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right, every single day, I visit at least 35, sometimes

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40 different websites to make sure we're both

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up to date in the tech universe.

2:39

And here are the top five things you need to know

2:41

that are happening right now. And

2:43

how about your iPhone? That's where we're gonna start. And I

2:45

love my iPhone. I use it for work, I use it

2:47

for pleasure, I sit there and

2:49

I scroll on Instagram, I take photos and

2:51

videos. I mean, when I'm traveling, I no

2:53

longer even carry a separate camera. I just

2:55

take photos and videos with my iPhone. Here's

2:58

the problem. A lot of people are saying that

3:01

Apple is what? A monopoly because

3:03

they make it difficult to use

3:05

their iPhone and their iDevices with

3:07

people who are not on iPhones

3:09

or iDevices. Like for example, let's

3:11

look at Android owners. You're

3:13

gonna text somebody who's an Android, you don't

3:15

get that beautiful blue bubble, do you? No,

3:18

you're degraded into green. And

3:21

that's one of the reasons why the US government is suing

3:23

Apple in a big time antitrust lawsuit. It

3:25

says that the iPhone has a monopoly over

3:27

the smartphone market, not because

3:29

Apple makes its own products better, this

3:32

is the key, but it makes

3:34

other products worse. Now they do

3:36

have a point, but speaking of sales, the

3:38

last quarter of 2023, listen to this number, oh

3:42

my gosh, Apple owned 61% of

3:44

the smartphone sales, 61%,

3:48

wow. Moving on

3:50

to number two, who's gonna buy TikTok? The

3:52

Communist China app is gonna be banned in

3:54

the US, unless of course an American company

3:56

buys it. I mean, I would if I could, 160. 70

4:00

million Americans on it, dang. So who's in

4:02

the running? Former Treasury Secretary Steve

4:04

Mnuchin. I guess apparently he's talking

4:06

to the Arabs. There's Rumble,

4:09

the company wrote a letter to the CEO

4:11

of TikTok, Mr. Chu. Former

4:13

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. He

4:16

wants him. Kevin O'Leary.

4:19

Actually, Kevin O'Leary was on ABC News this

4:21

past week. Here's what he had to say

4:23

about it. So think of

4:25

it in two stacks. One is the 170

4:27

million users and the brand name TikTok. So

4:30

that's valuable. But not that valuable if

4:32

you don't get the algorithms which give

4:35

you the preferences and history of those

4:37

users. And so what's being proposed, at

4:39

least it's being speculated, is that the

4:42

algorithm is not for sale. That's

4:46

key. The algorithm is

4:48

not for sale. They

4:50

can always make that up in time. But Microsoft

4:53

and Oracle, they supposedly said no in

4:55

the past. So how much is TikTok

4:57

worth? I've seen numbers anywhere from $40

5:00

billion to $200 billion. Moving

5:04

on to number three, Glassdoors and

5:07

Glassholes. That's right. I've said

5:09

this so many times. Nothing you do online

5:11

is ever really anonymous. And

5:13

that's what people are finding out

5:16

who have posted these nasty, fake,

5:18

anonymous reviews on Glassdoor. I

5:21

mean, they thought they would be

5:23

anonymous, but not anymore. You see,

5:25

Glassdoor attracts so many disgruntled former

5:27

employees. They leave the most scathing,

5:29

untrue stories about former current companies

5:32

and bosses. There's just one problem.

5:34

Glassdoor is now requiring that

5:36

all users register their real

5:38

names in order to post reviews. So

5:41

so many people on there are having a

5:43

complete meltdown because they've been leaving all these

5:45

nasty reviews. Trust me, I've been the subject

5:47

of many of them. So yes, you can

5:49

still choose to remain anonymous. But for the

5:52

first time, Glassdoor is going to have real

5:54

names on file. You know what that means.

5:57

Names can be subpoenaed if a business decides

5:59

to sue. Sue. Moving

6:01

on to number four, if you have

6:03

a VPN and you are marketing one,

6:06

now's the time to start advertising in

6:08

Texas. Why? Foreign Hub has been blocked

6:10

in Texas over a new age verification

6:12

law that requires folks to show a

6:14

government issued ID in order

6:16

to use the site. How do

6:18

they restrict this? By using something

6:21

called GeoBlock. It uses a person's

6:23

IP address to see which states

6:25

can access a website. So, Texas

6:27

like shut it down. They're not

6:29

alone. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North

6:31

Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia have

6:33

already done this. So, how do

6:36

you get around this? You

6:38

use a VPN and

6:40

the searches for VPNs in Texas have soared

6:42

more than 1700%. Wow.

