WEBVTT - Samsung foldables hands-on, cleaning up privacy permissions & Gemini AI notebook hack (129, July 12, 2025) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.880 Samsung on veils it's newest foldable phones, and early reviews 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.360 are pretty strong. A new wearable lets you track blood 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:11.800 pressure without a cuff and it's FDA approved. Why one 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.840 woman spent a year receiving hundreds of Amazon returns to 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:20.880 her house? Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.560 on Rich Demiro And this is Rich on Tech. This 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.360 is the show where I talk about the tech stuff 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.960 I think you should know about. It's also the place 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:34.040 where I answer your questions about technology. I believe that 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.960 tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open up 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.440 those phone lines at triple eight rich one oh one. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.520 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:52.040 zero one, triple eight, rich one oh one. Give me 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.400 a call if you have a question about technology. You 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.520 can also send me an email. Just go to Rich 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:03.520 on Tech dot tv and hit contact Guests. This week 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.600 we've got Patrick Chome of Samsung. He's going to talk 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.600 about the company's new line of foldables and why he 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.880 believes now is the time to jump on board. And 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:19.640 later we've got Ari Paparo, a former Google executive and 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.319 author of Yield How Google bought, built, and bullied its 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:29.959 way to advertising dominance. They'll talk about how Google quietly 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:35.800 took over digital advertising. Well, this week I was on 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.559 the road once again. It has been a very, very 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:44.200 busy summer. This week I was in Brooklyn for Samsung's 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.400 Unpacked event. Now, they usually do two of these a year, 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.280 one for their standard S series of phones, like the 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:56.400 Galaxy S twenty five, and then one for their Z series, 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.280 which are their foldables. Now, if you look at a Z, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.680 I guess that kind of looks like a fold ball. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.560 I guess you might remember last year they launched their 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.840 foldable phones in Paris along with their smart ring. The 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.080 year before it was in Seoul, South Korea, where I 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.840 also got to take a tour of their headquarters. By 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.960 the way, if the tech person that you like is 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.000 not going to all of these various events, you got 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.880 to think to yourself, how can they have perspective on 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.120 all of this stuff. It is a lot of work 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.840 to travel to all of these different places to be 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.560 there in person, you know. So I make a point 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.200 to do that because I want to see how Samsung 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.720 does things. I want to see how Nothing does their stuff. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.480 I want to see how Apple does their stuff. If 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.919 the person you're following is only going to one place 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.880 or no places? How can they have that perspective talking 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.040 to people on the ground, meeting with people going hands 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.000 on with these new devices. Just remember that now this 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.640 event was focused on the Z Fold seven and the 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.639 Z Flip seven. Keep in mind, Samsung has been making 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.639 foldable since twenty nineteen and they've come such a long way. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.919 The first one was so basic. If you've got to 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.800 speck a dust in the hinge, the entire screen would 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.560 just go caput. It would just be broken. Now, not 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.240 so much anymore. These latest foldables are very refined, and 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.160 this year's models might finally be good enough to replace 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.040 your regular smartphone. Oh my gosh, did I really just 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.959 say that. Let's start with the Fold seven. The first 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.120 thing you notice when you pick this device up I've 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.680 got it here in my hand is how thin and 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.000 light it is. It is a huge departure from the 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:37.520 bulky design of the previous models. But the biggest improvement 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.680 is really the cover screen. This is the screen you 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.840 use the most when this device is folded. It is 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:48.240 actually usable for day to day tasks. The outside screen 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.920 is now six point five inches, way wider than before 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.520 previous models. I just couldn't use because the outside screen 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.600 was just too narrow. This one you can actually use 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.000 now when you open it up. It's eight inches, basically 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.119 a mini tablet in your pocket, and for the first time, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.840 it has Samsung's best two hundred megapixel camera. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:08.760 I've been using it for the past few days. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.080 It takes great pictures, just what you'd expect from a 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.840 Samsung and I think that's a good thing that they 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.480 added to this device because now it's a proper camera 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:20.080 as well. Now there are a few downgrades for starters. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.159 Samsung dropped Stylus support. That means you cannot use an 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.400 spen with this device, which is kind of a bummer 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.880 because they say it's a productivity powerhouse. And of course 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.760 the price went up by one hundred dollars, making an 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:37.400 expensive phone even more expensive. So how much is this 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.240 thing gonna cost? The z Fold seven is two thousand 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.279 dollars for a two hundred and fifty six gigabyte version 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.640 with twelve gigabytes of RAM. If you really want to 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.640 go all out and your money's just burning a major 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.480 hole in your pocket, you can get a one terabyte 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.680 version with sixteen gigabytes of RAM. Now I've been using 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.360 this phone for the past few days, and I can 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.279 tell you that it is finally gotten to a place 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:03.760 that is really good. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.839 Like I can actually recommend this. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.560 The outside screen is big enough for doing all the 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.080 day to day tasks you want to do. The inside 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.520 screen is really cool for doing things like your email, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.760 watching videos, working on spreadsheets. It really is a two 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.920 in one device, so no need to carry a separate 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.200 tablet or even buy one, which, if you think about it, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.680 that could be you know, three to five hundred dollars 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.560 all by itself, and not one less thing to charge. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:29.840 You know, if you're doing your Netflix downloads and things 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.920 when you travel, it's one less thing to worry about. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.760 But this phone is also super slippery. It does not 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.719 lay flat on a table. It's actually comical how it 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.159 lays When it's on a table. Of course, you'll probably 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.120 put a case on it. And the power button is 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.400 so recessed it is a bit tricky to activate the 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.440 AI or the camera easily, but I did find a workaround. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.600 There's a little setting in there that will leave the 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.760 power button always on for the fingerprint sensor. You don't 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:58.920 actually have to push it down to activate it. So 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.000 that makes life a little bit easier. I just figured 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.560 that out. Battery life does not seem great to me. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.960 They did not improve the battery life on the fold. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:07.720 Now. 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.440 I've been using it NonStop for the past couple of days, 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.320 so maybe that's why the battery is just always kind of, 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.600 you know, not that impressive to me. But I will 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.599 have to try this for a little bit longer and 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.560 see if the battery life levels out. Now, onto the 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.880 Flip seven. This is the smaller phone that closes like 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.520 a clamshell or if you had one of those old 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.720 school motorol erasers. It's like that. It's like an old 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.960 school flip phone, except much more modern. Now on this one, 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.920 the first thing you notice is that the outside screen, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.040 which Samsung calls the cover screen, is now pushed all 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.560 the way to the edges. So basically the entire front 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.159 of the phone is now a screen, and it has 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.200 two camera hole cutouts. They did a cute little thing 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:49.839 where they showed a picture of the phone on the 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.360 stage like a big screen picture, and it was a 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.480 picture of a dog and the eyes were the camera 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.800 hole cutouts. Now, when you open up the phone, you 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.159 get a proper six point nine inch display in the 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.400 ratio that you're used to, so again it's not as 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.000 narrow as before. The big deal with these phones that 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.400 was kind of a problem was that they were too 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.920 narrow to use. Now Samsung figured out how to make 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.000 them almost as wide as our standard phones that they 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.320 feel a little bit better when you're using them day 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:20.680 to day. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:21.120 Now. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.040 One of the big complaints of the Flip has always 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.560 been the battery life. Samsung did address that they increased 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.560 the battery by three hundred million hours, which is just 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.280 under ten percent more battery life while more battery capacity, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.600 I should say, but that should really help on this 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.040 tiny device. Now, the camera hardware, they didn't add anything new, 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.640 but they did, of course say they improved the software processing, 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.160 but they always say that, but this thing is always 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.840 taking good pictures. Here's the neat part about the foldable 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.760 form factor if you're not familiar with it. Basically, when 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.200 you take your selfies and videos, you can use the 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.400 best cameras, the outer cameras, the main camera lenses. That's 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.840 because you can leave the phone closed and use the 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.960 front screen to see what you're taking a photo off. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.440 So it's a really nice benefit that no matter what 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.720 kind of photo or video you're capturing, whether it's a 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.840 regular video, regular photo, or a selfie, you're always using 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.400 the best cameras, and so Samsung sort of positions this 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.240 as like a creator's friend. Of course, most of the 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.920 creators I know are using iPhone. Pricing on the z 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.320 Flip stays the same eleven hundred dollars. There's also Gemini 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:25.840 AI built into both. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:26.400 Of these devices. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.920 Of course we know that, but it's really useful on 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.160 these phones, especially compared to the half baked AI that's 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.200 built into the iPhone. Let's be honest, you're not even 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.600 using AI in the iPhone for anything. I mean, if 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.120 you are, I don't know what you're doing, because for me, 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:40.840 it's all about chat, GBT and Gemini. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:41.800 I'm not. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.079 I don't even know if Siri has the smarts that 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.920 I need. Let's see what else. Oh, these phones are 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:52.000 also much more usable because of Gemini AI. So you 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.480 can now leave this little flip z flip closed and 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.560 you can just activate the AI to do all kinds 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.680 of stuff, including functions on the phone that you. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:01.720 Just couldn't do before. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.280 And I'll have more of my interview later on with 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.920 the Samsung rep but he mentions this that like things 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.400 you couldn't do before, you can now do on these 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.360 phones because of AI, like all the commands you want 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.600 to do are functionable because of that. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.240 It's pretty neat. Now. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.760 I know these prices are high, but remember nobody pays 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.959 full price for Samsung products. There's always some sort of promotion, 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.559 trade in deal, or discount out there, so be sure 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.640 to look out for that if you are purchasing one 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.640 of these. Someone my Instagram yesterday sent me a little 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.600 screenshot of them buying the new z Fold and they 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.199 traded in their old phone. They got a bunch of 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.160 money for that, and they also got some sort of discount. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.520 I think it was like an education discount. So again, 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.520 always be on the lookout for those discounts. Now, if 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.760 two thousand dollars or even eleven hunters too much for you, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.080 they're also making a flip f e edition which has 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.840 a smaller outside screen, a lesser battery, and no dedicated 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.120 zoom lens. That's going to sell for nine hundred dollars, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.360 probably cheaper because they'll discount that one even more heavily. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.880 But if I were you, if you're gonna get these, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.160 I would go with the standard one. The Z Flip 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.840 is gonna give you much better specs than that the 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.800 fe model. All of these phones go on sale July 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.400 twenty fifth, and so far, pretty much everyone I have 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.640 talked to, all the other folks at the event with me, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.320 they all agree that these phones have finally hit the 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.720 point where you can comfortably switch and not miss a 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.600 thing now, unless, of course, you have to have an 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.600 iPhone in iOS and a lot of people feel that way. