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Speaker 1 (00:09):
What's going on? I'm rich Demiro and this is Rich
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carrier pigeon, Carrier pigeon. There's producer Megan. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
What happened to the hey? Hey hey?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I've never had a you had a.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Little catchphrase hello Yeah, Nope, you had one a little bit.
You were like, hey, hey.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey, hey, I think that was one time.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I remember it. I think the community remembers it well.
But anyway, how's it going? Good? Good?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Some crazy stories this week?

Speaker 1 (00:55):
This was a secretly weirdly busy week. And I mean
everything from like how are you the head of Amazon?
And have your iPhone hacked? Yeah? I mean, what is
going on there? I did a really cool story this
week with a contact lens that is like this. There
are some stories you go on and I this happens often,

(01:17):
but not you know me, Like I most of the time,
when I get a story or I see something in
real life, I kind of give you like the real deal.
I'm like, here's what's going on with that? Yeah, So
I'm not that impressed most of the time. Other times
I'm like, this is really cool. Here's why. Contact Lens
was one of those moments where I'm like, this is
amazing and this is the future, even though I didn't
believe it would be. It really what they showed me

(01:38):
in that room was like whoa. It just it had
me thinking for the rest of the day like, wow,
this is really cool. Then another thing that did is
this app I'm gonna talk about later. That is just amazing.
For when it comes to, you know, finding all the
stuff that's streaming on your like Netflix and Disney Plus,
it's so crazy out there, like I don't know what

(01:59):
do you have? What's streaming services? You have got Apple.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Tvababy Plus, Apple TV, Netflix and Hulu.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
And like, just so I'm imagining every night when you
want to find someone to watch, it's like you know,
ping pong between these things and you're like, oh, let
me check this and let me go back, and then
your brain has to make a decision and then you
go back into that thing and then you're like, Okay,
let me find that again, it's such a mess right now,
it's too much. This makes cable TV look like a
cakewalk streaming services right now for reals. Anyway, all right,

(02:27):
well let's just get right into it, because there's a
lot of stories this week, and the first one that
I just think is insane is this Jeff Bezos, you know,
head of Amazon, trillionaire getting his iPhone hacked. Now, when
I first heard this story and I heard that his
his phone was hacked, I was like, oh, well, clearly
it's an Android, because there's no way what they're talking
about could be done on an iPhone, like everything sandboxed.

(02:50):
Everything kind of runs in its own little world and
nothing kind of talks to each other. But no, this
was an iPhone.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Ten Do you picture him with an Android?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
I did when I heard this story. I was like, oh,
it's probably some.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Probably as an android.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
No, I just I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I mean, like I I have no I I was like, oh,
iPhone interesting, it's very ihe I.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Don't know if most people care. Maybe you do, but
I really am interested in what people carry around as
their phone on a daily basis. It's like it's very intriguing.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Like did he update right, Like did he upgrade right
when the new iPhone came out?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Like I wouldn't know because he has an iPhone ten.
So he's clearly rocking, not even like the TENN S
or the TENNS max or multiple eleven too, I don't think.
So that's kind of tough to to juggle multiple phones.
I mean I do that, and it's it's hard, not easy,
all right, So what happened He was having a WhatsApp
conversation with a Saudi prince, right, is that what it is?

(03:45):
A Saudi prince? Yeah, And next thing you know, the
Saudi prince sent some sort of video to his phone,
and his phone was hacked, and now all of a sudden,
the data on his phone went from an average of
four hundred and thirty kilobits per day to one hundred
and twenty six megabytes a day. So it just started
siphoning off information from his phone. Now, I don't even

(04:07):
understand how that would work on an iPhone because for
anything to get access to your phone, if it's a
regular app, you have to give permission, Hey can we
access your contacts? Can we access your photos?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Just suck out.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
But so I think the theory is that this was
operating on kind of the inside of his phone, like
a at a very base level of his phone that
had access that most apps don't have. So it's really weird.
It's like some super like deep stuff going on here.
But long story short, I was just trying to figure out,
like what's the takeaway for me and you, because if

(04:40):
this can happen to Jeff Bezos, this can happen anyone.
And the reality is apparently he had a setting toggled
on that was in WhatsApp, and this isn't a lot
of apps steal Yeah, please let others take all my info.
That is basically auto down load media. So when you

(05:01):
get a file sent to you, like a video, it
will download it to your phone automatically. And that's convenient
because then you don't have to wait. Like let's say
you send me a video file, I don't have to
wait for it to download, Like when I get to
my phone and open it up, it's already there. It's
been delivered, it's been signed to delivered that yeah, and
I think most people do. But you should probably turn

(05:23):
that off. And it's on WhatsApp, this is on on sapp.
But this has to do with a lot of different
apps out there. Most of the time, the first time
you use a messaging app, it'll say like, do you
want a preview of a link? When someone sends you
a link? And I always turn that on because I'm like, yeah,
it's easy to see, you know. It shows you like
a little web page or like a little if someone
sends you an Instagram link, it'll send you like a
little you know, a little preview of what that link

(05:44):
can take.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Inspiring so many hackers right now.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mean you have to be pretty heavy duty to
figure out a hack like this, Like this is really
this is like government based, this is this is like
super duper intelligent. You can't you and I could not
do this right, Like I could be like, hey, what
was your secret code word again? And you might be like, oh, yeah,
it was pigeon, and I'm like, oh, thank you. Wait.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
What what I'm confused about is like there's so many
layers to the story, Like did they meet once?

