Life-saving smartphone tips, Windows 10 extension & privacy-first phone made in USA (127, June 28, 2025)

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features editor at PC mag. We're gonna have some fun. He's going to share with Americans really think about tech etiquette, from snooping on someone else's device to using chat GBT to make your texts and emails and then later In the show, we've got Todd Weaver, founder and CEO of Purism. He's going to explain how his company is building privacy first tech products and also they're making a phone in the USA. We'll ask them how that's going. Well. I

hope you're having a great day. This week. I attended a nine to one to one conference and picked up a pretty helpful tip. Whenever I learned something, I'm always like, Okay, I need to share this with other folks. This was the NINA nine one one Association. This is like a group of basically all the people that work in the emergency response field when it comes to nine to one one, right,

the operators, their managers, just all those folks. They gather once a year and learn and see what new technology is available in their world. But one of the folks I was interviewing mentioned something just in passing and I was like, wait, what was that. It's called smart nine one one dot com. Smart nine one one dot com. So if you go to this website, you can create a safety profile that is linked to your phone number, and you can add information like medical info, allergies, any

household details that might be smart for a dispatcher. To see when you call if you ever need to call nine one one. Now keep in mind you have to when you're calling. The dispatch center has to support this technology. And there are six thousand, it's nine one one centers in the US, and they all have varying levels of technology. Some are super old school, some are really high tech. Obviously depends on the city and the funding and all

that good stuff. But you can actually go on smart none I'm on one's website and check to see if your area is one of those supported. So you can pop in your zip code and it will tell you. And i'd give you that website, but that one's a little bit longer, so you'll have to go to my website rich on tech dot tv for the link. But once you fill this out, they will see that information on your screen in addition to the standard information they

might see. So I think this is worth setting up if you have some sort of medical condition or someone in your house does some sort of special circumstances. And then this got me to thinking in general, it's probably a good time to update your phone's emergency settings because all of these smartphones have emergency settings that can you know you've got to fill out your information. People can see this if they ever have you know, if they ever find you and you've got your phone on you,

or when you call for help. Your phone can also send more information and again depending on the call center, they can see that information. So number one on the iPhone, go to settings and there's an entire section called Emergency SOS. Look in there, review your emergency contacts. Make sure you

have that set up. Then you can open up the health app on the iPhone, tap your profile and select medical ID and you can fill out all of your information for your medical ID, any allergies, you might have your weight, height, whatever you want people to know if they were to find you with your smartphone. And this is something that can access from your lock screen even if your phone is locked, but you have to toggle on show when locked. And then there's also an option

to share during emergency call. So again it's kind of like that smart nine on one system I was talking about, but this comes directly from your phone. That information is pushed to the nine one one operator if their system supports it. On Samsung, go into your Settings, there's a section called Safety and Emergency. Again, you can fill out your medical info and your emergency contacts, and they have a very similar setting called show on lockscreen and then

share during emergency calls and texts? Did you know you could text nine one one in a lot of places? So I was asking, I was talking to a lot of people about texting nine one one. So of course, always call, right, you always want to call. Ideally that's the best way to get in touch with nine one one.

But if you are in a situation where texting is better, and let's say there's someone unannounced in your home, you're in some sort of domestic dispute, you are you know, in a closet somewhere hiding, you don't want to make a phone call. That's when you would text nine one one. Now, a lot of these nine one one centers can accept that text, but if they can't, it will immediately bounce back your text and say, hey, we can't accept this text.

You got to call. So but it's worth it if you're in one of those situations where you cannot call, So remember that. Now, if you have a Pixel phone from Google, they also have a lot of emergency settings on there. So if you go to settings safety in emergency, they've got this personal safety app and it is filled with all kinds of stuff. Go into your info, fill out all your medical info. You can toggle on the

visibility options like I mentioned earlier. But again, just kind of taking care of this stuff now could make a huge difference in a real emergency. So be prepared. Hopefully you never need to know any of this stuff or use any of this stuff. But you know, I've had to call nine one one once. I remember one time, specifically during an emergency situation with one of my kids, and your brain goes to jelly. It actually reminded me.

I know this is silly to make this reference, but I was on the prices right many years ago, and it was the same exact way my brain felt. My entire brain was just gobbledy gook up there like it just like imagine a jello just like floating around like jiggling. That's what my brain felt like when I called nine one one. You are out of body, you are not thinking clearly. They're asking you questions you don't even know

the answers to them. And so being prepared now and have that information pushed to nine one one, the more information the better, and it's it was really interesting to me. We've been trained so long now on TV and movies that when you call nine one one, they immediately get that lock right on your location. Like it's just like this little system like bing bing bing. There they are.

That's not always the case. A lot of times, depending on the technology they're using, it may be triangulated from the cell phone companies, you know, depending on how exact they their systems are. Now the systems have gotten a lot better, and our smartphone send a lot of data to the call center, so that's a great thing. So the point is, all of this stuff is really helping save a lot of lives, So it's a good thing. I'll put all that stuff on my website. Rich on

tech dot TV. Another story, my kid getting ready for the show today. My kid comes running into my bedroom. Dad, did you know that Windows is getting rid of the blue screen of death? I'm like, Tanner, what, what what makes you care about that? He's like, I don't know. That thing's iconic. It's been there forever, and he's right, it's been. I mean, I can't believe it's been nearly

forty years. But yeah, apparently Microsoft is changing the blue screen of death to black in Windows eleven, and the new black screen of death will remove the frowning face and the QR code. This is being widely reported it'll still show some information at the bottom of the screen for it professionals, but I guess for us everyday folks. They're just trying to make Windows easier to troubleshoot simpler. And this is gonna arrive later this summer with some

sort of new quick machine recovery feature. But you know, if you've been using Windows for a long time, you might be shocked the first time you see this, because the blue screen of death has been a staple since the eighties. And I personally, I'm one of these people that loves seeing any sort of fail screen around town. So if I am, like, you know, at the fast food place or at the airport, and you know, they're all running some sort of operating system in the background

on these digital screens. So I have a whole collection of my Google photos of all of these. I call them fail screens where it's just like some sort of update window Windows isn't responding. You don't see it too much with the Apple stuff, but you know, you do see Android screens. But I love that stuff. I don't know why. It just gives you a little, a little behind the scenes into the world of like just nerds get a kick out of this stuff, right, I don't know.

new computer in a full year. I'll explain that when we come back after this eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four to one zero one. I see folks that are already on the phone lines. We'll get to some of those up next and I'll tell you about that Windows ten extension right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking

technology at eight eight eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Let's go to Rick in Thousand Oaks. Rick, You're on with Rich Hi.

