Best ways to back up your digital life, ChatGPT comes to your car & Samsung adds blood pressure tracking (Episode 168, April 4, 2026)
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Rich discusses digital backup strategies, AI advancements in vehicles, and new health tracking features in Samsung devices.
Rich talked about the importance of backing up your phone, computer, photos and texts. Check out his guide here . Sophia in Westlake asks if an out-of-cloud storage email she received is legit. Helix CEO Alex Oberg on building a privacy-first digital ID layer to prove what’s real online in an era of AI fakes. Anthony in Palmdale asks how to call his wife by voice on Samsung, and Rich recommends using Bixby, Google Assistant, or Gemini. Rich in San Diego asks if Carbonite is a good backup service, and Rich says to compare it with Backblaze and iDrive. Karen in Los Angeles asks why deleting photos on her iPhone also deletes them from iCloud; Rich says iCloud sync mirrors changes, suggests turning on Optimize iPhone Storage , and notes Amazon Photos offers unlimited photo backup for Prime members (with video storage turned off). You can finally change your Gmail address, and your old one will still work. ChatGPT is now available in CarPlay—just update to iOS 16.4 and the latest ChatGPT app. Barbara in San Bernardino is wondering how to cut down on her AOL email spam. One helpful way is to turn off remote image…
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