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah? I think they were friends. I think they were
I think they had.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
A meeting and they friend hacked him.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
No, I think no, that's that's it's all concluded. And
I don't know. I'm not going to get into the
whole Saudi prince relationship thing, but it is fascinating. It's
also fascinating to me. I've always been fascinated by the
idea of like Jeff Bezos' everyday life, Like what it's
like to wake up, like have breakfast in his house,
like go to work, like get to to get to work,

(06:41):
like be out, be throughout the day. Like what does
he do for lunch? She's like, uh, you know, to
his assistant, like, can you order me WI typical egg
whites and spinach? He does, Yeah, he does whatever anyway,
All right, time for the first question. Enough about Jeff.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Okay, so if you want Rich to answer your tech question,
go to his website site Rich on tech dot tv
and hit the contact button to send your question. So
this first question comes from Diane. I need help in
switching from Google to one of the more secure search
engines that you mentioned this morning. So this was back, yeah,

(07:18):
a couple a couple of days ago. She said, she's
seventy eight and she does not understand She yeah, she
does not understand most of the jargon associated with computers. Anyways,
So can we go through some of the websites that
we mentioned.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, and she wants to know how to switch to
those okay, because I mentioned on TV that you know,
like okay. So this all came about because I talked
about that one search that Verizon one, and then I
gave you know that like protects your privacy. We talked
about this extensively in the last show. The other ones
were Duck dot Go, Startpage, dot com, and then something
called quant out of France. So Diane is asking. I

(07:54):
said on TV, you can switch your default search engine
on iPhone, on Android, on the on Chrome, on your desktop.
Pretty much any web browser lets you switch your default
search engine. So on iPhone, you go into your settings
and then you look for Safari, and under Safari you'll
see more settings, and you go and you look for
search engine, and inside there you can select which search

(08:17):
engine you want to use. Now, on iPhone, as far
as I can see, with Safari, it doesn't seem like
you can put in your own. I only see Google, Yahoo, Bing,
and duck duck Go. So if you wanted one that's
more private, duck dot go. Now you can also download
a whole web browser that like like I think duck
duck go has like its own app I'm sure these
other ones do as well, Like one Search. I'm sure

(08:38):
they have like their own apps that you can download.
If you're on Android, you probably love Google, so you're
probably not gonna change your stuff. And on android's tracking
in a lot of different ways, so it may not
make that most sense. But you can open up Chrome.
You can go into menu, which is the three little
dots in the upper right hand corner, Settings and search engine,
and on Chrome you can set it to whatever you want.
And I had a lot of luck setting it to

(09:01):
all kinds of things very easily. The main thing is
that you just have to use that search engine once
on your phone or on Chrome rather and it then
registers in the list. It'll be like, oh, do you
want to we noticed you use this? Do you want
to set that as your search engine? And on Chrome
desktop you go into Settings, then search Engine, then manage
search Engines, and again you just look at the list

(09:24):
of all the places that you've used for search, and
it comes up with a lot of websites like you
can even set like Macy's dot com as you like
to fall search. It's like every time you search, it's
like it comes up yeah, like whatever close match your search.
I don't know if you can actually do Macy's, but
it does come up with like almost every website you
go to that has a search bar. Let me just

(09:44):
see you real quick. So if I go to manage
search engines, yeah, like you can set it as anything
like you can even Yeah, you can basically set it
as anything Amazon, whatever you want. So you just click
the three little dots next to the search engine and
you set it as your default. Now, the only thing
I will say with that is I tried doing this
to start Page for like literally one search, and I

(10:07):
couldn't deal with it because you don't realize just how
much Google presents you information without you having to do
a lot of work. So, with the example of start Page,
which I thought was good because it gives you Google results,
I just search for CVS pharmacy. And now normally if
you do that on Google, you're gonna get a little
thing at the top that shows you your closest CVS

(10:27):
in a map, along with a website link, along with
a button to call that or a map so you
can get directions to it. Versus, if you don't have
Google set and you just have start Page, you're gonna
literally get like CVS Pharmacy a link to just like
general the web page.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, and it's like that, I don't know where you
they don't know where you are.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
It doesn't help, right exactly. So anyway, there are some
quirks associated with switching your search engine, and I'm not
ready to do that. I personally love Google. I love
the personalization, I love how it knows about me, and
I love all that stuff. So I'm good with it
for now. Speaking of privacy, so if you thought your
iCloud backups were encrypted and safe and secure, well not

(11:11):
so much. There's a report from Reuter's that says Apple
considered making iCloud backups the most secure they can be,
which is called end to end encryption, but they decided
not to because the FBI complained to them. Now, this
is a report from sources. This is not fact, but

(11:32):
this is what they are reporting, and it is no
matter what the story is, whether Apple succumb to pressure
or not, it still tells us a lot about our
iCloud backups. And to me, this was news to me
because if you go on Apple's website and you look
at the iCloud backup, it says encrypted. It does not
say end to end encrypted. Now what does that mean?
It means that Apple, even though your iCloud backup, which

(11:54):
has your texts in it, it has your contacts, it
has all your I Cloud information, your photos, who you call,
all kinds of data. I mean, there's just a ton
of data in there. Well, it means that Apple can
unlock that data. They hold the key to the encryption
on their end. So when the FBI comes to them,
it says, hey, we know you won't help us unlock

