never realizing that that was not a human

1877
01:31:52,720 --> 01:31:54,679
Speaker 1: or some sort I don't even know what I thought

1878
01:31:54,680 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 1: that was. But now that I know that's a robot

1879
01:31:57,160 --> 01:32:00,479
Speaker 1: that has been engineered in a way to do that

1880
01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:03,840
Speaker 1: flip every time perfectly, that's pretty wild. So that goes

1881
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:06,360
Speaker 1: to show that the technology did blend into the background.

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01:32:06,439 --> 01:32:09,120
Speaker 11: For me, Yes, Centronics is such a great project because

1883
01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:11,719
Speaker 11: that was the goal to make you believe that Spider

1884
01:32:11,760 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 11: Man was doing these larger than life flips and the

1885
01:32:14,439 --> 01:32:18,439
Speaker 11: reality is a human performer could not physically withstand the

1886
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:21,880
Speaker 11: g forces that that character goes through, much less twelve

1887
01:32:21,880 --> 01:32:24,599
Speaker 11: times a day. That was a story that could only

1888
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:28,080
Speaker 11: be told through a stunt tronic, through an advanced character robot.

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01:32:28,400 --> 01:32:30,760
Speaker 11: But I'm so glad that it got you because that

1890
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:33,960
Speaker 11: was the goal, was for anyone coming into Avengers campus

1891
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:35,679
Speaker 11: to feel like they were part of a real world

1892
01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:38,160
Speaker 11: and getting to see Spider Man as they knew him

1893
01:32:38,160 --> 01:32:40,599
Speaker 11: from the films, even if that wouldn't have been physically

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01:32:40,600 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 11: possible with a human.

1895
01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:45,280
Speaker 1: How has technology aided what you do and how has

1896
01:32:45,320 --> 01:32:46,439
Speaker 1: that changed over the years.

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01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:49,719
Speaker 11: What's funny about technology in Disney is it's not new,

1898
01:32:49,840 --> 01:32:53,920
Speaker 11: it's super core to our history. Walt Disney was kind

1899
01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:56,280
Speaker 11: of obsessed with how to use the latest and greatest

1900
01:32:56,280 --> 01:32:59,120
Speaker 11: in technology to bring his stories to life in new ways.

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01:32:59,240 --> 01:33:00,559
Speaker 2: Even before the theme parks.

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01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:03,360
Speaker 11: You look at Snow White as the first feature length

1903
01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 11: animated film, the multiplane camera that gave different levels of

1904
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:10,759
Speaker 11: depth stereophonic sound in Fantasia. Walt had this very early

1905
01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 11: fascination with using the latest tech of his day to

1906
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:16,680
Speaker 11: bring these stories and characters to life. And we're just

1907
01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:21,880
Speaker 11: extending that legacy now, so we love technologies that make

1908
01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:25,559
Speaker 11: people believe anything as possible. One of my favorite quotes

1909
01:33:25,720 --> 01:33:29,120
Speaker 11: is from the science fiction author Arthur C. Clark, and

1910
01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:33,120
Speaker 11: he said, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

1911
01:33:33,560 --> 01:33:36,400
Speaker 11: And here at Imaginary Research and Development, that's kind of

1912
01:33:36,439 --> 01:33:40,360
Speaker 11: our job to harness technology to make people believe magic

1913
01:33:40,600 --> 01:33:41,080
Speaker 11: is real.

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01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:42,559
Speaker 2: And so whether that's.

1915
01:33:42,360 --> 01:33:45,640
Speaker 11: Creating the next great advanced character robot or an illusion,

1916
01:33:45,720 --> 01:33:49,320
Speaker 11: an effect, or an interactive experience, that's what the people

1917
01:33:49,400 --> 01:33:53,479
Speaker 11: here do is try to make emotion through technology and

1918
01:33:53,560 --> 01:33:56,679
Speaker 11: to creatively apply them in new ways to bring those

1919
01:33:56,720 --> 01:33:58,759
Speaker 11: Disney stories characters in worlds to life.

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01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:00,679
Speaker 2: Something like the BDX robots.

1921
01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:04,320
Speaker 1: I mean, that's quite the undertaking because they feel so realistic.

1922
01:34:04,760 --> 01:34:06,120
Speaker 2: Give me a little insight into.

