Microsoft briefly hit a trillion dollar market cap this week, and its Azure doing the heavy lifting, not Windows. Some thoughts on that, plus a quick note on the Galaxy Fold mess.
Samsung's Galaxy Fold review units are breaking within days of launch, and thinking about what's actually under that display makes it a lot less surprising.
Review units of Samsung's $1,980 Galaxy Fold are breaking within a day or two, and it made me finally cancel my preorder instead of waiting to see if mine would be one of the unlucky ones.
Everyone's writing about Apple and Qualcomm making peace this week. The part that actually matters is that Intel just quietly gave up on 5G phone modems entirely.
Falcon Heavy stuck all three booster landings last night while Israel's Beresheet lunar lander crashed into the moon the same day. Notes on a very uneven day for spaceflight.
The black hole image everyone shared yesterday wasn't emailed anywhere - it traveled as half a ton of hard drives on actual planes. The logistics story is better than the photo.
A week after Google+ finally shut down for good, I ran the Takeout export and went digging through seven years of circles, communities, and posts nobody read.
Google buried a real, playable game of Snake inside Google Maps for April Fools' Day, and it's the first corporate April 1st joke in years that actually didn't waste my time.
Apple's new credit card has no number printed on it anywhere, and five days after the announcement I still can't decide if that's clever design or a hassle waiting to happen.
Mozilla's Firefox Send launched out of testing this month and I've been using it instead of WeTransfer ever since — here's why the encrypted, self-destructing file links actually stuck.
Google unveiled Stadia at GDC yesterday with no price and no release date, and all I could think about was OnLive, the streaming service that promised the same thing in 2010 and died trying.
Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook went down together for the better part of two days, right after the web quietly turned 30. Some notes on both.