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.560 They don't want to switch to a Samsung, no matter 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.440 how compelling these new form factors are, because they want Apple. 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.640 And Apple, of course, is rumored to launch their first 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.520 foldable next year in twenty twenty six. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.480 And you know that I'm gonna be. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.400 Talking about it right here on this radio show, and 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.400 people are gonna be going wild over it, and they're 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.080 even going to pretend that Samsung has not been doing 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:51.920 this for the past six years. 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:56.040 Now, all right, we got a lot on today's show. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:57.040 I am feeling good. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.120 I'm gonna talk about my trip to New York City, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.240 tell you the rest restaurants I went to and how 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.160 they couldn't be more different. We'll talk about Prime Day, 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.400 and of course we will take your calls at Triple 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.320 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.880 to two four to one zero one. Follow along on 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.959 the website rich on Tech dot tv. We'll be back 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:24.880 after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.839 here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.280 rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:37.320 two four one zero one. The website is rich on 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.880 Tech dot TV. You can find me on Instagram at 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.200 rich on tech. You see the trend going on here. Yeah, 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.400 it's pretty easy to find me. Let's go to Harland 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.360 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:50.160 You're on with rich. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.720 Hey, Rich, thanks for taking my call. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:53.959 Absolutely. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.280 My wife and I purchased a camper that does not 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.160 have a TV or audio equipment in it, and I 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.920 don't need help picking any of that equipment for c 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.080 But what I would like to do is somehow be 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:12.640 able to screen cast or play Hulu on a TV 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.360 or some device in the camp or from my Android phone, 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.800 and I have not found out a way. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:19.600 To be able to do that. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.640 See what you got for some ideas or suggestions. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.280 So you want to play Hulu from your phone, but 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.680 you don't, let's see here, So you're. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:34.160 Sorry, and without turning on the hot spot on the phone. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.640 Right, So you're not You're there's no network on the 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.959 TV basically, because my my initial thought is get a 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.280 Chrome cast and just plug that into the back of 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.640 the TV, and you can do it that way, but 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.880 you would need a network for that to run on. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.680 Correct And and the hotspot turned on on the phone. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:56.000 Hmmm, that's a tricky one. Um, let me think about this. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.920 So what about a cable from the phone to the TV? 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.160 Can you do that? What kind of phone did? 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.840 Yeah, I've tried it. It's a Samsung A fifty three five, okay, 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.959 And I did get a USB C to HDMI cable 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.360 and I couldn't end up getting it connected to the TV. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.680 But I was able to connect the TV through the Roku, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.800 but then it wouldn't play Hulu. And I guess from 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.120 my understanding, Hulu has the restrictions so that you can't 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.240 do screen mirroring on an Android phone for some reason. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:30.720 What do you mean by that? What do you mean 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.960 you got what where's the Roku come into play here? 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:33.960 Okay? 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.120 Well I tried it at home because we have Roku's 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:37.760 in the house. 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.360 Oh okay, Well, at home and at home it's going 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.520 to be a lot easier because you have a Wi 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.480 Fi network and that you know, you can you can 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.640 pretty much either cast or whatever you want to the TV. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:47.760 Correct. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.600 So it's in the camper where you don't have a network, 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.040 where you're trying to get this connected to the TV wirelessly, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.600 that's going to be a problem. I mean, there there 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.320 there might be a way that you could set up. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.400 The thing about chrome cast is that what it's doing 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.560 is it's not actually casting it from your phone. It's 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.920 just taking like an instruction to say, hey, on the 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.680 back end, find this signal and play it, right, like, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:14.959 go to this, go to this connection and play that 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:19.920 that thing. Yeah, so without without a connection like a 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.120 Wi Fi connection, I don't think you're gonna be able 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.040 to do that very easily. That not that I can 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:25.560 think of. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.960 Yeah, and yeah, because I you know, I tried that, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.360 and yeah, it won't it won't work. It won't work 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.680 on a chrome cast because yeah, like you said, chrome 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:41.240 cast takes the you know, app instructions and whatnot permissions 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.600 from the phone and then it streams directly from the 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.280 Wi Fi source. But if I don't have the hot 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.640 spot on, then I won't be able to do that. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:56.120 What about like using some sort of a tablet with 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:57.720 it that has a SIM card in it. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.160 Well, okay, you can do that, I mean very easily. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.080 But why would you want that versus just getting If 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:06.880 you're going to pay for a SIM and the tablet, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.480 are you going to watch it on the tablet or 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:09.280 watch it on the TV? 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.720 Well it would probably Well I haven't investigated too much 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.480 into that to find out if I could do anything 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.000 with getting the image from the. 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:22.680 Tablet out to a TV, but that was my next 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.760 big I guess IDEA. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.600 Well, I mean you could easily do that. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.240 I mean, look, a standard iPad will definitely HDMI out 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:35.160 to the TV. Now whether the app allows, Like you said, 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.160 there are some restrictions on apps that they don't necessarily 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.520 like to mirror to TVs because of copyright reasons. So 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:43.960 I don't think that's the best solution. I think if 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.000 you're going to get a SIM card in a tablet, 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.720 you might as well just set up the Wi Fi 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.840 network or use the hotspot on your phone, or you 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.520 can get one of these like t Mobile five G 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:59.120 home Internet devices and just use that for your Internet 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.720 inside the the RV or the camper, or you could 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.440 just you know, or you can just get a better 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.280 plan on your phone and use the hot spot. So 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.520 I mean, you know, because you're out and about and 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.280 you're on the go, that you're really limited because you 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.600 need that internet connection to get it onto the big screen. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:16.280 Yeah, that's correct. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:18.920 The other thing you can do, I mean, it doesn't 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:23.360 help with the content that you are watching on streaming services, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.360 but you could download content to a flash drive and 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.880 then put it on the TV that way. The problem 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.720 is most of the content these days is all streaming 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.960 and it's not really downloadable unless you're getting into a 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.400 gray area. But I don't really recommend that kind of stuff, 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.200 so I can't mention that. But yeah, so I mean 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:45.360 I think that the hot spot, making the hot spot 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.800 allotment on your phone more generous, I guess would help 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.400 with this situation because I think the chrome cast really 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.400 is the easiest way, or a roku, I mean either way, 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.200 like you can get any stick for the back of 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.040 this TV, plug it in and then you can easily get. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:16:59.800 All the streaming services. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.480 But without that Wi Fi network or without that hotspot, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.160 it is really tricky. Harland and now that we talked 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.000 about this. Maybe there are some other folks that are 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.760 listening that have some solutions that they've come up within 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.280 their camper that maybe I'm not thinking about. So we'll 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.879 stay on the lookout for those good question. Thanks for 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.880 the call today from Green Bay, Wisconsin eight eight eight 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.879 rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.360 two four one zero one. We'll talk about Prime Day, 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.840 what shoppers actually bought and how much they saved or spent. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.120 I guess coming up right here on rich on Tech. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.120 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.880 out with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.960 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:54.560 one zero one. Before the break, we had Harland in 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:59.920 Wisconsin asking about how to watch Hulu on a tee 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.760 and his camper but without any Wi Fi or hotspot, 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.200 and I think I figured out the way. I think 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.199 he was onto something with the tablet situation. So I 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:11.520 looked up and Hulu does indeed support an HDMI cable 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.720 to stream from an iPhone or an iPad, so if 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:20.640 he gets a little adapter he can connect his Let's 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:24.320 say he bought an iPad, just an inexpensive iPad, gets 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.679 the adapter and plugs that iPad into the TV. That 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.879 way he'd be able to watch Hulu. But here's the thing. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.800 He'd probably have to download the content to that iPad 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.960 before he leaves his home, or he can use the 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:40.520 hotspot on his phone to download the stuff to the tablet. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.679 But I think that may work, but it's not the 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:48.679 best solution. It's not the prettiest solution. But the tricky 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.800 part is that he has that Samsung smartphone that doesn't 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.840 seem to support the video out. So if he had 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:56.920 an iPhone, it'd probably be a little bit easier of 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:58.840 a process. You just connect it right to the TV. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.560 So lots of ways to kind of figure out how 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.640 to do that. That's just one of them. Maybe there's 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:10.080 some others. Prime Day, yes, four days. We made it 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.560 through Prime Day, made it through another Prime Day, if 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.920 you can believe it. We bought just a couple of things. 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:17.399 I had a bunch of stuff in my car, a 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.560 bunch of plans. Even over four days, I still put 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.160 it off and by the end I was like, ah, 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.959 I guess I won't buy anything. But we did do 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:26.800 this thing. I don't know if this has ever happened 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.960 to you. But my wife and I will often put 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.800 stuff in the Amazon cart and the other person might 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:34.480 order it by accident and be like, oh, hey, I 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.359 ordered those pants you wanted. I'm like, oh, I don't 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:37.960 really want them, I just put them in the cart. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.040 Well this time, And this has happened several times. I 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.439 sometimes put things in the cart multiple times. And so 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.679 I had two pairs of these sweatpants that I wanted, 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:49.720 and we get them delivered and I'm like, why do 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.640 I have two pairs of sweatpants. She's like, oh, well, 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.240 they were just in the car. I said, Ah, it's 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.680 a mistake. So look at the quantities, because if you're 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.840 like me and you're always on Amazon, you're always adding stuff. 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.399 Sometimes you add more than one so that happens. But 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.560 how much did people spend total online spending? This includes 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.840 all retailers online. According to Adobe Analytics, twenty four billion 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.960 dollars over those four days, up thirty percent from last year. 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:18.239 Mobile shopping dominated over fifty three percent of purchases were 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:22.000 made on phones, and people were using the AI tools. 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:24.399 I don't they say they were using Alexa plus. I 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:25.600 don't know if I believe that. I don't know how 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.080 many people have access to that, but Rufus was the 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:29.760 one I told you about how to use that to 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.399 find the price history, which is very convenient. Top selling 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:38.880 items ring battery, doorbell, fire, TV stick, AirPods, Pro two, 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:45.520 Alexa devices, Bio Dance, Collagen, masks, Dawn powerwash. I mean, 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:50.200 how unexciting is it to buy dish soap on Prime Day? 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.359 Oh it's Prime Day, Let me buy my dish soap. 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:54.920 I mean, the fact that Amazon's calling that out is 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:56.400 one of the biggest purchases. 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:57.920 I have no doubt it really works. 0:20:57.960 --> 0:20:59.560 I love don I think down is one of the 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.199 best best dish assurgents, but I mean it's just funny. 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:10.040 Kids apparel also surged. Home security, refrigerators, headphones, power tools, 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:16.480 and computers and school supplies also very popular. Biggest discounts clothes, electronics, toys, TVs, 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:17.240 and appliances. 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:19.240 Let's see what else. 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.879 Apparently, generative AI and influencer content played a big role. 