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from your seat. I'll explain what that all means. Jen call Trid of Mozilla is going to talk about how our cars are spying on us. This is a big topic of conversation. This week. Mozilla Foundation came out with a big report about all the different ways our cars are watching everything we do. So Jen, we'll talk about that, and then later in the show, Julian Vargas, mobile access technology specialist will explain some of the latest ways that tech is helping the blind and low vision users. We

got a lot lined up today. I'm back from Berlin. As you might imagine, I tried the mobile passport at the airport. I had to connect, thank you. I had to connect at Newark and let me tell you the line for the Okay, so I was very embarrassed. I was walking off the plane with a bunch of colleagues that were also at the show. I went to EFO Berlin, and so we all took the flight from Berlin to Newark, which you know I'm from New Jersey, so I have a fond appreciation of all things Jersey, and Newark is

one of them. I've been to that airport many, many times, but this time I had to go through the passport control and so we're all getting off the plane. All the people I'm with peeled off into the what's it called Global what's it? Let's it's like TSA, but it's like for Global Global Entry. And they all go there and like, Rich, you don't have Global Entry. We thought you traveled a lot. And I was so embarrassed. It was like a total like diss like dude, what's your deal?

And I was like, no, I never signed up for that. So they all go through Global Entry. It takes them about one second to exit the airport. I go in this line that is absolutely massive, and I'm not kidding. I had to change my flight twice while I was in that line because I missed my flight twice because

of how long this line was. And my wife, of course, you know, she's on the text and I'm complaining to her and she's like, well, just tell someone, And of course I don't want to do that, because you know, I know that I'm gonna be publicly shamed if I try to say anything out loud. So sure enough, when I get close enough to the person with the red jacket on this says ask me for help, I say, hey, you know, I'm gonna miss my flight because of this line,

like I already had to change my flight twice. And no joke, he says to me. He goes, everyone in this line has a connection and everyone's missing their flight, So you're you know, you're not special, buddy, And I was like, wow, what a nice welcome back to the US. Long story short, I did make it on my flight. It did take forever. It was fine. Thankfully Newark has a bunch of flights back to la like almost one every hour. But I will tell you my pro tip.

So when I was changing my flight the first time, because my flight was actually delayed the first time, so I had to I couldn't do it from the app for some reason. So I called in and the person changed the flight. It was just fine. But then at the end before they hung up, I said, hey, real quick, before you go, can I get anything because my flight

is delayed? Like can you give me like a credit or something, or you know, some sort of whatever, and she's like, oh, I can't, but you know, I'll submit something for you and they'll let you know within the next week. And I was like, okay, they kind of like just passed me off, right. Well, sure enough, when I landed, I had an email from the airline five hundred dollars credit. Amazing. I was so happy, and I said, you know what, all the a role of this day,

all the stuff. I tell you this not to brag in the fact that I have five hundred dollars in my travel bank, but I tell you this because next time, just ask. Literally all I did was ask. I just said the magic words at the end, Hey, is there anything you can do for me? And it was literally as she was hanging up the phone when I asked that, so oh hold on and yes, sure, I'll put something in for you. Five hundred dollars for just asking a single question. So when in doubt, ask your airline what

they can do for you. I don't know if there's like a law or a rule or any sort of whatever they have to do, but they did it and I was very happy. So anyway, that was nice. Let's see, National Star Trek Day was happening. This week, so I was participating. Paramount Plus sent me a little gift package with like the main thing was blue vodka. It's like a Now, if you're a Star Trek fan, you probably know the vodka. It is like what they used on

the show, in the container they used on the show. Now, I never watched Star Trek, so I thought that this was a good entree. So last night, celebrating National Star Trek Day, I turned on the first episode from nineteen sixty six, fifty seven years old, and I gotta say I was. I was taken, Like I was into it immediately. It's futuristic, it's fun. It's stuff that like I kind of like like little gadgets and the way they do things.

So I was digging it until we got to the aliens that I don't want spoiler alert from fifty seven years ago. I mean, come on, haven't watched it by now? I mean you still can. So that's the whole thing. You could stream the whole series on Paramount Plus. And so my kids were in the room, and you know, it was fine, but at some point my little one, I was like, okay, this maybe when the guy the alien's brain, like the veins as they were talking, started

like pulsating in his brain. I was like, all right, maybe that's a little bit too much, even though it was very innocent. Anyway, So I will be watching more of Star Trek. I'm sure. I'm sure there are some of you that are Star Trek fans that are like, ray, how are you just watching this for the first time. Well, you know what happens. This is the gentle slide into

the holidays and ultimately ces for me. The tech folks have called this Tectober, but we're gonna send this into Teptember for September because let me just give you a rundown of the events that are coming up in the next couple of weeks. Okay, you've got Apple on September twelfth, that's next week. They're calling this wonder lust iPhone fifteen models, the big change there usb C and also let's see

what is it, it's USBC. Oh yeah, and one hundred dollars price increase perhaps and also the top of the line models are going to get better zoom. So Apple is going to consume the tech world for the next week or so with all of the headlines and all of the news, and you're gonna be wondering should I get the new phone. I mean, if you're one of those folks that just upgrades all the time, then you're

just gonna want it no matter what. It's this magnetic draw of Cooper Tino to your wallet that just want to suck that money right out of your wallet. And it's fine. The new iPhones are always fun because they're new, they're exciting, and Apple has done a good thing with their ecosystem. September twentieth, then we've got Amazon. They are going to do a special let's see, what do they call it? A Device and Services event, And so that's where I mean they throw out a ton of stuff.

