Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech right here on KLA k F I K
Speaker 1: T L A C. I kind of just put those together.
Speaker 1: KTLA's tech reporter Rich Damiro morning, Rich.
Speaker 2: Hey, good morning you, Amy, welcome back.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I got to tell you. I wish that
Speaker 1: I had asked you about this before I left. I
Speaker 1: took a converter over to France and to England. Yes,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a converter, it was an adapter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a big difference. One melts your curling iron,
Speaker 2: the other does not.
Speaker 1: Yes, So if you're going you can plug it in
Speaker 1: if you have the adapter. If you don't convert the
Speaker 1: power supply, you fry. And I have one of those.
Speaker 1: It's like a blow dryer brush all in one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: turned it on. I went, wow, that's really seems you
Speaker 1: have one. I'm like, oh, that really seems to be
Speaker 1: high powered. But it's working and we're like okay, and
Speaker 1: then and then it was dead. So that got left
Speaker 1: behind in Paris.
Speaker 2: But I'll ask you, thankfully, thankfully for most folks that
Speaker 2: are not bringing a blow dryer or one of your
Speaker 2: hairstyling tools. All the rest of the stuff pretty much
Speaker 2: works nowadays, like all the gadgets. Yeah, but yeah, when
Speaker 2: you're bringing those are the last holdouts. If you're bringing
Speaker 2: like an iron or some sort of like steamer or
Speaker 2: hair appliance, that you do need an actual voltage converter for.
Speaker 1: Yes, everything else worked to just find so I yes,
Speaker 1: it was a win analogs all at the same time. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get down to business. I got this email about
Speaker 1: a Serie Voice settlement, and in fact, I've made a
Speaker 1: note to myself and said, ask Rich if this is legit,
Speaker 1: because we've been talking about how some of these settlements
Speaker 1: are coming out and some are and some are not.
Speaker 2: Yes, so this stems from a ninety five million dollars
Speaker 2: settlement with Apple. A couple said, Hey, my Siri automatically
Speaker 2: activated and listened to what I said, and not only
Speaker 2: did you record that conversation, but you shared it with
Speaker 2: third parties and you sold advertising against it. And of
Speaker 2: course Apple has denied all of this, and I actually
Speaker 2: do not believe the advertising part, but the third party part,
Speaker 2: for you know, quality assurance and you know that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff, probably was true. But Apple has definitely cleaned
Speaker 2: up its game when it comes to Siri and maybe
Speaker 2: it even more private. But yes, you can get up
Speaker 2: to one hundred dollars. Look in your email if you
Speaker 2: get something from Lopez Voice Assistant Settlement dot com. It
Speaker 2: is real. You can go in and I thought it
Speaker 2: was actually tougher to claim than it was. But if
Speaker 2: you go in there and you have that claimant identification
Speaker 2: code and your confirmation code, you basically just a test
Speaker 2: that your device activated at some point, and you can
Speaker 2: claim up to five devices. That's one hundred dollars total,
Speaker 2: twenty dollars per device. Do it. It's not too much money.
Speaker 2: Ninety five million dollars is not much for Apple, but hey,
Speaker 2: it's better than nothing.
Speaker 1: Okay. So is it like if I've had several phones
Speaker 1: over the years or if I have fivell iPhones all
Speaker 1: at once.
Speaker 2: No, it's one. It's several phones over the years. So
Speaker 2: it's one one activation per device. So this has been
Speaker 2: This was from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty four so
Speaker 2: in ten years. And it's not just phones. It's the iPhone,
Speaker 2: the iPad, the MacBook, the Apple Watch, the home pod,
Speaker 2: Apple TV, and others. So I would say that if
Speaker 2: you have those devices in your house. I am sure
Speaker 2: that that has happened to you, because I know it's
Speaker 2: happened to me, and so you can pretty much attest
Speaker 2: to say, you know, as long as that's happened to you,
Speaker 2: you can claim this money.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, that's good news. It's not a lot of money,
Speaker 1: but every little bit helps. Right. There's a new phone
Speaker 1: we're switching over from from Apple to Android. It's the
Speaker 1: new Galaxy S twenty five Edge.
