006 Rich on Tech Radio Show - February 11, 2023

one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. Now, this is not a show for techies. I know that sounds strange, right, not a show for techies, although I do think that techies enjoy this show, and if you are a techie, I think you'll like it. But this is a show for everyone. Technology affects so many of our lives in everything that

we do. So my job is to help you understand that technology, stay on top of it, and answer your questions, whether that's a tech question, whether that's a theoretical question, whether you just want to say hi, give me a call. If you have a question about technology, This is the show for you. Now, if you can't tell already the show might sound a little bit different. This is another first for the rich On Tech Show. I am coming

to you live from New Jersey. No, I'm not here for the super Bowl, although I may watch it while I'm here. Super Bowl's not happening here. I mean it is on TVs, I guess. No. I'm here because my brother is having a housewarming party. I didn't want to miss it for the world, and so I said, you know what, I might as well dive off the edge and just try this whole remote show thing. And so I am sitting here looking at the hills of New Jersey, the Garden State. Did you know that New Jersey gets

such a bad rap? But it is such a beautiful place. So I'm looking at a beautiful hill. It was cold out this morning. Went for a nice walk here seeing my family while I'm here as well. So if the show it sounds a little different, if there's a little hiccup here there, you know what, it's all learning experience. I lugged a lot of stuff here to make this show possible through the airport, so it should be a

lot of fun to do this. And also I'm quite impressed just how fun it is to be able to do a show anywhere, well, I guess in the world. But let's not get let's not get too ahead of ourselves right now, anywhere in the US. Let's say so, that's kind of cool. This was a huge week for artificial intelligence. And this is what I love about hanging out with people like my family, my friends, who are not necessarily techies. It's because I live in a world where I just assume the knowledge base.

know about chat GPT. If this is single handedly turn the tech world upside down in the span of a couple of weeks, it is bringing Google to a screeching halt as well. It's making Microsoft maybe have a chance to be on top once again with their being search engine. It is changing everything from love to Snapple I'll explain the moment. So chat GPT launched a couple of weeks ago.

It's from a company called open Ai. And imagine, instead of a search engine, you're feeding all of the world's information into this AI chatbot that can respond to you in a very human like manner. That's what's happening with chat GPT. Now, keep in mind, chat gpd is not perfect. It's not up to date. The last time it was updated was twenty twenty one. With its knowledge, I mean, the technology is up to date, but the information that it's fed is only through twenty twenty one because it's

a research tool. But it's been enough to really make these big companies think about their future, especially Google. So this week both Google and micros said, you know what we've got AI. We're gonna show it off to the world. Google showed off this thing called Bard, which is its AI search engine, and they didn't really show too much of it. They just said, you know, it kind of has a lot of the same features as chat GPT, except it's fresher. We've got all the Google information built

into this search engine. And then Bing actually invited journalists up to their headquarters near Seattle, and they said, we're gonna show you this, and we're going to show you what we have, and by the way, we're gonna unveil this to the world and let actual people use this like very soon, like now. And so they showed off the new bing which has chat GPT built in, but a newer, fresher version of chat GPT built in. I know,

if this all sounds wild, it really is. But if you use one of these search engines, it's just incredible what it does. It talks to you like a human would It talks to you like your friend might. You can ask it almost anything. You can ask it to write you an email to your employer saying I'd like it job, or I'd like to quit my job, or I'd like a raise, or you can ask it to write a sales proposal, or you can tell it, hey, give me ten of the best things to do when

I'm in Italy for a week. It's not just Microsoft and Google. A search engine named Neiva. They've already got an AI search result Chinese search engine bay Do. They are testing their ernie bot Chinese commerce giant Ali Baba. They're testing AI for shopping, which leads me to think, hey, where's Amazon in all of this? Imagine, instead of just searching Amazon for a particular product, you tell the Amazon

AI search bot exactly what you need. You're looking for a couch that measures this exact dimension you want it, in this exact color, in this exact fabric, And instead of shuffling through all kinds of links and products and seeing what they have to offer, it will give you the exact couch that meets your specific criteria. This is where the future is headed. It is quite incredible. Now I mentioned that even Snapple has AI. Snapple has this

thing called the fact Generator FAI ct generator. Remember if you I mean, it's funny that I'm in New Jersey talking about Snapple because growing up that was a very big part of my childhood. But Snapple is nationwide, of course, and under the cap they've got those little Snapple facts. In fact, according to Snaple Information, there have been one thousand, six hundred and seventy seven Snapple Real facts under the lid. So now you can type in anything you want in

this Snapple fact generator. It says, write a wild fact. Let's say a wild fact about blueberries, about blueberries, and I type this in and within seconds it's doing its little machine learning. It's AI, and it says snaple fact number thirteen and thirty four wild blueberries have twice the antioxidants of cultivated ones, So that's Snapple using AI. Then there's a website called Flame AI. So you've got this app called flame Flamme. They've got an AI for relationships.

So they've taken chat GPT and they've narrowed it down to just love and relationship questions. So you can go to this website and you can type in a question about love. If you have a question about your partner or a question about someone that you're into, and you want to ask this AI for advice, you can do that, or you can just say something like best date ideas involving heights in New York City. Now, if you were to type that into a typical search engine, you'd get

a whole bunch of results, right. You'd get links from blogs, you get links from YouTube, you get links from just random tweets about people saying what they like to do in New York City on a date. But what this does is it has all of the Internet's information and it's thinking about all the different blogs and tweets and different sources that mention kind of the same things. And then here's what it comes up with. Answer number one,

take a trip to the Empire State Building Observatory. Number two head over to the Brooklyn Bridge for romanic stroll and breathtaking views of the Manhattan skyline. Number three check out the Highline. Number four, if you're brave, try a couple skydiving experience over New York City. Not doing that, that's for sure. Number five, have dinner at a restaurant with outdoor seating with a skyline view. Number six. Visit Top of the Rock Observation Center for a three hundred

and sixty degree view of Manhattan. Number seven take a tour of one of New York City's rooftop bars for memorable for a memorable night of drinks and food. This is absolutely incredible. So everything is turning to this new AI and everyone is leaning on AI to change the world. Now, this has a lot of implications for not only the way we search, the way that we get information, the way that term papers are written. If you're coming up with a game show, you can ask AI to write

your game show questions for you. Stuff that takes the jeopardy folks months of research to do. Now you have to be careful, though, because the one big downside of AIS, it's not always right. This is not perfect, this is not an exact science. AI gets it wrong. I just looked up some information about the Super Bowl, and boy did have some outdated information and some information that was

