TechpadinTech News The Tesla-SolarCity Offer Smells Like a Bailout Tesla's board offered to buy SolarCity this week in an all-stock deal worth a few billion, and the fact that Elon Musk chairs both companies and his cousin runs SolarCity is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the coverage nobody's saying out loud. June 25, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News PSVR Is $399, Except Not Really Sony priced PlayStation VR at $399 during E3 week, but the camera and Move controllers aren't included, plus some thoughts on that baffling Death Stranding trailer. June 19, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, and I Can't Stop Thinking About Kinja Gawker filed for bankruptcy this week amid the Hulk Hogan verdict and Peter Thiel's secret funding of the case. Some scattered thoughts on Kinja, blogging since 2011, and what it means when money quietly decides which publications survive. June 11, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Password Zuckerberg Reused (And Why I Finally Ditched Mine) Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter got hacked with a reused password from the old LinkedIn breach dump, and it pushed me to finally fix my own terrible password habits. June 10, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. June 3, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. June 2, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. May 31, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. May 23, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. May 16, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. April 20, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. April 19, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. April 11, 2016·4 min read
