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Welcome to Top 5 Tech, my weekly show about what to watch, listen to, read, download and
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something deep every week.
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Also quick shoutout to the 5 star rating from Kiara Sexton in Canada, thank you for that.
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On what to watch this week, I've posted I think 5 videos in the last week on all the
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new Apple products, and I'm just going to link them all down in the description and
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if you subscribe to the newsletter.
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The touchscreen ProLed MacBook Pro iPad mini review is out, I put my full iPhone Duo review
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out, and I think one of the most interesting videos, if you only watch one, I would take
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a look at my iOS 27.3
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video because I cover Siri recaps in-depth. I'm gonna be doing another
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video only on the audio intelligence and Apple Watch features very soon, but Siri
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recaps is the feature that your Apple Watch will be processing conversations
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you have either by location, by time, or 24/7 and providing recaps on your iPhone
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of everything that was said with bullet points and notes. It is a fascinating
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feature. We also talk about it at length on this week's primary technology, but if
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If you did not hear about this feature yet or want to learn more.
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On what to listen to, I really enjoyed this episode of The Verge cast.
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It was Rian Johnson as a guest, the film director who directed The Last Jedi and Knives Out.
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He was actually talking to David Amell, who is from the Marques Brownlee team but also does stuff with The Verge.
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And they nerded out about cameras and film.
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And Rian Johnson, the director, actually made his own camera app to use.
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It was just really fun to hear them nerd out about all this technology, cameras, and films.
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And I was also a guest on the MacBreak weekly podcast, Jason Snell was the guest host.
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I was on it along with Christina Warren and Andy Anotko, we talked about the touchscreen MacBook Pro and a bunch of other stuff.
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We'll link that and even a third what to listen to pick. This is only because I am a huge ER fan
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I watched the entire TV series back in the day
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But Noah Wiley was a guest on the Amy Poehler Good Hang show and if you watched ER back in the day
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Or maybe you watch The Pit now
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I think you'll enjoy this interview. On what to read, another big feature coming in iOS
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27.3 are superpowers for Siri AI and what that means specifically is that app
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are going to be able to give Siri AI instructions on how to perform complex tasks within the app and
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Mac stories is the article that I'll link in the what to read. They go in-depth explaining these skills
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What's going to be new for developers and what's possible with these new skills in Siri AI. A couple examples
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If you use Spotify and WhatsApp, two apps that don't typically talk to the voice assistant on iPhone
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With these new skills once developers build them in like meta, you'll be able to tell the voice assistant
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Hey, send my Spotify
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playlist to this person in WhatsApp, and we'll be able to reach across those apps, perform these
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actions without you ever having to do anything. And a lot of Apple's built in apps already have
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some new features in 27.3. Like I can ask the voice assistant, organize the files in my downloads
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folder or on my desktop, and it will just do it create folders organized by type or by content.
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It is wild. The Mac stories article explains it even more. I want to download if you're an Apple
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pencil user, maybe you just got an iPhone Duo, you got an iPad mini, or any iPad without
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Apple Pencil, you have got to try Fineliner. This is a new app from Marco Armit, also the
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maker of the Overcast podcast app. But it is a super fun app for handwriting and doing
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notes like that. But the onboarding process is especially fun. I don't want to spoil it,
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but it is worth trying. It is completely free to download to use unlimited notes and notebooks.
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You can buy different paper styles, but you do not need to do it. It's really a free app.
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And it's really fun. Also, I want to download this is for all your Apple devices, but they
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are for iPhone Duo. This is the portal app escaping to nature. It has soundscapes and
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visuals that you can either leave playing on your iPhone Duo or just take a moment and
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step back, try to relax. It is a beautifully designed app. The soundscapes and visuals
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are really nice. So if you
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have an iPhone Duo, try it there or on any Apple device,
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you can download it for free as well. And on something deep, I'm going to link my co-host
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Jason Aiton's article about this. But Google just told schools that if they want access
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to Google search for their students' devices.
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- that they have to enable and allow Google AI overviews and Google will not separate
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them.
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That means in schools everywhere, students will not be able to just use Google search
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- regular search - without the AI overviews as a part of it.
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This seems like a predatory choice and Google enforcing this, especially on schools specifically,
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where students ideally should be learning how to research, find credible sources, find
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scholarly articles, forcing students to have
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to have AI overviews along with Google search.
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It feels like a huge misstep.
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I'm hoping Google will backtrack this,
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and if you do a Google search now,
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your mileage may vary, but a lot of times,
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the Google AI overview is the entire first page,
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or above the fold, when you do a search.
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And there's a lot of talk in the tech world
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about how Google is killing its best product.
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I mean, Google owned search for over a decade,
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maybe even two decades,
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and this is a complete, unforced error.
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With AI overviews, they are hurting search,
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hurting traffic to web.
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Outside of Google and making the experience worse and now forcing it even in the classroom
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I think it's a bad move. You can read Jason Aiton's article talking about it in depth
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But again, I hope they walk this back
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