010 Rich on Tech Radio Show - March 11, 2023 - Rich On Tech

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A major lifeline bank to the tech industry fails. Ring
launches its best video doorbell yet, spring Break, travel apps
plus your tech questions answered. What is going on? I'm
Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the show
where I talk about the tech stuff I think you
should know about. It's also the place where I answer

(00:23):
your questions about technology. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA
Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show. Phone
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(00:43):
you have a question about technology. I will do my
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
It is a really big day in the tech world.
Not for a good reason, but for a pretty bad reason.
A major bank that provides a lot of banking services
to Silicon Valley has collapsed. It's Silicon Valley Bank. That's
the name of the bank. You probably haven't heard of it.
It's a regional bank, but it is very popular among

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the tech community. We're talking VC funds. These are the
people that hand out money to startups to help them
create new businesses that might one day become an uber
or a Twitter or a square or anything else we've
heard of. They all started with VC funds. Founders do
business here. Tech industry employees do business at this bank.
Imagine you going to your bank and it's closed, and

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they say you can't transfer money out, you can't use
your online banking app, you can't do anything. Your money's
just stuck. Imagine that feeling. That is the feeling right
now among thousands of people in the tech industry right now,
that uncertainty where is my money going to come from?

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How am I going to access this? Am I going
to get it? This bank is now under the protection
of the US government. Now I've said in the past
that this is a tech show for the average consumer.
So you might be wondering, well, Rich, how does this
really affect me? Well, in a lot of different ways,
Because number one, this is something we haven't seen in
a very long time. A bank of this stature, a

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bank this big, has not failed since two thousand and
eight with Washington Mutual, remember that bank. So we haven't
seen something of this magnitude in a very long time.
Plus the repercussions of just how this will sort of
go through the tech industry. So I mentioned these startups
that rely on this bank. So many of these startups

(02:41):
now may just not be able to make payroll or
not be able to pay their employees, or the people
that work at these companies can't do anything.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Their hands are tied. So how did this all happen?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, I'm not an expert in financials, but basically people
lost confidence in this bank for no really good reason.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
The actually put out a press.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Release saying what they were going to do, how they
were going to raise money, what they were doing to
kind of, you know, even shore up their financials, and
people saw that as a signal to say, ooh, I'm
not really sure. I like what's happening here, let's go
And so the stock price plunged. Then people did a
run on deposits, so old fashioned bank run. People just

(03:21):
said hey, I want my money, I want out. And
then when people started doing that, it's snowballed until everyone
had to say, okay, stop, stop stop. Government stepped in,
FDIC takes over, and now this bank is under the
power of the US government. Now for all we know,
the bank's financials were actually very sound. So that's what's

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scary here is that this was an old fashioned bank
run where people just said, you know what, I want
out and I'm done. And now this bank is just
affecting so many people's livelihoods. Like I said, the big
issue here, so many startups rely on this bank. So
for all these people that had their banking here, this

(04:04):
is a big period of uncertainty. This is going to
impact startups, founders, employees, payrolls probably will not.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Be met this week.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
So I'm looking at this press release from the FDIC
and this is like when you realize that government is
you know, there's a reason why some of these things
are in place. So to protect insured depositors, the FDIC
has created the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara DNB.
SO at the time of closing, this was on Friday afternoon,

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the FDIC has now received transfership of all insured deposits
at Silicon Valley Bank. Now insured deposits is the keyword here.
All insured depositors will have full access to their insured
deposits no later than Monday morning, March thirteenth. But here's
the thing. If you know that insured deposit, that number

(04:55):
is not very high when it comes to how much
money some people may have had in this bank. Especial
if you're a small business, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
That's the standard insurance among any bank in America. So
when you have a bank account somewhere or multiple bank accounts,
you are insured up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Anything after that, there's really no saying you're not necessarily

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guaranteed that money in the case of something like this happening.
So uninsured depositors are going to get so after their
two hundred and fifty thousand, a receivership certificate for the
remaining amount of their uninsured funds. So what does that mean.
That means you get a little certificate that says, uh, yeah,
we know you had a lot of money at this bank,
but we're just gonna give you this little piece of

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paper that says we're going to try to get your
money back to you. But there's no guarantees. So as
the FDIC sells the assets of this Silicon Valley Bank,
future dividend payments may be made to uninsured depositors. How
would you feel if if you were a startup and
you had, you know, you went through this whole process
of going to these vcs getting a couple of million

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dollars to art your company. Maybe it's not a ton
of money in the scheme of things, but you know,
to you it is a couple million to start your
new business. And next thing you know, you've got two
fifty and that's it. And the rest of this money
is just who knows when it may come. Silicon Valley
Bank had seventeen branches in California and Massachusetts. The main

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office and all branches will reopen on Monday, March thirteenth.
They're going to maintain their normal business hours, but again
under the guise of the government, and banking activities will
resume no later than Monday, March thirteenth, including online banking
and other services. So you can bet when this online
banking fires up again on Monday, what do you think
people are going to do immediately? They're going to try

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to get as much funds out of this bank as
humanly possible in the shortest amount of time. Official checks
will continue to clear. As of December thirty first, Silicon
Valley Bank had approximately two hundred and nine billion dollars
in total assets and about one hundred and seventy five
billion in deposit. Now I'm no math whiz, but I'm

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just doing the math right there, two nine minus one
seventy five. That leaves about thirty five million dollars on accounted.
So right there, there's a problem. And that's typically you know,
banks operate this way. When you put your money in
a bank, it's not sitting there. I mean I learned
this in like first grade.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
They don't just sit.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
They don't just take your dollar bill and put it
in a safe and it stays there until you request it. Again, no, no, no,
they take that dollar bill and they loan it out
to people, and in that loan they make, you know,
millions upon millions of loans. They make money on the loans,
and that's how they're able to pay you that paltry
interest rate that you get on your savings account. So

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they're gonna have to figure that part out as well. Now,
again I am reading a press release from the government.
What do you think the government's role in this is?
They want people to think that everything's going to be okay,
and this is just very simple. This is a very
easy process. Obviously that is not the case. The repercussions

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of this are still very undetermined. We don't know how
people are going to react. We don't know what people
are going to do. In fact, I would gather that
even folks that have business at other banks are going
to say, Hey, I want some of my money back
right now. I want to take some of that money
out because I just I'm losing confidence now, especially when

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it comes to banks that might be a bit smaller
than the big banks. The big banks, yeah, they'll probably
be okay. The smaller banks, which people favor because of
their service, because of the loans they can get, because
of the hands on approach. That's where we may be
in trouble because again I mentioned earlier that you probably
never heard of this bank. But if you're in Silicon Valley,

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there are banks that people do business with regularly because
they understand the startup world. They understand what it's like
to start a company. They understand the term bootstrapped, and
they understand, you know, having employees and making payroll and
this is not Facebooks of the world. They're going to
be just fine. The Googles of the world, they'll be
just fine. These are all the apps that you might

(09:06):
have on your phone that are brand new, that are small.
I can think of several on my phone right now
that I'm like, hmm, what's going to happen when this
company can't continue to operate because their money is just
held up or not there. And so again, the repercussions
of this will be felt by consumers, by you and me.
It's a scary thing. I mean, you know, I've gone

(09:27):
through this once in my life, with this whole bust,
actually twice now. I remember specifically the bust of you know,
about nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and you know, we
saw all these tech companies just implode. And it was
the wild part was that the Super Bowl, I believe
it was probably nineteen ninety six, ninety seven something like that.

(09:49):
All of the commercials in the Super Bowl were startups
you'd never heard of in your life, pets dot Com
and all these different companies. And you sat there and
he said, how did they afford super Bowl commercials?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Howdid this pets dot Com I've never heard of?

Speaker 1 (10:02):
How can they go up against all these pet companies
that we know and love, like a pet Co or something.
And sure enough, yeah, it was it was all just
you know, it was all before its time. Now, tech
companies have taken ten years to recover from that moment,
and they've learned a lot from that. And then of
course we saw the housing bust in two thousand and
eight and that was a big deal, and of course

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the government bailed out a lot of big financial firms
during that time. So this will be another lesson learned.
It's not over yet.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
I know.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
It's not the exciting way to start the show that
I typically do, and you know, I feel like it's
important just because we need to understand that when one
thing unravels, it has effects on the rest of our world,
whether it's you, whether it's me, whether these startups, and
as just a human I feel for these people that
are sitting there just very uncertain right now. I mean,

(10:52):
we're only twenty four forty eight seventy two hours into
this and there's still a lot ahead, all Right, we
got a lot more coming up on the show. We're
going to talk about that a little bit more later
on in the show. I've got kaya Yurief in south
By Southwest and Austin, Texas. She said that already that
is the talk of the town. So we're going to
talk to her about what founders are saying down there. Also,

(11:15):
we're gonna talk about the yellow iPhone. Yes, this week
Apple released a new iPhone that's just a different color,
so we'll talk about that. Facebook is making a big
change to Facebook Messenger, kind of doing it about face,
so we'll talk about that.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Plus.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
My other guests this week include John Faulkner from Clean
Fleet Report, We're gonna talk evs, and Jefferson.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Graham Live in studio.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
You may know him as the former editor at USA
Today Talking Tech. He's going to join me here live
plus your calls at triple eight Rich one oh one.
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(11:57):
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Speaker 3 (12:09):
What a week. This was a this was a this
was a week for me man.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I mean, it's so interesting that so many of these
tech events and things were sort of sidelined for many,
many years, like three years. I'm talking virtual events with Google, Apple,
you know, Facebook, whatever you name it. These companies all
just you know, went to hibernation for a couple of years,
and so all these events that I would go to
and all these things I get invited to just kind

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of stopped. And it was nice because it was relaxing.
The bad side is that now everything's starting up again.
I guess it's not bad, it's just it went from
like zero to one hundred. So I just rattle off
to my wife every week, like how many things I'm
getting invited to that either I can't go to or
it's just conflicting or whatever. And you got to pick

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and choose because it's a lot of travel. I got
two kids. Can't go to everything, right, But I did
go to a couple of things this week. First off, Vegas,
so this was I was actually supposed to shoot a
story there on Monday, but at the last minute it
got kind of canceled.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
And the story is really cool. It's can I talk
about it? Maybe I shouldn't.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's a company that's starting up that's uh, they're remote
remote driving cars. Let's put it that way. So this
car that's driving you is actually remotely driven. So it's
it's I don't want to give the whole thing away
right now, because I do want to do a story
with them, and it's just so super super cool. But
if you like, let's just put it this way, if

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your kid is playing video games with one of those
like you know, steering wheel controllers at this point, they
may have a future with this startup because that's basically
what they're doing, except they're driving real cars on real
streets from a remote place. So anyway, that got canceled.
So my wife and I were supposed to go to
Vegas anyway and pick up this story, and so we're like,
you know what, let's just go.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
So we be lined it to Vegas.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
And as a tech person, I am always interested in
seeing sort of tech in action, right, So no matter
what I mean, I think there's this like term for
like people always be closing, for like a you know, salesperson.
For me, it's ABT always be testing. So when I'm
doing something, and I mentioned this last time, how I

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went to the airport and I charged my cars and
wanted to see how the charging works, the EV charging
at the airport. So you know, it takes a little
bit longer, and it takes it's a little bit more
in depth for me, you know, involved I should say,
bringing multiple phones, trying out multiple apps. But anyway, let
me go through the different things that I was sort
of testing along the way, just on a regular trip

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to Vegas. And I know people love or hate Vegas.
I'm one of those people that I love it when
I am anticipating going there, and I hate the drive
home or I hate coming home because you're not feeling
so good, you know what I mean. So let's start
with the parking. So at Lax, reserve the parking online,
which they they just readed all the parking at Lax

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and so it's all high tech, it's all new. Of
course they increased the price, but I reserve my parking online,
and there isn't a thing that I'm there's always a
lesson in all this stuff. But the reason why I
mentioned this is because you should always try to do
stuff online or through the app as much as possible
right now, because this is where all the companies are
trying to get you to go, and so they're giving
you some discounts. So by booking my parking online, it

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was cheaper than driving up and booking it in person
or just taking a ticket, So I saved like twenty
thirty bucks. The thing I thought was cool about it,
and I wondered if they did this, But they asked
me to put my license plate in the account when
I paid for my parking, and I was like, I
wonder if they're going to like automatically let me into
the parking lot when it does a read of my
license plate. And sure enough, I've drove up to the

(15:40):
little guard rail and the thing just rose when it
saw my license plate. So I thought that was pretty cool.
And then I was like, all right, let's see if
they're really good. Let's see if this works on the exit.
And sure enough I didn't have to pull out a ticket.
I didn't have to do anything. I just drove to
the exit of the parking garage. It recognized my license
plate once again, the little pole lifted, and it was great.

