Alexa gets AI skills

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just noticed this in my notes. All of our guests this week's their first name starts with Jay. Jefferson Graham of Photo Walks TV is going to share his thoughts on the iPhone fifteen cameras. Jamie simmonof the founder of Ring he's now chief doorman at door Dot. We're gonna talk about his new uh, his latest venture. And John Faulkner, road test editor at Clean Fleet Report, will discuss the car that I've been driving around for the past week, the Ford mock E Mustang EV and boys at a

fun Car. I've been having a lot of fun in that car. I love how it makes, uh, the sound of a gas car, just that rumble, but it's not. It's electric. You would never know the difference. All right, So this week lots and lots of iPhone Apple news. My photographer at KTLA yesterday was saying, Rich, can you believe we did a full week of iPhone stories like how wild is that? And I said, I know, and

not one person complaint. I mean, it's just like you take for granted when the iPhone comes out, there's gonna be a lot of coverage. Apple sort of commands the uh. They just take all the uh. I don't know, why do you say that. It all just the all eyes are on them. That's what it is. And so I get it. It's a it's a very popular phone. It's a very big deal for the new iPhone to come out. Some people have been waiting a year for the new phone.

Some people have been waiting three years. Some people are upgrading from the eight No matter what, it's an individual thing that if you want the new device and you get it, it's very exciting. And it is in general, even though the iPhone hasn't substantially changed. I mean, it's evolved over time, but I mean when I set it up, I was setting up the new device and I was like, wow, this is like it's the same iPhone. Like I didn't

just copy everything over this time. I set it up from scratch just to see what the process is like and all that good stuff. And it's just interesting. It's like a lot has changed but a lot has not changed over the year, So we'll talk more about the iPhone in iOS seventeen and all that stuff. But Amazon

this week lots and lots of news. They did an event at their new headquarters in Virginia and they gave a look at the future of I'm gonna call it alex A. I don't want to I don't want to trigger your speaker, so let's just call it alex A. And they gave a look at the future of alex A, which, of course, as you might expect, is going to include a healthy dose of generative AI. So if you want to try this in your home and you have an Echo speaker, it may not work just yet, but this

is happening very soon. So if you're like me, if you're a nerd, you're going to be asking this every single day until you get this new feature. But you say, alex A, let's chat, and magically you will now get to try out this new AI alex A. And so what does that mean. It means that it's going to be more conversational. It's going to mean that you can combine multiple requests into one, so you can say, hey, close all the blinds, turn off all the lights and

start the vacuum. And before it wouldn't understand that. Now it will. You can say I'm cold, and it will turn up the temperature. And you could create and make these routines all by voice. And routines are really fun. I actually created a couple of them this morning for some of our Halloween lights. I've got this little home

Depot sent me. You know how during the holiday season, like Christmas time, they have those little like houses, like people make those little like it's like a little town, like a main street, USA, kind of like houses and stuff, and they have the little lights inside. They're almost like a ceramic house. Well, I guess Home Depot did that for Halloween, and so it's like a home depot that's all spooky and halloweeny and it's really cute. But you know,

it has like a little light bulb inside. And I said, you know what, let me put a smart plug on this thing, and let's make a routine to have it turn on at night and turn off by the morning. And so I did that this morning. I guess you'll be able to do that very easily by your voice very soon. All right, So some of the other things that they announced is this new I Gaze feature. So this is for customers with mobility or speech disabilities. Now you'll be able to use alex A with your eyes

instead of your voice or touch. So this is going to premiere on the fire Max eleven tablet, and I guess they'll use the camera in the tablet and you'll be able to control things just by looking at the tablet. So you'll be able to play music and shows, control your smart home, and even communicate with loved ones hands free. Now it's going to be not every action you could typically perform with the Voice assistant, but a subset of those.

And so if this works on the Firemax eleven tablet, which is probably the most powerful tablet, it could be a pretty neat new feature, So that's exciting. There's also another feature called call Translation. This when you're using audio and video calls, they can be captioned in real time, but in different languages. So if you're chatting with someone over in France and you want to they speak French and you speak English, they can just talk in French

and you'll see the English translation on the bottom. That's pretty cool. I think one of the most important new features they are introducing is called ALEX, a emergency assist, so you can just say ALEX a call for help, And if you have an echo speaker in your house, if it's a supported speaker, you can get directly connected to an emergency response center. Now this is not going to call nine will one directly, but it's going to call sort of a call center with a dispatch that

can then relay your information to the right people. So whether that's fire, whether that's emergency ambulance, nine one one, police, whatever it is. So that's going to cost five ninety nine a month or sixty dollars a year. So it's kind of interesting because I feel like this is one of those features that if you have a loved one that lives alone, why would you not get them this? And it's kind of weird that they didn't go all the way and just make the speakers dial nine one

one directly because that would be free. But I understand there are some limitations. And also this is supposedly better because the dispatch officer will be able to get your call to the right place, and also they will have information about you, so if you have an allergy or a medical history that they that will pop up on their screen. Plus all of your information will pop up, like your address and you know whatever if you have a pet at home. So I guess it's a better

way than just dialing nine one one directly. Some of the devices they introduced, the Echo Show eight. This is just a new smart display. Then they've got this new one called the Echo Hub. This is sort of an iPad that you mount on your wall, so it's thin. It's got an eight inch screen, it's touchscreen, and it's kind of like a dashboard for your house, so you

can manage your smart home devices. You can arm your alarm, start a routine, check out your security cameras, and when it's not in use, it can show your personal photo collection, which is kind of cool. Let's see, And that's something that used to cost a lot of money back in the day to get sort of the smart home automation controller installed in your home. They've got a new version of Echo frames. These are their smart glasses which I've tested, not the new ones. I tested the last version. I

fell in love with them. I thought they were great. The only thing is they let's see, did I really have any problem with them? Not really, I thought they were excellent. So these are slimmer, they've got better battery life, better speakers, and you can hear them better. But I

thought these were really cool when I tested them. So echo frames haven't really caught on in a big way, but I do think that this idea of smart glasses, you know, Facebook is doing it, and they're doing it so some of the other things I thought were pretty cool. Fire TV is getting AI powered search, so now you can ask for movies and TV show recommendations, kind of like the way you might have used to ask a

Blockbuster clerk. So you can say, hey, what about some movies you know by this actor or this director, or you know, I want to watch something for just a rainy day, you know, animated movies, whatever. And another cool feature is you can take all thanks to AI. Of course, you can take one of your photos and say, hey, can you change this into sort of a cyberpunk situation

or can you make this into a watercolor photo? And the fire TV will use AI to change your picture into you know, cool looking photo that you can have on your screen. And that's the other thing that they're doing that's really cool. And this is something that I can't wait to get a new Fire TV to take

advantage of. Is the fireTV stick. The top of the line stick will now give you this ambient experience, which means even when you're not using your TV, it can show information on your TV screen, it can show your photos, it can show the weather. And that's a feature that Samsung kind of pioneered with their Frame TV and then Amazon offered it on some of their top of the line omni TVs. But now it's coming to any TV as long as you can plug in the fireTV stick.

