Still No RTX 3080, Ten Days Later
Ten days after the RTX 3080 launched, still no card in hand: a rant about bots, scalper eBay listings, and EVGA's queue-line-for-a-graphics-card system.
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Bethesda's Microsoft's Now (And I Just Preordered a PS5)
Microsoft's $7.5 billion ZeniMax/Bethesda acquisition landed five days after I finally scored a PS5 preorder, and now I'm doing math about exclusives I don't love.
The Ban That Wasn't
The TikTok download ban that was supposed to hit at midnight got pushed a week, and a judge blocked the WeChat ban outright, leaving me with an alarm clock set for nothing.
The S&P 500 Said No to Tesla and I'm a Little Salty About It
Tesla got left out of the S&P 500's quarterly rebalancing despite hitting the profitability bar everyone expected would clinch it, and a small personal position (plus a rough week for tech stocks) makes it sting more than it should.
Flight Simulator Ate My Entire Evening (And My Data Cap)
Microsoft Flight Simulator finally launched today, and the real story for most of us wasn't the graphics, it was watching a multi-hour download eat the whole evening.
Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite Was the Real Story
The Epic vs. Apple fight was never really about V-bucks. The real story is the "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" parody ad, and how obviously pre-planned the whole legal stunt was.
Samsung's New Earbuds Look Like Coffee Beans
Samsungs new bean-shaped Galaxy Buds Live claim active noise cancellation with an open-fit design, and Im not convinced the physics works out.
I Poked At Instagram Reels for a Weekend
Instagram Reels rolled out worldwide on August 5th, and I spent the weekend poking at it. Some notes on the timing, the UI, and why it feels like homework instead of a hobby.
Samsung Shaved the S Pen Lag Down to 9ms and I Can't Stop Thinking About It
Samsung's Note 20 Ultra dropped S Pen latency to 9ms and buried it in a keynote full of bigger, dumber news. That number is the only part I actually care about.
The Helicopter Riding Along to Mars
Perseverance launched to Mars this week carrying a tiny helicopter named Ingenuity, and that little four-pound gamble is the part of the mission I can't stop thinking about.
The Week Twitter Lost It Over GPT-3
A week of viral GPT-3 demos flooded tech Twitter, and a much bigger space milestone got barely a glance.
iOS 14 Beta: Widgets Are Great, Everything Else Is On Fire
Two days into running the iOS 14 public beta on my main phone: the home screen widgets are the real deal, App Library sorts my apps into nonsense, and my Fitbit app keeps crashing.