Wizard of Oz at the Sphere, best iPhone cleaner app & top projectors (137, August 30, 2025)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Apple sets a date to launch the iPhone seventeen and
possibly a thin new model. My review of the Wizard
of Oz at the Sphere and how AI reimagined this
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All right, We've got some great guests this week. I
say that every week, but this week is really great.
Philip Jones, lead reviewer at projector Reviews, is going to
explain what to look for when buying a projector maybe
you're thinking about using it for the football season, or
you want to watch movies on it, or just everyday
TV shows. Philip Jones will be here to talk about that,

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and a friend of the show, Jefferson Graham.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
You know him.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
He is the smartphone photography guy. He also hosts the
Photo Walks travel photography show. He's going to share some
of his latest tips and tricks that he's picked up
along the way traveling to so many cities nationwide and
internationally to do his TV show. And later in the show,
Scott Aronson, Professor at U T Austin and director of

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the Quantum Information Center. Yeah, he's going to tackle a
big one, the basics of quantum computing. We've heard so
much about quantum computing, especially how it's going to change
everything in the future. I thought it'd be pretty smart
just to get the basics about what that is. Well,
thanks for tuning in. Appreciate you listening this week. A

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couple things. Well, first off, I celebrated my birthday, which
was a big one.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well it wasn't a big one.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
It wasn't like a milestone birthday, so don't don't yeah,
but it was it was just fun.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
My mom was in town. You know, my family was there.
It was great.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
And you know, it was during the work week, so
it was like I still went to work and everything.
But I did post on social media and many, many,
many of you did comment, and I do appreciate that.
You made me feel very very special because I wasn't
even gonna post about it, and I was like, ah,
you know, why not, I give you some attention.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Just kidding.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
But this week I also so right after my birthday,
I went to I blined it to Las Vegas. I
was very excited for this, the premiere of The Wizard
of Oz at the Sphere. Now, if you haven't been
to the Sphere yet, it is quite incredible. It's this
giant ball that just sits in the middle of Las Vegas.
It's always showing something cool on its exosphere, the lights,

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the programmable screen on the outside, it's always showing some
kind of funny little face or whatever they want. And
so I did that, went there and I was wondering.
I was like, Okay, I want to see this, but
I'm not exactly sure how it's technology.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
But as soon as I.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Started interviewing some of the principles that created this film,
like the director and some of the other folks behind it.
I was like, okay, this is all technology interesting. So
the big question is how do you take an eighty
six year old film and then sort of remake it
for a giant screen and with new technology. And so

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they used AI a lot. I would pretty much say
this is the first AI film. That's really what it is.
They took an old movie and they recreated the entire
thing with AI.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's the way I see it. I'll explain.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
But the original movie, you know, premiered back in nineteen
thirty nine at now what's the TCL Chinese Theater. It
used to be the I think it was a man's
Chinese theater back in the day, and that was a
twenty four foot screen. Okay, now the sphere if you
haven't been inside, this is a sixteen K resolution, one
hundred and sixty thousand square foot screen.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Huge.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I mean, it's it's almost wrap around, that's really what
it is. It's very immersive. The seats move, so they've
got these rumble seats in there. They've got fans for wind,
they've got a scentse system, they've got just all kinds
of tricks in there, all the latest technology and the
sound system is like nothing you've ever experienced. They can
direct sounds right to your seat, so it is really

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quite impressive. Now, the experience starts right when you get in.
They call it the Atrium. This is kind of like
when you go to an event at the Sphere. They've
got like an hour of time before where you actually
go into the event, right, you just kind of stand
around and explore what's in the what they call the atrium,
and they sort of dress it up for the show.
So for this, it's all sepiotoned when you get in,

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so you know, imagine the beginning of the movie where
it's back in time and it's just you know, she's
in Kansas, and so the whole kind of atrium looks
like that, and then when you leave, it transforms fully
into all Green an Emerald City, and there's like an
interactive wizard that you can interact with, kind of like
so if you've been to a Sphere thing before, or

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if you haven't, they used to have these really high
tech robots in there that you can interact with. The
wizard is sort of replacing them, but you know, they
can do multiple things at this place at once. It's
not just like one thing at a time. Anyway, See,
you get inside and it's very exciting. I was there
for the opening premiere and so it was kind of cool.
I mean to me, one of the best best things

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was all the food was free, so I was like grabbing,
like I grab so much stuff. I grab like popcorn
and like can't and drinks whatever I could. So that
was kind of fun. When do you ever get that
right in a movie? But when you get inside the screen,
it's like you get inside and it looks like Radio
City Music Hall, which is also the same company that
owns this, and so it tricks you because the movie

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starts in the middle of that little screen and then
all of a sudden it widens out to take up
the whole dome and people that is the first awe moment, like,
oh my gosh, this is going to be different, and
the whole audience is like audibly wowed right there, and
so now you know you're in for something special and
that was really cool. Then comes the tornado scene. Now,

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this is just incredible what they've done. So they are
using every single thing available to them in that sphere.
I'm talking wind leaves, Like there's actual leaves that kind
of move around in there. The seats are rumbling, people
were covering their faces, they were hooting, they were hollering.
It was so cool, Like I'm just sitting there smiling

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as an adult. How many times you have a smile
on your face? Not very often, right, I'm just kidding,
I mean, but yes, you know, like something that brings
a true childish smile to your face. Every single person
in there was just literally and figuratively blown away. And
by the way, they I haven't seen the original movie
in a long time, but that.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Tornado scene lasted so long.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I think they just made it longer just to have
fun with like all the effects and that it was
so crazy. I want to post the video to my Instagram,
but they told us not to, you know, record video
during the movie, but I did, just because you know,
I like to break the rules every once in a while.
But I want to share it, but I don't because
I want to ruin it for you. It is it
is worth the price of admission right there. Anyway, once
you get into the movie, it's clear that AI is everywhere,

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so they used it to do things like you know,
if you think about how small this was when it
first came out, they had to expand it to fit
this screen, so they used AI to sort of rebuild
the edges, the backgrounds, the extras, the crowds of people.
So it was it's very apparent to me the AI
use in this movie. And by the way, they worked
with Google Cloud to do this, and it was very

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apparent to me. And yes, sometimes I'm like, Okay, that's AI,
that's AI, that's AI. But you can't let that ruin
your impression of this, like you still have to just
like any other movie, you gotta have a little suspension
of disbelief. They used AI to make, you know, to
make the resolution look better, so you know, you can
spot it if you're looking for it, but if you
just kind of enjoy, you'll enjoy it. Now there's also

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physical effects, so they've got apples falling from the sky,
there was snow in there.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
At one point.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
There's fire, real fire, flying monkeys. I mean, I'm not kidding.
They went all out on this thing, and it was like,
I think at one point they're just like, you know what,
We're just gonna do the craziest, wildest stuff we can
imagine inside of a movie experience. And they did Now,
this was about eighty minutes, so I think that's that's
shorter than the standard movie. But I'm not kidding. It

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flew by so fast. There were some I'm scares. I mean, look,
if you're a purist about the Wizard of Oz, you
might not like this version of it. But if you're
just someone that's like, okay, I want to see how
technology can change the way we tell stories. This is
like the best example I've ever experienced. People are asking me,
is it for kids? I think so. It's intense. There's

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intense moments, so you have to understand, like what the
you know, what your kids can deal with, But it's
nothing like super scary.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Also, the best place to sit.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
We sat in the two hundred section, which is right
front and center, so that I thought was pretty cool.
Tickets are not cheap. I mean, tickets start about over
one hundred dollars and they go up from there by
the way, and then you've got the popcorn and the drinks,
and it's not a cheap experience. But here's the deal.
Number one, you're in Vegas, you're gonna be spending money anyway.
I proceeded to gamble one hundred dollars in like less
than an hour. Guess what I have to tell you

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about that? Zero nothing. I have no memories of it.
It was a waste of money. The experience I had
at the Wizard of Oz was incredible, and I'll be
telling my grandkids about it. Well, I mean maybe we'll see.
I'll just tell them to listen. Anyway, I thought it
was pretty cool. Definitely worth it if you are in
Las Vegas or you're planning a trip. And how wild
is it in this day and age twenty twenty five

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that now Apple, Amazon and Google are making movies. I mean,
I get that Netflix is a it's a studio house,
but these three companies, the three tech companies in our world,
are now making movies.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Just let that.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Just think about that for a moment. Did you ever
think that would happen?

Speaker 1 (10:27):
And by the way, this was also brilliant because guess what,
half the people that walk out of this sphere when
they see this version are going to go home and
rent the original.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
So now the ip folks make money again.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Anyway, you can read my whole review on the website
richon tech dot TV. Coming up, I'm gonna tell you
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I appreciate you and your ring program. I have been
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Anything changed throughout the years that we've been doing this.
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Really really appreciate that.

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All right, what can I help you with?

Speaker 5 (12:09):
I'm actually calling on behalf of a friend who's having
just a terrible time with cell phones. Okay, she has
been through five cell phones in the past year or so,
four Androids and an iPhone, and somehow, in some ways,
someone seems to be able to find her phone and

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tap into it and even control her phone.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh wow, that's not good.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
That's why I'm calling you for any thoughts or suggestions.
He even tried to iPhone and it was having the
same problem and got interest with the Apple who did
not believe her.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well, yeah I could. I could see that.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well let me let me, let me go through some
of the steps I think that could help.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Number one.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
It sounds to me, number one, it's not I get
these emails all the time people tell me their phone
is hacked, and I don't really understand what they mean
by that, because there is not a simple way for
someone to claim control over your phone.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
There just is not.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
These are two platforms that are very secure, iOS and
Android and now an Android. There are ways that could
make that process easier if you gave someone access to
your phone, But there's really not a way that someone
can remotely control your smartphone, Like there's not just like
some website they can log into and say, okay, let

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me target this woman's phone, let me get in there,
and let me do a lot of stuff. So it's
tough to say that someone has taken over control of
your phone. Now, there are apps that you can install
on your phone that may do something similar to that,
like a team viewer or something like that, but you
know remote access apps, but you know you would have
to really install those and give someone access and hand

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over the credit. And also you would see what's happening
on your screen if that was the case. So it's
very unlikely that the phone is being taken over by someone. Now,
with that said, there are ways that someone can get
access to different parts of the device, and what this
really comes down to is your social media, your email,

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your iPhone, iCloud, and also Android. So if they had
access to their login, which is either their Apple ID
or their Android Google ID, they might be able to
do something there, but again highly unlikely because there's so
many safeguards in place by Apple and Google to not

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let this stuff happen. And the only times we've ever
seen a true example of a phone being hacked is
in a couple of ways. Number One, you're sort of
a head of state or someone that's very prominent, and
you click on a link and you get some sort
of spyware or malware downloaded to your phone, and next
thing you know, that is you know. And the only

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times you've ever seen that is really, like I said,
heads of state or journalists. It's not just regular people
that that's happening too.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Now.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
The more common way is if you sideload an app,
and this is why Apple is sideloading for years, so
it doesn't even happen on the iPhone at least in
the US. And then with Android, yes you can sideload,
but there's so many precautions in place. When you get
a new phone, it doesn't just let you sideload anymore.
You have to say yes like three different times to

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be able to download something that's not from the Google
Play Store and install it on your phone. So again,
not very plausible that someone could just take over access
on your phone. So when it comes to the hacking
when it comes to your friend. What I would recommend
is start with the big account, your Apple account, and
your Google account and your social media go through. Change

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those passwords. That's number one. Change the passwords to something strong.
Use something that's at least fourteen characters, use a password
generator to make those and save those. Then you gotta
go in and turn on two factor authentication. It's not bulletproof,
but it is the best protection you have against someone
gaining access to your account. And the third thing I
would do is find the in the settings. There's typically

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in your account settings under security, there's typically a setting
that says log me out everywhere else. And so I
just had to do this with my Instagram because it
thought someone was hacking me, but I was just logging
in from a new phone, and so it logged me
out everywhere. Every one of my phones I had Instagram
installed on, it logged me out. And you can go in,
is that we have logged you out of all your
other devices. You can do that on Facebook, on Instagram,

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on Gmail. You can just go through and just log
yourself out of all these other places that you might
be logged in. And if someone happened to have access,
they would be logged out as well.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
So those are the things I would do.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
And if you need a good two factor authentication app,
which I always recommend an app over a phone number
is a Proton Authenticator is excellent, excellent, excellent, and that
is a lab for iPhone and Android. But again, change
all those passwords set up to two factor authentication. That
should be your best defense against quote unquote someone hacking

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or taking over your phone.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
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Speaker 2 (17:34):
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Speaker 1 (17:37):
Chad writes in on the website rich on tech dot tv,
what is the best power bank to buy for your
iPhone and iPad pro twenty thousand and above. I would
appreciate it, so, Chad, I would recommend the a Belkan
power bank it's called the boost Charge Power Bank twenty K.
I've got one of these and it's it's forty dollars

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or less. Comes in a bunch of and that's a
twenty thousand million amp hours, which means you're going to
get a lot of extra playback on your devices there.
And it'll work with both It's got three ports, got
the USBC and USBA, so you'll be able to plug
in whatever you need and belcan you know they do
a good job.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
They really do.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
I also like Anchor, probably find them for cheaper and
I do carry around an Anchor. They've had some issues
lately with some of the recalls, but they're still good brands.
So those are the two that I would recommend taking
a look at. Thanks for the email. All right on
with us now is Philip Jones, technical editor and lead
reviewer at Projector Reviews Projector reviews dot com. We're going

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to talk about projectors. Philip, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Hey, how are you rich?

