TechpadinTech News A Rocket Left From Apollo's Old Pad This Morning SpaceX launched a Dragon resupply mission from Kennedy's Pad 39A this morning, the first flight from that pad since the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011, and I set an alarm to watch it buffer. February 19, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Part of Snap's IPO Filing Nobody's Talking About Snap Inc. filed its IPO paperwork this week, and the detail that stuck with me wasnt the loss, it's that the shares going public dont come with a vote. February 4, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Deleted Uber Off My Phone This Weekend Uber turned off surge pricing at JFK during Saturdays taxi strike and it read as strikebreaking. #DeleteUber blew up all weekend and I finally pulled the app off my phone too. January 31, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Missed the Switch Preorder, Have Thoughts on $299.99 Anyway Two weeks after the Nintendo Switch reveal, some thoughts on the $299.99 price, the missing launch-day Virtual Console, and why I still don't have a preorder. January 30, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Vine Camera Killed Vine and Nobody Even Noticed Vine quietly turned into a dead-end camera app last week, and it's strange how little anyone reacted to four years of six-second culture actually ending. January 22, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nobody Backdoored WhatsApp (Calm Down) The Guardian's WhatsApp "backdoor" story is technically accurate but the framing is off - siding mostly with Moxie Marlinspike here, with some real annoyance at WhatsApp's buried settings. January 16, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Three A.M., a Pot of Coffee, and the Nintendo Switch Reveal Watched the Nintendo Switch reveal live at 3am and came away more annoyed about battery life, Joy-Con pricing, and the lack of a launch Mario game than the headlines suggest. January 14, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Faraday Future's Parking Problem, One Day Later Faraday Future's flashy CES unveil of the FF 91 was overshadowed by its self-parking demo flopping on stage, and given the company's shaky finances, that felt like more than bad luck. January 8, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Car That Couldn't Park Itself Faraday Future unveiled its FF91 at CES and the live self-parking demo flopped on stage, which was funnier and more memorable than anything on the spec sheet. January 7, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Great NES Classic Hunt of 2016 Still no NES Classic Edition under the tree after weeks of trying, so a rundown of the shortage, the eBay scalper markups, and why Nintendo's silence on restocks isn't an accident. December 31, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Rogue One's Digital Tarkin Problem Rogue One digitally resurrected Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin, and its an astonishing piece of VFX work that also left me a little unsettled about where this tech is headed. December 27, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Ten Dollars, No Lives to Buy: A Weekend With Super Mario Run A few days in with Super Mario Run: the flat ten dollar price is refreshing, the always-online requirement is baffling, and the download-versus-revenue gap says something about Nintendo-mania post Pokémon GO. December 19, 2016·4 min read