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:29.679 AI driven shopping traffic rows three percent. I agree with 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:31.680 that because a lot of people are starting to use chat, 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:35.680 GBT and Gemini for product recommendations. There's also a website 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:40.600 called vetted dot ai which does product recommendations based on 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:43.560 all the different reviews out there, so worth the stop 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:44.959 if you want to look at things like if you're 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.679 looking for the best whatever noise canceling headphones, I know 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.000 you can call me, but you can also look at 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.240 this vetted dot AI. You know the stuff that I recommend. 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:57.840 I typically like to test and try personally before I 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.679 just go ahead and recommend it. Let's go to Adarsha 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.160 in Michigan. You're on with Rich. 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:11.119 Hi, good morning, thanks for taking my call. I'm a 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:15.159 hurt patient just got back from Cleveland clinic waiting on 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.640 a heart transplant. Oh wow, and produced significant health issues. 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:25.240 But I'm fortunate there were people over the house when 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:28.240 I passed out and they called my one. But most 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:31.520 of the time, I'm single, and I want to know 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.360 should should I get the life alert or would a 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:42.440 smart watch be just as comparable for emergency services? 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:43.000 Now? 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:46.320 I know the smart watch is Bluetooth enabled, and you 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:49.199 know is that you know? Do you have to have 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:52.960 your phone nearby? I think that's the deal. And is 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:57.840 it considered reliable enough that you know if something happens, 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:00.560 Because some of them are say that if you fall, 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:03.040 they'll automatically call. 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:05.520 Yeah, and I think that's the Well. First off, I'm 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:07.720 glad you're doing better. I know this is probably a 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:10.840 scary situation when that happened, and no one ever wants 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:12.760 to go through that, But the fact that you're on 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:14.120 your way to recovery is good. 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:14.800 I do like that. 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:18.680 This is you know, this is a tricky situation because 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:22.280 this is this is a serious condition, and you know 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:25.720 this is just consumer advice I'm giving. But I would 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:29.080 say the fall detection is probably the thing you want 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:33.000 the most because the fact that you may be in 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:36.879 a position to press this alert on another device to 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:39.040 call for help, that may not be the case from 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:42.040 what you're telling me right, Like, you may be in 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:44.119 a position where you can't press a button or you 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:46.520 can't dial nine one one. So the fact that the 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:50.320 smart watch offers the fall detection, I would think would 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.439 push it over the edge to what I would choose. 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:57.640 But you have to keep in mind this is not perfect. 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:00.600 Like I've been playing football my kids outside, the thing 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:03.280 goes off. Other times I'll take a hard fall and 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:05.480 it doesn't go off. So I think it's gotten better 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:07.760 over time, but it is an algorithm. But I think 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:10.679 it's probably your best bet and both. I know the 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:13.960 pixel watch has fall detection. I know the Apple Watch 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:17.200 has fall detection. Are you on iOS or Android? 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:19.000 Android? 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:23.280 Okay, so which watcher you looking at? I'm trying to 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:26.840 looks like the Samsung smart watches do have the fall 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:27.760 detection as well. 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:32.720 So yeah, I think the song eight, Yeah, something like that. 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:34.919 That's the one I'm wearing right now. I just just 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:36.959 got the new one to test. I've not set up 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:40.720 the safety features, but that I would probably go towards 0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:43.040 the smart watch. The only other thing the consideration that 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:47.480 you were kind of mentioning is the bluetooth connectivity versus 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:52.399 cellular connectivity in your case, because you have an established 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:54.840 medical condition that you're now kind of watching out for. 0:24:55.480 --> 0:24:59.159 I would say I would want the cellular because the 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:01.080 problem is with the bl tooth. If your phone is 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:03.880 not in nearby er, that connection is not perfect. Your 0:25:04.119 --> 0:25:06.280 your watch may not be able to get through to 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:10.080 nine one one, so that could be a problem. 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:13.000 I was a little worried about that portion because you know, 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:15.720 I have these little bluetooth speakers. Every once in a 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:17.600 while it doesn't pick up. You got to turn the 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:20.639 thing off, turn it back, you know, and try again. 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:24.920 So I don't know why it does that, it just does. 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:28.080 And so that's what my concern was. I'm not going 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:30.840 to have the wherewithal to turn off, turn on, try again. 0:25:31.040 --> 0:25:32.920 No, And most of the time the connection is pretty 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:35.760 good any and the Samsung Watch will actually alert you 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:38.600 with a vibration if your watch, if your watch is 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:40.880 not connected to your phone, or if it loses a connection. 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:44.280 Yeah. So that's a nice thing there, and it doesn't 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:44.920 happen very often. 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:47.040 Are you in a large place where you might leave 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:49.879 your phone in a separate area of the house very often? 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:52.720 I generally don't. I usually keep my phone with me, 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:57.159 you know, so that's not really an issue. I don't know. 0:25:57.200 --> 0:25:59.840 I was thinking, should I just get both, you know, 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:02.960 to be doubly sure. 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:06.040 The life alert, the LFE alert and the watch. Yeah, 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:08.120 that might be. That might be a bit much, especially 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:10.240 for the budget. I mean, if budget was no concern, 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:12.720 you want to do that. But to me, I think 0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:15.320 that what I would do personally is maybe talk to 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:18.160 a doctor or two that you trust and get their 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:20.000 take on it and see what they think. But I 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:24.439 personally think that the the watch detection is probably a 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:27.080 really good bet, and it's something that you know, a 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:29.600 lot of people are already relying on. I think it's 0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:32.200 it's been proven that it's saved lives over the past 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:35.240 couple of years that these features have been invented. And 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:37.400 I would go through and just make sure that everything 0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:40.119 is set up properly on both your phone and your watch. 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:43.080 And you might also look into getting a smart speaker 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:46.480 that can handle an emergency alert like the Alexa. I 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:48.840 know they've got this feature where you can I think 0:26:48.920 --> 0:26:50.960 you pay like five bucks a month, but you can 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:53.320 call for help. Like let's say you fell and you 0:26:53.320 --> 0:26:56.600 were still able to speak, you could call for help 0:26:56.680 --> 0:26:59.320 through that speaker as well. So that's another avenue just 0:26:59.359 --> 0:27:01.520 to make sure you're covered in every aspect of this. 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:05.120 But what does it look like you have to pay 0:27:05.160 --> 0:27:06.040 a monthly fee? 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:09.119 No, no, you just you just buy the watch and 0:27:09.160 --> 0:27:10.040 you're and you're good to go. 0:27:10.400 --> 0:27:14.320 Okay, all right, Darsha, and we wish you the best. 0:27:15.160 --> 0:27:17.480 Thank you, thanks for the call today. I appreciate that. 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:21.960 Uh well, speaking of heart, you ever feel tightness in 0:27:22.000 --> 0:27:24.679 your chest, to flutter, maybe shortness of breath? You wonder 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:27.919 is this serious or is it just stress. 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You'll talk to her, 0:29:34.440 --> 0:29:37.760 she'll put you on to me and we'll get you 0:29:37.800 --> 0:29:38.240 on the air. 0:29:38.280 --> 0:29:38.480 Here. 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:41.080 I told you I was in New York City this 0:29:41.160 --> 0:29:45.600 week and always always love being there. And my wife 0:29:45.640 --> 0:29:48.880 actually accompanied me on this business trip, which she never does, 0:29:48.960 --> 0:29:51.080 by the way, like never ever in the history I've 0:29:51.080 --> 0:29:53.800 been traveling for fifteen years. I don't think she's ever 0:29:53.880 --> 0:29:56.760 joined me on a trip. This time she had the time, 0:29:56.880 --> 0:30:00.040 she had some time off, so she did, and of 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:02.680 of course, you know, I'm working the whole time, and 0:30:02.760 --> 0:30:05.720 I realized I never realized how much I work until 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:07.720 you have someone else that you're trying to like do 0:30:07.840 --> 0:30:10.160 things with, and so I'm like, I still got one 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:11.960 more thing to do, one more thing to do. Oh, 0:30:12.000 --> 0:30:13.600 I gotta wake up early for this. Oh I gotta 0:30:13.640 --> 0:30:14.960 go to sleep late for that. Oh, I got to 0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:18.000 go to this party. So it was great, and I 0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:20.400 at one point I made the mistake because I felt 0:30:20.440 --> 0:30:22.640 really bad. I said, oh, this isn't going to happen again, 0:30:22.920 --> 0:30:24.520 and she was like, what do you mean. I was like, oh, 0:30:24.640 --> 0:30:25.959 I mean, it's just not really working out. 0:30:26.000 --> 0:30:26.600 She's like, what do you mean? 0:30:26.760 --> 0:30:30.360 I thought I'd been very accommodating, So I probably shouldn't 0:30:30.360 --> 0:30:34.200 have said that. You ever say something to your wife 0:30:34.200 --> 0:30:35.840 and you see the look on their face and you 0:30:35.880 --> 0:30:39.040 realize like immediately that you should not have said that. 0:30:39.480 --> 0:30:42.640 And that was that experience. I was like just thinking 0:30:42.680 --> 0:30:44.640 I was saying something factual, and she was just like, 0:30:44.640 --> 0:30:48.040 wait what, and it was just yeah, we did go 0:30:48.080 --> 0:30:49.800 to a couple good restaurants. We couldn't have gone to 0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:53.240 two more different restaurants we went. We stayed near Little 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:56.840 Italy and so, which was amazing. You know, I'm Italian 0:30:56.880 --> 0:30:58.880 and so I just had the greatest time walking those 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:01.920 streets and you know, like half the signs like sopranos 0:31:01.920 --> 0:31:04.600 and stuff. But we went to this one little place 0:31:04.600 --> 0:31:06.680 that I found, I want to tell you the name, 0:31:06.760 --> 0:31:09.480 Asteria Baroca in Little Italy. 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:10.600 Loved it. 0:31:10.680 --> 0:31:13.520 Oh my gosh, so good, so on assuming and they 0:31:13.520 --> 0:31:15.680 make their own pasta. The way you can tell a 0:31:15.680 --> 0:31:18.960 good Italian restaurant if they make the pasta in house. 0:31:18.960 --> 0:31:21.240 And if you ever go to an Italian restaurant, say 0:31:21.240 --> 0:31:24.360 are any of these pastas made here? And ninety nine 0:31:24.360 --> 0:31:25.920 percent of the time they're not, But if they have 0:31:26.120 --> 0:31:27.080 any that are, get that. 0:31:28.280 --> 0:31:29.040 And then I went out. 0:31:29.120 --> 0:31:31.680 We had a big dinner at my family members, which 0:31:31.720 --> 0:31:34.280 my family's wild and crazy. When they get together, it's 0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:36.600 a bunch of loud folks and there's a bunch of us, 0:31:37.120 --> 0:31:38.040 but it's always fun. 0:31:38.080 --> 0:31:39.000 We always have a great time. 0:31:39.040 --> 0:31:42.600 We went to this place in Times Square called Tony Dinapolis, 0:31:43.240 --> 0:31:44.720 and that could not have been more of like a 0:31:44.760 --> 0:31:47.200 tourist y trap kind of place. But I'm saying that 0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:49.560 in a very nice way. It was excellent, like the 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:52.600 waiter was amazing. And he said the best thing to me, 0:31:53.120 --> 0:31:55.080 This was the best thing that he said. He said, 0:31:55.080 --> 0:31:57.480 I just moved here from I think he said, Lithuania 0:31:57.520 --> 0:31:59.440 a year ago. And we said, oh, how do you 0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:01.880 like it? Be goes, I love it. It's America. And 0:32:01.920 --> 0:32:03.840 I just that puts such a smile on my face 0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:05.880 to hear that from him. I really did like that, 0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:07.680 because you know, we I know, there's all kinds of 0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:09.840 stuff going on in the world, but you know, people 0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:12.960 are still happy. There are still happy people out there. 0:32:14.040 --> 0:32:17.040 Archie writes in from Jackson, Mississippi, listening on one oh 0:32:17.080 --> 0:32:20.960 three nine w YAB and six twenty w jd X. 0:32:21.880 --> 0:32:24.720 I used to remove backgrounds from images using PowerPoint, but 0:32:24.760 --> 0:32:26.400 I don't have access to it anymore. Is there a 0:32:26.440 --> 0:32:30.240 free desktop or online tool that lets me remove backgrounds 0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:32.120 manually like PowerPoint used to do? 0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:33.120 Uh? 0:32:33.200 --> 0:32:33.400 Yeah. 0:32:33.400 --> 0:32:34.719 A couple things to look out for. 0:32:34.880 --> 0:32:38.400 Number one, there is a website called remove dot BG 0:32:39.280 --> 0:32:44.120 Remove dot BG, Super simple, super easy. That's probably the 0:32:44.160 --> 0:32:47.360 first one that I would go check out. Dragon Drop. 0:32:47.640 --> 0:32:51.760 The second one BG eraser BG eraser get it BG 0:32:51.880 --> 0:32:57.200 background bgeraser dot com. That's another good option, BG eraser. 0:32:57.440 --> 0:32:59.120 Let me tell you which one's my favorite. I gotta 0:32:59.120 --> 0:33:01.000 look at these to see. Okay, that one's my favorite 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:05.400 BG eraser dot com. And then you've got pixi in 0:33:05.680 --> 0:33:08.560 p i x i a n dot Ai p i 0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:11.440 x i a n dot Ai. Oh wait, that one 0:33:11.480 --> 0:33:15.720 I think is my favorite. Sorry, I tested these. Yeah, 0:33:15.760 --> 0:33:19.320 that one's my favorite, pixi in dot Ai. The only 0:33:19.360 --> 0:33:22.280 thing about these is that if you want to download 0:33:22.280 --> 0:33:26.280 a full resolution of the removed background, sometimes they charge 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:27.920 you more. They might charge you or there might be 0:33:28.000 --> 0:33:29.640 a limit, so you just have to be you know, 0:33:29.920 --> 0:33:32.720 everything has a price, right. And then there's another one 0:33:32.760 --> 0:33:37.080 called cleanup dot pictures cleanup dot pictures, and that's good 0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:41.080 for removing stray objects. So cleanup dot pictures. You got 0:33:41.080 --> 0:33:45.360 a whole bunch of options there. Yeah, and then let's 0:33:45.360 --> 0:33:49.360 see here. We've got Kimberly from New Jersey. I love 0:33:49.400 --> 0:33:51.960 taking pictures of the moon using my iPhone thirteen, but 0:33:52.000 --> 0:33:53.760 at night they just come out looking like a blob. 0:33:54.240 --> 0:33:56.160 I was wondering if the newest iPhone would have better 0:33:56.200 --> 0:34:00.040 results taking pictures of the moon at night. No, you 0:34:00.080 --> 0:34:02.880 don't know, iPhone takes pictures of the moon, unless you 0:34:02.920 --> 0:34:07.239 get They do sell on Amazon, these little magnifiers that 0:34:07.280 --> 0:34:10.719 you can plug into like a telescope and that will 0:34:10.760 --> 0:34:12.840 take a clear picture and they're only like a couple bucks. 0:34:13.320 --> 0:34:15.960 But if you really want to capture the moon, Samsung 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:17.759 is the only phone that I know of that does 0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:20.719 that in a very good way. Now there's a lot 0:34:20.719 --> 0:34:23.200 of debate around whether that's real or not, but it 0:34:23.239 --> 0:34:25.640 does it. Zoom In's got a hundred times zoom on 0:34:25.680 --> 0:34:27.879 the Ultras. You can take a picture of the moon. 0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:30.640 Gary in Los Angeles, what's up? 0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:33.319 Yeah, so I'm able to good and again they're rich. 0:34:33.600 --> 0:34:33.719 Hi. 0:34:34.800 --> 0:34:38.920 Anyways, I have a question about four G to five GC. 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:42.840 I have a Samsung Galaxy SPNN. I love this phone. 0:34:43.840 --> 0:34:46.560 The last time I was out in now do you 0:34:46.600 --> 0:34:48.640 ever go off to the ans of Barrigo Desert yourself? 0:34:48.880 --> 0:34:49.440 You ever watch it? 0:34:49.719 --> 0:34:51.760 Never been? But I'm sure you can take great pictures 0:34:51.800 --> 0:34:52.520 of the moon out there? 