Nintendo Finally Shipped a Phone App, and It Is a Very Strange One
Nintendo's Miitomo app went live in Japan today, its first real smartphone release, and it's less a game than a weird Mii-based chat toy.
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Move 78
AlphaGo took the five game match 4-1, but the number I can't stop thinking about is 78, the move in game four where Lee Sedol briefly broke the machine.
Move 78
Lee Sedol actually beat AlphaGo in game four, and the weird part isn't that it happened, it's exactly how it happened.
So a Computer Beat Lee Sedol and I Watched the Whole Thing
I stayed up way too late watching AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol in game one of their match, and I still don't know a good Go move from a bad one.
The Rocket Didn't Stick the Landing, And I Stayed Up For It Anyway
A late night watching SpaceX try (and fail) to stick a droneship landing after the SES-9 launch, plus a few thoughts on the AlphaGo match about to start in Seoul.
The Go Match Nobody At Work Cares About
Three days before AlphaGo plays Lee Sedol in Seoul, some thoughts on why this is a much bigger deal than Deep Blue ever was, and why nobody at my office seems to care.
The Google Car That Finally Admitted It Screwed Up
Google admitted its self-driving car caused a low-speed crash with a bus in Mountain View, and the honesty of that admission is more interesting to me than the crash itself.
The MicroSD Slot Is Back and I Have Feelings About It
Samsung spent MWC undoing its own S6 decisions, LG went modular with the G5, and Barcelona quietly ran two completely different tech storylines at once this week.
One Week Into Twitter's "Best Tweets First," and I Already Turned It Off
A week after Twitter quietly turned on its "best Tweets first" reordering, I went into settings and switched it back off. Here's why the algorithm lost.
I Turned Off Twitter's New "Best Tweets" Thing Before I Even Finished My Coffee
Twitter quietly rolled out its "best Tweets first" toggle this week, and after about four hours of use I switched it right back off. Here's why.
The RIPTwitter Freakout Aged About As Well As You'd Expect
Twitter's algorithmic timeline panic from last week met the actual quarterly numbers today, and the numbers were the real story all along.
Yahoo Cuts 15% of Its Staff and I Still Cant Log Out of the Nostalgia
Yahoo announced Tuesday it's cutting 15% of its workforce and shutting five offices while the board weighs "strategic alternatives." A look at what that phrase actually means, and why I still care about a company I havent used in years.