Let's see what are they calling it. It is the It's a Fire TV stick four K Max second generation. Say that twenty times fast. But that's like a fifty dollars maybe a sixty dollars plugin for your TV. And now you can have your artwork and all kinds of stuff. I am definitely going to do that. I cannot wait. I've wanted that feature on my TV for so long and I think that's going to be a great one. They also introduced if you have bad WiFi home, the Eero Max seven. This is like, oh my gosh, the

best Wi Fi mesh system you've ever seen. Is supports Wi Fi seven ten gigabit Ethernet can download a four K movie in ten seconds or a fifty gigabyte video game in less than a minute. This will be available in a one to two or three pack starting at six hundred dollars. So if you really want some maximum Wi Fi for your house, that's going to be at the Eero Max seven. All right, So that's what Amazon announced. Lots and lots of stuff from Amazon, so be on

the lookout for some of those new products. I'm sure they'll be on the Amazon Home screen very very soon.

zero one. I'm like, is this thing on? I had my volume turned down. Let's go to Gloria in Pacoima, Gloria, you're on with Rich.

Visible has no stores. They have no customer service in a meaningful way, and for someone like yourself that's having trouble, you may be in this trouble area forever and not really get any meaningful help. They are all through chat, they are all through online, they are all through the app, so you can't really get help if you need it. Now, I'm not saying that Visible is bad. I'm saying, in your circumstances, Gloria, it sounds like this is not a

good fit for you. The network is not the network that you want, because, like you said, Verizon's not working for you. This is the same exact network that Verizon on and you don't have a store to go into. You can't go into a Verizon store and get help. With Visible. You can't even really get someone on the phone as far as I know. With Visible, it's all

done through chat and email. So, oh my god, this is this is really a service that's aimed towards millennial users that are very very hip and they want to do everything sort of like without human interaction, and so there's nothing wrong with it. It's you know, and you save a ton of money. I mean, this is twenty five dollars a month or thirty five dollars a month, so it's it's really a money saving move. But okay, it's forty five, got it. So here's what I'd recommend

for you, Gloria. Have you heard of Mint Mobile?

we have Verizon. Everything else you hear about is one of those networks what they call MVNOs mobile virtual network operators. So they just lease the network space from a Verizon, from an AT and T, from a Team Mobile, and then they resell it and they repackage it with their own marketing and their own plans. So what I would do is talk to some of your friends in the area.

Just knock on your neighbor's doors and say, hey, what service do you use and does it work in the same Maybe it's AT and T. It sounds like it's not Verizon. It sounds like it's not T Mobile. Now if T Mobile was just issues with sort of like customer service and things like that, I think that Mint Mobile is a really strong deal for you can get unlimited through them for thirty dollars a month, which which I really really enjoy. So that's what I would do.

I would check to see who has the best service in your area and go with that. And it sounds like if you're having a lot of trouble and you need a little bit more help with your service, you may want a full service carrier, and that is directly dealing with a place that has stores and that would be Metro BYPC Metro PCs, that would be Cricket, that would be Verizon, that would be AT and T. You could even go into Walmart and get one of their plans. They have a lot of prepaid plans you can get.

But it sounds like that may be the route you want to go is figure out what works best in your area and go with that carrier. And you may want to go with one that it could be a little bit more expensive, but if you can walk into a store and get the help that you need with your phone, that may be the best scenario for you, Gloria. So I hope you figure it out. Gloria, thanks for the call today. Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

its paces, checking out all the new features. So even if you don't have a new iPhone, there's iOS seventeen and there's a t there's new software for the Apple TVs. Let's see, there's new software for the watches. So I mean there's a whole bunch of new stuff. If you have the iPhone fifteen. So I actually interviewed someone from Apple about this, one of the product managers, and he was saying and I was very surprised that he said this. So a couple takeaways. Number One, you can use any

USBC cable to charge the phone. The one that comes in the box is going to be the standard USBC. If you have an iPhone fifteen Pro and you want to get faster data transfer speeds, you can get a USBC three cable and that will give you really fast data transfer that's only on the Promax. And then when you want to charge the phone, would you want if you want to use a third party charger, you want to get the USB c PD that's power delivery. So a lot of people are thinking that the iPhone fifteen's

are going to charge faster because you're USBC. That is not the case. It does not look like Apple has improved the charging speeds on these phones now that could you know. That's one of those things that Apple doesn't really give us all the specs. In fact, one of the things that the product manager said, he goes, look, we don't really want you to care about any of the specs on these phones. We just want you to have that magical experience of the phone just working. Let's

bring up Jefferson Graham here. Jefferson is uh with Photo Walks TV. Longtime at the USA today. Jefferson, welcome to the show.

few other features in there as well. But I've been using it for two and a half days, and you know, it's a cliche that every person in the interview is a rich It's best him what it is.

get twenty eight millimeters. You can tap it again at one point two X. You can tap it again to get thirty five millimeters, which is one point five X. Then you can tap two X, and then you can tap five X. So those are the seven lenses they're talking about. I know it's a little odd because you look on the back and you say, hold on, there's only three lenses. But they're saying that they're cropping in

because the processor the sensor is so big. Even when they crop in at these different kind of predefined ranges, the photos are going to look like they were taken with that dedicated lens. So what are the pictures any different? Are they meaningfully different than the previous model?

have that. You do that in utilities, just utilities, and you have to format it to x back. I always had my drive format it the mac os journals.