0:34:53.320 --> 0:34:56.640 Oh yeah, absolutely yeah. Well to take good photos of 0:34:56.680 --> 0:34:58.799 the moon you need a real lens, like a five 0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:03.400 hundred Momter lens. Absolutely now. But I'm out there photographing birds, 0:35:03.440 --> 0:35:05.399 which is what I do. If you talk to Leo, 0:35:05.480 --> 0:35:09.520 I was known as doctor Bird and uh, I'm out 0:35:09.560 --> 0:35:13.080 there and uh I got a flat tire, and so 0:35:13.200 --> 0:35:15.719 I wanted to call and talk to my friend at 0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:17.399 Costco and make sure you can get me a tire 0:35:18.120 --> 0:35:20.439 while I'm out there. And this was two weeks ago. 0:35:21.600 --> 0:35:24.759 In the past, my phone worked out there perfect. But 0:35:24.840 --> 0:35:28.320 I'm thinking maybe they converted all their cell sites to 0:35:28.440 --> 0:35:31.120 five G. And is that why my four G phone 0:35:31.120 --> 0:35:33.120 will not work? Uh? 0:35:33.400 --> 0:35:35.000 What you said you have Samsung? 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:36.520 What S ten e? 0:35:37.239 --> 0:35:37.719 S ten e? 0:35:37.840 --> 0:35:38.000 Oh? 0:35:39.040 --> 0:35:41.600 And Rachel is a grate puhone, I love it. Yeah. 0:35:41.719 --> 0:35:43.239 No, if it's not broke, don't fix it. I don't 0:35:43.239 --> 0:35:45.560 think they're getting software updates on that phone anymore, right, 0:35:46.520 --> 0:35:48.600 I don't think you gotta be you gotta be, you know, 0:35:48.880 --> 0:35:51.239 be careful with you know, if you're clicking things and 0:35:51.280 --> 0:35:53.400 that kind of stuff, because that could be a problem. 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:55.880 You know, these these phones that go out of service, 0:35:55.960 --> 0:35:58.120 they find the exploits in them. That's why they're dangerous 0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:02.800 to continue using. So did they convert to five G? 0:36:03.000 --> 0:36:05.320 I mean, yes, five G upgrades are happening everywhere, but 0:36:05.360 --> 0:36:07.920 they're not erasing the four G signal when they upgrade 0:36:07.920 --> 0:36:10.440 to five G, So it could have been a fluke. 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:14.000 It could have been just happened to be the signal 0:36:14.000 --> 0:36:17.560 at that day. Sometimes they do impact the signals when 0:36:17.600 --> 0:36:20.719 they're taking down or they're upgrading a network or a 0:36:20.800 --> 0:36:24.160 cell tower working on it. Sometimes that signal is impacted. 0:36:24.440 --> 0:36:26.880 But there's a million and one reasons why a signal 0:36:26.960 --> 0:36:29.960 could be different or varied in the area that you're in. 0:36:30.200 --> 0:36:32.440 So I don't think that they're getting rid of the 0:36:32.520 --> 0:36:34.839 four G signal to upgrade to the five G because 0:36:34.840 --> 0:36:37.520 I know that they're continuing to keep the four G 0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:42.440 signal and network alive. Good question, Gary, Thanks for the 0:36:42.480 --> 0:36:44.920 call today. Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight 0:36:44.960 --> 0:36:47.359 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:36:52.320 --> 0:36:53.719 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:36:53.920 --> 0:36:57.400 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology triple 0:36:57.480 --> 0:37:01.919 A rich one oh one a seven four to two 0:37:02.280 --> 0:37:03.440 four to one zero one. 0:37:03.560 --> 0:37:04.720 Hop on the line. 0:37:04.760 --> 0:37:08.040 If you've got a question about technology, otherwise you can 0:37:08.160 --> 0:37:10.439 email me. Just go to the website rich on Tech 0:37:10.520 --> 0:37:13.840 dot tv hit contact while you're there. Be sure to 0:37:13.880 --> 0:37:17.880 sign up for my free newsletter. Contains all the tips 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:21.040 and tricks I can think of throughout the week, and 0:37:21.440 --> 0:37:23.200 a lot of them I mentioned on the show, but 0:37:23.600 --> 0:37:25.279 you know there's still some stuff in there that's just 0:37:25.360 --> 0:37:26.439 not mentioned anywhere else. 0:37:26.560 --> 0:37:28.560 So definitely get on the list there. 0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:33.640 Robin wrote in I heard you talking about fall detection 0:37:33.800 --> 0:37:37.760 and getting help, and we were deciding between Life Alert 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.920 and a smartphone. Robin says, while Life Alert does not 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:44.520 offer automatic fall detection, one big benefit is that they 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:47.719 have access to your home. My mom fell when she 0:37:47.920 --> 0:37:50.359 was home alone because Life Alert had access to her 0:37:50.480 --> 0:37:54.080 lock box, Paramedics were able to get in take her 0:37:54.120 --> 0:37:57.000 to the hospital, and Life Alert called me right away. 0:37:57.960 --> 0:38:00.560 So yeah, there's pros and cons to all of this stuff. 0:38:00.640 --> 0:38:03.880 But Robin, good take on that. And I'm glad that 0:38:04.000 --> 0:38:07.200 your mom was able to get help quick and that 0:38:07.320 --> 0:38:07.840 they called you. 0:38:07.960 --> 0:38:09.000 That's pretty neat as well. 0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:13.080 Let's see, We've got lots going on in this hour, 0:38:13.440 --> 0:38:18.480 including an interview with Patrick Chome of Samsung. He's going 0:38:18.560 --> 0:38:21.320 to talk about the company's new line of foldable phones. 0:38:21.320 --> 0:38:26.080 I've been using the z Fold seven and I gotta 0:38:26.120 --> 0:38:28.320 say it is they They did a great job. Like 0:38:28.400 --> 0:38:30.920 there's no reason why I wouldn't recommend this phone to 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:33.960 someone that's interested in it, Like there's no big downside 0:38:34.480 --> 0:38:36.680 if you like a nice big screen on the inside. 0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:40.200 The outside screen is finally usable. It's got a good camera, 0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:44.360 it's fast, the software is good. They really did a 0:38:44.440 --> 0:38:47.000 nice job. The only thing is the camera bump on 0:38:47.120 --> 0:38:50.680 this thing is just like out of control. So I 0:38:50.800 --> 0:38:52.680 have not put a case on it just yet. I'm 0:38:52.719 --> 0:38:55.239 waiting for my speaking case to put on it with 0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:58.000 mag Safe and all that good stuff. And I'll see 0:38:58.040 --> 0:39:00.880 if it feels like on new usable when you have 0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:02.719 a case on it, because that's going to make it 0:39:02.840 --> 0:39:06.879 much bulkier. But yeah, the Samsung Folda boles are pretty 0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:08.640 good this year. We'll hear from Patrick in just a 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:11.879 bit eighty eight Rich one on one eighty eight seven 0:39:12.040 --> 0:39:15.640 four to two four one zero one. Nancy, what's going 0:39:15.680 --> 0:39:17.239 on there in Vista, California. 0:39:17.520 --> 0:39:18.480 You're on with Rich. 0:39:20.000 --> 0:39:20.960 A problem? 0:39:21.920 --> 0:39:23.560 I got a Google Voice. 0:39:24.920 --> 0:39:27.600 Nancy, Uh, you gotta you gotta talk into your phone. 0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:30.759 You sound like you are underwater with SpongeBob. 0:39:31.400 --> 0:39:34.319 Why there you go? Oh my gosh, she comes up. 0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:39.560 We have Nancy there. She is much better. Nancy, what's 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:39.960 going on? 0:39:41.000 --> 0:39:44.680 Okay? I had a Google Voice installed about three or 0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:49.800 four years ago and everything worked fine with all my device, 0:39:50.360 --> 0:39:56.960 my desktop, my iPhone and my tablets was six eight 0:39:57.040 --> 0:40:01.960 week which goal. For whatever reason, everything when totally got 0:40:02.040 --> 0:40:05.960 put nothing was working. So I ended up to get 0:40:06.000 --> 0:40:09.040 it to work. On my cell phone, I get it. 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:13.000 I can get incoming call. I can do are going call. 0:40:13.160 --> 0:40:17.399 No problem. On my tablet is the same. But when 0:40:17.480 --> 0:40:21.280 it comes to my desktop, I can get incoming God, 0:40:21.440 --> 0:40:23.080 but I cannot call out. 0:40:24.520 --> 0:40:25.200 I get it. 0:40:25.920 --> 0:40:28.960 When I try to call out to the number I 0:40:29.080 --> 0:40:32.480 get rule of things comes up and tell and tells 0:40:32.560 --> 0:40:36.360 me Google, Google call your phone and connect to you 0:40:36.800 --> 0:40:41.120 to connect you to the number I try to call. 0:40:42.000 --> 0:40:45.319 And then this is things in the middusic phone call 0:40:46.080 --> 0:40:49.239 a phone to call, which so when I passed down 0:40:49.320 --> 0:40:54.880 the arrow my back end, my regular phone number comes 0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:58.840 up right, and so then it let's have connect. But 0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:03.000 when I go to con nect, most often called used 0:41:03.040 --> 0:41:07.400 to me back, it doesn't call the other person, or 0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:11.440 it calls bothaba I cannot connect right. 0:41:11.600 --> 0:41:14.200 Well, it's because it's it's getting it's getting confused. 0:41:14.280 --> 0:41:15.360 So I just. 0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:19.600 No, Okay, I. 0:41:19.760 --> 0:41:23.759 Went and I follow all the Google advice I went on. 0:41:24.600 --> 0:41:28.320 I went on YouTube, and nothing seemed to work. The 0:41:28.520 --> 0:41:33.800 thing that tells me to go ahead enable incoming and 0:41:33.960 --> 0:41:40.080 outgoing outgoing calls. But when I pull, you know, bring up, 0:41:40.760 --> 0:41:43.520 I don't get it. I don't get you going, I 0:41:43.560 --> 0:41:45.360 always say incoming, Yes. 0:41:46.239 --> 0:41:48.720 Okay, Well that's just that's just the way it looks 0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:50.840 on the desktop. But if you go into your settings, 0:41:50.880 --> 0:41:52.920 there's a setting that I need you to check. This 0:41:53.160 --> 0:41:54.280 is I think, what's happening. 0:41:55.000 --> 0:41:55.080 Uh. 0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:59.960 There is a setting under calls that says, for outgoing calls, 0:42:01.080 --> 0:42:04.640 always use my phone to place calls. You want to 0:42:04.719 --> 0:42:07.839 turn that off, and then that way you can call 0:42:08.040 --> 0:42:09.680 through your desktop and it's going. 0:42:09.600 --> 0:42:10.319 To actually. 0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:17.600 Go through your what's that under calls on the outgoing calls? 0:42:17.760 --> 0:42:20.839 Incoming calls, it sounds like it's working. But outgoing there's 0:42:20.880 --> 0:42:24.440 a toggle in your settings that says always use my 0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:27.200 phone to place calls, and so it sounds like you 0:42:27.320 --> 0:42:30.520 have that turned on. If that's turned on, what Google 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:33.800 Voice is doing the desktop is just a conduit to 0:42:34.040 --> 0:42:37.240 dial the number, and then it's actually just completing everything 0:42:37.280 --> 0:42:39.400 on your phone, which sounds like you don't want to 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:39.719 do that. 0:42:40.360 --> 0:42:42.560 So if you want to, if you want to make. 0:42:43.080 --> 0:42:47.480 Calls, I don't kid that. When I want to learn more, 0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:51.480 they and they give me all kinds of different things. 0:42:51.800 --> 0:42:53.879 But I cannot turn nothing on or off. 0:42:54.080 --> 0:42:55.080 It's under settings. 0:42:55.360 --> 0:42:58.480 So you're going to settings. 0:42:58.800 --> 0:43:02.319 Scroll down under call. This says outgoing calls, right, okay? 0:43:02.480 --> 0:43:03.440 Under that, what does it say? 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:05.239 Learn more? 0:43:05.920 --> 0:43:07.160 Okay? And then what was it. 0:43:08.760 --> 0:43:10.680 That incoming calls? 0:43:11.040 --> 0:43:11.799 So learn more? 0:43:12.000 --> 0:43:13.040 It brings with lure no. 0:43:13.080 --> 0:43:15.200 No, don't talk, don't tap learn more? What does it 0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:15.759 say after that? 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:16.960 Nothing? 0:43:17.480 --> 0:43:18.640 There's nothing underneath that. 0:43:20.840 --> 0:43:21.640 Always use. 0:43:23.960 --> 0:43:29.920 Yes, turn that off. Oh god, that's it, Nancy. We've 0:43:30.080 --> 0:43:31.880 solved your problems. You're welcome. 0:43:32.480 --> 0:43:34.160 I love it. You're the call of the day. 0:43:34.960 --> 0:43:38.320 Thank you, Nancy. 0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:43.560 Thanks Nancy. Oh my gosh, this we got a smile 0:43:43.640 --> 0:43:45.560 in here. Oh my gosh. This is what I love 0:43:45.600 --> 0:43:48.359 about this show. I mean, it's just you've looked at 0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:49.920 the settings a thousand times. 0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:51.120 You think you have it right. 0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:53.879 You've searched Google to your eyes fall out of your head, 0:43:54.520 --> 0:43:56.800 you've checked a eye and all you gotta do is 0:43:56.840 --> 0:43:59.000 call a human being like myself who's looking at it 0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:00.840 on my screen, and here it is. 0:44:01.239 --> 0:44:05.520 And they're much easier. Ah, Nancy, that was a great one. 0:44:06.239 --> 0:44:10.360 If you used Fubo Fubo TV, they've just agreed to 0:44:10.480 --> 0:44:13.759 a three point four million dollar privacy privacy settlement over 0:44:13.920 --> 0:44:19.000 data sharing. You with all these class action lawsuits, the 0:44:19.120 --> 0:44:22.040 company never admits any wrongdoing, but they just settle it out, 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:25.080 mostly so the lawyers can get rich. But you get 0:44:25.120 --> 0:44:27.959 a little bit of money too, three point four million 0:44:28.000 --> 0:44:31.400 dollars to settle claims that shared user data with Facebook 0:44:31.440 --> 0:44:35.680 and Google without user consent. The lawsuit says Foubu violated 0:44:35.719 --> 0:44:39.000 the Video Privacy Protection Act, which protects your viewing habits. 0:44:39.480 --> 0:44:42.840 So if you used your own or someone else's Fubo 0:44:42.920 --> 0:44:45.960 TV account, So this is the best part about this lawsuit. 0:44:46.239 --> 0:44:49.200 If you are sharing someone else's password, you still get money. 0:44:49.560 --> 0:44:51.560 That's what I love. Even if you weren't paying for Fubo. 0:44:51.600 --> 0:44:55.240 If you just use someone else's account before May twenty 0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:58.400 five year eligible, there's no purchase proof required. Anyone in 0:44:58.440 --> 0:45:03.360 the US who streamed Fubo TV qualifies. 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You have until Thursday October 0:45:43.920 --> 0:45:47.160 or Thursday August twenty eighth to opt out, or Friday 0:45:47.200 --> 0:45:49.600 September twelfth to submit a claim. We don't know how 0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:52.400 much the claim is going to be worth because they 0:45:52.440 --> 0:45:54.960 have to see how many people do this, and then 0:45:55.040 --> 0:45:57.640 they can decide. I guess they divide up. Let's say 0:45:57.640 --> 0:45:59.120 one hundred people did it. They divide it up by 0:45:59.160 --> 0:45:59.719 one hundred people. 0:45:59.719 --> 0:46:00.719 I don't know. Oh, that's how it works. 0:46:02.719 --> 0:46:07.120 Gmail added a cool new feature, one click unsubscribe, so 0:46:07.200 --> 0:46:08.920 you can clean up your inbox. 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I 0:46:58.680 --> 0:47:00.839 don't get a notification when you want subscribe, doesn't send 0:47:00.880 --> 0:47:03.160 you like oh Bobo, just unsubscribed. 0:47:04.719 --> 0:47:05.360 I don't get that. 0:47:05.840 --> 0:47:08.440 So if you like it, and there's over fifty two 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:11.520 thousand of you that get it, so clearly someone likes 0:47:11.560 --> 0:47:15.480 it out there, So yeah, unsubscribe. If it's not in 0:47:15.560 --> 0:47:20.640 your Gmail just yet, just wait. Because Google rolls out features, 0:47:20.680 --> 0:47:22.960 they do not send out features to everyone all at once, 0:47:23.400 --> 0:47:25.440 So if it's not there today, it will be there 0:47:25.480 --> 0:47:28.960 in the next couple of days eighty eight rich one 0:47:29.000 --> 0:47:31.279 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:47:31.360 --> 0:47:33.760 one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you how Gemini 0:47:34.360 --> 0:47:36.480 can turn a photo into a video. 0:47:36.640 --> 0:47:37.680 Plus more of your calls. 0:47:46.440 --> 0:47:51.279 Welcome back to rich on Tech eighty eight rich one 0:47:51.360 --> 0:47:53.879 O one eighty eight seven four to two four one 0:47:54.040 --> 0:47:58.480 zero one, the website rich on Tech dot TV. I'm 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:03.440 sitting here eating my uh garbonzo beans for lunch. Bobo 0:48:03.560 --> 0:48:04.799 looks at me and he said, don't tell me you're 0:48:04.800 --> 0:48:07.000 eating beans? Is that like some beans and a thing? 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:10.880 I said, yes, now, Bobo, I also brought the Selena 0:48:10.920 --> 0:48:12.480 Gomez oreos today. 0:48:12.520 --> 0:48:17.080 Are you gonna comment about those? Or do you like those? Oh? 0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:20.759 He's he's got to think about this one. Wait, you 0:48:20.920 --> 0:48:23.760 brought what the Selena gor Gomez oreos? 0:48:27.200 --> 0:48:27.879 Oh my god? 0:48:28.400 --> 0:48:30.080 What this is? 0:48:30.719 --> 0:48:33.480 My wife was out. I mentioned that I wanted to 0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:37.239 try these oreos. So special about them. They're chocolate and 0:48:37.360 --> 0:48:41.160 cinnamon cream. Actually sounds kind of good. They are good, yea. 0:48:41.239 --> 0:48:43.839 So she was on a hunt every every grocery store 0:48:43.880 --> 0:48:46.080 she went to. I just mentioned this in passing once. 0:48:45.920 --> 0:48:48.080 To my wife. You know what, I'm taking much for them? 0:48:48.920 --> 0:48:48.960 No? 0:48:49.360 --> 0:48:51.360 It doesn't, and she just kept. 0:48:51.400 --> 0:48:52.920 Looking for them like it was like she was just 0:48:53.040 --> 0:48:55.560 on automation, Like every grocery store she went to, She's like, 0:48:55.560 --> 0:48:57.839 I couldn't find the Selena Gomez orios. Like I only 0:48:57.880 --> 0:48:59.759 mentioned them once, but now that you say it, now 0:48:59.800 --> 0:49:01.400 you keep reiterating, I gotta try them. 0:49:01.680 --> 0:49:05.000 They are pretty good. So anyway, so I brought those 0:49:05.040 --> 0:49:06.680 two things today. I'm about to have to look for 0:49:06.800 --> 0:49:09.160 him right now because now I gotta try them. Oh no, 0:49:09.239 --> 0:49:11.719 I can't have sweets. I'll share one with you. Appreciate it. 0:49:11.719 --> 0:49:14.720 All right, Let's let's go to Jerry and Redondo Beach. Jerry, 0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:15.360 what's going on? 0:49:18.080 --> 0:49:23.320 They rich, Hi, Well, I don't know se romp account 0:49:24.320 --> 0:49:30.360 was suspended because of inappropriate conduct, you know, inappropriate posting. 0:49:30.960 --> 0:49:31.840 What were you posting? 0:49:33.640 --> 0:49:37.040 I wasn't posting anything, that's the deal. I'm was not 0:49:37.200 --> 0:49:40.759 sending anything to YouTube. And when I got to know this, 0:49:40.920 --> 0:49:43.719 I said, okay, that picture was on my phone, but 0:49:43.880 --> 0:49:45.600 I didn't do a post. 0:49:46.239 --> 0:49:47.319 So I kept telling them. 0:49:47.760 --> 0:49:51.520 They said, your channel will not be you know, reactivated, 0:49:51.560 --> 0:49:53.720 and I thought, I don't even know I had a channel. 0:49:54.480 --> 0:49:58.320 So anyway, I figured something out when I go on 0:49:58.400 --> 0:50:03.239 the website and I they say, log in with Google. Yes, 0:50:03.480 --> 0:50:07.400 by log in with Google, And the unbeknownst to me 0:50:07.560 --> 0:50:09.839 and yours is they want to know this too when 0:50:09.880 --> 0:50:13.400 I do that, Google has access to all my photos. 0:50:14.960 --> 0:50:15.960 I didn't realize that. 0:50:15.960 --> 0:50:20.920 Okay, somebody must have posted them when I logged on 0:50:21.120 --> 0:50:23.480 using my Google passwords. 0:50:24.000 --> 0:50:26.120 Okay, well, I'm not going to ask what kind of 0:50:26.160 --> 0:50:30.399 photos these are. But here's the thing. When you sign 0:50:30.480 --> 0:50:34.440 in with Google, you have to be very careful about 0:50:34.600 --> 0:50:38.080 the permissions that a site requests when it does that, 0:50:38.320 --> 0:50:41.800 and every site is different. So just by the virtue 0:50:41.880 --> 0:50:45.120 of signing in with Google, does not hand over access 0:50:45.120 --> 0:50:48.840 to your entire Google account. This is called third party 0:50:48.960 --> 0:50:52.080 signing with Google. So it's a feature that basically lets 0:50:52.120 --> 0:50:55.480 you lets you log in to other apps and websites 0:50:55.640 --> 0:50:59.799 using your Google account. So it's convenient, it's simple, it's 0:51:00.320 --> 0:51:04.760 it's one less password to remember. I always recommend creating 0:51:04.960 --> 0:51:07.880 a unique username and password for every site that you 0:51:08.040 --> 0:51:10.600 visit and sign up for. I think that that is 0:51:10.760 --> 0:51:13.800 the best way to keep things in their own lanes. 