TechpadinTech News The Week You Couldn't Buy an Apple Watch Apple pulled the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 from shelves for a week over a patent fight with Masimo, right in the middle of holiday shopping. A quick rundown, plus why I'm not that broken up about the blood oxygen sensor. December 30, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple Just Pulled Its Own Watches Off The Shelf Days Before Christmas Apple pulled the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 from its online store days before Christmas after losing a patent fight over the blood oxygen sensor, and the timing could not be worse for holiday shoppers. December 22, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News That Gemini Demo Video Has Been Bugging Me All Week Googles Gemini launch video looked like real-time magic. A closer read of Googles own blog post makes it a lot less magical, and that gap is the part nobody screenshotted. December 7, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Shortest CEO Tenure in Tech Right Now A weekend recap of OpenAI's leadership chaos, focused on the strangest footnote of all: Emmett Shear's few days as interim CEO before Sam Altman came back. November 25, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Starship Got To Space This Time (Before It Blew Up) SpaceX's second Starship test flight on Saturday made it to space before both stages were lost — notes from watching the livestream at 7am with bad coffee. November 19, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News I Dumped 12 Years of This Blog Into GPT-4 Turbo's New Context Window After OpenAI's DevDay announcements this week, I tried feeding two years of this blog's archive into the new 128k-token GPT-4 Turbo just to see what would happen to my API bill. November 11, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching the Epic v. Google Trial Instead of the OpenAI Livestream While everyone's covering OpenAI's DevDay, I'm watching the Epic v. Google Play Store trial that started this week, and thinking about the 30% cut I used to pay Google on my own dumb little Android app. November 9, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The MacBook Pro Is Black Again, Sort Of Apple's new Space Black MacBook Pro finish has me thinking about my old plastic black MacBook from 2007, and whether this one will actually resist fingerprints like they claim. November 3, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Cheap MacBook Pro Isn't Really a Pro Anymore Apple's new M3 MacBook Pro lineup landed this week, but the $1599 base model quietly ships with last-generation display tech and the same 8GB of memory it had in 2020. November 2, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Stack Overflow's Layoffs and Where All the Questions Went Stack Overflow just laid off around 28% of its staff, and my own browser history explains exactly why: I barely use the site anymore now that Copilot and ChatGPT answer things inline. October 23, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Few Days With the Quest 3 (and the Strap That's Still Bugging Me) A few days in with the new Meta Quest 3, why the passthrough finally feels real, and why I'm still annoyed the good strap costs extra. October 14, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nobody Hacked 23andMe, Somebody Just Reused a Password The 23andMe breach making the rounds this week wasn't some elaborate hack, it was reused passwords plus a relative-matching feature that quietly widened the damage to people who did nothing wrong. October 8, 2023·3 min read