Speaker 1 (18:42):
I am doing fantastic, Thanks so much for joining me.
So what is the current trend in the projector industry?

Speaker 6 (18:51):
Well, A lot of times when you look at projectors,
you're thinking about the old traditional home cinema. But the
trend seems to be utilizing projectors as TV replacements or
in applications where you would not want to utilize a
flat panel TV, like maybe a campsite or backyard theater.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
So those seem to be the bigger trends right now.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
That was the first time that I I mean, as
a kid, I remember the giant like they used to
have like projector TVs too, right where it was like
the three lights at the bottom, like those giant lights.
I mean that was I don't We didn't have one
of those, but I know a friend did. It was
like yeah, it was like I've just that like just
came back to me. I kind of forgot about those.
But the first time I used the projector was during
the pandemic when we were starting to watch backyard movies

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and so the whole name of the game was getting
like you know, the brightness and all this stuff. But
I feel like that's when a lot of people that
were not projector people got into that world.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Is that true? You think?

Speaker 3 (19:46):
I think so.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
And while flat panels are getting larger, there's still some
applications where even those gigantic flat panels are not going
to work. Yes, you can go out and buy a
one hundred inch flat panel. Now I saw them at
Costco for under like three or four thousand, But I'd
like to see you carry one of those up up
eight flight of stairs in a New York walk up
apartment or so A lot of times, even though you

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can get a massive flat panel, a projector with a
small screen or a projector on a wall maybe a
better application for you.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
So I was going to ask about that, are people
using projectors to replace their TV? And what do you
think the consideration is for that, Like what are you
going to miss if you do that?

Speaker 6 (20:22):
Well, normally there's a lot of people that are starting
to use projectors as a replacement for their TV. So
there's actually two types of categories of projectors that are
designed to do that.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
The first is they call them kind of a laser TV.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
These are ultra short row projectors that sit maybe less
than a foot from your wall but can project like
one hundred and twenty inch image and you can use
it on a white wall or you could use it
on a screen.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
The other one is called a lifestyle projector.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
It looks almost like a tube, but it has a
projector and a sound system in it, and it also
has all the smart features, which makes that really easy
to move from place to place, like maybe in an apartment.
The big thing that had to happen more brightness, and
you're starting to see that in projectors to help overcome
ambient light, along with specialized screens that actually reject light

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from any direction.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
But when a projector is shining light at it.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
That's interesting. So you kind of have to decide you
want the short throw. Those are more expensive than a
standard projector, is that right?

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Let mean.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
For brightness, it is possible.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Normally you have those premium home theater projectors and those
are what you're paying for is more of the black
level than anything else. But when you compare the lens
assembly on an ultra short throw to a standard throw projector,
the ultra short throw lens is more complex, so it
normally does carry a little bit more command, a little
bit more of a price premium, but not that much.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
These days.

Speaker 6 (21:43):
You can get a great one starting at about twenty
five hundred dollars, and that you can get and maybe
one of the top of the lines is maybe seven
or eight thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
So you how long you've been covering this stuff.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
Well, I used to be the product technology manager for
Sony Electronics for over a decade. I've been messing around
projectors for probably fifteen years. I have been the one
of the principal members of Projector Reviews for about six
years now.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, so what have you I mean?

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Like, if someone is just thinking, oh, projectors, and they
kind of have this old kind of thought in their
head about what projectors are, how do you think the
tech has changed or improved over the years.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Okay, so the first thing the brightness.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
That there has been a massive improvement in the efficiency
of the light sources that are built into these projectors,
so they're much much, much, much much brighter in a
smaller package. And that tends to be the biggest problem
because a lot of times you want to watch video
or football games or something and the room is not
pitch black. Having more brightness allows you to overcome that

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and maybe have someone sitting right next to you reading
a book and you still get a vibrant a vibrant image.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Then you add.

Speaker 6 (22:51):
Things like smart features, so they want because they want
to to replace TVs. You're starting to see Google TV
or Android TV operating system. And you also start to
see much better sound systems than what you can put
into a flat panel because a flat a thin panel
makes thin sound. So these projectors have more room for speakers,
so they actually sound better.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
So what is the best type of content? You mentioned sports?
I mean, obviously sports and movies come to mind. Is
that you know, do those work on a projector?

Speaker 7 (23:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (23:20):
I mean, of course, most people when they think of projectors,
they think of movies, you know, turning off the lights
and watching the latest blockbuster. But if you but watching
a football game, I'm gonna I'm when I get done
with this, I'm gonna go watch and is watching I
think the text is Ohio game and watching that game
on a one hundred and thirty inch screen is dramatic.
My house is super Bowl Central. I can't tell you

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how people email me every Super Bowl saying are you
having a party?

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Can I come over?

Speaker 8 (23:47):
The other?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
I mean, look at your job? I mean come on,
it's like that's what I want to watch.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
The other thing that's really growing in popularity is gaming.
The input lag on these units, you are getting really
really small, really really fast, rivaling rival that will rival
a consumer flat panel TV and playing Halo or Grand
Turismo on a one hundred and twenty, one hundred and
fifty or two hundred inch screen is a little bit
better of a perspective than playing in on a fifty

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five inch TV.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
My pretty ser Bobo just put his arm up. He's like, yes, please,
I'll Halo. Is that the is that the?

Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:19):
He wants to play Halo?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
So what about these small projectors? Like I did a
story with x Jimmy. There's also one like the Nebula Capsule,
Like these are like really small portable projectors that you
can bring like you know, hotel room if you wanted.
What about those coming on the scene, Like what should
people look for in those?

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well, the there's a couple of things the Some of them.

Speaker 6 (24:40):
Are battery operated, but I will tell you the battery
is nice for super convenience, but battery is going to
limit the brightness of the unit. So and it also
takes a real estate that could be utilized for sound
or a more powerful light source. So if you ultimate portability,
maybe battery smart features are great and sound system because

(25:00):
you just grab this thing, connect it to your phone
and you're all as a hot spot and you can
watch movies or Netflix anywhere. If you if I would say,
probably look for a little bit more brightness. A lot
of times people will use these these terms such as
lux or or think led lumens, but what you will
look for is lumens. That's like, that is the standard measurement.

(25:23):
So you need more lumens to overcome ambient light or
a brighter scrape. So if I was going to get
a small projector, like I like the anchors, the little
the little nebulous those are those are great. The x
GM's are great. There's a lot of companies that make
really great projectors. Those little small ones are.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Normally maybe.

Speaker 6 (25:45):
Uh, seven hundred lumens, which is great for an eight
inch TV.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
But you can get some companies or making.

Speaker 6 (25:51):
Them that size that are now fourteen hundred and fifteen
hundred lumens.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
It's not going to have a battery built.

Speaker 6 (25:57):
Then it'll be around the same price, but that'll allow
you to put like one hundred and something one hundred
and twenty inch screen outside, which is actually nice.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
But minimum seven hundred lumens is a pretty good number
for about an eighty inch viewing screen.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
Yeah, I would say even if you seven hundred looks
really really good. At a minimum, you probably want to
be at four hundred would be my recommendation, because that
will make it look the colors look more vibrant when
they're shown at brighter, higher brightnesses.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
All right, we're running out of time here, but I
want to get some from some specific recommendations from you.
Any any recommendations you want to leave us with for
the pricey and then the budget projector.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
Okay, So if I was going to buy a big Boy,
a pricey unit, those are normally there's there's big there's
brands that are way out there at the price of
a small BMW. But the ones that if you're looking
for ultra premium right now, it's probably epsin JBC and Sony.
So my favorite right now is the big It's an Epsen.
It's called a QL seven thousand. It has ten thousand

(26:57):
lumens of brightness. We're going to be showing one of
those at Cedia on a two hundred inch cinema screen
and you'll be able to watch that thing with the
lights on.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, okay, am I getting the price right? About thirty
something thousand.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
It's about thirty six thousand.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Okay, car, I'll just get this.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah, so that's what somebody wants. It's super bright.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
If you're looking for inky inky inky blacks like I
would probably do something like a JVC n Z nine
hundred or a Sony Bravia nine.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Okay, Now, value people, my.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
Favorite value system unit out there under five hundred bucks
would be something like Yaba makes one that's called a
V twelve. It's like three hundred ninety nine dollars about
seven hundred lumens. It's it's a good little projector for
the price. And then there's another one called there's a
little EPSOM called a Epavision flex I think co WO one.

(27:53):
That's about four hundred actually that's about four hundred dollars,
but that is three thousand humans. But it has a bulb,
so it's not like these. Most of these a solid
state that has a bulb. But if you just want
brightness in an itty bitty box, that's the way.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
To go, all right.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
H Philip Jones with projector reviews dot com. Thanks so
much for joining me today. Great information. Really appreciate it.
I'll put a link to everything you mentioned on the website.
Rich on tech dot TV coming up. I will share
that app that helps you clear the storage on your
iPhone right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to
rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

(28:29):
talking technology triple eight rich one oh one eight eight
eight seven four to two four one zero one. All
right here it is. I know you've been waiting for this.
I love when I find something like this. When I
find something like this, I don't know why there's this Like,
there's this part of me that I'm like, I don't
want to share this because it's so good.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Why do I feel that way? Is that that's like
a bad way to feel.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
But every time I find something that's so good, I'm like,
I don't want to share this with anyone because it's
so good. But that's my whole job is to share
this with you. So when I found this, I had
to check in double check to see if it is
as good as I believe it is, and it really is.
So one of the most popular questions I get is
rich how do I clear out the storage on my iPhone?
I am up against the storage they want me to

(29:12):
pay for iCloud or I'm out of my iCloud because Basically,
what's happening is it becomes so easy to take large
videos and tons of photos on our phone.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
No one goes through and takes the time to actually
clear those out. So what do we do.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
We get that email from Google or that email from
Apple saying, hey, you need to up your eyecloud or
pay for eCloud, and you probably just do it because
it starts out at ninety nine cents a dollar ninety nine.
Then it just keeps going up and up and up.
So here is the way to clear out the photos
that you don't need on your iPhone or the large videos. Okay,

(29:46):
and the app, this app that I'm gonna tell you about,
is completely free. There are no ads. I couldn't believe it.
No ads, and I had to double check. There are
no in app purchases. So it's not even gonna try
to sell you on anything else. I mean talk about
the game. What this company is doing is they're basically
going to say, oh, you're gonna love this so much,
you're probably going to check out the other software that
we offer, and you might buy that because they do

(30:08):
offer some other software that's really good, by the way,
So here it is. It's called Clever Cleaner, Clever Cleaner.
And if you go on the app Store you want
to search this up, it says Clever Cleaner AI Cleanup
app Clever Files Incorporated. Okay, make sure you get the
right one. Right now, it's number ninety four in productivity.