0:51:14.239 --> 0:51:16.520 Now I understand, it is very simple to sign in 0:51:16.600 --> 0:51:19.839 with Apple, it's simple to sign in with Google. It's 0:51:19.880 --> 0:51:22.120 simple to sign in with all these third party sites 0:51:22.239 --> 0:51:25.080 because it's one less thing to remember, and you're typically 0:51:25.160 --> 0:51:29.560 always signed in with Apple or Google. So with that said, 0:51:29.840 --> 0:51:32.640 you might have signed into a website that did get 0:51:32.719 --> 0:51:35.160 access to your photos. I don't know why that would 0:51:35.200 --> 0:51:39.680 be connected to YouTube, So it could be that there 0:51:39.800 --> 0:51:42.160 was something that YouTube detected on your account. These could 0:51:42.160 --> 0:51:44.960 be completely unrelated the fact that you had these photos 0:51:45.040 --> 0:51:48.640 on your phone and the fact that YouTube said no, 0:51:48.840 --> 0:51:52.560 we got to take your account away because of these photos. 0:51:53.320 --> 0:51:57.680 So I guess the bottom line is you can appeal 0:51:57.760 --> 0:51:58.240 to YouTube. 0:51:58.280 --> 0:52:01.560 If you're truly not uploading anything that's prohibited to YouTube, 0:52:01.600 --> 0:52:04.000 you can appeal to them and continue to appeal to them. 0:52:05.040 --> 0:52:07.480 And the other thing what I would do is I 0:52:07.520 --> 0:52:11.800 would go to your Google sign in and this is 0:52:11.920 --> 0:52:13.920 called third party. 0:52:13.719 --> 0:52:15.680 You Okay, So here's what you'd want to do. 0:52:16.520 --> 0:52:18.879 So if you go to Okay, I gotta, I gotta 0:52:18.920 --> 0:52:21.320 find this, it's going to take me a second Google 0:52:21.520 --> 0:52:26.520 third party connected apps Google. So there's a section of 0:52:26.600 --> 0:52:30.040 the Google website that you can look at that'll tell 0:52:30.120 --> 0:52:33.160 you all the things that you have connected to your 0:52:33.200 --> 0:52:37.680 Google account. Okay, it is at my account dot Google 0:52:38.280 --> 0:52:44.560 dot com slash connections, my account dot Google dot com 0:52:45.040 --> 0:52:48.440 slash connections. This will bring up a list of third 0:52:48.560 --> 0:52:52.239 party apps and services, and there's a lot of ways, 0:52:52.280 --> 0:52:54.040 Like right now, I've got one hundred and twenty two 0:52:54.320 --> 0:52:58.200 apps and services connected to my Google account, things like Adobe, 0:52:58.600 --> 0:53:02.840 Photoshop or a frames backdrop. Sometimes I do sign in 0:53:03.000 --> 0:53:05.839 with some of these when it's not very important. I'll 0:53:05.840 --> 0:53:07.359 sign in with Google when I want to be quick. 0:53:07.880 --> 0:53:11.400 So there's three sections says sign in with Google linked 0:53:11.440 --> 0:53:14.920 account or access to and if you go to access to, 0:53:15.120 --> 0:53:18.279 that's the really important one because you can see what 0:53:18.600 --> 0:53:25.320 services have access to your Google information, Calendar, Contacts, Drive, Gmail. 0:53:25.920 --> 0:53:28.600 The ones I would look at very closely are Gmail, 0:53:29.760 --> 0:53:34.040 Google Photos, and Google Drive. Those are the three important 0:53:34.080 --> 0:53:35.719 ones because you store a lot of stuff in there. 0:53:35.880 --> 0:53:38.480 So if I go to Google Drive, I've got a 0:53:38.560 --> 0:53:43.400 couple of things that have access to my Google Drive. Space, Cadet, Pinball, 0:53:44.160 --> 0:53:46.560 probably don't need access to my Google Drive. I will 0:53:46.600 --> 0:53:50.960 turn that off Meta, Google Nest. If I go to 0:53:51.160 --> 0:53:51.920 my Google. 0:53:51.719 --> 0:53:54.200 Photos, let's see what it has access or a. 0:53:54.280 --> 0:53:59.239 Frames, Google takeout, Microsoft three sixty five, import, Roku backdrops, 0:53:59.239 --> 0:53:59.920 and photostream. 0:54:00.000 --> 0:54:01.520 So I can go through and delete that if I'm 0:54:01.560 --> 0:54:02.719 not using my Roku. 0:54:03.320 --> 0:54:04.799 And then you can go through and you click one 0:54:04.800 --> 0:54:07.480 of these connections and it says delete all connections you 0:54:07.640 --> 0:54:10.799 have with that service. You delete it, and it will 0:54:10.840 --> 0:54:13.880 confirm it will it won't get rid of whatever that 0:54:14.120 --> 0:54:16.719 data that company has already taken on their own, but 0:54:16.840 --> 0:54:19.680 it will get rid of them accessing it in the future. 0:54:20.520 --> 0:54:23.520 So again, go to this, do a little cleanup. If 0:54:23.560 --> 0:54:26.400 you don't need access to these accounts anymore, you can 0:54:26.440 --> 0:54:29.400 get rid of their Google account access and you can 0:54:29.440 --> 0:54:31.759 always reconnect it later if you need it. But it's 0:54:31.800 --> 0:54:36.320 at my account dot Google dot com slash connections. Typically 0:54:36.440 --> 0:54:39.960 we call this third party connections or third party connected apps. 0:54:40.640 --> 0:54:42.759 Go through there, see what has access, clean it up, 0:54:42.800 --> 0:54:43.080 all right. 0:54:43.120 --> 0:54:45.560 Coming up, we're going to talk to Patrick Chomey of 0:54:46.440 --> 0:54:59.239 Samsung about the new foldables the company just released. Mark 0:54:59.280 --> 0:55:02.880 cow Bell, Mark cow Bell, That's the only thing I 0:55:02.920 --> 0:55:05.120 can think of when I hear this song. It was 0:55:05.200 --> 0:55:08.319 a Saturday Night Live sketch. Had to look it up 0:55:09.280 --> 0:55:12.960 from April two thousand. I am now referencing something that 0:55:13.080 --> 0:55:15.879 happened twenty five years ago. Oh my gosh, I'm old. 0:55:16.719 --> 0:55:17.520 What the heck? 0:55:18.400 --> 0:55:21.920 I feel like I just watched that. Well, all right, 0:55:22.280 --> 0:55:25.640 I guess it happens, Okay. I talked about the Fold 0:55:25.760 --> 0:55:31.719 seven and the Flip seven, Samsung's new smartphones that are foldable. Now, 0:55:31.800 --> 0:55:34.719 let's hear from Samsung. So I talked to Patrick Chome 0:55:35.400 --> 0:55:38.800 of Samsung about these new foldables and why he believes 0:55:38.960 --> 0:55:41.239 now is the time to jump on board. 0:55:42.080 --> 0:55:44.759 What was sort of the primary focus of the fold 0:55:44.800 --> 0:55:45.719 devices this year. 0:55:46.280 --> 0:55:49.040 This year, actually, we wanted to make a big step 0:55:49.840 --> 0:55:52.120 until we call it a big jump, and there are 0:55:52.200 --> 0:55:55.279 two elements of that jump is our seventh generation of 0:55:55.320 --> 0:55:58.440 follible devices. So we wanted to make it really a 0:55:58.719 --> 0:56:02.880 big step in seeing the key remaining issues we listen 0:56:02.960 --> 0:56:08.520 from our customers definitely about the thickness, the weight, durability 0:56:08.640 --> 0:56:11.480 and performance. All of that is massively improved. And then 0:56:11.560 --> 0:56:14.719 the second leg, if you want, of that big jump, 0:56:15.480 --> 0:56:18.080 is on the x eryance side. Obviously, we have massive 0:56:18.120 --> 0:56:21.799 transformation going on with AI and we announce our AI 0:56:21.920 --> 0:56:25.360 strategy two years ago twenty four and now bringing it 0:56:25.520 --> 0:56:29.200 to life with the wonderful benefits of the fullible from factories. 0:56:29.840 --> 0:56:33.200 The second big wreckfow we are with this new generation. 0:56:34.120 --> 0:56:36.600 What do you think the biggest improvement is to these 0:56:36.640 --> 0:56:39.000 devices that the average person would notice? 0:56:39.320 --> 0:56:43.200 Well, average person, we obviously see the fundamentals from the outside. 0:56:44.239 --> 0:56:47.520 You can compare actually this device to the last fulliable device, 0:56:47.960 --> 0:56:51.279 and there's as much change physically than there have been 0:56:51.719 --> 0:56:56.240 six crevious generations. Is actually as thin as a regular 0:56:56.360 --> 0:57:00.319 smartphone and actually lighter than a regular smartphone, but when 0:57:00.360 --> 0:57:04.680 you open it you have a huge eight inch display. Likewise, 0:57:04.719 --> 0:57:07.160 it's throo the on the flip device, where we have 0:57:07.280 --> 0:57:10.680 a full full screen now, but when you open it, 0:57:10.840 --> 0:57:13.560 you have a twenty by twenty one by nine aspectation, 0:57:14.080 --> 0:57:16.280 which is much more compelling and a regulars math fun 0:57:16.320 --> 0:57:19.520 to watch video. So this is like a novel of technology. 0:57:19.640 --> 0:57:22.600 But I think when people get it in their hands 0:57:22.920 --> 0:57:24.200 they will level be wow. 0:57:24.440 --> 0:57:26.959 I'm sure these phonees happened around for a while. 0:57:27.280 --> 0:57:29.800 What will it take for the average person to want 0:57:29.920 --> 0:57:33.120 to switch to a foldable or a flip like this? 0:57:34.080 --> 0:57:34.440 Not much. 0:57:34.520 --> 0:57:37.720 They need to see it, and I think everybody saw 0:57:37.760 --> 0:57:41.120 it actually really get amazed. And I believe we had 0:57:41.280 --> 0:57:45.320 learned some things over the years. We learned that fundamentals matter, 0:57:45.840 --> 0:57:47.760 So it's fair to say that when we learn the 0:57:47.800 --> 0:57:50.680 third innovation, for example, the flip we did it for 0:57:51.200 --> 0:57:54.120 Initially we are even by the form factor innovation, but 0:57:54.280 --> 0:57:57.800 people told us, yes, it's great from factor, but we 0:57:57.960 --> 0:58:01.880 wish it at a highly forming camera similar towards the flagships, 0:58:02.160 --> 0:58:05.080 so we bought the camera level here similar to seventy five. 0:58:05.560 --> 0:58:06.320 And then the battery. 0:58:06.400 --> 0:58:08.680 Yes, we understand you have to fold it, but it's difficult, 0:58:08.720 --> 0:58:12.680 but I need kind of battery lifetime regular fold, so 0:58:13.640 --> 0:58:15.480 then it should be doable. I don't want to have 0:58:15.600 --> 0:58:17.880 to change it to alsal. And I think all of 0:58:17.920 --> 0:58:20.800 these things which are very basic, I think to really 0:58:20.880 --> 0:58:23.800 deliver them is hard. But that's what we've done actually 0:58:23.880 --> 0:58:26.360 with the previous generation, even more so with that generation. 0:58:26.800 --> 0:58:30.360 So I would say for the normal user, the basics 0:58:30.400 --> 0:58:32.919 are covered, and then on top you have the wall 0:58:33.400 --> 0:58:36.320 and the war. With these amazing use cases that you 0:58:36.400 --> 0:58:40.480 can see, you can work really like, I don't need 0:58:40.520 --> 0:58:43.000 a PC anymore. You can work on the goal and 0:58:43.160 --> 0:58:48.880 manipulating complex documents such as spreadsheets or power points, multitasking. 0:58:49.800 --> 0:58:52.840 You can actually scroll full documents on this side on 0:58:52.960 --> 0:58:55.959 the heightened side, having your Gemini open and asking about 0:58:55.960 --> 0:58:59.200 the documents move drag and drop, cut and paste from 0:58:59.280 --> 0:59:03.120 different inte is is quite amazing. Addition of AI into 0:59:03.160 --> 0:59:06.800 our user interface make it so much more valuable. A 0:59:06.920 --> 0:59:09.120 lot of things that we wanted to do intuitively in 0:59:09.200 --> 0:59:12.600 the first generation we could answer because the UI was 0:59:12.680 --> 0:59:15.560 not that advanced. But now with a natural user interface 0:59:15.600 --> 0:59:18.240 that we have with AI, it really comes to life. 0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:21.600 I noticed on the fold we got a little bit 0:59:21.600 --> 0:59:24.160 of a price increase one hundred dollars. Is there any 0:59:24.240 --> 0:59:24.840 reason for that? 0:59:25.320 --> 0:59:26.640 But there is no magic into it. 0:59:26.760 --> 0:59:31.240 We we obviously strive to make the device affordable to 0:59:31.320 --> 0:59:35.200 our consumers at the most effective price points. Of course, 0:59:35.240 --> 0:59:39.160 this device is packed with technology. We have increased the display. 0:59:39.960 --> 0:59:42.360 You have a two hundred, they get Excel camera which 0:59:42.520 --> 0:59:46.200 the same as obvious. Still you have very very most 0:59:46.320 --> 0:59:50.040 powerful computing engine in that thing, able to compute all 0:59:50.080 --> 0:59:52.840 the AI that we have so obviously we have a 0:59:53.280 --> 0:59:56.240 very advanced screen as well, which is now protected with 0:59:56.400 --> 0:59:59.520 a titanium layer to make it that much more durable. 0:59:59.600 --> 1:00:02.280 So there is a lot of investment in the out 1:00:02.280 --> 1:00:04.480 the way there which is reflecting the price. But we 1:00:04.560 --> 1:00:08.360 will continue to make these devices as much as possible 1:00:09.200 --> 1:00:11.480 thought able at the right rice the same song. 1:00:11.640 --> 1:00:15.040 Notice what the consumer feedback is when you see people 1:00:15.120 --> 1:00:18.400 playing with these new features, enjoying them, giving feedback, you 1:00:18.560 --> 1:00:20.520 listen to that and kind of mix it into the 1:00:20.560 --> 1:00:21.040 next ride. 1:00:21.080 --> 1:00:23.320 Absolutely, so we've been as I said, we started the 1:00:23.400 --> 1:00:26.080 journey S twenty four and it's fair to say if 1:00:26.120 --> 1:00:28.640 you ask consumers do you want AI and what's about AI? 1:00:28.800 --> 1:00:32.840 They get its confused, some might get scared. But actually 1:00:32.920 --> 1:00:36.560 what we noticed is if you ask people about the benefits, 1:00:36.880 --> 1:00:38.600 like you have this picture, you want to get this 1:00:38.800 --> 1:00:41.760 unwanted stuff out, and they go, wow, yes, how can 1:00:41.800 --> 1:00:42.080 you do that? 1:00:42.200 --> 1:00:43.240 Of course because we are AI. 1:00:43.920 --> 1:00:46.800 So what we see is a massive usage of those 1:00:46.840 --> 1:00:50.240 things like Circle to Search is used by over fifty 1:00:50.320 --> 1:00:52.920 five percent of the users, which is big because we 1:00:53.120 --> 1:00:56.920 deployed Circle to Search now on well over twentydred billion devices, 1:00:57.080 --> 1:01:00.080 so this is real. It's not like demos. Deep not 1:01:00.160 --> 1:01:02.800 million was my account last December, so we are way beyond. 1:01:03.760 --> 1:01:08.040 Things like the eraso or the transtation are massively used. 1:01:09.120 --> 1:01:12.960 On S twenty five generation, we notice over seventy percent 1:01:13.120 --> 1:01:15.920 of people use the AI function. They may not even 1:01:16.040 --> 1:01:18.959 know it's AI. They use it because these are basic 1:01:19.040 --> 1:01:22.960 things like dealing with your pictures, taking the unwanted sound off, 1:01:25.160 --> 1:01:29.760 copying documents, summarizing documents, translating, so these becomes like day 1:01:29.800 --> 1:01:33.240 to day activities. And I think it's fine if we 1:01:33.320 --> 1:01:35.880 don't know if it's AI, so long it's useful and 1:01:36.080 --> 1:01:40.640 what we do we carefully monitor what's used and improve 1:01:40.720 --> 1:01:42.960 it based on the feedback. And we carefully motive what's 1:01:43.000 --> 1:01:45.680 not used and figure out why, and if it's not useful, 1:01:45.720 --> 1:01:48.600 then don't add it and we improve. It's the best step. 1:01:48.760 --> 1:01:51.479 People are always concerned about privacy when they're using AI. 1:01:51.600 --> 1:01:55.000 Can you tell me how Samsung approaches privacy on these devices? 1:01:55.160 --> 1:01:57.320 Well, first of all, we actually highly so I think 1:01:57.400 --> 1:02:02.600 people these device contains life or life and a lot 1:02:02.680 --> 1:02:06.520 of very private stuff, so it's very serious matter. From 1:02:06.600 --> 1:02:10.120 the start, we have declared our direction to be an 1:02:10.200 --> 1:02:12.840 ibreed architecture, an I breed apportion. I will explain what 1:02:12.920 --> 1:02:17.760 that is. IBRID means some stuff needs to run in 1:02:17.840 --> 1:02:19.880 the cloud. Like if you want to generate a new video, 1:02:19.960 --> 1:02:22.520 auguste it. It requires a lot of computing and you 1:02:22.680 --> 1:02:25.080 create a new video. It runs on the cloud. But 1:02:25.240 --> 1:02:28.200 a lot of stuff, actually, the majority of things are 1:02:28.320 --> 1:02:30.680 much closer to the customer, and it should be personalized, 1:02:30.680 --> 1:02:32.920 and it should be privates. So in all the future 1:02:32.960 --> 1:02:36.120 I mentioned on communication, for example, you're having a communication 1:02:36.360 --> 1:02:39.360 with a personal partner in a different language, differun country. 1:02:39.760 --> 1:02:43.680 All the transtation happens in real time, stays on device, private, 1:02:44.480 --> 1:02:48.800 your pictures stays on device and private. We have very 1:02:48.920 --> 1:02:51.320 very clever things going on with ELF and the watch 1:02:52.040 --> 1:02:55.000 stays on device and privates. And let's but not the least, 1:02:55.240 --> 1:02:59.080 we have a very clear dashboard where the customer can choose. Actually, 1:03:00.160 --> 1:03:02.640 if customer doesn't want anything to go in the cloud, 1:03:02.680 --> 1:03:04.320 you just have a message Suitech, you say off. 1:03:04.880 --> 1:03:07.000 If someone's considering one of these phones, they see it 1:03:07.080 --> 1:03:09.120 on TV, they see it on social media, they're thinking 1:03:09.840 --> 1:03:11.000 they look pretty good this year. 1:03:11.360 --> 1:03:13.240 What do you think is the reason they should jump in? 1:03:13.480 --> 1:03:15.320 Give this one a try versus other models. 1:03:15.840 --> 1:03:18.520 Have fun and do more. You can do so much more. 1:03:18.880 --> 1:03:20.400 If you don't need two phones, you don't need a 1:03:20.440 --> 1:03:22.240 fun at a tablet. You don't need to have something heavy, 1:03:22.640 --> 1:03:25.120 no more weight, no more complexity. You can do so 1:03:25.280 --> 1:03:28.080 much more. And this one is actually you can have 1:03:28.120 --> 1:03:31.160 a lot more fun. This is really cool device it's small, 1:03:31.200 --> 1:03:33.720 it's compact, it's beautiful, and you have everything in ease. 1:03:34.200 --> 1:03:35.880 So have fun and do much more. 1:03:36.880 --> 1:03:40.080 Have fun and do much more. So I've been using 1:03:40.240 --> 1:03:42.480 the Fold seven, which I will tell you it's a 1:03:42.520 --> 1:03:45.640 great phone. But in my newsletter today I talked about 1:03:45.640 --> 1:03:49.000 how the fact is I'm not really sure what the 1:03:49.160 --> 1:03:52.280 use case scenario is. Like, it's fun to have, and 1:03:52.320 --> 1:03:54.160 if you have a lot of money to spend, sure, 1:03:54.280 --> 1:03:56.000 it's cool to be on the cutting edge, right. I 1:03:56.040 --> 1:03:59.000 think that's what it really comes down to. Also, the 1:03:59.040 --> 1:04:01.920 fact that you can consult your tablet and your phone 1:04:01.960 --> 1:04:04.920 into one, and like he said, if you're working on 1:04:05.040 --> 1:04:07.480 spreadsheets all the time, you want to be real productivity, 1:04:07.640 --> 1:04:11.200 you know, real productive. That's another good use But it's 1:04:11.280 --> 1:04:14.959 tough because it's such a departure from what you're used 1:04:15.000 --> 1:04:18.560 to that it's tricky to sit there and say, Okay. 1:04:18.480 --> 1:04:19.800 This is what I need right now. 1:04:20.440 --> 1:04:22.840 When our phones pretty much do all the stuff we 1:04:22.880 --> 1:04:26.000 already want them to do, this is just a very 1:04:26.160 --> 1:04:29.600 very different form factor. So again, you can read all 1:04:29.720 --> 1:04:32.919 my thoughts on the Samsung foldables on my website rich 1:04:33.120 --> 1:04:36.439 on tech dot tv. Just look for the headline that says, 1:04:36.480 --> 1:04:40.240 Samsung finally nails the foldable. That is my newsletter from 1:04:40.280 --> 1:04:42.800 today and you can read there and see what I 1:04:42.880 --> 1:04:46.120 thought about all these different devices. All right, coming up, 1:04:46.280 --> 1:04:49.640 I'm gonna tell you how Google Gemini can turn a 1:04:49.720 --> 1:04:54.200 photo into a video. And we're gonna taste test the Oreo. 1:04:54.800 --> 1:04:58.400 Bobo has the Selena Gomez Oreo. We're gonna taste it. 1:04:58.720 --> 1:05:06.840 Tell what we think, right or rich on Tech, Welcome 1:05:06.920 --> 1:05:10.240 back to rich On Tech. Let's go to Devin in 1:05:10.440 --> 1:05:11.080 Long Beach. 1:05:11.480 --> 1:05:12.440 You're on with rich. 1:05:14.000 --> 1:05:18.240 He Hey, what's going on? Rich You are my tech bet. 1:05:19.040 --> 1:05:21.800 I'm it's good to talk to you, brother. Quick question 1:05:22.000 --> 1:05:27.520 here for work, they've had us download the WhatsApp and 1:05:27.800 --> 1:05:30.480 so it's been a couple of weeks now and I'm 1:05:30.560 --> 1:05:33.040 going in my photos here and I'm starting to see 1:05:33.040 --> 1:05:39.160 all kind of photos and videos popping up that aren't mine. 1:05:39.240 --> 1:05:42.280 And that I didn't download or what have you. So 1:05:42.400 --> 1:05:47.000 I'm assuming that they're coming through via the WhatsApp. My 1:05:47.240 --> 1:05:50.360 question here is, well, number one, is that accurate? And 1:05:50.520 --> 1:05:56.080 number two do my co workers are my videos popping 1:05:56.160 --> 1:05:59.840 up in their and their folders or their photo gallery 1:06:00.160 --> 1:06:02.360 in video galleries as well? 1:06:03.560 --> 1:06:04.080 Good question? 1:06:04.440 --> 1:06:07.840 So couple of settings to check on your WhatsApp. Okay, 1:06:08.000 --> 1:06:11.600 because we definitely, especially since this is for work, you 1:06:11.680 --> 1:06:15.920 don't really want this to be, you know, propagating from 1:06:15.960 --> 1:06:18.880 your phone to WhatsApp or vice versa. So couple settings 1:06:18.920 --> 1:06:21.640 that you can check out. First off, for the photos 1:06:21.680 --> 1:06:23.680 that are saving from the chats, it sounds like you 1:06:23.840 --> 1:06:27.880 have photos from the chats automatically being saved into your 1:06:28.000 --> 1:06:28.560 camera roll. 1:06:29.160 --> 1:06:30.280 So there's a way to do that. 1:06:30.920 --> 1:06:34.200 Go into your Settings and then chats, and then there's 1:06:34.240 --> 1:06:37.120 an option under chats that says saved to photos. 