of pictures and videos. And I like to tip about the burst mode because that was not turned on on my phone. So you can go into settings and the camera and turn on burst modes. When you press the volume up key, it will take a burst of pictures. Right.

me the website again photos dot com dot com. Okay, And you can follow Jefferson on YouTube and see his video the UH shot at Venice Beach with the new iPhone. So I took out the new iPhone UH yesterday and I compared it against the old iPhone iPhone fourteen, and you know, there's a little bit of improvement. But then I took it out against the Samsung, and I fully expected the iPhone to just sort of like blow away the Samsung S twenty three Ultro because it's a brand

new device. The Samsung's been out for you know, eight months now, whatever it's been. And so when I got home and started comparing the pictures, I was like, wow, these are not like it was not just cut and dry, like one is better than the other. There are certain circumstances where the iPhone performs better, there are certain places

where the Samsung performs better. But in general, they kind of took very similar pictures and in some ways the Samsung even looked better in various support in various pictures. So I ended up posting all these to my Instagram. If you want to check them out, just go to at rich on tech. If it disappears by the time you see it, it is available as a highlight on my profile page. It says iPhone fifteen versus And I'm going to continue to update this with all the different

phones that I can. So I'm going to do like the Pixel, I'm going to do some of the other phones that I can find to compare it to, because I think it really it gives you a little perspective that you know, the iPhone is great and people get really excited about it, but it's not the end all camera out there. Like people love their iPhones, but when you look at these other phones, they like the Pixel and the Samsung. They do a really nice job too

in a lot of circumstances. So if you got something that you like, you don't need to feel that fomo of like, oh, I'm not with the latest iPhone or whatever, even eve an older iPhone. According to the product manager that I spoke to, he said, basically, if you have an iPhone thirteen or fourteen, you don't necessarily need to upgrade. He said. If you're on an older phone like the iPhone eleven or twelve, that's when you'll start to see

some of the improvements with the camera quality. Now, by the way, I had people respond with their thoughts about the comparison of the different types of photos, and I got tons of responses, and so I went through the painstaking process. There's no easy way of doing this. I copied and pasted all of their responses into one giant document. Then I fed that into AI and I had AI analyze what people said and to see the trends, and so I posted that on my Instagram and it was

quite interesting what people said. Overall. I'll just give you the main takeaway that it said, because I thought this was pretty interesting. It said, if I can find it here, I'm going live to my Instagram right here. I know, very compelling to search through my own Instagram while I'm on the radio here, But let me see what I said. Okay, uh, it's said in summary, the consensus seems to be that this Samsung camera produces superior image quality and performance compared

to the iPhone, even amongst iPhone users and fans. Oh there we go. Uh, some iPhone loyalists still prefer the iPhone despite admitting Samsung's technical superiority. So what it comes down to really again, and this is something I've noticed over the years, is that people just have a loyalty. They like what brand they have. All right, Triple eight Rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. You have a question, you have a comment about technology, give me a call. This is

Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one. Later in the show, we're going to talk about Oh, we're going to talk to the founder of Ring and he's going to talk about his latest venture. Plus, we're going to talk about some of the Microsoft announcements, some of the Google announcements, and a cool photo tool that can take an old picture and using AI tell you what you're that picture was taken. Kind of fun. Let's

go to Daniel and receive that. Daniel, you're on with Rich.

for the subscription. I think probably the best brand is Blink. Have you heard of them?

doing this? And that's like there, That's why Amazon paid so much to acquire this company because it's like their magic sauce is the fact that they've somehow figured out how to like sip a triple a or double a battery over two years versus like you know, for me with my video doorbell and replacing the battery like every three months at this point. So I think that's the one to go with. It's sixty bucks. But here's the thing, So it doesn't have local storage. You have to get

this little module. It's called a sink module, and so this blinks. Now here's I think this is on the pro side of what you're talking about earlier with your you know, this thing getting stolen. So this little so you have the doorbell, you put that on your door, right, however you want to attach it with that accessory or whatever.

And then you get this sink module that sits in your home and that connects to your WiFi, and that sink module kind of powers this device and also stores the SD card or a flash drive, so that the video goes from the doorbell to this sink drive, right, and so it's off it's off site. It's off of the doorbell, which means if someone actually stole this doorbell, you'd have a little video of them. Not that you're

really that. You know, police aren't going to go after someone that stole a doorbell, I don't think, but I mean, but you'll at least have a little video that you can, you know, print out and put on your front door and be like, hey, give me this back. But I think that's the way to go. So in that sink module,

I'm not sure. I got to look up the price on that but you know, it's probably another fifty sixty bucks, but you're looking at maybe one d one hundred and fifty dollars including a little accessory for the door, and that way you won't have to pay subscription fee, but you will have local storage of your videos in your house as well, and of course you can access them through your phone and all that good stuff. But I think that's the way to go. If you go Ring,

if you go Whys, I believe is all wired. I don't know if they have a wireless one. There's another brand called Kangaroo, but I believe that they. I don't believe that that's a solution that you need. I think that they don't have the local storage that you want, but I think that's the way to do it. Check out the Blink camera. Check out a way to install it.

I'm gonna look up some ways now I'm curious. I know that Ring has like a peephole cam for exactly what you're talking about, so that you can install it without drilling or making any holes in your door. You just use the existing people that's on your door, and you can just replace that with the camera, and then when you move out of the apartment, you can just

put the peopole back. But you know, I was I've lived in apartments for many years, and I was always so like hesitant to drill into the walls because of these big fees and stuff like that. And honestly, if you've ever painted a wall, it's really not that big of a deal. You seal it up, you paint over it. It's like, a hole is not the end of the world in a wall. And if it makes it more secure to install this thing, maybe just go for it and deal with the repercussions later. That's what I would do,

because that's what I decided to do. I like my old apartment. I was like so careful about every single like I was using like those command strips for everything. And then when I got into my house, I was like, oh, I'm drilling everything into the wall, and you know who cares? And now I just you know, I did that in one room and I have so many holes in the wall. I finally painted over all of it, but you know, you little spackle, little little sandpaper, and it's all good

to go. Let's see what else. Oh, I want to tell you about one feature that I thought was pretty cool. On the new TV OS. So this is on the new Apple TV. If you have an Apple TV four K. For the first time ever, you can use FaceTime on your TV. So Apple TV will let you FaceTime. I don't know why this wasn't available years ago, but the trick is you can't just use any old webcam. You have to use like an iPhone to be your webcam. So of course, you know, Apple loves to like, you know,

do all that kind of stuff. The other thing that's kind of cool is you can now locate your remote control. So if you have a newer remote and a newer Apple TV, you can use your phone to find your SERI remote. This is rich on Tech. 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 your questions. My name is rich Demiro. You can find me on social media at rich on Tech. I'm on Instagram, Facebook X

