Netflix Buffers, Bluesky Soars & Bitcoin Breaks $90k
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And later we've got turn IT in any chick telly. SHE is going to discuss the impact of A I on education. Well, IT was fight night in amErica once again, but this time with a twist.

This was one of the first major wording events that netflix well try to stream. They've done some stuff in the past. Jake, paul s my tyson.

Did you watch IT? Probably many, many people did. IT was sort of a technical disaster.

Now i'm not blaming netflix here. I'm not going to say that this is bad, that they did this. You've got to start somewhere. But IT gives us perspective. This is a huge company with lots of smart people, and we are still just in the beginning stages of figuring this stuff out, been lots of live stream.

But I think that this goes to show both the popularity of something like this and also the fact that netflix has some work to do a all kinds of streaming problems with the show last night frustrated viewers all over the world. Lots of people, including myself, reported buffering and connectivity issues. Some people had to wait a long time for the show to actually start.

And then some people got this black screen of death, which I also got, and dependent kind of on a lot of things, whether you know where you live, how you are accessing IT, whether is on mobile, whether is on your TV. But netflix really struggled to handle so many people watching this event. At the same time, netflix has over almost three hundred millions subscribers, and every single one of them had access to this at no extra cost.

So is not like the days of paper view where you're pain fifty bucks and you Better have a clear screen because you're pain for that. No, this was available to everyone, which is incredible and amazing. But also, IT goes to show that IT takes a lot to stream something on this level.

So of course, people are on social media, including myself, joking about all the things that went wrong. IT wasn't even clear half the time. So at first, when I first tuned in, I thought I was incredible, because I was looking very clear that all of a sudden is started buffing, and all of the sun started dropped out, all of a sudden is started not working.

And then all the sudden when I came back, the video quality was not very good. So even if you had a good connection, like myself, like a fiber connection, you still had issues. So do we know how many people watch this? We don't know exactly.

Netflix has not said just yet. Do we know how much money is generated? One report said eighteen million dollars at the stadium itself seems like a lot.

I'm sure these these guys that thought got paid a lot of money. I'm sure all the product placement and sponsorships generate a lot of money. But here's the thing.

Netflix wants to get into life streaming in a big way. Somehow amazon has been able to figure this out, but they run that infrastructure. A W, S. If anyone could do life streaming and has the services for IT, amazon's got to figure out now I don't know how many people are watching those prime football games if it's the same as this level, but they've gotten figured out. But netflix is set to streaming two nfl games on Christmas day.

And you can bet a lot of people are going to be watching those because everyone's going to be at home and everyone wants to watch those games. So we will have to see if netflix can get their act together in the next what is that six weeks or so to resolve those technical issues. But at the end of the day, I was still interesting to see the entire us.

And maybe the world at large, come together to watch something in a world of fractured and fragmented streaming programs. And everyone's on a different wavelengths and everyone's on a different level and everyone's watching a different show. It's kind of cool to still have things that bring us all together.

And last night was one of those times when pretty much everyone you knew was watching that. All right, move on. On now.

Also this week, if if you heard there is a new social network that is suddenly popular, IT is called blue sky. Doesn't not just sound nice. So blue sky gained more than two million users in the past few weeks.

Many people after the election, over fifteen million people are now on blue sky. Now keep in mind that sounds like a big number, but x and threads have hundreds of millions of people. So why are people coming over to blue sky? While many are unhappy with elon musk, his support of the new president, and they also say that they're mad that x is going to train its AI on their posts.

But come on, if you're on instagram, if you're on facebook, if you're on pretty much any system that you're not paying for, you are the product and they're going to train on your stuff. So that's like kind of a weak excuse to leave. But at the same time, people are doing IT.

And i'm seen a lot of momentum on this blue sky. So what is IT? Well, IT looks a lot like twitter in the old days. I mean, almost identical to twitter. And well, that's probably for a reason because I was started in twenty nineteen by one of the founders of twitter, jack dorsey, but he left and IT was invite only for a long time. So that's the reason you didn't really hear about that very much people that were nerdy people that were in the know, of course, they knew about this.

They you're going to say, i've been on this for a year now and you're going say, okay, thanks, 我 a metal but many people are discovering IT。 So what can you do on IT? It's the same as twitter.

You can follow people, they can follow you back, you can post text, you can post photos, you can post videos, you can repost, you can like. But here is the thing is much more open source and decentralized, as opposed to something like twitter that is run by one person. Well, many people work there, but you, elon musk, is at the home.

So this is much more open source and decentralized. What does that mean? That means that one organization doesn't really own or control your data.

So if you ever wants to leave blue sky, you can. And it's simple and you can take all of your data with you somewhere else. So something else comes up Better.

All your stuffer just move over to that platform. And so that's really interesting. It's really unique. And I think this is going to the idea of web 3， web three point o, where it's like more of these things are much more decentralized and they also work together and you can take your information in your services wherever you want to go with them.

Now I will tell you, having use blue sky for the past couple of days now, it's nice and a lot of people are popping up on there. I see a few problems. Number one, it's tough to find people on there because you have to pretty much searcher than by name.

There's no way to import your address book, which would be really handy so you can do that. I mean, there awesome tools. Someone told me about a tool where you can take your twitter followers and it'll can them, but you have to do that in rome.

And I seem a little walking, and I think you have to give access to one of your accounts to do that, which I never really like doing. But um I guess people are making these lists of like various people in groups like all the journalists detect ourn alist. Here's a list and you can follow all them the same time so that kind of a cool feature too, but otherwise i'm kind of love in IT.

I've already got almost a thousand followers on there. So it's it's like being back in the old days. It's like you're starting something new.

You're in something fresh. I have not gone off x just yet. I'm still there. But now i'm just posting to all these places on a daily basis facebook x blue sky, what else, instagram.

So there's a lot and people are going to get kind tired of posting to all these different places. But right now. IT does feel kind of fun.

I mean, I joined. I remember the day I joined facebook pretty much the first day I could. I remember the first day I joined twitter back in the day when I could.

And it's fun. It's fun to be on kind of the ground level of these services because there are things that you find that are great and there's just a lot of growing problems, too. So if you want to find me, I am on there at rich on tech.

And it's it's kind of fun on blue sky and we ll see what happens with IT. All right? The other big story this week at bitcoin once again has surged to A A record hive over ninety thousand dollars a coin.

Why a lot of IT is because the president elect, who has a pro cyp du stance, and many people are optimistic about this digital currency, which means you're putting more money into IT. Also, institutional investors are putting money into IT. Things like retirement accounts and etf were approved by regulators and they've seen a lot of cash flowing in.

Bitcoin has now become the world's eighth largest asset, surpassing silver. That's pretty wild. But remember, crypto currency remains highly volatile. You have to know what you're doing if you're getting in on this.

I've kind all kinds of people text me saying, rich, should I get that? I can give you the advice on that if you've got money to lose, sure, go ahead. But this is not something that you can say.

I'm going to put this money in. Here is going to be there forever. We don't know that to be true.

So remember, this is an investment like anything else I could go up, you could lose at all. But no, IT is kind of fun to watch what's going on with that. This is not financial advice.

But if you're looking for a place to get IT coin basis popular, paypal has a way to buy crypto, then mo has away in cash APP. Those are all very easy ways to buy IT. Of course, do your research before you invest in anything.

And that doesn't go for just crack to that. Any time you put your money in something where could go away, come up up your calls. Eighty eight, rich, one or one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one.

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I read. Thank you for taking my call this morning. I'm calling because I have a friend mentioned me that he has big point lost somewhere on one of these old phones in an old account. He got in the only two thousands, like he said, he died to pay out. And I and I got to thinking, maybe you know of a company that helps you gain access to your old account and get access to your old decline with maybe they charged a fear, something given information. You 呢？

Oh, good question. Probably a lot of people trying to figure out what what the statues of the bitcoin did. I buy some back in the day because I know. So quick story, marcell, I did a story with bicky in back in. Oh my gosh, I think IT was bitcoin ATM.

Let's see what I did this probably in twenty o gosh, twenty seventeen I don't know, there was a long time ago, but I purchase twenty dollars with a bitcoin and I did the math and IT IT would be several thousand. I mean, now with the ninety thousand point I would be you be like probably five, six thousand box at this point. I don't know. Don't cook me on the math.

My point is I went back to that story and I tried to freeze frame the little Q R code they gave me because I just throughout the the sea, as soon as I was done with the story, as I guess doesn't go anywhere, and I tried to go back to that story and freeze frame the video where I pulled a little, see out of the bitcoin A T M, where has my Q R Q with my access to IT? I was like, can I scan this and recover this Victory in um I couldn't. But I agree there there's going be a lot of people that are wondering how to access this.

So IT is tough. And here's my advice moving forward, if you are signing up for anything, we are buying bitcoin, especially if you are signing up with one of these wallets, they give you what's call the recovery phrase. So you need to remember that.

And I specifically remember many years ago signing up for a bitcoin service, and I got the recovery phrase, and I have no idea what that is. And I can't remember if actually bought bitcoin on that account either, but my kid and I were trying to go through. And we are like signing into coin base and signing into all these apps to see.

With that said, IT is very, very tough to recover this stuff because if you're buying IT through a big company, then IT might be easier. But if you're you're buying IT through one of these wallets and you lose IT, you're not really going to get IT back. So there are a couple of resources online.

