October 2, 2025 • 7 mins
Rich DeMuro joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about support for Windows 10 ending in a couple weeks and the best way to find a lost pet.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, are you still using Windows ten? If so, there's
something important you should know. For that, we're going to
bring in rich DeMuro from rich on Tech. He's heard
Sunday nights from eight to eleven on wor riches with
us every Thursday at this time. By the way, I
should say eight to eleven pm. Also followers rich on
(00:21):
Tech on Instagram at rich on tech on Instagram, where
you can ask him questions if you want to. Now,
let's find out good by the way, good morning, rich
Let's find out what's wrong with Windows ten. Rich.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hey, good morning to you. Larry. Well. It's been ten
years since Windows ten launched back in twenty fifteen, and
Microsoft is ending support on October fourteenth of this year.
That gives folks less than two weeks to figure out
what they want to do, because if you don't get
your computer upgraded to Windows eleven, or you don't have
those security updates coming after the fourteenth, your computer is
(00:55):
going to be left vulnerable to anything that hackers find
because Microsoft will be patching this. Their good news is
you've got a bunch of options. The first and the
easiest is to upgrade to Windows eleven. Move on your
merry way. Not every computer can support it, so you
have to figure out if your computer can support it.
There's a free app called PC health check that check
(01:15):
that will let you. But the easiest thing to do,
I think is just to extend and do what every
good American does. Procrastinate for another year to go to
Windows Update and you have an option to get one
more year of just security updates. And that way you
can decide in your time whether you want a new
computer or whatever else you're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Right. You know us so well? You know I love
my Ring camera, just love, love love it. I know
my wife loves it too, she looks at it all
the time. And this new search feature is even better.
Tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, a little bit of trivia for you, Larry. I
don't know if you knew this, but when Ring first
came out, their name was originally door Bot. I reviewed
one of the original doorbells from them, and they thought
that that was too nerdy and techy. People didn't like
it because their home is is very sacred to them.
So Ring is what it eventually became. Anyway, much better
on new cameras, much much better. Yeah, yeah, much better
(02:13):
door bot. It's too robotic. It's just too like, yeah,
it's weird. But these these new cameras come with higher resolution.
But they've got this new feature that's going to work
across even older cameras called Search Party. So basically, if
someone loses their dog, they can report that in the
Ring app upload a picture of their pet. The nearby
cameras will use AI to scan their footage to look
(02:36):
for that pet. It will alert the camera owner, and
that camera owner can then say, hmm, do I want
to help out in this search party or not? Do
you want to hand this footage over to the owner
and help find this pet. So Ring says over a
million lost pet posts were made in their app last year.
Hopefully this should reunite some folks. But there are some
privacy concerns of course, because AI is looking through your footage.
(02:59):
So you can this feature off if you want. In
the Ring app, go to control center and look for
search Party.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It is great that it finds lost pets.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What about children, That's an great, great question because of
course we know that AI can identify just about anything
with uncanny accuracy. Children, people that are wanted license plates
of cars. So I think Ring is gonna Obviously they're
starting very slow with this because everyone wants to reunite
(03:28):
lost pets. Kids could be next. Those silver alerts for
seniors could be next. But Ring has not set any
of that. But I can see it going into that direction.
But Larry, you know what that means, surveillance society. We
have to be very careful about the line that we
ride here.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, but that's so important. I think that a lot
of people would be okay with that. We'll see, but
you can opt out right if you don't want to,
you can opt out correct, Okay. A lot of price
eggs coming.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Huh, oh my gosh, it's like, do we have enough
time to talk ab Okay, So, if you have Peloton,
your subscription is going up anywhere from looks like five
to six dollars a month, so be on the lookout
for an email from them on that. And then Xbox,
if you have the Xbox Game Pass, this is a
wild price hike, fifty percent price hike. So it goes
(04:19):
from I give my kid a hard time at this
at twenty dollars a month. Now it's going up to
thirty dollars a month. Now. That does give you a
whole bunch of games that you can get unlimited, you know,
to play, and it's less than the price of one
movie ticket in many places. But still all of these
streaming services continue to raise their prices. I'm not sure
this is sustainable for the average person to say I
(04:41):
want to keep subscribing to all of these different services
when the prices just keep going up.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, I heard that Google is rolling out a
new voice assistant. I thought they already had one.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You know, Google can be confusing at times. They throw
a lot of stuff at the wall. But you know
the name of the game these days is Gemini AI
in everything. If you go to any Google product right now,
you will see that little twinkly star, which means Gemini.
