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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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The Best iPhone Lineup in Years

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2025/09/10

Myke Hurley, writing at The Enthusiast: After yesterday’s Apple event, I came away feeling this may have been one of the most solid overall lineups in a very long time. Each of the models has a compelling set of features, and I think this is a strong upgrade year — even if you’re coming from the iPhone […]

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Former Wondery COO Leading AI ‘Podcast’ Company

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2025/09/10

When I saw this floating around, it was hard to believe that Caitlin Huston wasn’t writing for The Onion, but here I am, linking to a very real story at The Hollywood Reporter: Inception Point AI is attempting to do just that, as the company builds a stable of AI talent to host podcasts, and […]

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Mac Power Users 814: The iPhone 17 Event

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2025/09/10

David and I hopped on Zoom about 90 minutes after today’s event to talk about the new iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods. I love recording these post-event episodes, and this one is a banger.

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The OS Class of 26 Arrives September 15

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2025/09/09

Andrew Cunningham: If you’re buying one of the new iPhones or the other hardware that Apple announced today, your new devices will ship with Apple’s latest operating system updates already installed. But if you’re not looking to spend a bunch of money on Apple’s latest and greatest, the new updates will land on Apple’s other […]

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Apple Posts Awe Dropping Event Highlights Video

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2025/09/09

Apple’s saving tech blogs a lot of work by making its own supercut of today’s event:

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Apple’s Awe Dropping Event, in a Bunch of Screenshots...

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2025/09/09

AirPods Pro 3 Apple Watch Series 11 & SE 3 Apple Watch Ultra 3 iPhone 17 iPhone Air Specs & Cameras COSMIC ORANGE IPHONE PRO GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEEEE iPhone 17 Pro & Pro Max

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Sponsor: MarsEdit 5

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2025/09/08

MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs. The new microposting feature makes it as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to social media. When MarsEdit 5 is running on your Mac, just press a […]

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Mac Power Users 813: Spending All Our Time Saving Things

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2025/09/07

On this feedback episode, Sparks and I talk about backing up iCloud data, read-it-later services, automation trigger conflicts, travel tech, converting Markdown, the No List, and a lot more.

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Sean Duffy Pushes Back on Jim Bridenstine’s Comments...

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2025/09/06

On the heels of a predecessor saying otherwise, acting NASA administrator and The Real World alumni Sean Duffy says NASA will beat China to the moon, according to Julia Jester and Denise Chow at NBC News: During an internal employee town hall Thursday, Duffy warned of “letting safety be the enemy of progress” when it […]

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macOS Icon History

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2025/09/06

Basic Apple Guy’s impressive project pairs nicely with mine.

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Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Testifies...

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2025/09/05

When Jim Bridenstine was named NASA Administrator during Trump’s first time in office, many folks (including me) were worried that a Congressional representative from Oklahoma was a bad choice, but by the time he was out of office, I think most people thought he had done a pretty good job at shepherding NASA through a […]

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Anthropic to Pay Authors ‘At Least’ $1.5 Billion

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2025/09/05

Hayden Field at The Verge: In what’s potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay “at least” a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit. The amount breaks down to smaller payouts expected to be approximately […]

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Connected 568: The Rickies (Sept. 2025)

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2025/09/04

This week on a jam-packed episode of Connected: With the next iPhone introduction just days away, Federico, Myke, and Stephen gather their thoughts and their picks to see who has the best guesses on what will happen at Apple’s “Awe Dropping” event.

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A Look at Pedometer++ on iOS 26

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2025/09/04

It’s been a busy summer at Cross Forward, and David is showing off part of that work today, with a tour of the next version of Pedometer++: I love this refresh, and can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on for Widgetsmith.

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The Browser Company Acquired by Atlassian

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2025/09/04

In probably unsurprising news, The Browser Company has a new owner, as reported by David Pierce at The Verge: Mike Cannon-Brookes, the CEO of enterprise software giant Atlassian, was one of the first users of the Arc browser. Over the last several years, he has been a prolific bug reporter and feature requester. Now he’ll own the […]

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Instagram Coming to the iPad

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2025/09/03

OTJ has the details: Announced on Instagram’s blog today, the new iPad app supports iPadOS 15.1 and later and includes the features you’d expect like Reels and Stories, plus a new “Following” tab that includes sections for posts and Reels from Friends who follow you back, a “Latest” section that’s sorted chronologically, and an “All” […]

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Google Gets to Keep Chrome and Android, Apple Gets to...

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2025/09/02

It’s a big day for Google, as Judge Amit Mehta has ruled in its favor in several areas: Google will not have to sell off Chrome Google will not have to sell off Android Google can continue paying Apple and others for search engine placement However, will be barred from exclusive contracts for placement in […]

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The iPhone Ultra

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2025/09/02

There’s been some discussion this week about what a future folding iPhone would be named. I’m putting a flag in the ground here, today, on September 2, 2025: The iPhone Ultra.

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Hitting the Wall with Vibe Coding

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2025/09/01

Stephen Robles recently attempted to write an iOS podcast client. By his own admission, he’s not a developer, so turned to a series of AI tools to write the app. It didn’t go well: At first, it would hang on searching for shows. After I seemingly fixed that, adding a show to the Library didn’t […]

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Sponsor: Rogue Amoeba: Great Audio Tools for Every...

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2025/09/01

The team at Rogue Amoeba has spent more than two decades perfecting audio software that just works on the Mac. No matter what your needs are, you can be confident when using their apps. Start with SoundSource, which puts comprehensive audio control right in your menu bar. Adjust individual app volumes, apply real-time effects, and […]

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