Major AT&T Data Breach Details & Gmail Turns 20

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We've got some great guests this week. Oh Mead Abari, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, will explain Wi Fi jamming. We've heard about so many homes being broken into with this Wi Fi jammers and he's going to explain what that's all about and how to best protect your home security cameras. Plus Amazon's chief medical Officer, doctor Vin Gupta, we'll discuss Amazon Pharmacy's new same day delivery in New York and LA and how AI is helping

them deliver medications faster. And friend of the show, Jefferson Graham will join us. He runs photo Walks TV. He is going to offer tips on how to best capture the total solar eclipse with a smartphone. I don't know about you, but I am very obsessed with the eclipse at this point, trying to figure out where I can go to see this thing, because in Los Angeles it's going to be a partial and that's not good. I

need the total. Well this week, if you can believe it, Gmail, the email service so many people know and love, turns twenty years old. Now how does that make you feel? Twenty years Some of you may have gone now through two cycles of email. The first AOL or something before that, Prodigy, CompuServe, whatever, and then Gmail. What's next? I don't know, but Gmail twenty years old. I remember the day they launched it.

I was a reporter in Shreveport, Louisiana. I was covering consumer news at the time, not consumer technology, just consumer news. I hadn't made the switch just yet, although I covered a lot of technology in my consumer news. And it was April first, two thousand and four, April Fool's Day and Gmail, Google decides to launch Gmail. Now. Back in the day, tech companies on April first, on Fools Day, April Fool's Day, they would do a lot of jokes.

They would always come out with some sort of product that was fake, that was, you know, unbelievable, unreasonable, whatever it was, and people would say no, and inevitably there would be tech journalists that were thrown back, taken aback and surprised and tricked. And so nobody wanted to be tricked. When Google came out and said we're introducing Gmail, a new email service that gives you one thousand megabytes of storage,

one whole gigabyte of storage. At the time, if you remember, your options were hot Mail, which gave you I think it was ten megabytes, and Yahoo, which I think gave you twenty five megabytes. So this was a lot lot more and it was at the time unbelievably more storage capacity. And not only that, it was clutter free. The interface had just one small strip of ads running along the top of your inbox. At the time, if you had

Hotmail or Yahoo, your inbox was littered with advertising. Still is today in many ways, but this was so different. People didn't want to believe it. And I was so excited about this because people loved Google at the time. It was such a revolutionary way to search. It was the best service at the time. It still is for search. But everyone wanted this, or a lot of people wanted it, and nobody believed that it was real. So I emailed Google and I said, hey, I need to get this.

I need a press account, I need a test account. Please set me up. And I did get my account. It took until I don't know when I got it, but it took a couple of weeks. But it was invite only, so you couldn't just go and sign up. You had to go and put your email address in and they would send you an invite. And then once you had an invite, I think you could invite friends.

And the other thing that was really cool about this is that when you're on the home screen of Gmail, there'd be this little ever running ticker of how much extra space they were giving you, So every second of the day they were giving you even more space. Now that has stopped, but for a while there, it was pretty cool. You just saw like, oh, I'm getting more and more space. The other thing that was really different

about this is that you didn't delete emails. I'm not even sure when they first introduced Gmail that there was a delete button at all. I think it took a while for them to add that you would just archive things. And the way that Gmail was set up, everything was sort of in a long list, so your inbox was not organized by folders, it was organized by labels. So when you archived something, really all you were doing was taking the inbox label off of it and adding an

archive label and that was it. Now I think Gmail has evolved quite nicely over the years. They you know, they've done small incremental changes to bring it up to modern kind of times, but the basic functionality is there. And at this point, by the way I checked yesterday, I have thirty eight gigabytes of storage filled up inside Gmail, way more than that original one gig. I never knew how I'd fill up. Now, if you want to check

to see how much you have in your Gmail. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of your inbox and you'll see a little little notification that says how many gigabytes you've used out of your total Google storage. And by the way, if you want to clean out your Google storage, tap that one more time and you can go through and kind of clean out your Gmail looking for large attachments and things like that. I do that every once in a while. Very smart to do that,

because you don't realize how much pictures take up. When people send you like a big attachment, you don't realize how much that takes up of your storage. So Gmail today still using it. In twenty seventeen, Google announced they would no longer scan. By the way, those ads that they showed were based on a scan of what you were writing in your email. Nobody would go for that today, like now I don't read my email. But they explained to the time, we are not having humans read your email.

We're having computers read it and it'll pick out keywords, like if you said you were going to Maui, it might give you a hotel advertisement for a Maui hotel. Now they don't do that anymore, and Why why they don't need to do that is because Gmail and Google know so much about us from other products that we use, all the searches we've done over the years, and all the little tracking pixels they have around the web, so they don't need to do that anymore. But pretty wild

how Gmail is twenty years old. I wrote about this in my newsletter today. If you want to read it, it's on the website. Rich on tech dot TV. I guess it's just sort of a nostalgic weekend because also last night my mom's in town, so I had the in laws over last night and my father in law brings over this old school laptop and IBM think pad three ten.

worrying sound of the hard drive, the old school hard drive. Again. This was a computer that was over twenty five years old. This is from nineteen ninety seven, and when it came up you saw that nice doss screen. It We had to bypass a couple of error messages, but when it came on it was running Windows ninety eight. And then all of a sudden, we had a password. Wait, how do we figure out this password? So we called the person whose computer this was and we said, Dave, hey,

do you remember your password from nineteen ninety seven? And he's like, no, of course not. Well, we started typing in a couple of passwords that we thought it might be, and lo and behold, it just logged in. We don't even know what we typed, but somehow this thing just logged in. And now we have the wind screen and we're looking at the apps, and my kids by this point had come by because they were amazed. The display is so bad. You take for granted how good a

display was. It's so bad you could barely see what's on that screen. But it still had all the old school apps on it, like Real Player, and you know Microsoft. I think it was Outlook Express. I mean it still holds up. Let's see what was on there, my briefcase, my documents, recycle bin, Lotus PC anywhere, real jukebox, Palm, desktop, set up, Microsoft Network, Excel word Hey, something still stand the test of time? Right, Internet Explorer picture easy. I mean,

it's just it's a it's a snapshot in time. The hard drive option on this thing anywhere from one gig to three gigs. The floppy drive that it had one point four to four megabytes. How do you even run a program with one point four to four megabytes? You download an app from Google Play, it's going to be twenty five to one hundred megabytes. Battery life two and a half to three hours using old nickel metal hydride. He I don't even know how to say that. NIMH

nickel metal hydride. Yeah, I think that's it. But the best bar it was when we opened up word what popped up Clippy and I said, it looks like you're writing a letter? Can I help? And I said, this is early AI. See everything old is new again? Kind of fun. It's so wild that we can remember this stuff so clearly. But we forget about it until you actually put your hands on this stuff one more time, you kind of forget just how different it was. Anyway, find that retro tech in your house fired up and

have some fun with it. Your call is coming up next at Triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give me a call if you have a question about technology. My name is Rich DeMuro and you are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That is one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give me a call if you have a question about technology.

