TechpadinTech News 45 Minutes of Google Being Gone, and a Faceless NPC Google's login system went dark for 45 minutes yesterday and took Gmail, Docs, YouTube, and apparently some people's smart locks down with it. Also, Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 is a mess. December 15, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Went Down and Took My Thermostat With It Google went down for 45 minutes this morning and took my thermostat with it, which says more about smart home design than it does about Google. December 14, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Dish Fell Down and All I Could Think About Was My Old Screensaver Arecibo's instrument platform collapsed into the dish this week, and it sent me down a rabbit hole of memories about running SETI@home on my family's old Compaq back in 2001. December 7, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News We Lost Arecibo A few days after the Arecibo Observatory's platform finally collapsed, some thoughts on what we actually lost, and why it took this long to fall. December 6, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News We're Losing Arecibo And Nobody's Talking About It While everyone was chasing PS5 restocks this week, NSF quietly announced it's decommissioning the Arecibo Observatory after a second cable failure left the structure too dangerous to repair. November 28, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News I Did Not Get an RX 6800 XT and I Have Thoughts A blow-by-blow of losing the RX 6800 XT launch-day checkout race, and a small rant about bots eating GPU stock during a very weird month for hardware launches. November 20, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Big Navi Looks Great on a Slide, I Still Dont Have a GPU AMD's Radeon RX 6000 launch event had great slides and a Ryzen 5000 chip dropping tomorrow, but after missing the RTX 3080 by three minutes in September I'm not holding my breath on actually owning one. November 4, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Big Navi Pricing Looks Great, Which Is Exactly Why I Won't Get One AMD's RX 6000 pricing looks great on paper, but after living through the RTX 3080 launch chaos in September, I'm not holding my breath for November 18th either. November 3, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The iPhone 12 Box Is Missing Something The iPhone 12 shipped without a charger or earbuds in the box, and MagSafe is back as a magnetic charging ring. Some thoughts on what that combination actually adds up to. October 25, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News iPhone 12 Day, and the Case of the Missing Charger The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro hit stores today, and the thing everyone's actually talking about isn't the 5G chip, it's the empty half of the box. October 23, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Prime Day Landed on the Same Day as the iPhone Event Amazon's rescheduled Prime Day landed on the same day as Apple's iPhone 12 event, and most of the "deals" I checked weren't actually deals at all. October 17, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple Ditched the Charger and I Have Some Thoughts Apple's iPhone 12 event was two days ago, and the detail I can't stop thinking about isn't the phone specs, it's the missing charger in the box. October 15, 2020·3 min read
