TechpadinTech News 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. April 9, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. April 3, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 31, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 23, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 17, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 15, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 14, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 9, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 8, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 6, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. February 28, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. February 27, 2016·3 min read