6:47

Finally, this coming in number five, where is

6:50

Kate Middleton? I'm sure

6:52

you've seen the news. Kensington Palace announced

6:54

that Kate would be off of her

6:56

duties until after Easter because she had

6:58

abdominal surgery. And then there was that

7:00

picture that came out and Reuters and

7:03

all the other huge news agencies said,

7:05

we can't run this because it's been

7:07

altered. And then Kate Middleton went

7:09

to Twitter to say, oh, I like to experiment

7:11

with Photoshop like a lot of other people. So

7:13

now conspiracy theories are

7:15

going wild. Number one, people say she's

7:18

dead. She passed away. Two,

7:20

King Charles is dead. Three, she's getting

7:22

divorced. Four, she got a Brazilian butt

7:25

lift. I saw that. Five,

7:28

she got sick from using Ozempic. No,

7:30

the woman's a rail. She has always

7:32

been a rail. Then there's the whole

7:34

farmer's market video and somebody said it

7:36

was a body double in there. I

7:39

know we all want to see the

7:41

real Kate, not the duplicate. All

7:44

right, coming up, we're going to talk about

7:46

some deep fakes that are using some family

7:48

members and friends voices. You need to be warned

7:50

about and also sharing passwords. Is that a

7:52

good idea? Offline maps when you're traveling. Of

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All right. How about we start

9:00

with Jim in Sacramento, California? Well,

9:05

first of all, I wanted to thank

9:07

you over the years for all

9:09

your good advice and newsletters and on

9:11

the radio as well. I wanted to

9:14

share with you one story. I took

9:17

some of your information and shared it

9:19

with my computer user clients. One

9:22

client called me and said, hey,

9:24

will you come over and look

9:26

at this computer? My

9:28

husband allowed somebody to

9:30

come in and control my computer

9:33

or control his computer. What

9:35

happened was he was in the middle of this

9:37

session with this guy. The guy wanted $500. It

9:41

was a scam, basically. The

9:43

wife walks in and says, hey, what are you

9:45

doing? He says, oh, I let this person

9:47

come in to my computer, fix my

9:49

computer. The wife says, stop,

9:52

turn it all off. Don't

9:54

do that. Then

9:56

I got to come over there and clean up their

9:59

computer a little bit. the entry

10:01

points and things but I wanted to

10:03

thank you because giving that information out

10:05

to my clients was save

10:07

them lots of trouble, lots of money over

10:10

the years. So I just wanted to appreciate

10:12

that. Thanks for your words. That's really sweet

10:14

of you to tell me that. That makes my day, Jim. So

10:17

what's going on now? Well

10:19

I'm dealing with some

10:21

of your newsletters is talking

10:23

about cryptocurrency and different ways that

10:26

different people have come along

10:28

and scammed other

10:30

people and that type of thing. And

10:32

so I'm kind of in a quandary. One day

10:35

I say this is real, another day I say

10:37

it's not real. So this is the situation is

10:40

I was friended by a lady on

10:43

Facebook and she's

10:46

a very nice lady in this type of

10:48

thing and we're just talking about general things

10:50

and stuff and she said, hey I have

10:52

an aunt that's really good at cryptocurrency. I

10:55

said, oh okay. So I'm also reading

10:58

your newsletter and saying, hey watch out

11:00

for this situation. And she wanted

11:02

to go get me on WhatsApp and

11:04

that type of thing. And

11:07

I did end up going online or

11:09

with the app line and

11:11

so anyway I was saying,

11:13

okay well okay I'll throw 10K at it

11:16

and that type of thing. Is that going

11:18

to be enough for your aunt to

11:20

help with? And she says, well I don't

11:23

know. And so then my wife, I

11:26

talked about these things with my wife.

11:28

My wife says, wait a minute, our money,

11:30

we're in retirement, we don't need to be

11:33

gambling with money. Let's

11:36

not do that. So I had

11:38

already talked to the lady about

11:40

the cause. It was for helping

11:42

youth and she ends

11:44

up going and saying, well I'll

11:46

just give you $5,000 in

11:49

your account. And so I said, okay

11:51

so I went through with the aunt and with

11:53

the $5,000 of her money, I'm

11:56

playing with her money, not my money, and

11:59

went through three iterations with

12:01

the aunt and now

12:03

it's $500 per session basically I gained and about 15%

12:10

interest in a

12:12

matter of 10 minutes time. So

12:16

I saw this thing, it's not

12:18

video, it's actually in my account.

