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13:30

How To Use Twitter: Critical Tips For New Users

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2018/08/30

So you wanna tweet? Great—you're gonna (mostly) love it. Everyone from the President to Malala is tweeting it up these days, but it may take some getting used to if you're a new kid on the block. Twitter is where news is broken, links are shared, and memes are born. It's also a place for chatting with friends. Yet unlike Facebook, Twitter is public by default. And that's not a bad thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:21

How to Get the Most Out of Gmail’s New Features

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2018/08/30

Change is hard. Changes to a beloved website's interface can be downright loathsome. So maybe your stomach lurched when you logged into Gmail recently and saw the merry news that your email now “has a fresh new look.” “Oh god,” a colleague messaged me when our personal accounts were automatically migrated to the redesigned Gmail last week. “I feel so uncomfortable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:56

How Technology Is Changing the Way We Love: A WIRED...

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2018/08/29

Let’s just get it out of the way: my wife and I met each other online. This was more than 15 years ago, when “online” meant either chatrooms or some sort of personals-based website. (It was the latter.) We had the internet, but not in our pockets; texting and emoji had yet to worm their way into the mainstream, so we learned each other’s rhythms before read receipts and the tyranny of the three dots. There was no pin-dropping, no swiping, no Instagram archaeology. Learn more about your ad choices

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9:03

The Pleasure and Promise of the Sci-Fi Romance

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2018/08/29

Among the scant books in my tiny rented room in San Francisco, I’ve kept a spine-worn copy of Romeo and Juliet. It’s the one I read in my high school English class, the pages yellowed, the margins filled with scribbled notes. Since the play was written in the 1590s, Shakespeare’s portrayal of the nature of love—irrational, all-consuming—has been told and retold in countless movie adaptations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:53

Want a Flying Car Future? Try Starting with Smarter...

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2018/08/28

Visions of the future tend to be clear-cut. Cars will drive themselves. Air taxis will fill the skies. Smartphones will have notches. The renderings and trend reports tend to elide the messy road map to that future. Yes, advances in lightweight materials, electric propulsion, and aeronautic controls have put the dream of electric people-packing quadcopter drones within reach. A few more years of development, a few more after that of regulatory wrangling, and boom: takeoff. Learn more about your ad

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6:50

Review: Even H3 Wireless Headphones

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2018/08/28

The audio market is full of headphones that strive to put out the most balanced, best sound signature possible, so listeners can hear every sonic detail in their favorite tunes precisely as "the artist intended." It’s a noble pursuit, but it assumes we’re all hearing the same things. In reality, much like eyesight, we all hear differently—and our ears continue to change as we age. I enjoyed using the Nuraphones when I reviewed them earlier this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:33

It's Time to Stop Sending Money on Venmo

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2018/08/27

Venmo, the popular payment app owned by PayPal, has become the default way millions of Americans settle a check, pay a friend back for coffee, or buy a concert ticket off Craigslist. Writers have argued that Venmoing makes us petty, and that the app has nearly killed cash. Fewer have questioned whether it’s really the best service for exchanging money, or storing sensitive banking information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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14:34

The Bot-Strewn History of the Best Kids' Show on Netflix

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2018/08/27

On a late June day in 2012, Gregg and Evan Spiridellis uploaded five videos to YouTube. Each featured a quintet of monochromatic cartoon robots, catchy songs, and an educational slant. Six years, 150 songs, and 500 million views later, StoryBots is now a kid’s entertainment empire. It also just happens to be one of the best shows on Netflix, with the second season of Ask the StoryBots arriving on the streaming provider today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:12

The Hajj Is a Perfect Laboratory for Disease Warning...

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2018/08/24

Right now, one of the world’s largest mass gatherings is taking place in the desert of Saudi Arabia. The hajj, the yearly pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest sites, is required of every observant Muslim who can perform it. More than 2 million people have poured into the country, over land, by air, and in massive charter deployments, from essentially every place around the globe where Muslims reside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:12

Review: Anova Precision Cooker Nano

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2018/08/24

They say you never forget your first sous vide precision cooker. Actually, nobody says that. Even now, in an era when vacuum-sealed food bags having become the latest benefactor/victim of the app-guided cooking trend, most people genuinely don't know what I'm talking about when I tell them I sometimes cook with a sous vide wand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:12

Welcome to Checkout-Free Retail. Don’t Mind All the...

