Rich DeMuro hosts the nationally syndicated "Rich on Tech" radio show on 350+ stations, including 710~WOR in New York City. On the show, he discusses consumer technology news and answers questions. Rich covers major tech events and received a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for his coverage of technology-related social issues. He has appeared on numerous national TV shows and networks, prior Rich was a senior editor at CNET and a reporter at Channel One News and local TV stations. Originally from New Jersey, he graduated from USC with a degree in broadcast journalism, and has over 1 million combined followers on social media @richontech. Now Rich can heard Sunday evenings 8PM and his weekly segment with Mendte in the Mornings on 710~WOR.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from WOR.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here again is Larry Menti with the WOR Saturday morning show.
Rich DeMuro is the host of Rich on Tech, which
will air tomorrow night on WOR from eight to eleven o'clock.
Rich just got back from the Apple campus where they
introduced new products. Rich, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I am doing well. Thanks for asking, Larry.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, I know you're doing well. You went to the
Apple campus. I think I've told you before. My son
worked for a long time for Apple, and anytime one
of the employees got called to the campus for some
training or got called to the campus just as a
treat it was like it was mecca. They were so
excited to going to go. So you were there. What's
(00:47):
it like?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, for better or for worse. That's the way a
lot of the journalists act when they go up to
the campus. It is relatively brand new. It looks like
that giant spaceship, and when you visit that campus you
realize it is just as polished and perfect as the iPhone.
So their attention to detail is not just a facade
like it is a way of life for Apple. Some
(01:09):
of the structures and things that you see on campus
where things they actually had to engineer and figure out
how to do just like they do with their products.
So it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Actually, how are the people. Are they just normal people
or they all been programmed by Apple?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh? No, they are programmed. It's actually kind of a
funny thing. Apple has all of their people so excited
and so cheerful and so welcoming, and I'm not kidding.
It is so perfectly orchestrated. Like they give everyone your
phone numbers, so you are led around from person to person.
They all know your name, they know who you are,
they know your background. I mean, it really can't be said.
(01:48):
Just how on top of things this company is in
every aspect of what they do.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Wow, welcome to the future. So what did you learn there?
What new products can we look forward to?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, this is mostly software, So number one, it's not
going to be called iOS nineteen. It's going to be
called iOS twenty six. So they're naming their software more
like the way car manufacturers name kind of in sync
with the year. Although that'll come out in September. And
then liquid Glass is the new look and feel for
the iPhone software, So that's the new design language. Think smooth, clear, rounded,
(02:25):
transparent across the board. Now when you lift up the
lock screen on your phone, it almost looks like you're
lifting up a piece of glass. iPhone's getting a bunch
of new features around call screening, so AI can answer
unknown phone numbers, ask the person why they're calling, and
once they do that, then and only then will it
ring your phone with the information on your on your
(02:46):
lock screen about why this person is calling. And there's
some other fun stuff Larry, like animated backgrounds in your
I messages, polls and your group chats, little fun things
like that.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, it all sounds great, but usually there's this big product,
there's this big announcement, none of that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Huh no, no real surprises. In fact, kind of not
even a real apology about where Apple lies with their AI.
We know that they are way behind the likes of
Google and the likes of Open AI. With chat GBT,
they've built CHATGBT sort of halfway into their phone. But
we all know that Siri should be smarter, should be
(03:24):
more capable. In twenty twenty five, that's just not happening.
And Apple sort of apologized and said, look, this is
taking longer than we thought, and we're trying to go
privacy first, which is really tough in an AI world
where everything sort of needs to be computed by servers
that may or may not be on your phone or
off site.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I know this is big with my kids, and I'm
sure with everybody else's kids and kids of all ages.
By the way, the Nintendo Switch to is now available.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
How is it? It's actually pretty great, according not just
to me. Reviews are pretty good on this thing. I've
been playing with it, my kids have been playing with it.
They sold three point five million units in the first
four days, which is quite incredible for any electronic gadget.
Back in twenty seventeen, when the first Switch came out,
(04:12):
they sold about just under three million, so already out
selling this thing. It is bigger, it is bolder, it's
got a larger screen. The game sharing is so much
better on this thing, Larry, which is really cool. And
then they have this neat feature called game chat, which
lets people talk to their friends while they play. And
(04:33):
that may not seem like a new concept because a
lot of people are already doing that with the iPad
and Twitch and live streaming, but on Nintendo Switch, which
is geared primarily towards families and kids and things like that.