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01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:09,040
Speaker 11: Those We love the BDX droids, so they are part

1924
01:34:09,080 --> 01:34:12,000
Speaker 11: of our Advanced Character Robotics program, which is how do

1925
01:34:12,040 --> 01:34:14,920
Speaker 11: we bring expressive, emotive characters to life using the latest

1926
01:34:14,960 --> 01:34:17,800
Speaker 11: and greatest in technology. What's really cool about the bd

1927
01:34:17,960 --> 01:34:21,160
Speaker 11: X droids is they've appeared in Disney parks all around

1928
01:34:21,160 --> 01:34:23,439
Speaker 11: the world, including our ships, and people just fall in

1929
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:26,840
Speaker 11: love with them. They're so cute and they're based on

1930
01:34:27,040 --> 01:34:30,880
Speaker 11: some really cutting edge technology using reinforcement learning. So the

1931
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 11: way they learn to move is that we make a

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Speaker 11: three D model of them and put them in a

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Speaker 11: computer and train them how to walk in balance. But

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Speaker 11: we don't just train them how to stay upright. We've

1935
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:42,880
Speaker 11: put in the input of a Disney animator to give

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01:34:42,920 --> 01:34:46,679
Speaker 11: them that expressiveness, that personality, and so they learn how

1937
01:34:46,720 --> 01:34:50,160
Speaker 11: to walk and perform through that animator's guidance into what

1938
01:34:50,240 --> 01:34:53,040
Speaker 11: you see today. So again, at the end of the day,

1939
01:34:53,160 --> 01:34:55,559
Speaker 11: we don't want guests focusing on the technology, even though

1940
01:34:55,560 --> 01:34:58,680
Speaker 11: they're technically robots. We want them to focus on the

1941
01:34:58,760 --> 01:35:02,200
Speaker 11: characters and their person reality and to make an emotional connection.

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01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:05,879
Speaker 11: You know, the Disney Company started with this idea of animation,

1943
01:35:06,200 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 11: and animation is the illusion of life through movement, and

1944
01:35:09,400 --> 01:35:11,880
Speaker 11: so whether that sells on a page or images on

1945
01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:14,400
Speaker 11: a screen, or a robotic droid right in front of you,

1946
01:35:14,760 --> 01:35:17,320
Speaker 11: that's what we do. Create the illusion of life through movement,

1947
01:35:17,360 --> 01:35:19,760
Speaker 11: and the BDX terroids are one very cute example of

1948
01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:20,879
Speaker 11: that brought to life.

1949
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Speaker 1: Now, how do you keep what the traditionalive of certain

1950
01:35:25,320 --> 01:35:28,360
Speaker 1: things at Disney versus what you want to push forward

1951
01:35:28,360 --> 01:35:29,879
Speaker 1: with technology and newness?

1952
01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:32,400
Speaker 11: You know, We've always had one foot in the past

1953
01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:34,719
Speaker 11: and one foot looking to the future. Our legacy doesn't

1954
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:37,400
Speaker 11: hold us back. It inspires us. We have this strong

1955
01:35:37,600 --> 01:35:42,120
Speaker 11: history of technologically enabled guest experiences, going back to opening

1956
01:35:42,200 --> 01:35:45,160
Speaker 11: day at Disneyland. The idea of Disneyland itself, the idea

1957
01:35:45,280 --> 01:35:47,800
Speaker 11: of a theme park, a place where you went in

1958
01:35:48,040 --> 01:35:50,599
Speaker 11: and experience the stories in immersive way that was at

1959
01:35:50,600 --> 01:35:54,360
Speaker 11: the time a new idea. So our legacy pushes us

1960
01:35:54,400 --> 01:35:58,040
Speaker 11: to keep trying harder, to keep exceeding expectations, to keep

1961
01:35:58,080 --> 01:36:00,000
Speaker 11: surprising and delighting.

1962
01:36:00,120 --> 01:36:01,160
Speaker 3: Things that don't change.

1963
01:36:01,280 --> 01:36:04,880
Speaker 11: Our commitment to story, our commitment to surprising and innovating,

1964
01:36:05,040 --> 01:36:08,200
Speaker 11: our commitment to quality and detail. That stays the same.