I just put on the new Google Pixel Watch, and
what does it have on the home screen, on the
lock screen, It's got the little Gemini icon. So Gemini
(05:16):
is everywhere. And yes, Google is replacing Google Assistant on
its smart speakers with Gemini, which is going to be
much more conversational, much smarter, and you're finally gonna be
able to command your smart home stuff in a much
easier way. Turn off the lights, start the rumba, close
the blindes. All of the devices you already have are
(05:36):
many will already work with this, So look for it
to be replacing on your Google Home speakers very soon.
It's not gonna happen overnight, it rolls out, but I
think you're gonna like the changes here. Man.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Everything is changing so fast with the advent of AI,
now even Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Right, yeah, this one is I mean, it makes a
lot of sense. Everyone thinks that Facebook is listening to
their phone conversations. That is not true. They have dispelled
that myth many many times. But starting December sixteenth, Meta
says they will be listening to your AI chatbot conversations
when you talk to Meta AI. That's their version of
(06:16):
Google Gemini or Open AI's chat GBT. Meta has their
own AI chatbot. Anything you talk to that chatpot about
is open game for advertising in your feed. So if
you talk about hiking trails, you might see ads for
hiking boots in your Instagram feed or your Facebook feed.
There are some things that are off limits, sensitive topics,
(06:38):
pretty much everything that you talk about, Larry, religion. Wait
a second, have you been listening in I have, and
you do a great job, by the way, but yes,
it is. Some of these sensitive topics will not be
fair game, but pretty much anything else. And Larry, you
know people are talking about everything to AI. I mean
(06:58):
it is AI is therapist, AI is this?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
AI?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Is that vacations? You know, your home, purchase, whatever you want.
This is going to be ripe for the picking for
personalized ads. It's very smart on Facebook's part, but users
cannot opt out, which is a little concerning.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I know it's gotten so bizarre. I just saw AI
priest for confessions, so I don't know how that's gonna
work or if the Catholic churches my gosh.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That Okay, that's a new one. There you go see
religion right off the top.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Thanks so much. Rich DeMuro rich on tech has heard
Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on wr riches
with us every Thursday at nine thirty five. Make sure
you sign up for his newsletter. Rich on Tech dot TV.
Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Rich
Hey, are you still using Windows ten? If so, there's
something important you should know. For that, we're going to
bring in rich DeMuro from rich on Tech. He's heard
Sunday nights from eight to eleven on wor riches with
us every Thursday at this time. By the way, I
should say eight to eleven pm. Also followers rich on
(00:21):
Tech on Instagram at rich on tech on Instagram, where
you can ask him questions if you want to. Now,
let's find out good by the way, good morning, rich
Let's find out what's wrong with Windows ten. Rich.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hey, good morning to you. Larry. Well. It's been ten
years since Windows ten launched back in twenty fifteen, and
Microsoft is ending support on October fourteenth of this year.
That gives folks less than two weeks to figure out
what they want to do, because if you don't get
your computer upgraded to Windows eleven, or you don't have
those security updates coming after the fourteenth, your computer is
(00:55):
going to be left vulnerable to anything that hackers find
because Microsoft will be patching this. Their good news is
you've got a bunch of options. The first and the
easiest is to upgrade to Windows eleven. Move on your
merry way. Not every computer can support it, so you
have to figure out if your computer can support it.
There's a free app called PC health check that check
(01:15):
that will let you. But the easiest thing to do,
I think is just to extend and do what every
good American does. Procrastinate for another year to go to
Windows Update and you have an option to get one
more year of just security updates. And that way you
can decide in your time whether you want a new
computer or whatever else you're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Right. You know us so well? You know I love
my Ring camera, just love, love love it. I know
my wife loves it too, she looks at it all
the time. And this new search feature is even better.
Tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, a little bit of trivia for you, Larry. I
don't know if you knew this, but when Ring first
came out, their name was originally door Bot. I reviewed
one of the original doorbells from them, and they thought
that that was too nerdy and techy. People didn't like
it because their home is is very sacred to them.
So Ring is what it eventually became. Anyway, much better
on new cameras, much much better. Yeah, yeah, much better
(02:13):
door bot. It's too robotic. It's just too like, yeah,
it's weird. But these these new cameras come with higher resolution.
