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CultCast #295 - Big HomePod and iPhone 8 leaks… directly from Apple!

The CultCast

America's favorite Apple Podcast

Tech News, Society & Culture, News, Technology

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Send us a text! This week: Apple just accidentally leaked major details about the iPhone 8 and HomePod. Whoopsie! We’ll tell you everything we’ve learned. Plus: leaked audio files show off the HomePods cool UI sounds; we reveal exclusive new audio of the HomePod's boot-up noise; Buster’s shares a very special announcement; and we wrap with our reviews of the best internet-connected security cameras and the hawt new flagship Olympus OM-D EM-1 mirrorless...

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0:00.0

I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we're

0:06.3

tool builders.

0:07.3

And I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least

0:16.3

energy to move a kilometer and humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list.

0:24.8

It was not too proud of a showing for the crown of creation.

0:28.5

So that didn't look so good, but then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion

0:35.5

for a man on a bicycle.

0:38.1

And a man on a bicycle or a human on a bicycle blew the condor away, completely off the

0:42.2

top of the charts.

0:43.0

And that's what a computer is to me.

0:45.0

What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with.

0:50.0

And it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

0:56.0

Hello and welcome to the co-cast the best 30 plus minute apple conversation

1:02.4

you're going to hear all week long.

1:05.6

I'm your host, Airf Rinalizer joining me today.

1:08.0

He pens your favorite apple news at Cult of Mac, and he's the Bill As Preston to my Ted Theodore Logan.

1:16.0

Buster,

1:17.1

Shiny a year.

1:18.3

Hey man, do you know what be really cool is if we brought Eddie Van Halen into the

1:22.4

podcast? Excellent! is if we brought Eddie Van Halen into the podcast.

1:23.2

Excellent!

1:24.2

That would be cool actually.

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