1965
01:36:08,680 --> 01:36:10,840
Speaker 11: The stories we tell as new films come out and

1966
01:36:10,880 --> 01:36:13,840
Speaker 11: new characters get popular, The technologies we use as we

1967
01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:17,040
Speaker 11: see new things happening in industry. The techniques those will

1968
01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:19,960
Speaker 11: change and evolve. But the core values that drive what

1969
01:36:20,000 --> 01:36:22,360
Speaker 11: we do as imagineers and the way we do it

1970
01:36:22,600 --> 01:36:23,760
Speaker 11: that stays constant.

1971
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Speaker 1: Well, can we look forward to seeing from your team

1972
01:36:26,920 --> 01:36:29,160
Speaker 1: and in your future at Disney Properties.

1973
01:36:29,439 --> 01:36:31,160
Speaker 11: I can't talk specifically about some of the things we're

1974
01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:33,479
Speaker 11: working on. We've got some real top secret stuff behind

1975
01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:36,000
Speaker 11: these walls. But what I can tell you is this

1976
01:36:36,040 --> 01:36:38,920
Speaker 11: is an incredibly exciting time to be an imagineer, an

1977
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:41,479
Speaker 11: incredibly exciting time to be a Disney Parks fan. We

1978
01:36:41,640 --> 01:36:45,320
Speaker 11: have global expansion happening all over the world and on

1979
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:48,040
Speaker 11: our ships, and new parks being announced like the one

1980
01:36:48,040 --> 01:36:51,679
Speaker 11: in Abu Dhabi that provide these amazing canvases to bring

1981
01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:54,240
Speaker 11: stories to life in new ways to surprise people.

1982
01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:55,439
Speaker 2: So while I.

1983
01:36:55,439 --> 01:36:58,519
Speaker 11: Can't get into the specifics top secret projects beyond these doors,

1984
01:36:58,760 --> 01:37:01,240
Speaker 11: I can tell you we are are so excited and

1985
01:37:01,280 --> 01:37:03,400
Speaker 11: can't wait for our guests to experience them themselves.

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Speaker 1: If someone is interested in joining the team here, explain

1987
01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:11,599
Speaker 1: what that process is like and how is that even possible.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, every imagineer has a story of how

1989
01:37:14,479 --> 01:37:17,920
Speaker 11: they got here, and each one's unique. But imagineering is

1990
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:21,120
Speaker 11: something that is possible. It's something that real people come

1991
01:37:21,160 --> 01:37:25,080
Speaker 11: and do. Usually it starts with finding what you're great

1992
01:37:25,120 --> 01:37:28,040
Speaker 11: at and getting really passionately involved in it, whether that's

1993
01:37:28,200 --> 01:37:32,400
Speaker 11: the robotics side or the creative side, the music choreography. Again,

1994
01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 11: we have over one hundred disciplines here, so there's a

1995
01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:38,920
Speaker 11: high chance that something you do is represented at Imagineering.

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Speaker 11: So for young people, what I always say is start

1997
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Speaker 11: making now. There are so many amazing tools and information

1998
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Speaker 11: resources available now for kids and aspiring imagineers to just

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Speaker 11: start creating. We have, for example, Imagineering in a Box,

2000
01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:55,720
Speaker 11: which is a free educational program we developed with the

2001
01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 11: CON Academy, which is hours and hours of programming about

2002
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:02,000
Speaker 11: how we do what we do, with interactive lessons and guides,

2003
01:38:02,080 --> 01:38:05,000
Speaker 11: all available for free online. There's a ton of amazing

2004
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:08,840
Speaker 11: books about imagineering, many written by imagineers that talk about

2005
01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:12,639
Speaker 11: our design process. We have the Imagination's College Program, which

2006
01:38:12,640 --> 01:38:15,639
Speaker 11: allows for college students to develop projects and potentially get

2007
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:19,439
Speaker 11: a chance to be flown out to Imagineering and present

2008
01:38:19,640 --> 01:38:23,080
Speaker 11: to Imagineering leadership, potentially leading to an internship. So there

2009
01:38:23,080 --> 01:38:25,920
Speaker 11: are many roads to imagineering no matter what people study

2010
01:38:25,960 --> 01:38:29,080
Speaker 11: or what they do. As long as you're passionate and

2011
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:31,559
Speaker 11: you work hard, and you're talented, you may be able

2012
01:38:31,560 --> 01:38:32,439
Speaker 11: to find your place here.

