A new episode of Upgrade is out: Reunited in Memphis, Jason and Myke discuss iPhone and AirPods Pro first impressions, phone transfer troubles, MacBook rumors, and St. Jude shenanigans.

More like confounder quiz www.youtube.com/live/HQ1aq-NH...

Chaos jenga www.youtube.com/live/HQ1aq-NH...

I'm in position. www.youtube.com/live/HQ1aq-NH...

We’ve been planning today for almost 9 months. I can’t wait to share it with you all.

Getting ready to go live at the top of the hour with TWELVE HOURS for St. Jude! Watch us here: www.youtube.com/live/HQ1aq-NH...

The mood in Hollywood is different now, a veteran Hollywood exec told me today: "Before, when you had a backlash, it felt like social justice. Now, it feels like the full power of the U.S. government coming for you.” www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

Also, as much as am biased towards the kicker in my own story today, this wins the award for best kicker of the day/year: "America may not be an actual autocracy. But it increasingly seems to be playing one on TV."

@snell.zone with an insightful truth: “I also must point out the hypocrisy of Apple claiming that it’s humbly building a stage that’s a perfect setting for our content. That’s absolutely not what’s happening here: Apple repurposes our content as a decoration for its interfaces”

In honor of Robert Redford's passing, take a listen to @theincomparable.com's episode on the movie SNEAKERS, "a Problematic Hen," with @snell.zone, @dmoren.com, @siracusa.social, @liss.bsky.social and @hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy. www.theincomparable.com/theincompara...

A new episode of Upgrade is out: Apple's new operating systems have arrived and we've got thoughts about iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and more. We also catch up on what we've learned since last week's Apple Event.

iOS 26 Review: Through a glass, liquidly

Just posted on Six Colors: iPadOS 26 review: A computer?

Just posted on Six Colors: macOS 26 Tahoe review: Power under glass

Everyone go watch Somebody Somewhere it's brilliant

said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Counterpart. Patriot. Freaks and Geeks.

Just posted on Six Colors: Thinking through Apple’s September 9 announcements

I'm one degree away - after he interviewed Dave, @tvmojoe.bsky.social called me up and asked to push Downstream back a day. Uh, yeah, for an exclusive interview with Dave Letterman. You got it, Joe! Great stuff. Too bad about Samsung though.

One of the most deranged quotes I have ever seen

Upgrade 580: Iconic Plateau From the iPhone Air to the iPhone 17 models, from AirPods Pro 3 to the new Apple Watches, we break down all the announcements from the September Apple Media Event! http://relay.fm/upgrade/580

A new episode of Upgrade is out: From the iPhone Air to the iPhone 17 models, from AirPods Pro 3 to the new Apple Watches, we break down all the announcements from the September Apple Media Event!

I'm not in Cupertino this morning so I'll be covering the video from my couch and then around noon PT we'll be live doing Upgrade at relay.fm/live !

49 years ago today, Jim Henson's #TheMuppetShow premiered in syndication.

So many good and bittersweet memories at 21A over the years, including a post-layoff lunch, the greatest TV Talk Machine meetup, a bunch of tech lunches, and a bunch of Giants pre-games. Someone better save Hell or High Watermelon Wheat.

Putin and Xi talking about immortality through biotech - www.bbc.com/news/article... - brings to mind an excellent novel from earlier this year, "Where the Axe is Buried," by Ray Nayler. I really liked it. www.raynayler.net/where-the-ax...

New Podcast Episode: MacBreak Weekly: Clothes by the Pound A Replacement to FineWoven? with @leolaporte.me, @alexlindsay.bsky.social, @ihnatko.bsky.social, @snell.zone

Gotta be hard to be on the Rockies and be a terrible team and give up massive home runs and react to them badly, but garbage is as garbage does. x.com/JohnSheaHey/...

Love to remember some guys, and of course they're mostly (but not all) Giants.

A new episode of Upgrade is out: Jason and Myke preview what will happen at next week's Apple event. What form might a thinner iPhone take? Will AirPods Pro come roaring back? Is Apple Watch Ultra in store for an upgrade? To the winner goes the glory.

“The CDC you knew is over,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis told me today. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

If your twin passions are Magnum PI and Nobel Prize for Literature winners of the 1970s, man, do I have a podcast episode for you: www.theincomparable.com/magnum/109/

@crywalt.bsky.social TypePad is shutting down which let me to remember... www.teevee.org/archive/2005...

A service that's been around so long, we parodied it 20 years ago. www.teevee.org/archive/2005...

Just posted on Six Colors: The Tim Cook era: 14 years of products, profits, and politics

very happy about all of this, what a great revival

Just posted on Six Colors: Apple event set for September 9

A new episode of Upgrade is out: After an era of stability, Apple may be about to mix things up with the iPhone, including a bunch of new models and even a change to the traditional roll-out cycle. And we end the Summer of Fun with a summery Ask Upgrade!

I get the feeling that Monday’s episode of Upgrade might be the last Summer of Fun episode, before we Draft the iPhone event… So I want to do some Summer Ask Upgrade questions to close it out. Get yours in! upgradefeedback.com

Just posted on Six Colors: This Week in Apple: Moltz is where now?

@mikesilver.bsky.social Finished "The Why Is Everything" at last. Great story with lots of details about this generation of coaches, but what will stick with me most is the matter-of-fact depiction of what Bad Ownership really means, and what Bad Owners do. Yikes!

New Podcast Episode: MacBreak Weekly: Movies on the Moon Apple's Leaked Upcoming Products! with @leolaporte.me, @alexlindsay.bsky.social, @ihnatko.bsky.social, @snell.zone

The new "step 3 profit" is "step 10 Dyson Sphere"

This is good news and also obvious but after what happened to Mindhunter I admit to not trusting anything until it's announced

A new episode of Upgrade is out: We imagine how Apple would tier list its own products, and discuss what kind of personality might work for a tabletop "robot" from Apple.

I am reliably informed that there are still spots at my Worldcon Table Talk tomorrow morning at 10:30am. If you’d like to come chat with me—and you should, because I’ve been called “unfailingly pleasant” (thanks, mom!)—you can sign up until 6pm tonight. seattlein2025.org/program-and-...

With the Hugos being announced tomorrow and our Hugo/Nebula final episode @theincomparable.com having just posted, here's my novel list: 1. Service Model, 2. Someone You Can Build a Nest In, 3. The Tainted Cup, 4. Ministry of Time, 5. Alien Clay. www.theincomparable.com/theincompara...

I enjoyed it, but it finished sixth of ten in our panelist poll of the Hugo/Nebula nominees this year. (I liked the characters a lot and was hoping it wouldn't step in every single time-travel cliché, but by the end it had.) www.theincomparable.com/theincompara...

Just posted on Six Colors: Get started with folder automation in macOS Tahoe

Best episode of the season or of the entire series? It's hard to judge.