Galaxy S10 First Impressions; Discounted Gift Cards; Secret Cameras and Microphones; Curating Google Home Hub Pics

Samsung Galaxy S ten, their flagship smartphone. I was in San Francisco for the big unveiling they call it Unpacked, and it was a good one. We saw a lot of new stuff from Samsung. Now this is the show where I talk about this stuff that I think average consumers should know about. So foldable phone, I'm not going to go into all the details on that, the five G phone, not going to go into all the details on that, because what I think you need to know

about those two devices is skip them for now. Foldable phone, very first generation. That is something that early adopters are going to get, something that just a very select crew of people are going to be interested in well, I think a lot of people will be interested in it. I don't think a lot of people will actually purchase it, and I don't think the average consumer should purchase it

because it's a first generation technology. It's something that is very rough around the edges, something that will get better with time. So I say wait on that one. When it comes to the five G phone, same kind of thing. I don't think you need a five G phone right now. I don't think that the five G phone that Samsung is delivering will be the phone that you need just yet. I think the four G LTE phones will be just

fine for at least the next year or so. Maybe next year will have those networks in a better place where they will be much more useful. I could be wrong. I know Verizon said they're gonna have thirty markets doing five G in this year, but the extent of what that coverage is gonna be, how it's gonna work, if it's gonna be bulky, but there's gonna be some growing pains at the beginning. I say stick with the four G LTE let the guys like me try out the

five G networks. See if they work, and then you can go ahead and see if that works for you. So let's talk about the S ten because this is a very big lineup. There are three different phones, and you've got the S ten E, you've got the S ten and the S ten plus the S ten E is kind of the iPhone ten R of the group. So this one has a five point eight in screen. It's not their best screen. It's a full HD versus a quad HD, but again it's got most of what

you need. It only has a rear camera with only dual cameras on the back instead of a triple camera, and there is no fingerprint sensor in the screen. There's also not a let's see what else is that? I think that's about it. I mean, it's basically it. The differences are, yeah, there's no finger sensor in the screen, and there's not the triple camera array on the back, and the screen is just a little bit less than

the higher end models. But again, this is entry level device seven hundred and fifty dollars and it's gonna be good if you just kind of like the idea of a nice small device that is gonna work. You get a lot of the great specs. You know, the same kind of processor and stuff, but you're just not getting every single thing that these upper phones have. But is it a good phone? Yeah? I think so. I mean I didn't have too much hands on time with that one.

I think the phone that most people are gonna be interested in is the Galaxy S ten and the S ten plus. So the S ten is basically just a smaller version of the S ten plus. The main difference here again is on the S ten plus there is an extra camera on the front, so it's not really a camera, it's a depth sensor. And what that depth sensor allows you to do is take better selfies, especially when you're doing selfies with some of the fun, cool little tricks that they have built in, like the live

focus selfies so you know at the blurry backgrounds. But real quick, this phone is beautiful. I've been playing with it ever since they announced it. It is the best Samsung Galaxy device I've ever seen, probably one of the best smartphones I've ever seen, and yes that includes the iPhone. I think the iPhone is still an amazing device, but what Samsung has delivered is something that has a lot

less compromises than almost any device out there. So the big difference is number one, the cameras are cut out of the front of the display. Now they call it the Infinity O display. So when you actually go to take a picture with the selfie cam, you'll see the little selfie cam lights up like this little ring around it lights up to let you know where the selfie camera is, because that's how sort of hidden in the screen. When you have a white screen, you could definitely see

where it is. Otherwise on other screens you might not even notice where the cameras are. On the front. On the back of the device, you've got three cameras, so you've got a wide angle lens, you've got a regular lens, and then a telephoto lens, so you are covered in so many different aspects of taking video and also taking pictures.