(12:16):
Megan's phone because we get it you don't do that,
but do you mind helping us out by giving us
just a copy of Megan's last iCloud backup? And they say,
do you have a warrant? You? What's this for? Blah blah,
And according to this article, like ninety percent of the
time they say yes. Wow. So even though you thought
you were being safe and encrypted, not really. The government

(12:38):
can kind of have almost direct access to your data,
which is kind of scary. Everything, I mean pretty much
everything is in iCloud. Wow. So yeah, So the way
around this is basically, if you want a fully encrypted
backup of your phone, you have to ditch iCloud and
you have to go back to plugging your phone into
your computer and using iTunes and making sure that you

(13:00):
select the option that says, well, now there's no iTunes
but music. No, it's actually through Finder now. So you
would just plug it in, your phone would show up
and Finder, you would click your phone name and then
look up in backups and make sure you click the
option for encrypt backup. And so once you do that,
it will be encrypted and nobody can have access to that.

(13:20):
Like that's it. And if you forget your code or
your pass code to your phone, your SOL, you'll have
to start over. So wow, yeah, kind of crazy, but
I'm glad. No matter what if the report's right or wrong,
like whether Apple's to come to pressure because they were
going to encrypt them two years ago. Whether that's true
or not, it doesn't really matter. It has now brought
light to the fact that Apple does not fully encrypt
these things, so that's kind of important for consumers.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Now people know.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
This next question comes from Tiffany high Rich today, without
any new update. I started getting ads when I opened
a text message, mostly for games, and I have to
close out the AD tech to continue to read the text.
Is this new and how can it be stopped? PSI
have a Samsung Galaxy and have been with Sprint for

(14:06):
at least twenty years.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
This is an interesting one because this is I think
a Android only issue because on iPhone, again, like I've said,
when something's in the background, it's not running. So even
if there was an app, the worst it can do
on your phone is really send you a notification like
you've seen notifications spam. My kids download these games that

(14:29):
I call them tycoon games that they want you to
play all the time, so they're always sending you notifications
like hey, your villagers are going hungry, make sure you
play hop back in the game, or you know, one
thousand more gold coins till you reach the top of
the mountain or whatever it is. Or your amusement park
is looking low these days, can you build a new ride?
Whatever it is? It's garbage and so I but that's

(14:51):
how they spam you on iOS. That's like kind of
the extent of it. On Android. Apps in the background
can do a lot of stuff. They can serve up ads.
They and take over a full screen ad with a
little tiny X in the corner or no x. It
makes you pause before you can do anything. Yeah, and
this can happen while you're not using the app. So
my theory is that some app that she downloaded onto

(15:13):
her phone is serving up these ads in the background, right.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Like maybe her child downloaded something, if.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
She has a kid, and like, yeah, and so what
I would do is I would go through your entire
app list and I would go through and uninstall anything
that you don't use. And it could be, if I
had to guess, it's probably a free game that's doing it,
or it could be something more evil. I don't know.
I'm not sure, but it's crazy. It's just weird that

(15:39):
it's probably not like something that's coming from the phone,
I don't think. But I would again just go and disable.
If you can't uninstall an app, disable it and then
restart your phone and see if they still persist. But
that's that's kind of annoying.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
I mean, that's got to be really cool, getting an
AD every time you open a text.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Like, yeah, I mean, it's odd that it's happening when
she's opening the text. And yeah, it could be that
she's using a third party text messaging app that maybe
does have ads, but it usually wouldn't be that intrusive
even if it was, but it could be.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Speaking of apps, quake Alert USA now available. If you
live in the Los Angeles area or the California area,
it is essential that you have one of these earthquake
early warning apps. And this is one that I've been
talking to the developer for about two years now, and
it took him a while to get this to market,
but it is here. It's called quake Alert USA and

(16:36):
it basically the first day of availability, they had tens
of thousands of downloads and they actually even had their
first alert, So this was crazy. This guy sent me
the message that his app was now available, and I've
had it on my phone since two years ago. He
gave me access to the beta, so I've had it
for a while now. But so the first night that

(16:56):
this is available, there's an earthquake in the LA area,
which I felt this one yep, quacker Alert USA, and
I actually did not get an alert. And I asked him,
I said, Josh, the guy who created it. I'm like,
what's the deal? How come I didn't get an alert?
And he said, well, you were actually not in the
area of alerts, so you have to be in a

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certain magnitude and a certain shaking feeling. Now, the difference
between this app and a lot of the other early
warning apps is that you can actually set a threshold
for how hard the shaking is to alert you. Okay,
So if you want every single alert for like even
the lowest threshold of shaking, you can get it. Or
if you only want somebody that's really gonna, you know,

(17:39):
rock your house back and forth, then you can set
it that way as well. And you also get a
countdown to shaking, which I think is really interesting. So
it will count down on your phone screen earthquake in thirty,
twenty nine, twenty eight, twenty seven, and it gives you
instructions on what to do. Now. I did not grow
up in California, so I did not know about this
whole like get under a table thing. I would have

(18:01):
run outside. And when I met Josh and interviewed him
the first time, he's like, what are you doing an earthquake? Oh,
I'm getting out dodge, I'm gonning, I'm running outside. He goes,
that's how you get killed, because guess what's gonna fall
on top of you? Something from the top of the
building that you just ran outside. From I said, oh interesting,
I never thought about that safest place go under a table?
Did you know this? Did you grow up and learn this? Yeah?
I did never learn this.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
And you cover your neck?