12:21

I could withdraw it at any moment. But

12:24

my question is, is

12:26

this real or is

12:28

this something that is set

12:30

up just to lure people in

12:32

and say, okay, now give me $20,000, give me $100,000 and then

12:35

it somehow disappears or

12:42

that type thing. Oh, Jim.

12:45

Jim. Jim, Jim, Jim,

12:47

Jim, Jim. Oh, I just

12:49

want to come smack your wrist

12:51

with a ruler. Okay. Hello,

12:55

that's fine. I mean,

12:57

come on, you really think, okay, first

13:00

of all, some woman just doesn't

13:02

friend you online because she's like, oh, I think I

13:04

would like Jim to be my buddy. Okay, that's number

13:06

one. Number two, we're gonna

13:08

go on to WhatsApp. Okay, because

13:11

okay, there's not gonna be

13:13

any video calls. We have an

13:15

aunt who's really good at crypto. I

13:18

mean, this is right down what you're telling

13:20

me in the newsletter that, wait a minute,

13:22

this is, this sounds awful familiar, but this

13:24

is what I'm gonna say. Okay, but you're

13:26

falling for it. Oh my gosh, buddy, you're

13:28

falling for it. What are you doing? Come

13:30

on. You have to be smarter than this,

13:32

okay? What's happening in the

13:34

background is that they are fabricating all

13:37

of this just to show you. It

13:40

could even be just a video that they play

13:42

over and over for somebody so that it looks

13:44

like they're doing all these trades. Well,

13:47

it isn't. Okay, so it's not,

13:50

okay, no, I'm just, you

13:52

know, I'm still playing with back and forth.

13:54

But I'm thinking that too, I

13:56

mean, being in the computer industry for over

13:58

30 years. I

14:01

understand that a lot of things are faked and that

14:03

type of thing, but I'm saying this

14:05

person is writing contracts. I don't

14:07

know whether you're familiar with contracts

14:09

of bid currency. Yes,

14:12

very much so. Okay, so they're writing

14:14

a contract supposedly for me. I

14:17

am buying the contracts, paying $120 per contract and

14:19

I am watching in 10 minutes time or

14:26

something, my money go or make an

14:28

income of maybe $500, $600 each time in a

14:31

matter of

14:34

15 minutes. Okay, let me tell you, I'm just

14:36

going to cut to the chase. You

14:38

can justify this to me all day long and

14:40

tell me how great it's going to be. And

14:42

I'm going to tell you right now, you are

14:45

in the middle of a pig butchering scam. And

14:48

what it is, it's a pig, you are the

14:50

pig, you're getting greedy. And

14:53

you're seeing this and you're like, oh wow, I just

14:55

made this much, I just made this much, I just

14:57

made this much. Okay, here, yes, okay. So then you

14:59

go to your wife and go, okay, how about in

15:01

a set of 5,000, we're going to do 15,000 because

15:03

look how much money I just made. And then you're

15:05

going to make a little bit more, okay, well, why

15:07

don't we just give them a hundred grand? Let's just

15:09

give them a hundred grand. Before you

15:12

know it, you're sitting at the craps table and you're

15:14

going to have crap at the end because you're

15:16

not going to have anything. And then

15:18

you're going to be calling me saying, I should

15:20

have listened to you, Kim Kommando. I should have

15:22

done this. I should have not given them

15:24

the money. Everything was a big scam. Everything

15:27

was set up. That account was

15:29

all bogus. Everything is bogus. You

15:31

got to be smarter than this, Jim. You got

15:33

to be smarter, okay. You got

15:35

to walk away. You got to get whatever money you can

15:38

out right now and then unfriend

15:41

this person, block this person, get

15:43

out of WhatsApp, oh my gosh,

15:46

and you need to move on. You can't be

15:48

a dope in life. And you know this, you've

15:50

been in the computer industry for 30 years. You

15:53

know how easy it is to fabricate things.

15:56

Even Bitcoin contracts can be fabricated to

15:58

make it work. look like whatever

16:01

they're showing you is totally

16:03

legit. It's not.