You know how I paid it, when I paid it, and how much I paid. So I have a trail if there's an issue a year down the road or something.

with AI. But yesterday at the doctor and I wanted to find some results of a test I had a couple of years ago, and for the life of me, I could not find anything related to this. And I'm sitting there and I was embarrassed, and I'm like, I can't believe that this is happening, because I've done all my due diligence of scanning these things in and hooding them in. And I will tell you, it gets a

little tricky with the with the keywords. Because let's say you use city Bank, right, and you put your city bank, every one of your credit card statements or your banking statements into this folder, and then you search City Bank at the end of the year. That's going to be tricky to find, you know, the exact statement that you want, because there's a million things that are that say City Bank in there. I will tell you, I think the thing that works the best with this is searching for

the dollar amount in any sort of receipt or something. So, for instance, I've got a flex spending account or a health saving account, whatever you call it. But basically, if you go to the doctor, the bill is eighty two dollars and seventeen cents you paid on this debit card that your work gives you and then you might have to submit a receipt later on. Well, I've found that it's really easy once you scan that receipt to search for that amount eighty seven thirteen whatever it is, and

it will come right up. So that works perfectly. To answer your question, Rick, I think what you need to do is just come up with some sort of cloud storage that you like and trust. So you can use Google Drive, you can use one Drive, you can use Dropbox, you can use iCloud. And once you do that, you establish I do a year system, so I'll do twenty twenty five and then I'll just dump everything into twenty

twenty five and I'm feeling really good about it. I will put things in folders inside twenty twenty five, so like City Bank, Bank of America, American Airlines, you know, and I'll put every statement inside their individual folders, and then each person for my home. And if you want some ideas of the folders to come up with, just ask CHATCHBT say hey, what are some basic folders for household organization in my cloud drive, and it will give you a list of like the suggested folders, and then

you can work off of that. You can also use an app like Evernoe, but that could get kind of expensive because they do have some great search features and they do have some great functionality of getting this stuff scanned in there. Of course you can annotate it, but it gets kind of expensive to actually store that long time, long term, whereas with something like a one drive iCloud your dropbox, you know you're getting some free storage and

also you may be paying for that storage already. When it comes to annotating the PDFs or whatever you're doing, there are some websites that can help you do that. You can use something like I Love pdf. You have to remember, if you're using sensitive files, you probably want to do this locally on your computer. So if you're running on a Mac, you can just use the built in preview PDF viewer on your Mac and just use

the annotation tools on there. You know, create a textbox and just type in, you know, paid paid this bill and the date that you paid it. Sometimes I'll just write on the bill itself and then scan it after that. And yesterday I was doing all of this stuff. So I have three three files systems in my home. One says, you know, take action, basically an inbox. The next one is to scan, I've already taken action, and the other

the third is to shred. So basically, anything that comes into my home in the mail first goes into that top file folder, which which means I need to take action. That means I need to pay the bill, or I need to do something with that. If it doesn't need any action, I'll put it in that middle folder, which is just to scan, or if I'm done with the file, I'll put it in there, and then the third one is to shred it. So that's sort of my system.

It works pretty well, except for yesterday when I actually needed to find something, but otherwise I find that it works really really well. And the good news is you can use your phone to scan in these files. If you open up on the iPhone the files app. It's actually really really easy. Open up the files app, go into a folder. Tap in the upper right hand corner.

It says scan documents, and if you just hold your phone over paper, or if you just have it on a little tripod, you don't even need to do anything. It'll automatically scan that paper and then you can just move the next one in scan it, Move the next one in scan it, move the next one in it. You don't even have to like press any buttons or do anything. And on the iPhone, on a Samsung they also have and on Pixel I would just recommend using the built in Google Drive app. They've got a very

similar system. If you open up the Google Drive app, there's a little camera icon in the lower right hand corner. You tap that and you can easily scan your documents using that and it works pretty well. I don't think the quality is as good as a dedicated scanner, which you know, the one that I have. Oh gosh, what is it the scanner I have, it's the IX Fidjitsu, it's the i X. Let's see which one is this. It's a little tiny one. It's like a FIDGETSU is a main brand that does it. I've got to find

the exact scanner that I have there. But it's a it's a very simple scanner and it's handheld and it's like super easy. But there's a million scanners you can use your you know, you can use inkjet printer whatever you want, but just get these things scanned in and uh yeah, the search will help you out. Great question, Rick, Thanks for the call. Eight to eight. Rich One O one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.

Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology with you at Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

have three ways. Number one, this is the new way you can use Windows Backup to sync your settings and files to the cloud. Now I checked this Windows Backup program. Basically, it's kind of like it'll just sink the folders, the desktop folder documents and pictures, your apps, so to remember the installed apps you have, the ones that you've pinned to like things like the taskbar. It'll remember your settings

like Wi Fi passwords and things like that. So that is very simple, and you don't have to put a bunch of files in the desktop, the documents or the pictures. You can move them out if you don't want to take up all of your storage. You get I think it says five gigs for free, and so let's see here, Yeah, five gigabytes for free. I'm using one point nine on my computer. Now that's a test device, so it's not something I'm using day to day. But that's the first

way and the easiest way to do it. Just all you have to do is toggle on Windows backup. Next thing you can do if you don't want to do that, is you can redeem one thousand Microsoft Rewards points. And you're like, wait, what are rewards points? Well, you might have them if you've ever searched, bing, or done a bunch of stuff with Microsoft, like, for instance, go to

rewards dot bing dot com. I somehow have two nine hundred and five points available, so I can do the one thousand Rewards points to get the extra year, or if you don't want to do that, you can pay thirty dollars to enroll manually for that extra year of security updates. Now you can't do this just yet. You have to wait a little bit. Microsoft just announced this. They're going to send a notification to computers sometime in July or mid August for most people, so you've got

