The latest devices from Google and their emphasis on AI. What to do if your personal information was exposed in that massive data breach. The free VPN that's actually good and you can use right now. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on. I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech. This is the show where I talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. I answer your questions about technology and cut through all the clutter so you can live a better tech life. I believe that tech should be interesting, useful and fun. Let's open up those phone lines at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give me a call. If you have a question about technology, Let's open up that email as well. Just go to rich on tech dot tv. Hit contact rich on tech dot tv. That's the website. Go there at the top, hit content and you can send your email straight to my inbox. Guests this week on the show, Ryan Montgomery, founder of the cybersecurity firm pen Tester. He's going to talk about that big Social Security number breach and he made the tool that lets you check to see if your numbers floating out there, and he'll talk about that. Then we've got some folks from Google to talk about all of their new devices, Google Home, Google Pixel, Google Pixel Wearables. It's going to be a great conversation with them. And later in the show we're expecting to talk to Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute. He is expected to talk about the good and bad of AI. But first this week, I took a road trip to Mountain View, California. Yes, I took a road trip in an all electric suv. That's another story. I was testing it out. The new Rivian software lets you charge at Tesla superchargers, so I tested out that functionality on my way up to Google their bay View headquarters in Mountain View. This is a brand new building. It's got like a lizard skin ceiling or I don't know what you call it, roof tiles. They're kind of solar. It's really really cool looking. And that's where they held there Made by Google event. Typically they hold this event in New York City every year. This time they brought it home to San Francisco and it was a good one. First off, all about AI. Google is going all in on AI. Now, we already heard this same story from Samsung We heard the same story from Apple. But Google is in a unique position because they have been working on AI for a very long time. Most of it has been behind the scenes, powering a lot of the features on their products. Now they're saying, you know what, no, we're front and center. This stuff is out there. Gemini is our baby, and that's sort of their answer to chat GPS, and we are going to put that in every product that we make.

The latest devices from Google and their emphasis on AI. What to do if your personal information was exposed in that massive data breach. The free VPN that's actually good and you can use right now. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on. I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech. This is the show where I talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. I answer your questions about technology and cut through all the clutter so you can live a better tech life. I believe that tech should be interesting, useful and fun. Let's open up those phone lines at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give me a call. If you have a question about technology, Let's open up that email as well. Just go to rich on tech dot tv. Hit contact rich on tech dot tv. That's the website. Go there at the top, hit content and you can send your email straight to my inbox. Guests this week on the show, Ryan Montgomery, founder of the cybersecurity firm pen Tester. He's going to talk about that big Social Security number breach and he made the tool that lets you check to see if your numbers floating out there, and he'll talk about that. Then we've got some folks from Google to talk about all of their new devices, Google Home, Google Pixel, Google Pixel Wearables. It's going to be a great conversation with them. And later in the show we're expecting to talk to Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute. He is expected to talk about the good and bad of AI. But first this week, I took a road trip to Mountain View, California. Yes, I took a road trip in an all electric suv. That's another story. I was testing it out. The new Rivian software lets you charge at Tesla superchargers, so I tested out that functionality on my way up to Google their bay View headquarters in Mountain View. This is a brand new building. It's got like a lizard skin ceiling or I don't know what you call it, roof tiles. They're kind of solar. It's really really cool looking. And that's where they held there Made by Google event. Typically they hold this event in New York City every year. This time they brought it home to San Francisco and it was a good one. First off, all about AI. Google is going all in on AI. Now, we already heard this same story from Samsung We heard the same story from Apple. But Google is in a unique position because they have been working on AI for a very long time. Most of it has been behind the scenes, powering a lot of the features on their products. Now they're saying, you know what, no, we're front and center. This stuff is out there. Gemini is our baby, and that's sort of their answer to chat GPS, and we are going to put that in every product that we make.

So I don't know if you've noticed.

So I don't know if you've noticed.

If you log onto Gmail, if you log onto Google Search, if you go onto Docs, YouTube, it has AI built in in various ways. So for email, it might say summarize this email. At the top of your search results, you might get an AI powered search result. In Google Docs, Gemini pops up and says, hey, do you want some help with this document? So they are all over the place with their AI, and they made a point to take a dig at Apple saying, hey, we're making AI that everyone can access. We're making AI that's built into all of our products, not just our flagship top of the line products. If you remember with Apple their AI, Apple Intelligence is only going to be available on the iPhone fifteen Pro and higher. That means a lot of people have to upgrade this next cycle with their phone if they want to get access to Apple's AI. With Google, they are bringing it across all kinds of products and all kinds of phones.

If you log onto Gmail, if you log onto Google Search, if you go onto Docs, YouTube, it has AI built in in various ways. So for email, it might say summarize this email. At the top of your search results, you might get an AI powered search result. In Google Docs, Gemini pops up and says, hey, do you want some help with this document? So they are all over the place with their AI, and they made a point to take a dig at Apple saying, hey, we're making AI that everyone can access. We're making AI that's built into all of our products, not just our flagship top of the line products. If you remember with Apple their AI, Apple Intelligence is only going to be available on the iPhone fifteen Pro and higher. That means a lot of people have to upgrade this next cycle with their phone if they want to get access to Apple's AI. With Google, they are bringing it across all kinds of products and all kinds of phones.

Now.

Now.

The new lineup includes the Pixel nine, the Pixel nine Pro, and the Pixel nine Pro x L. They've got this new processor inside called the Tensor G four. Not the best processor in the world. Hopefully it's a little bit better. Runs kind of warm, runs kind of slow, but it's been their little baby for a while now hopefully it's a little bit better. In these new phones, improved durability, larger display options. So what I like that they've done. You've got the basic phone, which is the Pixel nine. Then you've got the Pixel nine Pro that comes in two sizes, so you can now get the same specs, but choose the size phone that you want to carry around. So if you're like me, I've been carrying a big phone for a while, I'm kind of ready for a smaller device, So you can get it in a six point three inch size or a six point eight inch size. They also went with an improved camera setup, improved front camera on the Pro models and the RAM. These things have minimum twelve gigabytes of RAM in the Pixel nine. In the Pixel pros they've got sixteen gigabytes of RAM, that is as much as a laptop computer. And Google says they're doing that because of the AI intensive tasks. If you had an older Pixel and you notice the fingerprint reader was a little slow, little wonky, it's now fifty percent faster. I have not noticed any issues on the review unit that I have, which is the Pixel nine. Can't give you my full review just yet, but I will tell you I am loving it all right. Now, let's talk about some of the new features on these devices. First off, Gemini Live. This is wild. This is their version of sort of a conversational AI assistant. I'm telling you people are going to have relationships with these ais because they sound so lifelike. You can choose from ten different voices. They are all incredibly realistic, and you can talk to them back and forth like you would a friend.