The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. There you can also email me. Let's go to John and Moore Park. John, you're on with Rich. What's up?

Asus of the world, the Lenovo's of the world. But checking around some of the latest ratings of you know, obviously things under five hundred, there is a computer that keeps coming up over and over and this is the Lenovo Idea Pad three and this is a fifteen inch screen, which I like. So you want, you know, bigger is better, you don't, you don't want to go with a thirteen or fourteen in you want the bigger screen because you're gonna get more real estate for your apps, right.

a great value and the price is right. And even if you pay let's say you find a computer there for you know, five hundred dollars at best Buy or another store, it may be the same price, but you're getting slightly better specs at Costco.

are a little bit more high end. So I'm not really sure, but I think the Lenovo is good. But i'd go to Costco see what they have there, and you know, I'm sure they can call you and you can help them decide between the two that they like the best. But yeah, put your hands on the keyboard, see what it feels like, look at the screen, and I would recommend at this point at least eight gigabytes

of RAM sixteen is much better. And the hard drive i'd probably say, you know, like a five twelve if they're not doing anything, two fifty six will be fine. But I think that, you know, the more you can get, the better because it's going to last longer. Yes, all right, John, thanks for the call today. Thank you all right, and thanks thanks for helping people there at the Senior Center.

That's really that's you know, that's an incredible thing that you're doing because people, you know, I see myself as helping people with this show. That's my giving back. But I love when people give back in ways, you know, whatever that is for you. It's just always try to give back in this world because people need it. Thanks for the call today eighty to eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. So if you're an Apple user, you need to be

aware of this new thing. It's called MFA bombing. This is a phishing attack. So scammers are exploiting a bug in Apple's password reset system, which basically sends a bunch of notifications to your phone that is saying, hey, do you want to reset your password? And you might trip up and actually say allow because you get so sick of saying don't allow, and you might not even know

what's going on. So if you're on your iPhone and you see a whole bunch of things that say do you want to reset your password, definitely say don't allow to every single one of those. But then the other step is they call you during this attack and they say, hey, we're Apple. We noticed there's an issue with your phone. Can you tell us that one time code we just texted you so we can help you out. And that's the actual attack. Once they have that code, they can

take over your entire account. So there's not a fix for this just yet until Apple changes their back end system, but be aware of it. If you get a whole bunch of notifications about changing your password, do not say allow, and never ever give someone that one time code, especially if they're calling you. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight Rich one

oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. If you have a question about technology, give me a call. Get those questions in now. We've been hearing a lot of news reports about home robberies involving Wi Fi jammers. So the bad guys will get a Wi Fi jammer, they will jam the signals of the home security cameras, rendering them useless. During the robbery, they take the stuff, they're in, they're out, and there's

no record of it. So I was a little confused about how these jammers work, the legality of all of this, and what we can do to protect ourselves. So to answer for those questions, I rang up oh Met Abari, Assistant professor in computer science and electrical Engineering at UCLA. And since this all sounds like it's out of some sort of dystopian sci fi movie, my first question is can this really happen?

Some of the security cameras today's are smarter, so whenever they detect you know, unexpected behaviors such as the jamming, et cetera, then they might notify the user you know, the connection has lost, et cetera.

Now to answer your second question, what's the best way to avoid these type of things, I think as much as possible, rely on the wired camera.

on the Wi Fi. And why I'm saying even relying on the battery is not ideal because some of the recent research, including my group, has shown that the attack here can send some you know, fake package to Wi Fi based camera, and these Wi Fi based camera start consuming their power or they are start consuming the battery

much faster than the issue. So we have shown that for example, the attack here from hundred meters far from your home, it can kill the security camera, which its battery is supposed to be six months all the way to a few hours. So imagine you charge the battery of your security camera for six months and you go on a trip for two weeks or three weeks, and the attacker can get close to your house and kill the battery in a few hours.

rely more and more every day on it. So the concept of Internet of things, everything is going to be connected together right to the Internet, and of course this is security camera, all the sensors in our.

You know, the technology that you buying. Are they enabling some privacy and security et cetera behind because of course, you know, to reduce the costs some of them actually and may cut this security or privacy of those devices. And we might just be so excited that we don't look at those features. But I think it's very important to pay attention to those features, not just the technology itself, that the application that it's enable.

I don't know if Facebook will kind of keep the email address like where I don't know if if it dumps it out of the system immediately, or if it's going to keep the email address kind of where you can't re sign up.

fake account, get rid of it. You might have to wait the thirty days and then you can actually go in and sign up for a new account. But I have a feeling Facebook's computers are pretty savvy and they're probably gonna take a closer look when you're trying to sign in with the same email address, because I have a feeling they don't really get that out of their system completely. But Pat, thanks for the question today from Laguna Hills, California. Let's go to Brian in Upland. Brian,

you're on with Rich. Hello, Brian are you there?

let them get in there and take over. I just I was I'm a little skeptical because it happened before, like a couple of years ago in and they just said, go in and chear up, hit the gear up the history, and you should be.

