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"CBS Sunday Morning" correspondent, former NY Times tech columnist, author, former Broadway conductor, husband/dad!

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‘Apple’ Review: Reinvention Incorporated David Pogue’s tour through the 50-year history of Apple lights on dozens of innovations along the way. Not all of them bore fruit.

The WSJ review of "Apple: The First 50 Years" in IN!

“It’s about as dramatic a business narrative as you could think up. To write a biography of a corporation that has lived numerous lives in its 50 years is a huge task, and Mr. Pogue’s easy style fits…"

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

06.03.2026 22:56 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Unfortunately, no San Diego appearances scheduled yet... but if you make the trip, I'll make it worth it! :)

06.03.2026 16:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Featured Session: David Pogue on Apple’s First 50 Years SXSW 2026 Schedule | As Apple enters its second half-century, author David Pogue (“Apple: The First 50 Years”) explores the throughlines of Apple’s astonishing success: simplicity, beauty, elegant des...

Happy to announce my @SXSW (South by Southwest) featured session on March 18—with my guest, PHIL SCHILLER! Apple Fellow, former global marketing head, and a great storyteller! This will be AMAZING.

schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP115...

06.03.2026 04:21 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Untold Story of the Birth of the iPhone Apple turns 50 on April 1. In his new book, “Apple: The First 50 Years,” David Pogue chronicles the secrecy-laden environment in which Steve Jobs willed the first iPhone into existence.

Today, WIRED has posted a great excerpt from "Apple: The First 50 Years"--the inside story of how the iPhone was created! (Subscription required.)

www.wired.com/story/the-un...

03.03.2026 15:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bill Atkinson’s last interview How Apple's visits to PARC inspired a computing revolution

For my book about Apple's first 50 years, I interviewed 150 people; sadly, several died before the book was done.

In my column today: Audio excerpts from my chat with the late Bill Atkinson, about creating the graphic interface (mouse, windows, icons…).

pogueman.substack.com/p/bill-atkin...

26.02.2026 23:08 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mystery Solved! The Delta #709 Pilot Speaks In which my actual pilot clarifies our San Diego go-around

Last week, in my new, free, column “Pogue’s Posts," I wrote about a harrowing go-around during a Delta landing in San Diego. Among the readers: The pilot himself! God bless the internet!

Today: A followup, in which he explains exactly what happened that day.
pogueman.substack.com/p/mystery-so...

24.02.2026 17:47 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Ring Super Bowl Ad: Interview with the CEO The seven ingredients of a perfect-storm corporate crisis

Ring's Super Bowl ad, which seemed to depict a SkyNet-style surveillance network for finding lost dogs, backfired spectacularly. In today's free “Pogue’s Posts” column: My interview with Ring's CEO to learn what went wrong. substack.com/@pogueman/no...

20.02.2026 14:42 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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“Hollywood is Done”: Is Seedance the Beginning or the End? You didn’t have to be a prophet to predict that eventually, AI would generate entire movies on demand.

Seedance 2.0 lets you generate movie scenes, complete with known movie stars. But in today's “Pogue’s Posts” column, I'm offering 7 reasons why this is not quite the Hollywood doomsday scenario you might think.

pogueman.substack.com/p/hollywood-...

16.02.2026 20:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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The Mystery of Flight 709: Did a Delta Pilot Lie? In which 200 strangers on Facebook figure out what really happened

I'm back to writing a weekly column! Free, no ads, no paywall.

Today's post—one of my favorites—tells how 20 internet strangers cracked the mystery of my flight to San Diego. Why did suddenly abandon its landing? And did our Delta pilot lie about it?

pogueman.substack.com/p/the-myster...

12.02.2026 23:12 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Dammit! Tesla’s Self-Driving Has Gotten Amazing Just kind of wish the tech came from a better company

After 12 years, I'm back writing a weekly tech column! Free, no ads, no paywall—comes to you by email. Today's column: "Dammit! Tesla's Self-Driving Has Gotten Amazing."
pogueman.substack.com/p/dammit-tes...

10.02.2026 14:59 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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No, the Moltbook Bots Aren't Plotting to Kill Us All Sci-fi in, Sci-fi out.

Today's “Pogue’s Posts” column: Meet Moltbook, the new social media site exclusively for AI bots. The bots seem to be turning on us, and It's freaking people out—but it shouldn't.

pogueman.substack.com/p/no-the-mol...

03.02.2026 03:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Scammers Are Going After Authors Now Some scumbags have no imagination

Today's “Pogue’s Posts” column: The strange, sycophantic new world of AI-generated, author-ego "book club" scams.

open.substack.com/pub/pogueman...

30.01.2026 15:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Phone Scammers? You Don’t Need a Code Word And other common-sense ways to scamproof your family

My “Pogue’s Posts” column today: Why having a "family code word" is a kinda dumb solution to AI phone scams.

pogueman.substack.com/p/ai-phone-s...

