Everyone's still talking about the Tesla in space, but the thing actually running my evenings this month is a glitchy live trivia app. Plus a quick note on the Olympics drone show that wasn't quite as live as it looked.
Everyone wrote about the car in space, but the part that stuck with me was the twin sonic booms that had people in Cocoa Beach calling 911 thinking it was an earthquake.
Bitcoin dropped under $8,200, the Dow had its worst day in two years, and Apple's record earnings still weren't enough for investors, all in one wobbly week.
HQ Trivia at 9pm, a laptop stuck in a reboot loop from the Spectre patch, and half a billion dollars stolen from a crypto exchange — three unrelated things from the same three weeks.
Netflix's blowout Q4 earnings pushed its market cap past $100 billion overnight, but the price hikes and the exhausting browsing UI are what I keep thinking about.
Amazon Go opened its cashierless store to the public in Seattle today, and I've got more complicated feelings about the surveillance and job questions than the "no checkout lines!" headlines let on.
A closer look at the actual software interface behind Saturday's false missile alert in Hawaii, and why "employee error" is the least interesting part of the story.
CES rolled out a WiFi toilet and a robot dog while half the internet was busy trying to un-brick PCs after last week's Meltdown and Spectre patches. Some thoughts on priorities.
A weekend spent patching servers for Meltdown and Spectre, watching AWS reboot notices roll in, and wondering how much performance I just lost.
A weekend spent patching a home server, a desktop, and an AWS box against Meltdown and Spectre, including the Windows registry key fiasco nobody warned me about.
Apple finally copped to throttling old iPhones and cut the battery replacement price to $29. Here's what I'm actually doing about my sluggish 6s before the Genius Bar lines get insane.
Apple finally admitted this week that old iPhones get throttled on purpose. Turns out my "dying" iPhone 6 wasn't dying at all, it was just being held back.