So here's the thing you This is a classic tech support scam. The tech support scam happens like this. You are just on your computer, you are on the web, and next thing you know, your computer says, hey, we notice some suspicious activity, or your identity is being used in a different place, or the FBI is watching a million there's a million ways that this can happen. A

lot of times it actually comes through malvertizing. So they will buy advertising, and they will do this so quickly that they are able to get that message on your computer before the Google or the whatever advertising system they're using picks up on what they're doing. So this will blast a computer. People get scared. It says do not do anything. It takes over your screen. So a lot of people don't really understand how to get out of that. They don't know how to like close out that app

or you know, close out their browser. Their computer might even make a loud sound and it might say hey in five four three two one, you know whatever, and people get really really scared. And so what they do is exactly what you did. They either call the phone number on the screen, which you had the good sense not to do, but then they say, oh, I'm gonna

be smarter. I'm actually going to Google for a phone number for you know, Microsoft support or for Norton support, and you google, and next thing you know, you're calling a number that these scam artists have purchased on the lot on the web, and that's a scam. And when you call them, they say, hey, Uh, here, we're gonna we're gonna help you out. Tell me what the message code is, tell me what the number is on your screen,

and uh, download this software. Go to this website, download this software, install it on your computer, and it's remote remote access software, and we're gonna take over your computer to help you out. Do not let anyone do that unless it's a trusted friend that you know. Do not let a random tech support person take over your computer that you're calling. And so the thing to know about this is that it happens a lot. It happens a lot.

And the thing that you need to do, like you said, is just just if if you can't figure out how to close out the app on your computer or on your phone, just go ahead and restart your device so you can pull the plug out of the wall, you can press the power button, whatever you need to do. But just get your computer in a place where it

gets away from that screen. And then when you open up your web browser again, because you might still be on that page because it's going to try to load those tabs again, when your web browser says, hey, we recovered from a you know, a bad shutdown. Would you like us to reopen these tabs, say no, and then go into your browsing settings and clear browsing data, and that will help get rid of any of this stuff that they might have put on your system in the

history that may causes to pop up again. It's called the tech support scam. It is a classic, classic scam and still people fall for it every single day of the week. Thanks for the call. Eighty to eight rich one O one eight seven four to two four one zero one. More rich on Tech, come in your way, hey, right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four

to two four one zero one. Coming up on the show, we're going to talk about how Instagram is limiting political content by default and how you can change that if you want to UH Florida Social Media band for minors under fourteen. We'll talk about that Google Maps has a new feature to UH just in time for summer travel, and I already showed up on my phone. It's really cool. I'll tell you about that in a moment. Plus this hour,

we've got Amazon's chief medical officer, doctor Vin Gupta. He is going to discuss Amazon pharmacies new same day delivery in New York and LA and how AI is helping them deliver medications faster. So we got a full show plus you at eighty to eight Rich One on one website for the show is rich on tech dot TV. Once you're there, you can find the email link to send me a message if you want to get in the feedback segment, which is at the end of the show.

My kid asked me, He said, Dad, what's feedback? And I said, well, it's a combination of feedback and the mail bag. And of course he doesn't even know what a mail bag is, because you know, we don't have them anymore. I mean, I guess they still do. Let's go to Jeff in Muriata, California. Jeff, you're on with Rich. Hey.

My wife is saying an incredible amount to save all of this extra information, which is much of it duplicated, and it's so hard to find the duplication to delete them. And now we're paying hundreds of dollars a year to carbonite and it's so incredibly slow, and I was wondering, is there anything else besides carbonite that's worth saving all of your backup information on? And I'll shut up.

stuff like that. It's really nice if if you ever had came up against something like that, you could just go back into the cloud and roll back your system to a backup that you always have happening. I don't know what's happening with your backup with this carbonite situation. It seems odd that they would be duplicating files, because that is definitely not what you want to happen it would.

I think that these systems should work more like a snapshot, where it's kind of taking a snapshot of your system every once in a while or on a regular obviously schedule, and then you could roll back to that when you need to. But with that said, I think a couple of alternatives that you should look into. I think the first one is really Backblaze, And what I like about

this is the pricing. So it's very simple. Nine dollars a month or ninety nine dollars a year, or you can go one hundred and eighty nine bucks for two years, so that's it. That includes everything, and you can start for free and it just backup, backs up everything by default. It's very simple and you can even get a drive,

it says with your data. So if you you know, like I said that the whole situation where you had some ransomware, like let's say that happened, you could just format your computer and just order a drive from them. It will have all of your files on it and then you can put that back on your computer and then send them back the drive. So that's kind of

a cool situation there. And by the way, they they kind of have a great little comparison of the different other plans on there from different providers, So let's see, Yeah, external backup. A lot of them do that, so that's

kind of nice. Wow, Okay. And then the other one is a smaller company but based locally in southern California, is I Drive, and I've actually met with them, so whenever I meet with a company and interview them, I always like them more because I've seen the faces behind the actual company and they've been around for a while and they will do that as well. Pricing for theirs is based on storage, so personal is up to five terabytes. One hundred gigabytes is three dollars three dollars a year

for one hundred gigabytes. That's for a small that's if you have really not much to back up, but probably the personal with five terabytes is going to be better. That's seventy dollars for the first year, than after that it's one hundred bucks a year, so that will give you up to five terabytes, and then of course they have higher levels above that. Let's see. The other one is crash Plan. So crash plan is another popular provider,

very similar pricing they are. They have an essential one up to two hundred gigabytes for three dollars a month, that's thirty six bucks a year, or you can do the most popular, which is the professional, which is one hundred bucks for the year, and that will give you unlimited backup capacity. So the good news about these these backup plans is that you know, if you want to switch, it's pretty easy because you just as long as your computer is in good working condition, you've got all your files,

you can just easily switch to the new provider. There's nothing you need to do on the back end except just delete your old account at what was a company you said you had delete your account at Carbonite and just sign up at one of these other ones and do a backup and yeah, the duplicate files. Don't deal

with that. That sounds like nonsense. That's a lot, Jeff, thanks for the call today from Murieta, California, eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one is Michelle and on vacation in Honolulu or you live in Honolulu. Michelle, you're on with rich Oh.

that they introduced on the S twenty four. Bubbo, you've got the S twenty three, right, did you get this update? Did you get this software update? He's got the S twenty three. And so if you go to your software, your settings on the Samsung and you go to the software update, you should get this new update. They just

started rolling it out. It's one UI six point one and that will give you all of these A features, Chat assist, Live translate, circle to search with Google notes, note summaries using AI, all the generative editing for the photos. So if you have the S twenty three, I say, you probably don't need to update to the S twenty four right away. And this is why Samsung didn't want to give this right away, because people like me would say, why update if you're getting you know, why upgrade if

you're getting the update with all these cool features? Bobo, did you get this week? Okay? So if you go into your software update, you know how to let's see, let's do this live. You got your phone, so go to settings. You know how to get to settings of course, okay, and then go scroll all the way down where it says software update. Do you see offerers at the very bottom bottom and this is download and install and that's not what mine says, says check for updates. So that yeah,

that's interesting. Boom huh okay, well, check for updates, updates, see if you got one that software update process when not to beat any person of doubt on your device, check for new updates. I am checking. Let's see, because this is rolling out, so it doesn't mean everyone gets it all at once. I haven't got it yet. Interesting, no update is available for your device at this time. Please try again in twenty four hours. And what does it say? One UI version? What does it say? Uh

that I don't see. You don't see that?

