TechpadinTech News Disney Buys Fox, and Also I Saw a Space Movie 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. December 15, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Bitcoin I Forgot About, And The Website That Won't Load 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. December 9, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Bitcoin Miners Ate My Graphics Card Upgrade 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. December 7, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News I Tried to Buy $50 of Bitcoin and Coinbase Just Died 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. December 3, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Amazon Announced SageMaker Today and I Still Just Want a Cheap Box Amazon used today's re:Invent keynote to launch SageMaker and a $249 camera called DeepLens, and I spent the whole livestream thinking about how little of it I actually need. November 29, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Uber Knew for a Year and Said Nothing Uber admitted today that it covered up a 2016 breach affecting 57 million users for over a year, paying hackers $100,000 to stay quiet. Some thoughts on the driver's license numbers and my own password habits. November 21, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Fork That Got Called Off SegWit2x got cancelled last Wednesday and instead of a quiet news day, Bitcoin Cash spent the weekend briefly overtaking Ethereum while bitcoin itself whipsawed a couple thousand dollars. November 13, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Pixel 2 XL Screen Thing Is Kind Of A Mess Google's $849 Pixel 2 XL has been out a week and reviewers keep finding the same screen problems. I almost bought one anyway. October 26, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News KRACK and My Graveyard of Unpatched Gadgets The KRACK wifi flaw dropped today, and patching my laptops was the easy part — the real mess was the pile of forgotten smart plugs and printers that will never see a fix. October 16, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News iOS 11.0.3 Fixed My Crackling Phone Calls iOS 11.0.3 quietly fixed the crackling call audio on my iPhone 8 Plus, and it's got me thinking about why new iPhones ship with these bugs every single year. October 10, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Turns Out It Was All Three Billion Yahoo quietly revised its 2013 breach number this week from one billion accounts to all three billion it ever had, which sent me digging through a Yahoo Mail inbox I'd forgotten I still owned. October 8, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News iOS 11's Broken "I" Is Driving Me Insane iOS 11 has been quietly turning lowercase "i" into "A" plus a broken symbol for about a week now, and my texts have been reading like ransom notes because of it. October 2, 2017·3 min read