just flat out wrong. So if kids are thinking about using this to write their term papers, which many are, yeah, you can use it for a rough draft or maybe some research or talking points, but you better fact checked almost everything that AI comes up with. Look the bottom line here, search content and the ad business around search is going to be forever changed by this technology, and

that has a really big implication for Google. Google, you're wondering, why didn't you have search AI out of the gate, Why weren't you first? Well, because this turns their entire advertising business upside down. When you do a Google search, what do you see at the top? You see links, advertising links that pay Google. Google hopes you tap those links because guess what, it makes them money, and that's their entire business. They made billions in the last quarter

that way. Now, if you're just tapping something or typing something into a search engine. You get the exact answer you need without clicking a whole bunch of links, some of those links paying Google. Now, what how does Google make money? It's a really big question. I think they are really struggling to answer right now. AI is gonna have a big impact on everything every industry. You can think about restaurants, clothing, cars, and more. It is going

to be a wild ride. I hope you check out some of these AI search engines because it is just quite incredible. And bringing it back to the dinner table last night, I'm not kidding. Everyone started going on chat GBT looking up answers and things, and their minds were just opened up. They just said, Wow, this is incredible and it's just gonna have so many implications for the way I do my job, and also my kids and what they're gonna do. All right, Coming up on today's show,

we've got some great guests this week. I've got Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern. He's going to join me to talk about Microsoft's big AI event this week. She's been playing with the new bings. She's one of the lucky ones. We are going to get her take on what it can do. I've got one Carlos Bagnell. He is some gadget guy on YouTube. He's going to chat about the new one plus products. They've got a new phone, new earbuds which I really like, and their first tablet.

And later in the show, did you have a baseball card collection back in the day. I'm going to talk to the founder of an app that lets you scan your card collection, whether it's baseball, basketball, Pokemon or more to see what it's worth. Plus your calls up next at Triple eight rich one oh one. If you have a question about technology, give me a call at Triple eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. My name is Rich Dmiro. You are listening to rich

on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is Rich Damuro. You can find links to anything I mentioned on the show at my website Richontech dot tv, and you can find me on Instagram at rich on Tech. Phone lines are open. If you have a question about technology, give me a call. It's one eight eight eight rich one oh one one eight eight eight seven four to two, four one zero one. Kathy is in San Bernardino, California. Kathy, you are on with.

Windows running in the same browser with both instances. Now, with that said, number one, you have to be careful because you need to know which account you're working on at that specific time, so you need to make sure if you're uploading a document to like one drive, you need to make sure that that's the correct one. You don't want to put a personal document in your employer's file, and you don't want to put your employee file in your personal stuff more so, you probably want to be

worried about putting your personal stuff into your employee file. Now, the email is going to be pretty straightforward because you're gonna recognize your inbox very quickly to see which one's your corporate inbox, which one's your personal inbox, And there's no real issue with them cross contaminating each other as long as you know what you're doing and you know

which account you're using at the right time. Now, with that said, you will notice that you're going to have to authorize the accounts more often than you may have to if you're just using one account, because sometimes the system does get a little confused and it's like, Okay, which account is she using right now? Is it her corporate? Let's just make sure you put your password back in.

And usually the corporate accounts have more requirements for security, so they're going to ask you for your password more than say, you know your personal account. Perhaps with all of that said, you need to be the most careful about, you know, just knowing that anything you do on your employee corporate three sixty five account, you know they can see,

so they can see how you're using that account. They can see where you log in from, they can see what you're doing, they can see what you're uploading, what you're downloading, all through the lens of what you're doing on three sixty five. I'm not saying they have your entire computer that they can monitor, unless you're using a VPN, and then that is a very different topic. So that's

really the main thing. You just have to also keep in mind that at any point they may, like you said, pull the account so they can go into your account see what files you have in there. They can look at your emails, they can scan your emails. They may even get reports of when you do your emails and how many emails you send on a daily basis without specifically looking at your emails, although they reserve that right

as well. So what I'm trying to say is that when you're using a corporate account, there is really the only rule is that your employer's eyes can see pretty much everything that is happening inside that account. But running the two instances on your computer. I do that on a daily basis and it works just fine. You just have to be careful again about what you are doing in which account. So, Kathy, great, first question for this this show, and thanks for calling. All right, let's go

to Joyce in San Diego. Joyce, you are on with Rich. How can I help? Chris is in Temecula.

that device. So if you're connecting like a standard cable box or something to this TV, that's just not gonna work because it's not gonna it's not gonna stream the information from the COAX to the Bluetooth because there's just not a way that I know to connect that. If there was something that was sort of an RCA out, you can definitely go on Amazon and get sort of an RCA to Bluetooth adapter, a little transmitter that would work, But without having ports on the back, it's really gonna

be tricky to get that out of COAX. You're listening to rich on Tech. More of your calls next at Triple eight rich one oh one, Welcome back to rich on Tech. This is the show where I talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's also the place where I answer the questions you have about technology. Welcome back to the show. My name is

rich Demiro. On the line is Joanna Stern. She is a Wall Street Journal columnist and she was at the Microsoft event this week where they showed off the new bing infused with artificial intelligence. Joanna, welcome to the show.

So can you tell me about that? How did that work?

deep partnership with open Ai. But they're putting the bing search engine in with it. And so that means that you can ask BIG's chat bot what they just called chat really anything about current events about the world, and it will write back to you. And so this idea of sort of asking search I mean, we all remember asked Jeeves. You really can just talk to it in normal sentences and it writes back to you in normal sentences that you really would think were written by a human.

written in question form. Like people still ask a lot of questions to search engines.

your deep questions. Really, I mean, I don't know how deep you want to go on some of these search engines, but you can kind of just write out that question and it should respond like you've asked a human for the answer.

these are examples that being gay. Then you've got the Edge browser. They built in some new smarts to that, like it can help you write emails and things like that.

if you went to bing dot com. You can search through there. You can go to compose, where you can ask it to compose whatever you wanted to write for you. Really, if you want to email, a blog, post, social media posts, lists, etc. And just got a little box in there and you say, write me an email to my new boss asking I don't know, for a time to get some coffee. And then it gives you a little area too, where you can put in what you want the tone of that

to be. You want it to be professional, you want it to be funny, you wanted to be enthusiastic, Tell how long you want it to be short, long, medium, and hit generate and it's going to write this email for you, or it's going to write whatever you really ask it to. And so I think that's sort of a big game changer here is that you can be on any website and you can be doing it. Another really cool trick in this and that I think is really really useful, though I'm a little bit worried about

my profession, is you can be in an article. You can say summarize this article, and it will give you the summary of the article and you can say five bullet points.