Try to figure that out. Yeah, I am. But here's the thing. I do think that the S twenty four Ultra is an incredible device. I really I find myself using it every day, and I really think that that Samsung has done an incredible job with the device this year, not just with the hardware, but also the software I

think is getting really good. I'm waiting for one more feature, and that is the vertical app drawer, so when you swipe to your apps, instead of being horizontal where you swipe around, you go up and you can see all your apps in line. But just the screen on this phone is so good that you watch a movie on that screen and it rivals any TV except for the

size obviously. But the other thing they added this year is this anti reflective screen, and so you don't realize when I compare this phone against other devices that I test, they're all super reflective, and the Samsung screen some whatever they did to it, it like absorbs the light and it doesn't reflect it. So it's like it's just another level of like niceness. So I guess for the hardware, it's really nice. But the software is really very similar to what you get on the S twenty three and

the S twenty four. And if you're wondering if you have an S twenty two, are you going to get this update to the AI features, Samsung has not announced that part of it just yet they don't want to completely, you know, cannibalize all of their sales. Right, all right, Coming up next, we'll talk about the social media ban in Florida and Instagram. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you at triple eight Rich one oh one.

That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. If you want to email the web, the website rich on Tech dot TV, let's see. Florida this week enacts a strict social media ban for minors under fourteen. New law prohibits social media accounts for children under fourteen, and it requires printal consent for teenagers fourteen and fifteen. Of course, this has sparked many debates about online safety

and free speech. Uh, that's pretty much it. So these companies have to delete any social media accounts believed to be used by miners under fourteen. So if these kids already have one, I guess the onus is on you know, Instagram and Facebook. Well they're probably not on Facebook, but you know Instagram and snapchat, TikTok, they got to delete those accounts. Now, we've talked about this in the past.

These companies know when even when you know, cause these kids sign up for these accounts using a fake birth date. And of course these services know that they know what they're looking at. They can tell. I mean, they're not being fooled, they're just allowing it. It's kind of like when you, you know, got into a bar underage. They know you're not fooling anyone, like I can tell when you're under twenty one. Come on, anyone can do that anyway.

So the idea here is to protect these teens because there's so many mental health issues and bullying and all that stuff. Predators and you know, of course the people on the other side don't like it because of First Amendment rights. And you know, now, how we're going to verify these teenagers, most of them. If you're fourteen or fifteen, how do you have a you know what, don't you don't even have a driver's license? How do you verify you are who you say you are? So pe this

is just so wild. Now I will tell you all of this. I am actually four less social media for teenagers, I really am, because this stuff is a nightmare. Even for adults. We are not equipped for what this stuff does to us. It's a It's a mini casino in your pocket, That's what it is. We love the notifications, we love the acceptance, we love the comments that we get. It's just it's it's all the same thing as a casino. It triggers the same neurons in our brains. So do

kids need to be exposed to this? When I was a kid, here we go, where's my I walked to school in the rain up the both ways. When I was a kid, we played outside, That's what we did. Yeah, we were not on social media. There was no such thing as social media when I was a kid. And guess what, I had a great childhood. These kids are worried about what people think of them. Can you imagine

being a teenager now? When I was a kid, if you didn't get invited to a party on a Friday night, you didn't even know about the party until Monday morning, right when kids were talking about it, and then you'd be sad right that you weren't part of that. Now, in real time, you see when you're at home on a Friday night and you thought you were having a fun night watching a movie with your parents. Now, all of a sudden, you see all these kids out at a party that you're not invited to. How do you

think that makes you feel? It sucks? And now imagine that times a hundred different things that these kids have to deal with on social media. Not to mention the stuff they're exposed to, not to mention the comments, not to mention the dms, not to mention just the idea that they are looking at their screen twenty four to seven. Now, do we need legislation this, Do we need parents for this? Do we need senators for this? I don't know. I don't know what the answer is. But it's all not good. Now.

Has social media done a lot of good things. Absolutely, it's been an incredible thing. It's built businesses for people, it's made money for people. It is made superstars out of people. It's made justin Bieber. It's done a lot of things. But it's good and it's bad. And so at the end of the day, I think that this law is going to be fought in many ways. I think it's gonna be tough to enable and to of

course enforce. But it doesn't take effect until January first, so there's gonna be a lot of debate until then. But I think we're gonna see more around this kind of protection for young people in the US. The tech companies don't want it. Obviously, they hate this kind of stuff. Why do they want. They want They want a baby out of the womb, to have Instagram set up that account, get them fingerprinted, right, put them on social media. That's what people do. Actually, the parents, what is the first

thing they do? They post a picture of their baby. And what do you think Instagram and Facebook is doing. They're scanning that picture. They say, ooh, we got another one. We got another human that we can identify in our facial scanning network. And by the way, Instagram, this is interesting limiting by default political content ahead of elections. So people didn't realize. But Instagram said, hey, we're gonna give you the option to limit political content on your feed.

But what they didn't tell people is that they were doing it by default. So if you go into Instagram, there is a setting that you can see that limits your content. If you want to see political content, you have to change it. So if you go into your account, open up Instagram, tap your little profile picture, tap the menu bar, which is the three little the hamburger menu which is a three line stacked up. Scroll down and you will see content preferences, and then you'll see all

these different things interested not interested. One of them is political content. Tap there and you'll see by default, your phone says limit political content from people you don't follow. You'll see less political or social topics in your suggested content. You have the option to change that if you don't want to limit what you see. We just want to be angrier. Turn that setting off. You're listening to Rich

on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology eighty eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Joining me now is Amazon's chief Medical Officer, doctor Vin Gupta, to discuss Amazon pharmacy. They have some new announcements this week and they're using AI to help them deliver medications faster. Doctor. Welcome to the show, Rich, Thanks for having me. Great to be here, Thank you.

