1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,879 Welcome to Top 5 Tech, my weekly show about what to watch, listen to, read, download and 2 00:00:03,879 --> 00:00:05,360 something deep every week. 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:09,039 Also quick shoutout to the 5 star rating from Kiara Sexton in Canada, thank you for that. 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:12,800 On what to watch this week, I've posted I think 5 videos in the last week on all the 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,199 new Apple products, and I'm just going to link them all down in the description and 6 00:00:16,199 --> 00:00:18,120 if you subscribe to the newsletter. 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:23,039 The touchscreen ProLed MacBook Pro iPad mini review is out, I put my full iPhone Duo review 8 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:27,800 out, and I think one of the most interesting videos, if you only watch one, I would take 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,280 a look at my iOS 27.3 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,200 video because I cover Siri recaps in-depth. I'm gonna be doing another 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,840 video only on the audio intelligence and Apple Watch features very soon, but Siri 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,920 recaps is the feature that your Apple Watch will be processing conversations 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:49,159 you have either by location, by time, or 24/7 and providing recaps on your iPhone 14 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:53,640 of everything that was said with bullet points and notes. It is a fascinating 15 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,600 feature. We also talk about it at length on this week's primary technology, but if 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,039 If you did not hear about this feature yet or want to learn more. 17 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:06,280 On what to listen to, I really enjoyed this episode of The Verge cast. 18 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:11,319 It was Rian Johnson as a guest, the film director who directed The Last Jedi and Knives Out. 19 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,840 He was actually talking to David Amell, who is from the Marques Brownlee team but also does stuff with The Verge. 20 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,560 And they nerded out about cameras and film. 21 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,159 And Rian Johnson, the director, actually made his own camera app to use. 22 00:01:22,159 --> 00:01:26,000 It was just really fun to hear them nerd out about all this technology, cameras, and films. 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,920 And I was also a guest on the MacBreak weekly podcast, Jason Snell was the guest host. 24 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,900 I was on it along with Christina Warren and Andy Anotko, we talked about the touchscreen MacBook Pro and a bunch of other stuff. 25 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:41,659 We'll link that and even a third what to listen to pick. This is only because I am a huge ER fan 26 00:01:41,659 --> 00:01:43,659 I watched the entire TV series back in the day 27 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,539 But Noah Wiley was a guest on the Amy Poehler Good Hang show and if you watched ER back in the day 28 00:01:48,539 --> 00:01:49,760 Or maybe you watch The Pit now 29 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,599 I think you'll enjoy this interview. On what to read, another big feature coming in iOS 30 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:59,120 27.3 are superpowers for Siri AI and what that means specifically is that app 31 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:06,640 are going to be able to give Siri AI instructions on how to perform complex tasks within the app and 32 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,879 Mac stories is the article that I'll link in the what to read. They go in-depth explaining these skills 33 00:02:11,879 --> 00:02:18,120 What's going to be new for developers and what's possible with these new skills in Siri AI. A couple examples 34 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:23,340 If you use Spotify and WhatsApp, two apps that don't typically talk to the voice assistant on iPhone 35 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:28,680 With these new skills once developers build them in like meta, you'll be able to tell the voice assistant 36 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,680 Hey, send my Spotify 37 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,919 playlist to this person in WhatsApp, and we'll be able to reach across those apps, perform these 38 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,759 actions without you ever having to do anything. And a lot of Apple's built in apps already have 39 00:02:39,759 --> 00:02:45,840 some new features in 27.3. Like I can ask the voice assistant, organize the files in my downloads 40 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:51,280 folder or on my desktop, and it will just do it create folders organized by type or by content. 41 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,680 It is wild. The Mac stories article explains it even more. I want to download if you're an Apple 42 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,920 pencil user, maybe you just got an iPhone Duo, you got an iPad mini, or any iPad without 43 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,879 Apple Pencil, you have got to try Fineliner. This is a new app from Marco Armit, also the 44 00:03:04,879 --> 00:03:10,159 maker of the Overcast podcast app. But it is a super fun app for handwriting and doing 45 00:03:10,159 --> 00:03:15,139 notes like that. But the onboarding process is especially fun. I don't want to spoil it, 46 00:03:15,139 --> 00:03:20,620 but it is worth trying. It is completely free to download to use unlimited notes and notebooks. 47 00:03:20,620 --> 00:03:25,439 You can buy different paper styles, but you do not need to do it. It's really a free app. 48 00:03:25,439 --> 00:03:29,000 And it's really fun. Also, I want to download this is for all your Apple devices, but they 49 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,879 are for iPhone Duo. This is the portal app escaping to nature. It has soundscapes and 50 00:03:34,879 --> 00:03:39,520 visuals that you can either leave playing on your iPhone Duo or just take a moment and 51 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:44,240 step back, try to relax. It is a beautifully designed app. The soundscapes and visuals 52 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,400 are really nice. So if you have an iPhone Duo, try it there or on any Apple device, 53 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,639 you can download it for free as well. And on something deep, I'm going to link my co-host 54 00:03:51,639 --> 00:03:56,960 Jason Aiton's article about this. But Google just told schools that if they want access 55 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,960 to Google search for their students' devices. 56 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:07,120 - that they have to enable and allow Google AI overviews and Google will not separate 57 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,120 them. 58 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:12,400 That means in schools everywhere, students will not be able to just use Google search 59 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:17,040 - regular search - without the AI overviews as a part of it. 60 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:23,040 This seems like a predatory choice and Google enforcing this, especially on schools specifically, 61 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:27,120 where students ideally should be learning how to research, find credible sources, find 62 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,060 scholarly articles, forcing students to have 63 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,899 to have AI overviews along with Google search. 64 00:04:32,899 --> 00:04:34,500 It feels like a huge misstep. 65 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:36,399 I'm hoping Google will backtrack this, 66 00:04:36,399 --> 00:04:38,000 and if you do a Google search now, 67 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,399 your mileage may vary, but a lot of times, 68 00:04:40,399 --> 00:04:43,600 the Google AI overview is the entire first page, 69 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,399 or above the fold, when you do a search. 70 00:04:46,399 --> 00:04:47,500 And there's a lot of talk in the tech world 71 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:50,000 about how Google is killing its best product. 72 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,100 I mean, Google owned search for over a decade, 73 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:54,600 maybe even two decades, 74 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,699 and this is a complete, unforced error. 75 00:04:56,699 --> 00:04:58,899 With AI overviews, they are hurting search, 76 00:04:58,899 --> 00:05:00,040 hurting traffic to web. 77 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,639 Outside of Google and making the experience worse and now forcing it even in the classroom 78 00:05:04,639 --> 00:05:08,199 I think it's a bad move. You can read Jason Aiton's article talking about it in depth 79 00:05:08,199 --> 00:05:10,199 But again, I hope they walk this back 80 00:05:10,199 --> 00:05:14,240 But that's top 5 tech this week get subscribed and leave a 5 star rating interview in Apple podcast 81 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,959 If you could I'll give you a shout out on the next episode and you could subscribe to receive my newsletter every Friday 82 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:23,399 You can scan this QR code here or click the link down in the description and you get all the links that I talk about 83 00:05:23,399 --> 00:05:28,560 Every week in an email in your inbox every Friday with a little more commentary. Thanks so much for listening and watching 84 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,040 I'll catch you next time.