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show notes and links to everything I mentioned. You can also just search rich on tech in your favorite audio app of course you can listen right here as well. Own lines are open triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. Let's go to uh Stephen in San Diego. You have a suggestion, Stephen.

now what's called Wi Fi calling on their phone. So I was going to suggest that to Gloria earlier, to turn make sure she has Wi Fi calling on, which you can turn on on Android or iOS by going into your cellular settings. But the thing about Wi Fi calling, that only works when you're at your home. So if you're in sort of like the foothills, or you're in an area that doesn't have strong signal to begin with, the Wi Fi calling is not really going to help.

Or these boosters aren't going to help because they're really just for your house. And so with the booster, it's great, but it's you know, it's largely replaced by the Wi Fi calling. So it's a great suggestion, Stephen, Thank you. I appreciate that, but it doesn't get to the bigger issue of you need a signal that works in your area, and so I was trying to come up with some ways of figuring that out. I think asking friends and

family that are in the area is the best way. So, for instance, where I work, there are certain carriers that work really well and certain that don't. And the way I've figured that out over the years is well, I've had test phones that I can test them on, but I've also just asked people like, hey, is your service work well here? And who do you have? And people they love to share that information. But a couple of other places you can look. There's a website called open Signal.

They have an app that you can kind of it's a crowdsourced coverage map, and so basically, if you install this app on your phone, you you can kind of submit some of your tests of your network to the app, and then they use that and share it with other people. And so you can also go on the app and see who has the best data in your area. Now, I was just doing a little search to see if there's anything similar online, and there's one called coverage map

dot com. I've never heard of this one, but they seem to have coverage maps for all the different carriers. You can pop in your zip code and see what Verizon looks like, what AT and T looks like, and what T Mobile looks like. It's all color coded and you can then narrow down by five g LTE and you can also click best and see which carrier has the best coverage in your area, and then if you click it'll give you all the information about that carrier speed.

So again that's coverage map dot com. The other one I mentioned is called open signal dot com. So thanks Steven, great question, great comment, and there's so many. Look, I mean, I think at the end of the day, signals have gotten really good in most places, Like people have a pretty good cellular signal, and people don't mind dealing with a bad signal for a little bit, and then they'll kind of reconnect. They'll say, hey, let me you know, I've got a bad signal, let me call you back.

So it's not like the old days where we used to just deal with like really bad signals for like entire conversations. Now, if you have a bad signal, you say, you know what, let me call you back when I get to a better signal. And most of the time that's only maybe one hundred feet or a mile away, or you know, depending on where you are. You just have to get to a better place, or you switch carriers all together and you just find the one that's

best for your house. I always say to people, find the carrier that works best at your house, where you work and where you live, and that covers like ninety percent of the time that you spend. For instance, my dad just switched carriers recently because he was so tired of his carrier not working where he would spend his weekends. And so he finally said, hey, which carrier works up here?

And he got it and now it works great. Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one is the phone number Google Bard this week. If you're familiar with Google Bard, we've talked about it on this show. Google Bard is Google's answer to chat GPT. It's free, go to bard dot Google dot com to access it, and this week it got a new feature. And the big difference between Google Bard and chat GBT is that Google Bard has

access to the real time Internet. Chat GBT does not. Everything that you're searching on there is back from like twenty twenty one. So it's still great and it still does a lot of stuff. But Bard, you can ask it like what was the score of the game last night and it can tell you. So Google Bard got a new feature this week where it can now integrate with Google apps including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps and YouTube. So now you can ask it to search

your Gmail. And I know it sounds kind of scary because we also think about these AI services as sharing what we talk to them about with other people, and so you're like, wait a second if I put my Gmail on here, are there people going to see my Gmail? And Google says no, anything that you're doing that requires your own data like Gmail or Drive, they're not going to share with other people. But this allows you to

get sort of personalized information. So you can say, hey, can you tell me Bart what's the main things I need to know about my kids' school this week? Or I asked it to analyze all of the conversations between me and my wife over the years, and I said, can you tell me some of the main takeaways? And it's it like analyzed our entire relationship. I thought that was pretty wild. So this is a new feature that

is free. You can enable it the first time you go to bard dot Google dot com, and the idea is just to give people a reason to access this. It's odd that Google was so far advanced with their AI, but they sort of fell behind because chat GBT came out of the gate so strong and everyone was just like, oh, chat GBT is where it's at. And so Google's like, hold on, We've been doing AI forever, and so they really had to kind of get into a position of let's show people what we can do with our AI.

So now they have it in so many of their different products, not just Bard. You can also do AI search on Google. You can enable that, you can do AI in your Gmail, you can have it help you write your email, AI and docs and Drive, you can have it help you come up with slideshows and all that kinds of stuff. So again there's a lot of different things you can do with Google with AI. It's just people just they kind of identify AI as chat GBT,

but there's many of them out there. You've got Bing AI, You've got Claude, which is one of my favorites by Anthropic, and of course you've got Google Bard, So lots of options for AI. I'm finding it to be very useful in my life to summarize things and to also kind of analyze a large amount of data. And Bing is good just like Bard for sort of real time search results that all so include AI check it out Google

bard Bar dot Google dot com. All right, give me call Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. Coming up this hour, Jamie simmonof the founder of Ring Yeah, the guy who basically put a video doorball on many doors across America. He's got a new gig. He's now

chief doorman at door dot com. So we're gonna explain what that means. He's gonna tell us all about his new venture. Plus, this is why I love this show. I love this show because of you. It is not a one way street. This is a two way street. And I love the immediate feedback I get from you as the listeners. Uh So, Kelly just wrote in and she on Amazon sent me a link to an anti

theft doorbell doormount for Blink video doorbell. No drill does not block the doorbell sensor, and it's basically a little kind of a strap of metal that it looks like it kind of screws onto your door like with a just a you know, kind of like a vice gript kind of thing, and so you mount it. It goes around the back of the door and around the side of the door, and then the front has like the plate that you put the blink video doorbell on. So

there you go. Twenty one to ninety nine. That's for our caller earlier, Daniel and Rosita was asking for a way to mount his video doorbell without drilling into the door. So thanks for sending that along, Kelly. I'll put it in the show notes at richontech dot TV. Let's go to Joe in Glen Dora. Joe, You're on with rich Oh.