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Oh interesting. I would cover my phone screen.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
I know you would. That's the first thing you like,
where's my phone? I can't drop yet?

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Okay, Uh anyway, so download it Quake alert USA.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Okay, So this next question is from Tony.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh Tony, hold on, this is for Tony. Remember that?
Do you remember that?

Speaker 2 (18:48):
What's that from Tony the Tiger? Yes, which I love.
That's like one of my favorite cereals.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
So you know they make chocolate now everything is chocolate now,
Like every that I had as a kid is now
there's a chocolate version. So okay, my kids are obsessed
with cereal.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
But I miss it well because.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
We don't have a fridge in the text studio. I know, Jason,
we need a.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Fridge almond milk. Okay. So Tony asks, is there any
way to make a Mac do a two factor authentication
when someone logs into my computer? I'm okay if I
use touch ID since that would be hard to break,
But I'm worried if my computer is stolen someone could
potentially guess my password and there is no second factor.

(19:34):
I think this is a bit of a security issue.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
That is a great question. And I'm assuming he's talking
about Mac because or actually Windows has a thumbprint as well.
But he said touch ID specifically.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, it's for Max.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well, I don't think so. I don't think there is
two factor right now. Apple has two factor authentication, not
for every time you log in.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's for like iCloud.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Well, it's for like the first time you log into something.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, for like yeah, well it just well so normally,
like with my laptop, it's like after an hour if
I tried to if I try to get in, I
have to do the fingerprens right right, But he's saying
like why.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Can't Yeah, he wants it every single time he logs
in someone you have to put in a code. Now,
I think that would be really annoying. Yeah, that would
be very annoying because how many times you unlock your
computer day. And by the way, Megan, I would recommend
this is what I do, okay is and I would recommend.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
This for anyone fingerprint just fingerprint.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, No, I'm just saying what I would recommend for locking.
You said your computer locks after an hour if you
work in a public shared place at work, two things
I would do. Number one, if you have a Windows computer,
when you walk up away from your desk, I would
just tap the Windows in L at the same time,
hold those two buttons down for a second, and it
locks your computer gets you back to the locks you
because you never know. I mean, we live in a

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world with corporate espionage and Jeff Bezos getting his phone hacked. Yes,
so you don't want to leave your computer where anyone
could just walk up to it and start using it.
So when I use my Windows can at work, I
always Windows in L boom lock it up. Second thing,
on a Mac, I have a hot corner set up,
So if you go to my Mac computer, if you

(21:11):
if I right before I walk away from it, I
just move my mouse to the lower right hand corner
and it locks my desktop. So that when like the
other day, this is so this came into Plague of
the day, Megan comes running in. She's like, oh, I'm.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Just heading to right sat at the studio.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Right I'm heading to the studio And she's like, oh
my gosh, She's like, you forgot to save your script
it's still open on your desktop. And she's like, no worries,
I'll just I'll just go on your desktop and save it.
I was like, you can't do that, Like, my computer
is locked as soon as I walk away. So I
had to go back and use my touch ID and
it was fine. We got on the air. But still,
so if you want to set that up, let's see

(21:46):
how do you do that? You got to I forget
how I do this. Okay. You go into a settings
on your Mac computer mission control hot corners, and you
can set whatever one you want as your hot corners. Personally,
I have the upper left as mission control, which shows
if I put my mouse in the upper left hand
corner shows me all my windows, which I just love.
If I put it in the lower left hand corner,

(22:07):
it shows me my desktop, so I can drag and
drop things and this and that. And if I do
the right lower right, I lock the screen. Upper right
I've not found a good use for. Also, that's where
the little spotlight searches, so you go there more often
than like other corners.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
So so for your computer, is it always touch.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Or well, it's it depends. I have my Apple Watch
so if my Apple Watch decides to work with it,
it will unlock when I get near my computer, when
I go to the login screen. Yeah, I think it's
using Bluetooth to do that. Got it. And then if
that doesn't work, my new computer as touch ID, which
I'll use. If that doesn't work, it's password. But again,
to answer the question, I don't believe that Apple has

(22:48):
a way that that forces you to two factor authentication
every time you log in, and I think that would
be kind of annoying for most people. Also, Tony, I
think if you set your computer as lost, like in
lost mode, once you do lose it, I think that
there might be some more higher security precautions when you
do that. That would be my guess.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
All right, now, let's talk about this contact lens that
is just totally wild. It's from a company called Mojo Vision.
I get it. So here's what happened. I think it
was this week on Monday, this company came out of
stealth and I saw all the articles posted online of
all these people at CS that got a little I
guess you could call it heads up or a sneak peek,

(23:32):
not to use puns for the eye. At this company
that's making an ar contact lens, an augmented reality contact lens,
think terminator. Think you're looking through a contact lens that
puts stuff into the world around you, like time, temperature,
people's names, like when I look at your face, it
would auto recognize it and say Megan mcmonagall and like

(23:54):
have like more information about you.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
I think this is the first episode of Black Mirror.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
It's stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's like something like that.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, And so I was, you know, like, oh, all
these tech people got to see this except me. Then
I get a call from someone who remains on knowing.
They're like, I got Mojo Vision in Los Angeles on Wednesday?
Do you want to meet? And I'm like, why are
you talking so softly? I can hear you just fine.
They're like, oh okay, so yeah, would you like to

