October 9, 2025 • 8 mins
Rich DeMuro joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the latest in the tech world including a big update for Waze and the new video AI app.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, Rich Demiro. Rich on Tech has heard Sunday nights
from eight to eleven pm on WOOR. It is a
great show if you're into tech, it's a must listen to.
Rich is with us every Thursday at this very time.
By the way, if you have any questions you want
to keep up on tech news, you can also follow
him on Instagram at rich on Tech. Good morning to
(00:23):
your rich Good morning to you, Larry. I love your
story about Ways. Ways is my favorite thing in the world.
We have a joke in our family you never question Ways.
Whatever Ways says to do, you do it because gosh,
do you agree?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Do you agree with those left hand turns? Ye?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I just find it every single time I go, well,
that's stupid, like why would I get off here? And
then I find myself stuck in traffic for another hour.
And so we've now decided Ways is god. Ways is
the traffic god. And so I'm really interested about what
the change is with Ways.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, I like you love Ways, I don't always listen
to it because I know it does make some interesting
choices and I'm like, Okay, i feel like I'm better
than that. But You're right, it's always right at the
end of the day, and it does a lot of things,
and people have loved Ways for many years. Now it's
getting and one of the things people love about it
is the ability to report things like hazards on the road,
(01:31):
police ahead, traffic, whatever you want, you can report it.
And typically that takes a couple of taps on the
app to report what you're trying to see or what
you've seen on the road. Now they're letting you do
it with conversational reporting, so now you can talk to
ways to report road hazards. AI will comprehend what you're
trying to say and it will put it into the
(01:52):
app for other users. So, for instance, if you see
an object in the road, you used to have to
tap a couple times to report that. You would just
tap once and say object in road or mattress on
the road or whatever, and it would use AI to
understand that and put that into the system to alert
other drivers behind you. So again it's just figuring out
(02:12):
the right report type without any specific commands or extra
taps on the phone, which I think is a pretty
good safety win for when you're driving.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, that's why I don't report a lot exactly what
you're talking about it takes a few buttons. You got
to get to a certain area, and then sometimes they
don't even have the thing that you want to report.
So this is brilliant. See you didn't think they could
make Ways any better, and they went and did it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Let's talk about I'll just tell you my favorite, sure,
my favorite feature on Ways that I use every single
day of my life, and it is the time to
leave feature. So whenever I have to go somewhere, I
just search for that place in Ways, and instead of
saying go right now, it says leave later, and I
tap that And I love seeing that little scrollable time
(02:58):
window where you say, okay, if I leave it two pm,
or if I want to be there at two pm,
I got to leave at one twenty five. I absolutely
love that feature. I use it every single day of
my life.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Hey, Nia, Natalie is shaking her head. Yes, and I
have never heard of it before.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
No, it's fantastic, right, Really, it's a life changer because
you can save yourself, say fifteen minutes at home, because
you just look, Okay, you know what, No, I don't
have to leave until this time. Then you could set
your whole day and you know how organized I like
to be, so it really goes out.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh that's great. I didn't even know about that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You can get an alert. Yeah, you can get an
alert too for that time. I mean, it's really like
my absolute favorite feature. I think it's a it's like
my secret superpower because people will arrive late or early.
I'm always just on time.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know, when I look at what is the top
app on the App Store, I now am scared of
the future. Explain what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's called Sora and this is from CHATCHYBT. Well open AI,
the makers of CHATCHYBT. And if you know what a
deep fake is, it's it's basically a TikTok of deep fakes.
A deep fake is basically when they use AI to
create someone's likeness. Most of the time that has a
negative connotations, used for you know, nefarious reasons, fake news, misinformation,
all that kind of stuff. But Sora actually lets people
(04:15):
make fake videos of themselves on purpose for fun. So
you download the app, which I've done, You take a
little video of yourself saying something. Now it has your likeness,
and then you just type something in Hey, I want
to be surfing on the largest wave in Hawaii. I
want to be hiking Mount Everest, I want to be
on a roller coaster with flames going through flames, and
(04:38):
it will create that video using AI there about ten seconds,
and it will post it for your friends to see,
and you can swipe through this app just like you
would TikTok. Looking through all these videos that people have created,
it is absolutely wild. But you're right, it is a
scary new future that we have. It's a scary new
line we've crossed actually in creating our own deep fakes
(04:59):
of our selves for entertainment.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I will tell you I do enjoy on social media
when they have press conferences with like Donald Trump or
maybe the manager of the Yankees, and they put, in
other words, ridiculous things. I'm not sure how they do it,
but thank god, it's always so ridiculous. You know it's fake.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But you scroll through this for five minutes and you
will not believe the stuff you see. I mean, it's
like it's just unbelievable, and it's I never thought I
would actually enjoy scrolling through. But some of the stuff
people are coming up with is actually quite creative, but
it just brings up a whole new can of worms
about you. Know, copyright and of course cameos and deep
(05:41):
fakes and all this stuff that we're sort of wondering
about in the future.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I'll do it today. Hopefully I won't waste too much
time on it. Let's do it. How about this. We've
teased this too, and it's a it's a great thing.
