TechpadinTech News A Very Uneven Day for Spaceflight Falcon Heavy stuck all three booster landings last night while Israel's Beresheet lunar lander crashed into the moon the same day. Notes on a very uneven day for spaceflight. April 11, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News That Black Hole Picture Isn't Actually a Photo The black hole image everyone shared yesterday wasn't emailed anywhere - it traveled as half a ton of hard drives on actual planes. The logistics story is better than the photo. April 10, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Hid a Snake Game in Maps and I Have Not Been Productive Since Google buried a real, playable game of Snake inside Google Maps for April Fools' Day, and it's the first corporate April 1st joke in years that actually didn't waste my time. April 2, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Credit Card With No Number On It Apple's new credit card has no number printed on it anywhere, and five days after the announcement I still can't decide if that's clever design or a hassle waiting to happen. March 30, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Stadia and the Ghost of OnLive Google unveiled Stadia at GDC yesterday with no price and no release date, and all I could think about was OnLive, the streaming service that promised the same thing in 2010 and died trying. March 20, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Zuckerberg's Privacy Pivot Lands Two Days Before Warren's Breakup Plan Zuckerberg's new privacy-and-encryption blog post landed two days before Elizabeth Warren's break-up-big-tech plan, and the timing feels like more than a coincidence. March 8, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nineteen Years, One Bad DLL A 19-year-old path traversal bug in WinRAR's ACE archive handling just pushed me to finally update, and it says something about how much old code we all run without thinking twice. March 6, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Two Grand to Fold My Phone? Pass MWC wraps today with foldable phones from Samsung and Huawei stealing the show, but the $1,980 price tag isn't what worries me. It's the hinge. February 28, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Anthem Landed With a Thud Anthem came out last week and the loading screens alone nearly broke me. A few days in, the cracks in BioWare's big loot-shooter bet are impossible to ignore. February 26, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Metro Exodus, the Epic Store, and My Increasingly Cluttered Desktop Metro Exodus launched last week as an Epic Games Store exclusive, Steam users took it out on an older game's review page, and Ive got some complicated feelings about where PC gaming is headed. February 19, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News A Weekend of Loading Screens With Anthem A weekend spent in Anthem's early access turned into a case study in loading screens, and a reminder that this keeps happening to big live-service launches. February 18, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Tetris 99 Snuck Out Mid-Direct and Wrecked My Afternoon Nintendo dropped Tetris 99 mid-Direct and it ate my whole afternoon. Thoughts on why the battle royale mashup actually works, plus the rest of the February 13th Direct. February 17, 2019·4 min read