So let's talk about Amazon pharmacy in general. Explain is this relatively new, like what does Amazon pharmacy do? Exactly?

should be as simple as simple as possible. And so I've had the pleasure of being part of Amazon and Amazon's health initiatives for the last four plus years, pharmacy for a little over a year, and what we're trying to do is make an experience that is incredibly frustrating

for providers and for patients as streamlined as possible. We're fifty states digital first, direct to your doorstep, as you would expect with Amazon on the retail side, and we've existed for about four years now, and I think when my provider colleagues hear about it in the clinical community, you know they're surprised and that you can get your medications.

All your listeners can get their medications direct to their doorstep for chronic needs like high blood pressure or if they say, have the flu, direct to their doorstep, very easy check out, and bottom low prices too. If there's going to be a low price for medication like insulin or TAMA flu. If you come down with the flu, you're gonna find it an Amazon pharmacy. But again, the awareness piece to your question is something we're trying to build.

I guess maybe that's part of that.

We can do that in Riverside, Tamperdandino and Anaheim.

promise rap it at home, same day delivery. We're going to continue to expand west to serve a larger number of patients and the La Metro area by April, so so it's really once if you have diabetes, high blood pressure, or other chronic conditions, we fill all of those medications. We have since our origin in pill Pack towards the end of the twenty tens, where we really try to key in making it simple to stay on chronic medications.

Now we're saying in places like Los Angeles and New York, Seattle, Austin, Miami, places where we can do rapid delivery, directed worstep, we can be there for your acute needs too.

answer your question, it's really easy. Ninety four percent of prescriptions originate in the electronic medical record. They get electronically sent to say a retail pharmacy. Many of us know

this retail pharmacies. It's as simple as typing an Amazon pharmacy right into that e scribe if you're the doc, if you're the provider, instead of typing in say a retail pharmacy is type in Amazon pharmacy, you can send it to us digitally, just like you would send it to any pharmacy on the If you're listening to this and you're wondering, gosh, I would like the convenience and I would like to experience something different, regardless of your medical needs may be. All you have to do is

go to pharmacy dot Amazon dot com. Under thirty seconds, build a profile. We can actually transfer your prescriptions for you very easily. You just tell us where you're filling them. It's a very easy process for us to actually go get those prescriptions. So you don't have to wait for

better healthcare for a better pharmacy experience. We make that process of transferring very easy, or if you're on a new medication to your point really easy for the doctor just to send it directly through the electronic medical record like they would otherwise.

front door with their medication. So we're trying to as we're getting more into the last smile healthcare space, also important to lean into sustainability. What's good for the environment, what's good for the climate. So in places like La expect that Rivian all Electric van to meet you outside at the doorstep. In places like New York City, we're leaning into e bikes just an easier and more nimble way to navigate the streets in Manhattan.

We're using general of AI and to to streamline that process to a matter of minutes and so from that's why we can ingest these prescriptions so quickly and get immediately to dispense. That's number one. Number two, it's the probably medications of the big deal. And we know that there's been shortages of medications like pakslovid during the height

of covid in some cases, the weight loss drugs. We are using generator AI and machine learning algorithms to make sure that places like Los Angeles have the right formulary and supply of medications that Angelino's need. And we're seeing our wanting to get filled through US, so we make sure we have supply on the ready for the mets that are commonly filled in Los Angeles, and we're also making sure that we can ingest that prescription as quickly as possible.

it's basically you know what's the difference. Great conversation with Amazon Pharmacy That was really interesting to me because I'm always like, I think that people are so scared to try a different pharmacy. Like literally, growing up, we had the same bank. We you know, we had the same pharmacy. Like,

we never changed anything. And it was only when I came out to California that I was like, wait, do I still have to get like a prescription at my hometown pharmacy back in New Jersey or can I go to Like Actually, one of the things I thought was wild is we were on vacation and we were able to pick up a prescription at a different like CVS. I was like, this is game changing, and it's like, well, it's not that big of a deal. We're all linked up. Anyway,

I thought that was interesting. Website for the show Richontech dot TV. If you want to follow me on social media, you can find me guess where at rich on Tech. Let's go to David in Brea, California. David, You're on with Rich.

I can't get into code. What's whoever? And the weird part was when this first started, I got an email and I answered it and it directed me to my to that to my Facebook account, but it was all in Korean or Japanese, and you know, I could see all my posts, but they all the language had been changed to Korean or Japanese an Asian language. Yeah, I found them. I found the menu hamburger. I scrolled on that, but I couldn't tell what I was, you know, I

couldn't understand what I was doing. And uh, that's it. Facebook has no help whatsoever.

she set up a fake account. So, I mean, there's so much, many things that they're up against, and you know, their primary business is of course getting people on here, but you know, it's it's tough for them to service every one of these accounts, and there's no phone number you can call. There's no Facebook phone number. So the main thing that I have recommended over the years, and the pretty much the only place you can go to

do this is Facebook dot com slash hacked. Now, David, I know you said that when you go there, it's someone else's information. So what I would do is actually log out of that account if you can, and then go to this, or even don't even log out, just use like a private browser window and go to Facebook dot com slash hacked. And when I go there, it says report compromised account. If you believe your account has been compromised by another person or virus, please click my

account is compromise button. We will help you log back in. Now, you're gonna be up against a bunch of issues because anything that you're trying to log in with that email address is changed. So of course Facebook has all the old email addresses on record. And what this will do is this will start the process of their system trying to figure out, Okay, we see that this is a

little bit not on the up and up. We saw the IP address that change it to this email address that is not his, and so it may take a while, it may take a lot of time, it may take a lot of effort, but you could eventually get this account back if you literally make it your job to work to get this account back. You may have to upload your ID. You may have to upload I'm not kidding. They have asked people to upload a picture of themselves

holding up a newspaper with that date on it. It's like, you know a movie, like a spy thriller where someone's kidnapped and they're like, hey, you got to prove that they're still alive. Like, that's what they will do. This is what you have to do to get your Facebook account back. Or you could just you know, sign up with the new account. But I understand people don't want to do that because they've got all their pictures and

their memories and their posts on this other account. But every single person I've ever done a story with that it's their Facebook account hacked. It always comes down to staying on top of this almost on a daily basis,

and trying and trying and trying again. That is the best advice I can give you now for the rest of you, if you have not gotten hacked on Facebook, the main thing you need to do is turn on two factor authentication, and that will make it so that you will not get hacked because they will need both your password and secondary code that has texted your phone or an authentication app. That is the best way to

protect your account. It's not fool proof because what these hackers do is they get around that by tricking you into sharing that one time code. But if it just comes down to sort of logging in, that's the main thing I can offer David. I know it's such a pain, it really is. Thanks for the call. Today, Google Maps has a couple of new features for summer travel twenty twenty four, and already I saw one of them. It showed up on my Google Maps. This is pretty cool.