some time. But now that you know you can do this, you can rest a little bit easy. You can know that you can use Windows ten for another year. Just by doing these two things, you'll get coverage through October twenty twenty six. Again, this is just security updates, no more features. If your computer can handle Windows eleven, I

would suggest just updating to that. But if you've got some sort of special program you run, or you just have a reason why you don't want to go to Windows eleven or your computer can't support it, you can stick with Windows ten for another year. So again, easy ways to get this Three easy ways. Use the Windows backup, redeem a thousand Microsoft Rewards points, or just pay thirty dollars. This is for consumers only. Just remember that businesses have

a whole separate program. But this is a really nice lifeline for folks that don't want to deal with getting a new computer or don't want to deal with the update. But I will tell you this. You have one year now from October. Start planning for a new computer. Right, don't wait until October of next year to buy the new computer. Start planning for that new computer. Let's go to Paul a Newport Beach. Paul bought the Kindle color Soft and he's got a review. Paul, welcome to the show.

So what does that mean. It means that you can get your the cover of your book if you have the cover preview, and the books that you've read on the home screen and books that are suggested for you on the home screen in color.

love the thing, particularly the battery life. It's got a little smaller footprint than the Oasis because although it's got a seven inch screen, it doesn't have the page turning buttons on the side.

will probably go on sale. The target price we're looking at is two hundred and twenty five dollars or less, which would be pretty good.

anchor products. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Let's go to uh, let's go to Jim Jim in Prescott Valley, Arizona. Jim. Is this the Jim?

in the car. This is just one tap on your wrist when you're safe, and you tap it and it starts recording and it uses AI to figure out what you're saying and so on the way over here, I always think of things that I want to say on the show, and so I will tap it, and I'm not kidding. It is so good, so good that so you just.

gets transcribed and then email to you. So half the time, but by the time I'm done driving home or whatever I'm doing, I've forgotten that I even took a note. And then I get home, I go, oh, there's my note. And then the other thing, Jim, if you're listening to the radio or a podcast or an audiobook, you can

use it to remember little tidbits from those things. And so I've got a whole bunch of things, Like I'm listening to a book right now, This person says something interesting, I'll just rewind for a second and then record on my watch and again it's all it's all very safe because it's it's just one tap on your watch and you're not really distracted in that in that movement obviously you.

And it's so good that I just feel like I'm like living in the future because I'm like, this is so like I didn't have this a couple of years ago, and now I do. Now.

that you're going to get with this app. So again, it's called whispermeemos dot com. There will be I think there's a free level of service, but you'll probably have to pay. I think I pay thirty dollars a year for this. But when I tell you this is completely worth it is one hundred percent worth it.

Just download it and try it.

could be something more serious. But let's face it, we're not going to run to the doctor every time, and that's where tech comes in. So let me tell you about the Cardia Mobile six CEL. That's Cardia Mobile six L. This is the most advanced personal EKG you can get. It is FDA cleared to detect aphib one of the leading causes of stroke, and this thing is legit. It gives you six views of your heart compared to just

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on the sides and you can take your reading. If you want the more precise reading, you put one of the one of the corners on your ankle. It is very easy. You don't feel anything, doesn't you know, it doesn't feel weird or anything like that. It's very very easy. For a limited time, my listeners get ten percent off. Just go to Cardia dot com. That it's ka r DA dot com. Or you can search Amazon and use code ten six L Rich. That's the number ten six

L Rich Cardia. Great little gadget. All right, Uh, coming up, I've got to tell you about this anchor recall. You might be saying, Rich, you just told me about that anchor recall last week. No, there's a new one. If you can believe it. Anchor is recalling five more power banks over battery safety. I will tell you how to identify those and what to look for and what you get if you have one eighty eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four to two four to one

zero one back after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at eight eight eight Rich one O one eight eight eight

seven four to two four one zero one. We'll get to the phone lines in just a second, but I want to get you up to date on this new Anchor recall, and the first one annoyed me, and this one is now disappointing me because many many tech folks, including myself have recommended Anchor products over the years, and now they're recalling an additional five power banks in addition to the one I told you about last week. So if you have one of these, do not use it.

They say it's a small risk of fire or overheating, but it's still a risk, and this is a global voluntary recall. Five models the Anchor power Bank Model A one, two, five seven, the Anchor Power Bank with built in USBC cable Model A sixteen forty seven, Anchor Mago Power Bank, Model A sixteen fifty two, Anchor Zolo Power Bank Model A sixteen eighty one, Anchor Zolo Power Bank with built

in USBC cable Model A sixteen eighty nine. If you have one of these, you got to check the model number on the back or the side of your device. Then you can verify the serial number online. Anchor is offering a replacement or a gift card if your unit is affected. You can go to the website rich on Tech dot tv for the link. It is Anchor dot com slash r C two five o six. Anchor dot Com slash r C two five o six. Make sure that you check the serial number if you have an

anchor power bank they want you to bring. You can't just throw this in the trash. By the way, I keep adding a tea to that Household Hazardous Waste Center. And I know that's a lot of information, a lot of recalls. I will put that on the website. Rich on tech dot TV. Uh, let's see Naomi is at our wits end with Yahoo. What's happened in Naomi?

to June fourteenth. Then all of a sudden, it goes back to September of twenty four then.

emails not being sent or received. That's a problem because obviously, if you're using the web version of Yahoo Mail, there shouldn't be any reason why that would be happening except for the fact that you're over your storage and it's just stopped working. That's the only thing I can think of on that aspect of things. When it comes to things going into different folders or the trash or spam,