I cannot vouch for them, but I can tell you what has been featured before in various publications. And one of those is a cyp to asset recovery dot com, so that's one of them. I don't know how much they cost to do this.

Let's see pricing. Oh, wow. So password recovery, if they figure IT out, they will take twenty percent of your wallet. So you have a thousand dollars, and there they take two hundred dollars, which are probably a small Price to pay. But this is a story at a mother board.

They are talking about back on mother mother board still around um but they were talking about how these this is a father son team in new hampshire and I guess there are just trying they know people need this. So and then there's another one I found called key chain x that I O and this says wallet recovery services trusted since twenty seventeen um and they've got a whole bunch of information on there as well. So let's see key chain x can to crip most types of crypt to currency wallets a theory um okay. So they've got basically they may help you do that, but again, you're gonna pay to get this done. So how how much as your friend have did he say?

He said he bought IT like in two thousand six and put one thousand dollars.

Oh my god. Ash, yeah. Oh my gosh, to that. Yeah formation for you.

All right.

pass on the info. Uh, let's say, oh my gosh. Okay, so bit coin.

Let's see they bought IT. Let's see they bought IT for a thousand dollars. And let's see, calculate saby worth.

Okay, let's say OK saby worth ninety one thousand dollars at this point. That's just I access to quick calculate. I know that's correcter not, but that's pretty wild.

Does does not taken into concert. Okay, hold on. I gotto look up the buy Price from two thousand OK.

Hold on bitcoin Price. So in two thousand, IT was so we got to go back. Yes, I can even look up. I can even look up the Price in two thousand.

Bitcoin Price two thousand was like, oh my gosh, that's a long time OK, yeah, that's it's worth more than ninety thousand dollars. That's worth a lot of money oh my gosh okay, yeah. I would pay to have someone figure that out.

Are a good question, marco, please. No matter what you're signing up for, whether IT is bitcoin, whether IT is crypto, whether IT is an account that you open up at facebook or anything, please remember your account password. I don't know what IT is about people that just they refuse to use a password manager, get a passport manager bit warden is completely free.

All you have to do is like a little no book, just write down your user name and password as you sign up. Yes, IT takes you an extra three minutes to sign up for a website because you have to do a little legwork to generate the password and save IT. But I do with every day, and i'm telling you, IT is saved me so many times, I just set up a new computer.

I said, all never forget the password to this computer. I forgot IT as soon as I set IT up. And of course, I was in my my wallet.

Please use a pass manager, eighty rich, one or one. This is rich on tech. Welcome back to rich on tech.

Rich to miro here, hanging out you talking technology this week. If you like google, you might like their new APP for the iphone. They released their A I APP a standalone gi A I APP for the iphone.

So this is something you could access in the past, but you had to go through the google APP. Now german I A I is a stand alone. So that means you can go to the APP store search for geri AI.

Just be careful, because there's a lot of impersonators when every search for these main AI brands. So make sure you're getting that the one that is actually from google. I'll put a link on the website, rich on tech dot TV go to the show notes.

But what can you do at gni? AI, well, this this is google version of ChatGPT, so you can text IT, you can ask a questions. There's a camera mode. IT also has geri live. This is their conversational mode, so you can talk to A I in a natural language.

And I was hanging out with google this week in new york city, and he talked about how they have, not only can these things speak forty different languages, which is just absolutely wild, but the names of these are these german live characters. I guess you can call on what everyone to have. You want to describe them.

They all are inspired by heavenly bodies. So they don't want to name them traditional names because they thought to be weird. If you remember, we have theory, and we have the alexa one.

But you know, google assistant ever really had a name, but german I, they wanted to come up with these interesting kind of names that we're much more kind of mysterious because you don't want to say I am talking a bob. You know, you're just talking to. Let's see where is the voices so here's the voices .

i'm ready to be your voice if you like. You here choose me to start talking.

So that's ursa.

Feel free to keep expLoring until you find a perfect voice.

That's vega. You can always change voices later. I'll be here. Whatever you're ready to talk. And this is nova, describe as calm, mid range here, po engages is good to meet you, give me a chance or check out the other option. Maybe i'm your style, pick me and I can be the voice you here.

Why does he sound a little down? He doesn't sound like I don't know, but I like to try, do you? Let's go back.

This is dipper holiday. Maybe i'm your style. Pick me and I can be the voice you here.

I feel he might read like one of those like romance novels late at night. I don't know. I like the guy, the board.

I just want you a yeah I don't know that that one anyway so so all so this is actually, if you haven't tried this now as your time now year and I life used to be feature. They had to pay for and not sure they open that up for free now. But that is the various options once you download APP.

But that live thing is something you should really try. It's in the lower right hand corner. IT looks like kind of a voice.

But the new thing about this is that you can now just access german I A I lot faster on the iphone. Now there awesome hang ups, because this is the iphone, the way it's constructed. IT can't access other apps on the phone and lister google property.

So I can do things like google maps and link up with youtube music. But it's not going to have be able to like do other things on your phone like syria would be able to do. So just keep that in mind.

But it's kind of call I would definitely recommend downloading IT. And the thing about that need about germany is that it's up to date with all of google information. So that's kind of a little leg up against some of these other AI chat pots out there that may not be as fresh.

Like google AI gi really has all the information you need. So if you're looking for like answers to questions about things that just happened, you can get those answers a lot easier. On german, I compared to some of other things.

Now ChatGPT just introduced web search results, not as good. And also it's a premium feature. So germany, I has that built in for free, even on the free level.

So anyway, geri, for IOS, you can check IT out. Let's go to mark in los Angeles. Mark are on with .

rich h um i'm a mac guy since one hundred eighty four. I'm about to buy either an imac or a mac. Many and um one of my consideration is that if I buy a mac, many, I will have to get an external monitor. Uh the apple monitor is awesome, but they love IT as much as I do and it's kind of expensive. So i'm looking to either I would look to a four k monitor which beat less.

So i'm curious as to your thoughts on the um the visual experience uh that monitor which immediately would be awesome and a fork monitor and what brands you trust if I were to go to a fork on the third uh of a different of a different kind, I even had to bio monitor in a very long time. Well, spects are of amazing. Yes.

yes, they are. So so I will tell you as someone who just got the mac mini, so apple sent along the mac mini to test out and i've never had a mac many before and they just sent the most basic one that I was. It's like the the basic version of IT.

So it's got the sixteen gigs around. It's got the the standard m four chip is not the pro. And telling you, mark, I am in love with this thing I was on at sporting.

I was on at last night. My wife is like, you come to bed. My obsta plan on this computer, the screen is huge. They sent one of the studio display, so it's the standard studio display, which I get sixteen hundred box uh but .

it's a 2 that's what I like a circa two thousand and thirteen， uh, imac. And it's just they just not supported anymore and I won't stop working.

You know never right.

of course, but I need to replace IT. And I if I didn't costume, I went .

I yeah well, yes, there there are many other monitors are a lot cheaper. I think obviously, apple, of course, has a little bit of synergy between their monitor and their computers, but you don't really need that. But I will tell you as far as between the the imac in the mac mini, I would go with the mac mini for sure just because I love the idea that this thing is so small.

It's got ports on the front, which I really like, so you can pluggin things and it's just it's always there and it's just simple and it's nice. So when IT comes to buying the monitor, we actually had a guest on um and the guest was Matthew s. smith.

So look him up. He's got a actual i'll send up, put the links in the show notes but he mentioned all of the mourners that he recommends. I don't have IT off the top of my head, but he had a great in a whole buyers guide.

So he explained, like the difference between the monitors, which ones he likes. And I ve got to update IT all on the show notes. But I was, from what I remember, he had some pretty strong opinions on things.

He also maintains the PC mag monitor buying guide. So I would look there in the c PC mag OK. But that's why math.

Matthew s. smith.

And if you look at, if you look at his information that he's got all the monitors that he recommends on PC mac that's trying to look at up. Of course, I can't find IT. I'm talking to you a monitor buying guide on PC mac. Let me see that rockquay k Carry out the best monitors of twenty twenty four. So I mean, they're recommend, yes, some of these standard brands that you would know like the linos o dell, hp, asus, but he explains in his interview what to look for, and I think that's the main things, are so many specks that he sort of like explained what he thinks are the things that you should mainly look for in these monitors.

Yeah, i'll link IT up .

on the show notes. I can find IT right now while we're talking on the air, but IT was basically everything you need to know like I love in these experts. Come on, they just say, look, this is why I like, i've tested all these things.

This one's like five hundred box and it's going to be fantastic. So but I would say the main different stream the imac in the mac mini is know the imac is sort of like stuck in time, like once you get IT, that's IT. I mean, mac many kind of the same way like you're not onna really be upgrading a lot of stuff on there.

But I just like the idea that you're bringing your own component. So again, you can get that nice big display that you want. You can get a keyboard that you like.

I mean, you could do that with with the imac as well. But I guess the only difference is, and this is something that Matthew talk about, was whether you should get a web camp built in or not. And he he said he does not like the web camps built in.

And the reason is because they usually higher quality when they're not built in and they're also, you know, it's just much Better. I here's this buying guide OK found IT. Um okay, so he so his his best monitor overall is the dell ultra sharp.