I can already see the benefits of this. Google's Virtual
shoe try on. What is that?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah? This is Google has had this feature called AI
try On for a couple of months now. It's basically
part of Google Shopping. If you want to see how
something looks on you, you can snap a picture of
yourself and you can flip through different photos of you
wearing different clothes. And I actually went behind the scenes
with Google to see how they do this. They had
(06:19):
a studio where they had a bunch of models in there,
different shapes and sizes, taking a whole bunch of pictures
of them, and then that's what they use as the
basis for the AI to put you in that picture,
so you can say what size you are, your height,
your weight, all that good stuff, and it helps shape
the picture. But now they've expanded this to shoes, so
(06:39):
you don't even need to take a picture of your feet.
AI will just figure out what size your feet are.
But it shows you the picture of the shoes on
your feet now, so that you can see how shoes
and sneakers would look like on your feet. Not necessarily
if they will fit perfectly. I think you'd still have
to go into a store for that, but at least
it shows you what you're going to look like wearing
these sneakers.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
This next story is a pretty important one, and I
guess a lot of people will make some money on this.
The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with Amazon.
People are going to get money back. How do you
know if you qualify?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Okay, so you're not going to get rich off the
money you're going to get back. Refunds are going to
be up to fifty one dollars per person, but hey,
every little bit counts. The refunds will be automatic, and
here's the ways that you would get them. You got
to live in the US. Obviously. If you're listening to this,
that's probably the case. You either had Prime or you
tried to cancel Prime between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty five.
(07:34):
June twenty third and then you used fewer than three
Prime benefits in any twelve month period, which means you
didn't really shop a lot. Basically, you signed up and
you kind of like couldn't figure out how to get
rid of it, and so you didn't use any of
the benefits. So you will get this automatically by December
twenty fifth of this year. Here is my warning to you,
(07:54):
because these scammers get hipped to this stuff. You might
get an email that says, hey, sign up for your
Prime REFI don't do it. The refunds are going to
be automatic. The FTC is not going to call you,
they're not going to text you, they're not going to
email you. So just know if you had Prime, you
might be seeing a refund come December.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Thanks a lot. Richardmiro Rich and Tech has heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven pm
Well, Rich Demiro. Rich on Tech has heard Sunday nights
from eight to eleven pm on WOOR. It is a
great show if you're into tech, it's a must listen to.
Rich is with us every Thursday at this very time.
By the way, if you have any questions you want
to keep up on tech news, you can also follow
him on Instagram at rich on Tech. Good morning to
(00:23):
your rich Good morning to you, Larry. I love your
story about Ways. Ways is my favorite thing in the world.
We have a joke in our family you never question Ways.
Whatever Ways says to do, you do it because gosh,
do you agree?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Do you agree with those left hand turns? Ye?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I just find it every single time I go, well,
that's stupid, like why would I get off here? And
then I find myself stuck in traffic for another hour.
And so we've now decided Ways is god. Ways is
the traffic god. And so I'm really interested about what
the change is with Ways.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, I like you love Ways, I don't always listen
to it because I know it does make some interesting
choices and I'm like, Okay, i feel like I'm better
than that. But You're right, it's always right at the
end of the day, and it does a lot of things,
and people have loved Ways for many years. Now it's
getting and one of the things people love about it
is the ability to report things like hazards on the road,
(01:31):
police ahead, traffic, whatever you want, you can report it.
And typically that takes a couple of taps on the
app to report what you're trying to see or what
you've seen on the road. Now they're letting you do
it with conversational reporting, so now you can talk to
ways to report road hazards. AI will comprehend what you're
trying to say and it will put it into the
(01:52):
app for other users. So, for instance, if you see
an object in the road, you used to have to
tap a couple times to report that. You would just
tap once and say object in road or mattress on
the road or whatever, and it would use AI to
understand that and put that into the system to alert
other drivers behind you. So again it's just figuring out
(02:12):
the right report type without any specific commands or extra
taps on the phone, which I think is a pretty
good safety win for when you're driving.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, that's why I don't report a lot exactly what
you're talking about it takes a few buttons. You got
to get to a certain area, and then sometimes they
don't even have the thing that you want to report.