The new lineup includes the Pixel nine, the Pixel nine Pro, and the Pixel nine Pro x L. They've got this new processor inside called the Tensor G four. Not the best processor in the world. Hopefully it's a little bit better. Runs kind of warm, runs kind of slow, but it's been their little baby for a while now hopefully it's a little bit better. In these new phones, improved durability, larger display options. So what I like that they've done. You've got the basic phone, which is the Pixel nine. Then you've got the Pixel nine Pro that comes in two sizes, so you can now get the same specs, but choose the size phone that you want to carry around. So if you're like me, I've been carrying a big phone for a while, I'm kind of ready for a smaller device, So you can get it in a six point three inch size or a six point eight inch size. They also went with an improved camera setup, improved front camera on the Pro models and the RAM. These things have minimum twelve gigabytes of RAM in the Pixel nine. In the Pixel pros they've got sixteen gigabytes of RAM, that is as much as a laptop computer. And Google says they're doing that because of the AI intensive tasks. If you had an older Pixel and you notice the fingerprint reader was a little slow, little wonky, it's now fifty percent faster. I have not noticed any issues on the review unit that I have, which is the Pixel nine. Can't give you my full review just yet, but I will tell you I am loving it all right. Now, let's talk about some of the new features on these devices. First off, Gemini Live. This is wild. This is their version of sort of a conversational AI assistant. I'm telling you people are going to have relationships with these ais because they sound so lifelike. You can choose from ten different voices. They are all incredibly realistic, and you can talk to them back and forth like you would a friend.

So you can just chat.

So you can just chat.

You can put your earbut in and chat back and forth, or you can just chat with them on the phone. You can interrupt them. You could just say stuff like this morning, I was asking about the new pans that I bought, like, what's the deal with nonstick pans?

You can put your earbut in and chat back and forth, or you can just chat with them on the phone. You can interrupt them. You could just say stuff like this morning, I was asking about the new pans that I bought, like, what's the deal with nonstick pans?

Are they good for you? Bad for you?

Are they good for you? Bad for you?

And and I just answered like a regular person what It was pretty incredible And it stays around in the background, so even if your phone is closed you can are locked, you can still talk to it.

And and I just answered like a regular person what It was pretty incredible And it stays around in the background, so even if your phone is closed you can are locked, you can still talk to it.

I know.

I know.

Scary, scary, but kind of cool at the same time. Some of the other new AI features. Pixel Studio is now a new app on these phones that is an image generator, and it's one of the best I've seen using AI. It's fast, it's simple, it's free, and it's scary good. Pixel Screenshots is a new app that sounds very simple, but it's actually quite powerful. So you know all those screenshots you do on your phone to remember stuff, Well, this index is them, so you can go back and easily search the information in those. So if you get an invite to a party, you screenshot it, next thing, you know, you could just search a keyword on that invite find the information fast. It also kind of categorizes these things. It gives all the original information from the website that you screenshotted. So if you screenshot it a purse that you're looking to get as a gift, for someone. You can actually tap that information and go back to that original website, so it keeps more of that rich mat of data. Really really useful. Kind of cool pixel weather app. I don't know why Google made such a big deal out of redoing their weather app. I mean, it's weather app, but it has AI generated reports right now. So for instance, where I am, let me do the weather report, So you tap the AI generated weather report. It doesn't automatically, I guess it does automatically show it. It says warm day with a high UV index, so be sure to protect yourself from the sun. And then it gives a couple other little insights. So AI Weather Report kind of cool, kind of fun. Then you've got this new adme feature. This is kind of a wild one. You know, when you're taking a picture with someone and it's only just two of you, you got to take a selfie. Maybe you ask someone else take can you take our picture? Well, now you have the first person stand there, take their picture. Then you swap. You go have that person take the phone. You go stand there and it merges the two photos together. You kind of see a little ghost of the other person, so you can line up the picture just right, and it merges the picture.

Scary, scary, but kind of cool at the same time. Some of the other new AI features. Pixel Studio is now a new app on these phones that is an image generator, and it's one of the best I've seen using AI. It's fast, it's simple, it's free, and it's scary good. Pixel Screenshots is a new app that sounds very simple, but it's actually quite powerful. So you know all those screenshots you do on your phone to remember stuff, Well, this index is them, so you can go back and easily search the information in those. So if you get an invite to a party, you screenshot it, next thing, you know, you could just search a keyword on that invite find the information fast. It also kind of categorizes these things. It gives all the original information from the website that you screenshotted. So if you screenshot it a purse that you're looking to get as a gift, for someone. You can actually tap that information and go back to that original website, so it keeps more of that rich mat of data. Really really useful. Kind of cool pixel weather app. I don't know why Google made such a big deal out of redoing their weather app. I mean, it's weather app, but it has AI generated reports right now. So for instance, where I am, let me do the weather report, So you tap the AI generated weather report. It doesn't automatically, I guess it does automatically show it. It says warm day with a high UV index, so be sure to protect yourself from the sun. And then it gives a couple other little insights. So AI Weather Report kind of cool, kind of fun. Then you've got this new adme feature. This is kind of a wild one. You know, when you're taking a picture with someone and it's only just two of you, you got to take a selfie. Maybe you ask someone else take can you take our picture? Well, now you have the first person stand there, take their picture. Then you swap. You go have that person take the phone. You go stand there and it merges the two photos together. You kind of see a little ghost of the other person, so you can line up the picture just right, and it merges the picture.

Now.

Now.

In my experience testing this over the past couple of days, it's not perfect, but it is brand new, and I think they're still working on.

In my experience testing this over the past couple of days, it's not perfect, but it is brand new, and I think they're still working on.

It, but it's kind of cool.

It, but it's kind of cool.

We'll see if it actually lives past like you know, the the interesting novelty of it, versus like you know.

We'll see if it actually lives past like you know, the the interesting novelty of it, versus like you know.

Later on.

Later on.

They improve panoramic pictures. I mean, have you taken a panoramic picture in a while? I haven't, but they improve those. They also have a new call notes feature, so the phone will record your conversations and give you a transcript and summary when you're done. I know it sounds scary, but Apple's doing the same exact thing. And for me, my wife tells me a list of things I have to do, I hang up the phone that I go, Now, wait a second, what I have to do?

They improve panoramic pictures. I mean, have you taken a panoramic picture in a while? I haven't, but they improve those. They also have a new call notes feature, so the phone will record your conversations and give you a transcript and summary when you're done. I know it sounds scary, but Apple's doing the same exact thing. And for me, my wife tells me a list of things I have to do, I hang up the phone that I go, Now, wait a second, what I have to do?

Now?

Now?

I'm going to be I'm going to be a better husband because of this feature. I'll tell you that.

I'm going to be I'm going to be a better husband because of this feature. I'll tell you that.

Satellite SOS again, something that debuted on the iPhone two years ago, is now coming to the Pixels. It's on there so if you are in an area without cellular or without Wi Fi, you can text for help. That is incredible. Samsung can't believe they didn't come out with that, because now the Pixel's got it, Now the iPhone has it. Samsung better have that with the next go around on their devices. Seven years of operating system updates and security updates and new features seven years, So this phone's gonna last for a while. Eight hundred bucks for the Pixel nine, one thousand bucks for the Pixel nine Pro, eleven hundred dollars for the Pixel nine pro Xcel. These are in stores beginning on August twenty second. The Pixel nine Pro is September fourth. By the way, they come with two terabytes of cloud storage. The iPhone comes with five gigabytes. Two terabytes of cloud storage. That's only for a year, so if you fill it up, be prepared to pay for you know, storage after that. Also, they came out with the Pixel nine Pro fold This is their brand new foldable phone, and again it's a much better version of the original foldable. It's much thinner, it looks like two phones kind of slap together, and it's much lighter. Not much lighter, but it's lighter. That's eighteen hundred dollars. That arrives on septem number fourth. The fold is much better and I think they're going to find a much bigger audience for this phone, but I still don't really see the universal appeal of a foldable phone for the average person who is not looking to spend eighteen hundred dollars on a smartphone. All right, there you have it from Made by Google. You can find more on the website. Rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up, we're going to talk more tech news. But first it's your turn. Your calls at eighty eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.

