TechpadinTech News 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. August 7, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 1, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. July 21, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. July 11, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Those Do Not Sell Links Actually Do Something Now CCPA enforcement kicked in on July 1st and I spent an evening actually testing the Do Not Sell links instead of ignoring them like usual. July 5, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Hey App Fight Was Never Really About the 30% A closer look at the Hey email app's fight with Apple's App Store rules, and why the real problem isn't the 30% cut but who gets heard when they push back. June 27, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Visa News Everyone Missed Because of WWDC While the internet argues about Apple's ARM transition from WWDC, this week's H-1B and L-1 visa suspension is quietly upending plans for a lot of the people who actually build tech. June 25, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Hey App vs. Apple Fight Is About More Than 30 Percent Apple threatened to pull Basecamp's new Hey email app from the App Store over in-app purchase rules, the same week it was on stage at WWDC talking about empowering developers. June 24, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The PS5 Looks Like My Router and I Can't Unsee It Sony revealed the PS5's actual design last week, and five days later the internet still can't decide if it's a gaming console or a Wi-Fi router with delusions of grandeur. June 16, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Year-Long Pause on Rekognition (and Why I'm Not Totally Buying It) Amazon just paused police use of its Rekognition facial recognition tool for one year. Having actually used Rekognition on my own photos, I'm not convinced a pause is the same thing as fixing anything. June 10, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News IBM Quits Face Recognition. I'll Believe It When I See It IBM told Congress it's exiting facial recognition entirely. I'm glad, but a letter isn't the same as a company actually changing what it does. June 8, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Nine Days: How Long the unc0ver Jailbreak Lasted Apple patched the unc0ver jailbreak nine days after it went public with iOS 13.5.1, and I spent a weekend finding out just how short that window really was. June 2, 2020·4 min read
