There are certain sounds that just work when you’re driving out of the madness of the city under the cover of night to a chilled-out place in the wilderness where the stars outnumber—and outshine—the streetlights. Next time you’re on passenger-seat DJ duty, I recommend queueing up …
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This Artificial Tongue Can Taste the Tannins in Wine
By Sarah Zhang
Wine tasting notes are famous for their verbal flourishes—…
New Millennium Falcon video reveals Batmobile in the next Star Wars
A Jacket That Protects You From Germs on Public Transit
The growing bedbug issue on New York’s subways sounds pretty awful, but you know what’s worse? All the parasites and invisible germs you don’t see while taking public transit. You might as well be rolling around in a petri dish when you step on a bus, unless you’ve got protection. Say, gallons of hand sanitizer, or Betabrand’s new germ-fighting transit jacket.
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HTC One M8 for Windows Review: It’s No Lumia, But That’s Just Fine
By Darren Orf
Until recently, buying a Windows Phone probably meant buying a Nokia phone. But it doesn’t need to be that way. HTC has just turned its flagship Android smartphone, the HTC One (M8), into the best all-purpose Windows Phone you can buy.
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Hidden Message in Apple Transparency Reports Suggest New NSA Warrants
It’s not what Apple’s most recent transparency reports say that has activists concerned—rather, it’s what’s missing. Because …
Hidden Message in Apple Transparency Reports Suggest New NSA Warrants
It’s not what Apple’s most recent transparency reports say that has activists concerned—rather, it’s what’s missing. Because …
Shenzhen’s Towering City Within a City Will Battle a Tide of Smog
A few years ago, you’d probably never heard of Shenzhen. Now the tiny Chinese fishing village has grown into a certified megalopolis, with 10 million residents, a thriving tech industry, and a …
U2 Thinks Putting Its Album on Your iPhone Is “Really Punk Rock”
Remember how U2 gave every iTunes customer a free, very much deletable album as a little gift from Tim Cook to you? And you know how everyone became livid at the sudden influx of extra Bono? Well, don’t be such a square, man. U2 was just being punk rock.
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Netflix Under Pressure to Close Down The VPN Loophole
By Chris Mills
By this point, everyone and their internet-connected dog seems to know that you can access US Netflix (and its sweet promised land of rich video content) from abroad using a …













