Top Five Tech

Welcome to Top 5 Tech, my weekly show about what to watch, listen to, download, read,

and something deep every week.

On what to watch, tonight I'm actually going to see The Odyssey.

It's Thursday night as I record and I am pumped to see this movie.

I'm sure I'll be talking about it on the various podcasts next week, but that's out.

And you should also watch this short video on the One X Neo robot.

The company has developed new hands for the robot, which seem to have incredible dexterity,

five fingers, able to do things like screw in a light bulb, turn it on.

And if you remember, Joanna Stern made a video about the One X NEO.

I wasn't very good at even unloading a dishwasher,

but with this new hand technology and being able to grasp very small objects,

this looks incredible. So check it out.

It's the X link down in the show notes and in the newsletter on what to listen

to. Hank Green has a new podcast called humans,

and he did an episode interviewing Helen Hunt. Now,

I was a big mad about you fan because my mom really loved it when I was growing

up. They talk about getting famous and how to deal with it.

They also talk about some deep topics.

And if you are mad about you fan back in the day,

they do talk about it for a little bit. And it's fascinating.

She does a lot of stage acting theater. And so she gets into that as well.

Highly recommend this. Listen on what to read.

You've probably been hearing that the new chat GPT app,

which is basically the old codex app now renamed chat GPT.

A lot of people are up in arms about it because it's hard to find your old chats

and everything is now a super app, but not really organized very well.

And if you want to learn about why this app has such a negative reception,

I would recommend reading M.G. Siegler's article,

the chat GPT super app sort of super sucks. And it's not super long,

No pun intended.

and really describes why this app fails as an app.

And Chachapiti and OpenAI seems to be putting all their eggs into this basket.

I think it's worth a read and I'm curious what you think if you love the app

or if you similarly also hate it.

If you sign up for the newsletter, which you can do at the link down in the show notes,

just reply to that email.

I get all those emails.

We'd love to hear from you there.

And what do you think about the new Chachapiti Super App?

On what to download, I saw this pic from Sean Hollister at The Verge

and it's WhatCable.

This is a free utility you can download.

You can also install it with homebrew

I'll put the link to this website in the show notes

And when you have a USB cable connected to your Mac, you can see things like

charging speed data transfer speed if the cable has any kind of

Damage to it or is not working properly. You can ascertain all that information using this app

It can live in the menu bar of your Mac. You'll see all the cables that are attached to your Mac at any given time

Really cool

And so if you're trying to just go through your USB-C cables find out which ones

maybe slower than you thought or ones that you can get rid of. This is the app you need. What cable?

That link is down in the show notes. And for my Something Deep section, this isn't really deep,

but two things I found fascinating. We talked about it on Primary Tech earlier this week,

but there's this guy, Gabriel Rivera. He's actually near me. He does these videos in Tampa,

but he buys food off Facebook Marketplace and then reviews it in his car. And there is a wide

variety of foods that he gets. I didn't even know this was a thing that you could do, buy food on

Facebook Marketplace just from normal people making it in their houses. Sometimes it's barbecues,

Sometimes it's tacos or whatever, but he's over

600,000 followers. He's been doing this for a while fascinating concept quite

brave I think to be doing this but it's just also hilarious so if you want to

see some of these videos they're pretty good and lastly this young man Samuel he

does bird sounds and that might sound silly to you but when you hear him make

these sounds it is incredible you might actually recognize some of these sounds

and you may have never known what kind of bird was making it it is truly

impressive this video has millions and millions of views and rightly so it is

quite the talent. I'll play a couple for you now, but

highly recommend going over to this Tik Tok video and watching it because it is truly

impressive. First we get the barred owl. Next the ring-necked dove. And remember you can

get all the links via a newsletter and a little extra commentary by subscribing. You can scan

this QR code or sign up for the newsletter down at the link in the show notes. All the

links to everything I talked about are down there as well. And I have lots of podcasts

throughout the week. Primary Technology, my tech show with Jason Aiton comes out every

Thursday. Movies on the Side is my movie review podcast. We've been doing more of those. I'll

link that below as well. And of course MacPower Users comes out every Sunday. That's me and

David Sparks. Links to all of that down in the show notes. Thanks so much for listening

and watching. Leave a five-star rating and review an Apple podcast if you could take

a moment. And thank you so much for being here. I'll catch you next time.