Our fashion expert rounds up her pick of the best phone straps, from beaded wristlets and cross-body straps to lanyards with recycled cases • Jess Cartner-Morley’s May style essentials: life-changing jeans and the ultimate holiday shoes You’re probably familiar with the concept of adding a finishing touch to your outfit: a belt that smartens up …
How the global wrangle for natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is fuelling one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week, after three months of fighting, a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the works. I spoke to our …
Minerals, mobile phones and militias: how war unfolded in DRC Read More »
Vulcan device ‘capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses’ fuels fears of mass job losses Amazon said it has made a “fundamental leap forward in robotics” after developing a robot with a sense of touch that will be capable of grabbing about three-quarters of the items in its vast warehouses. Vulcan – which launches …
Amazon makes ‘fundamental leap forward in robotics’ with device having sense of touch Read More »
It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about their own ‘addiction’? At 3.12pm on a sunny spring afternoon in St Albans, Yasser Afghen reaches for the iPhone …
Damages awarded after earlier ruling found NSO unlawfully exploited a bug in WhatsApp to spy on users Meta Platforms won a $168m verdict against the Israeli surveillance firm NSO, the company said on Tuesday, capping a six-year arm-wrestling match between the US’s biggest social-networking platform and the world’s best-known spyware company. Meta had already won …
Court clash between Meta and NSO ends in $168m defeat for spyware firm Read More »
Robert Frazer and James Taylor respond to an article by Jason Okundaye on phone-filming at gigs I confess that I was once one of the phone zombies whom Jason Okundaye rightfully criticises for obsessively recording concerts and performances (Do yourself, the world and me a big favour: stop phone-filming at gigs, 3 May). Eventually, however, …
Easing the pressure of getting concert selfies | Letters Read More »
No matter how many system updates the Meta boss runs, there will always be something about him that screams ‘creepy automaton’. And the $270m apocalypse shelter doesn’t help Over the past few years Mark Zuckerberg has been conducting a very expensive experiment. If he grows his hair and revamps his wardrobe, will it make him …
Chain says up to one in 10 stores was affected on Tuesday morning but issue now fixed in all branches Business live – latest updates The Co-op was forced to scramble to fix a problem with contactless payments at dozens of its stores, as it grapples with the fallout from a cyber-attack that has left …
Co-op rushes to fix contactless payment issue in some stores amid cyber-attack fallout Read More »
Arcade Crew/Sleepy Mill Studio; PCBuild a card deck of landscape features; organise your territory on a Tetris-like playfield; battle enemies and bosses to progress. It might sound complicated, but this is an ingenious experiment in game design by combination The indie video game scene is currently dominated by two unassailable genre titans: the rogue-like and …
Drop Duchy review – a sprawling challenge disguised as a block-dropping puzzler Read More »
Documentary investigates the whereabouts of the model who played an influential corporate character, as well as the relationship between race and technology Back when computers were still new, Mavis Beacon was an icon for generations of children learning IT skills. Her name, along with the accompanying image of a smiling, suited Black woman, graced countless …
Seeking Mavis Beacon review – tracking a Black female tech icon, who didn’t exist Read More »
