Caveat: I love gift cards. Yeah, I get the irony. As in any case, you have to be conscious of who you’re giving a gift to. Gift cards are definitely extra work for me, but a lot of what I do involves finding the best version of stuff anyway, so I’m usually more equipped to pick the thing I want to begin with. Not… Read more

Being based on temperatures we experience certainly explains why we keep it. That being said, I think if we all woke up one day and Fahrenheit didn’t exist, we’d still do just fine with Celsius. It feels natural because we’re used to it. For kicks, I just googled the weather in my area. It says the high right now is… Read more

In my view, “biased” sites are not “fake” news. There are some who use that term to describe them, but I feel like that waters down the argument about fake news. We’ve got two words, let’s use them. Read more

We’re definitely on the lookout for better versions. Since the election, it seems like a lot of companies are competing to make extensions like this. I get pitches every so often. We’re keeping an eye on it and if we find better ones, we’ll definitely share them! Read more

It’s true that you shouldn’t take opinions in headlines as canon. I disagree with the notion that you shouldn’t read Vox because of this headline (or that you shouldn’t read any site because of a single article, but that’s another matter). The bigger problem here is that this is essentially an editorial that’s not… Read more

Thanks, fixed! Read more

Counterpoint: If you’re only practicing confidence tricks like this with people who already know you by name, then you might not be reaching very far. And if you’re trying them with new people you don’t already know, they’ll have no idea you’re doing something different! Read more

You might’ve missed the part of the article where we said that this works best on pets where you’d already get a pet fence to keep them in. Because, you know, pet fences exist. And are useful for some people. They work well with tiny dogs, rabbits, rodents, or even larger dogs that are well-trained enough to not jump… Read more

It’ll be out in 3-4 weeks. Read more

Ohhh, yeah I ‘member! Read more

No one said they “work” like the human brain. Their structure is based on the human brain. Regular programs work in series. Do one instruction, complete it, move on to the next. Make your instructions complex enough and you can do cool stuff, but it’s always only a series of instructions (or multiple series of… Read more

DI-awwww. :( Read more

The real life hack is always in the comments. Read more

Our bad, guys. We broke it. Read more

No one here is even remotely close to a “frothing mob” and in fact nothing said in this article or the one it sources is even critical of anything other than policy. This is an honest critique of a politicians plans. If that constitutes a “frothing mob” to you, then you need to work on handling criticism for your… Read more

Oh man, you kidding? Karaoke’s way bigger than just a thing that happens in “bars” now. That still happens, but I’ve also seen a number of places where they actually set up a live band in a small venue. Set up a standing bar, charge for drinks, and let folks feel like a rock star for the night. There’s often not even… Read more

Listening to a tone deaf drunken friend try and sing Read more

Lord almighty, you’re right. This is nowhere near where I would’ve expected it to be. I certainly don’t think that this is an “accessibility” feature (which is usually defined as features that help those with a disability of some kind). I’ve just enabled it and it’s the exact same noise every other Google device makes… Read more

You can use the Home to cast videos from YouTube to another Chromecast. You cannot cast a video to Home. What Incognitum was pointing out is that you can cast music from an app to Home as a speaker. Read more

Personally, I think I gave Google more credit than I would normally feel comfortable giving for “future” benefits. I own an OnHub that was similarly supposed to get a lot of updates. Last I checked, it still hasn’t even been updated to enable the USB port that so far has no point other than gaining root access. You… Read more