(30:30):
I'm guessing tomorrow it's gonna be number one, because once
the word gets out about this app, it's gonna jump.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
So here's the deal.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
It was developed by Clever Files. This is a company
that makes another app that I really like called disc Drill.
It's a data recovery app and it helps you do
all kinds of stuff. But this is using AI and
it's all happening local on your phone, by the way,
so it's not sending anything to the cloud. You can
do this app with your phone in airplane mode. It'll
still work. But basically it's going to use AI to

(30:57):
find not just duplicates, but also similar photos and videos.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
So when you go into.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
This app, there are four screens at the bottom, four
little tabs, okay, and the first tab is similar and
so it's going to scan through all your stuff. And
I've got two six hundred and ninety two files and
it's going to say you know, you can do smart cleanup,
which will just do this stuff for you, or you
can do one by one. It'll show you the pictures
side by side and you can decide. It'll say which

(31:24):
one it thinks is the better shot. You can choose
that and then move the other one to trash. So
that's number one. Then you've got my favorite, the heavies.
The heavies are your large files basically your large videos,
and so you can sort by your largest videos. And
this is just the feature that I don't think it's

(31:45):
built into the iPhone, but I wish it was. It's
built into Android, not iPhone. But you can sort your
videos by the largest So if you are having trouble
with taking new pictures on your phone, just literally go
to the heavies, delete the largest video files long as
you don't need it anymore, and that will get rid
of all that storage and free up space on your phone.

(32:06):
I've got my first one is seven gigs, second one
is seven gigs, third one is six gigs, five gigs,
five gigs, four gigs. So that's my recommendation. If you
need to free up storage fast. Then you've got the
screen shots. This is all the screen shots on your phone,
you take up all these screenshots. I've got one point
twenty nine gigabytes of screenshots on my phone. Guess what,
I probably don't need any of those. I can delete those.

(32:29):
Then you've got your lives so you can convert them
into a standard picture if you want to save space,
Like this live photo is twelve megabytes, twelve megabytes, ten megabytes.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
You probably don't need all those.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
And then you've got another feature in the middle, a
Tinder like feature called swipe Photos, so it groups all
your photos by month, and then you can just swipe through.
So if I see this photo, I can swipe left
and it deletes it, swipe right to keep it, swipe
right to keep it, swipe right to keep it.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
So you can do all that.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
So this app is really really handy, and I just
love it, and I think it's one of those things
that once you discover it, you're gonna be like, oh
my gosh, now here is the caveat. You have to
understand if you are using iCloud to save your photos,
any changes you make inside this app, if you are
deleting photos, they will delete out of your eye cloud.

(33:22):
That is the way the iPhone works. It is a
mirror image of your camera roll. So let me repeat that.
If you go through and delete all your pictures and think, oh,
I'm just clearing up the storage on my phone, no,
you will delete those out of your eCloud. So understand
that you are only deleting stuff that you do not
need ever again in your life. Okay, you have to
be very understanding of that. Now, if you are using

(33:44):
something like a Google Photos on your iPhone, if you
deleted these pictures, they're not going to delete out of
your Google Photos. So if you're just trying to clear
up space on your physical phone and not in the
cloud for Google Photos, you can also do this, but
just keep in mind your photos will stay in Google,
they will delete off your phone. So that's what you
need to know.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Again.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
It is called Clever Cleaner, and it is available for
the iPhone and it is free no ads. And I
think this is really really cool. And the thing is,
you might say, Rich, the iPhone has a feature that
will show me my duplicates. It's right in the photos
app I got you. And I would say to you, well,

(34:24):
I'm glad you noticed that, because I don't think anyone
ever has but Apple literally only matches the exact file,
like if you have two of the exact same photos
somehow on your phone, this will find the similar photos
that are very very similar. There the logo looks like
it's like colorful and it looks like almost a circle

(34:46):
with like a little film and photos inside. But it's
only available for iPhone, not Android. Now, if you're on
Android and you want something, there are some things that
are similar. There is one called Remo, which is let's
see Remo photos. I gotta find this, Oh gosh, oh,
I gotta find the photo, the duplicate photo.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Find you're on there.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
But there is a an app that might be already
be on your phone, but it's called Files by Google.
And if you open up Files by Google or download
it again no ads, no in app purchases, you can
go in the upper left hand corner. They have a
feature called clean and that will show you your large files,
your unused apps, your your downloaded files. And that's an

(35:29):
easy way again to reclaim some storage on your Android phone.
If you're using Google Photos on your Android, literally just
press and hold on the Google Photos app and there's
an option that says free up space. And what that
does is it deletes all the photos off your phone,
but it keeps them in the clouds. You still have
a copy, but your phone storage is freed up. Anyway,

(35:50):
I've linked this all up on the website. Go to
Richontech dot TV eighty to eight rich one oh one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Coming up.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
We're gonna talk I phone seventeen. I'll tell you the
date it's going to be launched.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Welcome back to rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology on
this labor day weekend. Yeah, we're working. I've worked a
lot of labor days in my life. And you know,
when I was in small market TV news back in
like Yakima, Washington, Shreveport, Louisiana, I would I would go
out and just like talk to people working on labor

(36:28):
day and it was just a fun story. You know,
when you're in these small markets for TV, you have
to come up with stories. They call it enterprising stories,
you know, enterprise reporter because nobody sits there and says
you know in big markets like New York, La, Chicago,
that you come in and they tell you what to
do this all right, you go there, you go there,
you go to that murder, you go to that whatever,

(36:49):
and it's all signed because there's so many big stories happening.
But when you're in a small market, there's nothing happening
that's you know, there's not a lot of big things happening.
And so they come in and they Okay, what do
you have for us today? And you got to come
in prepared. So I always came in. I was much
more of a creative reporter, and I still am. I mean,
obviously I cover technology now, but you know, I was

(37:09):
a much more creative I started out doing all the
dooming gloom stuff, you know, the wildfires, the murders, the arrests, whatever.
Like I was the guy at the top of the
six o'clock news for a while, and then I was like, eh,
I kind of like doing stuff, like a little bit
more creative. And so they asked me one day, They're like, hey,
our consumer reporter left. You want to do consumer reporting?

(37:31):
I said, no way. I said I'm not going to
be in the end of the newscast. And they said, well,
you get paid a little bit more money and you
get to be creative. And I was like, I'm in done.
And yeah, it's been like that ever since. I mean
I always knew I wanted to be some sort of
business or technology reporter or correspondent, and so yeah, that's
that's kind of what I always wanted to do. Anyway,

(37:53):
Why did I even talk about that?

Speaker 7 (37:54):
What was like?

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Oh the Labor Day stuff? That's right Coming up this hour,
We've got Jefferson Graham.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
He hosts the.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Photo Walks travel photography show. He's going to talk about
all the things he's learned in his travels. A lot
of you going to the website right now for all
of this stuff. I mentioned about the duplicate photos and
the clearing out storage. That is at Richontech dot tv.
And I don't think I ever mentioned my Facebook page
Facebook dot com slash rich on Tech. You can go
there if you're still on Facebook, I often post there.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
A lot of you are.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
I mean, Facebook's still very, very popular and Instagram at
rich on Tech. Coming up this hour, we're also going
to talk about the Apple event happening September ninth, So
that's exciting. Let's see, I've got my mini bar fiasco
at the hotel I stayed at in Vegas. I'll tell
you what happened there, And let's go to Darren. Darren

(38:48):
has something to talk about in Canyon Country about one
of the earlier callers.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Darren.

Speaker 7 (38:54):
You there, Yeah, Hi there, Hey, can you right?

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (39:00):
Okay, great, Hi, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Sure, what's up?

Speaker 8 (39:05):
No, it was uh, I was listening to the gentleman
I think he called, like you know, full phone calls
go or something like that, and he was talking about
the android that got you know, quote unquote hacked. Yeah,
And it was just, you know, I listened to your
show and stuff and it's kind of strange. I just
all of a sudden, I'm like, no way, but yeah,

(39:27):
you know what, the same exact thing happened to me,
and it took me a while to figure it out,
but yeah, it's doable.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
What happened for me?

Speaker 8 (39:36):
I just I kind of wanted to just bring.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Well, what what happened? What?

Speaker 1 (39:41):
What tip can you share for the listeners? Okay, well
I think he got hacked. I think I think they
hacked him right off.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
The line there. I don't know what happened. That was weird.

Speaker 9 (39:52):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Let's go to Ron in Marina del Rey. Ron you're
on with Rich. Yeah, Hey, could you hear me, I
can hear you too, Yes, okay.

Speaker 10 (40:03):
Great, listen, I have a question for you. And I
know you just got through giving us your information about
the phone photos, but what about what about putting out
my photos on my MacBook Pro? That is one of
my real porns on my side, trying to you know,
keep up with you know, duplicates and triple kiss. I mean,
there's a lot of mouth, there's a lot of different

(40:24):
maps that you can use, but you gotta be very
tripled with them. But you have a better, you know,
a better mousetrap, so to speak, for my my photos
on that.

Speaker 9 (40:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
I mean, look, this is this is everyone's issue, and
I'm not kidding. I went, I was at a Google
event probably it had to be eight years ago at
this point. It was when Google Photos was like just
coming up on the scene, and I talked to the
guy who invented it. Same was David. I mean, he's
not there anymore, but he you know, he was there
and he was like, I was like, dude, you did
the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life with
this Google Photos. But why do you not have a

(40:57):
system to get rid of duplicates or similar photos?

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Or anything like that. And I think I've come up
with the answer.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
They actually don't want you like Google and Apple, why
would they want to build in a way to get
rid of your duplicates. They don't want to because then
you're using less cloud storage. So I totally understand that,
like why they're not it's a it's not a priority
and so, but it's frustrating because it's like, come on,
we have AI now, there should be no reason. And
I think that these AI apps are going to come

(41:26):
down the line that'll make this a lot easier. But
I will tell you the ones that I've tested that
I think work pretty well. I don't know if there's
a free version of this, but there's a website an
app that I've tried called Duplicate Duplicate Photos Fixer Duplicate
Photos Fixer, and it's available for the Mac, for Windows,

(41:46):
for Android, and iOS. And you know, they say they
use an algorithm. I don't know if they use AI
right now, they're just saying algorithm. But it will find
and scan those photos and identify the duplicates. So that's
a that's number one you can use that. Let's see
how much is it on the Mac?

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Store.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
It's got it's on the app store ninety nine, so
I mean, you know, it's not a terrible price to pay.

Speaker 10 (42:10):
No, I have seen that one also, Yeah, but go ahead.

Speaker 7 (42:12):
What's the second one?

Speaker 1 (42:13):
The other the other one that I've used, Now, this
is much more files and it.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Will work with your photos. But this is from MacPaw.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
It's called Gemini too, and this is just if you
want to find duplicate files on your computer in general,
including photos. You can use this to scan, to scan
and get rid of those. And it does work with
your you know, your photos app and all that stuff.
But that's a great one. It's been around for a
long time. And that one, let's see how much that is. Oh,

(42:43):
they want to do like a monthly planed, so there's
probably a way of just buy a one time forty
five bucks.

Speaker 8 (42:48):
I don't want to do a monthly time. Someone doing
one time deal, So what's the cost of that?

Speaker 10 (42:51):
Or you wouldn't probably know about that.