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At the airport, I got a salad from this vending
machine they call Farmer's Fridge, but I thought was pretty cool.
So it's a high tech vending machine that has fresh
salads in there. And what's neat about this is that
it's just neat. I mean to have They emailed me
because once I tweeted about they have six hundred fridge
and wholesale locations nationwide. I had no idea. This is

(16:22):
like a logistical nightmare to get these fresh salads across
the nation to all of these different vending machines, but
it was excellent on my way. I use this app
called Flighty if you want a really good flight tracking app.
But I'm gonna talk more about spring break apps and
a little bit, but this one is called Flighty. It's
really the most beautiful tracking app for flights you could
ever imagine on iOS. And yes, you're gonna have to

(16:45):
pay if you really want the best features. But what
I love about this app is that it looks back
through all of your previous flights and it will show
you how many miles you've flown and how many different
times you've gone to different places. So I can look
at my lifetime miles and see that I've gone five
hundred and thirty one thousand miles two hundred and forty

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eight twenty one point three times around the world, and
I've been to forty six airports twelve countries, and I've
flown for fifty one days.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
This is all just what they found in my email,
and it only goes back to uh well, twenty thirteen
according to them. But anyway, that's the kind of cool stuff.
And then when you're in Vegas, Oh my gosh, has
tech taken over? I remember when there were little change
carts and buckets for coins, and now it is all
cash less. I mean, I guess it's not cashless, it's

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just cash. And those cash machines, by the way, they
don't even give you change. When you've got, like, you know,
twenty one dollars and twenty two cents to cash out,
they just give you the twenty one bucks and then
you could donate the rest of charity, many many more things.
I'll talk more about Vegas after the break. Phone lines
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the first try. Try calling again. All right, So south

(18:21):
By Southwest is happening in Austin, Texas. It is one
of my favorite things to go to, even though I
have not been there in a while. It's just it's
it's always just right after CS and you know, I'm anyway,
so uh Kaya Yuif is a reporter for the Information
and she is down there, and Kaya, how is it Welcome.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
To the show, Hi Rich, thanks for having me. I mean,
it feels like it's back. I was here last year
and it was firstly attended. We were coming out of Omicron.
Still there were all sorts of restrictions, so there's tons
of hus one bustle. The events are very busy, so
it does feel like we're.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Back in action here now.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
South By Southwest IF for the uninitiated, is kind of
it started out as like a music festival and then
it was music interactive and oh film, So there's like
three kind of tracks at this festival, and tech is
a big part of it, and a lot of tech
folks go there to talk about stuff and to discuss
kind of the issues or things that are happening in

(19:24):
the industry. But it's also a place where many startups
have gotten their start, Like I mean, I think Twitter, Kaya,
can you help me out here?

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Was it Twitter? Like yep?

Speaker 5 (19:32):
Twitter, Fourth Square? There were a few really big ones
that came out of it.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, so every year I would go and I would
just kind of walk around and see what the startups were,
which ones looked cool, and of course they were always
giving out like little swag. And you know, the thing
is everyone's trying to get your attention. That's really what
it comes down to. If you're a startup, they're all
just trying to get your attention. So kaya, first off,
the big news of the day this SVB, this Silicon

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Valley Bank.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
I assume that's just what everyone talking about.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yeah, I mean absolutely, you have you know, on one hand,
you have the festival attack, people are excited, but you
do have this news of Fulican Valley Bank's implosion hanging
over the kickoffs, you know, as founders and vcs descended
on Austin yesterday. So we're telling me they were scrapping
their evening plans or you know, trying to just navigate
the unfolding situation. So pretty much every conversation that, every

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conversation I've had with people has touched on a sub.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
And so my sort of thought is that this is
obviously just starting. This is just the beginning. I'm not
saying other banks will fail. I mean, we don't know
if that's going to happen or not, but it does
have repercussions throughout the industry that we may not understand
just yet. I mean, a lot of these startups use
this bank and may not have access to their capital
at this point, right.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
Yeah, definitely, The Information has done a ton of reporting
on this. I Mean, the big issue immedia issue is
making payroll, so startups are really trying to figure that out.
You know, it's possible a buyer will come in as well.
So this is really unfolding and could change by the minute,
or the day or the hour.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
So besides that, what is kind of what is some
of the main themes you're seeing this year? I mean,
obviously crypto is always kind of a lingering in the
tech world.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Is that a big thought this year?

Speaker 5 (21:20):
So it's funny because last year it was you could
not escape crypto. There were flyers everywhere for crypto projects.
One of the most popular activations was from Doodles, which
was an NFT project that's very pastel you pastel themes,
there were long lines to get into it. This year
it's pretty much crickets. I mean, there are still webs
three and crypto panels going on, but the big scene

(21:43):
is definitely AI. So we've done this, this pivot from
crypto to AI. Last year I went to a brunch
for women in Websterree and this year I was invited
to an AI brunch, So you're really seeing kind of
the sharp move to AI here this year.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
I feel like with the tech industry at this point,
it is like just imagine a bunch of people like
sitting in a in an auditorium and just looking over
the left ah, looking over to the right, ah, looking
over to the middle AH. So it's like all these
different things that the industry kind of fixates on. Crypto
definitely had its time. It seems like there's less interest

(22:19):
these days, clearly because of what happened with FTX and
all the collapse of that. But now AI, I don't
see the same future for that like AI. Well, there's
also VR was in there where people were all excited
about VR, which I still think is gonna happen, but
it's AI has seemed to happen the fastest out of
anything we've seen so far.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Would that be kind of accurate?

Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah, definitely, And I think the focus is really on
generative AI so we've seen obviously open ais chat GBT
takes the world by storm over the past few weeks
and months. So it's not even it's AI, but it's
also generative AI and kind of what the applications can
look like.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, explain can you explain that a little bit? What
does that mean?

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (22:56):
I think the difference is it's tangible, right, you can
go into this chat box and ask it to write
something for you and it does it. Whereas I think
with a lot of these webs free and crypto applications,
it was still, you know, very much still an idea
versus the tech wasn't totally there yet. So I think
that's part of the reason. But I think it's also
really useful and has really strong consumer application.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
I mean, I know personally, I've been using the bing
ai since I got access to the wait list feature,
you know, like the bing dot com slash new, and
I've now been using it on a daily basis because
it's so interesting, especially having it on my phone. Like
the other night, I was at a concert and there
was three artists, and typically I would look up those
artists on Google and just get like a little background
of them, and you know, Google has its way of

(23:39):
kind of putting different information front and center when you
Google someone, but with this being AI, it pretty much
gives me like a biography of them that's sort of
written up just for me, And it's just a whole
different way of thinking about getting information, which I think
is really fascinating to me.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah, definitely. So we've we've seen a lot of that.
I haven't got for a ton of sessions yet on
jener to AI, but it's very hard to escape this
year now.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
You cover creator economy in.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
A big way.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yes, I do, So tell me about that. I mean,
what's what's going on with that? Especially at south By
and are we seeing anything new with that?

Speaker 6 (24:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (24:16):
I think with the Creator company. The main event that
I went to yesterday was an event thrown by Doing
Things Media. It's a meme account that raised over twenty
million dollars in VC funding last year. They're behind popular
Meana accounts, and they actually acquired another meme account called Overheard.
I don't know if you know overheard La, but it's
a pretty funny account. So they threw a big party yesterday.
It's interesting because last year there were companies like Patreon.

(24:39):
The membership platform for fans and creators who had a
big event. I don't think they have a big presence
this year. So I think a lot of startups are
just feeling kind of the change in the economy and
they're they're not really spending the dollars as much as
last year, but they're certainly our creators here.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Did you just say that a meme account raised twenty how.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
Much more than twenty million dollars last year?

Speaker 7 (25:01):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Twenty million dollars for memes. This is the stuff that
we're talking about that you scroll through on Instagram and
it looks like it's sort of hacked together by someone,
and these are these are business. This is a big
business behind this. I've never heard of this company doingthings
dot com this.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Is media, yeah, oh doing things? Yeah, this is wild.
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
Yes, there was an Instagram fame. It's Corky at the
event yesterday as well. Who has one million followers on
Instagram name vaccine. So okay, well that celebrity.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Sighting that I get.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
I mean, I get the fact that these animals on Instagram.
I mean, look Instagram. Now hold on about this whole thing, though,
I've got this article about about Instagram pausing their reels
play bonus.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
So have you heard that?

Speaker 1 (25:47):
And you know this is basically if you've saw a
lot of reels on your Instagram feed, it's because they
were paying creators a bonus for doing these things. And
that bonus at the beginning was a lot, and then
of course it became less and less as we went on.
But now they're going to say they're not going to
do this anymore over the next thirty days are kind
of like sunsetting it.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Do you think that will have an impact at all?

Speaker 5 (26:08):
Yeah, I mean we've seen this kind of pull back
across the board. I mean, these tech companies saw such
rich engagement during pandemic lockdowns. They were trying to rival
the rise of TikTok. So a lot of these platforms,
not just Instagram, rolled out all sorts of cash incentives
for creators. But you know, now these companies are laying
off workers and they're not as flush with cast they're
not able to make those investments. So, you know, I

(26:30):
think these programs were always a nice bonus for creators
and it was nice to be able to get that cash,
but creators know that they can't rely on those programs
because they come and go. I think what's been most
reliable is partnerships with brands as well as YouTube has
you know, long been kind of the leader in terms
of directly making money from a platform through their ad
revenue sharing. So I do think it's it's obviously going

(26:53):
to have a hit on creators' earnings, but I think
the creators who are really savvy know that they have
to just take adage of the cash when it's there.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
And at the same time, YouTube just unleashed shorts revenue,
so you creators for the first time are making money
based on ads on their shorts. So that's a good
thing there.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
Yeah, and YouTube actually used to have a fund for
sports and they moved to the ad revenue sharing model,
so we make the Instagram go that route as well.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
All right, Kaya Yurif. How can folks find you?

Speaker 5 (27:24):
You can find me on Twitter at k Urif and
you can also subscribe to my newsletter at the Information
about the Creator Economy.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
All right, you're gonna get some barbecue while you're down there.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
Oh absolutely.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
I wonder if they're doing like vegan barbecue. I mean,
you get to you know, you gotta please everyone.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Right, totally. I'm further.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
But you're not doing that one. That's I just be curious.
I'm not that I'm vegan, but I just be curious,
you know.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Yeah, barbecue for me, all.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Right, get some good stuff, all right, Thanks so much
for joining me here on the show. All right, coming
up Southwest, south by Southwest just one of my favorite
Austin in general, just one of my favorite cities.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I don't even know why I said the vegan thing.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I probably just upset a lot of people because when
you're going to Austin barbecue, you're not really thinking about
getting vegan barbecue. But I'm just saying I'm curious. I
you know, there's so many new things happening. I mean,
look at the like the milks that you can get
in your coffee. Right you go there and there's like
a list of like one hundred different milks you can
get now, made from everything from oats to almonds and bananas.

(28:23):
So anyway, I was just curious. Don't don't send me
the hate mail, all right. Phone lines are open at
triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
seven four to two four to one zero one.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
My name is rich Dmiro.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
rich on Tech. My name is rich Dmiro, tech reporter
at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Every week in the show, I talk.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
About some of the things that I've posted to my
social media and this.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Week, let's see did I do a lot?