So the main feature I think is probably the best thing they're doing is adding these recommendation lists and it's twofold number one. They're adding recommendations from top websites, so sources like the Infatuation, which, by the way, a little bit of trivia for the Infatuation, it's actually owned by Chase. They bought that company. So Infatuation does a lot of restaurant reviews. Chase has a lot of credit cards, a lot of points that do restaurants, you know, bonus points.

It's in their best interest to get you to go to these restaurants. So anyway, I just thought that was interesting when I learned that A Lonely Planet, New York Times and Open Table. So when you go on and you search like Los Angeles, you might see a list, Hey, Infatuation, top five restaurants here, whatever. That's kind of cool. The other thing they're doing is they're introducing their own restaurant lists,

and so they have three different types. They've got trending places and this is updated weekly with the trending places that are in that area. Top Community Favorites, so that'll be another list of different community favorites, and then hidden gems and that will work in over forty cities. You type in New York, New York on Google Maps. And you scroll up once you tap New York first. Okay, I don't see it for New York yet. I saw

it for Los Angeles yesterday. Let's type in Los Angeles. Okay, Los Angeles, and so now I scroll up and what do I see? Okay, well I'm not seeing it there either. Okay, well I saw it yesterday. I swear. I guess it's still rolling out. But I did see it yesterday, and I was so excited because I thought that was pretty cool. Ah, that's so funny that I lost it. Let's try one more city. Let's try Honolulu. And that's okay. Well it's not there either. Okay, well it was on my phone

for a minute. But anyway, this is what happens when things are rolling out. It means they put it out on a couple of phones and they make sure everything works, and they put out in some more. But it's really neat because it's just one more way of finding like good places to go. And what I thought was really cool is you can sort by nearby. So from now on, whenever whenever I'm in a city that I don't know where to eat, I'm just gonna go to these lists.

Either the Hidden gems, probably the hidden gems and just sort by nearby, and that's how I'm gonna pick my place to go or the trending place. And sometimes the trending places though could be a little hit or miss, because you know, it's a lot of like Instagram, you know, influencer type places, and sometimes you know they're not the best food. It's more of like the best pictures of food, so you got to be careful about some of those things you have. In fact Instagram, this is a very

hidden feature on Instagram. But they actually have their own way of finding secret lists on Instagram, so nobody knows about this. But if you go to Instagram, you search for a city, like search for Los Angeles, this is like so weird, and then you tap places and then you go into Los Angeles, California, and then you hit the X. It'll show you all the popular places nearby and you can sort by restaurants, cafes, sites, and hotels. So it's like the most instagrammed places in a city.

But they really hide this feature. I'm not sure why, but now you know because you're listening to Rich on Tech. More of your calls coming up right after this welcome back to Rich on Tech Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology and some breaking news. Actually this is big. AT and T has announced that, Wow, this is just wild. So many customer records available on the dark web. So this was a data set that was released on the dark web about two weeks ago, and

AT and T hasn't really said much about it. But now they came out and said, yes, this is actually our data. It includes personal information on let's see here, seven point six million current AT and T account holders and approximately are you ready for this, sixty five point four million former account holders. So basically, if you had AT and T from twenty nineteen or earlier, this probably contains your information. And again the personal information includes such

information as social security numbers. This is wild. That is a huge, huge data leak. Now we talked about this that everyone thought that this was AT and T data, but AT and T never came out and said it was theirs. But tech Crunch has said that AT and T has now reset millions of customer account passcodes because tech Crunch told them, hey, these passcodes were easily figured out.

And so I'm not sure what the passcode is. I'm guessing it's some sort of like I think every wireless account has like a four digit code that is used to like protect the account, but it sounds like that's what they reset. This is a huge data dump. I mean it really really is. Now the way that you can check to see if your information is in here, there is a website. Now this is not the official website.

I assume that there's going to be an official website, but this is a website that you can check in general if your data has been involved in a data breach. And I'm trying to get the actual person who runs this website on the show. I've got to email them because it's a great website. It's called have I Been Poned? Have I Been? And you got to spell this properly pwned dot com? Have I Been Poned? It's almost like

have I Been Pawned? But without the A. And you type in your email address and it will tell you if your information has showed up in one of these breaches, and lo and behold, sure enough, my email address is part of this AT and T data breach. So what

can you do? The only thing you could really do is if you see, so my my information is involved in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, oh Wow, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight data breaches. So, uh, yeah, it's you're up against a very tough world out there.

But the main thing to know is that if you scroll through this list of data breaches and your information is in one of them, uh, if you are using that password in a different account, that could be a major problem because basically they get the password from this data breach, the email address from the data breach, and then they use it on different websites. So if you go through this list and you weren't using a strong

unique password, then you are in trouble. If you were using a strong unique password, they're not really going to be able to do much with that information except when it includes things like your data, birth, your social security number, your address, and then when it gets into all that, which a lot of it does, they piece this all together and they could use it to open up accounts in your name and different things like that steal your identity. So You really do have to be on top of

this stuff. There are a lot of dark web monitoring services. I got an alert from Google about this whole AT and T thing, but again it wasn't confirmed that it was AT and T until just now. So AT and T now on their website as of March thirtieth. As I read this, they said that yes, AT and T has determined that AT and T data specific fields were contained in a data set released on the dark web.