So this is brilliant. See you didn't think they could
make Ways any better, and they went and did it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Let's talk about I'll just tell you my favorite, sure,
my favorite feature on Ways that I use every single
day of my life, and it is the time to
leave feature. So whenever I have to go somewhere, I
just search for that place in Ways, and instead of
saying go right now, it says leave later, and I
tap that And I love seeing that little scrollable time
(02:58):
window where you say, okay, if I leave it two pm,
or if I want to be there at two pm,
I got to leave at one twenty five. I absolutely
love that feature. I use it every single day of
my life.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Hey, Nia, Natalie is shaking her head. Yes, and I
have never heard of it before.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
No, it's fantastic, right, Really, it's a life changer because
you can save yourself, say fifteen minutes at home, because
you just look, Okay, you know what, No, I don't
have to leave until this time. Then you could set
your whole day and you know how organized I like
to be, so it really goes out.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh that's great. I didn't even know about that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You can get an alert. Yeah, you can get an
alert too for that time. I mean, it's really like
my absolute favorite feature. I think it's a it's like
my secret superpower because people will arrive late or early.
I'm always just on time.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know, when I look at what is the top
app on the App Store, I now am scared of
the future. Explain what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's called Sora and this is from CHATCHYBT. Well open AI,
the makers of CHATCHYBT. And if you know what a
deep fake is, it's it's basically a TikTok of deep fakes.
A deep fake is basically when they use AI to
create someone's likeness. Most of the time that has a
negative connotations, used for you know, nefarious reasons, fake news, misinformation,
all that kind of stuff. But Sora actually lets people
(04:15):
make fake videos of themselves on purpose for fun. So
you download the app, which I've done, You take a
little video of yourself saying something. Now it has your likeness,
and then you just type something in Hey, I want
to be surfing on the largest wave in Hawaii. I
want to be hiking Mount Everest, I want to be
on a roller coaster with flames going through flames, and
(04:38):
it will create that video using AI there about ten seconds,
and it will post it for your friends to see,
and you can swipe through this app just like you
would TikTok. Looking through all these videos that people have created,
it is absolutely wild. But you're right, it is a
scary new future that we have. It's a scary new
line we've crossed actually in creating our own deep fakes
(04:59):
of our selves for entertainment.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I will tell you I do enjoy on social media
when they have press conferences with like Donald Trump or
maybe the manager of the Yankees, and they put, in
other words, ridiculous things. I'm not sure how they do it,
but thank god, it's always so ridiculous. You know it's fake.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But you scroll through this for five minutes and you
will not believe the stuff you see. I mean, it's
like it's just unbelievable, and it's I never thought I
would actually enjoy scrolling through. But some of the stuff
people are coming up with is actually quite creative, but
it just brings up a whole new can of worms
about you. Know, copyright and of course cameos and deep
(05:41):
fakes and all this stuff that we're sort of wondering
about in the future.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I'll do it today. Hopefully I won't waste too much
time on it. Let's do it. How about this. We've
teased this too, and it's a it's a great thing.
I can already see the benefits of this. Google's Virtual
shoe try on. What is that?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah? This is Google has had this feature called AI
try On for a couple of months now. It's basically
part of Google Shopping. If you want to see how
something looks on you, you can snap a picture of
yourself and you can flip through different photos of you
wearing different clothes. And I actually went behind the scenes
with Google to see how they do this. They had
(06:19):
a studio where they had a bunch of models in there,
different shapes and sizes, taking a whole bunch of pictures
of them, and then that's what they use as the
basis for the AI to put you in that picture,
so you can say what size you are, your height,
your weight, all that good stuff, and it helps shape
the picture. But now they've expanded this to shoes, so
(06:39):
you don't even need to take a picture of your feet.
AI will just figure out what size your feet are.
But it shows you the picture of the shoes on
your feet now, so that you can see how shoes
and sneakers would look like on your feet. Not necessarily
if they will fit perfectly. I think you'd still have
to go into a store for that, but at least
it shows you what you're going to look like wearing
these sneakers.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
This next story is a pretty important one, and I
guess a lot of people will make some money on this.
The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with Amazon.
People are going to get money back. How do you
know if you qualify?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Okay, so you're not going to get rich off the
money you're going to get back. Refunds are going to
be up to fifty one dollars per person, but hey,
every little bit counts. The refunds will be automatic, and
here's the ways that you would get them. You got
to live in the US. Obviously. If you're listening to this,
that's probably the case. You either had Prime or you
tried to cancel Prime between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty five.
(07:34):
June twenty third and then you used fewer than three
Prime benefits in any twelve month period, which means you
didn't really shop a lot. Basically, you signed up and
you kind of like couldn't figure out how to get
rid of it, and so you didn't use any of
the benefits. So you will get this automatically by December
twenty fifth of this year. Here is my warning to you,
(07:54):
because these scammers get hipped to this stuff. You might
get an email that says, hey, sign up for your
Prime REFI don't do it. The refunds are going to
be automatic. The FTC is not going to call you,
they're not going to text you, they're not going to
email you. So just know if you had Prime, you
might be seeing a refund come December.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Thanks a lot. Richardmiro Rich and Tech has heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven pm
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