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Oh? Yeah, I did so I posted, Uh, let's see
I've got at rich on Tech is where you can
find me on Instagram. Posted some pictures from my trip
to Vegas I talked about earlier. Oh you gotta see this,
I posted. I'm We're gonna talk a little bit later
about this car, but the Lucid Air EV. So this
Lucid car you've probably started just started seeing them on

(29:15):
the streets if you live anywhere in California. Maybe not elsewhere,
but it is an incredible EV that's very high end.
So this one I drove was like over one hundred
thousand dollars, So we're talking luxury EV. This is not
for everyone, believe me, but it'd be nice, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
So I've got a video.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
They took us in this car and we went zero
to sixty in about three zero point four seconds. And
I'm not kidding. I was not prepared for that at all,
like really not prepared, and so this captures the reality
of my reaction, which I've never seen me react like
this to anything, so you can check that out. I

(29:55):
also every time it rains in Los Angeles, I post
the same exact video of me in this get up.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
It's a pod.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's called the walking Pod, and it looks like a
giant wearable hamper. And we recorded this video three years
ago at this point, maybe four years ago at this point,
and it went viral and every time I post it,
it still goes again, every single time. So I posted
a new kind of clip of just me walking down

(30:24):
the street in this thing, so you can see how
silly I look. And then of course I posted some
pictures from the week in review. Let me tell you
about Facebook. By the way, if you're trying to call in,
I believe it looks like we had a little bit
of an issue with that in case you couldn't tell.
But if you're trying to call in, I think it
all seems to be resolved at this point. Kim is
standing by waiting for your call at triple eight rich

(30:46):
one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
four to one zero one. I'd blame it on the
time change, but that hasn't happened yet, so we'll see
what happens next week. I know I'm always a little
off with that time change, so maybe the lines we're
just sleepy today. Facebook making a major change. They put
out this blog post this week saying, hey, contrary to

(31:07):
popular reports, we're not dying.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
We're not dead.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
In fact, we've got two billion people using our service
every single day. People are using Facebook for more than
just connecting with friends and family, but also to discover
and engage what's important to them, which is true. I'd
probably agree with that. I think that I've seen even
on my Facebook feed that they are using a lot
more AI to kind of figure out what goes in

(31:32):
that feed. You don't realize that these tech companies are
scanning everything you're uploading. So even you know, back in
the day of Instagram, you would put hashtags on things,
those are almost not even necessary because Facebook and Instagram
know more about what you're in TikTok and Twitter. They
know more about what you're posting about than we do.
They're scanning your images, they're scanning your videos, They're slicing

(31:54):
and dicing to figure out exactly what content is in
there and then using that information to serve this up
to other people. They're not doing it to be nice
to you. They're doing it for the benefit of their platform,
because the more people that interact with things that people post,
the better. And if you post something really interesting it
just happens to be a video of a waterfall and
you don't say anything about it, they know, okay, we're

(32:15):
going to show this to people that like pictures of
waterfalls in Hawaii and you didn't even have to say anything.
So Facebook is kind of doing it about face. I
don't know if you remember this a couple of years ago,
so back I had to look this up. It was
like in two thousand. It was a while ago. I
can't remember. It's twenty fourteen maybe that they said, you
know what, We're gonna split off Facebook Messenger from the

(32:36):
main Facebook app. And people went nuts, myself included, because
I said, why why do we need a separate app
for Facebook Messenger. It's so much easier to have it
all built into one thing, And they did it. People
downloaded Facebook Messenger. Facebook Messengers become very popular, but now
Facebook is saying, you know what, We're going to rethink
that little decision. We're now going to build messaging back

(32:59):
into the main Facebook app. Wait what, why are they
doing this? Well, they're doing this because of a little
app called TikTok. And the reason they're doing this is
because TikTok's really good at showing you stuff, videos that
you want to see, or maybe you didn't want to see,
or you just didn't even know existed. But the problem is,
TikTok is not a very good social network. You may

(33:21):
send those videos to your friends, but it's not in
the same way that you can post it to your
Facebook or to share it on Instagram. And so now
Facebook is thinking, okay, this might be a pretty killer
solution we have where people can watch stuff on our
platform and also share it to their friends on our platform.
And that is why they are now testing building messaging
back into Instagram. So are back into Facebook. So don't

(33:44):
be surprised if you log into Facebook and you get
this little window that says, hey, did you know you
can message in Facebook again? You're gonna say, wait, I'm confused.
I thought I need a Facebook Messenger to do that.
I thought they took it out of Facebook. Now they're
putting it back in, So it's been long enough. I
think it was twenty fourteen when they did that, so
it's been a while. All right, let's take our first call.

(34:07):
John is in mission viah John, you're on with.

Speaker 8 (34:10):
Rich Okay, thank you. I've got to go from Windows
eight point one because it's at its EOL, so I'm
going to have to go to either Windows ten or
Windows eleven. I do very basic stuff on my computer,
mostly financial stuff, and I was wondering which is going
to be the easier operating system to use, either ten

(34:35):
or eleven? Which one do you think is going to
be better for me to use long term?

Speaker 3 (34:40):
What do you do on your computer?

Speaker 8 (34:44):
Mainly just email and then online access to my different accounts,
and I'd like to do some scanning.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Okay, oh scanning? Interesting? Okay?

Speaker 1 (35:00):
What about so you're most of what you're doing is
happening inside a web browser, like email and all that.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Kind of stuff and connecting tier counts.

Speaker 8 (35:09):
So I mean I've been running the Windows Live email program.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Okay, So you're using that, okay, which is a nice
email program. I think that's fine. It'll change a little
bit when you get to new version of Windows. But
here's what I'd recommend, So I'd say just skip over
to Windows eleven. Windows eleven is pretty much a version
of Windows ten. I think the biggest leap is going
to this new software in general from Windows eight. I mean,

(35:36):
Windows ten is a whole different kind of look and feel.
So why go to Windows ten when it's going to
be supported for a couple more years. You mentioned EOL
that means end of life, so Windows eight means it's
it's not getting active software updates. Windows ten will get
software updates until October fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Windows eleven

(35:58):
is pretty much the operating system, which is the one
I'd go with. They just came out the big ol'
update for it, so I say take the plunge, do
the big update to Windows eleven. Learn the system, and
it's gonna last for a long time because Windows eleven
is very very new. So I would just skip to
the eleven and not worry about the ten portion, because

(36:19):
why learn something twice? Just learn it once? All right,
John and Mission Viejo, thanks so much for calling today.
Do appreciate it. Phone lines are open at Triple eight
rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to
two four one zero one. Coming up in the show,
we're going to talk to John Faulkner of Clean Fleet Report.
We're gonna talk EV's and his favorite evs right now,
Plus in studio guest Jefferson.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Graham is going to join me formerly of USA Today.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
He's going to talk about taking better pictures with your
iPhone and all kinds of other stuff you're.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Listening to rich on Tech. More of the show coming
up after this.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is rich DeMuro,
hanging out here talking technology with you at Triple eight
rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four
two four.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
To one zero one.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
I'll tell you about the new ring video doorbell in
just a little bit, but first let's get to Richard
in Georgia.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Richard, I like your name.

Speaker 9 (37:19):
You're on with rich Hey, Rich great job. By the way,
I've been listening to you since you took over for Leo.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
No thank you. Appreciate that.

Speaker 9 (37:28):
I've got a home studio and I'm looking to move
my control room from the same room into another room
for better sound isolation. That way I can hear the
audio coming through the gear and not you know, physically
in person. But obviously I don't want to cut a
hole in the wall between the two bedrooms. That's not
very good for reseal all that, you know, resell of

(37:49):
the house.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
But well, how long are you gonna stay here? I
mean maybe maybe this is a long term plan, right.

Speaker 9 (37:55):
Well, at least a few years. But I was wondering
if if there's like a digital solution for that. Maybe
I was thinking maybe a march or on one side,
monitor on the other in a camera.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yeah, that's one of them. That's that's that's a start.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
It's funny you say this because I went to my
friend's house in the Las Vegas area, he's a musician,
and he showed me he had done exactly what you're
talking about, but he cut the hole in the wall.
So he had a great setup. I mean it was
a whole studio. He had all the little streaming cameras
set up. Everything was was really really like slick. So
I get it. The window is probably the best way

(38:35):
to go. But if you don't want to do that,
and you know the best the next best thing is
to probably.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Do some webcams.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Okay, Yeah, it's funny because when I when I first
got into the not radio business, but TV back in
the day when I was a journalism student. I will
never forget when they told us that the control room
is not overlooking the studio. It was like, you know
where I work at Katla, it's a whole different area.

(39:03):
I mean, it's not in the same building. Well it
used to not be, now it iss But the reality
is that, yeah, you can do all kinds of stuff
from anywhere now because of how good technology's gotten. So
I just happened to be at the Spotify. I took
a big, a big tour of the Spotify studios here
in Los Angeles. They have an incredible facility and Richard,
you would be you would love to see.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
These things, have to check that out.

Speaker 7 (39:28):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
But they showed me the studio where they do all
the recordings for sort of like you know where artists
come in. So I'm looking at some of my pictures here.
They just have a whole bunch of instruments, just tons
of instruments that people can choose from. So they come
in there and they just pick something and they want
them to be They actually said they want them to
be different than what they typically use because that feeds
the curiosity or the sorry, the creativity, right.

Speaker 9 (39:50):
Absolutely yeah, they get your brain going, it makes you
think out of the box. Yeah, absolutely right.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
And now I'm looking, I'm looking at their studio and
their control room does have windows overlooking the studio. Uh,
they've got probably a giant panel of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Oh,
probably about forty five what do they call mixer pots
or something whatever boards?

Speaker 9 (40:11):
Yeah, the headphone mixers.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Yeah, there's a lot of them there, so I don't
know how extended. But but here's my point about all
this is because here's what I learned. The term that
I learned when I was there is called PTZ.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Have you heard of that term?

Speaker 9 (40:25):
No?

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Okay, So that is a pan tilt and zoom. So
a PTZ camera. As soon as you look this thing up,
you will recognize it. This is pretty much what these
studios are using, not only to live stream, but also
you can use it to sort of monitor what's happening
in there. So I think you can do dual use
with this. But I would recommend taking a look at

(40:48):
a couple of those and installing them very good.

Speaker 9 (40:51):
I didn't think about. Yeah, a control in the pan
and zoom in in the tilt. That's great, that's a
great idea.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Yeah, because you could go you can go with a
standard camera, but you know, without that move and it's
just one big wide angle. But you know, why not,
if you're gonna be building this thing out, why not
spend a little bit more and get something that's more
flexible that will enable you to either connect with the
people that are in this studio a little bit more
monitor them. If you want a really cheap solution, have

(41:18):
you heard of the company whys Yes, So Whise makes
a pan and tilt camera that's very inexpensive. I mean,
let's let's see how much theirs is. It is there
on version three of it. It is thirty three dollars
and ninety nine cents. So if you want something very inexpensive,
that's one way to go. But if you want to

(41:39):
get one of the more expensive PTZ cameras, you know,
I'm seeing them on I was just looking them up quickly,
and there's you know, Best Buys got some for about
four hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
But they go up.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
They can get up pretty expensive, so they can go
up to a couple thousand. But that's that's probably what
I recommend and maybe get like a you know, while
you're while you're at it, get you know, like a
zoom set up, Like maybe put one of these monitors
in the corner that people can zoom in so that
way you can just connect they can see your face,
you know, over the zoom. But there's a lot you
can do here. I mean, all this stuff is off

(42:09):
the shelf and very much doable, and people are doing
this every day, So I think that it's just a
matter of kind of figuring out what you want the capabilities,
and just having fun with it.

