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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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Apple Announces the M5, Powering an Updated MacBook...

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2025/10/15

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced M5, delivering the next big leap in AI performance and advances to nearly every aspect of the chip. Built using third-generation 3-nanometer technology, M5 introduces a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling GPU-based AI workloads to run dramatically faster, with over 4x the peak […]

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“I Will Solve Your Problem for You and You Will Pay Me”

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2025/10/14

After seeing my buddies at Studio Neat launch an amazing new patch, I fell down the rabbit hole that is the NeXT logo. Dan and Tom linked to this video, which shows Paul Rand delivering his work to Steve Jobs and his team at NeXT. I hadn’t seen this before, and boy, I wish it […]

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Microsoft’s Windows 10 Support (Mostly) Ends Today

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2025/10/14

Andrew Cunningham, writing at Ars: This end-of-support date comes about a decade after the initial release of Windows 10, which is typical for most Windows versions. But it comes just four years after Windows 10 was replaced by Windows 11, a version with stricter system requirements that left many older-but-still-functional PCs with no officially supported upgrade path. […]

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Apple Renames Apple TV+ to Apple TV

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2025/10/13

As pointed out by Eric Slivka, Apple snuck in a little product news in its press release about F1: The Movie being available for streaming in December: Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity. At this point, none of that vibrant new identity is live, but it’ll be fun to […]

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xAI Breaks Ground on Wastewater Treatment Plant in...

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2025/10/13

For months, the city of Memphis, xAI, and partners have been planning a wastewater plant to provide water for cooling the company’s first supercomputer in Memphis. Last week, ground was broken on the site, as reported by Samuel Hardiman at The Daily Memphian: The plant will take wastewater treated at the City of Memphis’ nearby […]

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Glider for Macintosh

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2025/10/13

Classic Mac Gaming on YouTube has a great video about a true classic for Mac OS:

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Mac Power Users 818: “Recreational Math,” with Dr. Drang

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2025/10/12

This week on Mac Power Users: Everyone’s favorite engineer-turned-blogger returns to the show to discuss the state of iPhone cases, the argument for LLMs, and his go-to automation tools — and why Shortcuts on the Mac isn’t one of them.

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Clips Moved to the Great App Library in the Sky

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2025/10/11

Apple Support: The Clips app is no longer being updated, and will no longer be available for download for new users as of October 10, 2025. You can continue to use Clips on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 or earlier. Save your Clips videos to your photo library or another location. You can save videos with […]

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Folder Quick Look

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2025/10/07

Quick Look is a great Finder feature, and now it can see into folders thanks to a free Mac app named Folder Quick Look. Here’s what it is like in action: John Gruber, in his link to it: Looks, feels, and works like a feature that ought to be built into the Finder itself. Cool.

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Relay for St. Jude 2025: $753,756 Raised

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2025/10/06

We just wound down our annual St. Jude fundraiser. The Relay community was once again incredibly generous, donating $753,756 to help end childhood cancer around the world. This makes 2025 our third-biggest fundraiser ever. When we started this back in 2019, we just wanted to raise a few thousand dollars, but as of today, we’ve […]

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Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and...

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2025/10/06

Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history and app usage stays private and is not harvested by ad networks. By blocking ad trackers in Safari, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web. And with App […]

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Mac Power Users 817: macOS Tahoe, visionOS, & watchOS 26

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2025/10/05

This week, on a jam-packed episode of MPU: From Liquid Glass to a stronger Spotlight, macOS Tahoe reshapes the Mac. Spotlight now remembers your clipboard and taps into App Intents, while Apple’s apps gain updates to match their mobile counterparts. Elsewhere, visionOS and watchOS bring new features to Apple’s other platforms.

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iPhone Heir to the Throne

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2025/10/04

Picking an iPhone used to be easy. For years, the only real option was what color you wanted, at least for some models. Then came the iPhone 6 and superior-yet-a-little-bendy 6 Plus, which made things a little more complicated. A few years later, things started getting weird. In rapid succession, we saw the 8 and […]

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Google Announces $4 Billion Investment in AI Data...

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2025/10/02

After months of reporting and rumors, Google made its investment in West Memphis official today. Here’s The Daily Memphian’s Dima Amro: Google’s new data center in West Memphis will cost $4 billion and take 18 to 24 months to complete, officials said Thursday, Oct. 2. The data center will host cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure, […]

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Connected 572: Unbelievably, It Has Happened Again

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2025/10/02

This week on the world’s greatest podcast, Myke and I cover a new wave of Apple hardware leaks, then share our feelings on iPhones.

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Nick Heer, on Liquid Glass

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2025/09/30

Nick’s long column on Apple’s new design language is probably the best thing I’ve read on the subject. This line about the glass material switching from light to dark as content scrolls behind it really jumped out at me: It is Apple’s clever solution to a problem Apple created. I like a lot about Liquid […]

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Relay for St. Jude 2025: The Final Week

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2025/09/29

September is winding down in a couple days, and with it, Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. This year marks our 7th annual fundraiser for St. Jude, and as of this writing, we’re sitting just shy of $640,000 raised this year, which is incredible. I know it’s rough out there right now, which makes this number all […]

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

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2025/09/29

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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Mac Power Users 816: iOS & iPadOS 26

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2025/09/28

This week on Mac Power Users: iOS and iPadOS 26 bring many changes, including Liquid Glass, updated first-party apps, and new multitasking features for iPad users. This week, the guys talk through these changes and share impressions of Apple’s latest iPhones, AirPods, and Watches.

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Mr. Liss Goes to Memphis

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2025/09/26

For the second year in a row, Casey Liss joined us for the Podcastathon. He just published an amazing piece about the show and his time at St. Jude: This was my fourth time in Memphis; it’s staring to feel — to a degree — like a home away from home. Having been on campus […]

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