The wide angle is so much fun. From what I've seen, it's not as clear, not as good as perhaps the standard the standard lens, but it is still really good and it's just so much fun to have this trio of lenses. And I always think of the example of when you're at like, you know, your kids recital, They're on stage somewhere and you're all the way in the back. It's really nice to be able to flip right into that telephoto zoom right from your phone. That's actually someone

asked me today, well, what's the difference. I can just zoom in on my phone. No, the difference is when you're zooming in using pinch to zoom on a typical device, you're literally just zooming in on that picture. It's the same amount of pixels, it's the same amount of stuff. It's the picture quality is degrading significantly when you use

a pinch to zoom. When you're actually using a lens to zoom, you're getting optical zoom, which means the lens is physically taking you closer to what you're trying to capture, and the quality is going to be better. So those are the main things. The fingerprint scanner is in the front of the screen. I'm finding this is not ideal, but it works. I've actually turned on face recognition on the S ten and that's actually working a little bit better for me. And don't forget this is new. This

device is still in beta. It's not the software is not the final shipping version of the software. So hopefully after some software updates, before the device comes out, we will see some polish, but right now I can tell things are a little rough around the edges. But it does ship with Android nine. It also has their new one UI interface, which is really good. If you can tell,

I can't say enough good stuff about this device. I think the S ten will be the first device that seriously has iPhone users contemplating a switch, and I think the reason for that is a lot of different reasons. Number one, you get a device that has so many different features, like all the things you want. You get the fingerprint scan, you get expandable memory, you get a headphone jack, you get this amazingly great screen, You get a ton of based storage one hundred and twenty eight gigabytes,

so there's so much to love. You get the triple cameras, you get all the software features you need, and then you know, you get to the price, and the price is on par It's a good price, and it just seems like Samsung has really listened to users and is making a device that works for a lot of different people, and that's why I'm really loving it. And the other

thing you get wireless power share. This is the feature that lets you rest another device on top of the back of your device, and you can charge that device. As long as it's CHI certified, you can charge it. And that includes an iPhone or Samsung's new Galaxy Buds, which are their earbuds, So that's kind of like the Samsung Galaxy S ten A in a nutshell. They've got faster wireless charging, so wireless two point zero, so if

you do plug it in, it's gonna are sorry. Wireless charging is faster, it's got still the water and dust resistance, it's got the better processor. It's got Samsung Pay that works everywhere, right, So Samsung Pay uses something called MST which means you can use Samsung Pay to Tap to pay even at places that don't necessarily accept mobile payments.

And what they're doing is they're actually sending through your credit information through a wireless almost like a transceiver instead of NFC, So it's sending that signal magnetically to the little strip reader that normally reads the magnetic strip. It's basically turning your phone into an emulated magnetic strip that the reader thinks is it's just being swiped. So that's

pretty brilliant. They bought a company many years ago a couple of years ago that they incorporate I think it was called loop, but I can't remember, but that was a brilliant move on their part. Now, obviously the whole world has turned towards mobile payments, but still in the past three four years now that they've had this, it's helped a lot of people use Samsung Pay in a

lot of places where other things are not accepted. Also, the storage, like I said, one hundred and twenty eight gigs is standard, but you can get up to a terabyte of storage on board, by the way, and then on top of that, you can add five hundred and twelve gigs in a micro SD card. So, by the way, to get the one terabyte of storage, you have to buy a special version of the phone, a ceramic version. This is a premium model. They have it in black

and white, and I held it. It's very nice. It's the phone that I want, but I'm not going to spend the extra money for it, because I don't really see the point. If you're putting your phone in the case, you're just spending extra money for the ceramic and you don't really need it. But if you want to get that one terabyte you have to go ceramic, so otherwise you can go up to five hundred and twelve on the on the devices. But yeah, kind of crazy that

you can get this much. So pricing starts, like I said, seven fifty for the Galaxy S ten eight, ninety nine for the Galaxy S ten nine to ninety nine for the Galaxy S ten plus, and I would tell you to definitely check out the promotions they have going for pre orders because if you pre order this device, you can get up to five hundred and fifty dollars as a trade in credit using your old device. Now to get the five point fifty you have to have a pretty recent device like the Galaxy S nine or the