Uh pixel is the best budget monitor for hundred and fifty box. I don't think you want that one. The best budget for k is a dell that's three hundred box. Best budget gaming monitor is also deal, so he really likes the dell stuff, msi best gaming monitor, alien wear best gaming monitor, asos. They make the best high refresh rate monitor that's a thousand box and best budget.

When gaming monitor different between the gaming monitor and just a good computer like the like the um like the studio display um is there is something different from the gaming monitor and apples expensive itor.

I believe it's is the refresh rate I think that's so meanly what IT is and how I handles that? Yeah so you probably don't need to worry about that, but that I think that's the main thing. And he explains IT let see yeah higher refresh rate.

But he was also explaining how the refresh rates you know for standard computing, you don't really need something that high. So i'm looking at the let's if you look at the the apple studios displays, see like apple, do you even mention their refresher tes on their main page because most people are not looking at that. You know it's going to look good.

Um how does okay interesting. So the studio matter does have a uh camera built and I did not didn't even notice 各种 um and the only thing that the apple monitors are doing now is they have the the the only separate the only thing is a little bit different is got the the downward facing camera。 So it's called desk views.

You can put like a piece paper for you, a zoom like in front of the monitor and it'll look down at that. So if you're sharing like things on your desk, you can do that. So that's one thing the imac does.

I'm not sure that the studio displayed us, but that's something to look for. A great question more. Yes, thanks.

I'll link IT up. Rich on tech. T, T, V. I look for the show notes. This is show number.

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You can find me on there at rich on tech if you've adopted or trying out that new social media platform. Let's go to a can you see here? Can in a honey ton beach, can't you're with rich?

Hi rich. I have the iphone twelve pro max and h two hundred and fifty six. I've got like fifteen years but he can't download us the last seventeen or eighteen I S so so they don't have enough enough memory.

Oh, you don't have of memory. Okay, so well, so you said how many gigs you have left on your phone?

Fourteen for like fourteen and .

half oh okay and so an I O S A teen is saying that's .

not enough yeah when the downing is a like .

four well okay, but that's that's the download but that doesn't take into consideration what this thing needs to do on your phone. So IT doesn't just because the download is that amount. He wants a certain amount of space on your phone to make sure that nothing gets corrupted or needs some space to work. What i'm trying to say so is any way you can free up like a couple gigs on your phone?

Yeah, I could have just that would be nice if they would tell you what they need or you know built them and with such a way that even if you I mean, you. You know you pay a lot of money for these things in the storage they should make IT. So that works and you still get your usable storage, not always have the delete of.

okay. So i'm looking at some things, some reports online and it's saying that for I O S eighteen IT looks like you need about twenty gigs of storage available now apple doesn't don't think they publish this, but um that is what people are reporting you need so that people with sixteen Young .

really I they do an tonic stuff from their baLance and so can do IT sixty four um you mean like .

sixty four total yeah yeah yeah and you know that .

is yeah that's .

unfortunate because here's the thing like for a long time and many in the tech world gave apple a lot of a lot of trouble for this, is that for many, many years, they were selling phones that were understood, right?

You had way less stories and people needed for today's current applications, which you know if you're taking any sort of 4k videos or you know even if you're downadup a lot of apps， I mean, apps today are like three hundred megabit sometimes time. So and that you know just for like an average like facebook or something. So you do need much more stories and you think on your phone and also a lot of people think that they can just buy their way to more stories with high cloud when you you can in a way.

But it's also kind of linked to your phone. So it's not that easy. But and I I do wish apple would say on the on the actual you know, when you're downloading this are trying to download like, hey, you need one more gig of storage before .

we can install this stead put up uh this then with in download or or a different way to do that on your computer or something else yeah and by the way.

they should also say, like here's three files you can delete that we think you don't need. So do you know how to free up space quickly on your phone? Or have you have you come up with a plan for that? Or no.

I, I, I, I haven't really. I mean, I have I have a lot of photos and videos, and I have a google back up and prime back up so I can I can delete a lot of those.

okay. So the easiest way to do that is if you go into, oh yeah, i've got the new IOS a team, but i've I think it's similar. But I think under general, i'm not sure if they still have IT. But he says iphone storage, this might be new.

I know they have an iphone storage somewhere on your IOS may not be under general, but there is if you find maybe to search for iphone storage and what they do is they give you recommendations for what you can do to free up some storage. So for instance, i'm looking at my phone. Netflix is holding fifteen gigs, and that's just stuff i've downloaded on netflix.

I could easily get rid of those are like downloaded shows. I can easily get rid of those in the meantime to download I O S eighteen. And then we download those shows.

Instagram eight gigs, podcast five gigs, voice memos four gigs. So again, those are some low hanging through. Pretty easy to get rid of those things without even deleting your files or videos.

But typically, what I tell people to do is as long as are backed up somewhere else, is you can delete some of the longest videos that you have on your iphone. And I think even apple makes that tRicky to find those, but sometimes they put under the recommendations. But on android, it's pretty easy just go into your files up and you just sort by the largest files.

But on iphone, you can go into videos and you can just look at the times of the videos and find the ones, let's see, can you sort view options? No filter? no.

Can't IT doesn't let you sort by biggest videos, unfortunately. But that's an easy way to do IT. It's just to look for a video that's over you like i'm looking at one that's let's see here, maybe like fifteen minutes long or something. Ten minutes long .

IT would be nice if they give you the same storage on I cloud that you buy on your phone so that if you have to do a total reset or something and I have to buying IT for a month or whatever just to save IT and put IT back yeah.

there isn't. That doesn't always .

work because I have the genius part lose a bunch of my stuff when they said a download to the and I didn't.

Well, that's that's not good. But there is a feature that apple did um introduce this year or last year with I cloud um which is i'm trying to find the exact name of IT. But yes, here is its temporary I cloud storage. I'll linked this up in the show notes. So this is actually something I did that's pretty good.

So if you have if you're switching to a new iphone and you don't have enough eyes club store to back up your current device, they will automatically expand your eyes cloud storage to a comedy, everything on your phone, so that you can move IT over to your new one. And then once it's moved over to the new one, apple will delete that information after twenty one days. So that's actually kind of a nice thing they did understanding that people don't always have as much I cloud as they have stories on their phone.

But just after, remember, can't that apple makes a lot of money on I cloud storage? That's one of the biggest growing areas of money for that company. This is rich on tech.

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How good is your password nord pass? You know, one of the password manager programs, they've have vested interest in this stuff. They've been studying passwords for four, six years.

And apparently password habits are not improving. Even with all the people like myself that are saying you gotta get a Better password, people are still using weak, weak passwords. And this is for their personal systems and their company computers.

One, two, three, four, five, six is the most common password for the fifth time in six years. Now, here's a thing you may say, oh, I do one, two, three, four, five, six examination point that'll keep him out. No, these, these hackers use sophistic ted programs.

I can figure out these passwords in seconds. In fact, look at their website, nord pasta com. Slash a most common password list, one, two, three, four, five, six, you might think, seven, eight, nine, adding to the end is going to be Better.

No one, two OK. So in the top ten you've got the combination of known in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. They've got password quarter one, two, three, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, a secret secret is number nine, yeah, that will keep out.

I love you. Number eighteen, drag in number twenty, monkey number twenty one password with a capital p number twenty six, yet that that will keep him out target one, two, three tankle number twenty nine, the above a, they found your password. Yes, is twinkle, of course, twinkle, twinkle 啊， with A G number thirty three, okay, this goes on and on.

non. Now, by the way, all of these passwords, every single one of them, until you get to the word the number, number one away, which is seven, seven, five, eight, five, two, one, every single one before that takes a second, less than a second to crack using software. This one takes four minutes, but it'll still cracked.

Let's see, anything that's seventeen met, wow. So have used the password unknown. That actually takes seventeen minutes to crack.

So I guess the at the very least of your OK. So IT looks like interesting. So the call takes two minutes. Anthony y takes seventeen to crack. They recommend a password of at least twenty characters long.

You will never remember a password that's twenty characters long, plus you have to mix upper case, lower case numbers and symbols, never reuse passwords across accounts. Consider going password list. You can use an option like package.

It's kind of funny. I've only set up package unlike one account, but every time I log into that account, I love it's so easy. You just unlock your phone and that puts you into the account is super, super easy.

And of course, use a password manager. Use a password manager. I talked about IT you can use.

There's so many. There's a bit word in that's free nord past one password dashing. There's so many.

Just pick one and use IT and secure that with with a good password and make sure that you do not lose your recovery key. Let's go to a paul in colum, ohio. Paul, you're on with rich.

I like IT. I just got a hard time. Yeah i've .

got a shia notebook that i'm donating through the local library. It's all computer but it's and IT was hardly use and I still builds up the batteries. Good month. I want to wipe IT um so they could put linux or h chrome plus something like that on, but I gets windows seven .

right now. wow. OK, yeah. So that's tRicky because the new versions of windows have an easy way to wipe on.

The old ones do not. So what what are you trying to do? What have you tried to do with this?

Oh, I know, I know not much, I want to scare up, but I know there was a stuff I woke up and said to go to restore and a recover. I think I was.

yeah.

I think I heard you talk about yeah, I think you can't screw much .

up because this computer it's going you're just going to recycle. But so on windows, let's see here. So windows eight, windows eight and ten and eleven obviously have an easy way to do this.

