WEBVTT - FaceTime's Creepy New Eye Contact Feature 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:06.880 Samsung ready to launch a new phone, and it's not 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:09.520 the Fold, the new app that lets you stream all 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.760 of your local channels for free. Walmart has a sixty 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.640 four dollars tablet, and my opinion of it might surprise you. 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:17.080 We're gonna take a trip. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.560 Down memory lane with the Walkman and answer your pressing 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:21.480 tech questions. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:23.240 What's going on. I'm Rich Demiro. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.280 This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.040 about this stuff I think you should know about happening 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.000 in the tech world. Plus, as you know, I answer 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.520 your tech questions. Producer Megan is on vacation this week, 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.559 so I will be handling the entire show solo this 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.120 time around, and I say, we just jump right into things. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.960 We've got Samsung with their announcement that their next event 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.680 will be happening August seventh in New York City. They 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.320 call these Unpacked events. I got the invitation. It's happening 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.920 at the same place it happened last year. I feel 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.279 like I was just in New York shown off the 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:03.000 Note nine, but now we're going to see the Note ten. Well, 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:04.440 we think we're going to see the Note ten. They 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.119 don't necessarily say what they're going to unveil at these things, but. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:09.720 We're pretty sure it's the Note ten. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.840 The invitation was a stylust that was animated showing a 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.640 stylus kind of touching what looks to be a camera 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.320 that was centered on a white background. So this of 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.640 course made people speculate what that could mean. Is there 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.679 a centered selfie cam? Are there four cameras? Is there 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:27.919 a camera on the stylus? 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:28.560 We don't know. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.920 But what we do know about the Note ten and 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.560 the Note in general, is that this is where Samsung 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.760 unveils all of their latest and greatest technology. All the 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.000 innovations happen on the Note ten or the Note and 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.240 then they trickle down into the Samsung Galaxy S line. 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:46.880 Now this is a little. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.920 Bit different, and this is kind of an awkward situation 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:53.360 for Samsung because they've got the Galaxy Fold, which is 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.680 kind of a failure to launch. So they launched, They 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.400 tried to launch that a couple months back. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:01:59.200 That didn't work. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.360 They recalled it from reporters that they sent it out to, 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.280 and they kind of did some more work on it, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.360 and I'm seeing reports that say they've figured out the problem. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.920 They've made this hinge work better. They've made it so 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.079 the hinge does not impact the screen on that device, 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.480 so they're ready to relaunch it. But are they going 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.320 to do that now right before the August seventh event? 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.480 I mean, they only have four weeks to do that, 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.920 So this is kind of an awkward situation for Samsung. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.519 Not sure what they're going to do or how they're 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.560 going to handle this. Maybe they'll launch both devices at 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.240 the same time at the event, so they'll tell us 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.959 what happened with the fold and explain that and apologize, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.320 and then of course launched the Note ten as well. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:42.639 But last year's Note nine was an expensive device, over 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.160 one thousand bucks, and I think we're going to see 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.360 that same thing happen here. But what can they add 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.639 to the Note ten to make it crazier, to make 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.639 it better? I mean, the cameras have gotten so good 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.880 on these devices. I mean, clearly there's always room for 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.359 improvement with the cameras, though, to make them even better 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.600 at full proof pictures. The screens are just phenomenal at 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.000 this point. Battery life, I mean, if you have a 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.160 Note you've got such a large battery in there, the 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.680 battery life isn't even an issue, so what could they 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.640 do to really make this thing better? 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:13.240 I don't know. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.760 Could they make the stylists better, could they make software better? 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.840 Could they make the camera lenses even crazier? So maybe 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.480 get four or five holographic screens and longer batteries. That's 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.040 what I'm saying we need on these new devices, But 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:31.160 who knows. So we'll see Samsung again Unpacked event happening 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.960 August seventh in New York City Barclay Center in Brooklyn. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.760 And I get excited over these things, even though these 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.960 launches have not gotten The excitement of these launches has 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.080 sort of toned down over the years because people know 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.960 it's another phone. There's a lot of leaks before it 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.400 is unveiled. But I still get excited because it's still 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.760 fun to actually see the device that these companies have 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.520 been working on for a while and actually see it 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:55.200 in reality. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.520 So I'm looking forward to that one. All right. 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.640 So let's take a quest question. This is from Nelly. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.120 This is from Nelly on Let's see. She just emailed me. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.520 She says, Hey, Rich, can you tell me about WhatsApp 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.040 taking out of service people with old phones? I have 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.760 a Samsung S five and this took me. I had 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.880 to do a little research on this because I didn't 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.359 see anything about this. I haven't heard of WhatsApp, but 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.720 I guess if you're using WhatsApp, maybe you've got a 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.120 notification or something. But here's the deal. So I did 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:32.040 some research and here's what I found. WhatsApp is apparently 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.760 dropping support for older phone models and anytime that you 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.800 have a headline like this and a napp like WhatsApp, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.320 which a lot of people use. Not so much in 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.240 the US. I mean, if you have an international friend, 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.800 you probably use it. But in the US I messages 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.800 king when it comes to messaging, but internationally WhatsApp is very, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:55.880 very strong and very prevalent. So clearly this is happening, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.960 and it's happening. Let's see it's happening February first, twenty two, 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.440 so you have some time, but you've got the recommended 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.360 requirements for WhatsApp is Android four point zero, which is 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:12.039 super old, iOS eight plus which is super old, and 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.839 Windows Phone eight one, so WhatsApp will no longer support 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.839 phones running Android two, Windows Phone eight, iPhone three GS 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.800 and iOS six and BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry ten. So 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.240 the reality is especially for you, Nelly, you said, you 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.760 have a Samsung S five, You are going to be 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.200 just fine. They're not taking away support for the S 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.280 five anytime soon. I think the reality is with this 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.919 update is that they just want WhatsApp to run and 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.640 be able to do everything and can do smoothly on 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.800 a variety of phones, and some of these older phones 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.960 with the especially with the security and stuff, they're just 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.680 not supporting the newer features. But you're talking really old 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.320 phones here, I mean Android two, I don't even know. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.960 I mean, when did that launch? I mean that had 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.400 to be a long long time ago. I mean I 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.480 don't even know what that was. But yeah, that's that's 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.680 a while ago. So you're gonna be just okay. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.760 All right. So what happened? Man? 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.919 This was This was wild if you were following things 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.200 or tried to access social media, depending on when you 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.000 listen to this, this happened yesterday, but you know you 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.919 probably have it in recent memory. But Facebook, Instagram and 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.960 other social networks all went down, including WhatsApp and also 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.240 Facebook Messenger, and they all went down. This was on Wednesday, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.000 July third. They went down for a really long time. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.080 And I know how I figured this out. I was 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.760 trying to upload a story to Instagram and it was 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.200 from my niece, whose birthday it was, and I kept, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.400 you know, uploading the story, and it just would not work. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.240 I was uploading a picture and I was convinced it 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.440 was the phone I was. I was using an Android device, 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:49.520 and I was like, you gotta be kidding me this. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.520 I can't believe this doesn't work. Watch how easy this 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.120 is on the iPhone. And I switched to my iPhone 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.280 and the same thing happens. I got an upload failed, 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.679 and I was like, okay, well, clearly it's not these things. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.920 Then I checked my WiFi and I said, okay, well, 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.360 maybe I'm on corporate Wi Fi. Maybe that's not working. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.080 Turn that off. Nope, still didn't load. Okay, well, maybe 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.480 Verizon's having a problem. Maybe the Verizon network's not working. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:12.480 All these things. 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.080 Until I do a quick little search on Twitter and 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.440 find out that yes, a lot of people were having 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.240 problem with Instagram and Facebook. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.080 Again, this was early in the morning. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.680 You know, I'm on the early news, So I discovered 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.280 this early, and then clearly throughout the day it just 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.040 kept going and going and going. And so what did 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.520 people see? They saw blank pictures? You couldn't scroll your 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.480 likes and all that stuff wasn't being updated. Now, this 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.480 wasn't something where it was totally out one hundred percent. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.560 Some things and some aspects still worked, and they worked intermittently, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.840 but overall a lot of people had trouble accessing these 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.080 social networks. So the Next Web did a great little 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.120 article about how to know if this is happening. So 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.920 if I was smart, I would have gone right to 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.840 Facebook's Developer dashboard, which is what they recommend, And if 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.920 you want to get that, you can just google Facebook 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.960 Developer Dashboard and it gives you a status update of 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:07.760 everything that's going on. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:09.400 And the reason why they have this not. 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.560 Really for regular people, but regular people can use it. It's 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.240 for app developers. So if you have an app and 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.120 something's a little wonky with the app, you can go 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.840 to the app dashboard and see or sorry, the developer, 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.040 let's see first. You can head to Yeah, so you 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.800 can go to the developer dashboard and kind of see, hey, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.800 what's going on here, like what's going on? Platform status 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:35.079 it's called and so Facebook platform is healthy since ten 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.880 hours ago, so clearly things were messed up, and it 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.320 gives you a history of the downtime and what happened, 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.640 and it said degraded performance across platform resolved, and so 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.880 that was the big issue there. Twitter has a developer 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.520 status board for its APIs. Then there's a website called 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.400 down Detector. You probably see this quoted in the news 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.520 a lot. Down Detector kind of just sees what people 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.440 are doing with various websites and if it's working. And 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.679 I guess pings the websites regularly and just figures out 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.640 if people are having problems with them. But you can 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.360 go on there and see a little line of if 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.600 people are having trouble with accessing some of these services, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.559 and they give some of the big services Spectrum, Verizon, Comcast, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:19.800 T Mobile, Sprint, COS, Snapchat, Google, YouTube, everything is pretty 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.280 much represented on there, so you can figure out if 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.880 it's me and not you, or if it's them and 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:26.160 not you. 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.959 I should say, by the way, there's also Apple dot com. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:29.679 This is a good one. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.040 If your I message isn't working or something's a little 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.480 crazy on your iPhone, you can go to Apple dot 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:39.240 com slash support slash system status and that's a good 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:43.880 one because it tells you what's going on with all 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.840 of your stuff on your iPhone, so system status and 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.920 so you can see if I Message is working. I 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.960 mean it has everything, so there's a green dot if 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.880 things are working properly. But it's everything from Apple TV 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.319 to Beats one to I Message to Siri to map 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.679 search to Maps traffic. So again, these are good little 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.800 tools to know about in case you have a problem 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.720 with something and you can actually. 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.360 See if it's you there. Used to be I used 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:08.760 to use. 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.560 This thing called like down for okay, here it is 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.040 down for everyone or just me. That's a good one. 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.400 Down for everyone or just me. And now you go 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.240 to that website and you type in something like snapchat 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.120 and then it says, is Snapchat. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.680 Down right now? Nope, it's just you. Snapchat is up. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.680 So it actually checks the website for you to see 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:31.960 if it's down for everyone or. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.160 If it's just you. So if it's just you, you 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:34.520 know that. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.400 There's something wrong with your internet connection or your setup 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:42.000 and not the setup of the servers on their end. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:47.880 Oh sorry, wrong one doing the show myself today. This 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:52.040 is what happens folks. All right, this message comes in 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:57.200 from not a David she said, mentioned on KFI this morning. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.239 So you guys know, I do a segment on KFI 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.520 on twoesday morning and Wednesday morning. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:02.720 Tuesday morning, I'm on with. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.920 Bill Handle at eight let's see it's eight am. And 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.240 then on Wednesday I'm on with Jennifer Jones Lee at 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.200 five twenty am, right before I go on KTLA. So 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.760 I talk about, you know, all the stuff in the 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.079 news happening in the tech world there as well. It's 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:20.960 a lot of fun. So if you're listening to KFI, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:22.320 you hear me there. I get a lot of people 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:23.480 that come up to me and say, oh, I hear 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.720 you on KFI. So a lot of people listen to that. Okay, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.760 so not a David said, Hello, I cannot find this 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:30.920 on your website, but this morning you mentioned an app 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.120 that can be downloaded to watch local TV channels for free. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.160 Would you please send me the name of that app. 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.920 The app is called low cast, and I discovered this 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.319 I saw an article in I think it was TV 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.600 news Check, one of the TV industry websites that I 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.640 read on a daily basis, and it just had a 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.840 small mention for this low cast dot org. But it 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.839 mentioned that you can stream your local channels and that 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.960 it launched in La. I was like, oh, that's interesting. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.000 So I went and I checked it out, and sure 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.120 enough ktla is on there, which is really rare because 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.800 ktla is not on any of the streaming services. So 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.880 did a little research and found out that this operates 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.560 kind of how this other service used to operate called 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:17.480 hos it Areo, and this was a service that they 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:22.040 were They were oh gosh, I forget what the what 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:27.600 it was called exactly areo antenna. Yeah, areo, and so 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.520 what they did this is really interesting. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.160 So this was a company. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.960 Back in the day that would set up like a 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.800 farm of tiny little antennas on a roof and then 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.160 stream and then take each one of the feeds from 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.480 those antennas and stream it to people and sell them 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.960 service so they can get all their local channels. 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.040 For whatever it was, five six, seven, eight bucks a month. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.719 Well, the cable companies and the TV companies were like, 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.760 uh uh uh, not so fast, that's not really how 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.040 this works, and so they actually shut down that company. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:59.040 So now low Cast is taking a different approach. This 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.280 is a nonprofit and they're doing this as quote a 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:05.160 public service so that people who cut the cord and 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.800 don't have an antenna, can still watch the local channels. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.120 How long is this gonna last? I don't know, but 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.280 it seems legit. The guy who's running it is a 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:17.679 former executive with some TV companies and cable companies, so 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.960 it seems legitimate. Will it last, I'm not sure, but 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.280 at this point it works, and it works really well. 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.960 So you can download the low cast app for fireTV, 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:32.320 Apple TV, the iPad, the iPhone, Android. It works across 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.319 pretty much everything, and you log in, you create a 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.760 sign up, They beg you and beg you and beg 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.360 you to donate five bucks a month or more to 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.880 help the service run. And after a little fifteen second 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.400 spot to help you, you know, to ask you to donate, 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.000 next thing, you know, you are watching the local channel. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.720 So again, this works for all the local channels in LA, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.360 including like the dot the dot channels which I call 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:59.199 like you know, like like five, dot one, four, dot two, eleven, 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.960 dot three whatever they have. Those are there as well, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.840 and so it works. It's nice the pictures in HD. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.880 It seems legitimate, and I mean I don't have a 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.000 use for it because I've got an antenna along with 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.839 Amazon TV, fire Recast TV, but it is a great 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.720 thing to have and it's really simple. So again, you 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.880 do have to sign up though, and some people said that, 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.120 you know, I was getting some feedback because I put 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.280 this video on my Instagram at rich On Tech, and 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.120 I got some feedback from folks and they were saying that, oh, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:28.600 it only. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.800 Works for fifteen minutes and then they bug you again. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.120 So I don't know. I'm not watching this thing for 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.880 a long period of time. So I have no idea 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.800 how if they limit you to, say, you know, a 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.320 couple hours a week before you have to pay or donate. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.000 But again, check it out if you want. It's low cast. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:48.960 Lcast dot org is the website. If you have one 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.320 of those Amazon Echo devices, you might be wondering just 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.400 how long that Amazon keeps the things that you say. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.000 To you know who. I'm not going to say her name. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.400 I don't want to activate her in all of your houses. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.560 But a congress person, let's see a Democrat Senator Chris 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:12.080 Coons sent a letter to Amazon asking how long voice 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:16.440 recordings and transcripts are kept when you talk to this device? 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.640 And guess what the answer was. They keep them forever 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.800 unless you delete them. So the thing is a lot 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.520 of us now that we have these microphones in our homes. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.600 We've got these phones that are tracking us. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:30.200 Everywhere we go. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.720 America and the world at large is sort of having 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.680 a better understanding. We're just Privacy is at the forefront now. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.920 In Europe, they've got these crazy laws that are very 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.920 strict about privacy, and a lot of that is trickling 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.360 down into America because they're shining the light on these 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.120 tech companies over there because they have to. But then 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.680 Americans are saying, oh, interesting, I didn't know that was happening. 