2013
01:38:33,240 --> 01:38:33,840
Speaker 2: There you have it.

2014
01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:38,519
Speaker 1: Josh Goorn from Walt Disney Imagineering once again he mentioned

2015
01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:42,240
Speaker 1: Imagineering in a Box that's a free online resource for

2016
01:38:42,439 --> 01:38:46,679
Speaker 1: future creators. You can find it on the CON academy website.

2017
01:38:46,720 --> 01:38:49,479
Speaker 1: I will put the link on mine rich on Tech

2018
01:38:49,720 --> 01:38:51,840
Speaker 1: dot tv, and if you want to see some of

2019
01:38:51,840 --> 01:38:54,160
Speaker 1: the videos that I took at Imagineering, just go to

2020
01:38:54,200 --> 01:38:55,840
Speaker 1: my instagram at rich on Tech.

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01:38:55,880 --> 01:38:57,120
Speaker 2: Coming up, we're.

2022
01:38:56,960 --> 01:38:59,120
Speaker 1: Opening up the feedback once again.

2023
01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:00,000
Speaker 2: For more of your comments.

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01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:05,760
Speaker 1: To close out the show, Welcome back to rich On Tech.

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01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:11,920
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, Talking technology. Got

2026
01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:16,799
Speaker 1: an email from Vincent talking about the callers question regarding

2027
01:39:16,880 --> 01:39:21,080
Speaker 1: copy protection. He says the potential solution could be with

2028
01:39:21,240 --> 01:39:25,759
Speaker 1: sand discs secure access software. So I looked up secure

2029
01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:28,320
Speaker 1: access from sand disc. Looks like they changed it now

2030
01:39:28,360 --> 01:39:33,160
Speaker 1: to private access, which it encrypts and password protects files

2031
01:39:33,200 --> 01:39:38,320
Speaker 1: on sand Disc USB flash drives. Doesn't necessarily say that

2032
01:39:38,400 --> 01:39:40,519
Speaker 1: you can't copy stuff on them, but that may be

2033
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:43,960
Speaker 1: a feature. But you do need to use a sand

2034
01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:48,160
Speaker 1: Disc USB or I expand flash drive to use this

2035
01:39:48,280 --> 01:39:50,960
Speaker 1: private access software. But that's one more option. So again,

2036
01:39:51,040 --> 01:39:53,240
Speaker 1: private access if you don't want people to be able

2037
01:39:53,240 --> 01:39:55,760
Speaker 1: to copy the stuff. But I'll have to investigate that

2038
01:39:55,800 --> 01:39:57,880
Speaker 1: see if it works properly. Thanks for the email there.

2039
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:02,599
Speaker 1: Open up the feedback now. We've got lots here. Tiffany

2040
01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:04,720
Speaker 1: writes in from Huntington Beach, Hey, Rich, just wants to

2041
01:40:04,760 --> 01:40:06,880
Speaker 1: alert you of a scary text that looks like a

2042
01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:11,040
Speaker 1: scam targeting moms. I received a text yesterday from a

2043
01:40:11,080 --> 01:40:14,320
Speaker 1: Boston phone number saying, Hi, Mom, my phone is broken.

2044
01:40:14,760 --> 01:40:17,200
Speaker 1: Text me now on this number right here, and it

2045
01:40:17,240 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: gives a phone number. My oldest is living in Baltimore

2046
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:23,240
Speaker 1: and always refers to me as MA, so I knew

2047
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:24,040
Speaker 1: it wasn't him.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting.

2049
01:40:25,920 --> 01:40:28,280
Speaker 1: The scariest part is I almost fell for it, and

2050
01:40:28,320 --> 01:40:30,479
Speaker 1: I could easily see a mom worried about our kid

2051
01:40:30,520 --> 01:40:32,920
Speaker 1: and getting scammed. It feels like a personal assault on

2052
01:40:33,040 --> 01:40:37,800
Speaker 1: moms everywhere. Wow, Tiffany, thanks for that. Is that's scary because, yeah,

2053
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:39,880
Speaker 1: think about it. Your kid might be living somewhere and

2054
01:40:39,880 --> 01:40:42,840
Speaker 1: they say, hey, my phone's broken, text me here. You

2055
01:40:42,920 --> 01:40:45,160
Speaker 1: may not think twice call them from there.