We're talking new fire TVs, new echo speakers, new ring devices, new euro devices. I mean, Amazon has a ton of brands. So they'll be doing that on September twentieth, and they're actually doing it from their new HQ two. Do you remember the whole kind of like to do about this thing. They were going to open it like outside of New York and people literally like said no way, They protested, we don't watch you here, and so they went to Virginia and I guess they opened. They're opening HQ two there,

so they're going to do that event from there. Then you've got Let's See Microsoft on September twenty first, and Microsoft is expected to unveil Let's See a special event on September twenty first in New York City, likely to announces new surface hardware, including the Go four, the laptop Studio four, and the Laptop Go three. I don't know what's happening with that little Surface duo thing. Remember that little phone they had that was kind of a foldy, flippy,

openee thing. I don't know if they're coming out with the third edition of that, but that may be a surprise. But Microsoft always has a lot of surface People love the surface stuff, So that's happening. Then on September twenty seventh, Facebook Metaconnect. This is where they show off all of their VR stuff, and I think there's gonna be a little bit more of a emphasis on this one because of what Apple's doing with their VR. So you've got that happening up in San Francisco Menlo Park on September

twenty seventh. Then we pingpong back over to New York City. Google October fourth, releasing the new Pixel eight phones and Google's really weird. They put their stuff out there before they even launch it. So if you go to the Google like Pixel website, they already have pictures of the Pixel eight in, the Pixel eight Pro and the new Watch. Why do they do that, I don't know. I guess they just figure, you know what, let's just be a

little bit different. Then we've got one plus expected to do something with their one plus fold I think it's called the one plus Open. That's another foldable phone. Obviously a lot of there's a lot of emphasis on foldables these days. I've been using the Google Pixel Foldable and it's been quite fun to use, and I like that it's different than the phone that everyone else has. I mean everyone's got a Samsung or an iPhone. So when I have something different, it's like I hope that people

take notice, but nobody really cares. I'll be honest. I've been carrying different phones around for ten years now, and I always like kind of make a big deal to open them in front of people. And like I was using the iPhone like a week before and when had it, nobody cared. I like had at my son's baseball game. I like it had the always on display. I put it on the bleachers, hoping someone would be like, WHOA,

what's that? No one cared. Then you've got the Code conference in late September, which, by the way, I got an invite to for the first time ever. I've been wanting an invite to this forever and they finally invited me. Invite me? Is that a word? Invited me? And uh, I don't know. We'll see if I can go to that. And then finally after the holiday CS a little bit later this year January ninth through twelfth. So anyway, that's what's on my calendar. How about yours. That's what's happening

with me. So needless to say, I've got a lot of stuff happening in the next couple of months and a lot to tell you about. All right, coming up, what does that email from Facebook about your saved payment information really mean? I'm gonna break that down explain what you need to know. But first I think I've talked enough. It is your turn. We're gonna have some of your calls coming up next at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to

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ninety nine percent of people do not do this. But I highly recommend you customize the name of your iPhone. Why because it helps you identify your phone in a variety of ways. If it just says iPhone twelve or iPhone fourteen or you know whatever, that's not very helpful when you're trying to do air drop or you're trying to identify your phone on find my. So take a minute to identify your phone and set up the name properly.

Here's how you do it. Okay, you go into settings on your phone, you go into general and then you tap about and then right at the top it says name. And I've got mine named Rich's iPhone fourteen pro. And here is the pro tip. Well, two tips on this line. Okay, Number one, you probably do not want to use a lot of personal information, so I probably would not use

my last name here. Name is probably fine, like Jim's iPhone whatever, But if you want to be slicker about it, maybe consider not using your name and maybe using something that you can identify but others cannot. Because if you're in a crowded room or a place or your work and you have your air drop on, maybe you don't want people knowing that your phone is nearby. Maybe you

just don't want them knowing that you're nearby. Whatever. But the other pro tip is that you could actually add an emoji to your name, which I didn't realize until someone asked me if they could, and I was like, I don't know, let me try it out, And sure enough, I added a little I don't know what the emoji's called, but it's that little smiley face with like the magnet

the monocle over the eye. I don't know why. It's like you're kind of looking at something a little bit more in depth, and so I kind of like that one. So anyway, you can add that to there. Once you add that name, it will propagate throughout find mine and all the different places that your iPhone has its name, and so again it's probably good to do that, especially

when the new iPhone is coming out. If you're upgrading to the new iPhone, maybe go in and instead of it saying you know, Rich's you know new iPhone or Rich's iPhone fourteen Pro, it'll now say you know, Rich's iPhone fifteen or whatever. Now when it comes to my Kindle, same thing, you might want to rename your Kindle.

So to do that, go to your Kindle device and you know, go to the menu, click the three dots, go into settings and then your account and then it says device name, and so you can change the Kindle device name there. You can also do it on the website. So if you go to the Amazon just search like Amazon Manager Devices and there should be a Kindle account section, and then you go to the Kindle that you want

to change the name for and you can rename. So if your Kindle has a name that you don't like, because maybe you've upgraded your Kindle over the years and it has an old name, you can rename that as well. So I'm a big fan. You know what, while I'm here, I might as well just tell you how to rename your Android phone too. Right, So on Android, you go into your settings. And it's been a while since I do this, but I think you do it in Bluetooth. So go to settings and oh gosh, I need to

find I shouldn't have said this before I knew. Okay, So you go into Settings and then Bluetooth Connections and then Bluetooth Advanced Settings. Oh gosh, I shouldn't have done this because now I got to I can't really Okay, well, I should have probably looked at how to do that before I tried to do it on live radio, So I will. I will figure it out on the Android.

