TechpadinTech News 500 Atoms and a Nylon Bag Bethesda tried to make up for a swapped-out canvas bag with 500 Atoms, and the whole thing tells you more about how game companies handle mistakes than any patch notes ever could. November 21, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Checking Coinbase Before Bed Was a Mistake Bitcoin slid back under six grand this week and I made the mistake of checking the price right before bed — plus a confession about the GPU I bought to mine it back in 2017. November 19, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News A Laser Company Nobody's Heard Of Just Tanked Apple's Stock A little-known laser supplier named Lumentum cut its guidance and took a chunk out of Apple's stock price this week, which says more about the fragility of the supply chain than about actual iPhone demand. November 13, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News A Few Small Things About the Google Walkout Thoughts on Thursday's Google walkout, the Andy Rubin exit package that sparked it, and why the arbitration demand is the part worth actually watching. November 4, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Surface Laptop 2 Ships Today, Still No USB-C Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Pro 6 went on sale today, and I still can't get over the fact that neither one has a USB-C port. October 16, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Nobody's Actually Sad Google+ Is Dying Google is shutting down consumer Google+ after sitting on a data-exposure bug for seven months, and honestly nobody's mourning the network itself. October 8, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Surface Pro 6 Showed Up and Still Doesn't Have USB-C Microsoft refreshed the entire Surface lineup today, and the new Pro 6 still shipped without a single USB-C port anywhere on it. October 2, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Forty Million Dollar Tweet Musk settled with the SEC over the weekend, and the detail I can't stop thinking about is the clause requiring Tesla to review his tweets before they go out. September 30, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News So That's Why I Got Logged Out of Everything Today Got randomly logged out of Facebook on every device tonight and panicked, then found out it wasn't just me: a View As bug exposed access tokens for up to 50 million accounts. September 28, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News My Screen Time Numbers Are Embarrassing A week into iOS 12's Screen Time feature and the numbers it's showing me are worse than I expected, plus a rant about it graying out the one app I actually need at night. September 21, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Amazon Alexa Microwave Is Real and I Have Thoughts Amazon announced a pile of new Echo hardware today, but the thing that actually stuck with me was a $59.99 microwave that needs a speaker's permission to reheat your soup. September 20, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Apple Watch Feature Nobody's Talking About The new iPhones got all the headlines this week, but the FDA-cleared ECG sensor in the Apple Watch Series 4 is the part actually worth talking about. September 14, 2018·4 min read