I mean, that's pretty common. I would check to see if you have any filters set up on your Yahoo Mail that would be routing that email into the trash. It could be coming from someone that you blocked at some point. It could be you set up a filter and it's now just finding that email and it's going into that area. So I would check the filters as well. I would also go through and just look for big attachments on your emails, and you can delete a couple

of those and hopefully free up some storage space. But I have not heard of a widespread Yahoo Email issue with it not working. I mean, millions upon millions of people use Yahoo Mail. I know it's not perfect. Believe me, I'm not sitting there. I'm not sitting here, you know, defending them. And they did do a giant redesign of their mail, and they're also doing AI now in their email, and so all of these things could be coming together for a perfect storm, Naomi, and that's what's causing some

of these little issues. But it sounds like the things that you're describing, a lot of it may have to do with the storage, a lot of it may have to do with filters, a lot of it may have to do with the spam filtering. And so I think at the end of the day, the main thing that you want to work on your email is that when you send me an email, it goes through, and when I send you an email, it goes through. So you need to figure out why that aspect of your Yahoo

mail is not working. And that is the number one priority right now. So I check the storage, see if you're over your limit that number one, and then you can begin to figure out all these other little pieces. But I feel your frustration. I get it. I understand sometimes these things seem really tricky and tough, but then it's something that's very simple that is happening. And believe me, I've found. I go into my spam now on a regular basis, I'm on Gmail and I go in my

spam all the time. And I'm right here actually looking at my spam and someone that just heard us talking about something on the show sent me an email and it just went right to my spam. And by the way, it came from a Yahoo email address. So I don't know. Maybe there's some conspiracy theory, but that's the way. That's the way it happens sometimes. Good question. Hopefully you get that figured out, Naomi, keep me posted, send me an email if you can, and tell me if it works.

We may not have Bobo for the rest of the show. I think he just just lost it. I'm being serious, you know. If she can send me an email here hello at richontech dot TV. If it doesn't come through, Naomi, I will check on you in a couple of days. Was dirty one am I favor? Hey, rich I'm having a problem with my email. I can't send my email. Well, send me an email. Let me know how it's going. What's she gonna do? Send me a smoke signal? I mean, come on, she's got to send an email. Go to

the website. Rich On tech dot TV. You can submit. That's why I give people options on the website. They can send a direct email or maybe if your email is not working, you can use the form. Samsung getting ready to show off their foldables July ninth, that's when we are going to see the new foldables that they have in store. I cannot believe it's been a year since I went to Paris last year and saw the

last foldables. Now we've got the fold seven, expected to be thinner than last year, external screen wider, thankfully, that's the main thing. This needed camera could get an upgrade to two hundred megapixels, a first for a foldable. Then you've got the z Flip seven, larger three point six inch cover display outside wrapped around the camera lens. And you know, the big thing about these is that Samsung

keeps keeps teasing the idea of this ultra foldable. So they came out with that Galaxy Edge, which had the ultra kind of camera, right that two hundred megapixel camera. Now they're hinting at an ultra foldable. They're really getting a lot of mileage out of this two hundred megapixel camera lens, that's for sure. But the idea is that, look, you don't have to make sacrifices. You choose the form factor that you want, and you can still have a

really good experience on this phone. So again, foldables have not gotten a ton of traction. Here in the US, it's growing, but it's a very small percentage of what Samsung does. And in the rest of the world they're pretty popular because you've got so many options from all these different brands. But here in the US, you've got either Google or Samsung. That's it. And the Samsung ones have been good, but they haven't been great as an alternative.

Like if you're someone like me who wants a lot out of their phone, the foldable is great, but only in a couple of aspects, not all aspects. And so we'll see what happens July ninth. This is happening in Brooklyn, New York. And you know these are gonna be expensive. Foldables are still very, very pricey. That's the main drawback to them is that they are not cheap. We're going

to break. I got a okay, we're gonna we're gonna Okay, before we go to break, let me tell you about this real quick spectrum raising prices on TV and internet, according to Cordcuttersnews dot com, two dollars a month price hike for Legacy Internet plans, five dollars a month increase on Spectrum select TV plans. Spectrum says rising costs and infrastructure and network maintenance is what they need to pay for. That's why. Let's see they had a three dollar apparently

monthly price increase earlier this year. I don't know about that one. I can't remember that one.

Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro here hang out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. If you're not following me on social media at rich on Tech on Instagram, I'm about to post a new scam email that Steve listener Steve sent

me these things are wild. I am seeing more and more now of these scam emails that you click a link and it doesn't just bring you to a malicious website, It actually downloads a malicious file to your computer directly. I mean, that is wild. That is something that I've only seen once before. But this is really really scary stuff. So I'll post that to my Instagram at rich on Tech. I'm hitting post right about now. There it is. Let's go to Bonnie in Charleston, South Carolina. Bonnie, what's up?

before we bought it off. And I'm wondering, had you ever heard of these alexas maybe picking up some bluetooths stuff from someone else's home, or information of somebody else talking.

things that happen in your home. So the sort of sane solution, or I guess explanation would be that it heard it thought it heard a keyword, you know, like alexa, and it activated and it played something that was some sort of audio that you heard, whether it was a podcast, whether it was a radio show, whether it was some piece of audio or information. That is my guess. Maybe

you were talking about ghost stories in your home. Maybe you're talking about something related, and it fired up a podcast about that, and people on that podcast were talking very quietly about that. That's sort of the logical explanation. The other side of me says, get this thing out of your house with a long stick and and literally bury it. That's that's that's the other side of me telling you I mean like make sure, like pull the

power plug. I would pull out the insides. Whatever you can do to make sure this thing does not come back to life. You've had it for nine years. I think that's a pretty long run. But yeah, I mean the other thing you do is just see if it happens again. You know, you don't have to do you have to go that extreme. You just see if it happens again. Oh my gosh, what's happening here? What is what is? Oh my gosh? Okay eight to eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two

four one zero one. Yeah, these things, I'm telling you these speakers last night house. Actually, I was trying to use my Google you know, I was like, hey Google, and it kept I had my phone right in front of me, and it kept firing the speaker that was like ten twenty feet away, and so I kept getting closer closer to my phone. I'm like, hey Google, and it just kept doing the speaker for the response. I'm like, this is insane, like what is happening here? But I

did something kind of wild. I pulled out an old Pixel eight pro which has been sitting collecting dust for you know, probably a year and a half. Now, let's see when did that? When did Pixel Pixel eight pro launch date? Release dates? Let's see when that came out October twelfth, twenty twenty three. Fired it up, turned it on, did the software update? The thing still works perfectly. Don't get rid of your old phone unless you have a

reason to upgrade. These things last for effort. All right, coming up, we're going to talk about some of the most annoying things people do online and with technology. Right here, I'm rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Just taking a look at the emails we're getting today. Not one from Naomi yet, but I think she's still working

on that. We've we've heard of exorcists. I mean apparently exorcists is like there's stuff taking over email, stuff taking over the Alexas. I don't know what's happening here today, but we have a fun topic right now. We've got Mark yarn from executive features editor for PC mag Mark, Welcome to the show.