Windows seven does not. So there are a couple of couple of apps you can use to do this if you want to just race the hard drive. One of them is killed this.

Have you heard that one? no. okay. So that's one. There used to be one called the ban, but I guess that one is not really maintained anymore.

But that that did in the past is that you would basically make a put on a drive, like on A C, D drive. You would put IT in the drive. And as soon you try on that computer, would see that program.

And I just to raise everything. So IT seems like it's still available. But last I heard I got an email from a listener last year, dave, and he said that the ban is abandon wear is not in maintained in many years.

It's full of bugs and IT won't boot on a lot of system. So he says there is two two things that he recommended, which is n wipe in a bootiful version of that called shred OS. So those are the the things you can look up. But apparently, you know, all of these look like they take a little bit of know how to do so IT may not be that easy if you know you don't have the full know how what about just putting what about just putting the chromos on there that the chromos .

flex lex a slight? Okay, with that over right the window, they show that if you .

if you put on there as long you're installing IT and not just running IT off the you know off the USB because you can run this off a USB drive. But if you actually install IT on there, you format everything. I will wipe everything .

off so you .

might try that.

okay? And that'll make dad of.

yeah no, you want you won't need that because once it's on there. So basically you create this bootiful USB drive and then that set you installed on your mac of all see on trying to see what's going on here. okay.

Yeah, you installed on your PC match replace the Operating system and that's IT and it's that's pretty easy. Maybe just do that and that way you give IT to them already ready to go. Yeah chromo s flex it's called shot as a quick minute.

Okay uh i've got a um older if net switch that i've got my uh television and uh apple uh box connected to and sometimes by getting a pause or problem with buffering. And i'm just wondering if the switch could cut and old switch could cut. That is like eighty, eighty nine?

I don't think so. I mean, switch is going to be a minimum one hundred. It's it's a minimum one hundred. So there's no way that that's going to cause .

buffering on the system. So have you .

have .

you tried connecting .

the device via wifi tear router and see this still happens?

no. And it's hardings is hard work at this point.

Can you disconnect that hardwire now?

Yeah, I could. Sure I would. And I get.

R TV cube, okay. yeah. I mean, you shouldn't .

be experiencing buffing the fire. T, V cube, has that actually like the highest powered fire? So I would say what I would try to do is I would do two things. I would, first off, connect you might need a long ether net table to do this depending where your routes, but I would connect the fire T V cube first.

I would just tried over wifi and see if the problem persists and if the problem persists and you know it's the cube itself and its not the actual internet connection, then the second thing I would do is connect. If it's still happening that way, then I would connect the fire TV cube directly to your router with an ethernet cable and see if that happens there. So if IT continues to happen with all the different methods of connecting and you know, is something with your fire T V cube and paul, what I would do is my favourite solution is to just bring that back to factory settings and see if that continues happened.

You might have install en APP on there, something that's just not agreeing with that and IT, it's that's what's happening and causing that stumble. But in today's day age, unless you're watching the netflix live fight, you shouldn't really have buffering issues just the way IT is. Eighty eight, rich, one to one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one.

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We ve got an email from brian in Sandy ago. He says, hi rich. I love your show. I have a question about video editing. As there a software or APP that can automatically edit video clips into a full video.

I have hours of go pro footage from a motorcycle trip from Sandy ago to the bottom tip of south america, but the amount of footage feels overwhelming. Is there something I can automatically go through and find parts of clips that are good and cut them out and combine them with other clips? thanks.

Keeps keep the show rolling, brian. Yes, there are programs that can do this. But I will tell you, every time i've ever tested one, it's pretty horrible.

They're just nothing will replace an actual human being going through the video and formatting IT for the video that you want. So I understand, and this this is just a common occurrence. We shoot so many picture, so many videos, and when IT comes to placing those together is not easy.

Now, as someone who edits video every single day of my life, I find that, of course, I want to have the ultimate say to what these videos look like. And I can try, oh, pretty quickly and fine stuff, but I get IT. It's a lot of work.

It's not easy, but there are some programs that will do this, and you can try him out and see what happens. The first is actually built into go pro. So go pro knows that this is an issue for people that shoot a lot of go pro stuff.

So they have what's called go pro quick Q U, I K. So if you download that APP, and I don't think you have to pay for IT, but yeah, you can import your go pro video into there and IT will come up with a little highlight real. And all of these, by the way, will come up with the highlight real that lets you eventually tweet IT to what you want.

So go pro, not only will you take the the, the video footage that you've shot and go through, but at any other camera. So IT can be anything. So i've tried that in the past.

It's pretty good. And all these programs are really looking for they're looking for smiling faces. They are looking for the action in the shot.

They are program to look for certain things in the video clips that might make that something that you want to see eventually. They're not human beings, so they don't always get IT right, but they will do that. And all of also this go pro quick.

Can auto think the edits of music? You can change the video speed. You've got filters you can choose from.

So let's go pro quick. Q, U, I, K, I ve tried IT. I've never really, I don't think i've ever posted a video that has been made automatically. I just haven't because they just never like there are. There are almost there.

The other one that I used to use, I don't know if this is around anymore, but there's one called magistral M A G I S T O, but IT doesn't office is actually around IT looks like they might have been purchased by vimeo. And this one was actually looks like it's still on here yeah OK, oh, I was, I was purchased by vimeo. IT looks like says I was updated in twenty twenty four, so might try IT, but just o is another one that i've used in the past.

Again, it's just okay. The other one, I mean, obviously the big one is cap cut. So cap cut is gna have this feature built into IT and you can upload your stuff that will come up with a little clip real. And this might be just fine. This might be all you need is just a quick clip real of of the stuff at you shot.

But I find that if you really want to do this, download one of these apps, like, I would say, download a cap cut or downright, you know, any these video, there's so many video editing apps, but capita is one that I really like, splice is the other one that I like. Think that that's both IOS and android. But those are those are both easy ways to kind of do this on your phone.

But for me personally, if i'm doing something that that's a bigger project, i'm doing this some of my computer with final cut pro, you could also get final cut pro on your ipad. You have if you have a recent ipad, I think you've to have an m chip in the ipad to use final cut pro, but it's like five box a month. But that might be easy way to do IT on your ipad. And you might find, brian, that you enjoy doing this.

You once you start getting into IT, you might find that you really like because what you do is just take all the clips that you have, put them all on the timeline and just go through each clip and just kind of tree ogc, like just clip the parts out that aren't interesting, delete the clips that aren't interesting, and then clip the little areas of the clip that's interesting, and then you just keep going from there. So now your twenty minutes of footage becomes ten minutes of footage. Your ten minutes of footage becomes five minutes of footage.

Five minutes of footage becomes three minutes and just keep going through. So those that's the way I usually do IT if I have a lot of stuff t to work with. Great question and have fun.

That sounds like a fun trip. Now going to your amazon news before we have we've got ed bag coming up. P A wrote for USA today for many, many years and now he is the current A A R P tech editor.

He's going to talk about remote solutions for helping your aging parents with their technology chAllenges if you don't live near them or what does that talk in general been won to talk. He added all the events over the years. So we'll talk to him in just a moment.

But let me give your amazon news. So first off, amazon doing their black friday sale starts november twenty first, so they're doing IT for a week, november twenty first through december second. That might be longer than a week.

And of course, they're promising all kinds of stuff. Oh, look at this. You're going to get gas savings for the first time this year, twenty five cents of gallon for prime members.

So buy your gas during prime week. I mean, you try to buy IT anyway. Don't wait.

Amazon also launching their competitor. I guess their their answer to tmo, it's called amazon hall. This is a section that cell stuff that's just twenty dollars or less.

Many items are Priced under ten dollars. Summer loads a dollar. Here's the catch. IT takes you one to two weeks to get the stuff delivered. Amazon, which is made their name on super fast delivery.

The last time I got something delivered, I ordered IT that night, and I got to delivered between four and seven A M. So this, you have to wait up to two weeks, I guess, to compete with timo. I guess it's cheaper.

Four dollars shipping fee for anything over twenty five dollars. Fifteen dollar return window, eight thousand return location. You can get iphone sixteen case for a box seventy nine, kitchen tongs for four ninety nine, winter gloves for three dollars, twenty one cents, table runner for two dollars, ninety nine cents.

Amazon dot com sush hall. You can only shop from your phone coming up next. Ed bae will talk tech right here on rich hon.

tech. Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich, the mirror here, hanging out with you talking technology.

We will get back to those phone lines in just a moment at eighty eight. Rich, one, one. That's eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one.

Give me call. You have a question about technology. The website for the show rich on tech dt T V can also hit contact there and semi email. Joining me now is former USA today tech colonies and current A A R P tech editor ed big add. Welcome to the show.

which do I am doing? fantastic.

So we've seen each other at many the tech events over the years. How many years did you cover tech for U. S.

A today? IT was, IT was a long time. IT was time .

about twenty years, actually years, over twenty years. Yeah try to believe that goes fast.

And you remember of the first thing that while you there twenty years are talking, this is pre iphone.

It's pro iphone. I mean, there were a lot of things through the years. I mean, I remember early on excited about the first kindle, for example, wow, going back um but the iphone, of course, as we know that breaking news here changed so much and I was fortunate to be one of for reviewers I who got to review the initial iphone ahead of ahead of its launch.

