Google Quietly Became a Subsidiary This Week and Basically Nobody Noticed
Alphabet officially became Google's parent company this week, and I spent way too long trying to figure out why a paperwork shuffle felt so strange to watch happen.
The Day Google Actually Became a Subsidiary
Alphabet's Google reorg quietly went into effect today, weeks after the announcement everyone already wrote about back in August.
13 Million Phones Sold and Still Only 16GB
Apple bragged about 13 million iPhone 6s sales over launch weekend, but the base model is still stuck at 16GB and my sister already ran out of room by day two.
The Best Thing From Yesterday's Google Event Wasn't a Phone
Everyone's talking about the Nexus 5X and 6P from yesterday's Google event, but the $35 Chromecast Audio is the product I actually ordered.
I Stayed Up For The Mars Water Announcement And The Stream Buffered The Whole Time
NASA said Monday there's strong evidence of liquid water flowing on Mars right now, and I watched the whole announcement through a laggy stream while my router quietly gave up on life.
The 6s Line, and the Same Old 16GB
Notes from iPhone 6s launch weekend: 3D Touch is better than expected, Live Photos is a neat trick, and Apple is still, unbelievably, shipping 16GB as the base storage tier.
The Line I Didn't Stand In
The iPhone 6s launched Friday to the usual lines, but the more interesting tech story this week was the malware that had already been hiding in the App Store for months.
Somebody Had to Write That Code
The VW emissions story keeps getting covered as a car scandal, but the part I cant stop thinking about is that somebody sat down and actually wrote the code.
When the Compiler Itself Is the Malware
A tampered copy of Xcode circulating on Chinese file-sharing sites got baked into hundreds of App Store apps, including WeChat, and it has me rethinking where I download my dev tools from.
iOS 9's Low Power Mode Is the Feature I Actually Care About
Five days into iOS 9 and the feature that's actually won me over is Low Power Mode, plus a few thoughts on the wild engineering behind the Volkswagen emissions story.
Someone Had to Actually Write That Defeat Device Code
The VW emissions story isn't really a PR scandal, it's a software story: somebody sat down and coded logic specifically to detect a lab test and cheat it.
Finally Updating to iOS 9 (And What Actually Ate My Storage)
A weekend spent wrestling a nearly-full iPhone onto iOS 9, plus the storage trick Apple quietly built in to make the update less painful this time.