No eight. But again they're giving you a lot of money on top of what you normally get for your trade in, So go to Samsung dot com and check out how much you would get. You also get the free wireless earbuds if you preorder. That's one hundred and thirty dollars value, and compare what your carrier would give you because sometimes your carriers will do something pretty good

as well. There's also a student discount that you can get, so if you're a student, Samsung does offer an educational discount, and I tried it out. It's it's basically signing up with a dot edu email address. That's how they verify that you're a student. So if you have one of those, you should qualify your teacher. Student you've got a dot edu, you can qualify. They're giving you up to ten percent off on the regular models, on the new models, and

a little bit more on the older models. So if you price it out, you can upgrade to this new device for a pretty decent amount that I think is pretty good. I mean, I will tell you the selfie camera on the S ten has gotten significantly better than the S nine. The camera on the back I don't I can't say yet that it's significantly better, but I will tell you that it's significantly more fun because you

do have the wide angle lens. And having a wide angle lens is just so fantastic in a variety of situations. You can get creative with it, shooting video. It's so much fun because you can get that nice wide angle. So it is a great thing to have, and I think if you have a Galaxy and you're thinking of upgrading, definitely make the switch. During that pre order time, especially if you have an iPhone and you're thinking about moving over to the dark side. And Okay, don't come at

me for saying the dark side. I'm sorry. I'm just kidding. It's just another side. But if you're thinking of moving over to Android from the iPhone, this is the device that could take you to that side, and you, I think would be pretty happy. Now you're not gonna get I message and you're not gonna get you know, some of the other things that Apple. I think Apple still does CarPlay better. I think that some of the features

inside the apps are better. Like oh my gosh, I can just tell you when I use Facebook, the creator app on iPhone versus Android, it's like night and day. On Android, it seems like I'm using a program that's like ten years old. On iPhone it seems just amazing, Like you get every feature. So Instagram, I will tell you, I think that Instagram is neck and neck. So on both devices, Instagram is nearly the same experience, which is really nice. One of the few apps I've seen to

do that. Twitter is another. They're pretty much the same on both platforms, and we're seeing more and more of this where it used to be, iPhone always had the better app and now we're seeing where Android is getting better at that some of the features still not there. When it comes to video editing, a lot of the better apps are on iPhone. But during the event, they did announce that my favorite editing program right now, Adobe Premier Rush is coming to the Samsung Galaxy S ten

first and I cannot wait for that. I pay ten bucks a month with that program. I use it on my computer and on my phone. I love, love, love Adobe Rush. So that's coming to the S ten. Believe me, I think I'm gonna be getting this phone. I think it might be my next phone. I know, crazy to think, but I really really like this device. And one thing that's really good about Samsung listening to their customers is they are finally gonna let folks remap the Bixi Bixby button.

So the bixb button is on the side of the last couple of generations of their Android devices. On the Galaxy, it's right below the volume button. Many of you may have tried to push the button for or mistakenly push the button. Now they will let you remap it to something else, so if you want it to open. Oh, I don't know Google or Google Assistant or another app you can have it do that. I cannot wait. I will be remapping my Bixby button when I can, and

I can't do it just yet. That feature has not made it to my review unit, but the day will come and I will be very excited about that. Nothing against Bixby. I'm just not ready for another virtual assistant in my life. And finally, one more thing they announced.

There's just so many things to talk about with the S ten, but there is built in support for Instagram right from your camera, which is kind of cool because I don't know about you, but if you ever tried to do a story on Instagram, you take a picture in your camera and then you go to post it

to Instagram Stories and it doesn't line up right. You're taking a picture in four x three on your phone and then you're putting it on Instagram Stories, which is closer to nine by sixteen, so the whole proportions are all off, so you either have to like try again or zoom in or zoom out whatever, and it just

doesn't look good. So now on the S ten, you can take a picture in Instagram mode and so well, really Instagram Stories mode, and when you do that, your entire screen fills to show you what your story would look like taking that picture. So and then once you take it, your screen literally turns into kind of Instagram Stories where you can add all the little things on top and just send right to your story. So that's another cool feature. I got to say one hundred percent

impressed with what Samsung did this time around. Good job, Samsung, Apple. I understand you're doing a fantastic job as well, but Samsung is definitely giving you a run for your money this time around. By the way, on this week's show, there will not be any phone calls. I was up in San Francisco for the big Samsung event, so that kind of took all my time. I was not able to do the calls. So during this podcast there won't

