Speaker 1: I've got the Samsung Galaxy S twenty Ultra in hand,
Speaker 1: a cell phone plan for zero dollars per month? Could
Speaker 1: Apple soon let you pick your own default apps? Plus
Speaker 1: your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro
Speaker 1: and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where we
Speaker 1: talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about,
Speaker 1: and I also answer the questions that you send me.
Speaker 1: My name is Rich Dumiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel
Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles. Joining me is producer Megan, who
Speaker 1: is still trying to find something good to watch on Netflix.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am. The struggle is real.
Speaker 1: It is well, when you've watched everything on.
Speaker 2: There, I know it's tough. There's really nothing left.
Speaker 1: There's just nothing left after Yeah, you know when you've
Speaker 1: watched season two and season three. But you said this
Speaker 1: show Babies looks good.
Speaker 2: No, actually I saw it. I was like, this this
Speaker 2: show is for my mom, like finally a show made
Speaker 2: for my mom. She doesn't like adults, Yeah, no, she
Speaker 2: she wants something that's like, you know, cute and simple.
Speaker 1: And what is it about.
Speaker 2: It's about babies and like like how babies she would see.
Speaker 2: My mom was a nick you nurse.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, that's right.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is Upper Alley.
Speaker 2: It makes much more sense. Okay, well, but that's what's
Speaker 2: great about Netflix.
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to find finish the Taylor Shift documentary
Speaker 1: The Morning Show, and I don't know, but I am
Speaker 1: going on a plane soon, so I will definitely catch
Speaker 1: up on something. It might be. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I did finish three books in the past like two months,
Speaker 1: so that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just I just finished the the book by Robert Eiger.
Speaker 1: It was called A Ride of a Lifetime.
Speaker 2: Does he go by Robert or Bob? Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, when you're friends with him, you call him Robert. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's Bob Eiger. Yeah, he's the CEO of Disney. I
Speaker 1: actually thought it was a very much more behind the
Speaker 1: scenes looked than I thought Disney would allow. There's nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing in there, but he goes into his relationship with
Speaker 1: Steve Jobs and like the Pixar sale, the Marvel sale,
Speaker 1: the or should I say, the purchase, the Pixar purchase,
Speaker 1: the Marvel purchase, the Star Wars purchase, the Disney plus
Speaker 1: Star I mean, all this stuff that's happened at Disney,
Speaker 1: and it was a great book, and I read it
Speaker 1: for free on Libby. The biggest takeaway I got was
Speaker 1: really the interpersonal relationships that he had built over the
Speaker 1: years and how he handled people, especially high powered people,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of fragile egos at those levels,
Speaker 1: and I thought he did a great.
Speaker 2: Job with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get to the first story of the week,
Speaker 1: which is the Samsung Galaxy S twenty. It is in
Speaker 1: my hand right here. Look at this here it is.
Speaker 1: It's giant, but I will tell you best feeling Samsung
Speaker 1: device ever. It's thicker than typical devices, but they made
Speaker 1: it in such a way that it's the edges are
Speaker 1: nice and rounded, like in a perfect way where it
Speaker 1: actually feels good in your hand. It looks so much
Speaker 1: like the iPhone It kind of, but I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think I think it has that Samsung classic kind
Speaker 1: of look to it. It's got the hundred times zoom
Speaker 1: on the back. Last night I took it out to
Speaker 1: take some pictures with it, and I want to do
Speaker 1: pictures at night because you're gonna see a million pictures.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see two types of pictures with this device.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a hundred time zoom because everyone's trying
Speaker 1: that out. I can give you the bottom line of that,
Speaker 1: you never need it. There's never going to be a
Speaker 1: photo you take it a hundred time zoom that's worth anything. Now,
Speaker 1: there could be certain little circumstances where you get in
Speaker 1: real close on something or you get a better vantage point.
Speaker 1: But I will say the zoom on this camera in
Speaker 1: general is really good, even up to ten times, which
Speaker 1: is sort of optical, which optical means you're getting the
Speaker 1: best possible quality. After that, it's kind of a crapshoot,
Speaker 1: but it's still nice up until you know, when you
Speaker 1: get into thirty fifty, one hundred, it's it's not really usable.
Speaker 1: With that said, it's kind of fun to have. And
Speaker 1: so you'll be seeing pictures with the zoom. You'll be
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of outdoor pictures, like of flowers in
Speaker 1: the sky. Every picture I've ever to, every camera I've
Speaker 1: ever tested in the past ten years, can take great
Speaker 1: pictures of the sky, great pictures of flowers, great pictures
Speaker 1: of landscapes, great pictures of houses. They take pictures inside bars,
Speaker 1: you know, like the liquor all lined up like it's
Speaker 1: gonna look good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe those are just my pictures, those are just
Speaker 2: your pictures.
Speaker 1: But the pictures that I wanted to take were at night.
Speaker 1: So I went to city Walk last night in Hollywood
Speaker 1: and I just kind of tried out the camera there
Speaker 1: against the iPhone, and I will tell you, the thing
Speaker 1: that I noticed is that these cameras take very different pictures.
Speaker 1: The Samsung pictures, in my opinion, they kind of pop.
Speaker 1: They definitely pop, and when you see them, you're like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: that's a great picture. And then you look at the
Speaker 1: iPhone picture and it's kind of like ah, but you
Speaker 1: look at them closely, and they're both very good. They're
Speaker 1: just different, right, And it's a preference. From what I've
Speaker 1: learned on my Facebook page and all the comments I'm reading,
Speaker 1: it is very much a matter of personal preference.
Speaker 2: And I asked you, I said, like, did so you're
Speaker 2: looking at whatever you're taking a picture of, and which
Speaker 2: camera took the most realistic picture?
Speaker 1: I think the most realistic was the iPhone, Okay, whereas
Speaker 1: the Samsung pictures look like the brightness was sort of
Speaker 1: pumped up. So if you're looking at a scene, then
Speaker 1: you look at it through the Samsung viewfinder, you're like,
Speaker 1: wholl where'd all that light come from? It's letting in
Speaker 1: a lot more light. Now, Okay, so it looks great.