when you're talking about a partner's device. So there's there's obviously slightly different sets of rules for some people when it when it comes to a lover as opposed to a loved one, I suppose, and then even more granular, one in four millennials think it's acceptable to snoop through a partner's device. So that's like, you know, twenty five percent of millennials think it's okay, oh wow.

access your phone. But I think the assumption for some people would be that you're only going to use that for the things that would be acceptable, right like okay, answer my phone, do this whatever, not just like full on look through my phone.

as looking through their device. You know, we've all heard the horror dating horror stories and people having you know, cheating and having multiple partners you know which is which is fine, but not in a non consenting way. So you know, I think there's a level and a plus.

saying yeah, toggle that switch off on your computer. Like I can just say that, and chat chibt will say, like thanks for writing, and then it'll say what I said and just put it into a nicer format. So to me, it's just polishing. It's just like a better version of me, right, Like, I'm sure quick.

got to be very careful. All right, phone, you story in a conversation? What about that? Like you know, I see this all the time, someone's telling a story and the person just looking at their phone.

We are human. We are supposed to connect as humans, and I really believe that, especially in this world of like oversaturation with social media and flipping through TikTok and all this nonsense that people do on a daily basis, when you are with another human, give that human the respect of being there with them, because that is probably the most magical part of life we have left. Like everything else is just like you know, AI generated stuff everywhere you go. So when you're with a human, give

the respect to that human. All right. Finally, speakerphone usage. This is another one. You see people talking on their phone or listening to music just out and about.

the time, you know, just keeping that. I mean, the subway is probably not the harst or you've heard on the on the local news, but it's it can definitely be irritating with somebody who's listening or speaking on speakerphone and about like you know, three quarters of people find this unacceptable for like doing FaceTime or a phone call on speakerphone and like the in the growth three store or something. I find it highly annoying, but you know a quarter of the people don't see them to have

a problem. I mean, obviously the rules are always changing when you're the one doing the action usually, so like if you do it, you might be annoyed by other people doing it, but when you know you're the one, you know, it's just a minor inconvenience.

dot com. The article is gen z and boomers agree this is the rudest thing you can do with your smartphone. Check it out on a screen near you. Thanks for joining me today, Mark, Thanks so much.

are really good, the speeds are really good. So I would say, if you upgraded your plan on Verizon or T Mobile AT and T to give you the most hot spot, like one hundred gigs, usually it's pretty good. It works really well. Now, if you don't want to do that, what I'd recommend as an alternative is one of these five g home systems. So the two that I would look AT is from Verizon and also T Mobile. So Verizon is called five G Home Internet. T Mobile is Let's see, let's see what there's is called home

Internet five G very simple similar. So what you do is you buy this little box. It's basically a more powerful hot spot, so it grabs the cellular signal in from the air and then it broadcasts it out as a Wi Fi signal. So Verizon is you know, they're advertising pretty good prices on these things, and so you can get a really good price based on where you are and what you're doing, and there's no contracts or anything like that. So I would check to see Verizon.

You have to check it at your home address see if they offer it, and then you also have to check to see if you can use it in a mobile setting. Back in the day, they weren't really allowing people to do that. I think it's that's been lifted a little bit. But just call them to make sure that if you using this around town and in different places, they're not going to cut you off. But you've got

basically very similar services. AT and T offers one. But I would not recommend even looking into that because theirs is in very very limited areas. T Mobile and Verizon T Mobiles in the most. I would say Verizon's in the second most, and then AT and T is like

just barely there. So that for some reason they're only offering it really where they don't have fiber Internet or in places where they just I don't know why they're not just offering it everywhere, but I would look at those two, So you can go to T Mobile five G Home Internet, Verizon five G Home Internet. And then the third way obviously is Starlink, and that is satellite Internet. So Starlink is going to give you a connection no matter where you are in the US, as long as

you have a clear view of the sky. It's probably going to be your most expensive option out of all of these. But they do have a new one called Rome, which is you know, you can connect anywhere while traveling. And so let's let's see how much that is. So if I go on their website, Yeah, so the the just to get the equipment is going to be four hundred dollars plus taxes, and then you're gonna pay Let's see, looks like it's about fifty dollars a month for fifty gigabytes.

If you want unlimited, it's one hundred and sixty five a month, so you're talking four hundred dollars for the actual starlink Starlink Minikit fifty dollars a month for the service, So that's the most expensive option, but it's gonna be the most thorough, and it's gonna get you signal everywhere, and it's probably gonna be the fastest. So again, just options, many, many options here. Those are the three that i'd recommend hotspot. Try that first. You'd be surprised. You'd be surprised if

the hotspot works. The downside of all these things is let's see here, can I think of a downside? Not really. As long as they allow you to go on the on the road with these things, you'll be fine and you can get that connection. The other thing is Amazon On is set to start their satellite internet later this year. So at some point they said it's going to be by the end of the year. Now what does that mean exactly, We don't know. It could be one one

plan by December, but I wouldn't look into that. But that's going to be called Project Kuiper, and that's going to be launching later this year, so there's gonna be a little little competition for Starlink towards the end of the year. Susie and Temecula, thanks so much for the call today. I appreciate it. I hope you have fun. They're out on the road Hurts now using AI to scan your car for scratches. They've got AI damage scanners at over one hundred major airports this year. They're rolling

them out starting with Atlanta. This is from the blog view from the wing. Cars get scanned at return using high tech UVI portals kind of like an MRI, but for vehicles. Detects tiny issues, uneven tire wear, windshield hairline cracks, small scuffs, so I think this is probably for the benefit of the car maintenance, but also they can bill

you if there's an issue. One customer got a four hundred and forty dollars bill for a one inch scuff, two hundred and fifty dollars for repairs, one hundred ninety dollars in fees. Uh wow. Hertz is offering a small discount if you pay first, but if you dispute the charge, the clock keeps tipping ticking. That's amazing. Customers are being caught off guard. Best advice take photos or video of your rental when you pick it up and you drop

it off. That is great advice. Eighty eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. Get those calls in. Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here hang out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up this hour, we've got Todd Weaver, founder and

