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Top Five Tech

Stephen Robles

Technology

Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 10

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.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - technology
22/06/2026
#98
🇨🇦 Canada - technology
18/06/2026
#81
🇬🇧 Great Britain - technology
18/06/2026
#77
🇨🇦 Canada - technology
17/06/2026
#73
🇬🇧 Great Britain - technology
17/06/2026
#59
🇨🇦 Canada - technology
16/06/2026
#40
🇬🇧 Great Britain - technology
16/06/2026
#46
🇺🇸 USA - technology
16/06/2026
#81
🇨🇦 Canada - technology
15/06/2026
#29
🇬🇧 Great Britain - technology
15/06/2026
#27

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Mythos, Capture, and AT&T

Episode 1

Thursday, April 16, 2026 • Duration 04:49

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.

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New Things, Hans Zimmer, Tim Cook Leadership Lesson

Episode 2

Friday, April 24, 2026 • Duration 05:55

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).

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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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Antarctica's Secrets, I Am Not a Robot, Do You Hate AI?

Episode 5

Friday, May 15, 2026 • Duration 05:24

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.

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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

Hannah Fry on Claude, Acquired's Starbucks Story, Animated Earth

Episode 4

Friday, May 8, 2026 • Duration 05:36

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.

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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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AI Chatbots IRL, Software Brain, Vision Pro Rumors

Episode 3

Friday, May 1, 2026 • Duration 05:21

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.

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Creating vs Consuming, Arctic RV, Making iPhone Apps on iPhone

Episode 6

Friday, May 22, 2026 • Duration 05:40

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.

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Bob Ross × Mozart × Ferrari

Episode 7

Friday, May 29, 2026 • Duration 04:05

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.

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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

How  Vision Pro Immersive Content is Made, Harmony Remotes, Tech News Moves

Episode 10

Friday, June 19, 2026 • Duration 05:00

A behind-the-scenes look at how Apple builds those immersive visionOS environments, Version History episode on the Harmony remote, how Australia's social media ban is actually playing out, a fun shortcut for yesterday's sports scores, and shake-ups happening in tech journalism.

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Harmony remote: Control freak — Version History
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/harmony-remote-control-freak/id1840983742?i=1000772624848

How Australia's social media ban has affected families six months on — The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/how-australia-social-media-ban-has-affected-families-six-months-on

Get Yesterday's Sports Scores
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/86378520115643f0b0feca437620d2d8

Eater, The Verge and SB Nation Sold to Penske Media — The Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/eater-verge-sbnation-sold-penske-media-1236624828/

The Siri Demo Apple Didn't Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtWNGnPj-kM

The New Siri is Actually Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3lL68hNK4

Apple Vision Pro Future, Task App, Viticci's 10 Years at WWDC

Episode 9

Friday, June 12, 2026 • Duration 03:41

Justin Ryan asks Apple if it's done with Vision Pro, Primary Technology was LIVE from Apple Park, Federico Viticci's reflective WWDC essay, and the beautifully designed Tasks app I'm about to try.

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MacVince Channel, Gruber on TBPN, Designed in California

Episode 8

Friday, June 5, 2026 • Duration 04:25

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.

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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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