Signing Up for the Yosemite Beta (Probably a Mistake)
Apple opened public sign-ups for the OS X Yosemite beta this week, and I already made the questionable call to install it on my only laptop.
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The Lumia Funeral Nobody Wanted to Throw
Last week's massive Microsoft layoffs killed the Nokia phone business, but the Lumia 1020 sitting on my desk proves the hardware was never actually the problem.
Kindle Unlimited, One Week In
A first-week look at Amazon's new Kindle Unlimited subscription: what's actually in the catalog, what's missing, and why it's not quite the same deal Prime members already had.
Big Blue and the Fruit Company Are Friends Now
Apple and IBM announced an enterprise partnership this week, which feels bizarre if you remember the 1984 ad. Also: a rough week for Microsoft's Nokia hires.
Google's New Bug Hunters and My Post-Heartbleed Paranoia
Google quietly announced a full-time team dedicated to hunting zero-day bugs in anyone's software, not just its own. A few thoughts on why that actually matters after the year we've had.
Apple and IBM, of All Companies
Apple and IBM just announced a partnership, and it's stranger than the headlines make it sound once you remember IBM sold off its PC business years ago.
The Pi B+ and My Drawer of Now-Obsolete Cases
The Raspberry Pi Model B+ landed this week with four USB ports and a 40-pin GPIO header, and now I'm stuck deciding whether my drawer of old Model B cases and HATs is worth adapting or just abandoning.
I Filed My Net Neutrality Comment This Weekend and the FCC's Website Fought Me the Whole Way
A weekend spent wrestling with the FCC's comment form on the open internet proceeding, plus why "fast lanes" still sound like a terrible idea to me.
580,166 Tweets a Minute
Brazil's stunning 7-1 collapse against Germany did something wild to Twitter's servers, and the tech side of that meltdown turned out to be more interesting to me than the match itself.
The Internet Broke a Little During Brazil-Germany
Germany's 7-1 demolition of Brazil today didn't just break the host nation, it broke my Twitter timeline. Some notes on watching a historic collapse happen on two screens at once.
"Poorly Communicated" Is Not an Apology
Sheryl Sandberg finally addressed the Facebook mood study by calling it "poorly communicated." That's not the same thing as an apology, and PNAS clearly had its own doubts too.
Google Buys Songza (Please Don't Kill It)
Google bought Songza this week to fold its mood-based playlists into Play Music, and I'm trying to be happy about it instead of bracing for another Reader-style shutdown.