Top Five Tech

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

deep every week. It is iPhone week and there are a ton of amazing reviews about the iPhone 18 Pro

and Pro Max out there, but a few I want to highlight specifically. Tyler Stallman, whenever

I want to learn about the new iPhone camera, I look to Tyler's review, so I would highly recommend

watching his. He talks about the variable aperture, a lot about photogenic styles, and it's more than

just tone and color. There's actually grain, and he explains that. So I recommend Tyler's video.

And a couple bonus pics I want to thank Ed who

sent this to me via email because he was subscribed to the newsletter and he

replied and I would love to hear more suggestions from you week to week.

Maybe if you have things to listen to, watch, or download, subscribe to the

newsletter. You can scan this QR code or the link is down in the show notes and

just reply to that newsletter every Friday. I get every email. But this video

from The Quantified Scientist actually goes in-depth explaining about the

Apple Watch Series 12 heart rate study. Goes into all the details. Highly

recommend if you want to learn about its accuracy

and what sets the Apple Watch Series 12 apart from other wearables.

And one bonus pic.

If you want to see some behind the scenes footage and a little vlog about how Marques

Brownlee, one of the biggest tech YouTubers, how he and his team cover an iPhone launch

event.

There's a great video on the studio, 48 hours at the iPhone Duo event.

And this was a really fun watch, just kind of had it on in the background, just seeing

all the behind the scenes, how they plan for the event, how they execute it, all the team

members involved.

It was a really fun watch.

On what to listen to, I know I mentioned a lot of Decoder episodes, but man, I really

enjoyed this one with Adam Conover.

He's a comedian.

previously at CollegeHumor.

and then he had specials and now he's on YouTube,

but they once again talk about the creator economy,

but more importantly, how these entertainment services

and streaming services are both fighting with each other,

trying to figure out how to spend the attention

of their audience or grab more attention.

It is a really fun and interesting conversation

with Adam Conover and Nilay Patel.

Highly recommend this one.

On what to read,

Austin Mann just posted his iPhone 18 Pro review,

once again, focusing on the camera,

but man, seeing the pictures that Austin Mann,

who was actually a guest on the Primary Technology Podcast,

trying to get him again,

seeing the pictures he's able to take

with the iPhone is incredible.

He talks about the new iPhone 18 Pro,

so I recommend reading his review

and just seeing some of the amazing photos he takes.

But also, if you want to learn more

about the Apple Reference Image feature that's an 18 Pro

and trying to combat all the AI-generated imagery,

being able to mark an image as this is actually real,

taken by a camera.

Apple actually posted an entire blog,

which is pretty lengthy and very technical,

but I'm gonna link 9to5Mac's article

because they kind of break it down,

make the explanation a little simpler,

or Enclave and all of that.

Interesting read and seeing how Apple is approaching

making sure photos marked as real are actually real.

On what to download,

an old app got a refresh this week, AppZapper 3000.

I was actually recommended this app by a friend, Chris,

and it's a great app for making sure

when you delete an application,

all the files get deleted with it,

all the ones in your library and application support.

Well, AppZapper 3000 is a brand new, updated version.

And if you'd like to make sure that all those files

and folders are clean when you delete an app

that you didn't install from the App Store,

I highly recommend AppZapper 3000.

You can try it before you buy it,

but it's $18 for a single user, up to 5 Macs, $30,

one-time purchase, no subscription, great app.

And on Something Deep,

we talked about this on primary technology,

but I'll point you once again to Jason's article

about how AI companies and why they love to tell us

how dangerous their products are.

There's been a lot of news in the past week

because of an SA, Dario Amadei, the CEO of Anthropic,

who makes the AI chatbot Claude,

talking about how we need to slow down the pace

of the frontier development of AI.

And I just want to identify a lot of people.

feel uneasy about how quickly AI is advancing, what it's capable of.

And there has been some cybersecurity instances like open AI's models,

hacking, hugging face.

Anthropic has had cybersecurity breaches like that.

And so I understand it can be very scary when we think about AI and how quickly

it's progressing. But I do want to encourage everyone.

There's a lot of doomsdayism and even the CEOs of these AI companies are trying

to say how dangerous it is.

But remember a lot of their motivation is to temper investor expectation and

think about it.

Anthropic wants to go public soon.

they're not able to keep.

as quick or fast pace of innovation as they have the last couple of years.

And so they're saying it's too dangerous to go fast,

but it also might be true that they just can't go as fast as they can,

because it's really hard to make models really,

really powerful that quickly that often.

But also when you hear about AI annihilation or how dangerous AIs can be,

think about the real world implications.

What would it take for an AI to actually hurt a human being or something like

that?

Now there are legitimate concerns when it comes to what jobs will be affected by

AI in the future.

I have kids, my oldest son is a senior in high school.

And I think about what kind of careers will be available to him in 10,

20 years.

And so I think there's genuine concerns about how this will affect day to day

life.

But I don't think you need to be afraid about what robots are capable of.

And if you ever need an encouragement about how maybe not dangerous these

robots are, I will link to this video, which was the humanoid robot games.

They were racing robots around a track, humanoid legs, arms and all.

And while they can run pretty fast, keep in mind,

they have no ability to stop on their own.

they had to slam into a soft wall and then once doing that

unbalanced, fell down, and then broke themselves. So that's where we are with robots and AI

right now. But if you feel differently, let me know. Reply to that newsletter or you can

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