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Top Five Tech
Stephen Robles
Get my top five picks of the week with something to watch, listen, read, download, and a deep thought all about tech! Delivered every Friday, by Stephen Robles.
- 29 episodes
- weekly
- Avg 5 min
- English
Counted on this page — what you have heard stays on this device, so it is not something the list can be paged by.
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#8June 5 · 4 minMacVince Channel, Gruber on TBPN, Designed in California
MacVince is making incredible YouTube content about apps, John Gruber guesting on TBPN, the Kickstarter for Mike Hurley and Jason Snell's new Apple history podcast, the $10 Mac app I use to grab text from anything, and Amy Poehler's great hang with Judge Judy. Get the Newsletter https://shortcut.bot/topfive MacVince's New Mac Apps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Zn0NVoG2g&t Gruber on TBPN https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blue-origin-explosion-enterprise-ai-hits-spending-limits/id1772360235?i=1000770241038&t=1753 TBPN Episode on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/sQVwLUxFdMY?si=EXKp-3QZS64Y1Idp&t=1998 Designed in California: An Apple History Podcast https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/designedincalifornia/designed-in-california-an-apple-history-podcast TextSniper https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textsniper/id1528890965?mt=12 Judge Judy Sheindlin — Good Hang with Amy Poehler https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-hang-with-amy-poehler/id1795483480?i=1000724534033
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#7May 29 · 4 minBob Ross × Mozart × Ferrari
Ferrari's first EV designed by Jony Ive, Sundar Pichai on Google's AI future, a seven-year-old video about the word you say every day, and a new RSS reader worth trying. Get the Newsletter https://shortcut.bot/topfive Ferrari Luce Interior — MKBHD https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Reu1WS3BhM How Sundar Pichai Is Rethinking Google for the AI Era — Decoder with Nilay Patel https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-patel/id1011668648?i=1000769616958 Focused — with David Sparks and Mike Schmitz Note: My Episode releases Tuesday, June 2nd https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/focused/id1138055739 Why we say "OK" — Vox https://youtu.be/1UnIDL-eHOs Amethyst https://amethyst.news Inventory Shortcut https://shortcut.bot/3RA2Pvb Inventory Shortcut Demo https://youtube.com/shorts/8c9hMTDAZr0 Bob Ross × Mozart × Fortnite https://youtube.com/watch?v=q5HAEgkIaRM
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#6May 22 · 5 minCreating vs Consuming, Arctic RV, Making iPhone Apps on iPhone
A YouTube gem on making instead of consuming, the Antarctic Snow Cruiser disaster, an Apple Vision Pro doc on Real Madrid, the social app that unifies Bluesky and Mastodon, and Google brings vibe coding to Android phones. Get the Newsletter stop being an audience member of your own life — YouTube Apple TV renews 'Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars' for a second season — 9to5Mac Knife's Edge on Apple TV The Antarctic Snow Cruiser — Omnibus — Apple Podcasts Real Madrid Immersive Documentary Releases This Friday on Apple Vision Pro — MacStories Indigo for Bluesky & Mastodon — App Store Google AI Studio news from Google I/O 2026 — The Keyword 447: 'A Sociopathic Father' — The Talk Show With John Gruber — Apple Podcasts
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#5May 15 · 5 minAntarctica's Secrets, I Am Not a Robot, Do You Hate AI?
Cleo Abram goes to Antarctica, Jonah Hill's interview on SmartLess, Joanna Stern's new book I Am Not a Robot is out, a few great Mac apps, and a commencement address clip reacting to AI. Get the Newsletter https://shortcut.bot/topfive Email Me hey@topfive.tech What's Really Under Antarctica - Cleo Abram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfGEMCb6BQU Watch the SmartLess Live Show with Jonah Hill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCvlPFnOC0o SmartLess Live with Jonah Hill on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jonah-hill-live/id1521578868?i=1000766700415 I Am Not a Robot https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Robot-Almost-Everything/dp/0063446618 Contextly App https://apps.apple.com/us/app/contextly-notes/id6762497168 Gnome - Share GIFs on a Mac https://lexfriedman.com/gnome/ Today Menu Bar App https://sindresorhus.com/today UFC Commencement Video - Cabel Sasser on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/cabel.panic.com/post/3mlk75u3om22e
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#4May 8 · 5 minHannah Fry on Claude, Acquired's Starbucks Story, Animated Earth
Hannah Fry tests what AI agents can really do, the founding story of Starbucks on Acquired, the rise of clip farms, massive new data center debacle, and the Earth like no one has seen. Get the Newsletter https://shortcut.bot/topfive Hannah Fry on Claude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR5aOElvw Acquired: Starbucks with Howard Schultz https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acquired/id1050462261?i=1000657758174 The Clippening — The Verge https://www.theverge.com/report/920005/social-media-clipping-podcasts-clavicular-marketing-mrbeast Claude and Grok as Roommates — 512 Pixels https://512pixels.net/2026/05/claude-and-grok-roommates/ Hovercraft — Sandwich Vision https://sandwich.vision/hovercraft Earth GIF from Artemis II — Hank Green https://youtu.be/OdO_g1S_MBU?si=9-QyFTfIZN_2eGjC
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#3May 1 · 5 minAI Chatbots IRL, Software Brain, Vision Pro Rumors
John Oliver tackles AI chatbots, Nilay Patel on the AI backlash, swirling Vision Pro and MagSafe rumors, a fun wallpaper shortcut, and my take on actually useful AI. Get the Newsletter AI Chatbots — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Decoder with Nilay Patel — Apple Podcasts The people do not yearn for automation — The Verge Apple Reportedly Gives Up on Vision Pro After M5 Refresh — MacRumors Apple Questioning Whether to Drop MagSafe from iPhone — MacRumors Jon Prosser: "Vision Pro ain't dead fam" Basic Gradient Wallpaper Shortcut Patel: Software Brain — Daring Fireball 15 Useful Ways I Use AI Every Day
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#2April 24 · 5 minNew Things, Hans Zimmer, Tim Cook Leadership Lesson
Joanna Stern launched her "New Things," a look inside Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Studios, Jason's great commentary on Tim Cook, and on retiring from content creation (not me). Get the Newsletter https://shortcut.bot/topfive Watch the Private Video https://youtu.be/WcK0DdUcazk Why I Quit The Wall Street Journal To Start This YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd2Dyr0m3BI Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXOLfijQzQc Inside Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Studios — Twenty Thousand Hertz https://www.20k.org/episodes/hans-zimmers-remote-control Community Letter from Tim - Apple https://www.apple.com/community-letter-from-tim/ Tim Cook’s Farewell Letter Just Revealed His Most Important Leadership Habit https://apple.news/ADYipKBtITUKNC-wuMSx6jw Backup Your Shortcuts https://shortcut.bot/shortcutsbackup I'm Retiring… Gerald Undone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqNa6Xa3Ns
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#1April 16 · 4 minMythos, Capture, and AT&T
What's the story on Mythos AI from Anthropic, a fascinating AT&T history lesson, a must-read Sam Altman profile, and the best app I’m using to save everything. Get the Newsletter! Watch this on YouTube --- Watch: Hank Green Interview on Mythos Listen: Western Electric 500: Monopoly phone Video version Read: Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — The New Yorker Primary Tech Chapter on Sam Altman Download: Capture App Deep: Reconcilable Differences #284: Burger Boy I Deleted My Second Brain
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