Speaker 9 (42:19):
Very cool. I appreciate that it's a lot of great
information and I look forward to checking out some more
out in the LA area once I get back out
to California. Awesome and to longin it's been out there.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah, ring me up and we'll see if we can
get back into the Spotify studios, see if they'll let
me back in once. Once these companies, once they let
you out, they kind of like close the door behind
you and they're like, Okay, we'll see you never again. No,
I'm just kidding, right, especially since I worked for iHeart,
So we'll see anyway, all right, Richard, thanks so much
for joining me today.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (42:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
All right, have a good one.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
All right, let me tell you about the speaking of
video cameras, let me tell you about the new Ring
Video doorbell, so brand new battery doorbell Plus. It's called
I think Ring has way too many video doorbells at
this point. You go to their website and you're just like,
which one do I get? Because there are so many.
There used to be one Ring video doorbell. Now there

(43:15):
is a lineup of all different types, some plug in,
some are battery, some are new, some have higher resolution.
But the battery doorbell Plus is pretty much their standard
selection video doorbell. It's a little higher end, so it
gives you some new features. The number one feature I
think you're gonna like is that the battery life is

(43:35):
up to three times better than the standard Ring video doorbell.
Now they say the original, So now does that mean
when the original came out like ten years ago? What
do they mean by that? So I'm gonna have to
test this and see just how much battery. I've got
a Ring video doorbell with the battery, and I'm replacing
the battery probably every I'd say, maybe every four months,

(43:59):
and it doesn't lie as long as i'd like, but
I do have two batteries, so I just swap them
out and that makes life. By the way, a little
pro tip, just swap them out so much easier. Just
go on the Ring website. If you've got one of
these video doorbells that you're swapping the battery and you're
taking the battery out and you're charging it and you're
putting it back in, just just buy a secondary battery
and keep that one charging and then you can just

(44:19):
swap them out and that way you're never without your
your video doorbell. So this is their first doorbell launch
in two years. The biggest difference you're gonna notice with
the video is that it has a brand new viewing
angle one hundred and fifty degrees by one hundred and
fifty degrees field of view, so it's a one to
one aspect ratio, so it's not like sixteen by nine.

(44:40):
I think the Google one is more like that. But
this will give you a head to toe view of
your visitors, which is kind of cool. Then also you
can see if you have a package at your front door.
Because the field of view is so wide, up and
down and left and right, you can see the floor,
so that's really handy because that's something that was greatly
missing in the Ring video doorbells from yesteryear. The resolution

(45:05):
is also better. It's got the highest HD resolution of
any battery doorbell at fifteen thirty six p, so it's
a decent resolution. It's probably you know, it's pretty reasonable.
So that's that's very good because sometimes people talk about
how the resolution of these video doorbells just isn't very good.
So fifteen thirty six will will provide a pretty good

(45:27):
view of what's happening there. And it does have color
night vision as well. So how much this is one
hundred and seventy nine dollars. It will start shipping on
April fifth. I will tell you this may be enough
for me to update my Ring video doorbell. It's been
been a while since I got one, and so I
think that this is probably about time to do it.

(45:49):
One hundred and eighty dollars. The only thing I would
caution you on is paying full price. Ring products like
Amazon products, because they're owned by Amazon, they do typically
go on sale one, two, maybe three times a year,
so I would wait until one of those things goes
on sale. One of those special days they have. Usually
it's around a holiday, obviously during Prime Day, but I

(46:13):
would wait one hundred and eighty bucks. Still decent deal,
but I think you can get it for cheaper. I
think you could probably get that price down to maybe
fifty dollars less than that. So something'll look out for
for sure. Google Io happening in person May tenth.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Google Io is Google's big, big developers conference. I've been
to this many many times. It's one of my favorites
of the year because they pretty much show you all
the cool stuff they've been working on at Google. And
this year should be very exciting because we're going to
see their new AI. I think they're gonna wait to
show us barred in a big way until Google Io

(46:51):
comes out on May tenth, so I.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Will be there.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
This is happening in Mountain View, California, Shoreline Amphitheater. It's
a limited live audience, but I was lucky and I
got an invite from Google, so I will definitely be
taking advantage of that. Love I'd love the Google stuff.
These Googlers are just so nerdy and fun. They're like
my people, you know. I just love chatting with them,
I can be like, hey, answer me this question about
how Android auto works. Like you get to talk to

(47:15):
the actual engineers that program this stuff. And so for
me that's always a delight because there's only so much
you can get by looking at the stuff they put
online or playing with yourself.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Other things expected.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
To be seen at Google Io twenty twenty three Pixel
seven a that is going to be an inexpensive pixel device.
Also the Pixel tablet, that's exciting because we haven't seen
a good Android tablet in a while. And maybe even
the Pixel fold their foldable phone, and maybe a pixel
tracker as well. And of course Android fourteen they'll probably

(47:46):
show off that too.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
All right, coming up on.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
The show, we're going to talk about evs. Plus what
else do I have going on here? Oh, we're gonna
talk about spring break apps. I've been testing a bunch
of them. So I told you about flighty earlier. I've
got plenty more where that came from. Be a call
triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven
four to two four to one zero one.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
You're listening to rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you on a well, you know, some of
you are listening live, some of your listening later. So
I'm just hanging out with you eight eight eight rich
one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two,
four to one zero one. I usually do some feedback
at the end of the show, but since Bob just

(48:28):
emailed me and said, great job on your show, but
one suggestion, since you're broadcasting nationwide to people who may
or may not know California cities, instead of saying Chatsworth
or call from Northridge, you might want to add California.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Just a suggestion. Thanks for all you do fun stuff.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Uh, you know this is so interesting, Bob, because this
is I struggle with this also on KTLA because I'm
i mean very LA centric, right, like I am located
in Los Angeles. The show broadcast Los Angeles, both KTLA
and this show. But you're right, my KTLA segment goes nationwide,
and so does this show, and so there's always that

(49:09):
line of making sure people are comfortable understanding what you're
talking about, where you're coming from, what you're doing, and
so on KTLA it's become you know, sometimes if there's
a city I'm referencing in a story that people outside
Los Angeles may not know. I say we went to

(49:30):
San Bernardino, California, and people in Los Angeles are watching
my story saying, wait, why is Rich saying.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
San Bernardino, California?

Speaker 1 (49:37):
Like, I know San Bernardino, I live right here, but
people that are watching in other cities like Chicago or
Honolulu may not know those places. So I agree that
is definitely something I need to get better at, and
I will do that for sure, because I take for
granted I think if I say Phoenix, I don't know
if I need to say Arizona. But if it's a
smaller city somewhere, maybe I'll just do that anyway. All right,

(49:59):
So I was only about Vegas earlier, and I kind
of want to continue that conversation because there was more
I had, more I had thoughts on. So I was
talking about how my wife and I went to Vegas
over the weekend. We didn't really do much except just
kind of enjoy you know, eating out, dinner and just
kind of shopping whatever. Not a huge gambler, but you know,

(50:21):
I do like playing some of these machines the kind
of fun. Sometimes I'm not going to spend a lot
of money on them because to me, it's you know,
I'd rather buy something with my money, but it's still fun.
But one thing I noticed is that the digitizing of
Vegas is really happening in a very fast way. And
I mentioned earlier how when I first started going to Vegas,

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they actually had people that would give out change. There'd
be people walking around these little carts that would change
your money. You would take a twenty dollars bill and
you'd get nickels in a role.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
I mean this is going back many many.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Years, but used to actually put coins in a machine
in Las Vegas, which nowadays is just so not the
thing you put money in. And we used to sit
there and play a nickel slot for an hour on
five ten bucks. And now, of course people feed twenties
and hundreds into these machines. But the slot machines are

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really getting high tech. I mean bigger and bigger and bigger.
Every time I go. I think at the Venetian wherever
I was, they're gonna have to open up the ceiling
because some of these machines are getting so large three
D screens, the sound effects. The other thing I noticed
is that all of these table games that used to
have dealers sitting there are now digital And so we

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went to the Paris Casino in Las Vegas and they
had this entire almost it looked like a nightclub area
where it was three dealers on a stage. One was
doing craps, one was doing blackjack, one was doing roulette,
but they were also sort of dancers and DJs at
the same time. So they're literally spinning music, spinning the

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roulette table, and everyone that's playing is playing on a
digital screen at a seat in front of them. So
imagine a little mini auditorium where it's kind of real
and kind of digital.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
It was a mix.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
That was the first time I've ever seen that, and
I saw that theme at various other hotels. It wasn't
just the Paris. I also saw that happening at Caesar's
and in general, I've just seen a lot more of
these games that were traditionally table games becoming digital.

Speaker 7 (52:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
As a tech person, I thought when they had USB
charging ports on the slot machines, that was cool until
I realized the security implications of that, and I'm not
a big fan. So now they have switched to wireless charging,
so while you're sitting there at a slot machine, you
can just put your phone down and it will wirelessly charge.
The other thing that I'm seeing is the idea of

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back in the day, you were not allowed to take
pictures in a casino, or it was frowned upon. Like
I specifically remember when we first started having cell phones
and casinos, they were just like no, no, no, can't take pictures.
And now, of course there's selfie stations, which is a
whole other thing. So it's just the changes that are
happening are happening rapidly, and if you're not watching them,

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you may not realize just how much of these things
are changing.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
Now.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
As a tech person, I find it very fascinating to
just watch this digital transformation of almost every industry and
in Vegas and almost everywhere. It's like we are doing
more and more on our own. It's much more self
service no matter what you're doing these days, and it's
almost like tech creep right where it's just it's creeping

(53:38):
up on us and we don't really realize that it's
all just changing very quickly. So I mentioned these spring
Break travel apps. I tested a bunch. I put a
piece on KTLA last week. I tested a whole bunch
of apps and here's the ones that I would recommend.
All right, So first off, if you need some help
with packing, the app is called pack point, So you
put in some details about your trip, where you're going,

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It looks at the weather and it just a list
based on the activities and whether where you're going. And
so that's called packpoint, and it's just a nice thing
if you're always forgetting something when you pack. Tripsy so
a lot of people like this app called trip it,
which puts an itinerate together for your travel. Tripsy is
a little bit more consumer oriented, and what I love
about it is once you put everything in there, then

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you can share it with friends and families. You can
share your whole itinerary. Now, when it comes to hotels,
you got to check out Google Hotels to see if
there's any cheap dates for where you're going. They will
mark things as deals because Google has so much data.
So definitely go to Google Hotels if you have not
done that. You gotta be careful though, because sometimes they
will lead you to some sort of random hotel sites

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that you don't want to book on, so just be careful.
And I also mentioned Flighty that is a beautiful flight
tracking app.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
On iOS.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
But if you're on Android, check out an app called
flight Aware. I love flight Aware because it gives you
really good flight alerts, especially if you have someone that's
coming into town. Flight Aware will help you know when
they take off, when they land, baggage, all that good stuff.
I've got this all linked up on my website at
Richontech dot TV. Coming up, we're gonna talk evs. You're

(55:10):
listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Rich DeMuro here talkin technology at triple eight Rich one
oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
four to one zero one. So this week had a
little fun with a EV called the Lucid. Lucid is

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a new car company that is building luxury evs, and
the one that I testdrove is the Lucid Air. And
this isn't a car that's very expensive. Let me let
me get the specs up here. We did the Touring edition.
So this one hundred and seven thousand dollars, dual motor,

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six hundred and twenty horsepower, three point four seconds zero
to sixty and by the way, the top of the
line goes zero to sixty in two point six seconds
with over a thousand horsepower. I am not a car guy,
but a thousand horsepower seems pretty pretty intense. Even this
six hundred and twenty was pretty intense. Battery is the

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thing about this company, and I think they're trying to
take that Apple model is efficiency. So the battery compared
to the software, they get about four hundred and twenty
five miles to the charge and that's the big lead here.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
All right.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
So while I was up in Ventura, I talked to
John Faulkner. He's a senior editor at clean Fleet Report.
They talk all about EV's. Enjoy our conversation, Rich DeMuro
here in Ventura, California, actually on a Lucid EV drive.
So I'm testing out a new car called the Lucid Air.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
This is a very high end EV. Expensive but it's.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Got a long range and it's really a luxury vehicle.
Joining me on the trip is John Faulkner. He is
the senior writer at cleanfleet Report dot com.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
He tests a lot of evs. John, thanks so much
for joining me.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Hey, Rich, fantastic all right, So what are your impressions
of this Lucid First off, the first.

