David Pogue

The Queen's Six: Giving pop music the royal treatment

Tomorrow, in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth will be laid to rest. And the Choir of St. George's Chapel will fill the room with song, as it has at royal events for nearly 700 years. "The choir was founded in 1352, so it's quite…

"Greedflation": Is corporate profit-taking driving prices higher?

At Sugar Hill Creamery, in Harlem, the hand-made ice cream will cost you more these days, because, according to owner Petrushka Bazin Larsen, everything costs her more. "Everything is going up, from dairy, milk and cream, to just our cups," she

Meet Marcel, a tiny shell - and now a big movie star

There are plenty of BIG movies this summer, from "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Jurassic World: Dominion" to "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness." But the highest-rated one of all on Rotten Tomatoes is very, very small, with a main character no…

A fix for McDonald's soft-serve machines?

You'll have no trouble buying burgers at McDonald's. But ice cream? That's another story, as correspondent David Pogue discovered at one franchise's drive-through. "I'm sorry," he was told, "we actually don't have any ice cream at the moment." Broken…

Self-tracking your health data

When you were growing up, the closest you ever got to a personal medical data-collection device was probably a thermometer, or a bathroom scale. But these days, health trackers are a lot more sophisticated – and a lot more wearable. Smartwatches from…

Paths to avoid crippling student debt

Twenty-eight-year-old Kera Cheney works for the government, lives in a basement apartment with her boyfriend in San Francisco, and stresses about her college loans. Her student debt now stands at around $280,000. She followed the classic recipe for…

The resurgence of unions and the fight against Amazon

The number of Americans who belong to labor unions had been dropping for decades. But suddenly, in the last year or so, the winds have changed. Unionization efforts are underway at tech companies like Apple and Google; media organizations like The…

Uncovering a dumpster full of art worth millions

In 2017 a barn cleanout in Connecticut revealed a treasure trove of artworks, by an obscure artist who'd died the year before. Now, experts say the dumpster art could be worth millions. Correspondent David Pogue delves into the intriguing tale of how…

"Crypto for dummies": The how, what and why of using virtual currency

If you haven't heard of crypto, you clearly haven't been following the news lately. If you're not quite sure what crypto is, or what you should do with it, correspondent David Pogue is here to teach you (just about) everything there is to know about…

Buster Keaton, the "Great Stone Face"

Now arriving back on the scene, it's Buster Keaton – silent film star, comedian, acrobat, director, special-effects innovator, and now the subject of two new biographies and an upcoming movie. "He was way ahead of his time, even as a sort of film…

How free speech is under attack in the U.S.

When someone says something we disagree with, should we shut them up? In 1927, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis had an answer: "The remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." Well, in that case, the internet should have solved…

Vince Guaraldi's classic "A Charlie Brown Christmas" music

How did this song ever become a classic? It's kind of a melancholy waltz, and the chords are really complicated. It's not "Jingle Bells" … it's jazz! It's called "Christmas Time Is Here": It's story begins in 1965, when CBS asked producer Lee…

Vince Guaraldi's classic "A Charlie Brown Christmas" music

How did this song ever become a classic? It's kind of a melancholy waltz, and the chords are really complicated. It's not "Jingle Bells" … it's jazz! It's called "Christmas Time Is Here": It's story begins in 1965, when CBS asked producer Lee…

The James Webb Space Telescope: Looking back towards the beginning of time

In 1990, NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope. It had faced years of delays and cost overruns, but it proved the existence of black holes, calculated the age of the universe, and delivered astonishing views of deep space. But now, NASA has built…

This $85 Night Cam Turned My Backyard Into an Episode of Nova

You’d never guess our backyard is a teeming wildlife wonderland. We live in a Connecticut suburb, not the Maine backwoods. But about a month into the homebound boredom of lockdown, I started scraping off my kids’ dinner plates into the grass at the…

2021 holiday gift ideas from Techno Claus

Techno Claus (who looks suspiciously like "Sunday Morning" contributor David Pogue) has made the trip from the North Pole to deliver gift suggestions for those on your holiday list who love gadgets: Another year older … another year gone … And dang,…

Lessons from Stephen Sondheim, the teacher

Stephen Sondheim may have been best known as one of the greatest composer/lyricists the theater has ever known. But he often said that he would have loved to have been a teacher — and he was an extraordinarily generous one to generations of young…

Visit a factory that makes mosquitoes

The deadliest animal on Earth is not the shark, or the snake, or the scorpion, or even us. It's the mosquito. The diseases they carry kill over a million people a year, and in a warming climate they're spreading to new places. In 2013, a particularly…

Weak links in the supply chain

"We're gonna need a case of lemons; let's hope that they got lemons tomorrow." Life's not giving lemons to Tony Pertesis, who owns and runs the Southport Diner in Connecticut. And not just lemons: "You order Heinz, it's not here. I order Gatorade; it…

The father of the cellphone

There wouldn't be Uber or Lyft or Google Maps or FaceTime or Instagram or Tinder or Snapchat or TikTok or iPhones or Android phones if someone hadn't invented the cellphone. Fortunately, somebody did. It was Marty Cooper. "I know a lot about the…