They're based in Irvine, they're still around. Have you gotten in touch with them about why you can't see this stuff?

and see. And also you might be able to see if the Wolverine itself can actually format the SD card and then you might be able to copy stuff over. The other thing is if you can connect this to a TV screen, you might be able to connect it to a computer and just record this stuff like that.

But that's not the best solution. It sounds like you got to get in touch with this company and see if they have any updates to the software, if there's a trick to getting this to display and to mount on your computer, because you've tried a lot of different things, none of them seem to be working. I've got the

same issue at home. I've got this old device that I have a whole bunch of pictures on that I've been meeting to get them off for many, many years now, and I just don't because I know it doesn't connect to my computer, it doesn't mount, and it's frustrating because you know the stuff is on there that you want,

but you can't get to it. So again, this is a good reason to back up stuff when you can, because formats change, connections change, but we don't we continue going, all right, Coming up, we're gonna talk to Jamie Simmonoff, founder of Ring and now chief doorman at door dot com. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Phone lines are open triple eight rich one oh one.

That's eight eight eight seven four to two four to one zero one. Website's also an option rich on Tech dot TV. Hit the contact button if you want to email me something, get in your feedback for the feedback segment at the end of the show. Always a fun time there. Well, you know our next guest as the founder of Ring, he is the person that put a doorbell or video doorbell on many many doors across the United States, and uh pretty much came up with that

entire genre of the video doorbell. Jamie Simmonoff is now chief doorman at door dot com. Jamie, Welcome to the show.

need to be put together. We launched our first service, which is actually a driver's app called James, which which sort of does that we were already working on that before we combined with Lads, so that's why we did that one. But we were always building the technologies that we could combine all of this together into sort of services and locks.

that they'll never see you again. You know, they can have a hundred rides that are just kind of not very good, but they still did their hundred rides and they made some money. But what are you going to do at the end of the day if you had a bad ride? I mean, give the person a bad rating and move on, right, And.

units to three thousand units. We are superpowering them with this you know automated uh, you know, Bluetooth enabled lock that allows people to have the best experience there and allows them to manage the building better and then layering the services above that.

You are on Shark Tank obviously, but like, what does it take to really get something from idea to reality in this world?

I mean, he had like this. They would literally like melt them because they knew they were going to be like in the sun all day, so they'd have like this box where they put them in there and just like see how hot they can get it before this thing like stopped working, and it was just like it was so cool. And then he'd had like people around him. It was a small operation when I first met him, but he'd have people around him be like James, you know, Jamie,

maybe you shouldn't show Rich that right now. You know he is a reporter, like he was just showing me like everything, so really really neat to see. And of course Shark Tank. You can still see the clip of that online on YouTube to see exactly what happened with Ring and Shark Tank there. But and the first one we you know, this was the thing about the first

ring doorbell that we tested. You know, you have to remember Wi Fi was not the strongest back then we're talking, you know, at least ten years ago at this point. So people had their one little WiFi router that their cable company gave them, and a lot of times that signal did not reach to the front door. So people would install these doorbells, these video doorbells, and it wouldn't be that great of an experience because the Wi Fi hadn't caught up to sort of the technology that they invented.

And it took a while, and of course you know that Ring ended up you know saying company as Eero, which is Amazon, and so it all kind of came together and it was just fascinating to watch that as a tech observer. So very cool stuff. Jamie Simmonoff you can find him at door dot com. You have a question, give me a call. It's triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to

rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology at triple eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Be sure to watch my segments that I do for TV. I cover a variety of tech topics. You can go to richon Tech dot tv to see that. Also, I mentioned earlier that I am very I spent a lot of time on Instagram posting a lot of stuff and I posted something pretty interesting yesterday on iOS seventeen. There is now

a mental health questionnaire. So this is a new feature in iOS seventeen, part of mental well being. So not only can you log your state of mind during the day, but also your daily mood. This is something you can do on your iPhone now, so you can log your emotions, you can log your moods, and I think that this is really really valuable to gain insights onto how you might be feeling and what's contributing to what is making

you feel that way. So, for instance, you can log that you're happy and they'll say why are you happy, and you can you know, has like different options. You could say it's because of work or family or kids or whatever. And on the flip side, if you log that you're not feeling so great, you can explain why too. Now this all goes into your private database on your iPhone, but you can see the trends over time, so you can see if you're getting into a mood when you, you know,

maybe go to work every day. You can understand why that's happening because you're going to work and maybe you need to figure out why your work is causing you to feel that way, or maybe family gatherings or friends or whatever it is. But the other interesting thing they have is a depression and anxiety assessment. So this is the same assessment that's often used in clinics. You can now do this right from your iPhone. It's inside the

health app. You open up the Health app, you tap brows, then you tap mental well Being and it's the mental Mental Health questionnaire and it will ask you sixteen questions about how you're feeling, whether you feel nervous, anxious, or on edge in the past couple of weeks you have trouble relaxing all these different questions and then it will give you an assessment at the end and tell you

basically your level of anxiety risk and depression risk. And again, this is all inside the health app on the iPhone, and these are some big, big things and this is not something to be taken lightly. So if you do need help in that aspect, obviously we seek a trained professional. This is more for kind of understanding your own feelings and emotions throughout the day. So that's new in iOS seventeen. And if you want the link to that, you can

go to my Instagram at rich on Tech. My wife obviously is a counselor and she is big into mental health and awareness and I feel like it's getting better in America, but we're still just at the beginning of that. So I'm doing my best to spread the word about all this stuff. All right, let's go to Greg in Des Moines. Greg, you're on with rich Welcome to the show. Greg. You' there. Nope, okay, let's go to Linda. Linda is in Anaheim, Linda, you're on with Rich.