Speaker 10 (57:13):
Thing is that it's one of four models that they have,
and they began with their first two models that were
over one hundred thousand dollars and this one is at
ninety two thousand dollars. Yes, it has a smaller battery,
but you're still going to be getting several hundred miles
in range. And we just drove it from Malibu through

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the mountains down here to Ventura and it handled extremely
well on the on the twisties and using regenitive braking.
I didn't touch the brakes on the whole time I
went through the mountains.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Oh wow, so you were just letting it kind of
it kind of slows down. That's a new experience for
a lot of folks if you haven't driven an EV.
What's happening in that In that scenario.

Speaker 10 (57:57):
Whenever you lift off the accelerator, and with an EV
you don't call it the gas pedal, it slows the motors.
And when the motors are slowing or it comes to
a stop, you are regenerating kinetic energy heat from the
motor back into the battery. You can actually watch on
the battery gauge. You can watch the you can watch

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the amount of charge rise.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
So you've been reviewing evs for a long time.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Is there increased interest or is it at interest at
all time highs at this point?

Speaker 10 (58:30):
Well, it certainly is. And I live in California, and
California is the center for electric vehicles in the United States.
And we have in this state the most robust built
out charging network and then people are doing solar panels,
people are putting level two chargers in their house, and

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so this state has really adopted electric vehicle propulsion.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
What if I live in another state, what what's the
state of affairs there?

Speaker 10 (59:04):
Several states are getting into building out their infrastructure also,
and the the current Inflation Reduction Act also called ira A,
billions are going into building out the the electric charging
infrastructure around the United States. But as far as individual

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states go, it really comes down to and I hate
to say it, but it's politics, and some states don't
want to believe in electric.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Vehicles.

Speaker 10 (59:36):
There are actually a couple of states that say that
they want to ban electric vehicles from being sold there.
And so this is this is not a nationwide grasping
of the technology. It certainly is along the coasts Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona,
Texas has a has a large ev population U as

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as does the Northeast.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
So what are some of the benefits to evs versus
the challenge of owning an EV.

Speaker 10 (01:00:08):
Well, the benefit is that every single time that you
drive down the street, you drive by a gasoline station
that has assigned five twenty five for gasoline, you can
just say oh and off you go, so you don't stop.
That's that's what's nice about that. The also owning an
EV versus a conventional internal combustion engine car is that

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you don't have tune ups. You you don't have there's
no fluids changed, there's no belts there the brakes I
mentioned regenerative braking. Actually what that is is that's the
motor slowing the vehicle. That means that the brakes, the
brake pads are not being used as much. There are
stories of people in some EV's going over one hundred

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thousand miles before they change their brake pads. So the
cost of maintenance is a serious consideration when it comes
down to owning an electric fevehicle. Since the average that
a person drives every day is forty five miles round trip.
If you have a vehicle that gets one hundred and
fifty to three hundred miles on a charge. You can

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figure out how you only have to do that. Vehicle
may charge it once once a week. But if you're
plugging it in every night, just like you would your
mobile phone every night, plug in your car at home,
you top off the battery and we're back to the
beginning of what we said. You drive by the gas
stations and you get that kind of a nice feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Now, whenever I do a story about EVS and post
it to my social media, I get the folks saying.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Well, what about these batteries.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
They're dirty, they can't be recycled, you can't do anything
with them.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
What can you speak to that at all? The battery
does it have a life after the car batteries?

Speaker 10 (01:01:49):
Absolutely do. They are being recycled in a way that
people probably didn't think several years ago they could be.
There are companies that are completely dedicated to recycling the batteries.
But it's it's not just recycling the components, which you've
heard the term rare earth metals. What they're doing is
they're taking these and there and they're making battery walls

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out of them, so you get solar panels on your roof. Well,
that's good, But overnight, when the sun's not hitting your panels,
you're now on the grid. Well, you have a battery
set up in your house, and now you can run
your battery. You can run off of the batteries from
the electric that you've created from the solar panels during
the day, so they're being repopulated for that. They're also

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there's the battery technology is increasing every single day. The
batteries we're using now in twenty twenty three, this will
not be the technology we're using five to ten years
from now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
What are some of your favorite or most exciting evs
out there?

Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
Besides the Lucid of course, I.

Speaker 10 (01:02:53):
Really like the Kia EV six or the performance version
of the.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
EV six GT.

Speaker 10 (01:03:01):
I like the Genesis GV sixty. I like the Hyundai
Ionic five. The common thread running through all those is
they're all they're all produced by the Hyundai Group, and
somehow Hundai has electric compulsion figured out. I like the
Machi from Ford. It's a very nice vehicle. I think

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they're probably the best value on the market. Is the Bolt,
whether you get the bolt or you get the one
called the EUV, which stands for Electric Utility Vehicle wonderful vehicle,
almost three hundred miles in range. The vehicle costs, you know,
around thirty thousand dollars, and it qualifies for all of
the all of the tax rebates for the Feds and

(01:03:46):
state rebates also. So those are some of them, but
there are. Every single day, it seems a manufacturer is
announcing they're coming out with electric vehicle. Now some of
them are quite exotic, and some of them are going
to be hopefully on the on the lower end, and

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so that that's going to be the shakeout is an
EV for everybody. They're not for everybody, and we need
to we need to stress that that's either because of
their driving lifestyle, what they do, their vocation. And another
thing is going to be the charging situation, and that

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is that here in California, where it's temperate, you plug
in your vehicle and you're going to get a maximum charge.
When you go into a climate that is cold, and
I don't mean fifty degrees, I mean maybe you know,
thirty or thirty below, that vehicle is going to have
a reduction in the amount that the battery can charge

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and also the range that you can drive the vehicle.
So most evs are coming out now with what are
called battery conditioners. They raise the battery before you charge it.
They raise the battery up to the proper temperature so
they can accept a full charge. So the technology is
changing every single day and it's exciting.

Speaker 11 (01:05:10):
And if.

Speaker 10 (01:05:13):
You pay attention to ads almost Super Bowl, you will
see that everything advertised there was an electric vehicle, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
John Faulkner of the Clean Fleet Report, tell folks how
to find.

Speaker 10 (01:05:26):
You cleanfourport dot com. And what you'll find there is
that we cover what we consider what we consider alternative
fuel vehicles, and so that's anything that's electrified natural gas,
hydrogen fuel cell, which is another form of electricity powered
vehicles which we did not discuss, and that would also

(01:05:47):
include diesel.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
All right, thanks for joining me today.

Speaker 10 (01:05:49):
It's been my pleasure.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
If you want to see a little video from my
test drive of the Lucid, we did a zero to
sixteen about three point four seconds. I was not exactly
prepared for it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
It's pretty wild.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
You can find that on my Instagram at rich On Tech.
I'm Rich Dumuro more of rich On Tech. After this,
welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here plus
your calls at eight eight eight rich one oh one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

(01:06:23):
I finished that Elvis movie last night. I don't know
if you've seen this, but it's the one it's I
called it, and I I called it the Tom Hanks
Elvis movie, and I realized that I was wrong because
this was before I saw it. It's really the Austin
Butler Elvis movie. But I wasn't familiar with this actor

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before I watched it, and wow, he did a great job.
I know I'm very late on this movie because I
see things sometimes with movies. It takes me a long time,
and it took me two weeks to finish this movie,
but it was. It was really good, and I tweeted
yesterday saying, I hope it's accurate because almost all of
my knowledge of Elvis now is from this movie, and

(01:07:05):
so I hope that it was at least somewhat accurate
because that's all I know about Elvis. And wow, I
mean just such just a visually stunning movie. So if
you haven't seen it, definitely check it out. Took me
a bit to get on board with it, but I did.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Phone lines are open at triple eight Rich one one
eight eight eight seven four to two four to one
zero one.

Speaker 3 (01:07:29):
Let me do a question.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
I get a lot of questions via email, so let
me do a question I got from Roslind. She says, Hey, Rich,
what are your recommendations regarding a laptop versus an iPad
from Microsoft Office? I use it for personal nothing too fancy.
Thanks in advance, Roz Roz. Here is my thought about
a laptop versus an iPad. Okay, laptop is great if

(01:07:52):
you are getting work done. It is a phenomenal work
device you want to do You mentioned Microsoft Office. That
leads me to believe that you want to do work
on this device, whether it is email, whether it is
writing documents, whether it is creating something anything. That's what

(01:08:13):
I think a laptop is best for. The iPad is
a phenomenal device, But the iPad is more of a
content consumption device. And don't get me wrong, people do
plenty of content creation on iPads. It can be used
in many, many different ways. But I would say a
majority of the people who are using an iPad are
using it to consume content, whether that's Netflix, whether that

(01:08:35):
is just reading their email, whether that's Web browsing, whether
that's reading a book. You can do a lot of
stuff on an iPad. It is an incredible device. But
you mentioned Microsoft Office specifically, and so in that case,
I would say you probably want a laptop. A laptop
is going to be much more suited because of that

(01:08:55):
keyboard that's built in, because of the screen, because of
the ports.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
It's just going to be easy to use.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
Now, I will say I wish that Apple would get
on board with a touch screen laptop, which my kids
don't understand when they see me using the iPad or
they use their iPad and then they go to their laptop.
They say, I don't understand why Apple doesn't just have
a touch screen, And I say, I don't know, and
I think I do know. The answer is that they
want you to buy the iPad in addition to the laptop.
That's probably why they don't have the touch screen on

(01:09:23):
the laptops. But all the other major companies have moved
to a touchscreen laptop for the most part, and so
you can have the best of both worlds. Where you
see something on the screen, you want to tap a
box or whatever you need to do, just tap the screen.
That's not the case on the Microsoft or the MacBook computers.

(01:09:44):
I will say that if you are thinking of getting
the iPad with the keyboard case and maybe you're just
doing light email, maybe you're just doing light work on
the iPad, that's another solution because then you truly get
the best of both worlds, especially if you're traveling a lot,
because then you can have the iPad on the plane
and when you get back to the hotel, you can

(01:10:06):
actually do your work and email with that little keyboard.
Those keyboards are never as good though, That's the bottom
line with that. Susan wrote in and said, my nephew
suggested I start using duck duck goo to search and
duck for my emails.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
What are your thoughts, Sue? Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
Duck Duckgo is a search engine that prides itself on privacy.
That is the main thing. And you've probably seen the
ads if you go to their website duck duckgo dot com,
it says, tired of being tracked online?

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
We can help.

Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
We don't store your personal information, we don't follow you
around with ads, we don't track you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
Ever, there's no sign up for this.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
You don't need an account to search, and their big
thing is that it is private compared to Google, that
as soon as you start searching, they're recording everything you're
doing and putting it into a profile of who you
are and what you're searching for, so that they can
sell ads against that. So duc Ducco still has ads,
but I think they're sold on a more broad level

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and they're not necessarily targeted towards you. They're targeted towards
what you might be searching for. So if you search
for kayaks, you're gonna get ads for kayaks, but the
kayak company does not remember that you were searching for
kayaks specifically. They just know that you happen to be
searching for kayaks at that time. There's a difference there,
and that's the reason why you get those follow follow

(01:11:29):
me around ads where you search for a pair of
shoes on one website or sneakers, and next thing you know,
they're following you around to every other website because those
shoe sellers have gotten information from Google that say, oh,
you visited this website. In fact, they're getting the information
from the website that you first visit. So let me

(01:11:49):
explain how that works. You go to a website, let's
say you go to a shoe website. That shoe website
has a little tracking pixel in it from Facebook, from Google,
from Microsoft, from other companies that serve up ads, and
every time once you go to that website, it says, oh,
Rich Demiro visited here. Now it may not have my
name per se, but it has a link to who

(01:12:11):
I am online, And so that website says, all right,
Rich visited here. He looked at these sneakers and that's
what he's interested in, and that information now goes into
this little database. And then when I go to a
different website, it says, oh, by the way, Rich was
looking for these sneakers before, so you should show him
these sneakers up higher on our search results because he's

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probably looking for those. And by the way, you might
want to send him a deal for those sneakers because
he's looking for those sneakers. Let's get him to make
that purchase. Let's convert him, as they say. And so
that's really what's happening. And the more that you search,
the more information they get about you, the more they
realize that you like to do outdoor stuff, you have
a boat, you make a certain amount of money, you

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go to this place. You're looking at that place for
a vacation, And all these websites that you visit sort
of aang their information to prioritize the things that they
think you like. And when you search on Google, same
thing happens. It kind of knows what you're looking for.
It prioritizes ads, and they sell ads at a higher
cost based on knowing more about you. So it's a

(01:13:16):
big business. So what I recommend Duck doc go Yes,
if you like your privacy. I'm not a personally the
biggest fan of the search results that you get, but
I will recommend getting the Duck email address. In fact,
I have that email address. It's at Duck dot com
and it's a privacy centric email address that does not
track you, and so it strips all the trackers out

(01:13:36):
of your email when someone sends you something. So I
use that when I sign up for websites that I
may be shopping on or something like that, or maybe
just one time things where I just you know, if
I'm signing up for Wi Fi at a Starbucks, I'll
just give out my Duck dot com email address so
that way I can just turn off that email and
it's not tracking me and they don't know what's going on.
They don't get my real email address. So yeah, sure,

(01:13:57):
as a secondary email address, it's free.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
Why not sign up for that?

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
But as for Duck Duco, you know, it's fine. I
think that you know, if you like the search results
and it's working for you, go for it. Coming up
next on the show, we've got Jefferson Graham joining me,
tech guy extraordinaire. He's going to talk about getting better
pictures with your iPhone plus. Your call is a triple
eight rich one oh one. You're listening to rich on Tech.

(01:14:27):
Welcome back to the third hour of rich on Tech.
My name is rich DeMuro, hanging out talking technology with you,
waiting for Jefferson Graham to arrive. He's going to join
me former USA Today Talking Tech reporter. He's gonna join
me in studio. We're gonna chat about the new yellow
iPhone taking pictures.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
Let's see what else do I have for him. Let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Oh, Apple's new classical music app. That's interesting, So I'm
gonna get his take on that. Why he thinks they
did a separate app just for classical music. You can
find me online at rich on Tech. My website is
rich on tech dot tv. If you want to prove
the links I've got on there. It's all the stuff
I talk about on TV, my newsletter and all of

(01:15:12):
my social media links and a link to a podcast
version of this show. Jesse is in Brooksville, Florida. Jesse,
you're on with Rich.

Speaker 9 (01:15:21):
Hey Rich, how's it going?

Speaker 11 (01:15:22):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
Everything's going well? How about you?

Speaker 11 (01:15:26):
Awesome? Pretty awesome? Yeah, just a quick question. Basically, I
just switched over to my carrier, my cell phone carrier,
to be my internet provided or at my home. So
basically just a few months, I want to say, maybe
like in summer, like June July, I went to do
some upgrades on my cell phones and then you know,

(01:15:47):
they they made us the offer of doing that. I
thought it was too good to be true, actually, just
because I'm actually saving money on what I was paying
my cable company for Internet. Sure, that was pretty skeptical,
pretty skeptical as to, you know, is this going to
be as good? You know, we stream HD, we do
you know the works, you know Netflix, there's a thousand devices,

(01:16:08):
you know, all that kind of stuff. So I guess
they gave me a money back guarantee. You know that
if I didn't like it, I could return it, but
I'm gonna go for it. Well, lo and behold. I
mean I started connecting one thing after the others, my
security system and everything little by literal was holding, holding, holding,
and it's still holding. But I've been wondering, you know,

(01:16:29):
the other day, I was just thinking about that. As
we hear about so much hacking and stuff and craziness
out there, I was wondering, I wonder how.

Speaker 5 (01:16:35):
Secure is this?

Speaker 7 (01:16:36):
You know?

Speaker 11 (01:16:36):
Is it as secure as what I had with.

Speaker 8 (01:16:39):
My cable company.

Speaker 11 (01:16:39):
I've been meaning to call for a while now, and
I finally got around to it today.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Good question.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
So you're wondering if the home internet because you're you're
basically getting home Internet through your cable or through your
cellular provider, which I'm guessing is either T Mobile or Verizon.

Speaker 8 (01:16:53):
Right, it is T Mobile.

Speaker 11 (01:16:55):
And it's like this device that you put in your house.
It's like a little power that you sit there and
it basically just starts to you know, it is the
one that sends out that signal and everything just connects
to it. It behaves like Wi Fi if everything recognizes
it like Wi Fi.

Speaker 3 (01:17:11):
Yeah, and so what it's doing.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Is it's basically a capturing a signal, a cellular signal
from outside. Typically they want you to put these little
routers near a window. It captures the cellular signal and
then it broadcasts that cellular signal out as a Wi
Fi signal in your home. So, for all intents and purposes,
it functions exactly the same as your wired internet box

(01:17:34):
that you typically have from your cable company or a
fiber company, or back in the day you know a
company that would provide just phone service, right like an
AT and T or something. So it's it's very similar,
except the cable that connects this box is no longer
a cable. It's just wireless, so it's a five G signal.

(01:17:54):
So is it as secure that's a great question. I
actually think that it is very secure. I think that
the problems that happen with hacking ninety nine percent of
the time have to do with the network itself and
the devices themselves, and actually the people that are accessing
these things on the network. So I'm going to tweet
out this PDF that actually the National Security Agency recently

(01:18:18):
put out. This was in February. It's a best practices
for securing your home network. And the bottom line is
that people may get on your home network to get
access to your devices. And the reality is once someone's
inside your home, if they are connecting on your network,
that's when they can do the most damage because they

(01:18:39):
are on the inside. From the outside, it's a little
bit tougher. You have to have an open port. You
have to Most of these routers come come to you
in a way that it's pretty much locked down and
unless you do something, unless you go into these settings
and you change something, they're going to be locked down
from outside folks getting access to the inside of your network.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
So that's typically how it's done.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
With that said, a couple of recommendations and going off
this executive summary here, So you got to update your devices.
Those always have to be up to date, and that
includes this router that T Mobile gave you. You can
log in if you look on the bottom of this router,
there is a little log in information. You can access
the software on that router and there may be a

(01:19:25):
firmware update or a software update for that router. So
I would check to see that would be my first
line of defense. Then I would one hundred percent have
a guest network. So if the router supports it, and
many routers, do you want a secondary network that is
just for guests when they come to your home. And
I know it feels weird. I have it on my refrigerator.

(01:19:47):
I've got a little QR code that people can scan,
and it feels odd giving guests this kind of like
secondary network. But the reality is it is protecting your
network from them. And I'm not saying your friends are
going to do anything on your network, but you never know.
One of the kids friends may come over with a
virus on their computer and it may somehow make its
way onto your network. So you don't want to do

(01:20:10):
you don't want to have people connecting to your standard network.
I know it seems odd to make them connect to
a secondary but just make a guest network. Definitely, definitely
do that. That's a very smart thing to do. And
then when it comes to the people that are on
your network, you want to remind them about standard security,
which is clicking links today is pretty much the main

(01:20:32):
delivery mechanism for all malware that people are getting attacked by.
And so when you're clicking that link that you get
in an email or a text, message, and then you're
getting some sort of software that's installed in your device
that is where the problems happen. And so most of
the time it's just human error. We're just clicking something
without thinking about it, and that gives the bad actors

(01:20:56):
a method to access our devices and so, and they're
always looking for these exploits, and that's the reason why
you also want to make sure all of your software
is updated on the devices that are connecting to this network. Now,
if you want to be really secure, there are devices
out there that can help you secure your network. And
one of them. I have not personally tested this, but

(01:21:18):
I know about it. I know it's been out there
for a long time. It's called the FIREWALLA. And so
a firewall is basically a mechanism that keeps you secure
from the outside of the network. And so FIREWALLA is
a little device that you plug in to your network
and it will block it will basically try to safeguard

(01:21:38):
you as much as possible from anything that might happen
to your network. Now, some routers have these features built in,
but this is a third party device that you can get.
It's a little expensive. The cheapest one, I believe is
one hundred and eighty nine dollars. But it's one of
these set and forget type of things. You plug it
into your network and you maybe you know, tweak some

(01:22:00):
of the settings, but it does a lot of things.
So not only does it protect your network from cyber attacks,
it's got content filtering. So if you have kids and
you want to take advantage of some of those things,
you can do that. You can block ads across your
entire network. So I've got my router set up where
it will block all the ads on the network, much
to my kids dislike because some of these games they

(01:22:21):
play rely on ads to serve up and they don't
like that feature of what I do built in VPN,
so you can also have a VPN that's built into this.
And there's no monthly fee on this, so that's kind
of nice as well. It's kind of one of those
things where you buy it once and it's going to
last you for a long time. So again that's FIREWALLA.
I don't know if you need this per se on

(01:22:42):
your network. I think that I would do all the
things that I mentioned first and just make sure that
folks on your network know what's happening. Make sure you
don't have any ports open for any gaming or anything
that people are doing. But that's really what you want
to do, is just make sure things are locked down
and make sure you have that separate guest network, make
sure everything up to date. And I think that's really

(01:23:02):
the best way to protect yourself in a very convenient way.
And if you want to take things to the next
level with this with a physical device like the firewall,
and then sure go with something like that. But as
for the actual wireless being any more insecure than the wired,
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
I think you're going to be just fine. So Jesse, good.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
Question, Thanks for calling in, appreciate it, and thanks for listening.
All right, before we have our guest, Jefferson Graham come
into the studio, let me tell you about a new
game from the makers of Pokemon Go. So it's called Paradot.
So Paradot is launching on May ninth, and this is
a new game that is sort of like Pokemon Go.

(01:23:42):
So think these whimsical little creatures, but these are as
they describe amazing magical creatures that eat, sleep, play with toys,
explore their environment, get bored, develop unique personalities, and are
always in need of a loving adopter like you. They're
all unique, and it's your job to feed these things,
keep them healthy, keep them love.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
They're called Dots.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
They start out as a little baby, and basically they
say this is a game that delivers all the joy
of raising a pet without the mess. Kind of reminds
me of these Tamagatchi games. Over the years, there's been
a lot of games like this. I think that obviously
with Niantic and Pokemon Go, it's all about the real
world meeting the virtual world, and so I think we're

(01:24:27):
going to see some unique plays there. So if you
want to get this new Paradot p E R I
d O T. If you want to get this game
on your phone, as soon as it launches, you can
go search it in the App Store or Google Play
search Paradot, and you can sign up for what's called
a pre registration and you'll get a notification as soon
as the app is available. Coming out May ninth. I'll

(01:24:48):
play this, I'll try it out. It's been since twenty
sixteen when Pokemon Go came out, and that game really
changed things with how they mix the real world and
the augmented reality world and people are still having fun
playing that. All right, Coming up, Jefferson Graham is going
to join me. We're going to talk about the new
yellow iPhone, which I have in my hand right here.
I'm gonna get some thoughts on from him about what

(01:25:11):
he thinks of this color, which I'll describe it when
he gets back in here. Plus, we will talk about
taking better pictures on the iPhone, and we'll talk about
Apple's new app just for classical music. You're listening to
rich on tech. Give me a call triple eight rich
one on one eight eight eight seven four to two four.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
One zero one.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
Let me tell folks about Jefferson so big into photography,
getting the best pictures out of the iPhone, and what
have you been up to? Come over to my microphone.
We can share a microphone here.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
Let's do that. Oh there you go, look at that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
Yeah, okay, sounds good now, alrighty. I do a video
series on YouTube called Photo Walks TV. I take people
with me to great places and show them how to
get better photos, better travel photos on their smartphone. We've
got a newsletter comes out every weekend called the Photo
Walks TV newsletter. Photography meets Technology meets travel.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
And I think we just got your mic. The mic
was actually unplugged. You know what I want for this show.
I want to soundboard because I want to be able
to do like the different, like the and so now can.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
We hear you? Let's say, now you know so much better?
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
Okay, So you're doing photo walks. You've been traveling a
lot with this show. Huh, yes, I have. Where we've been.
We've been to Solving. Yes, I love Solving. Yes, it's
one of my favorite places. It's this Solving is a
city that's about what an hour and a half two
hours north.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
Of a half hours an hour. It's seven thousand people,
but they get a million visitors a year.

