Welcome back to The Shaker Explainer, your guide to modern office lingo and the latest in tech, food and lifestyle trends.

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Masquerade

 

 

We’ve been playing with Facebook’s latest purchase, Masquerade. Face-swapping apps are all the rage at the moment, especially following Snapchat’s added its filters late last year.

You can download it from the Google Play or the App Store now, and spend the weekend annoying your friends.

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Meldonium

 

 

We could quickly define this as, “The quickest way to lose $20 million dollars.”  Designed to increase blood flow, Meldonium was used by Maria Sharapova to reduce cardiac arrhythmia has been listed as a banned substance by the World Anti-Doping Authority.

We're willing to bet that Maria will now read all her emails 

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Nagware

 

 

This creative little term describes the constant pop-ups and prompting that encourage you to upgrade to Windows 10. If you use a PC, and are still running old versions of the popular OS, then you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about.

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Matcha Green Tea

 

 

A trend gathering momentum in the United States is substitute coffee for an energy boost from Matcha Green Tea. This is popular for two reasons: Matcha Green Tea is loaded with as much as ten times the anti-oxidants of regular green tea, and American coffee is absolutely shit.

Look out for it in sandwiches, cakes and all other manner of monstrosities at a paleo café near you.