tools can generate them. What did you think about that.

our own time. But I think there are a couple of ways that that is just not going to be as good as humans. And I think that's one of the main ways, and I think I did ask mister Nadella about this and various other people at Microsoft, which is accuracy, right of fact checking and knowing not putting so much trust in these in this AI system that

it's always got it right. And even so far my experience using Being and many others in the last couple of days have shown that it has many inaccurate results. Now Microsoft is doing a good job at sort of hedging that they'll say this might be the answer, or this isn't, this isn't the definitive answer. But still, you know, people are likely to trust what they read here, and so we have to as humans, as we're using these tools, really just become hyper aware of is this true? Like

how do we find a secondary source? How do we find the primary source to prove that what that thing told me is actually the answer I want?

the teams, here's the quarterbacks. Now you've got to go and you know, look at all those things and cross reference just to make sure it's right.

entire list of that. It wasn't the entire list, but you know, it summarized I believe, like seven of the top winners, right. It gave me a sense of the name, you know, Beyonce, and then gave me a little paragraphs and did that all the way through. And that's a minute. You know, in that amount of time, I could have clicked one of the top links I believe it was from CNN gone there, skimmed it and said okay, yeah, I know what I need to know in less than

a minute. So we're going to have to sort of think about how are we going to use our time, How long does it take these things to do it in there time? And where does that make sense?

information and also access to that. I've got to leave it there, Joanna, tell people how to find you.

on Tech. My name is rich Demiro. This is the show where we talk about technology. If you have a question about tech, give me a call. The phone lines are open at triple eight rich one oh one. That's one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Let me tell you about some of the ways that Google made some announcements this week. When it comes to AI, this is a little bit different than Search AI, but it kind of all falls into that

kind of same Lens here. So Google announced three major updates. Something that deals with lens, which is their visual search tool, something that deals with maps, and something that deals with translation. So I'm just gonna give you kind of the highlights of what I think is the most important announcements that they made. So number one, Lens is a really handy

tool that Google has. It's a visual search tool. So if you take a picture of a bug, or a leaf, or a dress, it will find that on the internet a very similar image and help you, you know, do some research and figure out what that image is of. So, for instance, if you want to take a picture of a dress, you might want to shop that dress at a local store, so it can do that. But it

can also identify an insect. So in the coming months they're going to have a new feature with Lens where you can search your screen if you have an Android. So let's say someone sends you a picture of where they are vacationing, and you say, oh, that looks pretty cool. You can now just search your screen with Google Lens and it will give you the search results based on

what it sees on your screen. And actually I needed this feature the other day, Like I literally was trying to do this because I can't remember what I was searching, but it was just something on my screen that I was like, oh, I need to search this. So I ended up having to take a screenshot and then putting that into Google Lens to search it. But it was so much. It'll be so much when you can just long press your power button on your Android phone and

it will do that search. The other thing is that Maps is rolling out this new immersive view which is gonna be really really cool. So imagine street View, but much more three D, so you'll be able to literally walk down the streets of a foreign city or you know, in this case, London, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco and Tokyo. Those are the first months that it's first cities that it's launching in and then they're going

to roll out to other cities after that. That is an amazing new feature called Immersive View, which I cannot wait to get my hands on. And finally, if you use Google Translate, whenever you translate something on a sign, they're actually gonna blend the letters into the sign better, so it literally looks like the sign in front of you has just morphed into the language that you can read much more easily. All right, Coming up on the show, we're going to talk about new OnePlus products with jan

Carlos Bagnell, some gadget guy on YouTube. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is rich Timiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, sitting here with you talking technology, answering your questions, and it's basically the show to talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. And this week oh so much between AI and new product launches. Later in the show, we're gonna talk one new one

plus products with one Carlos Bagnell. He is a youtubeer viewer and it's got several several products to talk about. A new phone, a new tablet, new earbuds that I've been loving from one plus I love now gosh, this is like the third set of earbuds that they've made that I really really like, especially if you have an Android phones. We'll talk about that. I'm gonna talk about a new way to stream content for free, but first let's go to LURI in Ventura, California. Louri, you are on with Rich? Hi?

because they get more people seeing their stuff. But I would search wirecutter and Shredder and see what that comes up with. And I'm looking at their top pick. It's a Amazon Basics eight sheet high security microcut shredder with pull out basket. It's seventy bucks on Amazon. That's their number one top pick, and then they have a couple other picks there. Now, I also work for a company that owns a review website called best Reviews dot com.

So KTLA's parent company owns a website called best reviews dot com, very similar to Wirecutter, where they have a whole team of experts that review stuff. And so I will cross reference the devices on both of those pages and see which one works for me in my price range. So, according to them, the best of the best is this Fellow's Power shred ninety nine CI. And if you click that link, it takes you to Amazon. That is two hundred and eighty dollars might be more than you want

to spend. The next one on the list, they say best bang for your book is the Aurora High Security eight sheet microcut paper credit card Shredder Black. It's got sixteen thousand reviews, it is rated at four and a half stars, and it is going for forty eight dollars. I think that's your winner right there. Does that sound like a good price. Yeah. So here's the thing. So the way that these companies make money LORI is that

they get referral links. So every time someone clicks and buys one of these products from them, that's how they make their money. And so it's called affiliate linking. On Amazon or not just Amazon. A lot of major retailers participate in this, so it's kind of a win win situation. They're editors and you know, their folks do the work. They put all these things on the website. They say, here's the five things we think are the best, and then when you buy one of those things, they make

a little money. So it's all highly disclosed. It's all very on the up and up. It's a pretty common practice actually online. But that's kind of the way I do it. I will also look at you know, just I won't just take their word for it. I will also look on Amazon and see kind of the ratings, the combination of ratings and stars as well. Looking at these these three shredders that I mentioned, they all have many,

many ratings. By the way, that Amazon basics one, if you can believe it, it has twenty two, seven and thirty three ratings. That's also seventy dollars. So those are the three that I would look at and see which one you like the best. And also they go buy sheets too, like how many sheets do you want to feed into this thing at once? You may say, oh, I only need two sheets at a time, but you know, once you're doing a lot of stuff, you may want

more than that. So does that help you out. I'm going to put all this information on our website at richontech dot tv. That's where you can find more information about anything that I mentioned here. I'm pretty good at putting the links there. So thanks for your question, Laurie, go find that shredder all right. Let me tell you

about a new way to stream for free. And it gets a little confusing with the free streaming because yes, of course you can find pretty much anything you want online for free, but not all of it operates in a illegal zone. But there are many any websites that let you stream real stuff for free. So Sling TV is now launching one. It's called free Stream. So Sling TV, you know, is a paid service and it allows you to get you know, popular cable channels on your TV.

