You know, this was my first thought too, but the more I think about it, the more it doesn’t really make sense. For starters, $100 a year is $8.33 a month, which is less expensive than most other music subscriptions. Except it also comes with free shipping upgrades, a movie subscription service, unlimited photo… Read more

Man, the “I don’t know a single person who X!” bias is real. Here’s a pro-tip for you: if your argument involves the fact that you, personally, have never seen a particular event or encountered someone with a certain belief, it is a bad argument. You have a very tiny perspective. It sucks to acknowledge it but in a… Read more

Well, to be fair, there’s a difference between Facebook blindly promoting whatever stuff it thinks you’ll like and a news organization making conscious decisions about what they think is important to share. For example, we here at Lifehacker have a team that makes decisions about what should be shared, what topics are… Read more

That makes sense. Our error became fixed when I replaced their regular modem with our own. We almost faced a similar issue when we set up internet at our new apartment. The old resident didn’t cancel their service, so our rep had to call them first to fix their account. We did this in a store and actually sat in front… Read more

I can also confirm their meter is super broken. While I did get some suspiciously overinflated reports, I work from home so I can’t really claim that I would never use that much data. However, I also had a period where the data tracking seemed to be completely broken the other way: it reported no data usage at all. Read more

It will definitely be able to read responses back to you. That’s not going away. The only reason Assistant uses text responses in Allo is because that makes sense for the context. But in something like Google Home, where voice is the only way to communicate, that method makes more sense. Read more

Reading is only good if you do it in a public building with a limited supply of books to share, didn’t you know? Read more

No one on the Right cares. Read more

I have not disabled this reminder yet and I don’t see a reason to. Read more

I would assume that you’ll lose a lot of functionality on an iPhone simply because Google can’t do with a single app what it can do when it controls the whole phone. For example, Assistant is picking up Now On Tap’s ability to scan what’s on your screen to give you suggestions. Google won’t be able to do that on an… Read more

Well, the biggest obvious answer is in the speakers. Sure, I can look up a song on my phone, but if I want to play some mood music while hosting people at my house, I can’t use my phone for that. A Google Home device, on the other hand, is basically a smart audio system. Why buy separate internet-connected speakers… Read more

A lot of this is due to how we simplify choosing our walking paths. While it doesn’t seem complicated, you’ve got to make a lot of decisions about your path while walking. Simple logic dictates that if people are moving in a single direction, that’s the most efficient direction to go. Maybe more than one of those… Read more

I can’t decide if you’re promoted or fired. Read more

I get the feeling that Google’s going to aim for a different echelon than we ‘ve seen with the Nexus brand this time around. For starters, they’re really advertising it. That’s new. Usually the announcement is relatively low-key and ads for the phone itself are sparse. Now, the advertising for the announcement is more… Read more

We don’t know for certain that there won’t be a Nexus 7, and there are a lot of rumors about all kinds of gadgets. Don’t be too hasty to dismiss it! Read more

Block everything but Lifehacker dot com. Always be productive all the time every day. It really works! Read more

It seems like Plex is looking into this. On the Plex Cloud signup page, they have a survey asking what other cloud storage providers you use. I’m not sure how easy it is to support other providers, but it seems like they’re looking into it. Read more

That may be the case, but I think it’s also true that there are millions of voters who are still taking in information and making judgments for themselves. They may not be the loudest people, but they exist. My goal is to make sure those people have as much access to information as possible. Read more

That’s a good idea! We’ll probably take a look at that some point in the near future. With 4K TVs coming down in price and a lot of content rolling out, this holiday season seems like a good time to get all of our guides up to snuff. Read more

This is another good point. It seems like the SHIELD was engineered with a premium home theater in mind (which would explain the price). Read more