It is a good feature to have because it's safer,
I would hope than you know, being on the open web.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
This is pretty fascinating. A new stat is out revealing
how much water and electricity A chat GPT user uses
a query uses that How did we get that information?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Well, this comes directly from Sam Altman, the head of
open AI. You know, there's been a lot of I'm
sure you've seen them, a lot of articles about you know,
you do one search on CHATCHBT and it takes an
entire bottle of water or something like that. Right, So
Sam Altman in this article he wrote about gentle singularity,
and it's actually a really fascinating This guy is fascinating,
(05:29):
Like the stuff that he thinks of is just way
ahead of what the average human is thinking about and contemplating.
So it's a whole article about how we're already getting
to the point where humans are almost being overtaken by
the smartness of AI, and how we're reaching a level
of no return. But it's happening, happening very slowly, so
(05:52):
it's tough to see. But anyway, in this article he
talks about how much electricity and water chatchibt uses. So
the average chatchypt query uses about zero point three four
hours of electricity, which is how much an oven would
use in a little over a second, or a high
efficiency light bulb in a couple of minutes. And then
(06:12):
he said the average query uses point eight five gallons
of water, which is one fiftieth of a tea spoon.
So all these giant gallons of water and things that
people have been saying about opening eye, I guess is
not really true. Did chat ChiPT give them that answer?
That's what I want to know. He probably had to
do the conversion on chatchypt, that's for sure. No one
(06:35):
knows those numbers.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Now, So what is so different or what is so
special about this trailer for Apple for the new Brad
Pitt movie.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, I know you're an Apple lover, Larry, so you
got to try this out on your phone. Okay, it
is this new movie called f One. Have you heard
of this thing?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, I've seen I've seen the trailers.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Okay, you've seen that. So you've seen the regular trailer. Now, Apple,
in their Applely spirits a haptic trailer. So in true
Apple form, you can only watch it on the iPhone.
Well maybe you could watch it on other devices, but
it only works on the iPhone, so it basically uses
the haptics in the iPhone. So all the rumbles, the
vibrations of the iPhone, you know you typically feel when
(07:16):
you click something. Now when you watch this movie in
the race car going around the screen, you'll feel the
rumble that great.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I have to try that. I will do that today.
Thank you so much, rich DeMuro. Rich on Tech has
heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on wo
R and you can ask him your own questions and
reach out to him at rich on Tech on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Thanks so much, Rich, thanks for having me, Larry. This
has been a podcast from wo R.
This is a podcast from WOR.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here again is Larry Menti with the WOR Saturday morning show.
Rich DeMuro is the host of Rich on Tech, which
will air tomorrow night on WOR from eight to eleven o'clock.
Rich just got back from the Apple campus where they
introduced new products. Rich, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I am doing well. Thanks for asking, Larry.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, I know you're doing well. You went to the
Apple campus. I think I've told you before. My son
worked for a long time for Apple, and anytime one
of the employees got called to the campus for some
training or got called to the campus just as a
treat it was like it was mecca. They were so
excited to going to go. So you were there. What's
(00:47):
it like?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, for better or for worse. That's the way a
lot of the journalists act when they go up to
the campus. It is relatively brand new. It looks like
that giant spaceship, and when you visit that campus you
realize it is just as polished and perfect as the iPhone.
So their attention to detail is not just a facade
like it is a way of life for Apple. Some
(01:09):
of the structures and things that you see on campus
where things they actually had to engineer and figure out
how to do just like they do with their products.
So it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Actually, how are the people. Are they just normal people
or they all been programmed by Apple?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh? No, they are programmed. It's actually kind of a
funny thing. Apple has all of their people so excited
and so cheerful and so welcoming, and I'm not kidding.
It is so perfectly orchestrated. Like they give everyone your
phone numbers, so you are led around from person to person.
They all know your name, they know who you are,
they know your background. I mean, it really can't be said.
(01:48):
Just how on top of things this company is in
every aspect of what they do.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Wow, welcome to the future. So what did you learn there?
