August 21, 2025 • 9 mins
Rich DeMuro joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the Google Pixel 10 event and some of the new features and a new website to upgrade your savings on flights.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That time again. Rich Demiro rich on Tech has heard
Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on wr Rich
is with us every Thursday at this time. You can
also follow him at rich on tech on Instagram. Good morning, Rich.
I understand you were at the Google Pixel event. How
was that?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It was interesting?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This was held in Brooklyn at the studios there and
they did it as a late night talk show. So
Jimmy Fallon was the host, and I've never really seen
anything like this.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Usually these tech events are all the tech.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Executives standing up on stage.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Demoing the products.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
For this event, they had, like I said, Jimmy Fallon
and a whole bunch of celebrities, everyone from Peloton instructors
to the Jonas brothers talking about the new features on
the Pixel ten smartphones.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
What are the new features on the Pixel ten.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, as you might expect, Google is all about AI.
So they've got a couple of a couple of notable features.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Number one magic Q.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So when you get a text message from someone, Google's
AI is already proactively looking through your messages, your calendars,
your emails, and your screenshots to literally come up with
the answer to the question that person is asking you
if they say, hey, where are we going to dinner
again Friday night? You know you have that in your
open table reservation in your email. The magic que puts
that information right there ready for you to tap. Another
(01:23):
really interesting one is this real time call translation, which
we've had a million call translation services. This one actually
uses AI, so the other person hears the translated voice
in your voice.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So if I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Speaking English, the other person on the other end may
hear me talking in Spanish, but it sounds just like me.
That one was pretty wild.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Any of this stuff scare you rich Where.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
We're going with interesting? You know, Google is saying that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
They're doing almost a majority of their new AI.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Stuff on device, which means it's inherently more private than
putting it up to the cloud. So that's that's good news, Larry.
The other I know you like iPhone. The other thing
that Google did that the iPhone has had for five
years now is magnetic accessories on the back of the phone.
Finally we get an Android device with what's called mag Safe,
(02:12):
but you know they're calling it pixel snap, which means
you can put all kinds of magnetic accessories on the
back of your phone. Thank thankfully we have that. Finally,
I love.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
This story about the flight saving website. What is it
and how do I get to it?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I've been tracking this website for a while, didn't really
want to mention it until it worked for me, And
sure enough, I woke up the other morning and said, Hey,
you got an eighty dollars credit on your airline for
your recent flight. I said, wait a second, what I
forgot all about this? The website is called Payback pai Back.
You basically forward them your flight booking with Alaska, American,
(02:48):
Delta or United. They watched the price. If it drops,
they contact the airline and get you an e credit.
Nothing else changes, and they only take twenty percent of
the credit as their fee if they get you a credit.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So my eighty dollars I had to.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Pay basically sixteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
But that's called found money in my book.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It is. But wait a second, all this time, would
I have been able to call the airlines and get
a refund of some money or do they have some
special deal?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I believe that is the case. So that's why they're
working with certain airlines because their terms and conditions allow
you to I guess because there's no more change fees anymore.
I guess what they're doing is just saying, hey, we
can go ahead and cancel this flight and book the
new one at a new price, or you can just
give us this credit. And I think the airline gives
in the credit. But you brought up a good point.
I've seen this over and over in the tech world.
(03:41):
These startups come out, they do something really cool like this,
and guess what happens. The company doesn't like it, and
they say, oh, never mind, we're changing our terms and conditions.
When you book a flight, that's the price, no more refunds.
We'll see what happens, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I love that AI. I'm afraid of it and I
love it at the same time. But when they use
it a Grammarly, I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yes, and Grammarly has eight new AI agents and some
of them are getting a lot of publicity. Number one,
you can write your paper in this new Google Docs
style editor, which is pretty cool. It like checks everything
as you go along. But not only can it give
you interpretation of your paper, like it will tell you,
it will predict how someone else reading it would react.
(04:25):
That could be your boss, your professor, or your client.