(24:21):
meet with them? I said sure, and so we go
over and uh, I was hesitant because I didn't really know.
I was like, is this a scam? It's just kind
of like bogus. No. Turns out it's pretty amazing. And
so I put on this little contact lens which looks
like a thick version of a contact lens, which actually
will be the thickness, but it's like a medical grade
contact lens, so apparently these are in use for other

(24:43):
medical issues. It looks like a really thick do you
wear context, it's like a it's like pretty thick, but
it stays on your eyes. No, they said it works.
I mean, if you think about your eye, I mean
it's not really it's not like you're I don't know.
I don't wear contact, so I have no idea. But
I put this little thing on, and or I didn't
put it on, but I looked through it, and inside

(25:03):
this lens is a tiny display, the world's tiniest display.
They also have wireless power and wireless data transfer, and
so you look through this thing and I'm looking at
a screen and all of a sudden, like okay, one scenario,
it's a business meeting where the person speaking like another language,
and in your eyeball you're seeing everything translate in real time.
So when they're saying nice to meet you, mister Demiro,

(25:25):
I see that translated in English, even though they're talking
a different language in English, and like I can respond
to that, and then presumably they have to wear it
to see the other side. Anyway. The other one was
like bikers. You know, you look down at your watch
when you're biking or you're running for all the data
on how fast you're going and this and that. No,
now you just look ahead on the horizon and all
the data's right there. The other scenario was like a

(25:46):
basketball game, which is showing you, like the shot clock
and the score right in your eyes as you're watching
the game. Then they took me into a dark room
that was completely black, and I could actually see in
the dark. Yeah, pretty much. And that's a little tricky
because it uses AR or infrared light. But the craziest
thing I did was they showed me what the operating

(26:08):
system is going to look like. Because you're like, well,
how do you use this thing?

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yea, yeah, you charge it.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, there's a little box that sits on your waist
and that will give you like all the data on
power that you need. So but the operating system, the
way it works is it's kind of like imagine four
corners in your eye. You look to the upper left
to get your calendar, you look to the upper right
to get the weather, you look to the lower right
to get your to get your whatever. But the coolest

(26:33):
thing was I asked the guy. I said, hey, this
would be great for news anchors because we don't need
to tell a prompter anymore. We can just read the
script in our eyeballs. And he goes, that's part of
the demo. And so at the end of the demo,
I am doing a speech with the prompter in my eyes,
where I'm just like talking to you, but I'm reading
a speech in my eyeball.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
So do your eyes shift while you're reading it or
you're just like staring.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well, that's the other thing. It automatically advances the script
when you pause, the script pauses, it just sees the
tiny movement in your eye and it goes by that,
so it knows that you're reading up a little bit,
and it's like it's just following your movie.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
It blows my mind, like, like does the dimensions of things?
How does it?

Speaker 1 (27:14):
How do they It's amazing, I don't know. And how
how they make something that tiny? Yeah, it's just it's
it's mind boggling. This is a couple of years off.
Initially it's going to be for people with vision issues,
so like macular to get to macular degeneration, yeah, degeneration, uh,
those kind of things. But eventually this is the kind

(27:34):
of thing that you just imagine we will have in
the future and we're all going to be terminator with vision.
I love the idea of when you walk by someone,
your little contact lenses automatically scanning their face and giving
you all the information on them their latest social media updates,
so you can see like, oh, they just in Hawaii.
Your name, so like, I don't forget your name when
I walk past you in the hallway and be.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Like hey, mangan Wow, that is so crazy. Hey dude,
I just this blows my mind.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Do you have anyone here that you don't really know
their name but you say hi to them a lot?
I've got a whole laundry list.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Uh, there are some people, a couple of people I
can't like tell you because I don't know their name,
but I.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Know, but you know that you walk by that I
know you. Yeah. For me, that's really tricky because yeah,
I know, it's kind of that's see, that's an unfair
advantage because that happens to me out and about like
this will happen to me nine times out of ten.
I will go up to like, let's say, a parking
attendant or someone at the checkout and they'll just be like,
all right, Rich, have a good day. I'm like what

(28:38):
And every time I'm like wait what did that person?

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Still it still gets you.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Every single time, every.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Single time to say like a number. After a lot
of years, after like two years of being on TV, everyone.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Knows, but it is, it still gets you because it's
it's an unnatural thing that most people don't have to
deal with. And like, it still gets me because when
I'm out at Costco and it's always weird because they
just throw it in, they slide it in and then
they'll do something. I'll like kind of like do something.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
I'll be like, oh, like no, I actually know you.
My kid plays with your kid?

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah TV.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
And they're like wait what you're on TV.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
No. The best is when you go to a conference
and they're like, all right, Rich, we'll get that right
out for you. I'm like, oh, thank you, I'm on
Channel five. Good to see you. Like now you have
a badge on.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, It's like I'm looking at your card like wow, oh,
I'm just still thinking about the contact lens.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah. It's it's wild.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Okay, So this next question comes from John Rich. I
was listening to YouTube streaming audio on my iPhone seven
last night, and all of a sudden, at midnight, my
LG smart O l E l ed TV in my
family room turned itself on to the same song I
was listening to. The audio stopped on my iPhone when
this occurred. Do you have any idea what might have

(29:53):
caused this?

