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Prices Tripled in 5 Years: Netizens Shocked by High Cost of Shared Power Banks

Kuai Technology News, February 18th – Are you in the habit of bringing your own power bank when you go out? If so, you may have actually saved a lot of money, according to recent revelations by some netizens.

In a surprising discovery, some netizens have reviewed their past year’s expenses and found that they spent a whopping 1,200 yuan on a shared power bank. This revelation has left many shocked by the high phone bill incurred as a result.

To put the concept of 1,200 yuan into perspective, some netizens compared it to other expenses, such as Bilibili membership fees and video platform fees, and found that the cost of the shared power bank far exceeded these other expenses combined.

Further…

.com is so 1990s. Make way for .ing web domains.

Google has rolled out a new top-level domain that will let companies build websites that reflect a single word, such as writ.ing or play.ing. To get one, though, businesses and people are going to be pay.ing big bucks.

Early registration for the domains run as high as $13,000 a year, depending on the prefix. (Writ.ing, for instance, will cost you that amount. So will that other “ing” word that we’re not going to print, since we’re a family site.) Some go for just a couple hundred dollars. The new suffix is in an early-access period right now with Google, meaning you’ll have to pay a one-time fee to be among the first to use it.

Starting Dec. 5, they’ll be broadly available and likely a bit cheaper.

The .ing domains come 38 years after…