Satellite SOS again, something that debuted on the iPhone two years ago, is now coming to the Pixels. It's on there so if you are in an area without cellular or without Wi Fi, you can text for help. That is incredible. Samsung can't believe they didn't come out with that, because now the Pixel's got it, Now the iPhone has it. Samsung better have that with the next go around on their devices. Seven years of operating system updates and security updates and new features seven years, So this phone's gonna last for a while. Eight hundred bucks for the Pixel nine, one thousand bucks for the Pixel nine Pro, eleven hundred dollars for the Pixel nine pro Xcel. These are in stores beginning on August twenty second. The Pixel nine Pro is September fourth. By the way, they come with two terabytes of cloud storage. The iPhone comes with five gigabytes. Two terabytes of cloud storage. That's only for a year, so if you fill it up, be prepared to pay for you know, storage after that. Also, they came out with the Pixel nine Pro fold This is their brand new foldable phone, and again it's a much better version of the original foldable. It's much thinner, it looks like two phones kind of slap together, and it's much lighter. Not much lighter, but it's lighter. That's eighteen hundred dollars. That arrives on septem number fourth. The fold is much better and I think they're going to find a much bigger audience for this phone, but I still don't really see the universal appeal of a foldable phone for the average person who is not looking to spend eighteen hundred dollars on a smartphone. All right, there you have it from Made by Google. You can find more on the website. Rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up, we're going to talk more tech news. But first it's your turn. Your calls at eighty eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.

Gimme a call.

Gimme a call.

You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Well, I had no idea this morning when I posted a little video to u Instagram my Instagram at rich on Tech just how controversial evs are. I posted a video of me charging o Rivian at a Tesla supercharger, and I said, does this change your mind about getting an EV And wow, did the comments come.

You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Well, I had no idea this morning when I posted a little video to u Instagram my Instagram at rich on Tech just how controversial evs are. I posted a video of me charging o Rivian at a Tesla supercharger, and I said, does this change your mind about getting an EV And wow, did the comments come.

In hot and heavy.

In hot and heavy.

I did not realize that half of America doesn't like the idea of an EV maybe more. And the reasons for not liking it range from too expensive, don't feel like charging, takes too long to charge, just everything, the batteries are not good for the environment. Lots of different reasons. So anyway, if you want to post your comment, I am reading them because I'm getting a kick out of them. Just go to at rich on tech on Instagram. All right, let's go to the phones. Let's go to Corey in Costa, Mesa. Corey, welcome to the show.

I did not realize that half of America doesn't like the idea of an EV maybe more. And the reasons for not liking it range from too expensive, don't feel like charging, takes too long to charge, just everything, the batteries are not good for the environment. Lots of different reasons. So anyway, if you want to post your comment, I am reading them because I'm getting a kick out of them. Just go to at rich on tech on Instagram. All right, let's go to the phones. Let's go to Corey in Costa, Mesa. Corey, welcome to the show.

Hey man, thank you for having me on.

Hey man, thank you for having me on.

Yeah, what can I help you with?

Yeah, what can I help you with?

So?

So?

I saw on your Instagram the post about freezing your credit and I read the blog post, but I must have missed it, and I was a little confused. How exactly do you do it?

I saw on your Instagram the post about freezing your credit and I read the blog post, but I must have missed it, and I was a little confused. How exactly do you do it?

Okay, good question.

Okay, good question.

So freezing your credit A lot of people have been asking me about this because this big data hack of two point seven billion records, including social security numbers. So you can go online, you can check this database and it will tell you if your information was leaked, and sure enough, for a lot of people it has been. So I never really thought about doing a credit freeze before. But basically, once you freeze your credit and you can do it all online. Nobody can open up as far as I know, nobody can open up any credit account in your name or pretty much any account in your name because it's frozen. So when they put your social into the bank computer, it says, nope, we gotta this is frozen.

So freezing your credit A lot of people have been asking me about this because this big data hack of two point seven billion records, including social security numbers. So you can go online, you can check this database and it will tell you if your information was leaked, and sure enough, for a lot of people it has been. So I never really thought about doing a credit freeze before. But basically, once you freeze your credit and you can do it all online. Nobody can open up as far as I know, nobody can open up any credit account in your name or pretty much any account in your name because it's frozen. So when they put your social into the bank computer, it says, nope, we gotta this is frozen.

We can't do anything with this person.

We can't do anything with this person.

So it protects you basically from identity theft as I understand it, and it seems scary, it's it seems like a lot of work, but honestly, I did it yesterday morning in about i'd say thirty minutes for all three bureaus. So there's three major credit reporting bureaus. There's Equifax, there is TransUnion and Experience. And the thing is what's tricky about them is that they are all at this point trying to sell you on services like credit monitoring, credit improvement, credit lock, whatever it is. But a credit freeze is free, and it is instant, and it's very simple to do. So I put the links. I'll put them on the show notes. But Rich on tech dot TV hit the light bulb up at the top. This is show number eighty five. I'll put all the links there so you can get the direct links because once you log in, it's kind of tricky to find the links on these different websites because they hide them.

So it protects you basically from identity theft as I understand it, and it seems scary, it's it seems like a lot of work, but honestly, I did it yesterday morning in about i'd say thirty minutes for all three bureaus. So there's three major credit reporting bureaus. There's Equifax, there is TransUnion and Experience. And the thing is what's tricky about them is that they are all at this point trying to sell you on services like credit monitoring, credit improvement, credit lock, whatever it is. But a credit freeze is free, and it is instant, and it's very simple to do. So I put the links. I'll put them on the show notes. But Rich on tech dot TV hit the light bulb up at the top. This is show number eighty five. I'll put all the links there so you can get the direct links because once you log in, it's kind of tricky to find the links on these different websites because they hide them.

They don't want people to do this.

They don't want people to do this.