Speaker 1 (29:55):
I believe this is some sort of casting of audio
to your smart TV. So most of the smart TVs
these days have some sort of receiver built in which
talks to your phone, and when your phone is on
the same Wi Fi network as your TV, or you know,
these smart speakers and all this stuff, you can kind
of what's called cast whatever you're doing on your phone,

(30:16):
whether it's video or audio to your device, and it's
pretty seamless. Now, I think it's odd that has happened automatically,
but these phones, I think what happened is that he
might have pressed the button in the upper right hand corner,
the cast button. It looks like a little screen with
a couple of waves coming out of it, and I
think he might have pressed that just out of curiosity, like, oh,

(30:37):
why that's weird. Yeah, And then all of a sudden,
that triggered the casting. And when you do that, even
if your TV is not actively on, it's smart enough
to turn itself on when you start that process, which
is pretty convenient. So in my house, when you turn
on the Apple TV or the Fire TV, there's something
called CEC control, which is I don't know what it
stands for, but it basically all these manufacturers have worked

(30:59):
together to say, hey, we know that when you turn
on your Apple TV, you probably want your TV to
turn on as well. So we're gonna go ahead, when
you press the power button on your Apple TV, turn
on your TV for you so you don't have to
use two remotes. And that's the same thing with casting.
When you cast something to your Chrome cast or your TV,
we're going to assume you want that TV to come
on so that you can actually hear or see what

(31:20):
you're casting, right, And I think that's what happened here.
It's not a ghost. It might have been a quirk.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
I mean, it could have been probably a ghost. That's Megan,
that's what Megan thinks. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
It could have been a quirk that this happened automatically.
Maybe there's just some sort of misfire, But I think
that that's what happened, is or or when he opened
YouTube music, it was already casting earlier in the day
and it just kind of resumed the casting. There's a
million things that could have happened here, but that's what
I believe is going on. So it wasn't some sort
of crazy weird you know, something taking over or TV. No,

(31:56):
I don't think so. I mean it could have been.
If you have what's apped the Saudi Prince lately? What's
his name?

Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's the name of it, Oh.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
John, John, If you've been what'sapping with the Saudi Prince,
I'd be concerned because you made him in taken Over.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Do you ever forget like when you connect your phone
to your like speakers in your house and then you're
going through like Instagram stories and like suddenly it's like
super loud and it's like someone's concert.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah. I haven't had that at my house, but in
my car because I do that because I I disconnect
my bluetooth sometimes to listen. It's very complicated. But when
I when I watch the packages that Okay, this is
so in the weeds, but so basically our editor at
the end of the day sends me my story on Dropbox,
so I can watch it, yes, and I'll but when
I do that, I don't want it to play through

(32:43):
my car speakers because I'm usually in the car at
the time, like I'm stopped on the side of the
road right and I'm so I'm picking up my kids
usually yeah, and uh so I don't want it through
my speakers. I want it through my phone so I
can hear it properly. And so sometimes I forget to
when I reconnect in my car later, all of a sudden,
the pack it starts playing in the car.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, And you're like, who, I like, what
is that?

Speaker 1 (33:03):
I'm like, why am I hearing myself? It happens a lot.
It happens often enough, So why I.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Like open like an Instagram store and that it's playing
on my speaker upstairs?

Speaker 1 (33:10):
That is disconcerting. But you know that, you know when
it happens that you can fix it easily. All right,
let's uh, let's see Okay, people are up in arms.
What do you want me to talk about next? You
want to talk about voting online or Google's new look?

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Oh, voting online?

Speaker 1 (33:27):
I know so this when I was a kid I
never understood that why we couldn't vote online. I was like, okay,
come on, Like, doesn't it just make sense. You can
vote from your phone. You do everything from your phone,
I know. But voting is the last thing where you
have to go into a weird place that you never go,
like church.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Go into your local school.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Or a library, like all these places you would never
normally go.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
It is random.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
But anyway, so I'm joking, don't come after me if
you go to church.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Or school or library your phone in.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
That's that's bogus. They totally no, that's totally bogus because
everyone brings their phone in. And I last time I
looked at my phone to see what my choices were.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
How yeah, how else am I supposed to figure out
who's running for president? You have to google it?

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Uh so? Yeah, and you just vote for the first
person that shows.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Up there abe, whoever's first BBC.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
I just usually go through whatever the first vote things.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
I just do AAA.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
That's the easiest way to do it. Yeah. And you know,
those voting people, by the way, know which dots are highlighted,
and so they're just looking at you like they know
where you.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Voted for it when I turned in and they look
at it and they're like.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
They like know, and they go like this to me,
like are you sure. I'm like, excuse me, I want
to try again.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
They like rip it up and throw it.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Away, like we joke, that does not happen, total jokes.
We don't even vote, So in yeah, we would have
to vote to know about this stuff. So in Seattle,
one point two million voters in the county will actually
be able to vote from their mobile web browser from
until election day, which they're trying to make more people
vote because it's super easy.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
So voters go to this election website, enter their name
and date of birth, they make their selections, and then
they sign their name on their phone screen, and then
election officials compare their signature, so I guess the signature
that they have from their driver's license back in the
day or somehow, and that's it. Their ballot is counted.
Now I think this sounds amazing. It sounds like it's
so easy to hack.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
This screams hack.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
But like, I don't know, but if you could have
the whole US vote like on Facebook, and if you
could have.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
The CEO of Amazon get yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Guess it's kind of scary. But I mean, but what's
scarier They put these things in a little ballot box
and they count them. And I mean I used to
cover you know, I was a regular reporter when I
first started out, and I used to cover elections all
the time. And I remember I would go into the
assessor's office and they would have, you know, those like
mail crates that like say, do not steal. It's a
mail crate. It's like a plastic crate. Seeing those around,