Speaker 1: I would say I thought I was going to be
Speaker 1: blown away by the camera. I think that it's great,
Speaker 1: and I think everyone that gets this phone is going
Speaker 1: to think it's really nice. It's not. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: it's like ten leaps ahead of the iPhone. And believe me,
Speaker 1: it's only day one. I've had this thing for less
Speaker 1: than twenty four hours, right, so they'll be more testing
Speaker 1: you have time. I'm more I'm forming my opinion. But
Speaker 1: my simcard has gone from my iPhone into the Samsung.
Speaker 1: It's because I want to use it as a daily driver,
Speaker 1: so I can see the battery life is like, I
Speaker 1: can see what placing calls is like, taking calls, writing
Speaker 1: out texts without I message, all these little things. I
Speaker 1: will be testing over the next couple of weeks to
Speaker 1: see how it is.
Speaker 2: Do you prefer I mean this is you still have
Speaker 2: to like feel it out, but like, do you prefer
Speaker 2: typing on the Samsung over the iPhone?
Speaker 1: Or is that I feel like the iPhone's easier to
Speaker 1: type on. I feel like there's a lot of little
Speaker 1: aspects of the iPhone that are very good that you
Speaker 1: kind of forget about when you go back to Android
Speaker 1: and I go back and forth a lot, right, and
Speaker 1: so I see and I'm like, oh, yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: like that for some reason, like the screen is just
Speaker 1: it's just easier to type on on the on the
Speaker 1: iPhone for some reason. I don't know why it is,
Speaker 1: Like I've I've I've experimented with like taping, taking the
Speaker 1: haptic off, which haptic is like a little vibration when
Speaker 1: you tap a letter. iPhone doesn't have that. Okay, Samsung does,
Speaker 1: all the all the androids do. So I tried like
Speaker 1: taking that off to see, like, em I don't know,
Speaker 1: So we'll say, uh, I think that at this point,
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven Promax versus the Samsung Ultra, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: very happy with either one. It really comes down to preference,
Speaker 1: like what do you like? Yeah, so all right, let's
Speaker 1: get a question.
Speaker 2: All right, So our first question, Oh, if you.
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Speaker 2: dot tv and hit the contact button. Our first question
Speaker 2: comes from Giovanna. I have an elderly and who replies
Speaker 2: to all my posts on Facebook with huge animated gifts.
Speaker 2: But is it jiffs? I don't know, okay, but I
Speaker 2: don't want to hurt her feelings by telling her they
Speaker 2: are annoying. I scoured the web for instructions on how
Speaker 2: to block these on Facebook, but without success. Is this
Speaker 2: even possible? Thanks so much for your help.
Speaker 1: The Jeff, oh gosh, you know, I can't remember if
Speaker 1: it's Jiff or Giff. I think it's Jiff, the guy
Speaker 1: who created and I think the company who does all
Speaker 1: the little jiffs for like Instagram, is like named Jiffy. Okay,
Speaker 1: not Giffy, right, so you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Like the guy gif Jeff is named after someone.
Speaker 1: Well, the original thing was graphical, oh god, a graphical
Speaker 1: interface format or something, graphical interface format.
Speaker 2: Okay, did you know that? Nope?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think that's where Jeff originally came from,
Speaker 1: Graphics interchange format. So I think that was the original
Speaker 1: and that's why people said it was gift because it ghics.
Speaker 1: And then you get to jiff, which is like the
Speaker 1: peanut butter, which has nothing to do with the jiffs,
Speaker 1: and you say jiffy, which is like the peanut butter.
Speaker 1: So long story short, I don't. I don't argue anymore.
Speaker 1: I just say, I sayeff and it's fine whatever. I
Speaker 1: just and you could say however you want. But yes,
Speaker 1: jiffs are so popular on everything, and I hate them.
Speaker 1: I cannot stand jiffs. I get them, people text them
Speaker 1: back to me. And here's what bugs me about jiffs.
Speaker 1: You tell me if you feel this way. They stressed
Speaker 1: me out because they loop over and over. So when
Speaker 1: you're looking at your phone, at your text message with
Speaker 1: a friend and all you see is the gift going
Speaker 1: over and over and over, I'm like, will you stop moving? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it gives me an unsettled feeling. See, I love it,
Speaker 1: you love all that unsettledness is your whole life and chaos.
Speaker 2: Because of it. No, it makes me laugh because it's
Speaker 2: like someone dancing, or like every time right for like
Speaker 2: an hour, I don't okay, but okay, I don't sit
Speaker 2: there and stare at it like I like see it
Speaker 2: and I'm moving Okay.
Speaker 1: If your phone is sitting on a on a place
Speaker 1: like okay, on my kitchen counter and I stop typing
Speaker 1: with someone right Like, I'm texting with someone and I
Speaker 1: just see the little gift going over and over and over.
Speaker 1: It really like out of the corner of my eye.
Speaker 1: It really bugs me. And so that's why I try
Speaker 1: not to use them very much in my text because
Speaker 1: I feel like you're putting a burden on someone else
Speaker 1: by sending them that file.
Speaker 2: A burden, yes, because it is looping and it just
Speaker 2: it stress. Send you a jiff, you get annoyed.
Speaker 1: I just I try.
Speaker 2: I have to like te funny because the intention is
Speaker 2: to make you laugh.
Speaker 1: It does for one second, and yes, stop, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, I do laugh. I think there should be
Speaker 1: a timer where you can set how long a jiff plays.
Speaker 1: Like going through Instagram stories, you want to look at
Speaker 1: the person's story, but the thing is going and going
Speaker 1: in It's like Friday. It's like waving, you know, like
Speaker 1: a little wave of the word Friday. It's like, stop moving.
Speaker 2: Let me just see what's going on in this picture. Okay, Oka?
Speaker 2: Are you okay? Okay?
Speaker 1: So to answer the question, I see why this. I
Speaker 1: understand why this woman doesn't like this, but I will
Speaker 1: tell you that I don't think there's a blanket way
Speaker 1: to turn off the comments in you know, your Facebook post.
Speaker 2: You got to block your aunt.
Speaker 1: You gotta either block your aunt, which you don't want
Speaker 1: to do. I mean, there's there's a feature on Instagram
Speaker 1: called restrict which lets only your aunt see her stuff,
Speaker 1: but nobody else sees it, which is like even sadder.