16:05

I'm sorry to say that. You need to

16:07

just walk away. You need to get whatever you

16:09

can, shut it down, block the

16:11

person, don't fall for it again. Because they're

16:13

coming after you. Because they're thinking you're a

16:16

pig, you're smart. And you want

16:18

to spend money? You want to throw money at

16:20

something? Throw it at that beautiful bride. Don't take

16:22

her to dinner. At least you'll get something back

16:24

for your money, her warmth and her love and

16:27

her appreciation. Thanks for your call. Sometimes

16:29

you just got to call it out. Now,

16:31

only one in three Americans know

16:33

that online shops use your device's

16:35

location to raise and lower prices

16:37

on their products. Yeah, they

16:39

do. If you live in an expensive neighborhood, you're going to

16:41

pay more. And if you live in a

16:44

lower priced neighborhood, you might not be showing all the same

16:46

goods. So here's what you do. You can

16:48

get around this by using a VPN. Or

16:50

you can use sites like Price Grabber and Google

16:52

to take a look at all things all over

16:55

the web. And number three, if you

16:57

have Chrome, make sure you use Kipa. It's a really

16:59

powerful extension. If you need more information on any of

17:01

this, we have it free for the taking over at

17:04

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right, coming up in just a few minutes, we have our security

18:19

tip. We're going to talk about some deep fakes. And

18:21

of course, we have all of your great phone calls.

18:23

But before we get to that, let's talk about offline

18:25

maps because so many of us are going to be

18:27

traveling this time of year, even as the summer travel

18:30

season is truly just right around the corner. Now

18:32

before you hit the road, I want you to make

18:34

sure that you save your Apple or Google Maps directions

18:36

for what's called offline use. This will

18:38

save your bacon in case you're in an area

18:41

that you need directions, but you have no cell

18:43

connection. Now for Google Maps,

18:45

you start by searching for your

18:47

destination, then tap the name or the location

18:49

and then look for this more option. It's that

18:51

three dot menu. I know it's called the more

18:53

option. And you hit that

18:55

and then you're going to select download offline map. And

18:58

now with Apple Maps, believe it or not,

19:00

they just recently added this feature. So

19:02

you're going to search for your destination. You're

19:04

going to hit that more option again and

19:07

download the map for offline use. Now, if

19:09

you're traveling overseas and you're trying

19:11

to avoid all those roaming charges, expensive

19:14

data charges, just remember

19:16

that tip. Download the offline

19:18

maps. All right, during

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the week, not only do I prep

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and prepare for this show and do our

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but we also do a fabulous video podcast

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19:31

Wednesday, Friday, we're live just

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everywhere. And this past week,

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19:47

my co-host in that podcast. Here,

19:50

take a listen. All right, so there's

19:53

Clippy. Do you remember Clippy? Of

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course. He was the office assistant

19:57

introduced in Office 97. I

20:00

remember my first time seeing Clippy where

20:02

we're using the, you know, word office documents and

20:04

it pops up and you're like, oh, that thing's

20:06

kind of helpful. Okay. And it bounced

20:08

in there. I could do that. And then he

20:10

pops up again and then he pops up again and then

20:12

he pops up again and then you're screaming at your computer

20:14

because you want this stupid thing to go away. Did you

20:17

say this word stupid? Stupid! Clippy

20:20

stupid! I don't know. Can't believe you said that because

20:22

we have the guy who invented it. You don't think

20:24

he thinks after all these years Clippy stupid. That'll be

20:26

my first question. Joining us is

20:28

Kevin Adbury, the designer behind Clippy.

20:30

Oh, there's Clippy! Yes, the designer

20:33

behind Clippy. And you had to go

20:35

through what, 260 designs for Clippy? Is

20:38

that what I heard? Yes, 240, 260, something like that. And

20:42

so, Andrew had a question. You want to start with

20:44

that question? Yeah, just really quick. And this is like

20:46

a broad question. At this point in

20:48

your life, do you think Clippy's stupid? I don't

20:51

think he's stupid. I think he's

20:53

just Clippy. He's

20:55

not bright enough to be stupid. That's

21:02

fair. Okay, so how did this come down?

21:04

I mean, somebody at Microsoft and the whole

21:06

development team said, you know, this is brand

21:08

new. We need to help people

21:10

use the software better, easier. And

21:13

so what if we could have like

21:15

an intuitive tool that could be right

21:18

there on the user's screen that would

21:20

be accessible 24-7 and that

21:22

would just help them out? Well, it

21:24

actually started with a

21:27

piece of software called Microsoft Bob. I don't know

21:29

if you remember that. Oh, God, that was a

21:31

loser. Of course. That

21:34

was the biggest crash I can ever

21:36

even think of with Microsoft. We

21:39

had designed these these these desktops,

21:42

animated desktops for people that were

21:44

just learning to use the computer.