Speaker 11 (42:53):
I'm no longer and it.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Out No, I just looked. It's forty five dollars for that.
But they do have a free download so you can
scan and see how it works for free. Okay, I'm
looking let me see, those are the ones that I've tested.
The other one, let me see, I had one more,
Did I have it?

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Nope? Those were the three that I liked.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
So yeah, those are the three that I like, or
the two that I like, plus the files by Google. Now,
if you're on you said you're on iCloud.

Speaker 8 (43:20):
Un not like Cloud.

Speaker 10 (43:21):
Yes, cob, I gotta pay money for the iCloud storage correct.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Yeah, okay, so that I mean those are those are
the two that I'd recommend for that I was gonna
say for Android. If you're using or if you're using
Google Cloud, Google does have a few tools to help
you clear up space in their cloud. If you go
to one dot Google dot com, you'll see it'll have
a thing that says a little a little tile that
says clean up space. And I've got five hundred and

(43:45):
ninety seven gigabytes I can clean up according to them.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
And this will show you.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Uh and by the way, this is not necessarily ron
for you, but just for other people that are looking
for this, but it'll show me large photos and videos,
large drive files in my Google Drive, emails with large attachments.
I've got seven gigs of that, and then emails and
trash and it will help you clear out all that storage.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
So they're not going to do this similar thing. Yeah,
that's one doctor will do in come.

Speaker 10 (44:13):
One more thing and that is about emails. Another phone
on my side. Any type of suggestion sport for clearing
out email. I know you can go ahead and you
know a train and this type of thing. But is
there any any quick thing to.

Speaker 8 (44:25):
Go on and just hit the people that you don't
want coming on email and get rid of them or no?

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Well, I can tell you what I do.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
So when I get an email that I want to
get rid of all the other similar emails, I just
take that and I make a filter with that email
address real quick, and then I just delete all those emails.
So if I'm trying to clear stuff out now, if
you're using Gmail, you know you can sort by the
large attachments. I'm sure the other email programs do that
as well, but you know there is no Here's the
thing when you're talking about when you're talking about personal data,

(44:56):
you don't necessarily want something that just blasts through everything
and elite stuff very quickly because it's your data. So
if you're talking about email, how would it know what
emails that are important to you versus not important. There's
really no way of doing that. You have to go
through them and see. Now you can say, like, okay,
all emails from my old boss, I don't need anymore,

(45:17):
and you can delete all those and maybe they had
attachments or all emails with a video attachment or a
photo attachment, I don't need anymore because I've saved those
somewhere else you can go through and do that. But really,
I think AI is going to help us with some
of this stuff in the future, but right now it's
just all over the place. There's these systems that get
access to your photos and videos and things like that

(45:38):
you have to be very careful with because you don't
want to make changes and delete stuff and never be
able to get those back. So a great question, Ron,
Thanks for calling in today. From Marina del Rey. Again,
I'll put all that on the website rich on tech
dot tv, including the one dot Google dot com. If
you have not visited that on your desktop, just go there.
If you're using Google Cloud storage, you have to go

(45:59):
there and just check out the options to clean up
your storage because and they have one too on the
inside Google Photos. If you go inside Google Photos and
tap on your profile picture in the upper right hand corner.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
There is.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
A setting if I go to let's see, I gotta
find where this is back up. They move it all
the time. I think it's let's see is it photo settings?

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Now? Okay? Great?

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Show rich just looking through things, and there is an
option where they show you like your blurry photos and
things like that, which is kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
I'll fid oh here it is managed storage. There it is,
so it'll show.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
You your large photos and videos, other apps, screenshots, and
then blurry photos is my favorite. You just go through
there and you can see all the blurry photos in
your collection, and you can help you delete those as well.
So anyway, look, this is an ongoing issue. The tech
companies would rather you just not deal with this stuff
and just keep buying more cloud storage, which is what
a lot of people end up doing. And so it's

(46:57):
like anything else, you know, instead of cleaning up out
your house, what do you do everything?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
They build.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Every single building in my neighborhood that it used to
be something else is now a storage facility like these
you know these uh, these places where you just bring
your junk and you storm like I have so much
stuff in my garage I haven't touched in years. But
instead of cleaning out my garage, what do you think
eventually I would do. I'll be like, oh, let me
just move this to a facility so I don't have
to think about it. Once that stuff goes to that facility,

(47:25):
You're never looking at it again.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Let's be real here. I mean, it's just the way
this stuff happens, all right.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Eighty to eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven
four to two four one zero one, the website, richon
tech dot TV. Coming up, I will tell you about
the the Apple event what we can expect on September ninth.
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Okay, we got Darren
back in Canyon Country. Darren, you were saying before you

(47:53):
got cut off.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
That you had some shoes.

Speaker 8 (47:56):
So again, I've been on hold for a little bit now,
and I'm telling you right now that they're still in
control with my phone. So if I get cut off,
you know, I'm telling the truth. I don't through the
whole thing. I'm not extremely tech savvy. I love your show, though,
but I went through the same exact thing, and the
thing with like Android, the open source software a lot

(48:20):
of that stuff. The hacker, I mean, I don't even
call it hacking at this point. They there's special circumstances.
In this case, it was a neighbor they have. It's
a proximity thing. You need to be nearby, but they
do need at one point, they need that access. So
any chance you click on something accidentally, bad bad bat,

(48:41):
they can get in there. But after they do get in,
they can completely control your device from all these and
you just got to know what apps to look for.
That's the problem because a lot of them are just
you know, utility apps that you would go, oh, well
that belongs to it, because I need this to do
my Bluetooth and that. But if they're at a level

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of you know, where they know what they're doing, and
they're kind of this guy's posing. I don't know if
it's legit or not, but he's posing as a developer
at least I've kind of rabbit holed a few times
and followed him all the way back down to you know,
all the code websites and stuff like that, and you know,

(49:25):
if he knows basic code, and he knows basic you know,
his way around it. Once did do get in? Now
that is true. They need an access point. But once
they do get in, you can factory reach it. You
can do anything you want. All he has to do
is rewrite it where factory reset it. It just resets

(49:45):
it back to his install. But yeah, it's fust I
know how frustrating it is student because I was going
through it. I'm like, I don't know what's going on,
and uh, you know, I try to show people and
they'd be like, I don't know, man, you're you sure?

Speaker 5 (49:59):
You all right?

Speaker 8 (50:00):
You know, it's like nothing's going on. So they it's
not like obvious. You know, they're not going to be
sitting there right in front of you doing it.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
You know that makes sense? What is there any app
you can share that you know that under you?

Speaker 8 (50:13):
At this point, I've been through. This has gone on
six months for me and it's still going on. But
it's where I live, so I have to leave. That's
where it's what it's come down to. They've basically gotten
everything else they could at him. But that's the advice
I would give to him is check his balluet connections
seeing if he could catch him any.

Speaker 11 (50:35):
Weird, strange connections.

Speaker 8 (50:37):
That don't belong to because how he's doing is that
he's using the mini utility mini controller and he's going
into uh us E. He's remotely accessing my USP port
and he's essentially after that. I mean the shell.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Okay, all right, we're getting that into the weed here, Darren.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
I think for some of our for some of our listeners,
I do, I really appreciate the uh uh sharing, but
I I, you know, and I have to be the
voice of reason here. I think I think that, you know,
for the average person, I don't think this is something
you need to you know, I don't think that most
phones are being remotely controlled.

Speaker 7 (51:19):
Now.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Are there ways of doing it, of course, and I
think you should be aware that the number one sort
of attack vector is really a text message.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Through and through.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
This is how we've seen people get control of an
iPhone or an Android. It all comes down to text
messages and something that is exploited. And this is why
I talk about making sure you update your software, because
here's what happens. And this is why when we hear
about these manufacturers nowadays saying, yeah, we're gonna give you
seven years of security updates, why is that so important?

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Because when your phone is not getting those security updates
or your computer or your tablet, your laptop, whatever it is.
If they're not getting security updates, there are basically just
imagine open holes to your device that hackers can get into,
or anyone that's nefarious that wants to do something. They

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use what's called an exploit, a known issue or opening
on your device that they can get in through. And
what do they do with security updates? They patch these holes.
That's why they call them patches. They patch these issues
that are all inside every piece of software. And we're
just humans coding software, at least for now. I mean

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AI is doing that too, But there's always mistakes and
there's always something someone didn't think about, and so we
as the final line of defense, have to look at
what we are clicking, what we are downloading, what we
are installing. It happens every single day. People install malware
on their computers on their phones, you know, and it's

(52:58):
less of a problem on the iPhone just due to
the architecture of that operating system. But this is why
you always hear about so many issues with Windows computers
because you can install things on there very easily. And
the way Apple does stuff on the iPhone is it's
all locked down, and Android sounding like they're going to
start locking it down more too in the future, so
that not just anything could be installed easily. But you know,

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as a as a regular person that's listening to me
right now, I would say, you know, go through your
list of apps, get rid of anything you don't need,
update your software, update your apps, update your operating system software.
And if your phone is no longer getting updates, you're
at risk. Bottom line, you're at risk in many, many ways.
I would do any banking. I wanna do anything private

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or personal on there. Eighty to eight rich one oh
one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Coming up, we're going to talk to Jefferson Graham. But
all things photography with your smartphone. Welcome back to rich
on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology,
triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one the website richon

(54:06):
Tech dot TV. Hope you're having a fantastic Labor Day weekend.
Hope you're doing something nice with friends and family. We've
got apples big event happening on September ninth. It's called
Awe Dropping that's a Tuesday. It's gonna be in Cooper Tino.
iPhone seventeen come in your way. A bunch of new models,
the Standard, the Pro, the Promax, and then this ultra

(54:29):
thinnew iPhone seventeen Air.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Supposedly is going to come out.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
That's going to replace the Plus model, and they're using
Apple's new modem for this, the C one modem which
is in the sixteen E. And the battery life on
that is incredible. So that's the big thing to watch
with this thin model is is the battery life going
to be up to par That's the main thing before
you buy one. The new phones getting supposedly redesigned camera module,

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new processors, new colors, all the Apple Watch is going
to get a refresh apparently Series eleven, Ultra three, the
se three, and then we're waiting for surprises as well.
Release date for iOS twenty six, the final version of
that will be announced as well. And yes, I will
be there, looking forward to it. Always fun to go

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up to Coopertino and someone I will see there is
Jefferson Graham. He is the host of Photo Walks TV
on the Scripts Channel. Jefferson, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
Great to be here again.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Yeah, you're a regular, So tell me how is the
show going.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
Show's going great. We're having a marathon for Labor Day,
oh on one of those classic TV marathons from eight
in the morning till eleven thirty that's Eastern time. We're
going to Hebrew City, and we got some Root sixty
six in there, some Cleveland, some Detroit, and the Photo
Walks Awards, which is actually going to be running tomorrow

(55:53):
because answering the question that so many people have asked me, Hey,
you know you've been all over the place where it's
the greatest place you went to, the one greatest place
you went through, which is really impossible to think to answer,
and so I came up with thirty categories best small town,
best drive, best back road, best food, best dessert, YadA, YadA, YadA.
It's all there in the episode. So that one's actually
running tomorrow Sunday at ten am Eastern and then it

(56:17):
will be replaying in the marathon.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
Okay, so you got the marathon on scripts, check your
check your local listings for that. And so you're doing
the show, what have you found along the way, like,
what are your what are some of your you had
this tip you did in your newsletter the other a
couple of weeks ago. This find my situation. So you
lost your or your wife lost her phone and you're

(56:40):
trying to locate it, but you had some issues.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Tell me about that.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
It's pretty simple. You have this wonderful thing. It's called
find my. You lose your phone, you just click it,
click on it, and you find it and they have
a map and they have a tone, and it's wonderful.
But what happens when the wife loses her phone and
you try to use fine my on your phone to
find her phone and you're in another country. Doesn't work
so well because they asked for two factor authentication and

(57:06):
you can't do factor on a phone that doesn't get
the text. So I was on my phone going to
iCloud dot com to get to find my. It turns
out if I'd gone to iCloud dot com slash find,
I wouldn't have gotten hit with the two factor authentication.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
Now how'd you figure that out?

