TechpadinTech News Stadia Showed Up Today and My Controller Wanted a USB Cable First Google Stadia launched today and I spent the evening fighting my apartment wifi instead of enjoying it. Some notes from a first, mostly frustrating, night with it. November 19, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Error Code 83 Disney+ launched this week with a huge library and The Mandalorian, but what I actually got on day one was six hours of error code 83 before anything would load. November 13, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News $38 Billion in a Day and Nobody I Know Noticed Alibaba just did roughly $38 billion in sales in 24 hours for Singles Day, and almost nobody outside China seems to have registered it happened. November 11, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News For All Mankind and the Streaming Subscription Math A weekend spent with the newly launched Apple TV+, mixed feelings on The Morning Show, and doing the actual math on how many streaming subscriptions I'm paying for now. November 5, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The WeWork Bailout Math Doesn't Add Up SoftBank's $9.5 billion rescue of WeWork left Adam Neumann with a payout north of a billion dollars. Some thoughts on that math, and on the theme-park feeling I always got walking past those offices. October 25, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News IBM's Not Having It: The Quantum Supremacy Fight Google's quantum supremacy paper landed in Nature today, but the more entertaining story is IBM's blog-post rebuttal claiming it's not so impossible after all. October 23, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Pixel 4's Face Unlock Doesn't Care If Your Eyes Are Open Google's Pixel 4 launched this week without a fingerprint sensor, betting everything on a face unlock that reportedly doesn't check if your eyes are even open. October 17, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 97 Years Old and Still Chasing a Better Cathode The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the inventors of the lithium-ion battery, and a quick count of the cells within arm's reach says more about the everyday miracle than any headline does. October 9, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News A Ring, Some Glasses, and Way Too Many Speakers Amazon's September hardware event dumped out fifteen-odd new devices, including a smart ring and smart glasses. Some thoughts on why the beta-hardware-with-a-price-tag approach is starting to wear thin. September 28, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News iOS 13 Weekend: Dark Mode Good, Bluetooth Bad Updated to iOS 13 this weekend: dark mode is great, Bluetooth pairing with my car is not, and the new iPhones landed the same day a third of my office walked out for the climate strike. September 22, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Leaked Quantum Paper Nobody Will Confirm Yet A leaked NASA paper on Google's quantum computer briefly went public this week, claiming a 200-second calculation would take a supercomputer 10,000 years. Nobody's confirmed it yet, and that's the interesting part. September 20, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Camera Bumps vs. the Supreme Court Steps While everyone was busy memeing the iPhone 11's camera bump, fifty state attorneys general quietly announced a real antitrust investigation into Google from the steps of the Supreme Court. September 14, 2019·4 min read