You can upload your class syllabus and grammarly will now
grade your paper based on that class syllabus, so you
can see what kind of grade you might get on
that paper. It can also check for AI generated text,
so I know a lot of students will be using
that in the reverse way to check their papers to
(04:46):
make sure it doesn't seem.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Like AI wrote it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And then there's a plagiarism checker, so you can put
your paper into there and make sure that nothing in
that paper is plagiarized. Grammarly says, these are all tools
for students and professionals to be more productive and I
guess smarter in the end somehow.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You know, I've seen all of these people find her
websites in the past, and I think the question that
comes up every single time is how much of my
life is on these sites? How much of my life
is on there? Can I get that off of there?
Can I request not to be on a people finder
(05:22):
or a data website? Is that possible?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It is possible. I've done a lot of it myself.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Over the past couple of years. There are some DIY
guides available. It is a long process. It's also a
game of whack a mole, because as soon as you
take down one site, five others pop up, and the
amount of data out there is actually staggering, and it's
in two buckets. Number one, the people finder sites that
have your name, your email, your address, your cell phone number.
(05:49):
I was searching with my mom the other day. She
couldn't believe how much information was out there about her,
and she's like, you gotta get.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
This off the Internet.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I said, I know, that's what we've got to do.
And then the second is in the dark web. That's
the worst stuff that cannot be taken down. That's the
stuff like your Social Security number, your passwords, your usernames,
things like that. But National Public Data, if you remember,
they were hacked a couple of years ago I think
it was last year, and a ton of data got
out on the open web. They are now backed under
(06:16):
new ownership as a people finder site, And if you
go there Nationalpublic Data dot Com and search, your data
is probably in there, and it's pretty substantial. So if
I were you, I would go to their opt out
page and you can paste in your URL and ask
them to remove your information.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now you brought up something that I find fascinating. Explain
what the dark web is.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
A dark web is basically this other side of the
Internet that's not publicly accessible by the average person. Hackers
and other folks use it to trade information, to give
out credit to self, credit card numbers, identities, all kinds
of stuff. I mean, drugs. So, I mean there's a
whole bunch of stuff out there that we cannot tap
(07:01):
into unless.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You had entree in some way to that.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's not a thing where you can just say, hey,
dark web, take my social off the Internet.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You can't do that.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
With the databases that are public all these people finder
sites and data companies that sell your information, you can
ask them to remove your data dark web. Once it's there,
it's really never coming back.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
How is the dark web legal? Has law enforcement tried
to shut them down?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Absolutely? I mean, but here's the thing. When you're talking
peer to peer sharing of data, there's no server out
there that's sitting there holding all this data. Now, in
some cases there are, but most of the time this
is operating in a gray area where people are exchanging
the information with each other through forums, through message you know,
encrypted chats. It is not something that the law enforcement
(07:51):
to go there and say, hey, take this down if
they find stuff like that. Yes, absolutely they can do that.
It is much tougher than you might think.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I can imagine it still exists. You know. That's what
gets me. I keep hearing about the dark Web, and
I think, why does that even exist? Real quick, let's
talk about this PayPal penny scam.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
If you check out my Instagram at rich on Tech,
you know, people send me all kinds of the latest scams,
and so when I find one that I think is
pretty unique, I post it there. But this one, the
scammers send you one penny to your PayPal account and
they say, hey, here's your refund for your recent five
hundred dollars payment. Thank you, And you go, wait a second,
I've been paying you one five hundred dollars and what
(08:32):
do you do? You're tricked into calling that phone number.
That's when the scam actually starts. Do not respond to
these PayPal emails. If someone sends you a penny, don't
try to reverse the charge, just ignore it. You can
report it to PayPal phishing at PayPal dot com. Follow
me on Instagram Larry the rich on Tech account. Anything
that you send me that I think is interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And I haven't seen before.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I will post so that we can spread the word.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Because knowing about these things is half the battle.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's great. Rich Demiro rich On t has heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven pm on wo R. Riches
with us every Thursday at nine thirty five. Make sure
you sign up for his newsletter at rich on tech
dot Tv. Thanks a lot, Rich, Thanks Larry,
That time again. Rich Demiro rich on Tech has heard
Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on wr Rich
is with us every Thursday at this time. You can
also follow him at rich on tech on Instagram. Good morning, Rich.