And I was A I was an interesting time to say the least. And I I remember giving IT A A pretty glowing review, but and I called IT a protect. And I said, like protect, some of them turn out well, I guess the iphone didn't burn out.

No, that has been quite the quite the amazing thing for apple. But here's a thing, and this happens with a lot of tech products when you're reviewing things in a vacuum, especially something that different. That no one had ever really seen before. I mean, you're by yourself, you're reviewing this thing and you're like, I don't know, like our people gonna this or people not like IT was very limited when I first came out, but IT IT was so different that I was tough to compare IT to other things.

So exactly IT was limited but but I also was very cool I mean, you know I didn't have things that we all take for granted now you know there was no APP store to take one example um back then and and of course through the years um we know how no .

turn by turn directions. I mean they had google maps on there, but IT wasn't the turn by turn that we all know in love today. Um I remember when the the motor a thing was called the droid bionic came out with IT was the first exclusive, like turn by turn, even came with like A A harness for your card, like set IT up, like a GPS vi co, yeah yeah. So many things over the years. So tell me about a ARP as the teeth .

or what's happening. I column the girl column in which were questions from readers and so, uh uh you know i'll give a plug there, uh, sending your questions.

What are the readers are?

Well, people, you know, it's interesting because we're dealing with the fifty plus crowd. I mean, there's a lot of people who want you hold on to landline. So are there are old phone numbers and things like that.

So we get we get interesting things like that. Um certainly a like you know it's very hard to generalize. Sometimes people think, oh, a certain generation is in his tech save. But you know, lots of people have grown up for the years and in with technology who are certainly in the ARP crowd. So you know, there are people at every end of the spector in terms of technology.

And post fifty at is not that all. And maybe when I was a kid I thought I was. But no, I don't think that's that old. Let's talk about some of the stuff in your recent one of your recent articles or one of the recent articles in A P um talked about access, like remote access. If you have a parent that's across the miles they need some help with their computer is are awaited to give that remote tax support there .

there is there are several ways and uh is interesting because many people you know if you work for a company, for example, uh you may have had situations where uh you know an I T person in your organization will literally take control of your computer remotely um and if you feel comfortable with that, you let them access, you know have IT the cursor and do what they have to do well you can actually do that, say with with you know a parent or a grandparent who as you say lives miles and miles away and you can you can answer the the support call and go to their house easily um built into windows for example, is something called the windows quick assist.

And literally when you press control windows, the windows logo key and the q simultaneous ously um IT brings up this thing and there some boxes there and the tool appears it's a pop up window and IT creates a code that the person helping with being you, in this case, shares with the person needing help. And again, if they feel comfortable with this, uh, you can literally take over their computer. And you are now the I T person for your, for your mom, your dad, your grandparent.

wow. That's built in to window. I know that yeah yeah .

there are some Michael alternatives who um their budget of programs out there, I have freaky have a tested them, but their programs of names like any desk and there is something called dw service and help wire and team viewer, there's a lot of ways to do that. There's a lot of remote programs out there. Yes yeah and you ve got this one t right into windows.

That's why be for curious because okay, I look at I just looked IT up and he says learn to protect yourself from tech support schemes because here's the thing, and we know that these these sm artists, one of the biggest ways they take over people's computers as they tell them to downloaded some software, right, they say, so okay, now we're going to lead you through could this be used the furiously in that way as well? Like, should people be aware of that? If one, if someone that's not your kids says, hey, let's connect using quick, don't allow IT.

absolutely. You always have to keep your guard up, especially nowadays, you know a scams. I mean, we unfortunately it's it's the way of the world. There are a lot of scams out there and a eyes is helping perpetrate summer that I guess the bottom line here is do not do not grant for access to a device to anyone you do not trust uh and even if if somebody you've think is a relative big picture, you know when you when you're on one of these things um you know beyond the phone too, at the same time you know um that's always you know a helpful and easy thing to do and even if you're able to disconnect what you are because obviously, if you take over my computer and I don't like what you're doing, I can put you off. But before I do that, who knows what the image you might do?

What about A I, because you know, everyone's using IT. I was just doing to talk to some folks other night and I said, look, don't be afraid of A, I like, try out. You're gonna break anything.

And if you don't know how to use IT, literally, you could ask A I, you know, i'm trying to figure out how to do something. I will ask A I, how to ask IT. I'll say, hey, how would I ask you to do this and I will tell me.

yeah and sometimes, uh, exactly. And that's a good, good use a case for IT, you know, because, you know, IT helps you brain storm. You know what what is that? I forgot to ask, what is that I should be asking? Who should I should be asking? Now of course we are.

You know we have to make sure that the answers that you're getting our accurate, uh, you know there's something out there that that the tech community has called fluctuations where IT sounds like what you know that sounds like a really authority plausible answer. But guess what I might be made up or wrong now that stops getting a little bit Better. Some of the companies behind this are beginning to be a little bit Better sources for the information that that's being you know sent to you. But you really have to be careful with what you're getting back.

Yeah and that's a thing like nobody really wants to sit there, in fact, check everything. But i've been using perplexity, which I really like for the you give these answers and then i'll give you like where got the answers. I know that all of them are really starting to do that more and more like i've noticed no german.

I think they kind of pine near the the google one. I guess perplexity always did. But now i've even noticed because ChatGPT has the web search built in, I think you have to read premium to get IT. But yes, I know right now they're giving some what do we call that citations back in the day right when you wrote books report .

exactly exactly and you know I tell people have fun with A I know when I first started playing around with that, I would be in a restaurant with my family and and I remember one one time where a pizza place where was cash only and um I suddenly because I don't know about you, but I don't Carry that much cash with me anymore and I thought i'm going to ask i'm going to have ChatGPT I think I was at the time, right a little on the spot, little script of Better scene about what IT is if you're in a restaurant now you know without cash and I did IT and um you know was not an episode of blue in order or anything but wasn't bad and then i'd said, well, make IT you know add character.

Make IT Better or jazz up somehow. And I would do that now was early on so you can have fun with A I two. But just be careful if you're you, you know, be careful about using IT for something that's really serious. I health exit.

I had to get out the restaurant after cash.

My wife, I can.

Okay, well, I was. So I just, I was at a restaurant other night with my family in new york city actually, and I forgot to. I locked my wallet in my suitcase because I ve left the room and I left IT in the room to go on a run.

And when I ent out to dinner, I forgot to bring IT. And so eating dinner. And of course, I was actually treating for dinner. So I was like, you guys want to believe this, but I actually forgot my wallet. My family was like, I mean, now they all had their cards.

So like, you know, IT wasn't like we couldn't pay for dinner, but actually was able to add my card from my payment acts of a credit card APP you like one of my bank apps and IT lets you add the cards, your wallet, right from the APP. And so I thought that was kind of cool, was like, oh, this is why that's here. So I did even need the physical card, and I was able to tap to pay. I asked the way did you take tap to pay here? He's like, we do, like I, and like I will pay that way.

You were ready to wash dishes.

yeah. Well, I was going to just have my family paying and I D like, so I said, I treat, but you know your pain, any AI that you like, anything that you're using. Well.

i've try to play around with everything at this point. You know um i'm interested in where A I is going with with health care and uh really there's a lot of as you know, again, i'm not breaking news here to say that everybody is involved with this in some so i'm playing around with everybody and they all have you know things I like and things that could certainly be Better. But I it's hard to say it's hard to pick a favorite if yeah .

we're definitely I mean, i'm the same way i'm using so many different ones. Alright, A A R P tech editor ed bag were going to leave at there. What's the best way for folks to follow these days?

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I gotto tell you the gift of the year, and I said this probably last year, but IT is just unbelievably amazing. I gave my dad one of those, or a frames, A U. R.

A. And I didn't really know if he would even like IT like it's a digital picture frame, right? And I am not kidding. I have never ever in my life seen me give something to my dad that was so quickly and univerSally loved. I have just never seen anything like I like literally.

He could not believe how amazing IT was that he could see the pictures that he takes on his phone and on his kitchen counter. And he's like IT. He just keeps adding them and adding them and adding and adding.

And I said, what, you know, you everyone else can add pictures to this frame as well from our phones. And it's just it's just such an incredible thing that once again, i've just can't help recommend IT. So it's A U R.

A. And it's just i've tried to a lot of these different digital frames. I think that this brand is the best because it's so simple and easy to use. And also um the software is really good and that makes a big difference.

I may not remember back in the day when digital frames first started, you have to put like an sd card into them and that's how you got the pictures on there. This is all wifi. And the cool thing is you can when you go home for the holidays, you can set this up for your family member, and then you can still continue to put pictures on that frame from your phone, no matter where you live.

So i'll put a link in the show notes or A A U R A. And it's it's prety pretty amazing. I just thought of that because I got a notification that my dad added more pictures to his frames.

That's what I thought about, is your dad is added twenty more pictures to his frame. Let's see here website for the show. Rich on tech dot TV James wrote in question on apple passwords.

Hey, rich, I, if I have everything, apple computer, ipad, phone, is that OK to use apple passwords as my password manager instead of one past exedra, thank you. Enjoy your show and listening to you on kk ify on tuesday morning's thanks, jim, and dinner point. yes.

So I think apple passwords is perfectly fine. Apple passwords is brand new. IT is in IOS eighteen.