CEO of Purism. They are a mobile phone company that's making privacy first phones and they also make a phone completely in the US, so it'd be an interesting conversation with Todd. Notice there was a Wall Street Journal article about him as well, So making the rounds right now. This was really interesting. I'll get to the phone lines in just a second here, but this was really interesting and I think it's a reason why you got to

be very careful about your phone. The spark Kitty is malware that quietly steals photos from iPhones and Android devices. It was delivered via malicious apps in Google Play, Apple App Store, and trojanized versions of TikTok. Now here's the thing on Android, it used hidden code in apps on iOS because you might be thinking, rich doesn't iOS have a closed, you know, app store that you know you can't just install anything on there. They went around that.

So if your company you can get there's these little there's a way that you can install apps on your employees' iPhones enterprise pro system, and they snuck that in through there. So I mean the point is these hackers will figure

out ways of getting around all of the rules. And so the reason I tell you this because I don't think you have this on your phone, but this software, once it got on people's phones, it seeked out screenshots basically of anything that might be important sensitive information, financial information, especially crypto wallet seed phrases. These are basically the backup phrase that you use to get into your crypto wallet and you have to save that in a safe place.

What do most people do They take a screenshot of it. Well, who would have thought that this app would come through and look through all your pictures to try to find any of this information. So number one, only download apps from trust to developers. Now, if you know what you're doing on Android, you know that you can sideload apps on there. You can sideload what's called an ape. I do it. I know other people do it, but it's something that you have to be very careful about if

you don't know what you're doing. On iPhone, it's very tough to install an app that's outside the app store. But we've seen examples of apps in the app store that are not so good. So be careful and then review permissions carefully. And this is why your phone says this. If you've noticed on both iPhone and Android, when you install an app that wants access to your photo library, it now says access to all photos or access to limited photos. Now I get it. If you say limited photos,

it's a pain. Every time you want to feed a photo into that app, you have to press the photo and select it. Versus some apps. You know, if you're using a cloud backup back app, of course you want to have access to all your photos. But the point is if you're using a random app. Let's say you download an app like an AI app that turns your photo like it takes a picture of you and turns it into like a clown or whatever you want. Right for that app, would I would use the option that

says allow limited app access to my photo library. You don't want it to have access to every picture in your photo library. That's what these things can do. They can scan all of them. And we've heard about apps scanning photo libraries for things like metadata and using that information. So you have to be very, very careful about the permissions you give on your phone. It used to be when an app was downloaded, it just had carte blanche.

It could do whatever it wanted. Now, if you notice, the operating systems are locking down apps more and more to just be able to do certain things. Get your location, oh, precise location, approximate location, location all the time, just sometimes photos, all photos, some photos, so all contacts, some contacts. There's a reason behind the madness for all of this stuff. Let's go to Mary in Winchester. Marry your on with rich.

let me let me swap out the cable. And the reason is the cars were created years ago before USBC, so they're using USBA and then the phones are using USBC. Now, typically you would think that that would work, no problem, but for some reason, only certain cables work with these

with this connection. So a couple of recommendations. If you don't mind spending let's see how much is it nineteen dollars, you can buy the official Beat USBA to USBC cable and that will almost ninety nine point nine percent work in this situation. Okay, that's okay. From Apple, it's the Beats USBC USBA to USBC woven short cable eight inches. It's basically meant for CarPlay.

but you get two in that in that price. So I would say personally, if you have an Apple store nearby, you could just easily go in and get this one. It's it's gonna work. If it doesn't work, you can return it, no big deal. You've got fourteen days. But that is that's the problem, Mary, and I think it's going to solve all your problems. Well not all, I mean just the car Play problems. Does that work for you? Okay? Well I think we I think well, I think my

job is done. What are the chances that we have two people from Winchester California. Right now, we have another caller from Winchester. Anyway, this is the thing. So with this, with this whole USBA to USBC transition. If you got a car, car play has been working just fine. You get the new iPhone. You try the same cable, it doesn't work. You're sitting there pulling your hair out. It's a different cable. Go to your house, look at all the cables you have that are USBA to USB c

and try them. If none of them work, you might have to buy a new cable. But that is really it's just this weird thing that some of the older cars just don't like to play friendly with these new phones. Let's see here, we got an email from Paul says, Hey, Rich, I really enjoyed the podcast. Can you please tell me what model High Sense TV you have? Thanks Paul, Paul, I have I have to check in my email here. I have the High Sense you eight and I will tell you how much I paid for it if I

can find that email. High Sense U E. I'm not kidding. I ordered this thing off Best Buy in an afternoon and it was in my house set up within two hours. I mean, I could not believe how fast. This was since se and you know how tough it is to type and talk on the radio at the same time. It is impossible. Let me just see if I can find it High Sense Okay, trying to find my order from Best Buy. Okay, here it is. I ordered it. Oh, I ordered it for Super Bowl Sunday. How stereotypical of me. Yeah,

I got it in time for Super Bowl Sunday. High Sense UA looks like I paid what I paid, eight hundred and ninety nine bucks for this thing, So it's still on sale. It's right now ninety nine. That may be cheaper over Prime Day. You can get it in a whole bunch of sizes. I went with sixty five, you can go seventy five. But apparently they have a newer version of this TV, so Paul, if you're looking to buy this, you might want to look into the new version, which is the High Sense UA N What

does END stand for New, New and improved? But the one I have is just perfect. In fact, last night when we sat down to watch TV, it runs Google TV, which I really like, and it said, oh, you got a software update all these new features. So even a phone, a TV that's a year old still getting new features, which is pretty cool. And the Google software it's good enough for IM not running a separate streaming device with

this TV, so it's pretty good. And they just added a whole bunch of new stuff which makes it even better anyway. High Sense you eight is the one that I have. Eighty eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one coming up. Let's tell you how you can listen to the radio on smart glasses. Right here, I'm rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro here hanging out

with you, talking technology. iHeartRadio now streaming on ray Ban Meta glasses, So if you want to hear me through your glasses, just update them. You can listen to live local stations, playlists, podcasts, all hands free, all on the go. Works on iOS and Android. You just have to make sure that you update your glasses and do a quick setup. You have to go into the options and make sure iHeart is your default app for music and radio voice searches. So kind of cool. I have not tested this just yet.