But now they have a section called free Stream which lets you access live and on demand TV for free. And so this joins other free streaming services out there which allow you to watch a whole bunch of stuff. And this you can download through the Sling app on Roku, also Comcast, LG, Samsung, and Visio and Xbox devices. So right now, this is not on the super big platforms like the Fire TVs, the Apple TVs, and the Amazon Fire Sorry Amazon Fire, Apple TV let me think about this,

and Chrome Cast. So right now this is pretty much limited to Roku, Comcast, LG, Samsung, Visio, and Xbox. But the cool thing is you don't need a credit card and you don't have to put any payment in. You can just watch all this programming. So Sling Free Stream has more than two hundred and ten channels with forty

one thousand on demand titles for free. They've got news, sports, game shows, crime dramas, sitcoms, animal stuff, ABC News Live, Architectural Digest, Family Feud, CBS News, ESPN on Demand, Rick Steve's Europe. That's kind of cool. And all of this, again is something that you can experience for free. So if you want to experience it, you can find the link on my website, richon Tech dot tv, or just

download the Sling app and look for the free stream. Now, if you're looking for other ways to stream free stuff, I mean there's a lot of it. You've got Amazon free V, which used to be IMDbTV, but that was kind of a weird name. So is Amazon FREEB free V. But whatever. Pluto TV they sort of started this entire trend of free streaming. And I'll never forget having lunch with a guy who invented Pluto TV and he pitched it to me and I didn't get it at the time.

I said, I don't understand people are gonna want to download an app and watch free stuff, like what about just watching on YouTube? And I didn't understand that. You know, a couple years later, Viacom would purchase Pluto for many, many millions of dollars. But you know, I'm not right about everything. Two B is another one of these free services where you can watch stuff for free. I believe it's owned by Fox. And so you've got Pluto, which is CBS Viacom, You've got two B which is Fox,

and you've got Peacock. They have a free streaming tier which I think is going to go away for new users, but existing users will still have access. And that's NBC. So between all these things, I mean, we're seeing kind of a backlash with paid streaming services because people are just saying, you know what, I'm spending too much. Netflix has gone up in price. YouTube gives me a lot of stuff for free. I can get stuff there. HBO Max,

You've got that costs money every month. I mean, there's so many of these streaming services that once you start paying for all of them, you might as well just have cable TV once again. So we're seeing, you know, people were excited about things like Netflix and all these other streaming services, and now that they've paid the bill for a couple of years, and the bill just keeps going up every you know, two years, every year, whatever it is, people are saying, you know what, I'll stick

with the free stuff. I'll look at ads. I mean, it's really like broadcast television. I mean for many years broadcast television, that's what it does. You listen for free, kind of like the radio that I'm on right now. I mean, you listen for free, you get the information you need and then you know a couple of commercials for your time. So it's the same thing with these streaming services. They get real video products, you know, real shows and on demand titles, but they put ads in

them and that's how they make their money. So again, Sling TV, Free V by Amazon, Pluto, Toby, and Peacock, those are always that you can watch content for free. All right, I have to tell you about this before we go to break here. So don't you love it when you start a book and you're just captivated by

that book instantly. That's what happened to me recent I started So I pulled folks on Twitter because I was reading a book that I didn't really like, and so I said, I don't know, do I stick with this book or do I just let it go? And people were like, just let it go. Don't stick with the book that you don't like, Like you ever have to think about opening the book and reading it, and it's just not fun like reading should not be a chore.

So anyway, I ditched that book. I'm not going to tell you the title that one, but I found a new one and it's called Upgrade by Blake Crouch. And I read one of his other books, which was Dark Matter, and they're all kind of sci fi. This one is about like a genetic kind of a genetic mutation of

the human body, and it makes this person. I haven't finished it yet, but it's already really good, where this guy just keeps getting more and more superhuman powers, which you know is a classic story anyway, But the reality is I can't put this book down. I love it, so anyway, it's kind of fun. I highly recommend it. I haven't gotten to the end, so maybe it totally takes a nose dive after like fifty percent of the book, but I can't tell you that just yet because so

far I'm loving it. So if you want a good book, Upgrade by Blake Crouch, if you like the sci fi stuff, I'm really enjoyed this book. We'll call it Rich's Book Club. You can read it and tweet me about it, tell me what you think about it. And by the way, if you want to get books for free. There's an app called Libby, which I highly recommend. L Ibby. There's

nothing illegal about it. It is an app that connects to your local library in your city and you can check out electronic books ebooks, and you could even read them on your kindle. It is a pretty phenomenal thing, all right. Coming up in the show, more of your questions. If you have a tech question, give me a call one eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. If you want links to anything I mentioned, go to my website.

Rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up, we're going to talk new OnePlus products. My name is rich Dumiro. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is rich Demiro. You are listening to the show where we talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about, and it's a place where I answer your questions. Every week, I sort of give you a litle update on what I've posted to my Instagram account because I'm always enjoying posting these reels.

So this week, let's see, I posted my ride in an electric Oh, this is pretty cool. It's an all electric semi truck for UPS. So I think I told you a couple weeks ago that I took a ride in this thing. Well now the story's up so you can see what it looks like. It is UPS's first all electric semi. They're using it in California. They've actually got an order of ten of these things, but this is the first and I was one of the first non employees to ride in it, so that's pretty cool.