Speaker 4 (57:26):
A lot of trial and error, a lot of chat GPT,
a lot of talking to Apple on the phone, And
that's what I came up with. Also, you all all
of us spouses and partners and everything. Need to put
our phone numbers in the other person's find my to
be accepted in a trusted person so that I could

(57:51):
get her texts.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Wait wait, oh, I see what you're saying, so put
those in there as well.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
So okay.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
The website is iCloud dot com slash find, and then
the other one for Google. They also have a similar one,
so you can go to Google dot com. I'm trying
to find the shortcut. I know there's a Google dot
com or is it Android dot com slash find. There's
a way to do this on Google as well. But

(58:16):
you okay, I'll let you talk while I search for this.
So okay, So you had that tip, so that's a
good one that was in your newsletter. And then the
other thing is the iPhone seventeen. I just talked about it.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
Yes, you did.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
What I mean?

Speaker 2 (58:29):
What can they improve on this camera? If anything? Okay,
you got your How about ten? I got ten features?
Oh my gosh. Okay.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
Tim Cook does not listen to me, but if he was,
the first thing is we need to fix the telephoto lens,
the five X, which is is very on and off.
Sometimes it's sharp, sometimes it's awful. Sometimes it's just absolutely terrible,
and that could be in good light or bed light.

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I don't know why it is not consistent.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
It's where sometimes it doesn't snap into the five X
it does like optical or something weird.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
I've seen it.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
Yeah, so, and sometimes it's sharp, sometimes it's not. So
I want to fix that. The second thing, I want
to remove that horrible digital zoom wheel that pops up
that is not wanted.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
I hate that.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
I want to get rid of that. We want to
ditch the camera control button, which was introduced last year,
and it's just a total waste.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
Like what, I love the camera control button? What are
you talking about? It's the only way I've actually it
gave me a whole other icon on my home screen.
Freed it up because I only use that to launch
the camera. I'll tell you what I don't like about it.
When you launch it, if you run your hand over it,
it changes the ev what is that the exposure? Yeah,

(59:48):
and if you do that, there's no way to like
quickly reset it that I can tell. And so all
of a sudden, I'm snapping a whole bunch of pictures
at like negative point zero three or something, and I'm like,
wait a second, what's going on here anyway?

Speaker 2 (59:58):
But I love that thing. Okay, I'm glad you do.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
I want to fix the time lapse setting, which is
all automatic that if you I don't know if most
people realize this, but if you let the time lapse
go for an hour, two hours, three hours, four hours,
one day, two days, three days a week, I've done it.
All the clip will be thirty seconds.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
I only know that because you you mentioned it in
your newsletter. Yeah, you love your time lapses.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
So what does it?

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
What Samsung does unlimited time laps or what? There must
be a limit somewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
Samsung and Google have unlimited. And then if you use
the black Magic app, that's your way around it and
you can set it there. Okay, and the blue which
is free black Manchic camera. Just fix the distortion on
the point five which can be distorted.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
As you know.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
We want to fix the low light. They've been hearing
about this for so many years. Oh, the camera's way
better and low light it is not, it is not,
you know, and it's it's great in daytime. It's great
always in daytime. And my recommendation about low light is
to use the one x lens that is the sharpest

(01:01:08):
and that is the best in low light. The point
five not so good, and the fight X not so good.
Lens flair. We've all had the problem with shooting a sunset.
We get a green dot in our sunset shots. Want
to fix that or tell me a way that I
can get a lens hood for the iPhone?

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Oh, that is the worst.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Anytime you shoot anything with lights, like a concert, football game, whatever, stadium,
it's just like there's a million other lights all over.
It's like some sort of refracting thing that's going on
in the iPhone.

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
Yeah, so number eight, the flash, I don't think you
could ever fix, but maybe find a way that I
could use an external flash something, because the flash is terrible.
Makes you look like you're lit by a blowtorch.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
You say, when you say external flash, all I get
in my head is the nineteen thirties person with like
the flash that they hold up. They're like the one
that literally made like smoke when you press it. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you can see what I use. But that's not happening.
They're they're Jefferson. They're not gonna they're not gonna put
an external flash for the other phone.

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
Connect to an external flash. You'll be the option to
do that. There's one external flash that exists. It's made
by pro Photo itself worth one thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
No one's doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Okay, UM, make night mode understandable to the average person.
Night mode is is what goes on when it's dark,
totally automatic. You can't wish it on. It only comes
on when it wants to, and the common person does
not cannot figure it out. Make it easier to understand

(01:02:44):
because nightmode is actually really good. The last one can
I don't think it's fixable. You know, to bounce when
when we walk down the street and we're shooting at
the same time, no matter what we're bouncing. You could
use a gimbal, you could use it this, you could
use it that. But we're always bouncing. Is there a
way to fix the balance, because I'd love to see it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
By the way, I found the website for the Android
side of things. It's Android dot com slash find. So
write these down if you have an iPhone iCloud dot
com slash find, Android dot com slash find, and you
can do that. You can also say hey, Google, find
my phone, and I believe it will locate it as well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Now I've just did that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
But but but put your phone numbers into the settings
of the other person, like you know, you guys, you've
got three people at three other people at home. Get
your number in there so you can get the text
message just as well.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
In the settings where So explain where do I put
that thank you emergency settings?

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
No, You go to settings and then your name is
at the top of the screen, okay, and you click
there and I believe it's signing and sign and security okay.
And with there you can add an email or phone number.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Oh I see what you're saying. Oh, I see, got it?

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Add email phone, Oh I see, so that you can
get the recovery email or whatever the other person got it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
Yeah. The other thing to know is she could I
couldn't get into her find my through my phone. But
had it been on the computer, we could have done it.
She could have done it on the computer. She just
couldn't do it on the iPhone.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Okay, So go to a computer. Jefferson Graham dot com.
Jefferson Graham dot com, can you give me one hint?
We got a run, But can you give me one
hint of one of your favorite places. Just give me one.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Give me a no one of my favorite places.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
Yes, Okay, I've had an ice cream. I've been to
one hundred and twenty different locations for photo walks through
the years, and I've had an ice cream cone in
every last one of them.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
And and I've been from Amarillo to Zion National Park.
And the best ice cream cone I ever had in
my life was in Cincinnati, Ohio at Greaters at Greater's ice.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Cream, Greaters ice Cream, Cincinnati, Ohio. Yes, you heard it
here first. All right, Jefferson Graham, thanks so much for
joining me today. Have a good Labor day. Thank you,
all right, Jefferson Graham dot com. I'll link it up
on the website rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up,
we'll take more of your calls at eighty eight rich
one on one plus I'll tell you how Verizon is
reinventing the home phone.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
This is rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you, talking technology. Eighty to eight rich one
O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
one zero one. Just flying through today's show. Uh now
I want some ice cream because we heard about the
best ice cream cone our guests, Jefferson Graham went to
one hundred and twenty places where he's had an ice

(01:05:36):
cream cone, and he said, Greaters is the best he's
ever had in Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
G And by the way, it's spelled g r a
e t e r s. So g R a e
T e r s.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
And they ship nationwide. I mean, it's weird to get
ice cream delivered to your house.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
How do you do that?

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
Like it must it must be like in one of
the Frozen I mean, how much is this shipping to
get ice cream delivered? You're probably better off just going
to the store, like just making a trip to Cincinnati.
So are they only in Cincinnati? Let's see, Yeah, it
looks like it interesting. Well, they have a whole bunch
though there. Oh no, they're not just in Cincinnati. Hold on, okay,

(01:06:19):
they're in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, Lexington, Louisville, Northern Kentucky, Oxford,
and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
So they have them in a lot of places. But
now you know, put it on your list. G R
A E T e r s.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
And if you're using my little system of saving things.
You can go into Google Keep and you can just
tell Google Gemini AI like, hey, this is the best
ice cream cone, and then later on you can ask Gemini, hey,
check my notes for what did I say it was
the best ice cream place, and it'll say what you
just did. Or the other way to do it iPhone
Android is just use your Maps app and start saving stuff.

(01:06:57):
There's a little option when you when you type something
in that it says safe and so they're like under
anything that you search for if you look at the
top and Google Maps, it says safe. And you can
just make lists. I make tons of these lists when
I go on vacation. If I'm going to a different city,
someone tells me something, you can make all kinds of
lists on there. iPhone has it as well with Apple Maps.

(01:07:17):
They've got it too. All right, let's go to Margie
in Fullerton.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
You are on with Rich.

Speaker 12 (01:07:25):
Yes, Hi, Rich, thank you. I wanted to know if
there anything out there that I have a couple of
story ideas that I want to put together with like
an AI, you know, device that can literally kick my tick,
give me a video, give me some conversation and even

(01:07:49):
music if possible. Is there any any platform or app
that you can literally just give it a text thing,
you know, it's about Rich and Margie talking on you know,
the radio show, and then it actually will do those
three or four different things for completed two to three
minutes video.

Speaker 13 (01:08:08):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Look, there are a lot of tools that can do
something like this. Are these Is this like real life
or is this animation?

Speaker 8 (01:08:15):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
What do you want it to look like?

Speaker 9 (01:08:17):
Animation?

Speaker 7 (01:08:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Animation?

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
Okay, I mean there are so many tools that can
do this. I will I will just spoiler alert if
you do that, it's gonna look horrible, like it's just
it's you can you can do pieces of this using
these tools, But at the end of the day, it's
gonna be really tough to just put in one group
of text and say, tell this story of Rich walking

(01:08:39):
down the street and a giant dinosaur comes up from
behind and you know, takes over the sun and you know,
it all goes dark or something like.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
It can do parts.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
I know, the worst story ever. I don't even know
what that was, laughing. What kind of dark story is that?
I don't even understand, Like, that's the weirdest story. This
is why I don't tell my kids bedtime stories like
that is like, I don't know, stick to the.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Three Little Bears or whatever little Red Robbin Little Red
Robin hood is that it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
I'm bad with the stories. I have sang my kids
the same three songs to bed for fourteen years.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
My kid who's fourteen years old, I kid you not,
he's gonna be so embarrassed if he ever hears this.
I sing him the same three songs that I've sang
him since he was born, and it is Twinkle Twinkle,
Little Star, ABC D E FG and Kumbayah. Those are
the three every single night, I mean, if when I'm home,

(01:09:38):
and you know, doing that with stuff anyway. So the
tools to do stuff like this number one I would
check out if I would assume, Margie, you want to
start out with free, so I would check out Adobe Express.
These are sort of beginner tools Adobe Express. You know,
there's this thing called Canva out there that basically has
taken over the creativity in all the world, and they

(01:10:01):
have stuff that does this as well. But Adobe Express
is sort of Adobe who is the eight hundred pound
gorilla in the room. They were always the number one
traditional company for anything animation and video and photography. And
then Canva came along and kind of just swept the
rug underneath their feet for like the average consumer, right,
and so Adobe has had to kind of regroup, and

(01:10:24):
don't cry for Adobe. They're still doing pretty well, but
you know, so they came up with this thing called
Adobe Express that I don't think anyone knows about Adobe
dot com slash Express, and they let you do all
kinds of stuff on there, like I'm talking everything, and
one of them is specifically animate your voice for free,
make an animated character from your own voice using Adobe Express.

