Compared to Google Wallet, which has always been useful but never broadly adopted by retailers or users, this shift—while a little confusing—at least means Android users will be able to pay with their phones as well as enjoy Google Wallet’s other benefits at the same time. Hit the links below to learn more.

Counterpoint: They may be ugly (although apparently I’m an old man, and I had no idea so many people thought they looked stupid until I saw other comments like this recently), but they are convenient. They fit in a backpack just fine, and there is no cord to deal with getting all tangled up. No wires to catch on…

OK, so nothing is ever going to be as “efficient” as leaving everything in the main inbox forever. But if you ever wanted to actually keep track of the emails that still require attention without needing to do it all by memory, Inbox makes that super easy. If you could use Inbox.

The unread ones are because I get all the helpdesk queues, nobody else pays attention to most of them but I end up catching important things here and there because I pay attention to EVERYTHING

Another reason it probably won’t be discontinued: It seems to be just a different interface for Gmail, not a whole separate service. So as long as it just piggy backs on the same back end as Gmail it’s not taking up that many resources that would make it a target for demotion.

We actually were thinking portable DVD when we passed on the in car system, but by the time our daughter got old enough we just got a Nabi 2 for relatively cheap. Our son is just getting old enough that we might need another. Either way, portables are way cheaper than an in car system and we won’t have to worry about…

But tablets though. When I was getting a family car, it cost thousands of dollars to add on an in-car DVD system. You can get the kids individual tablets for much less then that, and then they can watch what they want instead of fighting over what everyone will watch. And you don’t have to keep track of DVDs.

I started playing Ingress back when it first came out because it billed itself as a way to go out and explore the world. But after advancing through a few levels (I got to level 5 or 6) I got sick of the game because the key to advancing was less about exploring the world and more about finding portals near you and…

I have a Moto X too - don’t forget being able to voice command to navigate to the location that was read to you.

For now, the Chrome equivalent I've settled on is miniGestures

I think it depends how you used Gmail. As someone who was always labelling and archiving my emails once I was done with them to keep the main inbox as empty as possible, and had a ton of labels and filters to automate that as much as possible, Inbox seems perfectly designed to optimize the way I handled email. Right…

But I think it's a little difference in skill between winning a tennis match against a pro and catching 90% of routine MLB fly balls. I'm pretty sure any average high school baseball player could catch 90% of MLB fly balls (are they really that much different from routine high school fly balls?). It gets a little…

From Deadspin:

Yeah, that's the New Mexico burrtio. Meat and/or beans wrapped in a tortilla, smothered in red or green chile sauce (or Christmas!), cheese, lettuce, whatever sprinkled on top.

I am wondering how well NM burritos will fit in with the rest, if 538 manages to make it out here at all. NM-style burritos are quite different the standard burritos in the rest of the country.

And outside the South too - weren't all the Clausens held back multiple years?

I have one of these in both of our cars, and they are great. Only thing I don't like is that the air vents are pretty much the only place to mount them, and then they block the vents a bit. And this makes the phone very hot/cold by the time I reach my destination. But it's only a minor annoyance, and the Spiderpodium…

If spacing out the vaccines made a difference, they would do it. But since there is no actual evidence it makes a difference, they don't. They aren't going to change it just because anti-vax concern trolls refuse to give up the ghost now that the autism argument had been thoroughly debunked.

Yet? If a scientific test was going to prove vaccines cause autism, one of the ones already conducted would have found some sort of correlation, but they haven't. As the saying goes, the definition of insanty is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. At some point, you just have to accept…

You don't have to know what causes autism (if there is even a specific cause) to know that it's not vaccines. If they did cause autism any of the multiple studies into it would have shown more cases of autism in vaccinated children than unvaccinated children. But they don't, because vaccines don't cause autism. This…