be calls. But don't worry, they're not going away. I will just have to bring them back in next week's show. But let's talk about Ambient Mode. This is the feature on your Google smart displays like your Google Home Hub and Chromecast that features one of my favorite features, all your photos. Right, so I have it set to show curated photos, or actually I used to curate. Now, I just kind of let Google do it. They can just pick some of your recent best pictures. You can also

do news, you can do artwork or whatever you want. Right. So, one thing that has always been kind of interesting is Google's algorithm for selecting which pictures are shown on the display. Well, Android Police says that you know, Google's algorithm definitely looks at your pictures before displaying them, so it filters out the bad ones. Right, So, anything that's like blurry, anything that doesn't have someone smiling, terrible resolution, Google tries to

keep those off your smart displays. Right, Well, if you want those on your smart display, there's now a feature that you can turn on, and it's called, let's see what it's called. Uh, where is this called? Uh, objectively bad photos. So Google calls the new feature objectively bad Photos.

So you can go into your Google Home app, select a device, find the personal Photo curation option, and select live albums, and then you can turn on the objectively bad photos and yes, Google will start to put your bad pictures into the mix. I don't know why you'd want to do that, but you know, at least Google's giving you options now. I think sometimes there's a couple other things you need to know about this, because I'm kind of personally fascinated by the pictures that Google chooses.

In fact, I love looking at these pictures, especially the ones on my smart display that Google kind of does mashups of. So they'll put like a picture of my kid from like when he was little to when you know he's now, and it's pretty cool that they do

stuff like that. Or they'll show like the other day, they showed both me and my kid eating smores and we were in two separate pictures, but they put those pictures together side by side, so it had me taking a bite of the s'mores and then my little kid taking a picture a bite of the s'mores. So it has like almost like a sense of humor, a sense of like wonder where it's like, hey, let's surprise you with some of these pictures and some of the things we do with them. So I love that idea. Now,

a couple of other things. Android Police mentions if you want to include a picture in your you know, your Google photos, like algorithm whatever, if you do a favorite, if you favored it, it will show up eventually. Those

are not filtered out so this happened on Twitter. I saw a tweet about one downside of using the pixel as a work camera of Vlad from the Verge tweeted that a lot of photos show up on his Google Home Hub right, and so he said he should he you know, there should be a way to like kind

of filter some pictures out. So I said, yeah, my favorite is when my work pictures show up at my Google Home Hub in between me pictures of me and the kids, right, So all of a sudden, you'll be looking at me and the kids of the pumpkin patch, and the next thing, you know, like the one plus six ' t will like show up from every angle right.

And then Liz Phillips on my Twitter also said she takes pictures of her pantry and fridge before she goes grocery shopping so she knows what to buy, and those pictures show up on her display in between family pictures. Then Reja from Google tweeted he said, it's kind of

like your pantry is a piece of art. But if you don't like a photo that's showing, you can say to your device, remove this photo and it will archive it for you, or you can go into Google Photos and archive a picture and it will not show up on Google's curated list. So I thought that was kind of a cool little tidbit. So bottom line, if you have a Google Home Hub and you see a picture on it that you don't like, just tell Google remove this photo, and it will archive that photo and it

won't show it again. It won't delete it, but it just won't show it again. Or if you know there's a picture on your Google Photos that you don't want to be displayed on your Google Home Hub, all you have to do is just go into Google Photos and archive it and it will not show you that picture. I found this one interesting. Airlines now apparently have cameras built into the seatback entertainment systems in front of you.

So I did this story on KTLA. I think it was this week, or maybe it was last week Singapore Airlines. Someone flying on Singapore Airlines noticed a little camera staring back at them from the seat front in front of them or the seatback in front of them, and they're like, what's this for, And Singapore Airlines said, Nope, we don't use those, but they are installed by the manufacturer in our inflight entertainment system and they're just there, but they're

not activated. But it's kind of weird to have a little camera staring at you right the whole time you're on a flight. So then BuzzFeed News said that American Airlines confirm to them that the cameras are on some of their planes as well, and American Airlines told them they've never been activated and American is not considering using them. So I'm wondering, like, well, what are these cameras for.

