If you are expecting an authentic driving experience along the lines of Forza or Gran Turismo, think again. Instead, this new absurdist adventure features a car with legs Imagine a new racing video game. Whatever you’ve pictured, What the Car? is not it. In a world where racing games pride themselves on the ever-increasing detail …
What the Car? A racing game with a ‘complete disregard for actual vehicles’ Read More »
Calvijn College was one of the first schools in the Netherlands to ban mobile phones. Four years on, officials report its culture has been transformed Six years ago, as officials at the Netherlands’ Calvijn College began considering whether to ban phones from their schools, the idea left some students aghast. “We were asked whether we …
‘Going back in time’: the schools across Europe banning mobile phones Read More »
Platform run from industrial estate in Cumbria and catering to alternative relationships has expanded globally A dating app aimed at alternative relationships nearly doubled its revenues last year as non-monogamous, queer and kinky users helped the UK-based business expand its reach across the world. Feeld, founded by an entrepreneur couple in an open relationship, has …
‘Throuples’ dating app Feeld nearly doubles turnover to £39.5m Read More »
Apple watchers also expect new colors for the iPhone at the annual launch event, this year titled ‘It’s Glowtime’ Apple is slated to unveil its latest iPhone and a slew of other new hardware on Monday during its biggest product launch event of the year. The event, held at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, features …
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Case set to test Julie Inman Grant’s powers under the Online Safety Act, but it’s only one of seven ongoing cases her office has with the Elon Musk-owned platform Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A notice issued to Twitter over …
Paulomi Debnath has shared a kiss with her husband every morning for 18 years. Ron Hill ran every day for more than 52 years. When does an enjoyable habit become a compulsion? Anyone who spotted the run Tom Vickery uploaded to exercise tracking app Strava on 18 February last year might have been a little …
Satellite internet service’s antennas are everywhere, from illegal mining sites to isolated Indigenous villages The helicopter swooped into one of the most inaccessible corners of the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian special forces commandos leaped from its metal skids into the caiman-inhabited waters below. Their target, lurking in the woodland along Brazil’s Bóia River, was a hulking …
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Millions are rejecting the culture-war hotspots of the major social media sites in favour of apps dedicated to activities they enjoy, while bonding with their fellow users Singletons looking to shack up with their soulmates online have relied on two key routes in the past decade or so: take your chance on dating apps, or …
Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks? Read More »
Users say harmful content from accounts they do not follow appears even after requests to block it Debbie was scrolling through X in April when some unwelcome posts appeared on her feed. One showed a photo of someone who was visibly underweight asking whether they were thin enough. In another, a user wanted to compare …
‘Worrying lack of moderation’: how eating disorder posts proliferate on X Read More »
The detainment of the murky messaging service’s founder in France shows online moguls can no longer act with impunity On 24 August, a Russian tech billionaire’s private jet landed at Le Bourget airport, north-east of Paris, to find that officers of the French judicial police were waiting for him. He was duly arrested and whisked …
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