TechpadinTech News Eight Dollars for a Checkmark Musk's $8 Twitter Blue checkmark plan turns verification into a purchase instead of a fact — plus a weekend spent poking around a laggy Mastodon instance. November 2, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News iPadOS 16 Showed Up, and So Did the M1 Catch iPadOS 16 and iOS 16.1 landed today. Stage Manager is good, but its external display support only works on M1 iPads, and mine isn't one of them. October 24, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Week With the Pixel 7 Pro A week-later hands-on with the Pixel 7 Pro: the camera bar's weight, a genuinely good zoom shot, and a fingerprint sensor that's letting the whole phone down. October 22, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Pixel 7 Pro, Three Days In Three days with the new Pixel 7 Pro: Magic Eraser is genuinely fun, the camera bar rocks on every flat surface, and I still haven't touched the Pixel Watch. October 16, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Netflix Ad Tier's Real Catch Isn't the Ads Netflix priced its ad-supported tier at $6.99 a month yesterday, and the 720p resolution cap and no-downloads rule matter more than the ad-count headline everyone's fixated on. October 14, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News My iPhone 14 Pro's Camera Still Won't Stop Shaking A week and a half after Apple promised a fix, my iPhone 14 Pro's camera is still buzzing every time I open Instagram or TikTok. October 8, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Pixel Watch Launched Today, And the Setup Restriction Bugs Me Google's Pixel Watch went on sale the same day it was announced, but the requirement that you pair it with a Pixel phone first is the part nobody's leading with. October 6, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Optus, and the Data You Didnt Know You Handed Over The Optus breach saga took a bizarre turn this week when the hacker apparently backed off and apologized. That doesnt fix the actual problem, which is how much ID data telcos sit on. September 28, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News I Watched a Spacecraft Punch an Asteroid Last Night I watched NASA's DART spacecraft slam into an asteroid live from my kitchen, and the wildest part is we still don't actually know if it worked. September 27, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Two RTX 4080s Are Not the Same Card Nvidia's two new RTX 4080 cards share a name but not a GPU die, and the naming trick is a bigger story than the announcement itself. September 25, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News MFA Fatigue, or How Uber Got Owned By a Text Message Uber's breach this week wasn't a clever exploit, just an 18-year-old texting an employee until he got tired of MFA prompts and tapped approve. That's the scarier part. September 17, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching a Rocket Not Launch, Again NASA scrubbed the second Artemis I launch attempt today over a hydrogen leak, and I cleared my whole morning to watch it not happen. September 3, 2022·4 min read
