TechpadinTech News The CRISPR Nobel and Why I Actually Read the Science Section This Week The Chemistry Nobel just went to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for CRISPR, and it made me actually stop and read the science pages this week instead of scrolling past. October 9, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Fly Beat the Debate A fly landed on Mike Pence's head during Tuesday's VP debate, and the internet's reaction infrastructure turned it into merch before the debate was even over. October 8, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 449 Pages Later, Still Paying the App Store Tax Congress dropped a 449-page report on Big Tech monopolies yesterday, and buried in it is the exact 30% App Store cut that quietly killed a side project of mine four years ago. October 7, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Chromecast Finally Gets a Remote (And I Have Feelings About It) Google finally put a remote on the Chromecast and renamed the whole interface Google TV again — a look at the new hardware, plus a complaint about my ever-growing remote drawer. October 1, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. September 27, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. September 21, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. September 20, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. September 4, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 18, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 16, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 9, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 8, 2020·3 min read