(35:58):
it's just like those filled with ballots, and they would
put them into machines and count them and then take
those counts and tell them no, they woul put them
in a machine that like kind of like a money
counter and it would like count the votes. And that's
the whole thing with the hanging chads is that you
were probably too young, but they had this thing in
like I think two thousand with the hanging chads were
they were saying that the when you punch Now we

(36:21):
use ink ins in California, at least in Los Angeles,
but back in the day, you would punch through the
ballot to make a hole in it. Well, sometimes when
you punched through the little piece of paper didn't fall off.
So when you went and you put them all atop
of each other, guess what, when the machine went to
read that hole, it wouldn't be there because it would
still feel like it was filled in. So that was
the whole controversy. And anyway, my point is, voting in

(36:44):
the current methods are not perfect by any means, no
matter what. But it seems like this online voting would
be awesome, but at the same time kind.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Of crazy fact authentication.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
They need retina scan when you can vote in your
contact lens. That sounds like a win.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
What's up? That's what's up?

Speaker 1 (37:02):
All right, Megan?

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Oh, it's me, It's okay. So this next question comes
from Marisa, where we're definitely in Apple family with iPhones iPads.
For the longest time, my two sons have shared just
one iPad air. However, my for my oldest son's upcoming birthday,
we are planning on giving him his personal iPad. My

(37:27):
husband and I share the same iCloud and the same
Apple story d we so we can we all share
the same Sorry, this is kind of confusing. We all
share this share the same iphotos library across all devices,
but thinking if we can separate app Store purchases. I
think it's time to move us to an iCloud family

(37:48):
sharing sharing setup. But I'm so confused. Help. So I
guess she just wants to know how to do that
with her family.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
What sounds very confusing, I know, I don't.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
It was like really wordy, you want to read it.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
I'm so confused right now.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
With the with the question everything you mean?

Speaker 1 (38:13):
All right? So I think what she's asking is that
they have been sharing iCloud logins and all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Is that what she's asking? She never asks a question.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Well, I think she's She kind of says, she says,
I'm confused.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Help.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yes, So this is what I gather from her question.
And the bottom line is that she should be setting
up family sharing. So every person on her iCloud account,
So start with the master account that's hers. Then add
your husband. Now he should have his own login so
he can create that logan on his own. Doesn't have

(38:47):
to be a sub account whatever. Create that login. Then
you claim that logan under yours. So it says add
family members to your account. So you go into your
settings so everyone gets their own login. So I had
to do this with my kids, and it was weird
to My five year old have his own iCloud login,
but you do it, yeah, And when you do it,
it basically just sets him up as an account. And
he has his own iCloud account. So does my little kid.

(39:10):
They both do, both my kids, but they're under my
family account. So does my wife. So when you go
into your iCloud under your settings, family sharing is where
you set it up and you add a family member
and you can invite via I message in person, or
you can create a child account. So I would go
into a family sharing first and create They didn't have
create child account when I did it back in the day,

(39:32):
but now you can just create child account. It'll walk
you through the process. They become part of your account
and then you can share everything. So for instance, we
have two hundred gigs of storage. Ooh sounds big, right,
it's not when you share it against four people. So
we have two hundred gigs of storage and it's all
shared among everyone. So when we back up our phones
and our devices, you don't have to be paying for

(39:54):
multiple different accounts with music and all that stuff. You're
gonna have to sign up for a family account. Basically
every thing gets parsed out, and so you're not sharing everything.
I know so many stories of people who share the
same iCloud account. Next thing you know, they're getting each
other's I messages because they're sharing one account, and they're like,
why am I getting my wife's texts?

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Well, that's what my parents have.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, a lot of people do. Yeah, and it's like, no, no,
you got to parse these things out. So create your
own account, but manage it and family sharing and Apple
has thought of everything, so you're not. It's not like
this unique scenario like no, they know, like you want
to prove your kids' purchases, you want to use your
credit card for your kids purchases, you want to use
their credit card. Whatever you want to do, you can
do it inside that app. Just play with those settings.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
So again, do not give your kids a credit card
buy apps.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
No, definitely approves that they approval by everything.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
So again, it's settings on your iPhone or your iPad.
Click your name, which is your Apple ID, and then
go into family Sharing and you can set it all
up there. Okay, finally, before we go, one quick mention
of an app that has just changed my life overnight.
It's called Real Good I got to give a shout
out to my pal John who suggested this to me.

