JR Raphael

1 day ago | devicedaily.com | JR Raphael

How Google can save you money the next time you book travel May 10, 2025 Booking travel has become a bit of a game—especially if you want to get the best possible prices and avoid getting ripped off. That’s because hotels and airlines have developed the lovely habit of futzing around endlessly with their rates.

2 days ago | computerworld.com | JR Raphael

Google’s Android tablet saga is a seemingly endless series of almosts, what ifs, and coulda-beens — and now, we’ve got one more chapter to add into that book. First, a quick and very pertinent three-part power-round of context catch-up. Part one:• Way back in 2010, Google bought a company called BumpTop and seemed set to bring its wild three-dimensional interface concepts into the Android tablet arena — as I pieced together and recounted some years back.

5 days ago | fastcompany.co.za | JR Raphael

JR Raphael|Published 1 hour agoThe web is rife with sleazy, cheesy file conversion tools. Ignore them all and use Vert. Image: VertWe were supposed to be finished with files by now. For years, tech companies (well,certaintech companies) tooted their horns about a future in which files didn’t matter. You don’t evenneeda file manager of any sort, they told us—and, in fact, we won’t even let youseethe file system on your devices at all. Just tap-a-tap-tap, don’t worry, be happy. Right? Yeah—not so much.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | JR Raphael

The Israeli military announced Saturday that it had launched a new round of airstrikes against missile storage and launch sites in Iran, on the ninth day of the war between the two countries. Meanwhile, Iran has emphasized it has no interest in negotiating with the US while Israel continued …

1 week ago | computerworld.com | JR Raphael

Right now, Gemini’s getting a bit of a bad rap — at least, among certain circles of savvy users who are closely tuned into the technology. It’s easy to see why: Google rushed Gemini out of the gates way before it was ready. It increasingly crippled the perfectly fine Google Assistant experience in the meantime, and still today, Gemini can’t do everything Assistant did in terms of day-to-day device basics (while Assistant no longer handles those same tasks consistently anymore, either).