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Google kills off Google+ and Inbox in ritual slaughter

Apr03
by on April 3, 2019 at 1:55 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider


If Google were a TV show, it’d undoubtedly be Game of Thrones. Like Game of Thrones, it’ll introduce a prominent new character (app) that has the potential to change everything, only to see it killed off in the next season. The most recent victims: Inbox and Google+, two apps that were once seen as game-changers for their respective fields. Granted, we’ve known the end was coming for some time, but I’m still sad to see them go. Inbox launched in 2014 as a revolutionary take on email. It introduced several features that eventually made their way onto Gmail proper, including…

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Nobel Prize winner wants to fight nuclear waste with lasers

Apr03
by on April 3, 2019 at 1:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web


The work of Nobel Prize winner Gerard Mourou could potentially solve (or at least mitigate) a major problem in the energy industry: nuclear waste. And the solution? Lasers, that which we hope will be the answer to every question. Before you get too excited (and I know you are, because lasers), the lasers won’t be coming into contact with the waste for quite some time. According to a Bloomberg profile published this week, Mourou and his colleague, Professor Toshiki Tajima, are presently speaking about the concept of using high-intensity lasers to zap nuclear waste, shortening its lifespan from years to minutes. Mourou’s Nobel Prize…

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Review: The Keychron K1 and K2 are the wireless mechanical keyboards I’ve been waiting for

Apr02
by on April 2, 2019 at 11:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


If you spend most of your day typing, you need a good keyboard. Thankfully, there are good keyboards aplenty nowadays. Entire forums and YouTube channels are dedicated to mechanical keyboards, and people obsess over the feel of numerous switches and keycaps. Despite all this, it’s surprisingly hard to find keyboards that do all the things I want. Specifically: Reliable wireless performance USB-C (in 2019, I find anything else offensive) Good design Good keycaps Non-gamery aesthetics Except RGB lighting Available in compact, tenkeyless size Optional: Low-profile mechanical switches Reasonable price Then Keychron offered to send over its K1 and K2 keyboards…

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Sony’s new PS4 refund policy is draconian, but it’s still better than Nintendo’s

Apr02
by on April 2, 2019 at 6:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Gotta be careful with April Fool’s Day announcements — most companies know just how to push gamers’ buttons and won’t hesitate to do so on the one day a year we’re all supposed to laugh it off. But Sony apparently wasn’t fooling when it quietly changed its refund policy yesterday. It was so difficult to tell because the rules, while mostly reasonable, come with two strict caveats. According to the new rules, all purchases from the store — including games, DLC, and other add-ons — now come with a 14-day window in which players can request a refund, even in…

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