Nest's CEO Just Left, and My Thermostat Didn't Notice
Tony Fadell is stepping down as Nest's CEO, and my thermostat on the wall has absolutely no idea any of this happened.
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Uber's New $3.5 Billion Investor Has Some Awkward Timing
Uber just took $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, and almost nobody's talking about the obvious weirdness of that given the country's driving laws.
The Landing Nobody Was Supposed to Stick
SpaceX stuck another droneship landing on Friday with the Thaicom 8 launch, and it was the harder GTO kind of landing that almost nobody talks about right.
Google Allo's Privacy Default Is Bugging Me
Google I/O gave us Home and Duo and a talking Assistant, but the detail that actually stuck with me is that Allo's regular chats wont be encrypted end-to-end by default.
I Can't Find Instagram On My Home Screen Anymore
Instagram swapped its old camera icon for a flat gradient blob last week, and now my home screen is an unreadable wash of pink-orange squares.
One Cracked Building and a Million Phone Cameras
Sony shut down its earthquake-damaged Kumamoto sensor plant this week, a small detail buried in a much bigger tragedy that's still worth thinking about for anyone who cares where phone camera chips actually come from.
Filing Taxes on the Day the IRS Website Died
The IRS's payment and e-file systems went down on Tax Day itself, pushing the deadline to today. A look at what that says about federal IT, plus my own last-minute filing mess.
Twitter Bought Football and I'm Not Sure Why
Twitter outbid Amazon and Verizon to stream ten Thursday Night Football games for about $10 million, and a week later I'm still not sure if that's clever or just weird.
A Rocket Landed on a Boat Named After a Joke
SpaceX finally landed a Falcon 9 booster on a drone ship in the Atlantic, and the best part might be that the boat is literally named after a joke from a sci-fi novel.
Four Days With the iPhone SE (And Why I'm Not Missing My 6s)
A few days in with the iPhone SE: why the 4-inch comeback phone is winning me over, what I actually miss from the 6s, and one gripe about the charger.
The iPhone SE Showed Up and Almost Nobody Noticed
The iPhone SE went on sale today, but it launched into a news cycle still hungover from the FBI-Apple fight ending three days earlier. A hands-on take, plus a complaint about that camera bump.
The Day Eleven Lines of Code Broke My Build
An eleven-line npm package called left-pad got unpublished this week and broke builds across half the JavaScript ecosystem, mine included.