Speaker 1: So you're they're just commenting into like a black hole.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing you can do is, let's
Speaker 1: see is hide her comment so you can hover over
Speaker 1: and hide, which is equally a sad So oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I meant to I meant to talk about this with
Speaker 1: the Samsung stuff. When you get a notification on the
Speaker 1: Samsung AS twenty Ultra, the vibration is so crazy.
Speaker 2: It you heard that, it sounded like you were being
Speaker 2: electric cused, yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I was like, what just happened here?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: It is crazy. So I'm not going to get used
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 2: It's not a silent vibration. It is a loud phone.
Speaker 1: iPhone is like this little thing is like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is this is like electrocution.
Speaker 2: It's like an engine. I'm gonna put that over there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, it's reminding me still hear it anyway, good question, but.
Speaker 2: No, you can't do that, sorry, Giovanna.
Speaker 1: Speaking of iPhone, do we talk about iPhone? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: did with the apps and stuff, but this is this
Speaker 1: is really crazy and I think this is a huge deal. Okay, So, Apple,
Speaker 1: according to Bloomberg, is considering letting you set default apps
Speaker 1: on your iPhone. And I've talked about this on the
Speaker 1: podcast You want to talk you think I hate jiffs,
Speaker 1: just talk about how much I hate that you can't
Speaker 1: set default apps on the iPhone.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Apple in the past has said that the architecture of
Speaker 1: the system keeps you from being able to set your
Speaker 1: own mail app, or your own calendar app, or your
Speaker 1: own brout web browser app. But the reality is no,
Speaker 1: they can make it work. They just choose not to
Speaker 1: because guess what, the more you use Apple stuff, the
Speaker 1: more money Apple makes. And Apple, according to Bloomberg, installs
Speaker 1: thirty eight apps on their phone an iPad, including Safari,
Speaker 1: web browser, maps, messages, and mail. For me personally, I
Speaker 1: always talk about this when I'm surfing Yelp, looking at
Speaker 1: a restaurant. I feel like it's a mind. I feel
Speaker 1: like the whole iPhone is a minefield.
Speaker 2: I thought you were to say something else.
Speaker 1: It's like a land mine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You sit there and you're on Yelp. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: let me look at directions to this restaurant, and it's
Speaker 1: like boom brings you to maps that you don't want.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh sorry, and on my phone it's sorry.
Speaker 2: It'll download Yelp. Yes, well but that's everywhere.
Speaker 1: Well that's on like, uh, that's if you're looking at
Speaker 1: a Yelp review from Google. I'm talking about if I'm
Speaker 1: in Yelp the app and I go to click directions
Speaker 1: or in Redfin and it's like, oh, find directions to
Speaker 1: your new house that you're gonna buy, okay, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't. It's like sorry that you want to restore
Speaker 1: this app because Maps is not I don't have Maps
Speaker 1: installed on my phone. I don't want Apple Maps on
Speaker 1: my phone. I do, but okay, very angry today.
Speaker 2: I oh, gosh, kind of scary and I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I do I get fired up about this stuff because
Speaker 1: it's really bugging me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think I think it's just very evident
Speaker 2: that Apple, you know, they don't like to budge with well,
Speaker 2: now it sounds like they want.
Speaker 1: To Well, this is just a report, but so I
Speaker 1: think the idea is in iOS fourteen, it'd be like
Speaker 1: a clean break. They'd be like, we have figured out
Speaker 1: how to bless you with this new feature.
Speaker 2: So what does this mean? You? Like, you get your
Speaker 2: iPhone and there's no apps, and.
Speaker 1: You know, I just mean that you can right now?
Speaker 1: You know how you can delete the default apps, like
Speaker 1: you can delete the mail app or maybe I.
Speaker 2: Don't know if you app, but I always feel sad about.
Speaker 1: It, right you do, because Apple makes you feel that way.
Speaker 1: But to me, I've used Gmail on my fine phone
Speaker 1: for ten years. Yeah, and I don't use the male app,
Speaker 1: and so I don't need it, nor do I need
Speaker 1: every link to go to the mail app or every
Speaker 1: link to go to Safari. And so by Apple saying here,
Speaker 1: you can set your web browser so that everything you
Speaker 1: do on your phone goes through Chrome, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1: You can set your map so every time you ask
Speaker 1: Siri for direction somewhere, she would take you to Apple Maps.
Speaker 1: And they've gotten around this in weird little ways where
Speaker 1: if you ask Siri, h Siri play album on YouTube
Speaker 1: music it will do it, but that's so cumbersome. Who's
Speaker 1: gonna say that? So for me, when I was playing
Speaker 1: like the Ingrid, Ingrid and Dress, okay, okay, So I
Speaker 1: was playing her song the other day and I was
Speaker 1: gonna call it up on YouTube music and it didn't work.
Speaker 1: I had to say I just got frustrated. So I
Speaker 1: ended up saying, just play her song. Even because I
Speaker 1: have a subscription to Apple Music, and so Siri defaults
Speaker 1: to that. It's like so much easier to say, H Siri,
Speaker 1: play Ingrid, Ingrid Andress. Oh my gosh, by the way
Speaker 1: Siri responds to h Siri, it just responded like three
Speaker 1: times on my eyes.
Speaker 2: I just I still can't figure out Apple Music. I
Speaker 2: got Apple Music, and I still am like, it's really
Speaker 2: tough for you, Megan, Well, Spotify is just so much easier. Wait,
Speaker 2: you switched. No, I'm doing three three months? Oh why why?
Speaker 2: I was just like curious, really why? Just because I
Speaker 2: was curious? Why are you curious? Because they have like
Speaker 2: it's the same thing as Spotify, and oh.
Speaker 1: They had like an exclusive Justin Bieber album.
Speaker 2: Yeah I am not a big Justin Bieber fans, or are.
Speaker 1: You curious or are you just forced into it because.
Speaker 2: There's so many times I just wanted to see what
Speaker 2: it was like.
Speaker 1: She did three months free. Huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have Apple Music. I have Apple Music and
Speaker 2: I and you're a big fan of it.