But I believe it's in the Bluetooth settings and the same thing happens where you need to you know, if you're trying to connect your phone to your car, it comes up with this random name, so rename it. I'll tell you how to do it, all right. Coming up, we're gonna talk to Kim Gullick, head of Live Sports at Uber, to explain how Uber Eats is now at stadiums. You're 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 to two, four to one zero one. Before the break, we got a question about changing the name on your phone and I couldn't find it fast enough on the Android, but I found it. I'm telling you just do this, just take a second. Do this, all right. You go into your settings. Okay, and if you don't know how to get into settings, you kind of pull down on the top of the screen. Look

for that little gear icon. You go to about phone and then you see where it says the name of your phone. You can press edit and there's your phone name and it says this will be shown on other devices when your phone is available using Bluetooth, Wi Fi Direct and other methods. So basically anytime someone's trying to identify your phone, and that's pretty much the same way

on the pixel on Samsung. For a while, I had my phone named rich'siphone dot exe and that's I know, that's kind of like an old school thing, but I just thought it was funny because like, the last thing you want is like an executable on when you're trying to share something, it just looks really scary, and so I thought that was pretty you know, it's tech humor, you know what. That's that's who I am, all right. Joining me now is so Uber uber Eats is now

available at stadiums nationwide. So joining me now to explain what this is all about. Kim Gullick, head of Uber Live in Sports. Kim, welcome to the show.

So basically, all you have to do is, when you're in the stadium, you open the Uber eat app and if you text whether the user is a a partner venue, so then they get a welcome screen and let them know that they're available to order food for pickups at one of the Uber Eats locations. Then all you have to do is select your location where you're in the stadium. You're going to be able to see all of those locations that are available to you from the closest locations

that you selected. You just take a look at the menu, select your favorite, place your order, and then once you place your order, you're going to get a notification confirming that your order is placed, and then another one that says your order is ready, And just like that, you head over to the Uber Eats brand of designated pickup planes, you skip the lines, grab your food and drink. It's super simple, convenient, and allows you to get back to that game so you don't miss a moment of the action.

my seat. So is this more? Is this just kind of helpful to like see what's available to you where you are.

It's going to tell you when it's ready, and then you just go and pick it up, so you don't have to wait in those really long lines. I mean, it's such a bummer sometimes you see you know you're in these long lines, You've have kids or whatever, it's just it's you just don't don't want to be hanging out. So this is just a really a game changer for us and makes it really convenient for the fans.

Facebook account, you got this email from Facebook. This says important update on your saved payment information and it says, hey, your saved payment information will move to account Center's Accounts Center in the next few weeks. This change will make it easier for you to securely manage your payment information in one place, as well as shop and donate across

Facebook and Instagram. And of course, because payment information was in the email, not your payment but you know the fact that it mentioned this, people thought it was a scam. People were surprised to know that Facebook might even have their payment information, and they were just wondering, like, what is this all about? So let me explain. So, Facebook is basically merging the payment information that you have, either

you saved it on Facebook or Instagram. So they're taking that information and they're putting it in one place, this new account center. And so if you want to go and see if you have now they're giving you an opportunity basically to delete this information before they share it across their different platforms, because both of these are owned by Meta and So. And I think Metaquest is also part of this because when I went to the account center,

it had my Metaquest in there as well. So it's going to be, you know, they're just consolidating because it's one company. They want to just kind of make things easier for everyone. If you have a credit card saved in one place, or a debit card, it's just going

to work for everything. And the whole point of this is obviously a bigger point that if you do something on Facebook, Let's say you donate to a cause, and then all of a sudden you're on Instagram watching a live stream and you want to give that person a badge or a super thanks or whatever they call it, you know, to give them some cash or you want to subscribe. You'll be like, oh, my credit card's already

in there. That makes life so much easier. And so that's the whole point is basically to get you to spend more eventually. So I explained this on my Instagram. If you want to check out where it is at, richon Tech is my Instagram. So you can go into Instagram and open up your profile and look at your payment methods there. You can also go into Facebook, open

up your settings and see your payment methods there. And if you want to remove the card that you have saved, if you even have one saved, you can easily do that from both of these places. But if you don't, eventually these cards will make their way into this new account center. I also explain how you can find that online. You basically go to Accountscenter dot Facebook dot com and that will show you all of your connected information with meta.

So again, the save payment information email is legitimate, nothing to really be alarmed about. They're not going to charge your card for anything. They're not, you know, if you put in your card. Basically they're saying, look, we have this info and we're gonna start sharing it across all of our different products. So do as you like with that, all right? Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four to one zero one. We'll get to more of your calls right after this.

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Surely is in Belmont Shore, California. Surely you're on with Rich.

noticed that this stall happens. It just starts stalling. And I'm like, wow, if I got a new keyboard, same thing. If there's no pattern of time, it just happens. And there's one thing I have that replaced and I didn't know if it mattered. It's all accords that go to my computers to my from my computer to everything else that you know. I just never replaced him. Since I've been working at home, it's been about three years.

So I think a couple things, just for maintenance reasons, just to see what's happening here. There could be some sort of program that's running on your computer that's trying to like phone home that only works at your work, that does not work at your home, like some sort of program that your your work requires. That maybe it's just not connecting to the service that you know, and that's what's causing your computer to act a little wonky. So what I would do personally is, first off, I

would just check my connection. So at work, next time you're there, go to the website fast dot com and do a speed test, or you can go to uh I believe it's speed test. Let's see, I don't want to say the wrong thing. Speed test dot net and check your network and just see how fast it is

and compare home and work. If your home is significantly slower, that could be causing some of the issues, like if you're like at one, two, three, four, five megabits per second, but if you're anything over ten, you're probably gonna be fine. That's the first thing I do. The second thing I would do is I would install any program that you don't recognize or need on your computer. And I would also look at the programs that run on your computer

when you first started up. So those are the login programs, so you can look in the Windows settings to find those things. Otherwise, you might just want to run some diagnostics on your computer. And a popular program to do that is cee Cleaner. Ce Cleaner is the app, and you can download that for free. It'll have limited unless you pay, but it does a decent amount of stuff for the limited price or the limited a price of free,

