You likely spent Valentine’s Day doing one of two things: Spending the evening with someone you love, or staring into the deep abyss of potential matches flashing across your phone. Because, after all, this is the modern world, and serendipity is a lot like dial-up internet: It...
I like to think my skincare routine is decent — I exfoliate, cleanse and moisturise often. But it still feels inferior whenever my girlfriend whips out her grandiose mechanical spinning facial brush. These brushes promise to make cleansing and exfoliating more effective, especially for people who wear...
I am, by my own admission, a terrible (but improving!) texter. Receiving a text almost always feels like an imposition to me, and nowhere does text feel like a bigger intrusion than when I’m at work. It doesn’t matter if I’m engaged in a legitimate heads-down jam...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralysing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
Provided we don’t end up in a Mad Max-style post-apocalypse, where water is hoarded by barbarian warlords, the future looks pretty good for the average bathroom. Here are just some of the upgrades we’re likely to see become standard in the next couple of decades. The Bathroom...
Laptops are so named because they’re designed to sit on your lap — no surprise there. So surely we’re fine to keep doing that, right? Turns out: Not so much. Convenient as it is to slump on the couch with your computer, creating a heat-sink by your scrotum is never...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralysing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
Without thinking about it, I put a lot of effort into learning how to text. But in hindsight, maybe I shouldn’t have bothered. Google is hard at work on an AI-based auto-reply system called “Reply” that could eventually roll out to your full suite of chat software:...
You only have to go on a couple of Tinder dates before you discover that people have wildly different ideas about how to appropriately communicate. There was the man who began carrying on a full conversation with himself in our text thread when I didn’t answer quickly...
Nothing makes the doldrums of the workday pass more quickly than a little excitement, and what’s more exciting than texting sexually explicit hopes and dreams to your significant other? “I can’t wait to **** your **** in a **** and then **** with your *****,” you type,...