Speaker 2: Tell us about it. This is the theme for twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five thin phones. So the S twenty five Edge
Speaker 2: is brand new from Samsung. It is super thin, super light.
Speaker 2: Went hands on with it in New York City. Five
Speaker 2: point eight millimeters thick, one hundred and sixty three grams.
Speaker 2: It is significantly lighter in your hand and thinner than
Speaker 2: any phone that I've used in the past. Still has
Speaker 2: high end features like a two hundred megapixel CA's powered
Speaker 2: by the latest processor, comes in three colors. It's got
Speaker 2: all the things you need, except the battery definitely takes
Speaker 2: a hit because it is smaller, So we don't know
Speaker 2: for sure until we review this. If the battery doesn't
Speaker 2: last as long it's a regular phone. We're not sure.
Speaker 2: Samsung says they're using some AI smarts to make the
Speaker 2: battery last longer. But it is available on May thirtieth,
Speaker 2: and it starts at eleven hundred dollars. Lots of pre
Speaker 2: order deals to get that. But Apple is expected to
Speaker 2: come out with their thin phone later this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, so here's my issue with the thin phones that
Speaker 1: it always concerns me is if they're too thin, are
Speaker 1: they going to bend like if you sit on it,
Speaker 1: or so if you put in your back pocket and
Speaker 1: sit on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. I did not test that when I
Speaker 2: was going hands on, but I am getting a review
Speaker 2: unit and I will test that. I think that's going
Speaker 2: to be one of the biggest things people are testing
Speaker 2: when they put this thing through its paces. It is
Speaker 2: made of titanium, and I know that Samsung is not
Speaker 2: a silly company, So I think they tested to see
Speaker 2: if people put it in their back pocket and it crumbles,
Speaker 2: and I hope that they have figured out them a
Speaker 2: way to make this phone not do that.
Speaker 1: What would be really cool is if they made bendable glass.
Speaker 2: Well, they have that, they already that the.
Speaker 1: Phones huh, well, maybe they're okay.
Speaker 2: Maybe they you know mix these when it goes in
Speaker 2: your back pocket, it bend's just slightly, you know, turned curves.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll have to wait and see. So okay, and
Speaker 1: then let's talk Airbnb. Uh we actually looked at Airbnb
Speaker 1: for our little trip, but didn't ultimately use it. But
Speaker 1: it looks like they're they're doing a little expansion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Paris is actually one of the top cities
Speaker 2: they mentioned yesterday. They had this big event in Los
Speaker 2: Angeles and they mentioned Paris as one of the top
Speaker 2: cities for Airbnb. And they are expanding beyond rentals and
Speaker 2: now they offer services and experiences in the app, so
Speaker 2: you can book your room and then you can book
Speaker 2: a chef, a massage, personal trainer, makeup artist, all kinds
Speaker 2: of people to come to your room and offer services.
Speaker 2: And then they also have experiences, so instead of taking
Speaker 2: that double deck or bus tour of the city you're
Speaker 2: going in visiting, you can have food tours, art classes,
Speaker 2: nature hikes, and locals lead you in behind the scenes
Speaker 2: tours and so it's all part of their way of differentiating,
Speaker 2: adding more options to the mix. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: if you are a makeup artist or a hairstylist or
Speaker 2: a masseuse or a personal trainer. Get on here and
Speaker 2: offer up your services. They are accepting applications. You do
Speaker 2: have to be vetted, but this could be a very
Speaker 2: lucrative side gig. If people start booking through this in
Speaker 2: a big way.
Speaker 1: That's going to be interesting to see how that works out.
Speaker 1: The mastage therapists come into your room gives me a
Speaker 1: little bit of hebgb's but.
Speaker 2: Well, they already do it. They've got zeal And soothe
Speaker 2: which are very popular, and it's already a thing. So
Speaker 2: I know it's got to have a little faith in humanity,
Speaker 2: I guess. But we're in the news, so it's tough.
Speaker 1: To do that, all right. KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro
Speaker 1: also the host of Rich on Tech on KFI that
Speaker 1: you can hear every Saturday from eleven to two. You
Speaker 1: can follow Rich at rich on Tech. You can also
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Speaker 1: just mentioned, and he always puts everything that we talk
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Speaker 2: Thank you Rich, Thanks Amy, all right, have a great day.