1:06:37.720 --> 1:06:38.760 You want to turn that off. 1:06:39.960 --> 1:06:42.080 Ends you a picture in a group chat, it's just 1:06:42.160 --> 1:06:44.360 saving it to your camera roll or your photos on 1:06:44.480 --> 1:06:47.280 Android either way, and so you want to turn that off. 1:06:47.400 --> 1:06:52.240 So again, tap Settings and then tap chats and then 1:06:52.480 --> 1:06:54.960 look under it says save to photos. Make sure that's 1:06:55.000 --> 1:06:57.440 turned off. The other thing you want to do is 1:06:57.520 --> 1:06:59.920 go into your permissions. If you don't want your photos 1:07:00.120 --> 1:07:02.480 to go into WhatsApp. If you're just using this to text, 1:07:03.040 --> 1:07:05.280 you can change it so that WhatsApp does not have 1:07:05.600 --> 1:07:08.880 access to any of your photos. So on the iPhone, 1:07:08.920 --> 1:07:11.080 you can go to Settings, you can go to apps, 1:07:11.600 --> 1:07:15.760 scroll all the way down until you find WhatsApp. Let's 1:07:15.760 --> 1:07:18.320 see where that is, okay, and then where it says 1:07:18.440 --> 1:07:22.200 photos right now, mine says full access. So I would 1:07:22.200 --> 1:07:25.640 either tap limited access or none if you don't want 1:07:25.800 --> 1:07:29.640 any of your photos from your camera and your camera 1:07:29.800 --> 1:07:32.360 roll to ever go to WhatsApp. Now you have to 1:07:32.440 --> 1:07:35.120 remember the caveat here is that if you wanted to 1:07:35.200 --> 1:07:38.080 send a picture to the WhatsApp group, you wouldn't be 1:07:38.080 --> 1:07:40.960 able to do it if you had none selected. Now, 1:07:41.080 --> 1:07:44.040 limited access works in a little different way. You basically 1:07:44.200 --> 1:07:47.440 pre select just the picture that you want, and then 1:07:47.480 --> 1:07:49.680 the iPhone sends that to the app, so it puts 1:07:49.680 --> 1:07:51.720 like a little barrier between your iPhone and the app. 1:07:52.080 --> 1:07:55.000 There's also a way to do it on Android. I 1:07:55.040 --> 1:07:57.200 don't let's see, I don't have WhatsApp installed in this 1:07:57.280 --> 1:07:59.400 phone that I have right now. But basically the main 1:07:59.480 --> 1:08:01.600 thing on an is you can press and hold any 1:08:01.680 --> 1:08:05.760 app and you can tap the I and then it 1:08:05.880 --> 1:08:09.120 says the permissions. And so if you tap the permissions, 1:08:09.160 --> 1:08:12.560 you'll see what permissions the app has. And right now 1:08:12.640 --> 1:08:15.120 this app I'm looking at has photos and videos. You 1:08:15.200 --> 1:08:18.879 can take that tap it and it says allow all allow, limited, 1:08:19.040 --> 1:08:21.679 don't allow, So you can do pretty much the same 1:08:21.760 --> 1:08:23.879 thing on iPhone and Android when it comes to limiting 1:08:24.080 --> 1:08:27.760 the app's access, we call these permissions, and it's a 1:08:27.800 --> 1:08:31.160 good idea to go through and kind of clean up 1:08:31.240 --> 1:08:34.519 permissions from time to time. I think on Android, the 1:08:35.960 --> 1:08:40.400 Android operating system automatically deletes permissions from apps after a 1:08:40.439 --> 1:08:42.479 certain amount of inactivity. So if you don't use an 1:08:42.479 --> 1:08:45.000 app for let's say three or six months, it will 1:08:45.080 --> 1:08:49.280 automatically stop that app from having a lot of permissions 1:08:49.360 --> 1:08:53.400 on your phone. Whether it's related to location, photos, microphone camera, 1:08:54.360 --> 1:08:57.000 it will just reset all those and it will tell you. 1:08:57.120 --> 1:08:59.479 It'll say, hey, we reset permissions for this app because 1:08:59.479 --> 1:09:01.519 you haven't used in a while. That makes a lot 1:09:01.520 --> 1:09:03.160 of sense. It just puts a little bit of privacy 1:09:03.280 --> 1:09:06.519 between you and that app. Great question, Devin, thanks for 1:09:06.600 --> 1:09:10.000 the call today, appreciate it. Speaking of photos, if you 1:09:10.080 --> 1:09:13.760 have Gemini and you're a paying Gemini customer, you can 1:09:13.880 --> 1:09:19.080 now transform your photo into an eight second video. 1:09:19.960 --> 1:09:20.960 This is pretty wild. 1:09:21.600 --> 1:09:24.559 So if you go into Gemini Gemini dot Google dot com, 1:09:24.640 --> 1:09:27.880 you select videos from the tool menu, upload a photo, 1:09:28.320 --> 1:09:31.679 still photo, and then you describe the scene plus any 1:09:31.760 --> 1:09:34.200 audio you want in that scene. So, for instance, I 1:09:34.360 --> 1:09:37.040 took a picture of a bee buzzing around a flower. 1:09:37.720 --> 1:09:40.320 I uploaded it and I said, make this bee buzzing 1:09:40.360 --> 1:09:44.320 around this flower with sound. And it took a couple second, 1:09:44.439 --> 1:09:47.439 took maybe a minute to process, two minutes whatever, and 1:09:47.520 --> 1:09:49.920 then you get an eight second video with motion and 1:09:50.120 --> 1:09:52.599 sound and it is wild. 1:09:53.240 --> 1:09:56.280 Like I'm talking, I can't believe this is day one. 1:09:57.120 --> 1:09:58.280 It pretty much nailed it. 1:09:58.360 --> 1:09:59.720 I put it in the newsletter today, so if you 1:09:59.720 --> 1:10:01.439 want to check it out, Rich on tech dot TV, 1:10:02.120 --> 1:10:05.400 it is I showed my kids, my littlest kidd he goes, Dad, 1:10:06.160 --> 1:10:08.720 I'm now scared, he goes, I will never be able 1:10:08.760 --> 1:10:10.639 to tell what's real and what's not. I said, yeah, 1:10:10.680 --> 1:10:15.560 that's true. So this is rolling out to subscribers, So 1:10:15.640 --> 1:10:18.120 if you pay for Google AI or if you're a 1:10:18.240 --> 1:10:21.519 Google one subscriber on their twenty dollars more plan, you 1:10:21.600 --> 1:10:24.280 can access this gemini dot Google dot com to check 1:10:24.320 --> 1:10:24.559 it out. 1:10:25.439 --> 1:10:30.160 It's pretty wild, pretty pretty wild. Bobo. You've got a 1:10:30.240 --> 1:10:32.800 question today? Oh yes I do. Hey, Rich, how you doing? 1:10:32.840 --> 1:10:36.320 This is Bobo calling you from Sherman Oaks. Longtime listener, 1:10:36.400 --> 1:10:39.439 first time caller, long time, first time. My question is this, 1:10:39.760 --> 1:10:41.320 I have two Gmail accounts. 1:10:41.800 --> 1:10:44.200 I have my you know, junk mail the one a 1:10:44.280 --> 1:10:47.759 half forever, and I have my more professional Gmail account. 1:10:48.000 --> 1:10:48.200 Sure. 1:10:48.520 --> 1:10:52.320 Now the issue is now my phone is saving both 1:10:52.720 --> 1:10:55.840 saving pictures to both accounts to where now I had 1:10:55.880 --> 1:10:59.759 to add the extra storage for both of my Gmail accounts. 1:11:00.520 --> 1:11:02.639 Is there a way I can stop it from doing 1:11:02.800 --> 1:11:05.799 both and like cancel one of these because I don't. 1:11:05.640 --> 1:11:08.160 Want to just donate money to the Google enterprise. No, 1:11:08.320 --> 1:11:10.040 they don't need your money. They don't at all. 1:11:10.200 --> 1:11:13.000 They want it three bucks, so it doesn't still three 1:11:13.040 --> 1:11:13.880 bucks is three bucks? 1:11:13.920 --> 1:11:16.160 Two goes in a chicken sound saying from Jack in 1:11:16.200 --> 1:11:16.479 a box. 1:11:19.200 --> 1:11:22.080 So here's what's happening. I think what's happening. Are you 1:11:22.200 --> 1:11:24.720 signed in on your phone with both of these accounts? Yes, 1:11:24.720 --> 1:11:26.840 because I have to have access to both money. It's 1:11:26.840 --> 1:11:29.599 just convenient because in Gmail you can switch between them whatever. 1:11:30.040 --> 1:11:31.360 So I think what you have to do is go 1:11:31.439 --> 1:11:34.640 into Google Photos and you tap your little icon in 1:11:34.680 --> 1:11:38.479 the upper right hand corner, and you should see manage 1:11:38.479 --> 1:11:39.280 your Google account. 1:11:39.280 --> 1:11:41.800 There should be two accounts. Are there two accounts listed there? 1:11:42.640 --> 1:11:42.840 Yes? 1:11:42.920 --> 1:11:44.400 I'm looking at it, and I have just to let 1:11:44.520 --> 1:11:45.640 go back and forth with yes. 1:11:45.920 --> 1:11:47.639 So what you want to do on the one account 1:11:47.720 --> 1:11:50.040 you don't want to upload pictures anymore. You want to 1:11:50.120 --> 1:11:53.120 turn off the backup for that account. So once you're 1:11:53.160 --> 1:11:56.439 into that account, you switch into that account, turn off backup, 1:11:57.080 --> 1:11:59.720 and that will stop those new photos from going in. 1:11:59.840 --> 1:12:02.800 But here's the thing. You still have the old photos, yeah, 1:12:02.920 --> 1:12:04.160 that are in there. So what you want to do 1:12:04.320 --> 1:12:06.200 is from a desktop. This is the easiest way to 1:12:06.240 --> 1:12:09.519 do it. Go to photos dot Google dot com. Make 1:12:09.600 --> 1:12:12.040 sure you're on that other account, you know, the one 1:12:12.080 --> 1:12:13.519 that you want to get rid of all the pictures, 1:12:14.040 --> 1:12:16.400 and then you can just go through and you can 1:12:16.520 --> 1:12:19.160 select I think you can select like a thousand pictures 1:12:19.200 --> 1:12:22.600 at once. So you can select one and then you 1:12:22.680 --> 1:12:26.599 press shift and you just scroll down, press and select 1:12:26.720 --> 1:12:29.040 and you can delete all those pictures from the desktop 1:12:29.479 --> 1:12:31.639 and that way they will be gone from the cloud. 1:12:31.840 --> 1:12:33.000 Okay, that's the best way of. 1:12:33.040 --> 1:12:35.120 Doing it because I have one, like I have one 1:12:35.160 --> 1:12:37.360 email address that I really wanted to use as my 1:12:37.479 --> 1:12:39.960 backup for everything because there's one that no one knows about. 1:12:40.200 --> 1:12:42.560 And then my professional one is the one that I 1:12:42.680 --> 1:12:46.240 want to keep, you know, clean, and nothing attached to it. 1:12:46.520 --> 1:12:49.240 You've got mister Bobo for the professional Yeah, no, I 1:12:49.320 --> 1:12:51.880 got Aaron is my professional one, like my government name. 1:12:51.920 --> 1:12:53.760 And I was like, that's more professional and to have 1:12:53.840 --> 1:12:57.360 with somebody. Yeah, email me your scripted Bobo at gmail 1:12:57.439 --> 1:12:57.840 dot com. 1:12:58.400 --> 1:12:58.880 That's not me. 1:12:59.080 --> 1:13:01.400 All right, let's try Now that we've solved your problem, 1:13:01.439 --> 1:13:03.680 let's try this. Selena Gomez Oreo. So I brought these 1:13:03.720 --> 1:13:06.080 in for my dessert. This is a cookie from Oreo 1:13:06.200 --> 1:13:10.800 limited Edition Flavor or Chata inspired featuring a layer of 1:13:10.880 --> 1:13:13.400 chocolate and cinnamon cream a top, a layer of sweet 1:13:13.439 --> 1:13:14.360 and condensed milk. 1:13:14.680 --> 1:13:19.880 Okay, let's just try it then go that's delicious. That 1:13:20.040 --> 1:13:23.840 is actually pretty brown. Book my wife I had to 1:13:23.920 --> 1:13:24.639 eat it and work. 1:13:33.040 --> 1:13:36.080 Welcome back to another hour of Rich on Tech. Rich 1:13:36.160 --> 1:13:39.720 DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology triple eight 1:13:39.920 --> 1:13:42.560 Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 1:13:42.600 --> 1:13:47.160 two four one zero one. Another old reference from old 1:13:47.240 --> 1:13:50.479 man to Muro. When I worked it office depot in 1:13:50.720 --> 1:13:51.280 high school. 1:13:52.479 --> 1:13:55.439 Uh, this was the song. This was like their theme song. 1:13:57.200 --> 1:13:57.600 This was it. 1:13:58.200 --> 1:13:59.840 Yeah, they had commercials and all that and that. 1:14:00.000 --> 1:14:02.559 By the way, I took all of my jobs seriously, 1:14:02.840 --> 1:14:07.080 like all the places I worked before my career. I 1:14:07.360 --> 1:14:11.600 was very serious about office Depot was I think the 1:14:11.800 --> 1:14:16.160 epitome of the It was probably one of my favorite 1:14:16.240 --> 1:14:18.080 jobs I did. We opened up a new store in 1:14:18.160 --> 1:14:22.120 New Jersey, North Jersey, and it was enormous. This was 1:14:22.160 --> 1:14:25.120 back when they sold this is like before best Buy 1:14:25.320 --> 1:14:28.040 was huge for electronics. You would literally buy your electronics 1:14:28.080 --> 1:14:31.120 at all these different stores everywhere before you went online 1:14:31.120 --> 1:14:33.599 and stuff. And so we had a whole section called 1:14:33.640 --> 1:14:37.240 like business Machines, and that's where people came to buy 1:14:37.320 --> 1:14:41.840 computers and equipment and graphics cards and processors, and it 1:14:41.960 --> 1:14:44.760 was just a huge portion of business in addition to 1:14:45.360 --> 1:14:48.240 you know, buying notebooks and envelopes and things like that. 1:14:48.640 --> 1:14:51.640 Like electronics were a huge part of their business. And 1:14:51.760 --> 1:14:53.559 I loved it. I mean, oh man, I had such 1:14:53.600 --> 1:14:55.920 a good time there. I loved just playing with all 1:14:56.040 --> 1:14:58.720 talking all the nerds that would sell the electronics. I 1:14:58.840 --> 1:15:01.920 sold cell phones for a Every time I sold a 1:15:01.960 --> 1:15:04.040 cell phone, we would sell them for like ninety nine cents, right, 1:15:04.760 --> 1:15:09.160 and then without every single time, without fail, the person 1:15:09.200 --> 1:15:11.920 would march back into the store a month later with 1:15:12.000 --> 1:15:14.240 their first bill and they'd be like, I thought this 1:15:14.360 --> 1:15:16.120 thing was ninety nine cents and their first bill was 1:15:16.160 --> 1:15:18.160 like three hundred dollars. You know, for all it was 1:15:18.240 --> 1:15:21.719 like first month, last month, pro rated this fee, activation, 1:15:21.920 --> 1:15:23.439 all this other stuff. It's like, yeah, the phone was 1:15:23.479 --> 1:15:26.479 ninety nine cents, but it's everything else that's really expensive. 1:15:26.640 --> 1:15:28.920 How do you think these companies make money? So but 1:15:29.000 --> 1:15:30.439 good news is I think we took a lot of 1:15:30.439 --> 1:15:35.000 those back. Let's go to Carl in upland. Carl, you're 1:15:35.040 --> 1:15:37.120 on with Rich How Rich? 1:15:37.120 --> 1:15:37.960 How are you doing today? 1:15:38.080 --> 1:15:41.040 I'm doing fantastic, good good. 1:15:41.960 --> 1:15:45.720 I'm looking for a new laptop. What I have is 1:15:45.720 --> 1:15:49.400 approximately twelve years old and it's held up that Now 1:15:49.479 --> 1:15:53.960 it's time. A two weeks ago, you mentioned some laptops 1:15:54.000 --> 1:15:57.439 that you liked that were available at Costco. You felt 1:15:57.520 --> 1:16:00.960 for the price, that was a good place to look 1:16:01.040 --> 1:16:03.639 for them. But I was trying to get out get 1:16:03.680 --> 1:16:05.760 from you. You know what I should look for when 1:16:05.800 --> 1:16:07.760 I go down there. They just have folks that want 1:16:07.800 --> 1:16:11.599 to sell whatever they want to sell. So I don't 1:16:11.640 --> 1:16:15.240 know what software looks for. I'm assuming that Windows eleven 1:16:15.320 --> 1:16:19.400 should come with most of them these days. The memory 1:16:19.720 --> 1:16:22.200 and the CPU. I need a little bit of guidance 1:16:22.280 --> 1:16:25.679 on what to look for specifically in the Costco lines 1:16:25.720 --> 1:16:26.160 they offer. 1:16:26.360 --> 1:16:30.920 Okay, well, Costco is a great place because Costco, because 1:16:30.960 --> 1:16:33.320 it's membership base, they always give you a little bit 1:16:33.400 --> 1:16:35.760 more for the money. So whatever you find there is 1:16:35.800 --> 1:16:38.960 going to be a better price and better specs than 1:16:38.960 --> 1:16:41.840 pretty much anywhere else that you go, So you're on 1:16:41.880 --> 1:16:44.680 the right path there. What I'd recommend if you're going 1:16:44.720 --> 1:16:48.360 the Windows route is, you know, Windows eleven should be 1:16:48.439 --> 1:16:50.720 on all the laptops that are there, all the all 1:16:50.720 --> 1:16:54.400 the laptops should have that pre installed. The most basic 1:16:54.520 --> 1:16:58.040 processor you want is either a Core I five or 1:16:58.479 --> 1:17:01.519 the a m D five. So basely five is the 1:17:01.600 --> 1:17:04.320 number you're looking for. If you're just doing basic stuff, 1:17:04.600 --> 1:17:06.960 the Intel five or the am D five should be 1:17:07.160 --> 1:17:10.360 just fine. If you want to do something that's a 1:17:10.439 --> 1:17:12.640 little bit more in depth than I would go with 1:17:12.840 --> 1:17:14.880 either the Intel seven or the rise In seven. 1:17:15.400 --> 1:17:17.200 So seven is going to be a little bit higher end. 1:17:17.280 --> 1:17:18.720 Nine is going to be much higher end. 1:17:19.280 --> 1:17:21.280 So I would say, you know, if you've got a 1:17:21.320 --> 1:17:23.240 little extra money to spend, go with the seven because 1:17:23.280 --> 1:17:23.719 that will. 1:17:23.600 --> 1:17:25.519 Future proof you for just a little bit longer. 1:17:26.360 --> 1:17:29.719 When it comes to RAM, definitely want at least sixteen 1:17:29.760 --> 1:17:32.640 gigabytes of RAM. That's going to get you what you 1:17:32.760 --> 1:17:36.240 need for most applications, and then for the hard drive. 1:17:37.320 --> 1:17:40.080 Usually these days there are solid state that you want 1:17:40.120 --> 1:17:43.479 at least five hundred and twelve gigabytes of storage. If 1:17:43.520 --> 1:17:45.920 you are doing a lot of photo or video stuff, 1:17:45.920 --> 1:17:48.679 I would definitely get a terabyte. I've got two terabytes 1:17:48.720 --> 1:17:50.719 on my latest computer that I purchased. 1:17:50.760 --> 1:17:51.920 I do not need that much. 1:17:52.040 --> 1:17:55.080 Even me who works with a lot of video, I 1:17:55.200 --> 1:17:57.519 do not need that much. A terabyte seems to be 1:17:57.600 --> 1:17:58.280 the sweet spot. 1:17:59.000 --> 1:17:59.120 Now. 1:17:59.200 --> 1:18:01.160 The other main thinging you have to look for is 1:18:01.320 --> 1:18:04.880 do you want a dedicated graphics card or do you 1:18:05.040 --> 1:18:07.639 just want a graphics card that's built in. If it's 1:18:07.680 --> 1:18:10.640 built in, it'll just say like Intel graphics. But if 1:18:10.680 --> 1:18:14.080 it's a if it's an external graphics card, it will 1:18:14.160 --> 1:18:17.400 mention the specific graphics, whether it's in video or something else. 1:18:18.120 --> 1:18:21.519 So that is, if you are doing some high end 1:18:21.600 --> 1:18:26.760 processing like audio, video processing, mostly video and photo, I 1:18:26.800 --> 1:18:31.880 would probably look for a dedicated GPU they call that. Otherwise, 1:18:32.160 --> 1:18:34.920 when it comes to screen size, definitely go for the 1:18:35.040 --> 1:18:37.960 largest screen size you can find. Do not go thirteen inch. 1:18:38.000 --> 1:18:41.960 It'll be way too small. Sixteen inch is probably the best. 1:18:42.080 --> 1:18:45.519 Fifteen sixteen inch is going to be much better. And 1:18:45.600 --> 1:18:47.160 then the other things you want to look for is 1:18:47.360 --> 1:18:50.439 just you know, basic kind of you know, the keyboard. 1:18:50.520 --> 1:18:53.480 Try the keyboard. Make sure the keyboard feels nice and spacious. 1:18:53.960 --> 1:18:56.559 I don't need the dedicated numbers keyboard if you're looking 1:18:56.600 --> 1:18:58.200 for that. You know, if you're doing like accounting and 1:18:58.240 --> 1:19:02.200 stuff like that. Brands, you know, look all the brands 1:19:02.240 --> 1:19:04.400 you're gonna find at Costco, We're going to be pretty good. 1:19:04.760 --> 1:19:06.879 I would say, if you don't need the gaming laptop, 1:19:06.960 --> 1:19:09.559 stay away from those, you'll know, because they have all 1:19:09.560 --> 1:19:12.000 the flashing lights and stuff like that. But for your 1:19:12.040 --> 1:19:17.000 basic brands, anything ace Us is really nice. You know, 1:19:17.760 --> 1:19:21.160 the Lenovo's are nice. I mean really anything you find 1:19:21.200 --> 1:19:23.680 there that has the specs I mentioned is going to 1:19:23.720 --> 1:19:26.280 be just fine. Sounds like your old computer lasted a 1:19:26.400 --> 1:19:28.880 very long time, which means you got your money's worth 1:19:28.960 --> 1:19:31.320 there this new one, you know, look to spend I 1:19:31.360 --> 1:19:34.200 would say maybe a thousand, maybe a little bit more, 1:19:34.240 --> 1:19:35.799 depending on how. 1:19:35.960 --> 1:19:37.599 How high end those specs you get are. 1:19:37.880 --> 1:19:42.559 And don't forget Costco also sells a lot of computers online. 1:19:43.120 --> 1:19:44.600 And the way if you want, if you want to 1:19:44.640 --> 1:19:48.720 look there, slick deals dot net has all of the 1:19:48.840 --> 1:19:52.519 latest sort of best computer deals linked up on their 1:19:52.920 --> 1:19:55.200 front page. So if you go in there and then 1:19:55.240 --> 1:20:00.680 you tap categories and we go to UH computers and 1:20:00.840 --> 1:20:04.000 you can sort by the different places they sell them 1:20:04.920 --> 1:20:08.040 and the different you know, deals that they have. And 1:20:08.160 --> 1:20:10.599 so I have a bookmark of all the slick deals 1:20:10.640 --> 1:20:13.240 for the laptops of the day that are really good. 1:20:13.640 --> 1:20:16.920 Here it is laptop deals and usually if I look up, 1:20:17.000 --> 1:20:20.240 let's see if they have any at Costco right now. Yeah, Costco, 1:20:20.360 --> 1:20:24.760 it's got a sixteen inch HP for six ninety nine 1:20:25.479 --> 1:20:27.840 with everything you need. Everything I just mentioned it's got. 1:20:28.120 --> 1:20:30.880 So that's number one. Then you've got let's see they 1:20:30.920 --> 1:20:34.640 have any other costco ones here today that it's a 1:20:34.720 --> 1:20:36.840 MacBook okay, so I mean the one I just mentioned. 1:20:36.960 --> 1:20:38.400 This is everything you need. 1:20:38.479 --> 1:20:38.800 Look at this. 1:20:39.479 --> 1:20:42.479 It's got an AMD rise in seven. It's got a 1:20:42.560 --> 1:20:46.439 sixteen inch screen, thirty two gigs, a RAM one terabyte 1:20:46.479 --> 1:20:50.920 drive seven okay, yeah, seven hundred bucks thirty percent off 1:20:51.000 --> 1:20:52.800 usually one thousand bucks. You can get that right now 1:20:52.840 --> 1:20:55.560 at costco dot com. That is fantastic that's going to 1:20:55.640 --> 1:20:59.679 serve you well hp omnibook five. There you go, Carl, 1:21:00.000 --> 1:21:02.120 all right, have at it, have fun, Thanks for the call. 1:21:02.200 --> 1:21:08.160 Today FDA clears its first cuffless blood pressure monitor for 1:21:08.320 --> 1:21:09.280 over the counter use. 1:21:09.760 --> 1:21:10.479 How cool is this? 1:21:10.640 --> 1:21:13.880 You can now track your blood pressure without an arm cuff. Well, 1:21:13.920 --> 1:21:16.759 it's coming soon, so already for sale over in Europe. 