Obviously, TransUnion, their entire business is selling these credit reports to banks and other places credit cards that they subscribe to get this information, so they don't want people frozen because it MUCKs up the whole system. But it's in your best interest if you're exposed on one of these data breaches. So anyway you go to the website, you sign up for the websites, you have to create a log in. When you create a log in, be sure to create a strong, unique password. You do have to provide some information, some personal information to verify you are who you say you are. And then once you're logged in, you can then navigate to these links that let you freeze your credit and you can place a freeze in a moment, you can unfreeze in another moment, and it's very very simple. So that is the process. I found it to be very easy. And the main thing is that you do need to keep track of your log in for these these different credit reporting agencies because if you don't, if you ever need to unfreeze your credit. Let's say you're buying a house, you would need to unfreeze your credit report. So that is the main thing to know. If you're not opening up a credit card or a bank account or a house loan, whatever it is, it's not an issue. It's only an issue when you need to do something with your credit. So it's probably a good idea. You know, they have made it a lot easier than in previous years now that everything's online. But good question, Corey, Thanks for that question, appreciate it. Yeah, a lot of people we're going to talk about this with our next guest, but a lot of people reeling from this major data breach. Two point seven billion records of personal information for US residents were leaked on a hacking form name social security numbers, physical addresses, aliases. It all comes from a company named National Public Data. This is a company that collects and sells access to personal data, mostly for background checks. This was two hundred and seventy seven gigabytes of data. I checked mine, I checked my moms, I checked other people's and it's a lot. It's out there, and it's scary because we've seen data breaches before, but this is very very complex information on a lot of people all at once, and so you can guarantee that this will get into the wrong hands and we're gonna start seeing a lot of issues. This is only you know, three four days in The information was leaked back in April apparently, but it wasn't available on the open web or the dark web. So now that it's available and it's out there, that's when the scam artists start taking this information and they start doing stuff with it. Now, some of the information is out of date. It even had my phone number from when I was growing up was on this database. I mean I still remember it like it was yesterday. I can still recite that phone number. I mean, how many phone numbers can you remember? At this point I was going through with my mom. I was like, can we how many phone numbers can we recite? And it's really only a couple. But teacher, kids, you know, the the vital ones, yours and your grandparents whatever, All right? Eight eight eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give me a call if you have a question about technology. Coming up, we're gonna talk more about this data brea each with the smartest guy in the room, Ryan Montgomery, founder of the cybersecurity firm pen Tester.

Obviously, TransUnion, their entire business is selling these credit reports to banks and other places credit cards that they subscribe to get this information, so they don't want people frozen because it MUCKs up the whole system. But it's in your best interest if you're exposed on one of these data breaches. So anyway you go to the website, you sign up for the websites, you have to create a log in. When you create a log in, be sure to create a strong, unique password. You do have to provide some information, some personal information to verify you are who you say you are. And then once you're logged in, you can then navigate to these links that let you freeze your credit and you can place a freeze in a moment, you can unfreeze in another moment, and it's very very simple. So that is the process. I found it to be very easy. And the main thing is that you do need to keep track of your log in for these these different credit reporting agencies because if you don't, if you ever need to unfreeze your credit. Let's say you're buying a house, you would need to unfreeze your credit report. So that is the main thing to know. If you're not opening up a credit card or a bank account or a house loan, whatever it is, it's not an issue. It's only an issue when you need to do something with your credit. So it's probably a good idea. You know, they have made it a lot easier than in previous years now that everything's online. But good question, Corey, Thanks for that question, appreciate it. Yeah, a lot of people we're going to talk about this with our next guest, but a lot of people reeling from this major data breach. Two point seven billion records of personal information for US residents were leaked on a hacking form name social security numbers, physical addresses, aliases. It all comes from a company named National Public Data. This is a company that collects and sells access to personal data, mostly for background checks. This was two hundred and seventy seven gigabytes of data. I checked mine, I checked my moms, I checked other people's and it's a lot. It's out there, and it's scary because we've seen data breaches before, but this is very very complex information on a lot of people all at once, and so you can guarantee that this will get into the wrong hands and we're gonna start seeing a lot of issues. This is only you know, three four days in The information was leaked back in April apparently, but it wasn't available on the open web or the dark web. So now that it's available and it's out there, that's when the scam artists start taking this information and they start doing stuff with it. Now, some of the information is out of date. It even had my phone number from when I was growing up was on this database. I mean I still remember it like it was yesterday. I can still recite that phone number. I mean, how many phone numbers can you remember? At this point I was going through with my mom. I was like, can we how many phone numbers can we recite? And it's really only a couple. But teacher, kids, you know, the the vital ones, yours and your grandparents whatever, All right? Eight eight eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give me a call if you have a question about technology. Coming up, we're gonna talk more about this data brea each with the smartest guy in the room, Ryan Montgomery, founder of the cybersecurity firm pen Tester.

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Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The phone lines are open at eight eight eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. If you have a question about technology, give me a call. Otherwise you can go to the website rich on Tech dot TV hit contact, send your message that way. We'll get back to the phones in just a moment here. But first, uh, bringing on the man of the hour, Ryan Montgomery, founder of the cybersecurity firm pen Tester.

Ryan, welcome to the show.

Ryan, welcome to the show.

Hey, nice to meet you, Rich. I spoke to you last oh yeah, a couple of days ago. But it's it's awesome being on the show and I appreciate you inviting me.

Hey, nice to meet you, Rich. I spoke to you last oh yeah, a couple of days ago. But it's it's awesome being on the show and I appreciate you inviting me.

Yeah, absolutely, I know you've you've had quite the whirlwind week. So mediately you run this cybersecurity firm. Explain what Pentester does briefly.

Yeah, absolutely, I know you've you've had quite the whirlwind week. So mediately you run this cybersecurity firm. Explain what Pentester does briefly.

Okay, so the short form of what Pentester does is, originally, we built the platform around if anyone knows who I am, we built the platform around investigating individuals, so you know, I hunt down child predators and counter human trafficking. So we figured, okay, let's build some build some tools for open source intelligence, which is just a fancy word for finding things about people online. Our platform, we figured, okay, we can put this in the in the standard person's hands and they can see their entire digital footprint and then give them the option to remove all of that data, you know, from all of these data broker websites, et cetera, and know what breaches they're in with their passwords, their credit cards, their socials, you know, the family members, you name it. It's basically it's out there. There's just not a centralized place to view it all. So originally we built it for businesses and we didn't have the complete function for personal, and then we realized the demand for personal and we decided we're going to do whatever it takes. And we were told literally by an attorney that it would be a disservice to our customers if we did not get breaches immediately as they were released to the public, so we got to go ahead on that. We have stayed, you know, true to that mission, and we have the largest database in the world of breach credentials as well as personal information as the other indicators. I just told you recently, this database just came up. I was you know, I downloaded it immediately as I saw it became public. There's you know, roughly three billion records in it. It was one one heck of a task to get all of that into a database that was searchable for the average person to and make it fast in the process and handle like the traffic at the moment, we're getting about twenty thousand users on the website, you know, at per moment. So we had a huge, huge technical job basically to make that thing stand up. And it's standing tall, thankfully. But yeah, it's a it's it's very bad. What we're what we're dealing with right now is probably the worst breach in the United States that I've ever seen.

Okay, so the short form of what Pentester does is, originally, we built the platform around if anyone knows who I am, we built the platform around investigating individuals, so you know, I hunt down child predators and counter human trafficking. So we figured, okay, let's build some build some tools for open source intelligence, which is just a fancy word for finding things about people online. Our platform, we figured, okay, we can put this in the in the standard person's hands and they can see their entire digital footprint and then give them the option to remove all of that data, you know, from all of these data broker websites, et cetera, and know what breaches they're in with their passwords, their credit cards, their socials, you know, the family members, you name it. It's basically it's out there. There's just not a centralized place to view it all. So originally we built it for businesses and we didn't have the complete function for personal, and then we realized the demand for personal and we decided we're going to do whatever it takes. And we were told literally by an attorney that it would be a disservice to our customers if we did not get breaches immediately as they were released to the public, so we got to go ahead on that. We have stayed, you know, true to that mission, and we have the largest database in the world of breach credentials as well as personal information as the other indicators. I just told you recently, this database just came up. I was you know, I downloaded it immediately as I saw it became public. There's you know, roughly three billion records in it. It was one one heck of a task to get all of that into a database that was searchable for the average person to and make it fast in the process and handle like the traffic at the moment, we're getting about twenty thousand users on the website, you know, at per moment. So we had a huge, huge technical job basically to make that thing stand up. And it's standing tall, thankfully. But yeah, it's a it's it's very bad. What we're what we're dealing with right now is probably the worst breach in the United States that I've ever seen.

