TechpadinTech News The Train of Lights in My Backyard A personal account of watching SpaceX's first Starlink satellite train cross the night sky, plus some grumbling about what a few thousand more of them will do to stargazing. June 2, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Uber Posts a Billion-Dollar Loss and Nobody's Surprised Uber's first earnings report as a public company showed a loss well over a billion dollars, and honestly nobody seemed surprised. A few thoughts on the numbers, the stock slide since IPO, and why surge pricing still bugs me more than the balance sheet does. June 1, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News A Billion Dollar Loss and a Thirty Dollar Memory Uber posted its first earnings report as a public company today, a billion-dollar quarterly loss, which got me thinking about the thirty-dollar black car rides I used to take back when this blog was new. May 30, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Huawei Story Nobody's Talking About Is the Chips, Not the Apps Everyone's fixated on Google cutting Huawei off from Android. The ARM news that broke today is quieter, weirder, and probably matters more. May 22, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The 90 Days Nobody's Talking About Everyone's covering "Google bans Huawei" — the more interesting detail is the 90-day license quietly keeping existing Huawei phones updated while new ones lose Google's apps. May 21, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The WhatsApp Call You Never Answered A WhatsApp bug let attackers install spyware just by calling your phone, no answer required. It made me actually update an app the same day I heard about it, which never happens. May 13, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Windows News I Actually Cared About This Week Microsoft's Build keynote buried a real Linux kernel and a new terminal app under the usual conference noise, and honestly it's the only announcement from this week I actually care about. May 7, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Samsung's Fold Fiasco and the Screen Protector That Wasn't Samsung pulled the $1,980 Galaxy Fold's launch this week after review units started dying, and the cause traces back to a display layer that looked exactly like a screen protector. April 27, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Microsoft Hit a Trillion Dollars and Windows Had Nothing to Do With It Microsoft briefly hit a trillion dollar market cap this week, and its Azure doing the heavy lifting, not Windows. Some thoughts on that, plus a quick note on the Galaxy Fold mess. April 25, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Fold Screens Are Already Breaking and Honestly, Yeah Samsung's Galaxy Fold review units are breaking within days of launch, and thinking about what's actually under that display makes it a lot less surprising. April 19, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Why I Just Cancelled My Galaxy Fold Preorder Review units of Samsung's $1,980 Galaxy Fold are breaking within a day or two, and it made me finally cancel my preorder instead of waiting to see if mine would be one of the unlucky ones. April 18, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Real Casualty of the Apple/Qualcomm Truce Was Intel Everyone's writing about Apple and Qualcomm making peace this week. The part that actually matters is that Intel just quietly gave up on 5G phone modems entirely. April 17, 2019·3 min read
