No More Drunken Emails

First came beer. Then came technology. Google’s new application Mail Goggles, which aims to prevent the unfortunate intersection of the two, became a bit of a sensation this week. Mail Goggles causes a window to appears: “It’s that time of day. Gmail aims to help you in many ways. Are you sure you want to send this? Answer some simple math problems to verify.” If you can answer the five math problems before the allotted time counts down, you’re sober enough to rant. Users can change the allotted time and the hours during which the warning pops up.