That's wild, I I I would agree with that. And and so a couple of things. First off, the regular scan that you give, the digital footprint and scan that you've always had on your website at pentester dot com is just unbelievably complete and wild. The information that you reveal on there, So just that is like all the old stuff before this new stuff, and it's like so eye opening more so than any other like data broker kind of remover website I've ever seen. But the new tool is at NPD dot pentester dot com and that's where you have this new database of this uh social security number breach. I mean, so once you see your information in there, what do you think people should do? Is it the freeze the credit report? Is that the best advice?

That's wild, I I I would agree with that. And and so a couple of things. First off, the regular scan that you give, the digital footprint and scan that you've always had on your website at pentester dot com is just unbelievably complete and wild. The information that you reveal on there, So just that is like all the old stuff before this new stuff, and it's like so eye opening more so than any other like data broker kind of remover website I've ever seen. But the new tool is at NPD dot pentester dot com and that's where you have this new database of this uh social security number breach. I mean, so once you see your information in there, what do you think people should do? Is it the freeze the credit report? Is that the best advice?

Yeah?

Yeah?

So so when you when you look up your information, so NPD like National Public Database dot penttester dot com. But it's the acronym as you said, we threw it up there. You put in your first name, your last name that that's any state that you've ever lived in, not just the current state. Make sure you tried different variations of spelling for your name, if you have a maiden name or a different last name. Also searched that because we can't you know, there's no way for us to relate one record to another, so you know, make sure when you're searching, you don't just assume, you know, the state that you're living in with your current name is not in there. I found, you know, I found data that comes back twenty thirty years, Like yeah, my mom. For example, my mom, her her credit I'm sorry, not her credit, her her address from when she was a teenager is in this database.

So so when you when you look up your information, so NPD like National Public Database dot penttester dot com. But it's the acronym as you said, we threw it up there. You put in your first name, your last name that that's any state that you've ever lived in, not just the current state. Make sure you tried different variations of spelling for your name, if you have a maiden name or a different last name. Also searched that because we can't you know, there's no way for us to relate one record to another, so you know, make sure when you're searching, you don't just assume, you know, the state that you're living in with your current name is not in there. I found, you know, I found data that comes back twenty thirty years, Like yeah, my mom. For example, my mom, her her credit I'm sorry, not her credit, her her address from when she was a teenager is in this database.

Yeah, it's it's a really wide ranging database. Like I, like I said, I found my phone number from when I was grown up as a kid was part of this database.

Yeah, it's it's a really wide ranging database. Like I, like I said, I found my phone number from when I was grown up as a kid was part of this database.

So this is like, yeah, I.

So this is like, yeah, I.

Like where they got it. You know, I know there were a background check company, but who gave them this data?

Like where they got it. You know, I know there were a background check company, but who gave them this data?

Yeah?

Yeah?

And so so now that this is out there, you know, there's an example. You know, there's this idea of the dark web, right, so can you explain what that means exactly? And also, like, once your information's out there in the dark web, it's kind of tough to like get it out of there, isn't it.

And so so now that this is out there, you know, there's an example. You know, there's this idea of the dark web, right, so can you explain what that means exactly? And also, like, once your information's out there in the dark web, it's kind of tough to like get it out of there, isn't it.

Yeah, well, it's actually impossible. So when something you know, the word dark web can mean many things. In the technical realm, it means you're connecting to a network called tour t R. The dark web, in most people's eyes is just like the scary, dark, black black market of the Internet. But really, in regards to this, it just means the database is released two hackers, good or bad, or for people that just commit fraud, maybe they're not hackers. They can download these this database, they can search through it. They they'll be able to see your entire social Security number, along with every address that you've lived at, maybe your current phone number, maybe an old one, and then the rest of your family. And that's that's basically enough information to open up a credit card, run a credit report, buy a car, are maybe you know, do whatever they want to do with your information, and that data is gonna is going to circulate on the dark web, as you asked forever, that's never going to go away as well as you know. You know, we can remove your data from data brokers and we can alert you of this, but we cannot remove your data off of individual people's computers when they download the data for themselves. So my recommendation is really what you said as well, is is to just freeze your credit. Whether you're in this database or not, freeze it. It doesn't hurt it in any way, it doesn't benefit it doesn't benefit me in any way to tell you to do it. It's it's and another good thing that people I got a lot of questions about this. By freezing your credit, it doesn't stop your score from going up or down. It doesn't. It doesn't affect your credit in any negative way. The only inconveniences if you if you go to you know, upgrade the limit on your credit card, or buy a car, all the things I mentioned. You just sign into all the three bureaus individually on your phone, or if you don't know how to do that, you can call into all three and unfreeze it. It's a click of a button on their website or a phone call way for each one of them, and you freeze it or unfreeze it, and as soon as you're done doing what you're doing with your credit, just freeze it again. And and you know with with you know almost certainty that you're not going to be affected by this breach.

Yeah, well, it's actually impossible. So when something you know, the word dark web can mean many things. In the technical realm, it means you're connecting to a network called tour t R. The dark web, in most people's eyes is just like the scary, dark, black black market of the Internet. But really, in regards to this, it just means the database is released two hackers, good or bad, or for people that just commit fraud, maybe they're not hackers. They can download these this database, they can search through it. They they'll be able to see your entire social Security number, along with every address that you've lived at, maybe your current phone number, maybe an old one, and then the rest of your family. And that's that's basically enough information to open up a credit card, run a credit report, buy a car, are maybe you know, do whatever they want to do with your information, and that data is gonna is going to circulate on the dark web, as you asked forever, that's never going to go away as well as you know. You know, we can remove your data from data brokers and we can alert you of this, but we cannot remove your data off of individual people's computers when they download the data for themselves. So my recommendation is really what you said as well, is is to just freeze your credit. Whether you're in this database or not, freeze it. It doesn't hurt it in any way, it doesn't benefit it doesn't benefit me in any way to tell you to do it. It's it's and another good thing that people I got a lot of questions about this. By freezing your credit, it doesn't stop your score from going up or down. It doesn't. It doesn't affect your credit in any negative way. The only inconveniences if you if you go to you know, upgrade the limit on your credit card, or buy a car, all the things I mentioned. You just sign into all the three bureaus individually on your phone, or if you don't know how to do that, you can call into all three and unfreeze it. It's a click of a button on their website or a phone call way for each one of them, and you freeze it or unfreeze it, and as soon as you're done doing what you're doing with your credit, just freeze it again. And and you know with with you know almost certainty that you're not going to be affected by this breach.