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.440 I didn't know that was going on. And so we 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.760 may not have the same types of laws here, but 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.800 people have a heightened awaywareness here because of the fact 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:06.600 that things are happening over there regulation wise. So we understand, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.120 you know, we just have a better understanding over here. 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.640 So the thing about Amazon, so if you do delete 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:18.120 the recordings, the other thing is that the transcripts are 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.920 still kept, which is kind of odd. So even if 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.720 you let's say, you know, you said something to your 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.960 echo and you say, okay, I want to get that 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.400 out of the system, and you delete that using Amazon's website, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:34.160 the transcript of that is still kept seemingly indefinitely, and 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.760 so why do they keep that, Well, they use that 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.320 for training purposes to see when you asked, you know, 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.440 your echo a certain thing, did they respond in the 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.760 right way. And so they have people that go through 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.280 these transcripts to see what you said and how the 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.440 device responded. And apparently a lot of those transcripts are 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:58.320 they're not anonymous, fully, but they do have some identifying 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.080 information on them, which again makes people a little bit weary. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:02.200 So if you do want to. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.200 Check out your Alexa privacy settings, there's a separate website 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.600 that Amazon set up. It's called Amazon dot com Slash 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.480 Alexa Privacy Settings, And if you go to Amazon dot 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.320 com Slash Alexa Privacy Settings, that will take you to 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.320 all of the privacy settings and most importantly where you 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.479 can see a list of all of your recordings, all 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.840 the things you've said to her, and then you can 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:31.280 go through and delete those as well. So really interesting. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:36.000 I mean, I personally, I find this fascinating because while 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.119 you may not think, you know, I'm not doing anything 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.080 wrong in my house, whatever, the reality is it's kind 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.400 of weird to think that someone has access to what 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.280 you're saying in your private residence. And I get that 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.320 for transcription, I get for like making these products better. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.119 At some point, some people do have to listen to 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.080 these recordings. But I do like the idea of having 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.120 the ability to delete things and have them gone. And 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.720 I'm not sure at this point if that's ever truly 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.840 the case. So you just have to be aware that 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.560 this this thing is not this system is not foolproof, 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:16.879 and it's very new, so it's it's still evolving. Got 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.439 a message from Sue Vance who wrote me on my 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.600 website rich on tech dot TV. She said, is there 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.679 a lens you can connect to a phone to have 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.680 better quality and zoom in pictures? My phone is an Android, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.120 a Moto five. First time on your site, some really 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.280 great info. Hoping to get the time to check it out. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:39.960 Thanks Sue. So we did a story with a company 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.480 that makes they made the first lens, the first snap 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.640 on lens for the iPhone called Oloclip. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:51.119 They are a O L L O clip. So Oloclip 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.680 made the first snap on lens. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.760 Oh gosh, this was a while ago. I think it 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.600 was for the iPhone like five. And we did a 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.720 story and the guy just hography guy and just wanted 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.320 to make a you know, he loves the iPhone, big 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.679 Apple fan, and just wanted to make it better and 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:12.760 easier to have wide angle, macro, all kinds of different lenses. 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:14.119 I mean it started out I think with just like 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:18.440 a sort of fish fish eye, and it's expanded way 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:22.320 way way past that. So that's the biggest company is Oloclip. 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.199 You snap these things on. They used to start at 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:25.840 fifty bucks. I think now they're like, you know, some 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.040 of the nicer ones are one hundred dollars, but you 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.199 snap this onto your phone and this one. They have 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.439 support right now for the iPhone ten R ten, s 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:38.720 iPhone ten eight seven, and se. So they do not 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.200 have they were going to have interesting, they still don't have. Samsung. 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.399 They were, oh, multi device, here we go. They do 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:49.080 have a multi device, so there is a device that 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.919 works with multi a clip that works with multiple devices 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:57.400 and over many thin cases. So they do have that, 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.760 and I think this would work on your device, So Sue, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:02.720 I think that would work. 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:04.399 It depends. Now here's the thing. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.760 It all depends on where the lens is located on 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.440 your phone. And here's the thing I figured out about 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:11.679 these clip on because I was gonna say. You can 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.800 also go to Amazon and just search for something like 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.119