In This Episode: Travel tech, moon photos, reformating and an AI reading experiment.
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This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
- 1:00 GR: Traveling tech. NFC in the London Underground
- 15:50 GR: Who needs power plug converters anymore?
- 19:50 GR: Pictures of the moon.
- Samsung phones take better pictures of the moon because … they don’t.
- There is an AI trick built into the camera app.
- https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy-s21-s23-ultra
- 26:50 LN: My weekend.
- Reformat/Reinstall is usually not needed. Why I did it.
- 30:55 Unexpected slowdowns,
- 32:00 The wonder that is Amazon same-day delivery.
- 37:40 GR Rabbit R1
- 40:00 AI pin
- 41:00 Comparison to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- https://www.rabbit.tech/
- 49:50 https://teenage.engineering/
Ain’t it Cool
- 54:40 LN: My AI “What should I read next” experiment (Hyperion)
- 59:00 GR: Fallout
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
- 1:00:00 LN: Terminology matters
- 1:04:00 GR: 10 Simple Ways To Improve a Photo in the Mac Photos App
Samsung’s moon “enhancement” was only AI in that it recognized the moon in photos and then inserted information from actual moon photos into them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xf2TKU7ic&t=567s is a discussion of that and other fakes by Samsung. The tests done were done in a very complete manner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTzjaf2ivOQ&t=461s is about Samsung’s excuse that all photos are fake