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Microsoft Surface Pro Review: Too Much Future?

The Microsoft Surface was the biggest new tech of 2012. Its first iteration — Surface RT, a confusingly named and marketed tablet-with-a-keyboard — bombed. Pretty hard. So why believe in the full-powered Surface Pro? Simple. It’s a braver and more divergent take on the laptop-tablet convergence than anyone else has risked so far.


Book Of ‘Roadside Prostitutes’ Made Entirely With Google Street View

Mishka Henner went online to find out where men sought prostitutes, and then he visited — on Google Street View. The result is No Man’s Land, a self-published book of photography, showing women, mostly alone and often scantily clad, in Spain, Italy, and Romania.


Your Ladyflower Is Not The Wrong Colour

Recently, some arsehole posted nude photos of his ex, who had committed the unforgivable sin of breaking up with him and then dating someone else three months later, on an online message board.


Why Are You Really Posting All Those Facebook Photos?

An academic study of 311 university students has found that on social networks like Facebook, “females who base their self-worth on their appearance tend to share more photos online and maintain larger networks on online social networking sites”.


Models’ Real Faces, Before The Photoshop Magic

You are not the only one whose skin isn’t always perfect. But you could get that feeling from looking at the magically pore and blemish-free images we’re bombarded with on billboards and in magazines. One photographer inadvertently let us in on the process. Watch the miraculous transformation in our video.


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Police Officer Steals Sex Videos From Suspect’s Phone

If you’re considering “consensually memorialising” your “love and affection for one another by recording a series of sexually explicit videos and pictures on a mobile phone” – i.e. sexting – watch out for the cops. Who just might steal them.


When Foursquare Gets Creepy

“I saw that you checked in there on Foursquare,” said the stranger calling the restaurant where Shea Sylvia was dining. He suggested they “hang out”, adding, “You probably shouldn’t be telling people where you are on Foursquare, should you?”


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