Pret cashed in as office workers spent thousands on coffees, baguettes and fruit pots. As shops stand empty, what comes next might be worse | Continue reading
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With improvements across the board, the Sony XM4s are our new favourite headphones bar none and, most importantly of all, they’re a joy to listen to | Continue reading
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Train companies have always failed at flexible travel. After coronavirus, it could be the only thing to save them | Continue reading
Google's offices could stay empty until July 2021 and Facebook's could stay empty forever. For King's Cross, which was built as London's new tech hub, it's a problem | Continue reading
A combination of satellite tech and AI has helped uncover more than 900 Chinese vessels that might be illegally fishing in North Korean waters | Continue reading
Politicians thought they could create a new Silicon Valley in London’s East End. But they ended up making things bigger, not better | Continue reading
Verified Twitter accounts – including Google's G-Suite and Matalan – are getting hacked and pretending to be Elon Musk. The bitcoin scams are making thousands but why can't Twitter do anything about them? | Continue reading
The Sero transforms TikTok content for home viewing. But with a small screen for the money it is impossible to justify (unless you spend considerable parts of your day watching cat vids) | Continue reading
As the world reopens, people working from home feel stuck in a lockdown rut. But it's really a mental health crisis | Continue reading
A guerrilla group is putting thousands of priceless artworks online for people to add to their own virtual museums | Continue reading
Four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis and psychological scientist Julia Shaw explain how to use the memory palace technique to boost your memory skills | Continue reading
People around the world are populating search engine results for a few dollars an hour. But some have found a way to make a tidy profit | Continue reading
With the quality of arable land declining and seawater encroaching on fertile cropland, researchers are trying to find a way to make crops grow in seawater | Continue reading
Fans are using giant screens, Zoom calls and video game soundboards to create an atmosphere for games played behind closed doors | Continue reading
Composers are ditching blockbuster films to take on the challenge of video game music | Continue reading
The source of strange radio signals that have left astronomers at Australia's most famous radio telescope scratching their heads for 17 years has finally been discovered. It turns out that it was a microwave oven | Continue reading
In July 2018, Google was fined €4.34 billion for limiting search on Android phones. Almost two years later, its rivals claim little has changed and the company is as dominant as ever | Continue reading
Staff members at Europe's biggest fintech startup say that they have been pressured into leaving their jobs and taking salary cuts as the company embarks on cost-saving measures | Continue reading
Google has watched Zoom usage soar from ten million daily meeting participants to 300 million in just four months. So now it’s made Meet free | Continue reading
The country gained early praise from some for shunning lockdown, but it now has one of the highest per-capita rates of coronavirus death in the world | Continue reading
A mix of European legislation has resulted in cookie notices that use dark patterns to nudge people into accepting online tracking. And regulators aren’t taking strong action | Continue reading
Margaret Robertson reports on the explosion of tech-crowd pastime, Werewolf -- a parlour game about deceit and manipulation | Continue reading
India’s contact tracing app playbook comes straight from China. People are being forced to download the app – if they don’t their freedoms are limited | Continue reading
Information Commissioner’s Office has effectively downed tools as a result of the pandemic, raising concerns about outstanding cases and ongoing privacy issues | Continue reading
Thousands of people are using the Randonautica app to tell them where to go during lockdown – and they’re spotting some weird coincidences | Continue reading
The coronavirus lockdown should have been a sales bonanza for Deliveroo. Instead, it almost collapsed | Continue reading
Skype should have dominated lockdown communications, but now we’re all stuck on Zoom calls. What went wrong? | Continue reading
An accidental pandemic in the online game offers a valuable insight into the way people are behaving during the coronavirus crisis | Continue reading
Drinks over Zoom just weren't cutting it – so I recreated my local pub in virtual reality, with working pints and motion-captured versions of my friends | Continue reading
A broadband engineer who was spat at by an enraged conspiracy theorist is now ill with suspected coronavirus | Continue reading
The wireless headphones have been a surprise hit. Here’s how | Continue reading
The idea that we should give everyone free money is back in vogue in the age of Covid-19. Here's why | Continue reading
In Bali, western immigrants are selling products they've never handled, from countries they've never visited, to consumers they've never met | Continue reading
With little evidence to show how effective such apps are and growing privacy concerns, there’s a risk they could do more harm than good | Continue reading
Dan Ariely from Duke University and Kristen Berman from Irrational Labs believe when small talk is removed, it changes the game | Continue reading
Ireland is right to be careful with GDPR enforcement, but delays highlight flaws in the EU enforcement system | Continue reading
Hosts are calling it the Airbnb apocalypse. But it’s more akin to an enema | Continue reading
The British unicorn’s simulation technology can build video games. Can it help us understand the coronavirus crisis? | Continue reading
The capital is awash with rentals that bear all the hallmarks of hastily rejigged Airbnbs | Continue reading
This how one of the world’s largest convention centres is being transformed into NHS Nightingale, a mega-hospital that will become a key facility in the UK’s battle against coronavirus | Continue reading
ZOE was planning to help you eat more healthily. Then coronavirus happened | Continue reading
“Our message to ransomware gangs is: stay the hell away from hospitals” | Continue reading
The artificial intelligence systems replacing human moderators simply can’t cope | Continue reading