I've got my ray bandmetas to test it out. But it's the only audio app. There's a bunch of audio apps available on the ray bandmetas like you can use Spotify or Amazon Music or whatever, but this is the only one that gives you live radio stations. So kind of cool, kind of awesome. These glasses are, I would say, the sleeper hit of twenty twenty four or wait, what year is it? No, twenty twenty five, twenty twenty five? Where am I? And they just did Oakley So now

they have the Oakley's and the Metas. But I was in Mexico and at that electronics show I was talking to this guy who makes another brand of these glasses. Oh gosh, I gotta remember the name of them, but they I think they were called It's a funny name. I get D dot com. I get D dot com and they're get D glasses. But they basically have a lot of these features in them, a lot of the CHATCHYBT and stuff like that built in. They don't have

a camera. But he's telling me he's selling four four hundred pairs of them a day in the Mexico market, four hundred a day, So people, these smart glasses are really really They're hot. All right. Now, let's go to Oscar and Winchester. Oscar you've got a bone to pick with me.

It might screen, yeah, and so it covers all the information. If I refresh the screen, it goes away, but within three four seconds it comes right back up before you could do anything on the screen.

He said, for the listener having issues with large fonts and Outlook before uninstalling anything, I would suggest closing Outlook launch it in safe mode by typing Outlook dot ex slash safe into the start box, and then if the issue is resolved, reset reset outlook to default within the program, And if you're inside the program, you can go into UH view and it says reset view and if you're using the newer outlook, it says advanced options and then

reset under Windows setting. So that's number one. So I would try that to see if that works. If you want to uninstall this and reinstall it, I actually have a new suggestion for you.

And by the way, this all comes from an article that I highly recommend you go to the website to get the link for. It's from tech Spot. It's called essential Apps to Install on Windows and mac Os. They've got everything from web browsers password Manager, Productivity Alfred on Mac to everything for Windows, screenshot apps, how to back up well, they recommend back Blaze image editing if you want to see what's eating up your disk space, whiz Tree on Windows, Daisy Mac on Mac, Daisy Disc on Mac,

Remote Desktop, Russ desk. Is it a good alternative to team viewer? And then to keep systems clean? Windows users can try bc uninstaller or portable CC Cleaner. Mac users can install app Cleaner. I'll put that link on my website rich on tech dot tv. Coming up, we're going to talk to Todd Weaver, founder and CEO of Purism, making a privacy centric phone. Welcome back to rich on Tech rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The website for the show is rich on tech dot tv.

There you can get links to everything I have talked about on today's show, including the Windows and Microso sorry, the Windows and Mac apps that I mentioned in that great tech spot list. I've got that on the website rich on tech dot tv. This is episode one seven, so if you just want to type in that keyword, it'll be bring up the show notes for everything I mentioned. Joining me now is Todd Weaver, founder and CEO of Purism.

They are a company making phones and other devices that are privacy centric, and they also have a phone that's made in the USA, which I know is a hot topic right now. Todd, thanks for joining me.

So from laptops, tablets, mini PCs to phones, and then I even you know, doing our electronic manufacturing here in the US for our Liberty phone, also including the operating system that's not Android. So these are a lot of challenges and so it's just you know, a passion and then also a care for your individual digital rights.

that we're building. But when you're looking at Apple or Google, Apple just happens to have a better marketing, but they don't actually really solve the systemic problem of your data should be yours and you should be in complete control of it, and so all big tech companies are incentivized to track everything from your phone. Here's as a simple analogy.

If you have an iPhone or any Android phone, and then you put our phone next to it, those first two in every major carrier and every major phone manufacturer, they leak about three to four gig of data in twenty four hours. It's all your personal information, your GPS, camera, role, microphone, calls, contacts,

and our phone. It's exactly zero bits. So you're in co leak control of the entire device, which is why we had to start with manufacturing the hardware and authoring an entire operating system that's not attached to andle it.

that at our facility. But actually for us, the journey was kind of it was multi years, six years from start to finish. And for us, what we actually had to do was we did the our designs. These are we called the ODM Original Design Manufacturer whereas Purism designs. Then we actually went to we did our dev kit first at our same facility just north of San Diego.

Then we actually flew to China to do the initial contract manufacturing of a phone because that's where all phones are made, and that's called our Librung five and we put that out about twenty nineteen. Then we brought all that back to the US and then we did on our own SMT line that we can produce the actual electronics and then we do all the assembly. We do that at our facility and then we ship those out to you know, any customers who's buying direct.

Those are produced by these big tech companies in and their applications clearly run on Android or iOS and they don't run in puros. But there's ways for us to close that app gap, and one of the primary ways is that if you can run it in the browser like Uber or LinkedIn or IMDb, those run just fine. But when you're getting to these third party name brands where they have a lot of functionality built natively in them,

then we need to emulate those Android applications. And actually the way we do it is by running them in isolation, so they actually don't penetrate into all the things that you don't want them to, right, We sort of cut off the creepiness and then we are able to run those applications, but we don't have them all yet. That's what we call closing the app gap. And so it's a process for us. You know, number of apps is

just momentum and time. We have plenty of momentum, so it's just a matter of time before we get those applications you need. And that kind of relates to use case. Right, there's a hand there's a bunch of people, millions of people that would like a basic phone that doesn't spy on them, and we already use case yeah, and so then and then you have a bunch of people that are like, no, I need Snapchat, and I need three cameras and I need a GPU for processing my video.