I should say. And so you can do that if you feel like, you know, maybe that'll find something that's causing it. But it's kind of odd, I mean It shouldn't be It shouldn't be happening. Your computer should work pretty much the same way. Now, if you told me you were downloading files on Dropbox and they were coming through faster at work and not as fast at home, I would understand that because your work probably has a better Internet connection. But with a laggy keyboard, that's a

weird thing. And I just don't really know why that would be happening on your computer at home versus work. The only thing I can think of is something is running on your computer that is not really working properly when you're at your home setup versus your your work setup. So Sureley, keep me posted, let me know what's happening once you do the speed test, and maybe we could do some more some more fixing on that. Let's go to Janine in Carlsbad. Janine, you're on with Rich Oh.

twenty five all kinds of personal information. They tested twenty five different brands, twenty five brands failed, and they collect some really surprising stuff about us. So Jen will join us to talk about that. I'm also going to tell you about Amazon's new fee even for prime customers, why you should update your Apple products right now, and some sneaky new ad settings on Google Chrome. Let's go to Melody in Carlsbad. Melody.

and then it notifies me, Oh, you're in Marshalls. Hey, they have a discount for seniors today. Is there such an app that exists like that.

of figure this out. So I'll go through some of the ways that I And by the way, I think it's great that you're thinking about this, because I'm not kidding it kind of goes back to what I was talking about with the airline. Just by asking a majority of the time or even searching, you can find things that you know may save you a lot of money.

A good example I gave a couple of months ago on the show was my wife and I were in CVS and before we checked out, I said, let me just check the app to see if there's any sort of discount, and sure enough, there was like a thirty percent coupon in the CVS app. So what I do personally, every time I am checking out or in a store, I will just fire up either the stores app or I will just search for the name of the store and either discount or coupon and see if there's something

that's running. A lot of these discount codes, a lot of these websites that say they have codes, You're going to sit there for an hour trying these and they're not going to work, and especially in store, a majority of the time, it's just going to be bogus. So until someone comes up with an app like you're talking about that, you know you can sit. You know you're in the coals, you're in the you know, Walmart, whatever it is. You could say Hey, show me all the

available discounts for this right here. That'd be a good idea, but I don't know if that exists. But I will tell you the places that I look so after I do the whole you know, I think the number one place to look right now is the store's own app. That's a great way to do it. The second thing is just to search on Google and say the name of the store plus discount or senior discount, and that'll bring up a list if you're just looking on Google.

There's like this this website called the Senior List dot com and they've got a whole bunch of deals. Looks like interesting, So like, yeah, they've got a list of all different places. It doesn't look like it's too many there though. Then they've got another website that I like is called dealnews dot com. So deal News has a post that looks like they continue to update it, the seventy eight best senior discounts to use in twenty twenty three. And again, I know, Melody that you asked for an

app that would alert you. I don't know of that. So I'm just telling you the different ways that I would do this to make sure that I get a discount every time. The other place I like, which actually is quite good, is called couponcabin dot com, and so you can search for the name of a retailer inside this. So let's say you're in right Aid, you can search for right Aid and it gives you all the coupons

that are available at that moment. But also on the left hand side, it gives you little shopping hacks for that store, so it'll tell you different ways that you might be able to save on your purchases at that store. And for right Aid there's like seventeen little tips. And look at that. It says that right aid offers customers over the age of sixty five a twenty percent discount on the first Wednesday of the month. Wow, look at that. Where's my bell?

just wafting out into the mall. It's just like I become like a zombie. I'm like, please give me a cinnamon sugar pretzel. Like I didn't go into the mall. Does anyone ever go into the mall expecting to buy like a cinnabon or well maybe cinnabon. Yeah, actually that's true, both saying yes, oh missus fields, all these things that just like they only exist in the mall, right, just to like capture our our noses and our money. Oh and it's so good and you and you wolf it

down so fast. The uh, those are the places that I look. And again, I'll put all these links on the website. Rich on tech dot TV. Are we still on the air? Did they? Did they cancel us yet?

So this was previously a free service where Amazon, if you had the ability, they could open up your garage and put your stuff in your garage. I know when it first came out, people were like, wait what, but but it's not a bad idea if you live in a place where something might get taken from your front porch or you just want you know, it's just convenient.

But it took a lot of equipment. Anyway, they were pushing this really hard because they said, hey, it's safe, it's nice, and of course it helps them because less theft means that they don't have to replace so many items that they deliver. But now they're going to charge a dollar ninety nine for this delivery unless you choose your Amazon Day. So if you haven't set up your Amazon Day, this is basically a day you designate every week where they will deliver all the stuff that you

order in that week on that day. So for me, my Amazon Day is Fridays. Oh should I have told you that? Well, now you know which day to come to my house. Anyway, I don't use it very often, and because Amazon literally it's it's so wild because if you live in a big city, Amazon can deliver like so fast to you that it's always like, oh, do you want your Amazon Day on Friday or would you like us to get to this to you by nine o'clock? And I'm like, well, of course, if it's free, I'm

gonna take the nine o'clock tonight. But so don't be alarmed if you see the headline that says Amazon's going to start charging for all this stuff. It's only if you're doing in garage deliveries, and only if you're doing them not on your Amazon Day. So if you're still just doing Amazon Prime, you know, your regular deliveries, those are still free for now. But as we know, Amazon has definitely been tightening, you know, ratcheting things up with

all the little kind of things they do. I still think they're pretty incredible for how fast they get stuff to my house, but you know, they've raised like the minimums, and of course with the groceries, everyone's grumbling about that because groceries used to be really easy to get those delivered, and now that's expensive. They've added fees on that and Prime membership keeps going up and up and up, so you know, it's still a very good service. It's just

it's evolved and changed like everything else. You know, all these prices have gone up lately, and finally, not finally, but for now. Before we go to break, update your Apple products. Apple has released software updates for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. This is all because of two zero day vulnerabilities. Zero day vulnerabilities are pretty much the worst. It means that someone could could take over your phone

without you doing anything, which is really scary. That means they could just send you a malicious image or a malicious attachment and literally they have control of your phone. Now, it would take special software and obviously the know how to do this, but it's pretty scary. It's like the scariest of all of the exploits on phones are these zero day things. So if you have an iPhone, you have an iPad, you have a Mac, you have an Apple Watch, definitely go ahead and update them as soon

