Into Tomorrow With Dave Graveline

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Into Tomorrow With Dave Graveline

Into Tomorrow covers the best of consumer technology news from the companies, gadgets, apps, and games you love. What do we love? We cover car technologies, computers, tech fashion, gadgets, gaming, home tech, kids tech, lifehack tech, mobile news, smartphones, personal tech, digital photography, product reviews, and even the most interesting moments in tech history. From Windows to Apple and Facebook to Twitter we're obsessed with consumer tech news that matters.

  1. 1D AGO

    Weekend of April 4, 2025

    Tech News and Commentary Dave and Chris discuss Gamin Connect Plus, Samsung's new televisions including a 115" model, xAI buying X, and more. “News Pick of the Week” with Ralph Bond Ralph Bond’s Science Technology News Pick of the Week: New light-activated hydrogel to treat bone fractures. Read more here. And now to take us ‘Into Gaming’, we have Bryan Young steering us smoothly down Rainbow Road. Show ‘em what you’re made of, Bryan! Our guest this show: Saki Milton, Educator and International STEM Advocate William in Atlanta, Georgia asked: "I read somewhere that Google was going to force its Pixel users to start using Gemini instead of the Google Assistant and... that sucks because I've tried Gemeni as my assistant and it's terrible at tasks and reminders and scheduling things and asking simple questions. It can do the complicated stuff like ChatGPT can but it is not a good assistant and I use my assistant every day, constantly for reminders and stuff like that. Is Google really gonna force me to use Gemeni in 2025, and if so, what other devices can I use to not have to use Gemini - or how do I opt out of that if it's even possible?" William, Googles plan as we know it so far is to force everyone it can into Gemini and kill off Google Assistant starting with Pixel devices but continuing with the rest of Android devices until theyve covered every Android device with hardware that can support Gemini. Unfortunately, right now opting out doesnt seem like an option and going to a different brand will only save you for as long as it takes them to get to the rest of the Android ecosystem. Jumping to Apple wont save you for very long either, Apple has been trying to enable Apple Intelligence on their own devices that opted to leave it turned off with most of their upgrades since they released it. Ultimately, whether you find Gemini useful or not doesnt seem to be a concern, these companies appear to just be pushing a new way to extract and process your data so they can use it for your own purposes, so going forward your options are likely to get smaller and smaller unless youre willing to opt for degoogled Android-based operating systems like LineageOS or Graphene which come with their own set of compromises (especially Graphene which is very privacy centric and makes some of the things most people use their smartphones for difficult). Sorry we cant offer you more hope but these tech companies seem to have found a new way to process and monetize your information through these models, and even with their high cost to run they seem to think its worth it and are not giving us any choice. When you participate on the show – anytime 24/7 – and we HEAR you with any consumer tech question, comment, help for another listener, tech rage or just share your favorite App these days … you could win prizes. Brondell: Pro Sanitizing Air Purifier - Removes dust, dander, pollen, smoke, and airborne viruses ($800 Value) Targus: Form-Fit Covers for Various Chromebooks a href="https://www.soundcore.

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  2. MAR 28

    Weekend of March 28, 2025

    Tech News and Commentary Dave and Chris discuss 23andMe's bankruptcy, emergency satellite messaging, community notes on Meta, TV subscriptions, and more. “News Pick of the Week” with Ralph Bond Today scientists are working to develop satellites with laser technology that can transmit solar generated power. But here's a real twist – how about bacteria and plant-inspired solar lasers to do the job! For more on this innovative science news, here's Ralph Bond, our science and technology reporter. Read more here. Alright, It’s time to level up…your gaming news! Bryan Young is here to give us the cheat codes, for all of you gamers out there! Tell us about it Bryan! Our guest this show: "Kam’s Korner" with Kameron Graveline Bob in Denver, Colorado asked: "I'm listening to and watching all the information on Ai. I want to buy a new computer. Do I wait for a computer with Ai built into it or do I just go to the different apps and get the Ai from the app store? Also, Ai is changing so fast. Is there a vendor that has the best Ai product for personal use?" Bob, it depends on what you need, really. If youre looking for a general use assistant then waiting and buying a computer with an assistant built in may be a good idea, but you may not need it if just asking questions to an online assistant or app is good enough to fit your needs. A purpose built computer will likely have the processing power to do some things locally, but its all very dependent on what youre looking to have Ai do for you. In terms of vendors, the market is splintered. For chat assistants ChatGPT seems to be ahead still but their models run on datasets that are not updated as often as Google, but if youre looking at coding then CoPilot will likely serve you better, and if youre looking at image generation Midjourney gets very impressive results. There are all summarizer bots from different companies that transcribe and summarize conversations, there are bots are specializing in math, or examining images and providing descriptions, etc. The best vendor is really just the one that is better at what you need assistance with, theres really not an overall do-it-all champion. When you participate on the show – anytime 24/7 – and we HEAR you with any consumer tech question, comment, help for another listener, tech rage or just share your favorite App these days … you could win prizes. Brondell: Pro Sanitizing Air Purifier - Removes dust, dander, pollen, smoke, and airborne viruses ($800 Value) Targus: Form-Fit Covers for Various Chromebooks Soundcore: Space One Pro Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones Heat It: Smartphone-Powered Insect Bite Healers All CALLERS -- using the AUDIO option on our Free App or 1-800-899-INTO(4686)  - automat...