Wow, So what do you make of all this? You know, this information that's floating around out there. You've got average people who are working, they're busy, they've got kids, family, you know, other things they're dealing with, and there's this whole world of just like we're always inundated with like scams and texts and links and phishing.

Wow, So what do you make of all this? You know, this information that's floating around out there. You've got average people who are working, they're busy, they've got kids, family, you know, other things they're dealing with, and there's this whole world of just like we're always inundated with like scams and texts and links and phishing.

I mean, your job's never going away.

I mean, your job's never going away.

No, I mean it's a it's good and bad at the same time. It's a it's a it's very unfortunate that that, you know, almost our entire country was breached in the last few days. Yeah, my uh, my job, Tensester dot com is not going anywhere, you know, it's it's a blessing and a curse. To be honest with you, Rich.

No, I mean it's a it's good and bad at the same time. It's a it's a it's very unfortunate that that, you know, almost our entire country was breached in the last few days. Yeah, my uh, my job, Tensester dot com is not going anywhere, you know, it's it's a blessing and a curse. To be honest with you, Rich.

And how do you think the average person if you can give them some advice, what would it be.

And how do you think the average person if you can give them some advice, what would it be.

In the last minute here.

In the last minute here.

My advice would be to to you know, this is this is not me trying to sell my platform. I just as Rich said, he saw other data broke removal platforms and what they do is great. The thing that they don't do is show you your entire digital footprint, which is something that you should all know. You should know if you're in a wedding photo from ten years ago, when you search your face, you know, maybe maybe you want to do reverse facial recognition on yourself, or you know, maybe you want to see what passwords were associated with every email you've ever had, or maybe you forgot about an email that you had back in the AOL days and that has a password or some private information associated with you. And then lastly, uh, you know, do the social accounts so we identify based on your phone number and email addresses which accounts you're signed up for, so you know, for yourself, it's nice to know out what's out there, and the way to get rid of that is just to lead that account if you don't want it. And then another thing for your children, if you you know, if you don't want your children on certain websites or you want to know what sites they're on, you can add them as an identity and you could do this securely through our website and and then we'll be able to tell you with absolute certainty which websites that they are they're registered to, which is a very unique offering that no one else has either.

My advice would be to to you know, this is this is not me trying to sell my platform. I just as Rich said, he saw other data broke removal platforms and what they do is great. The thing that they don't do is show you your entire digital footprint, which is something that you should all know. You should know if you're in a wedding photo from ten years ago, when you search your face, you know, maybe maybe you want to do reverse facial recognition on yourself, or you know, maybe you want to see what passwords were associated with every email you've ever had, or maybe you forgot about an email that you had back in the AOL days and that has a password or some private information associated with you. And then lastly, uh, you know, do the social accounts so we identify based on your phone number and email addresses which accounts you're signed up for, so you know, for yourself, it's nice to know out what's out there, and the way to get rid of that is just to lead that account if you don't want it. And then another thing for your children, if you you know, if you don't want your children on certain websites or you want to know what sites they're on, you can add them as an identity and you could do this securely through our website and and then we'll be able to tell you with absolute certainty which websites that they are they're registered to, which is a very unique offering that no one else has either.

Wow, and a couple other things, real quick virus protection on your computer. Do you recommend that or do you think Windows Defender is good enough? And also VPN When should someone use that?

Wow, and a couple other things, real quick virus protection on your computer. Do you recommend that or do you think Windows Defender is good enough? And also VPN When should someone use that?

Okay, so Windows Defenders has gotten better over the years, I'd recommend some other ones. I like Bitdefender. I also like e set, e S, e T. I like them as well. Bitdefender has a free version. I'm not sure if e set does, but I know for sure bitdefender does. And then the other question was what did you say VPN.

Okay, so Windows Defenders has gotten better over the years, I'd recommend some other ones. I like Bitdefender. I also like e set, e S, e T. I like them as well. Bitdefender has a free version. I'm not sure if e set does, but I know for sure bitdefender does. And then the other question was what did you say VPN.

Do you think people should use a VPN?

Do you think people should use a VPN?

Ever, Yeah, well, VPN can hurt so if you're in a public place. And I've made many videos about Wi Fi hacking and networks vulnerabilities just in general, and I like to simplify my contest so people understand it. But something interesting about a VPN is it stops a lot of these attacks that the average hacker could do on your network. Not only does it protect your privacy on the other side of things when you connect to a website, but on your local network where if you're on a public network I got Starbucks or at the airport, it protects you from those attacks as well. So I'd highly recommend a VPN. There's there's gonna be people out there that care about if a VPN logs what you do or they don't log what you do. All of them, for the most part, they're gonna claim they don't log it. I know that IVPN doesn't log mole because that was proven in the Supreme Court. That's one I know for sure. Of the second one, Mullavad you can mail them cash and with an account number and they'll activate it. So even if they do store logs, which I don't think they do, but let's say they do. They don't even know who you are. Wow, So you know it's nice to have. It's it's it's to be extra safe.

Ever, Yeah, well, VPN can hurt so if you're in a public place. And I've made many videos about Wi Fi hacking and networks vulnerabilities just in general, and I like to simplify my contest so people understand it. But something interesting about a VPN is it stops a lot of these attacks that the average hacker could do on your network. Not only does it protect your privacy on the other side of things when you connect to a website, but on your local network where if you're on a public network I got Starbucks or at the airport, it protects you from those attacks as well. So I'd highly recommend a VPN. There's there's gonna be people out there that care about if a VPN logs what you do or they don't log what you do. All of them, for the most part, they're gonna claim they don't log it. I know that IVPN doesn't log mole because that was proven in the Supreme Court. That's one I know for sure. Of the second one, Mullavad you can mail them cash and with an account number and they'll activate it. So even if they do store logs, which I don't think they do, but let's say they do. They don't even know who you are. Wow, So you know it's nice to have. It's it's it's to be extra safe.

Got it?

Got it?

All right, Ryan Montgomery, We're gonna leave it there, founder of pen Tester, the cybersecurity firm. Definitely go to NPD dotpentester dot com.

All right, Ryan Montgomery, We're gonna leave it there, founder of pen Tester, the cybersecurity firm. Definitely go to NPD dotpentester dot com.

And Ryan, what's the best way for folks to follow you online?

And Ryan, what's the best way for folks to follow you online?

The best way to follow me if you want to learn more than obviously the MPD breach right now is something that definitely, you know, act on, but if you want to follow and learn some more stuff about, you know, get cars being hacked, your garage door being hacked, how people can steal your credit card, hack your phone. I mean, I make short videos thirty sixty seconds long on all platforms, but right now, the most active is my Instagram and that's at zero, like the digit zero day, like day night is zero day. So Instagram is the best ways the place to find me at the moment, at the moment.

The best way to follow me if you want to learn more than obviously the MPD breach right now is something that definitely, you know, act on, but if you want to follow and learn some more stuff about, you know, get cars being hacked, your garage door being hacked, how people can steal your credit card, hack your phone. I mean, I make short videos thirty sixty seconds long on all platforms, but right now, the most active is my Instagram and that's at zero, like the digit zero day, like day night is zero day. So Instagram is the best ways the place to find me at the moment, at the moment.

All right, We're gonna leave it there. Thanks so much for joining me on the show today. But I'll put all those links on the website Richontech dot TV eight eight eight rich one oh one. Coming up, Samsung is expanding its AI powered Circle to search feature to more devices.

