TechpadinTech News The Shenmue III Number Just Won't Stop Climbing Sony's E3 conference delivered Shenmue III, and the Kickstarter that followed blew past its $2 million goal faster than any video game project ever has, plus a few thoughts on The Last Guardian and Fallout 4's new release date. June 16, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Bethesda's First E3 Show Cost Me a Night's Sleep Bethesda's first-ever E3 press conference brought Fallout 4 gameplay, a surprise same-day launch of Fallout Shelter, and cost me most of a night's sleep. June 15, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News When the Antivirus Company Gets Hacked Kaspersky Lab says its own network got hit by a new, memory-resident piece of nation-state malware called Duqu 2.0, and the details are a lot more interesting than the obvious irony joke. June 12, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Story WWDC Week Buried While everyone's timeline is full of Apple Music and WWDC hype this week, a much bigger and quieter story got a day and a half of coverage: the OPM breach affecting millions of federal employees' data. June 11, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Newsstand Is Dead. My RSS Folder Isn't (Yet). Apple announced Apple News as the replacement for Newsstand at WWDC, and it's got me thinking about how quietly RSS has been getting sidelined for years. June 9, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News My iPad Doesn't Get Split View and I'm a Little Salty About It Live-blogging my reaction to today's WWDC keynote: Swift going open source has me way more excited than Apple Music, and I'm salty my iPad Air doesn't get Split View. June 8, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Night Before WWDC It's the Sunday night before Apple's WWDC keynote, and instead of another feature wishlist, I just want iOS 9 to stop crashing on my 5s. June 7, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Fallout 4 Teaser Site Did More Work Than the Trailer Bethesda confirmed Fallout 4 today with a trailer, but the real story was the weeks-long countdown site that got the internet decoding a Geiger counter noise instead of reading a press release. June 3, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News That Little White Windows Icon Showed Up in My Tray Microsoft finally named a Windows 10 release date and started nagging everyone's taskbar to reserve a free upgrade. Some thoughts on the little icon, the free-upgrade catch I haven't found yet, and an unrelated USB eject rant. June 2, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News That Little White Windows Icon That Showed Up In My Tray A weird new icon showed up in my system tray this week promising a free Windows 10 upgrade, and the way Microsoft rolled it out is a little baffling. May 31, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Photos Just Solved (and Slightly Creeped Me Out About) My Storage Problem Google I/O gave us Android M and a dozen other things, but the announcement that actually got me moving was free unlimited photo storage, and the catch nobody's talking about. May 29, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Asterisk on "Unlimited" Photo Storage Google Photos launched with "unlimited" free storage at I/O this week, but the fine print on compression is a lot bigger than the keynote made it sound. May 28, 2015·3 min read