I understand you were at the Google Pixel event. How
was that?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It was interesting?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This was held in Brooklyn at the studios there and
they did it as a late night talk show. So
Jimmy Fallon was the host, and I've never really seen
anything like this.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Usually these tech events are all the tech.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Executives standing up on stage.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Demoing the products.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
For this event, they had, like I said, Jimmy Fallon
and a whole bunch of celebrities, everyone from Peloton instructors
to the Jonas brothers talking about the new features on
the Pixel ten smartphones.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
What are the new features on the Pixel ten.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, as you might expect, Google is all about AI.
So they've got a couple of a couple of notable features.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Number one magic Q.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So when you get a text message from someone, Google's
AI is already proactively looking through your messages, your calendars,
your emails, and your screenshots to literally come up with
the answer to the question that person is asking you
if they say, hey, where are we going to dinner
again Friday night? You know you have that in your
open table reservation in your email. The magic que puts
that information right there ready for you to tap. Another
(01:23):
really interesting one is this real time call translation, which
we've had a million call translation services. This one actually
uses AI, so the other person hears the translated voice
in your voice.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So if I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Speaking English, the other person on the other end may
hear me talking in Spanish, but it sounds just like me.
That one was pretty wild.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Any of this stuff scare you rich Where.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
We're going with interesting? You know, Google is saying that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
They're doing almost a majority of their new AI.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Stuff on device, which means it's inherently more private than
putting it up to the cloud. So that's that's good news, Larry.
The other I know you like iPhone. The other thing
that Google did that the iPhone has had for five
years now is magnetic accessories on the back of the phone.
Finally we get an Android device with what's called mag Safe,
(02:12):
but you know they're calling it pixel snap, which means
you can put all kinds of magnetic accessories on the
back of your phone. Thank thankfully we have that. Finally,
I love.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
This story about the flight saving website. What is it
and how do I get to it?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I've been tracking this website for a while, didn't really
want to mention it until it worked for me, And
sure enough, I woke up the other morning and said, Hey,
you got an eighty dollars credit on your airline for
your recent flight. I said, wait a second, what I
forgot all about this? The website is called Payback pai Back.
You basically forward them your flight booking with Alaska, American,
(02:48):
Delta or United. They watched the price. If it drops,
they contact the airline and get you an e credit.
Nothing else changes, and they only take twenty percent of
the credit as their fee if they get you a credit.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So my eighty dollars I had to.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Pay basically sixteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
But that's called found money in my book.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It is. But wait a second, all this time, would
I have been able to call the airlines and get
a refund of some money or do they have some
special deal?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I believe that is the case. So that's why they're
working with certain airlines because their terms and conditions allow
you to I guess because there's no more change fees anymore.
I guess what they're doing is just saying, hey, we
can go ahead and cancel this flight and book the
new one at a new price, or you can just
give us this credit. And I think the airline gives
in the credit. But you brought up a good point.
I've seen this over and over in the tech world.
(03:41):
These startups come out, they do something really cool like this,
and guess what happens. The company doesn't like it, and
they say, oh, never mind, we're changing our terms and conditions.
When you book a flight, that's the price, no more refunds.
We'll see what happens, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I love that AI. I'm afraid of it and I
love it at the same time. But when they use
it a Grammarly, I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yes, and Grammarly has eight new AI agents and some
of them are getting a lot of publicity. Number one,
you can write your paper in this new Google Docs
style editor, which is pretty cool. It like checks everything
as you go along. But not only can it give
you interpretation of your paper, like it will tell you,
it will predict how someone else reading it would react.
(04:25):
That could be your boss, your professor, or your client.