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  3. MAR 21

    Weekend of March 21, 2025

    Tech News and Commentary Dave and Chris discuss Meta firing some of the leakers, E-taste technology in virtual environments, Microsoft's end of support for Remote Desktop, Lyft Silver, and more. “News Pick of the Week” with Ralph Bond Imagine this - the paint on your car operating as a huge solar energy collector feeding your EV's battery. For more on this remarkable research here's Ralph Bond, our Science and Technology reporter. Read more here. And now let’s turn our ears towards the satisfying sounds of video games. Bryan Young is here to bring us an X-Box rated “Into Gaming” session! Do it to it, Bryan! Our guest this show: Dr. Lauri Benton, Executive Director for Counselor Community Engagement - The College Board Nancy in Gilmer, Texas asked: "Whenever I'm streaming a radio program or podcast, I've recently been bombarded with ads in Spanish, a language which I don't speak nor understand. My settings are all English. I've searched online and found no help, only many others that are experiencing the same thing. I'm totally confounded and would love for this to go away. Can you help?" Nancy, theres not much you can really do. Youve been categorized as a part of the market for those ads in some way. That can be for any number of reasons ranging from where you live, to the places you go to when youre carrying your devices or driving most relatively new cars, to the sites you visit or apps you use on your devices, to just about anything else. The only thing that may help if they are targeting you in particular, is to reset your advertising identifier. Depending on the app you may be able to find it in the settings, but not all apps will have it and not all networks will rely on it to deliver their ads. Theres a decent chance that at least some of the ads youre hearing defined their targets based on location, in which case theres not an awful lot you can do short of using a VPN to try to fool them into thinking youre listening from somewhere else. Steve in Kenosha, Wisconsin asked: "I'm about to start a project with my company that involves a lot of travel. I was wondering what your thoughts were on those MiFi boxes and if they work any better than pairing to your phone." Steve, MiFis have some advantages but theyre not super different from phone hotspots. You may be able to find better plans with more data for a standalone MiFi since they are sometimes used as home connections, and they can handle many devices at one well since theyre built specifically for that and dont have to juggle a lot of apps doing other things the way phones would have to. MiFis will also always continue to work when they get a call, most modern phones will also do that but sometimes they dont or the connection may be dropped to a lower speed. MiFis will also use their own battery so they wont drain your phone and prevent it from being used for more important things later. Having said all that, in terms of performance for a handful of connected devices, you probably wont notice any difference and if you just use your phone you will only have to carry one device, manage one plan, etc. Unless you think youre going to spend long hours using the connection and want to treat it somewhat like a home connection tha...