Speaker 1 (01:26:59):
Yeah, it's it's in credible. It's like a little it's
really like a Hallmark movie twenty four to seven.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
It's a Danish town that was developed by Danish immigrants
and they kept all the architecture is incredible. But the
surrounding community is you know, Sandy Inns Valley is out
of this world.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
Beautiful, beautiful place, great wine tasting up there. They just
had a couple of really high end places open up it.
For many, many years, it was very much like kind
of a three star hotel town. Now they've got this
place that is Hotel talk that's really nice, but no
even nicer. I'm not even sure what the name is,
but it's this hotel that just opened by Loso Livos. Anyway,

(01:27:38):
it's like more than five star because I know because
my wife is planning some sort of like party up
there and she has to stay there, and it's very expensive,
so we've been debating whether it's worth it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
Anybody listening, this is the time to go. Your best
time is before spring break. We have a few more weeks.
Winner is just gorgeous and it's not jammed, so it's
a really good time. And I was in Las Vegas
this week as as you were as I was yet
and I think we were at different events.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
I was at no event. I was at my own event,
the Rich DeMuro enjoying Las Vegas. I was supposed to
a story there and then that didn't work out. By
the way, we're talking with Jefferson Graham, tech Extraordinaire. He
is formerly of USA Today and now with Photo Walks TV.
Give us a call if you want to talk about
tech eight eight eight Rich one O one eight eight
eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
You want to take a call?

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Sure, all right, let's see what Tim in uh Oak Hills,
California is asking about?

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
Tim? What's on your mind? Welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (01:28:37):
Good afternoon, Rich, Thanks so much. I have a little device.
It's kind of cool. It's a little things in China,
like seven or eight blocks, and it's a Bluetooth receiver
to plunge into a cigarette lighter of the car. I
actually have one of the house, and it turns the
Bluetooth signal to my cell phone into an FM signal,
So no matter where I go on my property, I
can have different radios on and always hear iHeartRadio. It's

(01:29:00):
kind of cool to have, you know, multiple radio stations
receivers all around the house from the little thing. It
works perfectly with my little Android phone. But when I
just got a tablet about two or three weeks ago,
it seemed to work fine the first time. But today
I actually noticed it yesterday when I trans When I

(01:29:20):
listened to iHeartRadio on the tablet itself, it sounds fine,
but when I transmit Bluetooth to this little transceiver, that
turns it into an FM signal. It's all garbled and distorted,
and I thought, well, maybe it's the iHeart app. But
it does it with my local radio station app as well,
and that's where I'm at.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
So you've got a device that is maybe I'm not
understanding this. It's a device that's sending a FM signal
through your house or a Bluetooth signal.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
Through your house.

Speaker 7 (01:29:48):
It receives the Bluetooth signal. It's looks look like a
little dongle that plugs into a cigarette lighter. Your car
has a little boltmeter on it in the USB charging things.
But yeah, it receives a Bluetooth signal from my phone,
and then you can adjust which frequency you know, you
get to a frequency nobody else is transmitting on. Okay,
zero or eighty nine point seven? I think I use
up here, okay, And then it's a nice FM signal

(01:30:12):
that I can listen to radio all over my got it?

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
Okay, So I'm actually surprised this works that well. But
are you is are you sort of in a more
rural area.

Speaker 7 (01:30:21):
Oh yeah, I mean I'm in the high desert.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Here at Old Kills, Okay, got it? So?

Speaker 1 (01:30:24):
So it so certain stations work, Certain stations don't work.
That's what I'm getting from this.

Speaker 7 (01:30:30):
Well, the thing is my with my cell phone, everything
works perfect, no matter what app I use, whether it's iHeart,
I heard, I pretty much only use a KFI And
I have a local radio station up here called Talk
nine to sixty that I listened to occasionally, and that's
they have their own private El Dorado app. That all
sounds fine. So it's not the station, it's just whether
it's iHeart app or my local radio station app. My

(01:30:53):
cell phone seems to work perfectly. It's worked two or
three years I've been doing. This works great. But with
the with the tablet when it connected by Bluetooth, it's
garbled and cuts out too as well.

Speaker 3 (01:31:04):
What kind of tablet is this?

Speaker 7 (01:31:06):
It is a Blue Phones. Yeah, that's b l u okay.
You smartphones?

Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
That might be it right there. That might model number
is M eight l M A l okay.

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
So that might be the reason Blue Blue products are
traditionally inexpensive, and they may not have the best Bluetooth
in that product, like the the Bluetooth. Yeah, there's different
versions of Bluetooth, and so it may be that the
version they're using is just a very inexpensive version is that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
Tried it on iPad?

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
Yeah, I was gonna say that's what I would do.

Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
Get a friend over there, try it on an iPad
and see if that works.

Speaker 7 (01:31:43):
But well, it works, it works on my cell phone.
I've already I know that the receiver thing works fine,
and it works my cell phone is no problem. But
the thing is, it worked two weeks ago, it seemed
to work fine. It seems to be just this weekend
when I started up.

Speaker 8 (01:31:53):
It's just doing it well.

Speaker 7 (01:31:54):
I was thinking, would it would it do any good
to do a full factory reset, so to speak on Android?

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
Now you're speaking my line. I love doing that. That's
my favorite thing to do on any device.

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
I love.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
Three months.

Speaker 3 (01:32:07):
Well, that's that's a lot. That's that's a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
But I love well I I yeah, I would do
the I would do the the full reset. I love
doing that. It's you know, you do a factory reset.
It gets everything back to the standard the way it
was from the factory. Maybe you installed something on this
device that just isn't working properly, or it just isn't
playing nice with this receiver. I'm still not understanding why

(01:32:32):
you wouldn't just use the app to stream the station.

Speaker 2 (01:32:35):
I would just test it on another another person's device
and see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
Yeah, that's that's what I would do. But Tim, it
sounds like you've got it figured out. This reminds me
of when I first had, like back in the car,
Like when you would use like your your iPod and
you didn't have like a connection, right, You'd use like
an FM transmitter to get your signal, and it never worked, right.
I ended up having to get it like factory installed.

(01:32:59):
All right, more of rich on tech coming up after this.
I've got Jefferson Graham in studio. Give us a call
at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight
eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.
We'll talk about the yellow iPhone.

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
Coming up next Jefferson Graham dot nettwalkstv dot com or
two great places. And I've got my newsletter Jefferson Graham
dot substack dot com comes out every Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
You told me about substack.

Speaker 1 (01:33:25):
I signed up and I did it for a bit
and I still have my newsletter.

Speaker 3 (01:33:30):
Uh, I guess which list.

Speaker 1 (01:33:33):
But I don't actively do it, but one of these
days I will because I love the newsletter.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
Best journalism experience I've ever had, and I've been around
for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
Because the feedback it's so it's so direct to your fans.

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
Yes, and they feel you know, you're going into their
email box, and like there's always a question, well, what
time should I send it? When's a good day to
send It doesn't matter. People are happy to get an
email that's not a sales email at any time of
the day.

Speaker 1 (01:33:58):
And also, you're in is your inbox like the way
I see my email inboxes.

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
It's all the tasks.

Speaker 1 (01:34:06):
So if I get it no matter what time of
day and I'm going through my emails, I will save
it for later and I will get to it when
I get to it. I don't delete things out of
my inbox until I'm done with them, and it's almost like.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
A little to do list. All right, let's talk about
two things.

Speaker 1 (01:34:19):
We've got the new in my hand, the new iPhone
fourteen and fourteen plus. This is the fourteen in yellow, yes,
end of sentence. There's really nothing else except it's a color,
and it's only on the fourteen and plus. It's not
on the Pro or Promax. It's yellow yellow like a
bowl of Trix or like Pikachu from Pokemon. That's about

(01:34:42):
as close. It's Would you call it banana yellow or no?

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
No, it's yellower. It's yellower than a banana. It's brighter yellow,
it's bright. Yeah, the question I had. I understand why
Apple does it because it looks good in an ad
And they may sell a few one hundred thousand copies,
I don't know whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
They'll sell millions. So they'll sell millions.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
Okay, they'll sell millions. But who do you know who
doesn't have a case.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
That's my question.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
Okay, and my wife has a case and it happens.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
To be yellow.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
Oh so it's like Hlity has a yellow phone. She
was ahead of twenty dollars case or whatever we paid
for it, you know, and there was no need to
have this yellow phone. None.

Speaker 1 (01:35:19):
I don't understand the phone colors because it's always the
same you put a case on.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
Now, I do have a clear case.

Speaker 2 (01:35:27):
Yeah, some people have clear cases.

Speaker 1 (01:35:28):
But if you're gonna, I mean, I don't know. And
I've been wanting to go caseless, but I actually think
my phone is grippier with the case.

Speaker 3 (01:35:36):
I like the case on it. And are you caseless.
You have the big case.

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
I have the wallet.

Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
You have the wallet case. So you can't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
I don't. I haven't had a wallet for years, so
this is my wallet. And then it's been fantastic. And
then I have a cage. I have a cage on
my other iPhone. A photographer, I'm always going around with
multiple iPhones.

Speaker 3 (01:35:56):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
So seven hundred and ninety nine dollars for the one
hundred and twenty eight gigabyte version of this phone, the
iPhone fourteen plus and yellow starts at eight ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (01:36:06):
It is going to be available. Let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:36:08):
I think yesterdaek Yes, wasn't it yesterday? Availability Tuesday, March fourteenth.
Pre Orders were on Friday. So if you are looking
to get a yellow phone, there you go, or by yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:36:20):
It's twenty dollars case.

Speaker 1 (01:36:21):
Or buy a case. And you know, but here's the thing, people.
Apple has gotten on this cadence where now they come
out with a spring color of the iPhone and it's
always this. You know, it was purple, then it was blue, red,
now it's yellow. So it just it's just the way
Apple operates. And I really struggled with this on KTLA
because I was like, do I mention like, is this one?

(01:36:41):
I get three news stories a day? Is that one
of my news updates?

Speaker 3 (01:36:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
It's just to justify you know it is. Okay, let's
let's go to Austin in San Diego.

Speaker 3 (01:36:52):
Austin. You're on with Rich and Jefferson.

Speaker 7 (01:36:56):
Hey, how's it going?

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
That's going great? How about you? Good?

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
Great?

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
What can we help you with?

Speaker 4 (01:37:03):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (01:37:03):
So I was just asking about I've always used Chrome
as my internet browser, and lately I've been having a
lot of issues where it keeps popping up saying I
need to updateate web pages, like for banking. I'll open
one tab and it loads, you know, six pages, and
half the pages don't fully load, or it looks like,
you know, it's an HML HTML page without any kind

(01:37:27):
of like anything to it. So question being what would
be your recommendation for it internet browser if I still
want the conveniences of Google integration with Chrome.

Speaker 1 (01:37:38):
Are you running on Windows or Mac Windows? Okay, I
think you've got some malware on your computer. I think
that's what's happening. And I will tell you that Chrome
definitely slows down after a while. So what I would
do is I've been using actually Edge for a bit,
which is Microsoft's version of Chrome.

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
I don't like it as much as Chrome. I think
Chrome is better.