is this is my theory on what's happening. So I feel like when you're on your phone, this is just a theory. By the way, I don't know if this is the exact way, but I feel like when you're on your phone, there is a FaceTime video button in the upper right hand corner, and that FaceTime video button could be pressed by your ear when your phone is up to your face, and I think that's what's happening. And so when you have a bunch of people in that group text, your ear is hitting that button and

it's starting, it's initiating that call. So that's one theory. Another way you can start these calls is when you're in a text. If you tap the people up at the top, there's like a little kind of like an info area where it says you can call them, you can video chat them, you can mail them. So that could be another way that that is getting activated, and that's up at the top. So those are the two

ways I think it's being initiated. If you don't want to use FaceTime and you don't want this to happen, you know, you can also set the autolock on your phone to be to be less of a time, so a lock quicker. You could also turn off FaceTime completely if you want, and you can turn off FaceTime by going into settings and then FaceTime and you can turn it off now. Of course that's going to make it so that you can't use FaceTime until you turn it back on. But that's one way. I don't know of

a way that FaceTime is initiating. There could be a serie command that that's starting the FaceTime call. I don't know if there is one. Let's see. Yeah, you could say something like make a FaceTime call to Siri, and so that could be happening. She could be misunderstanding you. So there's a bunch of different things. If if you don't want that to happen, you can keep your phone in the face down position and that will stop any

Siri listening. So if you have an iPhone and you've ever had this thing where Siri will chime in when you say something because it thinks it hurd the term Siri. And by the way, with the new iPhone iOS seventeen, you no longer have to say hey Siri, it's just Siri and she'll respond. So if you don't want that to happen, you can put your phone face down. But I think Linda, those are some of the ways that

you can try. I'm just trying to next time it happens, just be aware of like what's happening on your phone screen, and that way you can keep that from happening. Again. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. Coming up this hour, We're going to talk about the Ford Mustang mock E. This is the electric car I've been testing recently,

and uh wow, it's a fun one. I know it's been out since like twenty twenty, and I didn't drive it until the last two weeks, if you can believe that. And I've been wanting to get into this thing, and I gotta say I I'm a fan. By the way, the song you just heard, we were listening to it in the car yesterday and my nine year old just starts singing the words. We're like, how do you know this song? He's like, oh, hear on the radio. I mean he just belted out all the words. It's a

good song. It's very soothing and relaxing. Also, coming to this hour, I'll talk about the price increase. Well, okay, it's a Amazon's doing something kind of fishy, so we'll talk about that. Microsoft has some new devices. Plus there is a free photo tool that can estimate the dates of your historical photos using AI. Vladimir writes in on my website. Rich on tech dot TV, Hey, Rich, would you talk about why Apple changed the notification sounds on

iOS seventeen. My brain was already wired to the notification sounds on Instagram, and now they're defaulted to a much lower notification default that's so low, oh, it doesn't even work. And Apple doesn't allow the user to set different notification sounds for different apps, so it's a dead end for me. It's a huge minus point for iOS seventeen. Thanks for

all your hard work, Vlad. Yes, getting a lot of emails about this, and after like the third or fourth message, I always kind of like, I'm like, all right, let me see what there is to this, because you know, sometimes you're ahead of me, Like I always have my phone on silence, so I never hear the notifications. But sure enough, after I got all these messages about it, I said, let me see what's going on, and yeah, you can't change the default notifications for a majority of

the apps in iOS seventeen. And the default notification sound is now this weird, really low sound that doesn't make any sense. So I have a feeling this I actually mark my words. Let's say it right now. End of September, Apple will come out with an update that will change the way notification sounds work in iOS seventeen because this system that they changed to is just not good. The fact that you can't just go ahead and change notifications.

I couldn't believe that I could not change the default notification. And if you go it's it's app by app, which is really weird. So like some apps have like the notification sounds in their app settings, and then some are in the system settings, and some of you can't change at all. And the new system settings for the notifications are really really low. So I have a feeling Apple will change that. So just hang in tight there, of lad keep up with the software updates. And this was

a miss by Apple. The change to the sounds. Okay, fine, but people, you know, they kind of know their iPhone sounds and they don't really want those messed with, whether you want to change them or not. You know, that should be up to the user, not up to Apple changing it for everyone. They should at least leave it the same, and then if you want, you can opt into the new changes. Let's go to uh oh, Greg is back? Greg and des moines. You're on with Rich?

of lessons that you could go to in person. If that's something that you're able to do, you could go to the Apple store in person and learn and and kind of understand the different features. So they have a lot of these classes at the Apple Store. I think they call it like Today at Apple or something like that. So great question, Greg, thanks for I'm honored to be

on your speed dial. Thank you so much. But I say stick with what you got unless there's a reason why you need to switch to the new phone, but appreciate the call today, Greg in des moin thank you before we go to break here Amazon Amazon is you know, Prime Video has been ad free for many years and it's been a perk of your Prime membership. Well guess what, Starting next year, twenty twenty four, Amazon is going to put ads in your movies and TV shows that you're

watching on Amazon Prime Video. So yeah, if you have a show that you watch that's ad free, that is going to end. And if you want to continue having an ad free experience, you can pay an additional two dollars and ninety nine cents a month. Now, if you've been following this show since we started in January, you know that we have talked about pretty much every major

streaming service has raised prices. And this is a real head scratcher because this is a supposed to be included in your Amazon Prime membership as a perk that you pay fifteen dollars a month or one hundred and thirty nine dollars a year for an Amazon Prime membership. Now they're saying, oh, you can continue this nice system that you have, but you're gonna have to pay an extra three dollars a month. That is not something Prime members

want to hear. Now, Amazon knows that Prime members are not just gonna go ahead and cancel their membership when they hear this, and a lot of them are just gonna put up with the Prime Video ads. But let's be quite honest here. Maybe you found a show that you love on Prime Video or a movie. Yeah, there's some things that I've found and I'm like, oh, that's

cool that that's on there. But it's not like Prime Video is a prime destination for you know, like a Netflix or a Max or anything, or a you know, Hulu whatever. This is kind of like you give it a fair shake because it's included in your Amazon membership, and you're like, all right, if I find one good thing to watch in there, sure it's included. But three dollars a month for something that is like already on the fringe of like, it's not that great. Amazon, You're