1:21:16.760 --> 1:21:18.920 They've got one hundred and thirty thousand users over there. 1:21:19.240 --> 1:21:23.280 It's called the High Low Band HILO. It's going to 1:21:23.360 --> 1:21:26.120 launch in the US in twenty twenty six. It is 1:21:26.200 --> 1:21:29.679 the first cuffless blood pressure monitor cleared by the FDA 1:21:29.800 --> 1:21:33.920 for over the counter use. No prescription required. So what 1:21:34.080 --> 1:21:36.040 you do is you have to calibrate it once with 1:21:36.160 --> 1:21:40.000 a traditional cuff all that's included. After that, it's cuff free. 1:21:40.080 --> 1:21:42.880 So once it gets that baseline measurement, it then uses 1:21:42.920 --> 1:21:45.920 an algorithm to figure out your blood pressure. So it's 1:21:45.920 --> 1:21:49.960 going to track blood pressure continuously and passively, just like 1:21:50.080 --> 1:21:51.720 how smart watches track your heart rate. 1:21:51.840 --> 1:21:52.720 How cool is that. 1:21:54.439 --> 1:21:58.280 I think this is a huge moment for anyone who 1:21:58.400 --> 1:22:03.400 has hypertension and needs care because, according to this one 1:22:03.439 --> 1:22:06.559 point three billion people worldwide are affected by high blood pressure. 1:22:07.479 --> 1:22:10.160 So if you can have your blood pressure monitor twenty 1:22:10.240 --> 1:22:13.479 four to seven in a way that's reliable, that is 1:22:13.840 --> 1:22:18.880 game changing because there are large there are a lot 1:22:18.960 --> 1:22:21.519 of people out there who have to continuously monitor their 1:22:21.520 --> 1:22:23.520 blood pressure several times throughout. 1:22:23.240 --> 1:22:26.120 The week or day, and this is a huge win 1:22:26.280 --> 1:22:26.559 for them. 1:22:27.520 --> 1:22:30.880 So the only the last remaining hurdle we have is 1:22:31.040 --> 1:22:34.720 blood glucose monitoring non evasive and I know a lot 1:22:34.760 --> 1:22:37.680 of companies are working on this. Once they figure that out, 1:22:38.240 --> 1:22:40.960 it is game over. We've got then, you've got blood pressure, 1:22:41.040 --> 1:22:43.840 you've got heart, You've got I mean, this is just 1:22:43.960 --> 1:22:49.599 amazing the stuff that's happening because of these wearables. Once again, 1:22:49.680 --> 1:22:54.439 the company there the Helo brand, Hilo Band. The company 1:22:54.720 --> 1:22:58.599 is uh yeah, that's that's the name of it. Oh 1:22:58.680 --> 1:23:05.880 a company is Akida Acta Actia ak Tiia ak Tiia Actia. 1:23:07.880 --> 1:23:09.920 And if you're looking for a replacement for Pocket, I 1:23:10.040 --> 1:23:14.519 just downloaded a new app called Folio. Save Withfolio dot com. 1:23:15.080 --> 1:23:18.320 Save Withfolio dot Com. So we know that Pocket is 1:23:18.360 --> 1:23:22.080 a popular read it later app, it is officially shutting down, 1:23:22.840 --> 1:23:27.160 so Folio is a replacement app. It's available in iOS, Android, 1:23:27.240 --> 1:23:31.000 and the web. You can save articles videos, threads from 1:23:31.040 --> 1:23:33.439 your favorite social media networks. Then you can access them 1:23:33.479 --> 1:23:37.120 anytime across devices. It's got a nice clean reading view, 1:23:37.240 --> 1:23:40.680 offline access browser extension, and you can even import your 1:23:40.680 --> 1:23:43.240 Pocket data, like if you kept a bunch of articles there, 1:23:43.280 --> 1:23:46.000 you can import it. There's also a premium version which 1:23:46.000 --> 1:23:47.880 you can get free for right now while they test it, 1:23:48.360 --> 1:23:51.680 which reads things to you, highlights, full texturet search, and 1:23:51.760 --> 1:23:57.599 customizable fonts. Folio is AD free, so the premium pricing 1:23:57.680 --> 1:24:01.479 will support development of the feature. They won't track you 1:24:01.560 --> 1:24:07.920 with ads, so again, Save with Save with Folio dot 1:24:08.080 --> 1:24:11.240 com is the app. You can download it there for iOS, 1:24:11.320 --> 1:24:13.920 Android and it looks great. I mean it looks just 1:24:14.000 --> 1:24:17.200 like Pocket. The other alternative is called insta Paper. That's 1:24:17.200 --> 1:24:19.439 what I've been using as well, but this one looks 1:24:19.479 --> 1:24:19.880 pretty good. 1:24:20.040 --> 1:24:22.720 Folio. I'll put a link on the website rich on 1:24:23.040 --> 1:24:24.200 tech dot tv. 1:24:25.160 --> 1:24:27.479 Coming up, I'll tell you about the Amazon the seller 1:24:27.520 --> 1:24:30.559 who got hundreds of unwanted Amazon packages at their house. 1:24:34.280 --> 1:24:36.840 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:24:36.880 --> 1:24:40.639 out with you talking technology the website for the show 1:24:41.000 --> 1:24:44.720 rich on Tech dot tv. This is episode one nine. 1:24:44.720 --> 1:24:48.240 I've got everything listed that we talked about here. Everything 1:24:48.360 --> 1:24:51.360 from the websites I mentioned on how to remove backgrounds 1:24:51.400 --> 1:24:53.720 from your pictures, the restaurants I went to New York, 1:24:55.040 --> 1:24:58.719 the Selena Gomez Oreos, which Bobo has now ordered himself, 1:25:00.000 --> 1:25:02.080 and everything else I mentioned is all on the website. 1:25:02.200 --> 1:25:05.040 Rich on tech dot tv. I take very good notes 1:25:05.760 --> 1:25:08.360 during this show, and so if you ever need something 1:25:08.400 --> 1:25:11.920 I mentioned, you could just go there and find it. Weimo, 1:25:12.760 --> 1:25:16.879 which is made by Belkan, they are dropping their support 1:25:17.080 --> 1:25:20.240 for several of their devices, a lot of their stuff 1:25:20.280 --> 1:25:24.000 actually they're smart plugs and light switches, so this is 1:25:24.320 --> 1:25:29.040 a Belcan Wemo support update. They sent out Belcan's going 1:25:29.120 --> 1:25:32.640 to shut down cloud support for older Weimo products on 1:25:32.760 --> 1:25:36.519 January thirty first, twenty twenty six. After that, any devices 1:25:36.600 --> 1:25:39.320 relying on the Wemo app, Alexa or Google Assistant will 1:25:39.360 --> 1:25:43.000 stop working. Only Wemo products set up with the Apple 1:25:43.120 --> 1:25:45.840 home Kit will still continue to work using home Kit 1:25:46.000 --> 1:25:48.880 local Control, So basically they're just shutting off the cloud 1:25:48.960 --> 1:25:53.080 with this stuff. Thread based Wemo products like the Stage 1:25:53.120 --> 1:25:56.680 controller and smart plug with thread are not affected, and 1:25:57.600 --> 1:25:59.840 if you have one of these you might qualify for 1:26:00.160 --> 1:26:03.000 partial refund, but only if your device is still under warranty, 1:26:03.640 --> 1:26:06.360 which you probably I mean probably not going to collect 1:26:06.439 --> 1:26:11.360 very much there. Refunds are available starting January thirty first, 1:26:11.479 --> 1:26:13.560 not before, so you'll have to save your receipts and 1:26:13.640 --> 1:26:17.080 check Belkin's website. Belcan says this move lets them refocus 1:26:17.160 --> 1:26:20.519 on other areas of their business. For now, your Wemo 1:26:20.640 --> 1:26:24.600 devices will continue to work normally, but the countdown is 1:26:24.680 --> 1:26:27.840 on until January thirty first, twenty twenty six. 1:26:29.360 --> 1:26:30.759 And I got to tell you about this story. 1:26:31.439 --> 1:26:34.479 ABC seven News in San Francisco did a profile of 1:26:34.560 --> 1:26:39.160 a woman in San who's Jose, who got hundreds of 1:26:39.360 --> 1:26:41.679 Amazon packages delivered to her house. 1:26:42.040 --> 1:26:44.160 She didn't order any of them. What were they? 1:26:44.680 --> 1:26:50.000 They were returns. They were fake leather car seat covers 1:26:50.760 --> 1:26:55.160 tied to a third party seller, and the seller listed 1:26:55.240 --> 1:26:59.360 her address as the return location for customers trying to 1:26:59.400 --> 1:27:02.840 send their perch says back. They started arriving a year ago, 1:27:02.960 --> 1:27:06.720 they never stopped. They blocked her driveway, her access to 1:27:06.760 --> 1:27:09.200 her mailbox, and even her eighty eight year old mother 1:27:09.760 --> 1:27:13.519 couldn't walk down the entryway. She called Amazon a bunch 1:27:13.600 --> 1:27:15.679 of times, filed a bunch of complaints. They only offered 1:27:15.680 --> 1:27:17.280 her one hundred dollars gift card and told her to 1:27:17.400 --> 1:27:21.880 donate or return the packages herself. According to Amazon policy, 1:27:22.000 --> 1:27:25.639 international sellers must either give a US return address, issue 1:27:25.720 --> 1:27:30.080 a returnless refund, or send a prepaid shipping label. But 1:27:30.200 --> 1:27:33.360 instead customers paid over one hundred dollars to ship these 1:27:33.400 --> 1:27:36.400 items back to this woman's driveway. This is just a 1:27:36.600 --> 1:27:41.200 wild story. The brand has no contact info on their website, 1:27:41.360 --> 1:27:42.880 the reviews or one star. 1:27:43.479 --> 1:27:44.400 So what did this woman do? 1:27:44.640 --> 1:27:47.479 After she got so frustrated, she called the local news 1:27:48.160 --> 1:27:52.120 and they got involved, you know, like these these troubleshooter 1:27:52.400 --> 1:27:54.439 kind of things, you know, like where are the We'll 1:27:54.479 --> 1:27:59.880 get you help. So once they called Amazon, guess what happened. 1:28:00.000 --> 1:28:03.400 Oh the problem goes away. Amazon stepped in, removed the 1:28:03.479 --> 1:28:05.880 boxes and said they're cracking down on the third party 1:28:05.960 --> 1:28:09.960 sellers violating their policies. The woman called it quote another 1:28:10.040 --> 1:28:13.839 form of hell, and says she's grateful someone finally listened. 1:28:14.280 --> 1:28:16.600 Seven on your side isn't what they do like in 1:28:16.640 --> 1:28:18.719 the local news. I mean, I work in the local news, 1:28:20.479 --> 1:28:22.599 but I don't do that. But it's a funny thing 1:28:22.640 --> 1:28:24.760 about this. It's like I've seen this over and over. 1:28:25.479 --> 1:28:28.320 It's like these big companies don't care until you get 1:28:28.360 --> 1:28:31.120 the local news, because the local news will email the 1:28:31.200 --> 1:28:33.320 PR person. The PR person doesn't want to do a 1:28:33.400 --> 1:28:35.439 bad story, so they say, yes, we'll figure this out 1:28:35.479 --> 1:28:38.879 and we'll get it fixed for that one person. Sometimes 1:28:38.920 --> 1:28:41.360 it helps other people too, but it's like, you know, 1:28:41.439 --> 1:28:44.599 the company doesn't care about what you do. It's only 1:28:44.640 --> 1:28:47.920 when the local news steps in then they care because 1:28:48.000 --> 1:28:49.640 you know there's gonna be a lot of publicity there. 1:28:51.080 --> 1:28:53.840 By the way, I had an AI breakthrough today. This 1:28:54.040 --> 1:28:57.360 is incredible because I've been using the Samsung phone. Of course, 1:28:57.400 --> 1:29:00.720 I'm playing with Gemini more. I figured out how to 1:29:00.800 --> 1:29:04.800 make an everything notebook using Google Keep. So if you 1:29:04.920 --> 1:29:07.240 start putting a whole bunch of notes into Google Keep, 1:29:07.640 --> 1:29:10.000 you can ask Gemini about those notes. 1:29:10.520 --> 1:29:12.960 So watch what I did. I put in the restaurants 1:29:13.000 --> 1:29:14.479 we went to in New York City, and watch what 1:29:14.560 --> 1:29:18.439 I can do. Now watch check my notes for the 1:29:18.640 --> 1:29:20.840 restaurants I went to in New York City. What were they? 1:29:22.160 --> 1:29:24.479 And let's see what Gemini comes up with. Okay, it's 1:29:24.520 --> 1:29:25.320 looking at Google Keep. 1:29:25.439 --> 1:29:25.720 We went to. 1:29:25.760 --> 1:29:29.080 Osteria Baroka and Tony's DiNapoli in New York City. 1:29:30.080 --> 1:29:33.160 Look at that so it looked through my notes and 1:29:33.320 --> 1:29:36.080 it summarized the two restaurants that I went to. 1:29:36.360 --> 1:29:37.240 How cool is that. 1:29:38.240 --> 1:29:40.759 So I've been using another thing for this called voice 1:29:40.800 --> 1:29:43.880 notes dot com, sort of like an everything notebook, and 1:29:43.920 --> 1:29:46.280 then you can ask it's AI. But the problem is 1:29:46.400 --> 1:29:50.200 that's not integrated with Gemini. So with Gemini and Google Keep, 1:29:50.280 --> 1:29:52.839 you can now just dump a whole bunch of information 1:29:53.000 --> 1:29:56.760 into Google Keep and then ask Gemini at any time 1:29:57.320 --> 1:29:58.880 to look at your notes and tell you. 1:29:59.640 --> 1:30:01.880 So, what could this be good for? Oh my gosh. 1:30:02.000 --> 1:30:04.720 So for me, when my kids say something silly, I 1:30:04.760 --> 1:30:08.040 will record it into my notes and I can say, like, 1:30:08.120 --> 1:30:11.160 tell me something silly that my kids said. Any notes 1:30:11.200 --> 1:30:13.240 I have, or any thoughts I have while I'm traveling, 1:30:13.280 --> 1:30:16.920 I'll put in there. Anything that I read that's interesting. 1:30:16.960 --> 1:30:19.479 I'll put in their quotes and stuff like that. You say, hey, 1:30:19.720 --> 1:30:22.880 give me an inspirational quote for my notes. When I 1:30:22.960 --> 1:30:25.880 learn about people, I'll put notes about them in my notes. 1:30:26.439 --> 1:30:28.720 So if they tell me their kids' names, or you know, 1:30:28.760 --> 1:30:30.439 where they're going to college, so I don't forget that 1:30:30.640 --> 1:30:33.639 those details about our relationship, I'll put that in there. 1:30:35.320 --> 1:30:39.000 Anything I mean, the possibilities are endless. I am so excited. 1:30:39.040 --> 1:30:41.160 I think I've just ruined the rest of my weekend 1:30:41.479 --> 1:30:43.720 because now I'm gonna sit here and program my Google Keep, 1:30:43.760 --> 1:30:46.360 which I typically don't use, but now that it works 1:30:46.400 --> 1:30:49.439 so nicely with Gemini, this is incredible. And then by 1:30:49.479 --> 1:30:51.719 the way, you can say to Gemini, take a note 1:30:52.280 --> 1:30:54.000 and then say whatever you want and it will put 1:30:54.040 --> 1:30:55.120 that into your Google Keep. 1:30:55.560 --> 1:30:56.439 This is big. 1:30:56.960 --> 1:30:59.320 And by the way, Gemini works on iPhone or androids, 1:30:59.360 --> 1:31:01.960 so this will work same on both. Coming up, we're 1:31:02.000 --> 1:31:05.040 gonna talk about Google and their domination of the ad 1:31:05.160 --> 1:31:06.000 business right here. 1:31:05.920 --> 1:31:06.639 On rich on Tech. 1:31:12.000 --> 1:31:14.479 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 1:31:14.479 --> 1:31:19.840 out with you, talking technology website rich on Tech dot TV. 1:31:20.640 --> 1:31:21.519 Joining me now is. 1:31:21.640 --> 1:31:26.040 Ari Paparo, former Google executive and author of an upcoming 1:31:26.040 --> 1:31:30.120 book called Yield How Google Bought, built, and bullied its 1:31:30.160 --> 1:31:32.720 way to advertising dominance. 1:31:33.840 --> 1:31:36.880 Ari, welcome to the show. Yeah, thanks for having me Rich. 1:31:37.120 --> 1:31:39.920 I'm assuming this book is not so flattering to Google. 1:31:40.800 --> 1:31:43.160 You know, it's not a damning book of Google, but 1:31:43.240 --> 1:31:45.080 they did some things wrong. I mean, they were just 1:31:45.200 --> 1:31:48.320 held to be a monopoly by a federal judge. So 1:31:48.400 --> 1:31:50.560 I'm telling the story of how they got there. I 1:31:50.600 --> 1:31:52.360 would say more arrogance than evil. 1:31:52.920 --> 1:31:53.080 More. 1:31:53.400 --> 1:31:55.160 That's why I use the word bullying, because I think 1:31:55.200 --> 1:31:58.760 that's a pretty good take on what they did, and 1:31:59.320 --> 1:32:02.000 hopefully they'll read it and maybe get some insights as 1:32:02.040 --> 1:32:02.599 to what happened. 1:32:02.800 --> 1:32:05.720 So, what did you do at Google and what they 1:32:05.760 --> 1:32:06.920 do to you that was so bad? 1:32:07.600 --> 1:32:09.800 I don't have any ill will to Google whatsoever, and 1:32:09.840 --> 1:32:12.400 I've partnered with them in other jobs, but it wasn't 1:32:12.439 --> 1:32:12.640 for me. 1:32:12.760 --> 1:32:16.360 Let's just say that, okay, So let's talk about the 1:32:16.479 --> 1:32:19.240 ad world. I mean, it's very much dominated by Google, 1:32:19.439 --> 1:32:19.880 for sure. 1:32:21.360 --> 1:32:22.320 Why do we care? 1:32:23.320 --> 1:32:26.599 Yeah, well, you know when a web page loads, people 1:32:26.680 --> 1:32:28.920 make money or they try to make money, and it 1:32:28.960 --> 1:32:32.960 supports most of modern web based journalism. I mean, obviously 1:32:33.040 --> 1:32:35.240 you have subscriptions if people can afford them, and you 1:32:35.400 --> 1:32:38.280 have you have other ways of making money of emails, 1:32:38.320 --> 1:32:40.559 et cetera. But a lot of it is just based 1:32:40.600 --> 1:32:43.519 on those boxes of ads, the banner ads, the square 1:32:43.600 --> 1:32:45.960 ads on the web pages, and that's what pays for 1:32:46.240 --> 1:32:47.280 journalism and content. 1:32:47.960 --> 1:32:51.400 And how did Google bully its way? I mean, I 1:32:51.479 --> 1:32:54.599 know it and purchased companies over the years but they 1:32:54.680 --> 1:32:56.960 do command. Like if you set up a website and 1:32:57.080 --> 1:32:58.680 I have in the past, you know they got this thing. 1:32:58.720 --> 1:33:01.800 I think it's called what ads, AdWords one of those. Yeah, 1:33:01.880 --> 1:33:04.560 they have both, okay, but you know that's like the 1:33:04.760 --> 1:33:07.280 way to make money on your site. 1:33:07.160 --> 1:33:08.480 Right absolutely. 1:33:08.840 --> 1:33:11.760 So that's why it's an interesting story because everyone knows 1:33:11.800 --> 1:33:14.479 Google for search, but you don't think so much about 1:33:14.520 --> 1:33:17.439 banner ads. And they went from absolutely nothing where they 1:33:17.479 --> 1:33:19.360 had ad Sense, but it was all text. We're talking 1:33:19.400 --> 1:33:21.599 about the early two thousands. They just showed text ads 1:33:21.600 --> 1:33:24.719 on your site. They went from nothing to total dominance, 1:33:24.800 --> 1:33:27.360 ninety percent market share in some segments. And they did 1:33:27.439 --> 1:33:31.240 it by running the software the actual not the ads, 1:33:31.280 --> 1:33:34.120 but the software that serves the ads. And that's how 1:33:34.160 --> 1:33:37.519 I got involved. Also, Google acquired a company called double 1:33:37.560 --> 1:33:39.880 Click back in two thousand and eight, and it was 1:33:39.960 --> 1:33:42.640 the software that almost every website you could think of, 1:33:42.920 --> 1:33:46.040 like CNN and New York Times and yach not Yahoo, 1:33:46.080 --> 1:33:48.800 but many others would use to show the ads. So 1:33:48.840 --> 1:33:51.720 they controlled the software. And then they said, well, if 1:33:51.760 --> 1:33:54.479 we ConTroll the software and people are sort of bidding 1:33:54.680 --> 1:33:57.559 to buy these ads, we know what prices they're bidding. Well, 1:33:57.600 --> 1:33:59.920 we could bid blood and sent higher and win more often, 1:34:00.360 --> 1:34:03.240 or we can change the amount of revenue that people 1:34:03.320 --> 1:34:07.200 make when they sell the ads into our advantage. So 1:34:07.320 --> 1:34:10.479 they ended up being like basically both the stock market 1:34:10.920 --> 1:34:12.880 and the biggest bank in this market. 1:34:14.320 --> 1:34:17.439 Now, Google has a lot of data about consumers. And 1:34:17.520 --> 1:34:19.599 this is kind of how this all comes together because 1:34:20.000 --> 1:34:23.160 we search on the web, We look for things, and 1:34:23.280 --> 1:34:25.680 then Google builds a profile of us, and then they 1:34:25.800 --> 1:34:29.280 use that to kind of make these ads appeal to us, 1:34:29.439 --> 1:34:31.439 right Like, they kind of they match up the ads 1:34:31.479 --> 1:34:31.720 with what. 1:34:31.800 --> 1:34:34.840 We are looking for. So should we be worried about 1:34:34.880 --> 1:34:36.120 that process at this point? 1:34:37.160 --> 1:34:37.519 You're right. 1:34:37.680 --> 1:34:40.280 The Google has the Chrome browser, they have Gmail, they 1:34:40.320 --> 1:34:42.640 have maps, They know a lot about you that they 1:34:42.720 --> 1:34:46.320 have your search history, and you know, it is a 1:34:46.360 --> 1:34:49.120 little concerning, especially if you're searching for sort of sensitive 1:34:49.160 --> 1:34:52.000 topics around health or whatever. I would say Google's a 1:34:52.000 --> 1:34:53.960 pretty good actor in this regard. I don't think there's 1:34:54.000 --> 1:34:57.960 ever been a allegation that they use data in a 1:34:58.040 --> 1:35:00.560 really bad way or sold your data. But it is 1:35:00.680 --> 1:35:04.879 concerning overall that companies like Meta and Google and TikTok 1:35:05.000 --> 1:35:08.320 knows so much about its consumers and in some cases, 1:35:08.360 --> 1:35:11.240 maybe collecting data from you when you're not aware. You know, 1:35:11.360 --> 1:35:14.320 you're on a website about news. You don't know that 1:35:14.400 --> 1:35:17.840 Google is actually learning about what you're interested in. It's 1:35:17.960 --> 1:35:20.760 important that consumers kind of take control of that at 1:35:20.840 --> 1:35:23.719 some to some degree. But I wouldn't be overly panicked 1:35:23.720 --> 1:35:24.000 about it. 1:35:24.439 --> 1:35:26.320 I mean, yeah, that's that's another side of it. When 1:35:26.360 --> 1:35:29.920 you visit a website, they are typically sending data back 1:35:30.000 --> 1:35:33.160 to Google that says, hey, this person went here. It 1:35:33.280 --> 1:35:35.519 may not be your name per se, but it's linked 1:35:35.520 --> 1:35:38.439 to you somehow, I guess, but it tells you know, 1:35:38.600 --> 1:35:43.080 it sends back data all to feed that beast of like, hey, 1:35:43.600 --> 1:35:45.519 we can target this person because they look at news 1:35:45.560 --> 1:35:46.760 about sneakers all the time. 1:35:47.439 --> 1:35:51.200 It's true because there are these things called pixels. Many 1:35:51.400 --> 1:35:54.400 of your listeners should know that on almost every website 1:35:54.400 --> 1:35:57.200 out there. It's not just Google, though Google has Google Analytics, 1:35:57.439 --> 1:36:00.639 but the meta, the Facebook pixel, or the thumbs button, whatever, 1:36:00.920 --> 1:36:04.640 the like button, you know, those are data collection mechanisms. 