TechpadinTech News Why Some Vision Pro Buyers Are Already Boxing It Back Up A wave of early Vision Pro buyers are quietly returning the $3,499 headset within Apple's 14-day window, and the reasons why say more about strapping a computer to your face than about Apple's execution. March 6, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Reddit Is Selling Fourteen Years of My Comments to Google Reddit's IPO filing revealed a $60 million a year data deal with Google, which means fourteen years of my old comments just became someone else's training data. March 4, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Six Minutes of Silence on the Moon A vending-machine-sized lander from a Houston startup touched down on the moon Thursday night, and the six minutes of dead silence before anyone knew it survived was more tense than it had any right to be. February 24, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Reddit Filed Its S-1 and Now Wants to Sell Shares to Its Own Mods Reddit finally filed its S-1 this week, and the weirdest part isnt the numbers, its the plan to let regular users and mods buy in before the stock even opens. February 23, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News A Weekend With Someone Else's Vision Pro A weekend borrowing a friend's Apple Vision Pro during the first big wave of return-window stories, and what actually made me hesitate wasn't the price. February 17, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Day Fourteen: The Vision Pro Return Window Closes Today Today's the 14-day return deadline for Vision Pro launch-day buyers, and the "Vision Pro face" red-mark photos going around this week explain a lot about why lines are forming to send them back. February 16, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Morning My Timeline Turned Into a Film Festival OpenAI dropped Sora this morning and my whole timeline turned into a film festival, but the thing that stuck with me was smaller and weirder than the demo reel. February 15, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Snap's Terrible Wednesday, and Why I Never Deleted the App Snap's stock got shredded this week after a rough earnings call, right on the heels of Meta's record-setting dividend pop. Some notes on why one of these companies is fine and the other is not. February 7, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News That Senate Hearing Actually Got To Me A quick reaction to Wednesday's Senate hearing on child safety, where Zuckerberg was pushed to turn around and apologize to families in the room, and why that one moment landed differently than the rest of the theater. February 1, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple's New EU Rules and the Fifty-Cent Catch Apple's new EU compliance rules include a 50-cent-per-install fee that applies even outside the App Store, plus a quiet decision to kill home screen web apps entirely. January 29, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Rabbit R1 and My Drawer of Dead Gadgets CES just wrapped and everyone's talking about the $199 Rabbit R1. I've got a drawer full of gadgets that promised the same thing, so here's why I'm cautiously optimistic but not buying yet. January 13, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Rabbit R1 Is $199 and I Still Don't Want One CES wrapped up this week and the gadget everyone's buzzing about is a tiny orange box called the Rabbit R1. Im glad its cheap, but Im not convinced its anything more than a really charming demo. January 11, 2024·4 min read