So American Airlines says that manufacturers have included them for possible future uses such as hand gestures to control inflight entertainment. So one of these things that's kind of interesting. But the reality is anything that's a camera, anything that is hackable, could potentially be used against us. And it's just one

of these things. It's kind of weird, like maybe airlines in the future will have a DVR of everything that's happening on their plane, because we have seen incidences on planes, and I don't think planes have security cameras. Maybe they do, we don't generally see that if they do. But now that these cameras are there, we just need to be aware of them, and we just need to know they're there, but I don't know what would you do? Would I?

I don't know if i'd cover it up? If you know, we've done so many stories on how people cover up their webcams on their computer. Would you cover up the webcam that's in front of you on the plane, even if the airline says that they're not using it, they're not activating it. I don't know, but it's kind of weird to see this thing staring back at you the

whole time. And along the same note, Google says that a microphone that was built into its Nest device was never supposed to be a secret, even though the company never told people about the microphone. So Nest Secure is their security system, and in early February, according to a Business Insider article, the company told users that it was going to be getting an update which wouldn Google Assistant. Well,

to use Google Assistant, how do you activate it? Well, you have to be able to have a microphone to hear you say those keywords that will activate it. Right, we all know what they are. But next users were kind of scratching their heads, going, hold on, I didn't think there was a microphone on this And according to the original tech specs that were out there online, there was no microphone listed for the Nest Secure, and so in Business Insider reached out to Google. The company said

that they had made an error. The on device microphone quote was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the text specs. That was an error on our part. The microphone has never been on and is only activated when users specifically enable the option. But here's the thing. We are so highly sensitive about all this stuff nowadays that if you're going to put a microphone in your house, you want to know that

the device you're putting in your home has a microphone. Right, whether it's activated or not is a moot point, but you want to know that it's on there. So personally, I think that the next Secure is it's that'll be a good thing that has a microphone because it actually is there originally was there, so they can put features

on there, like the ability to detect broken glass. So I know a lot of these smart smoke detectors can actually or smart alarm systems can detect the sound of a smoke detector and also a carbon monoxide detector broken glass, So it makes sense that it would be there. But this was probably an innocent mistake on Google's part. But the idea that we're putting these things in our homes that had a microphone on them that we didn't know about is kind of weird. So I don't think Google

is trying to hide anything. But look, if you're a tech company you're putting out a product, make sure you have in the specs what this product is capable of, even if it's something that could be you know, coming down the road, Like the technical details of the product should be available for anyone to see whether or not they're enabled. Like let's say something has NFC but it's not enabled. We'll just let us know that there's NFC

on it. Right. It's kind of like the credit cards that the people are getting, they've got this new little wave on them because now they're kind of not just chip enabled, but they're also getting NFC enabled, so you'll be able to tap your credit card at checkout like you would your phone. Well, just tell us make sure we know that that's on there, because some people would like to know that. A couple of apps to tell you about this week that I'm kind of enjoying lately.

One of them is called Rais. I've talked about this before, but I just used it a couple times in the last week. I kind of revisited it after a while. I hadn't been using it. But Raise is a mobile

app that lets you buy gift cards. So people sell their unwanted gift cards through the app and then you can purchase them through the app at a discount, and the discounts range some you know, what I've noticed with the discounts is that depending on the popularity of the place, obviously you're gonna get less of a discount on that gift card. The less popular places, the bigger the discount. So I used this the other day at PF Chang's. I bought the gift card online. I think I saved

about twelve percent. Wasn't a huge amount of money, but you know, on a fifty dollars gift card, I think I bought it for forty two dollars eight bucks, right, Hey, every little dollar counts. So I got the gift card. It was delivered to a mobile wallet inside Raise, and that was a little tricky. At checkout, I had to write down the number of the gift card on the

back of my receipt. When I gave it to the server, he took it, typed it into the computer or whatever, took the fifty bucks off, and you know, I paid the rest of my credit card and went on with life, and the server did not think it was weird at all. So I was a little bit worried because I didn't know if the server would be like, no, you have to have the physical card with you or what. But there's a couple of ways these gift cards work. Number One, the thing you need to know about is some of

them are delivered instantly, some or not. So I made this mistake at home Depot a couple of years ago when I used Raise and I bought a gift card and it was not delivered instantly. It took I think a couple of hours to get to my mobile wallet, and so here I was inside home Depot with my purchase and I basically just had to make the purchase on my credit card because the gift card had not arrived yet, right, So I ended up having to use the gift card the next time I went to home Depot.

