1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,080 Welcome to Top 5 Tech, my weekly show about what to watch, listen to, download, read, 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:05,559 and something deep every week. 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,119 On what to watch, tonight I'm actually going to see The Odyssey. 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,880 It's Thursday night as I record and I am pumped to see this movie. 5 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,400 I'm sure I'll be talking about it on the various podcasts next week, but that's out. 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,780 And you should also watch this short video on the One X Neo robot. 7 00:00:17,780 --> 00:00:22,839 The company has developed new hands for the robot, which seem to have incredible dexterity, 8 00:00:22,839 --> 00:00:26,239 five fingers, able to do things like screw in a light bulb, turn it on. 9 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:29,320 And if you remember, Joanna Stern made a video about the One X NEO. 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,100 I wasn't very good at even unloading a dishwasher, 11 00:00:32,299 --> 00:00:36,560 but with this new hand technology and being able to grasp very small objects, 12 00:00:36,820 --> 00:00:38,780 this looks incredible. So check it out. 13 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:42,060 It's the X link down in the show notes and in the newsletter on what to listen 14 00:00:42,060 --> 00:00:44,600 to. Hank Green has a new podcast called humans, 15 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,640 and he did an episode interviewing Helen Hunt. Now, 16 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,859 I was a big mad about you fan because my mom really loved it when I was growing 17 00:00:50,859 --> 00:00:53,399 up. They talk about getting famous and how to deal with it. 18 00:00:53,399 --> 00:00:54,960 They also talk about some deep topics. 19 00:00:55,219 --> 00:00:56,899 And if you are mad about you fan back in the day, 20 00:00:56,899 --> 00:00:59,340 they do talk about it for a little bit. And it's fascinating. 21 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,780 She does a lot of stage acting theater. And so she gets into that as well. 22 00:01:03,979 --> 00:01:06,159 Highly recommend this. Listen on what to read. 23 00:01:06,159 --> 00:01:08,539 You've probably been hearing that the new chat GPT app, 24 00:01:08,539 --> 00:01:11,620 which is basically the old codex app now renamed chat GPT. 25 00:01:11,819 --> 00:01:14,980 A lot of people are up in arms about it because it's hard to find your old chats 26 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,560 and everything is now a super app, but not really organized very well. 27 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:21,539 And if you want to learn about why this app has such a negative reception, 28 00:01:21,620 --> 00:01:23,960 I would recommend reading M.G. Siegler's article, 29 00:01:23,980 --> 00:01:28,299 the chat GPT super app sort of super sucks. And it's not super long, 30 00:01:28,579 --> 00:01:29,579 No pun intended. 31 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:33,799 and really describes why this app fails as an app. 32 00:01:33,799 --> 00:01:37,599 And Chachapiti and OpenAI seems to be putting all their eggs into this basket. 33 00:01:37,599 --> 00:01:40,700 I think it's worth a read and I'm curious what you think if you love the app 34 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:43,200 or if you similarly also hate it. 35 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,099 If you sign up for the newsletter, which you can do at the link down in the show notes, 36 00:01:46,099 --> 00:01:47,200 just reply to that email. 37 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:48,400 I get all those emails. 38 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:49,400 We'd love to hear from you there. 39 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,700 And what do you think about the new Chachapiti Super App? 40 00:01:51,700 --> 00:01:55,200 On what to download, I saw this pic from Sean Hollister at The Verge 41 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:56,500 and it's WhatCable. 42 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:58,599 This is a free utility you can download. 43 00:01:58,599 --> 00:02:00,599 You can also install it with homebrew 44 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,400 I'll put the link to this website in the show notes 45 00:02:02,719 --> 00:02:06,400 And when you have a USB cable connected to your Mac, you can see things like 46 00:02:06,799 --> 00:02:10,400 charging speed data transfer speed if the cable has any kind of 47 00:02:10,879 --> 00:02:16,079 Damage to it or is not working properly. You can ascertain all that information using this app 48 00:02:16,159 --> 00:02:20,639 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 49 00:02:21,199 --> 00:02:21,680 Really cool 50 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,039 And so if you're trying to just go through your USB-C cables find out which ones 51 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:29,840 maybe slower than you thought or ones that you can get rid of. This is the app you need. What cable? 52 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,919 That link is down in the show notes. And for my Something Deep section, this isn't really deep, 53 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,680 but two things I found fascinating. We talked about it on Primary Tech earlier this week, 54 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,080 but there's this guy, Gabriel Rivera. He's actually near me. He does these videos in Tampa, 55 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:48,240 but he buys food off Facebook Marketplace and then reviews it in his car. And there is a wide 56 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,400 variety of foods that he gets. I didn't even know this was a thing that you could do, buy food on 57 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:57,439 Facebook Marketplace just from normal people making it in their houses. Sometimes it's barbecues, 58 00:02:57,439 --> 00:03:00,079 Sometimes it's tacos or whatever, but he's over 59 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,180 600,000 followers. He's been doing this for a while fascinating concept quite 60 00:03:04,180 --> 00:03:07,659 brave I think to be doing this but it's just also hilarious so if you want to 61 00:03:07,659 --> 00:03:12,000 see some of these videos they're pretty good and lastly this young man Samuel he 62 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,120 does bird sounds and that might sound silly to you but when you hear him make 63 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,400 these sounds it is incredible you might actually recognize some of these sounds 64 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,599 and you may have never known what kind of bird was making it it is truly 65 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:27,840 impressive this video has millions and millions of views and rightly so it is 66 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,280 quite the talent. I'll play a couple for you now, but 67 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,479 highly recommend going over to this Tik Tok video and watching it because it is truly 68 00:03:34,479 --> 00:03:48,139 impressive. First we get the barred owl. Next the ring-necked dove. And remember you can 69 00:03:48,139 --> 00:03:52,199 get all the links via a newsletter and a little extra commentary by subscribing. You can scan 70 00:03:52,199 --> 00:03:55,639 this QR code or sign up for the newsletter down at the link in the show notes. All the 71 00:03:55,639 --> 00:03:59,439 links to everything I talked about are down there as well. And I have lots of podcasts 72 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,240 throughout the week. Primary Technology, my tech show with Jason Aiton comes out every 73 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,819 Thursday. Movies on the Side is my movie review podcast. We've been doing more of those. I'll 74 00:04:06,819 --> 00:04:10,639 link that below as well. And of course MacPower Users comes out every Sunday. That's me and 75 00:04:10,639 --> 00:04:13,879 David Sparks. Links to all of that down in the show notes. Thanks so much for listening 76 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:16,759 and watching. 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