as you can. The update ISOs sixteen point six. I think we're up to and by the way, we're going to get new iOS very soon to iOS seventeen Yeah, sixteen point six point one. That's what you want to be on and I'm just looking at mine. It says this update provides importance security fixes and is recommended for all users. Yeah. Think Apple is patched thirteen zero days

in twenty twenty three. A lot of the zero day stuff is used for this what's called Pegasus spyware, and this UH spyware is basically used to target journalists, activists and UH world leaders that they want to get on their phone because there's some good information on there and it's, uh, it's stuff that you know, the bad folks really want access to. But for you and I, I mean, well I am a journalist, so people probably do target me, but they're you know, for the average person, Like, is

someone trying to take over your phone? Probably not? But should you do this? Of course? Of course, of course, of course. There you have it. Rich on Tech dot TV of course for the link. The phone line for the show is triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to

rich on Tech, Triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four to one zero one coming up this hour, I will tell you about the Chrome settings you might want to change if you don't like ads tracking you. And also speaking of tracking us, our cars are spying on us in a big way. Now we all kind of assumed this was happening, but now we kind of have the data to back

it up. So my guests, in just a couple of minutes here we'll talk about the their new report at Mozilla Privacy not included just all the different ways cars are tracking us. Let's go to uh, Peter and San Gabriel. Peter, you're on with Rich.

account or whatever. But then after it then it when it would say when I put in my card, information would say it wasn't going through and it wasn't accepting and all that, and then finally it said I was like the app was only three for about five days, and there was going to be forty nine ninety five a month. Yep, I was so christ and I can't say bad words, but.

download it from your Google Voy stashboard. But that's like the easiest and the simplest and the cheapest way to do it that I know. But the only caveat is that they do have to call your Google Voice number to get that started.

Let's see call recorder. The other thing is that so a lot of these these call recorders, the way they work is instead of actually recording the call from your phone, they make you call a third number, so you kind of do like a three way call, and you will it records it that way. So and the other one I know of is true Caller. Now we had them on the show, so I know they're legitimate. They have a call recording, but again you will have to pay for that. So I don't have an answer for you

on a free call recorder. Besides the Google Voice, like the app situation, I'm looking at this one app. And the other thing is, see this app wasn't even updated since October twenty twenty two. But I think a lot of these things that I'm just looking at quickly here are they all seem the same Like people are like, oh they don't work, they don't you know. But the good news about this show, Peter, is that you know, there's a lot of people listening, and we've got the

feedback segment. So if you know of a good phone call recording app that works very easily on Android, uh, send it to me, So Rich on Tech, hit the contact button and let me know which one you use. The other one that I do like that is very popular,

but again I think it's gonna cost money. And I've done an interview with this company too, is called Tape a Call, and this is probably one of the top apps out there for doing this and tape a Call dot com and if you uh look at that one, it will it's very very easy, and it says that you can do this on a call that you're already on incoming calls. But again, uh, it's gonna I believe they're going to charge you after a while. Yeah, monthly

planned nine ninety nine a month, annual plan sixty dollars. So, and also I want to put the caveat out there as a journalist that you can't just rea cort a phone call without the other person knowing. So that is something that you do need to look into your state's laws, your local laws for recording phone calls. You can't just record a call without someone knowing. In most states I or many I think almost every state as far as I know, you have to tell the person on the

other line, but definitely check your local laws. All right, Coming up next, we're going to talk to Gen call Trid of Mozilla about how our cars are spying on us. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology and joining me now is Jen Calltrid, head of the Privacy Not Included team at Mozilla. You know them for the web browser. Jen, thanks so much for joining me today.

big way. Can you tell me about some of the ways that these car companies collect data from drivers? Is it coming from the cars themselves?

most things come with cameras and microphones. You know, there's also the sensors that that tell how fast you're going, or how much you weigh, or what the temperature is outside, things like that. But when you read the privacy policies of these car companies, that's when the eyebrows really go up, because they they have these handy little tables in number of them where they lay out all the personal information they say they can collect on you, and we saw

things like sex life. Kia mentioned they could collect information about your sex life, Nissan mentioned sexual activity, genetic information, medical information, uh, you know, race, immigration, and then they can they say they can go on and collect even more data about you by by collecting it from third party so versus like buying it from data brokers or getting it from public information public sources that they can then combine into, you know, a bigger profile on you.

And then they say they talk about making inferences about things like your intelligence or your abilities, and I don't know about you, but I don't need a car company making any inferences about my intelligence.

let them listen in on the microphone or track your every move, or you know, monitor how many people you have in your car.

can manipulate you. And you see that a lot in our on our internet, you know, people being manipulated and lead in places that are not healthy.

the privacy situation. You know, there's a lot of settings and a lot of privacy safeguards in place for some of these established things. But with cars, again, it's kind of like the Wild West. I feel like they're just they're just doing whatever they can to get as much

information they can until someone says something. And by the way, when I was in Europe, it's interesting they have a lot of Europe in California have like probably the strictest privacy laws and regulations, and in Europe It's interesting when you go to a website, you know how you get those pop ups on every website that says, do you want to accept these cookies? And I would always recommend that you say reject if you can. But in America, the websites usually have two options. It says, dis let's

see what does this say? Basically accept all or go into settings. And then you got to go into these settings to like select, you know, de select each individual one, which is kind of a pain, so you end up saying just select say yes to everything. Well, in Europe the only two options are accept all and reject all. Somehow, reject all got lost in translation here in the US, which would make life a lot easier for us because then we don't have to have all these different websites

following us. So anyway, over in Europe a little bit more privacy when it comes to that stuff. They had GDPR over there, which is all their data protection regulations, So we're kind of getting some of that here in the US, but it is still still pretty wild. I mean, really, the biggest company to do anything with data privacy was Apple when they turned on their little privacy switch on the iPhone through the software. I mean that really changed things.