(01:10:44):
Start now and you can do it. Shows a little frog,
the anime, add your voice and it will make the
animation for you. So that's number one Adobe Express animated character.
And then they have by the way, I would just
bookmark Adobe Express. They've got so many tools on there
that are free that you can use and it's it's
really really good. Number two there is let's see, there

(01:11:06):
is an app called Animaker a n I M a
k E r Ani maker, and I don't know how
free this is. Let's see pricing. You can usually these
things are you start for free and then you can
eventually pay this. It looks like they have some free level,
but if you want to do something that's basic, you
got to pay fifteen dollars a month. The other thing
I would recommend is really check out Google Vo. They

(01:11:31):
are like, really, this is what I was talking about
with with the Wizard of Oz. But if you just
go on Gemini and just just check out Google Vo,
you can make all kinds of stuff on there with
audio as well. It may not do the like talking
that you wanted, but and this only goes up to
eight seconds, but it's pretty incredible. VO three is there,

(01:11:54):
so you can do that. And then Google has one
called Google Flow.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
I think it's called.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Google Flow AI Animated Animation and look at you can
try flow free of charge with one hundred monthly credits.
So that's brand new. So Flow vo, the Adobe, the animaker.
You got a lot of places to start there. The
other one is eleven Labs for voice stuff. That one's
really good as well. I'll link it all up on
the website. Margie rich on tech dot TV. Coming up,

(01:12:23):
I'll tell you how I uh almost got in trouble
for checking.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
Out the mini bar at my hotel in Las Vegas.
This is rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you, talking technology. Should I give the phone
number out again? I don't even know if we have
more time for more calls. Eighty to eight rich one
on one eighty eight seven four to two four one
zero one. Kim, you know we chat throughout the show.
She's saying, no more calls. It's all filled up. I know,
I know, I know, but she she said, you sing

(01:12:57):
your teenager to bed.

Speaker 9 (01:12:59):
Lol.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
He likes it. But I know that's gonna change. I
know any day. It's just gonna be over some like Dad,
get out of here. Uh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
And also we got an email about the Greater's ice cream.
Sandy says best black raspberry with chocolate chips. Big Chips
had it at a Reds game and they say that
they sell it at some grocery stores.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Interesting. Okay, we'll have to look for that. All right.
Let's go to John in Moore Park. John, you're on
with rich Hey.

Speaker 9 (01:13:30):
Ron, thank you for taking the call.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
What's up all right?

Speaker 9 (01:13:35):
D and Router and I keep losing the internet on it.
I have WiFi accents, but I keep losing the internet well,
what am I doing wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
Nothing, it's them. You got to call him up because
this happened to me and I was driving me nuts.
When I tell you, John, this was driving me insane.
Every day I would lose Wi Fi. And I am
a tech person and so I knew everything was in order,
all my stuff was working. I called up AT and T.

(01:14:05):
They had never heard of this. They could not believe it.
And I'm not kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
It took a guy. He come, He comes out to
the house and he said, there's nothing wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
There's absolutely nothing wrong with your internet from anywhere I'm talking.
I'm like, dude, you're gonna have to I'm gonna switch
carriers at this point because it's I can't deal with this.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
And he said.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
I looked at every line. I went on the pole,
I went there, I went here, under the house. Nothing,
he said. But here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
come back when it goes out at three pm, like
you say, and I'm gonna do some tests. And sure enough,
there was some sort of filter, I don't know what
they call it, low band, HIGHBA whatever filter they had
on the line was defective and so it fails when

(01:14:47):
I don't know why it would fail every day at three,
but it just did. And there's probably part of this
story I'm not understanding, but this is what they told me.
But basically it was their issue. So that is my
advice to you. So, so you know, do you have
everything set up properly? Like are using their router with
their internet or using their I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:15:06):
Paying for it.

Speaker 13 (01:15:07):
I had.

Speaker 9 (01:15:08):
I've had it for about five years. I changed apartments
from upstairs to downstairs, and after I changed downstairs, I've
been having problems.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Oh you, Oh well see that's different. You change something, John,
what did you change?

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:15:22):
Well, they came in and they the guy came No,
he he moved the router from upstairs to downstairs. But
it's their router. Excise me me. The guy came out
physically when I moved apartments from upstairs to downstairs.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Okay, but it's their router.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
I've done nothing wrong, okay, I'm well, no, no, I don't.
I don't think you did anything wrong. But okay, so
what is happening exactly? Does your internet go out?

Speaker 7 (01:15:46):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Is it intermit in at certain times?

Speaker 8 (01:15:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:15:48):
It just I get in a note it says no,
no more internet no Internet unavailable.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
Okay, well that sounds like the problem I had because
the system was fine and it works it works other.

Speaker 9 (01:16:00):
Times, right if I if I decide to leave AT
and D, is there another company that you recommend this better?

Speaker 4 (01:16:08):
Well? See that?

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
Look a number one AT and T Fiber is amazing
because I'm assuming you're getting like a very high download
and upload speed.

Speaker 7 (01:16:17):
Right, well, I hope I am who knows?

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Well, what are you paying for?

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
I who know?

Speaker 8 (01:16:23):
Right day?

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
For Well, here's the deal. Here's what I would do
in your case, I would call AT and T. You're
paying to rent this modem and Wi Fi from them,
That means it is their issue. You have to call
them and say, look, I need someone to come out
here and investigate this because it has worked for many years.
I've had this thing for five years. I'm paying you
guys every month ten dollars a month for this whatever

(01:16:45):
it is, and I need you to come out and
fix it. And if you don't fix it, I'm switching.
And by the way, here's all the other people I.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Can switch to.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
You've got options. Not only do you you may have
another wired option in your area, but you also have
wireless options. So The two wireless options are T Mobile,
T Mobile five G Home and then you've got Verizon
five G Home. And these are just boxes john that
you literally they fedexit to you or whatever they overnight

(01:17:15):
it to you. You open the box, you plug it in,
it finds a cellular signal and it re broadcasts that
cellular signal as your Wi Fi signal. So the main
caveat to get this five G home Internet from one
of these companies T Mobile or Verizon is you have
to have a good signal in your apartment from them.
So I don't know which phone you have, whether it's

(01:17:35):
Verizon AT and T or T Mobile, But if you
have T Mobile and you have got a great signal there,
go ahead get the T Mobile Internet. But first I
would always recommend going with wired internet because it's going
to be the most reliable, it's going to be the fastest.
So I would call AT and T see if you
can get this resolved. If you can't, you just got
to move. You gotta switch. And there's another way to test.

(01:17:58):
Speed tests and let's see. Let's see speed test. They
have like an ISP.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
I gotta find it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:07):
They have a website where they tell you basically all
the different providers in your area. So it's called speed test.
Just search best Internet providers and it will give you
a list. You pop in your zip code and I'll
give you a list of every single provider that has
service in your area. We're talking, you know, at the

(01:18:28):
and you can go with starlink if you need it.
If you if you really had no other options, you
can go at starlink anyway. I'll put the link on
the website for that. Richon tech dot TV. Give me
a call back, John, or send me an email let
me know the update on that. I think this is
an easy question from Ed in rialto Ed.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
You're on with Rich.

Speaker 14 (01:18:47):
Hello, let me take a speak. Yeah, I'm looking for
a I've got Windows ten and I'm looking for a
You talk into the microphone and then in the email
or whatever window you got to open, it'll type out
what's said.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Yes, I've got the solution. It's incredible. It's the only
solution i'd recommend. It's called whisper flow w I s
p R flow dot AI ed is the most incredible
thing you'll ever.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
Use in your entire life.

Speaker 14 (01:19:17):
But will it work on ten?

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
Yes, it'll work on It should work on Windows and Mac.
I I've I've got it installed my Windows. I have
Windows eleven here. But I don't see any reason why
it wouldn't work on ten. Why is there is there
something that's different about ten that wouldn't work?

Speaker 14 (01:19:32):
Well, uh, well, it's another brand that's been around for
a long time, but they're kind of dragon.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Yeah, yeah, no, this is this will blow away dragon dragon. This.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
This is the fire that's going to burn that dragon up.
I'm telling you, this is this is next level. When
I tell you, I don't think I could live without
this app. I've got up my iPhone, I've got it
on my Windows, I've got up my Mac. I'm just
waiting for it to come to Android. It is the
most incredible voice dictator you will ever use because it

(01:20:02):
not only does voice to text, it uses AI to
understand what you're saying and polish what you're saying. Yes,
and it is so you get two thousand You don't
even have to it's free to sign up. You get
two thousand words I think a week or a month,
whatever it is. If you hit that limit, you'll have
to pay. I think if you try this you will

(01:20:22):
just absolutely fall in love with it. It is truly incredible.

Speaker 14 (01:20:25):
Oh it's not even a box program with the DBD
or something.

Speaker 1 (01:20:29):
No, this is just go online, download it to your
computer and you'll be up and running in seconds. I
think we had them on here on the show, but
they it's just incredible. So the other thing I would
recommend to use Gmail or.

Speaker 14 (01:20:42):
No, I forget the passwords so easy I can try
to open another account.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Well, I'm just there's another feature in Gmail that I'm
really coming to love, and it's called Polish your Email.
And so what happens is I do a one two punch.
I used Whisper to dictate my emails, and then you
tap this little there's a little tiny icon in your
Gmail window looks like a pencil with a little AI star,

(01:21:12):
and it's called help me Write. Once you type your email,
you then tap that little icon and it polishes what
you just wrote and no matter. You could write a
whole bunch of nonsense and it will make it sensical
and amazing and clean up all the punctuation and all
this stuff. It's like the most the best hidden feature
ever on Gmail that I don't understand. Why it took

(01:21:33):
me a year to start using it and it's been
around for a bit. But anyway, those are the two things.

Speaker 6 (01:21:38):
Ed.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
Definitely check out whisper flow wisprflow dot ai.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
That's the website for that.

Speaker 14 (01:21:46):
Oh I got that part.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
Yeah, make sure you get the right one cause I'm
sure there's a lot of imposters out there, so be
careful and I'll link it up on the website rich
on tech dot tv.

Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
But I can blow that up.

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
There you go, There you go, Ed, Thank you so much.
All right, look at this solving problems, changing lives.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
What else can we do today? How much longer do
I have? Bobo?

Speaker 10 (01:22:12):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
How many more things can we do in a minute?
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:22:16):
Oh, I'll tell you about this, and Jim, I see
you holding on there. We'll get you after the break.
Verizon has a new feature called family Line, and this
article in PC mag written by my friend Rob Pegoraro,
he says this Verizon new family Line is part of
its Family Plus bundle. It's a virtual home phone number

(01:22:36):
that can ring up to five different smartphones, and family
members can also call from it or join a call
in progress. So the main thing, he says, the caveat
is that you can't port in an existing landline number.
I don't understand why that would make a lot of sense.
Only new numbers you can get on this Verizon will
try to match your area code some places that may
not be possible. If you have one of these numbers,

(01:22:59):
you can can pourt it out to a different carrier.
But it's I looked this up, this this feature, and
it's like ten dollars a month if you have Verizon
on one of their good plans.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
But here's what I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
I don't understand if it just rings the different lines
or if it assigns that phone number like it sounds
like it's Google Voice, because Google Voice you could just
assign it to call five phones or whatever however many
phones you want at once. But it's interesting that you
can call from it as well. And I couldn't find
a lot of information about this online. But if you're
trying to find a phone number that you can have

(01:23:34):
for your family line, Verizon's got something that sort of
sounds like it would work. But also check out Google
Voice as well. All right, eight eight eight rich one
on one. Oh sorry, Kim rich on tech dot tv.
Is the website email is still open?

Speaker 9 (01:23:50):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
Coming up? I will tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
Yes, how my minibar experience was not so great in
Las Vegas. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to
rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
talking technology.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
Let's go to Jim. Jim is in Sherman Oaks. You're
on with Rich.

Speaker 7 (01:24:07):
Hey, Rich, happy holiday weekend. It's another action packed, educational,
informative holiday weekend with you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
Thank you for that, well, thank you for uh putting
all those words.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
What what was the action packed aspect?

Speaker 9 (01:24:20):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:24:20):
That was easy, that was easy. You had thriller too,
you had well, the action pack was definitely the Wizard
of Oz. Really when the people the people calling in
about all their security woes which will never end.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
Right, No, that will never end.

Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
This is uh, you know, it's it's it's wild because
you know, people email me and text me all the
time with like things that happen to them, and it's
it's it happens all the time. People still, Yeah, it's ongoing.
So anyway, what's what can I help you with?