21:47

And we were designing, we designed characters

21:51

and different environments and stuff like that. So

21:54

A lot of graphic, a big graphic

21:57

interface that they're trying to run on,

21:59

you know, like four megabytes. it made

22:01

sense memory or eight at they've mentioned

22:03

products. Eight megabyte memory yes and then

22:06

his own cell in the and they

22:08

did did this with a huge push

22:10

as see a C and you just

22:12

spend a lot of money and bad

22:14

as grand unveiling like they do and

22:17

you know immediately started getting just horrible

22:19

reviews and the crash than it's this

22:21

was not save on Sept five and

22:23

so they are. They they trashed the

22:26

software eventually that it into a mean

22:28

probably less on the year for the

22:30

like the technology of the little characters

22:32

that would come out and help you

22:34

new computer users use a computer and

22:37

you know some he said let's say

22:39

that oval office and they did and

22:41

as so I started. We started designing

22:43

characters for weeks and months and had

22:46

about like a said that time forty

22:48

two hundred. I didn't know exactly how

22:50

many works for. There's like maybe as

22:52

funny designers including myself are designing characters

22:55

and then they. We had a couple

22:57

of our professors from Stanford there was

22:59

that what. They did. they came

23:01

and they tested the characters with

23:03

with their with people and I'm

23:05

looking for the one so you

23:07

know where the most likeable, the

23:09

most trustworthy ah the some police

23:11

defensives and fluffy rose to the

23:13

top. As said the favorite that

23:16

character now I saw Tic Toc

23:18

video. It would be nice if

23:20

you could confirm or deny this.

23:22

that with the engineers and the

23:24

mucky mucks inside of Microsoft clipping

23:26

had a different name or them

23:28

day went by initials t. F.

23:31

C. C

23:34

Setting for a Zaps. See.

23:36

Standing for clown and f to

23:39

get f word human. I'll go

23:41

ahead of place there Is there

23:43

a real that fearless Clown Pants

23:45

Fearless is out. It's there Is

23:47

There is a I may be

23:49

wrong on this but I think

23:51

that that said that nickname it

23:53

came from the very top. Law

23:55

and Real. I think I think Bill made

23:58

him. ah, come up with that. That's,

24:00

it seems to me, I recollect that and then

24:02

everybody else adopted it. Followed suit. I mean, yeah.

24:04

I could see how he was coming up. But

24:07

everybody's like, yeah, you're right. He is a clown.

24:09

Bill's right. He is a clown. Now,

24:13

did Clippy open any doors

24:15

for you professionally? Yes. I

24:17

got paid, you know, pretty good for the,

24:20

you know, creating them and stuff. But the

24:22

real value was how many doors

24:24

he opened for me. But it took a

24:26

long time. It took me, I would not

24:28

say that I created them at the

24:30

start. I was... Yeah, everybody hated it.

24:34

Everybody hated him. And I was

24:36

embarrassed of it. And, you know, every time you

24:38

saw it in the press, everywhere, you know, people

24:40

talking about how much they hate them, what an

24:43

annoyance he was, and stuff like that. So I

24:45

didn't put them in my portfolio at all when

24:47

I was, you know, Wow. Where, yeah, once

24:49

I realized that, you know, all press is

24:51

good press, you know, it started saying, you

24:53

know, yeah, I created them. People say, you

24:56

know, I hate that. I hate that paper clip.

24:58

He drives me crazy. And they go, oh, Clippy,

25:00

I created them. And they go, oh, that's so

25:02

cool. So

25:05

have you had any other successes like

25:07

Clippy? Oh, no, nothing. Nothing compares to

25:09

Clippy. Clippy is world renowned. I mean,

25:12

and now that he's not in the software, people

25:14

love him. He's this really kind of fun meme

25:18

or whatever. And then he's, you know,

25:20

on all these TV shows. And, you

25:22

know, it's a usually the as

25:24

a butt of a joke that, you know, people love love

25:26

Clippy now. And people nobody hates him like

25:29

they did. No, it's nostalgia. It absolutely is.

25:31

It is. It is. It's comfort food for

25:33

the internet. It is. And computing. I get

25:35

things every day people send me from around

25:37

the country, around the world of, you know,

25:40

where Clippy has been used as some kind

25:42

of gag. Well, but you know what, like

25:44

you said, any press is good press. Absolutely.

25:47

Thanks for being here. Telling us the story about Clippy.

25:49

My pleasure. Thanks for having me. Clippy.

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