Speaker 1 (01:38:00):
The fact that you're saying you're getting update notifications on Chrome,
I don't think that's a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:38:05):
All you need to do is reopen the app and
it updates.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
So in fact, I just opened my Chrome and I
said relaunch Chrome to finish updating.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
So uninstall very simply picking off and reinstall.

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
You don't even have to do that. On Windows. There's
actually a built in they're taking it away, but there's
a built in reset button on Chrome. Okay, and I
will tell you where it is. Okay, you go here.
I have this written down because I actually was going
to talk about this, but then Google mentioned that they're
getting rid of it because they said that this sort
of malware is getting less and less on Chrome, which

(01:38:37):
I don't believe. But okay, if you go into menu
and then settings and then reset and it says reset, boom,
it will reset all of your values back to zero.
It will get rid of all any malware that you
have on your device. It will try to clear that out.
I would also uninstall any extensions that you have on

(01:38:58):
there get rid of those, or if you don't want
to do that, like Jefferson said, you can just uninstall
the program reinstall it. But I would do all the
software updates as well, So if your Windows is not
up to date, I would do that. You might have
malware at large on your computer. So if you want
to run like something like malware bites, do you have
a preferred program that you like to run for malware

(01:39:19):
on Max.

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
We don't tend to have problems with malware.

Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
Yeah, I know that's but there are ways.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
On Mac you can use something like app cleaner to
get rid of any fragments of programs or things that
you may not want on there if you're trying to uninstall.

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
But that's what I would do. I like Edged.

Speaker 1 (01:39:35):
I think it works nicely, but I don't like it
more than Chrome. I think Chrome just recently got faster.
They just figured out how to optimize the memory for
the different tabs you have open. They just figured out
how to do the energy savings on it. So I
think Chrome is still pretty good for a free web browser,

(01:39:55):
and I think it's secure, it's safe, it has all
the programs you need and you mentioned that you want
to keep your Google integrations, and Chrome is still the
best at when you're using Google products like Drive and Gmail.
It's very good at all the making sure that all
the features of those programs work in a good way.

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
So, Austin, does that answer your question? You're going to
stick with it?

Speaker 7 (01:40:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:40:21):
I actually had in your mention of malware, so I
actually have like a lifetime membership for malware bites. I
also use Norton and the only extensions on Chrome is
last Pass, and I think it's like Adobe pdf reader. Okay,
do you still think Do you still think I could
have like malware on you could?

Speaker 1 (01:40:42):
It sounds like something some of the settings. If you're
opening up like a banking page and six pages are
opening that are doing different things, that's typically a sign
of malware. So I would also go through and erase
all history. So I would go into the history and
it's there's an option for to erase all of your
history for for you know, forever and ever, so I

(01:41:04):
would do that as well, just to make sure that
you have nothing on there that's you know, cookie oriented,
that's messing up things. I would also ditch last Pass,
honestly because at this point, they've had too many security issues.
You might want to look into switching to a different
password manager as well. So basically, Austin, you just have
to change your entire, your entire operating operators right now.

Speaker 3 (01:41:26):
So it shouldn't be too tough, though. I think those
are the things you want to do.

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
All right, let me know if that works for you
with the reset on Chrome before it goes away. Okay,
all right, I think it's gonna work. Thanks for calling
from San Diego. Is it raining down there like it
is up here?

Speaker 6 (01:41:40):
It's it's on and off.

Speaker 1 (01:41:42):
Okay, all right, we'll stay dry, all right, thank you?
All right, all right, let's see do we have time
to talk about this Apple Classical. They have new Apple
Music Classical app. Jefferson, Why is Apple making a new app?
Standalone app designed specifically for classical music? Five million tracks

(01:42:02):
from new releases to celebrated masterpieces, thousands of exclusive albums,
the highest audio quality up to one hundred and ninety two.

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
Killer hurts, per Killer hurts? Is that what you say?

Speaker 2 (01:42:13):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:42:14):
It will launch on March twenty eighth, requires an Apple
Music subscription. It'll be available everywhere except China. Japan, Korea
and Taiwan and uh Android version is coming soon. And
to listen to music on Apple Music Classical you must
have an Internet connection.

Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
That's odd. You can't download the music. So why are
they doing this? I don't understand. Why wouldn't they just
put this in the Apple Music app.

Speaker 2 (01:42:37):
Believe you need an Internet connection to listen to Apple
Music as well.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
You can download the music, yeah, but you have to start.
I know that's why. But why would they say that specifically?

Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
Like I get that you need an internet connection to Like,
it doesn't come with five million songs you just download, right.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
I think they're very smart to do this. I know
you disagree, but I think it's a very very smart move. Now,
first of all, remember they bought this classical scription service already,
so they already own it, so they're just putting their
name on it. So Spotify is spotty when it comes
to classical music. They've got some stuff they don't have
other stuff. YouTube music is spotty. Classical music fans go

(01:43:13):
downtown sometime, go stand at Disney Hall. You will see
some very dedicated classical music lovers. They are really you know,
but you know, if the grateful dead fans were enthusiastic.
Classical music fans are incredibly enthusiastic, right, So by targeting
this audience, they finally have a differentiation for Apple Music.

(01:43:33):
It's different from Spotify. Now they have music that the
other people don't have. They've never had that before. But
you have to download a separate app.

Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:43:40):
I just don't I get it that they have people
that are very into this. I don't understand why they
couldn't just blend it into Apple Music and make it
a separate area of the app. But to have a
different app. Maybe if you're into classical, you feel like
they are speaking to you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
Do you remember in a more direct way? Do you
remember once upon a time Tower Records. Yes, there were
a big, huge, biggest record store and they had a
separate classical store across the street. Do you remember that.

Speaker 1 (01:44:06):
I do not remember the classical store, but at store.
All right, we've got less than a minute. Tell folks
where they can.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
Find you, photowokstv dot com, Jefferson Graham dot net, look
for me on YouTube, YouTube dot com, slash Photo, Walks TV.
Our latest episode just debut today from Clearwater, Florida, and
I'm working on an episode, thanking viewers for helping me
cross one million views, which happened this week.

Speaker 1 (01:44:30):
Amazing, I see I need the little congrats. All right,
thanks so much for joining me in the studio today.
I appreciate it. We had some fun here with the callers.
We're going to wrap up the show coming up next.
More of your calls if I can fit one more
in at triple eight Rich one O one. That's eight
eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.
You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to

(01:44:54):
rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology online.

Speaker 3 (01:45:00):
Rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
That's all of my social media is under that so
if you want to find me online, that's where you
can do it. Tony is in Daytona Beach, Florida. Tony,
you're on with Rich. Hey, Rich's great.

Speaker 3 (01:45:16):
What can I help you with?

Speaker 4 (01:45:18):
Okay? I write copies sometimes for a radio talk show
like uh, you guys should do sure and uh sometimes
they run. It's like writing a long letter and I'm
looking for the best format, in the easiest format to

(01:45:42):
write a letter like that and easy to control, like
h Yahoo or Google or your Facebook or what's what
site I should go to Okay, it's the best email format.

Speaker 1 (01:45:59):
Like that email. Oh email program? Okay, got it? Okay, email. Well,
I mean I think that, uh Google, I use Google
Docs for everything. I use Gmail for everything, and I
would say those are probably your best combination. I also
wrote a book, and I wrote the entire book in
a combination of Apple Notes and then Google Docs, so

(01:46:20):
I've written large amounts of text. I do the entire
planning of this show on Google Docs and also through
my email program as well, So I don't think you
need anything special.

Speaker 3 (01:46:32):
Those are all free.

Speaker 1 (01:46:33):
And the one trick I would tell you with Google
Docs is if you type in your once you sign
up for g you know, Google, and have all your
stuff figured out and you're logged in, if you type
in doc dot new on your web browser, that will
open up a new document. So if you're trying to
just do something fast and quick and easy and you
don't want to have to go through, just type in

(01:46:54):
doct new and that will open up a fresh document
for you on your on your web browser. So that's
the way I do it. I organize everything through there. Now,
when I wrote my book, I use a program to
publish it. It was called Vellum v E L l
U M. But that's really a book publishing app. And
I also tested out another app. It was called I

(01:47:17):
believe it was Scrivener, But it doesn't sound like you
wanted to write a book. It sounds like you're just
writing scripts and things like that. And with the scripts
if you want, you know, I know, for radio and
TV sometimes scripts need to fit a certain format. So
in that case, I actually make a template of what
a script typically looks like, which is two columns and

(01:47:39):
one side is bigger than the other, and just large
text on there as well, so you can do that too.
The other program I really like for writing is called
Bear B E A R. And what's great about this,
and Tony, this may work for you since you're doing
stuff that's for radio and you might need to time
stuff out. What I love about Bear is that it
times out what you write. So if you go into

(01:48:01):
something that you wrote in Bear, there's a little icon
and it tells you how many words, how many characters,
how many paragraphs. But the best part is it tells
you how long it takes to read that. And for me,
that is very very handy when I'm writing things for
this show when I want to hit a certain amount
of time. In this case, I'm trying to hit a
thirty second commercial. And so if I'm writing something that's

(01:48:23):
a promotion for my show, I want to hit that
twenty nine seconds. So Bear that is only available on iOS,
So that is something that is on iOS and Mac only.
They do not have a version that is available to
the Windows platform. But that's a really handy program. I
use a lot of programs actually to write stuff, now
that I think about it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
So I also use.

Speaker 1 (01:48:46):
Another app that is the Apple Notes app, but that's
really just for more like notes.

Speaker 3 (01:48:51):
I also use Google Keep.

Speaker 1 (01:48:52):
I mean, there's so many ways you can do this
that it really just comes down to what you use
the most. And that's what I found is that you
just have to use and keep using it and have
your system down and that's the.

Speaker 3 (01:49:03):
Best way to do it. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:49:06):
Let me tell you about this scam real quick before
we go, because I think it's important for you to
know that we've heard so much about AI, but now
scammers are already using AI to impersonate people that we
know family members to call us and try to scam
us out of money. So they have these very sophisticated
programs that are off the shelf. You feed some audio

(01:49:26):
into them, and now you can sound like that person
just by typing out those words. And so this is
AI that is being used in a very mean way
against us. So if you get a phone call that
purports to be from a loved one that needs money,
that's in jail, that's whatever. It may just be an
AI voice that sounds like that loved one. So when

(01:49:48):
in doubt, call them up, call someone check on them,
text them. Do not just go to the bank and
try to withdraw money and send it to this person
that's asking you for the money, because it's probably not
I'll put the link to the Washington Post article about
these new AI voice scams in the show notes as well.
And finally, Vinyl overtook CD sales for the first time

(01:50:11):
since nineteen eighty seven. I've been talking about Vinyl in
my KTLA reports, how people seem to like it. Forty
one million units they sold against thirty three million for
CDs in the past year. Vinyl sales have increased over
the past sixteen years. They're now seventy one percent of
all physical music. Taylor Swift, of course, highest selling vinyl artists.

(01:50:33):
She sold some one point seven million records. Harry Styles
sold seven hundred and nineteen thousand, The Beatles still kicking
five hundred and fifty three thousand sales. Of course, Spotify
and Apple Music and streaming is still the most popular
way to listen to music.

Speaker 3 (01:50:50):
All right, that is going to do it for this show.

Speaker 1 (01:50:52):
Thanks so much for listening. Thanks to all of my
guests today. We had so many great guests. I know
there's a little problem with the phone lines, so apologies
for that, and thanks for working through that. You know,
this is a growing show. This is only episode number ten,
so we're still learning. I'm still learning how to do
this whole radio thing, so I do appreciate you hanging
out with me. Next week, we are going to talk

(01:51:14):
to Ember about their self heating baby bottle. No longer
is it good to be born with a silver spoon
in your mouth. Now you can be born with a
four hundred dollars self heating baby bottle in your mouth,
and we're going to talk to the company that makes that.
You can find me on social media at rich on tech,
my website, richontech dot tv. My name is rich Dmiro.

(01:51:34):
Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways
you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending
it right here with me. I'll talk to you real
soon

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