All right, We're gonna leave it there. Thanks so much for joining me on the show today. But I'll put all those links on the website Richontech dot TV eight eight eight rich one oh one. Coming up, Samsung is expanding its AI powered Circle to search feature to more devices.

Is it yours?

Is it yours?

Find out? Coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The phone number for the you know, eight eight eight rich one on one, that's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero on. We just got some great information about that massive data breach. It is all linked up on the website. Our guests shared some great tools, not only a way to check to see if you've been breached, but also some of the security programs that he recommended for free free anti virus, and also the VPNs and his Instagram. So I've got to all linked up on the website. Go to rich on Tech dot TV. Hit the light bulb icon up at the top and that should bring you to the show notes. We're show number eighty five today, so you can just look for that and the guest Ryan Montgomery, all of his information is there really really good information. Let's go to Eric in the Inland umpire. Eric, you're on with rich.

Find out? Coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The phone number for the you know, eight eight eight rich one on one, that's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero on. We just got some great information about that massive data breach. It is all linked up on the website. Our guests shared some great tools, not only a way to check to see if you've been breached, but also some of the security programs that he recommended for free free anti virus, and also the VPNs and his Instagram. So I've got to all linked up on the website. Go to rich on Tech dot TV. Hit the light bulb icon up at the top and that should bring you to the show notes. We're show number eighty five today, so you can just look for that and the guest Ryan Montgomery, all of his information is there really really good information. Let's go to Eric in the Inland umpire. Eric, you're on with rich.

Hey, rich thanks for taking my call.

Hey, rich thanks for taking my call.

Yeah, how can I help.

Yeah, how can I help.

I jumped on.

I jumped on.

Jumped in the truck right at the top of the show.

Jumped in the truck right at the top of the show.

And you were mentioning something about AI tools embedded in your phones that transcribe your phone calls. And given the context, I missed what the name of it was, but given the context, it sounded like a Google service. Our company uses Apple products. Is there a service similar to that that we can implement for our program managers and stuff to utilize these tools? And then I have another question when you when you answer that one great question.

And you were mentioning something about AI tools embedded in your phones that transcribe your phone calls. And given the context, I missed what the name of it was, but given the context, it sounded like a Google service. Our company uses Apple products. Is there a service similar to that that we can implement for our program managers and stuff to utilize these tools? And then I have another question when you when you answer that one great question.

So yes, the feature that I mentioned is coming to the Pixel. It's called call notes and basically, when you're in a call, you can tap and it will record the phone call. Yes, there's privacy concerns, but the according to the Google folks I spoke to, it says a recording. It says, hey, this call is being recorded by Google. You know, you can hang up if you don't want to be a part of that whatever. So that's happening with with the Pixel side of things. And basically when you hang up, it will give you the transcript of your phone call and it will summarize that transcript as well. So if someone set a phone number or an account number, or whatever, you know, notes that you have in that call. It'll summarize that, which is very handy. You said you use the iPhone side of things. Apple's also coming out with this as well. So iOS eighteen will have a feature that I don't know if they've given it a name, a proper name, but it's basically a call recording, same exact feature, it's the same exact thing. So it's built into the iPhone. When you download iOS eighteen and you get this Apple Intelligence, it will let you record the phone call and it will summarize the call and give you a transcript afterwards. So that is the main thing to know here is that it has to be on compatible devices.

So yes, the feature that I mentioned is coming to the Pixel. It's called call notes and basically, when you're in a call, you can tap and it will record the phone call. Yes, there's privacy concerns, but the according to the Google folks I spoke to, it says a recording. It says, hey, this call is being recorded by Google. You know, you can hang up if you don't want to be a part of that whatever. So that's happening with with the Pixel side of things. And basically when you hang up, it will give you the transcript of your phone call and it will summarize that transcript as well. So if someone set a phone number or an account number, or whatever, you know, notes that you have in that call. It'll summarize that, which is very handy. You said you use the iPhone side of things. Apple's also coming out with this as well. So iOS eighteen will have a feature that I don't know if they've given it a name, a proper name, but it's basically a call recording, same exact feature, it's the same exact thing. So it's built into the iPhone. When you download iOS eighteen and you get this Apple Intelligence, it will let you record the phone call and it will summarize the call and give you a transcript afterwards. So that is the main thing to know here is that it has to be on compatible devices.

So the question is it's okay.

So the question is it's okay.

It looks like it's going to be available on any device that works with iOS eighteen. Do't need an iPhone fifteen proto unlock it, so only the transcript summary uses AI. Yeah that's a good, good thing for your for your company. But yeah, that's gonna come out. That's going to come out in September, So basically, come September, you know we've got this. I've got the new pixel here. I didn't see that feature just yet on the pixel that they provided me as my review unit. But I assume maybe it's just it's coming out any day now on there, but then on Apple it'll be usually September where this stuff is coming.

It looks like it's going to be available on any device that works with iOS eighteen. Do't need an iPhone fifteen proto unlock it, so only the transcript summary uses AI. Yeah that's a good, good thing for your for your company. But yeah, that's gonna come out. That's going to come out in September, So basically, come September, you know we've got this. I've got the new pixel here. I didn't see that feature just yet on the pixel that they provided me as my review unit. But I assume maybe it's just it's coming out any day now on there, but then on Apple it'll be usually September where this stuff is coming.

Out awesome, So we don't have to wait much longer.

Out awesome, So we don't have to wait much longer.

Not much longer. I'm telling you.

Not much longer. I'm telling you.

In the future, every phone, everything's going to be recorded, not just phone calls. There's like there are pendants that people are going to be able to wear that will record all the time, so that you can transcribe your world, like your life and just remember notes. I mean, it's it's quite incredible. I know it's scary, it sounds weird, but you know, there are some business use cases for this stuff, like you mentioned. You know, even if you go to the doctor, you know, they always tell you all this stuff at the end of your appointment and you don't remember any of it, you know, and then they give you this.

In the future, every phone, everything's going to be recorded, not just phone calls. There's like there are pendants that people are going to be able to wear that will record all the time, so that you can transcribe your world, like your life and just remember notes. I mean, it's it's quite incredible. I know it's scary, it sounds weird, but you know, there are some business use cases for this stuff, like you mentioned. You know, even if you go to the doctor, you know, they always tell you all this stuff at the end of your appointment and you don't remember any of it, you know, and then they give you this.

You know, they don't give you notes. What was the second question?

You know, they don't give you notes. What was the second question?

So the second part of my question is our company we process ap uh daily and we are just getting absolutely buried in invoices and packing slips and whatever other nonsense you can you can picture. For a large construction company, of the paperwork flow. Is there a program that you like the best or that you recommend the best that AI can help us optimize this this constant barrage of paperwork, whether that be.

So the second part of my question is our company we process ap uh daily and we are just getting absolutely buried in invoices and packing slips and whatever other nonsense you can you can picture. For a large construction company, of the paperwork flow. Is there a program that you like the best or that you recommend the best that AI can help us optimize this this constant barrage of paperwork, whether that be.

An email inbox that.

An email inbox that.

