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🍃 Google Maps is now going to be providing air quality and wildfire info 📚 Spotify is working its way into the audiobook space and is going to be a big player💦 Hermés has built some wild water towers for design week in Milan📦 Uber Eats is starting to ship select foods nationwide

Nobody crafts knives quite like Quintin Middleton. Probably because his story is one of a kind.

Pioneered by independent artists, AR is a practical look at fashion's next evolution.

Huy Fong — the biggest stateside maker of red sriracha — is low on stock because of "unexpected crop failure." But there's hope for heat fans: yellow sriracha.

Field watches should be reliable, legible and simple.

It's portable, it's durable, and it makes a damn fine cup of coffee.

One more sip of gas for the road.

Patagonia Baggies are a classic summer short with plenty of competitors.