Remember the days when signing up for free WiFi at the airport or the nearest business involved signing away your first born child

I find that asking my AI agent to be a bit snarky (using Personal Context) actually really reminds me when to use it and when not to

Woah. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Super proud of the work that went into building this. I learned so much about how to integrate AI thoughtfully and make it truly helpful and delightful. Can't wait to see how you use Gemini on your next Google Maps journey. www.theverge.com/news/813588/...

This is a fascinating map

So it turns out Halloween is the day grocery stores in Japan take the universal cue to change their in-store jingles to be Christmas themed and all I can say is TOO SOON

Just because you can does not mean you should

I wonder how many transactions are lost with this one -- the default Enter keypress on my Visa OTP input form... opens a dialog to cancel the entire transaction 🤦

My most antisocial behavior is to return car share vehicles with driver seat configurations that make it impossible for the subsequent driver not to wonder what kind of misshapen person could have possibly driven the car before.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

Always reminded never to be totally surprised at how good the Pixel captures imagery, even tricky things like fireworks

I can't think of anything quite more American than thinking of new places to put cup holders

A big corp holding itself accountable _and_ recognizing the press for their role in uncovering the issue? Must be a particularly sunny day in Seattle. share.google/7VgEOE5zYigN...

No ma'am, 88F, 31C is not normal for end of September

American grocery store experience: corn, corn, corn Japanese grocery store experience: what is corn

Nature doesn't operate on a timetable.

I have a hilarious situation with USPS where the package originates from Indiana headed to Maine but they seem to keep trying to deliver it back to some place in Indiana (maybe the origin?), which I suspect is due to how the address was written on the back? Anyhow, two weeks and counting...

Since when are unskippable YouTube ads 1 minute long

I certainly did not agree on most things with the man, but I firmly believe no one should be killed for what they say or believe.

What a payday for Oracle folks but these are just projections no?

I might eat my words, but $KLAR at $40 seems a bit overpriced www.rioleo.org/klarna.html

Guess which large metropolitan city does not have a single place that will fill up a nylon balloon with helium unless you buy the balloon from the store. Guess.

Holy crap this email looks like phishing / spam if there ever was one

Remind me never ever to rent a CX-90 ever again. It drives and sounds like a tank, wobbles like a whale, guzzles gas like a Hummer, has the turn radius of a hippo.

This is brutal. It makes you wonder what intentions Cognition had from the getgo. share.google/d8TCKOW32Rxb...

I was reminded randomly of one of my first forays of the internet, which was at the easyInternetCafe in Times Square (this must have been circa 2001). I would meet up with a friend and we'd spend a bit of time on Neopets...

Farewell my dear Natsuge. Thank you for the awesome memories.

Fun fact: the new chairman married into the Tamiya family name, a process fairly common in large Japanese companies called mukoyōshi

I've never felt more like a robot not in control of my own destiny than at Shinagawa station at 8:38 in the morning

There's a restaurant in Shibuya staffed entirely by robots and I never knew I could simultaneously be smitten and horrified

One thing I struggled with while in India was just the overpowering sense of fragrance everywhere from inside the taxi to inside the office. I'm surprised it didn't give migraines to everyone else.

Surprised but also not surprised at the lack of online 3D printing providers in Japan

I'm not ashamed to admit that for the longest time I thought humidity was a function of how much it had rained recently and boy was I wrong

Flea market haul. Let's hope this thing works. I don't expect it to be too hard to fix though.

Using Gemini Deep Research as a financial planner by uploading all of my transaction history is a bit... amazing.

Which product manager thought this would be a smart thing to do in WhatsApp

The best part of becoming a parent is being able to relive your childhood toys under the guise of giving it to your children

I upgraded my hair cut experience from the 1400JPY QB house to a proper barber. I feel like I’ve unlocked a life cheat code.

My first reaction is why do you just take stuff that's not yours?

Having a splashy headline announce a LLM is marketing for sure, but feels apropos given the moment. The fact that Japan doesn't have anything to speak of but Switzerland does feels extremely tragic. ggba.swiss/en/switzerla...

This might be my new favourite mantra in life: "thoda adjust kar ke, thoda hass ke"

Given the chance, Indian drivers would make great downhill slalom skiers, given the obstacle avoidance and maneuvering skills they clearly have in abundance

I love how Indian snacks are packaged like industrial secrets -- impossible to open without a ton of effort

How did McSweeney's reverse engineer our algorithms?!

I bet someone in the design department is staring at this and probably a bit unhappy...

Gen Alpha will never truly appreciate how TikToks democratized captions to spoken video. It's not like captions are small font afterthoughts -- they're smack dab in the middle of the screen.

Curious what the tech world thinks of blog.google/technology/g.... I'm of two minds: cool use of AI that I'm sure a lot of thought went through, but also rather creepy because it dives right into the uncanny valley

Well this is a welcome surprise