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  4. MAR 14

    Weekend of March 14, 2025

    Tech News and Commentary Dave and Chris discuss Ai-generated works and copyright, the iOS 19 redesign, Android user tracking by Google, and more. “News Pick of the Week” with Ralph Bond This week our Science and Technology reporter has some weird science news all about making circuit boards out of leaves! Read more here. It’s time for “Into Gaming” and this week, Bryan’s dodging blue shells! So buckle up for this week’s ‘Acclaim to Fame’! Take it away Bryan! Our guest this show: Bob Moog,Founder - University Games Ted in Englewood, California asked: "I was curious as to whether Google was planning to implement AI into their Street View in Maps. Essentially I was thinking the idea behind it would be they would use AI to allow you to virtually drive a car through Street View instead of having to press the arrow to move when you're looking at streets on the maps. I was thinking it would be cool if they used AI to make it seamless and it just kind of like lets you drive a car and it connects all the photos together like a video. I was just wondering if that was something you guys have herd of. I think it's a cool idea. If they don't have it yet maybe we should market it to Google." Ted, only Google can answer that but the answer is probably no. People have been asking for that feature for years and there are even third party websites and code libraries that create a version of that, but Google doesnt seem interested. Unless Google sees a way to monetize it, it may always be that way because its not an easy ask. For example, right now when you use StreetView you may see a picture from last week on the screen, but when you move one step forward the picture may be from 10 years ago. The obstacles on the road will be different, the car may avoid a parked truck in one picture, there may be a pedestrian crossing on another one, etc. Fixing that would take a lot of work and a lot of money for which Google wouldnt really get anything other than the expectation that they will keep it working indefinitely. For now, the closest youre going to get is websites like mapchannels.com or directions-driving.com but those wont provide a seamless experience they will still have the odd jumps that are inherent to StreetView. When you participate on the show – anytime 24/7 – and we HEAR you with any consumer tech question, comment, help for another listener, tech rage or just share your favorite App these days … you could win prizes. Brondell: Pro Sanitizing Air Purifier - Removes dust, dander, pollen, smoke, and airborne viruses ($800 Value) Targus: Form-Fit Covers for Various Chromebooks Soundcore: Space One Pro Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones a href="https://heat-it.

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  5. MAR 7

    Weekend of March 7, 2025

    Tech News and Commentary Dave and Chris discuss Google's new Ai tech, Microsoft's ad-supported Office, Teleperformance's accent-reduction tech for their call center, the latest car tech from Maserati and Ferrari, and more. “News Pick of the Week” with Ralph Bond What if crops on our farms could make their own fertilizer with just air and sunlight? Here's more on this breakthrough from our Science and Technology reporter Ralph Bond. Read more here. Whether you're grinding for loot, chasing high scores, or just trying to survive another round, our next guest has the latest gaming news to keep you in the game. It's time for Into Gaming with Bryan Young Our guest this show: Dr. Emily Trunnell, Director of Science Advancement and Outreach at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Greg in Manchester, Tennessee asked: "I'm trying to help someone get their ex off their phone, but every time I reset it, the ex comes back. So I'm trying to figure out what else I can do to keep the ex from logging into the phone and messing with their money actually." Greg, it would be useful to know what phone youre trying to reset and how. Without knowing that, the most obvious problem we can think of are restoring from a backup rather than starting 100% fresh, that would likely set accounts back up. For example, if this is an iPhone and youre restoring from iCloud backup then the account will likely always come back. The other thing to consider is, does the phone matter? Is this account linked at the user account level? What we mean by that is that maybe Google or Apple have the exs account listed (for example as a family account) not just within the phone but on the account youre using to log in. If thats whats happening then youd have to log into either a Google or an Apple account and unlink the ex from there. Keep in mind that if you do that she may lose access to shared resources that were purchased on the exs account. For example, subscriptions, apps, storage, etc. If youre starting fully fresh and the exs account is still linked then wed look outside the phone and see what the OS manufacturers account is holding, your problem may be there. When you participate on the show – anytime 24/7 – and we HEAR you with any consumer tech question, comment, help for another listener, tech rage or just share your favorite App these days … you could win prizes. Matias: USB-C Keyboards and mice Brondell: Pro Sanitizing Air Purifier - Removes dust, dander, pollen, smoke, and airborne viruses ($800 Value) V-Juice: 1mm Thin wireless inductive charger Cleer: ARC 3 Open Ear True Wireless Headphones All CALLERS -- using the AUDIO option on our Free App or 1-800-899-INTO(4686)  - automatically qualify to win prizes. Audio archived for at least 6 months