I mean Facebook overnight lost like ten billion dollars in AD revenue because it was just like they couldn't track people as much anymore. What's that called. I think it's called let's see, I gotta remember what it was called. It's called like app tracking transparency. I think app tracking transparency. App tracking. It's when you see that little message that pops up that says, hey, would you like this app to follow you around? You're like, no, yeah, att app

tracking transparency. This is where iOS asks users for permission to share their data. And when they turn this on, obviously everyone was just like, no, don't follow me around. I gotta watch you to follow me, and that really mess things up. Now, ironically, Chrome Google Chrome is doing something in the opposite way, and I'll tell you about that. Let me take this call. Lisa's been on hold for a while. Lisa is in spring Hill. I'll tell you

about the the Chrome setting after this. Lisa, you're on with Rich.

Is it realistic for me at all to think that I can take this computer not have it beat internet access because that's much too advance for him, but for him to be able to enjoy these software games currently.

And so I think that you'd probably need to enlist the help of someone to kind of you know, like maybe find like a good, you know, helpful tech person in your area that just wants to do this out of the goodness of their heart, and you know, maybe they can format that drive and run the if you

have the disc for it Windows ninety five ninety eight. Now, the other thing you might be able to do, and I'm sure I'm gonna get a lot of emails about this with some suggestions, but I think the other thing you could do is maybe try like an emulator program.

So I think on these discs, if you look at the way these discs are, if you can put them into the computer and actually just see what's on them instead of running the installer, maybe try to drag the information from the disc to the computer, and then you might be able to run these inside like a DOS emulator, because a lot of these programs need stuff that does the newer programs. The newer version of Windows just doesn't

have on it anymore. And so that's one way. So if you can get the games to install, they're like, if you can get the the exse file on there, you might be able to do what's called compatibility mode, and you can right click that games, you know, the ex file, and you click properties and there's a compatibility tab and you can actually select the version of Windows you want to run this thing in. So that might be the easiest way you could try that. So again

that's called that's called compatibility mode. So you can search search Google for that and show you how to do that. But that might be like the easiest way if you can get these games on the computer, you know, if you can get the programs. The other thing is a DOS emulator, so I would check out something called dos box and see if that would work. You can also run an older version of Windows in a virtual machine

as well, so if you want to try that. But again, all of these things are getting a little bit like you know, they're getting a little complicated, right, So if you're if you're really.

running again. We've got a guy here in La called the Laptop Elf and he does that and so you know, maybe even look him up and he might be able to guide you on there. But Lisa, great question. Thanks for being such an amazing person out there in spring Hill, Florida. Best of luck to you and your son with these games. Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Back rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight

Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. So much to talk about. Still, new ad settings on Google Chrome that you might want to change. Roadblocks is coming to PlayStation, so your kids are going to be bugging you for one of those now. And eBay is uh embracing AI to help you sell that stuff in your attic a little bit easier. And believe me, AI is everywhere at this point. It is

really just taken. I can't believe how fast AI has had an impact on so many of the products and services that we use, and it's just getting starts. Let's see Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. We had someone leave a voicemail at the website rich on tech dot TV. If you want to do that for the feedback segment. If you don't want to call in, you're a little embarrassed, you don't want to be on the phone, you want to be in live radio, you can go

to my website rich on tech dot TV. Look for the microphone button in the lower right hand corner. You can tap that and you can leave me a voicemail. Just my advice is be concise, right, I mean, you know, you just just be concise, and we will perhaps play that on the air in the feedback section of the show which comes up at the end. Here, let's see, let me tell you about this Google Chrome ad settings situation.

So Google Chrome is rolling out something called Enhanced ad Privacy, which sounds great, right, But this actually targets ads to you based on your browsing history using something called the Topics API. So basically what's happening is this kind of goes back to what I was saying about Apple all there's a big kind of backlash against sharing the exact things that you're doing on your phone and the websites that you're going to with other websites using what's called

third party cookies. I know it gets a little complicated, but basically, if you've ever seen one of those ads that follows you around the web, that's because of what's called a third party cookie. That means that when you visit one website, right and you shop for a new comforter, there's a little cookie that remembers that on your web browser. And then when you go to another website that sells stuff, it looks at your cookies and it says, oh, this guy was looking for a comforter, let me show him

ads for comforters. So that's kind of how that works in a nutshell. And there's companies that kind of broker these cookies. So and it's even more complicated. So when you go to a website, there might be a list of like thirty other tracking companies that work with that website to gather the data of you, what you're doing, how you're doing it, and then they exchange that data with other websites, and websites pay for all this. It's like our guest earlier said, it's all about the money.

And so people are getting hip to this. They're blocking third party cookies, they're using ad blockers, they're using enhanced tracking search engines like Duck duck Go, and browsers like Brave, and so it's getting tougher and tougher for these companies to figure out who you are, what you're doing, what you're looking at, and so they're coming up with new

ways of doing it. So Google, who obviously has a lot to lose in this situation because they're entirely ad revenue based, they're saying, Okay, well, let's come up with something that seems to be private, but let's make it work for people. So they call it the Topics API, and this works for advertisers and you. So they're saying, look, we're not going to share who you are, but we're just going to kind of figure out the things that you're interested in, and we're going to share those things

with companies the websites that you visit. We're gonna say, look, riches into motorcycles, riches into travel, riches into you know, premium, you know whatever, and that's the information we'll share with the website. And then the website goes, Okay, we got a guy here who likes motorcycles. Let's show them accessories for motorcycles. And that's how this works. Now. The bad part about this is that Google is pretty much making this where you have to turn it off if you

don't want it. So they're putting a pop up on your screen that says here's what we're doing. Got it, and you press got it, and you've just turned this on. Now, like I said, in Europe, a lot of the menus are saying turn it on instead of got it, but here in the US it just says got it. So you press got it and you're like, okay, well that's whatever that was, and really you just turned on this