IT is a full fledge passwords APP you can put all your passwords in there will generate passing ds IT will do the two factor authentications you can look for your wifi passwords in there IT will also handle pass keys so IT does everything you need. Now here's my cave. This is great.

If you only use apple products, if you don't, if you are thinking of switching or use a combination of products, I don't recommend this. Now, if use a windows computer, they do have a pluggin that will make this work. But you know, apple's heart is not in anything that's not apple.

In fact, they make IT actively tough for you to use their stuff with non apple stuff. So I would say they probably, bgd gangly, made the password manager work for windows computers. But they know that, okay, you might have an iphone and plus a windows computer, fine, will give you this functionality.

But I would say, James, in your instance, yes, if you have everything apple and you're stick in an apple forever, fine, use IT. But so like even okay, let me just look at my OK so my passwords here. So like i'm looking to see if there's a way to export all my passwords to another device.

Now almost every single password manager in the world pretty much lets you export your passwords to another program if you want to switch. Of course, i'm not finding that in the apple passwords. Let me look in the apps. Let me see if it's in the maybe it's in the apps.

Let's see passwords. okay. Can you export? No, I will see any way to export my passwords.

So that would be my number one red flag is that if you're using something like a dashing or a one password or a bit word in or nord pass, there's a million of amount there. They all let you export your stuff so that you can switch to another program. Apple, I don't see that functionality, so that's one thing.

Uh, number two, I don't think is that easy to use honestly, like i'm looking to see if I want to add a new item and it's it's just okay. I mean, I think i'm just I think it's Better than nothing like obviously, IT just locks you into their ecosystem more and more. And sure, it's easy and it's gonna work with all their safari an all the suffet to me, I would just feel Better if you signed up with a third party APP.

But again, James, if you're just going to use apple stuff, fine, it's gonna and it's Better than nothing. So that's that's the main thing that's Better than nothing. I see another question here.

Dennis writes in from sanlam. I hi rich. I've lost my email, which was S P, C.

Global dot net, the southern belt. They were bought by yahoo. And years later, yahoo was bought by eight.

And three months ago, I opened up my email. Nothing there, James. I'm sorry. This is Dennis. Dennis. Yahoo has, I guess, they purchased or they whatever, IT switch over to yahoo. male.

Now, so as I understand, if you go to yahoo dot com and log in with your original S B C global dot net email address and password, your emails should be there. Same thing with cox. If you have cox cable, whatever IT was cox internet and your email used to be through coax, yahoo also purchase that.

Or I could say, I know they purchase IT or they were see to IT whatever IT was, it's handed over to yahoo. They're handling IT now same thing with A T N T told yahoo male now so just go to yahoo 的 our com， your yahoo male, and log in with your original al logging and should come over that says, I understand IT. So let me know.

Eighty eight rich one or one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero one. Come on, up to sad day in history, the guy who voice that you've got male is no longer with us all. Explain eight eight rich one on this is rich on tech.

Welcome to another hour of rich on tech. My name is rich, the miro. Glad to have you with me here hanging out talking technology.

The website for the show, rich on tech dot T, V. The phone line for the show, eight, eight, rich, one or one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one sad week. The voice behind you've got male has died.

Elwood Edwards was the iconic voice behind alls. You've got male greeting. He passed away seventy four, ign north CarOlina.

Now he recorded that famous phrase, you've got mail along with welcome files done and goodbye I can do is good to see that. Back in nineteen and eighty nine, he recorded that. And guess what? He has paid just two hundred bucks for IT.

His wife, Karen, was a customer service rep at the company and volunteered him for the job. This is when Steve case was run in the place. And just so wild that you can imagine that his wife was like, hey, would you mind recording these things? Were doing something at work. And next thing you know, you are literally the voice of millions of americans checking their email on a daily basis and logging to the internet. Edwards maintaining a successful career in broadcasting.

He made appearances on shows like the tonight show, and he just know he never really did much more than the you've got male stuff, but kinds cool, just so cool that I I think he said he didn't really make a lot of money on that, but he was able, had a nice career in broadcasting. Think he worked to the local T. V station.

But anyway, we all know that phrase. We've all said that phrase. There is a movie of the same name.

And I remember having a well, by the way, back in the day, and I remember they had a section. A well was like all little sections. IT was like sports, entertainment, news. And then there's a section called like internet.

And I remember every day i'd log on to my computer waiting for that little internet to switched from, like coming soon to like night, you can access the internet and one day just switched. And I oh my g where do I go and I don't even know. I think I probably went to like yahoo 的 dot com because there was like nothing on the internet。

I mean, there was but is like mostly like universities and personal web pages and things like that. But what a wild ride it's been. That is for sure.

What a wild ride. Let's got a Julie in downing california. Julie, I hear you. Can you lower your radio in the backgrounds? We can hear your lovely.

oh my god.

Hear me. I can hear you out like the varion guy before you went to spring OK. How that sounds great.

What can I help you with? Okay, sorry about that. okay. So my mom, who is an .

iphone ipad user, is looking to get a new ipad because he is is not rolling a charge and he can update some for apps anymore OK OK. So he doesn't want to spend the money for a row. He doesn't want. And when I started the research, I was looking as either nice or tenth generation or is there something else?

Now I just go with the the tense generation ipad for mom. I think that's going to be on sale over the holidays a lot i'm already seeing looks like the the lowest Price already is, let's see, two sixty nine. Usually it's about three fifty.

So it's already on sale. Let me so much IT is on so on apple's website, IT is the standard Price right, which is three fifty three, three twenty nine. Is that 好的？ Well, that's really weird.

If I on the main website is as three forty nine, oh, i'm on the education store. Okay, got IT. sorry. I gotto exit that. So three, three hundred and fifty books for this thing.

If you go online and you look at the different websites, amazon selling IT for about three twenty b js, which I don't think you're in downing. I think we have those out here on the west coast, but that's they are selling IT for two seventy. So I think that's a good indicator of where we might see that Price go over the holidays. Um but that's a yeah .

alive nia no, no.

no, no. But costco may sell IT for for a similar Price.

Say that Price that was two seventy nine.

So i'm looking at let's see here. yes. So amazon had IT as lowest three hundred. So I would say yeah, IT looks like IT looks like the Price point that most people are going to have at that is probably around three hundred. If you wait until black friday, like specifically that day, you're probably going to get up for a little bit cheaper.

But I think in the week's leading up to IT is going na flut with that three hundred dollar Price point and maybe places like costa and b js, because they are membership member only, they don't have their Prices as heavily advertised outside of the store and might be a little cheaper in there. But that don't go with the night, don't go with the night generation just because these things are already old to begin with, like the tenth in the night night. So I think you know the tenth is already from a couple years ago.

So I would I would differing from that. I believe it's I believe it's a twenty, twenty two model. Great website yle c mors buyers guide and if I look at the ipad, let's see here the ipad, yeah, the ipad has been out for seven hundred and sixty days since. So that's two years. But here's a thing, you know, what is mom doing on this thing.

seeing, looking up, named the medicine, and free 的， not really place any days, but you use that to look up information. Yeah, they can be dangerous.

This is, as long she's not, does SHE have her credit card attached to apple page? Maybe take that away from mom because, no, he is very easy .

to spend .

money on these things. These little ipad are literally just like there are literally like your extension of your bank account to like every company. That's what really the iphone is.

It's like I was ordering dora ash last night, which I try not to do because it's so expensive and my wife gives me a hard time because I go through like fifteen apps to see which one is the cheapest. And but these things, really, the iphone revolutionize spending money in the easiest way ever with no friction. I mean, if you really think about IT, that's really what the iphone has done anyway. So I think the ipad, this tense generation ipad will be just fine for mom.

Okay, wonderful. Thank you so much appreciated.

I have a great day there. And donny, so couple of resources for looking for deals. Number one, google shopping.

They just revamped google shopping. It's completely new. So you haven't been to IT in a while. Check IT out google outcomes last shopping. If you type in ipad tense generation, it's gonna give you all the places that sell IT that are on their kind of like network and how much they're selling IT for.

So and I shall have mention this though for mom, for the nine year old mom as well, SHE could go refurbished and save even more money. So there awesome places like um like a gizmo go you can buy refurbished oos see is back market is that that's one of them. You can buy refurbish goods.

So there's a lot of places you can go and buy these things that are cheaper. What was the other one that I just found out about? Tip top? So you can go to tip top and buy stuff there.

So there's a lot of ways you can save money. Amazon renewed anyway. So the shopping websites to look for.

The couple ways I look for deals. Number one is google shopping. Yahoo actually does a lot with shopping as well.

So yahoo shopping. And then the other one I like to do is just type in the product that you want into google. So apple ipad, tense generation. And then so just growing through the links actually hit the news tab and you will find that you will see the articles about sales related to the ipad or whatever product you're looking for.

Why do you find those? It's because all of these bloggers, it's in their best interest to post links to these product deals because they get a little tiny cut called a fillet marketing. And so anyone who posted amazon link, myself included, they might get a little tiny bit of that link if you if you buy something from them, you might they might get like one percent of that know maybe on an ipad, like a dollar, some m pennies.

But I still added up times you with these big blogs, millions of people buying offer them. They get some money every month. So again, you can see tom's guide.