1:36:04.880 --> 1:36:06.759 There was just a little bit of a mini scandal 1:36:06.800 --> 1:36:10.000 where it was found out that on Android phones, Facebook 1:36:10.240 --> 1:36:13.519 could recognize its consumers up to their user profile on 1:36:13.640 --> 1:36:17.080 Instagram on every basically every single pixel fire in the browser, 1:36:17.640 --> 1:36:19.280 which is something they shouldn't be able to do, but 1:36:19.360 --> 1:36:22.840 they were able to manipulate around that. So, yeah, as 1:36:22.880 --> 1:36:24.639 you're surfing the web, a lot of folks are collecting 1:36:24.680 --> 1:36:27.719 information about you and there's no way to fully protect yourself. 1:36:27.800 --> 1:36:30.560 But also it's not the most sensitive data. It's not 1:36:30.760 --> 1:36:33.559 something that hopefully you could be you know, lose your 1:36:33.640 --> 1:36:36.920 marriage or your house about you know that I'm interested 1:36:36.960 --> 1:36:38.080 in sneakers or whatnot. 1:36:39.120 --> 1:36:41.639 Now we've heard a lot about Google, and you tossed 1:36:41.680 --> 1:36:45.080 out the word monopoly. There's been two prominent cases involving 1:36:45.160 --> 1:36:48.120 Google lately. One was their ad business and then the 1:36:48.160 --> 1:36:51.479 other was Chrome. So what do we know about this? 1:36:51.680 --> 1:36:54.920 Like, is Google going to be forced to change its ways? Yeah, 1:36:55.200 --> 1:36:55.840 you summarize it. 1:36:55.920 --> 1:36:57.880 Well, the two big cases in the federal there's also 1:36:57.920 --> 1:37:01.479 a state case asking for huge damages. So in the 1:37:01.680 --> 1:37:04.519 search case where they were declared to monopoly, they've already 1:37:04.600 --> 1:37:06.600 had hearings about what they should do about it, and 1:37:06.680 --> 1:37:08.880 the government is trying to force a spin out of 1:37:08.960 --> 1:37:12.160 the Chrome browser. The Chrome browser has I think something 1:37:12.240 --> 1:37:14.840 like sixty percent market share in the US, so that 1:37:15.000 --> 1:37:17.439 being spun out and Google not being a sort of 1:37:17.520 --> 1:37:20.720 beneficial owner that invests a ton of resources into it 1:37:21.040 --> 1:37:23.080 is a big question mark for the future of the web. 1:37:23.479 --> 1:37:25.760 Will there be many browsers, will some be owned by 1:37:25.800 --> 1:37:29.559 commercial institutions like Amazon Browser, and you'll get money off 1:37:30.000 --> 1:37:31.120 who knows where it'll end up. 1:37:31.160 --> 1:37:32.000 It's a big change. 1:37:32.000 --> 1:37:35.280 If they're forced to spin out Chrome on the AD side, 1:37:35.280 --> 1:37:37.800 which is what I wrote my book about, They're also 1:37:37.880 --> 1:37:40.400 being asked to spin out their core AD server that 1:37:40.479 --> 1:37:43.200 I mentioned earlier, but also their exchange and a bunch 1:37:43.240 --> 1:37:46.880 of other tools that publishers used to make money and 1:37:47.000 --> 1:37:50.320 where they have monopoly or near monopoly market share, and 1:37:50.439 --> 1:37:53.080 that could throw a wrench into the ways that the 1:37:53.160 --> 1:37:57.360 revenue streams of media companies and publishers and streaming broadcasters 1:37:57.400 --> 1:37:59.200 and a lot of other folks. It's a very disruptive 1:37:59.240 --> 1:38:02.280 change given how Google is, but a lot of observers 1:38:02.360 --> 1:38:05.080 really think it's due to happen both of those remedies. 1:38:05.600 --> 1:38:09.160 Who's the book for ari I wrote the book as 1:38:09.280 --> 1:38:11.519 narrative journalism, meaning I talk to people and I told 1:38:11.560 --> 1:38:13.600 their stories. It's not a technical book, it's more of 1:38:13.640 --> 1:38:16.360 a business book. I hope people really enjoy it. People 1:38:16.360 --> 1:38:21.000 are interested in advertising, in business, in drama around this 1:38:21.120 --> 1:38:25.240 sort of monopoly big tech. I hope it's pretty readable, 1:38:25.280 --> 1:38:27.040 but I'll only know when the reviews start coming in. 1:38:27.560 --> 1:38:28.920 It's available on August fifth. 1:38:29.040 --> 1:38:31.960 My question for you is is all of this a 1:38:32.360 --> 1:38:35.640 point because the web, the structure of the web is 1:38:35.800 --> 1:38:38.640 changing because of AI. I mean, Google, I feel like 1:38:38.800 --> 1:38:41.640 is in a very precarious position. They have Gemini, but 1:38:41.840 --> 1:38:45.120 we've got open AI, Chat, GBT, Perplexity, all these other 1:38:45.240 --> 1:38:49.439 services are now summarizing the web and not necessarily delivering 1:38:49.520 --> 1:38:51.360 ads in the way that Google has made its bread 1:38:51.400 --> 1:38:51.840 and butter on. 1:38:52.479 --> 1:38:55.200 Yeah, it all starts with the consumers, and the consumers 1:38:55.280 --> 1:39:01.120 are are being referred from search results less. Basically, referral 1:39:01.160 --> 1:39:04.000 traffic is down, and referral traffic is the lifeblood of 1:39:04.040 --> 1:39:08.920 many and supported businesses. So it's an interesting problem. Will 1:39:09.120 --> 1:39:12.000 publishers be able to recapture their audience to go with 1:39:12.200 --> 1:39:16.439 channels they can control better, like podcasts, like like email, 1:39:16.960 --> 1:39:20.360 like some parts of social or will they just lose 1:39:20.400 --> 1:39:22.639 that traffic and they'll never come back and traffic turns 1:39:22.680 --> 1:39:25.640 into advertising. So we don't know. 1:39:25.800 --> 1:39:30.000 Also, the Chrome browser, you know, we probably have heard that. 1:39:30.280 --> 1:39:31.120 Just in the last week. 1:39:31.280 --> 1:39:33.360 I think open Ai said they're making a browser, and 1:39:33.800 --> 1:39:36.040 Perplexity said they're making a browser. And there's also this 1:39:36.160 --> 1:39:38.559 browser called da that's getting a lot of traction because 1:39:38.560 --> 1:39:39.360 that's built in AI. 1:39:40.200 --> 1:39:41.800 So maybe the Chrome browser. 1:39:41.680 --> 1:39:45.320 Case is also you know yesterday's news, it's a really 1:39:45.400 --> 1:39:46.360 interesting time in tech. 1:39:46.760 --> 1:39:46.960 Yeah. 1:39:46.960 --> 1:39:49.080 I always wonder about that because these laws, you know, 1:39:49.160 --> 1:39:53.200 these these court challenges always take so long to get through, 1:39:53.840 --> 1:39:55.240 and by the time they do that, you know, tech 1:39:55.360 --> 1:39:58.800 is evolving so quickly. To me, it's like, you know, 1:39:59.080 --> 1:40:01.439 if open aies can out their own browser, this DA 1:40:01.520 --> 1:40:03.840 browser that you mentioned from the browser company, like you said, 1:40:03.880 --> 1:40:06.120 is that's getting a lot of publicity. It's like people 1:40:06.240 --> 1:40:09.000 have the options already whether they want to switch and 1:40:09.160 --> 1:40:12.479 whether it means anything. If another company even wants Chrome, 1:40:12.880 --> 1:40:14.559 what does it mean If it's split up from Google, 1:40:14.640 --> 1:40:15.559 it may not mean anything. 1:40:16.080 --> 1:40:19.719 Yeah, there's this concept in antitrust called a natural monopoly, 1:40:19.960 --> 1:40:22.599 and a natural monopoly is just where building the thing 1:40:23.040 --> 1:40:25.400 that you sell is so expensive that someone else can't 1:40:25.439 --> 1:40:28.200 do it. So like cable TV would be an example 1:40:28.200 --> 1:40:29.840 where you have to rip up the streets to put 1:40:29.840 --> 1:40:33.160 your tables in and it may be that the browser 1:40:33.400 --> 1:40:36.280 and search is a natural monopoly, where like it's so 1:40:36.439 --> 1:40:38.280 hard to be good at it that once you're good 1:40:38.320 --> 1:40:40.799 at it, you get more data and you dominate everything. 1:40:41.520 --> 1:40:44.760 And so maybe open ai is going to be able 1:40:44.760 --> 1:40:47.320 to displace Chrome with a better browser because they'll have that, 1:40:47.479 --> 1:40:49.680 and then they'll become a monopoly and government will have 1:40:49.760 --> 1:40:52.759 to come after them. It's just something about this business 1:40:52.840 --> 1:40:57.200 and the and recurring data that makes it hard to compete. 1:40:57.760 --> 1:41:02.200 Wild Times and Technology are Paparo, former Google executive and 1:41:02.320 --> 1:41:06.160 author of Yield How Google Bought, built, and bullied its 1:41:06.200 --> 1:41:11.040 way to advertising dominance. The book is out on August fifth. 1:41:11.240 --> 1:41:13.519 Check it out wherever you buy books. It's on Amazon 1:41:13.600 --> 1:41:15.800 of course. Ari, good luck with the launch. 1:41:16.479 --> 1:41:19.040 Thanks for having me, and thanks for the great questions. 1:41:19.240 --> 1:41:22.800 Really appreciate you coming on the show Rich on tech 1:41:23.040 --> 1:41:26.240 dot TV. If you want a link to Ari's book, 1:41:26.560 --> 1:41:30.320 I will put it up there. You ever feel your 1:41:30.400 --> 1:41:33.919 heart skip a beat? Literally, I've got so many emails 1:41:34.040 --> 1:41:38.240 about this Cardio mobile device. One listener told me how 1:41:38.280 --> 1:41:41.320 he went to donate blood and they flagged something off 1:41:41.400 --> 1:41:44.400 with his heartbeat. Then his sister or nurse said she'd 1:41:44.439 --> 1:41:47.040 heard him storing through a closed door. 1:41:47.560 --> 1:41:47.720 Well. 1:41:47.760 --> 1:41:50.280 That got his attention, so he picked up a cardio 1:41:50.360 --> 1:41:52.680 mobile to check his heart rhythm at home, and sure enough, 1:41:52.840 --> 1:41:56.439 it caught something. His doctor reviewed the results and said 1:41:56.479 --> 1:42:00.400 it looked like a PVC usually harmless. Harmless but worth modering. 1:42:00.840 --> 1:42:03.679 But it turns out he also had undiagnosed sleep apnea. 1:42:04.280 --> 1:42:06.760 That means he stops breathing over thirty times an hour. 1:42:06.840 --> 1:42:09.479 Now he's sleeping better using a CPAP and tracking his 1:42:09.600 --> 1:42:13.160 heart more closely than ever you can too. That's where 1:42:13.160 --> 1:42:16.400 the Cardia Mobile six L comes in. It's the most 1:42:16.560 --> 1:42:20.600 advanced personal EKG you can buy. It's FDA cleared to 1:42:20.720 --> 1:42:23.880 detect a fib and it is more accurate than a 1:42:24.000 --> 1:42:26.160 smart watch. To use it, all you have to do 1:42:26.320 --> 1:42:28.439 is put your two fingers on it takes a reading, 1:42:28.760 --> 1:42:31.280 shows you that reading on your phone. You can even 1:42:31.320 --> 1:42:33.200 print out a nice little PDF if you want bring 1:42:33.280 --> 1:42:35.479 it to your doctor or if you want to do 1:42:35.640 --> 1:42:39.920 the more extensive reading. All you have to do is 1:42:40.040 --> 1:42:41.600 put your two fingers on it and then put the 1:42:41.640 --> 1:42:44.600 other side of the cardia right on your ankle and 1:42:44.720 --> 1:42:48.080 it will take a much more thorough view of your heart. 1:42:48.160 --> 1:42:50.320 So this thing is really incredible. It's very high tech, 1:42:50.680 --> 1:42:53.400 and right now you can get ten percent off. Go 1:42:53.520 --> 1:42:58.240 to Cardia dot com ka r DA that's Cardia dot com. 1:42:58.439 --> 1:43:01.240 Or you can go to Amazon search Cardio Mobile six 1:43:01.400 --> 1:43:03.960 L and use my code for ten percent off ten 1:43:04.320 --> 1:43:07.960 six L. Rich that's Cardio Mobile six L. Peace of 1:43:08.080 --> 1:43:11.000 mind in your pocket. We'll be right back and open 1:43:11.120 --> 1:43:19.960 up the feedbag. Welcome back to rich On Tech. I'm 1:43:19.960 --> 1:43:23.680 gonna get right into it because so many feedbag Oh 1:43:23.720 --> 1:43:27.759 my gosh, the feedbag is just overflowing today. 1:43:28.880 --> 1:43:31.959 But first, just a couple things. Check my instagram. 1:43:32.080 --> 1:43:36.240 At rich On Tech, I visited very very cool place, 1:43:36.320 --> 1:43:38.320 something that you dream of as a kid. Walt Disney 1:43:38.360 --> 1:43:42.640 Imagineering took a big tour yesterday and I'll have some 1:43:42.760 --> 1:43:46.320 more coverage on my radio show on TV soon. But 1:43:46.680 --> 1:43:48.519 on my Instagram, I've been posting some of the cool 1:43:48.600 --> 1:43:50.720 things I got to see and I'll just be kind 1:43:50.760 --> 1:43:52.680 of peppering it over the next couple of days, so 1:43:52.920 --> 1:43:55.439 definitely follow me there at rich On Tech. I've got 1:43:55.479 --> 1:43:59.080 me playing with a lightsaber a couple other things on there, 1:43:59.160 --> 1:44:02.599 so really really really cool. And then what else, Oh, 1:44:03.080 --> 1:44:06.280 my dad did this thing where he switched his whole setup, 1:44:06.360 --> 1:44:09.560 his internet, his phones, everything without calling me. Said he 1:44:09.560 --> 1:44:11.400 didn't want to bug me, and I kind of gave 1:44:11.479 --> 1:44:12.840 him a hard time. I was like, Dad, you know 1:44:12.920 --> 1:44:14.800 your son does this for a living, Like call me 1:44:14.880 --> 1:44:16.400 the next time. He's like, I don't want to bother you. 1:44:16.800 --> 1:44:19.800 I said, this is how people get scammed when you 1:44:19.960 --> 1:44:24.000 don't want to bother your family or friends with a 1:44:24.080 --> 1:44:26.439 problem you're having or an issue, and then you end 1:44:26.520 --> 1:44:29.320 up getting scammed because the scam artist takes advantage of that. Now, 1:44:29.360 --> 1:44:31.160 he did not get scammed. He actually did a pretty 1:44:31.200 --> 1:44:33.559 good deal signing up for all this stuff. He did 1:44:33.640 --> 1:44:35.920 make a big switch carriers and all that stuff. But 1:44:36.880 --> 1:44:39.599 I thought this was pretty interesting from a vast They 1:44:39.680 --> 1:44:42.880 came out with their Safe Tech Report twenty twenty five 1:44:43.000 --> 1:44:45.639 saying fifty nine percent of older loved ones have fallen 1:44:45.720 --> 1:44:50.280 victim to cybercrime, often from scams and social engineering. Nearly 1:44:50.360 --> 1:44:53.599 half of adults still write passwords on paper, which they 1:44:53.640 --> 1:44:57.799 say is a major security risk. They encourage younger adults 1:44:57.840 --> 1:45:01.200 to lead a safe tech talk with their parents and grandparents. 1:45:01.240 --> 1:45:03.320 So kind of like the talk that your parents might 1:45:03.360 --> 1:45:05.880 have had with you. This is the tech talk that 1:45:05.960 --> 1:45:09.400 you should have with your parents. So fifty three percent 1:45:09.479 --> 1:45:12.160 of only fifty three percent of older adults were warned 1:45:12.160 --> 1:45:18.080 about risky behavior actually change their habits. Best behaviors include 1:45:18.160 --> 1:45:21.280 using a password manager, learning common scam red flags, and 1:45:21.320 --> 1:45:22.639 installing protection software. 1:45:22.680 --> 1:45:23.920 Of course, I asked going to say that. 1:45:25.520 --> 1:45:28.280 The thing I liked about this they've got the full report, 1:45:28.320 --> 1:45:31.040 but they also made a printable flyer. You can literally 1:45:31.160 --> 1:45:34.519 print out this flyer that you can paste in your parents' 1:45:34.600 --> 1:45:37.360 home office or your loved one's home office, and it 1:45:37.479 --> 1:45:40.200 reminds them of all the scammy stuff that they might encounter. 1:45:40.520 --> 1:45:42.040 It's kind of like when you're at the break room 1:45:42.120 --> 1:45:44.479 at your work and it's like, be safe. That's what 1:45:44.600 --> 1:45:46.680 it is for your parents. So get that for your 1:45:46.760 --> 1:45:49.559 parents and grandparents, printed out, put it on their home 1:45:49.640 --> 1:45:51.560 office wall, put the link on the website. Rich on 1:45:51.640 --> 1:45:55.680 tech dot tv, all right, time for the feedbag. I'm 1:45:55.720 --> 1:45:56.960 she going to try to get through as many of 1:45:57.000 --> 1:45:59.960 these as possible, Jeff writes in I heard the segment 1:46:00.280 --> 1:46:03.160 where Carino was looking for a way to offload her 1:46:03.280 --> 1:46:07.600 exercise videos. One easy solution upload them to YouTube. She 1:46:07.680 --> 1:46:09.920 can mark them private or unlisted and then just save 1:46:10.000 --> 1:46:12.520 them to her favorites and access them anywhere anytime. 1:46:13.439 --> 1:46:16.919 That is a simple solution. Sometimes I'm doing the solutions 1:46:16.960 --> 1:46:17.280 on the show. 1:46:17.280 --> 1:46:19.320 I don't think of everything all at once, but that's 1:46:19.360 --> 1:46:22.680 a good One day from Eastern Washington, Rights and I 1:46:22.760 --> 1:46:25.200 heard the question on the show about organizing digital files. 1:46:25.240 --> 1:46:27.439 I wanted to share my method. It's free and easy. 1:46:28.320 --> 1:46:30.640 I create a main folder on my computer called my 1:46:30.760 --> 1:46:34.519 file Cabinet. Inside that I add folders by category, bank statements, 1:46:34.560 --> 1:46:38.120 credit cards, insurance. I scan my paper documents monthly and 1:46:38.320 --> 1:46:41.040 name each file with a date like six eight, twenty 1:46:41.120 --> 1:46:44.720 five Discover, so they sort themselves. Each main folder has 1:46:44.760 --> 1:46:47.360 subfolders by year. I keep everything on USB drives that 1:46:47.400 --> 1:46:49.679 I unplug when I'm done. It's simple, it works great, 1:46:49.720 --> 1:46:54.519 and it doesn't cost a thing. Dave, Thanks Dave. Ronald 1:46:54.600 --> 1:46:56.479 writes in hey, Rich, just wanted to thank you for 1:46:56.560 --> 1:47:00.639 the SIM protection information. I use track phone on by Verizon, 1:47:00.680 --> 1:47:02.559 and while the steps were a little different, I eventually 1:47:02.640 --> 1:47:04.960 found the account settings and it was actually simple to 1:47:05.000 --> 1:47:08.080 add the protection. It showed to lock and unlock toggle. 1:47:08.320 --> 1:47:11.800 Thank you well, Thank you ron for following those directions. 1:47:12.600 --> 1:47:16.200 Howard writes in from Wisconsin, rich I initially asked about 1:47:16.200 --> 1:47:18.280 Microsoft Backup, but I was actually trying to figure out 1:47:18.280 --> 1:47:20.240 the easiest way to sign up for the Windows ten 1:47:20.720 --> 1:47:24.920 Extended Security Updates program for multiple PCs. Most guides don't 1:47:24.920 --> 1:47:27.920 explain how to cover several computers under one account. I 1:47:28.040 --> 1:47:31.080 discovered that if you redeem one thousand Microsoft Rewards points, 1:47:31.120 --> 1:47:33.480 you can activate e SU and up to ten devices, 1:47:33.920 --> 1:47:36.360 which is probably the easiest route. I've already earned over 1:47:36.439 --> 1:47:38.960 four hundred points in two days. I should have my 1:47:39.040 --> 1:47:41.759 one thousand by Friday. Thanks again for the great newsletter 1:47:41.880 --> 1:47:45.360 and tech help. Yes, you can go to Rewards dot 1:47:45.520 --> 1:47:49.040 bing dot com to rack up points and get an 1:47:49.080 --> 1:47:53.720 extra year of security updates for Windows ten. Tim wrights in. 1:47:53.840 --> 1:47:56.719 I have both Uma and magic Jack voipe phone lines 1:47:56.760 --> 1:47:59.559 at home. Magic Jack is barely adequate as a landline 1:47:59.560 --> 1:48:02.360 subsidy to the call quality is marginal, but as a 1:48:02.439 --> 1:48:04.800 fax line it's fine. Uma, on the other hand, is 1:48:04.880 --> 1:48:07.400 much better. I use it as my landline connected to 1:48:07.479 --> 1:48:10.320 my router and it works great. I pay about seven 1:48:10.400 --> 1:48:12.680 dollars a month for the basic plan. That's all I need. 1:48:12.800 --> 1:48:15.360 The device costs me eighty dollars in twenty twenty three. 1:48:16.040 --> 1:48:18.479 I mostly use it as a throwaway number for online 1:48:18.560 --> 1:48:22.880 forms to avoid spam on my cell. One tip if 1:48:22.920 --> 1:48:24.559 you go this route, be sure to use a UPS 1:48:24.680 --> 1:48:27.360 backup to especially if you have Fiber. 1:48:27.479 --> 1:48:29.200 I've got Frontier. They install the. 1:48:30.720 --> 1:48:33.360 ONT in my garage, so I ran my ethernet to 1:48:33.400 --> 1:48:37.120 make sure I get the full five hundred speed. Okay, 1:48:37.360 --> 1:48:40.040 Tim writes in, I got an LG gram fifteen inch, 1:48:40.160 --> 1:48:42.840 very light, great screen. The keyboard is backlit. I love it, 1:48:42.960 --> 1:48:45.439 except for two things. The keyboard's pretty awful and the 1:48:45.479 --> 1:48:50.360 space bar isn't always functional. And Linda writes in, Rich 1:48:50.439 --> 1:48:52.320 no question here, just a quick email to tell you 1:48:52.360 --> 1:48:55.120 how much I appreciate you as a person. You clearly 1:48:55.240 --> 1:48:58.320 have high integrity in your work life, but also solid 1:48:58.360 --> 1:49:01.760 devotion to your wife and sons. I really appreciate seeing that. 1:49:01.960 --> 1:49:05.439 Keep up the good work. Thank you, Linda. That is 1:49:05.520 --> 1:49:08.360 the email of the week. You get the gold star 1:49:08.479 --> 1:49:10.960 for that email. Thank you so much. That's going to 1:49:11.040 --> 1:49:12.960 do it for this episode of the show. You can 1:49:13.000 --> 1:49:15.800 find everything I mentioned on my website. Just go to 1:49:15.920 --> 1:49:19.200 Richontech dot TV. Find me on social media at rich 1:49:19.280 --> 1:49:23.440 on Tech. Keep those emails coming. Next week, Adrian Ludwig 1:49:23.600 --> 1:49:26.599 from Tools for Humanity will join me to explain how 1:49:26.640 --> 1:49:29.920 World Network is building a way to prove your human 1:49:30.400 --> 1:49:33.840 online and why that matters. And Logan Seacrest from the 1:49:34.040 --> 1:49:36.360 R Street Institute will join me to talk about Hey, 1:49:36.560 --> 1:49:40.559 how AI is being used in police body cameras. Thank 1:49:40.640 --> 1:49:42.120 you so much for listening. There are many ways you 1:49:42.120 --> 1:49:44.040 can spend your time. I appreciate you spending it with me. 1:49:44.800 --> 1:49:47.360 One reminder, please don't text and drive. Whatever it is, 1:49:47.479 --> 1:49:49.840 it can wait, not just for your safety, but for 1:49:49.920 --> 1:49:52.519 the safety of everyone. Thanks to everyone who makes this 1:49:52.560 --> 1:49:53.240 show possible. 1:49:53.520 --> 1:49:55.680 My name is rich Ramiro. I'll talk to you real soon.