Top Five Tech

Welcome to Top 5 Tech, my show where every Friday

I share something to watch, listen to, read, download,

and a deep thought in technology.

This week on What to Watch, I recommend Hannah Frye's video.

She's a mathematician, a scientist.

She also has a great podcast,

but she did a whole video really going into OpenClaw,

but really what AI agents can and cannot do.

It's a really fun video.

They actually have OpenClaw and give it some instructions

and let it run wild.

Even so much where they tell it

to build a business selling merch.

It makes all the merch on its own.

And then they tell it unless you make a sale. We're gonna turn you off. I won't spoil it, but it's a great video

I highly recommend Hannah Fry also has great content shorts and reels and tick tocks and all of that

We'll link that down below and what to listen to you. I've seen the show acquired all over the place

I know they even interviewed Mark Zuckerberg and massive names. They basically do the stories of big companies their founding

They try to get their CEOs. There's an interesting one about NVIDIA before all the AI stuff

but I was listening to the Starbucks episode with Howard Schultz and

and it's just fascinating to hear about the beginnings of Starbucks,

the competition, what Howard Schultz brought to the company when he came.

And so if you're looking for it, it's a long listen.

It's like a couple of hours long,

but if you want to hear about the ins and outs of a company, how it started,

the challenges and the business side, acquired is really good.

This was actually the first time I've ever listened to an acquired episode just

because I knew about it, but never pressed play on one.

And the Starbucks episode was pretty fun on what to read this week.

I'm gonna give you a double pick. The first one is the Clippening.

This is a long article from The Verge talking about all those anonymous.

and businesses that are basically built off of clipping content,

whether it's content from podcasts or TV shows.

They talk about the clip farms and just thousands of people,

just clipping content all over the place.

It does feel like clips have just kind of taken over the world. I mean,

the Netflix literally updated their app to have a vertical scrolling feed of

clips of their own shows.

Disney has talked about the Disney plus becoming a super app.

Maybe they have clips as well. It was a fascinating story.

So I recommend that as a read, but as a shorter read,

I also recommend reading.

It's going to be a massive data center.

We talked about it on the primary technology episode this week.

It's going to have over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, which is wild, but there's also a bunch of

controversies going on about this and the data center in Utah that's going to be two

and a half times the size of Manhattan.

And it does feel like in this AI, whatever it is, maybe bubble, just time period that

the data center aspect and the actual real world implications of all this usage is now

hitting real human beings where they live literally.

And so Stephen Hackett, who lives in Tennessee, had some great thoughts and some poll quotes

about what's going on there.

So recommend that read as well.

On what to download.

Adam Lissagor of Sandwich Video actually made an app for sharing keynote slides, things

like that, that you can move around just with your hands, almost like a Vision Pro style

keynote presentation.

He calls it Hovercraft.

Great name for it.

Great gestures that you can use.

But it's something you could just install on your Mac and move slides around in whatever

app you use for meetings, whether it's Google Meet or Zoom.

For one Mac, it's a lifetime purchase, 20 bucks.

If you want two Macs, it's 30.

But it looks like a really cool feature.

I'm going to try it this weekend.

And I don't present a lot in Zoom calls because I'm not like, you know, working in a job or

whatever.

But if I was, it seems pretty cool.

And it's probably a really cool party trick to get somebody's attention at the beginning

of a meeting.

So that's Hovercraft.

We'll link that below.

Something deep, I have to mention.

this Hank Green video Artemis 2 just dumped like over 10,000 photos from the mission on one of

NASA's like websites and a lot of the images are not better than the ones you've already seen.

A lot of them are like the burst captures that the astronauts made of Earth. Someone,

one of Hank Green's viewers actually composited several of the pictures in a row when the

astronauts were flying away from Earth and created this like animated GIF and you have to.

this but you can actually zoom in and with the compositing of these images you can see motion

around the Earth including satellites going around the Earth including the Aurora Borealis

at the top of the globe and even a thunderstorm off in the distance and Hank Green totally freaks

out about it and honestly it kind of affected me too it's pretty amazing to see our Earth animated

You know, we typically only see still photos.

from space, and you don't get to see like the actual orbiting of satellites, you know,

you might see some things from like the International Space Station, but to see this entire view

of the Earth, seeing the whole globe, the Aurora Borealis on the top, you could see

satellites orbiting on the left and on the right.

It's pretty amazing.

I just really enjoyed seeing it.

I think everybody should see it.

I think it kind of gives a unique perspective on our home planet.

So those are five things, something to watch, listen to, read, download, and a little something

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