You can upload your class syllabus and grammarly will now
grade your paper based on that class syllabus, so you
can see what kind of grade you might get on
that paper. It can also check for AI generated text,
so I know a lot of students will be using
that in the reverse way to check their papers to
(04:46):
make sure it doesn't seem.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Like AI wrote it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And then there's a plagiarism checker, so you can put
your paper into there and make sure that nothing in
that paper is plagiarized. Grammarly says, these are all tools
for students and professionals to be more productive and I
guess smarter in the end somehow.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You know, I've seen all of these people find her
websites in the past, and I think the question that
comes up every single time is how much of my
life is on these sites? How much of my life
is on there? Can I get that off of there?
Can I request not to be on a people finder
(05:22):
or a data website? Is that possible?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It is possible. I've done a lot of it myself.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Over the past couple of years. There are some DIY
guides available. It is a long process. It's also a
game of whack a mole, because as soon as you
take down one site, five others pop up, and the
amount of data out there is actually staggering, and it's
in two buckets. Number one, the people finder sites that
have your name, your email, your address, your cell phone number.
(05:49):
I was searching with my mom the other day. She
couldn't believe how much information was out there about her,
and she's like, you gotta get.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
This off the Internet.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I said, I know, that's what we've got to do.
And then the second is in the dark web. That's
the worst stuff that cannot be taken down. That's the
stuff like your Social Security number, your passwords, your usernames,
things like that. But National Public Data, if you remember,
they were hacked a couple of years ago I think
it was last year, and a ton of data got
out on the open web. They are now backed under
(06:16):
new ownership as a people finder site, And if you
go there Nationalpublic Data dot Com and search, your data
is probably in there, and it's pretty substantial. So if
I were you, I would go to their opt out
page and you can paste in your URL and ask
them to remove your information.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now you brought up something that I find fascinating. Explain
what the dark web is.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
A dark web is basically this other side of the
Internet that's not publicly accessible by the average person. Hackers
and other folks use it to trade information, to give
out credit to self, credit card numbers, identities, all kinds
of stuff. I mean, drugs. So, I mean there's a
whole bunch of stuff out there that we cannot tap
(07:01):
into unless.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You had entree in some way to that.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's not a thing where you can just say, hey,
dark web, take my social off the Internet.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You can't do that.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
With the databases that are public all these people finder
sites and data companies that sell your information, you can
ask them to remove your data dark web. Once it's there,
it's really never coming back.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
How is the dark web legal? Has law enforcement tried
to shut them down?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Absolutely? I mean, but here's the thing. When you're talking
peer to peer sharing of data, there's no server out
there that's sitting there holding all this data. Now, in
some cases there are, but most of the time this
is operating in a gray area where people are exchanging
the information with each other through forums, through message you know,
encrypted chats. It is not something that the law enforcement
(07:51):
to go there and say, hey, take this down if
they find stuff like that. Yes, absolutely they can do that.
It is much tougher than you might think.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I can imagine it still exists. You know. That's what
gets me. I keep hearing about the dark Web, and
I think, why does that even exist? Real quick, let's
talk about this PayPal penny scam.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
If you check out my Instagram at rich on Tech,
you know, people send me all kinds of the latest scams,
and so when I find one that I think is
pretty unique, I post it there. But this one, the
scammers send you one penny to your PayPal account and
they say, hey, here's your refund for your recent five
hundred dollars payment. Thank you, And you go, wait a second,
I've been paying you one five hundred dollars and what
(08:32):
do you do? You're tricked into calling that phone number.
That's when the scam actually starts. Do not respond to
these PayPal emails. If someone sends you a penny, don't
try to reverse the charge, just ignore it. You can
report it to PayPal phishing at PayPal dot com. Follow
me on Instagram Larry the rich on Tech account. Anything
that you send me that I think is interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And I haven't seen before.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I will post so that we can spread the word.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Because knowing about these things is half the battle.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's great. Rich Demiro rich On t has heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven pm on wo R. Riches
with us every Thursday at nine thirty five. Make sure
you sign up for his newsletter at rich on tech
dot Tv. Thanks a lot, Rich, Thanks Larry,
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