Number one, link ipad. Tense generation is my favorite ipad. And one hundred fifty dollars off in an early black friday deal, two hundred ninety nine dollars that was on amazon. The other way to attract these Prices is to install a honey, which I really like, and honey has a thing called drop list. And once you put an item in your shopping car on amazon or save IT, IT will email you in that Price drops.

And i'm not kidding so I I wanted to get a new ring spotlight for my house um and IT was typically you I know whatever IT was, but I got an email from honey I just put in my shopping car and just waited and I knew this things going to go on sale and turn off honey emails me and says these things on self for one hundred thirty box and let's see how much IT is now ring spotlight I think it's a flood like camera I got let's see yeah it's up to one hundred two hundred dollars right now. I paid one thirty. So again, you're not going to sit on amazon and check the Prices every single day.

But honey is. And so I save seventy bucks on this thing just because I installed this this shopping helper. Now obviously honey is is you know of business and they are making money because I think when you click the link that they send you, they get a little person of that.

But hey, they save me seventy box. So it's all good. Anyway, i'll put all these in the shown notes.

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And coming up right away after the break, i'll tell you about dealing with flight anxiety, the apps that might be able to help this is rich on tech. Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich, the mirror here, hanging out with you, talking technology.

So this week I went to new york city. This actually might have been a limit for me. I went for twenty four hours, left L A, seven A M.

On, I don't know, tuesday morning was IT, and I returned wednesday night at eight P. M. So was basically like this, that more than twenty hours, a little bit more than twenty one night, new year city IT was a lot.

IT was a kind of tested, even myself, not because I minded doing all that travel in that time, but IT was really because I love new york city and it's such a fun place. So I went to dinner with my family on the night I was there. I actually think I mentioned I used A I to find the restaurant, so I used A I to find the restaurant.

IT was fantastic, if you want to see by, by the way, they did this thing at the italian restaurant table side timey, which I was just fantastic. It's like they made the tirely sue right their tables, which i'd never seen before. So I posted IT to my instagram at rich on tech.

And IT was fantastic. The restaurant is what I love about these little walkable cities like that is that you just walk like we're walking down the street, nothing is around. And all of my god, think the restaurant, right? Oh, there IT is, and it's right across street is little tiny italian restaurant, nicely lit, decorated for the holidays.

And I was just so nice and that the owner was there, his wife was there, were chatting with them. IT was packed and it's just IT feels like you're in a movie because it's cold outside, but it's coy inside. I want just chatting their big jackets and stuff except for me who did not realize that I was cold there.

So I end up having go to go for a run and went for a run right when I got off the plane and IT was freezing. I mean, i'm talking wind whipping all over my ears and I had shorts, and I just know so while, but I had a great time speaking of flying. If you're one of these anxious fires, and I know a lot of folks are, I am not I personally love flying.

I think it's a miracle of technology and I I love to put my faith and trust in these amazing engineers and pilots that know how to do this stuff because I don't know how works honestly. Like i'm in this metal tube that is as big as a house with three hundred other people and somehow IT is the most comfortable thing to take off from ali ax in land in york city. How's that possible? And i'm sitting there like, oh, ring the button and can I have another drink, please? How is that a thing? Like you are literally selling through the air at six hundred miles an hour at thirty five thousand feet.

IT just works ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent of the time. So anyway, need this to say, I love lying, but I know there is some White nuckles folks out there, uh, if you're one of those people, uh, traveling and leisure. H rote, an article about these are apps that can help nervous fires.

So the first one is called flying calmly. This is available for the absa in google play. IT gives you turbulence forecasts up to thirty six hours ahead. So IT shows you if there's going to be turbulence on your flight. Now I know about you if i'm a nervous fire, I don't know that a good thing or a bad thing to know IT, but I do know someone close to me that is a nervous fire. And they look up the turbulence forecast for the flight.

And I think that they feel Better if they know they're going into the flight when it's not gonna be turbulent and if IT is gonna turbulent, if that's even a word, they feel Better knowing that like that's a predictive thing, right? It's not just like random. By the way, the best book i've read that made me a very confident far was by patric Smith and trying to get the name of the book here.

Let's see, he wrote the book, let's say, flying asked the pilot, that was the book. Great, great book. And I read this book, and I I know this book made me.

I think if you don't like to fly, this book might make you a more scared fire. But for me, someone who already liked IT IT was like, okay, this is I eat anyway, asked the pilot by Patrick smith. It's great book to read if you're a scared fire.

The other things that they mentioned in this article, sore. So sore is another APP that will tell you fear. Management lessons, and also A G force reader, so you can see the g force on your plane through this APP.

okay? Think all these actually, actually secretly trying to make people more scared. And then when I like, is turbo T R B L I dot com.

And this gives you the turbulence forecast for your flight. You could just stood on the website. But what's interesting is IT gives you the historical data. So IT tells you the most turbulent routes and the most turbulent airports.

So I had a feeling that in north america, some of the most turbulent airports, okay, so the most turbulent airports of twenty twenty three in north america, number one, pourtant, number two, denver, number three, lost vegas. S I knew was lost vegas. Flying into los vegas is like White knocked your grip in that seat the entire time you're landing because it's just like you're being whipped all over the place.

What White it's like when you hold something so tight that your nuckles turn White. Okay, you never saw that. You never like held on for like dear life, I don't know, just happens no, that's it's it's terminology but I don't know maybe you know my point is it's when your nervous and is d you're hold on for dear life? You've heard of that.

You've heard of that though holding on for you so that I think it's I think IT probably comes like you can see your bone through the sky be, I don't know, I guess they are playing me off then they also have the most turbulent routes. Nash fill, I knew IT. Another one, nash fill, I flew there.

That was that, you know, nuckles bers that what they call the all has you your nuckles? If rich on text, on T, V, I link up the the apps, and we're going to talk to a turn IT in CEO. The folks would turn IT in coming up next.

Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich, the mirror here hanging out you talking technology, the website for the show. Rich on tech.

Dat, T, V, if you want the links hit the light bub for all the suffer just mentioned about the flying joining me now is turned in CPO. Any check? c. Telling any welcome to the show.

Thanks, rich. Happy to be here and excited for the conversation.

absolutely. So we're talking about turn IT in. I know does some sort of you can explain, but you in schools, a is having a big impact because it's being used for everything, not just students, but everyone's using A I for just about everything at this point. And so this is a real issue when IT comes to grading papers and students turning and stuff that don't really care if they know work the system. So explain what turn IT in does.

sure. So turn IT in is a company that spend around for over twenty five years now. I got started with the um beginning of the internet taking shape and teachers feeling that many students were going to different sites and copying and pasting and putting IT into papers. Um so different technologies, similar problem in a different age.

And so I turn IT in uh originally was created to find what we call copy paste joris m, and to let teachers know when we saw either the there was a lot of matching between a student paper and a site or perhaps even another paper that a different student changed. So really focused on academic and take t to help students really create their own original thinking. And then with the advent of ChatGPT, so the end of twenty twenty two was the release of ChatGPT um but IT wasn't the first time we started working on generate A I um ChatGPT or GPT.

Three five came out actually in june twenty twenty. So we got to play around with an in advance to really learn the statistical patterns um generate A I in writing. And so we were able to learn early.

And so when I came out a lot of our customers and teachers where we're quite afraid, I think there the sentiment has changed. I think there is still a lot of fear. But those first two months, um you know articles being written everywhere as such as like it's the end of the paper, it's the end of the S A.

Everyone's going to um and so even the new york public schools actually banned IT. IT was january of twenty twenty three. And in the hopes of preventing any problems, there was like an early chaos. And and we created um an A I writing indicators so that teachers would have insight into whether or not I was being used in papers. And so we've come a long way uh and expand quite a journey of that.

wow. So at the end of the day, it's very similar. Your teacher feeds the paper that the student writes into your software and IT tells you if it's play dice basically, or if it's coming from .

A I pretty much. So yes, the student turns IT in to their Normal, usually a learning the management system and then yes, the teachers able to see um what parts of the paper were either a matching with the different paper or predicted as A I writing and how accurate .

are you like that is you know there's so many papers out there and I guess when you say if if IT matches another paper, I think of all the movies where they pull like at the fraternity house like they pull like the filing cabin open like OK. Here's your science report that you can just copy and paste, but how accurate is your technology?

Yes, so we can divide that up so that copy paste um the example of you know pulling a paper from a database of past papers um that's harder to do with nit in nowadays. And so in that situation it's actually quite easy because we show the teacher the paper or the website or the journal article that IT matches, right? So there is what we call IT you know smoking gun.

There is very easy to point out where that match happens. Um where's A I it's not a simple right. We're not matching to something where we're using statistical patterns to determine if something was written by A I.

And in terms of the accuracy, there are two parts, and it's really important to understand that there are two parts of accuracy. Um that make up whether um the effectiveness of a tool, the first is and the most important is the false positive rate. So that is when we say or another tool says that something was written by A I and I was actually written by a human.

And so what we do is we max mize to we reduce that as much as possible. So we will change the how much we catch in order to keep that below one percent. So less than one percent of papers uh will be flagged as having over twenty percent ai um in .

total .

whether we probably miss on the other side, we probably miss about this team to twenty percent of A I we let go buy so as to keep that false positive break down.

