1,000 Songs In Your Pocket

When Lord Byron’s 17 year-old daughter, Ada Lovelace, attended a soirée at the home of academic Charles Babbage on 5th June, 1833, the pair hit it off immediately. He invited her to see his ‘Difference Engine’ - an early mechanical calculator - kicking off a correspondence that l ...  Show more

‘The Annoying Thing’ is how the begenitaled amphibian animated by Erik Wernquist was first described; but by the time he released his first single ‘Axel F’ he was universally known as The Crazy Frog, and beat Coldplay’s ‘Speed of Sound’ to UK #1 on 4th June, 2005. The tale of how ...  Show more

A rock icon sets out to save music with a strange yellow gadget that almost no one understood.

Neil Young’s iPod Killer

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With the release of iOS 18.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.2, Apple Intelligence is truly here -- even if there is still more to come. Plus Apple is in trouble for what's it done and what it hasn't, and there are three new Apple Music radio stations, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.

This week saw the surprise release of a new iPad mini, and the predictable criticisms of it, plus more rumors of the future of the Apple Vision Pro.

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Is Apple a trademark bully? A Swiss farming organization worries so. Plus: OpenAI weighs an App Store of its own, Tesla’s charging standard gains steam, and more. Join our hosts Mark Dent, Jacob Cohen, and Rob Litterst as they take you through our most interesting stories of the ...  Show more