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Android 6.0 Marshmallow started rolling out to Nexus phones this week, and mine hasn't gotten it yet. Notes on Doze, the new permissions model, and why staggered OTA rollouts are the worst part of owning a Nexus.
October 8, 2015 · 4 min read
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Microsoft's big event this week was all Surface Book headlines, but the Band 2's curved screen is the detail that actually matters to me after a year of fighting with the original.
October 7, 2015 · 3 min read
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Twitter made Jack Dorsey's "interim" CEO title permanent today and cut 8% of staff in the same breath. Some thoughts on running two companies at once and what that says about where Twitter's headed.
October 5, 2015 · 3 min read
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Alphabet officially became Google's parent company this week, and I spent way too long trying to figure out why a paperwork shuffle felt so strange to watch happen.
October 3, 2015 · 3 min read
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Alphabet's Google reorg quietly went into effect today, weeks after the announcement everyone already wrote about back in August.
October 2, 2015 · 4 min read
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Apple bragged about 13 million iPhone 6s sales over launch weekend, but the base model is still stuck at 16GB and my sister already ran out of room by day two.
October 1, 2015 · 3 min read
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Everyone's talking about the Nexus 5X and 6P from yesterday's Google event, but the $35 Chromecast Audio is the product I actually ordered.
September 30, 2015 · 4 min read
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NASA said Monday there's strong evidence of liquid water flowing on Mars right now, and I watched the whole announcement through a laggy stream while my router quietly gave up on life.
September 29, 2015 · 3 min read
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Notes from iPhone 6s launch weekend: 3D Touch is better than expected, Live Photos is a neat trick, and Apple is still, unbelievably, shipping 16GB as the base storage tier.
September 28, 2015 · 4 min read
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The iPhone 6s launched Friday to the usual lines, but the more interesting tech story this week was the malware that had already been hiding in the App Store for months.
September 27, 2015 · 3 min read
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The VW emissions story keeps getting covered as a car scandal, but the part I cant stop thinking about is that somebody sat down and actually wrote the code.
September 23, 2015 · 4 min read
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A tampered copy of Xcode circulating on Chinese file-sharing sites got baked into hundreds of App Store apps, including WeChat, and it has me rethinking where I download my dev tools from.
September 22, 2015 · 3 min read