Speaker 7 (01:24:47):
That's why you're around. Thank you for that. Yeah, you
know I had a way to go on the Whisper Flow.
I totally agree with that too. I had a coome
question about personal uh personal hotspots on you I use
and it in iPhone and I have, uh, you know,
use my iPhone as a hotspot, and I just want
to know how safe that is. And I remember somewhere
it's either on Android or iPhone where I could specify

(01:25:10):
the number of devices being used so that no one
else could even get on the on the on the
on the line, and if I should make it hidden
to make it even safer. Also, my brother on the
US coast is asking me about UBK if you should
use it for his phone because he hates face id.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
Okay, well let's break down the first question about the
hot spots. So on iPhone number one, I think hotspot
is pretty secure. I don't think there's like a major
security risk in using it, but you're right, it does
potentially broadcast out your information. So I would say, when
you're creating your hot spot, maybe use a name that

(01:25:48):
is not you know, that is not something that's identifiable.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
Right on Android, you can you can change.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
So I'm looking at this, okay, So it allows it
looks like on my iPhone, uses the name of your
iPhone as your hotspot setting, so as your you know name,
which you can go in and change the name of
your iPhone if it says anything super personal.

Speaker 9 (01:26:10):
I used to have that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
Okay, I have mine as Rich's iPhone dot exe, and
that really that really kept people away because you know,
no one wants to click on an exc file.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
So that's number one.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
Now on Android, you get a lot more options because
they give you just a lot more of like personalization
and things like that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
So i'd have to go in here.

Speaker 1 (01:26:32):
I'm looking at the pixel specifically, let's see hotspot and tethering.
So they give you a whole bunch of options, like
your name you can set in there, you can set
your security, you can set your password, you can turn
off the hotspot automatically when no one is connected.

Speaker 7 (01:26:47):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
Speed and compatibility you can do that as well.

Speaker 1 (01:26:49):
And then instant hotspot, which is kind of a feature
if you have another Android device, it can latch on
to that hot spot instantly.

Speaker 7 (01:26:57):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
iPhone is something similar, but long story.

Speaker 7 (01:26:59):
Short, make the hidden right, so when you're out working
in a public area like a New York let's say
a coffee bar as an example.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
Yeah, there's not a way that I see to make
it hidden on the iPhone or Android.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
But here's the deal.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
As long as you have a good password, I don't
think that people are gonna be able to latch in.
And on the iPhone, I believe, and and on Android
it tells you when someone's connected. So if you are
and on Android specifically, it'll tell you, I believe. On
Samsung it shows you, like the name of the device,
I believe that's connected. So I think that may be something.

(01:27:31):
So what are you running? You're running iPhone or Android
or both?

Speaker 7 (01:27:34):
I both. I have Chrome, he's a Chromebook when I'm
ountain about, but I also have the Pixel, and I
have the I have a special edition as a work phone,
and then I have the thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
Okay, wow, you've got a lot of stuff. Well what
I would do.

Speaker 1 (01:27:48):
What I would do then for the Pixel is look
in your hotspot and that instant hot spot. That might
be the best way to do it. And that way
it will just know when your Chromebook is nearby. It
will say, hey, do you want to connect your Pixel?
And it won't as far as I can tell. You
can still have your hot spot off and it will
still the instant hot spot will still trigger when you
bring your your Chromebook nearby. So that's one way of

(01:28:11):
making it a little bit more secure. But I think
in general, as long as you have a good, strong
password on your hot spot, you know, it's like anything else. Sure,
there's a potential, but is it you know, is it
going to happen? Probably?

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
Not.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
Like I think you should be okay there now with
the Yuba key. Is that that you're talking about, like
the physical security key?

Speaker 7 (01:28:31):
Yeah? I like I agree with him in ways, like
sometimes it's just jankee to use the face ID when
you really need it. But he also has bigger privacy
concerns than I. He's on He's on Android only and
in this whole household is Android. But I mentioned it,
He's like, what if I lose the key, I should
always buy two?

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
Yeah, have a backup.

Speaker 7 (01:28:50):
Yeah, but I mean I don't even know that they're
available on phones.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
Are they? Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
They are, and and I yes, I know. I will
tell you they've been pushing these for a while. I
have not personally tested it because I'll be completely honest,
I think the past keys are kind of taking over
the UBI keys. But here's the thing, before you send
me angry emails, not you, But in general, I think
that in general, this is probably one of the most

(01:29:14):
secure ways to protect your identity because it's a third
party hardware key like this is something physical that if
you don't plug it into your phone, you're not gonna
be able to log in. And so that's why people
sort of like it. And I think it's it's not
for the average person. I think it's a little bit
more intermediate to advanced, and so I would recommend it

(01:29:36):
for that, but I think I think maybe tell them
to check out the past keys to try those. But yes,
I agree, the whole login process is definitely contoluted. All right,
thanks for the call, Jim, appreciate it. Coming up, we're
gonna talk quantum computing.

Speaker 2 (01:29:50):
We're gonna get really techy and nerdy.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
Here here we go, Welcome back to rich on Tech
rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology the
webs site rich on tech dot TV. I know I've
told you a lot of stuff today, a lot of
great tips and tricks. It is all linked up on
the website. This is episode one three seven, So if

(01:30:14):
you want anything I mentioned, I promise you it is
all there and easy to get linked whether it's the projectors,
the two factor authentication app, I mentioned how to clean
up your iPhone. Even the ice cream that we mentioned
that was so delicious, which, by the way, we found
near us. Bobo located it at a grocery store nearby,
So we are gonna I think we need a live

(01:30:34):
taste test at some point. All right, My next guest,
very excited for, Scott Aronson, is professor at U T Austin.
He's the director of the Quantum Information Center, and he
is here to explain the basics of quantum computing.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
Scott, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 11 (01:30:51):
Thanks great to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:30:53):
So I'm sure this is pretty much what everyone asks
that the basics is what is quantum computing?

Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
Can you answer that in less than ten minutes?

Speaker 13 (01:31:02):
Yeah, it's not easy, but I can try. So it's
a proposal for a new kind of computer that's going
to exploit the rules of quantum mechanics to solve certain
specific problems a lot faster than we know how to
solve them with today's computers. So basically, you know, quantum
mechanics has been with us for one hundred years at

(01:31:24):
this point, and it's you know, one of the biggest
changes that physics ever had to sort of how the
our understanding of how the world works. Really, it's a
change to the rules of probability, right, It changes how
you have to calculate how likely something is to happen. So,

(01:31:46):
you know, quantum mechanics is based on these numbers called
amplitudes that can you know, like that can be positive
or negative. You know, you'd never talk about a negative
thirty percent chance that it's going to rain tomorrow, but
you know you could have a negative amplitude that an
electron will reach a certain point, okay.

Speaker 11 (01:32:04):
And the key thing in quantum.

Speaker 13 (01:32:05):
Mechanics is that if you want to know how likely
something is to happen, you've got to add up the
amplitudes for all the different ways that it could have happened.
And if some of those amplitudes are positive and others
are negative, they can cancel each other out, which means
that the total amplitude is zero, and then that thing
never happens at all.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (01:32:25):
So so it's it's just sort of like a different
you know, like like we thought we understood the rules
of probability, and then nature comes along and says, no,
I use different rules.

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
Right.

Speaker 11 (01:32:37):
So a quantum computer is built out of cubits right.

Speaker 13 (01:32:41):
You know, a class a bit, you know, which is
the building block of a classical computer or something that's
either zero or one. A cubit is something that can
have an amplitude to be zero and an amplitude to
be one. So as you say, it's in a superposition
of the two states, okay, uh, you know, if you
measure it, then you for there's the cubit to make

(01:33:02):
up its mind which it wants to be, you know,
and there's a rule for you know, converting the amplitudes
into you know, the chance that you're gonna see zero
or one.

Speaker 11 (01:33:11):
But whichever choice nature makes, it just sticks with that.
Like if it tells you with zero, then now it
is zero.

Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
So that's different than a standard computer, which is always
in terms of like a binary like one in zero, right,
that's right, that's right.

Speaker 7 (01:33:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:33:26):
And even if you didn't know if a bit was
zero or one, you might say it's seventy percent one,
you know, seventy percent chance of being one, you know,
like you.

Speaker 11 (01:33:34):
Say, really it's one or the other, right, you just
don't know, Okay, But.

Speaker 13 (01:33:39):
When it's in superposition, you really do have to keep
track of both possibilities because these amplitudes can interfere with
each other. Ah, right, so now that's that's weird enough
for one cubit. But if you've got two cubits, now
we need four amplitudes. We need amplitude for both cubits
to be zero amplitude for zero, one amplitude for one,

(01:34:00):
zero amplitude for one to one. If we've got three cubits,
we need eight amplitudes. Right, if we've got fifty cubits,
we need two to the fiftieth power amplitudes, which is
like a quadrillion.

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
That's more than I can add in my head.

Speaker 13 (01:34:13):
I'm sure, yeah or I So, you know, it very
quickly gets way beyond the ability of you know, any
conventional computer to keep track of what's going on. And
you know, chemists and physicists have known about this for
a long time, that there's this exponential explosion of amplitudes

(01:34:33):
you know, at the heart of modern physics.

Speaker 11 (01:34:36):
You know, they've known it mostly as a practical problem.

Speaker 13 (01:34:39):
You know, you're trying to simulate a complicated molecule with
a classical computer.

Speaker 11 (01:34:44):
You know you have this, you have way too many
amplitudes to keep track of.

Speaker 13 (01:34:48):
It's like, you know, it was only you know, forty
five years ago that a few physicists like Richard Feynman
had this amazing idea that if nature is giving us
this computation lemon, why don't we make lemonade out of it?

Speaker 11 (01:35:02):
So, you know, why don't we build.

Speaker 13 (01:35:04):
A computer that itself would have this vast superposition state,
would be built out of cubits, would be based on amplitudes.

Speaker 11 (01:35:13):
And that's what we call a quantum computer.

Speaker 1 (01:35:15):
Well here, okay, so do we have quantum computers now?
Because I've seen a lot of these reports from Microsoft
and Google and you say, hey, we've got this chip,
we've got this thing, but like, is this actually happening?

Speaker 12 (01:35:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:35:26):
No, there's a ton of hype in this area, unfortunately,
but there's also been a lot of real progress in
the last thirty years. And now we actually do have
small quantum computers with let's say fifty to one hundred cubits, okay,
and where you can do a few thousand operations on
these cubits, you know, while they sort of preserve their

(01:35:46):
quantum state now to really be useful in practice, what
we would like our devices with millions of cubits, okay,
and where you can do billions of operations on them.
So you know, there is a a difficulty in scaling
this up. But you know, when I entered this field
twenty five years ago, it would be amazing to just
get one or two cubits to work.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Oh wow, right ass.

Speaker 13 (01:36:10):
You know, yeah yeah so so so there's been real
progress on controlling them, making them more reliable. And you know,
the big discovery that really set the engineering agenda like
thirty years ago was called quantum error correction that basically said,
if you can control the cubits well enough, then you could.

Speaker 11 (01:36:29):
There are these amazing error correcting.

Speaker 13 (01:36:31):
Codes to let you go the rest of the way
and simulate effectively perfect cubits.

Speaker 1 (01:36:35):
It sounds like these cubits have like a mind of
their own, Like they're just like little gremlins running around
and it's like, okay, we got.

Speaker 11 (01:36:41):
Well it's like well, it's like it's funny.

Speaker 6 (01:36:43):
You know.

Speaker 13 (01:36:43):
Being in superposition is like this thing that particles like
to do in private, right, They like to do it
when no one is looking, and then when you look,
they you know, they just pretend that they're classical, but
we know that they were in superposition because otherwise the
the amplitudes wouldn't interfere.