And you know, if you have a house, you're gonna be in home Depot a lot so it really didn't matter. But that's one thing that you need to be aware of. So when I did the PF Chang's one, I made sure that it said instant delivery, and it did, and it was in my wallet within i'd say five minutes. That's the number one. Number two. Some of the gift

cards you can only use in store. Some you can use online, So just be you have to be very aware when you're buying these discounted gift cards the limitations and how they're delivered and how you can use them. So that's the main thing you need to know. The other thing is some of them are easier to use than others because, like you know, some of them you can actually just scan the code from the card at

the retailer and you can use it that way. Others, like mine, which was the PF Chang's one, you had to write the number down. It's a long number. It's like a sixteen digit number plus a pin code, and the you know, the server had to type it all in. But it works. It's a great place to look if you want to get a discounted gift card. I would not recommend gifting these gift cards to people it's more like for yourself if you're just trying to say some money.

But if you save five percent here, ten percent there, it's pretty good. And Raise says all their transactions are backed by a one year money back guarantee and it does work for Android or iOS. So if you want to try Raise, you can actually find a link in the show notes. I've got a referral link where you can get five dollars off your first purchase if you want to try it out. But yeah, kind of cool. So the other app that I've used in the past, and they just started a news service, is called lug.

Lug is really cool because they basically allow you to you know, if you buy something giant at Costco, doesn't fit in your car head you get it home, right, you got to either use some service that they recommend, or you have to use delivery from the store or whatever. Well, lug will kind of is kind of like on demand Postmates slash Uber for anything that you buy that's big, right, And so that's always been a thing that they do. If you need a table moved, they'll move the table

across town. They send a guy with a truck and you know, and he'll move the stuff for you. It's pretty simple, like one or two items, you know, and I paid I think fifty bucks. I got something delivered from a what was it cost? Plus? World Market. I got like a what was it A It was like a shelving unit that was too big to fit in my car. I think I paid fifty bucks something like that, and I just you know, it was delivered right to my house. It was great. The guys came, they dropped

it off. It was perfect. So now what they're doing is shop with lug is a little bit different because now you can actually shop right through the app for favorite things from your favorite stores. They've got Ikea, Target, West Elm, and World Market, among others, and they curated a bunch of products. So these are like big, bulky products. We're not talking oatmeal here. We're talking shelving units. We're

talking coffee tables, couches, stuff like that. And so you can go on their app, you can order it and if you order it by same by five pm, you can get delivered the same day by friendly five star vetted luggers and luggers are basically uber drivers or Ubers style drivers. They're just third party people that say, have a pickup truck. I've got some muscles and I don't mind moving stuff for people. And you do pick a one hour delivery window, and you can do this up

to seven days in advance. So let's say you order something today, but you want it delivered on Saturday when you're home from nine to ten am. Schedule it all on the app and boom, now you can you know, look, I think that with furniture, you kind of want to see it in the store. But I know we're changing to all online stuff, but yeah, it's kind of a new way to buy stuff and it's from the store.