Is dedicated to an AI reader, AI process, or how how can we optimize this better? Because we're getting our our rear ends sticked uh with this just constant barrage of paperwork fairly large company, so it needs to be a pretty uh you know.

Is dedicated to an AI reader, AI process, or how how can we optimize this better? Because we're getting our our rear ends sticked uh with this just constant barrage of paperwork fairly large company, so it needs to be a pretty uh you know.

Heavy duty solution.

Heavy duty solution.

Yeah. Well that so that's the thing.

Yeah. Well that so that's the thing.

I mean, so a lot of people have been using you know, the kind of consumer aspect of chatchybt Claude Gemini for their you know, very consumer oriented things, and of course anyone who works at a company, you know, maybe kind of dabbling with these tools to kind of figure out how they can use them in their in their workflow, you know, writing emails better, all that kind of stuff. When it comes to a large corporation, you've got to have a uh an enterprise solution for that, because number one, you've got data security. You cannot just be putting in your private uh you know, accounts payable information into some random uh AI.

I mean, so a lot of people have been using you know, the kind of consumer aspect of chatchybt Claude Gemini for their you know, very consumer oriented things, and of course anyone who works at a company, you know, maybe kind of dabbling with these tools to kind of figure out how they can use them in their in their workflow, you know, writing emails better, all that kind of stuff. When it comes to a large corporation, you've got to have a uh an enterprise solution for that, because number one, you've got data security. You cannot just be putting in your private uh you know, accounts payable information into some random uh AI.

So you're going to have to go. I'm guessing the big.

So you're going to have to go. I'm guessing the big.

Providers that you're already using for some of these workflows are probably working on AI integrations. I think right now it's a little tricky because it's all about the privacy, and so you need to know that the stuff that you're using is not going to be feeding your information out into the larger web or into the database of these AI companies. So I know, you know, you got to look at the enterprise stuff from Microsoft, Salesforce, all those kind of big companies that are working on the enterprise side of things. I don't have a company or a solution that I like personally because I'm not really dealing with the corporate side of things. Mostly I'm doing the consumer side. But that's kind of where I would look is the companies that you're already dealing with, see, you know, see what they're looking at when it comes to AI. Maybe they already have the solutions, maybe they don't, or it might be that you have to go with one of these startups. But again, a lot of them on the back end are using something like the chat GBT or the the open AI APIs great questions today, Eric, thanks for the calls. Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one coming up. I'll tell you why Peloton and fit it are teaming up. You can get some free classes. You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to another hour of Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology, having a lot of fun, giving out good information that's usable. Yes, people are always surprised when they listen to this show because they're like, wait a second, I'm learning a lot. I know it's a foreign concept sometimes in today's day and age of clickable click baity headlines and quick takes and hot takes and Instagram and TikTok. No, this is the real deal. This is where I actually tell you the stuff that I think you should know. Because I am covering this stuff on a daily basis, I'm keeping track of it, I'm organizing it. I'm making sure the stuff that I think you should know is on this show. That's why I say it at the beginning of every show. It's not just random stuff to get you to listen, or random stuff to you know, get you mad or angry. It is stuff that I think you need to know as a person that's busy, someone that's working, someone that has things to do. That's why you listen to me so that I can break this stuff down for you. And I do thank you for tuning in and listening. The website for the show Rich on tech dot TV. The phone number eight eight eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. This show a lot of it does focus on Google because Google just had their event this week, and so I'm still going through some of the different products that they announced.

Providers that you're already using for some of these workflows are probably working on AI integrations. I think right now it's a little tricky because it's all about the privacy, and so you need to know that the stuff that you're using is not going to be feeding your information out into the larger web or into the database of these AI companies. So I know, you know, you got to look at the enterprise stuff from Microsoft, Salesforce, all those kind of big companies that are working on the enterprise side of things. I don't have a company or a solution that I like personally because I'm not really dealing with the corporate side of things. Mostly I'm doing the consumer side. But that's kind of where I would look is the companies that you're already dealing with, see, you know, see what they're looking at when it comes to AI. Maybe they already have the solutions, maybe they don't, or it might be that you have to go with one of these startups. But again, a lot of them on the back end are using something like the chat GBT or the the open AI APIs great questions today, Eric, thanks for the calls. Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one coming up. I'll tell you why Peloton and fit it are teaming up. You can get some free classes. You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to another hour of Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology, having a lot of fun, giving out good information that's usable. Yes, people are always surprised when they listen to this show because they're like, wait a second, I'm learning a lot. I know it's a foreign concept sometimes in today's day and age of clickable click baity headlines and quick takes and hot takes and Instagram and TikTok. No, this is the real deal. This is where I actually tell you the stuff that I think you should know. Because I am covering this stuff on a daily basis, I'm keeping track of it, I'm organizing it. I'm making sure the stuff that I think you should know is on this show. That's why I say it at the beginning of every show. It's not just random stuff to get you to listen, or random stuff to you know, get you mad or angry. It is stuff that I think you need to know as a person that's busy, someone that's working, someone that has things to do. That's why you listen to me so that I can break this stuff down for you. And I do thank you for tuning in and listening. The website for the show Rich on tech dot TV. The phone number eight eight eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. This show a lot of it does focus on Google because Google just had their event this week, and so I'm still going through some of the different products that they announced.

I'll tell you about two.

I'll tell you about two.

More of those, and then later on in this hour, we do have some interviews with the Google folks to go more in depth on those. Sophie wrote in on the website, Hey, Rich, I'm listening today. You mentioned it so fast I cannot get the name of the app. I take a lot of screenshots. It's an app to help categorize them and pull them up. It's Google something. Also, I have an iPhone fourteen. Is it just for Android or no, thanks Sophie. Sophie, it is called the Pixel screen Shots app, and yes, it's built into the new Pixel smartphones. No word yet whether this is going to come to other Android phones, but It's a really smart app. Basically, every time you take a screenshot on your phone, it indexes the information and that screenshot to make it searchable. You can also categorize them. So let's say you're taking screenshots of gifts or gift ideas or places you want to go on your vacation. You can put them into categories as well. It's using a lot of AI plus you can tap the screenshot to go back to the original website, which is smart as well. I have a feeling someone is going to make something like this for the iPhone. It's not unheard of to make an app like this for the iPhone pretty easy and pretty quickly. I mean it should be Google because they already have the technology. The problem is these companies like to have stuff exclusively for their products. We're seeing a tech world where more and more it's getting highly competitive, and so these every company pretty much kind of holds back a little bit where they have these things start on their products specifically or a specific model of a tech product that's new, and then eventually later on it will come to other products. Case in point, Google Circle to Search. This is something that launched on the Samsung S twenty four lineup of smartphones. It's a very cool way to search, where you press and hold on the home button and then you can tap or circle or highlight anything on your screen to search Google. And this was a collaboration between Samsung and Google to come up with a killer new feature that would sell a lot of smartphones. And I'm not sure if it's sold a lot of smartphones, but it's really helpful. In fact, when I am not using an Android phone, I feel lost on the iPhone because you just can't tap the screen to like search something. Let's say you're scrolling through Instagram and you see something cool, You're like, I want more information about that restaurant or those you know, that gadget or whatever you see. You could just literally circle to search and it will give you all the information. It's really really helpful, and that has made its way to more phones.