Dumbest rule ever at Mizuho bank- if you don't have your cash card no amount of IDs that confirm you are the owner of an account will let you transfer money at the bank
Rio Akasaka
@rio.akasaka.org
Product manager on Google Maps driving + walking, and that little bit at the end that says you've arrived. I dream of a beautiful place in the mountains to call home. 日本語でもたまには書きます 📍Zurich by way of Tokyo and Boulder
Proof that no one does QA any more now that everything is about AI
Why is it that old white men find joy in being the only people EVER in an onsen to submerge their head/hair.
I have to admit I'm a bit bearish on the social media ban. As much as I understand social media is harmful, a ban pushes motivated users to alternatives that might be even less safe. I much prefer the European approach of a social media curfew, to put guardrails rather than outright bans.
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...
Apple Nears $1 Billion-a Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri
Apple Inc. is planning to pay about $1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Google that would help run its long-promise...
bloomberg.com
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/...
Google Maps taps Gemini AI to transform into an ‘all-knowing copilot’
“Hey Google, where am I?”
theverge.com
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
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.
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...
Update on ongoing Microsoft review - Microsoft On the Issues
Brad Smith, Vice Chair & President, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees this morning. I want to let you know that Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit with...
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American grocery store experience: corn, corn, corn Japanese grocery store experience: what is corn
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...
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?
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