(41:05):
I put a call out on Twitter for an app
that can help me organize the movies that I want
to watch, So bookmark things I want to watch, but
also see where they're streaming. And there's been apps in
the past. I've tried an app called Ydeo, I tried
an app called just Watch, but none of them were
very good. I tried IMDb would be the greatest solution,
but Amazon clearly does not want you to watch things

(41:26):
in other places because it'll show you something streaming on
Prime but like nowhere else. And the Prime streaming thing
is really confusing because theoretically everything's streaming on Prime. They
don't really divide it up between like what's streaming for
free and what's a paid stream, so that doesn't really work.
I amdb, and it's also very cluttered. IMDb is like
a mess, so but they do have everything anyway. So

(41:49):
the app is called real Good and it is so
far the best I found. The only downside is that
it is only for iOS at this point. I'm sorry
to say, but what you do when you sign up,
you sign up and you say the services that you have.
So all the TV services and the movie services, Netflix, Hulu, HBO,

(42:12):
Prime Video, Showtime, Crunchy Role, Megan's favorite.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
I'm going through it right now, Crackle, Acorn TV.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
It's got everything. And so you go through, you say
which ones you have subscriptions to. You also can say
the TV everywhere. So let's say you have a subscription
to Freedom or was it free Form? Your favorite network
on TV used to be ABC Family. So you say that,
and it will even tell.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
You when you look up Planet.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Yeah, when you look up shows, it will tell you
where it's streaming. But so here's what I did. I
just went through and I bookmarked all the movies I
want to watch, which is just a couple of Right now,
I'll tell you, Megan, funny you should ask let me
say so, I will tell you. Let's see watch list
movies Free Solo, The Two Popes Watching Six, Underground, Marriage Story, Aladdin, Uncut,

(43:03):
gems Ford Versus Ferrari, Knives Out, Bombshell, A Beautiful Day
in the Neighborhood nineteen seventeen, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,
and the Final Countdown, as recommended by our pal gym
oh Cool.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Well, so where can you watch Once upon a Time
in Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Oh, exactly, tell me right now, it's just to rent
or buy, so it will tell me. So there's two levels.
One is the stuff that's already on my services, so
I can just go through and those are the things
I'll watch on a Friday night. Because here's how this
all happened. I was I had free time the other
day and I was gonna watch a movie. Yeah, and
so I have all these screeners at my house and

(43:38):
they're all DVDs, and so it's once Upon, It's all
the new movies, Once upon a Time in Hollywood, bombshell,
all these things. Well, I have no way of hooking
it up because I have no DVD player. So I
went into my garage. Oh for you, just give them
to you.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
So I tried a million ways of using my computer
as a DVD player, an old PS four, and I
was like, okay, none of it was working like my
PS four, Clearly I haven't turned it on.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
So you have to straight up by a DVD player.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah, and I'm not gonna do that. So but I
also refuse to pay for a movie where I had
the DVD sitting in my hand. There's got to be
an app that can help me figure out all the
good movies that are already on my services.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
There is an app for this what well, I just.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Told you about it Real Good.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
No, but there's an appems. What's it called? Never mind,
I'm thinking of something else.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Ever, I don't think you know what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Thanks, So anyway, today, check out real I thought it
was very nice.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Today. Check out Real Good. I think it is amazing.
It's the best one that I've seen for these movies.
And again, it helps you make the most of your
streaming services. You're already paying for these things, or in
Megan's instance, you're already on a family plan with these things,
or sharing someone's password. Sol I am the family plan.
I'm the one that's the host for all these people.

(44:53):
If you look at my Netflix, where your account's being used,
it's being used in places I haven't visited in years.
I'm like, illin, who's streaming in Illinois? Because I don't
know who's in Illinois using my account. Someone is, Oh,
that's not good. It might actually be our corporate network here. Oh,
but you know people. It's like if you look at
my if Netflix decided to look into my account. They'd
be like, they'd be like, we're canceling this guy because

(45:16):
clearly he can't be in New Jersey wherever. All these
places people are streaming in different devices all the same time.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
I thought that everything has to be in a certain rateto.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
No, they don't like crack Down and Netflix. If you're
listening you want to cancel my account, go ahead, because
nobody that's on my account will let me cancel it.
Everyone's like, no, don't care. No, I don't care. I
don't use Netflix. I could care less if Netflix went
away tomorrow as a company, I would not even notice.
I don't use Netflix. I don't care. I am paying
sixteen nine a month for everyone else in the world
to use Netflix. You can take sure. I only have

(45:48):
five profiles.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
Out everyone on the podcast.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
So everyone has a profile. I've I've reached my max
of five profiles.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
It'll be funny if you could have like hundreds of profiles.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
It's just like, clearly that would be like Bill Tell
would be the ultimate Netflix power move to just be like, look,
we really don't care. Yeah, so we are just going
to get you know, We'll just give you.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
You get an account, and you get an account.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
And you get an account, and you get an account. Oh, Megan,
I've said too much. How can people get in touch
with you?

Speaker 2 (46:20):
I'm on Twitter at producer Megan.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Did you pick up a lot of followers from the
uh on TikTok?

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yeah, I haven't checked.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
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you pick up maybe one little tidbit that might help
you in life, and you lose a lot of brain
cells in the process.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
I'm rich Demiro rich on Tech dot tv. You can
find me on Instagram at rich on tech. And if
you noticed I'm doing this new thing, and I'm telling
you because you're an insider, because you're listening to this podcast.
But I'm now editing special versions of my stories that
you see on KTLA, so tell me what you think
of those. I think it's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Oh yeah, this is now.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
I just started with a contact lens story. So if
you go to rich on Tech on Instagram, check out
the contact lens story and tell me what you think.
Thanks for listening. Thanks to everyone that makes this show
possible and behalf a producer Megan myself and anyone that
gets rich on Tech on your ears. Thanks for listening.
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