What new products can we look forward to?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, this is mostly software, So number one, it's not
going to be called iOS nineteen. It's going to be
called iOS twenty six. So they're naming their software more
like the way car manufacturers name kind of in sync
with the year. Although that'll come out in September. And
then liquid Glass is the new look and feel for
the iPhone software, So that's the new design language. Think smooth, clear, rounded,
(02:25):
transparent across the board. Now when you lift up the
lock screen on your phone, it almost looks like you're
lifting up a piece of glass. iPhone's getting a bunch
of new features around call screening, so AI can answer
unknown phone numbers, ask the person why they're calling, and
once they do that, then and only then will it
ring your phone with the information on your on your
(02:46):
lock screen about why this person is calling. And there's
some other fun stuff Larry, like animated backgrounds in your
I messages, polls and your group chats, little fun things
like that.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, it all sounds great, but usually there's this big product,
there's this big announcement, none of that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Huh no, no real surprises. In fact, kind of not
even a real apology about where Apple lies with their AI.
We know that they are way behind the likes of
Google and the likes of Open AI. With chat GBT,
they've built CHATGBT sort of halfway into their phone. But
we all know that Siri should be smarter, should be
(03:24):
more capable. In twenty twenty five, that's just not happening.
And Apple sort of apologized and said, look, this is
taking longer than we thought, and we're trying to go
privacy first, which is really tough in an AI world
where everything sort of needs to be computed by servers
that may or may not be on your phone or
off site.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I know this is big with my kids, and I'm
sure with everybody else's kids and kids of all ages.
By the way, the Nintendo Switch to is now available.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
How is it? It's actually pretty great, according not just
to me. Reviews are pretty good on this thing. I've
been playing with it, my kids have been playing with it.
They sold three point five million units in the first
four days, which is quite incredible for any electronic gadget.
Back in twenty seventeen, when the first Switch came out,
(04:12):
they sold about just under three million, so already out
selling this thing. It is bigger, it is bolder, it's
got a larger screen. The game sharing is so much
better on this thing, Larry, which is really cool. And
then they have this neat feature called game chat, which
lets people talk to their friends while they play. And
(04:33):
that may not seem like a new concept because a
lot of people are already doing that with the iPad
and Twitch and live streaming, but on Nintendo Switch, which
is geared primarily towards families and kids and things like that.
It is a good feature to have because it's safer,
I would hope than you know, being on the open web.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
This is pretty fascinating. A new stat is out revealing
how much water and electricity A chat GPT user uses
a query uses that How did we get that information?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Well, this comes directly from Sam Altman, the head of
open AI. You know, there's been a lot of I'm
sure you've seen them, a lot of articles about you know,
you do one search on CHATCHBT and it takes an
entire bottle of water or something like that. Right, So
Sam Altman in this article he wrote about gentle singularity,
and it's actually a really fascinating This guy is fascinating,
(05:29):
Like the stuff that he thinks of is just way
ahead of what the average human is thinking about and contemplating.
So it's a whole article about how we're already getting
to the point where humans are almost being overtaken by
the smartness of AI, and how we're reaching a level
of no return. But it's happening, happening very slowly, so
(05:52):
it's tough to see. But anyway, in this article he
talks about how much electricity and water chatchibt uses. So
the average chatchypt query uses about zero point three four
hours of electricity, which is how much an oven would
use in a little over a second, or a high
efficiency light bulb in a couple of minutes. And then
(06:12):
he said the average query uses point eight five gallons
of water, which is one fiftieth of a tea spoon.
So all these giant gallons of water and things that
people have been saying about opening eye, I guess is
not really true. Did chat ChiPT give them that answer?
That's what I want to know. He probably had to
do the conversion on chatchypt, that's for sure. No one
(06:35):
knows those numbers.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Now, So what is so different or what is so
special about this trailer for Apple for the new Brad
Pitt movie.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, I know you're an Apple lover, Larry, so you
got to try this out on your phone. Okay, it
is this new movie called f One. Have you heard
of this thing?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, I've seen I've seen the trailers.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Okay, you've seen that. So you've seen the regular trailer. Now, Apple,
in their Applely spirits a haptic trailer. So in true
Apple form, you can only watch it on the iPhone.
Well maybe you could watch it on other devices, but
it only works on the iPhone, so it basically uses
the haptics in the iPhone. So all the rumbles, the
vibrations of the iPhone, you know you typically feel when
(07:16):
you click something. Now when you watch this movie in
the race car going around the screen, you'll feel the
rumble that great.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I have to try that. I will do that today.
Thank you so much, rich DeMuro. Rich on Tech has
heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on wo
R and you can ask him your own questions and
reach out to him at rich on Tech on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Thanks so much, Rich, thanks for having me, Larry. This
has been a podcast from wo R.
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