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Google’s privacy changes, the $25,000 Slate EV truck & scanning your old photos (180, June 27, 2026)
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- Jun 27, 2026
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Summary
Rich says prices on tech products are going up. Apple raised prices this week on pretty much every product except the iPhone, and so did Microsoft on the Xbox. Rich talked about the new Slate electric pickup truck starting at $24,950. You customize it to make it your own. Prime Day shattered prices. Shoppers spent a record $26.4 billion online during those four days, according to Adobe Analytics. Rich has his list of recommended gadgets and the stuff you were actually buying from my links. Gary wants to bring his iPad in for a repair since he cracked the screen and wants to know how to erase it. Rich says: Go to General. Go to Settings, General. Scroll down to Transfer or Reset iPad and tap Erase All Content and Settings. Kim wants to know why the photos in his Google Photos library are being saved at a lower resolution. Rich says he likely has Storage Saver enabled instead of Original quality. To check: Open Google Photos Tap your profile picture in the upper right Tap Google Photos settings Tap Backup Under Backup quality, make sure Original quality is selected if you don’t want your photos compressed. Microsoft is giving Windows 10 users another year of security updates. Alan in Cyprus is wondering why his ASUS computer has no audio after a Windows update. Rich says to review Google’s new AI privacy setting. By default, Google may save images, videos, audio, and other media you upload while using Search to help improve its AI models. To check it: myactivity.google.com → Data & privacy → My Activity → Search services history → Save media . From there, you can decide whether you want G…