You can check that out on my Instagram at rich on Tech. I also posted a video of this new game called Hot Wheels rift Rally. And if you remember the Mario Kart Live game, these were the little cars that you could drive around your house and play on your switch and augmented reality. Well that same game developer has come up with a new Hot Wheels version of that, so you can check out the video on that. It's kind of cool. It's basically, you know what I think

is neat about it. And I'm trying to get my notes here to tell you more about this because I might as well since I already mentioned it. But I did a story on KTLA about this this week. But Rift Rally is kind of a mixed reality racing game, so It involves a radio controlled car like a physical car,

but it also blends the virtual world. So you play this car, you kind of set up a course around your living room, and the car has a camera on top, so you see your living room on your gaming console, but you also see like an augmented reality world kind of virtually laid on top of your living room. So like just to put that, you know, in an easier to understand terms. You're driving around your living room, but it looks like a racetrack with like really cool things

happening all around you, and it's just really fun. So the game is one hundred and thirty dollars, so I think is a little pricey. I think they priced it at one thirty so that maybe by the holidays it'll go down to like one hundred and that way, you know, I feel like that's more reasonable because you're getting a physical toy as well the game, and as far as I know, they said, there's no in app purchases in the game, so you can unlock more of these hot

Wheels cars as you play the game. More so it's a really cool little experience. The other thing to know about this game is that it's available now on iOS devices and also PlayStation four and five. So the big thing about Mario Kart Live is that it was only available if you had a switch, a Nintendo switch was

you know, that was the only way to play it. Now, the fact that this can be played on an iPhone or an iPad or you know, a PlayStation, I think really opens up this game to many more people experiencing this. So it's really fun. I had a blast with it. I think that, you know, it could get a little repetitive to play this over and over, but there's a lot of different levels and things that you unlock, so I think that's kind of the fun of it. Anyway, Hot Wheels Rift Rally if you want to check it

out on my Instagram at rich on Tech. The game launches on March fourteenth, twenty twenty three, So I think that'll be a pretty hot gift this year. All right, let's go to Chris in West Covina. Chris dialed up the number at eighty eight Rich one oh one, Chris, you're on with rich Hey, Rich, how you doing. I'm doing fantastic.

an Android app, so you could sideload this. Have you heard of the term sideloading.

that device. And so this downloader app will allow you to reach out and grab the APK for the Spectrum app, and then you have to allow it to install stuff from unknown sources. So there is a little bit of a level of security risk here in case you get an APK that's bad or you know, but this is a streaming TV stick. I don't think it's gonna be that big of a deal. But that's the best way.

one zero one. I do my best to post links to anything I talk about on my website Richontech dot tv, and of course you can find me on social media at rich on Tech. That's a lot of rich on Tech all Right. Before the break, I was talking to Chris. He was asking about uh putting an app on his fire TV stick, specifically his sisters that they didn't offer. So we talked about sideloading, which is putting an app

on there that is not necessarily supported. So there are some security risks in doing that, and I mentioned that to him, and his second question before we had to go to break was that he wanted to know if there was a safe place to get these programs, and so the website that I typically use is called ap k me dot com. Now this is kind of advanced stuff.

I would not recommend doing this if you don't know what you're doing with your device, because there is always a security risk when you are installing an app on your device that is outside of Google Play. So just be very careful, tread carefully if you know what you're doing. Yeah, you can trust this stuff, but that's that's probably the most trusted platform for these APKs if you want to get him from there, Chris, all right, let's bring on one Carlos Bagnell. He is some gadget guy on YouTube.

He does fantastic reviews all kinds of stuff, including audio devices, smartphones. He's a friend of mine as well, and I've been watching his stuff for a long time because he had a great attitude about things and he's very fair. One.

known for like really fast and speedy charging. But of course, like you said, sometimes there are some downsides to these devices, and with this device, you don't get wireless charging, but with such fast charging, you probably don't need it. They're also promising that you're gonna get four major oxygen Os updates that's their operating system, and five years of security updates. It's a six point seven inch screen. There's a Dolby head tracking for you know, at most audio three cameras.

Tell me about the cameras. That's really what everyone wants to know about.

the one plus. But the cameras are very competitive. This is one of the areas where we stepped back from some of the more exotic features from last year's Premium one Plus. They had super slow motion four K video one hundred and twenty frame per second that all of those really really fancy photography uses. This year, it's a more mainstream kind of option that's hitting their camera tech directly against Apple and Samsung. We've got very good camera sensors.

They have a partnership with Hasselblod, the camera manufacturer that I think has really stepped up their camera game over the last couple of years and getting great HDR performance and getting very good video performance. It's an all rounder. It's a very fun point and shoot solution. And again, like you were saying, at those prices, we're looking at something that's undercutting the comparable Galaxy S twenty three plus by two or three hundred dollars.

it ages. But I would say this is one of the most beautifully animated phones, the way that it handles transitions that moves you between your apps, and then, like you were saying, we've got a bunch of really interesting that they're not familiar, like if you're used to a Samsung or if you're used to a Pixel, these phones perform in a slightly different way. Things like you do your ultitasking gesture if you slide towards the top of the screen, will then immediately take that app into a

mini floating window. If you're not familiar with that, that can be a little jarring, like oh, what did it just do to this app? But once you get used to it, I love it for things like notes. If I can be in an email, swipe up, have a little ticker floating window to have that information and get back into my notes. I really appreciate that at these lower prices, they're also looking at that longer term commitment, the multiple operating system updates and then also five years

of security patches. They're trying to put a lot of base behind this product that they're looking to have a long term relationship with their customers.

you not agree with that? I mean, you're much more of an audio guy than I am.

but like you mentioned before, support for head tracking. You can play a piece of music or you can watch a movie from your phone and the earbuds will remember your position in space that as you turn it really feels like you're listening on surround soound speakers. I can't find any single feature where there isn't a match for the AirPods Pro two, and they're arriving at sixty dollars less than what Apple is the selling the AirPods two Core.

again fast charging, So that looks pretty strong. If you're thinking about getting an Android tablet, definitely check out the one plus pad one. How can folks find you online?

have bigger implications. For Nintendo game pricing in general, plus more of your calls at triple eight rich one oh one one eight eight eight seven four to two four to one zero one. I'm Rich Dimiro. You're listening to rich on Tech. More after this, Welcome back to rich On Tech. We've been talking about artificial intelligence and how

it's going to just change everything in this world. And I just went into chat GPT, which is kind of the market leader right now, and I just said, write me an intro to the rich On Tech Show, and here's what it spit out in seconds without missing a beat. Welcome to the rich On Tech Show, where we dive into the latest trends and innovations in the tech industry

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exciting world of tech. It is just so incredible and I didn't even give it any basis for what the show is or what it's about. It just figured that out and it's pretty it's pretty incredible if you haven't tried it. Chat dot OpenAI dot com is the website, and I just got a little note that said you can upgrade to plus Chat GPT plus for twenty bucks a month, which gives you available even when demand is high, faster response speed, and priority access to new features. Twenty

dollars a month. That's how incredible this tool is that people are willing to pay that much. All right, Gloria is in Pacoima, California. Gloria, you're on with Rich, Welcome to the show.