Source is still being assessed, so they don't know if this was someone getting access to their system or it was getting access to a third party system that has access to their systems. So and we encourage former and current customers with questions to visit AT and T dot com slash account safety and it will tell you what to do. Oh okay, here it is explains the passcode. A passcode is like a numerical pan It's usually four digits. It's different from the password, and it's one of the

security measures for AT and T customers. How do I update my passcode? We've already reset your passcode. If you haven't changed it in the past year, we suggest you change yours as a precaution. You can sign into your account and edit. Yeah, you can do it from there. So again, I will link all of this up on my website. Rich on tech dot tv. But this is yeah,

it's wild. It's just the problem is these companies are getting bigger, which means when they have a breach like this, it's getting worse and it's getting scarier and scarier because it's like you almost don't want to give out your information to anyone because it's just it's bound to be out there on the web. Let's see here, let's go to Renee in Westminster, California. Right, Renee, you're on with Rich.

I tried to use this. When you get to my account, I won't use the name my bank account the an online bank and use a virtual card. But you can access to anywhere else but the tie that verification. It cannot THEND for anything else. I mean it can't can't get it because except for the on the.

Can you go to your bank and can you set up can you set up like a Google Voice number, put that into your bank account as a trusted number, and then get the code and then get the code sent there. That's what I would do now. In Well, the problem is that if you know, if you can log into your bank account, Look, if you can log into your bank account and add a phone number, what I would do is it takes I mean, it's this is obviously a very roundabout way of going about this.

But if you're trying. If your phone that you've got from True Connect is not getting you this one time code, then I would just set up another phone number that you can get that one time code on. So you can set up that phone number through Google Voice for free, and once you link that to your bank account, confirm it, and then you know, then you can actually get that

one time code there. But if you can't get into your bank account to log in because you need the one time code, you're kind of in a circle here, and that's that's definitely an issue. But this I do have. I've seen where sometimes the one time codes just don't don't come through with certain providers. They just don't. So the thing that I number one, you got to you got to get this account back from Spectrum or whoever has your account, if they're making you buy a phone

or whatever. You got to figure out how to get that back from them, because that's your original account and that's probably going to have more codes than you for different accounts that you have, So you've got to really figure out what's going on there, why you're getting that back, or how to get that back. And then the True Connect, you know, I actually did a story with True connect once and I met them and they're I think they're

in Los Angeles, aren't they? But I would I would get on the phone with them and really figure out, say like, hey, I'm not getting this code that I need, and there's got to be a reason why I'm not getting this code. Yeah it isn't LA, Yeah it was a company. But do me a favor, Renee. Go to my website, email me with your information, and I will try to get in touch with the True connect as well and see if we can get to the bottom

of this. Because you know, the reason why I say that is because I want to know why this is happening, because if it's happening to you, it's probably happening to other people. And it may be that True Connects is just blocking a swath of confirmation codes for protection or something like that. So there are reasons for this stuff, but you got to you got to figure out how to work through them, because you need access to your

bank account, don't you. Eight to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. Coming up this hour, we're going to talk to Jefferson Graham about taking the best pictures you can of the total solar eclipse. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. A couple things of note this week, Apple announced WWDC going to be held June tenth. June tenth is the date when we will now learn about the

new features of the next software for iOS. So iOS eighteen will also see the new features for the iPad, the max Watch OS, tvOS, and Vision Os. This will be interesting because we're gonna get some We're gonna get basically our first update on Apple Vision Pro. We have not heard anything. Apple's been sort of radio silent about vision Pro since its launch. I think it's definitely been less what's the term. It probably has not been as fruitful as they have Maybe they didn't think it would be.

I don't know, because it's just it's a very expensive product, so that's that's kind of tricky. But anyway, we will hear more about that on June tenth. I think for most people, the features of iOS eighteen will probably be most notable. Now. One feature that is already being rumored is This is from Mark German at Bloomberg. He says that the next version of iOS eighteen will bring a major change to the home screen. You will be able

to move your apps anywhere you want. You can place them freely on the grid instead of having them lined up, something that it's been an Android feature since day one. Now. The other rumor is that Google Ai may be integrated into the next version of IOSA teen. So that'll be interesting because you know, we know those are frenemies. Let's see midge rights in Hey, Rich, I'm going out of town. I'm taking an iPad that only works on Wi Fi since I don't pay for cellular data. Of course I'm

taking my iPhone. Do I need to use the VPN on my iPad on the hotel Wi Fi if I only use it to play games and downloaded movies? Do I need to use the VPN on my phone if I only use it to check email, Facebook and one game? I also may have to get on my banking app while I'm away. Or should I just connect to the hotel Wi Fi and use the VPN on my phone. I don't really like paying ninety nine dollars a year for my VPN if I only use it once or twice when I go out of town. Happy Easter, Midge. Well,

Happy Easter Midge to you as well. Here's the thing, here's my rule of thumb with VPNs. I think number one my rule of thumb is that I almost never connect to one I find unless I have to. So on my phone, I have an unlimited data plan. I will use that as much as possible, because why am I trying to save my telephone company from the data? Like I want to use as much as possible because I'm paying a lot for that. So if I have a good if I have a good cellular signal in

my hotel room, I just stay on cellular. Now, with the iPad, of course, you will have to connect to the hotel Wi Fi. So I get that. Do you need to use your VPN in any of these situations? I would say, uh, if I think you never need to use a VPN on your phone if you're on cellular, because your cellular connection is very private and it's really a one to one connection with the phone company. Yeah, they can see everything you do, but that's okay if

you don't care about that. Now, if you're trying to access like a you know, something specific, or you really want to cover your tracks, then yeah you can use a VPN. But when it comes to using a VPN on the UH you said to play games and downloaded movies. There's no reason for a VPN, And you know it's

not as if hotel wi fi. Isn't it the setup of the Wi fi When you're going to these websites, most of them nowadays are secure anyway, so people aren't gonna be able to see what you're typing into Google or your email. But if you want that extra layer of anonymity, then yes, that is a good thing to use a VPN. Also, sometimes you just need to use a VPN if you're like in a different country and you want to access something that's not available there. So

that's another reason. But with the only reason I would say to use a VPN is in this case, if you are on the hotel WiFi and you need to check your banking apps. So anything that's like sensitive private data like that, that's when I would say to do that. That's my recommendation, Madge. Thanks for the email. Barbara Wrights, Hey, Rich, I moved to Texas two years ago. I continue to listen to KFI. I can't find anything nearly as good here. I have a question I've recently gone to work for

a licensed clinical social worker. We deal with veterans and send a ton of personal and clinical infos. She has asked me to figure out how to send secure or encrypted emails through Gmail. I've seen the confidential mode button, but I'm not sure if that's what we're looking for. We don't want to have to pay for a service which you have any suggestions, Love your show, Barbara, Yes, I do have a suggestion. I would use proton Mail.