Speaker 1: No, I'm really not.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I mean I like the lyrics. I like how it
Speaker 1: times the lyrics. Have you tried that feature?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: It's really fun. Okay, It's like how you That's how
Speaker 1: I sing along in the car. Yeah, you just you
Speaker 1: press the little lyrics and it shows you the song.
Speaker 1: It's like karaoke and your that's really fun. How you learn?
Speaker 1: That's how you learn the real words. Okay, let's do
Speaker 1: another question.
Speaker 2: All right. This next question comes from Tim.
Speaker 1: I feel like this podcast may have just deleted the
Speaker 1: whole thing and start over.
Speaker 2: That's so mean. Gmail and Yahoo want the phone numbers
Speaker 2: of people to further secure email accounts. Is this legit?
Speaker 2: Why do they want it? Uh? It is.
Speaker 1: Legit.
Speaker 2: It is legit.
Speaker 1: You know why what is this called? That talk about
Speaker 1: it called go on? I always talk about.
Speaker 2: It factor two factor to authentication.
Speaker 1: Two factor authenticationation. That's right, So they want your phone
Speaker 1: number because a lot of times when I get these
Speaker 1: emails all the time. People say that they can't get
Speaker 1: into their Yahoo account, they can't get into their Google account,
Speaker 1: and they're like, uh, what do I do? So if
Speaker 1: you weren't able to get into your account, it does
Speaker 1: two things. Number one, it gives you that second layer
Speaker 1: of authentication.
Speaker 2: Laughing because.
Speaker 1: It's just one of those days. It gives you that
Speaker 1: second layer of authentication so that when you log in,
Speaker 1: it will text you a code and then you type
Speaker 1: that code.
Speaker 2: Is it authentication or authentication?
Speaker 1: I think you're adding an F in there. I think
Speaker 1: you're adding authentication. No, there's not authentication. That's not even
Speaker 1: a word.
Speaker 2: Authentication. By the way, everyone he uses that all the time,
Speaker 2: that button. Whenever I mess things up, hegos.
Speaker 1: Are Yeah, pretty much, I've got that on my phone.
Speaker 1: So it does that. And then the second thing it
Speaker 1: does is if you ever lost your account, like lost access,
Speaker 1: they can use that to verify you are who you
Speaker 1: say you are. And so those are two ways that
Speaker 1: I can help you out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like the fingerprint.
Speaker 1: Kind of like the fingerprint and what I get. The
Speaker 1: other day, I got of setting up something and it
Speaker 1: said my password manager, and it said you want to
Speaker 1: set away to recover your your password in case you
Speaker 1: forget it or something. So again, these companies you start
Speaker 1: out with like one little piece of information, but if
Speaker 1: something were to happen to your account, they don't really
Speaker 1: have much to go by. So let's say for Gmail
Speaker 1: you lose. Let's say you sign up for Google Gmail
Speaker 1: with just in your email address or I guess I
Speaker 1: don't even know how you do that. You sign up
Speaker 1: for an email dress, right, right, So I think when
Speaker 1: I signed up, it's just your name and your I.
Speaker 2: Think I think you give them an email address, maybe
Speaker 2: after like a siblings email.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, Well now I do they and
Speaker 1: you probably should do this is go into your what
Speaker 1: they call gosh. It's like really sad, but it's like
Speaker 1: you basically if you die. There's like it's called like
Speaker 1: inactive account. So I have my Gmail account. If I'm
Speaker 1: inactive for like six months, it hands it over to
Speaker 1: Lindsey's probably.
Speaker 2: Just have a self discharcte.
Speaker 1: That's so sad, right, but you have to think of
Speaker 1: these things. Yeah, it's like your little your little email
Speaker 1: will it's like who would you give it to? Megan?
Speaker 2: Who who would you leave your email account to my sister. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 2: it's really Do.
Speaker 1: You have to delete anything in there that you don't
Speaker 1: want to see? I don't really like love letters that
Speaker 1: went unanswered.
Speaker 2: Oh those are my like really old, like AOL hotmail account,
Speaker 2: AOL account AOL Yeah, surfer girl chick sixteen. That was
Speaker 2: my screen name, was it really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh wow? I thought you were a kidding. We've talked
Speaker 1: about Disney Plus here a lot. Visio says you can
Speaker 1: now get the official Disney Plus app on their Visio TVs.
Speaker 1: When this first launched, Visio was a notable holdout from
Speaker 1: all these TV manufacturers you had. You know, people were
Speaker 1: accessing it on the Fire TV and the Roku and
Speaker 1: all these other devices and a couple of the TV
Speaker 1: platforms like a Samsung and stuff like that, but Visio
Speaker 1: wasn't there, and so I got a lot of emails
Speaker 1: people saying, hey, how do I access this? And before
Speaker 1: or you had to go through Airplay or Chrome Cast.
Speaker 1: Now you can finally just download the app and get
Speaker 1: Disney Plus on your smart Cast Visio TV. This is
Speaker 1: a new option. You can also use your voice with Siri,
Speaker 1: Google Assistant and Alexa. So kind of cool. This is
Speaker 1: gonna roll out over the air, so I don't even
Speaker 1: think you have to download it probably just shows up
Speaker 1: on your screen. But if you want, I would personally
Speaker 1: I do a software update just to make sure. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna work on Visio smart Cast TVs dating all
Speaker 1: the way back to twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that's exciting. Yeah all right. This next question
Speaker 2: comes from John. I accidentally deleted my MP four files
Speaker 2: about twenty gigabytes on my laptop. Can I still recover
Speaker 2: that file?
Speaker 1: Ooh? Well, this is this. I hate emails like this no,
Speaker 1: because it's just so sad to me. Most of the time,
Speaker 1: when you're deleting something on a computer, it goes into
Speaker 1: the recycle or trash bean. Yeah, and you can always
Speaker 1: recover it until you empty that recycle or trash bend.
Speaker 1: If you didn't empty it, you'd still have these twenty gigs.
Speaker 1: Since he's emailing me, I'm guessing somehow it got emptied. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm also guessing that he didn't have a regular
Speaker 1: backup of his computer. So again, these are the things
Speaker 1: I talk about on the show all the time that
Speaker 1: are like you just have to do them. It's not like,
Speaker 1: don't wait for a rainy day. Don't wait until something happens.
