TechpadinTech News A Week Late on OpenAI, and I'm Still Not Sure How I Feel A week-late take on the OpenAI announcement, why "for humanity" pledges from billionaires make me a little skeptical, plus a Force Awakens tangent I couldn't resist. December 17, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Heart Thing Still Isn't Right Almost a month after Twitter swapped the star for a heart, I'm still fat-fingering favorites into public likes, plus a Cyber Monday site-crash rant. November 30, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nobody's Reading The Fine Print On That Rocket Landing Blue Origin landed a rocket booster upright yesterday and it's a genuinely great video, but the internet is mixing it up with a much harder problem SpaceX is still failing to solve. November 24, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Adele Says No To Streaming, And I Kind Of Get It Adele's "25" dropped Friday without a single streaming option anywhere, and it's got me thinking about what that says about the state of streaming economics in 2015. November 22, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Windows 10's November Update Reset My Defaults Again Microsoft's November Update for Windows 10 brought some genuinely good Start menu fixes, but it also quietly reset my default browser and PDF viewer for the second time in four months. November 16, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News One Week With the New Apple TV: The Remote Is the Whole Problem A week of living with Apple's new $149 Apple TV shows solid hardware undercut by a glass Siri Remote that swipes and scrolls when you least want it to. November 7, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Week With the New Apple TV, and Still No Prime Video A week in with the new Apple TV: the setup is quick, the touch remote skips ahead when you don't want it to, and there's still no Prime Video app in sight. November 6, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Surface Book's Weird Little Pause Hands-on with Microsoft's new Surface Book at the store this week, and the weirdest part isn't the hinge, it's the few-second pause before the screen actually lets go. October 30, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Only Part of the Future That Came True Was Scalping Five days after Back to the Future Day, the hoverboards never showed up, but the scalped Pepsi Perfect bottles and the Nike Mag hype cycle sure did. October 26, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Forty Seconds and a Sold-Out Case of Pepsi Perfect I missed the Pepsi Perfect flash sale by about forty seconds on Back to the Future Day, and then went and saw the Steve Jobs movie, which made for a weird week of tech nostalgia. October 24, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Fandango Face-Planted and I Still Barely Have Popcorn Money Fandango, AMC, and Movietickets.com all buckled under the Force Awakens presale rush, and a few thoughts on why big-name sites keep faceplanting during predictable traffic spikes. October 23, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Hoverboard Was On Google Maps Yesterday A day-after take on Back to the Future Day: the one-day hoverboard icon Google Maps quietly added, and the eBay scalping frenzy around Pepsi Perfect bottles. October 22, 2015·4 min read
