Today, Google is adding its note taking tool, Keep, to its G Suite service (formally Google Apps). That means if you’re using a company or school Google account you can finally get access to the excellent Google Keep. They’re also adding access to Keep right in Google Docs.
Source: LifeHacker – Google Opens Up Keep to G Suite Users and Adds Docs Integration
Source: Engadget – Uber CEO argues with a driver over dropping income
We’re missing a bridge. A bridge between the various Rebel cells we’ve seen in Star Wars Rebels, and the united Rebel Alliance that comes together in Rogue One and destroys the Death Star in A New Hope. This clip begins to reveal that transition.
Source: io9 – The Rebel Alliance Begins In a New Clip From Star Wars Rebels
After a three-month investigation, the acting head of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, has been charged with bribery and embezzlement in connection with the corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of South Korea’s president Park Geun-hye. NPR reports: NPR’s Elise Hu reported from Seoul that prosecutors announced the indictment after a three-month investigation: “Samsung acting head Lee Jae-Yong got ensnared after documents showed Samsung funneled some $36 million to the president’s close confidant. Prosecutors say the money was paid to win government support of a controversial 2015 company merger. The merger did go through, after a vote of support from the government. In a statement, Samsung says it has not paid bribes or made improper requests to the government. Lee is currently in jail awaiting further proceedings in his case.” Lee was arrested on Feb. 17, two months after President Park Geun-hye was impeached over allegations of corruption, influence-peddling and cult ties, as we reported. Those corruption allegations were directly tied to the charges brought against Lee, who also goes by the name Jay Y. Lee.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Samsung Chief Charged With Bribery and Embezzlement
This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re doing a series of episodes form the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Source: Kotaku – Podcast: We’re At The Game Developers Conference
Mice are simultaneously cute and some of the most horrendous pests of all time. If you’re dealing with a minor infestation, these tips will help you reclaim your castle from the enemy invaders.
Source: LifeHacker – Five Tips for Dealing With Mice In Your Home
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: never tweet. This is a lesson you would think the CEO of a company that makes software for managing social media would know intimately. You would be wrong.
Source: Gizmodo – Hootsuite CEO ‘Apologizes’ After Telling Reporter to Call 1-800-EAT-DICK
Ford has a vision for the future, and it’s apparently one where an army of autonomous vans and drones deliver things to your doorstep. The company used VR to put visitors at Mobile World Congress in the shoes of a dinner party host missing key ingred…
Source: Engadget – Ford concept uses drones and self-driving vans for deliveries
Yes, I know the song Justin Timberlake did for Trolls is ubiquitous. That does not mean that the movie it came from has managed to penetrate my consciousness. I expect Trolls 2 to be the same.
Source: io9 – Trolls, a Movie I Keep Forgetting Exists, Is Getting a Sequel
As Street Fighter V moves into its second season of competition, players are scoping out which characters may be a problem in the months to come. Urien, who joined the game last September as a piece of downloadable content, has already garnered Capcom some side-eye due to his seemingly overpowered moveset. However, a…
Source: Kotaku – Street Fighter V Newbie Shows Everyone How To Take Down Supposedly Overpowered Character
YouTube has announced a new online TV streaming service that will offer a variety of live broadcasts from dozens of channels and cable networks. It’ll cost $35 a month with no commitments and will be available “soon.” That and more in today’s news.
Source: LifeHacker – Remains of the Day: YouTube Launching TV Streaming Service
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report written by Vlad Savov via The Verge: Huawei and Moto have both moved to a new type of home button, which isn’t really a button but rather just a touch-sensitive surface. So far, so familiar, but the novelty is that they’re now combining gestures and taps to turn the trio of Android shortcuts — Back, Home, and Recent Apps — into a one-button user interface. Huawei’s approach is one tap to go back, long press to go home, and a swipe to bring up the multitasking menu. Of course, this wouldn’t be Android without fragmentation, so Moto’s method is slightly different (swipe left to go back, right for multitasking, and a tap to go home), but having tried both of them, I can say that they’re improvements on the status quo and I’m glad the change is happening. For Android purists, this may all seem like an unnecessary distraction. Give me my familiar Android trio, it might be said, and leave me in peace. Which is fine and dandy, since both of the new phones, Huawei’s P10 and Moto’s G5, offer the option to bring the familiar software interface back.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Moto, Huawei Are Replacing the Android Keys With a Touchpad
The WebAssembly project that’s the cross-browser effort for low-level programming for in-browser client-side execution has reached a major milestone today. WASM can allow compiling C/C++ among other languages down into code supported by Firefox, Chrome, WebKit, and Edge…
Source: Phoronix – WebAssembly Ends Browser Preview With Initial API & Binary Format
NVIDIA just lifted the veil on its latest monster graphics card for gamers — the long-rumored GeForce GTX 1080 Ti — at an event this evening in San Francisco during the Game Developers Conference (GDC). The card will sit at the top of NVIDIA’s Pascal-powered GeForce product stack alongside the mighty Titan X and GeForce GTX 1080, promising
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: This One Goes To 11, Faster Than Titan X
The age-old art of swapping one character’s model in for another for video game hijinks is always fun. But I really like to imagine that this is actually some secret Bruce Wayne training regimen where he prepares for the possibility of fighting literally anyone in the DC Universe by pretending that he can become them.
Source: io9 – Watch Batman Pose As Every Other Character In Injustice
When you’re not dealing with vegetables, green isn’t the most appetizing color—especially when it’s on your raw bacon. But fear not fellow bacon lover, that weird discoloring is not anything to be worried about.
Source: LifeHacker – Why Bacon Sometimes Looks Green
I can’t think of a sport where rules are molested with as much glee and abandon as they are in motorsports. That’s part of what makes racing so great: the devious and clever ways that teams will attempt to squeeze out some kind of advantage are a fascinating part of the sport.
Source: Kotaku – How The Best Racing Cheat Of All Time Worked
Intel’s diversity push still looks to be largely on track, and it’s now hitting some of its most important milestones. The chip maker’s newly published 2016 Diversity & Inclusion report reveals that Intel has met all of its pay and promotion equ…
Source: Engadget – Intel meets some of its key diversity goals
According to an investigation by Canadian media outlet, CBC, the chicken in Subway Restaurants’ chicken sandwiches may only contain around 50 percent chicken — the rest of it is soy, spices and preservatives. The investigation involved DNA testing chicken sandwiches collected from five popular fast food restaurants. While the rest of the sandwiches contained mostly chicken, Subway’s oven-roasted chicken and the chicken strips in its Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki sandwich clocked in with just 53.6 percent and 42.8 percent chicken, respectively. Ars Technica reports: Among all the chicken sampled, there was a total of about 50 ingredients other than chicken identified. The chicken samples had an average of 16 ingredients. Some of the ingredients are expected, such as salt and other seasonings. But many were commercial preservatives and fillers. One commonality was that they all had high levels of salt. Subway responded to the CBC in a statement: “SUBWAY Canada cannot confirm the veracity of the results of the lab testing you had conducted. However, we are concerned by the alleged findings you had conducted.” You can read the full statement here.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – DNA Test Shows Subway’s ‘Chicken’ Only Contains 50 Percent Chicken
“What does one life matter?” is the question at the heart of Torment: Tides of Numenera. Initially shapeless, the question solidifies around heady concepts like legacy. Not so coincidentally, few games can boast a more lasting legacy than Numenera’s spiritual predecessor, Planescape Torment.
Source: Kotaku – Torment: Tides Of Numenera: The Kotaku Review