Speaker 1: You have to back up your computer in one way
Speaker 1: or another. And if you're not doing a full backup
Speaker 1: of your computer, turn on the features on your computer
Speaker 1: that will help you have things backed up in the cloud.
Speaker 1: For instance, on a Windows computer, set up one drive
Speaker 1: and make your working file folders kind of in the
Speaker 1: one drive, and one drive is constantly syncing to the cloud,
Speaker 1: so that anything on your desktop or whatever's in those
Speaker 1: folders is available all the time. On my Mac computer,
Speaker 1: my desktop is SYNCD with high Cloud. So if my
Speaker 1: computer crashed and I had some document on there that
Speaker 1: on my desktop, it would be in the cloud. And
Speaker 1: you just have to do this. Otherwise, plug a hard
Speaker 1: drive into your computer and just let it back up. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: use a wireless backup system. I mean, there's a million
Speaker 1: ways to back up your computer. I know it's not fun,
Speaker 1: it's not enjoyable, it's not exciting, but you just kind
Speaker 1: of have to do it.
Speaker 2: And you know it's not enjoyable when you lose all
Speaker 2: your stuff. Losing your stuff just better to be safe.
Speaker 1: Better to be safe than sorry. That's my advice. I
Speaker 1: totally agree, all right, This is an interesting little A
Speaker 1: little electrical tape can trick a tesla into speeding. I
Speaker 1: thought this was a pretty scary story because we rely
Speaker 1: on you know, we think about these autonomous cars and
Speaker 1: I think about this all the time because these cars
Speaker 1: are making decisions that involve your livelihood when you're in
Speaker 1: this car, and I imagine they have a lot of
Speaker 1: fail safes in them. But you've ever been in a
Speaker 1: car where someone like takes a turn really hard, you know,
Speaker 1: like there you go against the car. When you're in
Speaker 1: like high school, you do stupid stuff like that. You
Speaker 1: ever do that like right around, like just drive just
Speaker 1: be like yeah, I mean it's no, I no, I.
Speaker 2: Mean I know I kind of know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Like, you know, we used to go in high school
Speaker 1: and like just when we were first starting to drive,
Speaker 1: do like stupid things that like I hope my kids
Speaker 1: don't do. You would you know, go really fast and
Speaker 1: like turn really hard, you know, and like yeah, pull
Speaker 1: some of those stunts. They could be really dangerous. Right anyway,
Speaker 1: you think you think about a tesla doing these things,
Speaker 1: like what if a tesla just jerks to the left
Speaker 1: and like whoa you slam into something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be like, that'd be terrible.
Speaker 1: And so these researchers at McAfee were able to trick
Speaker 1: a Tesla into speeding by just putting a tiny little
Speaker 1: bit of black tape on a thirty five mile an
Speaker 1: hour speed limit sign. They extended the middle of the
Speaker 1: three so it looked like almost like an eight, but
Speaker 1: not really. It was still disconnected. But they just extended
Speaker 1: that three out, okay, and the car read it as
Speaker 1: eighty five miles an hour, and so it started speeding
Speaker 1: up and they did slow down the car manually before
Speaker 1: it got out of control. But again, it's kind of
Speaker 1: scary crazy. Now here's my takeaway from this. So this
Speaker 1: was a twenty sixteen Tesla that this worked on. They
Speaker 1: could not get it to work on a twenty twenty Tesla. Okay,
Speaker 1: so maybe Tesla has improved things. Yeah, But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, don't you think as we have
Speaker 1: more of these cars on the road, it's a whole
Speaker 1: cottage industry of people trying to hack these cars.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I just start thinking of people just going
Speaker 2: around and messing.
Speaker 1: With signs exactly, not just signs, but they're going to
Speaker 1: figure out different ways like, I even look at the
Speaker 1: lines in the road that a lot of these cars read.
Speaker 1: And you look in Los Angeles, some of these lines
Speaker 1: are all over the place, and I've noticed it with
Speaker 1: my car. It's got the automatic like lane keep I've
Speaker 1: noticed for sometimes it's kind of like you're like, eh,
Speaker 1: it's just a little bit of a correction. You're like,
Speaker 1: what what did you just read there on that road?
Speaker 1: And imagine that people start messing with the roads or
Speaker 1: just doing anything they can to mess with these cars.
Speaker 1: It's kind of scary because anything else that you have
Speaker 1: that's gadget oriented, your phone, your computer, like, yeah, it
Speaker 1: gets hacked this and that, like okay, but like your
Speaker 1: car is like a life or death situation.
Speaker 2: Kind of scary. Scary. Oh not good, Okay. This next
Speaker 2: question is from Clyde. I have an iPhone ten S Max.
Speaker 2: I use Photos, but I also have Google Photos on
Speaker 2: my phone. I have the same photos in both apps
Speaker 2: so that I can easily send photos to those with
Speaker 2: Android phones. When I delete photos from the Google app,
Speaker 2: why does it delete the same photos from my Photos
Speaker 2: app in my iPhone?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is an option when you first set
Speaker 1: up Google Photos, when you first delete a photo from
Speaker 1: Google Photos, it says, do you also give permission to
Speaker 1: delete it from your Photos app? And I get it.
Speaker 1: This is kind of confusing because it's like a weird
Speaker 1: delineation where you think you're just looking at the photos
Speaker 1: through your Photos app, but it's really you're looking at
Speaker 1: Google Photos copy of them, very complicated like this. When
Speaker 1: I saw this question, I kind of I realized, like
Speaker 1: just how it's not very easy to explain. Okay, but
Speaker 1: here's he's asking what he wants to get rid of
Speaker 1: Google Photos altogether.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, so no he noticed when he deletes
Speaker 2: photos from the Google app, yep, they delete on his iPhone.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's just the way it's set up, and
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not sure that you can change that.
Speaker 1: I think if you there. I went in and I
Speaker 1: looked at the the read and write access because you
Speaker 1: can say you can read but not write, and right
Speaker 1: means ability to delete. But I believe the first time
Speaker 1: that you tried deleting a photo in Google Photos, it says,
Speaker 1: can we delete it out of your iPhone? As well?