Now the fact that it's only happening with your sister concerns me because it sounds like it could be an isolated Android to iPhone issue, which is very frustrating. Of course, so the steps that I would take, Number one, the easiest thing to do. If all of your other texts and your picture messaging and all that is coming through, then I would ask your sister to delete any text threads that involve you on her phone, and then restart her phone and then try sending a new text directly

to you. That is the first step I would take. And the reason is because sometimes the iPhone gets caught up in just a little weird situation with kind of a challenge between a standard text message and an I message, and it gets confused sometimes, and so if you delete that entire thread, that may just trigger Okay, we know this is an Android phone, we know this as standard SMS. Let's send it this way and hope it goes through. So that is the first thing I would try, Okay, and then yeah, go ahead.

as well. But the reality is, you know, sometimes these things happen if for some reason, it seems to happen with text messaging a lot, especially from iPhone to Android and sometimes Android to iPhone, but more mostly you know, it's just it's something that's going on with the configuration of the messages, either on your end or on her iPhone that's just not recognizing it. So those are the

steps that I would take, Lauria, it's very frustrating. The other thing you might try to do is go into your settings and under your connections there should be a toggle for Wi Fi calling and texting. You might try toggling that on and off. So I would toggle it on if it's not on, and then try sending her a text. And then I would toggle it off if

it's on, and then try sending her a text. So again, these are all of the kind of the methods I would use to troubleshoot the situation, but again very frustrating. And I remember my mom had a problem with her phone where the simcard was saying, you know, like it wasn't seeded properly. And now my mom is not the type that's gonna sit there and like push a SIM

card with a paper clip. And yet somehow I got her to do that, and we took out the SIM card, like you said, we kind of you know, polished it off a little bit, put it back into the phone, reseated it, and it seemed to work. But she was

very proud of herself for doing that. I remember specifically being outside on my back patio and just like walking my mom through this and kind of laughing, just thinking to myself, like what world am I living in where I'm walking my mom through taking a SIM card out of a phone and resetting it. It's just like stuff that, you know, the average person never really thinks about doing. And now, of course, many of the new phones have

moved to e sims, which love the mer hatim. I actually think there's a lot of advantages to that because now the whole sort of SIM situation is much more digital and electronics. You don't have a physical SIM card in the new iPhone. It's just not even a thing anymore. All right, you're listening to rich on Tech. We'll have more of your calls at Triple eight rich one oh one, and more of your questions and stories. We'll talk about the price hike for an Tendo games, all coming up

on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. This is the show where we talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about, and it's the place where I answer your questions about technology. Thanks for joining me. Rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, coming to you from across the country today. Well, depending on where you're listening, I guess it could be anywhere.

But I'm in New Jersey here for my brother's housewarming party and maybe a little Super Bowl celebration as well. So kind of a fun first remote show. It's the first time I've done something like this on the radio. Well, I mean it's only been six shows, so I mean, yeah, it has to start somewhere though, right Anyway, it's been a lot of fun. I hope there have not been too many hiccups for you listening. I think It's gone pretty well and I'm ready to do it again. Where

should I go next? I don't know. Now that I've unlocked this oyster, it's kind of fun. I'm looking up some fun facts about New Jersey since I'm here. This is where I grew up, by the way, but uh, you know, of course I learned about New Jersey as a kid, but you kind of forget. But I love this fact. It has seven major shopping malls in a square mile. I don't know if that's true or not, but we are as Why is New Jersey known for

shopping malls? There's just like a lot of malls. I mean growing up as a kid, I went to the mall. That's where we hung out, you know, as teens, we hung out going to the mall. And I don't know do you kids still do that? Maybe? Anyway, if you have a question you want to ask me, my phone number is one eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four to one zero one. By the way. On the way over here,

this is this is just me. But you know, I I you know, I really think about stuff a lot, like maybe too much. But on the way over here, I was doing my research on where to sit on the plane, and of course I go to seakguru dot com. Have you gone to this website seekguru dot com. It basically lists a map of your airplane and then it shows you the best seats to sit in. Now, I'm not talking like first class, like if you're paying for

first class, you're always getting a good seat. But I'm talking about like the rest of the plane, because some seats are not as good as others. And so if you look at just sort of a you know, United Airlines or American Airlines, there's a bunch of different seats in there, and some may be good. So let me just go through here. So like C eight L, which is in business class. By the way, it's a live flat seat, but the proximity to the lavatory in galley

maybe bothersome, so that's marked as a yellow seat. You don't want to sit there. Then there's a red seat in first class. It's a standard business class seat, but it's missing a window. So if you paid all this money for a business class seat and then you sit down and you have no window, you might be upset, Like my kid wanted a window on the plane. Then you've got some green seats, which are you know, this is a premium plus seat. It's got more leg room

because it's a bulkhead seat. Bulkhead is when you have no road in front of you. It's just like that wall in the plane in front of you. So that's the bulkhead that used to be one of my favorite seats on the plane. And then of course you have just standard seats and yellow and red and green. So anyway, seatguru dot com if you want to check out where to sit on your next flight. I know some people might think that's a little bit over the top. I don't.

I've been flying for many years, and you know there are better seats on the plane. Then you know, some seats are just better than others. So you look up your plane that you're gonna be on, or you can look up your flight. It'll give you the plane number, and then you can, you know, go to this website and pop it in and see where to sit. I put way too much work into this, and then they ended up swapping out the airplane, which is kind of funny.

