Rich DeMuro, Host of ‘Rich on Tech’ on WOR Sunday nights Interview

Rich DeMuro joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the latest in the tech world including a new Google feature and Disney plus price hike.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back, well, Rich Demiro. You hear every week here
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 and you can ask him some
questions if you want to. Right there, let's start with this, Rich,

(00:23):
good morning to you, thanks for being with us. Let's
start with you. Google Search Live. What is this?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, so this is a new way to search Google.
If you have the Google app on your phone, you
can just go in and there's a new icon underneath
the search bar and it looks like a little person
kind of like talking, and so if you tap that,
it will bring you into what's called Google Search Live.
You don't have to do anything special to try this out,

(00:50):
but basically you can now talk with Google back and
forth about searching. So instead of the typical way you'd search,
which is type in something, wait for an answer or this,
you can now just point your camera at something, or
you can just ask a question and have that back
and forth. And it's kind of like they're AI, but
much more search results oriented versus AI, which is more

(01:14):
like a personal assistant.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well, that's so cool. Do you have to get a
special app for this or is it just come with Google?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
No, it just comes to the Google app that's on
your If you have an iPhone or Android, you'll see
it says search in a big box that's your This
is what's wild, Larry. There are now one, two, three, four,
five ways to search Google on the Google app. The
traditional text search, a voice search, a photo search, AI
mode search, now this new search live, and then a

(01:42):
photo search again. So Google is really struggling right now.
I mean, I'm not feeling sorry for them, but they
are struggling because AI has changed everything. Chat GBT has
changed the way people search, and Google is trying to
figure out how to reach people in a new way
with the information they already have in their search results.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Oh that's fascinating. So chat GPT has taken that much
out of their market that they have to they have
to respond.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, if you look at the numbers, Chat GIBT may
not be eating into them just yet. You know, Google
obviously still controls the large majority of the search market,
but the way people think about search is changing, right.
They're more looking for quick answers versus all those blue
links that Google has search served up for the past
twenty years.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Ahi, there are so many new cool things out. What
about Meta's new smart glasses.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, so, Meta has a new pair of smart glasses
called Meta ray Band Display. They start at eight hundred dollars.
They come with a wristband that lets you control a
tiny screen inside the lens. So while you're looking through
these glasses, there's a color display that shows texts that
you get, maps, music, step by step directions, whatever you need,

(02:57):
all without pulling out your phone. You can use that
neural band to read the muscle signals in your wrist,
so you can scroll, pinch, and write with just your
hand movements. These are going to launch on September thirtieth
at best Buy, Lens Crafters, Sunglass Hut, but they're also
opening up a pop up shop in New York City
on November thirteenth, right on Fifth av There you can

(03:20):
get a demo of these new Meta ray Band Display glasses.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Hey, how much are they.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Eight hundred dollars? I had an interview on my radio
show about them over the weekend, and the person was
a little cool on whether you should jump right in
to get them if you have money to burn, sure,
but these are first generation. Just remember that.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
So a price hike for Disney Plus.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Seems like every year, like clockwork, all of these streaming
services raise their prices, Disney Plus doing it this time
around two to three dollars across most of their plans
starting October twenty first, if you're paying for anything from
the ads supported Disney Plus, that's going to go up
to twelve dollars a month, up from ten. If you're
paying for the no ads version, that's going to jump

(04:08):
to nineteen dollars a month, or one hundred and ninety
dollars for the year. So, no matter what, all these
streaming services love to raise prices, just like Cable used
to do back in the day that we tried to
get away from. Now we seem to be back in there.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, it used to be you could afford a whole
lot of them. Now everybody has to start making choices.
And I got a feeling from me Disney Plus maybe
one of the ones to go. Let's talk about the
new iPhone Air. I know you like this new iPhone.
I remember talking to you about this. But now All
State has put them through a test. How did they do.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Actually pretty well. Now, we talked about the bendability of
the iPhone Air and I said it was pretty good.
I saw in Apple headquarters how they test these things.
I actually took a dummy phone and tried to break
it with my bare hands. I could not do that.
I was able to get about seventy five pounds of
pressure on the phone. But All State in their machine
tests was able to take the iPhone Air to one

(05:07):
hundred and ninety pounds of pressure before it bent, which
almost matches the iPhone seventeen Pro, which is pretty incredible
because that phone is way thicker. It can handle about
two hundred pounds. But the good news is for you
or anyone, is that if you put this thing in
your pocket, it's not going to bend. You put it
in your back pocket, you're going to be just fine.

(05:28):
The bad news is is that gravity is still a problem.
When you drop these phones face down from six feet high,
both the iPhone Air and the seventeen Pro shattered their screens.
The phones were still usable, but they were way too
sharp with the glass to actually use those screens. So
my point is I would still put a screen protector

(05:50):
on these things and a case because I've dropped my
phone many times and it always comes out pretty well
with those things on it.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
You know, I've never heard of Neon, and now it
says it's the number one social networking app at the
on the Apple App Store. I've never heard of it.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, well, here's the deal. This is wild. So this
is a new app. It's called Neon. It is climbing
the charts really fast. Here's what it does. It pays
you to record your phone calls and it takes those recordings,
it slices and dices all of the information and uses
it to train AI. So they sell all this data

(06:30):
from your phone calls to AI companies that want to
use it to train their machine learning models. Yeah, I know,
sounds crazy.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
And people like that, huh.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Apparently because they're getting paid. They say, you can make
thirty cents to minute, thirty cents a minute up to
thirty dollars a day for access to your recorded conversations.
The recordings are one sided, so there's nothing that's played
to the other side. Apparently that says, hey, we're recording
the call because I guess this app thinks that's not
necessary because you're not going to hear the other person

(07:00):
and they say they strip out all your personal information.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, I don't know how they do that, but I'm
not using this app. I'll be clear about that.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Rich Demiro rich on tech has Heard Sunday nights from
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