Speaker 1: And if you say yes to that, every other photo
Speaker 1: you delete, it'll just delete them out of your iPhone.
Speaker 2: No that's not good.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, if you're thinking that it's not so, let
Speaker 1: me just try deleting a picture. If I delete this
Speaker 1: picture that you took me, it says allow Google Photos
Speaker 1: to delete this photo. This photo will be deleted from
Speaker 1: iCloud photos on all your devices. So you just hit
Speaker 1: don't allow okay, and then it would delete it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Well, interesting what happened as it just doesn't delete it
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, So I think you kind of have
Speaker 1: to you have to accept that reality or else it's
Speaker 1: not so what I would recommend. And I think the
Speaker 1: second half of his question was kind of related to
Speaker 1: just getting rid of Google Photos altogether. I think that
Speaker 1: if he wants to do that, you can't. My best
Speaker 1: advice is to actually delete Google Photos off your phone,
Speaker 1: and then you can go back and kind of do
Speaker 1: whatever you need to do with your photos. But if
Speaker 1: you go through and delete all the pictures out of
Speaker 1: Google Photos, it's going to delete them on your phone
Speaker 1: as well. So you want to just delete the whole app,
Speaker 1: get rid of that, and then you can work on
Speaker 1: I feel like people.
Speaker 2: Must do that all the time. Yeah, make sure they
Speaker 2: go back up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they just yea.
Speaker 2: Wipe their iPhone and then suddenly all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yea, it is see to me, it's like it
Speaker 1: just makes perfect sense, Like I get it, but I
Speaker 1: understand how it can be so tricky because you're thinking, wait,
Speaker 1: where does this photo live? Or am I seeing it
Speaker 1: on my phone? Like is Google Photos just a viewfinder
Speaker 1: to the photos on my phone or is it a
Speaker 1: whole other set of photos in the cloud that are
Speaker 1: also reflected on my phone. And if I delete a
Speaker 1: picture here, does it delete it there? Yeah, it's kind
Speaker 1: of complicated.
Speaker 2: It is complicated, and I'm not sure that we.
Speaker 1: Explained it very well there. I know, I think I'm
Speaker 1: more confused now than ever.
Speaker 2: So basically, if you delete a photo on your iPhone,
Speaker 2: if out.
Speaker 1: Of the Photos app, it does not affect Google Photos.
Speaker 1: So it kind of goes one way, goes both ways,
Speaker 1: the other way does not go. It's like a one
Speaker 1: way street.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So if you go into your photo and that's the
Speaker 1: other confusing part, that's really the Photos app versus Google
Speaker 1: Photos app. You know, I have mine right next to
Speaker 1: each other on my phone. Okay, So like the other
Speaker 1: day I was telling Lindsay, I was like, oh, go
Speaker 1: into your photos and she kept opening Google Photos. I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 1: your regular photos, Like there is that delineation of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's photos.
Speaker 2: Versus Google so but so then, just to be clear,
Speaker 2: you can delete your photos on your iPhone and they
Speaker 2: won't delete from your Google Photos. Correct, Okay? Yeah, confused
Speaker 2: about that. It's the other way.
Speaker 1: Wait I think now hold on, now you have me
Speaker 1: questioning this because I'm like, wait, does it sink? Does
Speaker 1: it sync to what I just do? Does it sink?
Speaker 1: I don't think it does. But yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: it sinks to the other way. Yeah, Like, once it
Speaker 1: goes into Google Photos, it's in there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, once it goes in it's in it's there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: I think we just confused because I mee you, and
Speaker 2: I told my aunt to go on Google Photos because
Speaker 2: she wanted to make space on her computer.
Speaker 1: Yes, so the other thing you could do, and I
Speaker 1: should probably mention this. If you want the safe way
Speaker 1: to free up space on your phone, like if you
Speaker 1: want to make more space by offloading your pictures into
Speaker 1: Google Photos, there's a there's an option that says free
Speaker 1: up space, and you tap that and it says do
Speaker 1: you want to delete online, it says three items from
Speaker 1: your device to free up space. Oh okay, And that's
Speaker 1: even more confusing because you're like, wait, if I delete these,
Speaker 1: are they still available? And then they're available in your
Speaker 1: Google Photos app but they're not on your phone. It's
Speaker 1: kind of I see why people stick to just kind
Speaker 1: of like iCloud, because that's what I do. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: talk about some of the cheapest cell phone plans available.
Speaker 1: We talked to Whistle out this website that lets you
Speaker 1: compare various cell phone plans. So check them out. They've got,
Speaker 1: you know, all every plan is kind of like analyzed
Speaker 1: and figured out and you know whatever. But I thought
Speaker 1: it would be interesting to ask them about what are
Speaker 1: some of the cheapest plans out there, because I keep
Speaker 1: seeing these plans advertised. And the one that really got
Speaker 1: me to think about all this was the text Now.
Speaker 1: They started this plan where it's free. So you get
Speaker 1: a simcard from this company called text Now and they
Speaker 1: will literally give you free calls on the Sprint network
Speaker 1: and free texts. There's no data. And we're going to
Speaker 1: talk to the CEO of text Now in just a moment,
Speaker 1: but let me go through some of these other plans.
Speaker 1: Let's see Ting has a plan for five hundred minutes
Speaker 1: plus a thousand texts that's free for six months. After that,
Speaker 1: it is I think twenty dollars a month, and that
Speaker 1: gives you five hundred minutes plus one thousand texts. Mint
Speaker 1: Mobile has a three month plan for twenty bucks. If
Speaker 1: you just want to try it out, you pay sixty
Speaker 1: dollars up front for three months of service. You get
Speaker 1: eight gigs of high speed data plus unlimited talking text,
Speaker 1: and you get free colls to Mexico and Canada. Plus
Speaker 1: you can use your phone as a hotspot. Mint Mobile
Speaker 1: is pretty good. That's a really good one. I think
Speaker 1: they're doing great things. Oh yeah, Good to Go Unlimited.