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  6. FEB 28

    Weekend of February 28, 2025

    Tech News and Commentary Dave and Chris discuss real-time translation technology using smart glasses and earbuds, the death of the Amazon App Store for Android, Uber suing DoorDash, Ai and home automation, and more. “News Pick of the Week” with Ralph Bond Here’s some news for anyone experiencing a harsh winter right now. What if your winter clothing could boost its warming ability using sunlight only. Ralph Bond, our Science Technology reporter, has more on a remarkable new fabric breakthrough. Read more here. It’s time to level up your gaming news with the latest power ups and plot twists. Here’s Bryan Young with “Into Gaming”! Our guest this show: Dr. Nico Darras, Director of Golf, TruGolf Rich in Purcellville, Virginia asked: "I have a question about mobile games. You've probably seen ads on your phone for these games that are free to play but have no ads. I kind of wonder how can they make money? They must be trying to rip off my data or something from me but I don't see how they're doing it.I wonder if you can explain that to me. And then theres the other category of game and these are the ones that you can supposedly play for a few minutes and win hundreds of dollars. It's got to be a scam but I'm not sure what their gimmick is. If you can explain that to me too, I'd appreciate it." Rich, games without ads typically make money in two ways. The first one is in-app purchases. You may have noticed if you downloaded any of these games that you can hit a wall pretty quickly and get to a point that you just cannot get past. The solution in those cases is usually some kind of paid item, be it a weapon, a vehicle, or anything else. The bulk of the players that download these games quit at that point, but there is a small minority of players that will spend a large amount of money. Those players are the bread and butter of these apps. The other source of income is exactly what you thought: your data. That can be more or less anything from demographic data to your habits. As an example, years ago, before Elon Musk bought Twitter a former employee told the story online of how AT&T wanted to pay to know which of their clients walked into a competitors store. At the time Twitter anonymized and aggregated the data and sold it to them, then AT&T complained about it not being what they wanted. Back in those days Jack vetoed the attempts to get them the identifiers they wouldve needed to tell what specific clients walk into their competitors stores, but its something that is possible. The same kind of thing goes for more or less any of your movements or habits since people are generally addicted to their phones. As for games that pay you to play, the answer is pretty simple: They advertise paydays in the hundreds of dollars but dont really even pay that much a year and in the process you are typically exposed to ads or your usage is monetized in a different way. Theyre basically just scams. Recently some had also been using users devices to mine cryptocurrency for them, but that seems to have died down since it was detected. When you participate on the show – anytime 24/7 – and we HEAR you with any consumer tech question, comment, help for another listener,

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  7. FEB 21

    Weekend of February 21, 2025

    Tech News and Commentary Dave and Chris discuss TikTok's future, Apple being the most valuable brand in the world, Walmart Plus, and more. “News Pick of the Week” with Ralph Bond What if a wheelchair could climb stairs? Well, now they can, thanks to an amazing invention our Science Technology reporter Ralph Bond highlights this week. Read more here. It’s time to level up with Bryan Young and ‘Into Gaming’, bringing you the hottest gaming news faster than a speedrun! Bryan, take it away! Elsa in Fontana, Kansas asked: "I want to digitize my pictures and put them on a flash drive or something of that sort. But I want to write names on them or something. Is there any way possible of doing that?" Elsa, when you say write names, do you mean on the picture itself, visibly over what is in the picture? If thats the case, any photo editor will let you do that, even the one on your smartphone. If youre thinking of writing names as you would write something in the back of old photos, then youre looking at image metadata and that youll have to rely on software that lets you search it unless you want to go by the photos one by one. If thats what you want to do, both Windows and Apples Photos apps will let you not only tag your content but identify individuals so you can search for a person and bring up all of their photos. The process is too old for them to pitch it as Ai, like they would now, but the software is usually smart enough to learn from a small amount of manual tagging and then be able to track a person through the years. Its especially impressive with children who are often identified correctly as they age without having to find tune the process manually to let the software know that its the same person in the picture. The cloud services that mimic that software like for example, Google Photos, are also capable of the same functionality and have been for years so depending on what devices and services you use, you likely already have many free options to deal with what youre looking to do. When you participate on the show – anytime 24/7 – and we HEAR you with any consumer tech question, comment, help for another listener, tech rage or just share your favorite App these days … you could win prizes. Matias: USB-C Keyboards and mice Brondell: Pro Sanitizing Air Purifier - Removes dust, dander, pollen, smoke, and airborne viruses ($800 Value) V-Juice: 1mm Thin wireless inductive charger Cleer: ARC 3 Open Ear True Wireless Headphones All CALLERS -- using the AUDIO option on our Free App or 1-800-899-INTO(4686)  - automatically qualify to win prizes. Audio archived for at least 6 months

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  8. FEB 14

    CES 2025 – Part 5

    Guests Include: #g1-section-4.g1-row > .g1-row-background > .g1-row-background-media {background-repeat:repeat; background-position:center center;}@media only screen and ( min-width: 720px ) { #g1-section-4.g1-row > .g1-row-inner > .g1-column {padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px;}} An Energy Harvesting Generator From WePower At CES 2025 An Inflatable Barrier Against Flood Waters From Flowstop At CES 2025 The Latest From NAMI At CES 2025

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    Into Tomorrow covers the best of consumer technology news from the companies, gadgets, apps, and games you love. What do we love? We cover car technologies, computers, tech fashion, gadgets, gaming, home tech, kids tech, lifehack tech, mobile news, smartphones, personal tech, digital photography, product reviews, and even the most interesting moments in tech history. From Windows to Apple and Facebook to Twitter we're obsessed with consumer tech news that matters.

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