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Marshmallow Showed Up This Week. Mine Still Hasn't.

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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The Band 2 Detail Nobody's Talking About

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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The 6s Line, and the Same Old 16GB

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 Line I Didn't Stand In

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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Somebody Had to Write That Code

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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When the Compiler Itself Is the Malware

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