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01:40:45,280 --> 01:40:46,639
Speaker 2: Wow. Good warning there.

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01:40:47,320 --> 01:40:50,559
Speaker 1: Mark from Laguna Noguel, California writes in, Hey, Rich, thanks

2058
01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:52,440
Speaker 1: for warning listeners about simlocking.

2059
01:40:52,520 --> 01:40:53,719
Speaker 2: I wish I had known sooner.

2060
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:57,400
Speaker 1: Back in February, someone ported my number without my approval

2061
01:40:57,439 --> 01:41:01,520
Speaker 1: and it's kicked off three months of stress and account takeovers.

2062
01:41:02,080 --> 01:41:06,280
Speaker 1: The attacker access my bank email, Amazon Google, PayPal, and more.

2063
01:41:06,720 --> 01:41:10,840
Speaker 1: Resetting passwords using my phone number. Even when I changed passwords,

2064
01:41:10,840 --> 01:41:13,800
Speaker 1: they just do a reset again. Mint said it would

2065
01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:16,120
Speaker 1: take forty eight hours to get my number back, but

2066
01:41:16,160 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 1: it took a full week, and once I had it,

2067
01:41:18,240 --> 01:41:20,800
Speaker 1: call still wouldn't come through. Eventually, I gave up and

2068
01:41:20,840 --> 01:41:24,439
Speaker 1: got a new number. Mark's advice lock your SIM with

2069
01:41:24,479 --> 01:41:27,920
Speaker 1: a carrier, use an authentication app instead of text based

2070
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:32,240
Speaker 1: two factor authentication, keep emergency contact info for key accounts,

2071
01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:34,040
Speaker 1: and report things.

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01:41:33,840 --> 01:41:35,599
Speaker 2: To the FBI's IC three.

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01:41:35,800 --> 01:41:39,680
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Nicole writes in Hey Rich, I've been

2074
01:41:39,760 --> 01:41:42,800
Speaker 1: using a device called the PCI Tracker. It lets you

2075
01:41:42,880 --> 01:41:46,240
Speaker 1: control your PC completely with just your eyes, no hand

2076
01:41:46,360 --> 01:41:49,080
Speaker 1: movement needed. A friend gifted it to me, and I'm

2077
01:41:49,120 --> 01:41:50,679
Speaker 1: in love with it. I thought it might be something

2078
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:53,439
Speaker 1: you want to check out or even feature, especially since

2079
01:41:53,439 --> 01:41:56,560
Speaker 1: it could be helpful to others. That's good to know,

2080
01:41:56,720 --> 01:42:01,839
Speaker 1: PCI Tracker. There's also I tracking built in to Apple

2081
01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:07,560
Speaker 1: with Settings Accessibility eye tracking, so no extra hardware necessary,

2082
01:42:07,640 --> 01:42:12,559
Speaker 1: so check that out Settings Accessibility, I Tracking. Mike from

2083
01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:15,120
Speaker 1: Denver new listener here, love your show. I listened to

2084
01:42:15,160 --> 01:42:18,040
Speaker 1: the podcast weekly and I'm learning so much. I followed

2085
01:42:18,040 --> 01:42:22,000
Speaker 1: your instructions to turn on simswap protection for Verizon, and

2086
01:42:22,080 --> 01:42:23,800
Speaker 1: while I was in my account, I noticed a bunch

2087
01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:26,360
Speaker 1: of other security and privacy settings I'd never looked at.

2088
01:42:26,880 --> 01:42:29,320
Speaker 1: Thanks to your heads up, I was able to enable

2089
01:42:29,479 --> 01:42:32,320
Speaker 1: number lock, set an account pen, and turn off a

2090
01:42:32,320 --> 01:42:36,920
Speaker 1: bunch of privacy default privacy settings like CPN, I sharing

2091
01:42:37,040 --> 01:42:38,280
Speaker 1: and custom Experience.

2092
01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:38,719
Speaker 2: Plus.

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01:42:39,479 --> 01:42:42,040
Speaker 1: Just wanted to say thank you and maybe remind listeners

2094
01:42:42,040 --> 01:42:44,439
Speaker 1: to log in and check those other privacy settings too.