Speaker 1: They weren't on AT and T. It's twenty dollars a
Speaker 1: month for six gigs for your first three months, then
Speaker 1: it goes down to three gigs.
Speaker 2: But it's on AT and T.
Speaker 1: See all these plans they have like pros and cons.
Speaker 1: The fact I've never heard of Good to Go Unlimited,
Speaker 1: but the fact that it's on AT and T is
Speaker 1: kind of nice. Yes, they also have Cricket, which is
Speaker 1: also AT and T. They have some great plans then
Speaker 1: Sprint has something called Unlimited Kickstart. That's just thirty five
Speaker 1: dollars for unlimited talking, text and data, and you have
Speaker 1: to pour it in a new line, so they want
Speaker 1: you to switch to do that. Visible is from Verizon.
Speaker 1: I think this is the best one to the launch.
Speaker 1: Visible is forty dollars a month and it's unlimited data
Speaker 1: talk text, and it used to be limited to a
Speaker 1: certain speed, and then they lifted that limitation. And I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if they I think they brought that limitation
Speaker 1: back on, but I'm not really sure.
Speaker 2: We've done a couple of stories on Visible too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's see do they still do.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, okay, so they do cap it? Oh okay,
Speaker 1: well says mobile hotspots capped. It doesn't necessarily say that
Speaker 1: the speed is capped. Let's see what it says about speed.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just search on here speed, you know anyway,
Speaker 1: So you have to keep that in mind that you know,
Speaker 1: there are some pros and cons to all these things.
Speaker 1: Tello has a plan from Sprint fourteen bucks a month
Speaker 1: for unlimited talk text and two gigs of data a month.
Speaker 2: TWIGB Have you ever heard of twig B?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 1: Unlimited text in five hundred minutes on Sprint and Verizon
Speaker 1: for fifteen seventy five for six months. Wow, twigb twigby,
Speaker 1: I've never heard of that one. Joining us now to
Speaker 1: talk about text Now and their zero dollars a month
Speaker 1: plan is Derek Ting, CEO of text Now. Derek, welcome
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, so is this legit? Can I really get
Speaker 1: a plan for zero dollars per month?
Speaker 3: Definitely? We just launched a cell phone plan that gives
Speaker 3: you nature My coverage for texting and calling for free.
Speaker 2: And how do you do that?
Speaker 1: So let's hold on, let's explain the plan. So first off,
Speaker 1: you get a SIM card. You send me a SIM
Speaker 1: card for ten dollars and then I popped it in
Speaker 1: my phone, obviously my phone. What kind of phone do
Speaker 1: I have to have?
Speaker 3: Any phone that supports the spread network, which is most
Speaker 3: phones today actually neurophones are are agnostics. So for example,
Speaker 3: like the Pixels, the newer iPhones, they all support all
Speaker 3: the carriers, and of course any you have any phone
Speaker 3: that has been on the Sprint network or even like
Speaker 3: a reseller or m ME and O of Sprint. So
Speaker 3: for example, a use the Boost Mobile phone, a used
Speaker 3: Virgin mobile phone, anything like that will work as well.
Speaker 1: And so you get the SIM card, you pop it
Speaker 1: in and you set up your account and it's zero dollars.
Speaker 1: What do you get for that zero dollars a month?
Speaker 3: You get to text and call for free anywhere there
Speaker 3: is either Wi Fi or a connection to the Sprint
Speaker 3: Nation and Wide network. And all you got to do
Speaker 3: is get buy the SIM from us installer app and
Speaker 3: a way you go. And the way we make the
Speaker 3: service work is like all their free services, we toward
Speaker 3: the service with ads. So while you're using our app,
Speaker 3: there are there's a banner in the bottom and unintrusive
Speaker 3: and that pace for their free talking text.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the ads. Tell me about these ads. I
Speaker 1: got producer Megan here as well. She really wants to
Speaker 1: know about these ads. Tell me about the ads.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the ads are really unintrusive. They're in the
Speaker 3: bottom of the app and they're really getting the way.
Speaker 3: And also after you hang up a phone call, there's
Speaker 3: a full screen ad that you could dismiss.
Speaker 2: And we.
Speaker 3: There's a number of brands that advertise on our app
Speaker 3: and they're all very high quality ads and very safe
Speaker 3: ads for everyone.
Speaker 2: So if I'm texting, an AD isn't going to like
Speaker 2: block the keyboard. It'll be under the keyboard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it would be actually just on top of
Speaker 3: the keyboard, so like like that, not on top of keyboard,
Speaker 3: It'll just right above it, so it wouldn't get in
Speaker 3: the way of the keeper at all.
Speaker 1: Is it the same like if someone because people might
Speaker 1: know text now because you have an app that's free,
Speaker 1: and people might also be confused. You're like, well, there's
Speaker 1: a million apps that offer free texting and calling. Why
Speaker 1: would I go with this? The difference here is that
Speaker 1: you're actually getting a cellular service connected to this app
Speaker 1: through the same card.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and on top of that, you get your own
Speaker 3: phone number from your own error code. You can customize
Speaker 3: your phone number. And that's also another thing that is
Speaker 3: really different from our service versus other service is that
Speaker 3: we give people phone numbers. So that means we our
Speaker 3: service allow them to break away from a traditional carrier.
Speaker 3: So that's a lot of people when they sign up
Speaker 3: for text now, they realize, hey, I don't need to
Speaker 3: be paying Brydon or at and t all this money anymore.
Speaker 3: I got a phone number from text Now and I'm
Speaker 3: just going to use that for free from now on.
Speaker 3: So that's really the main difference between text Now and
Speaker 3: with other texting and calling services.
Speaker 1: It's crazy to think that you could potentially save so
Speaker 1: much money a month if you just like wean yourself
Speaker 1: off Wi Fi or wean yourself off cellular data and
Speaker 1: just use Wi Fi along with what you've got offering.
Speaker 1: But you also offer data upgrades as well, and are
Speaker 1: you hoping that people eventually just upgrade and get the
Speaker 1: data plan as well.