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2018/08/23

The shop has no sign. Or rather, the sign is obscured by some kind of bunting. The glass doors are papered over. You gotta know what's back there, like a speakeasy. Venturing to open the door, I find I still can't get inside. Between me and a cramped 180 square feet or so of convenience store-like shelves—yogurts, bags of exotically-flavored freeze-dried peas, refrigerators full of juice, and pre-packaged sandwiches—is a turnstile. It is a shop. I will shop. There's a reader on the right. Learn more

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7:22

Review: Keurig K-Café

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2018/08/23

I’m not a morning person, yet for the better part of a decade, I started my weekday mornings the same way: Peel myself out of bed, zombie shuffle to the shower, and listen to podcasts with heavy eyelids on the way to the office. When I got there, I’d head straight to the Keurig machine for a pick-me-up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:10

I’m Sorry About My New Joint Instagram Account, But...

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2018/08/22

Most Saturdays, my husband Seth and I spend approximately the whole day with our phones aimed at our son, taking pictures of him from slightly different angles. There’s a diptych of him dancing in the bagel shop. There’s one of him scooting in the park. Until a few weeks ago, we'd spend our Saturday night bickering over beers about who got to post which photo to our separate Instagram accounts. It’s a glamorous life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:05

Oh Hey, Don't Steal Reviews, and the Rest of This...

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2018/08/22

Let's get this out of the way: A lot of norms were disrupted in the videogame industry this week. There was news of a writer at a top gaming site allegedly plagiarizing reviews, and also reports that the Chinese gaming market is having troubles. Oh, and Diablo III is making the leap to the Nintendo Switch. Up is down, down is up, and a lot of things are out of whack. So let's expect the unexpected and get right to it. PSA: Do Not Plagiarize Your Game Reviews. Seriously. Don't. Learn more about your

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9:03

Elon Musk Is Broken, and We Have Broken Him

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2018/08/21

Of all the striking things about the interview with Elon Musk The New York Times published Thursday night—the tears, the lack of regrets over certain tweets, the fact that rapper Azealia Banks may somehow be part of Tesla’s financial future—was Musk’s claim that he’d be ready to abandon his role as Tesla CEO and chairman. “If you have anyone who can do a better job, please let me know. They can have the job,” he told the paper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:16

Owning Guns Is Sort of Like Owning Rattlesnakes

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2018/08/21

In his short story “Rattlesnakes and Men,” science fiction author Michael Bishop describes a town where everyone is required by law to own a dangerous rattlesnake. It’s a scenario that he says is no more absurd than how America treats access to guns. “We lost our son at Virginia Tech in 2007, in the shootings there,” Bishop says in Episode 322 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:47

17 of This Weekend's Best Tech Deals, From Apple to Xbox

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2018/08/20

It's almost time to send the kids back to school, and that means you'll want to check out our Back to School buying guide ... but before that, there are a few tech and gaming deals you may want to peep for yourself. With some help from our friends at TechBargains, we've compiled our favorite deals for the weekend. Samsung's Galaxy Note 9 is Available for Preorder We gave the new Samsung Galaxy Note 9 an 8/10 and our coveted WIRED Recommends award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:12

A Guide to Finding Your Ideal Movie Ticket Subscription

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2018/08/20

A year ago today, MoviePass introduced a radical new business model: Go see a movie a day, every day, for just $10 per month. At the time, it seemed too good to be true. As it turns out, it was. The company has since burned through cash at an unsustainable rate, aggravating customers with limited screenings, punishing anti-fraud measures, and general uncertainty about the future. Today, in a bid to stay afloat, MoviePass officially abandoned its unlimited buffet. Learn more about your ad choices

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7:15

Sidewalk Labs' Bid to Reinvent Toronto Starts With...

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2018/08/17

The hexagonal slices of wood don’t look like much. There’s the shape, sort of interesting in its architectural way, and the neutral wood color. A few are studded with bright, white lights, right in the center, which is fun. And the way the hexagons, each the size of a manhole cover, have been bunched into clusters feels natural and sensible. Surely a Fibonacci sequence is hiding somewhere in there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:17

How to Track Your Heart Rate With Wearables

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2018/08/17

You probably learned how to track your heart rate in school: Put your finger on a pulse point, like the inside of your wrist, and count how many pulses you feel in a minute. That yields your heart’s beats per minute, or bpm. Cool trick! you thought. And you promptly forgot about it. But your heart rate can be a useful piece of data. It’s a reliable metric for setting fitness goals that puts your cardiovascular health—ahem—at the heart of your workout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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