But they've got this new feature that's going to work
across even older cameras called Search Party. So basically, if
someone loses their dog, they can report that in the
Ring app upload a picture of their pet. The nearby
cameras will use AI to scan their footage to look
(02:36):
for that pet. It will alert the camera owner, and
that camera owner can then say, hmm, do I want
to help out in this search party or not? Do
you want to hand this footage over to the owner
and help find this pet. So Ring says over a
million lost pet posts were made in their app last year.
Hopefully this should reunite some folks. But there are some
privacy concerns of course, because AI is looking through your footage.
(02:59):
So you can this feature off if you want. In
the Ring app, go to control center and look for
search Party.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It is great that it finds lost pets.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What about children, That's an great, great question because of
course we know that AI can identify just about anything
with uncanny accuracy. Children, people that are wanted license plates
of cars. So I think Ring is gonna Obviously they're
starting very slow with this because everyone wants to reunite
(03:28):
lost pets. Kids could be next. Those silver alerts for
seniors could be next. But Ring has not set any
of that. But I can see it going into that direction.
But Larry, you know what that means, surveillance society. We
have to be very careful about the line that we
ride here.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, but that's so important. I think that a lot
of people would be okay with that. We'll see, but
you can opt out right if you don't want to,
you can opt out correct, Okay. A lot of price
eggs coming.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Huh, oh my gosh, it's like, do we have enough
time to talk ab Okay, So, if you have Peloton,
your subscription is going up anywhere from looks like five
to six dollars a month, so be on the lookout
for an email from them on that. And then Xbox,
if you have the Xbox Game Pass, this is a
wild price hike, fifty percent price hike. So it goes
(04:19):
from I give my kid a hard time at this
at twenty dollars a month. Now it's going up to
thirty dollars a month. Now. That does give you a
whole bunch of games that you can get unlimited, you know,
to play, and it's less than the price of one
movie ticket in many places. But still all of these
streaming services continue to raise their prices. I'm not sure
this is sustainable for the average person to say I
(04:41):
want to keep subscribing to all of these different services
when the prices just keep going up.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, I heard that Google is rolling out a
new voice assistant. I thought they already had one.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You know, Google can be confusing at times. They throw
a lot of stuff at the wall. But you know
the name of the game these days is Gemini AI
in everything. If you go to any Google product right now,
you will see that little twinkly star, which means Gemini.
I just put on the new Google Pixel Watch, and
what does it have on the home screen, on the
lock screen, It's got the little Gemini icon. So Gemini
(05:16):
is everywhere. And yes, Google is replacing Google Assistant on
its smart speakers with Gemini, which is going to be
much more conversational, much smarter, and you're finally gonna be
able to command your smart home stuff in a much
easier way. Turn off the lights, start the rumba, close
the blindes. All of the devices you already have are
(05:36):
many will already work with this, So look for it
to be replacing on your Google Home speakers very soon.
It's not gonna happen overnight, it rolls out, but I
think you're gonna like the changes here. Man.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Everything is changing so fast with the advent of AI,
now even Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Right, yeah, this one is I mean, it makes a
lot of sense. Everyone thinks that Facebook is listening to
their phone conversations. That is not true. They have dispelled
that myth many many times. But starting December sixteenth, Meta
says they will be listening to your AI chatbot conversations
when you talk to Meta AI. That's their version of
(06:16):
Google Gemini or Open AI's chat GBT. Meta has their
own AI chatbot. Anything you talk to that chatpot about
is open game for advertising in your feed. So if
you talk about hiking trails, you might see ads for
hiking boots in your Instagram feed or your Facebook feed.
There are some things that are off limits, sensitive topics,
(06:38):
pretty much everything that you talk about, Larry, religion. Wait
a second, have you been listening in I have, and
you do a great job, by the way, but yes,
it is. Some of these sensitive topics will not be
fair game, but pretty much anything else. And Larry, you
know people are talking about everything to AI. I mean
(06:58):
it is AI is therapist, AI is this?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
AI?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Is that vacations? You know, your home, purchase, whatever you want.
This is going to be ripe for the picking for
personalized ads. It's very smart on Facebook's part, but users
cannot opt out, which is a little concerning.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I know it's gotten so bizarre. I just saw AI
priest for confessions, so I don't know how that's gonna
work or if the Catholic churches my gosh.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That Okay, that's a new one. There you go see
religion right off the top.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Thanks so much. Rich DeMuro rich on tech has heard
Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on wr riches
with us every Thursday at nine thirty five. Make sure
you sign up for his newsletter. Rich on Tech dot TV.
Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Rich
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