So what I think a lot of people will do is they'll just go into the store, take a look at the furniture they want, and then just order it right from the app and have it shipped to their house. But again, it's called Shop with Lug. The app is available for iOS and Android. This new feature is available in San Francisco, La San Diego, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland, and Denver. And again, the experience I had with Lug was pretty good,

So check them out. And if you don't like what you get from this new Shop with Lug, they will let you return anything for free for up to thirty days. Remember those emails that were going around that were kind of sextortion emails, So they would say, oh, we found you doing something little scandalous on your computer. We got it on your webcam, we saw the websites you were going to, and it was this email that said you got to pay up or else we're going to release

this video to your friends and family. And it was pretty convincing because it had like your real name, it had your address. Some of these were mailed to people's homes well. According to an article in Cyberscoop written by Jeff Stone, these things worked even though if you look at them you think they're crazy, because you're like, who would fall for this? Apparently they did, to the tune of three hundred and thirty two thousand dollars since July

twenty eighteen. So a company named Digital Shadows examined seven hundred and ninety thousand of these attempts sent to eighty nine thousand email recipients and found that people do fall for them. So they found thirty one hundred people worldwide sent bitcoin to ninety two different addresses. That's how they get you, they say, got to send bitcoin to this

address or else we're going to release this video. They also found job postings giving people annual salaries of thirty thousand dollars for people that are willing to aim sextortion claims at corporate executives and lawyers. So I don't know where the intersection is there of these highly paid executives and lawyers that you don't want anything out in the open about them, and so next thing you know, they'll pay up, or I guess they're willing to pay up

more so than other people. But one of the postings for the job says it's not unheard of to get one hundred thousand dollars from a single target. And the Digital Shadows also noted that the job posting was full of spelling errors, and they also had no evidence to back up their claims. But it just goes to show that there are a lot of people in this world.

Not all of them are listening to a podcast like this that's explaining the latest and greatest it's happening in tech, and in this case, the worst kind of stuff that's happening in tech. But you have to be you just have to be aware of this stuff and I think that for ninety nine point nine percent of people, they read their email, they see that it's totally spelling errors and it looks like it was written from a different country.

And you know, Google has done a better job of in Gmail showing you that this is seems fraudulent, just does not seem on the up and up. So I think we've gotten better with this stuff, but the reality is people still fall for it, and with this specific one, you know, I got the email, A couple other people got the email. I've got a bunch of viewers sending me this email saying that they got it, and it gives you pause. You know, you sit there and you think, well,

can someone tap into my webcam? You know, and it's just one of those things. Again, clearly the scam works because they got three hundred and thirty two thousand dollars out of people. And again this is just the emails and kind of the research that one company did. Who knows how prevalent and how much more money was done by anyone else trying this out, but just good stuff to be aware of. Finally, I'll end the podcast today with a new segment I call you got to help

me out? Folks, because sometimes you know more than I do. And this email from Brian Waters came to me and he says, can you recommend a program to organize my music on a PC? Thank you? Now, it has been a long time since I have organized my music. Number one, I've gone all streaming. Number two. The only program I used to use back in the past was iTunes. Then I had another program I think it was called like tunes tunes Fixed, that would like add the names and

titles to things. But you know then iTunes did that, So I mean Windows Music Media Player back in the day. But I just do not have a physical music collection. I don't want a physical music collection anymore, or a digital music collection, whatever you want to call it. I'm all online. So if you can recommend an app on PC that helps Brian organize all of his music, that

would be a help to me. You can submit it to rich on Tech Just find me on Twitter at rich Demiro submit it there, or you can email me at my website rich on Tech dot tv. Otherwise, just get in touch with me, I don't care. Just DM me on Instagram whatever you want. Just let me know if you have a suggestion for Brian to organize his music and I will include it in a future podcast and we'll see if this works. And if you have a question for me, of course you can also ask

that on the website as well. Well, that's gonna take us to the end of the show. Just a couple of things of note. If you've been following me on Instagram, I've been doing a lot more videos on there, So if you want to see all my S ten coverage, I've got it all on there Instagram at rich on Tech also got some other stuff on there if you want to see some sample pictures I've taken with the S ten. I also visit a restaurant in San Francisco called Creator, where a robot makes your burger. I thought

that was pretty cool. I know, if you guys have followed me, you know I went to the place in Pasadena called Caliburger that also did something similar. This is totally different. This is more like a giant machine that crafts your burger. So that was kind of cool. I did a little video on that. Otherwise, find me on Facebook, Facebook, dot com, slash rich on Tech. Thanks to everyone who's purchased the book. As usual, one hundred and one handy

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