Speaker 3: Our goal is to work hard to make things free
Speaker 3: or as close to free as possible, so that's always
Speaker 3: been our goal. We started out with texting free, and
Speaker 3: then we eventually make calling free, and then now we're
Speaker 3: making nationwide talk intact on Assellar network free. So we're
Speaker 3: going to continue to make more things free. And yeah,
Speaker 3: right now we have data, even need data. We have
Speaker 3: really low cost data plans to add on two gigs
Speaker 3: twenty bucks a month and you get a limited LT
Speaker 3: for forty bucks a month. But as always, we're working
Speaker 3: to make things free and as close to free as
Speaker 3: possible for our for our customers, and.
Speaker 1: Who do you see this being good for.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of different people that use our service,
Speaker 3: and you know, we've seen We've seen single moms use
Speaker 3: it that have limited income. We've seen entrepreneurs use it
Speaker 3: that are starting their own business. We're seeing people that
Speaker 3: are just in a tough situation and this is a lifesaver.
Speaker 3: Because of this, they could apply to jobs and otherwise
Speaker 3: they wouldn't have been able to do it. So we've
Speaker 3: all sorts of walked of life use our service, and
Speaker 3: we're really really happy to be able to make a
Speaker 3: positive difference in people's lives and if providing providing pre
Speaker 3: phone service to them.
Speaker 1: Awesome directing of texts Now. Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: How can people find out more about the service?
Speaker 3: You can I look for us in the app store
Speaker 3: or play store by searching for text now, or you
Speaker 3: can check us out at textnow dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, Derek, perfect, Thank you so much. Okay, Megan,
Speaker 1: you're up.
Speaker 2: All right. So this next question comes from Rufus. I
Speaker 2: had a question which is a better Which is better
Speaker 2: for a high school student? An iPad or a MacBook?
Speaker 1: Hmm, good question. I would say I would say MacBook
Speaker 1: if the student actually wants to get work done.
Speaker 2: I'm a MacBook Air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, MacBook.
Speaker 2: Air is fine.
Speaker 1: I would just go yeah, I mean I would just
Speaker 1: go with the standard whatever you can afford, like the
Speaker 1: highest you can afford, because you want to keep that
Speaker 1: for four years, right, so whatever you can afford if it,
Speaker 1: you know, personally, I would go with like the MacBook
Speaker 1: thirteen inch, just because that's going to give you the
Speaker 1: most bang for the book. But probably an Air is
Speaker 1: fine I.
Speaker 2: Had in high school, I mean in college if you're.
Speaker 1: Just doing like paperwork and stuff like I used to love.
Speaker 1: When the MacBook Air came out, I bought it immediately.
Speaker 1: I love that so thin. It was like so light,
Speaker 1: I could even light. And I think with the iPad
Speaker 1: you can get a lot done. Nowadays, I just think
Speaker 1: it's more cumbersome than like a computer that actually has
Speaker 1: a keyboard and a mouse and all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: Totally so, but I I think either will be fine.
Speaker 1: But I kind of joke about getting the work done.
Speaker 1: But I think I think the MacBook would just be
Speaker 1: a better choice in general. I agree, all right, A
Speaker 1: couple other things before we go here. Galaxy Samsung says
Speaker 1: the Galaxy Z flip sold out online and limited number
Speaker 1: of devices in store. So there, I guess calling this
Speaker 1: a success, and I think so I would agree. We
Speaker 1: talked about it last week's podcast. I love the z Flip.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great little phone. It's not
Speaker 1: for everyone, but it's a cool little device that I,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't have trouble. I wouldn't recommend it
Speaker 1: to the masses, but i'd recommend it to people who
Speaker 1: like it. Like if if you're if you feel compelled
Speaker 1: to get that phone. I wouldn't say don't get it, right, okay,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't say, like, oh, get this phone, like
Speaker 1: you have to want that phone. Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're just saying it's a good phone if you're interested.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We did a story on assistive technology for those dealing
Speaker 1: with vision loss and two things I'd love to tell
Speaker 1: you about. The first is the Microsoft Seeing AI app.
Speaker 1: And you saw this in person at the Braille Institute.
Speaker 1: It's an app that you install on your iPhone and
Speaker 1: you can point it at different things like money, what else.
Speaker 2: You can point at barcodes, you can point it at signs.
Speaker 2: Does it read signs? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it reads.
Speaker 1: So it just does a whole bunch of stuff, Like
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a second set of eyes. If
Speaker 1: your eyes are not it'll read things aloud like okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's interesting. And on the Android side, there's an
Speaker 1: app called Google Lookout and I looked at this one.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's only available for pixels at this time,
Speaker 1: but hopefully they'll expand it as they get more support
Speaker 1: for other phones. But that's very similar. They're leveraging Google's
Speaker 1: AI to point your phone at things and it will
Speaker 1: speak what it thinks it's seeing. So if you point
Speaker 1: at the Eiffel Tower, it would describe the Eiffel Tower
Speaker 1: or show you know, tell you that computer, all that
Speaker 1: good stuff. So those are two really good things. And
Speaker 1: you know this is important because you know, people I
Speaker 1: get older, they're dealing with vision loss. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people are born with vision loss or they somehow
Speaker 1: acquire vision loss throughout their lifetime. So no matter what
Speaker 1: it is, if you're in that position, technology really is
Speaker 1: helping out. And I can't speak from experience that's not
Speaker 1: happening to me, but I whenever I talk about it,
Speaker 1: the response is very broad. A lot of people email
Speaker 1: me they're like, oh, This is great for my dad,
Speaker 1: this is great for my mom, this is great for me.
Speaker 1: Here's what works, Here's what doesn't work. So I think
Speaker 1: that this kind of stuff is just good to know about.
Speaker 1: So again, it's called the Microsoft Seeing Ai app and
Speaker 1: Google Lookout. Those are the two apps I think you
Speaker 1: should look into. Oh my gosh, you know what that
Speaker 1: music means, Megan, Oh no, wait, don't go hold on, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: let's still get what Okay, okay, Oh, that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for this week's episode of the show. For links
Speaker 1: to what we talk about, take a look at the
Speaker 1: show notes. If you have a question for me, Megan,
Speaker 1: tell them where to go.
Speaker 2: Uh, just go to rich on Tech dot tv and
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm on Twitter at producer Megan.
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Speaker 1: No, I really don't do that. Looking where we stand.
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