2095
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:48,040
Speaker 1: I'm glad I did. Great tip, Mike, thanks for being

2096
01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:52,479
Speaker 1: a new listener. And yes, just have some fun. Instead

2097
01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:55,160
Speaker 1: of going out on a Saturday night hanging out with friends,

2098
01:42:55,600 --> 01:42:58,880
Speaker 1: going out to the bar, restaurant, dinner with your family,

2099
01:42:59,240 --> 01:43:02,280
Speaker 1: just check the I, acy and data settings on all

2100
01:43:02,280 --> 01:43:04,880
Speaker 1: of your accounts. You know, just spend a Saturday night

2101
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:11,280
Speaker 1: doing that and enjoy. Just see what you find. I'm kidding,

2102
01:43:11,280 --> 01:43:13,320
Speaker 1: but that's what I do. That's how nerdy I am.

2103
01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:16,000
Speaker 1: I go through my phones and I just go step

2104
01:43:16,000 --> 01:43:19,360
Speaker 1: by step every every single setting you can imagine. I

2105
01:43:19,479 --> 01:43:21,720
Speaker 1: just like to see what's available and just you know,

2106
01:43:21,800 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: see and I'm like, oh that's interesting, let's see.

2107
01:43:26,360 --> 01:43:26,559
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2108
01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:27,519
Speaker 2: Nerd for sure.

2109
01:43:27,760 --> 01:43:34,880
Speaker 1: Mark another interesting another mark about SIM swapping. Thanks rich

2110
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:37,040
Speaker 1: for warning people to lock their SIM I didn't and

2111
01:43:37,080 --> 01:43:41,360
Speaker 1: I paid the price. My phone number was ported without

2112
01:43:41,360 --> 01:43:43,400
Speaker 1: my approval. In the next three months were a nightmare.

2113
01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:44,920
Speaker 1: Wait is that the same thing? I think that's the

2114
01:43:44,920 --> 01:43:49,080
Speaker 1: same email sounded like it. Richard from Ocean Side writes

2115
01:43:49,160 --> 01:43:51,559
Speaker 1: in I added the watch Duty app to my phone

2116
01:43:51,680 --> 01:43:52,160
Speaker 1: last week.

2117
01:43:52,280 --> 01:43:53,040
Speaker 2: Super easy.

2118
01:43:53,439 --> 01:43:55,679
Speaker 1: I got two alerts for a fire near La Mesa

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01:43:55,760 --> 01:43:58,160
Speaker 1: on July fourth, and two more on July fifth for

2120
01:43:58,200 --> 01:44:01,000
Speaker 1: a fire near the Ocean Side Airport. I haven't seen

2121
01:44:01,040 --> 01:44:03,479
Speaker 1: anything on the news or heard anything from my San

2122
01:44:03,520 --> 01:44:06,160
Speaker 1: Diego County emergency app. Thanks for having that guest on

2123
01:44:06,200 --> 01:44:11,280
Speaker 1: your show. Great recommendation. Yeah, watch Duty is essential if

2124
01:44:11,320 --> 01:44:13,439
Speaker 1: you live in an area that might have fires, and

2125
01:44:13,479 --> 01:44:17,080
Speaker 1: I think they're expanding to floods next, he said, Bruce,

2126
01:44:17,880 --> 01:44:21,800
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Another hacking story. Back in May, my

2127
01:44:21,960 --> 01:44:25,880
Speaker 1: Facebook account was hacked. The hacker changed the log in credentials,

2128
01:44:25,880 --> 01:44:28,559
Speaker 1: locking me out. I tried all the usual recovery routes

2129
01:44:29,640 --> 01:44:31,680
Speaker 1: and nothing worked. Everyone I talked to you said the

2130
01:44:31,680 --> 01:44:34,080
Speaker 1: only way back in was knowing someone on the inside

2131
01:44:34,080 --> 01:44:38,120
Speaker 1: at META. Eventually I tracked down a few email addresses

2132
01:44:38,479 --> 01:44:42,080
Speaker 1: for a few Meta attorneys and executives and explained my situation.