But you know that's not the audience we're able to satisfy today with the hardware or software.

and fifty dollars to produce the US version. So you can see that the price point can come down even if we have with even retaining healthy margins. The reason that we sell it for nineteen ninety nine is because we sell half of it to the U to consumer and half to the US government, where we have additional layers of benefit, secure supply chain, making sure that all those components are able to be verified. We publish our

bill of materials so that those can be verified. We publish all of our source code so that that can be verified. You can see with all of those things, that adds some overhead that's needed. So we sell at that higher price point. Once we get to volume, then we're able to lower that price point down. But that's the reason that we chose the higher margin play for that.

And then I guess the last bit is we're the only phone where we where the Manu electronics are manufactured in the US, right, so that allows us to say, hey, we have market exclusivity. Let's put this a reasonable price to be able to fund all these other things that we're doing.

So to move that forward, they would really have to be incentivized significantly and over enough time to actually bring that to the US, such as I've even proposed, like if the tariffs can be very powerful, and if that's used as an incentive, it would have to be something like twenty five percent increase every year for ten year years, and then they could see, wow, that's something they could plan around. So then you can start seeing some of

that reshorting. But getting to the point of a fully made in USA, it's going to take an awful lot more effort than just one company looking to move it here because the supply chain itself. Of all those components have to be done. Here, I'll highlight one point. Every phone except ours uses Qualcom or Media Tech chipsets.

and that's wise of them. It would have been wiser for them to actually source a US made phone such as ours to be able to provide it, as opposed to, you know, putting just something up that was clearly going to be of Chinese origin.

we get to that. First, off At is going to pay one hundred and seventy seven million dollars in a data breach settlement. Two major data breaches that exposed customer information. The first was in March twenty twenty four, leaked names, birth dates, phone numbers, and socials of over seventy million people. Second breach involved call metadata. So there's two funds and

basically you can file for both of them. Up to five thousand dollars for documented losses from identity theft for the first breach, twenty five hundred dollars for losses from the second breach. If you didn't document your losses, you'll just get a flat rate cash payment and the highest payouts for those folks who have their socials exposed. But yeah, there's no reason. Claims have to be submitted by October seventeenth, twenty twenty five, and the payout depends on how many

valid claims. And they still have to finalize it, I believe in December, but oh yeah, here it is December sixteenth. So if you if you're part of this, notices will be sent out this summer. So be on the lookout if you get a notice about an AT and T settlement from Kroll Settlement Administration. That is legit. Spectrum TV customers, if you have Spectrum TV Select, you now get Hulu at no extra cost. Hulu with ads is now included in Spectrum TV Select. Let's see here, that and that.

Now they've got so many streaming services included with Spectrum TV now Disney Plus, Hulu, Paramount, Max, Peacock, amc Vix. So it's all based on that Spectrum TV Select and it's all the stuff with ads. But you know, you

can always upgrade if you don't want the ads. And then Ring is adding AI powered video descriptions to its alerts, so instead of just saying motion detected, AI is going to actually kind of look at the video and give you a much better description of what's happening in that alert, so you can kind of distinguish urgent things from just everyday activity. That's rolling out in beta for paying subscri and it works with all current ring cameras and doorbells,

so no need to upgrade your hardware for that. So instead of just saying motion alert, it's going to say something like two people are peering into a car in the driveway, so very very specific. All right, Time for the feedbag. That's your feedback plus the mail bag. These are the emails, the comments, questions I get from you. If you want to submit, go to Rich on tech

dot tv hit contact. Let's see Steve from Mission Viajo says, I have a Galaxy S twenty two plus and I'm thinking about getting a newer model or maybe switching to Apple. My wife has an iPhone and iPad. She always says I need to get a quote real phone. Help. Well, Steve, first off, you have a real phone. It's a Galaxy. That's an excellent phone. I don't think you need to change anything as long as you're getting software updates, and this is still getting security updates. Tell your wife, hey,

I love you, but my phone is just fine. But with that said, if you want to switch to an iPhone, it's not a bad idea because she's got one. You want to be in the ecosystem and she can help you with it. I would check out the iPhone sixteen E. It's simple, it's a solid phone, and it's about six hundred dollars. But don't feel like you have to give into that peer pressure. Candace says, I enjoy your show. I received a podcast link by email and I want to add it to my Apple Music playlist to listen

on a plane. What's the best way to do this? Not Apple Music. You have to open up the Apple Podcasts app on your phone, tap search. You can find the show or the episode whatever they sent you. You can just search for that and then tap follow and then use the three dot menu in the upper right hand corner to download the episode. And then once you download it, just to be sure before you hop on that plane, switch your phone into airplane mode and test

to make sure that it plays. Because there's so many times that I've gotten on an airplane. I think I downloaded stuff on Netflix or whatever and there's some sort of error and you only figure it out once you get up in the sky. So flip your phone into airplane mode if you're downloading stuff for the plane, be at your house and see if the stuff. That's my tip, Eva says. I took my Pixel seven A to the Verizon store. They told me it doesn't support eSIMs, even

though everything I've read says it does. I'm planning to go to another store, hoping I just got some bad info. Also, I love Google Lens. I used it in Japan and Europe and preferred over Google Translate. I love Google Lens too, but you have to have a connection for that one to work. So Google Translate can work offline because you can download the language pack and so that's what I like about that. As for the SIM, as far as

I know, the Pixel seven A does support them. So perhaps Verizon was saying that your phone doesn't because it's locked, So that could be the problem. You have to have an unlocked phone. But if it works, you can install it through the aerlow app Ai r Alo. That's the one I use a lot. Pine says, band calls about printer issues on your show that was rough to listen to last week. Lol, Yes they are. That's why I

say no printer issues guaranteed I can't solve them. Games from San Diego says I'm using Chrome on Mac and I'm getting a dollar back on each Amazon purchase from both simply codes and shop back. That's two dollars per order. Thanks for mentioning both. Well, thank you for using both. I didn't know you could do both. Double dip in there, John and Oklahoma City says I recently found your show on KTOK yes home of the OKC Thunder NBA Champs. First, let me assure you this message was not written by

chat GBT. You can tell because it doesn't start with I hope this message finds you well now the complaint. It is very inconsiderate of you to only do this show once a week. I'm disappointed. I've had to figure out how to use a podcast app just to listen to the older shows. Solution air it every day. But if you're really too busy with your KTLA TV stuff, I'd be willing to settle for three times a week in all seriousness. I love the show. I look forward

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