Enlarge / The 6th-generation iPad mini. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

Apple’s newest iPad mini was released to the general public on Friday, and over the weekend, users began to complain about a subtle scrolling problem when using the tablet in portrait mode (MacRumors has a good round-up post). The tablet appears to refresh the left and right halves of its screen at slightly different rates, creating a subtle-but-noticeable “jelly scroll” effect. The Verge’s Dieter Bohn has captured slow-motion video that demonstrates the problem.

The issue is subtle enough that we didn’t notice it when testing the mini for our review, but our review unit does indeed appear to suffer from the same problem. It’s the most noticeable when scrolling relatively slowly up and down a webpage or document—the left side of the screen seems to trail the right side by just enough that paragraphs of text appear rubbery and wobbly to an attentive eye.

In our testing, the problem does appear to affect the screen in landscape mode, where the left and right halves of the screen become the top and bottom halves of the screen. But horizontal scrolling is much less common in most apps than vertical scrolling, making the effect less obvious. Some users have reported not being able to notice the problem in landscape mode at all.

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  The Galaxy Note 22—no wait, the S22 Ultra?! Note the S-Pen oval on the bottom edge. [credit:
  OnLeaks and Digit.in
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It’s never too early to start talking about new Samsung phones, is it? OnLeaks has a series of renders out for the Galaxy S22. These are usually based on CAD renders given to case manufacturers, and while they might get some of the smaller details wrong, the cutouts, camera block, and other major features should be correct.

First up is a Galaxy S22 Ultra render, and here’s a shocker: it has an S-Pen! Samsung killed the Note line this year to focus on foldable phones, but it apparently still can’t let the idea of phone handwriting go. Samsung has shipped pen accessories for the S21 Ultra and Galaxy Z Fold 3, but those required some kind of case for storage. This render shows the S22 Ultra with the telltale oval along the bottom edge, just like an old Note phone. Push it in and the pen will pop out.

The upside to an integrated S- Pen is that if you want to do handwriting on your phone, you’ll always have the pen with you. The downside is that the S22 Ultra battery will be smaller than it could be, because a lot of space is taken up by the pen holder. It’s also a huge bummer for anyone who wants a premium Samsung phone but has no interest in handwriting because they’ll have to put up with the pen sucking up battery space. You don’t get a choice.

Enlarge / Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and US Courthouse in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. Holmes is charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. (credit: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/The Mercury News)

The company’s management, he said, was not willing to perform proficiency testing that is required by federal law before clinical laboratories can run tests on patient samples. That, and a series of other issues, caused him to lose confidence in the company. “I came to believe that the company was more about PR and fundraising than patient care,” Rosendorff said.

Rosendorff didn’t always have such a dim view of Theranos, though. When he joined the company in April 2013, he was eager to help founder Elizabeth Holmes realize her vision to replace veinous blood draws with finger sticks. 

Enlarge / Tesla Autopilot is currently under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for 12 crashes and one death. Now the company is expanding access to an experimental version of the software. (credit: Tesla)

Over the weekend, Tesla expanded access to the latest version of the company’s highly controversial $10,000 automated driving feature. As is the Tesla way, CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to announce the news, saying that owners could begin requesting access to the beta on Saturday. However, Musk noted that “FSD 10.1 needs another 24 hours of testing, so out tomorrow night.”

For now, access to the latest build of the software is by no means assured. Instead, drivers have to agree to have their driving monitored by Tesla for seven days. If they’re deemed safe drivers, they can have access to the experimental software. By contrast, autonomous vehicle companies like Argo AI put their test drivers through extensive training to ensure they’re able to safely supervise experimental autonomous driving systems while they are being tested on public roads, which is an entirely different task from that of safely driving a car manually.

Better not brake

Tesla says that five factors affect whether or not you’re safe enough a driver to then perform the task of supervising an unfinished automated driving system that is currently under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for a dozen crashes into parked emergency vehicles, including one fatality.