2133
01:44:42,760 --> 01:44:45,200
Speaker 1: A few days later, a real person for Meta support

2134
01:44:45,240 --> 01:44:47,719
Speaker 1: reached out and helped me recover the account. It wasn't

2135
01:44:47,760 --> 01:44:50,320
Speaker 1: smooth selling, but I finally got access back and added

2136
01:44:50,320 --> 01:44:55,200
Speaker 1: two factor authentication right away. Okay, yeah, tracked down those

2137
01:44:55,240 --> 01:44:58,960
Speaker 1: email addresses. Steve from Cincinnati writes in on your last show,

2138
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:02,040
Speaker 1: you mentioned that Amazon now has price history. Well, camel

2139
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:04,679
Speaker 1: Cammell Cambell has been doing it better for a while.

2140
01:45:05,320 --> 01:45:08,519
Speaker 1: Their browser extension, the Camelizer, gives you at least six months,

2141
01:45:08,600 --> 01:45:11,519
Speaker 1: sometimes a year, of price history. Thanks for the great show.

2142
01:45:11,600 --> 01:45:11,800
Speaker 2: Rich.

2143
01:45:11,840 --> 01:45:14,360
Speaker 1: By the way, my last name sounds like the word cool.

2144
01:45:14,800 --> 01:45:16,479
Speaker 1: I don't have his last name in here, but you

2145
01:45:16,520 --> 01:45:17,360
Speaker 1: are cool, Steve.

2146
01:45:17,479 --> 01:45:17,840
Speaker 2: Thank you.

2147
01:45:19,000 --> 01:45:21,360
Speaker 1: I like the Amazon price history because it's simple and

2148
01:45:21,400 --> 01:45:23,639
Speaker 1: it's right there. But yes, there are many options out there.

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Speaker 1: Ray writes in magic Jack is still around. It now

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Speaker 1: connects directly to your router, not your computer using an

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Speaker 1: Ethernet cable. You just need internet service. It's about fifty

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Speaker 1: dollars a year with no monthly fee. I've used it

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Speaker 1: for over fifty years with both corded and cordless phones,

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Speaker 1: even an answering machine.

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Speaker 2: I'll not say something.

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Speaker 1: Yes, look at the monitor right to your left. H

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Speaker 1: that's from tmz Dare you see this? This is okay?

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Speaker 1: So this says your Google customer, Congratulations, you're one of

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Speaker 1: one hundred users we have selected for free stuff.

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Speaker 2: And it looks just like Google. It does.

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Speaker 1: Man, if you look at the website, that's not a

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Speaker 1: Google website, get mega love. Yeah, no, that is not.

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Speaker 1: That is not You have to be careful, and this happens.

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Speaker 1: This is really called malvertising. So advertisers inject stuff like

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Speaker 1: this into legitimate advertising. But they do it so quickly

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Speaker 1: that before the Google systems or any of the advertising

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Speaker 1: systems have a chance to figure this out, they've already

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Speaker 1: netted a couple people. That happens all the time, literally

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Speaker 1: tmz dot com and opened it a few minutes later.

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Speaker 2: It just popped up.

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Speaker 1: It can happen on any website, even legitimate ones. Just

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Speaker 1: be careful with that stuff. But if you get that

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars gift card, you gotta split it with me.

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Speaker 1: Leo from the South Bay says, great show. We've had

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Speaker 1: uma for many years.

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Speaker 2: It works great.

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Speaker 1: Also, you overestimated the cost. We're only paying about seven

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Speaker 1: to seventy five a month for free nationwide calls. Okay,

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Speaker 1: good clarification, Leo, I mentioned ten to twelve dollars a

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Speaker 1: month in taxes and fees.

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Speaker 2: It could be lower depending on your location. Let's see.

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Speaker 2: Do we have one more to get to before the

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Speaker 2: break here? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Danny writes in from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rich, you

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Speaker 1: can get good moon pictures with an iPhone, but it

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Speaker 1: takes practice.

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Speaker 2: A tripod works best.

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Speaker 1: Adjust the exposure by tapping the screen to set the focus,

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Speaker 1: then drag the exposure slider to manually just brightness. Eh,

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Speaker 1: just get a Samsung S twenty five Ultra, gona take

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Speaker 1: it all right.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna do it for this episode.

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Speaker 1: Next week, how AI is taking over the fast food

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Speaker 1: drive through, and how it's helping you plan for long

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Speaker 1: term care. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible.

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Speaker 1: Find me at rich on Tech. My name is Rich Dmiro.

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Speaker 2: Talk to you real soon.