So after all the work I put in looking up where to sit on the plane, we got to the airport, and they said, oh, by the way, we swapped out the plane for a different one. They ended up switching it out for a better plane, so I ended up getting an even better seat than the one that I had picked. Anyway, none of that matters to you right now, except to know the website seat guru dot com. All right, Jeff is a truck driver in SoCal. Jeff, you're on with Rich. What's going on?

time you don't have to do that, but sometimes you do. Okay, So if that's doesn't work to close out the app, that's called a force quit, and that usually kind of you know, closes the app out and then you can open it back up. It kind of restarts it makes it work properly. Again, if that's not working, have you tried deleting the YouTube app and reinstalling it?

figure out. So what I would do is go in delete the YouTube app and then restart the Apple TV by pulling the cord or just restarting it however you do that, and then letting it warn back up, install the app again, see if it happens, and I would hope that that would clear out all the fragments and and you know junk that may be lingering on this install that is causing it to hiccup like this, and hopefully that will fix it.

this mean. This means that now that the sort of barrier has been broken for that sixty nine to ninety nine price point, you can bet that other big name games for the Nintendo Switch are now going to cost more. So that's just kind of the way things are right now. I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm getting all these emails about prices going up on just about everything that I've purchased in the past, or subscriptions that I have, And now the Nintendo Switch games seventy bucks

for a game. And by the way, if you have two kids with a Switch, you know you gotta buy double games, so that could be tricky. Breath of the Wild was the first Zelda game for the Switch that launched the console. Nintendo sold twenty nine million copies of that game, and they've sold one hundred and twenty three million Switch consoles. So Nintendo's cleaning up with the Switch just became I think the third best selling console device in the world as of last month. All right, thanks

so much for listening rich on Tech. Here, we're gonna have more of the show coming up. We are going to talk about an app that lets you scan your baseball card collection to see how much it's worth. It's really cool. Plus I'm gonna tell you how to avoid a simcard scam. You're listening to rich on Tech. More of the show coming up. Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is rich Demiro online at rich on Tech. I'm active on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. What else is there?

if you want to join that you can. Marshall is in Recita, California. Marshall, you are on with rich How can I help?

You told about the phones coming out, and you didn't happen to tell the prices of them, and I wondered, how come you didn't tell the prices on that? Okay? And I was the other part of that question for the Samsung was I'm looking to get the s twenty three. But I wanted to know what your opinion is because I heard you talk about the one plus and how you compare the two phones which we would get at Samsung as twenty three or at one plus.

states right away. It says available in forty two states, so let me see if I can find the states that it's not Okay, it's ourx pass is currently not available to send medications to California, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington, So it says Amazon pharmacy is still available in those states. So clearly there's some kind of extra rule or regulation that the RX pass just they just

can't do in those states. I think there, if it's Amazon, they're probably working on it, and I would imagine that they would bring it to those states eventually if they can. But that's the answer for that. I'm not sure why it's not there. I think it should be because I think people in all states should have access to that

five dollars a month for unlimited prescriptions. Now, the question about the Samsung S twenty three, so the reason I don't go I kind of mentioned the standard pricing, which starts at eight hundred dollars for the standard S T twenty three, and then the S twenty three Ultra, which is the top of the line, starts at twelve hundred dollars. The reason I don't make a big deal about the specific pricing is because everyone's situation is so different when it comes to how they pay for their phone and

how they get a discount on their device. I mean, I'm looking at the website right now. I mean, Samsung has so many different sort of offer programs. They've got discount for education, They've got discounts for government employees, military first responders employees. So I mean those can all factor into the price of your phone. And then of course some people have a trade in so you might trade

in your old phone. Maybe I had the S twenty one, And because Samsung kind of inflates the trade in values right around the time they launch their new phones, people will trade in their old phone and get like eight hundred dollars for it, something unheard of because the phone. You know, Samsung's taking a little bit of a hit on that trade in value just to get you into a new phone. So that's the pricing when it comes to comparing the Samsung versus the one plus eleven. I've

been using the one plus eleven. I used it briefly, so I haven't really used it as like my daily driver, but I will tell you that it's a really tough one. I would say the software on the one plus I really really enjoy. I think that they make their software super useful. It's handy. It reminds me of the pixel

except more useful. So they add like all these little features in like a reader mode where it can turn your screen, like if you can add apps to the reader mode, So if you open up like the Kindle app, it will turn your screen grayscale or Sepia toned. So it's like fun little things like that. Or if you open up a game, it's got like a game mode on it, so it like you know, boosts the processing

power and makes the screen brighter. So it's little things like that that I really do appreciate about the one plus. I always feel like the one plus is good if you're very cost conscious. So if you want to spend a little bit less then the Samsung, then I'd say go with the one plus. I think the downside is the sort of repair and help that you get with a one plus is going to be a bit more

limited than you would with a Samsung. Samsung's got deals with all these like little you know, you go into any of those little stores, those repair shops, and they've got the Samsung parts, they've got the Samsung screens that people know because they work on a bunch of Samsung phones. So in that case, I feel like you're going to get a little bit more support when it comes to a problem with your phone. Now, the iPhone is sort of the king of that situation. Where I was in

Japan and I had a problem with my laptop. I made an appointment at the Genius Bar, and without even thinking, I started walking over and I said, oh, my gosh, is the person that's a Genius Bar even going to speak English? And it wasn't even something that occurred to me, like I just like imagine they would, and sure enough

I get there and they did. And so it was just an incredible experience where here I was across the world and I was still able to get my laptop service because Apple just has so many store in so many places, and you break your iPhone anywhere in the world and you're gonna be able to get a replacement like the same day. So I've been using the Samsung S twenty three Ultra. I think it is a phenomenal device.

It is a powerhouse of a phone. It is every feature that you can want on a smartphone all in one. And so if you are desiring the absolute best two hundred megapixel camera, every feature you can ever imagine a stylus. I mean, this phone is really one to be I've been super impressed with it. I think the camera is great, and especially in bright light, it's amazing. In low light it's amazing. There are some places where it struggles, specifically

low light selfies. I've noticed if you're an extremely low light it can take a little bit longer to take a picture. And also some of the video is in low light could struggle a little bit too. But if you want a great phone, S twenty three Ultra I think is gonna be a really nice pick. All right, Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about the app that lets you scan your baseball cards to see how much they're worth. You're listening to rich on Tech. More of

your calls and an interview coming up next. Rich Demiro here, rich On Tech, Welcome back to the show. As you can tell, I am inside somewhere. I'm inside Burbanks Sports Cards, and I'm here with Ted Mann, the co founder of Collects. This is an app that I dreamed of having as a kid. It's an app that lets you scan your cards, your baseball cards, football cards, hockey cards, whatever, and then see what the value of those cards are and some other features. So, Ted, thanks for joining me, Thanks for

having me on Rich. So we're inside this baseball card shop or I guess card store. It's incredible. It's bringing me back to my childhood when I ripped open those card packs and you know, had a little collection. I was never too serious, but many people are so. First off, just tell me kind of the idea behind baseball card collecting or card collecting.

see that in my own son. I have a ten year old son named Charlie who got really into cards over the pandemic, and just like me when I was his age, like it became quickly graduated from being like a hobby, you know something I was like interested in the pretty pictures on the cards, to like really being serious about I want to be able to find, you know, the most valuable cards. I want to build a flip cards.

