Share this story Afraid you might write an e-mail you'd later regret after having a few too many? Google would like to allay these fears. Activate on your Gmail account, and the service forces you to pass a short math quiz before sending anything off. If you can drink and derive, however, you're on your own. Need a distraction while you pull off an armored-car heist? A Washington resident might suggest, which he used to recruit a crowd of fake construction workers that served to keep the heist from being apparent. After that high-tech solution to crowdsourcing, the escape went low-tech, as the thief floated away downstream on an inner tube. The military may be going high tech, but many of its chips are old designs, manufactured more for reliability than for processing might. Those properties appear to be causing problems as old hardware is recycled and consumer-grade chips are, leading to some rather expensive hardware crashing. The military's not the only one having trouble with low-tech solutions, though, as popular online mail services are seeing their CAPTCHAs hacked: by real, live human beings. A municipal effort to run fiber to the homes of a town's residents received a, as a judge threw out a suit by the local telco that claimed the bonds to fund the fiber contravened Minnesota law. Any form of wiring is, the easily hackable wireless security protocol, at least when it comes to credit card transactions. Of course, the agreement to ditch WEP may not take effect for a year and a half, so this is a pretty minor victory for security. Other noteworthy news from the past week: • Hulu tries on IPTV for size as it of the debates • Google, one that caps usage through efficiency and phases out fossil fuels • The US government is; members of Congress are not pleased • Sony as the eBook reader wars begin. Sony may not have wireless, but it's hoping that its hardware and software make up for that lack. With your Google Account. Email or phone. Forgot email? Listen and type the numbers you hear. Type the text you hear or see. More options. Help Privacy Terms. You (Google) can change the name of the lab to what ever you please, but eliminate the functionality completely when a large number of people use it? That's stupid!! Why spend the money to develop it to begin with. Our comments should send a signal. BRING IT BACK JACK!! May 15, 2014 I have an IPhone 5c and a an updated version of the Google Search app. In a Google discussion I was reading, a person asked if Goggles had been dropped. The new feature, called Mail Goggles. When you activate the application, you can set the time of day it will be enabled; for instance. SEATTLE– Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty. Bidding friends adieu, you jump in a cab, head home and decide a quick e-mail check is in order. And there it is: a message from your ex. Or your boss. Or that friend you're secretly mad. If you're the kind of person who types tipsy and regrets it in the morning, Google's 'Mail Goggles,' a new test-phase feature in the free Gmail service, might save you some angst. The Goggles can kick in late at night on weekends. The feature requires you to solve a few easy math problems in short order before hitting 'send.' If your logical thinking skills are intact, Google is betting you're sober enough to work out the repercussions of sending that screed you just drafted. And if you can't multiply two times five, you'll probably thank Google in the morning. To activate Goggles, Gmail users should click the 'Settings' link at the top of a Gmail page, then go to the 'Labs' section. There's no shame in admitting that sometimes you need a little extra help. Gmail engineer Jon Perlow designed Goggles with his own weaknesses in mind. 'Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night e-mail to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together,' he wrote when announcing Mail Goggles on a company blog. The name is derived from the slang term 'beer goggles,' or the curious effect of alcohol on one's ability to see the true nature of that 'cutie' at the other end of the bar. But you can set up Mail Goggles to protect you from yourself at other emotionally vulnerable times – before your morning coffee, for example, or right after 'Grey's Anatomy.'
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