Everyone's still talking about the Tesla in space, but the thing actually running my evenings this month is a glitchy live trivia app. Plus a quick note on the Olympics drone show that wasn't quite as live as it looked.
Everyone wrote about the car in space, but the part that stuck with me was the twin sonic booms that had people in Cocoa Beach calling 911 thinking it was an earthquake.
Netflix's blowout Q4 earnings pushed its market cap past $100 billion overnight, but the price hikes and the exhausting browsing UI are what I keep thinking about.
Amazon Go opened its cashierless store to the public in Seattle today, and I've got more complicated feelings about the surveillance and job questions than the "no checkout lines!" headlines let on.
A closer look at the actual software interface behind Saturday's false missile alert in Hawaii, and why "employee error" is the least interesting part of the story.
CES rolled out a WiFi toilet and a robot dog while half the internet was busy trying to un-brick PCs after last week's Meltdown and Spectre patches. Some thoughts on priorities.
A weekend spent patching servers for Meltdown and Spectre, watching AWS reboot notices roll in, and wondering how much performance I just lost.
Bitcoin flirted with $19,800 today just as CME's futures contract went live, and suddenly everyone from my brother-in-law to my mom has an opinion about it.
Disney's $52.4 billion deal for Fox is really a streaming and IP-rights story wearing a Hollywood suit, and it happened the same week as a certain space movie opened.
I forgot I had a little bit of Bitcoin from 2013, remembered this week when the price went insane, and then couldn't actually log into Coinbase to do anything about it.
Tried to buy a new graphics card this week and discovered bitcoin's price surge has quietly wiped out the midrange GPU market. A shopping trip turned into a rant.
A $50 Bitcoin purchase turned into a saga of frozen orders and dead spinners as Coinbase buckled under this week's price surge past $11,000.