Speaker 1 (01:36:58):
That is such a weird thing to think about. It's
like shining a light on them and they all like freeze.
You're like, hold on, yeah, right right.

Speaker 13 (01:37:04):
It's like monsters under the bed or something. But they
do follow these very definite rules that we've known for
one hundred years.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:37:11):
So do you think, okay, well, let's talk about some
of the problems that these computers, these quantum computers could solve.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
Yes, tell me, I'm sure, all.

Speaker 13 (01:37:20):
Right, Well okay, yeah, So so the two biggest applications
I would say that we know right now. The first
one is just the original one that fine men and
the other physicists you know, talked about forty five years ago.
It's the one that's so obvious that we sometimes don't
even mention it. Just simulating quantum physics and chemistry themselves.

Speaker 11 (01:37:40):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (01:37:41):
So, you know, anytime you want to design a new
material design, you know, high temperature superconductors or solar cells.
You know, you better ways of making batteries. You know,
you probably have a many body quantum mechanics problem, like
lots of interacting electrons, you know that have some huge
number of amplitudes to keep track of. And these are

(01:38:03):
all things where a quantum computer could potentially help.

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
Yeah, yeah, the second one.

Speaker 13 (01:38:11):
Potentially Yeah, I mean, I mean, you know, biochemistry, you know.
Now it's tricky because, you know, the hard part with
a quantum computer is that it's never good enough to
do something quantumly for it for to be interesting, you
have to beat the best that could be done with
a classical computer. You're always trying to compare. And you know,
in classical computing is not static either, right, it gets

(01:38:32):
to fight back. People keep discovering new classical algorithms.

Speaker 11 (01:38:36):
So, for example, you.

Speaker 13 (01:38:38):
Know, we've gotten way way better at at understanding proteins
using classical computers because of AI such as alpha fault. Right, So,
so now now the bar is higher for what a
quantum computer has to beat in order to be useful.

Speaker 1 (01:38:53):
Oh so, like the regular computers now with the applications
of AI, have gotten better at what they can do.
So now it's like, hold on, now we need quantum
to be even better because of this.

Speaker 13 (01:39:03):
Well, well, hopefully hopefully you could combine AI with quantum
and be better than either one alone. Okay, but you know,
in any case, you know, you know you've got to do,
you know, for your quantum computer to win, it's got
to do better than the best that anyone can do without.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
A quantum computer, got it right, right?

Speaker 7 (01:39:21):
Work? Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:39:21):
But you know now, the other big application, the one
that really put quantum computing on the map for most
of the world, was this discovery thirty years ago by
Peter Shore that said that, you know, a quantum computer
could break most of the encryption that currently protects the Internet. Okay,
so you know, at anytime you order stuff from Amazon,
you know your credit card number is being protected by

(01:39:45):
a code that depends on the belief that certain problems
in number theory are hard, Okay, such as finding the
prime factors of a huge composite number, you know, with
thousands of digits.

Speaker 5 (01:39:57):
Right.

Speaker 13 (01:39:57):
So you know, so the magic of modern encryption is
that it all works without us having to pre agree,
you know, on a secret key.

Speaker 11 (01:40:05):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:40:05):
Oh, so you're saying, once we get these quantum computers
up and running, it breaks everything that we know today, Well.

Speaker 13 (01:40:11):
It breaks the public key encryption that we use today. Okay,
Now you gotta be careful because you know, we we
do know other methods of encryption. It seems secure even
against the quantum computer. They're not very widely used yet,
but there is right now a push to migrate already
to these quantum resistant methods of encryption, you know, in

(01:40:33):
order to prepare for whenever someone builds a quantum computer.
You know, it's almost like Y two K right, It's like,
you know, we we know that this is probably coming
at some point, right, so let's upgrade our security first.

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
But you know we're going to wait till the day
before it comes to do it. So yes, yes, Scott,
we got to leave it there. We're at a time,
Scott Aronson, best best place for people to find more
your website?

Speaker 11 (01:40:55):
Well, yeah, I'm easy to find Scott Aaronson dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
All right, this was a great conver sation. So glad
to have had it, and I feel a lot smarter
about quantum computing. Thanks so much for being on the show.

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:41:06):
All right, I'll put his website Scott Aaronson on my website.
Rich on Tech dot TV all right, coming up, we
are going to open up the feedbag and see what you're.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
Saying this week. This is rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you talking technology. Oh my gosh, we're going
to get to the feedbag in just a moment here,
But first let me tell you Number one. Oh couple things,
Facebook dot com, slash rich on tech. I posted the
app that you're all looking for, the one that helps

(01:41:39):
you free up your iPhone storage. I'm telling you it's good.
Report back to me, let me know if it works.
Just be careful when you make those changes. But that's
number one. Number two, and I did put some Android
instructions in there as well, so it's all in there.

Speaker 2 (01:41:55):
Number two.

Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
If you are going to a hotel and you do
not want to deal with a headache at check out,
do not go near the minibar. That's my advice. Two
hotels now in the past two months i've stayed at
I had charges on my bill at the end for
minibar that I did not use. Now, typically I'm against

(01:42:16):
the minibar because it's just highway robbery, Like it's a
total joke what they charge, and the prices just keep
going up. So Mexico City, I got a twenty dollars
charge for a tequila I never took. And don't don't
get me wrong, I was tempted, Like I saw those
tequilas in my room. I did not drink one, but yes,
I was tempted. It took me weeks to get that
charge reversed.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:35):
It's twenty dollars. Oh Rich, not gonna make or break you.
It's the principle of it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
I didn't do it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
Why would I pay twenty dollars for something I didn't use?
Then I was at a hotel in Las Vegas. I'm
not gonna mention which one, but very per no, not
Parisian Italian themed.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
Let's put it that way.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
Sixty five dollars for a tiny bottle of vodka three
hundred and seventy five millileters MILLI leaders, yeah, sixty five
dollars plus tax. So on my bill, I was checking out,
and they do everything mobile. Now, by the way, if
you want to talk to someone as nearly impossible, so
it's all mobile. They'd say text you to say, hey, hope,
you had a great stay here, click here to check out.

Speaker 2 (01:43:12):
And I was gonna do it, but then I looked
at my bill.

Speaker 1 (01:43:13):
I'm like, wait a second, that's way more than I
thought it was going to be, And so I go
into the itemize and it's like you know, room charge, facility,
resort parking fee, resort fee, and then it's like convenience
refreshment bar. I'm like what, and so seventy dollars for
one thing, and so I was like ugh, and I
was trying to run to my car, so I'd stop
by the front desk and the front desk person is like, oh, yeah,

(01:43:36):
you had something for the mini bar.

Speaker 2 (01:43:37):
I'm like, no, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:43:39):
And so they were like, okay, well it takes us.
I say, can you take that off my bill? No,
we got to go verify, we got to go look
at your mini bar to make sure you didn't take this.
I go, well, let's do it right now.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
I'm here. They go, no, no, it takes us three
days to do it. Three days.

Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
Don't you think someone else is gonna check in that
room in the next three days. I go, not to
mention the fact your system made a mistake the first
time around. Now I'm expecting you to not make a
mistake the second time. And so they said, I said, well,
what time did I open the minibar? Because I was
gonna see if it was actually me or not, And
they knew the exact time one like they had it.
I was like, okay, that's when I got in my room.

(01:44:12):
And I will admit, when I got in my room,
what are you doing? When you get in your room,
you kind of explore and you look around. I opened
the thing I saw the mini bar. I was like, oh,
And the reason I didn't touch anything, not that I
would ever would, but I looked for a pricing guide
around it, and there was no prices.

Speaker 2 (01:44:25):
I'm like, I'm not touching anything without a price.

Speaker 1 (01:44:27):
You know, if it was like five bucks for a beer, fine,
but I wasn't gonna, you know, open anything if it
wasn't you know. Anyway, long story short, just don't even
go near the mini bar anymore. With these automated systems
they have, they charge you instantly and once you're charged,
now it's like you got to fight to you know,
to get that off your your bill anyway, So that's
that's my no.

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
I don't know why I'm telling you that. Just be careful, uh.

Speaker 1 (01:44:55):
I love that, Like it was one of these things
I just thought was gonna be easy and it just wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
Not easy.

Speaker 1 (01:45:00):
Like literally, the front desk person was like, They're like, no,
you're wrong until you're proven you're not guilty. I'm like, okay,
well I feel like it should be the opposite way,
but okay, and whatever happened to the customer always being right?

Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
Now, I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:45:12):
I am sure there is so much fraud in the minibar.
I guarantee every person that goes out of Vegas is like, oh,
I didn't touch the minibar. The whole thing is cleared out.
Yeah no, you didn't touch it. Okay, uh huh, but
I really didn't. I mean I was there for the
Wizard of Oz thing, and believe me again, yes I
was tempted, but without a price.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
I'm not touching that.

Speaker 13 (01:45:31):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
By the way, do you know how many tech problems
I'd solve in a week just by the people I'm around.
I wrote down four this week. This guy at work
comes up to me. He's like, Rich, I know you're
trying to, you know, head out, but my Facebook posts
starts shown up when I post him. I said what,
And I was like, let me see, and like, I
think I think the problem is you have two Facebook accounts,
one that you're posting from the other one you're checking

(01:45:54):
from on your computer. Is not the same account, and
sure enough I looked at his phone and computer, two
separate accounts.

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
How did I well?

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
His profile picture was different on each one. I said, dude,
you have a couple of accounts here. You got to
use just one.

Speaker 2 (01:46:06):
That's how it works.

Speaker 1 (01:46:08):
Family member couldn't hear anything on their calls, so I said, okay,
try speaker phone, check the earpiece. The volume was turned down.
Another family member, Oh, my bluetooth and my new car
isn't working. Well, did you pair your phone to your car?

Speaker 4 (01:46:22):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:46:23):
I didn't know you had to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:46:24):
Yes, you have to pare your phone for your bluetooth
to work. Another family member, I can't make calls on
my phone for a week, nothing's working. Have you restarted
your phone? No, restart your phone? She called me back
second later.

Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
Oh it works, Yes, it works.

Speaker 5 (01:46:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:46:41):
Michael writes in Hey, Rich, let the listeners know that
the CDIA expos trade only not open to the public.
I'm looking forward to your coverage along with mine for
residential tech today. Can't miss it. I'll be the can't
miss me. I'll be the one in the test pattern
jacket and tie. See you there, all right, Allison, Thanks
to your latest information on the meta Facebook use of
phone in likeness. I went and checked, and weirdly, my

(01:47:02):
toggle was on. I knew it for a fact. I
never turned it on. Now it's turned off, but I
had not seen your report. Gosh knows what had been
going on behind the scenes. Thank you so much. Yes, Instagram,
rich on tech find that Facebook togg will turn it off.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
Gerald.

Speaker 1 (01:47:17):
I'm a big fan of your show and listen every weekend.
But I notice you rip Apple more than you praise them.
I know you're supposed to be objective, but it seems
obvious you prefer anything other than Apple.

Speaker 7 (01:47:25):
Why is that?

Speaker 1 (01:47:27):
Gerald, I can't believe this. In fifteen years of covering
iPhone and Android, you are the first person to say
that I'm too hard on Apple. Usually people accuse me
of being an Apple fanboy. So I think I'm doing
a pretty good job of staying balanced. And just for
the record, I have nothing against Apple. I wrote a
book about the iPhone. My job is just to keep
everything in perspective for the consumer, and I call Apple

(01:47:47):
good when I like it and bad when I don't.
Keith writes in I want you to mention how much
I appreciate your work in presenting technology. My wife and
I thoroughly enjoy your podcasts and your TV clips. You
have a gift for explaining things well, and you make
everything very entertaining and enjoyable. I appreciate your humility and
how you mention your family.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
Thank you. That's going to do it for this show.

Speaker 1 (01:48:08):
Next week we're going to talk about making the most
of your points, and thank you so much for listening.
Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. My name
is rich Dmiro.

Speaker 2 (01:48:15):
I will talk to you real soon.

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