putting us in a really tough position here. Now, they do say the base Prime membership price is not going to increase in twenty twenty four, So they're kind of throwing people a bone there saying, look, you're not going to pay any more for this, But it's one of these things where you can no longer sell Prime Video as being a part or a perk of my Prime membership when you are now putting ads in this just like any other place on the Internet where you find

stuff with ads, this is no longer a premium perk. This is now just an everyday kind of thing. So that's happening starting in twenty twenty four. If you want ad free, you got to pay an extra three dollars a month. Not fun, all right? Uh, you want to give me a call, Pick up the phone triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. Still checking those emails rich on Tech dot TV. Hit the contact button. Get those

feedback emails in for the feedback segment. Later on, we're going to talk about the Ford Mustang Machi Plus your calls coming up right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Uber eats is going to accept snap payments in twenty twenty four. They work with the government to do this. This, they say, is going to improve access to fresh groceries for people that may

not be able to get to the store. Seniors, you know, anyone who is on these government benefits that you know, wants to kind of join the rest of the world and getting stuff delivered the way that so many of us are, so snap EBT payments twenty twenty four for Uber. They're also looking to accept healthcare payments like flex spending

cards starting in twenty twenty four as well. So if you order something like, you know, over the counter medication, anything that's covered by that, you can use your Flex spending card kind of the way Amazon does it. If you don't know that, yes you can. You can put your Flex Spending card in Amazon and they will let you use it for approved items. I also like, what is it Target and I think CVS they mark your receipt if you buy something that's covered under Flex spending,

and they'll put at the bottom. So if you do have access to a flex spending account, look at the bottom of your receipt. You can submit your receipt your Flex spending. They'll reimburse you for that. So it's I don't know why every retailer doesn't do that, but it's

really handy. And then later on they're also launching an AI assistant, so you can of course everyone's launching AI with everything, but Uber eats is going to have AI so you can ask them for you know, I don't know what you'd ask, Hey, what's the best flavor of cupcake? I don't know. And then they're also adding a sales aisle so you can find the promos and deals in one place. I mean, it's the irony of sales and deals on Uber eats because it is probably the most

expensive way to eat. But I get it. This is kind of what we do in our world. We get things delivered, but it is a very very expensive way, and I'm not knocking it, believe me. My wife and I the other night we had like two hours to our cells, so we're like, do we go out for dinner or do we just like have something delivered? And we just you know, it's like it's expensive to get the stuff delivered, but it's actually cheaper than going to

eat out because you know, less of a tip. I guess less, you know, I don't know, just less stuff you have paid for. Let's go to Vanessa. Vanessa in Great Falls. You're on with Rich Great Call Great I should say Great Falls, Montana.

you want these kids to do on there. So in most cases, and it's been a bit since I set these up for my kids, but I believe that you put in kind of like the age of your child that's accessing it, and it will we'll kind of, you know, it'll set some defaults like here's the stuff will allow, here's the stuff we won't allow. But then you can also go further and you could say, let's say they like a certain website like PBS kids or something. You

can allow that specifically on the list of websites. But it also gives you a rundown of what they search online if you choose to allow that, or you can of course block searches. You can limit the time that they spend on these different apps and things, and of course just make it so they can't install anything new. But that's really what it starts with, is this Microsoft

Family Safety is getting that installed, setting it up. You may have to create an account for the child, but once you get that on there, you know you're in control now for the most part, because sometimes it can be a little tricky. It can be a little frustrating because once you set this up, there may be something the child wants to do on there where they can't easily do it because it has all these restrictions in place,

but no matter what, if you are setting up. I know there's a lot of parents that sort of give up on this stuff because it can be a little complicated to get set up, and so they say, you know what, never mind, I'll just hand them the tablet or the phone or their laptop. But please do not do that, because there is just too much that they can happen upon if you don't have these things locked down.

And I'm not saying they're even looking for stuff, but it's a matter of things can be presented to them, or they may search for something and it may just bring up something that you don't want them to see or they shouldn't be seeing at their age. So Family Safety is Microsoft's version, and I think that's the place to start with this. Now, by the way, Vanessa, there are other means of doing this. You can use a

third party app like Bark. You can use something like a secure app, like a family Safety app like that, and that's another way of doing it. I have two levels. I've got at the network level in my home and also on the individual devices. But the fact that you're calling me and getting these things set up and wanting to set them up in this way is a good thing. So two thumbs up to you, Vanessa. But check it out Microsoft Family Safety. Get them set up Gateway two thousand.

Oh my gosh, that was the original name. But the spotted boxes the cow boxes. Ugh, that was one of my first computers ever. You are listening to rich on Tech. Coming up next, we're talking Mustang mock e ev. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking tech. If you have any Apple devices, you might have updated your software this week with the iOS seventeen and the tvOS that was talking about, but there's also the new

Watch OS ten. So if you have an Apple Watch, I believe four and up, it's got new software available. It's got this new They actually changed one of the buttons functionality, which I know a lot of people are going to be surprised at. When you press that side button, it no longer brings up your recent apps. It now brings up your control center. And there's a reason for that because now when you swipe up from the bottom, which used to bring up the control center, that brings

up something called the smart stack. This is kind of like a stack of widgets that contain information. You can customize that by swiping up and then pressing down. It took me a minute to figure that out, but that's how you can customize what is seen on those widgets, like the weather and things like that, your calendar. There's also five new watch faces. Snoopy is now a watch face, so if you like Snoopy, you can switch to a Snoopy watch face, Palette, Solar, Analog, Nike Globe, which is

kind of cool. It counts down the seconds on the screen. And then if you have an Apple Watch Ultra, you can use this new Modular Ultra, which is the one that I'm using, and it is just like the most information I've ever had on an Apple Watch screen. I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight little widgets of information. I've got the weather, I've got my

activity rings, I've got a place to take memos. I've got the time, I've got the date, I've got a well being check in, I've got the sunset, I've got the UV rays, and i've got the seconds counting down. So, needless to say, my wrist is the most stressful thing you could ever imagine because there's just so much going on it's like a little mission control right here. So anyway, that's only if you have the Apple Watch Ultra. Let's go to.