27.01.2026 15:45 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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A Musical Audiobook Bonus 4 U Behind the scenes of making an audiobook

Today's “Pogue’s Posts” column: What it's like recording 22 hours of an audiobook... and a free bonus musical selection that I'm not legally allowed to include!

pogueman.substack.com/p/a-musical-...

23.01.2026 01:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pogue's Posts | David Pogue | Substack David Pogue's new weekly column. Click to read Pogue's Posts, by David Pogue, a Substack publication. Launched an hour ago.

“Pogue’s Posts” is back! 13 years after I left the NY Times, I've started a new, weekly tech column (via Substack, of course). No ads, no cost. Sign up here: pogueman.substack.com

21.01.2026 03:19 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Good news you may have missed in 2025
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning Good news you may have missed in 2025

From today's "CBS Sunday Morning": Here's my annual mini-broadcast of the GOOD NEWS of the year 2025. Yeah, I actually found some!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKju...

28.12.2025 19:49 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 0
"The Sound of Christmas"
YouTube video by David Pogue "The Sound of Christmas"

For last week's "CBS Sunday Morning" story about what makes a great Christmas song, I wrote 30 seconds of a new song of my own that incorporated all of the success factors. Today, I've posted the full song (and video)! Happy hollydays! youtu.be/bRn-HHMMTT4

21.12.2025 17:26 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
"The Sound of Christmas"
YouTube video by David Pogue "The Sound of Christmas"

Oops... I mean HERE is the song! youtu.be/bRn-HHMMTT4

21.12.2025 17:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pentatonix: Friendships and harmonies
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning Pentatonix: Friendships and harmonies

Thank you for your kind words. The full version is here!
youtu.be/bRn-HHMMTT4

21.12.2025 17:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pentatonix: Friendships and harmonies
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning Pentatonix: Friendships and harmonies

It's ready now! :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXrm...

21.12.2025 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pentatonix: Friendships and harmonies
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning Pentatonix: Friendships and harmonies

When "CBSSunday Morning" assigned me a story about @PTXofficial (Pentatonix), the Grammy-winning a cappella quintet, they had no idea that I am a Pentaholic. What a thrill to hang out with these singers, onstage and off.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXrm...

21.12.2025 17:20 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
What makes for a great Christmas song?
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning What makes for a great Christmas song?

My new cover story from "CBS Sunday Morning": What makes a great Christmas song? It concludes with a Christmas song I wrote myself, performed by Broadway star Kerry Butler. youtu.be/AbZLC1J7NnQ

14.12.2025 16:02 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0
2025 holiday gift ideas from Techno Claus
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning 2025 holiday gift ideas from Techno Claus

On "CBS Sunday Morning" today: Techno Claus's 17th annual visit, coming down the chimney, with a Walmart suit and unplaceable accent, to suggest some very cool tech gifts for the holidays. In rhyme!

youtu.be/dKDw7FAYSCs

07.12.2025 16:22 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
Feeding the soul: Creating a lifeline for families in hard times
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning Feeding the soul: Creating a lifeline for families in hard times

My 3 related stories on "CBS Sunday Morning" today:

• A woman launches a food pantry in her backyard. youtu.be/mAt2sXurd5Q?...

• A "pay what you can" restaurant. youtu.be/PmuDPW3EWiU?...

• Food-truck training for people in tough times. youtu.be/eLaTH4W777A?...

23.11.2025 20:50 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
What is this black smoke ring in the sky? #shorts
YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official What is this black smoke ring in the sky? #shorts

Here's episode 6 of my PBS "Nova" micro-series, in which I explain the science behind viral videos. Today's installment: What's making that huge smoke ring in the sky? youtube.com/shorts/wL0jM...

15.11.2025 21:24 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Sadly, no, at least not in the near term. Paramount said it wasn't profitable. :(

14.11.2025 04:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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FREE AUTOGRAPHED BOOKPLATES to the first 500 requesters!

If you preorder my new book "Apple: The First 50 Years," I’ll sign a customized bookplate—a glorified sticker—and mail it to you, so you can slap it into your book. Details:
www.applefirst50.com/bookplate

14.11.2025 04:34 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
These United States: Bright ideas
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning These United States: Bright ideas

This season, “CBS Sunday Morning" celebrates the U.S. upcoming 250th birthday. Today, my story explores why we lead the world in INVENTIONS: light bulb, zipper, plane, car, PC, internet, GPS, AI, etc. Features a group interview of "Shark Tank" judges.

youtu.be/Xd8wZ63JA34?...

12.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
Deep frying in salt? #shorts #salt #deepfried
YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official Deep frying in salt? #shorts #salt #deepfried

Episode #3 of my new "NOVA" microseries, in which I explain the science behind viral videos in 90 seconds. This week: Frying food in a panful of hot salt!?

youtube.com/shorts/ZopJY...

15.09.2025 21:41 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How is artificial intelligence affecting job searches?
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning How is artificial intelligence affecting job searches?

In case you missed “CBS Sunday Morning" today: Here's my report on AI taking our jobs. It's a terrifying and very real phenomenon—but just not in the way, and not on the timeline, you probably think.

31.08.2025 16:04 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0