I want to find cards and sell them. My friends do deals, and so I started to see that with him, and I think that that's a lot of people kind of are with this hobby, is it becomes go graduates from like a passion into something of an obsession. And you know, I have my own son to thank for bringing me back into that and it's now become something that we get to do together.

my card back? And this happened multiple occasions, and I did the exact same thing with him that my dad did with me, which is like, I'm not gonna unwind that trade.

with this every day. And finally, like so many I think inventions that are startups that get founded, I just got so frustrated that I wanted to have a better, easier way to do it, so I made made a little tool for Charlie to help him figure out the price of his cards, and that's what gave birth to the idea for Collects.

well for that purpose. So we can match with a very high degree of accuracy and say, okay, this card matches to this other card. Once we match it to the card, then you can see what's the current average price. We average all of the most recent sales on eBay and other sites to calculate that, so we'll give you the average price, and then we can also tell you, you know, what would the card be worth if you if you wanted to sell it, or if you want to degrade it, if you want to send it off

to a professional grading service. What would that do to the value of the card.

big collections. The average user on the app will add about two hundred cards to their collection, but we have a ton of users that have thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of.

And so we started to look at how many any cards we're getting sold through the app, and over the last five months, we've seen fifty million dollars worth of cards sold on the Collects app. So people are actually doing some pretty big deals here. I mean it's you know, this is an eBay yet, but it's it's definitely like a cool place to be able to you know, buy or sell or do a trade.

what your shared interests are. So if you both collect the Dodgers, we can help surface those cards front and center to make it a little bit easier to find the cards that you would want to be able to purchase from that person.

per se. Google lends will allow you to match to images on the Internet, but none of what Google does is tied to any kind of what we call canonical data is not tied to the actual checklist of the cards versus collects where we're actually going to match it to that exact record so that you get the pricing reliably.

I think that's pretty cool, right, And that's that's the thing, like you said, I mean, I don't even think I could have like comprehended the idea of like smartphones much less like collects when I was a kid. But the fact that you can do it now, I think it

is really a cool way to advance the hobby. But I don't think it it obvigates the need to still have those physical cards, because actually being able to show cards to your friends, you know, in the physical world, I think is still so cool and such a such a neat part of the whole experience of collecting.

be able to do that. I mean, if you if you can cast your screen, anything that's happening on your screen can be cast to another screen, whether that's the camera or you know, whatever's going on, but you have to actually go in and cast that versus the in app casting, which is I know it sounds a little different,

That's that's really what I'm trying to look at. I don't have a pixel with me right here, but I'm trying to see if they're if you go into like your quick toggles have you seen those where you like pull down those buttons that are at the top of the screen, right, that's where you might find the cast where it's going to cast your entire screen and not just the app, and not just.

one in there that says cast screen. That's the one that you want to enable, and that's the one that you want to use to cast your screen while you're practicing your golf swing and then you know you should be able to see that on that TV screen at the same time. So hopefully that'll help.

So here's how it works. Basically, someone gets your information, they call up your wireless carrier and they pretend they're you and they say, oh, I got a new phone. I'd like to swap my SIM with the new phone. And the operator says, okay, let me verify you are who you are. And because of all these data breaches out there, you know, these hackers can figure out ways of piecing together your identity and so they know that you know your secret question or secret answer to your

secret question is this. They know what your address is, they know what your phone number is. We recently saw big data breaches from T Mobile that exposed like thirty seven million customers information. And this is a story, by the way, from ABC seven New York about two people that had gosh, twenty thousand dollars wired out of one

one account and sixty thousand dollars out of another. While these people keep a lot of money in their their accounts, and both of these women were victims of a simcard swap scam. And so basically, these criminals convinced the carrier to let them activate a new phone. And what's going to happen when that happens. Well, now they've got the keys to your kingdom. All those little text messages that come through the two factor authentication codes, all of those

codes are now coming to their phone. So what can they do. Well, they try to log into your bank account, and your bank says, huh, this is weird. This is a new device that we haven't seen before. Let's verify this. Let's send that device a text. They send a text with that one time code. But now the hacker has that one time code and they can enter it and get into your bank account, and they can do this for a whole bunch of different things. When we've heard this,

this is nothing new. This has been going on for a long time. But people still, you know, it still happens to people because their accounts are not properly locked down, and so in one case, this woman said, she goes, I was on an airplane when this happens, so there's no way that I could have authorized these transfers, like here's my plane ticket, Like when this all happened, I

was literally on a plane. And a lot of times people will see their phones just go dead, like the signal just goes out because it's been moved to a different device. So how can you protect yourself from all of this? The big takeaway Number one, you probably want to use a two factor authentication app. I know, I talk about two factor authentication all the time. The easiest way to do that is with a text code. Now, if you look at Google what they've done, they've gotten

pretty smart. They actually will ask you when you're logging in from like an unknown device. They'll say, hey, can you open up the YouTube app on your iPad? And that's how they verify you are who you are because the hacker typically doesn't have your iPad as well and access to that. So they've gotten pretty good about that kind of stuff. Like they've stopped doing like the two factor code sent to your text, but other apps still use that, especially bank apps, So use a two factor

authentication app. That means that you won't get texts. It's like an app that relies on generating different codes every thirty seconds or so, and that's more secure. And also if your app allows it, like if your banking app allows a pin code or a fingerprint authentication, definitely use that. Always change your mobile account pin number and password. Do

not use your pet name, use something strong. And then all of the carriers, whether it's T Mobile, AT and T or Verizon, they all have a way to lock down your account so that someone can't simswap you. On T Mobile it's called takeover protection. Make sure you enable it. On Verizon it's called number lock, so you can ask them to enable that. Think you can do it right from your app. And then on AT and T you

can ask them to activate two factor authentication texts. So no matter what or sorry, authentic a unique passcode for AT and T if you want any changes. So T Mobile account takeover protection, Verizon number lock, AT and T out a unique passcode for any changes that are asked about your account. Very important stuff. You do not want to lose access to any of your personal information, all right, if you can believe it, that's gonna do it. For this episode of the show, first remote rich on Tech

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