So what I mean I guess the question is if I use AI to write my paper, what is this looking for? Are looking for just A I. Is that using A I to look for A I like IT knows that you know, when A I rights in a certain way and can a human, he said, of the false, positive and stuff. So I mean, obviously their instances worth a kid probably says, no, I wrote this whole thing and I was clearly just chat. Bt.

absolutely. And so yes, we use A I to detect AI. So because of our history, we have a lot of data on how students right, just not how humans right, but how .

students right. And so we yes and so we have .

this trove of data that shows us and statistically how students put together words um and in different types of scenarios. Uh and then we have that model and we trained IT and that compares itself to how a large language model puts together puts together words and sentences. And a large language model the way IT write um is not for completely of thought.

So when we write something we think about, okay, we're onna make a point here and we have the end in mind for writing. We know that we have to complete a thought that at the end is going to make a statement or argument or whatever IT is at our end goal is. And LLM does not have an angle in mind. IT goes word by word by word .

yeah just predicting .

the next word is exactly what is is is just predicting the next word and so it's always pulling the most possible next word which humans rarely do they do but it's rare um especially in the number of succession. So some of the safety matures we have on our A I indicator is that we won't make a prediction if the uh there's less than three hundred words um and that's unique to ours. We feel we need that, that much tax to really make a judgment that we provide ample .

es student their own, like a consumer facing tool that people can access to like put their stuff into to see if IT might be flagged.

We do not. We debate this a lot, and we debate and we talk about IT with our customers .

because I know dead. Now I just think of the reason, because then I would just take my paper, and I ve just keep tweaking one word at a time until I said, oh, this was totally written by a human.

Now I guess we do offer, I mean, we are working on how we can do that in a safe way. For instance, how do we do that and where the teacher knows that they did that. And so when our future are of our product, we're really looking more not so much about detection, but more about that transparency. So that assumption that, you know what, we're all going to use this in different ways. What are responsible ways .

of using this OK? And I have put this, i've got less than a minute, so I want, I just want, I got less than a minute. So I want, I want your advice for students and teachers about this whole situation.

Like, what is your? You have been working with this company for a long time. What's your advice to students and teachers here?

Yes, I have three teenagers, and my husband teaches high school english. So this is a very common discussion at my house. So the number one thing is, play with that yourself, right? Get a custom to IT.

If you've not open ChatGPT or a tool like that, use IT. Also ask your student to use IT in front of you. I I bet there already use the end in different ways, whether it's summarizing things, are making things easier.

Ask them to use IT in front of you even for a paper and see how they're using IT and and you can learn kind of the productive ways and the in the unproductive ways. And then when you're talking to your teach, you're suit your kids teacher, ask them their philosophy on how much they think and what types of assignments is appropriate. This is all about being transparent. It's not about you know punitive you know making a child uh puni shed because they use IT and helping them understand the right way to use IT.

Alright, any checked telling from the plagiarism detector tool, turn IT in dot com. Thanks so much for joining me today. Really interesting coming up.

We are going to have your original thoughts. Nothing ChatGPT coming up. It's going to be your original thoughts. It's the feedback right here on rich on tech. Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich, the miro here, making out with you talking technology and IT is time once again for the feedback g.

So if you don't know what the feedback g is, I get a lot of emails from you, a lot like when I say a lot, I can sit down and do emails indefinitely, like literally all day, all day, every day. But I love IT. And if you know, if you've ever written me, you might get a response because I do enjoy writing back to you.

But these are the emails, the comments, the questions, all the things that you send me that I find interesting. And I read them here in the feedback. G, if you want to submit something for the feedback g, and by the way, feeds bag is a combination of feedback and male bag.

So that's where feedback g comes from. Yes, I just thought I was clever and funny. And so we call the feedback g.

Well, I call the feedback G. I mean, really no one else. It's just me. It's literally me. So rich on act.

T, V, hit contact if you want to get your message in on the feedback. Many, right. And hey, brother, I love my ray band metas.

I had them about a year. now. Only a couple of issues. Battery life is sure. I only get about sixty to ninety minutes of music at work. Also, they don't handle recordings at live concerts.

Well, if you're up front, too much noise for the mike hope you and the family are well, yeah, we talked a lot about these ray band matters. So many questions and comments about them last week. I am loving them, everyone I show these things to, they absolutely just love him.

And i'm continuing to find more and more uses forum. So they are, they are fun. Agnes rights in, hey, rich, i'm definitely not a techy.

However, I listen to every saturday and learned something new. Just heard you talking about the ora frame you got for your dad. My kids got one for my husband, me, a couple of years ago.

Love IT IT sits where we can see IT. And at our kitchen table, IT brings a smile to our faces, seeing memories with our kids and our grandkids. And yes, all of us add to IT, which makes IT amazing to see pictures weed in ad, i'm actually looking at my ora as I type this email.

Thanks for a great show and information. Agnes, yes, i'm telling you this is, this is the easiest gift to get anyone because I just you can't look at this thing and not smile. You think that you look your photos on the phone.

You don't you realize that there is so many pictures locked onto your cell phone that you never look at. And so by day, maybe not day one, the horse is going to be amazing. But you know, day three, day four, as you get into a routine of saying I took a good picture today, let me share that to my frame or my families frame.

It's really a great thing. I'll put the link in the show notes that writes in hybrid, my name is dad and i'm blind. I love your show. Sorry, you make tech real fun.

I'd like you to have more guest song that are experts on assistive technology on your show to keep us disabled folk updated on the latest unique tech for us. Please talk more about accessibility on your show. Thank you for a great show every week.

That is a good point. We have had guests in the past talk about accessibility, and I have gone to the the sea sun accessibility conference. But um we will I will make IT a point to actually book more guests to talk about uh these things because there are just so many things that are happening on a daily basis that affect the low vision, the blind community.

Just accessibility in general. Tech is such a huge driver for accessibility. And so we do need more that.

And I will absolutely keep that mind and book more guest for that. Thanks for that. Thanks for that. That j. David rights in, don't know if this i'll be seen, but transition lengths need to be broken in by leaving them in bright sun or under ultra Violet light to get dark. If you wear them enough outside, we'll eventually dark in.

In the past that i've put them in my backyard facing south, my latest pair was treated at the store of the uv device for about ten minutes, and they got extremely dark, fully broken in here. So I mentioned that the ray bands have transition lenses that go darker, but I said they didn't get very dark and interesting. So David, jay, David says that you got ta leave outside OK.

I'll leave my side for a little bit. I feel like I have noticed they've gotten darker over time. But there they're not like sunglass dark.

You just like you, you know so it's like anyone a bonny, oh gosh, this is all about the way bands would. I would like to buy a pair of those ribs. Only promise.

No one thinks there's a large enough market for people with smaller heads, slash faces, flash lists and thus we get left out of the cool stuff because that looks ridiculous on us. Thanks for all the great thing for you share bony. You know, it's funny.

Every product that's a wearing able that I test, not someone's unhappy on one side, some people I got that watches too small, all that watches too big. So there are many. I think tech companies are getting hip to the fact that people want a variety of these devices in various sizes.

So um the ray bands do come in various sizes. So I think that um you should give give me a check. Daniel, from rather fourteen, north CarOlina.

He says he listens to the podcast and writes in he rich regarding the color who wanted to consolidate and sort photos from multiple external drives. I suggest myo photos. They have free and paid plans work across platforms and devices.

Many people love IT. I've used a little though. I'm not really a photo. Alright, my lio photos, if you want to a photo management, I personally still think google photos is the best.

In fact, I just finished a project that I ve been trying to accomplish for probably eight years now, and that is consolidating all of these different drives I had of my photos, like backup PS and getting them all into google photos, because google photos on, if you know this, but it's not going to put in duplicate. So if you have photos in different places, IT will upload those photos. And I won't put them in your collection of their dup kits, which is really nice.

So I just I was uploading, I am talking hundreds and hundreds of kicker bites of photos that I was uploading and at all went in there and it's it's fine. And now I finally have that. Now my second phase is to go to google, take out and actually download a copy.

Evolved my gool photos, Christopher from commerce, georgia, says, on your november nigh show, you spoke about home internet provided by soluble companies. I use t mobile home internet. I love IT for the pricing speed.

I browse email, stream netflix, discovery plus and paramon plus and keep my devices updated. IT works perfectly for all of that without any complaints. The speed is perfect.

Good to know, neil from ohio rights in I just wanted say the cyber security lady was great last week and today's newsletters. fantastic. I'm counting on you to help us stay more private and save more money.

Thanks, and keep them coming. Thank you, neil. I see paul rights and I agreed about what you said about the poor quality of netflix movies. IT was always a chAllenge to find something worthwhile watching, and I usually ended up disappointed in the acting or the plot I finally gave up and cancelled my subscription in these times of rising Prices.

I was shocked, shocked, shocked to borrow claude raines line from custom loca to get a email for my visible phone provider, saying my monthly fee is going down by five dollars for me being a loyal customer for six years. Thanks for all that. You do well, thank you.

And yes, that is, I joked last night on netflix, on instagram, that if you are watching hot, frosty on netflix, you should stop because we needed the bandwidth, the fight. And kimi mail means, he said, is that a real movie? And I said, yes, IT is.

It's on the home page of netflix. And you know, it's one of the hallmark movie asks, anyway, I do have not watched IT that's going to deal for this episode show. You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website.

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