So proton Mail is free for a basic account. It is secure, it's private, and it will be separate from your personal Gmail. So I think that's important if you're working for a company and you want to keep things kind of separate. But proton Mail is encrypted by default. It is very very safe, it is very very private, and I think that is probably the best way to

do this and pricing. It is free for one gig of storage, one user, and one email address, so you can set up a special email just for your practice, and it will be encrypted by default, it will be separate from your Gmail, and I think this will be a great way to go about it. So there is an encrypted There is like a confidential mode on Google but I don't really know what the deal is. Okay, No,

confidential mode is different. Recipients won't have the option to forward, copy, print, or download this email, and you can require a passcode as well for that email. But I think that's more of a confidential mode. I don't think that's an encrypted, kind of very secure mode. So go with ProtonMail proton dot me and I've been using it. It's really great. Get it for free. You can upgrade, of course, you

know everything's an upgrade. Coming up next, we are going to talk to Jefferson Graham of photo Walks TV about how to capture that amazing total solar eclipse on your smartphone. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology and joining me now is Jefferson Graham, formerly of USA Today. Now he runs a website and YouTube page called photo Walks TV, where he travels the world looking

for the perfect picture. Jefferson, thanks so much for joining me today.

we're going to Carlsbad, California. I went to the flower fields and which are only open for two months, and I explored the flower fields and show them how to get great macro shots, great wide angle shots, and actually the best angle of all to get best pictures of flowers, which you wouldn't believe. But it's lying down on the ground and looking up at them.

not a great shot. If you don't have the iPhone fifteen Pro, if you don't have the Samsung S twenty one, S twenty two or S twenty three, or the Google Pixel eight Pro, you're gonna if you're not going to be your shot will just not be very good because it's going to be a lot smaller. I would focus

on the action. I would focus on the scene. I would focus on the people wearing glasses, all looking up and ooing an eye, looking at the crazy clothes they're wearing, and how they're responding and how they're acting, and just you know, you're part of a scene. Document the scene, and that's what you're going to see. Even if you go to NASA dot gov, the first picture you're going to see is if a kid wearing glasses looking up.

rarely use it anymore. But yeah, it takes up to like one hundred pictures in quick succession, and then you can just go through and figure out the best picture later. Instead of trying to get the best picture at that very moment, you're just taking a whole bunch of them now.

a wide angle, and a telephoto lens. The only thing you can't do is shoot sports. If you wanted to do get a close up of a football player at the Super Bowl, forget about it. If you want to do a school play and it's very dark in there, it's not going to be great. But those are the two instances where it's not great. Everywhere else I do really good.

a major difference. I think the iPhone pictures are better, and I think the iPhone videos are definitely better, but I just have it for the telephoto.

you a countdown to totality. Jefferson Graham, where can folks find you online?

the show. So my mom is in from New Jersey and I put the Apple Vision Pro on you today. This is Apple's VR headset. What was your impression of that. You got to get right on the mic.

This is like the again, I don't know what my kid is going to say here, So I don't know if I should give him bobo be ready with the dump button here? What are you going to say? Tanner?

tracking and the finger movement. It took a little bit, but you did figure.

when you land wherever you're going. You know, if you're taking this to the airport, you don't have a way to get your kid from the airport to your hotel. But we did that many many times. Oh my gosh. If you have Disney Plus, they have now integrated Hulu into the app. If you notice the app has changed, Parker, you can chime in on this one. What color is the new logo?

you to subscribe. So it's kind of at the end of the day, this is very smart marketing because if you know, if you're searching for a show and it's on Hulu and you're on Disney Plus, and you would never know that it's available if you didn't find it on there. As you know, I'm obsessed with these solar eclipse. There is a great website called x Karta Solar Eclipse Tracker, and this show's cloud cover and you use AI to figure out the cloud cover where you're going to go.

So if you're going on a trip to see the solar eclipse, I'm going to have to put the link on the website. But it's Xkarta dot io x e x c A r t A dot io and it's really great. They show you the AI cloud cover estimate three point seven million people expected to travel to the eclipse. I emailed my friend in Cleveland because I said, hey, I might come to Cleveland, and he said, oh, it's

a circus here. We're doing three stories a day on the eclipse and they're expecting almost five hundred thousand people there, one hundred to five hundred thousand. And finally, Visio eighty six inch four KTV for nine hundred and ninety nine dollars. I think Visio was the strong early contender with all these TVs, and they are now trying to get back in the game with a nine hundred and ninety nine dollars eighty six inch TV. Let's get to some feedback

before we have to go here, Chuckfish. Chuck says, hey, rich Amazon, they're providing no additional services or just another pharmacy. Their focus is on Mars and not people on Earth. The last thing we need is to turn more of our life over to one man. I think the website should be cult dot Amazon dot com. Whoo. I guess Chuck will not be using Amazon pharmacy. Denise says, Hey, Rich, I love your newsletter, your tech reports. I'm not a podcast person, but I'm sure someday I'll tune in. At

nearly seventy next month, I am still happy with AOL. Yes, note my email address. I have a Gmail, but I don't care for it. As a manager for USPS, we use to use Outlook. That was okay, but a weall's my main thing. Oh in my landline, I can't believe I may be losing that. Yes, I'm showing my age. Happy Easter to you and your family. Denise, Mom, what do you have? What do you love? AOL? Yep, Larry says, just to shout out and a big thank you to

Rich Demiro. Love listening to your podcast and always learning. I think your style of simple communication makes everything you broadcast very user friendly. Much obliged, sir, Thanks again, best wishes for continued success. I'm still waiting for that success, Larry, No, thank you. If you can believe it, that's going to do it. For this episode of the show, you can find links to everything I mentioned on my website. Just go to Rich on tech dot tv For the show notes.

You can find me on social media at rich On Tech. Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible, and to everyone in the studio my mom, Tanner, Parker, Lindsey, Bobo, Kim on the phones, we got Bill. So many people make this show possible. Thank you so much. You guys can say goodbye, go ahead. My name is Richard Meire. I'll talk to you real soon. Say goodbye, go ahead.