Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech on KFI KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2: Morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you.
Speaker 3: Amy.
Speaker 1: So we got a lot to get to. So we're
Speaker 1: going to start off with a I tell us what
Speaker 1: Humane is and who now has control of it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Humane was kind of one of the biggest
Speaker 2: flops of last year. This company was a startup. They
Speaker 2: made this cool little AI pin. So it was kind
Speaker 2: of a wearable computer ambient computing. You stick it to
Speaker 2: your clothes.
Speaker 3: It has a camera on it.
Speaker 2: You can ask it questions, it can translate stuff, it
Speaker 2: can take pictures of things, kind of like everyone's figuring
Speaker 2: out what the anti smartphone is. And this was expensive
Speaker 2: six hundred ninety nine dollars and at least a twenty
Speaker 2: dollars monthly fee. Anyway, it all flopped, didn't really do
Speaker 2: well because it was just not ready for primetime. HP
Speaker 2: has acquired that company Humane. They're going to shut down
Speaker 2: that pin, and really they acquired this company for all
Speaker 2: of the AI smarts, and so I expect to see
Speaker 2: a whole lot of AI and all of the new
Speaker 2: HP products like printers and laptops and computers.
Speaker 3: That's what's happening here.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they acquired all of that AI so they
Speaker 1: basically it's already been developed and now they can apply
Speaker 1: that to their products.
Speaker 3: Is that how that happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, we don't need this little pin thing
Speaker 2: because it didn't really do well. But we'll take all
Speaker 2: the you know, they've got like three hundred patents, they've
Speaker 2: had all this other stuff. The employees, we'll take all that. Okay,
Speaker 2: we can, you know. They so they'll make use of
Speaker 2: all the smarts that this company figured out. They just
Speaker 2: don't need that little pin. The sad part is if
Speaker 2: you bought one of these pins, not many people did,
Speaker 2: it's going to stop working. February twenty eighth, And it's
Speaker 2: the bigger issue we've seen in the tech world of
Speaker 2: when you buy something that is like one hundred percent
Speaker 2: dependent on the Internet to function. When those cloud servers
Speaker 2: shut down, that's it. It's done. You can't use it anymore.
Speaker 2: It's not like a VCR where it'll still play a tape,
Speaker 2: you know, twenty years later. These things just won't function.
Speaker 1: You know what bugs me about all this tech, it's
Speaker 1: things like, yes, well I'm going to there's the humane pin,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, is that a personal identification number?
Speaker 1: There's all these new words and you don't know if
Speaker 1: that it's actually I'm like, oh, it's actually a pin.
Speaker 1: You know how like a mouse used to be a
Speaker 1: little rodent. Now a mouse is something different. Pins are
Speaker 1: different too.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I should come up with the whole story
Speaker 2: of those like words that used to mean something else.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. So you mentioned that
Speaker 1: it was sort of like the anti smart watch er
Speaker 1: anti phone. But we do have another smart watch coming out.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, So smart watches, you know, they have a
Speaker 2: place in this world. People love the Apple Watch. This
Speaker 2: is from a company called one Plus. We've talked about
Speaker 2: them before. This is their new version. Last year's watch
Speaker 2: was excellent. This is the new version of it. It's
Speaker 2: called the one plus Watch three. I'm wearing it right now.
Speaker 2: It's great. It's got a nice big screen. It runs
Speaker 2: the Android ware operating system, so it works really nicely
Speaker 2: with Android phones. It's got great battery life, which people
Speaker 2: love about it. And the big change this year from
Speaker 2: last year a little bit of a price increase, thirty
Speaker 2: dollars more three hundred and thirty dollars. And the other
Speaker 2: thing is that people didn't like that the crown was
Speaker 2: not you couldn't rotate it. So there's a button that
Speaker 2: looks like a crown that you press, but you couldn't
Speaker 2: actually rotate it last year. This year, you can actually
Speaker 2: rotate it.
Speaker 3: It looks great.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the downside is there's no cellular available.
Speaker 2: And there's a cool feature called the sixty second Health
Speaker 2: Checkup that does not work in the US sadly, which
Speaker 2: I thought was like the coolest feature.
Speaker 3: On this whole thing. They're like, oh, not in the US.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I did check my vascular health this morning, Amy,
Speaker 2: And how is your vascular health?
Speaker 3: My artural stiffness is good.
Speaker 1: You can check that on the watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just did. It took sixty seconds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know what that means, but clearly
Speaker 2: I'm gonna trust my watch and not go to the
Speaker 2: doctor for the next like five years.
Speaker 1: I think that might not be the goal of that stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's okay, okay. Facebook's going to purge some of
Speaker 1: your content.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a small note starting Well, now, if you
Speaker 2: do a Facebook Live, they're going to delete that video
Speaker 2: after thirty days.
Speaker 3: They're not going to linger forever.
Speaker 2: And I think that, you know, Facebook says most people
Speaker 2: watch live videos within the first couple of weeks, so
Speaker 2: this is not a big deal. But if you want,
Speaker 2: you can download all your old live videos before they
Speaker 2: delete them, transfer them to Google Drive or dropbox. You
Speaker 2: can convert clips, like if you say something really cool,
Speaker 2: you can convert it to a reel. And if you
Speaker 2: need extra time, you can go through on that individual
Speaker 2: video and get an extra six months by you know,
Speaker 2: tapping the little menu icon and say I need more
Speaker 2: time postpone this.
Speaker 1: Okay, So just so you know, be unnoticed, you got
Speaker 1: thirty days. Is that starting now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Starting now?
Speaker 2: So that's fine because I when I search for my
Speaker 2: you know, old stuff on Instagram or on Google, I'm like,
Speaker 2: why is this old live video still lingering? It's like
Speaker 2: it's live, you don't need it there anymore. It was
Speaker 2: like in the moment.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they're just doing a little house cleaning.
Speaker 2: That's not a bad thing, right, Yeah, it doesn't cost
Speaker 2: them as much to store all those nonsense live videos.
Speaker 1: Okay. So for more information on this, you can go
Speaker 1: to Rich's tech website richon tech dot TV right absolutely
Speaker 1: and you can listen to Rich right here on KFI
Speaker 1: every Saturday from eleven to two. Rich Demiro, thank you
Speaker 1: so much, appreciate the information.
Speaker 3: As always, Thanks Amy, I'm great day you too,