swear so you have been driving. You drove the Mustang Machi. I gotta say this thing came out in like twenty twenty. I never got a chance to drive it until now. I gotta say. It's right up there with one of my favorite evs, the Tesla. What do you make of this car?

in town using regenerative braking and recharging the battery. So we never let it go past about thirty a battery remaining, and so we we timed out all of our stops based on using the forward Pass app and blew Oval charging network, and so we were able to just it just it was absolutely seamless.

across these four different states. Now, tell me about all these manufacturers are switching over to the Tesla superchargers. What effect do you think that's going to have on this, you know, on just the EV landscape in general. And is Forward one of those manufacturers.

do the feedback segment. We're gonna talk about some of the emails you sent me throughout the week, some of the feedback on the show, all that fun stuff right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Microsoft this week announced a bunch of new things at an event in New York City. Microsoft had kind of a weird thing happen there. The guy who's been in charge of their surface devices for a long time, panos Pine,

he just kind of up and left. He's like, you know what, I'm out, and there's you know, people are like speculating why he would do this right before a big event, and of course, you know, the rumors came out that maybe they were cutting some budget in his department and he just didn't like the direction. And so now the rumor is he's going to Amazon. We had

the chance to interview him. I'm not kidding. This was like, gosh, when the Surface first launched, he came to KTLA to bring a Surface and this was a Now we take for granted this whole idea of a touchscreen kind of laptop tablet hybrid, but back when he brought it to us, it was something we had never seen before and it was just like so different with a little, you know, angular kind of stand you can pull out from the

back and only had like one angle back then. Anyway, he did a good thing at Microsoft, and it'll be interesting to see what he does at Amazon if that's true. Anyway, I know that's inside baseball, but I just thought it was interesting. But Microsoft announced a copilot. Their AI assistant is now going to be making its way into Windows Office and Edge. And this is going to bring all kinds of AI experiences to Windows eleven, Microsoft three sixty five,

and bing An Edge. So there's gonna be a Windows eleven update on September twenty sixth, and that's gonna bring over one hundred and fifty new features, including that copilot. So if you see an update, you like the idea of AI on your computer, then go ahead and get

that update. On September twenty sixth, they also announced three new surface devices, a surface Laptop Studio two, a Laptop Go three, which a lot of people are saying looks pretty awesome, kind of like the their version of the MacBook Air, and then the Surface Hub three so or maybe it's the MacBook just Pro. Who knows. I haven't got hands on with these things yet, but hopefully I

will soon. So a lot of info from Microsoft. If you're looking for a way to charge your iPhone, your Apple Watch, and your air pods, check out the high Rise three Deluxe had a chance to check this thing out, and it's pretty cool because it's the first time that you can mag safe charge your iphe but change the angle that it's charging at. So this includes the adapter

and it can let you charge all three of these things. Also, you might be looking for a stand because iOS seventeen introduces this new standby mode that lets you see information on your iPhone screen when it's not in use and it's charging on its side. That's one hundred and fifty bucks, but it is a cool device. Twelve South, high Rise

three Deluxe and then finally, my Heritage Photo Data. If you have an old picture, you can pop it into this AI and it will use clues in the picture to try to figure out when that picture was taken, anywhere from eighteen sixty to nineteen ninety with accuracy within five years. It'll look for people, events, and things in the pictures to try to figure out what date that picture was taken. This could be a good thing for like maybe an old picture of Grandma or grandpa, old

black and white photo you have around the house. It also works with color pictures as well, but kind of neat. So again it's called my Heritage Photo Data. I have not tried that out personally, but I'd like to. Okay, let's get to some of your feedback here. Let's see Bob and San Diego says, I heard your segment on KFI today about Bard. I decided to search myself. It shows a lot of good information, but also says I died last year. There's also some am I laughing? I'm sorry, Bob.

There's also a second listing that says I volunteer at Elboa Park, but then says I also volunteer at to other places. I never have I called Google Customer Service and I'm on hold with them, and the person I spoke to doesn't have a clue what bard is. He's trying to transfer me, but it's totally confused. Bob, be careful. You don't have Google on customer service. They don't have a phone number like that. So I think you googled Google Customer Service and some random phone number that's trying

to scam you. You are on the phone with them, so please be careful. But yes, what you're talking about is called hallucinations. These things literally make up stuff. Adrian says, I have passwords saved on Google Chrome and I've lost them. How can I get him back? Oh? Wait, I went to delete my search history and I had the option to delete save passwords checked as well. Ooh, be careful. I didn't even realize you could do that save delete all your passwords when you delete your search history, So

be careful. The place to check to see if you have passwords stored on Google is passwords dot Google dot com. Oh. If you got them all, I guess it's a good chance to start over with some fresh new passwords. Paul says you recommended voicemap a few weeks ago. We were visiting a large US city and gave it a try. We loved it. Thanks for the recommendation. Yeah, voicemap lets you do audio tours in different cities. Let's see through Instagram.

I don't have the person's name, but they said I was listening to you last Saturday and heard you struggling how to describe the new Apple watch band. FYI, there are two parts of Velcrow, the hooks and the loops. The fuzzy parts are the loops. Have a great weekend. Let's see here. Oh my gosh, so much. Debbie says, I got a new iPhone fourteen. I installed a lens protector, thinking it was a thing to do, but the glass shatter.

Now I can't get it off. If I checked YouTube, it says to soften with the hairdryer, but that hasn't helped. I don't want to scratch up my new phone. Help me Rich, Thank you, Debbie. Debbie, I do not recommend lens protectors on phones. I recommend a screen protector and a case, but lens protectors I think are unnecessary. Apple and other phone companies spend a lot of money on

the optics. Why are you gonna put like a little plastic or glass protector between you and like millions of dollars of R and D. So just take your chances with the lenses. They do shatter from time to time, but I think just take care of your phone, have a good case, and you should be okay, all right, if you can believe it, that's going to do it. For this episode of the show. You can find everything I mentioned on my website. Go to richontech dot tv. You can find me on social media. I'm at rich

on tech. Next week we'll talk about more tech stuff, anything that happens in the tech world, tips, tricks, whatever. Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. My name is rich Demiro. I will talk to you real soon.