new feature. So some are saying this is what's called a dark pattern because you're opting in by DeFi rather than saying, hey, I don't want this. And so I tell you all this because there is a way to turn this off, and I would kind of I'm not saying you have to turn it off, but I'm just letting you know about this so you can decide if

you want to turn it off. So, if you're running Chrome on your computer, go to the menu, and the menu are those three dots that are next to your name, the three vertical dots and then you tap settings, and then once you're in settings, there's something called privacy and Security. You tap that and then you'll see something that says AD privacy, customize the info used by sites to show you ads, and you can go in there and it

says AD topics, site suggested Ads, and AD measurement. All three of these settings are probably turned on on your Chrome. I have them turned off just because I feel like the less information floating out there about me is better. So I like these turned off, but you can them on if you want more targeted ads. That's fine. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. I just think that you should know how to turn these on and off.

So again, menu settings, Privacy and Security, and then go to AD Privacy and you'll see those three toggles to turn on or off. While you're in here, you might also want to look at third party cookies. I would suggest blocking third party cookies on your web browser, and so that way these third party cookies aren't sharing as

much information about you either, So that's an option. Most of the time, it says either allow third party cookies, block third party cookies and incognito, or block third party cookies. I would say block third party cookies, that would be my suggestion, but again it's up to you. Now, if you want an easy I know that's a lot. So if you want an easy to follow way to do this, just go to my instagram at rich on Tech and look for the posts that says Chrome Privacy Alert. You

can just tap that and it's very very simple. I've got the instructions there. I'll also put it on the show notes. Oh let's see, let's go to uh Mike in Long Beach. Mike, you're on with rich Hi, how are you doing. I'm doing fantastic. What can I help you with?

work for your situation. The first is the the Asus zen Book fourteen o LEAD and this is a Windows laptop, and it's got the specs that you need, and it's got the price that you need. So it's going to

be under one thousand dollars. And we are coming up to the holidays, and these are going to be discounted during the holidays, So if you can wait a little bit, I personally would just kind of watch the price on these things and see what happens with the pricing, because, believe me, there's a glut of computers in the market at this point because everyone was buying them during the pandemic.

The manufacturers were ramped up sales, and now of course everyone's set up and they don't need these as much. So this one's got great specs, it's got a nice big screen for you, fourteen inches, running the latest Windows, and it's a good price under a thousand bucks. It looks like it's running about maybe seven to eight hundred dollars, depending on how you get get it configured. The other thing is a MacBook. If you want to go Apple,

I would recommend a MacBook. They've got a new MacBook Air, but it's pricey, obviously, it's starting at thirteen hundred dollars. That's the MacBook Air. Fifteen. That'll give you a really nice big screen to work on. If you don't particularly need that, you can go with the thirteen inch. Oh wow, this actually let's see. Oh, the MacBook Airs is actually on sale on Amazon right now. It's down to it's basically fifteen percent off, down to eleven hundred bucks, so

that's pretty good. But again, these prices are going to be coming down. If you want an inexpensive Mac computer. The twenty twenty version of the MacBook Air, which has their M one chip, which is a little bit old at this point, but it still works pretty well. That's got a thirteen inch display. They're selling that for about seven hundred and fifty dollars. So those are a couple of options for you. I think any of those will work for what you're doing, because you're just talking about

doing basic web browsing, investing, banking. I'd recommend a Chromebook, but I think that that's even too basic for what you want. I think a standard desktop running either a standard web browser it would be best for you. Even though Chromebook does that, I think that that's probably the best for you. So, Mike, I think that's going to do it. I hope you make a lot of money with this laptop, and then when you need a new one, you can just upgrade. All right, Thanks for the call today,

appreciate it. From their long beach phone number, Triple eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up later in the show, I'll tell you about Oh we're going to talk to Julian Vargas mobile access technology specialists. He's going to run over some of the latest ways technology is helping the blind. 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 O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one, website, rich on Tech dot tv, or you can find me on social media at rich on Tech. Let's go to Don in Utah. Don. You're on with rich.

the front page. Because it's so many of the websites now will let you get started and then all of a sudden it's like, oh yeah, by the way, it's uh, this is it. Okay, so let's see a sound cloud. Okay. So it looks like next is up to three hours of track uploads. So that may not work for you, right, I don't know. So I think that they're all in one place.

background to it. There's a whole bunch of just video apps that you can do that with, you know, like a cap cut.

like you're doing anything wrong. It's just YouTube wants you to have some sort of background video. So if you just upload any sort of photo or picture or whatever, even even it's something you can create on Canva. Have you heard of that.

going to create a thumbnail image for this video. So let's say your barbershop song is about you know, the wide open you know, sunset whatever you would, you know, just go on on Canva and look for a sunset image and just put that on there and then export that. Now you have your picture, you'll have your audio from your voice memos. You go to cap cut and you merge those two together. So you basically drag and drop the picture in, you drag and drop the audio in,

and now you export it as a file. It will ask you you know which aspect ratio. It'll have YouTube as a preset. You export it and then you go to the YouTube app you upload it. That sounds like a lot, but it is not. It's very very easy, and it's very very simple, and many many people do it, and it'll just get your stuff out there on YouTube. Now, the other thing you can do, there's a website that

I like called Headliner. So if you want those kind of like fun little waveform images that people like to have on static audio, you can use an app called Headliner to do that. So that's called headliner dot app. And again I'll put all of this in the show notes. So if you're listening and you're like, wait, what, but that's unlimited as well, so I might even try that first, just because I feel like the waveform moving is kind of fun to have on your audio file. If it's

on YouTube, it's just a static thing. So that's what I use to create the to create the podcast video video podcast of this show, because it's just a static image on YouTube. But don that's what I would do, and then upload them there. You'll get unlimited and just send people the link to the YouTube page. Let's see Roadblocks coming to PlayStation. Roadblox is gonna come to PlayStation

on PlayStation four and PlayStation five in October. It's already on pretty much every platform except PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. So your kids are gonna be asking to play Roadblocks on PlayStation now. You know, one more way to waste their time. Triple eight Rich one on one eight eight eight seven two four one zero one. Coming up, we're going to talk about tech for the blind. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology and uh on the line. You've got a familiar voice from the previous show. Julian Vargas, Mobile access technology specialist passionate about empowering blind and low vision users to uh leave fuller lives with mobile devices and apps. Julian, thanks so much for joining me today.

