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512 Pixels is a blog covering Apple, computer history, design, and other fine nerdery, written by Stephen Hackett.

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An Exploration of Lotus Agenda

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2025/08/15

Kevin Lipe, in a follow-up post to his Pocket 8086 series here on 512: I’d been Agenda-curious for a long time, but never tried to actually use it for real. I booted it up on my Pocket 8086, watched cards crawl into place, watched queries resolve themselves into slices of sense, and realized with annoying […]

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Mr. Musk Goes to Nashville

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2025/08/14

Another Elon Musk company is doing things in another Tennessee city, as Hannah McDonald reports: Aerial footage from Sky 5 shows a freshly dug pit near the base of the State Capitol, a visible sign of progress on The Boring Company’s controversial underground transportation project in Tennessee. The 10-foot-deep, 20-by-20-foot test pit was dug this […]

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Blood Oxygen Feature Returning to U.S. Apple Watches

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2025/08/14

Chance Miller has the details: Apple has announced that it will release a software update for iPhone and Apple Watch later today with a “redesigned Blood Oxygen feature” for Apple Watch users in the United States. This comes over 18 months after Apple began selling the Apple Watch without the Blood Oxygen feature in America due to a […]

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Connected 565: Podcasts in Action

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2025/08/13

This week on the show, Myke and I discuss a new iOS app named Cassette, using Water Lock on the Apple Watch, the state of CarPlay in iOS 26, and new rumors about an entry-level MacBook.

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Research Shows High Nitrogen Dioxide Concentration...

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2025/08/13

If you’ve been keeping up with my writing about xAI in Memphis, you’ll know that the company is relying on natural gas turbines to generate power to keep Grok up and running. Those turbines have been at the center of national coverage, and the issue isn’t going away, with xAI and its partners set to […]

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Cassette

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2025/08/12

Devin Davies has a new app out, and it’s fantastic. Cassette is in the App Store now. I was delighted when I saw it in TestFlight; I suspect the $7.99 to unlock all of its features will fly out of your hands.

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CarPlay’s Messages App for iOS 26 is Bad

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2025/08/12

I’ve been running iOS 26 for a while now, and there’s something that has been bugging me. The Messages app in CarPlay is a disaster: I took some time to edit my friends and family out of this screenshot, but the layout and conversation names are exactly as they appear in real life. Here are […]

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Elon Musk Promises to Sue Apple Over Grok’s App Store...

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2025/08/12

Jess Weatherbed, reporting for The Verge: Elon Musk says that his artificial intelligence company xAI “will take immediate legal action” against Apple for allegedly manipulating its App Store rankings to the advantage of rival AI apps. In a series of X posts on Monday night, Musk suggested that Apple was “playing politics” by not placing […]

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Sponsor: DEVONthink: Store, Organize, and Work the...

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2025/08/11

We’re all dealing with more information than ever, and it’s becoming increasingly complex. You need bulletproof financial documents for audits, collaborative tools for your team, and AI that can actually help. DEVONthink 4.0 Copernicus1 is here, and it’s designed to work with you, not against you. Its AI integration is incredibly useful — it can […]

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Making a Floppy Disk from Scratch

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2025/08/11

polymatt’s newest project blew my mind:

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MPU 809: Exploring Kagi with CEO Vladimir Prelovac

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2025/08/10

This week on the podcast: Kagi is a search engine and browser company offering an alternative to products offered by the tech giants. This week, its CEO Vladimir Prelovac talks with David and Stephen about what Kagi offers its customers.

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Memphis Light, Gas and Water Serving as Backup Power...

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2025/08/08

MLGW CEO Doug McGowen was recently interviewed on our local PBS affiliate about the utility company’s role in xAI’s newest Memphis data center, as reported by The Daily Memphian, whose CEO interviewed McGowen: McGowen said the company had initially discussed with MLGW a 1.1 gigawatt load for the project — or the equivalent of 33% […]

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Apollo 13’s Jim Lovell Dead at 97

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2025/08/08

Richard Goldstein at The New York Times with some sad news for fans of the early space program or amazing stories in general: James A. Lovell Jr., the commander of the three-man Apollo 13 spacecraft that survived a near catastrophic explosion as it approached the moon in April 1970, before safely returning to Earth in an extraordinary […]

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Microsoft Releasing Grok in Private Preview

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2025/08/07

Tom Warren’s headline is incredible: Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns

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Connected 564: Would Snell as Sweet

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2025/08/06

This week on the show: Jason joins Stephen and Myke to talk about hard drives, window management, and charts.

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Windows XP Crocs

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2025/08/06

“The problem with Microsoft is that they have no taste.”

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‘It Comes from Apple Computer’

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2025/08/06

I recently stumbled across a promotional document for the Lisa, dating back to 1983. It’s a real gem:

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‘Macintosh HD’ Icon Updated in macOS Tahoe Beta 5

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2025/08/05

Juli Clover at MacRumors spotted the change: The existing icon still resembled a hard disk drive, but the new icon looks like a modern solid state drive. Apple’s Macs stopped using hard disk drives starting more than a decade ago. The low-cost 21.5-inch iMac was the last Mac that had a hard drive component, as […]

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xAI Receives Approval to Run Natural Gas Turbines in...

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2025/08/05

As xAI inches toward completing Colossus 2, the company’s second Memphis data center, its plans for powering the site are coming into focus, as The Daily Memphian reports: Last week, the company received approval from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to operate natural gas turbines without an air emissions permit for up to 12 […]

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Rollercoaster Tycoon’s History

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2025/08/05

Jimmy Maher, writing at The Digital Antiquarian, about my favorite game as a kid: Back in 1994, MicroProse had published a game called Transport Tycoon, by a lone-wolf programmer named Chris Sawyer, who worked out of his home near Glasgow, Scotland. Building upon the premise of Sid Meier’s earlier Railroad Tycoon, it tasked you with building a […]

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