TechpadinTech News Google's New Parent Company Couldn't Even Get Its Own Domain Google's big Alphabet restructuring is everywhere this week, but the detail nobody's talking about is that they couldn't even get alphabet.com and ended up on abc.xyz instead. August 16, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Somebody Just Won $6.6 Million Playing Dota 2 and I Cannot Stop Thinking About It The International 2015 wrapped up Saturday night with an $18 million crowdfunded prize pool, and Im still trying to figure out what that number actually means. August 9, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News My Windows 10 Upgrade Day, Printer Driver and All A day-one diary of upgrading two real machines to Windows 10, including the printer driver that broke, the update settings buried in a submenu, and why the new Start menu almost makes up for it. July 30, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News So Where's My Windows 10? Windows 10 is supposedly out today, but my reserved copy is nowhere to be found yet, some notes on the staggered rollout and the GWX icon that's been nagging me since spring. July 29, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nice Quarter, Apple. So Where Are the Watch Numbers? Apple posted a record quarter Tuesday and the stock still dropped, but the number I actually wanted, how many Watches they sold, never showed up on the call. July 23, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Why I'm Never Buying a Car With a Cell Modem in It The Wired story about two researchers remotely killing a Jeep's transmission on the highway has me thinking about why I still drive a car with a tape deck. July 22, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Prime Day Was Mostly Junk (I Still Bought Batteries) Amazon's first-ever Prime Day happened last Wednesday, and most of what I saw people buying (myself included) was junk nobody actually wanted. July 20, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Prime Day Got Me a Garden Hose Countdown and Nothing Else Amazon's first Prime Day mostly meant garden hoses and battery packs, but the Pluto flyby pictures more than made up for it. July 19, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Firefox Just Blocked Flash and I'm Not Even a Little Sad Firefox started blocking Flash by default this week after the Hacking Team breach exposed multiple working zero-day exploits, and honestly, it's about time. July 15, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Reddit Got Its Founder Back. That Doesn't Fix What's Actually Wrong. Ellen Pao stepped down as Reddit CEO last Friday and Steve Huffman is back, but the mod-tools problem that actually caused the blowup isn't going anywhere. July 14, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Setting an Alarm for a Dwarf Planet New Horizons flies by Pluto tomorrow morning and then goes radio silent for the encounter itself. Some rambling about waiting nine years for one close pass. July 13, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Day Three Unrelated Things Broke At Once Three unrelated computer glitches took down the NYSE, United Airlines, and the WSJ website on the same Wednesday, and half of Twitter was instantly convinced it was a coordinated hack. July 12, 2015·4 min read
