The past few weeks have been quite busy for developers and technology fans in general. First, Google’s annual Google I/O conference brought us a look at all the new software we can expect to see from Google in 2015. Then, Apple’s WWDC 2015 keynote gave us glimpses at iOS 9, OS X El Capitan, WatchOS 2, Apple Music and more.

Few people would argue that Apple came away the big winner when it comes to generating buzz, as expected. But that doesn’t mean Google’s announcements were duds — far from it. In fact, Google showed off some impressive new stuff at I/O, and now it’s time to see how one of the company’s most impressive new features stands up to iOS 9.

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Apple on Monday released iOS 9 beta 1 to anyone who has access to a developer account, and the company will soon launch a public beta for iOS that will allow curious iOS users to run early versions of the software ahead of its official debut this fall. However, beta versions are buggy and there will always be reasons for switching back to a more stable iOS 8.x version.

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The HTC One M9 isn’t a bad device by any stretch of the imagination but it’s nonetheless going to go down as one of the biggest smartphone disasters ever alongside the Amazon Fire Phone and the BlackBerry Storm. How bad has the One M9 been for HTC? Consider that since it first unveiled the One M9 back in March, HTC’s shares have lost nearly half of their value. Seriously: On March 2nd, HTC’s share price stood at NT$149. Today, it’s hovering in the NT$75 range.

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The WWDC keynote is finally behind us and Apple Music is officially the latest entrant into the competitive streaming music market. While Apple spent a good deal of time yesterday detailing the myriad of features that differentiate its own music service from the rest of the pack, there’s one significant metric that Apple didn’t even have time to mention — the size of its music library.

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Code rules everything around us but how many of us really know what it is? For those code neophytes among us, Bloomberg Businessweek has published a gigantic primer on the history of code written by programmer Paul Ford. And when we say “gigantic,” we mean it — in total, Ford’s article is 38,000 words.

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Tesla in recent years has done an impressive job of quelling the notion that driving an electric car is a risky proposition. This is largely due to the Tesla Model S (which sports an impressive range of approximately 250 miles) and Tesla’s ever expanding fleet of Supercharger stations. As a result, Tesla owners these days can drive their vehicles across the country with ease, stopping at strategically positioned charging stations along the way.

Nonetheless, electric cars are still something of a niche product. But Tesla CEO Elon Musk, always one to dream big, has grand visions of bringing electric cars into the mainstream in the next few years. His secret weapon in this regard is the Tesla Model 3.

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Creating a device to improve the efficiency of popping open bottles of beer — could anything be more German? OK, so technically the men behind this exciting beer-opening technique are Swiss, but they are speaking German in the video they posted of their creation, so that’s good enough for me. At any rate, YouTube user Christoph Nick has posted a video showing a Swiss man opening five of his friends’ beer bottles at once by using five different rulers that he’s arranged in a star shape within his clenched fist.

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