similar to written pigmentosa, but it's a little different. And as I age, obviously normal sight deteriors anyway, but this

condition particularly is known to deteriorate. So when I was about my early to mid thirties, I started to really notice that decline and realize that I had to start adopting the blindness methods of doing things, even if I still had some usable vision, because at the end of the day, you know, if you know how to do the blindness methods, it doesn't matter how bright it is, how dark it is, what the conditions are, what colors, whatever, you can function.

You know, you can have it identify currency, you can have it read barcode, you can have it du all kinds of things. But lately AI has entered the equation and it's making a huge difference in a lot of areas because you know, at the end of the day, we're limited in what the operating system makes the thing capable of doing. But AI, it just it just blows me away the amount of details that you get in descriptions.

In fact, it's very very lengthy, and a lot of times you just want to know about one particular thing in the picture. So that's what I like about it is that I can take a picture. For example, I took a picture. I'm a hammer operator, took a picture of one of my handheld radios, and of course it describes all the buttons, the layout, all that stuff. But I wanted to know what was on the display, so I could do a follow up question and say what

does the display say? And it'll either tell me what the display says or tell me you know that part's glory. Could you send another picture, try to aim more towards the display and it kind of helps you to help it give me the information that I need.

put the camera in front of it. And from what I understand, if I put my finger over my finger over one of the buttons, it's going to tell me what I'm pointing to. So this is what makes the big difference is that now I don't have to try to guess that what it read to me and hope that I hit the right one. It's going to tell me when I'm hovering my finger over the right one.

do to interact with it. So I think there's a lot of potential to help blind in low vision in the futures it develops, and of course as a hopefully it price comes down a little bit, becomes a little more affordable to the masses.

both getting better. That there's one that's better at one thing, one that's better at the other. And I think in the end, it's a beautiful world we live in now that all the major operating systems more or less has some form of accessibility built into them.

this information. Let me get through a couple things before I get to that. First off, eBay says that they've got a new magical listing tool that uses AI to make selling on eBay faster, easier, and more accurate. So if you've ever posted anything to eBay, you know the challenge, right. You want to make things as specific as possible because people want to know specifics of what you're selling. But

it also takes a long time to do that. Sometimes you're trying to identify the item you have, you know, you're typing in a whole bunch of stuff and then you know, so it takes a long time, and if you're doing a bunch of stuff, that could really get annoying. So eBay says they're now using AI with like eerie accuracy. They've got this new magical listing tool which literally lets you take a picture of something and watch AI fill

in the details. It can write titles, descriptions, information which might even include the product release date, detailed category and subcategory. Plus it then cross references other products to suggest a listing price and a shipping cost. So this will really help people who may have something in their attic or in their garage and don't know where to start, like a vintage radio or you know, a collectible and the AI is like, oh, we know exactly what this is.

Here you go, and so this is going to be really really cool. They also say that they've rolled out a better background removal tool.

you just want to see the image whatever. This is going to come out in the next couple of months as a public beta, so right now they're testing it with employees. Let's see. Polaroid has a new instant camera, the I two six hundred dollars. Would you pay six hundred bucks for a Polaroid at this point? But it's got some manual controls plus some high tech stuff. It can better focus, it's got light ar auto focus, got bluetooth, a better battery that's rechargeable. Six hundred dollars. It's the

most premium instant camera from Polaroid. Guess what film seventeen dollars for eight pictures. I don't know about that one for me. I mean, I love the idea of a Polaroid. My kids have like the little cheapy ones, but they barely use them. I mean, it's all about the phone website Taste bud Dot taste dash bud dot io powered by AI. You type in what's in your fridge or an ingredient or a couple that you have, and it uses chat GPT and stable diffusion to brainstorm and dream

up recipes. This was created by a couple of folks who just wanted to have fun. It's kind of a cool retro looking website. Taste dash bud dot io and Duo Lingo is adding math lessons. So if you know that app for their foreign language lessons, dual Lingo is adding math. Come October eleventh, they're going to announce more about that. All right, let's see question how long do we have? We got a couple of minutes here, let's go Oh gosh, I don't think we'll have time for questions,

so maybe we'll just get to the comments. All right, You want to get to the first to voicemail comment. Let's hear the voicemail.

I tried out AI. I just popped into Claude AI a bunch of addresses and I said, can you make the most efficient route? And it seemed to work, and Dan said, uh, he's working on it, so that might be one way. AI is really really wild with all this stuff. Let's see. We got to comment from Blue Green on Instagram about the privacy stuff with cars, he said, I switched to the Ford Mochee. It's shocking how much privacy I don't have. There's cameras everywhere. I've covered many

of them. I bought an Amazon cover to cover one. It also assists with the sun. When I wear my sunglasses, the car yells at me to watch the road, so I have to cover that up. And no, I don't get lane assistance with that. These cars have live stream. And then he a whole bunch of emojis, peanuts, a clown, and a world so whatever that means. And then let's see here. Carol says, I got a random one dollar charge of my Spectrum account via my credit card. I

called in. They said, if I want to pay my account via representative, I have to pay an extra five dollars. I said, nope, if I want to talk to a real person, no, I'm not doing that. So they yeah, fees are everywhere. Fees are everywhere. Please, if you ever get a feed just ask them to waive it and see what they say. I've done that with a couple of phone companies and things like that. All right, that's it for the feedback right now. If you can believe it.

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