Nobody's Reading The Fine Print On That Rocket Landing
Blue Origin landed a rocket booster upright yesterday and it's a genuinely great video, but the internet is mixing it up with a much harder problem SpaceX is still failing to solve.
Adele Says No To Streaming, And I Kind Of Get It
Adele's "25" dropped Friday without a single streaming option anywhere, and it's got me thinking about what that says about the state of streaming economics in 2015.
Windows 10's November Update Reset My Defaults Again
Microsoft's November Update for Windows 10 brought some genuinely good Start menu fixes, but it also quietly reset my default browser and PDF viewer for the second time in four months.
The Windows 10 November Update Ate My Saturday Afternoon
Notes from actually running the Windows 10 November Update (build 10586) this weekend, including the audio driver headache nobody warned me about.
One Week With the New Apple TV: The Remote Is the Whole Problem
A week of living with Apple's new $149 Apple TV shows solid hardware undercut by a glass Siri Remote that swipes and scrolls when you least want it to.
A Week With the New Apple TV, and Still No Prime Video
A week in with the new Apple TV: the setup is quick, the touch remote skips ahead when you don't want it to, and there's still no Prime Video app in sight.
The Surface Book's Weird Little Pause
Hands-on with Microsoft's new Surface Book at the store this week, and the weirdest part isn't the hinge, it's the few-second pause before the screen actually lets go.
Finally Saw the Steve Jobs Movie
Finally saw the Sorkin/Boyle Steve Jobs movie and have some scattered opinions, plus a tangent about Surface Book unboxings and the new taco emoji.
The Only Part of the Future That Came True Was Scalping
Five days after Back to the Future Day, the hoverboards never showed up, but the scalped Pepsi Perfect bottles and the Nike Mag hype cycle sure did.
Pepsi Perfect and the Future We Actually Got
Back to the Future Day came and went this week, and the thing I actually remember isn't the hoverboards. It's watching a $20 soda bottle turn into a $200 eBay listing in about four hours.
Forty Seconds and a Sold-Out Case of Pepsi Perfect
I missed the Pepsi Perfect flash sale by about forty seconds on Back to the Future Day, and then went and saw the Steve Jobs movie, which made for a weird week of tech nostalgia.
Fandango Face-Planted and I Still Barely Have Popcorn Money
Fandango, AMC, and Movietickets.com all buckled under the Force Awakens presale rush, and a few thoughts on why big-name sites keep faceplanting during predictable traffic spikes.